Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai inherited Zhurong’s incomplete Primordial Fire origin and discovered that the Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Formation imprisoned him within Zhou Mountain. As he absorbed Zhurong’s surviving memories and power, he learned how Zhurong had risen and fallen, then manifested as a towering Fire God within the Primordial Fire.

• Yang Huai examined his new Zhurong identity and abilities, absorbed the Primordial Fire, and began condensing an innate Dao embryo.
• Yang Huai sensed that the Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Formation above the cavern suppressed the Primordial Fire and trapped him.
• Yang Huai witnessed memories of creation and learned how the Primordial Fire formed the earth’s core and Zhurong emerged as its Fire God.
• Yang Huai learned that two golden crows defeated Zhurong, seized his authorities of light and pure yang, and ultimately destroyed his origin and immortal divinity.
• Yang Huai concluded that Zhurong’s legacy left him only an incomplete, diminished Primordial Fire origin and considered the nature of supreme spirits.
• Yang Huai chose to limit contact with his Purple Tenuity other self and manifested a towering phantom of a Fire God.

Yang Huai perfected his Primordial Wildfire True Explanation and left the Spirit Garden Realm after Fu Yun departed for the Purple Palace Immortal Palace. In the Heavenly Mausoleum Realm, he cultivated his Primordial Fire body to the great perfection of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Realm and prepared to condense a second Innate Dao Embryo.

• Yang Huai used the Supreme Dao Heart to perfect the Primordial Wildfire True Explanation, a cultivation method built around the Primordial Fire and its innate divine abilities.
• Fu Yun warned Yang Huai that Sacred Venerables might uncover his secrets, then left to ascend bodily to the Purple Palace Immortal Palace.
• Yang Huai packed away Spirit Garden Mountain and secretly settled on an island in the Heavenly Mausoleum Realm.
• Yang Huai's Heaven-and-Earth Fire God body advanced through the High God Realm and reached the Origin God Realm as he cultivated within the Primordial Fire.
• After two thousand years, Yang Huai reached the great perfection of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Realm and prepared to condense a second Innate Dao Embryo.

Yang Huai cultivated a fire origin of his own by combining the Great Daos of Primordial Fire and Creation, then endured the Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Formation while continuing to grow stronger. After a thousand years, he broke into the True One Divine Realm and faced the formation without fear.

• Yang Huai chose Creation as his second origin and spent eighteen hundred years forging a new azure-crimson fire origin, mastering the fifth level of Zhurong's Refining Fire Secret Art and touching the sixth.
• The Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Formation attacked Yang Huai, but he evaded its black serpent by fleeing through a spatial gateway and concealed his aura until the formation withdrew.
• In another chamber, a Yanming Clan leader used a divine lamp to absorb the formation's attack and escaped Buzhou Mountain with two surviving deities.
• Yang Huai returned to the fire cavern, refined the demonic qi, and concluded that the Creation Dao had strengthened the Primordial Fire's ability to transform substances.
• A thousand years later, Yang Huai broke through to the True One Divine Realm and used the sixth level of Zhurong's Refining Fire Secret Art to shatter the formation's black python.

Yang Huai destroyed the Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Formation and emerged as the primordial fire god Zhurong, then searched the Ten Directions Volcanoes for a treasure that could strengthen his flame origin. He found and began refining the innate Southern Flame Banner from the Earth, gaining a new path toward reclaiming his place as supreme Fire Spirit.

• Yang Huai burned through the Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Formation, destroying its nine-headed dragon formation spirit and awakening the Fire Spirit Great Dao.
• Shennong sensed Zhurong's return, while the Second-Generation Zhurong suppressed a disturbance in the Ancient Earth Core and prepared to defend his territory.
• Yang Huai traveled to the Ten Thousand Volcanoes to search for the supreme treasure his disciple had mentioned, and Feng Wuxie sensed an intruder in the Ten Thousand Fire Abode.
• Yang Huai concealed himself from Feng Wuxie's detection and spent three thousand years searching the Southwestern Fire Lung for the source of a faint pull on his origin.
• Yang Huai found the Southern Flame Banner from the Earth, an innate Fire-element treasure, and began refining it to strengthen his flame origin.

Yang Huai planned to reclaim the Supreme Fire Spirit position by earning fortune through clearing the fire toxins in the ancient earthcore, and he sought Houtu Imperial Earth Deity’s protection. Houtu welcomed him as Third Brother, leaving Yang Huai to gently probe the Earth Sovereign Palace’s ambitions.

• Yang Huai reasoned that fortune might let him overcome the Light and Pure Yang paths held by others, and decided to clear the fire lung beneath the Ten Thousand Volcanoes to earn merit and fortune.
• After weighing the risks of seeking Emperor Yan Shennong’s support, Yang Huai chose Houtu Imperial Earth Deity and traveled to the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abyss.
• The Left Sacred Emperor Lord escorted Yang Huai through the Six Paths Reincarnation Hall to meet Houtu Imperial Earth Deity beside the reincarnation storms.
• Yang Huai asked Houtu for protection and explained his plan to clear the southwestern fire lung and strengthen the earth and fire elements.
• Houtu called Yang Huai Third Brother and welcomed his return, while Yang Huai replied that the Earth Sovereign Palace should not remain peacefully confined to the Netherworld Halls.

Yan Ju emerged from the Solar Star and entered the contest to lead the Human Emperor Palace, winning the position after the tribes compared their governance. Meanwhile, Yang Huai continued clearing the southwestern fire lung, and Saint Stone arrived to negotiate with the Phoenix Clan.

• Houtu Imperial Earth Deity supported Yang Huai's plans, then sent a message into the void as she reconsidered Earth Sovereign Palace's role in the struggle for mortal fortunes.
• Yan Ju emerged from the Solar Star with the Solar Divine Mirror and brought Xuan Guang, a spirit of the Lightless Divine Domain, to Emperor Yan Palace.
• Zhurong Clan and other leaders backed Yan Ju as the next Human Emperor, while Hou Yi and Nine Phoenix questioned his claim; the gods agreed to compare their tribes' governance for a thousand years.
• Yan Ju accepted the contest, and after the thousand years his governed portion of the Jiang Clan Tribe proved the most prosperous, earning him the position of Human Emperor.
• Yang Huai descended deeper into the southwestern fire lung, mapped it with the Fire Lung True Form Diagram, and cleared spirit apertures to gather merit and fortune.
• Saint Stone of Earth Sovereign Palace visited Feng Wuxie at Danfeng Mountain to discuss an important matter, and Feng Wuxie received him despite sensing his overwhelming power.

Yang Huai completed the transformation of the southwestern Fire Lung, while the Earth Sovereign Palace secured the Phoenix Clan’s allegiance and Yan Ju weighed the growing threat it posed. The Fire Lung’s renewal brought Yang Huai immense merit and a new hope of becoming a supreme fire spirit again.

• Yang Huai formed thirty-six True Light Profound One Divine Apertures in the Fire Lung and erased the Phoenix Clan deities’ hidden, dangerous arrangements.
• Saint Stone Heavenly Venerable offered Feng Wuxie the Phoenix Clan’s place under the Earth Sovereign Palace, and Feng Wuxie accepted after being assured the clan could retain the southwestern Fire Lung.
• The North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor agreed not to interfere in the southwest and sought to attract Creation Realm Heavenly Venerables to the Mystic Sect.
• Twenty thousand years later, Yan Ju planned to provoke Hou Yi into further transgressions so he could punish him, while Jiang Ming warned him that the Phoenix Clan had joined the Earth Sovereign Palace.
• Yang Huai completed the Fire Lung’s transformation, gaining a vast wheel of merit and renewed hope of returning to the rank of supreme fire spirit.

Yang Huai claimed control of the southwestern fire lung, returned its thirty-six fire-god positions to Feng Wuxie, and secured the Phoenix Clan’s submission to the Earth Sovereign Palace. Back at the Hall of Light, he planned to improve his cultivation alongside Yan Ju while publicly acting as an enemy of the Human Emperor Palace.

• Yang Huai used the Primordial True Fire Diagram to bring the fire lung’s origin power under his authority and gave Feng Wuxie the thirty-six fire-god positions.
• Feng Wuxie hosted Yang Huai and Saint Stone Celestial Venerable, then sent the phoenix maidens Feng Yi and Feng Lin to serve Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai warned Feng Wuxie that control of the fire lung could invite rivals and Mystic Sect hostility, while Saint Stone Celestial Venerable assured him the Celestial Court would protect the Phoenix Clan.
• Yang Huai and Saint Stone Celestial Venerable left Danxue Mountain for the Earth Sovereign Palace, where Yang Huai released eight phoenix maidens to tend the Hall of Light.
• Yang Huai planned to perfect the Primordial True Fire Diagram and cultivate roots alongside Yan Ju, while maintaining a public feud between Zhurong and the Human Emperor Palace.

Yan Ju was blamed for the blood sacrifice at Horned Dragon City, where You Ji and the four demonic gods Chi-Mei-Wang-Liang escaped after confronting Hou Yi. After clearing things up with Shennong, Yan Ju went to meet Yang Huai, and the two agreed to jointly study the Dao.

• You Ji sacrificed the Horned Dragon Tribe’s people to revive Chi-Mei-Wang-Liang, then accused Hou Yi of ordering the sacrifice when he arrived; the four demonic gods and You Ji escaped after clashing with him.
• Yan Ju learned that the Nine Yi Tribes had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people, and the gods in the Human Emperor Palace called for Hou Yi to be seized and Chi-Mei-Wang-Liang tracked down.
• Shennong accused Yan Ju of orchestrating the Horned Dragon Tribe massacre and colluding with the Heavenly Demon Palace, but Yan Ju denied responsibility and suggested the Demon Race might be behind it.
• Shennong accepted that Yan Ju might not have been responsible, and Yan Ju proposed seizing Hou Yi while investigating the massacre and pursuing Chi-Mei-Wang-Liang.
• Yan Ju went to the Solar Star and confronted Zhurong Clan, who revealed that he had come to jointly study the Dao with him.

Yang Huai continued seeking a way to complete his Dao while powerful beings fought over a newly born Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, and he rescued a transformed carp dragon and named her Shuoyue. After three thousand years he formed his third Origin Dharma Form; elsewhere, Yan Ju and the Zhurong Clan advanced their cultivation, while the Great Clarity Daoist summoned Taiwei through Xuandu Daoist.

• Yang Huai suspected that powerful beings had sealed the Boundless Grand Dao and considered seeking the Three Corpses Severing Art from the Great Clarity Daoist for himself and the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor.
• A Primordial Unity Golden Immortal merged with the Primordial Beginning Grand Dao in the Heavenly Mausoleum Realm, prompting veteran Dao Lords to attack him and ancient Dao Lords to intervene before the fighters withdrew.
• Yang Huai saved a Red-Jade Carp Dragon from a passing Earth Immortal, named the transformed girl Shuoyue, and took her in as an attendant.
• After three thousand years of cultivation, Yang Huai formed his Primordial Unity God-Emperor Dharma Form and strengthened his Boundless True Body.
• Yan Ju and the Zhurong Clan cultivated the Primordial Unity origin, then planned to comprehend the destruction origin before pursuing the origins of infinity and strength.
• At the Eight Scenic Palace, the Great Clarity Daoist noticed Xuandu Daoist's cultivation and treasures and told him to summon Taiwei.

Taiwei Daoist sought Great Clarity Daoist’s help with his secret art of root-source treasures and received a promise of guidance, while Zhurong Clan and Yan Ju continued refining their Dao roots. At the Purple Palace Immortal Palace, Fu Yun worried over the changing balance of power and Yang Huai’s disappearance, which remained unresolved despite the Sage Emperor’s search.

• Taiwei Daoist gave Xuandu Daoist spirit fruits, and Xuandu promised to cultivate inner-alchemy disciples for the All-Heaven Star Sea.
• Great Clarity Daoist refused to teach Taiwei Daoist the unfinished art of One Qi Transforms into Three Clarities but offered to help perfect his root-source treasure art.
• Great Clarity Daoist examined Taiwei Daoist’s insights and recognized their potential to support the Mystic Sect’s future.
• Two thousand years later, Zhurong Clan and Yan Ju condensed the root source of destruction and began working together to comprehend the roots of strength and infinity.
• At Origin Lord Yisheng’s millionth birthday celebration, Fu Yun worried that the balance between the Purple Palace Immortal Palace, Divine Spirit Abyss, and Demon Realm was weakening.
• Fu Yun recalled that Yang Huai remained hidden in the Human Realm despite the Sage Emperor’s search, while the Divine Spirit Abyss’s seal on the Boundless Grand Dao had only been partly broken.

Yang Huai and Yan Ju cultivated on the Solar Star while discussing the threat posed by the recovering Chi-Mei-Wang-Liang and the role of gateway root sources. The chapter ended when Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable witnessed a demonic star descend into the Jiuli Tribe.

• Origin Lord Yisheng and Purple Origin Celestial Lord argued over Fu Yun, Daoist Wuliang, and the death of Yuduzi.
• Yan Ju observed the renewed spiritual tides nourishing the All-Heaven Star Sea and left to handle affairs in the human realm.
• Yan Ju warned Yang Huai that Chi-Mei-Wang-Liang were recovering through blood sacrifices and could soon regain their bodies.
• Yan Ju comprehended his eighth root-source power, while Yang Huai planned to pursue an extreme path centered on fire and the root source of infinity.
• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable visited the Earth Sovereign Palace, then went to the Jiuli Tribe, where he saw a demonic star descend amid ghostly cries.

Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable, Shennong, and Daoist Taiwei responded to the birth of an innate Demon Star and an innate earth spirit. Taiwei found the earth spirit reincarnated as Di Hong, made him his disciple, and left to complete the Origin Dharma Treasure secret art.

• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable sensed the innate Demon Star’s birth among eighty-one baleful newborns in the Jiuli Tribe, marked them, and searched for the innate earth spirit before taking the demonic infants to the Earth Sovereign Palace.
• Yan Ju and Yang Huai witnessed the twin phenomena, while Yan Ju worried about retaining his position as Human Emperor and began comprehending the Infinite Root with Yang Huai.
• Shennong dispatched gods to find the reincarnated beings, ordering them to destroy the innate Demon Star if they found it first and to seek the earth spirit as a means of restraint.
• Daoist Taiwei arrived at the Bear Kingdom and asked Shao Dian and Fu Bao to let him take their newborn son Di Hong as his disciple.
• Taiwei gave Di Hong the Purple Tenuity Star seal and Primordial River Luo Talisman Seal, left a cultivation method in his soul, and departed.
• Zhurong Clan and Yan Ju received word from the Great Purity Palace that the secret art of the Origin Dharma Treasure had been fully deduced.

Yang Huai studied a secret art for severing his Grand Dao into a root-source treasure, then returned to the Netherworld Underworld to purify a demon infant’s resentment and baleful qi. He left the infant with a trace of Primordial Fire to restrain the remnant origin and guide its future cultivation.

• Yang Huai chose the swift method of severing his Boundless Grand Dao into a root-source treasure, planning to condense a Boundless Treasure Wheel.
• Houtu Earth Sovereign Deity found that Yellow Springs Water could not cleanse the resentment and baleful qi in eighty-one demon infants, so she summoned the Zhurong Clan.
• Yang Huai arrived at the Six Paths Reincarnation Hall and recognized that Houtu wanted him to purify one of her descendants.
• At Houtu’s request, Yang Huai used primordial radiance and pure-yang power to remove most of the demon infant’s resentment and baleful qi while protecting its soul and body.
• Yang Huai left a trace of Primordial Fire within the infant so it could restrain and eventually refine the remaining resentment-balanceful origin through cultivation.

Yang Huai refused to take the purified demon infant as his disciple, then joined Saint Stone and the Spirit King to rescue Hou Yi from the Heavenly Demon Palace. Years later, Yang Huai and Yan Ju discussed their shared identity, and Yang Huai formed an Infinite Profound Pearl that brought him close to the Primordial Unity Dao Realm.

• Houtu Earth Sovereign Deity asked Yang Huai to rescue Hou Yi, and Yang Huai agreed to go with Saint Stone and the Spirit King.
• Yang Huai vowed to illuminate the Netherworld Underworld and guide its suffering souls, causing the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses to respond.
• Yang Huai found the Heavenly Demon Palace's demonic realm beneath Heavenly Realm City and pierced it with Primordial Fire.
• Yang Huai freed Hou Yi while Saint Stone and the Spirit King fought the Heavenly Demon Palace's demonic Dao experts.
• A hundred years later, Yang Huai and Yan Ju met on the Solar Star and discussed how others would react to their being one and the same.
• Six thousand years later, Yang Huai formed an Infinite Profound Pearl in his Wuliang Origin auspicious cloud and sensed that he could soon reach the Primordial Unity Dao Realm.

Yang Huai chose Pure Origin Emperor to inherit the Boundless Grand Dao, enabling him to break through the seal’s obstacle. Pure Origin Emperor took control of the Grand Dao despite the wrath it provoked, while Yang Huai’s final connection to it vanished and his bottleneck disappeared.

• Yang Huai considered candidates to fill the Dao, then focused on mastering the nine Primordial Dharma Forms.
• Six thousand years later, Pure Origin Emperor received congratulations after becoming Nine Spirits Heavenly Lord, while Dao Ningzi and Ji Mingxue discussed the scarce opportunities for Golden Immortals to advance.
• Dao Lord Yuan Zhen delivered a warning from the Nine Origins Sect, but Pure Origin Emperor answered with a return gift invoking Limitless Dao Lord.
• Jade Void Dao Lord arrived and gave Pure Origin Emperor a Nine-Armed Jade Wheel containing the Boundless Grand Dao, revealing himself to be Yang Huai’s incarnation.
• Pure Origin Emperor accepted the Grand Dao and began merging with it, drawing furious thunder from the Firmament.
• Yang Huai’s incarnation collapsed, and Yang Huai sensed that his connection to the Grand Dao had ended and his bottleneck had disappeared.

Yang Huai completed his breakthrough into the Primordial Chaos Dao Realm despite attacks from Dao Venerable projections, then returned to Spirit Crossing Mountain and bestowed a Five-Elements Spirit Wheel on Shuoyue. The chapter ended as crimson tribulation-baleful qi gathered across the realms and swept through the void.

• A chaos-colored hand scattered the destructive will threatening the Nine Spirits Heavenly Domain, while the Limitless Dao Lord warned the ancient gods not to attack Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai completed his breakthrough, and Pure Origin Emperor defeated the empowered Dao Venerable projections with his newly strengthened Boundless Grand Dao.
• Yang Huai entered the Primordial Chaos Dao Realm, sensed his new power, and returned to Spirit Crossing Mountain.
• Shuoyue visited Yang Huai before departing, and he gave her a Five-Elements Spirit Wheel that had appeared in a nearby lake.
• Yang Huai reflected on his cultivation and his past caution toward the Five-Thunder Divine Emperor.
• Yang Huai and powerful figures across several realms sensed crimson tribulation-baleful qi gathering and sweeping into the void.

The Immeasurable Great Calamity began as ancient powers prepared for a coming struggle, while Yang Huai sensed the tide of finality and watched four ferocious beast emperors revive in the Yin Baleful Realm. As Heavenly Emperor Shennong and Sui Sovereign Sui Ren attacked them, Second-Generation Zhurong arrived, leaving Yang Huai poised to act against the beasts.

• Calamitous balefulness spread through heaven and earth, prompting the Purple Palace Immortal Palace, ancient sects, and immortal lineages to prepare for the slaughter calamity.
• Perfect Harmony Daoist warned his disciples that those drawn into the calamity had to complete their slaughter, while Saint Venerable Hanguang declared that even Saint Venerables and God Lords would have to contend.
• Yang Huai sensed the powers of his finality Dharma Aspects strengthen and his creation-and-preservation aspects weaken, then considered how to advance his Dao attainment.
• Four beast emperors—Chimei, Meiwang, Wangliang, and Liang—began reviving in the Yin Baleful Realm, where resentment and balefulness could restore them.
• Heavenly Emperor Shennong used the Solar Divine Mirror to wound the beasts, and Sui Sovereign Sui Ren attacked them with his lamp, drill, and fire but could not destroy them.
• The beast emperors threatened the gods, and Second-Generation Zhurong appeared as Yang Huai recognized that he could deal with the Yin Baleful Realm's power.

Yang Huai arrived at the Yin Baleful Realm and vowed to create the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light, saving its resentful and baleful spirits and delaying calamity. As the Pure Land began to form, Houtu, the Sovereign Earth Deity, extended its light into the Netherworld, where ghosts and yin spirits answered the invocation.

• Shennong used the Shennong Cauldron to suppress the three remaining Fiend Beast Emperors, though their imprints stayed linked to the Yin Baleful Realm.
• Yang Huai appeared before the gods and offered to help Shennong slay the chi, mei, wang, and liang demons.
• Houtu, the Sovereign Earth Deity, descended and urged Yang Huai to settle the turmoil and prevent the demons from returning.
• Yang Huai established the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light with a vow to save the Yin Baleful Realm's spirits and never attain the Dao until the realm was emptied.
• Yang Huai's radiance saved spirits and suppressed resentment and balefulness, while his Primordial Fire God Fate began to transform.
• Houtu, the Sovereign Earth Deity, sent the Pure Land's light into the Netherworld, and ghosts and yin spirits began reciting the invocation as their faith gathered into an ocean of light.

Yang Huai used the faith Houtu sent to establish the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light, burn away the four ferocious beast emperors’ origins, and gain part of the Supreme Fire Spirit’s authority. The chapter ended with Di Hong asking whether he and the original Zhurong would eventually clash, while Daoist Taiwei urged him to focus on his cultivation.

• Yang Huai bestowed the divine name Ten-Directional Fire Virtue Great Heavenly Venerable Zhurong Clan, and the ghosts’ praises turned into faith that strengthened his light avatars and the Pure Land.
• Yang Huai trapped and burned away the four streams of black qi left by the ferocious beast emperors, drawing merit and gaining a pseudo Supreme Fire Spirit fate.
• Yan Ju sensed Yang Huai’s growing authority suppressing his Solar True Fire, while Heavenly Emperor Shennong recalled the Celestial Court gods after Chi-Mei-Wang-Liang perished.
• Houtu departed after surveying the Northern Yin Mountains, while a middle-aged Daoist in azure robes and an old man in silver robes reflected on the Pure Land and Houtu’s good fortune.
• Di Hong asked Daoist Taiwei whether the two Zhurongs could coexist, and Taiwei said they would eventually battle before telling Di Hong to focus on perfecting his Dao paths.