Chapter Summaries

Emperor Ku sought the Great Sun Sage Emperor Palace’s aid to establish the four seasons and twenty-four solar terms, hoping to build a foundation for eventually becoming Azure Emperor. Chang Xi and Yang Huai visited the Taiqing Primordial Universe, where they encountered Yang Huai’s incarnations and old acquaintances before seeing newly born sacred beings that were not his other selves.

• Emperor Ku learned from Chen Feng that the Great Sun Sage Emperor Palace had agreed to send the gods of spring, summer, autumn, and winter to assist him.
• Chang Xi sensed that Queen Mother of the West had attained Beyond through the lesser yin path and asked Yang Huai to take her to the nine Primordial Cosmoses.
• Yang Huai opened a Gate of Myriad Dimensions, and he and Chang Xi visited the Taiqing Primordial Universe, where they saw Yellow Court Daoist establishing a Celestial Court.
• Chang Xi and Yang Huai encountered incarnations of the Earth Holy Mother and Divine Lord Mengzhang, along with Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, Plain Maiden, and Hundred Flowers Fairy.
• Yang Huai and Chang Xi saw a purple phoenix and a Five Virtues Qilin, and Yang Huai confirmed that neither was one of his other selves.

Twelve kalpas after the Pure Yang Wuliang Immortal Array stabilized, Emperor Lingji and other powers advanced while Taiwei Daoist’s plans reshaped the heavens. Torch Dragon was slain by Xuanyuan Clan and reincarnated, Kong Xuan inherited the Dao Fruit of morality, and Taiwei Daoist attained transcendence before merging with Pangu Emperor Daoist.

• Emperor Lingji used the World Tree and the Self-Transforming Wishful Freedom Scripture to send alternate selves through the myriad heavens and worlds, while Kong Xuan rose to the peak of Creation through founding the Ritual Sect.
• Torch Dragon tried to reach Taiwei Daoist, but Xuanyuan Clan blocked him and killed him with the divine arts Sever the Heavens, Grasp Heaven and Earth, and Subdue the Heavenly Dao.
• Great Clarity Daoist saw Torch Dragon reincarnate as a gifted human and relinquished the Dao Fruit of morality, which gathered toward Kong Xuan as Kong Xuan attained the Other Shore.
• A handsome Daoist at the Longevity temple also solidified his Other Shore aura as the Dao Fruit of Dao and virtue merged with the middle-aged figure in the five-colored robe.
• Taiwei Daoist realized the power of a transcendent one, left the All-Heaven Star Palace, and merged with Pangu Emperor Daoist.