Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan sensed a powerful opportunity that he believed was likely a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure or Spiritual Root, then traveled with Nuwa to a renowned mountain range. The chapter ended as he recognized the mountain, which he had searched for treasures twice before without success.

• Nuwa asked Yuan Yan whether granting the Witch Clan and the other powers an additional twenty percent share of Origin Dao Pills would undermine his plans, and he reassured her that it was acceptable.
• Yuan Yan sensed an opportunity and used his Primordial Spirit to deduce its nature and location, but could only determine a general direction.
• Yuan Yan concluded that the opportunity was likely a treasure above the High-Grade level, and he and Nuwa hurried to claim it.
• Yuan Yan and Nuwa emerged above a vast, richly endowed mountain range, which Yuan Yan recognized as a place he had searched for treasures twice before.

Yuan Yan found Treasure-Dropping Money in the Wuyi Mountain Range, where it recognized him as its master because of his authority over currency and commerce. He and Nuwa entered the revealed Wuyi Mountain Blessed Land and discovered a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root tea tree.

• Yuan Yan brought Nuwa to a concealed hollow in the Wuyi Mountain Range, where Treasure-Dropping Money emerged from a Primordial Formation and flew into his palm.
• Yuan Yan deduced that Treasure-Dropping Money had recognized him because his currency system and Yingzhou Commerce Association had granted him Fortune over currency and commerce.
• Yuan Yan began refining Treasure-Dropping Money as he and Nuwa entered the Wuyi Mountain Blessed Land, whose Primordial Formation had dispersed.
• Yuan Yan and Nuwa surveyed the blessed land and found an ancient High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root tea tree.
• Nuwa asked Yuan Yan to preliminarily refine the tea tree to learn its name and the effects of its leaves.

Yuan Yan and Nuwa refined the Treasure-Dropping Money and a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root, discovering the tea tree’s rare ability to reduce bloodshed baleful resentment and Karmic Force. They prepared to harvest Wuyi Mountain Blessed Land and restore its formation, leaving the tea tree’s valuable effects known to them.

• Yuan Yan told Nuwa to refine the innate tea tree so she could better cultivate spiritual roots for the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.
• Yuan Yan and Nuwa began refining their respective treasures and decided to harvest the Blessed Land’s medicines and reactivate its Primordial Formation.
• After several decades, Nuwa identified the tree as the Big Red Robe Mother Tree, a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root with thirty-five Innate Divine Restrictions and leaves harvestable once every thirty-three yuanhui.
• Nuwa explained that the tea could cleanse the body and Primordial Spirit, stabilize the Dao foundation, aid comprehension, and lessen bloodshed baleful resentment and Karmic Force.
• Yuan Yan considered how cultivators coveted ways to remove Karmic Force, while noting that Merit and lotus treasures carried limitations and karmic backlash.

Yuan Yan explained Treasure-Dropping Money’s formidable ability and its cost in Merit and Fortune, then returned with Nuwa to Yingzhou Immortal Island to let it connect with his currency system. The money fused its Great Dao aura with the two Yin-Yang Great Dao Furnaces, and Yuan Yan anticipated that the transformation could elevate it to a Top-Tier Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure or even a Half-Step Innate Merit Supreme Treasure.

• Nuwa praised Yuan Yan’s new treasure, and Yuan Yan explained that Treasure-Dropping Money could knock down any spiritual treasure below an Innate Supreme Treasure and shake even those treasures.
• Yuan Yan told Nuwa that using Treasure-Dropping Money consumed increasing amounts of Merit and Fortune according to the treasure’s grade and the opponent’s cultivation.
• After collecting tea leaves and restoring the formation at Wuyi Mountain, Yuan Yan took Nuwa back to Yingzhou Immortal Island.
• Yuan Yan asked Yuan Jie’s Benevolent Corpse Dao Body for the two Supreme-Grade Postnatal Merit Spiritual Treasure Yin-Yang Great Dao Furnaces.
• Yuan Yan transferred his Fortune authority over currency and trade to Treasure-Dropping Money, which struck the furnaces as their Great Dao Rules began to merge.

Yuan Yan realized that the fusion of Treasure-Dropping Money and the Yin-Yang Great Dao Furnaces would take one or two thousand Epochs, then found a way to sustain it without draining the Western Continent. He and Nuwa brought the treasures to Yuan Yan’s birthplace on Mount Buzhou, where the Primordial Yin-Yang Great Evolution Formation still concealed the valley.

• Yuan Yan calculated that the treasures’ fusion would take one or two thousand Epochs, leaving him unable to use them and potentially tightening pill supplies.
• Yuan Yan concluded they could refine more Yin-Yang Great Dao Furnaces later and that declining demand after the Third Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace would ease the need for pills.
• Yuan Yan determined that his birthplace at the core of Mount Buzhou’s Ancestral Vein could nourish the treasures’ fusion without using the Western Continent’s resources.
• Yuan Yan summoned the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus to carry the treasures, gained Nuwa’s agreement, and traveled with her to Mount Buzhou.
• Yuan Yan and Nuwa reached the valley containing his birthplace and found that the weakened Primordial Yin-Yang Great Evolution Formation still concealed it.

Yuan Yan brought Nuwa to his hidden birthplace, where she sensed a possible karmic opportunity but chose not to question him. He then devised a formation to accelerate the union of the Treasure-Dropping Money and the Yin-Yang Great Dao Furnaces, and the group stayed to operate it and study its Dao principles.

• Yuan Yan opened the Primordial Yin-Yang Great Evolution Formation and brought Nuwa into his birthplace, a Supreme-Grade Blessed Land.
• Nuwa sensed a faint karmic opportunity connected to the valley but decided not to pry into Yuan Yan's secrets.
• Yuan Yan explained why he had kept the birthplace hidden and showed Nuwa around before granting her permission to enter and leave freely.
• Yuan Yan deduced and installed a formation that used the Treasure-Dropping Money and two Yin-Yang Great Dao Furnaces to accelerate their melding and evolution.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, Nuwa, and their Three Corpse Dao Bodies refined more furnaces and took turns operating the formation while studying its Dao principles.

After several hundred Epochs in seclusion, Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, and their Three Corpse Dao Bodies broke through to Primordial Golden Immortal Fullness just before the Third Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace. They reunited with Nuwa and Fuxi, and Fuxi began describing his own cultivation gains as they prepared to discuss their progress.

• Nuwa worried that the four elder brothers would miss the Third Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, and she and Fuxi agreed to wait before forcibly awakening them.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, and their Three Corpse Dao Bodies released powerful Great Dao pressures as they broke through, nearly overwhelming Great Yan Blessed Land’s Primordial Formation.
• Yuan Yan and the other three emerged from seclusion, and Fuxi realized their Three Corpse Dao Bodies had also advanced.
• Fuxi teased Nuwa about watching for Yuan Yan, and Yuan Yan interrupted their exchange before it escalated.
• Yuan Yan asked about everyone’s cultivation progress, and Fuxi reported that he had reached the Seventh-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal while his Three Corpse Dao Bodies had reached the Fourth and Sixth Layers.

Yuan Yan and the others set aside most of their duties to cultivate before the Third Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, but Yuan Yan made little progress against his bottleneck. He shifted to strengthening his Three Corpse Dao Bodies, which quickly reached the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal.

• Nuwa explained that she had focused on raising her Good Corpse and Evil Corpse Dao Bodies after reaching the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal, and Fuxi asked the others about their cultivation.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling revealed that they had just reached the Tenth-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal, while their Three Corpse Dao Bodies had reached the Seventh-Layer.
• Yuan Yan decided that he and the others would pause most of their affairs and focus on cultivation before the Third Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace.
• After more than a dozen Epochs of boosted cultivation yielded little progress against his bottleneck, Yuan Yan chose to help his Three Corpse Dao Bodies advance instead.
• Yuan Yan and his Obsession Corpse Dao Body perfected the Alchemy Dao, then helped his Good Corpse and Evil Corpse Dao Bodies advance to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal.

Yuan Yan and his brothers reached Primordial Golden Immortal Fullness after pooling their insights, completing their transformations, and entering enlightenment. Yuan Yan reflected on the support that had carried them so far and resolved to keep leading the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage in repairing and governing the Primordial World.

• Yuan Yan and his Three Corpse Dao Bodies helped Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, and their bodies perfect their Daos through shared cultivation and burned Merit.
• Yuan Yan first perfected his Yin-Yang Dao, then the group successively helped Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling reach Primordial Golden Immortal Fullness in Dao realm.
• The four brothers remained in seclusion until their transformations ended and their shared enlightenment further improved their Daos, allowing them all to reach Primordial Golden Immortal Fullness.
• Fuxi praised the brothers’ talents, and Yuan Yan explained that shared Dao Bodies, Merit and Fortune, and medicinal pills had driven their progress.
• Yuan Yan recognized how difficult future breakthroughs would be and resolved to keep the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage repairing and governing the Primordial World for Merit and Fortune.

Fuxi urged Yuan Yan and the others to leave for the Third Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, where they arrived early and waited among the gathered guests. Dao Ancestor Hongjun began the final lecture, announcing that he would speak on the Way of the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal and the Way of the Sage.

• Fuxi asked Yuan Yan and the others to set out for Purple Firmament Palace before the Third Lecture.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi crossed Inner Chaos and arrived at the palace platform.
• Yuan Yan assessed the cultivation of the gathered Top-Tier Innate Divines and judged that he could face them alone without their special formations.
• The six greeted the other Top-Tier Innate Divines, then closed their eyes and waited until the remaining guests arrived.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared, lifted the guests to their feet, and told them to sit.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun announced that this was the final lecture and that he would teach the Way of the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal and the Way of the Sage.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained the differences between Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortals and Sages, outlined three methods of enlightenment, and introduced Hongmeng Purple Qi as the Foundation of Enlightenment. He then expounded the Dao, leaving the Purple Firmament Palace guests immersed in enlightenment as their understanding and cultivation advanced.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortals perfected their own Dao Fruit, while Sages held Heavenly Dao authority and could return to life through the Primordial World.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun described Enlightenment through Force, Merit, and Three Corpses Severing, and the guests judged Three Corpses Severing the most practical method.
• The Purple Firmament Palace guests asked Dao Ancestor Hongjun how they could gain the Primordial World's recognition and attain Sagehood.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun said that Hongmeng Purple Qi was the Foundation of Enlightenment and began expounding the Way of the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal and the Way of the Sage.
• The guests entered deep enlightenment amid the manifestations of the Great Dao, and their insights, Daos, and cultivation realms rapidly improved.

After a yuanhui of listening to Hongjun’s sermon, Yuan Yan and his companions advanced in cultivation while considering when to pursue enlightenment. Hongjun began choosing disciples and bestowed Hongmeng Purple Qi and powerful treasures on Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling reached the Twelfth-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal, while their Three Corpse Dao Bodies reached the Ninth-Layer.
• Yuan Yan decided not to rush into enlightenment, since doing so could consume Merit needed for Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling’s future progress.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun revealed seven strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi and named Laozi his first disciple, giving him a strand and the Taiji Diagram.
• Hongjun named Yuanshi his second disciple and bestowed a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi and the Pangu Banner.
• Hongjun named Tongtian his third disciple and bestowed a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi along with the Four Swords of Slaying Immortals and the Slaying Immortals Formation Diagram.

Hongjun named Yuan Yan his fourth disciple and granted him a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi and five powerful treasures for his work restoring the Western Continent. Yuan Yan realized Hongjun was transferring his debt of Karma to him, but accepted the treasures because he expected to repay that Karma by finishing the restoration.

• The guests at Purple Firmament Palace regretted missing the six cushions, while Hong Yun bitterly recalled giving his up.
• Hongjun recognized that Yuan Yan's restoration of the Western Continent had made him its leading representative and disrupted Hongjun's plan to transfer half his Karma to Jieyin.
• Hongjun named Yuan Yan his fourth disciple and granted him a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi, the Qiankun Cauldron, the Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus, and four directional banners.
• Yuan Yan understood that Hongjun intended to transfer his debt of Karma to the Western Continent onto him.
• Yuan Yan decided the Karma would be manageable as he continued restoring the Western Continent, then accepted Hongjun's treasures.

Yuan Yan asked Hongjun to exchange the Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus for an Innate Offensive Supreme Treasure, but Hongjun refused and gave him other treasures. Hongjun accepted Nuwa as his final disciple, and Jieyin pleaded to be accepted after realizing the discipleship had ended.

• Yuan Yan asked Hongjun to trade the Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus for an Innate Offensive Supreme Treasure, but Hongjun refused and bestowed the Qiankun Cauldron and five Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasures upon him.
• Hongjun accepted Nuwa as his final disciple and gave her Hongmeng Purple Qi, the Mountain and River State Map, and the Red Silk Ball.
• Nuwa concealed her disappointment at receiving Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasures rather than an Innate Supreme Treasure and returned to her prayer mat.
• Jieyin panicked when Hongjun called Nuwa his final disciple and knelt to plead for acceptance as a disciple, promising to restore the Mount Sumeru Range.
• The Innate Divines stared in astonishment as Jieyin prostrated himself before Hongjun.

Jieyin became Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s Named Disciple and received Hongmeng Purple Qi and a treasure, while the final strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi chose Hong Yun. As hostile gazes gathered around Hong Yun, Yuan Ling asked Hongjun to recognize Immortal Script as the orthodox script of the Immortal Dao.

• Jieyin pleaded with Dao Ancestor Hongjun and became his Named Disciple, receiving a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi and the Blessing Vajra.
• Seeing Jieyin’s success, many Innate Divines knelt and begged Hongjun for help attaining the Dao.
• Hongjun released the final strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi, which entered Hong Yun’s Primordial Spirit after circling above several candidates.
• Top-Tier Innate Divines eyed Hong Yun with hostility, and Zhen Yuanzi urged him to ask Hongjun for protection, but Hong Yun did not act.
• Yuan Ling asked Hongjun to approve Immortal Script as the orthodox script of the Immortal Dao, and Hongjun recognized that Yuan Ling sought to establish its status and secure Merit and Fortune.

Hongjun approved Yuan Ling’s Immortal Script, announced that he would unite with the Heavenly Dao, and offered his treasures to the Purple Firmament Palace guests. Yuan Yan and the others rushed to Treasure-Distribution Rock, where Yuan Yan gathered hundreds of treasures before a restriction stopped his attempt to take a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

• Hongjun approved Yuan Ling’s Immortal Script, prompting the Purple Firmament Palace guests to recognize it as the Primordial World’s orthodox writing system.
• Hongjun announced his Dao Unification and said he would not appear in the Primordial World except during a Boundless Calamity Cycle.
• Hongjun offered his spiritual treasures and spiritual roots to the guests for self-defense and Corpse-Slaying, then vanished from the palace.
• Yuan Yan, the other members of his group, and several powerful guests raced to Treasure-Distribution Rock.
• Yuan Yan gathered several hundred treasures into the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, but his next attempts yielded only a few more.
• Yuan Yan tried to reach for a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, but Treasure-Distribution Rock’s restriction blocked him.

Yuan Yan stopped trying to take more treasures from the Treasure-Distribution Rock and waited while the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests collected their shares. After the remaining guests were blocked from claiming the last treasures, the Treasure-Distribution Rock scattered them into the Inner Chaos and the Primordial World.

• Yuan Yan gave up forcing the Treasure-Distribution Rock’s restriction and waited with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi for the other guests to arrive.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, and the other guests collected up to three batches of treasures, with Tongtian taking the most.
• Tongtian boasted about his haul, so Laozi warned him after noticing other guests’ envy; the Three Pure Ones released their auras to discourage anyone from provoking them.
• After most treasures had been claimed, an Innate Divine tried to seize one of the remaining treasures but was stopped by the restriction.
• The Treasure-Distribution Rock trembled and sent its nearly thousand remaining treasures scattering toward the Inner Chaos and the Primordial World.

After the remaining treasures scattered, the Purple Firmament Palace Guests searched for Hong Yun, but he and Zhen Yuanzi had already escaped to the Primordial World. Yuan Yan claimed Treasure-Distribution Rock with the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, surprising the powerful beings who remained.

• The treasures passed through the guests’ attempts to seize them and vanished into the Inner Chaos and Primordial World.
• Kunpeng noticed Hong Yun was missing, prompting other guests to search for him and his Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• The chapter revealed that Zhen Yuanzi had persuaded Hong Yun to leave secretly, fearing the guests would attack them for the Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Most guests departed, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng watched Di Jun and Taiyi, and Yuan Yan’s group remained near Treasure-Distribution Rock.
• Yuan Yan used the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus to take Treasure-Distribution Rock without resistance, astonishing the guests still present.

After taking Treasure-Distribution Rock, Yuan Yan returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island with his companions and identified problems in the lineage’s commerce, cultivation supplies, discipline, and work restoring the Northern Continent. He outlined ways to address each issue, leaving the group ready to act.

• Yuan Yan took Treasure-Distribution Rock while the remaining Purple Firmament Palace Guests regretted missing their chance but did not dare challenge him.
• Yuan Yan called Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi, and the six returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island.
• Several hundred years later, Yuan Yan gathered the five companions and explained that the lineage needed to use its formation to nourish the Western Continent’s Earth Veins and expand its commerce stock.
• Yuan Yan warned that Origin Dao Pill supplies could fall as buyers and alchemy materials dwindled, while some lineage cultivators were plundering and slaughtering in the Western Continent.
• Yuan Yan said the lineage must punish offenders and accelerate restoration of the Northern Continent before other Purple Firmament Palace Guests discovered their methods.
• Yuan Yan proposed using formation power, dedicating time to refining treasures, expanding alchemy production, and concealing the Northern Continent work with oaths and supreme treasures.

Yuan Yan and the others discussed dividing the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage’s work and Origin Dao Pills, but Fuxi’s guilt over the failed cushion struggle led him to volunteer for burdensome duties. Yuan Yan explained that Fuxi was not responsible for losing a Sage Position, leaving the heart knot unresolved.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi pooled their ideas to address the lineage’s affairs and balance work with cultivation.
• Fuxi offered to handle the Yingzhou Commerce Association’s treasures and the Origin Dao Pill furnaces, while giving Yuan Yan and Nuwa the tasks and pills that could help them attain enlightenment sooner.
• Nuwa objected that Fuxi’s plan would leave him little time to cultivate and unfairly burden Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling.
• Yuan Yan and Yuan Jie recognized that Fuxi’s proposal came from guilt over the cushion struggle at the First Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, and Fuxi admitted his heart knot had resurfaced after the Third Lecture revealed that the cushions represented Sage Positions.
• Yuan Yan told Fuxi that Sage Positions were decreed by fate and that he was not responsible for losing one, then began explaining why the Three Pure Ones were destined to occupy three positions.