Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan repaid his karmic debts with merit, completed the fusion of his Innate Imperishable True Spirit, Primordial Dao Fruit, and Hunyuan Ancestral Qi, and attained the Dao as a Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal. His declaration stunned the Primordial World’s cultivators, who saw how far he and his companions had outpaced the other Purple Firmament Palace Guests.

• The Eye of the Heavenly Dao appeared above Yuan Yan as it examined his attainment, shocking the mighty figures watching the Western Continent.
• The Heavenly Dao accepted Yuan Yan’s merit repayment and withdrew the laws binding him, allowing him to complete the fusion of his Innate Imperishable True Spirit, Primordial Dao Fruit, and Hunyuan Ancestral Qi.
• Yuan Yan attained the Dao as a Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal, and his aura and auspicious signs spread across more than half the Primordial World.
• Yuan Yan announced his attainment to the Primordial World, after which his coercive aura dissipated.
• The Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests were shocked by Yuan Yan’s breakthrough, especially as many had yet to reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm while Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had already reached the Half-Step Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.

After Yuan Yan attained the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, the other great powers feared the growing strength of the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage, while its members celebrated his breakthrough. Yuan Yan then entered the Inner Chaos and learned that imprinting his Dao upon the Chaos Dao would complete his attainment and bring further benefits.

• The great powers worried that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling might follow Yuan Yan into the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal Realm and become impossible to resist.
• The Three Pure Ones and Jieyin returned to secluded cultivation, hoping to attain the Dao and gain influence over the Primordial World.
• Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, Nuwa, and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage celebrated Yuan Yan's breakthrough.
• Yuan Yan gave instructions to Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa, then crossed the Chaos Void to the depths of the Inner Chaos.
• Yuan Yan realized he still needed to connect his Dao to the Chaos Dao and imprint it there to complete his attainment, become truly undying, and gain a return from the Dao.

Yuan Yan entrusted his Yin-Yang Dao to the Chaos Dao and received feedback that raised his Dao realm from the early to the late Third-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal. After examining his newfound power, he recognized the immense gap between Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals and lower realms.

• Yuan Yan summoned the Chaos Dao from within the Primordial World's Inner Chaos and engraved his Yin-Yang Dao's imprint upon it.
• The Great Dao Eye sent dark-yellow radiance into Yuan Yan's Imperishable Primordial Spirit, granting him a lucid enlightenment in which he comprehended the three thousand Daos of Chaos.
• Yuan Yan's Dao realm rose from the early to the late Third-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal, and his Yin-Yang Dao grew from the equivalent of four complete Primordial Great Daos to six or seven.
• After the Great Dao Eye vanished, Yuan Yan examined his condition and understood the strength of a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal's Imperishable Primordial Spirit and Dao.
• Yuan Yan concluded that even a First-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal could easily crush a Twelfth-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal, while a Half-Step Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal could scarcely resist one.

Yuan Yan assessed the paths to Sainthood after reaching the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm and concluded that becoming a Saint would benefit him. He compared the drawbacks of the first two paths, leaving the third path unexplained.

• Yuan Yan decided to pursue Sainthood rather than immediately cultivate or contemplate the Dao.
• Yuan Yan concluded that becoming a Saint after reaching the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm offered more benefits than drawbacks.
• Yuan Yan explained that the first path used merit and the Hongmeng Purple Qi to become a Heavenly Dao Saint, but bound the Saint closely to the Heavenly Dao.
• Yuan Yan noted that the first path could still greatly benefit cultivators unable to reach the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm independently.
• Yuan Yan described a second path in which a cultivator perfected his Primordial Dao Fruit independently before using the Hongmeng Purple Qi to become a Heavenly Dao Saint.
• Yuan Yan explained that the second path preserved independent cultivation but incurred greatly increased karmic debt, which the Heavenly Dao could use to restrain the Saint.

The chapter explains the benefits and obligations of becoming a Heavenly Dao Sage and compares three paths to Sagehood. It concludes that the most advantageous path requires the most Merit, with the exact cost depending on a cultivator’s foundations, cultivation method, and karma owed to the Primordial World.

• The chapter explains that Heavenly Dao Saints must repay their karma before leaving their position, but can use the Heavenly Dao’s authority for power, faster cultivation, and swift revival.
• It describes attaining Sagehood after perfecting the Primordial Dao Fruit and reaching Half-Step Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal as more beneficial than the first path.
• It presents attaining the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm before forming a Heavenly Dao Saint Position as the path with the fewest drawbacks.
• It compares the Merit needed for the three paths, estimating that the second requires at least one and a half times the first path’s Merit, while the third requires at least four or five times as much.
• It explains that Merit costs vary with the Three Corpse Dao Bodies’ foundations and merging, the cultivator’s innate origins and resource use, and the karma owed to the Primordial World.

Yuan Yan used the Hongmeng Purple Qi to entrust his Yin-Yang Dao to the Heavenly Dao and attain the Heavenly Dao Saint Fruit Position, advancing to the early stage of the Fourth-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal. After the Primordial World recognized his sanctification, he studied the Saint Fruit Position and learned that its power weakened far from the Primordial World.

• Yuan Yan refined the Hongmeng Purple Qi with his Yin-Yang Dao and entrusted his Dao imprint to the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao's feedback perfected the Three Thousand Daos derived from his Yin-Yang Dao and raised Yuan Yan's Dao realm to the early stage of the Fourth-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal.
• Yuan Yan condensed the Heavenly Dao Saint Fruit Position, and his sage might spread throughout the Primordial World as auspicious phenomena appeared.
• The Primordial World revealed that Yuan Yan had attained sanctification, astonishing mighty figures and prompting some to regret that his Hongmeng Purple Qi was no longer available.
• Yuan Yan comprehended the Saint Fruit Position and learned that it granted Heavenly Dao authority and replenished his power, but became nearly useless far from the Primordial World.

Yuan Yan decided to remain in the Inner Chaos to replenish his depleted Origin Power and complete the transformation of his true body and innate foundation. He also sent a wisp of divine consciousness back to Yingzhou Immortal Island to instruct Yuan Jie and the others, while considering how Hunyuan cultivators could maintain ties to the Primordial World.

• Yuan Yan decided to send a wisp of divine consciousness to Yingzhou Immortal Island to tell Yuan Jie and the others to proceed as planned and explain the differences between Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortals and Sages.
• Yuan Yan remained in the Inner Chaos because his rapid cultivation breakthrough had depleted his Origin Power, leaving him unable to sustain his full strength for long without replenishment.
• Yuan Yan realized that merging his Three Corpse Dao Bodies had transformed his true body from the Primordial Gourd Vine into a Lower-Grade Chaos Spiritual Root and raised his innate foundation to that of a Lower-Tier Chaos God and Demon.
• Yuan Yan released his restraints and absorbed Chaos Qi, replenishing his Origin Power and allowing his unfinished transformation to continue without incurring further karmic debt to the Primordial World.
• Yuan Yan concluded that Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortals could cultivate in the Inner Chaos while maintaining abodes, disciples, and avatars in the Primordial World.

Yuan Yan considered creating Three Corpse Dao Bodies again and merging their Half-Step Innate Supreme Treasures into an offensive Innate Supreme Treasure. He postponed both plans to replenish his Origin Power and complete his transformation, settling into cultivation in Inner Chaos.

• Yuan Yan realized he could sever his Three Corpse Dao Bodies again but concluded that their short-term cultivation gains would be limited.
• Yuan Yan decided to create the Three Corpse Dao Bodies when he found suitable Supreme-Grade or Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasures, since they could help with cultivation and guard the Primordial World and Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.
• Yuan Yan considered fusing the Innate Five Elements Pearls, the Twelfth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, and the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd into an offensive Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Yuan Yan formed an incarnation, which crossed the Infinite Void to Yingzhou Immortal Island and revealed itself as a Chaos Gourd Vine rooted in Inner Chaos.
• Yuan Yan unfolded the Yin-Yang Dao to create the supreme Yin-Yang Hollow Formation, drawing in Chaos Qi to restore his Origin Power and complete his body's transformation before cultivating.

Yuan Yan ignored the Heavenly Dao’s urging to fulfill a saint’s duties and continued cultivating in the Inner Chaos. He sent a divine sense incarnation to Yingzhou Immortal Island to explain the paths to Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal and sainthood, and advise his companions on their breakthroughs.

• Yuan Yan sensed that the Heavenly Dao wanted him to fulfill a saint’s duties, but postponed them and focused on his transformation and cultivation.
• Yuan Yan’s divine sense incarnation appeared at the Three Lights Divine Water Pool, where Fuxi, Nuwa, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling greeted him.
• Yuan Yan explained the differences between a Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal and a saint, along with the methods and tradeoffs of reaching each realm.
• Yuan Yan advised Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling to fully fuse their Three Corpse Dao Bodies, repay their karma, and manage their merit before entrusting their Great Dao marks to the Heavenly Dao and Great Dao.

Yuan Yan advised Nuwa and Fuxi on how to use merit and fuse their Three Corpse Dao Bodies while pursuing sainthood or the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm. Nuwa remained undecided about her path, while Fuxi accepted that attaining the Dao might take several thousand eons.

• Yuan Yan warned Nuwa against using merit to refine Hongmeng Purple Qi and explained the tradeoffs between the second and third methods of attaining sainthood.
• Nuwa promised not to use merit to refine Hongmeng Purple Qi or to perfect her Dao Fruit, but said nothing about which method she would choose.
• Yuan Yan cautioned Fuxi that the merit from the Northern Continent scheme might not suffice to fuse his Three Corpse Dao Bodies and repay his karma.
• Fuxi said he could wait several thousand eons and continue earning merit through the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation in the Western and Northern Continents.
• Yuan Yan advised Fuxi to fuse his Three Corpse Dao Bodies one by one if he waited until they reached the limit of the twelfth layer before fusing them.

Yuan Yan guided Fuxi, Nuwa, and his Three-Selves Dao Bodies before the story shifted to Taiwei Star, where Di Jun sealed Taiwei inside the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation. Taiwei regretted refusing Jiufeng’s offer of protection as Di Jun appeared to begin an operation against Star Gods who would not submit to the Demon Clan.

• Yuan Yan drew more of his attention to his divine-sense incarnation and spent seven or eight Epochs guiding Fuxi and Nuwa and discussing the Dao with the group.
• Di Jun and Taiyi deployed the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation, sealing the Taiwei Star Domain and hiding its upheaval from the outside world.
• Taiwei woke to the danger, realized he could neither escape nor send a message, and suspected Di Jun and Taiyi had come to force his submission.
• Taiwei regretted refusing Jiufeng’s offers to join the Earth Court or send a Three Corpse Dao Body away to seek its help.
• Taiwei left his star to face the formation, recognizing that his strength and defenses could not withstand Di Jun, Taiyi, and the formation.
• Di Jun appeared before Taiwei and prepared to act as part of a wider operation targeting Star Gods who refused to submit to the Demon Clan.

He and Taiyi organized a concealed campaign to kill or subdue Star Gods who had refused to join the Demon Clan, while sparing Xi He, Changxi, and Purple Light. He explained that the three were too powerful to attack without risking exposure and that his affection for Xi He and Changxi also stayed his hand.

• He planned to target the sixty-odd Star Gods who had refused the Demon Clan, dividing the Quasi-Sage and Primordial Golden Immortal targets among himself, Taiyi, and the Demon Clan’s experts.
• He arranged concealed formations to isolate each star region and disguise the changes in the Boundless Starry Sky from the Earth Court and the Thirteen Ancestral Witches.
• He judged Xi He, Changxi, and Purple Light too formidable to kill quietly because their star origins, defenses, and Three Corpse Dao Bodies could let them resist or escape.
• He feared that an attack on the three would alert the Earth Court, provoke intervention, and drive the survivors into its camp.
• He also spared Xi He and Changxi because his attraction to them had grown into deep affection.

Di Jun decided to force Taiwei into the Demon Clan, demanding binding oaths and a piece of his true spirit. Taiwei refused, chose death over submission, and unleashed a furious tirade against Di Jun.

• Di Jun planned to complete the Zhou Tian Star Formation, weaken the Earth Court, and later bring Xi He, Changxi, and Purple Light under his control.
• Di Jun decided Taiwei would have to swear Heavenly Dao and Dao Heart Oaths and surrender a wisp of his Innate Imperishable True Spirit to the Demon-Summoning Banner.
• Di Jun gave Taiwei three breaths to submit or die, but Taiwei protested that the terms would make him a slave.
• Taiwei concluded that refusing and risking death gave him a better chance of revival than submitting to the Demon Clan and its possible destruction.
• Taiwei cursed Di Jun as a cowardly turtle and called him Little Turtle Feathers, then felt his frustration ease and his cultivation improve.

Di Jun overwhelmed Taiwei and began draining his Star God origin and authority so he could imprison him, but the Twelve Ancestral Witches intervened by assembling the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation. Their attacks also struck at Star Gods across the Boundless Starry Sky, disrupting the Demon Clan’s campaign to capture them.

• Di Jun ignored the three-breath agreement, summoned a miniature Primordial World, and crushed Taiwei’s defenses.
• Taiwei tried to burn his origin and self-destruct, but Di Jun used the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation to slow him and prevent it.
• Di Jun began extracting Taiwei’s Star God origin and authority, intending to leave him helpless and seal him in the Sun Essence Wheel.
• Jiufeng struck the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation with an axe, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches began forming the Pangu True Body.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches attacked Star Gods throughout the Boundless Starry Sky, breaking weaker Demon Clan formations and leaving unprotected Star Gods exposed.

Di Jun chose to fight the Earth Court, despite the Demon Clan’s scattered forces and an incomplete Zhou Tian Star Formation. The Star Gods weakened the formation, and Di Jun and Taiyi launched attacks against them just as a vast figure took shape within the Primordial World.

• Di Jun weighed the risks of abandoning the Demon Clan or fighting the Earth Court, then decided to fight after sensing a possible chance to turn the tide.
• Di Jun contacted Taiyi, their Three Corpse Dao Bodies, and the Demon Experts, while Demon Elites assembled the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation and other forces entered the Zhou Tian Star Formation.
• Taiyi and Di Jun activated the Zhou Tian Star Formation, but missing Stellar Origin left it incomplete and its power just short of the Second-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal level.
• More than fifty Star Gods resisted the formation’s pull on stellar power, dropping its strength to the middle stage of the First-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal level.
• Taiyi and Di Jun launched fatal strikes at the Star Gods, while a vast figure fully took shape within the Primordial World.

Pangu True Body shattered the Demon Clan’s formations and struck down Di Jun and Taiyi, while Hongjun watched from Purple Firmament Palace and reconsidered how to preserve the balance between Earth Court and the Demon Clan. The chapter left Hongjun preparing to have Yuan Yan intervene instead of acting personally.

• Pangu True Body summoned a phantom Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe and resisted the Demon Clan’s attacks.
• Di Jun unleashed the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation, and Taiyi led the Demon Clan in the Starfall Godslayer attack with the Zhou Tian Star Formation.
• Pangu True Body’s axe strike destroyed both formations, badly damaged their treasures, and killed Di Jun, Taiyi, and their Dao bodies.
• Hongjun observed the battle from Purple Firmament Palace and altered the Heavenly Secrets so Di Jun believed the Demon Clan still had hope.
• The Heavenly Dao urged Hongjun not to intervene personally and to have Yuan Yan preserve the balance between Earth Court and the Demon Clan.

Yuan Yan ignored the Heavenly Dao’s edict to stop the war between the Earth Court and the Demon Clan, suspecting that the order was meant to make him offend the Witch Clan. Hongjun then summoned Yuan Yan to a separate spacetime dimension, where Yuan Yan respectfully greeted his master.

• Hongjun considered how the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage’s growing power could upset the balance among future saints and decided to have Yuan Yan restrain the Earth Court and Demon Clan.
• Hongjun sent a Heavenly Dao Edict ordering Yuan Yan to stop their battle and prohibit fighting for three thousand epochs.
• Yuan Yan judged that intervening would bring no benefit and risk enmity with the Witch Clan, so he obscured the Heavenly Dao and ignored the edict.
• Hongjun, urged by the Heavenly Dao, summoned Yuan Yan’s divine sense into a special spacetime dimension.
• Yuan Yan greeted Hongjun respectfully, and Hongjun reflected that Yuan Yan was his most satisfactory disciple and successor to the Daoist orthodoxy.

Hongjun questioned Yuan Yan for refusing the Heavenly Dao’s order to stop the battle between the Earth Court and the Demon Clan, but Yuan Yan offered excuses and made clear he would not intervene. The Heavenly Dao then took control of Hongjun and warned that the coming calamity could turn against the Earth Court and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.

• Hongjun asked Yuan Yan why he had ignored the Heavenly Dao’s edict, and Yuan Yan claimed that interrupting his cultivation would endanger his foundation.
• Hongjun explained that Yuan Yan could safely stop the battle, but Yuan Yan argued that the Pangu True Body might injure him and that he could not fight his sisters’ allies.
• Hongjun realized Yuan Yan would keep inventing excuses and decided to let the matter rest rather than force him to act.
• The Heavenly Dao displaced Hongjun’s consciousness and warned Yuan Yan that the calamity could become a conflict between the Earth Court and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.
• Yuan Yan recognized that the Heavenly Dao, rather than Hongjun, was demanding his intervention.

Yuan Yan challenged the Heavenly Dao’s demand that he stop the Earth Court’s battle with the Demon Clan, threatening to let the Earth Court destroy the Demon Clan and later attack the Earth Court himself. The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun offered a reward for his intervention, but Yuan Yan rejected their offer of three Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.

• Yuan Yan questioned why the Heavenly Dao insisted he prevent the Earth Court from destroying the Demon Clan and said he would send the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage to destroy the Earth Court afterward.
• The Heavenly Dao warned Yuan Yan that destroying the Earth Court and killing the Thirteen Ancestral Witches would bring severe backlash, but Yuan Yan said he could wound and imprison them with the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd.
• The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun asked what reward would persuade Yuan Yan to stop the battle between the Earth Court and the Demon Clan.
• Yuan Yan demanded the God-Slaying Spear or an offensive Innate Supreme Treasure comparable to the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus.
• The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun refused and offered three Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures instead, so Yuan Yan declined to intervene.

Yuan Yan negotiated with Heavenly Dao Hongjun over a reward for intervening in the conflict between the Earth Court and the Demon Clan. They failed to agree on terms for borrowing the Jade Disc of Creation, leaving Yuan Yan unwilling to act without sufficient benefits.

• Yuan Yan rejected Hongjun’s offer of three Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and demanded vast Merit and Fortune, which Hongjun refused.
• Yuan Yan offered to act if Hongjun lent him the Jade Disc of Creation for ten thousand Epochs, hoping to study it with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa.
• Hongjun offered to lend the Jade Disc for at most one hundred Epochs, citing the risks of advancing Yuan Yan’s lineage and disrupting the Primordial World’s balance.
• Yuan Yan insisted on at least nine thousand Epochs while Hongjun held to one hundred, and their negotiations broke down.
• Yuan Yan remained prepared to walk away rather than fight the Earth Court’s Witch Clan without adequate compensation.