Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan and Fuxi agreed to let the lineage’s million-plus Primordial Unity Golden Immortals take turns cultivating under the Jade Disc of Creation, provided the arrangement did not disrupt the lineage’s duties. In the Inner Chaos, Yuan Yan realized that cultivating in his true form would expose that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling were his Three-Selves Dao Bodies, especially if he and Nuwa later became Dao Companions.

• Yuan Yan argued that the million-plus Primordial Unity Golden Immortals were unlikely to reach Daluo Golden Immortal and that protecting them in the Inner Chaos would strain the lineage’s manpower.
• Fuxi proposed letting the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals enter the Inner Chaos for fifty epochs every hundred epochs and use a formation to protect them and provide converted chaos qi.
• Yuan Yan accepted Fuxi’s proposal, and the six of them traveled to the Inner Chaos to study the Jade Disc of Creation and cultivate.
• Yuan Yan considered that his chaos gourd vine true form would improve his cultivation and chaos-qi absorption, but it could reveal the shared origin of Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling.
• Yuan Yan worried that deep yin-yang cultivation with Nuwa after they became Dao Companions would expose that his true form was a chaos gourd vine, leaving him to wonder what forms his three Dao Bodies had taken.

Yuan Yan decided to tell Nuwa and Fuxi that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling were his Three-Selves Dao Bodies, then brought them into the Yin-Yang Hollow Formation. He revealed that he had been born from the Primordial Gourd Vine, which had transformed into the Chaos Gourd Vine, leaving Nuwa and Fuxi startled.

• Yuan Yan decided to reveal his relationship with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling to Nuwa and Fuxi before they discovered it themselves.
• Yuan Yan opened a passage through the chaos vortex, and he, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi entered the Yin-Yang Hollow Formation.
• Nuwa admired the formation’s cultivation environment and sensed a chaos spiritual root whose Dao resonance resembled Yuan Yan’s.
• Yuan Yan told Nuwa and Fuxi that the spiritual root had been the Primordial Gourd Vine and was now the Chaos Gourd Vine.
• Yuan Yan revealed that he had taken form from the Primordial Gourd Vine and that it transformed after he merged with his three corpse Dao bodies and advanced to Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.

Yuan Yan revealed that he, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had originally been one, formed from the Primordial Gourd Vine. He explained how he created three methods for cultivating separate Dao bodies, leaving Nuwa and Fuxi stunned by the possibility that all three methods could be combined.

• Nuwa and Fuxi suspected that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling shared Yuan Yan’s origin, and Yuan Yan confirmed that the four had originally been one.
• Nuwa and Fuxi accepted Yuan Yan’s secret without resentment and recognized how much the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage depended on him and the other three.
• Nuwa asked how Yuan Yan had become four beings, and he explained that the Primordial World had limited the origin he could use to take form.
• Yuan Yan said he had pioneered four Great Daos and created the Three-Selves Severing Method, the Three Corpses Severing Method, and the Three Demons Severing Method to cultivate them independently.
• Nuwa realized the three methods might work together and calculated that they could multiply one cultivator into sixty-four Dao bodies.

Yuan Yan explained how the Three-Selves Severing Method could be combined with either the Three Corpses or Three Demons method, then taught Nuwa and Fuxi the two methods. He urged them not to sever any new Dao Bodies yet, warning that the drawbacks outweighed the benefits.

• Yuan Yan explained that the Three Corpses and Three Demons methods could not be practiced together, but either could be combined with the Three-Selves method.
• Nuwa asked about the connection between Yuan Yan’s Three Corpses method and Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s, and Yuan Yan claimed he had created his methods independently before meeting Hongjun.
• Yuan Yan taught Nuwa and Fuxi the Three-Selves and Three Demons methods, and they quickly understood how to sever Dao Bodies using them.
• Nuwa and Fuxi considered using their supreme-grade innate spiritual treasures to create more Dao Bodies and have them study the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Yuan Yan cautioned them against severing any new Dao Bodies because he believed the drawbacks outweighed the benefits, leaving Fuxi puzzled.

Yuan Yan explained why creating thirty-nine Dao bodies within the Primordial World could provoke Heavenly Dao suppression and accumulate karmic debts that might hinder future breakthroughs. He proposed that the group instead create Dao bodies with treasures nurtured outside the world and have them cultivate in the Great Chaos, leaving the plan dependent on finding a way to anchor them safely.

• Fuxi considered creating thirty-nine more Dao bodies to strengthen the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage and free their true selves to focus on cultivation.
• Yuan Yan warned that expanding their already powerful lineage could upset the Heavenly Dao’s balance and invite suppression.
• Yuan Yan explained that treasures nurtured by the Primordial World would create karmic debts that could prevent the Dao bodies from reaching primordial Daluo golden immortal and hinder future breakthroughs.
• Nuwa asked whether the Three-Selves, Three Corpses, and Three Demons Severing Methods had become useless, and Yuan Yan said they could still be used if the Dao bodies cultivated in the Great Chaos with treasures from outside the Primordial World.
• Fuxi questioned how they could obtain thirty-nine suitable chaos treasures and protect newly severed Dao bodies, which would begin at Taiyi golden immortal perfection.
• Yuan Yan said the four chaos-gourd-vine true forms could nurture high-grade innate spiritual treasure gourds over two or three thousand epochs and added that they could also sever and anchor Dao bodies with drops of their origin essence blood.

Yuan Yan explained how the group could create and nurture Dao bodies in the Great Chaos, and Fuxi and Nuwa agreed to keep his identity and relationships secret. Nuwa then realized she had ignored Yuan Jie's wish to reject the Queen Mother of the West and had repeatedly pushed the two closer together.

• Yuan Yan outlined plans to form Dao bodies from origin essence blood, protect them in the Great Chaos, and improve their foundations and cultivation.
• Nuwa and Fuxi accepted Yuan Yan's explanation, and Fuxi asked whether they should change how they addressed the brothers.
• Yuan Jie said they should keep their old forms of address, and Yuan Yan asked Nuwa and Fuxi to keep his relationship with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling secret.
• Fuxi and Nuwa promised not to reveal the relationship, but Nuwa suddenly remembered the Queen Mother of the West's interest in Yuan Jie.
• Nuwa recalled that Yuan Jie had asked her to convey his lack of interest, but she had withheld his message and continued arranging opportunities for them to grow closer.

Nuwa regretted arranging matches between the women of Yingzhou Immortal Island and Yuan Yan’s Three-Selves Dao Bodies, realizing they might become rivals for Yuan Yan himself. After Yuan Yan explained that Nuwa had initiated the matchmaking, she accepted that she could not undo the relationships she had helped create.

• Nuwa reflected that Purple Light was drawn to Yuan Lun and that Xi He, Changxi, and Yuan Ling had grown close, while Fuxi showed no interest in romance.
• Nuwa realized that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling were Yuan Yan’s Three-Selves Dao Bodies, making her matchmaking a source of potential rivals.
• Yuan Yan asked Nuwa why she had suddenly become upset, and she blamed him while naming the Queen Mother of the West, Purple Light, Xi He, and Changxi.
• Yuan Yan understood Nuwa’s concern and argued that she had repeatedly arranged the women’s meetings with his Three-Selves Dao Bodies, while he had not taken the initiative.
• Nuwa admitted that her own actions had helped create the situation and concluded she could neither break off her relationship with Yuan Yan nor demand that he avoid the women.

Yuan Yan decided to reveal the truth about Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling to the Queen Mother of the West, Purple Light, Xi He, and Changxi after they entered the Inner Chaos, and let them choose whether to pursue relationships with him. He and Nuwa began cultivating in the pool of primordial chaos liquid, while Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling chose to delay entrusting their Great Dao imprints for a thousand epochs.

• Yuan Yan told Nuwa he would reveal that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling were his Three-Selves Dao Bodies and let the Queen Mother of the West, Purple Light, Xi He, and Changxi decide whether to remain his prospective Dao Companions.
• Nuwa disapproved of Yuan Yan's plan and went to cultivate, but Yuan Yan followed her and took her hand, and she eventually agreed to cultivate with him.
• Yuan Yan transformed into his chaos gourd vine form and linked with the Yin-Yang Hollow Formation, while Nuwa entered the primordial chaos liquid and resonated with the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus.
• Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling decided to study the Jade Disc of Creation for a thousand epochs before entrusting their Great Dao imprints to the Heavenly Dao and the Great Dao.
• Nuwa had already entrusted her Great Dao imprint to the Heavenly Dao to become a Heavenly Dao Saint, so she planned to wait a thousand epochs before entrusting it to the Great Dao.

Yuan Yan and his companions used the Jade Disc of Creation to cultivate in the chaos, while Di Jun and Taiyi confronted how the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage’s rise had undermined the Demon Clan’s ambitions. Di Jun believed they had almost no hope of defeating the Earth Court and unifying the Primordial World.

• Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling manifested their chaos gourd vine forms and joined Yuan Yan and Nuwa in the Yin-Yang Hollow Formation, strengthening it and replenishing their origins with chaos qi and primordial chaos liquid.
• Fuxi stayed outside the central area, set down restrictions, and avoided the formation’s suppressive Great Dao auras.
• Yuan Yan and the others activated the Jade Disc of Creation, manifested three thousand Great Dao rules, and began cultivating under its profound light.
• Di Jun and Taiyi recalled the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage’s reconstruction of the Northern Continent’s earth veins, the Heavenly Dao’s rewards, and Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, and Nuwa attaining the Dao.
• Taiyi asked whether the Demon Clan could still defeat the Earth Court and unify the Primordial World, and Di Jun silently concluded that they had almost no hope.
• Di Jun recalled that most Star Lords, including Xi He, Changxi, and Purple Light, had joined Yuan Yan’s Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage, leaving the Demon Clan unable to complete its Zhou Tian Star Formation as planned.

Di Jun and Taiyi realized the Demon Clan could not complete the Zhou Tian Star Formation without the Star Lords' consent, while the growing Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage threatened their ambitions. They resolved to wait for the lineage to choose its course, then fight if necessary, since they saw no path to attaining the Dao through submission.

• Di Jun planned to negotiate with Purple Light, Xi He, Changxi, and the other Star Lords for stellar origin, but postponed the effort while he and Taiyi recovered from their injuries.
• After Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage cultivators began purifying the Northern Continent, Di Jun sent cannon fodder to test their defenses, and the lineage killed the intruders.
• Di Jun learned that the lineage's work had produced three more primordial Daluo golden immortals and another Hunyuan Sage, leaving it with five primordial Daluo golden immortals and Sages.
• Di Jun told Taiyi they could only wait to see whether the lineage intended to unite the Primordial World; if it did, they would fight rather than submit, but otherwise they would continue opposing the Earth Court.
• Taiyi agreed that they had never had another choice, explaining that their past decisions and the Thirteen Ancestral Witches' oppression had made defeating them essential to their Dao.

Di Jun and Taiyi accepted that war against the Earth Court or the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage was unavoidable, and discussed how to prepare for either outcome. They agreed they needed stronger resurrection contingencies, but Taiyi questioned how they could make them effective under the changed circumstances.

• Taiyi and Di Jun vowed to face death together as the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage's rise left them no other choice.
• Di Jun proposed sending someone to Xi He, Changxi, and the others to ask whether they would permit the Demon Clan to extract stellar origin for the Zhou Tian Star Formation.
• Di Jun said the answer would reveal whether the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage intended to conquer the Primordial World, and urged preparing contingencies for swift resurrection after death.
• Taiyi insisted that defeating and killing as many of the Thirteen Ancestral Witches as possible mattered more to him than resurrection.
• Di Jun explained that the Witch Clan could revive quickly through the Pangu Temple, so the Demon Clan needed contingencies that would let them return just as swiftly.
• Taiyi noted that their existing blood-essence and Great Dao imprint contingencies lacked protection and could be destroyed through karmic links, then asked Di Jun for a better plan.

Di Jun and his brother recognized that their two hidden contingencies could be found by the newly emerged primordial daluo golden immortals and Sages, so they considered ways to protect future resurrection plans. Di Jun proposed strengthening their Demon Realm and hiding a Great Dao Mark in the Boundless Starry Sky, but the chapter ended before he finished listing his ideas.

• He explained that their blood essence and Great Dao Marks in the Eastern Emperor Bell and the sun star origin were their only effective contingencies, but both could be compromised if they died.
• He concluded that protecting new contingencies would require formations or treasures powerful enough to resist primordial daluo golden immortals and Sages.
• Di Jun agreed that their existing safeguards were no longer secure and could not immediately think of a solution.
• Di Jun proposed advancing the Demon Realm into a top-tier great thousand world and establishing the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation and Zhou Tian Star Formation within it.
• Di Jun proposed using the Zhou Tian Star Formation to leave a Great Dao Mark that would circulate with and be concealed by the Boundless Starry Sky.

Di Jun and Taiyi examined ways to hide contingencies from primordial daluo golden immortals and Sages, but found that several flaws could not be solved. They still began strengthening their safeguards and sent forces to develop the Demon Realm, leaving it poised for rapid advancement.

• Di Jun discussed methods for preserving their contingencies, including hiding dao marks in the Boundless Starry Sky, strengthening the Demon Realm, and establishing a world in the Outer Chaos.
• Di Jun and Taiyi identified flaws in those plans, including the risk that others could trace formations to the Demon Realm or discover their dao marks; they also lacked spare Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Di Jun and Taiyi secretly set up the Zhou Tian Star Formation with the Zhou Tian Star Banners and entrusted a great dao mark to the Boundless Starry Sky.
• Taiyi's three corpse dao body led daluo golden immortals and hundreds of millions of cultivators with resources and treasures into the Inner Chaos to develop the Demon Realm.
• The Demon Realm's formations had helped it near advancement to a high-tier great thousand world, and the arriving cultivators were expected to strengthen its foundations and accelerate its growth.

Di Jun and Taiyi sent Three Corpse Dao Bodies and hundreds of millions of Demon Clan members into the Outer Chaos, then led a delegation to Yingzhou Immortal Island to offer congratulations and gifts. At Mount Buzhou, the Thirteen Ancestral Witches feared that the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage would eventually dominate the Primordial World as its leaders continued to attain the Dao.

• Di Jun and Taiyi sent one Three Corpse Dao Body each, with hundreds of millions of Demon Clan cultivators, to establish a high-tier great thousand world in the Outer Chaos.
• Di Jun and Taiyi brought Primordial Origin Golden Immortals and lavish gifts to Yingzhou Immortal Island to congratulate its leaders and meet Xi He, Changxi, and Purple Light.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches sensed Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling attain the Dao, followed by Nuwa attaining sagehood.
• Dijiang predicted that Fuxi would eventually attain the Dao and worried that the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage would gain six Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals and Sages.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches feared that the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage would control the Primordial World and prove too powerful for its other future Sages to challenge.

The Ancestral Witches learned that the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage had gained four new Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals or Sages and might soon become strong enough to threaten the Earth Court. Jiufeng was not worried that the lineage would conquer the Primordial World because she believed Hongjun would stop it, but she remained troubled by Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling attaining the Dao.

• Zhu Jiuyin estimated that Fuxi might attain the Dao within two or three thousand epochs, alarming the Ancestral Witches.
• Xuanming urged the Ancestral Witches to fight rather than fear the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage, and Dijiang rallied the others to her side.
• Jiufeng reasoned that Hongjun would intervene if the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage tried to unify the Primordial World, and that future Sages could help prevent its victory.
• Jiufeng resented that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had attained the Dao despite being unknown in the original course of fate.

Houtu argued that the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage probably would not try to unify the Primordial World, despite its power. She reasoned that Yuan Yan’s past actions suggested he either lacked that ambition or knew Hongjun posed an insurmountable obstacle, leaving the Ancestral Witches to reconsider their fears.

• Jiufeng regretted that the Witch Clan had not gained Yuan Yan as a member and resolved to build good relations with his lineage and its allies.
• Houtu calmed the Ancestral Witches and told them she doubted the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage would contend for supremacy.
• Dijiang questioned why Yuan Yan and the others would forgo unification when they had enough strength to pursue it.
• Houtu recalled that Yuan Yan had known his companions were close to attaining the Dao when he stopped the Earth Court and Demon Clan from fighting.
• Houtu concluded that Yuan Yan’s choice to preserve both factions showed he likely did not intend to unify the world, perhaps because Hongjun was stronger than they realized.

The Ancestral Witches debated Hongjun’s cultivation and questioned how he could have advanced so quickly. Hongjun had secretly reached the peak of the ninth-layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, leaving the Earth Court unable to challenge him.

• Jumang asked how high Hongjun’s cultivation realm was, and Houtu estimated it was above the sixth layer while Jiufeng suspected he could draw on the Heavenly Dao’s power.
• Dijiang argued that merit, fortune, and Dao unification could not explain Hongjun reaching the perfection of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm so quickly.
• Hongjun had used his lecture’s merit to repay karmic debts, but the Heavenly Dao helped him fuse Jade Disc of Creation Fragments into a supreme treasure and accelerated his cultivation.
• Hongjun broke through to the sixth layer before his third lecture, reached the seventh layer within five hundred epochs of Dao unification, and later advanced to the peak of the ninth layer.
• The Ancestral Witches accepted that they could not determine Hongjun’s exact realm and that the Earth Court could not defeat him.

Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches arranged a visit to Yingzhou Immortal Island to congratulate its newly ascended Dao cultivators. Jumang proposed that the Earth Court build a continent-spanning formation like theirs, but Jiufeng explained why it was impractical, and Dijiang agreed.

• Dijiang changed the subject and arranged for himself, Jiufeng, Houtu, and Xuanming to visit Yingzhou Immortal Island with four innate spiritual treasures as gifts.
• Jumang proposed that the Earth Court establish a continent- or sea-spanning formation to strengthen its defenses and earn merit and fortune.
• Jiufeng rejected the proposal, explaining that the Earth Court lacked skilled formation cultivators and could not safely involve outsiders.
• Jiufeng said the Earth Court lacked control over many sacred sites, making a formation impossible without provoking powerful figures across the Primordial World.
• Dijiang agreed and named several powerful figures and clans whose sanctuaries or strongholds lay in the proposed formation’s territory.
• Jumang acknowledged that his proposal had been rash.