Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan decided to attend Hongjun’s lecture at the Purple Firmament Palace despite worrying that Hongjun might discover his origins or deny him a Saint’s seat. He ended his own lecture early and gathered his brothers and followers to prepare them for the journey one Epoch later.

• Yuan Yan set aside his hesitation and concluded that he and his brothers had to attend Hongjun’s lecture, since avoiding it would not keep them out of Hongjun’s notice.
• Yuan Yan calmed the cultivators at the Dao Lecture Platform, ended his lecture, and told them that only Great Luo Golden Immortals could enter the chaos beyond the heavens to reach the Purple Firmament Palace.
• Yuan Yan summoned Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, and the twenty-six Great Luo Golden Immortals under his command back to Yingzhou Immortal Island.
• Yuan Yan advised the Great Luo Golden Immortals to travel separately to the Purple Firmament Palace, warning that bringing juniors or traveling in groups could cost them their chance to hear Hongjun’s Dao.
• Yuan Yan gave each of his twenty-six Great Luo Golden Immortal followers a protective jade talisman capable of blocking a perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal for ten years.

Yuan Yan sent the Great Firmament Golden Immortals to prepare for an early journey to the Purple Firmament Palace, while the Three Pure Ones and other Innate Divines also set out to hear Sage Hongjun teach. Many lesser cultivators rushed into the chaos despite the danger, and one Taiyi Golden Immortal perished as the chapter ended with others still attempting the crossing.

• Yuan Jie told the twenty-six Great Firmament Golden Immortals to return to the Primordial World if they could not find the Purple Firmament Palace within an Epoch, and Yuan Yan ordered everyone to settle their affairs and depart early.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Tao Yao, and the other Great Firmament Golden Immortals crossed the World Membrane into the Inner Chaos.
• Taiqing Laozi, Jade Pure One Yuanshi, and Supreme Pure Tongtian decided to seek Sage Hongjun's Dao lecture and set out for the chaos beyond the heavens.
• The Queen Mother of the West, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Innate Divines throughout the Primordial World headed toward the World Membrane.
• A Taiyi Golden Immortal entered the chaos and was destroyed by Chaos Qi, but another living being soon risked the crossing.

Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling crossed into the Inner Chaos and reached the Purple Firmament Palace, where many powerful innate divine beings gathered to hear a Sage expound the Dao. Nuwa and Fuxi greeted the four brothers, and Yuan Yan hoped the sermon would help him break through to the Primal Chaos Golden Immortal realm.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling used their World-Purifying White Lotuses and Great Dao power to withstand the chaos qi and followed an invisible pull toward the Purple Firmament Palace.
• Yuan Yan and his brothers arrived first at the palace platform, then watched as the Three Pure Ones, Kunpeng, Nuwa and Fuxi, the Two Golden Crows, and many other peak innate divine beings arrived.
• Nuwa and Fuxi greeted Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling, and Nuwa remarked on the brothers’ formidable strength.
• Yuan Jie praised Nuwa and Fuxi for reaching the late stage of the Golden Immortal of the Great Luo, and Nuwa vowed to catch up with the four brothers.
• Nuwa asked whether Yuan Yan had reached a higher realm, and Yuan Yan said he hoped the Sage’s sermon would help him break through his bottleneck.

Yuan Yan and his companions waited outside the Purple Firmament Palace as nearly three thousand Innate Divines gathered, then rushed inside when the doors opened. A fierce contest for six cushions ended with Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Yuan Yan, Nuwa, and Hong Yun seated, while Fuxi and the other contenders were left behind.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling grew familiar with Nuwa and Fuxi while other powerful figures waited tensely outside the palace.
• Haotian and Yaochi opened the Purple Firmament Palace and invited the Innate Divines inside to hear the Sage's teachings.
• Yuan Yan and the others raced for the six cushions as the Three Pure Ones, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and other powerful figures attacked and competed against one another.
• Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling joined forces to block the attacks, allowing Yuan Yan and Nuwa to reach the fourth and fifth cushions.
• Zhen Yuanzi helped Hong Yun overtake Fuxi, and Hong Yun claimed the sixth cushion beside Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Yuan Yan, and Nuwa.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, Minghe, and the other contenders stopped fighting rather than risk a deadly feud over the occupied cushions.

After the struggle for the six meditation cushions, Fuxi felt guilty for missing his chance while Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had sacrificed theirs to help Yuan Yan and Nuwa. Yuan Jie invited Fuxi to help restore the Western Continent, easing his guilt and raising his cultivation.

• Yuan Yan reflected on how the Three Pure Ones had claimed three cushions and Hong Yun had beaten Fuxi to another, while Yuan Yan and Nuwa secured seats.
• Nuwa thanked Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling for helping her claim a cushion and silently remembered the debt of karma she owed them.
• Fuxi apologized for wasting the opportunity the others had created, and Yuan Ling and Yuan Lun reassured him.
• Yuan Jie invited Fuxi to join their efforts to restore the Western Continent so he could repay the Primordial World.
• Fuxi accepted, released his guilt, and gained a level of cultivation; he thanked Yuan Jie for helping untie the knot in his heart.

Fuxi resolved his inner knot and grew closer to Yuan Yan’s group, while the chapter recounted Yuan Jie’s past conflict with Jieyin and Zhunti over the Western Continent. Jieyin and Zhunti arrived late at the Purple Firmament Palace and surveyed the six figures seated in the front row.

• Fuxi resolved his inner knot, and Yuan Yan, Nuwa, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling welcomed him as a close companion.
• Haotian and Yaochi began closing the palace gates after the Innate Divines took their seats, but Jieyin and Zhunti hurried inside just in time.
• The chapter recounted how Jieyin and Zhunti had tried to seize Mo Zhu and take Heaven-Earth Origin Force from Yuan Jie's group.
• Yuan Jie fought Jieyin and Zhunti, injured them, and demanded Bodhi Seeds as compensation after they refused to yield Mount Sumeru.
• Jieyin and Zhunti entered the hall and looked over the front-row cushions occupied by Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Yuan Yan, Nuwa, and Hong Yun.

Jieyin and Zhunti used a tearful appeal about the West to persuade Red Cloud to give up his cushion, then tried to obtain Nuwa’s as well. Nuwa exposed their claims and challenged them to name their accomplishments, leaving Zhunti unable to answer.

• Jieyin and Zhunti assessed the seated immortals and decided Red Cloud was the easiest person to persuade.
• Zhunti feigned despair over the West and threatened to kill himself, while Jieyin pretended to stop him.
• Red Cloud yielded his cushion to Jieyin and Zhunti, shocking the assembly and disappointing Zhen Yuanzi.
• Jieyin and Zhunti considered taking another cushion, then Zhunti pleaded with Nuwa to give hers up.
• Nuwa rebuked Zhunti and pointed out that Yuan Yan and his brothers had restored far more of the Western Continent than he and Jieyin had.

Hongjun arrived at Purple Firmament Palace, fixed the prayer-mat seating, and began the first of three lectures on the Great Dao. As he expounded the path to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, wondrous Dao phenomena filled the hall.

• Nuwa provoked Jieyin and Zhunti over their conduct, but they suppressed their anger and stayed seated.
• Hongjun appeared and immobilized the three thousand Innate Divine with his Sage power before releasing them.
• Hongjun's glance unsettled Yuan Yan, who steadied himself and resolved to pursue the summit of the Great Dao.
• Hongjun declared the prayer-mat seats unchangeable, leaving Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Yuan Yan, Nuwa, and Jieyin seated in order.
• Hongjun announced three lectures separated by one thousand Epochs and began teaching the Dao of the Great Firmament Golden Immortal.

Yuan Yan and his companions listened to Hongjun’s lecture and gained insight into cultivation methods that strengthened their foundations. Yuan Yan completed the Five Qi Returning to Origin and Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, bringing him close to a reliable breakthrough into the Hunyuan Realm.

• Yuan Yan linked his mind and aura with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling as they listened to Hongjun lecture in the Purple Firmament Palace.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, and Yuan Lun benefited from the Enlightenment Meditation Cushions and entered a state of enlightenment alongside Yuan Yan’s connected companions.
• Hongjun explained special cultivation methods for condensing the Five Qi and Three Flowers, which could deepen cultivators’ foundations and reduce the resources needed for advancement.
• Yuan Yan used the lecture’s Dao principles and the palace’s spiritual energy to repair flaws in his lower-realm cultivation and master the new methods.
• Yuan Yan completed Five Qi Returning to Origin and gathered his three twelfth-grade flowers at the crown, combining their power into Hunyuan Power.
• Yuan Yan realized he could now form a Flawed Hunyuan Dao Fruit and understood that his earlier failed breakthroughs stemmed from unstable Hunyuan Power and an incomplete Yin-Yang Dao.

After an Epoch of listening to Hongjun’s lecture, Yuan Yan had perfected his cultivation below the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, while Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling advanced to the Twelfth Layer. Hongjun ended the lecture, received the guests’ salute, and announced his intention to appoint leaders to govern the immortals of the Primordial World.

• Yuan Yan continued refining his Dao instead of breaking through, aiming to eliminate every shortcoming before entering the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• An Epoch passed during Hongjun’s lecture, and the Purple Firmament Palace guests awoke when he finished expounding the Dao.
• Yuan Yan sensed that he had reached his limit below the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, while Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had reached the Twelfth Layer and touched the Hunyuan Realm.
• Yuan Yan observed that Nuwa had reached the Eleventh Layer, Fuxi, Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Jieyin had reached the Tenth Layer, and most other top-tier Innate Divines had reached the Ninth Layer.
• The Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace guests thanked Hongjun, who said he planned to establish leaders among the male and female immortals to govern the immortals of the Primordial World.

Hongjun appointed Dongwang Gong and Queen Mother of the West as Heads of Male and Female Immortals and bestowed a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure upon each of them. Di Jun saw Dongwang Gong as a rival to his Imperial Rulership Dao and silently warned that he would kill him if he competed for supremacy.

• Yuan Yan dismissed the prospect of becoming Head of Male Immortals because he wanted to avoid the Calamity of Witches and Demons.
• Hongjun appointed Dongwang Gong Head of Male Immortals and Queen Mother of the West Head of Female Immortals, giving them the Dragon-Headed Crook and Pure Water Alms Bowl.
• Dongwang Gong and Queen Mother of the West accepted their treasures and promised to uphold order, while Jieyin, Zhunti, and Kunpeng resented their good fortune.
• Di Jun and Taiyi grew displeased at Hongjun's choice, and Di Jun's killing intent toward Dongwang Gong rose as he regarded him as a rival.

The appointment of Dongwang Gong as Head of Male Immortals stirred resentment among the Purple Firmament Palace Guests and prompted Dijiang to consider contending for hegemony. Yuan Yan warned that Dongwang Gong faced imminent disaster, while Queen Mother of the West seemed likely to avoid trouble.

• Zhurong and Gonggong complained through the Ancestral Witches’ bloodline connection about Hongjun appointing Dongwang Gong, while Dijiang urged restraint in Purple Firmament Palace.
• Dijiang recalled that gathering Fortune through unifying the Primordial World could accelerate cultivation and began considering a bid for hegemony.
• Houtu and Zhu Jiuyin persuaded the Ancestral Witches not to embarrass Hongjun, and Dijiang agreed to give the Sage face.
• Many Purple Firmament Palace Guests resented or dismissed Dongwang Gong, though some planned to seek refuge with him after the lectures.
• Nuwa asked Yuan Yan about the future of Dongwang Gong and Queen Mother of the West, and Yuan Yan said Dongwang Gong faced imminent disaster.
• Nuwa saw that Queen Mother of the West was keeping a low profile and concluded that she was sensible.

After the sermon, Nuwa asked Yuan Yan whether he wanted to lead the male immortals, but he rejected the responsibility. Daoist Yang Mei then visited Hongjun, warned him of the dangers of merging with the Heavenly Dao, and announced his plans to enter the chaos and challenge Hongjun to a contest of strength.

• Nuwa asked Yuan Yan whether he intended to become leader of the male immortals, and he said he could not bear the responsibility; Nuwa said she had no interest in leading the female immortals.
• Hongjun ended the sermon, and the three thousand Purple Firmament Guests departed while Haotian and Yaochi withdrew to a side hall to cultivate.
• Yang Mei appeared before Hongjun and warned that merging with the Heavenly Dao could erase Hongjun's identity, but Hongjun said he accepted the risk to gain power to defend the Primordial World.
• Yang Mei said Yin-Yang and Qiankun might return someday, then explained that he had come to bid farewell and challenge Hongjun before entering the chaos to pursue the Great Dao.
• Yang Mei rejected remaining in the Primordial World for sainthood or fortune, noting that Hongjun would not let him unite the world because he needed its merit and fortune to guard against losing himself.

Hongjun and Yang Mei left the Purple Firmament Palace to battle in the chaos while Dongwang Gong failed to win the support of Yuan Yan and the Three Pure Ones. After Yuan Yan and Nuwa independently sensed an opportunity at Mount Buzhou, the group realized the coincidence might involve the primordial gourds, which had become their life-bound treasures.

• Hongjun and Yang Mei left the Purple Firmament Palace and went to the chaos to fight.
• Dongwang Gong asked Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, the Three Pure Ones, and others to support his authority, but Yuan Yan's group and the Three Pure Ones ignored him and left.
• Dongwang Gong concealed his anger and vowed to deal with those who had slighted him once he ruled the Primordial World.
• Di Jun dismissed Dongwang Gong's title as meaningless without strength and led Taiyi away.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi returned to the Primordial World, where Yuan Yan and Nuwa both sensed an opportunity of destiny at Mount Buzhou.
• Yuan Yan's group recalled that the seven primordial gourds had become life-bound treasures, and Yuan Yan's Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd had grown into a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with forty Innate Divine Restrictions.

Yuan Yan, his companions, Nuwa, and Fuxi hurried to Mount Buzhou after sensing an extraordinary opportunity. They discovered a powerful Primordial Formation concealing a blooming Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, whose arrival challenged the fate Yuan Yan remembered.

• Yuan Yan chose the Chaos Gourd, while Yuan Lun and Yuan Ling chose the Treasure-Nurturing Gourd and Spirit-Absorbing Gourd, and the remaining gourds also matured into High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Yuan Yan, his companions, Nuwa, and Fuxi agreed to pursue the opportunity they had sensed and traveled to Mount Buzhou.
• The six reached the mountainside and found a Primordial Formation absorbing Chaos Qi, Innate Spiritual Qi, and Dao Rhyme Spiritual Essence to nourish a treasure.
• Yuan Yan judged the formation too dangerous to enter before the treasure matured, so the group waited outside for it to open.
• The formation's weakened defenses revealed a Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus blooming in a Three Lights Divine Water Pool, astonishing Yuan Yan.

Yuan Yan resolved to claim the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, seeing it as his chance to obtain a supreme treasure, and gathered his companions to conceal it. Before they could act, Pangu's Three Pure Ones arrived, setting the two groups on a collision course over the lotus.

• Yuan Yan decided to obtain the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, which he believed was fated with him and could make up for his lack of a supreme treasure.
• Yuan Yan urged Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi to form a grand formation that would hide the lotus and block other cultivators from sensing it.
• Nuwa and Fuxi agreed to stand with Yuan Yan's group, despite knowing he would likely keep the lotus, because they owed them favors and hoped Nuwa might later borrow it.
• Pangu's Three Pure Ones arrived and recognized the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, but saw that Yuan Yan's group had reached it first.
• The Three Pure Ones considered joining forces to form the Innate Three Talents Formation, while weighing the severe cost of reassembling Pangu's Primordial Spirit.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng arrived while Yuan Yan's group and the Three Pure Ones remained locked in a standoff over the maturing Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus. Houtu denied that the lotus was the opportunity she sensed, and Jiufeng urged the Witches not to interfere in the dispute but to seek Houtu's unknown opportunity instead.

• Yuan Yan warned Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling to prepare in case the Twelve Ancestral Witches joined forces with the Three Pure Ones.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng arrived, turning the confrontation into a three-sided standoff.
• Dijiang asked Houtu whether the Creation Green Lotus was the opportunity she had sensed, and Houtu denied it.
• Zhurong, Gonggong, and other Ancestral Witches suggested taking the lotus or helping Yuan Yan's group against the Three Pure Ones.
• Jiufeng urged the Ancestral Witches to stay out of the dispute and help Houtu find her own opportunity.

Jiufeng reflected on how her false claim of being favored by Pangu had earned her influence among the Twelve Ancestral Witches, while her growing suspicions about Yuan Yan made him a potential threat. She decided not to urge the Witches to help the Three Pure Ones seize the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, since the risks of opposing Yuan Yan’s group and their allies outweighed any gain.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches arrived at the Purple Firmament Palace too late to claim meditation cushions after Zhurong and Gonggong were delayed confronting Di Jun and Taiyi, and Yuan Yan took a seat ahead of Nuwa.
• Jiufeng recalled that she had falsely attributed her glimpses of the future to Pangu’s favor, and feared the Twelve Ancestral Witches would punish her if she confessed.
• Jiufeng suspected Yuan Yan was a fellow transmigrator because his group’s restoration of the Western Continent and his cushion seat contradicted the future she knew.
• Jiufeng considered Yuan Yan a danger because he might uncover her role in changing the Witch Clan’s fate, but she did not know that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling might also be transmigrators.
• Jiufeng understood that the Twelve Ancestral Witches would reject a plan to aid the Three Pure Ones against Yuan Yan’s group, Nuwa, and Fuxi because it would bring greater risks than rewards.

Jiufeng persuaded the Ancestral Witches not to help either side fight over the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, and Dijiang agreed with Yuan Yan and Taiqing Laozi that the Witches would claim only Houtu’s fated opportunity. When the Primordial Formation dispersed, a powerful treasure-like streak of light flew into Houtu.

• Jiufeng argued that helping Yuan Yan would bring little benefit while risking the Three Pure Ones’ resentment and future retaliation.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin agreed not to intervene in the battle between Yuan Yan’s group and the Three Pure Ones.
• Dijiang told both sides that the Witches would not compete for the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus but would claim Houtu’s opportunity, and Yuan Yan and Taiqing Laozi agreed.
• Several thousand years later, the Primordial Formation dispersed, releasing boundless Creation Profound Light and a powerful Creation Dao aura.
• A streak of light bearing dense Pangu Dao Resonance shot out of the formation and entered Houtu’s body.

Yuan Yan, Nuwa, and the Three Pure Ones learned that the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus had nurtured a Twelfth-Rank lotus as a chance to survive its fate of being divided. Both sides chose to fight for the Twenty-Fourth-Rank lotus while leaving the Twelfth-Rank lotus to their opponents, and the Three Pure Ones and Yuan Yan's allies began forming arrays.

• Yuan Yan, Nuwa, and the Three Pure Ones sensed two Creation Green Lotuses inside the vanished Primordial Formation and understood the Twenty-Fourth-Rank lotus's struggle to preserve itself.
• The Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus had spent nearly a fifth of its Primordial Origin to grow the Twelfth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus as a possible continuation.
• Yuan Yan, Nuwa, and the Three Pure Ones weighed the consequences of claiming either or both lotuses and chose to fight for the Twenty-Fourth-Rank lotus while yielding the Twelfth-Rank one to the other side.
• The Three Pure Ones invoked Pangu Power and linked their Dao auras in an array, raising their combined strength to rival a Half-Step Primordial Golden Immortal.
• Yuan Yan charged toward the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus as Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling fused their essence, energy, and spirit into Hunyuan Power and formed an array.