Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi worked to strengthen and expand the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage through formations, preaching, recruitment, cultivation, and alchemy. The lineage grew rapidly, but its supply of resources limited how many more Great Firmament Golden Immortals it could raise.

• Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Yuan Yan, and Fuxi perfected and upgraded the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation, while creating avatars to help repair the Earth Veins.
• Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling preached the Dao and refined Great Firmament Dao Pills and Dao-Comprehension Pills for the lineage’s cultivators.
• Yuan Yan recruited suitable lifeforms, created avatars to aid the Western Continent’s repair, and cooperated in developing the formation.
• Over a little more than a hundred Epochs, the lineage grew from seventy or eighty thousand cultivators to over a hundred thousand, adding more than a hundred Great Firmament Golden Immortals and tens of thousands of Taiyi Golden Immortals at Perfection.
• Most new Great Firmament Golden Immortals had relied on pills and had limited prospects, while the effort nearly exhausted the lineage’s reserves.
• The chapter established that future lotus harvests could theoretically provide enough ingredients for seventy or eighty Great Firmament Dao Pills per 150-Epoch cycle, though Yuan Yan could not realistically cultivate that many Great Firmament Golden Immortals.

Yuan Yan and the others distributed Great Firmament Dao Pills and other cultivation opportunities to strengthen the Yingzhou Immortal Dao Lineage, requiring cultivators to repay many benefits through contributions. As the lineage expanded, its efforts to repair the Western Continent’s Earth Veins accelerated, while Yuan Yan and the others conserved Merit for their future advancement.

• Yuan Yan refined more than two hundred Great Firmament Dao Pills, used some to create over eighty Great Firmament Golden Immortals who had not walked their own Dao, and distributed the rest among the lineage’s cultivators who had.
• Yuan Yan and the others offered their Great Firmament Golden Immortals Dao pills, regular sermons, Merit-earning assignments, and chances to study treasures and spiritual roots in exchange for contributions.
• The lineage’s cultivators eagerly accepted benefits in advance, expecting to repay their contributions more quickly after advancing to higher cultivation realms.
• The Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage’s rapid growth accelerated repairs to the Western Continent’s Earth Veins by one or two times and increased the Merit Yuan Yan and the others earned.
• Yuan Yan and the others spent only small amounts of Merit to resolve cultivation doubts and advance their Daos, preserving the rest for their future attempt to reach the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm or attain sainthood.

The chapter surveys the rising powers and prominent figures across the Primordial World as they expanded their influence, preached, or pursued cultivation. Yuan Yan and his allies continued restoring the Western Continent and developing the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage while the world’s cultivation system and population flourished.

• Dongwang Gong recruited Great Firmament Golden Immortals and expanded his influence from Penglai, while Kunpeng preached in Northern Darkness and built a stronghold in the North Sea.
• More than a hundred Great Firmament Golden Immortals established competing forces across the Eastern Continent, while the Three Pure Ones, Queen Mother of the West, Lady Purple Light, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches pursued their own paths.
• Zhen Yuanzi stayed mostly at Five Villages Abbey, Hong Yun wandered and preached, and Minghe cultivated in the Blood Sea; Taiyi gained renown as the strongest Great Firmament Golden Immortal wielding the Chaos Bell.
• Di Jun delayed establishing a faction because he sensed its opportunity was connected to the Witch Clan, while Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa continued restoring the Western Continent and building their lineage.
• Some surviving Western Continent natives joined Yuan Yan’s group, while Jieyin and Zhunti remained at Mount Sumeru and worked to repair it.
• Factions preached Hongjun’s teachings and cultivation methods, helping the Primordial World’s population and cultivation system grow despite increasingly frequent but limited conflicts.

After six to seven hundred Epochs, Houtu and Jiufeng visited Yuan Yan at Yingzhou Immortal Island, surprising him because he had rarely dealt with the Witch Clan. Yuan Yan welcomed them inside to hear their purpose, while their unexpected strength left all three aware of the gap between their expectations and reality.

• Yuan Yan sensed Houtu and Jiufeng approaching Yingzhou Immortal Island and wondered why they had come to see him.
• Yuan Yan appeared before Houtu and Jiufeng, whose surprise at his arrival revealed that his strength exceeded their expectations.
• Yuan Yan sensed that Houtu and Jiufeng had reached the Extreme Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm and had tempered their bodies to the level of High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Houtu hinted that the three should speak somewhere more suitable, so Yuan Yan opened the island’s protective formation and led his guests inside.
• Yuan Yan avoided taking Houtu and Jiufeng to the Three Lights Divine Water Pool, where several of his companions were cultivating in seclusion.

Yuan Yan entertained Houtu and Jiufeng with Drunken Immortal Brew, whose effects impressed them, before Houtu revealed the Witch Clan’s offer for a method to reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. Yuan Yan was surprised by the three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures they offered, though the chapter left the proposed trade unresolved.

• Yuan Yan served Houtu and Jiufeng Drunken Immortal Brew, and they praised its flavor and cultivation benefits.
• Houtu and Jiufeng refined away the brew’s effects to stay clear-headed for their discussion, while privately deciding they wanted to trade for more wine or its brewing method.
• Yuan Yan explained that the brew’s inebriation was its most special quality and offered them more.
• Houtu proposed that the Witch Clan trade three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for a method to break through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, promising not to share it outside the clan without Yuan Yan’s consent.
• Yuan Yan expressed surprise at the offer, while considering that Hongjun’s upcoming lecture might soon reveal the path beyond the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.

Houtu explained why the Witch Clan was willing to offer Yuan Yan three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for a method to reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. Yuan Yan realized Jiufeng feared the upcoming Purple Firmament Palace lecture would leave the Witch Clan at a disadvantage, and he weighed whether to accept without demanding more.

• Houtu decided that offering three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures could secure the breakthrough method for the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng while building ties with Yuan Yan’s powerful group.
• Houtu confirmed she was certain about the offer, and Yuan Yan paused to consider the trade.
• Yuan Yan recalled that Hongjun’s Second Lecture might teach the Three Corpses Severing Quasi-Sage Path rather than the Primordial Golden Immortal Path, which would not suit the Witch Clan.
• Yuan Yan deduced that Jiufeng, a transmigrator, had urged the Witch Clan to seek a breakthrough method before other attendees advanced and Di Jun and Taiyi threatened them.
• Yuan Yan chose not to exploit Houtu and Jiufeng’s urgency, recognizing they could seek a method from other powerful beings if he demanded too much.

Yuan Yan weighed the risks of trading his Primordial Golden Immortal breakthrough method to Houtu and Jiufeng, then warned them that it might not suit the Witch Clan because they lacked Primordial Spirits. Houtu and Jiufeng chose to proceed, hoping the method would reveal whether their clan could break through without one.

• Yuan Yan considered the risk that the Witch Clan might blame him if his breakthrough method proved useless to them.
• Yuan Yan decided to trade the reproducible method for three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and planned to disclose its limitations beforehand.
• Yuan Yan told Houtu and Jiufeng that the method required essence, qi, and spirit, making it potentially incompatible with the Witch Clan.
• Houtu and Jiufeng briefly worried that the Witch Clan might be unable to reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, then recalled reasons to believe the Ancestral Witches would find a way.
• Houtu and Jiufeng agreed to continue the trade so they could study the method and learn whether a Primordial Spirit was truly necessary.

Houtu and Jiufeng traded three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to Yuan Yan for a method of reaching the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, then discovered the Witch Clan could not meet the method’s requirements. Yuan Yan accepted their valuable gifts and considered combining his Jade Disc of Creation Fragment with the Wordless Heavenly Book.

• Houtu agreed to trade three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for Yuan Yan’s breakthrough method, and Yuan Yan gave her and Jiufeng the jade talismans.
• Houtu and Jiufeng studied the method and realized that the Witch Clan lacked the spirit and Great Firmament Dao Fruit needed to advance.
• Yuan Yan refined the three treasures and learned that the Wordless Heavenly Book contained thirty-four Innate Divine Restrictions and could aid Dao comprehension.
• Yuan Yan inferred that Houtu had offered such valuable treasures to build a friendship, and he decided not to refuse them.
• Yuan Yan considered refining his Jade Disc of Creation Fragment into the Wordless Heavenly Book to raise it to Supreme-Grade.

Yuan Yan decided that he and his companions had enough Supreme-Grade treasures to use the Simplified Three Corpses Severing Method, which could create Dao Bodies to share their work. He no longer worried that severing them before Hongjun’s Second Lecture would attract Hongjun’s attention, and prepared to proceed.

• Yuan Yan considered how he, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa had spent centuries building their lineage and repairing the Western Continent instead of cultivating in seclusion.
• Yuan Yan recalled that he had delayed using the Simplified Three Corpses Severing Method because he lacked enough high-potential treasures, wanted to preserve his combat strength, and hoped to study Hongjun’s method first.
• Yuan Yan noted that the gourds had advanced in rank and that he, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling now had enough Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to sever one or two Dao Bodies without exhausting their treasures’ Primordial Origin.
• Yuan Yan decided that the group could use the Simplified Three Corpses Severing Method, accepting that their treasures might temporarily fall in rank and their combat strength might decline somewhat.
• Yuan Yan resolved to sever Dao Bodies before Hongjun’s Second Lecture, planning to study Hongjun’s method later and no longer worrying if Hongjun noticed him.

Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling nurtured new gourds and a lotus to sever their Evil Corpse Dao Bodies, then shared the Simplified Three Corpses Severing Method with Fuxi and Nuwa. The chapter left all six and their corpse bodies short of Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for further corpse-severing and defense.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling used Innate Gourds to sever their Obsession Corpse Dao Bodies and assigned them new paths in pills, formations, artifacts, and talismans.
• Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling nurtured three gourds into Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, while Yuan Yan spent one-seventh of the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus's Primordial Origin to cultivate a Twelfth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus.
• Yuan Yan and the other three used those treasures to sever their Evil Corpse Dao Bodies, but chose to postpone severing their final corpses until they found more suitable treasures.
• Yuan Yan taught Fuxi and Nuwa the Simplified Three Corpses Severing Method, and they used the Fuxi Qin and Nuwa Stone to sever their Obsession Corpse Dao Bodies.
• After several hundred epochs of nurturing, the treasures entrusted to the corpse bodies had recovered to Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, but Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa still lacked treasures for further corpse-severing and self-defense.

Yuan Yan considered the need for more Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures so Fuxi and Nuwa could sever their Three Corpses, then devised a way to obtain them from the Witch Clan. He concluded that the Witch Clan could not become orthodox Primordial Golden Immortals, but might break through by cultivating their bodies into Hunyuan Bodies.

• Yuan Yan assessed the limited value of High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for himself and his Dao Bodies and considered acquiring Supreme-Grade treasures after Hongjun's Third Lecture.
• Yuan Yan decided he could not refuse the Wordless Heavenly Book from Houtu and Jiufeng because it might advance into a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure for Fuxi or Nuwa.
• Yuan Yan considered obtaining the Witch Clan's unused treasures through a willing transaction rather than trying to steal them from Pangu Hall.
• Yuan Yan deduced that the Witch Clan could not use the orthodox Primordial Golden Immortal breakthrough because they lacked Primordial Spirits.
• Yuan Yan proposed that the Witch Clan merge spirit and qi into their physical bodies, form Hunyuan Bodies, and fuse those bodies with their Great Daos to reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.

Yuan Yan deduced a Primordial Golden Immortal breakthrough method suited to the Witch Clan, whose bodies would merge with their Dao Fruits and become immensely powerful but impossible to recreate if destroyed. Houtu and Jiufeng initially doubted his offer, but Yuan Yan explained why the new method differed from the one he had traded them ten years earlier, and Houtu said she trusted him.

• Yuan Yan finished deducing how the Witch Clan could reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and considered how their fused bodies would differ from orthodox cultivators.
• Houtu and Jiufeng apologized for becoming absorbed in the earlier method, then prepared to return to Pangu Hall to consult their clan.
• Yuan Yan stopped Houtu and Jiufeng and told them he had deduced a method specifically for the Witch Clan.
• Houtu and Jiufeng grew suspicious that Yuan Yan might be trying to sell them the same breakthrough method twice.
• Yuan Yan explained that his earlier method was the only one he knew ten years ago and that the new method accounted for the Witch Clan’s lack of Primordial Spirits.
• Houtu said she trusted Yuan Yan, and her doubts largely faded.

Houtu and Jiufeng traded a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and the Drunken Immortal Brew recipes for Yuan Yan’s method to help the Witch Clan reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. After understanding the method, they departed for Pangu Hall to begin preparing for their breakthroughs.

• Houtu offered three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for Yuan Yan’s method, and Yuan Yan countered by asking for one Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Houtu agreed to the trade and added the Drunken Immortal Brew recipes as a condition.
• Yuan Yan gave Houtu and Jiufeng jade talismans containing the breakthrough method and numerous brew recipes after receiving the Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Houtu and Jiufeng understood the unconventional approach behind the method and lost their doubts about Yuan Yan’s deduction.
• Houtu and Jiufeng bade Yuan Yan farewell and left for Pangu Hall so the Ancestral Witches could pursue their breakthroughs.

Yuan Yan discovered that Jiufeng had left an essence-blood clone on Yingzhou Immortal Island and confronted her about the intrusion. Jiufeng explained her long-standing fears and her wish to speak frankly with him, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Yuan Yan called out Jiufeng, and her essence-blood clone appeared in the pavilion.
• Jiufeng apologized for leaving the clone behind, while Yuan Yan warned that an unseen Great Firmament Golden Immortal could threaten his island and its inhabitants.
• Jiufeng recalled that she and Yuan Yan had recognized each other as transmigrators and that she had once considered killing him, but had feared his strength and allies.
• After years of expecting Yuan Yan to target her, Jiufeng concluded that he did not intend to harm her and left the clone to discuss matters openly and ask him questions.
• Jiufeng considered that Yuan Yan might be a suitable Dao companion if she set aside her suspicions about transmigrators, but the chapter ended before she revealed her intentions.

Jiufeng considered becoming Yuan Yan’s Dao companion for the benefits to herself and the Witch Clan, but Yuan Yan had no interest in pursuing her. He explained that he was building a bond with Nuwa and feared the Witch Clan’s existing enmity with Di Jun and Taiyi would draw it into the Calamity Cycle.

• Jiufeng weighed the advantages of becoming Yuan Yan’s Dao companion and thought she could delay any commitment until the Calamity Cycle ended.
• Yuan Yan reflected on how years of trials had strengthened his Dao Heart, leaving him unmoved by Jiufeng’s beauty or advances.
• Yuan Yan chose to let his relationship with Nuwa develop slowly and avoid provoking her by pursuing another goddess.
• Yuan Yan remained wary of marrying into the Witch Clan before the Calamity Cycle ended, despite Jiufeng’s efforts to keep the clan out of the struggle for supremacy.
• Yuan Yan recalled that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had repeatedly fought Di Jun and Taiyi, leaving the two injured and the clans deeply hostile.

Yuan Yan considered how Di Jun and Taiyi might target the Witch Clan to force the Purple Firmament Palace Guests into submission, making him wary of a marriage alliance with them. Jiufeng revealed that she knew Yuan Yan was a transmigrator and identified herself as one from Earth Star, while Yuan Yan remained cautious of her.

• Yuan Yan reasoned that Di Jun and Taiyi might attack the Twelve Ancestral Witches to intimidate the Purple Firmament Palace Guests and secure their submission.
• Yuan Yan decided he would not pursue a marriage alliance with the Witch Clan before the Calamity Cycle ended, and considered Houtu and Xuanming better choices than Jiufeng.
• Jiufeng struggled to explain why she had secretly left Yuan Yan a drop of her essence blood, then chose to speak openly with him.
• Jiufeng told Yuan Yan that she knew he was a transmigrator and that she was one too.
• Yuan Yan asked where Jiufeng had transmigrated from, and she answered that she came from Earth Star.

Jiufeng and Yuan Yan openly discussed whether they might become enemies, and both promised not to scheme against the other unless their interests demanded it. Jiufeng had foreseen that changing the Witch Clan’s course would not prevent a future war with the Demon Clan, and the chapter ended as her vision revealed several possible outcomes.

• Jiufeng directly asked Yuan Yan whether he had ever wanted to kill her and what he thought of the Witch Clan.
• Yuan Yan said he would not harm Jiufeng or oppose the Witch Clan unless they acted against him, and that his attitude depended on their future choices.
• Jiufeng promised that the Witch Clan would not secretly plot against Yuan Yan or make him their enemy, while recognizing that either side might break the agreement for sufficient gain.
• Jiufeng recalled that her earlier claim of foreseeing the future had been fabricated, but that she later received a genuine vision while asleep in Pangu Hall.
• In Jiufeng’s vision, Di Jun and Taiyi united the Myriad Tribes, defeated Dongwang Gong’s Immortal Court, and eventually attacked the Witch Clan, triggering a war between the Witches and Demons.
• The vision showed that the war left the Demon Clan’s leaders dead and six Ancestral Witches alive, but the sages later either forced the Witch Clan to retreat or killed or sealed its surviving leaders.

Jiufeng sought Yuan Yan’s advice on changing the Witch Clan’s fate and asked whether he would interfere if they tried to kill Di Jun and Taiyi. Yuan Yan said he would not intervene but warned that their Fortune, the Sun Star, and the Chaos Bell made their deaths unlikely, leaving Jiufeng frustrated but still determined to try.

• Jiufeng considered using Yuan Yan’s wisdom and the Witch Clan’s spiritual treasures to help them avoid the Calamity Cycle and reduce their future losses.
• Yuan Yan asked whether Jiufeng had anything else to discuss, and she asked whether he would intervene if the Witch Clan tried to kill Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Yuan Yan said he would not intervene, but argued that Di Jun and Taiyi’s Fortune and protection on the Sun Star made killing them nearly impossible.
• Yuan Yan warned that Di Jun and Taiyi would break through after the Purple Firmament Palace’s first lecture, and the Chaos Bell could then help them survive the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ combined attack.
• Jiufeng disliked Yuan Yan’s assessment but remained willing to attempt the attack, unconcerned about the resulting Fortune backlash and Karmic Force.

Jiufeng tried to recruit Yuan Yan to help the Witch Clan kill Di Jun and Taiyi, offering treasures and herself, but Yuan Yan refused despite her increasingly lavish terms. After giving up, Jiufeng asked whether she could seek his guidance, and Yuan Yan warned that he might not be able to help.

• Jiufeng recalled Yuan Yan and his companions’ strength and asked him to join the Witch Clan in killing Di Jun and Taiyi, offering their treasures, any other price, and herself.
• Yuan Yan refused because Hongjun might interfere and because he feared the Witch Clan would seek to dominate the Primordial World after Di Jun and Taiyi were gone.
• Jiufeng repeatedly raised her offer, eventually promising five Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, but Yuan Yan still declined.
• Jiufeng accepted that she could not persuade Yuan Yan, then asked if she could put questions to him for guidance.
• Yuan Yan replied that although he had reached the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, he was not omnipotent and might not be able to answer her questions.

Yuan Yan considered Jiufeng’s offer of spiritual treasures and outlined ways to hinder Di Jun and Taiyi or help the Witch Clan survive the Calamity Cycle. He proposed strengthening Dongwang Gong’s Immortal Court by recruiting powerful allies, though no plan had yet been put into action.

• Jiufeng offered Yuan Yan one Supreme-Grade and four High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, along with further treasures from the Witch Clan’s treasury, in exchange for his guidance.
• Yuan Yan agreed to answer Jiufeng’s questions after hearing her offer.
• Jiufeng asked whether Yuan Yan could stop Di Jun and Taiyi from founding the Demon Clan Heavenly Court or protect the Ancestral Witches from the Calamity Cycle.
• Yuan Yan considered using the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation or revealing the calamity’s course to undermine Di Jun and Taiyi’s ambitions.
• Yuan Yan reasoned that strengthening Dongwang Gong with allies such as Queen Mother of the West, Purple Light, Kunpeng, Torch Dragon, and Sky Light could redirect the calamity and protect the Witch Clan.