Recaps

Pan Xuan persuaded the Three Pure Ones to investigate the strange repulsion between them and the Witch Clan, and they promised to visit Mount Buzhou after verifying his claim. After the visitors left, the Three Pure Ones suspected Hong Jun might have tampered with their karmic connections but agreed they needed evidence before drawing conclusions.

• Pan Xuan explained that the Three Pure Ones' repulsion toward the Witch Clan might have been imposed from outside, and Yuanshi Tianzun, Sect Master Tongtian, and Taiqing Laozi agreed to investigate and visit Mount Buzhou if his claim proved true.
• Pan Xuan, Di Jiang, and Zhu Jiuyin left Kunlun Mountain and returned toward Mount Buzhou, where their news was expected to bring the Three Pure Ones as unexpected guests.
• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin told Pan Xuan that they had felt the unnatural revulsion and that Zhu Jiuyin had sensed the Law Deity tremble within the Heavenly Dao.
• After the visitors departed, Taiqing Laozi noted that Mas-Hong Jun had shown no reaction while Pan Xuan concealed the workings of heaven, and Yuanshi Tianzun admitted that his revulsion had arisen without reason.
• Sect Master Tongtian suggested that Hong Jun was the only person capable of secretly influencing their karmic connections, while Taiqing Laozi cautioned them not to accept Pan Xuan's conjecture without evidence and called for a thorough investigation.

The Three Pure Ones concealed their hall from the Heavenly Dao and prepared to investigate whether an outside force had infiltrated their Primordial Spirits. By joining their inherited Three Powers Formation, they summoned a phantom of Pangu’s Primordial Spirit to illuminate the truth.

• Sect Master Tongtian, Taiqing Laozi, and Yuanshi Tianzun agreed to investigate their Primordial Spirits cautiously, suspecting an outside influence.
• Taiqing Laozi used the Taiji Diagram, Yuanshi Tianzun planted the Pangu Banner, and Sect Master Tongtian deployed the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying to seal the Three Pure Ones Hall from the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiqing Laozi proposed that the Three Pure Ones use their Three Powers Formation to summon Pangu’s Primordial Spirit phantom and inspect their own spirits.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Sect Master Tongtian took the positions of heaven, earth, and humanity and joined their powers.
• The Three Pure Ones summoned an ethereal phantom of Pangu’s Primordial Spirit, whose clear, sun-bright gaze filled the hall.

The Three Pure Ones used Pangu’s power to uncover a hidden mark in their Primordial Spirits that Hong Jun had planted to deepen their hostility toward the Witch Clan. Realizing Pan Xuan’s warning was true, they concealed their departure and flew to Mount Buzhou to meet him.

• Yuanshi Tianzun, Sect Master Tongtian, and Taiqing Laozi examined their Primordial Spirits beneath Pangu’s illumination and discovered a subtle mark that amplified their aversion to the Witch Clan.
• Taiqing Laozi concluded that Hong Jun had planted the mark while acting as their teacher, turning the Three Pure Ones’ gratitude toward him into distrust.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Sect Master Tongtian agreed to go to Mount Buzhou, where Pan Xuan was waiting, and discuss matters with the Witch Clan.
• The Three Pure Ones used their treasures to erase their karmic traces, hide their auras, and block prying divine senses.
• The Three Pure Ones secretly flew from Kunlun Mountain toward Mount Buzhou.

The Three Pure Ones visited Mount Buzhou to meet Pan Xuan and discuss matters with the Witch Clan. They were impressed by the mountain’s orderly divine system and the Witch Clan’s immense reserves, leaving the formal meeting still ahead.

• Pan Xuan sensed the Three Pure Ones’ arrival, and Di Jiang gathered the other Ancestral Witches in Pangu Hall.
• The Three Pure Ones examined Mount Buzhou and praised its orderly earth veins and the Witch Clan’s disciplined strength.
• Pan Xuan welcomed Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian and led them toward Pangu Hall.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized the power of the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array as they passed through its barrier.
• The Three Pure Ones saw five supreme-grade innate spiritual roots growing by the Blood Pool and were stunned by the Witch Clan’s reserves.

The Three Pure Ones confirmed that hidden marks in their Primordial Spirits had amplified the Witch Clan’s hostility toward them, and the gathering in Pangu Hall turned to countermeasures against Hong Jun. Pan Xuan proposed combining the Witch Clan’s Fleshly Body Phantom with the Three Pure Ones’ Primordial Spirit Phantom, and Laozi asked whether the complete phantom could expose and sever the hidden dangers in the Heavenly Dao.

• Taiqing Laozi sensed Pangu’s aura at Pangu Hall, where Pan Xuan welcomed the Three Pure Ones and the Ancestral Witches.
• Taiqing Laozi revealed that the Three Pure Ones had found marks in their Primordial Spirits that amplified mutual hostility between them and the Witch Clan.
• Pan Xuan said Houtu was on her way from the Blood Sea, and the gathering waited for her before discussing countermeasures.
• Houtu arrived after temporarily closing the Netherworld Cave, and Pan Xuan began the discussion of their shared enemy, Hong Jun.
• Pan Xuan disclosed that the Twelve Ancestral Witches could summon Pangu’s Fleshly Body Phantom, while Taishang Laojun confirmed that the Three Pure Ones could summon Pangu’s Primordial Spirit Phantom.
• Pan Xuan proposed joining the phantoms to examine the Heavenly Dao and sever its hidden marks, and Laozi asked if that was his plan.

Pan Xuan led the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones in an attempt to reunite Pangu’s flesh and primordial spirit, hoping their combined power would expose Hong Jun’s mark in the Heavenly Dao. As the two phantoms began merging inside Pangu Hall, the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner flew toward the forming figure.

• Pan Xuan proposed joining the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ physical phantom with the Three Pure Ones’ primordial spirit phantom to reveal the mark Hong Jun had planted in the Heavenly Dao.
• The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches agreed to combine their formations inside Pangu Hall, with Houtu tasked to watch for anything unusual in the Heavenly Dao.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed Pangu’s physical phantom, while the Three Pure Ones summoned the phantom of Pangu’s primordial spirit.
• Pan Xuan called for spirit and flesh to unite, and the two Pangu phantoms began merging as Pangu Hall absorbed the violent force of their collision.
• When the fusion reached halfway, the Taiji Diagram flew toward the phantom’s right hand, followed by a stream of chaos light from the Pangu Banner.

The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu’s power, drawing the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner into the Pangu Phantom to form most of the Pangu Axe. Di Jun and Taiyi suppressed the Chaos Bell’s response, but the fully fused phantom was ready to probe the Heavenly Dao and sever what should not exist.

• The Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner joined in the Pangu Phantom’s hand, forming the back and haft of the Pangu Axe while its blade remained missing.
• The Chaos Bell struggled to leave Taiyi and answer the phantom’s summons, but Di Jun used the River Diagram, Luo Book, and Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array to suppress it.
• Taiqing Laozi reported that the Chaos Bell had been held down, and Pan Xuan decided to proceed without it because the axe’s outline was sufficient for probing the Heavenly Dao.
• The Pangu Phantom’s spirit and physical form completely merged, causing Pangu Hall and the Witch Clan to resonate with Father God’s power.
• Pan Xuan told the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones to use the phantom to probe the Heavenly Dao and sever things that should not exist.

Pan Xuan used the Pangu Phantom to examine the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, uncovering hidden restrictions tied to Hong Jun and the Heavenly Dao. The group realized Primordial Violet Qi could turn its bearers into Hong Jun’s puppets when they attained Sagehood, and Taiqing Laozi called for the restrictions to be removed.

• Pan Xuan used the Pangu Phantom to inspect the Three Pure Ones and found Hong Jun’s concealed marks linking their Primordial Spirits to the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan discovered restriction patterns inside the Three Pure Ones’ Primordial Violet Qi that connected to Hong Jun’s will.
• Pan Xuan examined the Twelve Ancestral Witches and found a Heavenly Dao shackle in their true spirits that prevented them from possessing Primordial Spirits.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian concluded that attaining Sagehood through Primordial Violet Qi would make them extensions of Hong Jun’s will.
• Zhu Jiuyin pointed out that Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Di Jun also faced the same danger because they possessed Primordial Violet Qi.
• Taiqing Laozi said they had to remove the restrictions now that they had discovered them.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches helped the Three Pure Ones remove Hong Jun’s restrictions by stripping the Primordial Violet Qi from their Primordial Spirits and sealing it away. Hong Jun sensed that three bonds had been severed but could not investigate Pangu Hall, leaving him to wait for a Sage to attain the Dao.

• Pan Xuan used the Pangu Phantom’s power to cleanse the Three Pure Ones’ Primordial Spirits and warned that removing the Primordial Violet Qi would damage them.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian agreed to the extraction, enduring the pain as the Law Blades separated the Primordial Violet Qi from their Primordial Spirits.
• The Three Pure Ones thanked Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Laozi pledged that the Three Pure Ones would support the Witch Clan.
• Pan Xuan sealed the three strands of Primordial Violet Qi in a Law Cocoon and suppressed it within the Divine Dao Network.
• Hong Jun sensed that his three connections to the Primordial Violet Qi had been severed, but Pangu Hall’s barrier blocked his attempt to learn what had happened.
• Hong Jun decided he could only wait for Di Jun, Nuwa, Jieyin, or Zhunti to attain the Dao and create an opening to break the Pangu Phantom’s blockade.

Pan Xuan discovered that a Heavenly Dao restriction in the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ True Spirits prevented them from developing Primordial Spirits, and suspected Hong Jun had planted it before they were aware. The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches used the Pangu Phantom to sever the restriction, and a sinister gray-black qi escaped their bodies as the shackle broke.

• Pan Xuan revealed the restriction in the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ True Spirits and explained that it barred them from developing Primordial Spirits.
• Taiqing Laozi suggested that Hong Jun had planted the restriction while the Witch Clan was being nurtured, provoking the Ancestral Witches’ fury.
• Pan Xuan calmed the Twelve Ancestral Witches and urged them to focus on severing the restriction with Father God’s power.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches knelt before the Pangu Phantom, and the Three Pure Ones agreed to lend their Primordial Spirit power.
• The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches empowered the Pangu Phantom, whose twelve blades of law cut the restrictions from the Ancestral Witches’ True Spirits.
• The Ancestral Witches endured the painful severing, and gray-black turbid qi left their bodies as the shackle snapped.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches broke through their spiritual shackles, while the Three Pure Ones and the Witch Clan learned their respective duties from Pangu’s inheritance. The chapter ended with the Pangu Phantom dispersing and the two lineages reconciled, though the Chaos Bell’s place in the Pangu Axe remained empty.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches expelled turbid qi and gained a path toward forming Primordial Spirits, while feeling a new kinship with the Three Pure Ones.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Sect Master Tongtian awakened Pangu’s inheritance and declared their duties to transmit, explain, and develop the Dao.
• Di Jiang declared the Witch Clan’s duty to purify the Primordial World and uphold its order.
• Pan Xuan affirmed that the Three Pure Ones and the Witch Clan were meant to complement one another, and Laozi promised that Kunlun Mountain would welcome the Witch Clan.
• The fifteen drew in their auras as the Pangu Phantom dispersed, returning its physical and Primordial Spirit manifestations to the two lineages, while the Chaos Bell remained absent.

After the formation revealed a connection between the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Pan Xuan invited the Three Pure Ones to join the Divine Dao and lead its Way of Enlightenment. The Three Pure Ones accepted, and the gathering prepared to make their proclamation to the Great Dao.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches recovered and sensed that the severed restrictions on their true spirits had opened the possibility of eventually condensing Primordial Spirits.
• Houtu sensed faint traces of spirituality forming in her eleven siblings and recognized that they now had the potential to develop Primordial Spirits.
• Pan Xuan proposed that the Three Pure Ones join the Divine Dao and take charge of enlightening living beings.
• Pan Xuan explained that the Three Pure Ones would spread cultivation through the Divine Dao Network rather than establish a lineage like Hong Jun.
• Taiqing Laozi agreed on behalf of the Three Pure Ones, and the gathering prepared for their proclamation to the Great Dao.

Pan Xuan formally inducted the Three Pure Ones into the Divine Dao, establishing their offices of transmitting, expounding, and opening paths to the Great Dao for living beings. The Divine Dao became a complete order joining the Witch Clan, the Three Pure Ones, and the other lineages, leaving them united to walk the road ahead together.

• Pan Xuan proclaimed that Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian belonged to the Pangu Orthodox Lineage and would join the Divine Dao as guides to all living beings.
• Pan Xuan invested Taiqing Laozi as the Dao-Transmitting Primordial Venerable, granting him authority to spread the Great Dao and its cultivation methods.
• Pan Xuan invested Yuqing Yuanshi as the Dao-Expounding Mysterious Venerable, charging him with explaining the Great Dao and making its methods comprehensible.
• Pan Xuan invested Shangqing Tongtian as the Life-Seizing Sage Venerable, charging him with helping living beings break through cultivation bottlenecks and find a path forward.
• The Great Dao responded, and three new imprints appeared on the Star Divine Dao Seal, whose power rose as the Divine Dao System expanded.
• Di Jiang declared the Divine Dao complete, and the Three Pure Ones pledged to establish places of practice, compile teachings, and open paths for living beings.

The Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin welcomed the Three Pure Ones joining the Divine Dao, seeing it as a chance to strengthen their clans and bring greater order to the Primordial World. On Mount Sumeru, Jieyin and Zhunti wondered what had changed the Three Pure Ones’ attitude toward the Witch Clan.

• The Ancestral Dragon sensed the Great Dao’s recognition of the Divine Dao and ordered Ao Yuan to have the Dragon Clan redouble its work regulating the Four Seas’ water veins.
• The Ancestral Dragon told Ao Yuan that the Divine Dao now rivaled Hong Jun’s Xuanmen in completeness, though its contest with the Immortal Dao had only begun.
• Yuanfeng concluded that the Three Pure Ones’ instruction would strengthen the Divine Dao and help the Phoenix Clan repay its karmic debt, and she proposed sending clan members to maintain order at selected sites.
• Primordial Qilin welcomed the Three Pure Ones’ alliance with the Divine Dao and told the young qilins that they had been born in a fortunate time.
• Jieyin and Zhunti questioned why the Three Pure Ones had joined the Witch Clan’s Divine Dao, speculating that the Witch Clan had offered them irresistible terms or that a major change had altered their view.

After the Three Pure Ones joined the Divine Dao, the Primordial World's factions weighed the new balance of power. The King Father of the East proposed an alliance for loose cultivators, while Di Jun placed the Heavenly Court on a wartime footing and ordered it to avoid provoking the Divine Dao.

• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed how the Three Pure Ones joining the Divine Dao strengthened it, but Jieyin chose to wait before approaching the Witch Clan.
• Randeng, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hong Yun each considered what the Three Pure Ones' decision meant for the Primordial World and the Divine Dao's growing reach.
• The West Queen Mother and the King Father of the East discussed forming a Loose Cultivators Alliance, with the Way of Pure Yang and Pure Yin as its rallying call.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng assessed the Divine Dao's expanded cultivation system and agreed that the Demon Clan was not ready for direct conflict.
• Di Jun ordered the Heavenly Court to intensify cultivation and array drills, prepare for war, seek cooperation with the King Father of the East and the West Queen Mother, and execute anyone who initiated conflict with the Witch Clan or Divine Dao.

Pan Xuan warned the Three Pure Ones that Hong Jun’s Three Corpses method was a dead end designed to weaken and control them. Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian reclaimed their severed corpses and established their own paths, ending the chapter free of Hong Jun’s cultivation system but temporarily reduced to Daluo Golden Immortal peak.

• Pan Xuan explained that the Three Corpses method fractured the primordial spirit and left hidden channels through which Hong Jun could control cultivators.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian recognized the flaws in Hong Jun’s teachings and resolved to follow the paths rooted in Pangu’s Primordial Spirit.
• Laozi merged his good and evil corpses back into his primordial spirit through the Great Dao of yin and yang, founding his path anew.
• Yuanshi reclaimed his good and evil corpses through the Dao of Chaos and declared that the Chan Sect would clarify the laws of cultivation.
• Tongtian merged his good corpse through the Sword Dao and made the Interception Sect’s mission to preserve a path of survival for all beings.
• The Three Pure Ones’ cultivation fell to Daluo Golden Immortal peak as they broke free of Hong Jun’s shackles and embraced their distinct Pangu Orthodox Lineage paths.

The Three Pure Ones agreed to send their Law Deities into the Heavenly Dao Space to join the Twelve Ancestral Witches in suppressing Hong Jun. Their combined formations summoned Pangu's Primordial Spirit Phantom alongside his Fleshly Body Phantom, leaving Hong Jun's will confined to the core and stabilizing the confrontation as the Divine Dao prepared to grow stronger.

• Pan Xuan told the Three Pure Ones how the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Law Deities had entered the Heavenly Dao and used Pangu's Fleshly Body Phantom to hold Hong Jun's will in check.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian volunteered to send their Law Deities into the Heavenly Dao Space to support the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• The Three Pure Ones' Law Deities formed the Three Pure Ones Three Powers Formation and summoned Pangu's Primordial Spirit Phantom.
• Pangu's Primordial Spirit Phantom joined his Fleshly Body Phantom, forcing Hong Jun's will deeper into the Heavenly Dao's core and strengthening the blockade.
• Houtu sensed that the Heavenly Dao confrontation had stabilized, and Pan Xuan said the Divine Dao would now develop and gather strength before its eventual contest with the Immortal Dao and Heavenly Court.

Hong Jun came under pressure from the Pangu True Body formed by the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones, losing control over the Heavenly Dao’s outer reaches. The pressure awakened his sealed memories, revealing that he had been born from the Fate Demon God’s remnant soul and the Primordial Unity Qi before becoming the Dao Ancestor.

• The Pangu True Body’s power forced Hong Jun to retreat into the Heavenly Dao’s core and relinquish control of its peripheral laws.
• Hong Jun remembered that he had once been the Fate Demon God, who escaped Pangu’s axe stroke as a remnant soul.
• The Fate Demon God’s remnant soul fused with the Primordial World’s Primordial Unity Qi and became Hong Jun.
• Hong Jun used the Fate Law to find fragments of the Creation Jade Disc and established the Xuanmen Immortal Dao.
• Hong Jun spread his cultivation system through Zixiao Palace and three sermons, becoming the Primordial World’s first Sage and the Dao Ancestor.

Hong Jun sought to control the Heavenly Dao and claim Pangu’s proof-of-the-Dao achievement, but the Witch Clan’s unexpected rise under Pan Xuan disrupted his fate-law deductions. Facing the Pangu True Body in the Heavenly Dao Space, he raised the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation to stall it while his true body broke free.

• Hong Jun had waited through the Ferocious Beast Calamity and Dragon-Han Calamity before taking advantage of the conflicts to gather merit, treasures, and influence.
• Hong Jun had risen as a Sage, spread Xuanmen’s Immortal Dao, and arranged alliances and appointments to bring the Primordial World under his influence.
• The Witch Clan had defied Hong Jun’s predictions by establishing the Divine Dao, subduing the Dragon Clan, Qilin Clan, and Phoenix Clan, and joining forces with the Three Pure Ones in Pangu Hall.
• Hong Jun identified Pan Xuan as a variable beyond the fate law’s understanding and recognized that his methods had made the future impossible to predict.
• Hong Jun raised the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation and used it to contend with the Pangu True Body, seeking only to delay it until his true body could break free.

Hong Jun escaped the Heavenly Dao Core and returned to Zixiao Palace, where he announced a fourth discourse on the Hunyuan Great Dao in three thousand years. As the Primordial World's factions weighed their responses, Pan Xuan saw the gathering as an opportunity for the Divine Dao System to expand while its rivals were away.

• Hong Jun used the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation to maintain the Heavenly Dao Core while withdrawing his will, then returned to Zixiao Palace.
• Hong Jun announced that Zixiao Palace would open in three thousand years for a discourse on the Hunyuan Great Dao, stirring cultivators across the Primordial World.
• Di Jun and Taiyi recognized the discourse as Hong Jun's effort to regain influence, and Di Jun decided that the Heavenly Court would attend.
• Nuwa continued cultivating the Dao of Creation, while Jieyin and Zhunti anticipated that the discourse would force wandering cultivators to choose sides.
• Pan Xuan, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Three Pure Ones discussed Hong Jun's move, and Pan Xuan identified the gathering at Zixiao Palace as a chance for the Divine Dao System to spread.

After the Three Pure Ones joined the Ancestral Witches in resisting Hong Jun within the Heavenly Dao Space, Taiqing Laozi proposed that they call one another family. The Three Pure Ones and the Witch Clan embraced their shared origins and settled together on Mount Buzhou.

• Taiqing Laozi and Di Jiang agreed that the Three Pure Ones and the Ancestral Witches should address one another as brothers instead of fellow Daoists.
• Zhu Rong greeted Yuanshi Tianzun as a brother, while Gong Gong and Sect Master Tongtian agreed to spar another day.
• Yuanshi Tianzun apologized to Xuan Ming, and Tongtian invited Houtu to show him the Netherworld Dao in the Blood Sea.
• Taiqing Laozi and Pan Xuan pledged that the Three Pure Ones and the Witch Clan would work together as one family to protect the Primordial World.
• The Three Pure Ones stayed on Mount Buzhou for three thousand years and built separate cave abodes near Pangu Hall.

After the Three Pure Ones completed their new Dao paths, Hong Jun announced a fourth lecture at Zixiao Palace on the Hunyuan Great Dao, prompting powerful figures across the Primordial World to decide whether to attend. Pan Xuan and the Three Pure Ones chose to remain on Mount Buzhou and advance the Divine Dao system while Hong Jun’s followers traveled to the lecture.

• The Three Pure Ones recovered to early-stage primordial origin golden immortal after abandoning the Three Corpses Severing Method and cultivating their fundamental Daos anew.
• Hong Jun announced that his fourth lecture at Zixiao Palace would expound the Hunyuan Great Dao, and Jieyin and Zhunti decided to attend cautiously.
• Di Jun ordered Taiyi, Kunpeng, and the Ten Great Demon Marshals to accompany him to Zixiao Palace, while Nuwa and Fuxi also set out after Fuxi advised her to avoid oaths and treasures.
• King Father of the East, West Queen Mother, Daoist Randeng, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hong Yun set out for Zixiao Palace, while Minghe chose to remain in the Blood Sea.
• Pan Xuan, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Three Pure Ones agreed to stay on Mount Buzhou and strengthen the Divine Dao system while the other powers attended Hong Jun’s lecture.

Pan Xuan urged the Three Pure Ones to create a cultivation system independent of Hong Jun's Immortal Dao and shared the Witch Clan's Martial Dao as a model. Inspired by its self-reliant approach, the Three Pure Ones began designing a path based on understanding the Great Dao, while Hong Jun's fourth lecture got underway.

• Pan Xuan told the Three Pure Ones that enlightening living beings required a cultivation system outside Hong Jun's framework, and they agreed that the Immortal Dao ultimately bound cultivators to the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan presented the Witch Clan's Martial Dao, which cultivated the body, qi, will, and Dao without relying on Heavenly Dao approval or primordial violet qi.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian proposed adapting the Martial Dao's principles to primordial spirit cultivation, while Taiqing Laozi set out a unified system centered on the Great Dao.
• The Three Pure Ones divided the work: Taiqing Laozi would build the framework, Yuanshi would define its laws and methods, and Tongtian would preserve the way of seizing life.
• The Three Pure Ones entered a meditation chamber in Pangu Hall and began working together as their combined power resonated with Mount Buzhou's array.
• Pan Xuan returned to the hall, where the Twelve Ancestral Witches continued their preparations and Houtu had brought back her compiled insights on the Netherworld Dao.

The Three Pure Ones devised a new cultivation system called Dao Cultivation, or Cultivation of Truth, built on personal comprehension of the Great Dao rather than dependence on Hong Jun’s Heavenly Dao. They outlined its four major realms and twelve stages, then continued refining the system before testing it with a cultivator they had in mind.

• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian worked together in seclusion to establish Dao Cultivation as a path focused on the true self and the Great Dao.
• The Three Pure Ones defined four major realms—Refining Essence into Qi, Qi Refining into Spirit, Spirit Refining to Void, and Refining Emptiness to Unity with the Dao—and divided them into twelve minor stages tied to their three Great Daos.
• Shangqing Tongtian explained how the Dao of Gathering Life used Sword Intent to break through bottlenecks and the Heavenly Dao’s suppression rather than adapt to its rules.
• Yuqing Yuanshi distinguished gathering life from severing the Three Corpses, describing it as breaking shackles rather than dividing the Primordial Spirit.
• Taiqing Laozi said the finished system would need a test cultivator who had never practiced Hong Jun’s methods, and he already had someone in mind.
• The Three Pure Ones continued checking the stages, breakthrough criteria, and balance of the three Great Daos in the quiet chamber.

Pan Xuan analyzed the three strands of primordial violet qi and devised a way to purify them and use their laws to establish the six paths of reincarnation without Houtu sacrificing herself. He finished the plan and left Pangu Hall as the Three Pure Ones’ cultivation system neared completion.

• Pan Xuan used the Star Divine Dao Seal to examine the laws and hidden restrictions inside the three strands of primordial violet qi.
• Pan Xuan determined that Hong Jun’s restrictions could infiltrate a reincarnation system built from the violet qi unless they were thoroughly purified.
• Pan Xuan planned to use the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus’s light of chaos to purify the violet qi, then construct the six paths of reincarnation with pangu essence blood and the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• Pan Xuan completed his deductions, resealed the three strands of primordial violet qi, and prepared to begin once the Three Pure Ones emerged and the Twelve Ancestral Witches assembled.
• Pan Xuan left Pangu Hall and saw signs that the Three Pure Ones’ cultivation system was nearing completion.