Recaps

Pan Xuan expanded the Divine Dao by appointing Mountain Gods and Water Gods from the Witch, Dragon, Qilin, and Phoenix Clans, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches placed their Law Deities in the Heavenly Dao to restrain Hong Jun. The arc ended with Di Jun building the Heavenly Court and seeking powerful allies after Changxi, Xihe, and Minghe refused him.

• Pan Xuan established Mountain Gods across the Primordial World, linked their authority through the Star Seal, and organized the Five Great Mountains as pillars of the Divine Dao.
• Pan Xuan and the Ancestral Witches recruited the Dragon, Qilin, and Phoenix Clans, beginning with the Dragon Clan’s agreement to govern the waterways.
• Hong Jun distributed Primordial Violet Qi and treasures to his disciples, gave Di Jun the Investiture of the Gods List, appointed the King Father of the East and West Queen Mother, and joined himself with the Dao.
• Jieyin and Zhunti warned Pan Xuan that Hong Jun’s appointments could strengthen the Demon Clan and unaffiliated cultivators, and Pan Xuan resolved to counter Hong Jun within the Heavenly Dao.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation in Heavenly Dao space, where the Pangu Phantom blocked Hong Jun’s expansion without disrupting the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan rescued Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiaos, brought them to the Three Immortal Islands, and formally invested the Four Seas Dragon Kings, other Water Gods, and Ancestral Dragon.
• Di Jun and Taiyi invited Changxi and Xihe to join the Heavenly Court, but they declined, and Minghe also refused while declaring neutrality.
• Di Jun and Taiyi organized the starry sky’s forces and set out for the North Sea to approach Kunpeng after several powerful beings rejected their invitations.

Pan Xuan expanded the Divine Dao by bringing the Qilin, Phoenix, and Minghe into its ranks, while the Witch Clan built ways to refine fiend qi and strengthen its people. The Heavenly Court rose under Di Jun, and Pan Xuan’s effort to approach the Three Pure Ones ended with a suspected Heavenly Dao influence on their relations still unproven.

• Pan Xuan appointed Primordial Qilin and the Qilin Clan to oversee Mountain Gods, then flew to the Undying Volcano as Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng sought Yuanfeng’s support.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng attacked Pan Xuan at the volcano, but Azure Luan, Fire Phoenix, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches helped drive them away, and Yuanfeng then joined the Divine Dao as God of the Sky.
• The Dragon, Qilin, and Phoenix imprints transformed the Star Seal into an innate supreme treasure, and Pan Xuan urged the Ancestral Witches to strengthen the Divine Dao rather than pursue the retreating Heavenly Court forces.
• Pan Xuan brought Minghe into the Divine Dao as God of the Blood Sea, securing his cooperation in purifying the Blood Sea’s turbid baleful qi and tainted blood.
• Di Jun established the Demon Clan and Heavenly Court, while Pan Xuan persuaded the Ancestral Witches to avoid an immediate war and build their strength instead.
• Pan Xuan and the Ancestral Witches established the Circumference Heavenly Cycle Purification Grand Array, then set up cultivation secret realms supplied with refined fiend qi and time-acceleration arrays.
• Houtu remained in the Blood Sea to contemplate the emerging Six Paths of Reincarnation, while Pan Xuan established Netherworld Cave for her and prepared to find a substitute for her eventual transformation.
• Pan Xuan persuaded Di Jiang to approach the Three Pure Ones, and their meeting at Kunlun Mountain revealed unexplained hostility that Pan Xuan suspected had been induced through the Heavenly Dao.

Pan Xuan and the Witch Clan joined forces with the Three Pure Ones to expose and sever Hong Jun’s restrictions, then built the Divine Dao and a new cultivation path. The Three Pure Ones continued refining their system while Pan Xuan prepared to purify the Primordial Violet Qi and create reincarnation.

• The Three Pure Ones discovered Hong Jun’s hidden marks in their Primordial Spirits and traveled to Mount Buzhou to join Pan Xuan and the Ancestral Witches.
• Pan Xuan led the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches in merging Pangu’s physical and Primordial Spirit phantoms, which revealed Hong Jun’s restrictions in both lineages.
• The Three Pure Ones surrendered their Primordial Violet Qi, and the Ancestral Witches used Pangu’s power to sever the shackles in their True Spirits.
• The Three Pure Ones joined the Divine Dao as guides, while Pan Xuan invested them with roles to transmit, explain, and develop the Great Dao.
• The Three Pure Ones abandoned the Three Corpses Severing Method and rebuilt their cultivation paths, then sent their Law Deities into the Heavenly Dao to reinforce the blockade against Hong Jun.
• Hong Jun announced a fourth lecture at Zixiao Palace, while Pan Xuan and the Three Pure Ones began developing Dao Cultivation as an alternative to his system.
• The Three Pure Ones established four major realms for Dao Cultivation and continued refining its stages and breakthrough methods.
• Pan Xuan found that Hong Jun’s restrictions remained in the three strands of Primordial Violet Qi and prepared to purify them before constructing the six paths of reincarnation.

Pan Xuan expanded the Divine Dao System by recruiting powerful cultivators and establishing new divine offices. He brought Randeng into the system as Funerary God, enabling Randeng to complete the Way of Burial and help gather Pangu’s scattered aura for the funeral.

• Hong Jun taught the assembled cultivators a method of severing the seven emotions and six desires that could be combined with the Three Corpses method, then closed Zixiao Palace forever.
• The Three Pure Ones completed their Dao Cultivation system, tested it with Pan Xuan and Houtu, and spread its teachings throughout the Primordial World through the Divine Dao Network.
• Houtu received Pangu’s inheritance of the Reincarnation Law, and Pan Xuan proposed establishing the Six Paths beneath the Blood Sea while protecting her from becoming their foundation.
• Pan Xuan invited Jieyin and Zhunti, Fuxi and Nuwa, and Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun to join the Divine Dao, and Fuxi’s divination warned that Hong Jun’s primordial violet qi was tied to an unknown plan.
• Pan Xuan appointed Hong Yun God of Fortune and Virtue and Zhen Yuanzi Ancestor of Earth Immortals, then learned from Fuxi that Randeng had formed from death qi and Yinchen Wood.
• Pan Xuan proposed holding Pangu’s funeral to establish the Way of Burial, and Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches prepared the rites and gathered Pangu’s aura.
• Pan Xuan persuaded Randeng to help establish the Way of Burial, and Randeng said Hong Jun’s Three Corpses method had obstructed his cultivation of the Way of Annihilation.
• Pan Xuan invested Randeng as Funerary God, allowing him to advance to early-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal and join the others in opening a path to the Starry Sky to find Pangu’s scattered aura.