Chapter Summaries

Hong Yun awakened in the Primordial World after inheriting the Earth Demon God's legacy and learned he had been reborn as the doomed immortal Hong Yun. He resolved to secure a Holy Seat and began examining his inheritances, though he still needed to cultivate enough to take form.

• A Purple Ruler destroyed the attacking black energy and sent its remaining origin into the young man's body, strengthening his Primordial Spirit.
• The young man received the black energy's inheritance, realized he had been reborn in the Primordial World, and learned that he was Hong Yun.
• Hong Yun determined that the Dragon-Han Calamity was nearing its end and that he needed to claim a Holy Seat before Hong Jun and the Six Sages dominated the Primordial World.
• Hong Yun discovered that the Heavenly Dao had given him the Red Cloud Immortal Scripture, which could cultivate his Primordial Spirit and magical power to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Hong Yun reasoned that his roots made him a top-tier Innate Divine Being who would need at least Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation to take form, then continued reviewing the Earth Demon God's inheritance.

Red Cloud created the Red Cloud Dao Scripture, a method that cultivated the body, Primordial Spirit, and mana, then forged the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to preserve and develop his works. As he prepared to cultivate, he discovered that his origin contained a confusing mixture of different origins.

• Red Cloud claimed the Heaven-Measuring Ruler of Primordial Chaos and refined it while stabilizing his Primordial Spirit.
• Red Cloud created the nine-revolution Red Cloud Dao Scripture, though he could only speculate about its final two revolutions.
• Red Cloud forged an Acquired book to record his cultivation methods and received Heavenly Dao Merit for creating the first such book.
• Red Cloud named the treasure the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune, and it arranged his works and independently deduced several Literary Dao divine abilities.
• Red Cloud prepared to cultivate but realized that his origin contained numerous muddled forms, including Water-Fire-Wind Origin, Pangu Heartblood Origin, and Cloud Origin.

Red Cloud divided his origins, forged a Primordial Dao Body, and steadily cultivated to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. He then considered whether the Heavenly Dao’s Immortal Dao cultivation method was tied to Hong Jun and his Jade Disc of Creation.

• Red Cloud used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler of Primordial Chaos to separate his origins into Pangu Heartblood and water, fire, and wind origins, then placed his Primordial Spirit fragments into the three elemental origins to form incarnations.
• Red Cloud forged a Primordial Dao Body from Pangu Heartblood Origin and chose to cultivate the Literary Dao rather than the Cloud Dao.
• Red Cloud tempered his body and spirit for tens of thousands of years, drawing a true spirit from the True Spirit Sea to break through into the Earth Immortal realm.
• Red Cloud advanced through the Heavenly Immortal, Mysterious Immortal, and Golden Immortal realms before reaching Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Red Cloud reflected that mastering evolving laws was difficult and suspected that the Heavenly Dao’s Immortal Dao method might be connected to Hong Jun and the Jade Disc of Creation.

Red Cloud created a Golden Immortal incarnation to explore the Primordial World while his true body continued cultivating. He discovered Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven, claimed it as his Dao field, and marked its origin, gaining control of the hidden world.

• Red Cloud decided to explore the Primordial World through an incarnation rather than risk damaging his true body's foundation by forcing his birth.
• Red Cloud formed an Early-Stage Golden Immortal incarnation from a Blood Cloud and sent it out from the Innate Formation.
• Red Cloud traveled toward Buzhou Mountain and followed a faint pull to an Innate Formation he comprehended as the Innate Fire Cloud Grand Formation.
• Red Cloud entered Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven, found its abundant spiritual resources, and declared it his Dao field.
• Red Cloud searched for the origin of Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven and marked it after finding it a thousand years later.

Red Cloud discovered and refined three Lesser-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures hidden at the Human, Earth, and Heaven positions of the Fire Cloud Cave. He spent a hundred thousand years forging palaces and placing them throughout the cave, then activated the Four Symbols Formation, whose four elemental manifestations took shape.

• Red Cloud refined the Jade Dew Bottle, which contained healing Jade Dew, at the Human Talent position.
• Red Cloud found the Firecloud Banner at the Earth Talent position and the Yi-Wood Pot at the Heaven Talent position, refining both treasures.
• Red Cloud gathered materials from the Fire Cloud Cave and spent a hundred thousand years forging more than three thousand Superior-grade Dharma Artifacts, three hundred and sixty-five Supreme-grade Dharma Artifacts, and forty-nine Lesser-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures.
• Red Cloud sent the palace-shaped treasures throughout the Fire Cloud Cave, where each one formed a pillar of light that joined the cave.
• Red Cloud activated the Four Symbols Formation, summoning a Qilin, a Divine Dragon, a White Tiger, and a Vermilion Bird from manifestations of earth, water, wind, and fire.

Red Cloud broke through to the Mid-Stage Golden Immortal realm in Firecloud Palace, then continued toward Buzhou Mountain while studying divine powers. He killed a Fierce Beast for Heavenly Dao Merit, ate its roasted meat, and used immortal gold and divine stone to refine several magical artifacts.

• Red Cloud secured Fire Cloud Cave with the Four Symbols Formation and its grand formation, then cultivated in Firecloud Palace until he reached the Mid-Stage Golden Immortal realm.
• Red Cloud left Fire Cloud Cave and traveled toward Buzhou Mountain while using the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to deduce divine powers.
• Red Cloud encountered a porcupine-like Fierce Beast and killed it with Samadhi True Fire, earning Heavenly Dao Merit.
• Red Cloud found the Fierce Beast's roasted meat edible, ate some, and refined it into spiritual qi.
• Red Cloud melted immortal gold and divine stone with Samadhi True Fire and refined several low- and mid-grade magical artifacts.

Red Cloud explored the Primordial World, refined his escape arts, and cultivated in a frigid pool after sensing a treasure beneath it. He broke through to the Late-Stage Golden Immortal and found a dark-blue cold jade with an unknown jade tree growing atop it.

• Red Cloud forged kitchen utensils, cooked and ate a Fierce Beast, then gathered rare materials as he explored and tested divine powers in battle.
• Red Cloud studied the speed of various escape arts and worked to perfect his Great Five-Element Escape, valuing it as a means to flee from stronger foes.
• Red Cloud sensed an attraction from below and descended into a cold pool, where he cultivated as its dense Innate Spiritual Energy accelerated his progress.
• Red Cloud broke through from the Mid-Stage Golden Immortal to the Late-Stage Golden Immortal as the pool's spiritual energy thinned.
• Red Cloud followed the returning sensation to a massive dark-blue cold jade topped by an unfamiliar jade tree.

Red Cloud found a Cold Jade Tree and Ice Soul Essence at the bottom of a cold pool, then transformed the essence into the Ice Soul Divine Bow. His test shot caused a massive eruption that drew an Earth Qilin, and Red Cloud froze the Qilin’s attack with an ice dragon.

• Red Cloud identified the Cold Jade Tree as a mid-grade Acquired Spiritual Root and stored it in his Heaven in a Jar world.
• Red Cloud found Ice Soul Essence, transformed it into the Ice Soul Divine Bow, and fired a frost arrow that froze the cold pool into a glacier.
• The pool erupted, sending ice and stone crashing across the surrounding area, and Red Cloud fled into the sky to avoid the blast.
• An Earth Qilin emerged and confronted Red Cloud for causing trouble in the Qilin Clan’s territory.
• The Earth Qilin mistook Red Cloud for someone from the Dragon Clan and attacked with the power of the earth.
• Red Cloud fired an ice dragon from his bow, which swallowed and froze the Earth Qilin’s attack.

Red Cloud killed Earth Qilin with the Four Symbols Seal and claimed his Qilin Pill, then continued toward Buzhou Mountain. After gaining enlightenment in a valley and advancing his cultivation, he entered a Beast Calamity remnant to purify its turbid and baleful qi in hopes of earning merit.

• Red Cloud sealed Earth Qilin with the Four Symbols Seal, refined him into a Qilin Pill, and took the pill for himself.
• Red Cloud traveled toward Buzhou Mountain, gathered rare materials, and watched a mantis sharpen its scythes on Black Iron.
• Red Cloud entered enlightenment over the mantis's forging and advanced to Late-Stage Golden Immortal while comprehending a trace of the Artifact Dao Law.
• Red Cloud discovered a dangerous region formed by a damaged Earth Vein and identified it as a lingering remnant of the Beast Calamity.
• Red Cloud entered the region to purify its turbid and baleful qi, hoping to earn merit from the Heavenly Dao.

Red Cloud searched the perilous land for Earth Vein Fragments to restore its shattered Earth Vein, using the Qilin Pill to absorb the fragments and Earth Essence he found. After reaching the mountain at the land’s center, he drew the attention of the Unicorn Earthworm Dragon King, whose clan began to attack him.

• Red Cloud used Life Light to shield himself from the turbid qi and Killing Intent, then took the Qilin Pill underground to seek Earth Vein Fragments.
• Red Cloud killed the blood-red Unicorn Earthworm Dragons that attacked him and found an Earth Vein Fragment inside a Dimensional World.
• Red Cloud absorbed the fragment and the Earth Essence hidden in the collapsing Dimensional World into the Qilin Pill.
• Red Cloud spent several years collecting the Earth Vein Fragments he could find before reaching the great mountain at the perilous land’s center.
• The Unicorn Earthworm Dragon King sensed Red Cloud and summoned the clan, whose members surged through the mountain toward him.

Red Cloud entered the miasma-covered territory of the Unicorn Earthworm Dragon Clan to purify the Turbid Fiend and encountered its king. After taking the king’s Earth Vein Pearl, Red Cloud trapped him beneath the Four Symbols Seal and began refining him.

• Red Cloud killed a Golden Immortal-level Unicorn Earthworm Dragon and consumed its remains with the Qilin Pill.
• The Unicorn Earthworm Dragon King sensed the death and confronted Red Cloud, who revealed that he had come to purify the Turbid Fiend.
• The Unicorn Earthworm Dragon King attacked with the Earth Vein Pearl, but Red Cloud seized it with the Qilin Pill and suppressed its Primordial Spirit.
• The Unicorn Earthworm Dragon King unleashed a devastating black light, but Red Cloud evaded the attack.
• Red Cloud cast the Four Symbols Seal, suppressing the Unicorn Earthworm Dragon King as the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise began refining him.

Red Cloud nurtured a small Earth Vein to purify a dangerous land and received merit that he condensed into a halo. On his way to Buzhou Mountain, he followed a premonition to Amber City and demanded the Bee Queen’s Life Orb, claiming it was fated for him.

• Red Cloud refined the Unicorn Earthworm Dragon King into the Qilin Pill and used Jade Dew Bottle rainwater to nurture it into a small Earth Vein.
• Red Cloud planted the small Earth Vein in the dangerous land and set up a Four Spirits Guardian Formation to help it absorb turbid and baleful qi.
• The Heavenly Dao rewarded Red Cloud with forty-nine merit flowers, which he combined with his existing merit to form a Merit Halo.
• Red Cloud found a sea of flowers, entered Amber City in bee form, and discovered the Life Orb on the Bee Queen’s forehead beside the Eternal Flower.
• The Bee Queen confronted Red Cloud, who introduced himself and demanded the Life Orb; when she challenged his claim of compassion, he displayed his Merit Halo and insisted she was fated to encounter the treasure but not possess it.

Red Cloud traded the Profound Life Wondrous Cloud Formula for Queen Bee’s Life Orb, then refined it and discovered its powers over healing, body cultivation, and spiritual herbs. As he used the orb to study medicinal properties and record his findings in the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune, his understanding of the Alchemy Dao deepened, bringing him to a sudden insight after several thousand years.

• Red Cloud offered Queen Bee the Profound Life Wondrous Cloud Formula in exchange for the Life Orb, and Queen Bee accepted after verifying the scripture’s inheritance.
• The Life Orb flew to Red Cloud and allowed him to refine it, while Queen Bee received the cultivation method and let him leave.
• Red Cloud discovered the Life Orb could generate life force, heal injuries, aid body cultivation, and accelerate the growth of spiritual herbs.
• Red Cloud combined the Life Orb and Yi-Wood Pot in the Hundred Herbs Diagram, greatly increasing the Cold Jade Tree’s fruiting rate and the yield of his herbs.
• Red Cloud refined pills and recorded his experiments in the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune, using the Life Orb to study the rhythms and medicinal properties of spiritual herbs.
• After several thousand years of study and travel, Red Cloud’s understanding of the herbs’ life rhythms surged into a new insight as he approached Buzhou Mountain.

Red Cloud refined Seven-Turn Golden Pills and discovered a rare piece of Stellar Adamant while traveling toward Buzhou Mountain. After defeating a Storm Tiger and learning its Void Shatter divine power, he uncovered an Innate Formation on the mountain where it had attacked him.

• Red Cloud advanced to Golden Immortal Perfection and refined Seven-Turn Golden Pills while developing his Alchemy Dao.
• Red Cloud found Stellar Adamant inside a fallen meteorite and sensed that it contained the power of Fire Star.
• Red Cloud encountered a Storm Tiger, subdued it, and learned the Void Shatter divine power by searching its soul.
• Red Cloud refined the Storm Tiger into a Wind-Quelling Pill, then investigated why it had attacked him.
• Red Cloud landed on the mountain peak and discovered an Innate Formation hidden in the shifting terrain.

Red Cloud comprehended the Primordial Gui Water Formation, claimed the Water Spirit Pearl, and used it to advance his understanding of the Water Law. After collecting treasures nurtured by the formation, he left with the Essence of Gui Water enhancing his Jade Dew Bottle.

• Red Cloud spent three thousand years comprehending the Primordial Gui Water Formation, then entered it and found the Water Spirit Pearl at its core.
• Red Cloud took the Water Spirit Pearl, protected himself with formations, and refined the treasure while studying its Water Law restrictions.
• After another three thousand years, Red Cloud awoke having comprehended thirty percent of the Water Law and gained control over water beneath heaven through the Water Spirit Pearl.
• Red Cloud reflected on how the Heavenly Dao and Hong Jun had made both the Sage Dao and the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal path difficult to attain, then gathered treasures from the formation.
• Red Cloud found a drop of Essence of Gui Water and added it to his Jade Dew Bottle, greatly improving the Jade Dew it produced.

Red Cloud crossed the Land of Eternal Day, where he encountered and killed a Sunfire Moth that attacked him during its breeding season. After the moth called for help and invoked the Phoenix Clan, Red Cloud continued deeper into the land and slaughtered the reinforcements that came after him.

• Red Cloud entered the Land of Eternal Day and searched for treasures amid its dense Sun Power.
• A Sunfire Moth attacked Red Cloud with a blazing tornado, but he stopped and dispersed it effortlessly.
• The Sunfire Moth called for help and warned Red Cloud that its race served as the Phoenix Clan’s vanguard.
• Red Cloud killed the Sunfire Moth, preserved its body as a specimen, and continued onward.
• More Sunfire Moths gathered to attack Red Cloud, but he struck first and killed them.

Red Cloud entered the Land of Eternal Day to comprehend the Sun Law and fought the creatures living there. After slaughtering his opponents, he grasped a trace of the Sun Law, which weakened the land’s effects on him.

• Red Cloud roasted and tasted Sunfire Moth meat, then refined its shell into a Radiant-Glow Feather Garment.
• Red Cloud ventured into the Land of Eternal Day, studied its laws, and identified the rival clans aligned with the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans.
• Red Cloud entered the inner region and attracted a swarm of Sunfire Moths, whose leader ordered an attack.
• Red Cloud dispersed the swarm’s assault, killed the Sunfire Moths, and used the Firecloud Banner to refine their blood and souls into Firecloud Sand.
• Red Cloud swept through the land’s creatures in battle and grasped a trace of the Sun Law, restoring his vision and perception.

After a thousand years in the Land of Eternal Day, Red Cloud reached Sunfire Lake, a lawless region prized for its Sunlight Divine Water and Flame Yang Stones. He traveled to the rogue-cultivator-friendly Heavenly Treasure City, where a guard demanded an entry fee.

• Red Cloud avoided the inner region and core of the Land of Eternal Day while secretly gathering resources for a thousand years.
• Red Cloud learned that Sunfire Lake produced valuable Sunlight Divine Water and attracted rogue cultivators, who faced attacks from Water Beasts that could yield Flame Yang Stones.
• Red Cloud decided to visit the nearest city and flew toward Heavenly Treasure City.
• Red Cloud followed the city's Air-Sealing Formation and descended rather than challenge its Golden Immortal guards.
• A gate guard stopped Red Cloud and demanded one Flame Yang Stone because he had no city pass.

Red Cloud entered Heavenly Treasure City, learned how its entry passes and market worked, and considered how the scarcity of Golden Immortals and cultivation resources kept most cultivators from advancing. He connected Hong Jun’s future preaching with the end of the great clans’ monopoly over cultivation methods.

• Red Cloud reached Heavenly Treasure City and paid a gate guard one Flame Yang Stone after his concealed aura led the guard to demand an entrance fee.
• Red Cloud learned that the city charged one Flame Yang Stone per entry, exempted Golden Immortals and above, and sold passes for different periods.
• Red Cloud explored the city, observed its formations and busy shops, and found that most goods were basic items for Heavenly Immortals and Mysterious Immortals.
• Red Cloud concluded that the weak market for advanced pills and treasures reflected the small number of Golden Immortals and the difficulty lower-level cultivators faced in reaching that realm.
• Red Cloud recalled that Hong Jun’s preaching would break the great clans’ monopoly and considered how cultivators in the Three Clans era had to follow the Dragon, Phoenix, or Qilin Dao to advance.

Red Cloud explored Heavenly Treasure City and met the independent cultivator Qing Xuanzi, who told him about Sunfire Lake’s opportunities and dangers. Red Cloud learned of its Sunflame Mystic Stones and the powerful Water Beast in the lake’s depths.

• Red Cloud bought unfamiliar ores, spiritual herbs, divine abilities, and cultivation methods to expand the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune’s collection.
• Red Cloud sampled Heavenly Treasure City’s Eight-Treasure Chicken and Sunlight Brew at an inn by Sunfire Lake.
• Qing Xuanzi introduced himself to Red Cloud and offered to share what he knew about Sunfire Lake.
• Qing Xuanzi explained that Sunlight Divine Water was the lake’s greatest opportunity, while Sunflame Mystic Stones could be obtained from Golden Immortal-level Water Beasts.
• Qing Xuanzi warned Red Cloud that a Great Luo Golden Immortal-level Water Beast lived in the lake’s depths and had defeated three Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Nine-Headed Golden Serpent Clan.