Chapter Summaries

Blood Cloud killed Golden Dragon and retreated to Buzhou Mountain, while the Three Clans’ war ended in their leaders’ sacrifices to repair the Primordial World. Their oaths bound the surviving Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans to guard parts of the world, and the calamity’s Killing Intent diminished.

• Blood Cloud used the Four Symbols Formation to kill Golden Dragon, claimed his Dragon Pearl and Silver Ring Saber, and fled toward Buzhou Mountain.
• Patriarch Yin-Yang, Yang Mei Patriarch, Patriarch Qiankun, Hong Jun Patriarch, and other hidden cultivators watched the Three Clans’ battle as Luohou absorbed Killing Intent into the Zhuxian Four Swords.
• As the Three Clans’ ancestors were wounded, powerful cultivators attacked their disciples, and both sides suffered catastrophic losses.
• Ancestral Dragon and the other two ancestors realized the Three Clans had been caught in the calamity and that their deaths were destined.
• Ancestral Dragon vowed to become part of the Primordial World and bind the Dragon Clan to guarding the Four Seas’ sea eyes, then vanished with his clan.
• Primordial Phoenix and Primordial Qilin made similar vows, binding their clans to guard the Undying Volcano and the Earth Veins as the damaged lands were restored.

Hong Jun and the other three confronted Luohou on Mount Sumeru, where he unleashed the Zhuxian Sword Formation to stop them from claiming the Dao. Luohou killed Patriarch Qiankun with the God-Slaying Spear but was badly wounded himself, then charged at Patriarch Yin-Yang.

• Hong Jun, Patriarch Qiankun, Yang Mei Patriarch, and Patriarch Yin-Yang arrived at Mount Sumeru to confront Luohou over his role in the tribal war.
• Luohou deployed the Zhuxian Sword Formation, trapping the four opponents and forcing each to attack one of its gates.
• Hong Jun and the others began breaking the four gates as the formation unleashed deadly sword energy and black lightning.
• Luohou protected himself with the World-Destroying Black Lotus, took up the God-Slaying Spear, and attacked Patriarch Qiankun.
• Patriarch Qiankun died from Luohou's spear, while the Heaven-Earth Cauldron badly wounded Luohou.
• Luohou suppressed his injuries, put away the spear, and charged at Patriarch Yin-Yang.

Luohou killed Patriarch Yin-Yang after Patriarch Qiankun had fallen, while Yang Mei escaped and Hong Jun revealed his Three Corpses and powerful treasures. Cornered by Hong Jun, Luohou offered Demon Dao to the Heavenly Dao and self-destructed, devastating the western lands and leaving Hong Jun burdened by the resulting karmic sin.

• Luohou used the Zhuxian Sword Formation and God-Slaying Spear to kill Patriarch Yin-Yang, though Yin-Yang’s final attack further injured him.
• Yang Mei fled through a spatial rift, leaving Hong Jun to face Luohou alone.
• Hong Jun summoned his Three Corpses, then used the Pangu Banner to force Luohou back and seize the Zhuxian Sword Formation.
• Hong Jun attacked Luohou with the Pangu Banner and his Three Corpses, while the Twelfth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus and Jade Disc of Creation protected him.
• Luohou offered Demon Dao to the Heavenly Dao, which manifested a Demon Realm and drew away Luohou’s true spirit.
• Luohou self-destructed, ravaging the western lands and gravely injuring Hong Jun, who was left to bear the karmic consequences.

After the Dao-Demon Conflict ended, Red Cloud took form in the Boundless Cloud Sea, reached the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, and forged the Boundless Cloud Veil. He left Fire Cloud Cave to explore the Primordial World and discovered a concealed formation around Wealth-Bringing Mountain, which he began attacking.

• Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise each vowed to guard one of the Primordial World's Four Poles and received golden merit light.
• Hong Jun collected the spiritual treasures scattered across the west and returned to his Daoist grounds to pursue the Dao.
• Red Cloud took form in the Boundless Cloud Sea and reached the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Red Cloud gathered the Boundless Cloud Sea into the Boundless Cloud Veil and refined it into a Superior-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure.
• Red Cloud went to Fire Cloud Cave, received control of Firecloud Palace from Blood Cloud, and set out to explore the Primordial World.
• Red Cloud found Wealth-Bringing Mountain, discovered a formation concealing it, and attacked the formation with the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune.

Red Cloud entered Wealth-Bringing Mountain, found the Money Tree, and gave it to Water Cloud after learning it could strengthen her origin. While he cultivated beneath the tree, Water Cloud merged with it, broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and successfully took form.

• Red Cloud used the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to study Wealth-Bringing Mountain's formation and followed a golden thread through it to the mountain's main peak.
• Red Cloud discovered the Money Tree, learned about its fruits and leaves, and collected its first harvest.
• Water Cloud emerged from the Boundless Cloud Veil and told Red Cloud the Money Tree could strengthen her origin, so he let her claim it.
• Water Cloud merged with the Money Tree as Red Cloud cultivated beneath it using the fruit and the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune.
• Water Cloud broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm and, after a lengthy transformation accompanied by heavenly signs, took form and announced herself to the Great Chiliocosm.

Water Cloud took the Money Tree and confronted the Six-Winged Golden Cicada, who came seeking the treasure. She trapped him in her Boundless Formation, leaving him to realize too late that he had been caught.

• Water Cloud stored the Money Tree in her Essence Flower after its innate formation dissipated.
• Red Cloud sensed the Six-Winged Golden Cicada approaching and let Water Cloud face him so he could see her Formation Dao.
• The Six-Winged Golden Cicada demanded to see the treasure and attacked Water Cloud with six dark wing blades.
• Water Cloud stopped the blades with a water curtain and unleashed Deep Blue Judgment through her Boundless Formation.
• The Six-Winged Golden Cicada realized Water Cloud had trapped him after his dark blades struck and exposed the formation.

Water Cloud battled Six-Winged Golden Cicada, countering his attacks and trapping him in Heaven's Net and Earth's Snare. The blade soul of his Golden Cicada Blade was destroyed, while Six-Winged Golden Cicada remained caught inside the formation.

• Water Cloud used the Boundless Formation's power of judgment, but Six-Winged Golden Cicada resisted it with black divine light.
• Water Cloud blocked Six-Winged Golden Cicada's Blade of Destruction and purified his attacks with Water Cloud Karmic Fire.
• Six-Winged Golden Cicada unleashed Cosmic Slash, but Water Cloud's Surging Water Waves stopped it and made him consider retreating.
• Water Cloud formed Heaven's Net and Earth's Snare, while Six-Winged Golden Cicada summoned the Golden Cicada Blade and sent its blade soul to attack her.
• Heaven's Net and Earth's Snare trapped Six-Winged Golden Cicada, and exploding small worlds inside the formation destroyed his blade soul.

Water Cloud destroyed the Six-Winged Golden Cicada with Heaven's Net and Earth's Snare, then absorbed his origin and claimed his Golden Cicada Blade. Afterward, she parted from Red Cloud to explore the Primordial World while he waited for Hong Jun's teachings.

• The Six-Winged Golden Cicada's Golden Cicada Blade broke apart under Water Cloud's Heaven's Net and Earth's Snare.
• Water Cloud blasted the Six-Winged Golden Cicada into the ground, but he survived by drawing in a future version of himself to absorb part of the attack.
• When the Six-Winged Golden Cicada tried to summon another future self, Water Cloud's disrupted spatial nodes brought forth his dead future, and her formation tore him into origin energy.
• Water Cloud fed the Six-Winged Golden Cicada's origin to the Money Tree, sealed what remained inside it, and refined the Golden Cicada Blade for Wind Cloud to reforge later.
• Red Cloud met Water Cloud after the battle, and they agreed to meet again when Hong Jun became a saint and gave his teachings.
• Water Cloud left to explore the Primordial World and visit the Treasure-Gathering Basin and the Treasure-Dropping Coin.

Red Cloud reflected on the Great Dao and resolved to follow his unchanged Literary Dao rather than become a Sage bound to the Heavenly Dao. While traveling, he refined a set of twenty-seven formation flags, each at least a Mid-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure.

• Red Cloud reasoned that the Immortal Dao could trap cultivators who had already laid their own Great Dao Foundations, while Jieyin and Zhunti had persevered and forged the independent Buddhist Dao.
• Red Cloud decided that he would not entrust his Primordial Spirit to the Heavenly Dao and reaffirmed that his Dao was the Literary Dao.
• Red Cloud resolved to reach Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Perfection before Hong Jun preached and to seek his own path to Primordial Origin Golden Immortal afterward.
• Red Cloud traveled through the Primordial World while refining artifacts and concocting pills, displaying his ninth-grade Three Flowers and Acquired Spiritual Treasures.
• Red Cloud used the Four Symbols Divine Flame in his Four Symbols Cauldron to refine materials for several thousand years and produced twenty-seven formation flags.

Red Cloud named his newly made formation flags, then followed a powerful Eight Desolations Ox through a mountain range and discovered an innate grand formation hidden in a valley. He entered the valley and sensed the formation’s irregularities.

• Red Cloud named the twenty-seven flags the Three Talents Formation Flags and put them away before preparing to refine pills.
• Red Cloud encountered a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Eight Desolations Ox and watched it attack with explosive, treasure-refined barbs.
• Red Cloud stopped the barbs, drove the Eight Desolations Ox into flight, and followed it to learn why the mountain range was unusual.
• The Eight Desolations Ox charged into a valley and vanished, revealing an innate grand formation to Red Cloud.
• Red Cloud stepped into the valley and confirmed that an innate grand formation was concealed there.

Red Cloud entered the Innate Netherworld Formation, killed the Eight Desolations Ox, and obtained the Judge's Brush and Netherworld True Gold. After exploring the Netherworld Spring Eye and collecting its sacred water and other treasures, he prepared to leave Netherworld Mountain but encountered Bi Fang.

• Red Cloud comprehended the Innate Netherworld Formation and Netherworld Law, entered its inner world, and killed the Eight Desolations Ox.
• Red Cloud reached the formation's core and refined the Judge's Brush, then took the Netherworld True Gold platform.
• The formation collapsed, revealing Netherworld Mountain's Netherworld Spring Eye, and Red Cloud collected more than a dozen drops of Netherworld Sacred Water.
• Red Cloud gathered rare Netherworld treasures as the mountain's changes attracted attention from powerful cultivators.
• A one-legged Omen Fire Bird named Bi Fang appeared as Red Cloud prepared to leave Netherworld Mountain.

Red Cloud fought Bi Fang after Bi Fang attacked him, and the two exchanged powerful blows as Red Cloud revealed his strength and Bi Fang wielded a Thorn Feather refined from the Primordial Phoenix’s plume. The clash left Red Cloud struck by an invisible flame that pierced toward his mind.

• Bi Fang questioned Red Cloud about the area, then attacked when Red Cloud tried to leave.
• Red Cloud countered Bi Fang’s sea of fire with golden light and used Heaven-and-Earth Transformation to match Bi Fang’s enormous true form.
• Bi Fang summoned the Thorn Feather, which Red Cloud identified as a treasure refined from a plume left by the Primordial Phoenix.
• Bi Fang unleashed corrosive black smoke, but Red Cloud dispersed it with the Samadhi Divine Wind and evaded Bi Fang’s strikes.
• Bi Fang sensed Red Cloud’s spatial movements, intercepted him, and struck the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune’s protective light, sending Red Cloud flying as an invisible flame pierced toward his mind.

Red Cloud defeated and killed Bi Fang after enduring Thorn Feather’s Phoenix Truefire to temper himself. He collected Bi Fang’s origin and Thorn Feather, then resolved to confront the Three Clans for revenge and their treasures after reaching the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.

• Red Cloud studied Thorn Feather’s Phoenix Truefire during the battle and used it to temper his essence, energy, and spirit.
• Red Cloud blasted Bi Fang back with Wind Turbulence and Earth Suppression, devastating the surrounding land.
• Red Cloud attacked with the Four Symbols Divine Swords, broke Bi Fang’s flame barrier, and wounded him.
• Red Cloud used the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to trap Bi Fang in a heavenly net and killed him after preventing his escape through his future self.
• Red Cloud collected Bi Fang’s origin and refined Thorn Feather, discovering that Bi Fang had wasted the plume by crafting it as only a Mid-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure.
• Red Cloud decided to visit the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans for revenge and treasure after breaking through to the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.

Red Cloud gathered resources and remnant souls as he traveled before settling into seclusion to refine Blood-Origin Pills and improve his alchemy. After a thousand years of experiments, he still could not make a Golden Pill capable of carrying a Great Dao Foundation, leaving Nine-Turn Golden Pills beyond his reach.

• Red Cloud traveled across the Primordial World, collecting treasures and gathering remnant souls to send into Reincarnation once it was established.
• After searching for tens of thousands of years without finding Innate Spiritual Roots or spiritual treasures, Red Cloud built a palace on a mountain peak and entered seclusion.
• Red Cloud refined Blood Essences and other ingredients into batches of Golden Pills, using the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to study and improve his results.
• Red Cloud reasoned that a Nine-Turn Golden Pill needed to carry an Innate Dao Foundation, which would then be written into the pill and safely used to raise someone to Daluo Golden Immortal.
• For a thousand years, Red Cloud repeatedly attempted to refine Nine-Turn Golden Pills, but each attempt failed because the pill could not carry a Great Dao Foundation.

Red Cloud developed the Dao Seed Alchemy Method, which let him refine Nine-Turn Golden Pills whose Dao Foundation Seeds gradually evolved to suit their users. He used the pills to strengthen his own foundation, reaching the limit of the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, but found no sign of a breakthrough.

• Red Cloud replaced the Innate Dao Foundation in his pill design with a Dao Foundation Seed, creating pills that took millions of years or longer to bring mortals to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm but suited their users and allowed further advancement.
• After thousands of experiments, Red Cloud formalized the Dao Seed Alchemy Method and used it to refine a large batch of Blood-Origin Pills, including forty-five Nine-Turn Golden Pills and three thousand Eighth-Turn Golden Pills.
• Red Cloud proposed a Dao Seed Path-Realization Method but set aside its development because his cultivation and understanding of Primordial Origin Golden Immortals were insufficient.
• Red Cloud swallowed the Nine-Turn Blood-Origin Pills during cultivation, using their power to strengthen his Literary Dao Foundation, body, Primordial Spirit, and mana.
• After reaching the limit of the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, Red Cloud sensed no breakthrough opportunity and ended his cultivation, having consumed all his Nine-Turn Golden Pills.

After breaking through, Red Cloud traveled toward Buzhou Mountain and entered Thunder Abyss, where he killed countless Thunder-Ember Worms. The Thunder-Ember Ancestor emerged to confront him and combined the swarm’s power into a gigantic form as Red Cloud’s attack descended.

• Red Cloud left the Alchemy Hall after completing his breakthrough and continued toward Buzhou Mountain without using spatial teleportation.
• Red Cloud entered Thunder Abyss out of curiosity, but a Thunder-Ember Worm attacked him and triggered a swarm’s assault.
• Red Cloud struck Thunder Abyss with the Four Symbols Seal, destroying the worm nests and devastating the surrounding land.
• The Thunder-Ember Ancestor emerged from underground and gathered the surviving Thunder-Ember Worms around him.
• Red Cloud reached for the Thunder-Ember Ancestor, who combined the swarm’s power and grew into a worm a million li long.

Red Cloud fought and killed Thunder-Ember Ancestor, then claimed the Thunder Spirit Pearl and plundered Thunder Abyss. The surviving Thunder-Ember Worms remained terrified as Red Cloud left them alive.

• Thunder-Ember Ancestor used the Thunder Spirit Pearl to empower his lightning attacks, but Red Cloud weathered the storm and survived.
• Red Cloud struck down the fleeing Thunder-Ember Ancestor with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler of Primordial Chaos, destroying his Primordial Spirit.
• Red Cloud harvested Thunder-Ember Ancestor's origin and corpse, then stopped the Thunder Spirit Pearl from escaping.
• Red Cloud erased Thunder-Ember Ancestor's mark, refined twelve restrictions of the Thunder Spirit Pearl, and gained a twenty-four percent comprehension of Thunder Law.
• Red Cloud searched Thunder Abyss and seized its ownerless treasures while the surviving Thunder-Ember Worms stayed silent in fear.

Water Cloud found Wuyi Mountain, broke through its Innate Two Forms Dust-Mote Formation, and took control of the mountain. She claimed the Treasure-Dropping Coin and left still seeking the Treasure-Gathering Basin.

• Water Cloud followed the heavenly clues east and broke into Wuyi Mountain through its Innate Two Forms Dust-Mote Formation.
• Water Cloud refined the Wuyi Mountain stele and discovered the Innate Illusory Spirit Wealth-Gathering Formation beneath Heavenheart Rock.
• Water Cloud found the Big Red Robe Mother Tree and learned it produced leaves with spirit-calming properties.
• Water Cloud used the Money Tree's aura to draw out the Treasure-Dropping Coin, which chose her as its master.
• Water Cloud refined the Treasure-Dropping Coin and discovered that it increased the speed at which her Primordial Spirit condensed.

Water Cloud used the Big Red Robe Mother Tea to deepen her understanding of the Water Law and Formation Dao, breaking through to the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm before collecting treasures from Wuyi Mountain. Red Cloud found the Burning Heart Pine, used its seeds to break through to the Late-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, and arrived at Buzhou Wasteland.

• Water Cloud brewed the first batch of Big Red Robe Mother Tea and entered a state of enlightenment, advancing to the Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Water Cloud transplanted the Big Red Robe Mother Tree into the Hundred Herbs Diagram, gathered Wuyi Mountain’s treasures, and concealed the mountain with a formation.
• Red Cloud discovered the Burning Heart Pine and harvested its ripe Burning Heart Seeds.
• Red Cloud refined the seeds, endured the Burning Heart Flames, and broke through to the Late-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Red Cloud transplanted the Burning Heart Pine into his Hundred Herbs Diagram and traveled to the Buzhou Wasteland, where he paid respects to Pangu.

Red Cloud and Blood Cloud climbed Buzhou Mountain together, where Fire Cloud used the Parasol Tree to break through the limits of his origin. While Fire Cloud transformed, Red Cloud and Blood Cloud discussed the Dao, and the chapter ended with Fire Cloud reaching the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

• Red Cloud met Blood Cloud at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, and Fire Cloud emerged from the Boundless Cloud Veil, sensing that Blood Cloud held an opportunity for him.
• Blood Cloud gave Fire Cloud the Hundred Herbs Diagram and its Parasol Tree, which Fire Cloud entered to begin fusing with it.
• Red Cloud and Blood Cloud discussed the Dao, karma, good and evil, following nature, and whether the Great Dao had feelings.
• Fire Cloud emerged from the Parasol Tree after breaking through his origin's shackles and advancing to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.