Chapter Summaries

Fire Cloud took form as a Daluo Golden Immortal, collected the Parasol Tree, and received spiritual treasures and other resources from Red Cloud and Blood Cloud. The three began climbing Buzhou Mountain, where Pangu’s pressure made every step difficult and Red Cloud reconsidered the legend of Gong Gong breaking the mountain.

• Fire Cloud took form as an early-stage Daluo Golden Immortal, drew the Parasol Tree into his Essence Flower, and accepted the Firecloud Banner from Blood Cloud.
• Red Cloud, Blood Cloud, and Fire Cloud exchanged spiritual treasures, medicinal herbs, and spiritual roots, with Fire Cloud receiving the greatest share.
• Red Cloud and Fire Cloud began climbing Buzhou Mountain with Blood Cloud, and the mountain’s pressure suppressed their abilities and forced them to climb on foot.
• Red Cloud wondered how Gong Gong could have broken Buzhou Mountain and speculated that the mountain’s pressure might have disappeared before the legendary collision.
• Red Cloud, Blood Cloud, and Fire Cloud continued climbing, gradually spreading apart, with Red Cloud ahead and Fire Cloud behind.

Red Cloud continued climbing Buzhou Mountain, refining his understanding of Pangu’s Will and the Acquired Literary Dao as he endured its increasing pressure. He entered the Nine Heavens Astral Layer and began using its destructive winds to temper his body while pushing toward the unseen summit.

• Red Cloud climbed Buzhou Mountain with Blood Cloud and Fire Cloud, but the two gradually fell behind as the pressure grew stronger.
• Red Cloud paused to meditate, comprehended Buzhou Mountain’s aura, and used the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to perfect the Acquired Literary Dao.
• Red Cloud gained an aura that weakened Buzhou Mountain’s pressure on him, then resumed climbing and eventually reached the Nine Heavens Astral Layer.
• Red Cloud entered the Nine Heavens Astral Layer, where violent astral winds wounded him and threatened to drain his vitality.
• Red Cloud circulated his Profound Technique to heal and strengthen his repeatedly battered flesh while continuing to climb through the astral winds.

Red Cloud discovered an Innate Xun Wind Grand Formation in the Nine Heavens Astral Layer and found the Wind Chime Tree within it. Wind Cloud merged with the tree, forged a wind Spiritual Treasure with Red Cloud’s help, and took form as an Early-Stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal before choosing to stay and cultivate in the valley.

• Red Cloud endured the Nine Heavens Astral Wind, sensed an opportunity, and spent a thousand years comprehending the valley’s Innate Xun Wind Grand Formation.
• Red Cloud entered the formation, found the Superior-grade Innate Spiritual Root Wind Chime Tree, and learned that Wind Cloud was fated to merge with it.
• Wind Cloud entered the Wind Chime Tree while Red Cloud collected its flowers and fruits and forged the Xun Wind Bell, a Superior-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure.
• Wind Cloud emerged after breaking through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, then completed his transformation and reached the Early-Stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Wind Cloud declined to climb Buzhou Mountain with Red Cloud and stayed in the valley to cultivate, wary of facing Pangu’s pressure before he was ready.

Red Cloud climbed into a dark layer of Buzhou Mountain, where he discovered a formation concealing a sea of Dark True Water and the beating heart of the Dark Demon God. He suppressed the heart and began wearing down its residual will to prevent the Demon God from reincarnating.

• Red Cloud endured the darkness above the Nine Heavens Astral Layer and followed a faint sense of opportunity to a spring surrounded by a formation.
• Red Cloud spent a thousand years comprehending the formation, then entered it and discovered a vast ocean of Dark True Water.
• Red Cloud ventured deeper into the formation, where a black tide attacked him and the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune shielded him.
• Red Cloud used War on Paper to illuminate the darkness and revealed a beating heart that he recognized as the Dark Demon God's.
• Red Cloud used Four Symbols Rotation to suppress the heart and wore down its residual will as it retaliated with darkness power and Dark True Water.

Red Cloud defeated the lingering thoughts within the Dark Demon God's heart, collected the heart and the treasures in its formation, then climbed to Buzhou Mountain's summit and entered a vision of Pangu opening heaven and earth. In the vision, Pangu battled the Chaos Demon Gods as they tried to stop his proof of the Dao and destroy the newborn world.

• Red Cloud used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler of Primordial Chaos to suppress and destroy the Dark Demon God's lingering thoughts, then collected the heart.
• Red Cloud gathered the Dark True Water and the divine materials and refined gold beneath the broken formation before continuing up Buzhou Mountain.
• Red Cloud reached the summit in a wondrous state of insight and witnessed Pangu proclaim his intent to split chaos and prove the Great Dao.
• Pangu opened chaos with the Pangu Axe, forming heaven and earth while defeating the Chaos Demon Gods who attacked him.
• Pangu used the Jade Disc of Creation to record the Dao Fruits of the Chaos Demon Gods, while the survivors self-destructed to damage the newborn world.
• Pangu threw the Pangu Axe, which transformed into three supreme treasures as the newborn world began to collapse.

Pangu stabilized the newborn Primordial World, then transformed his body and power to make it endure and fill it with life. The Heavenly Dao took control of the world as Pangu’s remains became its future beings and natural features.

• Pangu used the Taiji Diagram, Chaos Bell, and Pangu Banner to stabilize the newborn world and continue separating Heaven from Earth.
• When the Primordial Green Lotus and Jade Disc of Creation shattered under the strain, Pangu held up Heaven and Earth with his body and established an immortal barrier around the world.
• Pangu merged his Dao Fruit and true spirit with three thousand strands of Primordial Purple Energy to form his Great Dao Divine Wheel, then created the Heavenly Dao Divine Wheel from the remaining fifty strands.
• Pangu fused the three thousand Great Daos into the Heavenly Dao Divine Wheel, which entered the Primordial World and began controlling it.
• Pangu’s remaining Primordial Spirit became the future Three Pure Ones Sages, his essence blood became the future Twelve Ancestral Witches, and his Heart Blood became Red Cloud’s true body.
• Pangu’s body transformed into the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, stars, and other parts of the world, completing the formation of the Primordial World.

Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Mark revealed how he created the Primordial World and left treasures and merit for its future inhabitants, while Red Cloud realized Pangu may have entrusted him with a mission. After reuniting with his companions on Buzhou Mountain, Red Cloud followed a sensed opportunity into an Innate Formation and found the Creation Green Lotus and a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation.

• Pangu divided Primordial Yellow merit among the Three Pure Ones, the twelve Ancestral Witch embryos, Red Cloud, the Primordial World, and two newly formed merit treasures before departing into chaos.
• Red Cloud understood that Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Mark had shown him the world’s beginning and wondered why Pangu had spared him and what mission he had intended him to fulfill.
• After finding no treasures or trace of the Heavenly Court on Buzhou Mountain’s summit, Red Cloud descended and reunited with Wind Cloud, Blood Cloud, Fire Cloud, and Water Cloud.
• Red Cloud gave the Jade Dew Bottle to Water Cloud and the Thunder Spirit Pearl to Wind Cloud, then led the group down the mountain.
• The five followed their Primordial Spirit senses to a valley, comprehended its Innate Creation Formation, and entered a hidden paradise.
• Red Cloud recognized the twenty-fourth-grade Creation Green Lotus and a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation as the future opportunity of the Three Pure Ones.

Red Cloud and the four clouds received treasures and inheritances from the hidden valley before splitting up, while Red Cloud entered seclusion to study the Heaven-Opening Mark. As he cultivated, Fuxi and Nuwa took form, followed by the Three Pure Ones.

• Red Cloud offered tribute to Pangu, and the treasures granted the group Dao inheritances, lotus seeds, and Pangu Marrow for Blood Cloud.
• The five left the vanished valley, split up to explore, and Red Cloud settled into seclusion near Buzhou Mountain to cultivate and record insights.
• Fuxi and Nuwa took form at Phoenix Perch Mountain as Early-Stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals.
• Red Cloud sensed the emergence of another Innate Divine Being but returned his attention to cultivation as more divine beings began taking form.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian took form at Kunlun Mountain and declared their names as the Three Pure Ones.

After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, Red Cloud reached a realm comparable to Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Perfection and continued his journey through the Primordial World. Fire Cloud followed a mysterious prompting to Iris Mountain, where he began absorbing its intense Blazing Flame Qi.

• Many powerful Innate Divine Beings, including Di Jun, Taiyi, Xihe, Changxi, Zhen Yuanzi, Kunpeng, Jieyin, Zhunti, Dongwang Gong, and Xiwangmu, emerged across the Primordial World.
• Red Cloud completed tens of thousands of years of cultivation, raising his Literary Dao comprehension to the equivalent of ninety percent of the laws.
• Red Cloud reflected on how conflict accumulated Killing Intent and how successive calamities damaged the Primordial World.
• Red Cloud traveled northeast, gathered spiritual roots and medicines, and created secret realms near spiritual veins and springs to replenish what he harvested.
• Fire Cloud followed an unseen prompting to Iris Mountain, a dry, scorching place where Blazing Flame Qi from an ore mine shaped the environment and sustained the Twilight Birds.
• Fire Cloud entered Iris Mountain and began devouring and refining its Blazing Flame Qi.

Fire Cloud traveled into Iris Mountain seeking the Fire Spirit Pearl and battled the Twilight Ancestor, king of the Twilight Birds. After Fire Cloud wounded him, the Twilight Ancestor revealed his true form and unleashed a devastating golden blaze, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fire Cloud killed a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Twilight Bird and continued toward the Blazing Flame Spring, where he sensed the Fire Spirit Pearl.
• The Twilight Ancestor emerged from the spring and confronted Fire Cloud after he openly demanded the pearl.
• The Twilight Ancestor attacked with golden light, but Fire Cloud emerged unscathed and countered with the Primordial Phoenix Thorn Feather.
• The Twilight Ancestor's Fire Spirit Pearl clashed with Fire Cloud's Purple Gold Pill while Fire Cloud struck the Twilight Ancestor with his sword and wounded him.
• The Twilight Ancestor revealed his enormous true form and covered Iris Mountain with golden flames that turned everything they touched to ashes.

Fire Cloud fought Twilight Ancestor to the death at Iris Mountain and killed him with the Heaven and Earth Furnace. He claimed the Fire Spirit Pearl, restored some of the devastated land, and continued traveling south.

• Fire Cloud battled Twilight Ancestor, who used his innate ability to raise his cultivation and launch a desperate counterattack.
• Fire Cloud unleashed the Heaven and Earth Furnace, and its clash with Twilight Ancestor's Scarlet Flame Divine Claw destroyed millions of miles around Iris Mountain.
• Twilight Ancestor turned to ash, leaving behind Twilight Origin, which Fire Cloud stored for future pill refinement.
• Fire Cloud erased Twilight Ancestor's mark from the Fire Spirit Pearl, refined twelve of its restrictions, and drew it into his Primordial Spirit.
• Fire Cloud restored part of Iris Mountain and left, continuing south without a fixed destination.

Zhen Yuanzi confronted Chiming Demon and his followers as they slaughtered living beings, and the two fought over the desolate plain. Red Cloud arrived during their battle, leaving Chiming Demon wary as he could not discern the newcomer’s cultivation.

• Zhen Yuanzi traveled east from Wuzhuang Temple and discovered Demon Dao cultivators slaughtering creatures on a desolate plain.
• Zhen Yuanzi ordered Chiming Demon and his followers to stop, but Chiming Demon attacked him with his black axe.
• Zhen Yuanzi countered Chiming Demon’s attacks with his whisk and summoned the Earth Book to defend himself.
• Chiming Demon coveted the Earth Book and intensified his assault with ghostly shadows and demonic arts.
• Red Cloud arrived on an auspicious cloud, and Chiming Demon questioned him after failing to sense his cultivation.

Red Cloud rescued Zhen Yuanzi from Chiming Demon and accepted Zhen Yuanzi’s invitation to visit Wuzhuang Temple. The two arrived at the temple and discovered the Ginseng Fruit Tree in its rear courtyard.

• Red Cloud drove Chiming Demon and his devil cultivators away with a wave of rosy light, then let Chiming Demon flee.
• Red Cloud and Zhen Yuanzi introduced themselves and became friends.
• Zhen Yuanzi invited Red Cloud to Wuzhuang Temple, and Red Cloud accepted.
• Red Cloud admired Longevity Mountain, the temple’s gate inscription, and its grounds as Zhen Yuanzi showed him around.
• Red Cloud saw the Ginseng Fruit Tree in the rear courtyard of Wuzhuang Temple.

Red Cloud visited Zhen Yuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple, where they shared spiritual fruit and discussed their paths of cultivation. Their conversation left Zhen Yuanzi reflecting on his own Dao and on how living beings might face the great tribulations of heaven and earth.

• Zhen Yuanzi welcomed Red Cloud beneath the Ginseng Fruit Tree and picked eight ripe fruits for him.
• Red Cloud shared roasted Parasol Tree Seeds and candied Money Tree Fruit, which Zhen Yuanzi sampled with delight.
• Red Cloud warned Zhen Yuanzi that relying on the Earth Book and Ginseng Fruit Tree could keep him from discovering his own Dao.
• Red Cloud explained his Literary Dao as using writing to enlighten the people, and he and Zhen Yuanzi discussed cultivation, laws, and life and death.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked why great tribulations repeatedly descended, and Red Cloud said conflict arose from living beings' desires.
• Zhen Yuanzi argued that people should work together against calamity, while Qingfeng and Mingyue listened and gained insight.

Wind Cloud encountered Void Spirit Daoist, who accused him of robbing the Void Spirit Sect’s treasure vault, and the two began fighting. Their battle escalated as both used Heaven-and-Earth Transformation, leaving their enormous forms poised to clash.

• Void Spirit Daoist discovered that the Void Spirit Sect’s treasure vault had been emptied and ordered his followers to find the thief and recover the stolen treasures.
• The Void Spirit Sect’s informants identified Wind Cloud as a suspect, and Void Spirit Daoist flew to confront him.
• Wind Cloud denied the accusation and attacked Void Spirit Daoist, but Void Spirit Daoist cut through his giant hand with the Wind-Chasing Blade.
• Wind Cloud coveted the Wind-Chasing Blade and challenged Void Spirit Daoist, drawing the Silver Ring Saber and unleashing Heaven-and-Earth Transformation.
• Void Spirit Daoist answered with his own Heaven-and-Earth Transformation, becoming a golden giant a million zhang tall.

Wind Cloud killed Void Spirit Daoist, took the Wind-Chasing Blade, and used causality to discover that Kunpeng had robbed the Void Spirit Sect's treasury and framed him. After resolving to settle the score with Kunpeng later, Wind Cloud looted the sect and headed for the General Immortal Grotto-Heaven.

• Wind Cloud defeated Void Spirit Daoist with a divine ability that severed causality, killing him and gathering his origin.
• Wind Cloud suppressed the fleeing Wind-Chasing Blade and learned it came from the General Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
• Wind Cloud traced the theft of the Void Spirit Sect's treasury to Kunpeng, who sensed Wind Cloud's surveillance while plotting more raids.
• Wind Cloud recognized Kunpeng as the culprit who had framed him and decided to settle their causal debt later.
• Wind Cloud plundered the Void Spirit Sect, taking its palaces and mountain gate, then went to the General Immortal Grotto-Heaven.