Chapter Summaries

Xiao Teng attained Great Luo through the Nurturing Great Dao and hurried to Purple Cloud Palace after Hongjun announced his lecture. There, he reunited with White Lotus and faced Zhunti and Jie Yin, who demanded that the Calabash Kids return the Azure Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner.

• Xiao Teng clarified his Nurturing Great Dao and attained the Daluo Golden Immortal realm on Mount Kongtong.
• Hongjun announced that he would lecture at Purple Cloud Palace in ten thousand years, and Xiao Teng set out for Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Xiao Teng crossed the Primal Chaos Qi and reached Purple Cloud Palace, where he saw the Three Pure Ones, the Golden Crow brothers, and White Lotus.
• Xiao Teng greeted White Lotus, who had also attained Great Luo, and assured her that the Calabash Kids had caused no trouble.
• The seven Calabash Kids arrived with Zhunti and Jie Yin in pursuit, and Liu Wa admitted they had taken the Azure Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner.
• Zhunti demanded that Xiao Teng return the treasure, while Si Wa challenged him to try to take it.

Xiao Teng and the Calabash Kids faced Jie Yin and Zhunti over the Azure Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner, then competed for seats in Purple Cloud Palace. Xiao Teng secured a cushion and kept Red Cloud from claiming the last one, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Di Jun’s group clashed before Hongjun appeared to begin his lecture.

• Xiao Teng refused to return the Azure Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner, and Jie Yin persuaded Zhunti to avoid fighting the eight Great Luo cultivators.
• When Purple Cloud Palace opened, Xiao Teng and White Lotus claimed two prayer cushions, the Three Pure Ones took three, and Nuwa claimed the last after the Calabash Kids delayed Jie Yin and Zhunti and Da Wa blocked Red Cloud.
• Kunpeng withdrew from the final cushion after Wu Wa confronted him, and Red Cloud accepted being turned away by Da Wa.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches attempted to seize seats from Di Jun and Taiyi, but Dijiang and Houtu stopped Zhurong from escalating the dispute.
• Hongjun appeared before the seated crowd, and Purple Cloud Palace fell silent.

Hongjun lectured on the Dao of the Daluo Golden Immortal in Purple Cloud Palace, while Xiao Teng and the Calabash Kids gained new insights. After the lecture ended, Er Wa sensed that the Wood Spirit Pearl was with someone nearby.

• Hongjun began his lecture and declared that the Dharma was not passed to Six Ears, causing the distant Six-Eared Macaque to collapse after eavesdropping.
• Hongjun taught the Dao of the Daluo Golden Immortal for three thousand years, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches struggled to understand him.
• Hongjun ended the lecture and announced that everyone should return for a second lecture one yuanhui later.
• Xiao Teng learned that the seven Calabash Kids had combined their insights and gained more from the lecture than most others.
• Xiao Teng told the Calabash Kids to stay on Mount Kongtong, but Er Wa sensed the Wood Spirit Pearl's aura on someone nearby.

The Calabash Kids set out to take the Wood Spirit Pearl from Wood Duke while Xiao Teng explained the prayer cushion’s possible opportunity to White Lotus. Xiao Teng and White Lotus traveled to find the Six-Eared Macaque, whom Er Wa located after a hundred years, and found him close to death.

• The Calabash Kids followed Wood Duke, intending to wait for a chance to borrow the Wood Spirit Pearl, while Xiao Teng reluctantly let them go.
• White Lotus asked Xiao Teng about the prayer cushion, and he said it might carry an opportunity whose nature would become clear later.
• Xiao Teng invited White Lotus to Mount Kongtong for secluded cultivation and told her he planned to search for the Six-Eared Macaque.
• Xiao Teng asked Er Wa to search for the Six-Eared Macaque, and Er Wa traced him by following the karma left by Hongjun’s prohibition.
• After a hundred years, Er Wa found the Six-Eared Macaque, and Xiao Teng and White Lotus hurried to his location.
• Xiao Teng and White Lotus found the Six-Eared Macaque barely alive, his aura close to going out.

Xiao Teng rescued the injured Six-Eared Macaque, who became White Lotus's disciple and spent ten thousand years tending Mount Kongtong while Xiao Teng and White Lotus cultivated. After White Lotus left to restore the Western Lands' earth veins, Xiao Teng discovered that Er Wa and the other Calabash Kids were fighting an old man in the Netherworld Blood Sea.

• Xiao Teng captured the wounded Six-Eared Macaque, and White Lotus healed him with her power and Three Lights Divine Water.
• White Lotus accepted the Six-Eared Macaque as her disciple, and he accompanied Xiao Teng and White Lotus back to Mount Kongtong.
• Xiao Teng and White Lotus cultivated in seclusion for ten thousand years while the Six-Eared Macaque swept the mountain and planted trees.
• White Lotus decided to travel through the Primordial World, and Xiao Teng urged her to visit the Western Lands and repair its damaged earth veins, warning her about Jie Yin and Zhunti.
• White Lotus departed without the Six-Eared Macaque, and Xiao Teng discovered that Er Wa and the other Calabash Kids were in the Netherworld Blood Sea, fighting a fierce-looking old man.

Xiao Teng sent the Calabash Kids to find Mosquito Daoist in the Netherworld Blood Sea after they ended their fight with Ming He. The kids trapped Mosquito Daoist in a five-colored cage, leaving him captured.

• Xiao Teng learned that the Calabash Kids had encountered Ming He after taking the Wood Spirit Pearl from Wood Duke, and he urged them to retreat.
• Seventh Gourd threatened to drain the Blood Sea with the Primal Chaos Gourd, so Ming He called off the fight and disappeared into the sea.
• Xiao Teng asked the Calabash Kids to search for the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito, and Er Wa located Mosquito Daoist in a remote corner of the Blood Sea.
• Mosquito Daoist fled when the Calabash Kids confronted him, but Da Wa blasted him out of the sea and the kids surrounded him.
• Seventh Gourd repelled Mosquito Daoist's attack with the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner, and the kids bound him with their Five-Element Spirit Pearls.

Xiao Teng studied Mosquito Daoist’s treasure-devouring ability while keeping him captive on Mount Kongtong, then brought the Calabash Kids to wait for Purple Cloud Palace’s second preaching. As Di Jun and Taiyi arrived, Kunpeng pointed out the Calabash Kids and demanded revenge.

• Xiao Teng sent the Calabash Kids into seclusion, assigned Six-Eared Macaque to guard Mount Kongtong, and made Mosquito Daoist demonstrate his ability on more than ten spirit treasures.
• Xiao Teng threatened Mosquito Daoist against escaping or devouring anything without permission, then began studying his method while listening to Six-Eared Macaque’s accounts of the Primordial World.
• Da Wa persuaded Xiao Teng to take the Calabash Kids to Purple Cloud Palace early, but Xiao Teng forbade them from wandering while they waited for its gates to open.
• Zhunti and Jie Yin arrived looking gloomy, and Xiao Teng suspected White Lotus had caused trouble in the west.
• Di Jun and Taiyi arrived, and Kunpeng pointed at the Calabash Kids, accusing them of bullying him and asking the two to avenge him.

Xiao Teng stopped a clash between Di Jun and the Calabash Kids, then observed the factions gathering before the Purple Cloud Palace’s sermon. He met Houtu, rejected Wood Duke’s recruitment offer on the Calabash Kids’ behalf, and entered the palace with White Lotus when the gates opened.

• Di Jun prepared to fight the Calabash Kids, but Fuxi and Nuwa intervened and persuaded everyone to stand down.
• Xiao Teng sent Er Wa to find White Lotus, and Er Wa reported that she was on her way.
• Xiao Teng noticed the gathered beings had formed factions, with Di Jun and Taiyi drawing followers and Wood Duke attracting a large crowd.
• Xiao Teng approached Houtu, learned she had come alone because her elder brothers were occupied, and exchanged introductions with her.
• Wood Duke tried to recruit the Calabash Kids, but they rejected him, and he left in anger.
• White Lotus arrived as the Purple Cloud Palace gates opened, and she entered with Xiao Teng.

Hongjun taught the Three-Corpse Severing Method and answered the cultivators’ questions during his second lecture. Xiao Teng weighed different paths to Sainthood and favored Proving the Dao Through Force, while the crowd ended the lecture by honoring Hongjun as the Dao Ancestor.

• Hongjun explained that Great Luo Golden Immortals could advance toward Sainthood by severing three corpses with Dharma treasures, and he detailed the ranks of Quasi-Saints.
• Xiao Teng considered Merit Sainthood, Fortune Sainthood, Proving the Dao Through Force, and World Sainthood, and leaned toward Proving the Dao Through Force.
• Hongjun lectured for six thousand years, then answered the cultivators’ questions before concluding the gathering.
• Wood Duke proposed that the living beings address Hongjun as the Dao Ancestor, and the crowd followed his lead.

Hongjun appointed Wood Duke as Eastern King Duke and Yang Hui as Queen Mother of the West, and gave them Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures, including the Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner. Xiao Teng realized Queen Mother of the West's new possession might make the banner easier to obtain, while Di Jun threatened Eastern King Duke and Xiao Teng's sons urged him to seize the treasure.

• Wood Duke asked Hongjun to restore order in the Primordial World, and Hongjun named Wood Duke and Yang Hui as leaders of the male and female immortals.
• Hongjun bestowed treasures on Eastern King Duke and Queen Mother of the West, giving Yang Hui the Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner that Xiao Teng had sought.
• Hongjun ended the sermon and announced that the immortals should return after three assembly periods for his final sermon.
• After leaving Purple Cloud Palace, many immortals flocked to Eastern King Duke, while Queen Mother of the West gave perfunctory replies and tried to leave.
• Di Jun grew furious as neutral immortals rallied to Eastern King Duke, then left with his subordinates after vowing that the appointment depended on his approval.
• Er Wa recognized the Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner, and Si Wa urged Xiao Teng to snatch it from Queen Mother of the West.

Xiao Teng and his companions traveled to Western Kunlun to seek an audience with Queen Mother of the West and negotiate for her Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner. She refused to receive them, leaving them waiting outside her array as crowds and the Calabash Kids disrupted the mountain’s peace.

• Xiao Teng decided to pursue Queen Mother of the West for her Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner, and White Lotus agreed to accompany him.
• Xiao Teng’s group passed Mount Buzhou, where Nuwa and others felt an unexplained loss because Xiao Teng had taken the Xirang Divine Soil and Calabash Vine, preventing Nuwa from gaining the merit of creating humans.
• After a thousand years of travel, Xiao Teng and his companions reached Western Kunlun and called for Queen Mother of the West, who refused to receive visitors.
• Xiao Teng told the Calabash Kids to explore without causing trouble, but their noisy games disturbed Western Kunlun.
• Xiao Teng and White Lotus discussed the Three-Corpse Severing Method while crowds gathered outside Queen Mother of the West’s retreat, and the growing clamor made Xiao Teng restless.

Xiao Teng and White Lotus met Queen Mother of the West in Western Kunlun, where Xiao Teng proposed trading for her Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner. The exchange remained undecided until after Hongjun's third teaching, and the chapter ended with Xiao Teng and his companions eating Yellow Center Plums and Xiao Teng resolving to improve his cultivation.

• Xiao Teng summoned the Calabash Kids to guard Western Kunlun, and Queen Mother of the West emerged from seclusion after hearing Xiao Teng and White Lotus discuss the Dao.
• Queen Mother of the West welcomed Xiao Teng and White Lotus into her formation, where they discussed the Dao before Xiao Teng revealed he wanted her Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner.
• Xiao Teng offered Queen Mother of the West an opportunity to become a Sage in exchange for the banner, but she postponed the decision until after Hongjun's third teaching.
• Xiao Teng and White Lotus stayed in Western Kunlun, where Queen Mother of the West gave them and the seven Calabash Kids Yellow Center Plums to eat.
• Xiao Teng recognized Queen Mother of the West's high cultivation and reminded himself to advance quickly before the third teaching ended.

After five thousand years in Western Kunlun, Xiao Teng returned to Mount Kongtong with the Calabash Kids and welcomed the newly hatched Golden Roc and Kong Xuan. Ten thousand years later, he mastered a version of Mosquito Daoist’s divine ability called the Star-Absorbing Art, though he could extract origins from treasures without converting them into his own power.

• Xiao Teng and White Lotus left Western Kunlun after distributing Yellow Center Plums to the Calabash Kids, and White Lotus continued repairing the western earth veins.
• Xiao Teng returned to Mount Kongtong with the Calabash Kids after hearing the phoenix eggs had hatched, where Liu Wa caught the speedy Golden-winged Roc while Kong Xuan watched from a cliff.
• Xiao Teng named the Peacock Kong Xuan and the Golden-winged Roc Golden Roc, then found Mosquito Daoist drinking flower nectar and took him away to study his divine ability.
• Xiao Teng and the Calabash Kids spent time with the newly arrived Golden Roc and Kong Xuan while Xiao Teng continued studying Mosquito Daoist’s ability.
• Ten thousand years later, Xiao Teng mastered the Star-Absorbing Art and discovered that he could extract origins from spirit treasures but could not turn them into his own power.

Xiao Teng left Mount Kongtong with the Calabash Kids and headed east to search for the Three Immortal Isles. After skirting the Witch Clan and Demon Race territories and reaching the East Sea, he split the group up to search the vast waters.

• Xiao Teng released Mosquito Daoist, stopped Golden Roc from chasing him, and ordered Golden Roc, Kong Xuan, and Six-Eared Macaque to remain at Mount Kongtong.
• Xiao Teng traveled with the Calabash Kids toward the East Sea, hoping to find the Three Immortal Isles before the next sermon at Purple Cloud Palace.
• Near Mount Buzhou, Xiao Teng saw the Witch Clan’s many tribes and led the group around them, avoiding the growing conflict between the Witch Clan and Demon Race.
• When Si Wa felt uncomfortable by the East Sea, Xiao Teng gave him the Fire Spirit Pearl, which eased his discomfort.
• Xiao Teng paired Er Wa with himself and divided the other Calabash Kids into three search groups to look for the hidden Three Immortal Isles.

Xiao Teng and Er Wa searched the East Sea for the Three Immortal Isles, capturing a sea beast and making it guide them. When an Azure Dragon attacked, Xiao Teng subdued it with the God-Striking Whip, leaving the dragon bound and furious.

• Er Wa spotted a fierce scaled beast approaching, kicked it into the sea, and Xiao Teng captured it with the God-Striking Whip when it tried to flee.
• Xiao Teng questioned the beast about islands in the sea and ordered it to guide them toward the Three Immortal Isles.
• Xiao Teng and Er Wa rode the beast to a desolate island, then continued deeper into the East Sea.
• As strange rain fell, the beast blamed the Dragon Clan, and an Azure Dragon emerged from the clouds and attacked them.
• Xiao Teng bound the Azure Dragon with the God-Striking Whip and tightened it after the dragon threatened him.

Xiao Teng and Er Wa defeated two Azure Dragons, killing the younger one and driving off his Second Uncle. After searching the East Sea for several hundred years, they spotted a moving island that Er Wa realized was a giant turtle.

• Er Wa tore scales from the bound Azure Dragon while Xiao Teng held it with the God-Striking Whip, prompting it to call for its Second Uncle.
• The massive Azure Dragon Second Uncle emerged and fought Er Wa, who wounded him repeatedly and struck his eye with the Radiant Divine Glory Spear.
• The wounded Second Uncle fled into the sea, and Xiao Teng strangled the captive Azure Dragon into pieces with the God-Striking Whip.
• Xiao Teng and Er Wa resumed searching the East Sea aboard the exotic beast, but the other Calabash Kids sent no news.
• Several hundred years later, Er Wa spotted a huge moving island and realized it was a gigantic turtle.

After searching the East Sea for ten thousand years, Xiao Teng and the Calabash Kids found the Three Immortal Isles and broke through the Primordial Array protecting them. They claimed the islands as their own, and Xiao Teng began exploring Penglai for rare spiritual treasures.

• Xiao Teng recognized the powerful Bixi but chose not to approach it, and he and Er Wa continued searching for the Three Immortal Isles.
• Seventh Gourd found the Three Immortal Isles, and Xiao Teng led the Calabash Kids into the array surrounding them.
• Xiao Teng and the Calabash Kids combined the Seven-Colored Primordial Unity Heavenly Dipper Formation with the Five-Element Formation to open a passage through the mist.
• The group entered the Three Immortal Isles, and Xiao Teng decided they would claim Fanghu, Yingzhou, and Penglai as their own.
• Xiao Teng landed on Penglai Island and saw its abundant herbs, ores, and spiritual treasures while seeking more unusual treasures.

Xiao Teng found the Three Lights Divine Water and Five-Needle Pine on Penglai Mountain, then refined the Three Immortal Isles with the Calabash Kids over thirty thousand years. When the islands’ formation unsealed and drew powerful beings, Xiao Teng shielded them with a Five-Element Formation, but Eastern King Duke and his followers challenged the Calabash Kids for control.

• Xiao Teng discovered the Three Lights Divine Water and the Five-Needle Pine, then used the Five-Element Spirit Pearls to nourish the tree.
• Xiao Teng and the Calabash Kids spent thirty thousand years refining the Three Immortal Isles, making them their exclusive domain.
• After the islands’ grand formation unsealed and drew Innate beings, Xiao Teng formed a protective Five-Element Formation around them.
• Eastern King Duke arrived with a group of Innate beings and demanded to know who had claimed the islands.
• The Calabash Kids confronted Eastern King Duke, and both sides fought to a deadlock over the Three Immortal Isles.

The Calabash Kids drove Eastern King Duke away from the Three Immortal Isles, while Di Jun and Taiyi decided against challenging them. Eastern King Duke later founded the Immortal Court and received Heavenly Dao merit, prompting Di Jun and Taiyi to mobilize an army to attack him.

• Er Wa, Liu Wa, and Seventh Gourd wielded the Innate Five-Direction Flags, forcing Eastern King Duke to retreat from the Three Immortal Isles.
• Di Jun and Taiyi judged that fighting the Calabash Kids risked heavy losses and returned to the Sun Star.
• Eastern King Duke settled elsewhere, then gathered followers and founded the Immortal Court after the Queen Mother of the West refused to join him.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed merit on Eastern King Duke, and beings across the Primordial World came to congratulate him.
• Di Jun, angered that Eastern King Duke had gained the advantage, agreed with Taiyi to strike before the Immortal Court grew stronger.
• Di Jun and Taiyi summoned numerous beings and assembled an army to attack the Immortal Court.

Di Jun and Taiyi attacked Eastern King Duke’s Immortal Court, where Taiyi’s Eastern Sovereign Bell devastated the defenders and Di Jun gained the upper hand. As the Immortal Court’s army collapsed and its people fled, Xiao Teng watched from Three Immortal Isles and judged Eastern King Duke’s downfall to be the result of his own choices.

• On Three Immortal Isles, Xiao Teng told the Calabash Kids that Di Jun was attacking Eastern King Duke and said they would watch the battle.
• Di Jun confronted Eastern King Duke at the Immortal Court and attacked him with Solar True Fire.
• Taiyi struck the Eastern Sovereign Bell twice, killing several Immortal Court immortals with its destructive sound waves.
• Eastern King Duke ordered his people to fight, and both sides plunged into a chaotic melee.
• Di Jun trapped Eastern King Duke with the River Diagram and Luo Writing and drove him back with Golden Crow Divine Ability attacks.
• As Immortal Court forces fled and its army collapsed, Xiao Teng told the Calabash Kids that Eastern King Duke’s downfall followed from his reckless choices.