Chapter Summaries

Li Yu settled on Mount Kunlun to cultivate with the Twelve-Petal Pure World White Lotus and eventually reached the Golden Immortal Realm. Afterward, he set out to visit Hongyun, resolving to investigate the mystery surrounding Hongyun’s future death and possibly change his fate.

• Li Yu traveled to Mount Kunlun and built a thatched cottage on a cliffside platform in the mountain’s northern reaches.
• Li Yu cultivated for many years using the methods and Great Dao contained in the Twelve-Petal Pure World White Lotus.
• Li Yu achieved the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and reflected on the future deaths of Di Jun and Taiyi amid the tribulations.
• Li Yu decided to investigate Hongyun’s mysterious death and considered intervening to save him.
• Li Yu flew south past the Three Pure Ones’ Courtyard without stopping, heading to visit Hongyun.

Li Yu visited Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi, celebrated attaining the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, and discussed the end of the three clans’ calamity. He and Hongyun then set off for Mount Buzhou, where Hongyun planned to visit Fuxi, and Li Yu teased him about being interested in Fuxi’s sister.

• Li Yu arrived at Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi’s cultivation grounds, where they welcomed him with Ginseng Fruit and immortal refreshments.
• Li Yu told Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi that he had attained the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, and they celebrated together.
• Li Yu predicted that the three clans would suffer for their conflict, and the gathered Golden Immortals sensed that the great calamity had ended.
• Li Yu and Hongyun left Zhen Yuanzi and flew toward Mount Buzhou, where Hongyun said he intended to visit his old friend Fuxi.
• Li Yu teased Hongyun about having his eye on Fuxi’s sister, and Hongyun denied it in embarrassment.

Li Yu visited Wa Palace with Hongyun, where Fuxi befriended him and gave him a fortune-telling tortoiseshell. After parting from Hongyun, Li Yu followed the tortoiseshell’s auspicious glow north in search of a nearby treasure.

• Hongyun brought Li Yu to Wa Palace on Phoenix Perch Mountain, where Fuxi welcomed them and tried to tell Li Yu’s fortune.
• Fuxi secretly divined Li Yu’s fate twice but found only Chaos, then treated him warmly and gave him a tortoiseshell spirit treasure when they parted.
• Fuxi told Hongyun that Nüwa had gone to visit Houtu of the Wu Clan, and Hongyun showed disappointment at her absence.
• Li Yu declined to accompany Hongyun to the Wu Clan and continued eastward alone after they said farewell.
• The tortoiseshell radiated auspicious light, and Li Yu searched north before speeding toward the indicated location.

Li Yu obtained the Cosmos Ruler from an Immortal Deer and fought Randeng, driving him away with the Pure World White Lotus. He took the deer as his mount, left Mount Kunlun, and eventually reached the Eastern Sea.

• Li Yu recognized the Cosmos Ruler and claimed it from the Immortal Deer, then refused to surrender it when Randeng demanded it.
• Randeng attacked Li Yu with the Golden Exquisite Pagoda and prayer beads, but Li Yu repelled them with the Pure World White Lotus.
• Randeng used the Coffin Palace Lantern's flames as a feint to flee, and Li Yu struck him five times with the Cosmos Ruler before he escaped.
• Li Yu decided to move his dojo away from Mount Kunlun and accepted the Immortal Deer as his mount, promising to teach it cultivation.
• Li Yu traveled east for many years while refining the Cosmos Ruler and guiding the deer, then reached the Eastern Sea.

Li Yu traveled to Purple Cloud Palace after Hongjun announced his first sermon, meeting Fuxi, Di Jun, and Taiyi on the way. At the palace, he reunited with Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi, spotted his old enemy Randeng, and waited with the gathered cultivators for Hongjun to appear.

• Hongjun announced that he would preach in Purple Cloud Palace, and Li Yu left Lu Xue behind to cultivate on her own.
• Li Yu used the Cosmos Ruler to cross the Astral Wind and joined Fuxi, who told him that his sister had left with Houtu.
• Li Yu and Fuxi met Di Jun and Taiyi, then traveled with them to Purple Cloud Palace.
• Li Yu entered the palace and saw Hongyun, the Three Pure Ones, Nüwa, Kunpeng, and Houtu among the gathered cultivators.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked Li Yu about his grievance with Randeng, and Li Yu said they had fought over a spiritual treasure.

Jieyin and Zhunti tried to take Hongyun’s meditation cushion, but Li Yu, Zhen Yuanzi, and Fuxi intervened, while Taiyi and Di Jun defended Kunpeng from Zhunti. Hongjun arrived before the conflict could erupt, began his lecture, and innate lifeforms including Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters took shape elsewhere in the Primordial World.

• Jieyin and Zhunti lamented their hardships and asked Hongyun to yield his front-row seat, but Hongyun refused and stood his ground when Zhunti threatened him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti used their treasures to suppress Hongyun, but Li Yu, Zhen Yuanzi, and Fuxi joined forces behind him and turned the pressure back on them.
• Zhunti struck at Kunpeng, prompting Taiyi and Di Jun to appear with their treasures and defend him.
• Hongjun arrived, ended the brewing confrontation, and directed everyone to sit, leaving Jieyin and Zhunti to take cushions in the back.
• Hongjun introduced himself and began teaching the Dao as the palace gates closed and the listeners entered profound enlightenment.
• Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiao Sisters, and other innate lifeforms took shape across the Primordial World.

After Hongjun ended his teaching, he accepted the Three Pure Ones and Nüwa as disciples, gave gifts to Hongyun, Kunpeng, Jieyin, and Zhunti, and left Li Yu to finish cultivating. Li Yu awoke at perfected Golden Immortal, received a refined blue gourd from Hongjun, and traveled toward Mount Kunlun wary of the Saint’s intentions.

• Hongjun ended the teaching, accepted the Three Pure Ones and Nüwa as disciples, and refused Hongyun and Kunpeng while giving each a gift; he accepted Jieyin and Zhunti as registered disciples.
• Hongjun protected Li Yu in clear light, then privately instructed Yaochi to give him a blue gourd without revealing its origin.
• After the listeners left, Hongjun saw the Creation Jade Disc repairing itself and wondered whether Li Yu was the escaping “One.”
• Li Yu awoke at perfected Golden Immortal without reaching Quasi-Saint, accepted the blue gourd from Yaochi, and left Purple Cloud Palace.
• Li Yu examined the gourd on his way to Mount Kunlun and worried that Hongjun might be plotting against him.

After returning to Mount Kunlun, Li Yu spoke with Zhen Yuanzi about changes among the immortals and set out to find a new cultivation ground. He found that Lu Xue had fallen for the Azure Ox, let her choose to stay with him, and then continued toward the Eastern Sea.

• Li Yu returned to his former cultivation site on Mount Kunlun, then visited Zhen Yuanzi and learned that he planned to move his cultivation ground and that Hongyun was wandering near Mount Buzhou.
• Li Yu left Mount Kunlun, remembered his Immortal Deer mount, and tracked down Lu Xue, whom he found with the Azure Ox.
• Li Yu pinned the Azure Ox to the ground with his power and demanded that Lu Xue choose between following him overseas and staying with the Azure Ox.
• Lu Xue chose to remain with the Azure Ox, and Li Yu accepted her decision before leaving them together.
• Li Yu headed for the Eastern Sea to search for an immortal island, noting that the seas were far more barren than the Wild Continent.

Li Yu rescued Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao from two Azure Dragons and visited their island. After Qiongxiao told him of a nearby island with a dangerous demonic bamboo, Li Yu found the plant and discovered it was the innate spiritual root Bitter Bamboo.

• Li Yu intervened when two Azure Dragons attacked Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, and drove the dragons away with the Cosmos Ruler.
• Yunxiao thanked Li Yu and invited him to the sisters’ island, where he rested for two days.
• Qiongxiao told Li Yu about a nearby island and its demonic bamboo, which stirred despair in those who approached it.
• Li Yu traveled to the island, used the Pure World White Lotus to resist the bamboo’s influence, and identified it as the innate spiritual root Bitter Bamboo.

Li Yu established a cultivation sanctuary on an overseas immortal island and survived Heavenly Punishment during his attempt to break through to the Quasi-Saint Realm, protected by the Innate Gourd’s Chaos Qi. After stabilizing his cultivation, he welcomed Qiongxiao and Bixiao, who shared news of the Dragon Clan before returning to Three Immortals Island with some of his spiritual plants.

• Li Yu built a Daoist sanctuary on the island, planted rare spiritual plants, and entered secluded cultivation to pursue the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Heavenly Punishment descended during Li Yu’s cultivation breakthrough, but the Innate Gourd’s Chaos Qi shielded him and dispersed the tribulation clouds.
• Li Yu divined that Hongjun had aided him through the Innate Gourd and resolved to remain wary of the Saint’s intentions.
• Qiongxiao and Bixiao visited Li Yu, enjoyed his spiritual fruits, and told him that the Dragon Clan had subdued many aquatic clans and become overlords of the seas.
• Bixiao picked spiritual fruits and transplanted some plants from Li Yu’s sanctuary before she and Qiongxiao returned to Three Immortals Island.

Li Yu infused the Bitter Bamboo with Chaos Qi, then stopped Zhunti from stealing it and defeated him in battle. He chased Zhunti all the way to Mount Kunlun, where Taiqing intervened and brought the pursuit to a halt.

• Li Yu sent a wisp of Chaos Qi into the Bitter Bamboo, hoping it would transform the spirit root.
• Zhunti broke into Li Yu's cultivation grounds and tried to seize the Bitter Bamboo, but Li Yu blocked him and fought back.
• Li Yu used the Twelve-Petal Pure World White Lotus to repel Zhunti, then challenged him to fight in the heavens.
• Li Yu destroyed Zhunti's Dharma body with Chaos Qi and damaged the Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree during the chase.
• Li Yu pursued Zhunti from the Eastern Sea past Mount Buzhou to Mount Kunlun, where Taiqing stopped him.

Li Yu visited Taiqing, discussed the Dao with him, and then traveled to Mount Buzhou, where he met Fuxi and Nüwa. He warned them against joining the Demon Court and pointed to the Wu Clan as a force capable of challenging it.

• Taiqing gave Li Yu pills and persuaded him to end his pursuit of Zhunti, then invited him to Three Pure Ones' Courtyard to discuss the Dao.
• After three months of discussion, Taiqing remarked that Li Yu's Dao was strong, and Li Yu later visited Zhen Yuanzi to ask about nurturing spiritual roots.
• Li Yu reached Mount Buzhou and told Fuxi about Zhunti's attempt to seize spiritual roots.
• Fuxi revealed that Di Jun and Taiyi had invited him and Nüwa to join the Demon Court, but Nüwa refused.
• Li Yu supported Nüwa's refusal, warning that the Demon Court sought to unify the Primordial World and that the Wu Clan could oppose it.
• Nüwa described the Twelve Ancestral Shamans and the power of the Heavenly Capital Baleful God Formation, which she said could even withstand saints.

Fuxi resolved to join the Demon Court despite Nüwa’s objections, while Li Yu returned to his immortal island and accepted Black Armor as a guard. Li Yu then went to Purple Cloud Palace for Hongjun’s second sermon, where Hongyun hinted at good news he would share afterward.

• Fuxi calculated that the Wu Clan’s fortune was as strong as the Demon Clan’s but still refused to break his promise to Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Li Yu returned to his immortal island, left medicinal pills with Immortal Deer, Azure Ox, and the three fairy maidens, and infused Bitter Bamboo with Chaos Qi.
• Black Armor repeatedly sought apprenticeship, and Li Yu finally let him enter the island as a guard despite having no master-disciple fate with him.
• Before leaving for the sermon, Li Yu gave Black Armor three medicinal pills and told him to seek help from Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao if trouble arose.
• Li Yu arrived at Purple Cloud Palace for Hongjun’s second sermon and saw that fewer attendees had come, with Jieyin and Zhunti occupying the front cushions.
• Hongyun told Li Yu that he had good news to share after the sermon and asked what had happened between Li Yu and Zhunti.

During Hongjun’s second Dao teaching, he distributed treasures to his disciples and allowed the other cultivators to claim spiritual treasures from the Treasure-Dividing Rock. Li Yu obtained two powerful treasures and left with Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi, then learned that Hongyun had married Jin Shan and had a child.

• Hongjun concluded his second teaching and bestowed supreme treasures on Taiqing, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nüwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti.
• Hongjun sent the cultivators to the Treasure-Dividing Rock, where the Three Pure Ones and Nüwa claimed gourds and spiritual treasures, while Jieyin and Zhunti obtained only a few items.
• Kunpeng reached the Treasure-Dividing Rock first among the remaining cultivators, and Li Yu followed, obtaining the Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner and the Godslayer Spear.
• After the remaining treasures scattered across the Primordial World, Li Yu, Hongyun, and Zhen Yuanzi chose not to chase them and departed together.
• Li Yu asked Hongyun about his earlier mysterious news, and Hongyun revealed that he had married Jin Shan and that they had a child before he came to Purple Cloud Palace.

Li Yu accompanied Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun to move the Ginseng Fruit Tree to Five Villages Temple, where the three discussed the Dao. After returning to his immortal island and cultivating, Li Yu visited Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, and observed that Yunxiao was close to reaching the Golden Immortal Realm.

• Hongyun told Li Yu and Zhen Yuanzi that he had started a family, and they offered him Ginseng Fruits and Taiqing's pills as congratulatory gifts.
• Li Yu, Hongyun, and Zhen Yuanzi carved out earth around the Ginseng Fruit Tree and carried it from Mount Kunlun to Five Villages Temple.
• The three Quasi-Saints discussed the Dao at Five Villages Temple for several months, producing phenomena that benefited nearby living beings.
• Hongyun departed with six Ginseng Fruits and Li Yu's pills, and Li Yu returned to his immortal island, where he gave the Bitter Bamboo two streams of Chaos Qi.
• After a period of cultivation and studying his spirit treasures, Li Yu visited Three Immortals Island and found Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao there.
• Li Yu brought spirit fruits to the sisters and recognized that Yunxiao was nearing the Golden Immortal Realm.

Li Yu guided the Three Xiao Sisters before learning that Fuxi had died under a mysterious curse. Nüwa stormed the Demon Court demanding answers from Di Jun and Taiyi, while Li Yu headed there to investigate the unforeseen change.

• Li Yu explained the path to the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit to Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, then left to travel across the Primordial World.
• Zhunti gave Kunpeng a bottle containing the essence of the Styx Blood Sea and the blood of the Wu Clan so Kunpeng could cast a curse.
• Fuxi regretted joining the Demon Court, then suddenly aged and died in his palace after an unseen force drained his vitality.
• Li Yu discovered that the tortoiseshell Fuxi had given him had lost its power, deduced that Fuxi had fallen, and hurried toward the Demon Court.
• Nüwa confronted Di Jun and Taiyi over Fuxi's death, but the two Demon Emperors could not explain what had happened.

After Fuxi was killed, Nüwa sought Taiqing’s help to preserve his fading soul, and Li Yu joined Taiqing in using a pill and the New Dao to heal it. Fuxi’s soul survived but needed a long recovery, while the Demon Court began investigating the suspicious death.

• Li Yu persuaded Nüwa to seek Taiqing’s help for Fuxi’s remnant soul, then followed her to Kunlun.
• Di Jun and Taiyi thanked Li Yu, suspected the killer might be inside the Demon Court, and assigned Taiyi to teach the ten princes instead of Kunpeng.
• Nüwa brought Fuxi’s soul, preserved inside the Earth-Society Landscape Scroll, to Taiqing, who asked Li Yu to assist him.
• Taiqing gave Fuxi a golden pill and nourished his soul with Dao rhythms while Li Yu used the New Dao to help restore it.
• Yuanshi questioned Li Yu’s importance, while Tongtian praised his courage and said he would rather face both Westerners than Zhunti alone.

Li Yu and Taiqing stabilized Fuxi’s remaining soul, and Li Yu later traveled with Zhen Yuanzi to visit Hongyun. They met Hongyun’s son Red Boy outside his cave dwelling, leaving them poised to reunite with their friend.

• Taiqing and Li Yu preserved Fuxi’s final remnant of soul, and Nüwa agreed to wait before arranging his reincarnation.
• Nüwa offered Taiqing and Li Yu innate spirit treasures, but both declined, and Li Yu urged her not to confront the demon race recklessly.
• Li Yu left Mount Kunlun and went to Five Villages Temple, where Zhen Yuanzi described the worsening war between the Wu Clan and the demon race.
• Li Yu persuaded Zhen Yuanzi to visit Hongyun, and the two followed their karmic connection to his cave dwelling.
• Red Boy met Li Yu and Zhen Yuanzi, recognized them as his father’s friends, and received several acquired treasures from them.

Li Yu and Zhen Yuanzi discovered that Minghe had wounded Hongyun and abducted his Dao companion, Jin Shan. The three set out for the Blood Sea to confront Minghe, where Li Yu began the challenge with the Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner.

• Red Boy told Li Yu and Zhen Yuanzi that Hongyun was healing from injuries, and they learned that Hongyun's cultivation had fallen.
• Hongyun explained that Minghe had abducted Jin Shan and lured him into the Blood Sea, where Minghe's power overwhelmed him.
• Li Yu and Zhen Yuanzi agreed to join Hongyun in confronting Minghe, and Hongyun accompanied them to rescue Jin Shan.
• At the Blood Sea, Li Yu stopped Hongyun from drawing Minghe out and cast the Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner across the sea.

Li Yu, Hongyun, and Zhen Yuanzi confronted Minghe in the Blood Sea to demand Jin Shan’s release. Minghe refused, and the trio withdrew with Li Yu holding the Yuantu Sword.

• Hongyun drove Dafantian and the Blood Sea beings back, then waited with Li Yu and Zhen Yuanzi for Minghe to appear.
• Minghe emerged on the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and repelled Zhen Yuanzi’s attack, but Li Yu struck him with the Godslayer Spear and destroyed his incarnation.
• Minghe returned with Yuantu and Abi, then abandoned his incarnation and sent the swords toward Hongyun as he escaped into the Blood Sea.
• Li Yu captured the Yuantu Sword with Chaos Qi, while the Abi Sword escaped back into the Blood Sea.
• Minghe refused to release Jin Shan, and Hongyun accepted that she was probably dead before he and Zhen Yuanzi withdrew with Li Yu.