Chapter Summaries

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi arrived at Zixiao Palace as Taiyi fought the Three Pure Ones outside its gates. After Hongjun’s attendants ended the battle and invited everyone in, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi took the first two of six special meditation cushions, leaving four seats for the other gathered divine beings.

• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi reached Zixiao Palace and found Taiyi fighting the Three Pure Ones while Di Jun watched nearby.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi greeted Qing Xuan and Qing Yi and discussed the battle and the Chaos Bell.
• Di Jiang led the Twelve Ancestral Shamans to Zixiao Palace as the Three Pure Ones and Taiyi unleashed their strongest attacks.
• Haotian and Yaochi announced that Hongjun’s lecture was beginning, and the palace’s purple Dao light stopped the fighting.
• Taiyi and Yuanshi traded taunts before Taiqing urged his brothers to enter the palace.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi entered first and took the first two of the six meditation cushions.

Hongjun delivered Zixiao Palace’s first lecture, revealing the path toward Great Luo to the gathered Innate Divine Beings. On Blue Star, researchers reviewed the lecture and the latest Douluo Continent results, where Su Qingxue had completed the first stage of a Divine Position Inheritance assessment.

• The Three Pure Ones and Nuwa claimed the six front cushions, while Jieyin and Zhunti accepted ordinary seats offered by Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi.
• Hongjun began his lecture, and the Innate Divine Beings witnessed their primordial spirits and laws respond to his teachings.
• The Blue Star Research Center archived the lecture and judged it an early high-level cultivation system rather than a complete path for later generations.
• Linjiang Academy received updated results showing Zhao Lie at level 68 and Li He at level 59 with notable bloodline research achievements.
• The monitoring hall learned that Su Qingxue had reached level 79 and completed the first stage of Divine Position Inheritance, confirming she had begun the path to godhood.

Su Qingxue rejected Tang Yao’s proposal to walk the path of divine inheritance together, saying she had chosen Qing Xuan. She then selected Qing Xuan as her priority contact for the Primordial World Adaptation Plan and defended the choice to Hu Liena, who reconsidered the academy’s plans and asked about Su Qingxue’s personal reasons.

• Su Qingxue emerged from the inheritance secret realm as a level seventy-nine Soul Sage, and Tang Yao congratulated her before asking her to join him on the path toward a Divine Position.
• Su Qingxue told Tang Yao she had chosen Qing Xuan, and Tang Yao said he would ask her again after inheriting a Divine Position.
• Su Qingxue submitted her preference form, choosing Qing Xuan rather than the Dragon Race as her priority contact in the Primordial World.
• Hu Liena contacted Su Qingxue and questioned her choice, and Su Qingxue argued that contacting Qing Xuan as well as the Dragon Race would preserve another route to the Primordial World’s highest echelon.
• Hu Liena said the academy could reassess Qing Xuan’s contact priority, then asked Su Qingxue for her personal reason.

After Hongjun concluded his sermon at Zixiao Palace, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi compared his Immortal Dao with their own Great Luo path. As the gathered divine beings departed, the Queen Mother of the West approached the pair to introduce herself and ask about their Dao.

• Su Qingxue admitted that she had considered Qing Xuan as a future partner, while Hu Liena supported restoring him to the academy's independent contact sequence.
• Hongjun ended his sermon, announced that Zixiao Palace would reopen after Three Epoch Cycles, and departed.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi discussed Hongjun's Immortal Dao and chose to use it to verify their own Great Luo Dao rather than follow it.
• The Innate Divine Beings left Zixiao Palace, and Taiqing exchanged a nod with Qing Xuan while Taiyi studied Qing Xuan and Qing Yi.
• The Queen Mother of the West approached Qing Xuan and Qing Yi, introduced herself, and said their manifested Great Dao had piqued her curiosity.

After leaving Zixiao Palace, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi traveled with Queen Mother of the West to West Kunlun to discuss their Dao and exchange spirit fruits. As they shared Ren Water Flat Peaches, Qing Xuan presented Astral Fruits and Five-Needle Pine Cones, and Queen Mother of the West recognized that the Astral Fruit Tree was on Purple Star.

• Qing Yi and Queen Mother of the West discussed how their Dao paths of Creation and Return to the Hidden might complement each other.
• Qing Xuan agreed to visit West Kunlun with Qing Yi and Queen Mother of the West, and asked to trade for Ren Water Flat Peaches.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi left Zixiao Palace as the other Innate Divine Beings departed, and Qing Xuan and Qing Yi followed Queen Mother of the West westward.
• Queen Mother of the West led Qing Xuan and Qing Yi through West Kunlun to Yaochi, where she served them ripe Ren Water Flat Peaches.
• Qing Xuan placed Astral Fruits and Five-Needle Pine Cones on the table, and Queen Mother of the West recognized that the Astral Fruit Tree was on Purple Star.

Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, and Queen Mother of the West exchanged spiritual fruits and discussed their Daos, each gaining insight into creation and return to the hidden. As they left West Kunlun, strange spiritual lights emerged around Buzhou Mountain, and Qing Xuan decided to return there with Qing Yi.

• Qing Xuan offered Queen Mother of the West Astral Fruits, Five-Needle Pine Cones, and Enlightenment Tea Leaves, and she brewed the tea with water from Yaochi.
• Queen Mother of the West revealed her Primordial Pure Yin Dao, and Qing Yi used a peach pit to demonstrate how creation could arise again from a state of return to the hidden.
• Qing Xuan unfolded a corner of his world, and the three spent half an Epoch Cycle comparing their Daos of yin, creation, and cyclical transformation.
• Queen Mother of the West exchanged ripened Flat Peaches for their spiritual fruits, while Qing Yi took the peach pit and Qing Xuan left her some Enlightenment Tea.
• As Qing Xuan and Qing Yi departed West Kunlun with Queen Mother of the West, innate spiritual lights appeared over Buzhou Mountain, and Qing Xuan chose to return there instead of Purple Star.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi arrived at Buzhou Mountain as Innate Divine Beings gathered to claim the seven gourds of the Innate Gourd Vine. When the formation faded, six gourds flew off and the struggle began, while Qing Xuan and Qing Yi planned to take the Dark-Cyan Gourd and save the vine.

• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi reached Buzhou Mountain and met Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi among the gathered Innate Divine Beings.
• Qing Yi recognized that the Dark-Cyan Gourd preserved the Gourd Vine’s origin and could grow into another vine, while the original vine could still be saved.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi agreed to take the Dark-Cyan Gourd and collect the original vine before its last gourd fell.
• The formation faded, and the six completed gourds broke free and flew in different directions.
• Taiyi used his bell to disrupt the treasure-seekers while Di Jun captured a golden gourd with the River Chart and Luo Script.
• The Three Pure Ones drew three gourds toward themselves, and Taiyi challenged them for trying to take three.

The six mature gourds were claimed, while Qing Xuan and Qing Yi revealed that the final Dark-Cyan Gourd had inherited the Gourd Vine’s origin and could grow into a new spirit root. As Qing Yi used the Qiankun Cauldron to preserve the vine, nearly fifty Innate Divine Beings attacked Qing Xuan, but his spatial power left Kunpeng unable to reach the cliff.

• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to hold back the Three Pure Ones, who took three gourds, while Hong Yun secured the Crimson Gourd with Zhen Yuanzi’s help.
• Fuxi created an opening with the Primordial Trigrams, allowing Nuwa to claim the final mature gourd from Eastern King, Jieyin, Zhunti, and the other contenders.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi revealed that the unripe Dark-Cyan Gourd contained the origin of the entire Gourd Vine and could become a new spirit root.
• Eastern King and Zhunti challenged Qing Xuan and Qing Yi’s claim to the last gourd and the withered vine, and Qing Xuan agreed to settle the matter through cultivation.
• Kunpeng, Eastern King, Jieyin, Zhunti, and nearly fifty other Innate Divine Beings attacked Qing Xuan as Qing Yi protected the vine with the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Qing Xuan expanded the space before the cliff, leaving Kunpeng flying across an endless starry expanse without getting closer.

Qing Xuan defeated the assault of nearly fifty Great Luo Divine Beings and then stopped Taiyi’s Chaos Bell with one hand. He left Taiyi and Di Jun driven back, while the gathered Innate Divine Beings watched in stunned silence.

• Qing Xuan dragged Kunpeng back through compressed space and slammed him into the earth, breaking his right wing.
• Qing Xuan overturned heaven and earth within his palm, scattering the attackers and shattering Jieyin and Zhunti’s Dharma forms.
• Taiyi approached Qing Xuan and challenged him to compare their Dao attainments, then struck with the Chaos Bell.
• Qing Xuan caught the Chaos Bell with one hand and sent it and Taiyi flying backward.
• Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Script to receive Taiyi and the Chaos Bell, but Qing Xuan’s force pushed them both back thousands of miles.

Qing Yi gave Nuwa a portion of Nine Heavens Breath Soil and discussed how to create living beings that could survive independently. Qing Xuan and Qing Yi stayed with Fuxi and Nuwa at Phoenix Perch Mountain, where Nuwa gained a new insight into Creation.

• Taiyi admitted defeat to Qing Xuan but vowed to challenge him again when the chance arose.
• After Qing Yi stored the Gourd Vine and its roots in the Qiankun Cauldron, Fuxi and Nuwa formally introduced themselves to Qing Xuan and Qing Yi.
• Nuwa explained her difficulty giving created beings lasting vitality, and Qing Yi gave her some Nine Heavens Breath Soil to experiment with.
• Fuxi invited Qing Xuan and Qing Yi to Phoenix Perch Mountain, and Qing Xuan praised Fuxi's formation, which integrated the mountain's terrain and seasons.
• Nuwa created a small fawn from Dao patterns, but it vanished after she withdrew her Creation Divine Light.
• Qing Yi told Nuwa that created beings needed independent survival, independent spirituality, and recognition from the Primordial World, prompting Nuwa to call her Sister.

After exchanging insights on Creation, Qing Yi and Qing Xuan invited Nuwa and Fuxi to visit Purple Star after the second lecture at Zixiao Palace. As the group prepared to leave Phoenix Perch Mountain, Fuxi revealed that Queen Mother of the West might possess the Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Banner, one of the Five Directional Primordial Flags Qing Xuan and Qing Yi were seeking.

• Qing Yi told Nuwa that her Creation path still needed to advance and invited her to Purple Star, where Qing Xuan could help her after the second lecture.
• Nuwa showed Qing Yi her Innate Gourd, and Qing Yi explained that it shared an origin with the gourds connected to the Qiankun Cauldron and that the Gourd Vine might bear different fruit if replanted.
• Nuwa showed Qing Yi around Phoenix Perch Mountain while Fuxi guided Qing Xuan through the mountain's changing formations.
• Several days later, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi left Phoenix Perch Mountain and told Fuxi they planned to seek the remaining Five Directional Primordial Flags.
• Fuxi recalled seeing Queen Mother of the West display a plain white banner at Zixiao Palace and identified it as possibly the Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Banner.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi returned to Purple Star and restored their spirit roots, including beginning the long process of repairing the weakened Gourd Vine. As Qing Yi tended the vine, Qing Xuan promised to take her to a world beyond the Primordial World, and she agreed.

• Qing Xuan confirmed that the Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner belonged to Queen Mother of the West, and he and Qing Yi returned to Purple Star instead of going back to West Kunlun.
• Qing Yi replanted the Enlightenment Tea Tree in a valley on Purple Star, where Qing Xuan stabilized its surroundings and nourished it with starlight.
• Qing Xuan shaped a separate Five Elements spirit land near the Five-Needle Pine, and Qing Yi strengthened it with the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner, the Xuanyuan Water-Control Flag, and Three Lights Divine Water.
• Qing Yi replanted the Gourd Vine in Nine Heavens Breath Soil and began repairing its damaged innate Dao patterns with the Qiankun Cauldron's radiance.
• Qing Xuan told Qing Yi he would take her to a world different from the Primordial World, and Qing Yi agreed.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi restored the Gourd Vine’s vitality and traveled to West Kunlun to negotiate with the Queen Mother of the West. They offered a future gourd from the vine in exchange for the plain white treasure banner.

• Qing Xuan planted the flat peach pit beside the Water Veins, where Three Lights Divine Water helped it sprout into a young tree.
• After ten thousand years, the Gourd Vine grew a new leaf when the Dark-Cyan Gourd’s essence entered its roots.
• Qing Yi proposed offering the Queen Mother of the West a future gourd from the vine in exchange for a Supreme Innate Spirit Treasure.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi traveled to West Kunlun, where the Queen Mother of the West welcomed them with Enlightenment Tea.
• Qing Xuan explained that Fuxi had seen the plain white treasure banner and directly asked the Queen Mother of the West to trade it.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi exchanged a future share of the revived Innate Gourd Vine’s gourds and a promise of aid for Queen Mother of the West’s Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Banner. With three of the Five Directional Primordial Flags now gathered, Queen Mother of the West hinted that she might know where the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner last appeared.

• Queen Mother of the West summoned the Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Banner, and it resonated with Qing Yi’s Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner and Xuanyuan Water-Control Flag through the Five Elements.
• Queen Mother of the West asked whether Qing Xuan and Qing Yi intended to gather all five banners, and Qing Xuan confirmed that they did.
• Qing Xuan told Queen Mother of the West that the Innate Gourd Vine had revived on the Purple Star and offered its future gourds and one act of aid in exchange for her banner.
• Queen Mother of the West accepted the exchange and transferred the Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Banner to Qing Yi.
• Queen Mother of the West said she had never seen the Earthly Flame Light Flag but might know where the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner had last appeared.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi learned that Yuanfeng held the Earthly Flame Light Flag and set out for the Phoenix Clan. On the way, they sheltered a young girl fleeing a gray-robed Taiyi Golden Immortal, and Qing Xuan revealed overwhelming power as the Daoist attacked.

• The Queen Mother of the West told Qing Xuan and Qing Yi that Yuanfeng had taken the Earthly Flame Light Flag to Undying Volcano, and the pair left West Kunlun for the south.
• While crossing a mountain range, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi encountered a young girl who had used her Five-Colored Divine Light to seize the Mystic Light Ruler from her pursuer.
• The girl asked Qing Yi for shelter, and Qing Yi healed the wound on her arm as the gray-robed Daoist caught up with them.
• The Daoist demanded the Mystic Light Ruler and Scarlet Flame Pearl, while the girl explained that he had pursued her after she refused to trade the pearl for three pieces of Innate Fire Jade.
• Qing Xuan agreed to intervene, and when the Daoist attacked with wind and lightning, Qing Xuan froze the surrounding void and severed the Daoist's control over his mana and Taiyi Dao Fruit.

Qing Xuan sent the gray-robed Daoist flying, and Kong Xuan joined him and Qing Yi on their journey to Undying Volcano. Along the way, she learned from Qing Xuan and tried to persuade him to take her as his disciple, then worried aloud that he might be going to rob her family.

• Qing Xuan repelled the gray-robed Daoist, and Kong Xuan thanked him and Qing Yi for saving her.
• Kong Xuan followed Qing Xuan and Qing Yi toward Undying Volcano, offering to guide them through the region.
• Kong Xuan admitted she had been away from home for over a hundred years and hoped the two seniors would help her explain her return to her mother.
• Kong Xuan repeatedly tried to copy Qing Xuan's finger strike, and he instead taught her how to connect the five origins of her Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Kong Xuan asked Qing Xuan to take her as his first disciple, and he said he had no intention of accepting disciples.
• As they neared Undying Volcano, Kong Xuan asked Qing Xuan whether he was going there to rob her family.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi escorted Kong Xuan back to Undying Volcano, where Eastern King and six allies were confronting three Phoenix Clan Great Luo. Qing Xuan sought to trade for the Earthly Flame Light Flag, but Eastern King also wanted it and challenged him to fight.

• Kong Xuan led Qing Xuan and Qing Yi to Undying Volcano, where they found Eastern King facing three Phoenix Clan Great Luo.
• Kong Xuan reunited with Aunt Chi Ling, who learned that Qing Xuan and Qing Yi had looked after her.
• Qing Xuan told the Phoenix Clan that he wanted to trade for the Earthly Flame Light Flag.
• Eastern King declared that he intended to obtain the flag and said Qing Xuan would have to get past him and his allies.
• After Qing Xuan recalled Eastern King's defeat at Buzhou Mountain, Eastern King asked whether Qing Xuan still thought he could suppress them with a single palm.

Qing Xuan defeated Eastern King and six allied Great Luo with one palm outside Undying Volcano. Yuanfeng invited Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, and Kong Xuan into the Phoenix ancestral land, where they arrived before her beneath an ancient parasol tree.

• Eastern King attacked Qing Xuan with the Jingyang Bell while six Great Luo joined forces against him.
• Qing Xuan suppressed Eastern King and all six Great Luo with one palm, repeating his victory at Buzhou Mountain.
• Yuanfeng summoned Kong Xuan and invited Qing Xuan and Qing Yi into Undying Volcano to discuss the Earthly Flame Light Flag.
• Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, and Kong Xuan entered the hidden Phoenix ancestral land and followed its fire-veined paths past parasol groves and flying phoenixes.
• The three arrived beneath an ancient parasol tree, where Yuanfeng stood waiting.

Yuanfeng met Qing Xuan and Qing Yi after they brought Kong Xuan back to Undying Volcano, then negotiated an exchange for the Earthly Flame Light Flag. The chapter ended with Yuanfeng asking Qing Xuan to accept Kong Xuan as his disciple as her second condition.

• Yuanfeng checked Kong Xuan’s origin and learned that three opponents had chased her for over a hundred years.
• Kong Xuan privately asked Yuanfeng to make Qing Xuan’s acceptance of her as a disciple a condition of the exchange.
• Qing Xuan showed Yuanfeng three of the Five Directional Primordial Flags and confirmed that he sought the complete Primordial Five Elements.
• Yuanfeng asked Qing Xuan to preserve the Phoenix bloodline if it faced a future calamity, and he agreed as long as the clan had not caused it itself.
• Yuanfeng made her second condition that Qing Xuan accept Kong Xuan as his disciple.

Qing Xuan accepted Kong Xuan as his disciple after Yuanfeng promised the Phoenix Clan would not use their bond to involve him in its affairs. He received the Earthly Flame Light Flag and left Undying Volcano with Kong Xuan and Qing Yi for Purple Star.

• Yuanfeng explained that Kong Xuan needed guidance in the innate Five Elements and promised that the Phoenix Clan would not make demands on Qing Xuan through her.
• Kong Xuan agreed to become Qing Xuan's disciple, and he warned her to ask permission before leaving their Daoist grounds.
• Kong Xuan knelt and performed three bows to Qing Xuan, establishing their master-disciple bond.
• Yuanfeng gave Qing Xuan the Earthly Flame Light Flag, leaving only the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner outstanding among the Five Directional Primordial Flags.
• Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, and Kong Xuan departed for Purple Star, and Yuanfeng told Kong Xuan to consult her master before returning to Undying Volcano.