Chapter Summaries

After the Primordial World killed Han Zheng and two others almost instantly, Blue Star suspended experiments sending living people through while continuing unmanned exploration. Gu Xuan chose to give up his student status at Linjiang Academy and planned to travel with Qing Lian.

• Su Qingxue left the hall after the Space Channel closed, while Zhao Lie wondered what strength would be needed to survive in the Primordial World.
• Gu Xuan heard students debate whether the failed experiment showed the Primordial World was deadly or merely required stronger explorers.
• Linjiang Academy suspended experiments sending living subjects through the Space Channel but continued unmanned exploration and searched for safer coordinates.
• Zhou Ruolan told Gu Xuan his Temporary Student Status would expire and offered him the choice to transfer, take leave, or leave school.
• Gu Xuan decided not to transfer and agreed to terminate his student status despite Su Qingxue offering to help him stay.
• Su Qingxue asked what Gu Xuan planned to do, and he said he would take Qing Lian around to see the world.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi left Linjiang and traveled across Blue Star for more than a month, letting others believe Gu Xuan had abandoned the transcendent world. At a seaside island, they decided to return to the Primordial World before the Third Sermon at Zixiao Palace.

• Qing Xuan told Su Qingxue he and Qing Yi would leave Linjiang to travel, and Su Qingxue offered to keep his enrollment open.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi boarded a southbound train and headed for the South Sea, while Blue Star believed Gu Xuan had left the transcendent world for good.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi spent more than a month exploring Blue Star, and Qing Yi photographed ordinary scenes to show Kong Xuan.
• Qing Yi photographed a sunrise and fishing boat from a cliff on an island in the South Sea.
• Qing Xuan told Qing Yi it was time to return before the Third Sermon at Zixiao Palace, joking that Kong Xuan might eat through Nuwa's orchards if they delayed.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi returned from Blue Star to their awakened Dao bodies in the Primordial World, and Su Qingxue wondered about Qing Xuan’s strength. They then reunited with Kong Xuan at Phoenix Perch Mountain before the third sermon.

• Qing Xuan opened a portal from Blue Star to the Purple Emperor Palace, where he and Qing Yi returned their consciousnesses to their innate Dao bodies and revived their dormant Daos.
• Qing Xuan discovered that Kong Xuan had stayed at Phoenix Perch Mountain after visiting Yuanfeng, then stored their mortal bodies and opened the Purple Emperor Palace.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi emerged from the palace, prompting ripples across the Primordial World Firmament as Su Qingxue watched and wondered how powerful Qing Xuan was.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi traveled to Phoenix Perch Mountain to resume their discussions with Nuwa about creation and living beings.
• Kong Xuan joyfully greeted Qing Xuan and Qing Yi, explained that he had stopped divining for their return, and noted that Qing Xuan had kept his promise to return before the third sermon.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi visited Nuwa, Fuxi, and Kong Xuan at Phoenix Perch Mountain, where Qing Yi shared photographs and explained how mortal generations preserved knowledge. Their conversation led into a new discourse on the Dao, as Qing Yi manifested a world shaped by fragile, short-lived beings and Nuwa began to perceive the legacy passed between generations.

• Kong Xuan welcomed Qing Xuan and Qing Yi, shared her saved Spiritual Fruit, and gave Qing Yi a larger box to take back to the Purple Star.
• Qing Yi gave Kong Xuan a camera and an album of photographs, and Kong Xuan learned to take pictures of Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, Nuwa, and Fuxi.
• Qing Yi explained that mortals preserved knowledge across generations, and Fuxi and Nuwa considered how their civilization differed from the Primordial World's bloodline-based races.
• Qing Xuan explained that he and Qing Yi had used mortal bodies to understand the brief lives and physical hardships of mortals.
• Nuwa invited Qing Yi to continue their discourse on the Dao, and Qing Yi manifested a world where short-lived generations carried forward the paths and experience of those before them.
• Nuwa shifted her attention from individual beings to the invisible trail their generations had created together.

Di Jun and Taiyi visited Phoenix Perch Mountain to ask Fuxi for help uniting the many unprotected groups they had gathered and protected. They proposed naming their shared order the Monster Clan, and Fuxi heard their request as the chapter ended.

• After Qing Yi and Nuwa finished discussing the Dao, Fuxi identified Di Jun and Taiyi outside the mountain’s formation and let them in.
• Di Jun and Taiyi greeted Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, Nuwa, Fuxi, and Kong Xuan, and Taiyi acknowledged his past fight with Qing Xuan.
• Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Script to show how the groups he and Taiyi had protected continued to clash over territory and resources.
• Di Jun explained that he and Taiyi wanted a lasting order for the diverse groups rather than having to settle every dispute themselves.
• Di Jun proposed calling the order the Monster Clan, defining it as a shared community for beings of different origins and excluding the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans.

Di Jun explained the Demon Race’s shared name and invited Fuxi and Nuwa to help establish its laws, presenting it as a rival to the Eastern King’s emerging Immortal Court. Nuwa declined to join, while Fuxi agreed to visit the clans before deciding, and Di Jun told Bai Ze to begin preparations.

• Di Jun said thirty-seven clans had agreed to share the name Monster, then showed Fuxi how the Eastern King was gathering immortals on the Three Immortal Islands to establish the Immortal Court.
• Di Jun explained that he and Taiyi intended to establish the Demon Race, accepting responsibility for the clans’ enemies and karmic entanglements in exchange for their allegiance and shared Fate Aura.
• Di Jun invited Fuxi to create laws for the clans and offered him the River Chart and Luo Script to study, while inviting Nuwa to join as an equal.
• Nuwa declined to join any faction, and Fuxi chose to meet Bai Ze and the clans before deciding whether to take part.
• After leaving Phoenix Perch Mountain, Di Jun told Bai Ze that the clans could begin preparing and formally adopt the name Monster.

Bai Ze led three aquatic clans south from the Northern Dark Sea, but Kunpeng blocked their passage and challenged Di Jun’s claim to them. Taiyi defeated Kunpeng with the Chaos Bell, opening the route south and leaving Fuxi and Kong Xuan to reflect on the gulf between their cultivation and that of top-tier Great Luo cultivators.

• Bai Ze led three aquatic clans toward the south while Fuxi, Qing Xuan, and Qing Yi watched from an icy cliff.
• Kunpeng emerged from the Northern Dark Sea and demanded to know why Di Jun was taking people who lived under his guidance.
• When one clan leader chose to leave, Kunpeng trapped the clans in shifting tides and layered sea worlds, preventing them from moving south.
• Di Jun declared that he would take the clans, and Taiyi confronted Kunpeng with the Chaos Bell.
• Taiyi shattered Kunpeng’s manifestations of the Northern Dark Sea, defeated him, and opened the sea route south.
• Fuxi recognized how much Taiyi’s mastery had advanced, while Kong Xuan watched the clash and felt the distance between her cultivation and theirs.

Di Jun and Taiyi founded the Demon Race by uniting the fate auras of thirty-seven tribes, including the Cangze Lineage. The Eastern King responded by moving ahead with the Immortal Court’s plans and ordered the Dragon Race to pressure Cangze’s members who remained in the Four Seas.

• Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, and Kong Xuan arrived at the Northern Mountain Plain, where Bai Ze had gathered thirty-seven tribes for Di Jun and Taiyi.
• A Cangze elder told Fuxi that he had refused a Dragon Envoy’s demand to take Cangze people and had brought the Dragon Race’s conscription token north.
• Di Jun declared that he and Taiyi sought to unite the tribes and contend for the Primordial World’s fate aura, then named their gathering the Demon Race.
• Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell as the tribes’ fate auras joined, and Di Jun and Taiyi declared themselves demons alongside them.
• The Eastern King learned that Cangze had joined the Demon Race and sent a Dragon Great Luo to persuade Cangze members still in the Four Seas to remain tied to the Dragon Race.
• The Eastern King decided to announce the Immortal Court’s presence without waiting for the remaining immortals to arrive.

A Dragon Race Great Luo descended on Cangze to punish its clans for rejecting the Dragon Race’s authority and tried to seize their people and Water Veins. Taiyi arrived and stopped him, leaving the two Great Luo confronting each other over the Four Seas.

• The Dragon Race’s decree selected Cangze clansmen for another attempt to suppress the East Sea Tide Eye, and a Great Luo arrived to accuse the clans of destroying dragon markings and submitting to another clan.
• The white-haired elder argued that Cangze had already repaid its debt after sacrificing thousands of clansmen to suppress seven Tide Eyes.
• The Dragon Race’s Great Luo declared that the absent clan leader’s punishment would fall on the elder and began uprooting Cangze’s Water Veins, fate aura, and living beings with his dragon claw.
• A bell chime shattered the dragon markings and chains, and Taiyi arrived from the north carrying the Chaos Bell and declared that he had given the Cangze clans their support.
• The Dragon Race’s Great Luo raised a domain of countless dragons and challenged Taiyi, questioning whether the Chaos Bell let him disregard the Four Seas.

Taiyi defeated a Dragon Race Great Luo at Cangze and declared its clans part of the Demon Race, but the Eastern King arrived with seven other Great Luo and founded the Immortal Court. Taiyi withdrew with Cangze under the Demon Race’s protection, leaving the Immortal Court and Demon Race as rival powers.

• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to break the Dragon Race Great Luo’s domain, wound him, and declare that Cangze’s clans were no longer subject to the Dragon Race.
• The Eastern King arrived with seven Great Luo, while the white-haired elder revealed a dragon decree listing thousands of Cangze people sent into the Tide Eye.
• Taiyi destroyed the decree and claimed Cangze for the Demon Race, prompting the Eastern King to establish the Immortal Court on the Three Immortal Islands.
• The Immortal Court gained merit and unified the Fate Aura of the Eastern King’s seven Great Luo, allowing him to stand against Taiyi and the Chaos Bell.
• Taiyi recalled the Chaos Bell, marked Cangze’s ancestral stele with a Golden Crow sigil, and left with Cangze’s people under the Demon Race’s protection.
• The Eastern King let Taiyi depart and recognized the threat that Taiyi and Di Jun posed to his new Immortal Court.

Di Jun and Taiyi visited Qing Xuan and Qing Yi on the Purple Star, where Di Jun sought permission to connect the Cosmic Star Sea’s routes through the stars. After Qing Xuan agreed, Taiyi challenged him to a rematch, and they went into the star sea to fight.

• Kong Xuan told Qing Xuan and Qing Yi that Di Jun and Taiyi had arrived, and they welcomed the visitors onto the Purple Star.
• Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Script to show how he planned to link Demon Race territories through starlight, and Qing Xuan agreed to let the routes pass through the Purple Star.
• Taiyi asked Qing Xuan to face him in battle again, and Qing Xuan accepted.
• Qing Xuan and Taiyi entered the Cosmic Star Sea while Di Jun, Qing Yi, and Kong Xuan stayed near the Purple Emperor Star.
• Taiyi unleashed the Great Dao of the Sun, whose manifestation appeared across past and future, revealing his Great Luo attainment.

Qing Xuan defeated Taiyi in a clash of their Great Luo Dao Fruits, forcing Taiyi to acknowledge his loss. Several thousand years later, as the Demon Race sought a homeland, the stars shifted toward the sky above Buzhou Mountain.

• Taiyi attacked Qing Xuan with the Chaos Bell, trying to replace Qing Xuan's World Dao with his Solar Dao.
• Qing Xuan's complete world absorbed Taiyi's Solar Dao and struck the Chaos Bell with a sea of starlight, making Taiyi retreat.
• Taiyi admitted defeat, and Di Jun recognized that Qing Xuan's path to Great Luo differed from the Demon Race's path.
• Over the following several thousand years, the Demon Race grew, but its scattered peoples and lack of a suitable homeland remained problems for Di Jun.
• The stars shifted faintly toward the sky above Buzhou Mountain, and Qing Xuan and Qing Yi noticed the change.

Di Jun and Taiyi uncovered the Thirty-Three Heavens above Buzhou Mountain and made them the foundation of the Demon Race. After the tribes gathered in the new realm, Di Jun was acclaimed Heavenly Emperor and Taiyi Eastern Emperor.

• Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Script with Taiyi’s Chaos Bell to reveal the Thirty-Three Heavens above Buzhou Mountain.
• Di Jun and Taiyi entered the Heavenly Realm and reached the central palace in the thirty-third heaven, where the Demon Race Fortune found a foundation.
• Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell and opened the Heavenly Gates, while Di Jun invited Bai Ze and the Demon Race Tribes to settle in the heavens.
• Over several hundred years, Bai Ze organized the arriving tribes and their ancestral lands as the Demon Race Fortune merged with the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Bai Ze proposed Di Jun as Heavenly Emperor and Taiyi as Eastern Emperor, and the assembled Demon Race beings acclaimed them.

Di Jun and Taiyi established the Demon Heavenly Court in the Thirty-Three Heavens, shifting the balance of power against the Immortal Court. The Eastern King arrived at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall to congratulate them, leaving the two courts face-to-face as rivals.

• Di Jun and Taiyi founded the Heavenly Court, took the titles of Heavenly Emperor and Eastern Emperor, and gathered merit and fortune in the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Qing Xuan told Qing Yi that Di Jun had grown much stronger within the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Qing Yi noted that the Eastern King must have witnessed the event.
• The Eastern King recognized that the Heavenly Court had tipped the balance toward the Demon Race and ordered the Immortal Court Ceremony moved forward, with invitations sent to the Heavenly Court and other major figures.
• The Eastern King traveled with seven followers and Yinglong to the Thirty-Three Heavens, where the Heavenly Court's fortune stirred as they entered.
• The Eastern King greeted Di Jun and Taiyi in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and congratulated them on taking command of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Eastern King and Di Jun agreed to respect the boundaries between the Immortal Court and the Heavenly Court, then exchanged invitations to their future ceremonies. As Eastern King returned to the Three Immortal Islands, Candle Dragon emerged from the East Sea, bringing day and night in cycles beneath his steps.

• Eastern King warned Di Jun and Taiyi that the Immortal Court would defend its members from being taken by the Demon Race, and Di Jun agreed not to seize those who sincerely wished to remain.
• Eastern King invited Di Jun and Taiyi to the Immortal Court Ceremony on the Three Immortal Islands a hundred years later, and Di Jun accepted both invitations.
• After Eastern King left the Heavenly Court, Taiyi questioned whether they should attend, and Di Jun said they would go to avoid appearing afraid.
• As Eastern King and his party neared the East Sea, the sky cycled through day and night, and Yinglong recognized that the Second Ancestor had emerged.
• Candle Dragon crossed the sea toward the Three Immortal Islands, stirring the Great Luos there and revealing his ancient influence over the aquatic races.

Eastern King negotiated the Dragon Race’s support for the Immortal Court while insisting it remain independent of Dragon Race command. The Immortal Court gained access to Four Seas resources and prepared to host the ceremony a hundred years later with Candle Dragon and eight Dragon Race Great Luos attending.

• Candle Dragon visited the Three Immortal Islands, and Eastern King told him that Di Jun and Taiyi had strengthened the Heavenly Court’s position.
• Candle Dragon revealed a Sea Map marking Dragon Race spirit veins and Daoist Temples, and offered their resources, treasury access, and eight Great Luos to the Immortal Court.
• Eastern King required the Dragon Race Great Luos to obey Immortal Court orders while under its protection, and Candle Dragon agreed and promised to attend the ceremony.
• The Sea Map linked its spiritual sites to the Immortal Court’s Fate Aura, expanding its reach toward the Four Seas.
• After Candle Dragon returned to the East Sea, Eastern King declared that the Immortal Court would take precedence at its ceremony, where Di Jun, Taiyi, and Candle Dragon were expected.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi attended Eastern King’s Immortal Court ceremony, where he used the Dragon Race’s ancient reserves to attract more immortals and strengthen the court. The gathering left the Immortal Court with a rising Fate Aura and a foundation to contend with the Heavenly Court.

• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi arrived at the Three Immortal Islands and were greeted by Eastern King.
• Candle Dragon attended the ceremony, and Di Jun and Taiyi arrived with a congratulatory gift, their presence setting them against Candle Dragon.
• Eastern King revealed ancient Dragon Race sanctuaries and distributed innate spirit treasures to Immortal Court divine beings.
• Eastern King opened a hundred spirit-vein cultivation sanctuaries to immortals and promised rewards to those who served the Immortal Court.
• Many gathered immortals pledged themselves to the Immortal Court as its Fate Aura swelled, while Qing Xuan judged that Eastern King now had the foundation to contend with the Heavenly Court.

At the Third Sermon in Zixiao Palace, Hongjun explained the Saintly Dao and distributed six strands of primordial violet qi as foundations for Sagehood. After Eastern King pleaded for the last strand, it flew to Hong Yun, leaving the other claimants empty-handed.

• Hongjun taught the assembled divine beings about harmonizing their Daos with the Heavenly Dao, while Qing Xuan and Qing Yi gained insights into their own cultivation.
• Hongjun named Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtong as direct disciples and gave each a strand of primordial violet qi.
• Hongjun accepted Nuwa as a disciple and bestowed another strand of primordial violet qi upon her.
• Hongjun named Jieyin and Zhunti nominal disciples and gave each a strand of primordial violet qi.
• Eastern King asked Hongjun to grant him the final strand, citing his establishment of the Immortal Court and spread of the Immortal Dao.
• Hongjun said the qi had its own destined affinity, and the final strand flew past Kunpeng and entered Hong Yun's brow.

Hong Yun received the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi, while Hongjun bestowed supreme treasures on his disciples before sending the assembled divinities to the Treasure Distribution Cliff. Qing Xuan and Qing Yi spotted the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner there, the last missing flag of the Five Directional Primordial Flags.

• Hong Yun received the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi, leaving Eastern King disappointed and stirring Kunpeng's resentment.
• Qing Xuan invited Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun to leave with him, easing Zhen Yuanzi's concern for Hong Yun's safety.
• Hongjun bestowed the Taiji Diagram on Taiqing, the Pangu Banner on Yuanshi, the Four Swords of Execution on Tongtian, and treasures on Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti.
• Hongjun sent the divinities to the Treasure Distribution Cliff to claim the remaining treasures according to their fortune.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi found the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner among the treasures, completing the set of Five Directional Primordial Flags.

After Hongjun distributed all seven strands of primordial violet qi without giving one to Qing Xuan, Su Qingxue heard Tang Yao argue that Qing Xuan’s future had ended while his own path to becoming a God-King remained open. Su Qingxue still intended to visit the Purple Star, but she was left wondering whether she would meet a divine being with no path ahead.

• Students at Linjiang Advanced Transcendent Academy discussed how Hong Yun received the final strand of primordial violet qi instead of Qing Xuan or Qing Yi, and Su Qingxue listened as she left class.
• Zhou Ruolan took Su Qingxue to the reception hall, where Tang Yao arrived after completing his divine inheritance and forming his divine body.
• Tang Yao asked whether Su Qingxue still planned to visit the Purple Star, and she confirmed that she did.
• Tang Yao claimed Qing Xuan could never attain sagehood without primordial violet qi and said his own path to the God-King summit had only begun.
• Tang Yao left the hall with the academy officials, while Su Qingxue looked toward Qing Xuan and wondered whether his path had truly ended.