Recaps

Dao Xuan, the Four Symbols Banana Tree, awakened on Mount Buzhou, transformed into an Early Daluo Golden Immortal, and forged the Four Symbols Treasure Fan. After searching the mountain for treasures, he discovered and broke an innate Great Formation, then entered it.

• Dao Xuan awakened within the Four Symbols Banana Tree and realized that Hongjun’s rise and the coming age of the saints threatened his future.
• Dao Xuan gathered spiritual qi, transformed into human form, and reached the Early Daluo Golden Immortal realm with mastery of the Four Symbols Laws.
• Dao Xuan forged the four leaves of his main body into the Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Four Symbols Treasure Fan.
• Dao Xuan searched Mount Buzhou for treasures but found nothing, so he headed toward the mountain’s foot to leave.
• Dao Xuan sensed a resonance, found an innate Great Formation, broke it with four strikes from the Four Symbols Treasure Fan, and entered.

Dao Xuan discovered and took the Primordial Gourd Vine and Nine Heavens Breath Soil from Mount Buzhou, then set out east to find a place to establish his dao field. During the journey, he developed the Four-Colored Divine Light and realized its power of creation might let him open a world and prove his Dao.

• Dao Xuan found the Primordial Gourd Vine, with five formed gourds and two blooming flowers, inside the grand formation.
• Dao Xuan collected the Gourd Vine and the Nine Heavens Breath Soil beneath its roots.
• Dao Xuan left Mount Buzhou and headed east, hoping to find one of the Three Immortal Islands or a suitable island in the Southern Sea.
• Dao Xuan rode a white crane and devised divine abilities, including the Four-Colored Divine Light based on the Four Symbols origins of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.
• Dao Xuan deduced that the Four-Colored Divine Light could wield creation and destruction, and considered opening a world to prove his Dao.

Dao Xuan searched the Eastern Sea for the Three Immortal Islands while weighing whether to pursue World-Proving Dao. After the Gourd Vine sensed an island, Dao Xuan slipped through its protective formation and discovered he had reached Yingzhou Island.

• Dao Xuan considered the risks of World-Proving Dao and decided not to choose his path to proving the Dao hastily.
• Dao Xuan freed the white crane at the Eastern Sea and began searching for the Three Immortal Islands.
• Dao Xuan searched for a hundred thousand years before the Gourd Vine sensed an island concealed by a powerful formation.
• Dao Xuan attacked the formation with the Four Symbols Treasure Fan, then used Wind Release to slip through a flaw.
• Dao Xuan found a stele marked “Yingzhou” and confirmed he had reached Yingzhou Island.

Dao Xuan explored Yingzhou Island, preserved its mature Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus, and gathered spiritual roots and treasures before refining the island’s boundary stele. With control of Yingzhou Island secured, he followed its guidance to another immortal island and slipped through its protective formation.

• Dao Xuan found the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus in a pool of Three Lights Divine Water and left both in place to preserve the lotus and nourish it.
• Dao Xuan planted the Gourd Vine beside the lotus, kept its five unrefined gourds, and collected several spiritual roots and the Void-Splitting Mirror, Flowing Cloud Ribbon, and Azure Tide Bottle.
• Dao Xuan spent thirty thousand years refining Yingzhou Island’s boundary stele and the Light-Trace Flowing Cloud Ribbon, gaining control of the island and comprehending a trace of the Time Law.
• Dao Xuan sensed another immortal island, found a weak point in its innate Great Formation, and entered through a crack using Wind Release.

Dao Xuan explored Fangzhang Island, found the Enlightenment Tea Tree and twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, then discovered Heaven-Piercing Jianmu on Penglai Island. Jianmu convinced him to pursue World-Proving Dao, and he settled on that path.

• Dao Xuan found the Enlightenment Tea Tree on Fangzhang Island and agreed that its leaves would belong to him until it took human form.
• Dao Xuan discovered twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and considered using them to improve his chances of World-Proving Dao, but chose to delay his decision.
• Dao Xuan refined Fangzhang Island's boundary stele and traveled to Penglai Island, the richest of the three immortal islands.
• Dao Xuan found Heaven-Piercing Jianmu at Penglai Island's center and recognized it as the damaged World Tree.
• Dao Xuan decided to pursue World-Proving Dao, creating a complete world within himself and binding his Dao to its origin.

Dao Xuan merged the three immortal islands into Chaos Island, broke through to the Middle Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and prepared to open his Inner World. He began creating it by transforming Chaos qi into Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.

• Dao Xuan merged the three immortal islands, strengthened their fused formation into the Four Symbols Heaven-Sealing Formation, and named the island Chaos Island.
• After a hundred thousand years of seclusion, Dao Xuan advanced from the Early Daluo Golden Immortal realm to the Middle Daluo Golden Immortal realm and refined his spiritual treasures.
• Dao Xuan gathered the Chaos qi on Chaos Island and used the twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to absorb it.
• Dao Xuan opened the Chaos within his body and released the Chaos qi into the new inner void.
• Dao Xuan summoned Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, transforming the Chaos qi and forming the foundations of his Inner World.

Dao Xuan opened an Inner World, stabilizing it with the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu and three other spiritual roots. After connecting the world to the chaos void so it could receive and refine chaos qi, he attracted Great Dao Merit.

• The twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls blocked the raging Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind from shattering the new world membrane.
• Dao Xuan brought forth the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu, the Gourd Vine, the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus to calm the origins and support the growing world.
• The Heaven-Piercing Jianmu absorbed the Inner World's origin, grew into a World Tree, and embraced the world with its canopy and roots.
• Dao Xuan manifested his Primordial Spirit as the world's Heavenly Dao and used Four-Colored Divine Light to break open the chaos void.
• Chaos qi poured through the opening, and the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane refined it into innate spiritual qi to nourish the world.
• Great Dao Merit descended after Dao Xuan's completed world connected to the chaos void.

Dao Xuan used Great Dao Merit and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to develop his Inner World, creating its Four Directions Divine Beasts, six Heaven Realms, and six Hell Realms. Ten yuanhui later, Hongjun announced that he had become a saint and would expound the Dao at Zixiao Palace.

• Dao Xuan used Great Dao Merit to create the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise to guard his Lesser Thousand World.
• Dao Xuan broke six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls apart and used their origins to form six Heaven Realms while strengthening his Inner World.
• Dao Xuan used the remaining six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to create six Hell Realms, then gathered fire in the sky to serve as a temporary sun.
• Dao Xuan completed the foundation of his Inner World and continued cultivating for ten yuanhui.
• Hongjun announced that he had become a saint and would expound the Dao at Zixiao Palace in three thousand years.

Dao Xuan learned that Hongjun had become a Saint and decided to attend his preaching at Zixiao Palace to study the Dao while keeping his Inner World concealed. He prepared to go, carrying his powerful Chaos Gourd and Myriad Laws Staff.

• Hongjun became a Saint, and his power filled the Primordial World with auspicious phenomena.
• Dao Xuan reflected on the gap between himself and Hongjun, then resolved to learn from Hongjun’s preaching at Zixiao Palace.
• Dao Xuan concealed his Inner World with the Four Symbols Heaven-Sealing Formation and reached the late stage of Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Dao Xuan left Chaos Palace wearing his Four Symbols robe and carrying the Chaos Gourd and Myriad Laws Staff.
• Dao Xuan’s Chaos Gourd unleashed lethal Chaotic Sword Lights, while his Myriad Laws Staff enhanced spells and housed a Lesser Thousand World.

Dao Xuan traveled through the Primordial World’s firmament and Inner Chaos to reach Zixiao Palace, where he joined the gathered experts in studying the Zixiao Divine Thunder. He recognized it as the Primordial World’s foremost divine thunder and began comprehending it.

• Dao Xuan used Wind Escape Technique and the Flowing Cloud Ribbon to cross the dangerous firmament and reach the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane.
• Dao Xuan rode the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus through Inner Chaos toward Zixiao Palace.
• Dao Xuan arrived at Zixiao Palace and found many experts gathered there, studying its inscription.
• Dao Xuan joined the experts in comprehending the Zixiao Divine Thunder and recognized its power and standing among the Primordial World’s lightning techniques.

Dao Xuan waited for the gates of Zixiao Palace to open after comprehending most of Zixiao Divine Thunder, then entered without seeking the opportunity for sainthood. He sat beside Houtu, who had noticed his restraint and chosen to sit near him, and the two remained silent.

• Dao Xuan learned sixty to seventy percent of Zixiao Divine Thunder and stopped studying the other inscriptions, preferring to wait for the Dao lecture.
• Zixiao Palace's gates opened, and Haotian and Yaochi invited the gathered powers inside while many remained absorbed in the inscriptions and missed their chance to enter promptly.
• Dao Xuan entered among the first group but let the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Kunpeng, and Hong Yun take the six meditation cushions before finding an ordinary seat.
• Houtu sat beside Dao Xuan, and he recognized her as the Ancestral Witch of Earth but resolved to keep a respectful distance from her and the coming Calamity Cycle.
• Houtu had noticed Dao Xuan outside the palace because he alone stopped studying divine abilities after comprehending Zixiao Divine Thunder, and she remained curious about him after sitting beside him.

Zhunti and Jieyin seized two of the six Meditation Cushions after Hong Yun yielded his seat and Kunpeng was pressured into giving up his. Hongjun appeared in Zixiao Palace, fixed the seating, and began his first sermon, leaving the gathered powers absorbed in the Dao.

• Zhunti pretended to despair over having no seat, and Hong Yun gave him his Meditation Cushion.
• Zhunti demanded Kunpeng surrender his seat to Jieyin, and Yuanshi joined him in pressuring Kunpeng until he yielded.
• Dao Xuan reflected on how kindness, ambition, and resolve had shaped the dispute over the Meditation Cushions.
• Haotian and Yaochi entered and announced that Hongjun would soon appear to preach.
• Hongjun appeared on the Dao Platform, fixed the seating arrangement, and announced three sermons lasting three thousand years each.
• Hongjun began preaching the Dao, and the gathered powers listened in deep concentration.

During Hongjun’s three-thousand-year sermon, Dao Xuan absorbed the Great Daos and perfected the laws of his Lesser Thousand World, while the other cultivators gained through enlightenment or studying the palace walls. After the sermon ended, Hongjun appointed Dong Wang Gong and Xi Wangmu to govern the immortals, warning them to enforce the law impartially.

• As Hongjun preached, many great powers gave up trying to understand the Dao and studied the abilities inscribed on Zixiao Palace’s walls instead; Houtu envied everyone who gained something.
• Dao Xuan comprehended all three thousand Great Daos, causing the laws in his Lesser Thousand World to develop and form a sun, moon, stars, and the cycle of day and night.
• After three thousand years, Hongjun stopped preaching, and the awakened cultivators thanked him for teaching them the Great Dao.
• Hongjun appointed Dong Wang Gong to govern male immortals and gave him the Dragon-Headed Staff, while Xi Wangmu was appointed to govern female immortals and received the Pure Water Bowl.
• Hongjun warned Dong Wang Gong and Xi Wangmu to enforce the law impartially; Xi Wangmu took the warning seriously, but Dong Wang Gong was too delighted to heed it.

After the second Zixiao Palace lecture ended, Dao Xuan returned to Chaos Island, set rules for its growing population, and entered closed-door cultivation. Tens of thousands of years later, Hongjun announced that his second lecture was about to begin.

• Hongjun appointed Dong Wang Gong and Xi Wangmu to lead the male and female immortals, gave them the Dragon-Headed Staff and Pure Water Bowl, and dismissed the assembly.
• Dao Xuan noticed Houtu leaving alone without asking Hongjun about the Witch Clan, then returned to Chaos Island.
• Dao Xuan enlightened a spiritual ganoderma and a ginseng into attendants and tasked them with setting rules for the island’s inhabitants.
• Dao Xuan began closed-door cultivation after reaching Perfected Daluo Golden Immortal and gaining insight into the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and the difference between Hunyuan and sainthood.
• After tens of thousands of years, Hongjun announced that the second lecture at Zixiao Palace was about to begin.

Dao Xuan traveled to Zixiao Palace for Hongjun’s second sermon, reflecting on how his Inner World let him wield Primordial Golden Immortal-level power even before breaking through. Hongjun began explaining the cultivation realms, revealing the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and its rarity.

• Dao Xuan left Chaos Island and headed to Zixiao Palace, where he again sat beside Houtu as the assembled powers awaited Hongjun.
• Dao Xuan considered how his Inner World’s power let him fight at the level of a Primordial Golden Immortal, and how its eventual growth into a Middle Thousand World would advance his cultivation.
• Hongjun appeared after the three thousand great powers had gathered and announced that he would explain the cultivation realms.
• Hongjun described the Immortal Dao system and revealed that the Primordial Golden Immortal realm existed above Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Hongjun explained that reaching the Primordial Golden Immortal realm was exceptionally difficult, required breaking through a personal limit, and brought strength far beyond that of a Daluo Golden Immortal.

Hongjun explained the Three Corpses Severing Method, the Quasi-Saint path, and how reunifying the Three Corpses could lead to Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal. The chapter ended with Hongjun distinguishing Dharma Comprehension, Dao Attainment, and Dao Realization.

• Hongjun introduced the Three Corpses Severing Method, which used Innate Spiritual Treasures to sever benevolent thoughts, malicious thoughts, and obsessions, and could lead toward sainthood.
• Hongjun explained that those who advanced through Three Corpses Severing were Quasi-Saints, generally weaker than Primordial Golden Immortals who broke through by their own strength.
• Hongjun clarified that sainthood was a Karmic Rank beneath the Heavenly Dao, not a cultivation realm, and described the benefits of Three Corpses Avatars.
• Hongjun explained that cultivators had to reunite the Three Corpses after severing them to break through their limits and reach Hunyuan.
• Yuanshi asked Hongjun about Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, and Hongjun described it as the Realm of Dao Realization, beyond the Realm of Dao Attainment.

Hongjun explained the Three Corpses Severing Method and the flaws that could make its path to Hunyuan nearly impossible for most cultivators. After three thousand years of teaching, he ended the lecture, but Houtu called out to stop him.

• Dao Xuan considered why Hongjun had chosen Dao Integration and realized that Three Corpses Reunification required three powerful Innate Spiritual Treasures of the same origin.
• Zhunti asked Hongjun to teach the Three Corpses Severing Method, and the other great powers joined him.
• Hongjun explained how goodness, evil, and self could be separated into incarnations using Innate Spiritual Treasures, then reunited to attain Hunyuan.
• Hongjun spent three thousand years teaching the Three Corpses Severing Method and the Great Daos before ending the lecture.
• As everyone thanked Hongjun, Houtu stood beside Dao Xuan and called for him to wait.

After Houtu asked Hongjun how the Witch Clan could attain the Dao without Primordial Spirits, Hongjun told her that the clan would have its own opportunity. Dao Xuan considered Houtu’s future transformation into Reincarnation and decided to focus on the Four Symbols Laws; upon returning to the Primordial World, he sensed an opportunity in the Eastern Sea and flew toward it.

• Houtu asked Hongjun how the Witch Clan could attain the Dao without Primordial Spirits, and Hongjun said the clan would have its own opportunity in the future.
• Dao Xuan inferred that Hongjun meant Houtu’s future transformation into Reincarnation and reflected on how it might establish Reincarnation in his Inner World.
• Dao Xuan decided to wait until Houtu transformed into Reincarnation before comprehending the Six Paths, choosing instead to focus on the Four Symbols Laws.
• Dao Xuan traveled through chaos, returned to the Primordial World, and flew toward the Eastern Sea.
• Dao Xuan sensed that an opportunity was about to fall to him and followed the heavenly sign.

Dao Xuan reached the Three Immortal Islands and broke its innate Great Formation with his Yin-Yang Divine Light, revealing Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao battling two Innate Flood Dragons over the Primordial Golden Dipper. Zhao Gongming offered to abandon the treasure and leave, while Dao Xuan considered the four siblings’ talents but showed no interest in taking them as disciples.

• Dao Xuan used Near and Far Apart to reach a seemingly empty sea and used his World Truth Eye to uncover an innate Great Formation.
• Dao Xuan destroyed the formation with Solar Divine Light and Lunar Divine Light, revealing the Three Immortal Islands.
• Dao Xuan saw Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao fighting two Innate Flood Dragons for the Primordial Golden Dipper.
• Dao Xuan’s arrival startled both sides, and Zhao Gongming led the Three Xiao back and offered to give up the treasure in exchange for safe passage.
• Dao Xuan recognized Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao as exceptionally talented, but he was not interested in taking them as disciples.

Dao Xuan took the Primordial Golden Dipper after effortlessly killing its two Innate Flood Dragon guardians, then left Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao alive. Tongtian arrived, recognized their potential, and accepted Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao as his disciples before asking what had happened.

• Dao Xuan struck down the two Innate Flood Dragons and took the Primordial Golden Dipper.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao feared Dao Xuan might kill them, but he departed without harming them.
• Zhao Gongming considered collecting the flood dragons, then sensed danger as another powerful young Daoist approached.
• Tongtian asked Zhao Gongming and his three sisters for their names and offered to accept them as disciples.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao agreed, and Tongtian accepted all four before asking them what had happened.

Dao Xuan took the Primordial Golden Dipper from Three Immortal Islands, while Tongtian accepted Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao as personal disciples. Back on Chaos Island, Dao Xuan began refining the treasure and learned of its power to collect objects and weaken cultivation.

• Tongtian asked Zhao Gongming about the events on Three Immortal Islands, and Zhao Gongming explained that a veiled powerhouse had taken the Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Tongtian promised Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao an Innate Spiritual Treasure in the future, and he was pleased to have gained four disciples.
• Dao Xuan secretly watched Tongtian accept Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao, then let his remaining divine sense dissipate.
• Dao Xuan left the two Innate Flood Dragons behind so Tongtian could give them to Yuanshi to refine into the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Dao Xuan returned to Chaos Island and began refining the Primordial Golden Dipper, whose golden light could collect treasures and whose power could weaken cultivation.

Dao Xuan refined the Primordial Golden Dipper, then entered seclusion to digest what he had learned at Zixiao Palace. He later merged with his Inner World's Eye of Heavenly Dao and advanced the world into a Middle Thousand World, while the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu transformed into a Chaos Spiritual Root and three thousand Lesser Thousand Worlds formed around it.

• Dao Xuan collected the Primordial Golden Dipper into his Inner World and refined it with his Primordial Spirit.
• After tens of thousands of years in seclusion, Dao Xuan appeared in his Inner World, which had expanded under the care of Jianmu and the Four Divine Beasts.
• Dao Xuan merged with the Eye of Heavenly Dao and drove his Inner World to transform from a Lesser Thousand World into a Middle Thousand World.
• The Heaven-Piercing Jianmu transformed into a Chaos Spiritual Root and became a true World Tree.
• The World Tree nurtured three thousand Lesser Thousand Worlds, which surrounded and stabilized Dao Xuan's Main World.

Dao Xuan reached the Primordial Golden Immortal realm as his Inner World advanced into a Middle Thousand World, and he clarified how he would pursue Dao-proving through the world's evolution. He identified ten core laws that would guide his World-Proving Dao and remained committed to the path despite its difficulty.

• Dao Xuan's Inner World advanced into a Middle Thousand World, allowing him to break through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Dao Xuan recognized that advancing his Middle Thousand World into a Greater Thousand World would be the key to proving his Dao and becoming a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Dao Xuan determined that World-Proving Dao relied on the world's evolution to develop Great Dao Laws, rather than requiring him to comprehend every law personally.
• Dao Xuan sorted out ten core laws for his World Dao: the Four Symbols, Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Spacetime, Creation, Destruction, Stellar, Reincarnation, Karmic, and Destiny Laws.
• Dao Xuan considered other methods of Dao-proving but chose to continue World-Proving Dao because his world could evolve and perfect its laws over time.
• Dao Xuan's comprehension of laws during the two lectures at Zixiao Palace had benefited his Inner World and accelerated the evolution of its laws.

Dao Xuan planned to accelerate the Inner World's growth by obtaining Five-Element spiritual roots and transplanting cuttings with the help of his World Tree, Three Lights Divine Water, and Nine Heavens Breath Soil. He decided to approach Zhen Yuanzi first and flew from Chaos Island toward Longevity Mountain.

• Dao Xuan considered how to strengthen the Inner World and concluded that acquiring treasures or spiritual roots tied to its laws would be the fastest method.
• Dao Xuan ruled out obtaining the Innate Five-Direction Banners and the Yellow Central Plum Tree because their owners or whereabouts made them inaccessible.
• Dao Xuan judged that he might bargain with Dijun and Taiyi for Fusang Tree branches, but chose not to risk approaching Zhunti for the Bodhi Tree.
• Dao Xuan decided to ask Zhen Yuanzi for cuttings from the Ginseng Fruit Tree and planned to use the World Tree, Three Lights Divine Water, and Nine Heavens Breath Soil to grow them.
• Dao Xuan flew from Chaos Island toward Longevity Mountain, where Zhen Yuanzi lived.

Dao Xuan visited Zhen Yuanzi at Longevity Mountain and admired the mountain, the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and its rare fruits. Zhen Yuanzi welcomed him and offered him a taste of the Ginseng Fruits.

• Dao Xuan arrived at Longevity Mountain, whose Great Formation Zhen Yuanzi had lowered for his visit.
• At Five Villages Temple, Dao Xuan inscribed a couplet on the gateposts praising Zhen Yuanzi, who hurried out to greet him.
• Zhen Yuanzi invited Dao Xuan into the temple courtyard, where Dao Xuan saw the towering Ginseng Fruit Tree and its unripe fruits.
• Zhen Yuanzi offered Dao Xuan a taste of the Ginseng Fruits, which took nearly ten thousand years to mature and could greatly extend one’s life.