Recaps

Dao Xuan exchanged an embryonic gourd from the Primordial Gourd Vine for a branch of Zhen Yuanzi’s Ginseng Fruit Tree, then used Three Lights Divine Water to heal the tree’s wound. Zhen Yuanzi realized Dao Xuan had already become a Quasi-Saint, and they sat down to taste the Ginseng Fruits.

• Zhen Yuanzi revealed ten Ginseng Fruits, and Dao Xuan offered him an embryonic gourd from the Primordial Gourd Vine in return.
• Dao Xuan asked Zhen Yuanzi for a branch of the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and Zhen Yuanzi agreed and gave him one.
• Dao Xuan poured ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water onto the tree’s wound, rapidly restoring it.
• Zhen Yuanzi reconsidered Dao Xuan’s origins and treasures and realized Dao Xuan had surpassed him and become a Quasi-Saint.
• Dao Xuan and Zhen Yuanzi returned to the stone table and began tasting the Ginseng Fruits.

Dao Xuan and Zhen Yuanzi discussed the Four Symbols Dao and the Earth Dao for ten thousand years at Mount Wanshou. As Zhen Yuanzi prepared to sever a corpse and become a Quasi-Saint, Dao Xuan stopped him to share his insights into the Three Corpses Severing method.

• Dao Xuan ate a Ginseng Fruit and gained insight into the Earth Movement Dao.
• Dao Xuan demonstrated how his Four Symbols Dao could create a world, nurture life, and return the world to chaos.
• Zhen Yuanzi revealed the Earth Book and explained his Earth Dao as the foundation that bears all things and Daos.
• Dao Xuan and Zhen Yuanzi discussed and demonstrated their Daos for ten thousand years, each gaining new insights.
• When Zhen Yuanzi began preparing to sever an incarnation of obsession, Dao Xuan urged him to wait and offered to explain his insights into Three Corpses Severing.

Dao Xuan advised Zhen Yuanzi on the Three Corpses Severing Method and explained that the Ginseng Fruit Tree was the best treasure for severing his self-obsession. Zhen Yuanzi chose to protect the tree and abandon that path, and Dao Xuan offered to tell him about another way to prove the Dao.

• Dao Xuan told Zhen Yuanzi that treasures of the same origin would reduce conflict when the Three Corpses were reunited.
• Dao Xuan suggested refining the gourd he had given Zhen Yuanzi with Innate Wutu Essence and using the Ginseng Fruit Tree to sever his self-obsession.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized that using the Ginseng Fruit Tree would mean sacrificing the spiritual root that had accompanied him since birth.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked Dao Xuan whether he could prove the Dao without Three Corpses Severing, and Dao Xuan said he could.
• Zhen Yuanzi chose to abandon Three Corpses Severing rather than sacrifice the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Dao Xuan told Zhen Yuanzi that another method of proving the Dao might suit him better.

Dao Xuan explained Law-Proving Dao to Zhen Yuanzi, describing its two approaches and the few who had pursued it. After learning that Immortal Yangmei had succeeded through the Space Law, Zhen Yuanzi committed to following the path himself.

• Dao Xuan told Zhen Yuanzi that fully comprehending a Great Dao law could lead to Hunyuan, though the method was as difficult as Three-Corpse-Slaying Dao-Proving.
• Dao Xuan described how Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Qilin, and Yuanfeng pursued Law-Proving Dao through their bodies or Primordial Spirits, but failed and brought ruin upon their clans.
• Dao Xuan said Immortal Yangmei had succeeded by comprehending the Space Law, aided by his origins as the Space Demon God's remnant soul and his Hollow Willow Tree body.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked whether he still had the confidence to pursue Law-Proving Dao and decided he had no other choice.
• Dao Xuan accepted the remaining Ginseng Fruits, left Longevity Mountain, and Zhen Yuanzi resolved to walk the path of Law-Proving Dao.

Dao Xuan successfully nurtured a Ginseng Fruit Tree in his Inner World using Three Lights Divine Water and the World Tree’s origin, strengthening the world and delighting White Tiger. Black Tortoise, worried that White Tiger would grow stronger, asked Dao Xuan for a spiritual root suited to him, leaving Dao Xuan unsure how to obtain the Immortal Peach Tree from Hongjun.

• Dao Xuan planted Zhen Yuanzi’s Ginseng Fruit Tree branch in the Western Extremity and used Three Lights Divine Water and the Eye of Heavenly Dao’s green light to grow it into a Lower-Grade Innate Spiritual Root.
• Dao Xuan recognized that the new tree would nourish the Inner World’s origin and help perfect its Earth Law.
• White Tiger fed the tree Earth Element, accelerating its growth and increasing the Earth Essence it produced for him to absorb.
• Black Tortoise saw that the tree could help White Tiger surpass him and appealed to Dao Xuan for a spiritual root suited to his attribute.
• Dao Xuan considered the Immortal Peach Tree but knew Hongjun still possessed it.

Dao Xuan sacrificed the Azure Tide Bottle and used its origin to create the Myriad Transformations Treasure Lotus for Black Tortoise. Black Tortoise planted it in the northern sea, where it quickly grew to an enormous size.

• Dao Xuan decided to sacrifice the Azure Tide Bottle to provide his world with a water-attributed spiritual root.
• The Heavenly Dao combined the world’s destructive law and Chaos qi to form a World-Ending Mill, which ground the Azure Tide Bottle into Water Origin.
• The Heavenly Dao fed the Water Origin to a white lotus sapling and transformed it with Creation by Rotation into the Myriad Transformations Treasure Lotus.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed the Myriad Transformations Treasure Lotus on Black Tortoise.
• Black Tortoise carried the lotus to the North Pole and planted it in the sea, where it rapidly grew to tens of millions of zhang tall.

Dao Xuan watched the Myriad Transformations Treasure Lotus take root in the North Pole Sea and considered how to create more Innate Spiritual Roots to complete the Inner World’s Five Elements. After emerging from seclusion, he learned that Dijun and Taiyi were establishing the Demon Heavenly Court and saw a chance to seek a branch of the Fusang Tree from them.

• The Myriad Transformations Treasure Lotus calmed nearby ocean currents, released Innate Kui Water Essence, and began freezing the North Pole Sea.
• Black Tortoise fed water element to the lotus, accelerating the formation of Innate Kui Water Essence.
• Dao Xuan considered the requirements for creating Innate Spiritual Roots and planned to gather Yang Five Elements spiritual roots, including branches from the Fusang Tree and the Bodhi Tree.
• Dao Xuan emerged from seclusion and learned that Dijun and Taiyi had announced the establishment of the Demon Heavenly Court in the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Dao Xuan decided that the Heavenly Court’s establishment gave him a timely opportunity to ask Dijun and Taiyi for a section of Fusang Tree branch.

Dao Xuan visited Dijun and Taiyi in the Thirty-Three Heavens to request a branch of the Fusang Tree. He traded a gourd for the branch and left with it in hand, wondering whether the Gourd Vine’s seven gourds were destined to be scattered among different people.

• Dao Xuan arrived at the Thirty-Three Heavens and was escorted to meet Dijun and Taiyi.
• Dijun used the River Diagram and Luo Writing to calculate Dao Xuan’s secrets, found most of them obscured, and decided to welcome him courteously.
• Dao Xuan asked Dijun for a section of the Fusang Tree branch and offered a gourd that could be refined into a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Dijun and Taiyi considered suppressing Dao Xuan but chose to avoid risking their upcoming Heavenly Court ceremony and reputation.
• Dao Xuan exchanged the gourd for a section of the Fusang Tree branch and wondered if the Gourd Vine’s seven gourds were destined to pass into different hands.

After Kunpeng ambushed him in the starry sky, Dao Xuan revealed that he had anticipated danger, captured the Demon Master with his Four-Colored Divine Light, and forced Taiyi to fetch branches from the Moon Laurel Tree and Starfruit Tree. Taiyi flew back to the Thirty-Three Heavens to fulfill the demand, leaving Kunpeng suppressed in Dao Xuan’s power.

• Dao Xuan left the Thirty-Three Heavens for the starry sky, intending to obtain a branch from the Moon Laurel Tree while remaining wary of Dijun and Taiyi.
• Kunpeng swallowed what he believed was Dao Xuan, but Dao Xuan revealed that the traveler was an illusory body and captured Kunpeng with the Four-Colored Divine Light.
• Dao Xuan accused Dijun and Taiyi of arranging the attack and threatened to kill Kunpeng unless they showed themselves.
• Taiyi appeared with the Chaos Bell and called Kunpeng’s attack a joke, but Dao Xuan rejected his excuse.
• Dao Xuan demanded branches from the Moon Laurel Tree and Starfruit Tree in exchange for releasing Kunpeng.
• Taiyi agreed to fetch the branches and flew toward the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Dao Xuan received branches from the Starfruit Tree and Moon Laurel Tree, then wrung Kunpeng’s blood essence dry before returning him to Dijun and Taiyi. He escaped Taiyi’s Chaos Bell, while Dijun recognized Dao Xuan’s power and resolved to settle their karma when they met again.

• Dijun and Taiyi brought Dao Xuan a Starfruit Tree branch, while Immortal Xihe delivered a Moon Laurel Tree branch and left.
• Dao Xuan accepted the branches, drained Kunpeng’s blood essence with the Four-Colored Divine Light, and tossed him toward Dijun and Taiyi.
• Taiyi attacked Dao Xuan with the Chaos Bell, but Dao Xuan evaded it using Near and Far Apart.
• Dijun stopped Taiyi from pursuing Dao Xuan, recognizing that Taiyi’s control weakened with distance and suspecting Dao Xuan was trying to seize the bell.
• Dao Xuan departed with the three spiritual-root branches and Kunpeng’s blood essence, while Dijun and Taiyi returned to the Thirty-Three Heavens with Kunpeng.
• Dijun judged Dao Xuan too powerful to make an enemy of and resolved to find a way to settle their karma when they met again.

Jieyin and Zhunti learned of Dao Xuan and prepared an ambush, expecting him to seek their spiritual-root bodies. Unaware of their scheme, Dao Xuan planted three more spiritual-root branches in his Inner World, where Black Tortoise sent a serpent to tend the Moon Laurel Tree.

• Laozi and Jieyin witnessed the clashes involving Dao Xuan, Kunpeng, and Taiyi, and Jieyin told Zhunti about Dao Xuan.
• Jieyin predicted that Dao Xuan would visit Sumeru Mountain, and he and Zhunti decided to refuse his request and prepare a trap.
• Dao Xuan settled in a temporary cave abode and entered his Inner World with branches from the Starfruit Tree, Fusang Tree, and Moon Laurel Tree.
• Dao Xuan planted the Starfruit Tree in the highest Heaven Realm, the Fusang Tree on the Solar Star, and the Moon Laurel Tree on the Lunar Star, accelerating the Inner World's evolution.
• Black Tortoise split into a serpent and a turtle, sending the serpent to tend the Moon Laurel Tree while the turtle guarded the Myriad Transformations Treasure Lotus.

Dao Xuan destroyed the Primordial Golden Dipper and absorbed its Three Talents Law origin into the World Tree, strengthening the laws and intelligence within his Inner World. He then summoned three divine lamps and began shaping them to support the world’s growth, life, and reincarnation.

• Vermilion Bird chose to remain on the World Tree rather than wait for the Fusang Tree to mature.
• Dao Xuan crushed the Primordial Golden Dipper with the World-Ending Mill and merged its law origin into the World Tree.
• The completed Three Talents Law strengthened the Inner World and increased the intelligence of the Four Divine Beasts.
• After the World Tree absorbed the origin, Heavenly Dao Dao Xuan summoned three Three Talents Divine Lamps.
• Dao Xuan named the black Human Talent Lamp the Dark Profound Soul-Delivering Lamp and gave it powers tied to souls, reincarnation, and nurturing life.

Dao Xuan created three divine lamps to help expand the Inner World and replace the Four Divine Beasts in carving open Chaos. The lamps and beasts both set to work, accelerating the world's growth, and Dao Xuan left the Inner World pleased with their progress.

• Dao Xuan described the powers of the Kun Origin Thick Earth Lamp and the Azure Void Heaven-Opening Lamp, completing the Inner World's Three Talents Divine Lamps.
• Dao Xuan sent the three lamps to the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, where they formed the Three Talents array and began carving open Chaos to expand the Inner World.
• Dao Xuan reflected that the Four Divine Beasts had grown weary from their work but had become like his children, so he had created the lamps to assist them rather than replace them entirely.
• The Azure Dragon rushed to join the lamps at the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, and the Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise followed to prove their worth to Dao Xuan.
• Dao Xuan watched the lamps and beasts work together, pleased that the Inner World was developing faster, then left it.

Dao Xuan traveled through the barren western lands to obtain Zhunti’s Bodhi Tree, hoping to complete his collection of Five-Element Spiritual Roots and strengthen his Inner World before the Saints rose to power. He reached Sumeru Mountain, where Bodhi Trees lined the path, as he remained wary of Hongjun’s possible response.

• Dao Xuan crossed the devastated western desert while reflecting on Jieyin and Zhunti’s rise and the danger of provoking them.
• Dao Xuan resolved to seek the Bodhi Tree, the Geng Metal Spiritual Root, to advance his Five Elements Law and strengthen his Inner World.
• Dao Xuan worried that Hongjun might see him as an anomaly and prepared to flee into Chaos with his Inner World if Hongjun attacked.
• Dao Xuan reached Sumeru Mountain, the cultivation ground of Jieyin and Zhunti and the gathering place of the West’s remaining ancestral veins.
• Dao Xuan began climbing Sumeru Mountain and passed groves of lush Bodhi Trees.

Hongjun watched Dao Xuan on Sumeru Mountain and speculated that he was gathering Five-Element Spiritual Roots to replenish the Four Symbols Origin inherited from the Innate Banana Tree. Hongjun decided Dao Xuan could serve as a useful variable, while Dao Xuan suddenly felt something strange as he climbed.

• Hongjun observed Dao Xuan and considered whether he had inherited Yang Mei's legacy on the Three Immortal Islands.
• Hongjun inferred that Dao Xuan sought Metal and Wood Spiritual Roots to complete the Five Elements and replenish his Four Symbols Origin.
• Hongjun resolved to help Dao Xuan become the second Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal because he needed a controllable variable before Dao Integration.
• Dao Xuan stopped climbing Sumeru Mountain when an inexplicable sensation arose within him.

Dao Xuan fought Jieyin and Zhunti inside a layered Dream World, using his treasures to withstand their attacks and damage the dream. When Zhunti sent his Bodhi Golden Body into the dream to attack, Jieyin sensed danger and urgently warned him not to use it.

• Dao Xuan recognized Jieyin’s Dream-Proving Dao technique and discovered that breaking the first dream had led him into a second layer of Chaos.
• Zhunti attacked Dao Xuan with Geng Metal Divine Thunder and waves of dream-made treasures, but Dao Xuan’s World-Cleansing White Lotus and Four-Colored Divine Light protected him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti struck together with a massive hand, but Dao Xuan combined the lotus’s Purification Law with the Four-Colored Divine Light to destroy it and carve a ravine through the Chaos.
• Zhunti sent his Bodhi Golden Body into the Dream World to attack Dao Xuan, who laughed at the opportunity, while Jieyin warned Zhunti not to use it.
• The boundless Chaos within the Dream World abruptly came to a halt.

Dao Xuan unleashed the power of his Inner World to break free of Jieyin’s Dream World, overpower Jieyin and Zhunti, and tear a chunk from Zhunti’s Bodhi Golden Body. Jieyin detonated the Dream World to stop him, but Dao Xuan escaped with his prize stored in his Inner World.

• Jieyin revealed that he was the Bitter Bamboo and used his true body and the Six-Root Pure Bamboo to suppress Dao Xuan in the Dream World.
• Dao Xuan drew on his Inner World’s power, shattered the Bitter Bamboo stalks, and punched the Six-Root Pure Bamboo away.
• Dao Xuan reached for Zhunti’s Bodhi Golden Body, while Zhunti’s attacks failed to stop him.
• Jieyin detonated the Dream World, injuring all three and forcing Dao Xuan backward.
• Dao Xuan tore a large chunk from Zhunti’s Bodhi Golden Body and stored it in his Inner World.

Dao Xuan demanded compensation from Jieyin and Zhunti rather than letting their conflict end without a price. Zhunti apologized and offered a Phoenix Egg containing a powerful Innate Yin-Yang Origin, leaving Dao Xuan to consider its value.

• Jieyin stopped Zhunti from attacking Dao Xuan and proposed ending the matter.
• Dao Xuan refused to accept Jieyin's offer, saying they had to pay a sufficient price.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed their options while Dao Xuan displayed his full power over Sumeru Mountain.
• Zhunti put away the Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree and brought out a Phoenix Egg, apologizing to Dao Xuan and offering it as compensation.
• Zhunti explained that Yuanfeng had spawned the egg and that its phoenix was struggling to survive the Innate Yin-Yang Origin inside it.

Dao Xuan accepted Zhunti’s Phoenix egg to settle their Karma and returned to Chaos Island with a severed piece of Zhunti’s Bodhi Golden Body. He refined the arm into Geng Metal Origin and sent it to his Inner World, where the White Tiger tried to eat it.

• Zhunti offered Dao Xuan the Phoenix egg to settle their Karma, and Dao Xuan accepted it before leaving.
• Zhunti explained that he had struggled over whether to use the egg’s Innate Yin-Yang Origin, but giving it away freed him to focus on his Bodhi Great Dao.
• Jieyin and Zhunti raised Sumeru Mountain’s Mountain-Guarding Array and began recovering from their injuries.
• Dao Xuan returned to Chaos Island and entered his Inner World with the arm he had torn from Zhunti’s Bodhi Golden Body.
• Dao Xuan transformed the arm into Geng Metal Origin and sent it beside the White Tiger, which instinctively tried to swallow it.

Dao Xuan used the Five Elements Mutual Generation cycle to nurture Innate Ren Water Origin and create the final spiritual root, the Immortal Peach Tree. With all five Innate Five-Element Spiritual Roots complete, his Inner World began transforming and growing rapidly.

• Dao Xuan created a Mid-Grade Innate Bodhi Tree from the abundant Innate Geng Metal Origin.
• Dao Xuan used the World Tree, Fusang Tree, Ginseng Fruit Tree, and Bodhi Tree to circulate the Five Elements and nurture Innate Ren Water Origin.
• The Bodhi Tree accumulated power through the repeated cycle until its Geng Metal Origin transformed into a large mass of Innate Ren Water Origin.
• Dao Xuan used the Ren Water Origin to create a towering Immortal Peach Tree and planted it at the north pole beside the Myriad Transformations Treasure Lotus.
• The completion of the Inner World's five Innate Five-Element Spiritual Roots triggered a frenzied transformation and growth.

Dao Xuan’s Inner World transformed rapidly after the Innate Five-Element Spiritual Roots completed its Five Elements Law, growing to the middle phase of a Middle Thousand World. As the Eye of Heavenly Dao, he rewarded the creatures and treasures that helped stabilize and expand the world.

• The Innate Five-Element Spiritual Roots merged the Five Elements Law into the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, greatly increasing its ability to absorb Chaos Qi.
• Dao Xuan merged with the Inner World to guide its unstable growth while the Four Divine Beasts and Three Divine Lamps helped stabilize the realms and the world’s four extremes.
• The Main World grew several hundred times larger, and the surrounding Lesser Thousand Worlds, small worlds, and dimensions expanded or multiplied.
• The exhausted Four Divine Beasts replenished themselves with Jia Wood Essence from the World Tree, while the three Divine Lamps returned to carving through chaos.
• The Eye of Heavenly Dao granted merit to the Four Divine Beasts, the Spiritual Roots, and the three Divine Lamps, restoring their strength and accelerating their growth and work.

After reaching the Mid-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal, Dao Xuan chose the Five Elements Law as the first core law to perfect for advancing his Inner World toward a Greater Thousand World. He added two Yin Five-Element Spiritual Roots to his world and considered how to obtain the remaining three without drawing attention from Hongjun.

• Dao Xuan's cultivation broke through to the Mid-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal as his expanded Inner World continued to evolve.
• Dao Xuan chose to perfect the Five Elements Law, aided by the Five-Element Spiritual Roots, as his route toward proving the Dao and advancing his world.
• Dao Xuan obtained a section of the Gourd Vine from its willing spirit, adding the Yi Wood Spiritual Root to his Inner World alongside the Moon Laurel Tree's Gui-Water Spiritual Root.
• Dao Xuan identified the Parasol Divine Tree as a possible Ding Fire Spiritual Root but doubted the Phoenix Clan would surrender it and did not want to attract Hongjun's attention.

Dao Xuan removed the Geng Metal and Yin-Yang origins from Zhunti’s Phoenix Egg, then split the Roc’s soul between two eggs and placed them within the Lunar and Solar Stars. He left the Roc to be nurtured as a Sun-Moon Celestial Roc, with powers linked to yin-yang, the sun and moon, and the stars.

• Dao Xuan placed the Gourd Vine beside the World Tree to help it grow.
• Dao Xuan extracted the Phoenix Egg’s Geng Metal Origin and fed it to the Bodhi Tree, then removed the egg’s Innate Yin-Yang Origin.
• Dao Xuan used the Destruction Law to split the egg and the Roc’s soul into two portions, preserving the Roc’s consciousness in both eggs.
• Dao Xuan infused one egg with the yin origin and the other with the yang origin, then sent them into the Lunar Star and Solar Star to be nurtured.
• Dao Xuan planned for the Roc to hatch as a Sun-Moon Celestial Roc, with wings of solar and lunar light and the ability to command stellar power.

Dao Xuan established the three missing Yin Five-Element Spiritual Roots in his Inner World, completing all ten Yin-Yang Five-Element roots and advancing the world’s laws. He then placed Kunpeng’s essence blood in the Eastern Sea and accelerated time around it to begin his final creation.

• Dao Xuan condensed the Innate Ji-Earth Spiritual Root as an illusory Earth Ginseng in the eastern lands.
• Dao Xuan created the Innate Ding-Fire Spiritual Root as a Fire Jujube Tree in the south and paired its fire essence with the Fusang Tree.
• Dao Xuan formed the Innate Xin-Metal Spiritual Root as an Apple Tree in the northwest, completing the three missing Yin Five-Element Spiritual Roots.
• Dao Xuan observed that all ten Spiritual Roots were improving the world’s Yin-Yang and Five Elements Law and predicted three roots would become real after several hundred yuanhui.
• Dao Xuan cast Kunpeng’s essence blood into the Eastern Sea and accelerated time around it until tens of millions of years had passed there.

Dao Xuan accelerated time in the Eastern Sea and brought forth the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale, an oceanic overlord designed to strengthen the Inner World's circulation and nurture life. After welcoming it, he decided to let the Sun-Moon Celestial Roc and the Innate Spiritual Roots develop naturally because accelerating their growth would consume too much World Origin.

• Dao Xuan accelerated time in the Eastern Sea by tens of millions of years, spending a great deal of World Origin.
• The Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale emerged from an undersea womb-nest, and Dao Xuan recognized it as a new oceanic overlord.
• Dao Xuan explained that the whale would drive ocean currents and connect the sea, land, and sky, helping the Inner World develop and support living beings.
• The Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale showed affection for Dao Xuan, who welcomed it and stroked its head.
• The Four Directions Divine Beasts communicated with the whale, while Black Tortoise accepted its new role in the Inner World.
• Dao Xuan chose not to accelerate the Sun-Moon Celestial Roc or the Innate Spiritual Roots because doing so would consume too much World Origin.