Recaps

Dao Xuan visited Fuxi and Nuwa at Phoenix Perch Mountain to discuss the Creation Dao and explore Fuxi’s Heavenly Secrets Dao. After demonstrating his understanding, he began exchanging insights with both siblings.

• Dao Xuan considered studying the Creation, Time, Space, and Stellar Laws to develop his Inner World further.
• Dao Xuan learned that the Demon Heavenly Court and Dong Wang Gong’s Immortal Court had been established, while Fuxi and Nuwa had not yet joined the Demon Tribe.
• Dao Xuan traveled to Phoenix Perch Mountain to seek Nuwa’s guidance on the Creation Dao before the third sermon at Zixiao Palace.
• Fuxi and Nuwa welcomed Dao Xuan, and Dao Xuan demonstrated his Creation Dao insights while sharing knowledge of Karma and Fate with Fuxi.
• Fuxi expounded how Yin-Yang, the stars, the land, Karma, and Fate formed the foundation of his Heavenly Secrets Dao.

Dao Xuan gained deep insights into Fuxi’s Heavenly Secrets Dao and Nuwa’s Creation Dao, transforming his Inner World and bringing its first generation of Primordial Gods and Demons into being. He then explained his Four Symbols Dao to Fuxi and Nuwa, impressing them with his mastery of its connections to other Great Daos.

• After hearing Fuxi explain the Heavenly Secrets Dao, Dao Xuan linked the stars, Spirit Veins, mountains, and waterways in his Inner World to karma and fate, gaining more precise control over the world.
• Nuwa expounded on her Creation Dao, explaining the cycles of life and death, flourishing and withering, and the formation of spirits and souls.
• As Dao Xuan comprehended Nuwa’s teachings, law origins appeared throughout his Inner World and began nurturing its first generation of Primordial Gods and Demons, especially in the Four Seas.
• Dao Xuan explained his Four Symbols Dao to Fuxi and Nuwa, tracing its transformations through the Three Talents and Yin-Yang and its evolution into the Five Elements.
• Fuxi and Nuwa were amazed by Dao Xuan’s profound understanding of the Four Symbols Dao.

Dao Xuan’s discussion of the simultaneous birth of the five elements revealed the deeper principles of the Innate Five Elements Dao to Fuxi and Nuwa. After ten thousand years of debate on Phoenix Perch Mountain, all three had advanced their understanding, and Dao Xuan had refined his divine abilities into the Chaos Divine Light.

• Dao Xuan explained the simultaneous birth of the five elements, and Fuxi and Nuwa recognized how limited their understanding of the Five Elements Dao had been.
• Dao Xuan distinguished the Innate Five Elements from the Acquired Five Elements and reflected on the Five Elements Ancestor and Kong Xuan’s mastery.
• Dao Xuan used his insights into the Innate Five Elements and Innate Yin-Yang to combine his divine lights into the Chaos Divine Light.
• Dao Xuan, Fuxi, and Nuwa debated the Dao for ten thousand years, each benefiting from the others’ insights and deepening their attainments.
• The discourse ended, and Dao Xuan, Fuxi, and Nuwa looked at one another and smiled.

Dao Xuan, Fuxi, and Nuwa attended Hongjun’s third lecture at Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun revealed that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao after teaching the Dao of Saints. The lecture ended with Dao Xuan gaining more insight than anyone else, while most listeners struggled to understand it.

• Fuxi and Nuwa thanked Dao Xuan for their gains from discussing the Dao, and he stopped them from bowing to him.
• Dao Xuan traveled with Fuxi and Nuwa to Zixiao Palace for Hongjun’s third lecture, where three thousand mighty figures gathered.
• Hongjun announced that he would teach the Dao of Saints and merge with the Heavenly Dao after the lecture.
• Dao Xuan concluded that Hongjun’s Dao Integration was shaped by the Heavenly Dao’s laws of Karma and Fate, leaving him little choice but to accept his destined path.
• Hongjun taught the Dao of Saints, which most of the audience could barely comprehend, while Dao Xuan gained the greatest understanding.
• Hongjun’s lecture ended, and the listeners emerged from their trances and looked toward him.

Hongjun kept Dao Xuan in Zixiao Palace and revealed his past with Yang Mei and the Creation Jade Disc. Believing Dao Xuan was pursuing Law-Proving Dao through the Four Symbols and Five Elements, Hongjun began giving him treasures to support his cultivation.

• After the great powers left Zixiao Palace, Hongjun stopped Dao Xuan from departing and kept him alone in the palace.
• Hongjun told Dao Xuan that Yang Mei had proved Hunyuan before him and explained how the Creation Jade Disc had enabled his own Dao and bound him to Dao Integration.
• Hongjun summoned the Plain Cloud Boundary Flag, the God-Slaying Spear, and the Immortal Peach Tree, startling Dao Xuan.
• Hongjun surmised that Dao Xuan was using the Five-Element Spiritual Roots to strengthen his Four Symbols Laws, and Dao Xuan realized Hongjun had believed his deliberate misdirection.
• Hongjun offered Dao Xuan the Immortal Peach Tree, an Innate Ren Water Spiritual Root, to help him pursue that path.

Hongjun gave Dao Xuan three treasures and asked him to save him from eventual assimilation into the Heavenly Dao. After Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao, Dao Xuan witnessed its revelation, found Treasure-Dividing Cliff in the chaos, and collected it before returning toward the Primordial World.

• Hongjun explained the Plain Cloud Boundary Flag, God-Slaying Spear, and Immortal Peach Tree, then asked Dao Xuan to help save him after he merged with the Heavenly Dao.
• Dao Xuan questioned Hongjun about killing Luohu and not proving Hunyuan, and Hongjun said his fate had been shaped by the Creation Jade Disc.
• Hongjun activated the Creation Jade Disc and merged with the Heavenly Dao as Dao Xuan watched its full revelation.
• Dao Xuan emerged in the chaos, found Treasure-Dividing Cliff with its treasures already gone, and collected the cliff with his Chaos Divine Light.
• Dao Xuan summoned the Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus and flew toward the Primordial World.

After emerging from a long seclusion with greater cultivation and a more developed Inner World, Dao Xuan sought Zhao Gongming and his twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. He trapped Zhao Gongming in a dream and concealed his identity, leaving Zhao Gongming to suspect he was the senior who had taken a treasure from Three Immortal Islands.

• Dao Xuan merged the Immortal Peach Trees in his Inner World, returned the Plain Cloud Boundary Flag to its origin, and secluded himself to contemplate the Dao.
• Dao Xuan awoke with his cultivation advanced to the late stage of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and his Five Elements Law comprehension greatly improved.
• Dao Xuan flew over the Eastern Sea, reflected on Dong Wang Gong’s fall and the Demon Heavenly Court’s altered leadership, and continued toward Kunlun Mountain.
• Dao Xuan concealed his whereabouts and waited outside Kunlun Mountain until Zhao Gongming left, then followed him to Luofu Cave to seek his twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Dao Xuan used Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns to draw Zhao Gongming into a dreamscape, where Zhao Gongming recognized him as the senior who had taken a treasure from Three Immortal Islands.

Dao Xuan took Zhao Gongming’s twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and gave him a World Tree Leaf and the Myriad Mountains Seal in exchange. Alarmed by Dao Xuan’s warning of a future tribulation involving his three younger sisters, Zhao Gongming brought the gifts to Tongtian, who recognized the leaf as a Chaos Spiritual Root.

• Dao Xuan took Zhao Gongming’s twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, saying they were connected to his path to enlightenment.
• Dao Xuan gave Zhao Gongming a World Tree Leaf and the Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Myriad Mountains Seal as compensation.
• Dao Xuan warned Zhao Gongming that he and his three younger sisters would face a life-and-death tribulation, then sent him back to Luofu Cave.
• Zhao Gongming hurried to Kunlun Mountain and told Tongtian that Dao Xuan had taken the pearls and given him two treasures.
• Tongtian examined the leaf and exclaimed that it came from a Chaos Spiritual Root.

Dao Xuan gathered the full set of thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and used them to create thirty-three Heaven Realms and thirty-three Hell Realms in his Inner World, though he still could not advance it into a Greater Thousand World. He traveled across the Primordial World for tens of thousands of years and ended near Mount Buzhou, reflecting that it would not survive the coming Calamity Cycle.

• Tongtian recognized the World Tree Leaf as belonging to a Chaos Spiritual Root but could not identify its owner because the Heavenly Secrets were obscured.
• Dao Xuan gathered the twenty-four remaining Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and returned to Chaos Island with the complete set of thirty-six.
• Dao Xuan fused the twenty-four pearls into his Inner World, forming thirty-three Heaven Realms and thirty-three Hell Realms.
• Dao Xuan's Inner World and cultivation improved, but he remained a late-stage Primordial Golden Immortal because the world had not perfected a law and could not become a Greater Thousand World.
• Dao Xuan let his Inner World evolve naturally and traveled throughout the Primordial World, gaining insights from its terrain.
• Dao Xuan arrived near Mount Buzhou and realized that the mountain would cease to exist after the Calamity Cycle.

Dao Xuan revisited Mount Buzhou, avoided meeting the Witch Clan leader Dijun, and visited Fuxi, Nuwa, and Zhen Yuanzi before returning to secluded cultivation. After several dozen yuanhui, he reached Grand Primordial Golden Immortal Perfection and advanced his Five Elements Law comprehension, ending with his Five-Colored Divine Light reduced to four colors without losing balance.

• Dao Xuan met Houtu at Mount Buzhou but left when he sensed Dijun approaching, while Houtu returned with her elder brother.
• Dao Xuan visited Fuxi and Nuwa at Phoenix Perch Mountain and shared genuine Ren Water Immortal Peaches with them.
• Dao Xuan, Fuxi, and Nuwa discussed the Dao for three thousand years, after which Dao Xuan visited Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun at Five Villages Temple.
• Dao Xuan returned to Chaos Island and cultivated for several dozen yuanhui, reaching Grand Primordial Golden Immortal Perfection.
• Dao Xuan made his Five-Colored Divine Light lose its yellow Earth-Element light, leaving four circulating colors that remained balanced.

Dao Xuan nearly perfected his Five Elements Law but fell short, then followed a mysterious connection to his World Tree into Chaos. While he was away, the Demon Tribe and Witch Clan fought their final battle, and Dao Xuan eventually discovered a world comparable to the Primordial World.

• Dao Xuan evolved the Five-Colored Divine Light through successively fewer elements, but it returned to its original form before his Five Elements Law reached perfection.
• Dao Xuan sensed something connected to his World Tree in Chaos, left his Inner World, and went searching for its source.
• Less than a thousand years after Dao Xuan departed, the Demon Tribe and Witch Clan fought using the Heavenly Stars Formation and the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Pangu phantom.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun shattered Pangu's phantom, restored the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and established that demons would rule the heavens while witches governed the earth.
• Dao Xuan followed the sensation through Chaos and found a vast world comparable to the Primordial World.

Dao Xuan discovered that a Middle Thousand World in the chaos had formed from a remnant of the Space Demon God Yang Mei and that its sentient Heavenly Dao was too dangerous to enter. Seeking its origin to perfect himself, he attacked from outside, but the world's Heavenly Dao blocked his first strike.

• Dao Xuan investigated the Middle Thousand World and concluded that it had formed from a fragment of Yang Mei’s Chaotic Void body.
• Dao Xuan realized that the world itself had developed into its strongest being, a sentient Heavenly Dao, and that entering it would be fatal.
• Dao Xuan decided to seize the world’s origin from outside so he could perfect his Five Elements Law and advance his own world.
• Dao Xuan revealed himself and withstood the spatial storm the Middle Thousand World unleashed against him.
• Dao Xuan attacked the world’s Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane with Four Symbols Divine Light, but the Heavenly Dao blocked it with a void vortex.

Dao Xuan battled Chaos, the sentient Heavenly Dao of the Greek Mythology World, and used his Inner World’s power to destroy Chaos’s Void Torrent. He summoned the Four Divine Beasts and sent them to form the Four Symbols Formation against the world.

• Dao Xuan pierced the Middle Thousand World’s defenses and sensed lifeforms there resembling the Four Symbols Divine Beasts in his Inner World.
• Chaos revealed himself as the world’s Heavenly Dao and attacked Dao Xuan with a Void Torrent.
• Dao Xuan recognized Chaos as the primordial figure from Greek mythology and vowed to refine him and the entire world.
• Dao Xuan revealed his Inner World projection, which stopped and destroyed the Void Torrent, causing Chaos to suffer backlash.
• Dao Xuan summoned the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise, empowered them with the Four Symbols Divine Light, and ordered them to form the Four Symbols Formation.

Chaos sent Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, Nyx, and Eros to stop the Four Divine Beasts from surrounding the Middle Thousand World, and the battle turned in Black Tortoise’s favor when his serpent body swallowed Eros. Dao Xuan ordered the beasts to retreat after Gaia wounded Azure Dragon with an Innate Supreme Treasure, while more treasures emerged from the world to arm Chaos’s remaining deities.

• Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, Nyx, and Eros confronted the Four Divine Beasts as they approached the Middle Thousand World.
• Nyx and Eros tried to subdue Black Tortoise, but his serpent body swallowed Eros while Nyx became intangible to survive.
• Chaos poured his origin into the remaining Four Divine Gods, and Gaia used an earth-yellow trident to wound Azure Dragon.
• Dao Xuan recognized the trident as an Innate Supreme Treasure and ordered Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise to retreat.
• A Thunder, a cloak, and a helmet flew from the Middle Thousand World into the hands of Tartarus, Erebus, and Nyx.

Dao Xuan watched Chaos's treasures turn the battle in the Four Divine Gods' favor, then summoned the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale to aid the Four Divine Beasts. The whale charged at Gaia as the battle resumed.

• Dao Xuan recognized Chaos's trident as an Innate Supreme Treasure containing a complete Earth Law and coveted it for his Inner World.
• Chaos ordered the Four Divine Gods to press their advantage, and Erebus's cloak and Nyx's helmet helped them suppress and ambush the Four Divine Beasts.
• The Four Divine Beasts formed the Four Symbols Formation to defend themselves against Gaia's Earth Trident and Tartarus's thunderbolt.
• Dao Xuan summoned the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale, alarming Chaos and the Four Divine Gods.
• Enraged to see its elders under attack, the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale charged straight at Gaia.

Dao Xuan used his three divine lamps to defeat Gaia and helped the Five Divine Beasts kill the remaining gods of the Chaos World. With Chaos left alone, Dao Xuan began refining the world using the Four Symbols Formation.

• Dao Xuan sent out the Azure Void Heaven-Opening Lamp, Kun Origin Thick Earth Lamp, and Dark Profound Soul-Delivering Lamp to trap Gaia in the Three Talents Demon-Refining Formation and refine her to death.
• Dao Xuan used the three lamps to restrain the Earth Trident, while the Five Divine Beasts killed Nyx and Erebus and survived Tartarus’s self-destruction.
• Dao Xuan collected the gods’ treasures and World Origins, and White Tiger requested Gaia’s Earth Origin.
• Dao Xuan ordered Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise to form the Four Symbols Formation and begin refining the Chaos World.

Dao Xuan destroyed Chaos and absorbed its World Origin into his Inner World, allowing the world to ascend into a Greater Thousand World and helping him prove the Dao as a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal. He considered seeking out more mythical worlds to accelerate his world’s growth.

• The Four Divine Beasts’ formation destroyed Chaos and its Middle Thousand World while Dao Xuan suppressed Chaos’s consciousness.
• Dao Xuan refined the ruined world and extracted its World Origin, then brought it into his Inner World.
• The World Origin completed the Five Elements Law, pushed Dao Xuan’s Inner World into the Greater Thousand World level, and triggered the ascent of surrounding worlds.
• Dao Xuan comprehended the completed Five Elements Law and became a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Dao Xuan noticed that the Space Law had advanced to second place in his Inner World and considered exploring Chaos for more mythical worlds and their origins.

Dao Xuan’s inner world advanced into a Greater Thousand World as Dafeng was born as the Sun-Moon Celestial Roc and he established the five directional divine beasts. After returning to the Primordial World, he learned that more than a hundred epochs had passed and the Witch Clan and Demon Tribe had nearly come to blows before Hongjun intervened.

• The Sun-Moon Twin Stars expanded, and Dafeng emerged as a Daluo Golden Immortal Sun-Moon Celestial Roc while the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale surfaced from the ocean.
• Dafeng addressed Dao Xuan as Celestial Venerable, and Dao Xuan accepted the title.
• Dao Xuan decreed the five directional divine beasts and caused a Qilin to form at the center of the earth.
• Dao Xuan failed to destroy the Earth Trident, gave the bolt of Thunder to the Azure Dragon, and integrated the origins of the Dark Cloak and Invisibility Helmet into his world.
• Dao Xuan left his stabilized inner world and returned to the Primordial World, where he learned that over a hundred epochs had passed.
• Dao Xuan divined that the Witch Clan and Demon Tribe had fought with their great formations until Hongjun intervened to stop Pangu’s projection from killing Dijun and the Demon Tribe leadership.

After attaining the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm, Dao Xuan returned to Chaos Island and took Xuanming and Linghu as disciples. He passed on the World Dao and began preaching to them and the island’s gathered inhabitants.

• Dao Xuan returned to Chaos Island after quietly attaining the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• He discovered that the Enlightenment Tea Tree and Gourd Vine had taken human form as Xuanming and Linghu, both Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Dao Xuan offered Xuanming and Linghu the choice to leave without revealing anything about him or stay as his disciples, and they chose to stay.
• Dao Xuan taught them the World Dao and warned them about the dangers of opening worlds within their bodies.
• Dao Xuan began preaching the Dao in Chaos Palace, and beings across the island gathered outside its boundary to listen.

Nuwa visited Dao Xuan on Chaos Island, where he gave her three lights divine water and nine heavens breath soil. After leaving, she realized her path to Sainthood was to create a new race and began shaping the first human from clay, but her creation had no intelligence.

• Dao Xuan stopped preaching on Chaos Island and entered secluded cultivation, leaving the island to Linghu and Xuanming.
• Nuwa traveled to Chaos Island, where Linghu welcomed her as Dao Xuan’s martial aunt and she met his other disciple, Xuanming.
• Xuanming and Linghu told Nuwa that Dao Xuan was secluded and gave her three lights divine water and nine heavens breath soil on his behalf.
• After leaving the Eastern Sea, Nuwa realized that her path to Sainthood was to use her Dao to add another race to the world.
• Nuwa shaped a Clay Figure from soil and infused it with Creation Qi, but although it became flesh and blood, it had no intelligence.

Nuwa used the Three Lights Divine Water, Nine Heavens Breath Soil, and Gourd Vine to create humanity, then received vast Heavenly Dao Merit. She poured much of the merit into a clay figure made in her likeness and used it to sever her obsession.

• Nuwa realized the Three Lights Divine Water could form souls and the Nine Heavens Breath Soil could shape bodies, then created the first living being and refined more Primordial Purple Qi.
• Nuwa created three thousand beings by hand before Spirit Gourd Fairy arrived with a piece of Gourd Vine from Dao Xuan.
• Nuwa used the Gourd Vine to create batches of beings until she had made 129,600, then shaped one final figure from the leftover clay.
• Nuwa declared that the new race was called humans and that their creation would complete the way of the Three Talents.
• The Heavenly Dao sent Nuwa immense merit, and she used much of it to transform the clay figure into a woman resembling herself.
• Nuwa cried out to sever her obsession using the woman she had created.

Nuwa severed her Three Corpses and reunited them with the merit from creating humanity, becoming a Saint. She announced that she would preach in Chaos, left Linghu in charge of the Human Tribe for ten thousand years, and returned to move Phoenix Perch Mountain to her new seat of cultivation.

• Nuwa used a clay figure to sever her Obsession Corpse, then drew on her creation merit to reunite all three Corpses and become a Saint.
• The remaining creation merit spread among the Human Tribe, Linghu, and the Gourd Vine, which transformed into the Creation Whip.
• Nuwa accepted Golden Phoenix as her mount and announced that she would establish a seat of cultivation in Chaos and preach the Dao.
• Nuwa entrusted the Human Tribe to Linghu for ten thousand years before leaving, while Linghu wondered what she was meant to do.
• Nuwa returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain and used her divine power to move it into her new seat of cultivation in Chaos.

After Nuwa became the first Saint, the Three Pure Ones and Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to visit her, while Jieyin warned Zhunti that their Karma with Hong Yun remained unresolved. Dao Xuan left his seclusion and arrived at Nuwa’s gathering, where he walked directly toward her.

• The Three Pure Ones decided to visit Nuwa in the Chaotic Void and ask how she had become a Saint.
• Jieyin told Zhunti that their Karma with Hong Yun over their Saint positions remained unresolved, though the time to settle it had not come.
• Zhunti created three Bodhi Seeds from his true form as a gift for Nuwa, and he and Jieyin set out to congratulate her.
• Dao Xuan concluded that Nuwa had understood his role in her ascension and decided to visit her openly, bringing Xuanming along.
• Dao Xuan arrived beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, greeted Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun, then walked toward Nuwa with Xuanming.

Dao Xuan attended Nuwa’s celebration, addressed her as a fellow Daoist, and gave her a Pure World White Lotus, while other guests mistook his familiarity for arrogance. Nuwa began opening her cultivation ground in Chaos by wielding the Red Embroidered Ball.

• Dao Xuan congratulated Nuwa as a fellow Daoist, prompting other guests to judge his words as disrespectful.
• Nuwa warmly welcomed Dao Xuan and accepted the nine-petaled Pure World White Lotus he offered.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun warned Dao Xuan that he should address Nuwa as Empress and suggested he apologize to her privately.
• Nuwa asked the guests to keep their distance, then moved farther into Chaos and summoned the Red Embroidered Ball.
• Nuwa poured her magical power into the Red Embroidered Ball and repeatedly drove it into Chaos, causing its currents to erupt.

Nuwa created Taisu Heaven and invited the gathered cultivators to hear her expound the Dao, where she revealed that Dao Xuan had attained the Dao before her. The revelation stunned the Primordial World's mighty cultivators and left Dijun and Taiyi anxious about their past conflict with him.

• Nuwa used the Mountain and River State-Society Diagram to create Taisu Heaven, a lesser thousand world, and filled it with living things.
• Nuwa moved her cultivation sanctuary into Taisu Heaven and invited everyone to hear her expound the Dao.
• Nuwa invited Dao Xuan to sit on a Dao Platform equal to hers and revealed that he had attained the Dao before her and guided her.
• The gathered cultivators realized Dao Xuan was a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, though they did not know how he had attained the Dao.
• Dijun and Taiyi worried about their past conflict with Dao Xuan, while Jieyin urged Zhunti to avoid further conflict with him.