Chapter Summaries

Emperor Jun and Nüwa brought the Kongtong Seal to the Three Ancestors of the Human Race and explained that it was a Human Race fortune treasure they could use. After they accepted the gift, Emperor Jun prepared to leave.

• Emperor Jun considered how the Demon Clan and the Human Race could extend his influence, but dismissed the idea of sending the Demon Clan to seize resources on the Primordial Continent.
• Emperor Jun summoned the Kongtong Seal before Suirenshi, Youchaoshi, and Ziyishi, and its aura stirred the Human Race's spiritual energy and enhanced their cultivation and combat abilities.
• Emperor Jun identified the Kongtong Seal as a fortune treasure born on Shouyang Mountain and asked whether the Three Ancestors objected to Nüwa and him jointly controlling it; they did not.
• Emperor Jun told the Three Ancestors that the Human Race could use the Kongtong Seal, and they thanked him and Nüwa.
• After the Three Ancestors said they had no further questions, Emperor Jun told Nüwa he would take his leave.

Nüwa instructed the Three Ancestors of the Human Race to bring the Human Race’s Grand Luo Golden Immortals to hear the Sages preach, and they enshrined the Kongtong Seal in a sacred hall. Grand Pure Laozi sent his Good Corpse to Shouyang Mountain, where Xuan Du arrived after years of trials and completed a hundred years of patient waiting; the chapter ends with Xuan Du troubled by how kindly the figure before him acted.

• Nüwa told the Three Ancestors of the Human Race to use the Kongtong Seal to bring the Human Race’s Grand Luo Golden Immortals to the Sages’ preaching in less than two thousand years.
• The Three Ancestors placed the Kongtong Seal in a hall honoring Emperor Jun, Nüwa, and the Grand Pure Moral Celestial, making the hall a sacred place for Human Race cultivation.
• Grand Pure Laozi sent his Good Corpse to Shouyang Mountain to wait for Xuan Du while he continued studying the mysteries of Sages.
• Xuan Du reached Shouyang Mountain after more than a thousand years of wandering and knelt before Grand Pure Laozi’s Good Corpse for a hundred years without breaking the seal on his thoughts.
• Grand Pure Laozi’s Good Corpse called to Xuan Du, who became suspicious because the figure’s warm manner differed from his memories of Sage Taiqing.

Xuan Du completed his tempering and became Sage Taiqing’s disciple, later reaching the peak of the Grand Yi Golden Immortal realm. As the Five Sages prepared to enter Chaos and create worlds, the Three Purities, Xuan Du, Daoist Zhun Ti, and Daoist Jie Yin set out, while Jie Yin doubted Buddhism could attract followers.

• Grand Pure Laozi's Good Corpse revealed himself as Sage Taiqing’s Good Corpse and accepted Xuan Du as his disciple.
• Grand Pure Laozi's Good Corpse took Xuan Du to Kunlun Mountain, making him the Mystic School’s sole third-generation disciple.
• Over the following two thousand nine hundred years, Xuan Du reached the peak of the Grand Yi Golden Immortal realm without forcing a breakthrough.
• Grand Pure Laozi gave Xuan Du the Taiji Diagram for protection, and the Three Purities and Xuan Du entered Chaos.
• Daoist Zhun Ti hoped to spread Buddhism among those gathered in Chaos, while Daoist Jie Yin doubted they would accept its teachings.
• Daoist Zhun Ti and Daoist Jie Yin entered Chaos as the time for the Sages’ preaching approached.

As the Five Sages’ preaching approached, Red Cloud Daoist told Zhenyuanzi he would enter Chaos openly despite the danger of others seeking his Primordial Violet Qi. He explained that he had recognized fear had imprisoned his spirit, and left determined to regain his carefree nature and pursue Sagehood with renewed hope.

• Red Cloud Daoist watched the Sages’ rise and grew anxious that his Primordial Violet Qi had not yet produced a Sage.
• Zhenyuanzi tried to caution Red Cloud Daoist about the danger of revealing himself before the Five Sages’ preaching.
• Red Cloud Daoist insisted he would enter Chaos openly rather than conceal his identity.
• Red Cloud Daoist recalled how obtaining the Primordial Violet Qi had led him to retreat from the world and restrain his free-spirited nature.
• Red Cloud Daoist let the Primordial Violet Qi emerge and explained that fear had become a cage he had built around himself.
• Red Cloud Daoist said he would overcome his fear and return to his nature, leaving Zhenyuanzi seeing that his gloomy air had lifted.

Red Cloud Daoist and Zhenyuanzi chose to attend the five Sages’ preaching without hiding their identities, despite the danger to Red Cloud Daoist’s Primordial Violet Qi. As beings from across the Primordial World gathered in Chaos, Red Cloud Daoist faced the greed of the assembled cultivators, including Eastern Lord Duke, while Emperor Jun wondered why he had exposed himself.

• Zhenyuanzi told Red Cloud Daoist they would travel openly to the preaching, and Red Cloud Daoist agreed to face whoever sought his Primordial Violet Qi.
• After a hundred years, Emperor Jun and Sage Nüwa led the Demon Clan into Chaos, while Eastern Lord Duke, Dijiang, and leaders of other groups also set out.
• Nether River Daoist left the Blood Sea for the preaching, and Mosquito Daoist secretly followed him into Chaos.
• Red Cloud Daoist and Zhenyuanzi departed Longevity Mountain openly, while Queen Mother of the West and the Three Ancestors of the Human Race led their own groups into Chaos.
• The gathered beings chose which Sages to watch as the five Sages prepared to open worlds, and Red Cloud Daoist and Zhenyuanzi drew attention because of the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Eastern Lord Duke coveted Red Cloud Daoist’s Primordial Violet Qi, while Emperor Jun wondered why Red Cloud Daoist had appeared without concealment.

Emperor Jun spoke with Luo Hou, who explained that weakened Heavenly Dao restrictions had allowed him to manifest in Chaos. As the five Sages began creating worlds, Emperor Jun, Nüwa, and Luo Hou watched their work unfold.

• Luo Hou appeared beside Emperor Jun in Chaos, and Emperor Jun recognized that he had broken free of the Devil World's restraints.
• Luo Hou explained that the Primordial Heavenly Dao's weakened restrictions let him appear in Chaos, though his strength would be reduced further inside the Primordial World.
• Those present realized Luo Hou could rival a Sage there and inferred that Emperor Jun was stronger still; Kunpeng recalled Emperor Jun's earlier refusal to pursue the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Emperor Jun sensed the five Sages' auras change and announced that their world creation had begun.
• Grand Pure Laozi used the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Pagoda to suppress Chaotic Energy as Jade Pure Yuanshi began stirring it with the Pangu Banner.

The Five Sages opened their own worlds in Chaos, using their treasures to shape and stabilize them while the resulting waves endangered the Grand Luo Golden Immortals. As Laws emerged in the five worlds, the beings present began comprehending them, while Sage Nüwa, Demon Emperor Jun, and Devil Ancestor Luo Hou watched the changes.

• Supreme Pure Tongtian formed the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, which refined the Chaotic Energy inside it before helping him open a world.
• Daoist Zhun Ti and Daoist Jie Yin prepared to open worlds with the Seven Treasure Tree and Twelve Grade Golden Lotus of Merit, while accepting that they could not match the Three Purities' grandeur.
• Emperor Jun protected the Demon Clan's Grand Luo Golden Immortals with the Hetu Luoshu Diagram as other factions defended their own people and many independent cultivators fled Chaos.
• The Five Sages shattered five regions of chaotic space and opened worlds, then used their treasures to shield the new worlds from the raging Chaotic Energy.
• Laws emerged within the five worlds, prompting the beings in Chaos and the Five Sages to focus on comprehending them as Sage Nüwa, Demon Emperor Jun, and Devil Ancestor Luo Hou observed.

The Heavenly Dao absorbed the Five Sages’ Small Worlds into the Primordial World, and the Sages transformed them into places suited to their paths. After the worlds were settled and the Chaotic Energy calmed, factions began leaving Chaos ahead of the Sage Preaching.

• The Heavenly Dao took control of the five Small Worlds, unified their development, and sealed them off from the Chaotic Energy.
• The Five Sages reshaped their worlds: Grand Pure Laozi made a simple daoist abode, Jade Pure Yuanshi made a palace, and Supreme Pure Tongtian made a free-form landscape.
• Daoist Zhun Ti and Daoist Jie Yin merged their worlds into Mount Sumeru, stirring complicated feelings in Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, who had once called it his daoist abode.
• The Five Sages took their seats, the Chaotic Energy calmed, and Emperor Jun recalled the Hetu Luoshu Diagram as the Demon Clan’s Grand Luo Golden Immortals withdrew their starlight.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and their forces returned to the Primordial World, while the Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, and other factions withdrew their defenses.

After the Five Sages argued over how to preach to the beings of the Primordial World, Devil Ancestor Luo Hou proposed a Dao Debate instead. Emperor Jun favored the proposal as a chance to learn from other powerful Dao Paths, while the Five Sages considered it.

• Xuan Du continued his breakthrough toward the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, protected by the Taiji Diagram, while the Human Race's nine Grand Luo Golden Immortals remained sheltered by the Kongtong Seal.
• Grand Pure Laozi proposed three thousand years of preaching, but the Sages argued over whether they should preach together or arrange turns.
• Daoist Jie Yin and Zhun Ti warned that simultaneous preaching could force beings to choose or be influenced by the Sages' Dao Paths, while the Three Purities defended their position.
• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou proposed that the Sages hold a Dao Debate so beings could hear their competing Dao Paths and choose what to comprehend.
• Emperor Jun favored a Dao Debate because it could help him perfect his path of commanding all Daos, and Zhun Ti and Jie Yin recognized Luo Hou with shock.

Devil Ancestor Luo Hou confronted the Sages and revealed that he could appear in the Primordial World because six Sages had been born and the Heavenly Dao had lifted its restrictions on the Devil World. He left the Sages wondering what the change meant for the Primordial World.

• Luo Hou suppressed Jade Pure Yuanshi Heavenly Lord’s pressure, but withdrew when Heavenly Dao Pressure appeared around Yuanshi’s Small World.
• Grand Pure Laozi asked the black-robed stranger to identify himself, and Luo Hou declared that he was Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, Lord of the Devil World.
• The Three Purities recognized Luo Hou as a legendary rival of Dao Ancestor Hongjun and accepted that he could rival a Sage.
• Grand Pure Laozi asked how Luo Hou could leave the Devil World and enter the present world.
• Luo Hou claimed that the birth of six Sages had led the Heavenly Dao to lift restrictions, allowing Extraterrestrial Devils to travel through the Primordial World.

Luo Hou proposed a Dao Debate after revealing that beings could join his Devil World, and Jie Yin supported him against the Three Purities. When Yuanshi challenged Emperor Jun’s right to participate, Emperor Jun revealed Sage-level pressure and aimed it at him.

• Eastern Lord Duke feared the Extraterrestrial Devils and thought achieving Sagehood was the only way to contend with the Primordial World’s growing powers.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti resolved not to surrender Mount Sumeru, while the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clan ancestors ordered their clans to restrain themselves around Luo Hou.
• Luo Hou proposed a Dao Debate and asked the Sages to respond; Laozi objected, but Jie Yin argued that debating the Dao would also pass it on.
• Luo Hou invited other Sage-level beings to join the gathering, and Emperor Jun stepped forward to participate.
• Yuanshi questioned Emperor Jun’s right to interfere, and Emperor Jun released Sage-level pressure directly toward Yuanshi’s Small World.

Emperor Jun revealed that he could suppress Sage Jade Pure Yuanshi, then secretly struck his palace inside his Small World and forced Grand Pure Laozi to acknowledge his right to join the debate. When Luo Hou asked him to choose between Preaching the Dao and a Dao Debate, Emperor Jun chose a Dao Debate, leaving the decision tied as the group awaited Nüwa’s vote.

• Emperor Jun concealed his pressure within Jade Pure Yuanshi’s Small World, then revealed his Sage-level strength by overwhelming Jade Pure Yuanshi and the Heavenly Dao Pressure.
• Emperor Jun’s pressure reappeared inside the Small World and destroyed Jade Pure Yuanshi’s palace, while Jade Pure Yuanshi used the Pangu Banner to protect himself.
• Grand Pure Laozi acknowledged that Emperor Jun’s cultivation qualified him to discuss the Sage-level matter, and Jade Pure Yuanshi restored the ruined palace without answering Emperor Jun’s challenge.
• Daoist Jie Yin congratulated Emperor Jun on reaching the Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, but Emperor Jun said he had not yet reached it.
• Emperor Jun chose a Dao Debate, giving its supporters four votes; Grand Pure Laozi noted that Nüwa had not yet decided, leaving the outcome unsettled.

Grand Pure Laozi accepted a Dao Debate after Sage Nüwa joined Devil Ancestor Luo Hou and Demon Emperor Jun in supporting it. As the eight Sage-level beings prepared to preach and contend for three thousand years, Emperor Jun revealed a vast Mind Realm resembling the Primordial World and entered it to take his place.

• Grand Pure Laozi brought Sage Nüwa into the dispute, and she declared her support for a Dao Debate.
• Grand Pure Laozi agreed to hold a three-thousand-year Dao Debate open to all living beings of the Primordial World.
• The Three Purities, the Two Sages of the West, Sage Nüwa, Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, and Demon Emperor Jun manifested their respective Daoist abodes in the Chaos.
• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou entered his Mind Realm and sat on the Black Lotus Throne.
• Demon Emperor Jun revealed a Mind Realm containing familiar mountains, the starry sky, and the Thirty-Three Heavens, then sat upon its Sun Star.
• The Dao auras of all eight Sage-level beings met and spread through the Chaos.

During the Dao Debate, Emperor Jun found little to gain from the other participants until Luo Hou unleashed his Heart Demon Path and trapped many beings in a Mind Realm. Emperor Jun countered Luo Hou’s Mind Power, rescued some Demon Clan beings, and left the two of them evenly contesting their different Heart Dao paths.

• The eight participants began probing one another’s Dao rhythms, but Emperor Jun judged the other seven’s paths too shallow to meaningfully improve his own.
• Luo Hou denounced their cautious debate and spread his Heart Demon Path truths, drawing many beings into a dark Mind Realm filled with Demonic Qi.
• The Six Sages resisted Luo Hou’s invading Dao rhythm with Heavenly Dao truths and protected their own foundations, though they could not force him back.
• Emperor Jun expanded his Mind Power against Luo Hou’s and illuminated the Mind Realm, allowing some trapped beings, including Demon Clan members, to escape or hold on.
• Emperor Jun challenged Luo Hou to express his truths through Mind Power rather than speaking Demon Path truths, and Luo Hou answered that their Heart Dao paths were different.

Demon Emperor Jun and Devil Ancestor Luo Hou began a full Dao Debate, forcing the six Heavenly Dao Sages to defend and temper their own paths at the edges of the Small World. Their Dao resonances clashed across Chaos, and Emperor Jun gained insight from the beings who comprehended the paths he revealed as the contest with Luo Hou continued.

• The six Heavenly Dao Sages recognized that Emperor Jun and Luo Hou had likely attained the Dao long ago and marveled that Emperor Jun could contend with Luo Hou.
• Grand Pure Laozi, Jade Pure Yuanshi, Supreme Pure Tongtian, Nüwa, Zhun Ti, and Jie Yin spoke their Truths and used the clash to strengthen their individual Dao paths.
• Zhun Ti and Jie Yin's complementary Buddhist resonances revealed traces of the Demon Path within their World of Ultimate Bliss.
• Luo Hou spoke Heart Demon Path Truths and suppressed the six Sages, while Emperor Jun used his Heart Dao to evolve countless Dao paths against Luo Hou's Demon Path.
• The living beings present guarded their Primordial Spirits from Luo Hou's forceful teachings, while Emperor Jun's uncoercive paths offered them ways to comprehend their own Dao.
• Emperor Jun gained insight from the beings who studied his paths, but kept his main focus on defeating Luo Hou in the Dao Debate.

Emperor Jun intensified the Dao Debate, using his Mind Realm to absorb the Laws of the Six Sages and Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, while Luo Hou countered with the Demon Path. Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended the three-thousand-year debate, and the participants prepared to return to the Primordial World.

• Emperor Jun powered his Mind Realm with the Grand Heavenly Star Formation and invaded the Dao auras of the other seven beings to absorb their Laws.
• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou welcomed the clash and sent Demon Path Laws into Emperor Jun's Dao aura, unknowingly providing him with more Laws to study.
• The Six Sages defended their Dao auras as the escalating contest affected the other living beings present.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended the debate after three thousand years, using the Primordial Heavenly Dao's gentle aura to awaken everyone and disperse their Dao auras.
• Emperor Jun and Devil Ancestor Luo Hou let their Mind Realms fade, greeted Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and heard his order to return to the Primordial World.

After the Dao Debate, Emperor Jun returned to the Heavenly Court and began refining the Laws he had gained from the Sages while continuing to assimilate the Heavenly Realm. At the Blood Sea, Nether River resolved to establish a sect, hoping the Merit might make him a Sage.

• The beings left Chaos after Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s decree, and the Five Sages returned to their respective abodes.
• Red Cloud Daoist reached Five Villages Temple safely with Zhenyuanzi accompanying him.
• Emperor Jun returned to the Hall of Universal Brightness, dismissed the Demon Clan’s officials to their duties, and focused on the Law Golden Wheel.
• Emperor Jun refined the Sages’ Laws into Laws bearing his own aura while also working to assimilate the Heavenly Realm.
• Nether River reflected on how the five new Sages had established sects and decided to establish one himself in hopes of gaining Merit and becoming a Sage.

Nether River Daoist established the Asura Sect but failed to sever his third Corpse with the Merit he received. After three thousand years of refining and comprehending the Heavenly Realm Laws, Emperor Jun advanced his path of commanding all paths to the Sage level and gained greater control over the Heavenly Realm, while recognizing that he needed to restrain himself from claiming it completely.

• Nether River Daoist established the Asura Sect with the Asura Race as its foundation and used the Karma Fire Red Lotus to suppress its Karmic Luck.
• Nether River Daoist received Merit for creating the Asura Race and establishing the sect, but he could not use it to sever his third Corpse, so he returned to his Daoist abode.
• After three thousand years of refining the Law Golden Wheel, Emperor Jun absorbed more Heavenly Realm Laws and took the initiative in his relationship with the Heavenly Realm.
• Emperor Jun's Law power reached the Sage level, matching his Mind Power, and he believed he could defeat Devil Ancestor Luo Hou in the Devil World.
• Emperor Jun's Mind Realm filled with Laws and became more like his own world, while his control of the Heavenly Realm let him leave the Hall of Universal Brightness without needing to remain there or send an avatar.

Emperor Jun discovered that Xihe was unknowingly nurturing their ten Three-clawed Golden Crow offspring, whose growth was draining her power and weakening her cultivation. He took the burden of the Heavenly Realm from Xihe and prepared to go with her to the Moon Star, leaving the story with her free to rest there.

• After removing the Space Barrier, Emperor Jun examined Xihe and used the Hetu Luoshu Diagram to investigate her declining Origin Essence.
• Emperor Jun deduced that ten strands of entwined Yang and Yin Energy bearing his and Xihe's auras were drawing on her power and developing into lives.
• Emperor Jun saw that the ten offspring were growing into Three-clawed Golden Crows and realized Xihe's Origin Essence, Magical Power, and Primordial Spirit would weaken as they matured.
• Emperor Jun chose not to tell Xihe what he had discovered, then suggested that they stay on the Moon Star.
• Xihe welcomed the idea and offered to have an incarnation preside over the Heavenly Court while she and Changxi assisted in turns.
• Emperor Jun removed the burden of the Heavenly Realm's Laws, destiny, and Causality from Xihe.

Emperor Jun freed Xihe from her Heavenly Realm duties and took her to the Moon Star, where he discovered that Changxi was also beginning to conceive. He recognized a pattern of Yin-Yang energies that could reveal the nature of Changxi’s twelve unborn children, but their identities remained unknown.

• Emperor Jun transferred Xihe’s Heavenly Realm responsibilities to the Heavenly Realm itself, allowing her to keep her authority without carrying out her duties.
• Emperor Jun and Xihe left the Hall of Universal Brightness in a Dragon Carriage pulled by nine Golden Dragons and headed for the Moon Star.
• Changxi heard the Golden Dragons approaching, welcomed Emperor Jun and Xihe, and walked with them toward the Moon Laurel Tree.
• Emperor Jun observed Changxi’s faint loss of Origin Essence and followed its flow to find twelve intertwined Yin-Yang energies.
• Emperor Jun recorded the energies’ pattern and deduced that Changxi’s twelve unborn children would be founded on Yin Energy, though he did not know what they would be like.