Chapter Summaries

Emperor Jun secured Kunpeng’s commitment to create Demon Script as the Demon Clan prepared to rise, while the Celestial Court recovered and changed its approach. After a long era of peace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun announced a new era, and Emperor Jun sensed Immortal Dao rising to the surface of the Heavenly Dao.

• Emperor Jun entered Kunpeng’s soul aura into the Demon Name Record, naming him Demon Teacher and charging him to create Demon Script before the Demon Clan’s establishment.
• Kunpeng returned to the North Sea to enter seclusion, while Emperor Jun and Taiyi cultivated beneath the Fusang Tree and Emperor Jun continued developing the Grand Heavenly Star Formation.
• After recovering from its defeat, Eastern Lord Duke abandoned conquest and began spreading the Sage’s Dao to attract followers to the Celestial Court.
• For a thousand yuanhui, the Demon Clan cultivated, the Celestial Court preached the Dao, and the Wu Tribe remained active on the Primordial Continent as Immortal Dao spread.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun declared that a new era had begun, and Emperor Jun sensed the Heavenly Dao’s laws withdrawing as Immortal Dao came to the fore.

Emperor Jun realized that the Immortal Dao had become the manifest path of cultivation, making it harder for Primordial Origin Golden Immortals to advance along other paths. After other Primordial Origin Golden Immortals fell into despair, Tianguang invited Emperor Jun to discuss the Heavenly Dao’s changes atop Mount Buzhou.

• Emperor Jun discerned that the Immortal Dao had become the manifest path, while other paths were hidden within the Heavenly Dao and the way forward for many Primordial Origin Golden Immortals seemed cut off.
• Emperor Jun reassured Taiyi but kept his concerns about the changes to himself, as powerful beings across the Primordial World struggled to understand why their ancestors had fallen into despair.
• Emperor Jun used the Hetu Luoshu Diagram beneath the Fusang Tree to study the path hidden behind the Immortal Dao.
• Bai Ze brought Tianguang to meet Emperor Jun on the Sun Star, where Tianguang confirmed that he had come because of the Heavenly Dao’s changes.
• Tianguang invited Emperor Jun to join the Primordial Origin Golden Immortals in a discussion atop Mount Buzhou.

Emperor Jun agreed to attend a gathering of Primordial Origin Golden Immortals after learning that the changed Heavenly Dao and the emergence of the Immortal Dao had made their paths more difficult. At the meeting on Mount Buzhou, he discovered that three of the attendees were powerful figures tied to the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans.

• Emperor Jun agreed to attend a gathering in three years, and Daoist Tianguang left with Bai Ze.
• Emperor Jun reassured Taiyi about the uncertain paths beyond Grand Luo Golden Immortal and urged him not to become impatient.
• Three years later, Emperor Jun went alone to Mount Buzhou and entered a hidden space with twenty prayer mats.
• Emperor Jun joined ten Primordial Origin Golden Immortals already gathered there and noticed three unusually powerful, unfamiliar figures.
• Emperor Jun used the river of fate to identify the three as members of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, alerting them to his scrutiny.
• Emperor Jun judged that each of the three clans could rival the Celestial Court or the Wu Tribe in strength.

Emperor Jun attended a gathering of twenty Primordial Origin Golden Immortals to discuss how the newly manifest Immortal Dao had cut off their path forward. After striking down a black-robed Primordial Origin Golden Immortal who accused him of informing Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Emperor Jun listened as the gathering debated whether Hongjun was responsible.

• Daoist Tianguang asked the Primordial Origin Golden Immortals to conceal the Heavenly Secret, and Emperor Jun joined them in doing so.
• Daoist Tianguang raised the question of what the gathered immortals could do now that the Immortal Dao had become manifest and their road ahead was cut off.
• A black-robed Primordial Origin Golden Immortal accused Emperor Jun of revealing their discussion to Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and Emperor Jun challenged him before striking him with one punch.
• The injured black-robed Primordial Origin Golden Immortal apologized, and Daoist Tianguang urged the gathering to return to its discussion.
• The gathered immortals debated whether Dao Ancestor Hongjun had caused the Immortal Dao to cut off their path, while Emperor Jun acknowledged Hongjun's past guidance but remained silent about the new change.

Emperor Jun watched a black-robed Primordial Origin Golden Immortal urge the gathered immortals to contact the Extraterrestrial Devils and pledge allegiance to Devil Ancestor Luo Hou as a way to pursue the path beyond the Immortal Dao. He challenged the proposal and left the gathering questioning whether the Devils had deliberately contacted the black-robed immortal.

• Emperor Jun discovered that the black-robed Primordial Origin Golden Immortal and two others possessed two Threads of Fate, and identified the black-robed man as an Extraterrestrial Devil.
• The black-robed immortal proposed communicating with the Extraterrestrial Devils and pledging allegiance to Devil Ancestor Luo Hou to continue cultivating beyond the Immortal Dao.
• Primordial Origin Golden Immortals from the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans objected to betraying their clan progenitors, but seven others stood with the black-robed immortal and the clan representatives sat back down.
• The black-robed immortal claimed that the Devil World lay beyond the Heavenly Dao’s reach and let cultivators comprehend its laws, prompting many immortals to show interest.
• Emperor Jun called the proposal a path to death and questioned the black-robed immortal’s account, suggesting that the Extraterrestrial Devils may have contacted him deliberately.

Emperor Jun exposed three Extraterrestrial Devils possessing Primordial Origin Golden Immortals and led the gathered immortals in suppressing them. As the possessed bodies fell, Emperor Jun captured the Devils’ escaping Fate Lines within his Mind Realm, preparing to confront them again.

• Emperor Jun explained how the black-robed Primordial Origin Golden Immortal had been invaded, prompting the man to transform and reveal the Extraterrestrial Devil controlling him.
• The revealed Devil admitted he had suppressed the black-robed Golden Immortal and sowed suspicion that others in the gathering had also been possessed.
• Emperor Jun recognized that two Golden Immortals beside the Devil were also possessed, and both revealed themselves as Extraterrestrial Devils.
• When the Devil mentioned surviving Dao Sect beings, Emperor Jun recalled Wutian and Wangshu’s battle and immediately attacked the three Devils with the Hetu Luoshu Diagram.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clan immortals joined Emperor Jun, and the other Primordial Origin Golden Immortals helped seal the Devils in place until their possessed bodies collapsed.
• Emperor Jun saw the three Devils’ Fate Lines begin to escape and enveloped them with his Mind Realm.

Emperor Jun trapped and suppressed three Extraterrestrial Devils in his Mind Realm, absorbing their Origin Essence while their connection to the Devil World weakened. Devil Ancestor Luo Hou then appeared, explained that the Heavenly Dao prevented him from attacking Emperor Jun, and urged him to advance his realm.

• The three Extraterrestrial Devils discovered they had entered Emperor Jun’s Mind Realm and threatened to overturn it.
• Emperor Jun activated the Grand Heavenly Star Formation, while the devils split their true forms between attacking him and trying to escape.
• Emperor Jun summoned an incomplete Heavenly Realm to block their escape and suppressed all three devils, absorbing strands of their Origin Essence into his Mind Realm.
• Luo Hou sensed the devils’ weakened connection to the Devil World and followed their traces to Emperor Jun’s Mind Realm.
• Luo Hou told Emperor Jun that the Heavenly Dao prevented him from attacking, criticized the captured devils, and said he hoped to visit again after Emperor Jun advanced his realm.

Emperor Jun helped expose the Extraterrestrial Devils’ trap and told the gathered Primordial Origin Golden Immortals that the Heavenly Dao remained accessible, though its paths were obscured by the Immortal Dao. The Dragon and Phoenix Clan cultivators began testing whether their supreme treasures could help them perceive it.

• Emperor Jun found that the three possessed Primordial Origin Golden Immortals had collapsed after the Extraterrestrial Devil left them, and Daoist Tianguang determined they were near death and unlikely to retain their cultivation.
• Daoist Tianguang stored the three unconscious cultivators and agreed to return them to their clans, while Emperor Jun considered how their clans might struggle to survive.
• The Primordial Origin Golden Immortals debated seeking an explanation from Sage Hongjun, and Emperor Jun said Zixiao Palace would remain sealed until the Sage’s second sermon, five hundred yuanhui away.
• Emperor Jun revealed that he could still comprehend the Heavenly Dao and said spiritual treasures, merit, and fortune could help others overcome the obstructions hiding their paths.
• The Dragon and Phoenix Clan cultivators entered the Heavenly Dao, found only the Laws of the Immortal Dao, and activated their supreme treasures to test Emperor Jun’s method.

Emperor Jun’s guidance helped the Primordial Origin Golden Immortals find a way to comprehend the Heavenly Dao, earning him many treasures and requests to join the Demon Clan, which he rejected. Back on the Sun Star, he advised Xihe and Changxi to make the Immortal Dao their primary path and began preparing materials for the Grand Heavenly Star Formation.

• The three clans’ Primordial Origin Golden Immortals used their clan treasures to comprehend the Heavenly Dao, confirming that Emperor Jun’s method worked.
• The Primordial Origin Golden Immortals thanked Emperor Jun with gifts, and several asked to join the Demon Clan, but he rejected them all.
• Xihe and Changxi told Emperor Jun they could no longer sense the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal path in Wangshu’s inheritance, and he advised them to make the Immortal Dao their primary path.
• Emperor Jun gave Bai Ze a secret art and ordered him to gather spiritual ores and Star Essence for the Grand Heavenly Star Formation.
• Emperor Jun stayed on the Sun Star to handle affairs while Taiyi focused on cultivation and refining the East Emperor Bell.

After Emperor Jun’s guidance, Primordial Origin Golden Immortals fought for Karmic Luck across the Primordial Continent while the Three Purities and others wondered why they could not sense the path ahead. As the Sage’s second Preaching of the Dao approached, Emperor Jun visited Daoist Kunpeng in the North Sea and praised how he had governed it.

• Daoist Tianguang took control of three clans with the help of their dying Primordial Origin Golden Immortals, paid a heavy price to protect them from the Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, and Qilin clans, and used their Karmic Luck to cultivate.
• Other solitary Primordial Origin Golden Immortals seized clans for their Karmic Luck or joined the Celestial Court, and their struggles made the Primordial Continent more chaotic.
• After two hundred yuanhui of conflict, the Celestial Court and the Wu Tribe reduced their clashes, while the western Primordial Desolation remained peaceful as Jie Yin and Zhun Ti repaired its Earth Veins.
• The Three Purities failed to sense a path beyond Grand Luo Golden Immortal and expected the Sage’s second Preaching of the Dao to explain it; Emperor Jun reassured Fuxi and Nüwa about the reason.
• Emperor Jun visited Daoist Kunpeng in the North Sea, toured it with him, and praised his governance and the varied cultivation paths there.

Emperor Jun guided Daoist Kunpeng in completing the final Demon Script character by explaining the Demon Clan’s definition of a demon and lending the Demon Name Record’s aura. After all 129,600 characters formed, they began to respond to one another, and Kunpeng sensed an unexpected opportunity approaching.

• Emperor Jun asked Daoist Kunpeng about the unfinished final character of the Demon Scripts, which was “demon.”
• Daoist Kunpeng described his fragmented character and explained that he could not mend it despite working on it for ten Yuanhui.
• Emperor Jun shared Taiyi’s broad definition of a demon and explained that the Demon Name Record determined who truly belonged to the Demon Clan.
• Emperor Jun lent the Demon Name Record’s aura to the character, allowing Daoist Kunpeng to complete it and finish all 129,600 Demon Scripts.
• The completed “demon” character drew all the other scripts into the air, and Daoist Kunpeng sensed a great opportunity about to descend upon him.

Emperor Jun sealed Daoist Kunpeng’s 129,600 characters until the Demon Clan’s founding, arranging for Kunpeng to release them then and claim his opportunity. Emperor Jun set the founding for forty-nine yuanhui later, informed Fuxi and Nüwa, and arrived with Taiyi at the Sun Star to inspect the clan’s banners.

• Emperor Jun used the Hetu Luoshu Diagram to cut off the characters’ resonance with the Heavenly Dao, then persuaded Daoist Kunpeng to wait until the Demon Clan was established to accept his opportunity.
• Emperor Jun sealed the characters inside a starlit bead, gave Daoist Kunpeng the method to undo the seal, and warned him not to use it early.
• Emperor Jun told Daoist Kunpeng that the Demon Clan would be established in forty-nine yuanhui and left him to prepare in the North Sea.
• Emperor Jun went to Phoenix Perch Mountain and told Fuxi and Nüwa the founding date; both agreed to attend.
• Emperor Jun and Taiyi arrived in the depths of the Sun Star, where 365 great banners and 480 million small banners were being forged in flames.

Emperor Jun completed the 365 Main Star Banners and ordered Taiyi and Bai Ze to train the Grand Heavenly Star Formation for the Demon Clan’s founding. Forty-nine yuanhui later, the Primordial World’s great powers gathered in the starry sky, where Bai Ze revealed the formation guarding the ceremony.

• Emperor Jun gave Taiyi the 365 Main Banners and ordered him to select 365 practitioners with Bai Ze to train the Grand Heavenly Star Formation.
• Emperor Jun told Bai Ze to spread word that the Demon Clan would be established in forty-nine yuanhui, without sending invitations.
• The news spread throughout the Primordial World, and its great powers wondered how Emperor Jun’s move related to the approaching Sage’s second sermon.
• After forty-nine yuanhui, leaders and important figures from the major factions gathered in the Primordial Starry Sky to witness the ceremony.
• Bai Ze stopped the visitors before the Sun Star, and the assembled beings sensed the power of the Grand Heavenly Star Formation.
• Eastern Lord Duke asked about the formation, and Bai Ze said Emperor Jun had comprehended it from the transformations of the Heavenly Stars.

Emperor Jun unveiled the Heavenly Realm, an independent world of Thirty-Three Heavens rich in spiritual energy and destiny, after the Demon Clan demonstrated its Grand Heavenly Star Formation. The gathered powers coveted the realm but dared not challenge Emperor Jun, while Zhun Ti lamented the west’s barrenness.

• Bai Ze demonstrated the incomplete Grand Heavenly Star Formation, astonishing the gathered beings with its power.
• At the Sun Star, Emperor Jun waited with Taiyi, Nüwa, Fuxi, and Daoist Kunpeng until he declared that what he awaited had arrived.
• Emperor Jun led his companions to the ceremony and summoned the Heavenly Realm.
• A vast independent world appeared, connected to the Primordial World and containing the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• The gathered powers coveted the Heavenly Realm’s resources and destiny but held back because Emperor Jun stood before it.
• Eastern Lord Duke envied Emperor Jun’s gain, while Zhun Ti focused on the west’s scarcity.

Emperor Jun established the Demon Clan in the newly appeared Heavenly Realm, using the Demon Name Record to suppress its fortune. He appointed Taiyi Eastern Emperor and began assigning the remaining imperial positions to Fuxi and Nüwa.

• Emperor Jun responded to the Heavenly Realm’s summons, causing the Thirty-Three Heavens to shine and release Primordial Spiritual Energy.
• Emperor Jun established the Demon Clan under Heaven’s Mandate and used the Demon Name Record to suppress its fortune, granting a share of it to his allies and followers.
• The Demon Clan emerged as the Primordial World’s greatest power, ranking above the Wu Tribe and the Celestial Court.
• Emperor Jun declared that the Demon Clan would have four emperors and named Taiyi Eastern Emperor Taiyi, transferring some of the clan’s fortune to him.
• Emperor Jun called Fuxi and Nüwa forward to assign them their positions, and both answered his summons.

Emperor Jun appointed Fuxi and Nüwa as the Demon Clan’s emperors and Xihe and Changxi as its Lords of the Taiyin, further binding them to the clan. He then had Daoist Kunpeng release the contents of a Space Pearl, revealing 129,600 characters associated with the word “Demon,” whose purpose remained unclear.

• Emperor Jun named Fuxi Emperor Xi and Nüwa Empress Wa, and Demon Clan Fortune flowed to both of them.
• Taiyi, Fuxi, and Nüwa sensed their ties to the Demon Clan deepen and felt they might be able to control Emperor Jun’s Demon Name Record.
• Emperor Jun asked Xihe and Changxi whether they still wished to join the Demon Clan, then appointed them Lords of the Taiyin.
• Emperor Jun told Daoist Kunpeng that the time had come, and Kunpeng released the Space Pearl’s contents into the Primordial World.
• The golden specks expanded into 129,600 characters that danced around the character “Demon,” and the gathered beings realized the characters were not meant for them.

Daoist Kunpeng created Demon Script and received merit, while Emperor Jun named him Demon Teacher and ended the Demon Clan’s founding ceremony. Emperor Jun returned to the Sun Star and summoned the Demon Clan’s leaders to discuss its affairs in three thousand years.

• Daoist Kunpeng declared that he had created Demon Script to help living beings understand the Heavenly Dao.
• A Merit Golden Cloud arrived, granting most of its merit to Daoist Kunpeng and a small share to Emperor Jun.
• Emperor Jun appointed Daoist Kunpeng as the Demon Clan’s Demon Teacher, and Kunpeng accepted the role.
• Emperor Jun ended the ceremony, and the auspicious signs around the Heavenly Realm disappeared.
• Emperor Jun returned to the Sun Star after summoning Taiyi, Nüwa, Fuxi, Daoist Kunpeng, Bai Ze, Xihe, and Changxi to meet in three thousand years.

Three thousand years after founding the Demon Clan, Emperor Jun gathered its leaders to establish its first administrative framework. He assigned them authority and duties, then ordered Kunpeng to spread the Demon Script throughout the Primordial World, leaving Kunpeng puzzled about strengthening other factions.

• After the Demon Clan's founding, observers departed, and the Primordial World grew unusually peaceful while the Demon Clan made no moves for three thousand years.
• Fuxi, Nüwa, Kunpeng, Xihe, and Changxi met with Emperor Jun and Taiyi to discuss the Demon Clan's affairs.
• Emperor Jun gave the gathered leaders authority over the Demon Name Record and warned them against admitting members carelessly.
• Emperor Jun appointed Bai Ze chief steward to manage the Demon Clan's affairs and assigned Kunpeng responsibility for its instruction and inheritance.
• Emperor Jun ordered Kunpeng to spread the Demon Script to all beings in the Primordial World, confusing Kunpeng about why he should strengthen other factions.

Emperor Jun assigned the Demon Clan’s leaders their duties, then oversaw the creation of its military, enlightenment, lawmaking, enforcement, and logistics organizations. The clan began a major restructuring, while Bai Ze judged Emperor Jun’s system more effective than Eastern Lord Duke’s Celestial Court.

• Emperor Jun told Kunpeng and Bai Ze to organize Demon Script teaching and inheritance, and assigned Fuxi and Nüwa to create and administer the Demon Clan’s laws and punishments.
• Emperor Jun assigned Xihe and Changxi responsibility for Moon Star affairs and placed Taiyi in charge of forming the Demon Clan’s Battle Division.
• Taiyi selected fighters for the Battle Division, Kunpeng recruited candidates for enlightenment and inheritance, and Fuxi and Nüwa formed groups of lawmakers and enforcers.
• Bai Ze organized the Demon Clan’s logistics and internal responsibilities as its formerly relaxed atmosphere gave way to sweeping changes.
• Bai Ze compared the Demon Clan’s detailed system with Eastern Lord Duke’s Celestial Court and concluded that Emperor Jun’s delegation of authority was wiser.

Emperor Jun began changing the Thirty-Three Heavens so Demon Clan Fortune would determine who could ascend between them. Meanwhile, Daoist Tianguang proposed that the Primordial Origin Golden Immortals exploit the Sage’s second preaching to conquer the Primordial World, though one still feared missing the sermon.

• Emperor Jun used the Demon Name Record and his understanding of the Heavenly Realm to begin changing the Thirty-Three Heavens’ rules for ascension based on Demon Clan Fortune.
• As the Sage’s second preaching approached, Daoist Tianguang gathered seven other Primordial Origin Golden Immortals at his daoist abode.
• Daoist Tianguang argued that the group had little chance of entering Zixiao Palace because they cultivated old paths, unlike the Immortal Dao taught by Sage Hongjun.
• Daoist Tianguang proposed conquering the Primordial World while powerful beings were away at the preaching, but one Golden Immortal objected that they would miss the sermon.