Chapter Summaries

Emperor Jun heard proposals for the Demon Clan’s cultivation, writing, and inheritance, and approved Kunpeng’s plans to pass down abilities and establish an inheritance collection. He said he would personally handle the inheritance treasure.

• Emperor Jun assigned Kunpeng to teach the Demon Clan’s Battle Division and allowed Xihe and Changxi to arrange cultivation on the Moon Star and strengthen the Moon Star Lord Banner.
• Kunpeng reported that Demon Script had spread throughout the Primordial World and asked whether the Demon Clan should suppress scripts created by other races.
• Emperor Jun said the other races’ writing had a right to exist and that the Demon Clan’s universal script would stand out in comparison.
• Kunpeng presented a secret art that engraved divine abilities, spells, and Demon Script into bloodlines and spirits so descendants could inherit them.
• Kunpeng proposed creating a place to store the Demon Clan’s collected abilities, spells, and secrets, and Emperor Jun said he would handle the matter personally.

Emperor Jun heard Nüwa and Fuxi’s proposal to use the Demon Name Record and Mind Realm trials to recruit living beings into the Demon Clan, and explained the origins and dangers of Extraterrestrial Devils. He then invited the assembled leaders to tour the Thirty-Three Heavens before discussing further matters.

• Nüwa told Emperor Jun that a shortage of living beings was limiting the Demon Clan’s development and proposed using the Demon Name Record to select new members through a ritual and trial.
• Nüwa proposed gathering starlight from three hundred and sixty-five major stars for the ritual, which would also strengthen the Star Main Banners.
• Fuxi suggested using Mind Realm trials modeled on Extraterrestrial Devils, and Emperor Jun said his Mind Power could immerse even Primordial Origin Golden Immortals in the trials.
• Emperor Jun explained that Devil Ancestor Luo Hou’s Demon Path cultivators had become Extraterrestrial Devils, described their limits, and warned everyone to stay vigilant as they grew stronger.
• After Nüwa and Fuxi offered no further suggestions, Emperor Jun invited the others to tour the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Emperor Jun brought the Demon Clan’s leaders through the Heavenly Realm, explained his plan to relocate Demon Clan members there through a process called ascension, and granted the leaders cultivation sites in selected heavens. The Demon Clan completed a three-hundred-year migration, with fifteen living beings ascending as high as the Eighteenth Heaven.

• Emperor Jun guided the Demon Clan leaders through the Heavenly Realm and revealed that he had linked its first twenty heavens to the Demon Name Record and altered their laws.
• Emperor Jun explained that Demon Clan members would ascend through the heavens according to their fortune, and he invited the leaders to choose cultivation sites among the Thirteen Heavens above the Twentieth Heaven.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Fuxi, Nüwa, Xihe, Changxi, Demon Teacher Kunpeng, and Bai Ze each claimed a heaven, after which Emperor Jun granted them limited authority to refine their sites.
• Fuxi and the other leaders organized the Demon Clan’s entry into the Heavenly Realm, where members ascended according to their fortune and merits.
• After three hundred years, every Demon Clan living being had entered the Heavenly Realm, and fifteen had ascended to the Eighteenth Heaven.

Emperor Jun completed the Demon Name Record’s recruitment trials, using star radiance and Mind Power to assess candidates’ character and loyalty to the Demon Clan. He tested the system by scattering ten enchanted pebbles across the Primordial Continent and discovered that the Six-Eared Macaque had found one.

• Emperor Jun modified the Demon Name Record with radiance from the 365 Main Stars and added a simple Grand Heavenly Star Formation to trigger its trial.
• Emperor Jun discovered that vitality within the Mind Power could sustain and increase it by drawing on Karmic Luck or Primordial Spiritual Energy.
• Emperor Jun designed Mind Realm trials that obscured candidates’ thoughts and judged their character, conduct, and support for the Demon Clan.
• After completing the Demon Name Record and its recruitment functions, Emperor Jun sealed instructions and formation information inside ten Sun Star pebbles and sent them to the Primordial Continent.
• Three hundred years later, Emperor Jun sensed that one pebble had been triggered and identified its finder as the Six-Eared Macaque.

Emperor Jun saw that the Six-Eared Macaque’s Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivation was unstable because he had absorbed many conflicting lineages. After deciding to seek help from the Demon Clan, the Six-Eared Macaque gathered the required starlight, arranged it into a simplified Grand Heavenly Star Formation, and began activating it as Emperor Jun watched.

• Emperor Jun examined the Six-Eared Macaque and recognized that his mixed cultivation lineages had left his foundation chaotic and his realm at risk of regressing.
• The Six-Eared Macaque recalled how Hongjun’s words had kept others from teaching him, leading him to absorb many cultivation methods until their foundations clashed.
• The Six-Eared Macaque chose to pursue the Demon Clan opportunity and began gathering starlight from across the Primordial World.
• Emperor Jun stopped watching the Six-Eared Macaque and spent three hundred years comprehending the Heavenly Dao.
• The Six-Eared Macaque gathered enough starlight, arranged its three hundred and sixty-five motes into the simplified Grand Heavenly Star Formation, and felt a piercing pain as he infused it with Magical Power.

Six-Eared Macaque passed the Demon Clan’s initial trial and entered a Mind Realm that showed him a peaceful life in the clan. The vision ended with the Demon Emperor missing and the Demon Clan falling into disarray.

• Six-Eared Macaque activated the simplified Grand Heavenly Star Formation, and the Demon Name Record sent a streaming light to begin his trial.
• The Demon Emperor asked Six-Eared Macaque if he wished to join the Demon Clan and risk his life for it, then accepted him and sent him a route to the Primordial Starry Sky.
• Emperor Jun entered Six-Eared Macaque’s Mind Realm to observe the true trial while leaving the Demon Name Record’s arrangements unchanged.
• Six-Eared Macaque joined the Demon Clan, served under Bai Ze, healed through study and instruction, and later entered the Battle Division after showing his strength.
• Six-Eared Macaque watched the Demon Clan descend into chaos after the Demon Emperor vanished, as Emperor Xi, Empress Wa, Eastern Emperor, and Demon Teacher Kunpeng pursued their own courses.

Six-Eared Macaque relived the Demon Clan’s destruction in the Mind Realm, where he refused to surrender and died fighting the Celestial Court and Wu Tribe. Emperor Jun was pleased by his loyalty and appeared beside him after he awakened, though Six-Eared Macaque remembered nothing of the trial.

• The Celestial Court and Wu Tribe attacked the Demon Clan, and many of its members defected as Eastern Emperor Taiyi fought to hold the faction together.
• After Eastern Emperor Taiyi fell and Bai Ze vanished, Six-Eared Macaque helped lead the remaining Demon Clan members into smaller groups to evade their pursuers.
• A former Demon Clan ally lured Six-Eared Macaque into an ambush and urged him to surrender, but Six-Eared Macaque chose to fight.
• Six-Eared Macaque battled seven Grand Luo Golden Immortals, killing three and severely wounding two before falling in battle.
• Emperor Jun watched Six-Eared Macaque’s trial in the Mind Realm, approved of his loyalty, and appeared beside him after he awakened with his memories suppressed.

After Six-Eared Macaque awakened from the trial, Emperor Jun welcomed him into the Demon Clan and offered him a reward. Six-Eared Macaque chose to have Emperor Jun refine away his conflicting lineages, and he endured the excruciating process.

• Emperor Jun explained that Six-Eared Macaque had joined the Demon Clan and showed him his entry in the Demon Name Record.
• Emperor Jun offered Six-Eared Macaque a reward, and Six-Eared Macaque asked whether the Sage was still preventing him from learning the Dharma.
• Emperor Jun reassured Six-Eared Macaque and examined his shattered foundation and conflicting lineages.
• Emperor Jun offered either a secret art to help Six-Eared Macaque merge his lineages or a personal treatment that would erase them and his cultivation.
• Six-Eared Macaque chose the second method, and Emperor Jun's Solar Trueflame began refining him as he screamed in pain.

Emperor Jun refined the Demon Clan’s recruitment trial and expanded its membership process across the Primordial Continent, prompting the Celestial Court to compete for recruits. Grand Pure Laozi secretly tested the ritual himself and faced the question of whether he would join the Demon Clan.

• Emperor Jun burned away the Six-Eared Macaque’s other lineages, reducing his cultivation to the Golden Immortal realm while leaving his foundation pure.
• Emperor Jun reviewed the six beings who entered the trial’s second stage; three passed, and he revised the ritual before giving its instructions to Fuxi.
• Emperor Jun began refining inheritance items from Natural Treasures for the Demon Clan.
• Fuxi spread the recruitment ritual across the Primordial Continent, where fewer than one percent of applicants passed and joined the Demon Clan.
• Eastern Lord Duke grew anxious about the Demon Clan’s recruitment drive and ordered the Celestial Court to recruit more beings and promote its connection to a Sage.
• Grand Pure Laozi entered the trial’s illusion and considered whether he would betray his own heart by joining the Demon Clan.

Grand Pure Laozi emerged from the Demon Clan trial with his memories erased but a clearer understanding of his true heart, then used the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Pagoda to sever a corpse and become the first Quasi-Sage. His breakthrough stirred powerful beings across the Primordial World, while Laozi remained unable to uncover Emperor Jun’s secrets.

• Grand Pure Laozi realized the Demon Clan trial had affected his mind and erased his memories, but it had helped him understand his true heart and approach the Quasi-Sage Path.
• Over the next thousand years, Emperor Jun placed a Thirty-Three-Layer Inheritance Pagoda in the Heavenly Realm, while the Demon Clan and other powerful beings cultivated in preparation for the Quasi-Sage realm.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Grand Pure Laozi gathered his Three Flowers’ essence, energy, and spirit into the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Pagoda and created a figure identical to himself to aid his Heavenly Dao comprehension.
• Grand Pure Laozi broke through to Quasi-Sage, and his aura was sensed by Taiyi, Nüwa, Fuxi, Eastern Lord Duke, Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and other powerful beings.
• After the figure returned to his Three Flowers, Grand Pure Laozi tried to recover his memories of the Demon Clan trial but failed and wondered what realm Emperor Jun had reached.
• Grand Pure Laozi heard two voices approaching before he could find answers to his questions.

Grand Pure Laozi shared how he reached the Quasi-Sage realm, prompting Yuanshi and Tongtian to repeatedly enter the Demon Clan Trial in search of insight. Emperor Jun blocked them from using the trial and then began explaining his understanding of the Quasi-Sage Path to the Demon Clan’s leaders.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian congratulated Grand Pure Laozi on becoming a Quasi-Sage, and he shared his breakthrough experience and explained how the Demon Clan Trial had helped him sever his Self Corpse.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian repeatedly tried the Demon Clan Trial but gained no insight, while Emperor Jun traced the Mind Power drain to them and realized Laozi’s breakthrough had inspired their attempts.
• Emperor Jun used the Demon Name Record to block Yuanshi and Tongtian from the trial, so they returned to cultivating on their own.
• Fuxi, Nüwa, Xihe, Changxi, Kunpeng, Bai Ze, and Taiyi asked Emperor Jun to explain the Quasi-Sage Path, and he described it as a realm distinct from the Three Corpses method.
• Emperor Jun said cultivators could reach and advance within the Quasi-Sage realm without severing corpses, then asked how the three levels would previously have been understood; Fuxi answered that one, two, and three severed corpses corresponded to lower, middle, and upper levels.

Emperor Jun explained that comprehending the Heavenly Dao mattered more than Severing the Corpse and created a Mind Realm for the Demon Clan's higher-ups. Meanwhile, Daoist Zhun Ti and Daoist Jie Yin followed a mysterious opportunity into an unexplored part of Mount Sumeru, where they sensed Demonic Qi.

• Emperor Jun told Fuxi and the others that Severing the Corpse was not required to reach Quasi-Sage, though it could aid cultivation and comprehension.
• Emperor Jun said Taiqing's Quasi-Sage breakthrough was likely connected to the Demon Clan's trial, then immersed the Demon Clan's higher-ups in a Mind Realm.
• Emperor Jun considered adapting Three Corpses Severing for a Primordial Origin Golden Immortal and wondered whether a corpse could bear the Heavenly Emperor's karmic position.
• Daoist Zhun Ti and Daoist Jie Yin sensed an opportunity in the West and cautiously searched Mount Sumeru.
• Daoist Zhun Ti and Daoist Jie Yin reached a previously undiscovered area, sensed Demonic Qi, and decided to pursue the opportunity to strengthen the West.

Zhun Ti and Jie Yin were trapped by Luo Hou’s forced Demon Path inheritance until Hongjun intervened, after which Jie Yin began combining it with Hongjun’s teachings to forge a path of his own. Emperor Jun’s companions left the Mind Realm strengthened, while the confrontation between Hongjun and Luo Hou continued.

• Zhun Ti and Jie Yin crossed a black barrier on Mount Sumeru and were drawn into Luo Hou’s Devil World, where he forced the Extraterrestrial Devils’ inheritance into their minds.
• Hongjun intervened from Zixiao Palace, clashed with Luo Hou, and returned Zhun Ti and Jie Yin’s minds to their bodies.
• Jie Yin opened his mind to Luo Hou’s inheritance and combined it with Hongjun’s teachings, discovering a new path that he could control more fully.
• Taiyi, Nüwa, Fuxi, Xihe, Changxi, Kunpeng, and Bai Ze awoke from Emperor Jun’s Mind Realm, thanked him, and departed the Sun Star.
• Emperor Jun sensed that Hongjun and Luo Hou’s clash was ongoing, returned beneath the Fusang Tree, and Jie Yin continued shaping his new path within his Sea of Consciousness.

Jie Yin and Zhun Ti survived the demonic trial by developing distinct paths, though Luo Hou’s influence remained woven into them. Jie Yin became the second Quasi-Sage, and his breakthrough spurred a wave of new Quasi-Sages across the Primordial World.

• Jie Yin awakened, entered Zhun Ti’s Sea of Consciousness, and helped him resist the demons by passing on his method.
• Zhun Ti forged a path focused on the Golden Body and merit, while Jie Yin’s path emphasized Mind Power and Luo Hou’s inheritance.
• Luo Hou withdrew into the Devil World after telling Hongjun that the Demon Path would remain linked to Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and the Western Primordial Desolation.
• Jie Yin broke through to Quasi-Sage, formed his Evil Corpse, and prepared to leave Mount Sumeru with Zhun Ti.
• Jie Yin’s breakthrough unsettled Eastern Lord Duke and prompted Yuanshi and Tongtian to enter seclusion, while Emperor Jun noticed the news without disturbing Taiyi.
• Taiyi became the third Quasi-Sage, followed by Nüwa and Fuxi, then Yuanshi and Tongtian, and finally Xihe, Changxi, and Eastern Lord Duke.

Daoist Jie Yin visited Demon Emperor Jun to repay the Causality of helping him and Zhun Ti take form, offering a book containing Devil Ancestor Luo Hou’s inheritance. Emperor Jun acknowledged the inheritance’s value but questioned its usefulness in the era of the Immortal Dao, leaving Jie Yin’s attempt at repayment unresolved.

• Daoist Jie Yin waited outside the Sun Star until Bai Ze escorted him to Demon Emperor Jun.
• Emperor Jun congratulated Jie Yin on forging a new path and asked why he had come instead of focusing on cultivation.
• Jie Yin said he wanted to repay the Causality of Emperor Jun helping him and Zhun Ti take form, then placed a book on the table.
• Jie Yin claimed the book contained Devil Ancestor Luo Hou’s inheritance, which he and Zhun Ti had drawn out and compiled at great cost.
• Emperor Jun acknowledged the inheritance’s value but warned that the Devil Ancestor’s path opposed the current Sage and could not be traversed in the era of the Immortal Dao.

Emperor Jun settled the Causality with Daoist Jie Yin by accepting the Devil Ancestor's inheritance and securing a place for the Demon Clan in the Western Sect. As he began studying the inheritance, Luo Hou appeared in Emperor Jun's Mind Realm, leaving their confrontation poised to begin.

• Daoist Jie Yin agreed to let Demon Clan beings join the Western Sect in exchange for settling his and Zhun Ti's Causality with Emperor Jun.
• Emperor Jun let Daoist Jie Yin leave without taking any Demon Clan members, intending to benefit later from the Western Sect's growth.
• Emperor Jun protected his Primordial Spirit and opened the book containing Luo Hou's inheritance, releasing a phantom black lotus as the vessel crumbled.
• Emperor Jun entered the inheritance with his divine sense, and Luo Hou sent a mental avatar from the Devil World to find its recipient.
• Emperor Jun greeted Luo Hou in the Mind Realm and admitted he hoped to learn the Devil Ancestor's abilities to prepare for their coming struggle.

Emperor Jun studied Luo Hou’s Demonic Inheritance for an eon, using his strong Mind Power to resist its influence and deepen his understanding of the Mind Demon Path. He severed all Three Corpses and proposed that they reside together in the Hetu Luoshu Diagram, leaving their experiment about to begin.

• Luo Hou invited Emperor Jun to visit the Devil World, but Emperor Jun stayed on guard until Luo Hou departed.
• Emperor Jun studied the Demonic Inheritance as the Grand Heavenly Star Formation and Thirty-Three Heavens erased the black aura it produced.
• After an eon of study, Emperor Jun realized the inheritance had catalyzed his Evil Corpse and observed the growing strength of the Demon Clan amid renewed tension with the Wu Tribe.
• Emperor Jun’s Evil Corpse emerged, and he began condensing his Good Corpse and Self Corpse at the same time.
• Emperor Jun told his Three Corpses to reside within one Innate Spiritual Treasure, and they agreed to follow his command.
• Emperor Jun summoned the Hetu Luoshu Diagram to begin the Three Corpses’ experiment.

Emperor Jun’s Three Corpses failed to entrust themselves to the Hetu Luoshu Diagram’s exclusive Innate Undying Spiritual Light until Emperor Jun fused their Origin Essences into one. They completed Severing the Corpses and united into a single being, while Emperor Jun focused on the corpses’ role in bearing causality and karmic force.

• Emperor Jun’s Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and Self Corpse found the Innate Undying Spiritual Light in the Hetu Luoshu Diagram but failed to enter it together because it rejected multiple Origin Essences.
• Emperor Jun entered the diagram and realized that the Three Corpses’ Origin Essences had developed distinct traits, making them incompatible with the same spiritual light.
• Emperor Jun removed the Three Corpses’ Origin Essences and fused them into a single cluster with Solar Trueflame, causing the corpses’ appearances and auras to become identical.
• Emperor Jun placed the fused Origin Essence into the Innate Undying Spiritual Light, and the Three Corpses successfully entrusted themselves to it.
• Emperor Jun’s Three Corpses converged and fused into one being, which explained that it could exist as either one corpse or three identical corpses.

Emperor Jun allowed the Hetu Luoshu Diagram to begin advancing into a Primordial Treasure, drawing on its accumulated stellar, earthly, and Heavenly Realm foundations. When a Thunder Tribulation appeared, he realized the Primordial World might reject another Primordial Treasure and carried the Diagram toward Chaos to complete its advancement there.

• The Hetu Luoshu Diagram could no longer suppress its accumulated foundations, so Emperor Jun approved its advancement.
• Emperor Jun's Three Corpses spread through the Diagram and released its stellar force, mountains-and-rivers aura, and Heavenly Realm foundations.
• The Diagram's rising aura attracted attention from the Three Purities, Fuxi and Nüwa, Kunpeng, Nether River, Eastern Lord Duke, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Nether River sent the Blood Sea's essence into the Twelfth Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire, hoping to advance it as well.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun warned that a Primordial Treasure needed recognition from the Primordial World, and purple clouds gathered above the Diagram.
• Emperor Jun understood that the Primordial World might reject the advancement, put away the Hetu Luoshu Diagram, and rushed toward Chaos to complete it there.

Emperor Jun tried to carry the Hetu Luoshu Diagram beyond the Primordial World to escape its Thunder Tribulation, but Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that the trial was necessary for its advancement and could not be avoided. The Diagram drew power from across the Primordial World as the purple clouds gathered, while Emperor Jun ordered someone to stop.

• Emperor Jun fled toward Chaos with the Hetu Luoshu Diagram as the Thunder Tribulation followed, drawing the attention of Taiyi, the Demon Clan, and other powerful beings.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun stopped Emperor Jun near the World Membrane and warned that taking the Diagram into Chaos would sever its connection to the Primordial World and bring fiercer punishment.
• Hongjun explained that the Thunder Tribulation was the Hetu Luoshu Diagram's necessary trial to advance into a Primordial Treasure, and Emperor Jun accepted that he could not endure it on the Diagram's behalf.
• Hongjun revealed that Emperor Jun's Three Corpses were connected to the Diagram's Innate Undying Spiritual Light, and Emperor Jun sent them his knowledge as they prepared to face the trial.
• The Hetu Luoshu Diagram drew Stellar Force, Primordial Spiritual Energy, and the essence of mountains and rivers from the Primordial World as the Three Corpses prepared to fight.
• As the purple clouds continued gathering, Hongjun shielded himself and Emperor Jun from the Heavenly Dao's rejection, and Emperor Jun ordered someone to stop.