Chapter Summaries

Plot and events

• Li Yi awakens in a parallel world where young adults enter a ten-day National Destiny Trial. Their performance affects their country’s fortune and rewards.
• Dragon Nation has missed the top ten for nine years. Students are advised to choose familiar worlds, especially the powerful Soul Land World, where Zhao Xuan—the heir to a renowned clan—expects others to follow him.
• Recognizing that the listed worlds match stories he knows, Li Yi chooses the far more dangerous Primordial World, believing his knowledge will help him survive.
• As he is transported, a system grants him nine special abilities to choose from. He selects Three Thousand Fiendgods, Companion Innate Supreme Treasure, Formation Master, and Clear Dao Platform. He then disappears into the Primordial World.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi moves from disoriented newcomer to decisive risk-taker. His confidence grows when he realizes he can choose abilities that may give him an extraordinary advantage.
• Zhao Xuan is introduced as proud and status-conscious, offering to accept only students with sufficient innate soul power as his lackeys. His classmates eagerly flatter him, while their teacher presents following him as a practical way to survive.
• Teacher Wang Gang urges caution, warning students against unexplored worlds; Li Yi deliberately ignores that advice.

Significant themes

• Ambition versus caution: Li Yi rejects the safer, familiar option in favor of a world with far greater danger and potential.
• Knowledge as power: His familiarity with the training worlds shapes his choice and gives him confidence.
• Fortune and unequal opportunity: National rankings determine a country’s destiny, while powerful family connections give Zhao Xuan a clear advantage.
• Choice and consequence: Li Yi’s world selection and four ability picks set the direction of his survival and growth.

Plot points and events

• Li Yi awakens in the Primordial World as the Cosmos Demon God, one of the Three Thousand Fiendgods. He remembers that Pangu has recently created Heaven and Earth and that the Beast Calamity Tribulation is underway.
• He survived the Creation Tribulation but was badly injured, reducing his cultivation from Primordial Unity Supreme Immortal to Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal. Still, he sees his Demon God origins as a path to realms beyond the limits faced by most beings.
• His system grants him the Cosmos Cauldron, a powerful companion treasure with offensive, defensive, and transformative abilities; mastery of formations; and a Clear Dao Platform that protects him from Fiendish Qi, karmic retribution, and karmic schemes. Li Yi decides to go into seclusion to recover before seeking opportunities.
• The scene shifts to the National Destiny Trial’s livestream room. Teachers review participants’ starting worlds and identities. Zhao Xuan’s promising profile—an imperial-family member in the Soul Land World with a White Tiger martial soul and Level 9 innate soul power—draws praise.
• Wang Gang then sees Li Yi’s profile: he has entered the unexplored Primordial World as an injured Great Firmament Golden Immortal. Wang Gang and another teacher dismiss his choice as foolish and assume his grand-sounding title and realm mean little.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi is optimistic and confident despite his injuries. He quickly assesses his advantages, takes in his newly granted abilities, and chooses recovery over recklessness.
• Wang Gang is frustrated by Li Yi’s decision, which he sees as defying his advice and risking certain death. His colleague teases him and shares his skepticism; both turn their attention back to Zhao Xuan’s prospects.
• Zhao Xuan is introduced through his trial profile rather than direct action. His strong background and martial soul make him a favorite of the teachers.

Significant themes

• Origins and potential: Li Yi’s Demon God heritage gives him a far greater possible ceiling than his damaged cultivation suggests.
• Appearance versus reality: The teachers underestimate Li Yi because they do not understand the Primordial World’s titles or power system.
• Risk and judgment: Li Yi chooses an unknown, dangerous world, while the teachers view that choice as reckless.
• Unequal beginnings: Trial participants’ identities and innate gifts can give some a substantial advantage from the outset.

Plot points and events

• The National Destiny Trial begins, and Cherry Blossom Nation’s livestream reveals that Kato Kaito is a peak-Genin in the Naruto World, with a One-Tomoe Sharingan and the identity of Madara Uchiha’s younger brother. Cherry Blossom viewers boast that their nation will defeat Dragon Nation.
• The story shifts to the Primordial World a million years later. Li Yi emerges from the Cosmos Cauldron fully healed and back in the Primordial Unity Supreme Immortal Realm. Confident in his strength, he sets out to find a place to establish his Daoist Abode.
• After another thousand years, Li Yi discovers a phantom Immortal Island whose light purifies the surrounding Fiendish Qi. Powerful Cultivators have gathered, drawn by the island’s apparent Innate Spiritual Treasure, but none can work out how to enter.
• Fengling, a Phoenix Clan formation expert, recognizes that the island’s restrictions cannot be overcome by brute force. Ao Jin of the Dragon Clan proposes forcing entry with Dharma Treasures, then claims the opportunity for the Dragon and Phoenix Clans and drives away the Rogue Cultivators.
• Li Yi arrives and begins examining the formation. Ao Jin, mistaking him for an insignificant outsider, attacks with a massive Treasure Seal.
• Li Yi casually blows the seal back. It pierces the Black Tortoise elder protecting Ao Jin and strikes the Golden Dragon, leaving Ao Jin badly wounded. The chapter ends as golden blood rains down.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi returns to full strength and displays effortless, overwhelming power. He remains calm when attacked, underscoring his confidence and experience.
• Fengling is discerning and technically knowledgeable: she understands the island’s formation better than Ao Jin. Though she briefly prepares to protect Li Yi, her motive is to avoid taking on unknown Karma, not compassion.
• Ao Jin is arrogant and entitled, treating the island’s opportunity as the clans’ property. His contempt for Li Yi leads him to attack without knowing his opponent’s strength; his confidence quickly turns to fear.
• The Rogue Cultivators are forced to yield to the Dragon Clan’s intimidation, while the Black Tortoise elder intervenes to defend Ao Jin and suffers the consequences.

Significant themes

• Power and hubris: Ao Jin’s status-based arrogance collapses when confronted with Li Yi’s real strength.
• Knowledge versus force: Fengling understands that the island’s formation cannot be broken through brute strength, contrasting with Ao Jin’s simplistic approach.
• Fortune and opportunity: The island’s appearance and hidden restrictions make access seem tied to exceptional fortune, while its revealed treasure draws competing factions.
• National rivalry and bravado: The opening livestream introduces the nations’ competitive pride, contrasting with the Primordial World’s struggle over power and territory.

Plot points and events

• Li Yi kills Ao Jin, the Dragon Clan’s late-stage Supreme Unity Golden Immortal prince, and the elder Black Tortoise after effortlessly deflecting Ao Jin’s treasure seal. He collects their Spirit Treasures and enters the mysterious island.
• The Dragon and Phoenix clans, along with unaffiliated cultivators, flee. Fengling judges the unknown Daoist too dangerous to confront.
• Li Yi crosses the island’s Innate Formation, names the island Penglai, and claims the formation by refining its stele. He believes he can defend it against anyone below a Sage.
• At the island’s center, he discovers a Twelfth-Rank Pure World White Lotus, an exceptionally powerful Innate Spiritual Treasure that will mature in just over thirty thousand years. He settles in to wait and uses his Cosmos Cauldron to transform the captured Five Direction Flags from acquired treasures into innate ones.
• In the Dragon Palace, the Ancestral Dragon reviews the events. Though his son wants revenge, he orders the clan to let the matter go for now and focus on defeating the Fierce Beasts. He cannot divine Li Yi’s origins and suspects he is a being of extraordinary power.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi demonstrates overwhelming strength and confidence, securing Penglai and its treasures without concern for the clans’ retaliation. His knowledge of formations and the Cosmos Cauldron also reveals a practical interest in improving his resources.
• Fengling responds cautiously to the deaths, withdrawing the Phoenix Clan rather than risking a confrontation.
• The Ancestral Dragon puts clan priorities above immediate vengeance. He restrains his son, judging Li Yi too dangerous to challenge before the Dragon Clan has consolidated its power.
• The Ancestral Dragon’s son is initially furious and eager to retaliate, but falls silent under his father’s authority and eventually accepts the decision.

Significant themes

• Power and caution: Li Yi’s strength changes how others behave, while the Ancestral Dragon recognizes that even a powerful clan must avoid a reckless fight.
• Ambition and timing: The Dragon Clan postpones revenge to pursue dominance during the ongoing calamity.
• Treasure and cultivation: The White Lotus and the Cosmos Cauldron’s power to upgrade treasures underscore the importance of rare resources in shaping future strength.

Key plot points and events

• After more than 30,000 years of refinement, Li Yi completes a set of five-colored treasure flags. Each flag is comparable to a mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, and together they approach supreme-grade power, though refining them has nearly exhausted the Cosmos Cauldron’s origin.
• The Twelfth-Rank Pure World White Lotus blooms. Li Yi binds it with his essence blood and discovers its power to create, derive, and purify.
• Hoping to gain merit during the Beast Calamity, Li Yi leaves his secure home on Penglai Island and heads toward Buzhou Mountain, where fierce beasts are gathering.
• The lotus’s Purification Power annihilates even Golden Immortal and Supreme Unity Golden Immortal beasts with ease. Li Yi begins slaughtering them as he travels, drawing attention across the Primordial World.
• A powerful beast orders Wangxiang, Gudiao, and Du Yan to gather and surround Li Yi. Decades later, they appear in a valley—but Li Yi welcomes the confrontation, hoping it will lead him to the four great beast kings.

Character development

• Li Yi grows more confident in his strength and equipment. He recognizes the lotus as a natural counter to fierce beasts and uses it aggressively, apparently underestimating how much attention his actions will attract.
• The beast commanders respond to Li Yi’s disruption with organized force, showing that the beasts’ strongest leaders are intelligent and capable of coordinating attacks.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: Li Yi’s treasures become stronger, but refining them consumes the Cosmos Cauldron’s origin and limits its future use.
• Natural counters and advantage: The White Lotus’s purification ability is especially effective against creatures born from the world’s fiendish Qi.
• Merit and ambition: Li Yi joins the calamity to gain merit and seize opportunities, balancing practical goals with the dangers of becoming conspicuous.
• Escalation through confidence: His efficient victories bring fame, but also provoke increasingly dangerous enemies.

Character interactions

• Li Yi claims the White Lotus through blood-bonding, establishing a direct connection to the treasure.
• His encounters with the fierce beasts are largely one-sided: the beasts attack, and the lotus destroys them.
• In the chapter’s closing confrontation, beast leaders move to surround Li Yi, while he treats their arrival as a chance to pursue stronger targets rather than a threat.

Key plot points and events

• Qiongqi and his Fierce Beasts ambush Li Yi, expecting his vulnerability to their Fiendish Qi to weaken him. Li Yi is unaffected, revealing that the Fiendish Qi cannot harm him.
• Li Yi deploys the Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus. Its Purification Power destroys the weaker beasts and strips the Great Firmament Golden Immortals of much of their Fiendish Qi.
• When Qiongqi orders a retreat, Li Yi traps the group with the Five-Colored Treasure Flags and their Primordial Sealing Formation. He then kills the Great Firmament Golden Immortal beasts, whose deaths create enormous pillars of blood-red Fiendish Qi visible throughout the Primordial World.
• Qiongqi warns that Shenni, the Fierce Beasts’ leader, may come. Li Yi refuses to back down and continues attacking, convinced he can contend with Shenni thanks to the White Lotus.
• The Ancestral Dragon realizes Qiongqi’s death would cost the Fierce Beasts a major share of their Fortune—and deprive the Dragon Clan of its planned target. He orders his clan to gather and attack Chaos, another of the Four Kings.

Character developments

• Li Yi is calm, confident, and eager to turn the encounter into a source of Merit. His immunity to Fiendish Qi and effective use of the White Lotus expose his formidable power.
• Qiongqi shifts from contemptuous aggression to alarm, then despair, as Li Yi neutralizes his forces and blocks escape.
• The Ancestral Dragon reacts with anger and strategic urgency. Rather than pursue Qiongqi, he quickly redirects the Dragon Clan’s campaign toward Chaos.

Significant themes

• Power and natural advantage: The White Lotus’s Purification Power is a direct counter to the Fierce Beasts, making Li Yi’s victory possible even against high-level opponents.
• Ambition and risk: Li Yi presses his advantage despite the threat of Shenni, while the Ancestral Dragon adapts his plans to protect the Dragon Clan’s interests.
• Fortune and calamity: A powerful leader’s death has consequences beyond the battlefield, shifting the balance of Fortune and influencing the wider conflict.

Character interactions

• Li Yi taunts Qiongqi and later dismisses his warning about Shenni, while Qiongqi’s growing fear underscores the reversal in their power dynamic.
• Qiongqi commands his beasts to attack and then retreat, but Li Yi’s formation prevents them from escaping.
• The Ancestral Dragon issues orders to his offspring and blames the unknown killer of Qiongqi for disrupting the Dragon Clan’s plans.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yi kills Qiongqi inside the sealing formation, erasing the beast’s Fiendish Qi and soul with Purification Power. Qiongqi’s death triggers an enormous blood-red pillar that draws nearby cultivators.
• The onlookers mistake Li Yi’s Innate Five Direction Flags for evidence that he is Yin-Yang Daoist, then recognize him as Heaven-Earth Daoist. Impressed by his slaughter of more than a dozen Great Firmament-level beasts—including peak-level Qiongqi—they conclude he must be a Quasi-Saint.
• Over the next thousand years, the Three Clans kill the remaining four Beast Kings, suffering heavy losses. With most Fierce Beasts dead or hidden alongside Beast Emperor Shen Ni, the Beast Calamity is nearly over, and Li Yi returns to Penglai Island.
• Ten thousand years later, Li Yi reviews the treasures he collected: seven Innate Spiritual Treasures, though only the High-grade Dao Seal is of some use to him.
• Li Yi senses a visitor outside his island’s formation. The visitor introduces himself as Yang Mei, the Spatial Daoist. Recognizing him as a surviving Chaos Demon God, Li Yi welcomes him in.
• After tea and a friendly exchange, Yang Mei proposes that they discuss the Dao. Li Yi readily agrees.

Character developments

• Li Yi demonstrates overwhelming strength and gains a reputation as a major power, but remains composed and uninterested in lingering over others’ awe. He also shows hospitality and openness toward a fellow Chaos Demon God.
• Yang Mei is introduced as a highly accomplished, detached cultivator. He recognizes Li Yi’s true nature and approaches him without hostility, treating him like an old acquaintance.
• The Three Clans achieve their military goal of defeating the Beast Kings, but their victory comes at the cost of many Great Firmament Golden Immortals.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: Li Yi’s victories reshape how others judge his strength, turning rumor into fearful respect.
• Survival and kinship: Shared survival of the Creation Tribulation outweighs old rivalries among the remaining Chaos Demon Gods.
• Cultivation through exchange: Dao discussion is presented as both intellectual fellowship and a means of improving one’s understanding.
• The cost of victory: The Beast Calamity nears its end, but the clans’ losses underscore the price of defeating the Fierce Beasts.

Character interactions

• Nearby cultivators speculate about Li Yi’s identity and power, then bow respectfully when the formation opens.
• Li Yi and Yang Mei recognize one another as fellow Chaos Demon Gods. Li Yi invites him into the formation and serves him tea; Yang Mei responds warmly and suggests a Dao discussion, which Li Yi accepts.

Plot points and events

• On Blue Star, Trial Instructors review the first twelve hours of the National Destiny Trial. Zhao Xuan’s rapid progress in the Soul Land World—reaching Grand Soul Master and becoming a Soul Douluo’s disciple—earns praise and raises hopes that he will place first.
• In contrast, Li Yi’s record shows he is alive in the deadly Primordial World, has reached the Early Primordial Unity Supreme Immortal realm, and has killed the fierce beast Qiongqi. His instructor, Wang Gang, dismisses the achievement, assuming the beast is no more dangerous than a weak soul beast and believing Li Yi would have done better in Soul Land.
• Tens of thousands of years later in the Primordial World, Li Yi completes a long Dao discussion with Yang Mei. He advances to the Middle Primordial Unity Supreme Immortal realm, gains substantial insight into the Space Law, and clarifies his future cultivation path.
• Yang Mei gives Li Yi a jade seal marking Mount Kongxuan, his Daoist Abode, and departs. Li Yi reflects on how far he still is from Yang Mei’s mastery of space.
• Li Yi then approaches a visitor who has waited outside his island’s Formation for a thousand years: an elegant woman in red, accompanied by a woman in green.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi grows in cultivation and understanding, while becoming more attentive to the sincerity of others; after prioritizing his discussion with Yang Mei, he decides it is time to meet the long-waiting visitor.
• Yang Mei benefits from their mutual exchange of insights, grows fond of Li Yi, and offers him a personal invitation to his Daoist Abode.
• Wang Gang remains dismissive of Li Yi and focused on Zhao Xuan’s prospects, revealing his confidence in conventional measures of success.
• The instructors’ confident boasting about Zhao Xuan contrasts sharply with their ignorance of Li Yi’s actual accomplishments.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Blue Star’s observers underestimate Li Yi because they cannot understand his realm or the Primordial World.
• Growth through understanding: Li Yi’s progress comes not only from cultivation but from studying the Dao and learning from another powerful practitioner.
• Patience and sincerity: The visitor’s thousand-year wait earns Li Yi’s attention, while his bond with Yang Mei is strengthened by respectful exchange.

Key plot points and events

• Yuanfeng, Ancestor of the Phoenix Clan, visits Li Yi with Yuanling, a junior who was entangled in a past conflict involving the Dragon Clan. Yuanfeng apologizes and offers Li Yi the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, a set of innate spiritual treasures.
• Yuanfeng reveals her real purpose: she wants Li Yi’s help killing Beast Emperor Shen Ni, who remains after the Fierce Beast race’s defeat. Li Yi accepts the mission and the treasures.
• Yuanfeng asks Li Yi to take Yuanling in. She expels Yuanling from the Phoenix Clan and has her swear loyalty to Li Yi, hoping to protect the talented junior from the clan’s possible future downfall. Li Yi agrees to let Yuanling stay on his island.
• Li Yi and Yuanfeng travel with Phoenix Clan fighters to Shen Ni’s hideout in a fiendish-qi-filled canyon. Li Yi’s Pure World Lotus Platform purifies the qi and weakens the Fierce Beasts, allowing the Phoenix forces to attack. Li Yi and Yuanfeng confront Shen Ni, and the battle begins.

Character developments

• Li Yi shows restraint and practicality: he had not held Yuanling’s earlier involvement against her, but accepts Yuanfeng’s valuable gift because he agrees to do the work attached to it. He also recognizes Yuanling’s potential and agrees to take her in.
• Yuanfeng proves strategic and protective. She seeks Li Yi’s aid against Shen Ni while also arranging for Yuanling to survive independently of the Phoenix Clan if it falls.
• Yuanling moves from a kneeling petitioner to Li Yi’s dependent and Dao disciple, accepting her separation from the Phoenix Clan.

Significant themes

• Karma, duty, and reciprocity: Great treasures carry obligations; accepting them without fulfilling the implied bargain risks future consequences.
• Power and political rivalry: Yuanfeng seeks allies as the Three Clans compete for supremacy and Heavenly Dao merit.
• Decline and survival: Yuanfeng anticipates possible disaster for her clan and acts to preserve a gifted member.
• Restraint and loyalty: Li Yi chooses not to punish Yuanling for a past offense, while Yuanling formally pledges herself to him.

Character interactions

• Yuanfeng respectfully approaches Li Yi, apologizing for Yuanling and negotiating his assistance against Shen Ni.
• Li Yi and Yuanfeng reach a mutually beneficial agreement: he takes the Sea-Calming Pearls and joins the hunt.
• Yuanfeng entrusts Yuanling to Li Yi; Li Yi accepts her, and Yuanling thanks him and swears loyalty.
• At Shen Ni’s hideout, Li Yi and Yuanfeng fight together while the Phoenix Clan forces attack the weakened Fierce Beasts.

• Key events: Ancestral Dragon learns that the North Sea’s Fierce Beasts have been wiped out, but remains preoccupied with finding Beast Emperor Shenni and claiming the Fortune associated with his defeat. Elsewhere, Li Yi and Yuanfeng relentlessly pursue Shenni. Li Yi’s Purification Power strips away Shenni’s Fiendish Qi, leaving the Beast Emperor convinced he cannot escape. Rather than be captured, Shenni detonates all his Magic Power and Fiendish Qi in a devastating self-destruction. Li Yi protects Yuanfeng and himself inside the Cosmos Cauldron, survives the blast, and gathers Shenni’s treasures. The gathered powers learn that Shenni’s death has ended the Beast Calamity Tribulation. Heavenly Merit flows to those who contributed to the struggle, with an especially great share surrounding Li Yi.
• Character developments: Shenni’s defiance gives way to despair, then to a final act of spite when he realizes he is doomed. Li Yi’s calm resolve and powerful treasure let him defeat Shenni’s last attack while protecting Yuanfeng; he also claims the Beast Emperor’s considerable hoard. Yuanfeng trusts Li Yi’s warning not to resist the Cauldron and gratefully acknowledges his rescue. Ancestral Dragon’s ambition to keep the Dragon Clan foremost turns to bitter resentment when Li Yi receives much of the Merit he believes should have gone to his clan.
• Character interactions: Li Yi ignores Shenni’s taunt that he relies on his treasure, continuing to hem him in with Purification Power. When Shenni self-destructs, Li Yi shields Yuanfeng, who chooses to trust him. She later thanks him and makes no claim to the treasures he collects. Ancestral Dragon watches Li Yi and Yuanfeng together and assumes Yuanfeng brought Li Yi into the contest, deepening his anger.
• Themes: The chapter emphasizes the costs of ambition and the desperation of a doomed enemy; the value of trust and protection between allies; and the political stakes of heavenly Merit, which turns victory in a world-ending calamity into a source of rivalry among the Three Clans.

Plot points and events

• After the Beast Calamity, Li Yi receives a large share of the Heavenly Dao Merit for killing Qiongqi and Shenni. He returns to Penglai Island and uses half the merit to refine his Twelfth-Grade Pure World Lotus Platform in the Cosmos Cauldron.
• After more than a hundred thousand years, the lotus transforms into the Twenty-Four-Petal Pure World White Lotus, an Innate Merit Supreme Treasure with extraordinarily powerful defense. Its emergence creates visions that draw attention across the Primordial Continent.
• Satisfied with his defenses but concerned about his offense, Li Yi begins refining the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls together with Shenni’s Dao Diagram, intending to create a stronger, space-locking formation weapon.
• Meanwhile, the Three Clans’ cooperation against the Fierce Beasts collapses. Their leaders compete over resources and Fortune, and tensions between the Phoenix and Dragon Clans move toward war.
• Pressured by her clanspeople to prepare for battle, Yuanfeng orders the Phoenix Clan to ready itself. Troubled by the prospect and burden of leadership, she travels to Penglai Island to consult Li Yi.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi turns his victory into lasting power, demonstrating his strategic use of merit and shifting his focus from defense to offense. He and Yuanfeng part amicably before he returns to seclusion.
• Yuanling, content with her work on Penglai Island, admires Li Yi and quietly hopes she might someday become his disciple.
• Yuanfeng is increasingly burdened by her clan’s ambitions. Though she authorizes preparations for war, she doubts the direction events are taking and seeks Li Yi’s counsel.
• The chapter contrasts Li Yi’s independent, secluded life with Yuanfeng’s responsibilities as clan leader; their relationship is cordial and marked by mutual respect.

Key plot points and events

• Yuanfeng visits Li Yi to seek advice about the escalating war among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans. Li Yi identifies Demon Ancestor Luohou as the one manipulating events, while recognizing that the clans’ own ambition to rule the Primordial World makes war difficult to avoid.
• Yuanfeng asks whether withdrawing her clan could prevent disaster. Li Yi doubts she can persuade the Phoenixes to retreat and advises her to send promising young members away before the conflict destroys them.
• Hundreds of thousands of years pass as the clans’ war rages. The Phoenixes suffer fewer losses than the other clans. Yuanfeng sends three gifted young women to Penglai as attendants—also a quiet request that Li Yi protect them.
• While avoiding the conflict, Li Yi completes his long-term project: an array diagram forged from the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls and gathered Fiendish Qi.
• Luohou discovers that someone is siphoning off the Blood Fiend Qi produced by the war, which he had intended to use to refine his own killing formation. He cannot identify or locate the culprit, and the two forces end up taking roughly equal shares.
• Li Yi’s treasure emerges as twenty-four blood-red stars arranged according to the star lodges. He names it the Twenty-Four Star Lodge Killing Formation.

Character developments

• Yuanfeng moves from hoping the crisis can be avoided to recognizing how little control she has over her clan and the calamity. Her decision to send young Phoenixes away reflects her effort to preserve at least part of her people.
• Li Yi remains detached from the war but uses his knowledge and power to advise Yuanfeng, shelter her protégées, and pursue his own cultivation and crafting.
• Luohou is revealed as both the instigator of the calamity and a rival collector of its Blood Fiend Qi. His frustration grows when he cannot discover who is competing with him.

Significant themes

• The force of calamity and ambition: Luohou accelerates the conflict, but the clans’ desire for supremacy makes war likely regardless.
• The burdens of leadership: Yuanfeng cannot simply command her people out of danger; a leader may be swept into the consequences of their faction’s actions.
• Preserving hope amid catastrophe: Sending the gifted young Phoenixes away offers a limited way to protect the clan’s future.
• Rivalry and hidden power: Li Yi’s secret project interferes with Luohou’s plans, setting up a contest neither can yet fully see.

Character interactions

• Yuanfeng approaches Li Yi as a trusted friend, and he responds with candid warnings and practical advice rather than false reassurance.
• Yuanfeng’s gift of three young Phoenixes expresses trust and an indirect plea for Li Yi’s protection; he accepts them and places them with Yuanling.
• Li Yi and Luohou never meet directly, but their competing efforts to absorb the Blood Fiend Qi create an unseen confrontation.

Plot and key events

• Li Yi completes the refinement of the Twenty-Four Star Beads and their killing formation. Together with his Twenty-Fourth-Grade Pure World Lotus Platform, they give him powerful offense and defense against opponents below Sage level.
• The Three Clans’ final battle reaches its horrific climax: the North Sea is filled with corpses, and all three clans suffer devastating losses.
• Yuanfeng breaks free of the battle’s bloodlust and orders the Phoenix and Bird Clans to withdraw. Seeing the scale of the slaughter, Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Qilin also regain clarity.
• The three leaders make vows of atonement: the Phoenix Clan will guard the Undying Volcano, the Dragon Clan the Eye of the East Sea, and the Qilin Clan will withdraw from worldly affairs and cultivate auspicious energy. Their vows dissipate the calamity’s hold, but the clans lose their chance to rule the Primordial World.
• Li Yi hears their vows from seclusion and reflects that even Quasi-Saints cannot escape the Calamity Cycle.
• Hongjun arrives at Penglai Island seeking an audience with Li Yi. He hopes to recruit him for the coming Dao-Devil War, since Luohou’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation will require four powerful cultivators to break.
• Li Yi welcomes Hongjun into his residence. After tea and prolonged pleasantries, Hongjun begins to explain that he has a favor to ask.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng recognizes the catastrophe’s cost, abandons the fight, and accepts responsibility by vowing that her clan will guard the Undying Volcano. Her earlier knowledge of the outcome did not let her escape the calamity’s force.
• Ancestral Dragon shifts from confidence in victory to grief as he sees his clan’s losses, then vows to guard the East Sea’s Eye.
• Primordial Qilin responds to the devastation with compassion and withdraws his clan from worldly competition.
• Li Yi remains detached from the Three Clans’ battle, believing intervention would be futile and potentially worsen the Phoenix Clan’s losses. He comforts Yuanling, whom he has come to regard as a disciple, as she mourns her clan.
• Hongjun views Li Yi as a valuable potential ally because of his Demon God origins and Quasi-Saint strength. Li Yi recognizes Hongjun’s likely purpose but lets him make the request in his own time.

Significant themes

• The inescapability of fate and calamity: Even foreknowledge and great power cannot easily overcome the Calamity Cycle.
• Atonement and withdrawal: The Three Clans end their bloodshed by accepting lasting duties or retreating from the world.
• The cost of ambition: The clans’ struggle for dominance leaves them devastated and disqualified from ruling.
• New conflict emerging: The Three Clans’ calamity ends, but their departure sets the stage for the coming Dao-Devil War.

Key plot points and events

• Hongjun tells Li Yi that Demon Ancestor Luohou founded the Demon Sect and is pursuing the Killing Dao. Luohou secretly fueled the conflict among the three tribes during the Tribal Tribulation to gather slaughter and karmic power.
• Hongjun believes Luohou’s newly completed Devil Dao treasure will let him unleash a world-threatening killing calamity and attain the Great Dao. He asks Li Yi to join him in destroying the Demon Sect.
• Li Yi suspects Hongjun knew more about Luohou’s schemes than he admits, believing Hongjun let the crisis develop so he could defeat Luohou, gain merit, and advance toward becoming a Sage.
• Agreeing that the threat must be stopped, Li Yi first claims his Spirit Treasures are inadequate. Hongjun reluctantly gives him the Shanhe Sheji Diagram, a Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure that can trap enemies and protect its user.
• Li Yi then asks to keep Luohou’s Devil Dao treasure and all his other Dharma Treasures after the battle, claiming he would safeguard them. Hongjun agrees and swears an oath, privately expecting Li Yi to die in the coming conflict.
• The two arrange a time to act. Hongjun leaves Penglai Island, privately mocking Li Yi and anticipating that he will fall to Luohou’s Immortal-Slaying Killing Array.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi appears composed and cooperative, but is shrewdly transactional: he recognizes the value of joining the war and negotiates for powerful treasures before committing. His outward modesty contrasts with Hongjun’s view of his immense wealth and resources.
• Hongjun presents himself as a compassionate defender of life, but Li Yi doubts his account of how little he knew about Luohou’s plans. Though irritated by Li Yi’s demands, Hongjun conceals his anger because he needs his help. He agrees to the terms only because he expects Li Yi not to survive.
• Their exchange is courteous on the surface but marked by suspicion, concealed motives, and mutual calculation: Li Yi uses Hongjun’s need for allies to bargain, while Hongjun uses a promise he believes will never need to be honored.

Significant themes

• Hidden motives and political maneuvering: Both Daoists conceal their true judgments and plans behind polite conversation.
• Greed and bargaining: Li Yi turns a world-threatening crisis into an opportunity to secure treasures, while Hongjun resents his demands but accepts them strategically.
• Merit and ambition: Hongjun may have allowed Luohou’s plot to grow so he could defeat him and benefit from the resulting merit.
• Power and survival: The coming war is not only a defense of the world but a struggle whose outcome, Hongjun believes, will determine which powerful figures live—and who claims the spoils.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yi predicts that he will eventually clash with Hongjun and decides he cannot simply hide from the coming Dao-Devil War. If Hongjun becomes the Heavenly Dao’s representative, Li Yi fears being forced out of the Primordial World—or killed—so he chooses to fight and seek Heavenly Merit himself.
• Li Yi joins Hongjun, Yang Mei, and the Yin-Yang Daoist at a Western spiritual-vein site. The Yin-Yang Daoist doubts Li Yi’s strength, but Hongjun says divination has shown Li Yi is the most suitable of the four candidates.
• Hongjun’s group heads for Demon Mountain. There, Luohou senses that the confrontation may give him a chance to attain Primordial Unity Great Firmament.
• As the assembled cultivators attack, the four leaders declare their intention to vanquish demons. Luohou unleashes the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, trapping the battlefield. Cultivators below the Great Firmament realm are instantly killed, while the formation seals off escape for the stronger fighters.
• The formation separates the four leaders. Luohou singles out Li Yi, declaring that he has come to meet his death.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi shifts from considering retreat to choosing active resistance. He resolves to compete with Hongjun for influence over the Primordial World and believes he, too, can become a representative of the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun presents himself as the strategist who has identified Li Yi as useful, while Li Yi suspects Hongjun’s motives and sees him as a future rival.
• Yang Mei remains friendly with Li Yi, greeting him warmly after their years of discussing the Dao.
• The Yin-Yang Daoist openly belittles Li Yi and refuses to help him once battle begins. He is willing to let Li Yi draw Luohou’s attention so he can observe the enemy.
• Luohou welcomes the confrontation as a possible route to attaining the Dao and unleashing the Devil Dao’s influence across the world.

Significant themes

• Survival through ambition: Li Yi decides that avoiding danger may leave him more vulnerable later, so he chooses to take risks now.
• Power, destiny, and rivalry: The struggle is not only against Luohou; Li Yi also sees Hongjun as a future competitor for authority over the Primordial World.
• Sacrifice and self-interest: The Yin-Yang Daoist’s willingness to leave Li Yi exposed contrasts with Hongjun’s stated support and Yang Mei’s cordiality.
• The cost of war: Luohou’s formation turns the battlefield into a slaughter, showing the devastating stakes of the Dao-Devil conflict.

Plot points and events

• Li Yi, protected by his upgraded Twenty-Fourth-Grade Pure World Lotus, withstands the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation’s lethal elements and sword qi. He studies the array and realizes that all four Demon Swords must be removed from their Array Eyes simultaneously to break it.
• Luohou recognizes Li Yi as the one who stole a third of the Blood Fiend Qi he needed to complete the formation. Furious, he abandons the other intruders and rushes to confront him.
• Hongjun uses the opportunity to send three treasures toward the eastern, southern, and western Array Eyes while heading for the northern one himself, relying on calculations made with the Creation Jade Butterfly fragment.
• Luohou attacks Li Yi with the formation’s full force, but the Lotus Platform’s protective light repels everything. Even Luohou’s God-Slaying Spear cannot overcome its defense.
• Luohou tries to leave rather than waste time battling Li Yi. Li Yi traps him in the Twenty-Four Star Lodge Killing Formation, formed from the Blood Fiend Qi Luohou had lost.
• With Luohou no longer guarding the sword formation, Li Yi sees a chance to break it himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi reveals deep formation knowledge, confidence, and strategic boldness. He turns his defense into an opportunity, trapping Luohou and planning to exploit his absence from the array.
• Luohou is enraged by Li Yi’s past theft but also recognizes the extraordinary power of his Lotus Platform. Prioritizing the formation over revenge, he attempts to withdraw—only to be trapped.
• Hongjun acts opportunistically and methodically, using Luohou’s distraction to target the four Array Eyes.
• The central interaction is Li Yi and Luohou’s contest of power and timing: Luohou cannot penetrate Li Yi’s defense, while Li Yi uses Luohou’s own stolen energy to ensnare him.

Significant themes

• Power and specialization: Li Yi’s defensive Supreme Treasure neutralizes attacks that would overwhelm even a powerful immortal.
• Strategy over brute force: The formation’s rules, Hongjun’s calculations, and Li Yi’s timing matter as much as raw strength.
• Consequences and reversal: Luohou’s stolen Blood Fiend Qi returns as the force used to trap him.
• Merit and cosmic destiny: The characters’ actions are framed as part of the Dao-Demon Tribulation, with the Heavenly Dao observing and rewarding their contributions.

Plot points and events

• Li Yi reaches the eastern array eye and attempts to take the Immortal-Slaying Sword. Its attack pierces his Quasi-Saint body, demonstrating its exceptional sharpness.
• He uses the Cosmos Cauldron to anticipate the sword’s movements, suppresses it, and carries it off. Hongjun’s Kind Corpse arrives later, finds the array eye empty, and is baffled.
• Luohou senses the loss of the sword while trapped in Li Yi’s Twenty-Four Star Lodge Killing Formation. As he prepares to destroy the formation at the cost of the God-Slaying Spear’s origin, the formation unexpectedly dissolves.
• Luohou rushes to the western array eye, deciding to target Yin-Yang rather than the formidable Yang Mei or Hongjun.
• Yin-Yang, protected by the Taiji Diagram, has frozen the formation’s attacks but cannot locate the array eye. He regards the diagram as the ideal treasure for his Dao and a future path to enlightenment.
• Luohou ambushes him, shatters his Dao Seal, and breaks through his Five Direction Formation by spending some of the God-Slaying Spear’s origin. The damaged Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Flag loses power.
• Mistaking Li Yi’s fate, Yin-Yang insults him as useless. Luohou, offended by the remark and unwilling to admit how badly Li Yi had outmaneuvered him, claims he fought Qiankun to a standstill. Reassured, Yin-Yang boldly challenges Luohou.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi proves both resilient and tactically perceptive, using the Cosmos Cauldron to counter the Immortal-Slaying Sword’s evasive movements.
• Hongjun’s Kind Corpse is left confused by the missing sword, showing that even Hongjun’s deductions have been disrupted.
• Luohou grows anxious after losing the sword and abandons caution, sacrificing some of his spear’s power to escape and pursue a new target.
• Yin-Yang is initially confident in the Taiji Diagram and later shaken by Luohou’s attack, but Luohou’s boast restores his confidence—perhaps too easily.
• The encounter is shaped by mistaken assumptions: Yin-Yang thinks Li Yi has been killed, while Luohou exaggerates their supposed fight to protect his pride.

Significant themes

• Strategy and adaptability: Li Yi’s foresight and use of artifacts alter the battle more effectively than brute force.
• The cost of power: Luohou damages the God-Slaying Spear’s origin to break free.
• Pride and misjudgment: Characters misread one another, and Luohou’s face-saving lie changes Yin-Yang’s willingness to fight.
• Fate, fortune, and ambition: Yin-Yang’s desire for the Taiji Diagram reflects his hope to attain enlightenment through the Yin-Yang Dao.

Plot points

• The Yin-Yang Daoist, empowered by the Taiji Diagram’s domain, attacks Luohou with his World-Grinding Wheel, confident the Demon Ancestor cannot withstand it.
• Luohou breaks the Daoist’s Supreme-grade millstone with one strike of the God-Slaying Spear. The blow severely wounds the Daoist and downgrades his Companion Spirit Treasure.
• The Yin-Yang Daoist flees under the Taiji Diagram’s protection, but Luohou pursues him. Luohou is in a hurry because two of the four swords have already been taken.
• The Daoist spots Hongjun’s Evil Corpse and begs for help. Luohou recognizes it as one of Hongjun’s supposed Spirit-Treasure-refined incarnations and deduces that Hongjun’s three allies were being used as bait.
• Hongjun denies the accusation, then suddenly strikes the Yin-Yang Daoist and sends him—and the Taiji Diagram—flying toward Luohou. Hongjun escapes toward an Array Eye, leaving Luohou and the Daoist face-to-face.
• The Yin-Yang Daoist realizes he has been betrayed and cries out Hongjun’s name. His shout draws the attention of others in the formation, including a figure approaching from the Immortal-Trapping Sword’s Array Eye.

Character developments and interactions

• Luohou demonstrates overwhelming offensive power and sharp insight into Hongjun’s tactics. He is more urgent now that his swords are being taken.
• The Yin-Yang Daoist shifts from smug confidence to shock, fear, and finally furious betrayal after trusting Hongjun.
• Hongjun is revealed as ruthlessly strategic: he uses allies as decoys, conceals the nature of his Three Corpses, and sacrifices the Yin-Yang Daoist to escape.
• Luohou’s taunt briefly turns the Yin-Yang Daoist against Hongjun, but Hongjun’s feigned defense restores the Daoist’s trust just long enough for the betrayal.

Significant themes

• Deception and misdirection: Hongjun hides his true plan behind apparent cooperation, while Luohou sees through the scheme.
• Overconfidence and misjudgment: The Yin-Yang Daoist mistakes his domain and treasure’s power for a match for Luohou.
• Survival at any cost: Both Luohou and Hongjun prioritize urgent objectives, while the Yin-Yang Daoist is left paying the price for their schemes.

Key plot points and events

• Luohou kills the already-wounded Yin-Yang Daoist with the God-Slaying Spear, shattering his Primordial Spirit.
• Before dying, Yin-Yang Daoist gives Li Yi the Taiji Diagram and his other treasures, warns him that Hongjun betrayed them and treats them as pawns, and asks him to avenge him. Li Yi says he and Hongjun are destined to become enemies regardless.
• Yin-Yang Daoist’s death causes Heaven and Earth to mourn. Li Yi claims his body and treasures, then confronts Luohou.
• Li Yi traps Luohou in his Twenty-Four Star Lodge Killing Formation while the Pure World White Lotus withstands the God-Slaying Spear. The formation draws endlessly on an Innate Spiritual Vein, giving Li Yi the advantage despite his lower cultivation.
• Elsewhere, Hongjun removes the final sword, completely breaking the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation. Expecting to claim the war’s greatest Merit by killing Luohou himself, he is stunned to hear Luohou announce that he will self-destruct rather than be killed. A catastrophic energy surge follows.

Character developments and interactions

• Yin-Yang Daoist dies embittered toward Hongjun, but accepts Li Yi’s reassurance and leaves the world without regret.
• Li Yi emerges as a formidable strategist: he has already taken three of the four swords, uses a custom-built formation, and lets Luohou know exactly why it cannot be broken.
• Luohou recognizes Li Yi’s skill and shows respect for his formation-making, even as he fights desperately. Once trapped and outmatched, he chooses self-destruction over defeat.
• Hongjun shifts from confidence in his calculations to frustration and alarm when Li Yi takes much of the credit and Luohou’s final move threatens to derail his plans.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and mistrust: Yin-Yang Daoist’s final accusation casts Hongjun’s alliances as manipulative.
• Merit, ambition, and control: Li Yi and Hongjun compete—directly and indirectly—for credit in the Dao-Devil War.
• Preparation versus calculation: Li Yi’s carefully prepared formation succeeds where Hongjun’s predictions fail.
• Death and sacrifice: Yin-Yang Daoist’s final gift and Luohou’s threatened self-destruction show the costs of the conflict.

Key plot points and events

• Luohou, facing defeat in the Dao-Devil War, detonates himself and the West’s Spiritual Veins. Hongjun is blasted away, while Li Yi survives inside the Pure World White Lotus’s protective light.
• As Luohou’s treasures are swept toward the Chaos Turbulence, Li Yi collects the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram and other Spirit Treasures in the Cosmos Cauldron.
• With the calamity ended, Heavenly Dao Merit descends upon the survivors. Li Yi receives by far the greatest share—more than twice Hongjun’s.
• Li Yi tells Hongjun and Yang Mei how he fought Luohou, concealing that he recovered Yin-Yang Daoist’s body and Taiji Diagram. He claims the body was lost in a Void Rift.
• Li Yi invokes Hongjun’s earlier promise and retrieves the Immortal-Ending Sword, completing his claim to the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Back on Penglai Island, Li Yi surveys his spoils and begins cultivating with his enormous store of Merit. The chapter then shifts to Blue Star, where viewers await the first day’s National Destiny Trial rankings.

Character developments

• Li Yi emerges from the battle enormously enriched: he has major treasures, Spirit Treasures, Spiritual Roots, and the West’s surviving Spiritual Veins. He also gains exceptional Heavenly Dao Merit and plans to use it to advance his cultivation. His triumph is tempered by secrecy: he hides the Taiji Diagram and Yin-Yang Daoist’s body.
• Hongjun becomes increasingly frustrated and suspicious. He believes Li Yi may have taken the Taiji Diagram, but cannot locate it; he also resents Li Yi’s disproportionate Merit and fears his own plan to become a Sage has been damaged.
• Yang Mei grows colder toward Hongjun, apparently unconvinced by his account of Yin-Yang Daoist’s death.

Significant themes

• Power and reward: Merit follows victory, but Li Yi’s outsized reward shifts the balance among the surviving cultivators.
• Ambition and concealed motives: Hongjun presents himself as remorseful over Yin-Yang Daoist, while secretly seeking the Taiji Diagram; Li Yi likewise hides what he has recovered.
• Fortune, Karma, and destiny: The lost Taiji Diagram matters not only as a powerful treasure but because of its future role and the Karma attached to it.
• Victory’s spoils: The conclusion of the war leaves Li Yi with material gains and new possibilities for growth, even as it deepens rivalries.

Character interactions

• Li Yi greets Hongjun and Yang Mei, recounts the battle, and subtly challenges Hongjun by asking about Yin-Yang Daoist’s dying accusation.
• Hongjun offers a public explanation and asks after Yin-Yang Daoist’s body, but Li Yi’s account blocks him from openly demanding the Taiji Diagram.
• Li Yi insists on the Immortal-Ending Sword; Hongjun reluctantly hands it over because of his oath.
• Yang Mei departs with noticeably less warmth toward Hongjun, while Hongjun privately turns his anger toward Li Yi and searches for the missing treasure.