Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• The Golden Ranking announces that Li Yi’s Cosmos Cauldron, God-Slaying Spear, Taiji Diagram, and Twenty-Four-Petal Pure World White Lotus are all Innate Supreme Treasures, tied for second place. The national rewards are granted only once despite the four-way tie.
• Dragon Nation receives another major reward: increased national fortune, comprehension, and talent. Its citizens celebrate and taunt other countries, while people abroad are furious that Li Yi has dominated almost the entire ranking.
• Eagle Sauce Nation’s Congress Speaker Robert berates his intelligence councilor for wrongly predicting the rankings. The councilor argues that, since all of Li Yi’s known weapons have appeared, the final first-place entry must belong to another country.
• Robert regains hope, reasoning that Eagle Sauce Nation’s two Super Divine Artifacts could tie for first and prove its Heaven World is superior to Li Yi’s Primordial World.
• Citizens of several nations argue online over which country will claim the last spot. The ranking flashes again, setting up the first-place announcement.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi remains offstage but is portrayed as overwhelmingly dominant: his four treasures secure second place and further rewards for Dragon Nation.
• Dragon Nation’s citizens shift from stunned disbelief to jubilant confidence, defending their gains against other countries’ complaints.
• Robert moves from rage and disappointment to renewed optimism after his councilor suggests Dragon Nation cannot claim first place.
• The intelligence councilor is initially blamed for the failed prediction, then tries to placate Robert by reframing the result as an opportunity.
• Citizens of other nations grow increasingly desperate and combative as they compete for the ranking’s final reward.

Significant themes

• National rivalry and competition: The ranking turns individual achievement into a contest over each country’s prosperity.
• Unequal rewards and resentment: Li Yi’s dominance leaves other nations feeling cheated and embittered.
• Uncertainty and wishful thinking: With first place still unannounced, countries confidently construct theories favoring their own weapons.
• Power and prestige: The competing claims about treasures and trial worlds reflect a broader struggle to prove which nation—and world—is strongest.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• The Golden Ranking revealed the Chaos Gourd, owned by Li Yi, in first place. It is still forming, and its grade is listed as unknown—yet it outranks every other weapon.
• The ranking grants Dragon Nation a major reward: 50% more national fortune, 50% greater comprehension for its citizens, and a 100% increase to their initial identity talent.
• Eagle Sauce Nation’s Super Divine Artifacts, the Cherubim and Seraphim Scepters, rank 157th and 158th. The council learns Li Yi owns 156 weapons, meaning every weapon above theirs belongs to him.
• Though shaken, Eagle Sauce officials look ahead to the upcoming National Destiny Battlefield contest, hoping to summon a powerful figure—perhaps a Legendary Angel—and regain an advantage.
• Three Yuanhui pass in the Primordial World. Yuanshi secretly sends his Kind Corpse toward Yingzhou Island to investigate the teachings of the Heaven-Earth Daoist, telling himself he is going to check for traps and protect Tongtian.
• Near Yingzhou Island, Yuanshi’s Kind Corpse spots a familiar figure whose back resembles his elder brother, Laozi.

Character developments

• Li Yi is further established as overwhelmingly powerful: even an unfinished treasure of his eclipses the weapons of rival nations.
• Robert and Eagle Sauce’s officials move from outrage and denial to despair, then grasp at hope in the next contest.
• Yuanshi reveals growing insecurity after Tongtian’s breakthrough. Despite his pride and criticism of Li Yi, curiosity—and concern about being left behind—draws him toward Yingzhou Island.
• Tongtian has already departed independently, underscoring his growing self-direction.

Character interactions

• People across the nations react with disbelief and anger to Li Yi’s ranking; Cherry Blossom Nation is especially humiliated after boasting about its Uchiha Fan.
• Robert demands the rankings of Eagle Sauce’s artifacts, while the Intelligence Department explains that it could not anticipate the Chaos Gourd’s rise.
• Yuanshi conceals his real curiosity behind a stated concern for Tongtian, then encounters a figure near Yingzhou Island who may be Laozi.

Significant themes

• The gulf between appearances and reality: Eagle Sauce’s “Super Divine Artifacts” prove insignificant beside Li Yi’s collection.
• National rivalry and fragile hope: Dragon Nation’s victory intensifies other nations’ desperation to catch up.
• Pride versus insecurity: Yuanshi’s arrogance masks anxiety about Tongtian’s progress and the Heaven-Earth Daoist’s teachings.

Plot points and events

• Laozi’s and Yuanshi’s Kind Corpses unexpectedly meet while heading to Yingzhou Island. Both claim they want to investigate Li Yi’s teachings and protect Tongtian from the “Unorthodox Dao,” though each recognizes the other’s real motive. They agree to travel together.
• To conceal their identities and strength, they pose as ordinary Supreme Unity Golden Immortals. At Yingzhou Island, they sit near the front, where the Great Firmament Golden Immortals usually gather.
• Kunpeng arrives late and orders the two to leave their seats. Yuanshi nearly loses his temper, but Laozi stops him. Remembering that they must keep their disguises intact—and that Kunpeng is far stronger than their assumed identities—Yuanshi reluctantly moves, privately promising revenge later. Kunpeng takes the seat and suspects the white-robed Daoist resembles Yuanshi.
• Meanwhile, Hongjun addresses a much smaller gathering at the Purple Cloud Palace. Although many powerful cultivators have left, he is pleased that his four disciples have become Quasi-Saints. He hopes to demonstrate the Three Corpses Severing Method and inspire others to follow it, strengthening his influence over the Heavenly Dao.
• When Hongjun asks Laozi and Yuanshi to summon their Kind Corpses, both claim that a Spirit Treasure is emerging in their respective abodes and that their Kind Corpses must guard it. Hongjun becomes suspicious.

Character developments and interactions

• Laozi and Yuanshi: Their polite explanations conceal mutual awareness of each other’s motives. Yuanshi’s pride and anger are evident, but Laozi’s restraint keeps him from exposing their disguises.
• Yuanshi and Kunpeng: Kunpeng’s blunt command humiliates Yuanshi, who swallows his anger for strategic reasons and silently vows to retaliate.
• Hongjun: He remains outwardly composed but is increasingly concerned that his authority is insufficient. The matching excuses from Laozi and Yuanshi deepen his suspicion.
• Kunpeng: Confident in his status, he claims the vacated seat and dismisses the possible resemblance between the disguised Daoist and Yuanshi.

Significant themes

• Pride versus prudence: Yuanshi must suppress his indignation to preserve his cover.
• Power and status: Seating customs, concealed strength, and Kunpeng’s intimidation shape how characters behave.
• Deception and hidden motives: Nearly everyone offers a respectable explanation while pursuing a different aim.
• Control and influence: Hongjun seeks to use his teaching to bind cultivators to him and increase his authority, but the disciples’ evasions suggest that control may be slipping.

Key plot points and events

• Hongjun discovers that Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti have secretly sent their Kind Corpses to Yingzhou Island to hear Li Yi preach. They offer implausible excuses about treasures emerging at their Daoist Abodes, including in the famously barren Western Land.
• Though furious, Hongjun hides his anger rather than expose his disciples in front of the assembled immortals. He begins his final lecture on the Sage Dao.
• Li Yi recognizes the four Quasi-Saint incarnations at his lecture but lets them stay. Since they have already severed their Three Corpses, he believes they cannot now switch to his Law Dao—and that listening may instead leave them indebted to him through Karma.
• Li Yi reviews the Law Dao and Primordial Unity Dao, then teaches about becoming a Sage. During the lecture, Hong Yun comprehends the teaching, breaks through to the Primordial Unity Supreme Immortal Realm, and formally acknowledges Li Yi as his teacher.
• Li Yi describes three paths to Sagehood. He calls the Law Dao—the path of mastering laws without relying on treasures, the Heavenly Dao, or merit—the orthodox route to true freedom, though the most difficult. He then calls the Three Corpses Severing Dao a shortcut that leads to a dead end, claiming only Hongjun can attain the Dao through it.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun conceals his humiliation and anger to protect his standing as Dao Ancestor, while privately discovering that all four of his direct disciples are listening to his rival.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti show their shared defiance by sending their Kind Corpses to Yingzhou Island. Their incarnations react uneasily when Li Yi calls his own path orthodox.
• Li Yi remains confident and strategic: he allows the disciples to listen, knowing their chosen path limits their options and may create a debt of Karma to him.
• Hong Yun becomes Li Yi’s disciple after his breakthrough, while Yuanshi watches the event with conflicted feelings.

Significant themes

• The struggle for spiritual authority between Hongjun and Li Yi.
• The cost of choosing a spiritual path: the Three Corpses method offers a shortcut but, in Li Yi’s account, restricts future advancement.
• Freedom versus dependence: Li Yi presents mastery of the laws as liberation from the Heavenly Dao’s restraints.
• Hidden rivalry, reputation, and Karma shape the characters’ choices as much as cultivation does.

Key plot points and events

• During a public Dao discussion, Li Yi declares that attaining Sagehood through the Law Dao is superior to the Three Corpses Severing Method, which he calls a dead end.
• He explains that the method requires three Innate Spiritual Treasures of the same origin to house the Kind, Evil, and Self Corpses. Reuniting the corpses—the final step to Sagehood—would be impossible without such a matching set, now nearly unobtainable.
• The revelation shocks the audience and damages Hongjun’s standing. Some cultivators gloat, while others regret having considered his method.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti realize that their own Three Corpses practices may have foreclosed their chances of becoming Sages. Laozi and Yuanshi’s treasures share an origin with Tongtian’s, but they have already used theirs to sever their corpses.
• Later, at Purple Cloud Palace, the four disciples confront Hongjun. Yuanshi demands to know whether Li Yi’s claim is true, while the others watch him with anger and suspicion.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi openly challenges Hongjun’s teaching and presents himself as an authority on the method’s hidden flaw.
• Hongjun is furious and humiliated. He privately knows Li Yi’s criticism is correct, but is also baffled by how Li Yi learned the secret.
• Laozi and Yuanshi shift from confidence in their cultivation to despair and resentment toward their teacher.
• Jieyin and Zhunti likewise feel betrayed, especially given their limited supply of treasures.
• The public’s reaction ranges from alarm and regret to schadenfreude, intensifying the disciples’ humiliation.
• At the palace, Yuanshi directly challenges Hongjun; Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti join him in demanding an answer.

Significant themes

• The cost of flawed instruction: A spiritual path that appears powerful may conceal an irreversible obstacle.
• Truth versus reputation: Li Yi’s public revelation may be accurate, but it threatens Hongjun’s authority and credibility.
• Irreversibility and consequence: The disciples’ past choices may have permanently limited their futures.
• Knowledge and trust: The disciples’ faith in Hongjun gives way to suspicion once they believe he withheld a crucial truth.

Key plot points and events

• Hongjun responds to his disciples’ doubts about the Three Corpses Severing Method by defending it and dismissing the Heaven-Earth Daoist’s warning as speculation. He claims the method can quickly make them Peak Quasi-Saints, after which they can pursue Sagehood through Heavenly Dao Merit.
• He argues that only six Sage positions are available under the Heavenly Dao, so the disciples should advance quickly rather than risk missing out. Convinced, Yuanshi and the others apologize and accept his advice.
• Li Yi’s warning had a different purpose: to discourage others from owing Hongjun Karma. He intends to exploit his foreknowledge of how future Sages will attain their positions, arranging for others to claim merit-based Sagehood while preserving his own potential.
• Hong Yun asks Li Yi to accept him as a disciple, grateful for Li Yi’s teachings. Li Yi names him his third disciple and privately sees him as a candidate to claim the West’s merit.
• Zhunti and Jieyin, unaware of Li Yi’s plans, look down on Hong Yun and Li Yi. They assume both may eventually serve as their protectors, and privately eye other people and treasures as well.
• The Dao Discussion ends. Li Yi then summons Tongtian, Nuwa, and Hong Yun.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun proves adept at manipulating his disciples: he mixes truth with deception, persuading them that the Three Corpses method is sound while steering them toward the outcome he wants.
• Yuanshi and the other disciples move from suspicion to renewed trust, accepting Hongjun’s explanation and apologizing.
• Li Yi remains strategically focused, using his knowledge of future events to shape who gains Sage positions. He warmly accepts Hong Yun, while privately planning to send him west.
• Hong Yun shows gratitude and loyalty by choosing discipleship as a way to repay Li Yi.
• Zhunti and Jieyin reveal their acquisitive, self-interested outlook, treating potential allies and treasures as future possessions.

Significant themes

• Truth as a tool of manipulation: Hongjun’s persuasive account blends accurate claims with false ones.
• Power, scarcity, and competition: The limited Sage positions make advancement a race.
• Strategic foreknowledge: Li Yi’s knowledge of future outcomes lets him influence who becomes powerful.
• Gratitude versus opportunism: Hong Yun repays kindness, while Zhunti and Jieyin assess others for their usefulness.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Li Yi welcomes Tongtian, Nuwa, and Hong Yun into his sect and gives each treasures meant to guide them toward the Sage Dao:
  • Tongtian receives the God-Slaying Spear and Twenty-Four Star Beads.
  • Nuwa receives the Shanhe Sheji Diagram and an innate gourd.
  • Hong Yun receives the Mystic Yellow Seal and Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd.
• Each disciple hesitates at first, feeling the gifts are too valuable, but accepts after Li Yi insists.
• Li Yi has quietly tailored the gifts to guide their future paths: the diagram and gourd encourage Nuwa’s Dao of Creation, while the seal contains spiritual resources that could help Hong Yun earn karmic merit by restoring the West.
• Li Yi sends Hong Yun west, telling him that it is the place where he can attain the Dao and that he should resolve an important past karma along the way.
• On Blue Star, Eagle Sauce Nation’s leaders respond to Li Yi’s dominance in the Weapon Rankings. Their think tank argues that the Primordial World—not Li Yi himself—is exceptionally powerful, and concludes that Eagle Sauce can regain the lead by using an old National Destiny reward to send its own super-geniuses into that world.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi acts as a generous but strategic master: he gives powerful gifts while discreetly steering each disciple toward a future role. He also anticipates that Hong Yun’s good nature could leave him vulnerable to schemers.
• Tongtian, Nuwa, and Hong Yun show respect and humility by initially declining their gifts, then accept them in trust and gratitude. The three leave together before parting ways.
• Hong Yun is directed toward a major undertaking in the West, where Li Yi expects him to gain the karma needed for his future advancement.
• Eagle Sauce’s leadership, represented by Congressman Hawk, tries to recover its confidence after Li Yi’s rankings victory. Rather than accept that Li Yi is formidable, they convince themselves he is merely benefiting from the Primordial World’s powerful setting.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and hidden guidance: Li Yi’s gifts are not just rewards; they quietly shape his disciples’ destinies.
• Humility, generosity, and vulnerability: Hong Yun’s good-hearted nature is both a virtue and a possible weakness.
• Karma and destiny: The chapter links Hong Yun’s journey west with karmic repayment and the prospect of attaining the Dao.
• National rivalry and self-deception: Eagle Sauce’s plan reflects its determination to compete, but its confidence rests on an unproven assumption that its own geniuses will outperform Li Yi.

Key plot points and events

• Eagle Sauce Nation’s councilors decide to use a rare item earned from an earlier trial. It can recall contestants from their current training and send them into a new world, but normally costs the user half its national destiny.
• They plan to share the cost with nine other powerful countries, excluding Dragon Nation, reducing Eagle Sauce Nation’s loss to five percent. Confident that Serafino will gain exceptional talent and catch up quickly, Speaker Robert orders the item activated.
• In the Primordial World, Hongjun distributes Innate Spiritual Treasures to Laozi, Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Jieyin after his lecture. His gifts are limited because Li Yi’s actions have left him with fewer treasures and he has not reached the power of the original timeline.
• Kunpeng senses danger after the lecture and tries to evade pursuit by changing his route. Yuanshi has secretly marked him, however, and Yuanshi’s and Laozi’s Kind Corpses eventually block his way.
• Kunpeng pleads that there has been a misunderstanding, but Yuanshi’s Kind Corpse regards him as doomed. Yuanshi’s resentment—fueled by Kunpeng’s earlier insults and his own doubts about Hongjun—turns into murderous intent.

Character developments and interactions

• Eagle Sauce Nation’s leaders move from despair to renewed confidence, convinced Li Yi’s stalled cultivation reflects poor talent rather than strength. Hawk presents the shared-cost plan, and Robert authorizes it.
• Hongjun tries to secure his disciples’ trust with gifts, though his reduced resources make him noticeably less generous than in the original timeline. Laozi and Yuanshi receive Supreme-grade treasures; Zhunti and Jieyin receive High-grade ones.
• Kunpeng reveals his habitual caution by detouring when uneasy, but his evasiveness cannot overcome Yuanshi’s tracking. He attempts to placate Yuanshi while inwardly condemning him.
• Yuanshi is distrustful even of Hongjun, yet feels committed to their alliance. He redirects that frustration toward Kunpeng, whom he has both personal and strategic reasons to eliminate.

Significant themes

• Confidence and misjudgment: Eagle Sauce Nation explains Li Yi’s success away as luck, setting up a potentially costly gamble.
• Power and sacrifice: National destiny is treated as a resource that nations can spend for competitive advantage, while Hongjun’s limited power likewise constrains his generosity.
• Suspicion and political maneuvering: Kunpeng’s caution, Yuanshi’s secret marking, and Yuanshi’s uneasy alliance with Hongjun show how distrust shapes relationships.
• Revenge and concealed motives: Yuanshi’s pursuit of Kunpeng is driven not only by strategic concerns but also by accumulated personal resentment.

Plot points and events

• Hong Yun travels west, refining the Mystic Yellow Treasure Seal and Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd given to him by his master. He wonders when the promised karmic debt will appear.
• He senses a powerful disturbance and finds Yuanshi pursuing a badly wounded Kunpeng. Yuanshi has spent two years tormenting Kunpeng, repeatedly letting him think he might escape before attacking again.
• Just as Yuanshi delivers what seems to be a killing blow, Hong Yun’s Treasure Seal knocks Yuanshi’s Jade Ruyi aside.
• Hong Yun realizes Kunpeng is the person connected to the debt: at the Purple Cloud Palace, Hong Yun gave up his seat, which led Kunpeng to lose his own opportunity.
• Yuanshi reluctantly abandons the fight, judging that he would gain little by confronting Hong Yun.
• Kunpeng kneels, calls Hong Yun his big brother, and pledges loyalty. When he learns Hong Yun is headed west in pursuit of the Sage Dao, Kunpeng offers to accompany and protect him.

Character developments and interactions

• Hong Yun acts on his master’s guidance and repays his old debt by rescuing Kunpeng. He remains conciliatory, offering to take responsibility for Kunpeng rather than provoke Yuanshi.
• Yuanshi is rattled by Hong Yun’s unexpectedly powerful treasure and the force of his strike. Though resentful, he chooses retreat over a risky confrontation.
• Kunpeng presents his pledge as gratitude, but his decision is also calculated: after being hunted and humiliated, he wants the protection and advantages of an alliance with Hong Yun. He quickly volunteers to travel with him.
• Hong Yun accepts Kunpeng’s loyalty, though he is somewhat uncomfortable with the sudden “big brother” relationship.

Significant themes

• Karma and repayment: Hong Yun’s past choice at the Purple Cloud Palace carries consequences, and saving Kunpeng settles the debt.
• Power and protection: Kunpeng’s ordeal shows how vulnerable even a powerful cultivator can be without a strong ally.
• Benevolence and self-interest: Hong Yun acts from a sense of obligation, while Kunpeng’s apparent gratitude is mixed with strategic ambition.
• Rivalry and status: Yuanshi’s frustration at Hong Yun’s strength reveals his pride and sensitivity to comparisons in power.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• On the second day of the National Destiny Weapon Ranking, all of Li Yi’s weapons place above Cherry Blossom Nation’s prized Uchiha Fan. Dragon Nation’s overwhelming lead leaves rival nations fearing that Li Yi will sweep the remaining rankings.
• Eagle Sauce Nation’s speaker, Robert, convenes representatives from nine other powerful nations, including Cherry Blossom Nation, to propose a way to counter Li Yi.
• Robert reveals a five-star Re-Rank Training Card. It can send three people from each participating nation into a newly designated world, preserving their existing strength, Talents, and weapons. Using it costs national destiny equal to 50% of Eagle Sauce Nation’s reserves, which can be shared among up to ten nations.
• Robert argues that Li Yi’s advantage comes from training in the vastly superior Primordial World, not from exceptional personal Talent. He claims Li Yi’s stalled cultivation and Dragon Nation’s limited national destiny indicate that Li Yi is mediocre by that world’s standards.
• The nine invited nations accept the cost, hoping their own Geniuses can enter the Primordial World and catch up. Their representatives sign an agreement, and the ten nations’ combined national destiny activates the card.

Character developments

• Robert emerges as a strategic, persuasive leader, presenting the plan and framing the threat as a matter of access to the Primordial World rather than Li Yi’s ability.
• Kato Tsuru, Cherry Blossom Nation’s speaker, readily joins the coalition, reflecting his desperation to halt Dragon Nation’s dominance.
• The other national representatives move from astonishment at the card’s cost to agreement, choosing a risky alliance over accepting defeat.

Significant themes

• Power and unequal opportunity: The nations attribute Li Yi’s lead to the extraordinary level of his training world.
• Collective action against a dominant rival: Competitors pool their national destiny to create a shared chance at catching up.
• Risk and desperation: The coalition sacrifices a substantial resource because doing nothing seems worse.
• Hubris and misjudgment: Robert’s confident claim that Li Yi’s Talent is mediocre—and that their Geniuses can catch up quickly—may underestimate him.

Character interactions

• Robert directly appeals to the assembled nations, using the rankings and the card’s shared cost to persuade them.
• Kato Tsuru and the other speakers discuss the risks, compare the cost with the potential reward, and agree to cooperate.
• The ten representatives formalize their alliance by signing the national destiny agreement, triggering the training card.

Plot points and events

• Eagle Sauce Nation activates the five-star Re-Rank Training Card, joined by nine other nations. In exchange for portions of their national destiny, each participating nation can recall three trainees with the cultivation and weapons they gained in their earlier training worlds, then send them to train again in a chosen world.
• The system announces that the recalled prodigies will enter the Primordial World. Eagle Sauce Nation, Cherry Blossom Nation, and Kimchi Nation celebrate the chance to compete for the rankings again.
• Dragon Nation’s citizens fear that Li Yi’s advantage will disappear once foreign prodigies enter the same world. Many had credited his success to the Primordial World’s superior level rather than to his own talent.
• Foreign netizens swarm Dragon Nation’s livestream to mock Li Yi and predict that their prodigies—including Eagle Sauce Nation’s Serafino and Cherry Blossom Nation’s Kaito—will surpass him.
• When the countdown ends, ten nations’ groups of recalled trainees are sent into the Primordial World together.

Character and relationship developments

• Li Yi remains absent from the events, but his standing becomes the focus of a public argument: Dragon Nation’s confidence in him proves fragile, while foreign rivals dismiss his achievements as luck.
• Serafino and Kaito are presented as the leading hopes of their respective nations, with supporters anticipating a rivalry between them and expecting both to overtake Li Yi.
• Dragon Nation’s citizens shift from pride to anxiety, while Eagle Sauce Nation and its allies grow newly confident. Their citizens’ reactions deepen the hostility between the nations.

Significant themes

• National destiny and competition: Nations gamble their fortune for another chance at the rankings.
• Talent versus circumstance: The chapter questions whether Li Yi’s success comes from personal ability or the advantages of the Primordial World.
• Confidence and public opinion: Dragon Nation’s support falters under pressure, while its rivals’ confidence surges.
• A reset that preserves progress: The card changes the contest’s field without erasing the recalled trainees’ prior gains.

Plot points and events

• Serafino, an Eagle Sauce Nation contestant, is recalled from Heaven World and reincarnated in the Primordial World. He retains the Cherubim and Seraphim Scepters, powerful Super Divine Artifacts from his previous trial.
• He is reborn as a direct descendant of the Earth Spirit Tiger, one of the Nine Demon Kings of the Heavenly Spirit Mountains. His starting realm is Qi Refining, Spirit Transformation—low by Primordial World standards, though Eagle Sauce viewers mistake the title for evidence of divinity.
• Contestants from other powerful nations also arrive with abilities and gains carried over from their earlier trial worlds. Their supporters expect them to challenge Li Yi in the coming rankings.
• Dragon Nation viewers worry that Serafino’s inherited artifacts and prestigious identity may give him an advantage, and fear that contestants in the Primordial World will summon powerful champions from there.
• Meanwhile, Zhunti and Jieyin return to the Western Land after thousands of years searching the East for treasures and promising disciples. They find their once-large sect reduced to a handful of followers.
• A remaining disciple explains that Hong Yun visited three thousand years earlier, preaching the Sage Dao and taking most of the sect’s disciples to his Red Cloud Daoist Grounds. Zhunti and Jieyin realize that Hong Yun has poached their followers and react with outrage.

Character developments and interactions

• Serafino is confident that his retained artifacts will help him rise to the top, despite being born at a comparatively weak level.
• Eagle Sauce’s viewers misunderstand his realm and celebrate his “divine” status; Dragon Nation’s viewers see the more serious implications of his background and worry for Li Yi.
• Zhunti and Jieyin return from their unsuccessful search hopeful about their sect, only to discover it has been nearly emptied. They question a surviving disciple, who recounts Hong Yun’s recruitment drive.
• Hong Yun, though absent from the scene, is revealed to have persuaded the Western sect’s disciples to leave by offering instruction in the Sage Dao.

Significant themes

• Inherited advantages and competition: Contestants carry powers from earlier worlds into new trials, raising expectations—and anxiety—about who will prevail.
• Different standards of power: Serafino’s realm sounds impressive to outsiders but is weak by the Primordial World’s hierarchy.
• Religious rivalry and recruitment: The Western sect’s loss of disciples highlights competition among powerful figures for followers and talented pupils.
• Expectation versus reality: National audiences make confident predictions based on incomplete information, while the actual balance of power remains uncertain.

Key plot points and events

• Zhunti and Jieyin return to the West after recruiting disciples in the East, intending to reclaim their former Daoist grounds. They discover Hong Yun has established himself there and attracted many followers.
• The brothers go to confront Hong Yun. Zhunti accuses him of stealing their disciples, but a nearby voice—Kunpeng—insists the disciples left voluntarily.
• Kunpeng emerges as Hong Yun’s ally, startling Zhunti and Jieyin, who remember their earlier hostility. When Zhunti insults him, Kunpeng attacks with Mayfly Palace and forces him back, revealing that he has reached the Primordial Unity Realm.
• Jieyin argues that the West is their birthplace and rightful domain, and appeals to Hong Yun to leave. Kunpeng counters that Hong Yun has a Heavenly Mandate to guide the West and has already attracted more than half its inhabitants and many of its advanced cultivators.
• Unable to answer Kunpeng’s accusations or overcome his strength, Jieyin takes Zhunti away. Meanwhile, Hongjun notices that the fortune of his two disciples has sharply diminished, with much of the West’s fortune seemingly transferred elsewhere.

Character developments

• Hong Yun is no longer the easily pressured, gentle figure he once was. Influenced by Kunpeng, he faces the brothers calmly and confidently.
• Kunpeng has become Hong Yun’s outspoken protector and adopted “elder brother.” His mastery of the Earth-Fire-Water-Wind Law Dao has enabled him to break through to Primordial Unity.
• Jieyin proves cautious and politically minded: when force and moral pressure both fail, he withdraws rather than risk a losing fight.
• Zhunti remains hot-tempered and combative, but his confidence is shaken by Kunpeng’s strength.
• Hongjun becomes aware that the balance of fortune in the West has shifted dramatically, hinting that the confrontation has larger consequences.

Significant themes

• Legitimacy and spiritual authority: The brothers claim the West by birth and aspiration, while Kunpeng argues that Hong Yun’s mandate and work among its people give him a stronger claim.
• Fortune and cultivation: Hong Yun’s growing following appears linked to a major transfer of the West’s fortune, alarming Hongjun.
• Loyalty and transformation: Kunpeng’s alliance with Hong Yun marks a reversal of their former antagonism and reflects both characters’ development.
• Power versus persuasion: Jieyin’s appeal to compassion and duty is undermined by Kunpeng’s forceful counterargument and demonstrated strength.

Character interactions

• The brothers approach Hong Yun as rivals seeking to reclaim the land, while Hong Yun greets them calmly.
• Kunpeng intervenes before Hong Yun can respond, defends him, and publicly challenges the brothers’ right to rule or guide the West.
• Kunpeng’s clash with Zhunti establishes his new power; Jieyin then chooses retreat, preventing the dispute from escalating into a larger battle.

Plot points and events

• In Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun learns that Hong Yun and Kunpeng have established a teaching sect in the West. Hong Yun has also found lost Western Spiritual Veins and used them to help its inhabitants, earning a vast debt of gratitude alongside the merit of teaching.
• The new advantage threatens Jieyin and Zhunti’s chances of claiming a Sage Position. Hongjun cannot undo it, so he tells them to hasten their cultivation and hopes they will attain sagehood through Heavenly Dao Merit before Hong Yun does.
• In the Heavenly Spirit Mountains, Serafino—reborn as the young tiger Fu Ling—struggles to understand the tribe’s cultivation teachings. Convinced his old Heaven World method is superior, he abandons the tribe’s Breathing Technique and trains alone for over a decade.
• At the tribe’s youth competition, Fu Ling faces a younger tiger. He confidently uses a Heaven World combat technique, forming golden armor that impresses the audience and leads them to assume he has invented a powerful secret art. The opponent’s low-grade Magic Artifact immediately shatters the armor and sends Fu Ling flying.

Character developments

• Hongjun shifts from confidence in his original plans to frustrated damage control. Unable to counter Hong Yun’s growing influence, he relies on his disciples’ speed and the possibility of Heavenly Dao Merit.
• Serafino/Fu Ling remains arrogant and self-assured despite his poor grasp of local cultivation. He mistakes unfamiliarity for proof that the tribe’s methods are inferior, and his confidence collapses when his old technique fails.
• The younger tiger is modest and affectionate toward Fu Ling, but proves more capable in the match.

Significant themes

• Hubris and misjudgment: Fu Ling’s belief in his own genius prevents him from learning the local discipline and leads to an embarrassing defeat.
• Merit, gratitude, and spiritual power: Hong Yun’s generosity creates both practical support and moral debt, changing the contest for sagehood.
• Adaptation versus reliance on the past: Fu Ling clings to skills from his former world rather than adapting to a new one; Hongjun, meanwhile, must adapt his strategy when the balance of power changes.

Character interactions

• Hongjun responds to Hong Yun’s actions by privately urging Jieyin and Zhunti to cultivate faster.
• The Earth Spirit Tiger elders and spectators interpret Fu Ling’s withdrawal from lessons and unusual armor as signs of exceptional talent; even the tribe’s king becomes curious.
• Fu Ling dismisses his opponent as an easy match, while the younger tiger greets him warmly and then defeats him with a single attack.

Plot and events

• Serafino, a supposed prodigy from the Eagle Sauce Nation, enters a newborn trial among the Earth Spirit Tigers. He refuses the tribe’s usual instruction at the Lecture Altar, believing its cultivation methods inferior, and instead practices Heaven World secret arts alone.
• In the trial, five-years-younger Fu Yuan strikes Serafino with a small magic artifact. The blow shatters Serafino’s Angel Battle Armor and defeats him in one move.
• The Earth Spirit Tigers initially mistake Serafino’s failed defense for an absurd illusion, since they sense no Spiritual Qi from it. Their clan’s Demon King is furious at the humiliation, while Serafino wonders whether the Primordial World’s techniques are vastly stronger than those of the Heaven World.
• Back on Earth, the rankings first present Serafino as a promising genius, prompting national pride. The update then reveals his one-move defeat and his fall from celebrated prodigy to clan laughingstock.
• Rankings also expose grim fates for supposed super-geniuses from other nations: some are judged untalented, relegated to menial work, expelled to dependent tribes, or killed soon after arrival. Celebrations across ten nations turn to disbelief and despair.

Character developments and interactions

• Serafino shifts from confident, self-styled genius to a publicly disgraced and bewildered fighter. His reliance on familiar Heaven World methods proves ineffective against Fu Yuan’s attack.
• Fu Yuan emerges as the unexpected victor, demonstrating that Serafino’s reputation and age advantage mean little in the trial.
• The Earth Spirit Tiger tribe moves from expecting an easy victory for Serafino to mocking his apparent incompetence; its ruler sees the defeat as a blow to clan dignity.
• The nations’ citizens go from praising their champions to questioning their abilities and the danger of the Primordial World.

Significant themes

• Reputation versus reality: A title like “super genius” offers no guarantee of success.
• The limits of prior knowledge: Serafino’s past experience and techniques fail in an unfamiliar world.
• Humiliation and public judgment: Both the clan and the watching nations quickly redefine their champions based on visible results.
• Uncertainty of the trial world: The Primordial World proves far harsher and less predictable than the nations expected.

Key plot points and events

• Citizens of the ten nations try to explain why their contestants are struggling in the Primordial World while Li Yi has survived. They convince themselves that Li Yi is merely isolated on Penglai Island, while their own contestants are among powerful races—and expect a Demon King to help them win the coming Ranking Trial.
• More than ten Yuanhui pass. Di Jun and Taiyi establish the Demon Court, gather the Ten Demon Sages, and position themselves against the Witch Tribe. Both brothers reach Peak Quasi-Saint by severing their Three Corpses.
• Taiyi, armed with the Chaos Bell and powerful treasures, is regarded as the strongest being beneath the two Dao Ancestors. His growing power fuels resentment toward them.
• Taiyi proposes making the Heaven-Earth Dao Ancestor the Demon Court’s Demon Master. Though presented as an honor, the offer would formally place the Dao Ancestor beneath the two brothers. Di Jun agrees, seeing either a chance to recruit a powerful ally or to challenge him and demonstrate the Demon Court’s supremacy.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Ten Demon Sages arrive at Penglai. Li Yi realizes that the Heavenly Dao has encouraged their ambition in hopes of forcing him to use Heavenly Dao Power, become a Sage, and help complete its laws.

Character developments and interactions

• Taiyi grows from a powerful ruler into an arrogant, ambitious challenger, convinced that he and Di Jun can rival the Dao Ancestors.
• Di Jun is initially cautious about confronting the Heaven-Earth Dao Ancestor, but Taiyi persuades him to pursue the plan.
• Li Yi sees through the Heavenly Dao’s influence and understands the purpose behind the Demon Court’s visit.
• The chapter contrasts the brothers’ forceful approach with Li Yi’s calm calculation; their arrival sets up a confrontation.

Significant themes

• Power and hubris: The Demon Court’s growing strength makes its leaders overconfident.
• Political status and rivalry: Taiyi’s offer is a maneuver to establish rank as much as a genuine invitation.
• Manipulation and destiny: The Heavenly Dao quietly exploits ambition to advance its own goals.
• Misjudgment: The nations’ citizens cling to comforting explanations for their contestants’ failures, underestimating how dangerous the Primordial World is.

Plot points and events

• Di Jun arrives at Penglai with Taiyi and the Ten Demon Sages, making a public show of the Demon Court’s power. His magic pierces the island’s formation, angering Yuanling, but Li Yi stops her from retaliating and goes to meet the visitors himself.
• Observers speculate that the Demon Court intends to challenge Li Yi and believe its twelve Quasi-Saints, aided by their battle formations, could overwhelm him.
• Di Jun greets Li Yi and offers him the title of Demon Master, along with the Demon Court’s resources and fortune. The offer is framed as repayment for Li Yi’s past instruction, but onlookers recognize that accepting would place Li Yi beneath Di Jun and bind him to the Demon Court’s fortunes.
• Li Yi flatly refuses and tells the visitors to leave. Shocked and angered, Taiyi summons the Chaos Bell and attacks.
• The bell’s immense power stops just short of Li Yi, blocked by his pure white immortal light. The chapter ends with Taiyi’s confidence shattered and the watching cultivators stunned.

Character developments

• Li Yi remains composed and decisive, refusing both the Demon Court’s inducement and its attempt to assert dominance. He is willing to confront its forces directly.
• Di Jun presents himself as grateful and magnanimous, but his confidence reveals that he expects Li Yi to submit to the Demon Court’s authority.
• Taiyi sees the encounter as a chance to demonstrate his supremacy, but his attack’s failure immediately undermines that belief.
• Yuanling shows loyalty and indignation on Li Yi’s behalf, while Li Yi restrains her and handles the confrontation himself.

Character interactions

• Yuanling objects to Di Jun’s intrusion; Li Yi calmly tells her to wait.
• Di Jun invokes their history as teacher and student while offering Li Yi a subordinate position. Li Yi rejects him without ceremony.
• Taiyi responds to Li Yi’s refusal with an attack, turning the diplomatic approach into an open confrontation.

Significant themes

• Power and status: The Demon Court’s political rise challenges Li Yi’s longstanding authority, while the failed bell strike suggests his strength remains formidable.
• Gratitude versus manipulation: Di Jun’s offer appears generous but would also subordinate Li Yi and make him bear the Demon Court’s consequences.
• Pride and self-determination: Li Yi refuses to trade independence for resources or recognition.
• Public reputation: The encounter unfolds before hidden observers, making each action a demonstration of power and a test of the characters’ standing.

Plot points and events

• Taiyi strikes Li Yi with the Chaos Bell, an Innate Supreme Treasure famed as the Primordial World’s greatest weapon. Li Yi initially withstands it with his Protective Immortal Light.
• Taiyi pours more power into the bell, nearly crushing Li Yi’s defense—but a twenty-four-petal Lotus Platform appears beneath him. Its protective light repels the Chaos Bell and sends the impact back at Taiyi, cracking his Quasi-Saint body.
• Di Jun responds by ordering the Ten Demon Sages to form a miniature Zhou Heavenly Star Formation. Along with their Kind and Evil Corpses, thirty-six Quasi-Saint-level figures assemble the array and trap Li Yi.
• The onlookers explain that the complete formation draws on hundreds of Demon Gods, thousands of Demon Spirits, and the power of the stars; even this incomplete version is formidable. Most spectators assume Li Yi is doomed.
• Li Yi calmly studies the formation and quickly identifies its flaws. Di Jun, unaware of this, offers him the position of Demon Master in exchange for joining the Demon Court.
• Li Yi answers only with a mocking smile. Taiyi urges Di Jun to stop negotiating, and Di Jun unleashes the formation’s attack: a storm of starlight beams descends on Li Yi.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi remains composed and confident throughout, first revealing a more powerful Lotus Platform than others believed he possessed, then quietly assessing the formation instead of panicking.
• Taiyi shifts from confidence in the Chaos Bell to frustration and fury after Li Yi repels it and injures him.
• Di Jun is both cautious and pragmatic: despite believing the formation can defeat Li Yi, he offers him a high position because of their past ties and the value Li Yi could bring to the Demon Court.
• The Demon Tribe leaders act in concert, using their formation to overcome Li Yi after Taiyi’s direct attack fails. The gathered spectators debate Li Yi’s strength, pride, and likely fate.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: The Chaos Bell’s legendary status is challenged by Li Yi’s Lotus Platform, forcing observers to revise their view of the strongest treasures and fighters.
• Individual strength versus collective force: Li Yi overwhelms Taiyi alone, but Di Jun counters with a formation powered by many cultivators and the stars.
• Pride, allegiance, and changing times: Observers argue that Li Yi’s refusal to serve the Demon Court may leave him isolated in an era dominated by the Demon and Witch Tribes.
• Confidence versus perception: The crowd sees Li Yi as trapped and doomed, while his calm study suggests he understands the formation better than his opponents realize.

Key plot points and events

• Di Jun and Taiyi trap Li Yi in the Zhou Heavenly Star Formation, unleashing repeated barrages of stellar attacks said to strike with the force of Peak Quasi-Saints.
• Li Yi’s protective light and robes withstand the attacks. Though the formation can draw on seemingly endless stellar power, Li Yi finds that its final barrage uses only about one percent of his Magic Power.
• When the next attack falls, Li Yi simply steps out of the formation, shocking its commanders and the hidden observers. The Demon Tribe withdraws the formation once it is clear he has escaped.
• Di Jun demands to know how Li Yi got out. Li Yi mocks the formation’s supposed perfection, claiming no formation in the Primordial World is flawless before him.
• Di Jun and Taiyi threaten Li Yi and turn to leave. Li Yi stops them, then casts an Array Diagram that instantly engulfs the Demon Tribe’s Quasi-Saints in a terrifying killing formation.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yi demonstrates overwhelming defensive strength and deep mastery of formations. He treats the Zhou Heavenly Star Formation as an opportunity to test its power, then shifts from calm confidence to direct defiance when the Demon Tribe attempts to leave.
• Di Jun and Taiyi move from confidence in their supposedly unbeatable formation to disbelief and frustration. Unable to defeat Li Yi, they resort to threats and try to withdraw, only to be confronted by his counterattack.
• The onlookers progress from assuming Li Yi is doomed to astonishment at his escape. Some speculate he escaped using a severed Three Corpses incarnation, but others reject the theory.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: The formation’s vast, renewable Stellar Power is formidable, but Li Yi’s strength and resources exceed its expected limits.
• Knowledge as power: Li Yi’s expertise in the Formation Dao lets him overcome an enemy’s most trusted weapon.
• Arrogance and reversal: The Demon Tribe’s confidence collapses when their supposedly flawless trap fails; their attempt to leave triggers a new danger.
• Escalating conflict: The clash shifts from a test of endurance and formations to an imminent confrontation between Li Yi and the Demon Tribe’s elite.

Key plot points and events

• Heaven-Earth Daoist traps Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Demon Tribe’s Quasi-Saints inside the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation outside Penglai.
• Onlookers recognize the ancient formation but doubt it can hold the Demon Tribe’s forces, reasoning that four powerful cultivators once broke it and that the Demon Tribe has many more Quasi-Saints.
• Di Jun and Taiyi share that confidence. Taiyi believes he can identify the formation’s weak points, and the Demon forces split up to reach its four sword positions.
• Red light suddenly cuts off their spiritual perception and disrupts their sense of direction. The separated groups converge in the same place, unable to locate the array’s swords or even determine where they are.
• Bai Ze suggests Di Jun apologize to Heaven-Earth Daoist to secure their release. Di Jun angrily refuses, and Taiyi dismisses the Daoist’s authority and threatens that the arriving Demon army will use the Complete Zhou Heavenly Star Formation to defeat him.

Character developments and interactions

• Di Jun reveals that status and reputation matter deeply to him: apologizing would, in his view, undermine his authority as Demon Emperor and invalidate his rise to Primordial Unity.
• Taiyi remains defiant and confident, relying on the Demon Tribe’s formation and reinforcements despite their immediate helplessness.
• Bai Ze takes a pragmatic approach by proposing an apology, but his suggestion draws the brothers’ anger and resistance.
• Di Jun and Taiyi begin by working together confidently, but the formation’s disruption forces them to confront how little control they have.

Significant themes

• Overconfidence versus reality: Both the observers and the trapped Demon Tribe underestimate the formation until its disorienting power takes effect.
• Pride and political authority: Di Jun sees submission not as a practical concession but as a threat to his legitimacy.
• Power and reputation: The characters debate whether Heaven-Earth Daoist deserves the title and deference of a Dao Ancestor, revealing how status shapes their conflict.
• The limits of strength: Even numerous Quasi-Saints can be rendered helpless when deprived of perception and coordination.