Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan invaded Dust-Sweeping to avenge his master and unveiled the authority of the Primordial Beginning Axis against its strongest defenders. After overcoming their attacks, he killed An Xianhui and departed, while the Attendant Envoys let him leave.

• Xu Xuan entered Dust-Sweeping and demanded An Xianhui’s death, rejecting Yuan Xing’s plea to spare him.
• Jiang Yan, Yuan Xing, and Yuan Xuan confronted Xu Xuan, but his Primordial Beginning Axis suppressed their abilities and forced the nearby cultivators to the ground.
• Jiang Yan attacked with the Sword of Jiang Dong the Wanderer, but Xu Xuan’s authority subdued him and the iron sword fled.
• Yuan Xuan used the Heavenly Decline Yin Candle against Xu Xuan, but his Primordial Beginning Myriad Kalpas swallowed its Torch Dragon manifestation.
• An Xianhui left the Three Bows Palace, rejected the Heavenly Decline Yin Candle, and fired a life-consuming arrow that Xu Xuan destroyed before killing him.
• Xu Xuan left Dust-Sweeping, and the Attendant Envoys watched without stopping him.

Xu Xuan fought True Lord Heavenly Decline, Tribulation-Karma, Bitter Day across histories of ding fire and shock thunder, using severance and the authority of the formless to resist his opponent’s attacks. After sacrificing his wounds to summon a countenance for Thunder Marsh, Xu Xuan restored shock thunder’s origin history, and the ancient god confronted Candle Yin.

• Xu Xuan confronted Candle Yin beyond the heavens, where the Torch Dragon and the ding fire Dharma form challenged him over the fallen An clan cultivators and the Constant Light Dao Lineage.
• Xu Xuan entered the history of the Heavenly Epoch and became Thunder Marsh to oppose Candle Yin’s burning of lifespans, but the clash forced both ancient forms to vanish.
• Xu Xuan faced the history of the candle-raiser and used the history of severance to interrupt True Lord Bitter Day’s ding fire and wound his Dharma form.
• True Lord Bitter Day drew the Falling Sun Tribulation Arrow, and Xu Xuan used the Blood-Sacrificial Vessel to sacrifice his wounds and imagery in exchange for calamity blessing.
• Xu Xuan summoned the remnant of Thunder Marsh’s former countenance, restoring the origin history of shock thunder as Thunder Marsh awakened and addressed Candle Yin.

Xu Xuan escaped True Lord Bitter Day’s ultimate fire with Thunder Marsh’s help and recovered in the shock thunder position proof. As his sacrifice began to reverse and his passage through the Primordial Gate returned, Thunder Marsh revealed that calamity blessing could not collect its debt from him.

• Thunder Marsh pulled Xu Xuan away from Bitter Day’s destructive flames by borrowing the Primordial Gate.
• Bitter Day and the Torch Dragon discussed Xu Xuan’s strange authority, while the Wei clan learned that the True Lord had been wounded.
• Yuan Xuan and Wei Peibai discussed An Xianhui’s fate and the An clan’s plans, while Jiang Yan ordered that no one retaliate against Xu Xuan.
• Thunder Marsh brought Xu Xuan to shock thunder’s position proof and used its power to heal his wounds.
• Xu Xuan began reversing his sacrifice and restoring his passage through the Primordial Gate, but Thunder Marsh remained unaffected by the debt of calamity blessing.

After storming Dust-Sweeping, Xu Xuan remained trapped Beyond the Heavens, healing his injury while Shi Xian concealed his condition and managed the new lineage. Xu Xuan learned that Wu Earth held the ancient Yellow River Diagram, then awakened Qu Youlin and demanded to know whether she wanted to live or die.

• Shi Xian escorted Liu Xiaowen and Pang Qingyi into the Mystic Unity Dao Lineage, ordered Yin Thunder Mountain to establish a buffer sect, and concealed Xu Xuan’s serious injuries.
• Xu Xuan examined the Shock Thunder Position Proof in the Thunder Marsh and learned from Thunder Marsh that Emperor Fu had created the Yellow River Diagram, which Wu Earth still possessed.
• Xu Xuan used the Lesser Yang and Lesser Yin golden natures to stabilize his injury, awakening the Azure Thunderbolt crescent moon and the woman within it.
• Xu Xuan awakened Qu Youlin, revealed his overwhelming power and the Thunder Marsh behind him, and asked whether she wanted to live or die.

Xu Xuan questioned Qinglin about the Dao succession and the reversal of three-in-one, learning how the four works of yin-yang shaped heaven and earth. Qinglin revealed that the current power followed Xiyuan’s Dao and sought to extinguish all things so a new world, the True Realm, could emerge.

• Xu Xuan told Qinglin that he had also been Mu Youdu and asked about her ties to Qu Taichong and Yin Qingchen.
• Qinglin explained that she had no knowledge of heavenly secrets, and Thunder Marsh confirmed she was telling the truth.
• Qinglin described the succession of the Lesser Yin Lords, stopping before naming the current one.
• Qinglin explained how expounding, dissipation, manifestation, and concealment governed the formation and nature of heaven and earth.
• Thunder Marsh recounted how the ancient divine beings entered primordial chaos and how Dongfang Ying was torn apart after swallowing several of them.
• Qinglin said the current power followed Xiyuan’s Dao and aimed to extinguish everything, bring forth the primordial embryo, and create the True Realm.

Xu Xuan questioned Qinglin about the True Realm, the Northern Altar, and the destruction of Heavenly Leaf, then returned to his sect after learning more about the looming Lesser Yin Lord. He revealed that he had destroyed the An lineage’s Purple Mansion cultivators, sent Liu Xingfang to bring Shu Han back, and entered the Founders’ Hall to pay respects.

• Qinglin explained that the figure pursuing the True Realm planned to extinguish everything that did not conform to truth and create a world containing only the Great Dao.
• Qinglin said Heavenly Thunder had sought to erase Yin-Yang and that Ancient Void had helped use the Golden Crow’s descendants to probe the strength of Greater Yang.
• Xu Xuan suppressed Qinglin again, considered the danger posed by the Lesser Yin Lord, and learned from Thunder Marsh how the Yellow River Diagram had helped imprison Origin Poison through Emptiness Attestation.
• Xu Xuan returned to his sect, where Liu Xingfang saw the signs of his breakthrough and congratulated him on completing the Primordial Beginning Axis.
• Xu Xuan told Liu Xingfang that he had fought into Dust-Sweeping and killed the An lineage’s three Purple Mansion cultivators, then ordered him to bring Shu Han back from the Wu Lands.
• Xu Xuan entered the Founders’ Hall and lit three sticks of Golden Incense before the spirit tablets.

After learning that Xu Ming’s father had avenged the family by destroying the An clan at Dust-Sweeping, Xu Ming was summoned to Emperor An’s palace. Emperor An asked him to deliver a letter to the Northern Sea, while privately pursuing his ambition to reunite the continents and restore Wu Earth.

• Wen Si'an told Xu Ming that his father had stormed Dust-Sweeping and killed three generations of the An clan to avenge her family.
• Xu Ming read the sect’s letter, felt admiration for his father, and then met True Person Plain Peace, who invited him to the palace on Emperor An’s command.
• Plain Peace brought Xu Ming to Longyang, where Xu Ming observed Emperor An’s powerful Wu Earth aspect in the Great Void.
• True Person Xu Yuan asked Xu Ming to deliver a letter to the Northern Sea because Great Scarlet had joined the Mystic Unity Dao Lineage, and Xu Ming said he needed to consult his senior brother and father first.
• After Xu Ming left, Wei Mi studied an ancient map and resolved to reunite the continents and restore Wu Earth, hoping to gain insight from the Yellow River Diagram.

Xu Xuan welcomed returning disciples, assigned Liu Shu Han to cultivate at Mystic Unity, and gave Liu Xingfang a thunder scripture while recovering from his injuries. Meanwhile, Xu Fayan considered the dangers facing the Western Sea and planned to use the Nether-Mystic Expanse to test Evil Land Bodhisattva.

• Xu Xuan finished writing [Essentials of Primordial Heaven Cultivation] and learned from Liu Xiaowen that he had returned safely from overseas.
• Xu Xuan told Liu Xiaowen that the Mystic Unity matter was settled and that he could cultivate [Light-Inheriting Flame] in seclusion.
• Liu Shu Han told Xu Xuan she had attained [Chen Fengyou], and he sent her and Liu Xingfang to the Northern Sea to join the Mystic Unity Immortal Sect.
• Xu Xuan warned Liu Xingfang that the Netherworld might target Liu Shu Han, then gave him [Essentials of Primordial Heaven Cultivation] and explained its thunder arts.
• Xu Fayan reviewed the monsters and threats around the Western Sea, then decided he could use the Nether-Mystic Expanse to sound out Evil Land Bodhisattva.

After recovering in the Thunder Marsh, Xu Xuan completed the Mixed Swallowing technique and advanced plans for Bimo to seek the Sky Thunder golden position. He then decided to accompany Fa Yan into the Nether-Mystic Expanse, while the Thunder Marsh revealed that the Thunder Hub might provide a way into Sky Thunder.

• Xu Xuan emerged from the Thunder Marsh with his injuries contained, though his lifespan had been burned away and he could wield only half his cultivation.
• Xu Xuan finished the Mixed Swallowing technique and wondered how primordial radiance and roaming union golden nature had already been paired with nature and life.
• Xu Xuan drafted the Disaster-Quelling Auspice and Omen Golden Seeking Method and planned to consult Tianyu and ask the Xiao Clan for help with Bimo's path.
• Xu Xuan concluded that Bimo's attempt to seek Firmament and Qingrang's transformation into a deity would need to happen together, and offered Qingrang a way to return to primordial heaven.
• Xu Xuan returned to the Cold Gate and resolved to accompany Fa Yan into the Nether-Mystic Expanse.
• The Thunder Marsh told Xu Xuan about the Thunder Hub and its three hubs, which bore witness to the Three Thunders.

Xu Xuan found the Thunder Hub on Azure Mountain and used it to investigate Sky Thunder, discovering that Qingxiao’s Dharma Form was dissolving into the Dao and that Sky Thunder had become masterless. Back in his Grotto-Heaven, he found new records on the Heavenly Stele confirming that Primordial Virtue belonged to the Origin Hope Dao Lineage, while Intercalary Virtue and Jade Virtue remained unmatched.

• Xu Xuan followed Thunder Marsh into the Great Void and found Azure Mountain, where the Thunder Hub stood alongside footprints left by Nanhua and the Thunder Ancestor.
• Xu Xuan stepped into Nanhua’s footprints and heard an echo revealing that the Dao Venerables’ departure had been anticipated and that efforts to match six virtues were underway.
• Xu Xuan took Azure Mountain and the Thunder Hub, then used the hub to reach Sky Thunder’s Fruit Position and found Qingxiao’s Dharma Form dissolving within it.
• Xu Xuan concluded that Sky Thunder was masterless but hesitated to disturb Qingxiao’s apparent contingency, deciding to consult the Upper Firmament and Eastern Azure.
• Xu Xuan inspected the changed Heavenly Stele and determined that Primordial Virtue belonged to the Origin Hope Dao Lineage, while Intercalary Virtue and Jade Virtue remained unmatched.

Xu Xuan identified dangers in Bimo’s plan to seek the Sky Thunder Golden Position and sent preparations to Upper Firmament and Eastern Azure. Meanwhile, Qu Xing discussed Sky Thunder’s hidden legacy and the Primordial Beginning Dao’s possible scheme, leaving its true purpose uncertain.

• Xu Xuan concluded that Bimo’s emergence within Sky Thunder could awaken an old form, so she would need to cultivate the affair of Auspicious Proclamation alongside her emergence.
• Xu Xuan summoned Shi Xian, gave him the method for seeking the Golden Position, and told him to deliver it to Upper Firmament and Eastern Azure.
• Thunder Marsh told Xu Xuan that Sky Thunder’s first master, Azure Maiden, had been a spirit of wind, thunder, clouds, and rain whom he had raised from the Great Marsh.
• Qu Xing told Diwu Gao that he planned to reincarnate after his lifespan ended because he could not seek the Lesser Yin position in this life.
• Diwu Gao reported that Bimo was preparing to seek Sky Thunder, and Qu Xing warned that the position was difficult to hold and subject to an old agreement with the Northern Altar.
• Qu Xing and Diwu Gao speculated that Sky Thunder’s legacy might involve the Primordial Beginning Dao using an established past to weave a future, with the White Paper Blessed Land posing a possible complication.

Bimo received the method for seeking the golden position and prepared to use Jiang Li’s Dharma Body to awaken as a sky thunder spirit monster. After Dragonkind threatened Azure Cloud Heaven, an Edict set her attempt for next year’s Awakening of Insects, and she resolved to pursue the Dao without relying on a predecessor’s golden nature.

• Bimo gave Jiang Li the method for seeking the golden position, and he agreed to separate from the Old Year Azure Origin Dharma Body so she could use it as a stairway to the yin you position.
• Jiang Li sensed Xuyi’s flesh outside Azure Cloud Heaven and warned that Eastern Sea Dragonkind was probing their Grotto-Heaven as Bimo approached her attempt.
• Jiang Li stabilized Azure Cloud Heaven while Bimo performed a sacrifice, and the Mystic Lord summoned her to Wondrous Solemnity Palace.
• An Edict instructed Bimo to seek attainment at next year’s Awakening of Insects, and Tiantuo assured her that the Mystic Lord would prioritize protecting her.
• Bimo explained that the vanished golden nature had been dangerous and said she would not rely on another’s legacy, because her path required her to awaken spiritual awareness for herself.

Xu Xuan faced pressure to bring Bimo’s attempt to attain Sky Thunder forward as the Spirit Thunder Dragon Lord threatened the Upper Firmament, while the Immortal Stele reacted to the Lesser Yin Lord’s progress. Shi Xian sought Eastern Azure’s help and learned the risks of the Duxuan Method; Chuming lent him Cross Ten in case Heavenly Thunder’s former form returned.

• Xu Xuan realized the Spirit Thunder Dragon Lord had forced him to reveal his connection to the Upper Firmament, making it difficult to delay Bimo’s attempt to attain Sky Thunder.
• Xu Xuan sensed the Immortal Stele respond to the Lesser Yin Lord’s progress and concluded that he was creating a new relationship of Yin-Yang.
• Shi Xian met Chuming in Eastern Azure and asked for support against interference from Vast Water and Spirit Thunder during Bimo’s attempt.
• Chuming explained that the Duxuan Method left Sky Thunder’s fruit position to choose whether Bimo, a former form, or the fruit position’s own will would emerge.
• Chuming gave Shi Xian the divine bow Cross Ten, asking Xu Xuan to use it against Heavenly Thunder’s former form if it returned; Shi Xian accepted and promised the Mystic Lord’s aid.

Zhou Shi entered the damaged historical realm inside the [Mystic Book of Taishi Jixing and Ji Soil] to find [Howling Wing]'s totem. The Ji Earth Dharma Form denied that any trace had survived, but Zhou Shi raised his Divine Status and began recounting the origins of Primordial Shock Thunder.

• Zhou Shi entered the world of white paper and witnessed the history of Divine Thunder end with the destruction of the divine palace and the fall of the Divine Tree.
• Zhou Shi drove back the hostile light of Ji Earth and walked deeper into the incomplete history within the [Mystic Book of Taishi Jixing and Ji Soil].
• The Ji Earth Dharma Form asked Zhou Shi why he had come, and he replied that he wanted [Howling Wing]'s totem.
• The Ji Earth Dharma Form claimed the First Greater Yang had killed [Howling Wing] and left no trace, but Zhou Shi argued that the destruction of his body did not mean his totem had vanished.
• Zhou Shi's eyes turned gold and his Divine Status rose as he described how Primordial Shock Thunder gave rise to Thunder Marsh, [Howling Wing], and [Azure Maiden].

Xu Fayan returned toward Shu after receiving his master's summons and intervened when Evil Blood attacked True Person Illusory Visage near the Poisonwater River. He reached Brocade Capital, briefly met Xu Ming, and continued toward Red Cloud while Xu Ming wondered why the sect had recalled him.

• Xu Fayan left his true purple spirit deity to guard Ziyuan Continent and traveled through the Great Void toward Shu.
• Xu Fayan found Evil Blood battling True Person Illusory Visage and used his Green Mud Aspect and Sky Thunder to help drive the demon into a blood escape.
• A half-demon surrounded by yin flames appeared briefly before leaving for the Southern Border, while Xu Fayan avoided dealing with the An Dynasty.
• Xu Fayan reached Brocade Capital and met Xu Ming, then departed for Red Cloud because the wu earth light made Shu unbearable to him.
• Xu Ming reflected on Xu Fayan's summons and his own cultivation, resolving that his progress was still too slow to help with important matters.

Xu Fayan returned to the mountain and received a Golden Core cultivation method adapted to help him pursue nurturing earth by combining it with firmament dryness and shock thunder. After choosing the Petitioning the Dipper ritual to gather the needed manifestations, he was asked to lead Xu Xuan into the Nether-Mystic Expanse, and Tiantuo gave him a new thunderbolt to protect them there.

• Xu Fayan entered the Wondrous Solemnity Palace and met Xu Xuan and Tiantuo, who presented him with the Book of Great You's Mystic Enlightenment on behalf of the Mystic Lord of Great Abundance.
• Xu Xuan explained that the method would let Xu Fayan use [Enlightening Wonder and Constancy] to combine nurturing earth, firmament dryness, and shock thunder, and Xu Fayan chose the Petitioning the Dipper ritual to obtain the needed grand manifestations.
• Xu Fayan warned that Emperor An was his natural enemy because wu earth and nurturing earth were incompatible, and Xu Xuan advised him to avoid Shu while keeping watch on the An Dynasty.
• Xu Xuan asked whether Xu Fayan could still enter the Nether-Mystic Expanse, and Xu Fayan agreed but warned that the realm was dangerous.
• Tiantuo gave Xu Fayan [Enlightenment-Shang Wind and Thunder] to carry into the Nether-Mystic Expanse and remove its hidden dangers.

Xu Fayan entered the Nether-Mystic Expanse and studied ancient nurturing-earth scriptures inside the Great Wilderness Cauldron, while his actions alarmed the Glorious Age Dharma Way's Chi. Xu Xuan uncovered the Grave Sheep's origin and learned that its eastern remnants led to the Wei clan and the birth of Wei Huang.

• Xu Fayan approached the Great Wilderness Cauldron and found the Nether Sheep's corpse rotting into it as the seal began to tremble.
• Xu Fayan used the spark of Enlightenment-Shang Wind and Thunder to open the Nether-Mystic Expanse to wind and thunder, which suppressed the Sheep Monster inside the cauldron.
• Xu Fayan studied the ancient nurturing-earth scriptures within the Nether Sheep's corpse and absorbed nurturing-earth energy.
• Chi sensed the disturbance and tried to investigate, but a crack appeared across his Tenfold Gates, so he withdrew and ordered Mount Sumeru to respond.
• Xu Xuan examined the Nether Sheep's corpse and traced how its eldest son, the first Grave Sheep, devoured its organs and brothers before perishing.
• Xu Xuan followed the Grave Sheep's eastern remnants to the Wei clan, where Wei Huang was born dragging his mother's entrails and internal organs.

Xu Xuan investigated Nether Sheep’s sealed corpse and prepared ways to counter nurturing earth as he arranged to help Bimo undergo Dao Transformation. After striking an oath with Qingrang to assist his return to Primordial Heaven, Xu Xuan was summoned to Mount Tai Prefecture by Wen Zhang.

• Xu Xuan deduced that Nether Sheep’s death might involve Heavenly Thunder, took a piece of its corpse, and ordered Shi Xian to prepare a Nuo sacrifice.
• Xu Xuan brought Thunder Marsh to Mount Tai and met True Lord Qingrang in the nurturing earth Secret Realm.
• Qingrang offered the [Evil-Severing Shaohua Banner] and asked Xu Xuan to invite the Emperor Lord of Spirit Herding to help Bimo’s Dao Transformation.
• Xu Xuan and Qingrang swore to work together: Xu Xuan would hold back animated nurturing earth while Qingrang attempted to pass through the Primordial Gate.
• Thunder Marsh heard cries beneath Mount Tai, and Wen Zhang arrived on True Lord Turbid Nether’s orders to invite Xu Xuan to Mount Tai Prefecture.

Xu Xuan entered the Mount Tai Underworld Office, where Turbid Nether asked him to strip the primordial chaos from Qing Yu’s corpse and recounted how Suspended Chaos had slain him. After Xu Xuan gained insights into primordial chaos and Xin metal and received a drop of Primordial Yellow Springs, Thunder Marsh sensed that Houtu was still alive somewhere.

• Wen Zhang welcomed Xu Xuan and Thunder Marsh to the Mount Tai Underworld Office, but Thunder Marsh vanished into Houtu’s sanctuary to search for something.
• Turbid Nether brought Xu Xuan into the Nine Hells, showed him Qing Yu’s corpse, and asked him to remove the primordial chaos so the Arcane Chamber lineage could bury it.
• Turbid Nether explained how Qing Yu had disrupted Chen Heng’s attainment of Wu earth and how Suspended Chaos later killed Qing Yu during the Shu-Zhao conflict.
• Xu Xuan drew the Shang Xuan Immortal Sword and stripped the primordial chaos from Qing Yu’s corpse, gaining insights into primordial chaos and Xin metal as Turbid Nether buried the body.
• Turbid Nether warned Xu Xuan against becoming further involved in sky thunder and urged him to investigate the Chen clan’s offerings to Suspended Chaos; he then gave Xu Xuan a drop of Primordial Yellow Springs.
• After Xu Xuan returned to Great Scarlet Heaven, Thunder Marsh said Houtu was still alive somewhere, resonating with Primordial Yellow Springs.

Shi Xian visited Upper Spirit Heaven and persuaded Xiao Xian to cooperate in helping Bimo seek Sky Thunder, warning that the Heavenly Thunder Immortal’s return threatened Lingsa and the other five essences. Xiao Xian agreed to wield the Evil-Severing Shaohua Banner when the time came, and revealed that the Emperor Lord believed a change involving Sky Thunder was imminent.

• Shi Xian arrived in Upper Spirit Heaven with a powerful Hearing the Nether Dharma Body, and Yelü Tan recognized that the deity had attained the Divine Core realm.
• Shi Xian crossed into the Sky Wolf Domain and met Xiao Xian, urging him to join Mysterious Heaven’s efforts to secure Sky Thunder for Bimo.
• Xiao Xian suggested persuading Bimo to abandon her attempt, but Shi Xian argued that blocking her would leave Sky Thunder vulnerable to rival powers and the Heavenly Thunder Immortal’s return.
• Shi Xian offered the Xiao Clan use of the Evil-Severing Shaohua Banner and asked Xiao Xian to wield it and resonate with Sky Thunder to help Bimo undergo Dao transformation.
• Xiao Xian agreed to cooperate, then told Yelü Tan that the Emperor Lord believed time was short and that Sky Thunder would change soon.