Chapter Summaries

Hongxuan discovered Mount Fangzhang’s treasures before Duke of the East arrived, then escaped as the enraged Quasi-Sage broke through the island’s formation. Lord Tongtian later realized that his new disciple had emptied the island and was astonished by Hongxuan’s methods.

• Hongxuan found the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, then collected the Twelfth-Grade White Lotus of Purification and the pool of Three Lights Divine Water when an attacker struck Mount Fangzhang’s formation.
• Hongxuan erased his traces and flew toward the Primordial Wilderness as Duke of the East broke into the island and ordered his followers to search for the thief.
• Hongxuan used the Destiny Compass to conceal his whereabouts and decided to keep a low profile while refining his new treasures.
• Lord Tongtian deduced that Hongxuan had taken Mount Fangzhang’s treasures and wondered how his Profound Immortal disciple had evaded Duke of the East.

Hongxuan returned to the Hengshan Tribe, then spent a thousand years in seclusion, deepening his Dao foundation and comprehending a trace of the Law of Destiny. Meanwhile, Duke of the East grew furious over his failure to find the thief who ravaged Mount Fangzhang, and the Purple Abode faction prepared for conflict with the Demon Celestial Court.

• Hongxuan observed that the Hengshan Tribe had grown into the largest tribe within a million li, with more than ten million people and martial arts widely practiced.
• Hongxuan secretly left the tribe and secluded himself in nearby mountains to refine his supreme treasure and cultivate.
• After a thousand years, Hongxuan's comprehension of the Yellow Court Scripture strengthened his foundation and Dao Heart, while the Eternal Dao Tome and Destiny Compass helped him comprehend a trace of the Law of Destiny.
• Duke of the East demanded that his immortals find the thief who had ravaged Mount Fangzhang and stolen its treasures, but his subordinates warned that the Demon Celestial Court was preparing to attack the Purple Abode faction.
• Duke of the East ordered his forces to strike back against demons without waiting for further reports and promised rewards for killing them.
• At the Demon Celestial Court, an unnamed speaker asked whether it was time to attack Duke of the East and the Purple Abode faction.

Dijun ordered the Demon Race to attack the Purple Palace forces and considered the threat posed by the Human Race. Meanwhile, Hongxuan reached the Imperishable Golden Immortal Realm using the Law of Destiny as his foundation and began cultivating the Sixth Revolution of his body-tempering art.

• Dijun told Eastern Emperor Taiyi to summon the Ten Demon Sages and launch a full-scale attack on the Purple Palace forces to weaken Duke of the East.
• Dijun questioned Eastern Emperor Taiyi about the Human Race and resolved to investigate it after dealing with Duke of the East.
• After a thousand years of cultivation, Hongxuan chose the Law of Destiny as his foundation and broke through to the Imperishable Golden Immortal Realm.
• Hongxuan found that his comprehension of the Law of Destiny had greatly improved after his breakthrough.
• Hongxuan used heaven-defying enlightenment to perfect the Sixth Revolution of the Hongxuan Body Tempering Art and began cultivating it in seclusion.

Hongxuan survived the sixth turn of his body-refinement art, advancing to an Imperishable Golden Immortal and gaining a mid-grade Innate God Foundation. After a thousand years of study, he created the prototype Grand Destiny Art, then began refining his treasures before a nearby explosion interrupted him.

• Hongxuan endured the Nirvana Divine Flame, which burned away his body and primordial spirit before they regenerated and completed the sixth turn.
• The transformation raised Hongxuan's Foundation from low-grade to mid-grade Innate God Foundation, and he became an Imperishable Golden Immortal.
• Hongxuan studied the Eternal Dao Tome and Destiny Compass, comprehended a trace of the Law of Destiny, and created the prototype Grand Destiny Art.
• After a thousand years, Hongxuan decided to refine the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler and Twelfth-Grade White Lotus of Purification further.
• A tremendous explosion interrupted Hongxuan's cultivation, and he wondered why people nearby had been fighting so often.

Hongxuan killed a wounded Nine-Infant Clan demon to protect the Hengshan Tribe from being devoured, then concealed the battlefield and claimed three Innate Spiritual Treasures. He discovered that two of them were the Water Spirit Pearl and Fire Spirit Pearl.

• Hongxuan realized the battle between a Demon Race Grand Golden Immortal and a Purple Palace sword immortal threatened the Hengshan Tribe.
• The demon used two Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to grievously wound the sword immortal, who then self-destructed his primordial spirit and badly injured the demon.
• The wounded Nine-Infant Clan demon sensed the Hengshan Tribe and decided to use its people as blood food.
• Hongxuan struck the demon with the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler and killed it, then collected its two pearl treasures and the sword immortal's spirit sword.
• Hongxuan concealed all traces of the fight, hid the Heavenly Secret with the Destiny Compass, and identified the pearl treasures as the Water Spirit Pearl and Fire Spirit Pearl.

Hongxuan killed Nine-Infant’s son and escaped after erasing his tracks, while Nine-Infant learned of the death in the Demon Celestial Palace and demanded revenge. Dijun appointed Nine-Infant to lead the demon vanguard against the Purple Palace, while Hongxuan’s mastery of concealing the Heavenly Secret left him difficult to trace.

• Hongxuan erased every trace of his aura and fled to avoid implicating the Hengshan Tribe.
• Nine-Infant cried out in the Demon Celestial Palace, then revealed that his son had died and asked Dijun for leave to find the killer.
• Dijun said Nine-Infant’s son had died alongside a Violet Mansion Sword Immortal and that the Water-Fire Spirit Pearls were missing.
• Taiyi rebuked Nine-Infant and pressed him with his Quasi-Sage aura, but Dijun stopped him from killing the grieving demon saint.
• Dijun appointed Nine-Infant as the demon race’s vanguard against the Purple Palace, and Nine-Infant accepted the decree.
• Hongxuan remained unaware that Nine-Infant suspected him, while his Grand Destiny Art (Prototype) helped him conceal the Heavenly Secret.

Hongxuan refined the Water and Fire Spirit Pearls, gained traces of their laws, and traveled to Mount Wuyi to claim the Money-Dropping Treasure. After three thousand years of cultivation and battles, he uncovered an innate grand formation hidden in the mountain.

• Hongxuan refined the Water and Fire Spirit Pearls and comprehended traces of the Laws of Water and Fire.
• Hongxuan set out for Mount Wuyi, intending to claim the Money-Dropping Treasure and protect Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters in the future.
• During three thousand years of travel, Hongxuan found several spiritual treasures and a spiritual root, advanced to the middle stage of Golden Immortal, and survived many battles.
• Hongxuan entered Mount Wuyi and used his Illusion-Breaking Divine Eyes to reveal an innate grand formation concealed within it.

Hongxuan discovered the hidden core of Mount Wuyi and claimed its spiritual treasures, including the Money-Dropping Coin, the Purifying Meditation Cushion, and the Cosmos Fan. He decided to make the mountain his cultivation home and secured its hidden tea garden before beginning to plan its defenses.

• Hongxuan used his Illusion-Breaking Divine Eyes to find a weak point in Mount Wuyi's concealment formation and entered the mountain's core.
• Hongxuan discovered and refined the Money-Dropping Coin, the Purifying Meditation Cushion, and the Cosmos Fan in a central cave abode.
• Hongxuan chose Mount Wuyi as his future cultivation cave abode and planned to improve its mountain-protecting formations.
• Hongxuan explored the mountain, noting its abundant resources and planning to establish a medicinal garden and orchard.
• Hongxuan found a hidden grove of innate tea trees, including a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Root mother tree, and concealed the tea garden with several formations.

Hongxuan strengthened Mount Wuyi’s defenses before leaving to attend Lord Tongtian’s Dao preaching, while the Three Xiao Sisters discussed his safety and their own cultivation. As Hongxuan reached the East Sea, he found the war between the Demon Race and Purple Palace raging on a massive scale.

• Hongxuan spent a hundred years studying formations and built powerful defenses around Mount Wuyi to conceal and protect its treasures.
• The Three Xiao Sisters worried about Hongxuan’s safety, and Yunxiao reassured them that he was likely well and growing stronger through his travels.
• Bixiao and Qiong Xiao discussed their progress refining spiritual treasures and studying the Laws of Netherworld and Death, while Yunxiao chose to postpone breaking through to Grand Luo Golden Immortal.
• As Lord Tongtian’s next sermon approached, Hongxuan emerged from seclusion, prepared Mount Wuyi’s defenses, and left for Golden Turtle Island.
• Hongxuan reached the East Sea after a journey of several hundred years and encountered an all-out war between the Demon Race and Purple Palace that had turned the sea red.

Hongxuan avoided the battle between the Demon Race and the Purple Palace and reached Golden Turtle Island in time for Lord Tongtian’s sermon. While comprehending the Great Dao, he broke through from Golden Immortal perfection to Grand Golden Immortal, shocking the Jie Sect immortals.

• Hongxuan observed the fierce battle between the Demon Race and the Purple Palace from a safe distance, then hurried to Golden Turtle Island.
• Hongxuan reunited with the Three Xiao Sisters and gave them jade plaques that enabled long-distance voice and video conversations.
• Hongxuan entered Biyou Palace with the Three Xiao Sisters and took his original seat as Lord Tongtian’s sermon began.
• Hongxuan comprehended Lord Tongtian’s teachings and shattered the bottleneck at Golden Immortal perfection.
• Hongxuan advanced to Grand Golden Immortal, startling the Jie Sect immortals gathered in the hall.

During Lord Tongtian’s sermon, Hongxuan perfected the seventh transformation of his body-refinement art and began breaking through, drawing immense spiritual energy into himself. Lord Tongtian supplied the hall with golden-lotus spiritual energy and kept the other Jie Sect immortals focused on the sermon as Hongxuan continued his breakthrough.

• Hongxuan used the Sage’s sermon and his heaven-defying comprehension to perfect the seventh transformation of the Hongxuan Body Refinement Art.
• He planned to transform his 365 opened acupoints into grotto-heaven worlds and chose to break through under Lord Tongtian’s protection.
• Hongxuan began the seventh transformation, causing a surge of spiritual energy to flood into his Baihui Acupoint and disturbing the Jie Sect immortals.
• Lord Tongtian told the immortals to continue listening and filled the hall with golden lotuses formed from spiritual energy.
• More than half the golden lotuses surged into Hongxuan, and Lord Tongtian recognized how extraordinary his spiritual-energy consumption was.

Hongxuan completed the seventh turn of his body-refinement art during Lord Tongtian’s preaching and contemplated the path to Grand Luo Golden Immortal. Lord Tongtian showed his disciples the final battle between the Demon Race and the Purple Palace, where Dijun’s victory over Duke of the East came at a terrible cost.

• Hongxuan formed all three hundred and sixty-five cavern-heaven worlds in his body and completed the seventh turn of the Hongxuan Body Refinement Art, reaching Grand Golden Immortal in both cultivation and physical body.
• After three thousand years of preaching, Lord Tongtian ended the session and announced that the next one would take place one hundred thousand years later.
• Hongxuan declined to ask questions and carefully considered how to advance from Grand Golden Immortal to Grand Luo Golden Immortal.
• Lord Tongtian showed the Jie Sect immortals the battlefield where Dijun and Taiyi faced Duke of the East and Queen Mother of the West.
• Duke of the East condemned Dijun for the Demon Race’s schemes and the destruction caused by dragging down the Sun Star, but Dijun declared that the Demon Race would overcome its karma and moved to kill him.
• The Jie Sect immortals condemned Dijun’s cruelty and questioned whether the Demon Race could survive the karma it had incurred.

After the Demon Race destroyed the Purple Palace and the third great war between the Witch and Demon Races began, Yunxiao successfully advanced to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm on Three Immortals Island. Hongxuan gained insights from her breakthrough and shared his Mother Tree Spirit Tea with the others, while Yunxiao revealed she had formed nine-grade Three Flowers.

• Lord Tongtian watched the disciples debate Dijun and the Demon Race’s actions and noted that the third great war between the Witch and Demon Races had begun.
• Zhao Gongming, Qiong Xiao, Bixiao, and Hongxuan waited anxiously for Yunxiao to complete her seclusion.
• Yunxiao broke through to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, and Hongxuan gained insights from the breakthrough phenomena.
• Hongxuan shared his remaining Mother Tree Spirit Tea with Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, Qiong Xiao, and Bixiao.
• Yunxiao explained that her transformed origin had allowed her to form nine-grade Three Flowers, and Hongxuan resolved to grow stronger to help change the Three Xiao Sisters’ fate.

Hongxuan sought top-grade Five Elements materials to refine the Five Qi in his chest and learned that the Wood Spirit Pearl was with the Eastern Sea Dragon King's daughter. He and Yunxiao traveled to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace to pursue it, where Ao Guang was enjoying a feast.

• Hongxuan considered how to refine the Five Qi and brought out the Water-Fire Spirit Pearls, prompting Yunxiao and Zhao Gongming to ask how he had obtained them.
• Hongxuan admitted he had killed the Nine-Infant Demon Saint's son, and Yunxiao warned him not to refine the Five Qi with only two Spirit Pearls.
• Yunxiao told Hongxuan that the Wood Spirit Pearl had been placed in a dragon pearl and given by Ao Guang to his youngest daughter.
• Hongxuan and Yunxiao flew to the Eastern Sea, noting the devastation left by the Demon Race and Dijun's battle with the Purple Palace.
• The two arrived at the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, where Ao Guang sat on his throne enjoying wine, food, and entertainment.

Ao Guang offered Hongxuan the Wood Spirit Pearl if he would accept Ao Guang’s daughter as his disciple, leaving Hongxuan to consider the proposal and ask to meet her first.

• Ao Guang learned that Yunxiao and Hongxuan, disciples of the Jie Sect, had come to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace and welcomed them inside.
• After a banquet, Hongxuan asked Ao Guang to trade the Wood Spirit Pearl for a treasure of equal or greater value.
• Ao Guang offered the Wood Spirit Pearl without compensation if Hongxuan accepted his young daughter as a disciple.
• Hongxuan questioned why Ao Guang preferred him over Yunxiao, and Ao Guang insisted that he wanted Hongxuan specifically.
• Hongxuan asked Ao Guang to bring his daughter out so he could assess her before deciding.

Hongxuan accepted Ao Ling'er as his disciple in exchange for the Wood Spirit Pearl, after discovering a hidden trace of deathly aura in her primordial spirit. After Hongxuan, Yunxiao, and Ao Ling'er left for Three Immortals Island, Ao Guang reported the arrangement to Ancestor Candle Dragon in the Dragon Abyss.

• Ao Guang summoned Ao Ling'er and told her that Hongxuan would be her teacher, though she initially assumed Yunxiao would take her as a disciple.
• Hongxuan examined Ao Ling'er, found a concealed deathly aura within her primordial spirit, and accepted Ao Guang's condition.
• Ao Ling'er bowed to Hongxuan and presented him with the Wood Spirit Pearl, which he verified and accepted.
• Ao Guang gave Hongxuan a jade box as an apprenticeship gift, and Hongxuan warned Ao Ling'er against betraying him.
• After several days in the Dragon Palace, Hongxuan and Yunxiao took Ao Ling'er and departed for Three Immortals Island.
• Ao Guang entered the hidden Dragon Abyss, told Ancestor Candle Dragon that Hongxuan had appeared and become Ao Ling'er's master, and recounted what had happened.

Candle Dragon and Ao Guang hoped Hongxuan would save Ao Ling'er, whose fatal tribulation was tied to the Wood Spirit Pearl. After three thousand years of secluded study, Hongxuan created the Grand Deduction Art and found a path to the remaining Spirit Orbs, but Yunxiao interrupted him with news that Ao Ling'er had encountered a problem.

• Candle Dragon told Ao Guang to watch Hongxuan and wait to see whether he saved Ao Ling'er within ten thousand years.
• Hongxuan refined the Wood Spirit Pearl while studying the Yellow Court Scripture and the Destiny Compass, gaining insights into the Laws of Wood and Destiny.
• Hongxuan combined deduction with the Grand Destiny Art and Defying Heaven's Comprehension to create the Grand Deduction Art.
• Hongxuan used the new art to find a way to obtain the remaining Metal and Earth Spirit Orbs, then decided to begin condensing the Five Qi without waiting for them.
• Yunxiao interrupted Hongxuan's seclusion and told him that Ao Ling'er had encountered an unexpected problem.

Hongxuan used the Law of Destiny to pull the deathly aura from Ao Ling'er after she advanced to the Grand Golden Immortal realm, saving her for now. He then opened Ao Guang’s gift and discovered twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls, leaving him unsure what to do with them.

• Hongxuan saw that Ao Ling'er was nearing death after reaching the Grand Golden Immortal realm, while Yunxiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bixiao could not identify the cause.
• Hongxuan recognized that Ao Ling'er’s original destiny had condemned her to die at this breakthrough, but that his intervention had left her a chance to survive.
• Hongxuan used the Law of Destiny to extract a strange black deathly aura from Ao Ling'er and told Yunxiao to watch over her.
• Hongxuan returned to secluded cultivation and opened the jade box Ao Guang had given him.
• Hongxuan discovered twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls and debated whether to give them to Zhao Gongming, but decided against it.

Hongxuan cultivated with the Five Elements Spirit Orbs and broke through to the late stage of the Grand Golden Immortal realm on Three Immortals Island. Meanwhile, Candle Dragon sent Ao Guang to arrange a gift for Hongxuan, hoping to secure his help for the dragon race.

• Hongxuan imprinted the Twelve Sea-Quelling Pearls with his primordial spirit, put them away, and began cultivating with the Five Elements Spirit Orbs.
• Ao Guang told Candle Dragon that Ao Ling'er had reached the Grand Golden Immortal realm and survived her fate tribulation with Hongxuan's help.
• Candle Dragon gave Ao Guang a mysterious, life-filled seed once treasured by Progenitor Dragon and told him to make Hongxuan sincerely grateful without making him feel indebted.
• Hongxuan's breakthrough on Three Immortals Island drew a vast funnel of spiritual energy, astonishing the Three Xiao Sisters and Ao Ling'er.
• Ao Ling'er wondered about Hongxuan's abilities and resented how rarely he had taught her directly.

Hongxuan left seclusion after advancing to the late stage of the Grand Golden Immortal realm, having fused the Water, Fire, and Wood Spirit Pearls and resolved to seek the Earth and Metal Spirit Pearls. After reuniting with the Three Xiao Sisters and his disciple Ao Ling'er, he accepted a mysterious seed from the Eastern Sea Dragon King, sensing that it could be an extraordinary treasure and that accepting it might bind him to the Dragon Clan.

• Hongxuan completed the fusion of the Water, Fire, and Wood Spirit Pearls and planned to find the Earth and Metal Spirit Pearls to complete his elemental cycle.
• Hongxuan left seclusion and received congratulations from the Three Xiao Sisters on reaching the late stage of the Grand Golden Immortal realm.
• Ao Ling'er greeted Hongxuan as her master and thanked him for saving her life.
• Ao Ling'er gave Hongxuan a mysterious green seed sent by the Eastern Sea Dragon King as thanks for saving her.
• Hongxuan accepted the seed and told Ao Ling'er to thank the Eastern Sea Dragon King, recognizing that he might owe the Dragon Clan a favor.