Chapter Summaries

After completing a thousand years of teaching spiritual and martial cultivation to the Human Race, Lin Yunji received an enormous cloud of merit and exchanged it for Faith Points. Powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness wondered how he had earned it, while the Three Pure Ones worried about his path to the Dao and others considered the Human Race’s significance.

• Lin Yunji ended his thousand years of preaching, leaving spiritually gifted humans at the Early Heavenly Immortal stage and martial cultivators at the Xiantian Realm.
• A vast auspicious cloud of merit appeared over the Shores of the Four Seas, and Lin Yunji collected it.
• Hongjun and powerful beings across the Primordial Wilderness noticed the merit, but their divinations revealed only that it belonged to Lin Yunji.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed Lin Yunji’s blessings and rejected the idea of taking Daoist Hongyun’s Primordial Expanse purple qi for him.
• Nüwa learned that humans had built temples honoring her and Little Bamboo, while Jieyin and Zhunti questioned Lin Yunji’s merit and Dijun resolved to investigate the Human Race.
• Zhen Yuanzi considered taking disciples from the Human Race, and Lin Yunji accepted the system’s offer to exchange his merit for Faith Points.

After earning a huge number of Faith Points, Lin Yunji celebrated his Human Race disciples’ progress, repaired and expanded their protective formation, and then left with Bixiao and the other women to pursue the Heavenly Dao Fragments. Zhen Yuanzi and Daoist Hongyun arrived after his departure, and Zhen Yuanzi recruited ten talented humans as disciples.

• Lin Yunji exchanged faith for 15,000,000 Faith Points, then accepted the Human Race patriarchs’ thanks for teaching them the Divine Dao and Martial Dao.
• Lin Yunji repaired and expanded the Seven Blaze Raging Flame Formation, spent several years among the humans with Bixiao and the others, and then departed with them aboard Zhulong.
• The humans respectfully saw Lin Yunji off, and Zhen Yuanzi and Daoist Hongyun found that Lin Yunji’s formation blocked their entry to the Shores of the Four Seas.
• Zhen Yuanzi announced that he wanted to take Human Race disciples, and many humans came out to meet him.
• Zhen Yuanzi chose ten humans with excellent Root Bones as his disciples.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches debated whether to resume war with the Demon Race before Lin Yunji arrived at their territory atop Zhulong. After Dijiang and Zhurong realized Lin Yunji was a powerful Sage’s disciple who had come to see Houtu, the Witch Clan welcomed him, and Houtu appeared delighted to see him.

• Dijiang asked the Ancestral Witches whether they should fight the Demon Race again, while Zhurong argued for war and Houtu and Xuanming urged recovery first.
• A powerful presence swept over the Witch Clan, and Zhurong flew out to confront it before Dijiang followed and warned him not to act recklessly.
• Zhurong and Dijiang saw Zhulong and sensed Lin Yunji and his companions atop the dragon, recognizing Lin Yunji’s formidable power.
• Lin Yunji introduced himself as a disciple of Cult Master Tongtian and said he had come to see Houtu; Dijiang and Zhurong relaxed and welcomed him.
• Houtu arrived with the others and greeted Lin Yunji happily.

Lin Yunji reunited with Houtu in Witch Clan territory, where his immense cultivation surprised the Ancestral Witches and his casual remark made Houtu and the women wonder about his feelings. After Houtu brought him to her tribe, Xingtian tried to challenge him, but Houtu sent him away; Xingtian then waited outside, determined to fight Lin Yunji when he left.

• Houtu welcomed Lin Yunji and explained to the Ancestral Witches that he was her friend, then reacted with surprise at how powerful he had become.
• Houtu teased Lin Yunji for taking so long to visit, and he said she was still in his heart, making her blush and prompting Bixiao and the other women to wonder if they were in his heart too.
• Houtu led Lin Yunji and the women to her tribe while the Ancestral Witches discussed his strength and laughed at Zhurong after Gonggong reminded him of his earlier threat.
• At Houtu's hall, Houtu and the women discussed how she had met Lin Yunji, while he searched for the Heavenly Dao Fragment.
• Xingtian arrived hoping to fight Lin Yunji, but Houtu ordered him to leave; he waited on a nearby mountain, determined to challenge Lin Yunji when he came out.

Lin Yunji agreed to fight Xingtian to test their physical strength, and the Witch Clan gathered at Xuanming's grassland to watch. Before the fight began, Lin Yunji spotted the Heavenly Dao Fragment above Ancestral Witch Xuanming.

• Houtu showed Lin Yunji and the women around the Witch Clan settlement, where Xingtian rushed up and challenged Lin Yunji to a fight.
• Houtu angrily rebuked Xingtian for blocking their way, but Lin Yunji calmed her and agreed to the challenge.
• Xingtian chose the Xuanming Great Grassland as their arena, and word of the fight drew Xuanming, Zhurong, Gonggong, Dijiang, and many Witch Clan warriors there.
• Zhurong and Gonggong argued over who had provoked Xingtian, until Dijiang told them to stop squabbling.
• Lin Yunji noticed the Heavenly Dao Fragment hovering above Xuanming, but Xingtian's shout drew everyone's attention to his fixed gaze.

Lin Yunji faced Xingtian in a physical contest on the Xuanming Tribe's great grassland. He unleashed the Heaven and Earth Furnace Secret Method and sent Xingtian flying through a distant mountain range, leaving the gathered Witch Clan warriors and Ancestral Witches stunned.

• Xingtian charged Lin Yunji with a powerful punch as the Witch Clan warriors watching doubted Lin Yunji could match him.
• The Ancestral Witches discussed Lin Yunji's strength, while Xuanming argued he might surpass them and teased Houtu about her feelings for him.
• Houtu watched Lin Yunji admiringly as Xingtian's punch approached.
• Lin Yunji activated the Heaven and Earth Furnace Secret Method and kicked Xingtian in the face before his punch could land.
• Xingtian flew through a mountain range more than ten thousand li away, and the witnesses stared in disbelief at Lin Yunji's overwhelming strength.

Lin Yunji defeated Xingtian, whose loss led him to reconsider the limits of physical strength, then found and collected the Heavenly Dao Fragment. After telling Houtu he planned to leave, Lin Yunji departed with Bixiao and the others, while Houtu decided to follow them.

• Lin Yunji kicked Xingtian hundreds of millions of miles away, then used spatial order to bring him back unharmed.
• Xingtian realized that physical strength had no absolute limit, bowed to Lin Yunji, and vowed to defeat him someday.
• Gonggong explained that Lin Yunji's strength had given Xingtian a new understanding, and the Ancestral Witches agreed that the encounter could transform him.
• Lin Yunji collected the Heavenly Dao Fragment and received 1,000,000 Breakthrough Points, while the Heaven and Earth Furnace Secret Method collected another 500,000.
• Lin Yunji told Houtu he would leave the next day, then departed with Zhulong, Bixiao, and the other women.
• Houtu told Xuanming she was going with Lin Yunji and hurried toward her tribe.

Lin Yunji paid 10,000,000 Faith Points for information about a Heavenly Dao Fragment, but its map location shifted and disappeared, leaving him unable to search for another fragment. He decided to invest his remaining points in the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and continued toward Kunlun Mountain with Houtu, who had joined the group.

• Lin Yunji exchanged 10,000,000 Faith Points for a map showing a deeply colored Heavenly Dao Fragment location in Chaos.
• The fragment's location moved repeatedly and vanished, and the system said Lin Yunji could not obtain another map until he found it.
• Lin Yunji put off searching for the fragment and decided to use his remaining Faith Points to accelerate the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu's growth.
• Houtu caught up with Zhulong and joined Lin Yunji and the women on their travels.
• Lin Yunji chose to return to Kunlun Mountain, and Houtu and Bixiao welcomed the destination.

Kunpeng ambushed Daoist Hongyun to seize the Primordial Expanse purple qi, and their fierce battle drew powerful figures who hurried to the ancient firmament. Kunpeng defeated and killed Hongyun just as Lin Yunji and his companions set out to witness the fight.

• Daoist Kunpeng confronted Daoist Hongyun and attacked him, blaming him for losing his chance to receive the Primordial Expanse purple qi at Purple Cloud Palace.
• Lady Nüwa, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, Zhen Yuanzi, Dijun, Taiyi, Daoist Randeng, and other mighty figures headed toward the battle, with most seeking the purple qi rather than saving Hongyun.
• Lin Yunji recognized that two Quasi-Sages were fighting and directed Zhulong to take him and the women to the ancient firmament.
• Hongyun fought back with the Nine-Nine Soul-Dispersing Gourd, but Kunpeng overpowered him, severed his three flowers, and scattered the five Qi in his chest.
• Kunpeng crushed Hongyun's body and Primordial Spirit with the Demon Master Palace, killing him.

After Kunpeng killed Hongyun, Zhen Yuanzi arrived seeking revenge but found Hongyun’s remnant Primordial Spirit preserved in the Nine-Nine Soul-Dispersing Gourd. As powerful figures gathered to claim the Primordial Expanse purple qi for Lin Yunji, Zhulong appeared with several unknown figures atop his head.

• Kunpeng reached for Hongyun’s Primordial Expanse purple qi, but Zhen Yuanzi arrived and discovered Hongyun’s remnant Primordial Spirit inside the Nine-Nine Soul-Dispersing Gourd.
• Zhen Yuanzi challenged Kunpeng, but Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi appeared and backed Kunpeng.
• Nüwa arrived and claimed the purple qi, then Jieyin and Zhunti appeared and argued that it should go to the Western disciples or to Jieyin.
• The Three Pure Ones arrived and declared that the purple qi should go to Lin Yunji, and Nüwa and Zhen Yuanzi supported them.
• Zhulong appeared amid a terrifying display of power, with several unidentified figures standing atop his head.

Lin Yunji arrived at the gathering riding Zhulong, a dragon at the peak of the late Quasi-Sage stage, and reunited with the Sages and his companions. As the Sages confronted Zhunti for trying to seize the Primordial Expanse purple qi, Laozi summoned the Taiji Diagram, and Zhunti countered with the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree.

• Lin Yunji arrived atop Zhulong, shocking the Sages with the powerful dragon he had subdued as his mount.
• Cult Master Tongtian and Primordial Celestial Venerable praised Lin Yunji, while he greeted Zhen Yuanzi and learned that Zhen Yuanzi had taken in Human Race disciples and mourned his lost friend.
• Lady Nüwa told Lin Yunji and the other women that she had come out of seclusion to obtain the Primordial Expanse purple qi for him, and she and Lin Yunji exchanged familiar words that delighted Cult Master Tongtian.
• While the Sages were distracted, Zhunti appeared beside the Primordial Expanse purple qi and tried to take it without being noticed.
• Laozi and the other Sages caught Zhunti attempting to steal the purple qi and confronted him, but Zhunti continued reaching for it.
• Laozi summoned the Taiji Diagram to block Zhunti, who halted the golden bridges with his Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree.

The Sages fought over a strand of Primordial Expanse purple qi, but it escaped into the turbulent currents of space before anyone could claim it. Lin Yunji revealed that he already had Primordial Expanse purple qi, shocking the Sages and great powers.

• Zhunti tried to seize the Primordial Expanse purple qi while Laozi, Primordial Celestial Venerable, Lady Nüwa, and Cult Master Tongtian moved to stop him.
• Cult Master Tongtian deployed the Immortal-Slaying Formation, which the system replicated onto Lin Yunji’s left foot.
• The Primordial Expanse purple qi shattered the surrounding void and vanished into the turbulent currents of space, leaving Zhunti empty-handed and injuring Jieyin.
• The Sages stopped fighting after discovering they could not locate the vanished strand, and Lin Yunji laughed because his system had copied the Immortal-Slaying Formation.
• Lin Yunji told Lady Nüwa he already had Qi of the Primordial Expanse and brought a strand of Primordial Expanse purple qi out from between his brows, stunning everyone present.

Lin Yunji revealed that he possessed Primordial Expanse purple qi, shocking the Sages and stirring envy among the gathered powers. After they departed, he left with the women and the Three Pure Ones, intending to use Faith Points to mature the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu.

• The gathered Sages and mighty figures reacted with shock and jealousy when Primordial Expanse purple qi appeared above Lin Yunji.
• Jieyin and Zhunti left together after Jieyin resolved to scheme against Lin Yunji and strengthen the Western Sect.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Lady Nüwa departed, with Lady Nüwa reminding Lin Yunji that he had never visited Empress Wa Heaven.
• Cult Master Tongtian and Primordial Celestial Venerable argued over Lin Yunji, while Laozi predicted that he would soon attain the Dao.
• Lin Yunji told the Three Pure Ones that he had found the strand himself, then left for Kunlun Mountain to use Faith Points to mature the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu.

The Three Pure Ones returned to Kunlun Mountain furious after Lin Yunji had called them nasty old men, and they warned that he would soon be back. As Lin Yunji’s return drew near, the disciples panicked and Guangchengzi and the others realized why their companions had fled.

• The Three Pure Ones reappeared in the Three Pure Ones Hall and argued over who had been insulted by Lin Yunji.
• Daoist Duobao, the Immortal Elder of the South Pole, and Master Xuandu tried to escape after learning Lin Yunji was returning, while Duobao told Guangchengzi and the others that True Person Huanglong wanted to see them.
• Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect disciples entered the Wind and Thunder Divine Formation and learned from True Person Huanglong that he had never called them.
• The Primordial Celestial Venerable revealed that Lin Yunji had returned, leaving Guangchengzi and the others trembling with fear.
• Purple lightning filled the sky as Lin Yunji’s arrival shook Kunlun Mountain, and Cult Master Tongtian vowed to teach him a lesson.

Lin Yunji returned to Kunlun Mountain on Zhulong and gave the disciples a brutal “welcoming gift” before withdrawing to mature the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu. After more than a century of cultivation, his Faith Points ran out, and he opened his eyes to inspect the Jianmu’s growth.

• Lin Yunji arrived on Kunlun Mountain aboard Zhulong, whose pressure initially terrified the disciples until Cult Master Tongtian dispersed it.
• Lin Yunji trapped the disciples in a formation and struck them with lightning and fire, then frightened Guangchengzi and the others with a promised welcoming gift; Daoist Duobao hid behind more formations in his cave.
• Lin Yunji left the Three Pure Ones Hall for his cave abode, while Cult Master Tongtian and Primordial Celestial Venerable bickered over their disciples.
• Lin Yunji spent his Faith Points maturing the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and gained deeper insight into creation and the three thousand Daos over more than a hundred years.
• The system announced that Lin Yunji’s Faith Points were exhausted, and he opened his eyes to see how much the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu had grown.

During his seclusion, Lin Yunji’s Heaven-Reaching Jianmu matured, bonded with his bones, and revealed that his future path led to becoming a Hunyuan Great Dao Sage. System rewards raised his total to fifteen strands of Primordial Expanse purple qi, and he left the cave abode intent on finding Heavenly Dao Fragments.

• Lin Yunji saw that the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu had grown over three hundred leaves and 206 branches marked with mysterious purple patterns.
• The Heaven-Reaching Jianmu merged temporarily with Lin Yunji’s body, matching its branches to his 206 bones and spreading its leaves through his flesh.
• Three strands of Primordial Expanse Qi entered bones in Lin Yunji’s skull, and he learned that his bloodline had advanced to Seven-Colored Bamboo and that he could pursue the Hunyuan Great Dao Sage path.
• The system rewarded Lin Yunji with five more strands of Primordial Expanse purple qi for his bloodline advancement and ten more for the Jianmu’s growth, bringing his total to fifteen.
• Lin Yunji planned to prioritize finding Heavenly Dao Fragments and gathering Faith Points, then withdrew his presence and left the cave abode.

After emerging from seclusion with a more ethereal presence, Lin Yunji joked with the Three Pure Ones, taught True Person Cihang a Divine Ability, and sent several junior disciples into his Wind and Thunder Divine Formation. He then took Bixiao, Changxi, Xihe, and Houtu to visit Lady Nüwa in Nest Emperor Heaven, while Hongjun watched Chaos and reflected on the Heavenly Dao.

• Lin Yunji appeared inside the Three Pure Ones Hall, startling the Three Pure Ones with his mysterious presence, and teased them about possessing fifteen strands of Primordial Expanse purple qi.
• Lin Yunji reassured the Three Pure Ones that he had not decided to establish a sect, then evaded Cult Master Tongtian when he tried to punish him.
• Lin Yunji taught True Person Cihang a thousand-handed, thousand-eyed Divine Ability and drew a little cat on her face.
• True Person Huanglong brought Immortal Elder of the South Pole and Juliusun to Lin Yunji and asked him to train them in the Wind and Thunder Divine Formation, which Lin Yunji promptly activated.
• Lin Yunji met Bixiao, Changxi, Xihe, and Houtu by a stream and decided to take them to visit Lady Nüwa in Nest Emperor Heaven.
• Hongjun appeared in Purple Cloud Palace and looked toward Chaos, saying that the Heavenly Dao's course could not be changed.

Lady Nüwa welcomed Lin Yunji and the women to Nest Emperor Heaven after longing for his visit. As they shared stories in the Nest Emperor Palace, she asked Lin Yunji to paint her portrait.

• Lady Nüwa sensed Lin Yunji arriving atop Zhulong and hurried to meet him, while Lin Yunji ordered Zhulong to hide in Chaos.
• Lin Yunji and the women arrived in Nest Emperor Heaven, where Lady Nüwa greeted them and playfully took Bixiao’s side when she complained about Lin Yunji.
• Changxi and Bixiao noticed a carefully tended bamboo grove near the Nest Emperor Palace, and Lady Nüwa admitted she had planted it; Lin Yunji teased her about it.
• Inside the palace, Bixiao and Changxi told Lady Nüwa stories about traveling with Lin Yunji, including how he painted snakes on their faces.
• Lady Nüwa asked Lin Yunji when he would paint a portrait of her.

Lin Yunji painted a stunning portrait of Lady Nüwa, then spent ten years touring Snail Emperor Heaven with her and the other women. As the group rested, the red zone on Lin Yunji’s Heavenly Dao Fragment map finally appeared, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun began casting spells in Purple Cloud Palace.

• Lady Nüwa asked Lin Yunji to paint her portrait, and he created a breathtaking image of her against a bamboo grove.
• The women stopped Lin Yunji from wiping away the portrait and insisted he join them on a tour of Nest Emperor Heaven.
• Lin Yunji, Lady Nüwa, and the other women spent ten years exploring Snail Emperor Heaven, while Xihe and the others refused to let him paint their portraits.
• As Lin Yunji rested on a cloud with the women, the red zone on his Heavenly Dao Fragment map appeared.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared in Purple Cloud Palace, watched a Chaos-shrouded Jade Butterfly fly away, and sent spell seals into the void.

Lin Yunji left Lady Nüwa and Houtu behind to pursue a red region marked on his map, despite Hongjun’s summons to the Purple Cloud Palace. He entered a sealed Chaos vortex and emerged in a strange world, where he spotted Primordial Expanse purple qi and wondered where he had arrived.

• Hongjun summoned everyone who had attended lectures at the Purple Cloud Palace, and Lin Yunji took Lady Nüwa and Houtu toward Chaos before telling them he would not go with them.
• Lin Yunji followed the system’s map through Chaos toward the red region and found the Jade Butterfly of Creation restraining a black vortex with the Chaos Investiture of the Gods Formation.
• The system replicated the formation onto Lin Yunji’s bones, allowing him to pass through its barrier unharmed and enter the vortex.
• Hongjun sensed Lin Yunji’s entry into the formation and remarked that the Heavenly Dao had shown favor to him.
• Lin Yunji emerged in a vast world rich in spiritual qi, where time flowed unusually slowly and no intelligent beings lived.
• Lin Yunji saw a stream of Primordial Expanse purple qi appear and disappear, and wondered where he was.