Primordial Era: I, the Lamp Burner, intercept the Western opportunity at the outset.

Reborn in the primordial world, he became the most miserable of the three thousand Zixiao guests—the Daoist Ran Deng. He recalled that during the Investiture of the Gods, he was only a Great Luo Golden Immortal; as the vice-leader of the Chan Sect, he was used as cannon fodder to test the Ten Deadly Formations; and after joining the Western Sect, his status was even lower than that of his junior, Duo Bao. Ran Deng vowed never to repeat his mistakes, starting this life by taking control of the West. By constantly repairing the earth’s veins, he gained merit and acquired spiritual treasures. He was favored by the Western Heaven and Earth first, receiving abundant fortune, and seized the opportunities originally belonging to the two Western Saints. He first established the Western Sect, using Jieyin and Zhunti to help him cultivate, while he himself traveled to the East. Gathering the lamps of Heaven, Earth, and Man, and after listening to the Dao at Zixiao Palace, he perfected the Three Corpses, forging an unparalleled foundation. He sought the thirty-six Sea-Stabilizing Pearls, opening the thirty-six heavens, perfecting Heaven and Earth, and gaining great merit. Furthermore, with his foresight, he propelled the revival of the primordial human and earthly paths, leading to the rise of heroes and the contention of myriad paths. Billions of years later, when Ran Deng transcended the primordial world and looked back, his countless insights were reduced to a single sentence: “The eternal light of his coffin illuminates the past, a solitary light shines eternally.”