Recaps

Nuwa learned that Fuxi had broken through and returned to cultivation, while the Primordial World’s Witches and Demons rose into conflict and new powers emerged. Hongjun announced that he had become a Sage and would preach at Zixiao Palace in ten thousand years, prompting the Three Pure Ones and other powerful beings to set out for the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Nuwa learned that Fuxi had broken through, rejoiced that he was safe, and resumed her cultivation.
• Over ten thousand years, the Demon Race formed under powerful Demon Saints, while the growing Witch Clan hunted demons and provoked resistance.
• Two powerful beings from the Sun Star gathered demons around Buzhou Mountain, and Wangshu, Xihe, Queen Mother of the West, and King Father of the East emerged.
• Hongjun announced that he had attained Sagehood and would expound the Great Dao at Zixiao Palace in ten thousand years.
• Laozi, Primordial, and Tongtian set out for the Thirty-Three Heavens, followed by other powerful cultivators seeking Hongjun’s teaching.

Fuxi completed his breakthrough into the Qi Refining to Transform the Spirit realm and considered the next steps in refining his Primordial Ancestral Qi. He then purified Luohu's God-Slaying Spear and Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, destroying the evil thoughts within them and leaving their sources of slaughter and destruction intact.

• Fuxi stabilized his realm, preliminarily refined the Primordial Ancestral Qi, and became free of the Primordial World and its Heavenly Dao's constraints.
• Fuxi recognized that he needed to merge his three thousand strands of false Primordial Ancestral Qi into one true strand, then use it to ignite his Yang Spirit.
• Fuxi brought out Luohu's God-Slaying Spear and Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and sensed powerful evil thoughts within them.
• Fuxi suspected Luohu might have left a remnant soul in the treasures and used his power to suppress and erase the evil thoughts.
• Fuxi left the treasures' pure sources of slaughter and destruction intact, deciding not to dwell on whether the erased evil thoughts had been Luohu's remnant soul or accumulated sins.

Daoist Hongjun sent Fuxi an invitation to hear his lecture at Zixiao Palace after becoming a Sage. Fuxi accepted and spent the intervening ten thousand years traveling the Primordial World with his little sister before setting out for the lecture.

• Daoist Hongjun considered Fuxi a potential threat and sent him a Command Talisman inviting him to Zixiao Palace in ten thousand years.
• Fuxi finished refining Luohu’s two innate supreme treasures and gained control of the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and the other treasure.
• Fuxi accepted Daoist Hongjun’s invitation and arranged matters with the Twelve Ancestral Witches before leaving Pangu Hall.
• Fuxi reunited with his little sister and traveled with her from the North Sea to the Undying Volcano and across the ocean.
• After ten thousand years, Fuxi took his little sister’s hand and set off for Zixiao Palace.

Fuxi and Nuwa reached Zixiao Palace after crossing the deadly chaos and joined the other powerful cultivators awaiting Hongjun’s sermon. Fuxi revealed that the six cushions represented places for future Heavenly Dao Sages, and Nuwa claimed the final one before two western Daoists arrived without seats.

• Fuxi and Nuwa crossed the chaos toward Zixiao Palace, while Nuwa rescued several endangered beings and lamented the many who died.
• The Three Pure Ones arrived and entered the palace; Tongtian greeted Fuxi and Nuwa, while Laozi and Yuanshi passed them without speaking.
• Fuxi and Nuwa entered the hall and saw six cushions arranged before the Daoist attendants as powerful figures continued to gather.
• After the attendants announced Hongjun’s sermon, Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Hong Yun, Kunpeng, and Nuwa claimed the six cushions, with Fuxi prompting Nuwa to take the last one.
• Fuxi told Nuwa that the six cushions were seats for Heavenly Dao Sages, and she realized she might have missed her chance without his warning.
• Two western Daoists arrived too late to claim seats, and the pale-yellow-robed Daoist lamented their failure to his senior brother.

At Zixiao Palace, Zhunti and Jieyin gained seats through a shameless act, while Hongjun’s arrival revealed his unusual regard for Fuxi. The chapter ended with Fuxi refusing the seat Hongjun offered, rejecting the implication that he would accept a subordinate position.

• Zhunti pretended he and Jieyin could not hear the Dao lecture, prompting Hong Yun to give up his seat to Zhunti.
• Zhunti demanded Kunpeng give Jieyin his seat, and Primordial, Di Jun, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi pressured Kunpeng until he yielded.
• Hongjun appeared in Zixiao Palace, greeted Fuxi as a fellow Daoist, and offered him a new seat beside the Three Pure Ones.
• Fuxi declined Hongjun’s seat, saying his place could not be there, while the gathered figures wondered at his boldness.

Fuxi challenged Hongjun by placing his seat beside the Sage’s, while Hongjun tried to conceal his anger and discern Fuxi’s origins. Hongjun invited Fuxi to approach under an overwhelming pressure, but Fuxi continued toward the seat without being affected.

• Fuxi moved his seat beside Hongjun’s, startling the gathered figures in Zixiao Palace.
• The Three Pure Ones, Zhunti, and Jieyin watched Hongjun closely, while Hongjun failed to divine anything about Fuxi’s origins or past.
• Hongjun hid his shock, changed tactics, and invited Fuxi to come up and take the seat beside him.
• Fuxi accepted and walked toward the raised platform as Hongjun’s invisible pressure forced everyone else to their knees.
• Fuxi remained calm and continued walking as though Hongjun’s pressure had no effect on him.

Fuxi sat beside Hongjun and endured his pressure with ease before Hongjun began preaching the Innate Great Dao. After ten thousand years of teaching, Hongjun explained three paths to attaining Hunyuan, leaving the listeners with the options and challenges of each.

• Fuxi sat beside Hongjun and withstood the Sage's pressure without showing any strain, surprising Hongjun and the assembled cultivators.
• Hongjun announced that he would preach the Innate Great Dao three times, then delivered his first sermon for ten thousand years; Nuwa, the Three Pure Ones, and others gained insights, while Fuxi gained little.
• Laozi asked Hongjun what the Dao was and how one could become a Sage, prompting Hongjun to describe three paths to Hunyuan.
• Hongjun explained that the first path required surpassing the Heavenly Dao in magical power and mastery, while the second involved severing the Three Corpses using innate objects to house the primordial spirit.
• Hongjun described the third path as attaining the Dao through great Fortune and Merit, and said Hunyuan Sages neither died nor perished, despite differences in combat strength.

Fuxi exposed the superiority of the Limitless Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal over Hongjun's path, causing the listeners to doubt Hongjun. After ending his sermon, Hongjun accepted the Three Pure Ones as disciples, but Nuwa refused his invitation.

• Hongjun asked Fuxi to assess his Daoist Arts after the sermon.
• Fuxi questioned why Hongjun had omitted the Limitless Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal and explained its superiority over a Heavenly Dao Sage.
• Hongjun said he had avoided that path because of its difficulty and Pangu's failure, but doubts about him remained.
• Hongjun ended the sermon and accepted Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian as disciples.
• Hongjun invited Nuwa to become his disciple, but she refused.

Nuwa refused Hongjun’s offer to become his disciple, and Hongjun discovered that their karmic bond had been severed and that Fuxi had acquired treasures connected to her fate. Hongjun made Jieyin and Zhunti his nominal disciples, then revealed six Sage positions and distributed five strands of Primordial Violet Qi, leaving the crowd wondering who would receive the remaining two.

• Nuwa firmly rejected Hongjun’s offer a second time, astonishing the immortals gathered in the hall.
• Hongjun calculated that his karmic connection to Nuwa had been severed and that Fuxi had already traded for the Red Embroidered Ball and the Landscape of Mountains and Rivers, and the State.
• Hongjun offered Jieyin and Zhunti nominal discipleship, and both accepted.
• Hongjun announced that six Sage positions were available and revealed seven strands of Primordial Violet Qi as the foundation for becoming a Sage.
• Hongjun gave strands of Primordial Violet Qi to Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian, then said Jieyin and Zhunti were also destined to become Sages.

Hongjun distributed the remaining Primordial Violet Qi and appointed leaders to oversee the immortals, provoking resentment among the gathered powers. He then asked Fuxi to join the oversight, but Fuxi refused, recognizing the appointment as a scheme.

• Hongjun denied Nuwa Primordial Violet Qi because she had refused to become his disciple, and she argued that such Sages would be puppets of the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun granted Primordial Violet Qi to Hong Yun and Di Jun, leaving Kunpeng seething over Hong Yun’s earlier surrender of his seat.
• Hongjun said the Heavenly Dao allowed for nine Sages and that three positions remained beyond his six disciples, though they would require breaking through the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions without Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hongjun appointed King Father of the East and Queen Mother of the West as heads of male and female immortals, giving them magical weapons to enforce their authority.
• Hongjun asked Fuxi to help oversee the immortals, but Fuxi refused, calling himself carefree and declining the thankless role.

After Hongjun ended his lecture, Fuxi returned to the Witch Clan and continued teaching Nuwa while the Three Pure Ones obtained treasures from the Twelfth-Grade Creation Green Lotus. Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Hong Yun both sensed a treasure emerging on Buzhou Mountain and arrived as its light appeared.

• Hongjun ended the lecture after Fuxi refused the position of head of the immortals, and the assembled experts began eyeing Hong Yun and Di Jun’s Primordial Violet Qi.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi discussed expanding the Demon Race and considered taking Hong Yun’s Primordial Violet Qi.
• The Three Pure Ones found the Twelfth-Grade Creation Green Lotus, which transformed into the Coiled Dragon Crutch, the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and the Qingping Sword.
• Fuxi returned to the Witch Clan, taught Nuwa the Way of Creation, and left after sensing that a measure he had set in place had loosened.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Hong Yun separately sensed a treasure emerging and flew to Buzhou Mountain, where they saw spiritual light shining.

Fuxi stopped Hong Yun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi from taking the seven treasures ripening on the Gourd Vine, explaining that he had claimed the site long ago. As the Three Pure Ones arrived and noticed the gourds, the dispute over the treasures remained unresolved.

• Hong Yun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived at Buzhou Mountain and saw seven supreme-grade innate treasures ripening on the Gourd Vine.
• Hong Yun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi attacked the formation to seize the gourds, but Fuxi appeared and suppressed their magical power.
• Fuxi said he had discovered the Gourd Vine hundreds of thousands of years earlier and left his mark on its formation, leading Hong Yun to accept his claim.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi glared at Fuxi but held back, knowing he could not defeat him, while Hong Yun considered asking for the gourd he felt connected to.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian arrived together, and all three turned their attention to the seven gourds.

The Three Pure Ones, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Hong Yun found seven gourds on Buzhou Mountain, but Fuxi’s ancient mark and overwhelming strength kept them from taking the treasures. After the others left, Hong Yun asked to trade for the purplish-red gourd, and Zhen Yuanzi offered twenty Ginseng Fruits.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian tried to seize the seven gourds, but Fuxi’s pressure threw them back.
• Hong Yun pointed out Fuxi’s ancient mark on the formation, and Fuxi challenged the group to defeat him if they wanted the treasures.
• The Three Pure Ones and Eastern Emperor Taiyi left without fighting Fuxi, while Taiyi resolved to consult Di Jun about killing Hong Yun for his Primordial Violet Qi.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived to check on Hong Yun, and Hong Yun asked Fuxi to trade him the purplish-red gourd.
• Zhen Yuanzi offered twenty Ginseng Fruits for the gourd, but Fuxi judged the offer insufficient.

Fuxi warned Hong Yun that the Primordial Violet Qi would bring disaster, but Hong Yun hesitated to give up his chance to become a Sage. Meanwhile, Di Jun and Taiyi agreed to establish the Demon Court at a mysterious site atop Buzhou Mountain so they could gain Fortune and advance their cultivation.

• Fuxi traded the purplish-red gourd to Hong Yun, warned him about the Primordial Violet Qi, and left with the Gourd Vine and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
• Zhen Yuanzi urged Hong Yun to heed Fuxi’s warning, but Hong Yun said he would think it over and returned to his cultivation abode.
• Hongjun watched the events from beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens and declared that his contest with Fuxi would begin.
• Taiyi told Di Jun how Fuxi had humiliated him at Buzhou Mountain, and Di Jun vowed they would repay him if they got the chance.
• Di Jun proposed establishing the Demon Court to gain Fortune and break through to the Quasi-Sage realm, and Taiyi agreed.
• Di Jun revealed that he had chosen a natural complex of halls at the peak of Buzhou Mountain as the Demon Court’s site.

Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi established the Demon Clan Heavenly Court, gaining Merit that elevated them to the Quasi-Sage realm and granted them the Zhou Tian Star Chart. Confident enough to challenge the Witch Clan, they nevertheless chose to build the Demon Race’s strength before pursuing their ambitions to rule the Primordial World and settle their debts with Fuxi.

• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi established the Heavenly Court to govern the Demon Race, with Kunpeng as Demon Master, Xihe as Demon Empress, and a full hierarchy of officials and Demon Gods.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed Merit on Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi for founding the Heavenly Court and on Di Jun and Xihe for their marriage; both brothers used the Merit to break through into the Quasi-Sage realm.
• A man emerged from Di Jun’s Auspicious Cloud and rejoined him, and another emerged from Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s Auspicious Cloud and rejoined him, as both severed one corpse.
• The Zhou Tian Star Chart appeared and went to Di Jun, revealing its power to gather the stars’ force and its Zhou Tian Star Formation diagram.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi judged the Witch Clan their greatest enemy but decided to strengthen the Demon Race before seeking sole rule of the Primordial World and settling their debts with Fuxi.

After Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi established the Heavenly Court, Hongjun summoned the Primordial World’s great powers to Zixiao Palace for his second lecture. He taught them far more effectively than before, and several listeners drew close to the Quasi-Sage realm, while Nuwa’s absence left her open to ridicule.

• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi established the Heavenly Court and became Quasi-Sages, prompting Fuxi to recognize the start of the Witch-Demon great tribulation.
• Ten thousand years later, Hongjun summoned the great powers to Zixiao Palace, where Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived ahead of the others in cultivation.
• The gathered powers noticed Nuwa’s Meditation Cushion was gone and mocked her and Fuxi for the missed opportunity.
• Hongjun began his second lecture without Fuxi present and taught the listeners profound Dao methods suited to them.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Zhunti, Jieyin, and others crossed the threshold toward the Quasi-Sage realm and would advance after returning and severing their first corpse.

Fuxi helped Nuwa advance to the Mid-Quasi-Sage Realm by giving her a Dao Pattern of the Law of Creation. After her breakthrough, Nuwa sensed a vague, obscured opportunity to become a Sage.

• Hongjun finished teaching the Daoist Arts through the Quasi-Sage stage, expecting his listeners to support him against Fuxi in the coming Witch-Demon War.
• Fuxi's instruction brought Nuwa to the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm in Pangu Hall.
• Fuxi created a Dao Pattern of the Way of Creation, briefly shaking Buzhou Mountain and alarming the Demon Race.
• Fuxi embedded the Dao Pattern in Nuwa, sending her into ten thousand years of enlightenment.
• Nuwa emerged at the Mid-Quasi-Sage Realm and thanked Fuxi for helping her break through.
• Nuwa sensed an obscured opportunity to become a Sage.

Nuwa followed Fuxi’s hint and realized her opportunity to attain sagehood lay in creating a new race. With Fuxi’s Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Innate Gourd Vine, she created the humans, while Fuxi watched with memories of his former human life stirring within him.

• Nuwa told Fuxi about her fleeting glimpse of heaven’s workings, and he urged her to consider the strengths and shortcomings of the Primordial World’s races.
• Nuwa realized she needed to create a new living race and divined that the task required the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Innate Gourd Vine.
• Fuxi revealed that he had secured both treasures, and he and Nuwa left Penglai Island to begin creating the race.
• Nuwa molded the soil into three people, then used the Gourd Vine to create a hundred thousand more.
• Nuwa named the new race humans as Fuxi felt memories of his former human life stir within him.

Nuwa absorbed the Merit from creating the Human Race and attained the Hunyuan position, while Fuxi stayed behind to guide the humans. Her breakthrough shocked Hongjun and the mighty figures of the Primordial World, some of whom began considering creating races of their own.

• Nuwa absorbed most of the Merit, and the Purple Qi within her helped her attain the Hunyuan position.
• Nuwa thanked Fuxi for his guidance and asked him to help establish her Daoist sanctuary, but he chose to remain with the Human Race.
• Nuwa left on a transformed Golden Sparrow to establish her sanctuary Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Hongjun sensed Nuwa's breakthrough, wondered whether Fuxi had disrupted his plans, and resolved to crush him.
• The mighty figures reacted with shock and envy, while Daoist Minghe began considering creating a race of his own.

Nuwa established Wa Huang Palace after becoming a Sage, while Hongjun sent Zhunti to disparage the Human Race before the gathered powers. At the Eastern Sea Shore, Fuxi resolved to protect the humans and began considering how to overcome their inability to cultivate.

• Zhen Yuanzi wondered when he would attain the Dao after learning Nuwa had become a Sage.
• Nuwa created Wa Huang Heaven in Chaos, built Wa Huang Palace, and told Jin Ning to receive visitors.
• Hongjun, angered by Nuwa’s refusal to become his disciple and her rise to Sagehood, ordered Zhunti to criticize the Human Race.
• Zhunti called the Human Race weak and useless, and several powers in Zixiao Palace agreed with him.
• Fuxi watched the humans at the Eastern Sea Shore and decided to help them, recognizing that Acquired beings could not cultivate through the Primordial World’s usual system.

Fuxi used the Primordial Eight Trigrams and the Creation Great Dao to create a cultivation system suited to the Human Race, despite Hongjun’s certainty that he would fail. The Heavenly Dao acknowledged Fuxi’s success, and his new Great Dao was named Covering the Heavens.

• Fuxi summoned the Primordial Eight Trigrams and began creating a cultivation system for the Human Race, drawing awe from the humans and attention from Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun used the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation to deduce that Fuxi was forging a new cultivation system.
• Hongjun mocked Fuxi’s attempt, and those gathered in Zixiao Palace agreed that the Human Race was too weak to need its own path.
• A vast power erupted as the Heavenly Dao acknowledged that Fuxi had created an entirely new Great Dao.
• Fuxi’s new Great Dao was named Covering the Heavens.

Fuxi created the Dao Scripture, a cultivation method suited to the Human Race, and earned a great wave of Merit. He gave the Merit to the Fuxi Qin instead of using it to become a Sage, while Laozi realized Fuxi had taken his opportunity to attain Sainthood.

• Fuxi deduced the Dao Scripture from the Great Dao of Covering the Heavens and taught it to the Human Race.
• The Human Race gained insight from Fuxi’s teachings, while the mighty figures in the Zixiao Palace could not benefit from the method.
• Heaven sent Fuxi a vast wave of Merit for teaching the Human Race, startling Hongjun and the other mighty figures.
• Fuxi poured all the Merit into the Fuxi Qin, advancing the treasure instead of using the Merit to become a Sage.
• Laozi realized Fuxi had taken his opportunity to establish the Human Sect and attain Sainthood, then collapsed after declaring that the Three Pure Ones could not coexist with Fuxi.

Laozi begged Hongjun to defend his stolen opportunity to attain Sainthood, while Fuxi protected the developing Human Race before leaving. After the lecture ended, Minghe began creating the Asura Race in the Blood Sea.

• Laozi pleaded with Hongjun to stand up for him, and Yuanshi and Tongtian joined him in asking the Dao Ancestor for help.
• Hongjun told Laozi that an opportunity was not necessarily the only one, then resumed his lecture without making further promises.
• Fuxi erected a stele at the Human Race's habitat that barred all living beings from disturbing them for ten thousand years, then departed.
• About a thousand years later, the lecture ended, and Minghe returned to the Blood Sea.
• Minghe cut his palm with Yuantu and poured his essence blood into the Blood Sea, creating the first Asuras.

Minghe received little Merit for creating the Asura Clan and became a laughingstock, while the Demon and Witch Clans kept their distance from the Human Race and one another. The King Father of the East set out with the Queen Mother of the West to find Fuxi for help establishing the Ancient Heavenly Court.

• Minghe created the Asura Clan, received far less Merit than Nuwa and Fuxi, and nearly questioned the Heavenly Dao before thunder silenced him.
• Many others imitated Nuwa by creating living beings, but none attained the Dao.
• Taiyi asked Di Jun whether the Demon Race would retreat from the Eastern Sea Shore, and Di Jun agreed to honor Fuxi's ten-thousand-year reprieve.
• The Demon Race expanded elsewhere, while the Witch Clan followed Fuxi's instruction to stay beneath Buzhou Mountain, easing tensions between the clans.
• The King Father of the East persuaded the Queen Mother of the West to pursue an Ancient Heavenly Court and sought Fuxi as an ally.

King Father of the East went to Buzhou Mountain to recruit Fuxi for his Ancient Heavenly Court, but Fuxi rejected him and warned him not to establish it. King Father of the East pushed ahead regardless, while the Demon Clan Heavenly Court decided to wait before confronting him, and Fuxi prepared to pursue an opportunity over the East Sea.

• King Father of the East and Queen Mother of the West searched Buzhou Mountain and called for Fuxi, who came out of his cave abode.
• King Father of the East invited Fuxi to join the Ancient Heavenly Court, but Fuxi refused and advised him not to establish it.
• Fuxi sent King Father of the East and Queen Mother of the West away from Buzhou Mountain; King Father of the East left in anger, while Queen Mother of the West worried about his plans.
• King Father of the East returned to the Purple Mansion Continent and began contacting male immortals, prompting the Demon Clan Heavenly Court to take notice.
• Di Jun told Eastern Emperor Taiyi to wait before confronting King Father of the East, intending to settle the matter publicly.
• Fuxi prepared to leave Buzhou Mountain after sensing a fortuitous opportunity over the East Sea.