Chapter Summaries

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.

Fuxi followed a divination to Penglai Immortal Island, where he claimed its treasures and refined its boundary stele. He then took control of Yingzhou Island and Fangzhang Island as well, while King Father of the East continued to feel an unexplained sense of loss.

• Fuxi used Primordial Eight Trigrams divination to find the Xiantian Grand Formation concealing Penglai and entered without breaking it.
• Fuxi collected a pool of Spirit Liquid and took the Enlightenment Tea Tree into his inner world.
• Fuxi discovered and collected a pool of Three Lights Divine Water and the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler.
• Fuxi refined Penglai's boundary stele, strengthened its Xiantian Grand Formation, and assigned attendants to tend the island's spiritual roots.
• Fuxi claimed Yingzhou Island and Fangzhang Island, finding the Twelve-Rank Pure World White Lotus and the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• King Father of the East felt his sense of loss growing stronger but could not determine its cause.

Suiren Shi and Ziyi Shi worried that the Human Race lacked spiritual resources, but Fuxi appeared and arranged for them to use the treasures on the three immortal islands of Penglai. Suiren Shi returned with herbs and vowed that the Human Race would one day rule the Primordial World, while the King Father of the East began pursuing the same ambition elsewhere.

• Suiren Shi lamented the scarcity of spiritual resources, and Ziyi Shi suggested asking Fuxi for help, but Suiren Shi refused to trouble the Holy Teacher.
• Fuxi heard Suiren Shi's words, visited the Human Race's altar, and left spiritual herbs and roots on the three islands of Penglai for the humans to use.
• Suiren Shi and Ziyi Shi arrived at the altar, recognized Fuxi, and paid their respects to him.
• Suiren Shi led his people to Penglai, gathered immortal herbs, and declined the boy attendant's offer to move the Human Race onto the island.
• Suiren Shi vowed that the Human Race would become the sole overlord of the Primordial World, as the King Father of the East also began his bid for dominance.

King Father of the East established the Ancient Heavenly Court after Queen Mother of the West withdrew from his plans. Di Jun sensed that the new court was draining the Demon Clan Heavenly Court’s Fortune, and Taiyi prepared to confront King Father of the East.

• After the Dao Ancestor’s second sermon, King Father of the East recruited male immortals and asked Queen Mother of the West to gather female immortals for his Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Queen Mother of the West withdrew from the plan, warning King Father of the East that his Ancient Heavenly Court was not suited to her, then departed for West Kunlun.
• Angered by her departure, King Father of the East proclaimed the Ancient Heavenly Court on the Purple Mansion Divine Continent, and Heavenly Dao Merit descended upon him.
• Demon Emperor Dijun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Demon Master Kunpeng reacted with hostility to the new court, while Di Jun sensed that the Demon Clan Heavenly Court’s Fortune was draining away.
• Taiyi offered to capture King Father of the East, but Di Jun told him to take others along and make sure King Father of the East could not escape.

Demon Saint Ji Meng attacked King Father of the East’s Ancient Heavenly Court, prompting Eastern Emperor Taiyi to intervene. Demon Emperor Di Jun and Demon Master Kunpeng then arrived with the Demon Race’s forces to reclaim the Fortune King Father of the East had taken, and Di Jun activated the Innate River Diagram-Luo Shu Formation as King Father of the East prepared his Nine Suns Returning to One Great Formation.

• King Father of the East refused to meet Ji Meng, so Ji Meng attacked the immortal official and the great hall.
• King Father of the East emerged and struck at Ji Meng, but Eastern Emperor Taiyi used his bell to freeze the area and rescue him.
• Di Jun and Kunpeng arrived with the Demon Race’s forces, and Di Jun declared that he had come to reclaim the Heavenly Court’s Fortune.
• King Father of the East warned that the Dao Ancestor might punish the Demon Race, but Di Jun argued that their conflict was a struggle for Fortune.
• Di Jun deployed the Innate River Diagram-Luo Shu Formation, and King Father of the East brought out his flaming flag to trigger the Nine Suns Returning to One Great Formation.

After the King Father of the East self-destructed to escape capture, the Queen Mother of the West realized Fuxi's earlier warning had saved her and went to Buzhou Mountain to seek his guidance. Fuxi prepared to turn her away, but Nuwa urged him to invite her inside, having decided to bring the two together.

• The King Father of the East failed to escape Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Kunpeng, so he self-destructed and Tai Yi shielded Di Jun with the Chaos Bell.
• The Queen Mother of the West heard the explosion and recalled Fuxi's warning, concluding that he had foreseen the King Father of the East's fate.
• The Queen Mother of the West left West Kunlun and traveled to Buzhou Mountain to seek the Dao from Fuxi.
• Nuwa drank Fuxi's Enlightenment Tea and welcomed the Queen Mother of the West's request for an audience.
• Fuxi considered sending the Queen Mother of the West away, but Nuwa persuaded him to invite her into the cave abode.