Chapter Summaries

Nuwa stopped Hongjun from taking control of Houtu’s Six Paths of Reincarnation by invoking her master’s teachings and threatening him with Wooden Tokens. After Hongjun withdrew, Nuwa explained that Houtu could awaken the Earthly Dao by completing the reincarnation system, though her Sage-level power remained limited outside it.

• Nuwa challenged Hongjun’s attempt to claim the Six Paths of Reincarnation for the Heavenly Dao and declared that the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Daos should stand together.
• Hongjun threatened Nuwa, but she and Pingxin prepared to fight, while Nuwa displayed Wooden Tokens capable of calling on her master’s power.
• Hongjun revealed that he had stolen several Wooden Tokens from Nuwa, then backed down after she warned him against harming her or Houtu.
• Pingxin refused to surrender the Earthly Dao and threatened to destroy the Six Paths of Reincarnation, so Hongjun left the Netherworld to continue scheming.
• Nuwa told Houtu that the Earthly Dao would manifest once the Six Paths of Reincarnation were complete and warned that Houtu’s Sage-level combat strength depended on remaining within them.

Nuwa and Pingxin traced Pingxin’s transformation into reincarnation to a scheme by Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao, then Pingxin established the rules of the Land of Reincarnation. Nuwa left to fulfill her Master’s instructions and went to the Moon Star, where she found Fuxi studying a formation created by her Master.

• Nuwa asked Pingxin why she had transformed into reincarnation, and Pingxin recalled that strange thoughts had driven her to do it while unconscious.
• Nuwa and Pingxin concluded that Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao had plotted Pingxin’s transformation, and Nuwa said her Master’s actions suggested he did not favor the Witch Clan ruling the Primordial World.
• Pingxin established the Land of Reincarnation, declaring that souls would drink soup to forget their past lives and enter a path according to their deeds.
• Nuwa left Pingxin to carry out her Master’s instructions and headed toward the Heavenly Court, then changed course for the Moon Star.
• Nuwa found a great formation floating above the Moon Star and recognized her Master’s aura in it.
• Nuwa entered the Moon Star and found Fuxi studying the formation diagram, then asked what he was doing.

Nuwa visited Fuxi on the Moon Star, where he told her the Demon Race had backed down from their attempt to use its power. After Nuwa left, Di Jun failed to meet Xihe and Changxi and returned to the Heavenly Court, directing his growing frustration and hatred at the Witch Clan.

• Nuwa congratulated Fuxi on his cultivation, and he explained that he was studying the profound formation their Master had given him.
• Fuxi told Nuwa that the Demon Race had wanted to use the Moon Star’s power to refine formation banners, but he had refused and activated the formation to protect it.
• Nuwa learned that Xihe and Changxi needed several thousand more years to finish cultivating, so she left the Moon Star and passed the still-ruined Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Di Jun heard Nuwa call the Heavenly Court’s ruined gate miserable, then went to the Moon Star to request an audience with Xihe and Changxi.
• Fuxi told Di Jun that the two immortals were still cultivating, and Di Jun asked him to pass along a message when they emerged.
• Di Jun restored the Southern Heavenly Gate with starlight, lamented his troubles, and vowed to place his resentment on the Witch Clan.

Nuwa transported nearly two-thirds of the human race to hidden worlds and ordered Ziyi Shi and Suiren Shi to keep the move secret. She then waited at Kunlun for Yuanshi, while Tongtian returned to cultivate and Nuwa considered whether he might attain Dao by Force.

• Nuwa marked selected human tribes, sent them to various worlds, concealed those worlds, and erased the humans’ memories of the transfer.
• Nuwa told Ziyi Shi and Suiren Shi to keep the matter secret and explain the gathering as a move back near the ancestral land.
• Nuwa left for Kunlun to wait for Yuanshi, but Tongtian arrived instead and said he was returning to cultivate after failing to find a Method to Attain Dao.
• Nuwa encouraged Tongtian to find his own path, and he entered seclusion to cultivate, determined not to fall behind.
• Nuwa wondered whether Tongtian could Prove the Dao by Force, then decided against relying on it because she had needed the Daoist Canon to attain Dao.

Western Queen Mother sought Nuwa’s protection from Di Jun’s plan to pair her with Eastern King Duke, while Tongtian questioned Nuwa about proving the Dao. Nuwa warned that the Three Pure Ones were destined to split, and Hongjun realized he had forgotten to give Tongtian the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.

• Western Queen Mother asked Nuwa to protect her from Di Jun and Eastern King Duke, and Nuwa agreed to let her stay by her side.
• Tongtian asked Nuwa to discuss the Dao, but Nuwa said their cultivation paths differed and challenged Hongjun’s Three Corpses method.
• Tongtian showed Nuwa that he had severed his Good and Evil Two Corpses and asked how he could become a Sage; Nuwa questioned whether the Qingping Sword was enough.
• Nuwa said the Three Pure Ones were destined to split apart and asked Tongtian how he and his brothers viewed beings covered in scales and feathers.
• Tongtian dismissed Nuwa’s warning and left, while Nuwa wondered why he had not received the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.
• Hongjun heard Nuwa’s remarks, realized he had forgotten the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, and wondered whether Nuwa’s master was disrupting heavenly secrets.

Cheng Yue planned to recruit powerful disciples to prepare for the Investiture of the Gods tribulation and searched for Kong Xuan. After learning that a nearby tribe had seen the Black Bird, he went to investigate the mountain they pointed out.

• Hongjun and Heavenly Dao decided to wait for an opportunity to deal with Cheng Yue and planned to build momentum during the Investiture of the Gods tribulation.
• Cheng Yue considered recruiting San Xiao, Zhao Gongming, Duobao, Yang Jian, Kong Xuan, and Six-Eared Macaque as disciples.
• Cheng Yue asked the Dragon Kings to search the Four Seas for Six-Eared Macaque, three sisters transformed from white clouds, and a Daoist transformed from a breeze.
• Cheng Yue searched the Primordial World for Kong Xuan and noticed several human tribes used a multicolored bird as their totem.
• The tribespeople told Cheng Yue they had seen the Black Bird blot out the sky and pointed him toward a nearby mountain.

Cheng Yue searched for Kong Xuan but instead met the Six-Eared Macaque, who asked to become his disciple. With Six-Eared guiding him to Kong Xuan, Cheng Yue offered to take Kong Xuan as a disciple, and Kong Xuan agreed after learning that his use as a human totem had earned him incense and faith that could bring Nuwa’s wrath.

• Cheng Yue failed to find Kong Xuan in the mountains, but Six-Eared Macaque arrived and explained that the Sage’s warning had forced him to hide his true appearance.
• Cheng Yue accepted Six-Eared as a disciple, warning him that a calamity awaited him unless he attained Hunyuan, and Six-Eared then located Kong Xuan.
• Cheng Yue and Six-Eared traveled north to a valley, where they found Kong Xuan cultivating at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Cheng Yue offered to take Kong Xuan as his disciple and claimed his cultivation method could lead beyond the Great Dao; after Six-Eared urged him to accept, Kong Xuan agreed.
• Cheng Yue told Kong Xuan that his image had become a human totem and brought him incense and faith, which could make Nuwa pursue him, but joining the sect could settle the matter.

Cheng Yue accepted Kong Xuan as a disciple and brought him and Six-Eared Macaque back to his South Sea dojo, warning them of their coming tribulations and teaching them a path to Prove the Dao by Force. While they began cultivating, the Dragon Race searched the East Sea for San Xiao and Zhao Gongming, and Tongtian asked where the Great Power who wanted to accept them was.

• Cheng Yue accepted Kong Xuan as his disciple, warned him that his tribulation would follow the witch-demon war, and brought him and Six-Eared Macaque to the South Sea.
• Cheng Yue gave both disciples his cultivation method and warned them not to follow Hongjun's path of severing the Three Corpses.
• At the dojo, Kong Xuan noticed its Merit Spiritual Treasure, and Cheng Yue urged him to cultivate toward the peak of the Quasi-Sage realm before his tribulation.
• Kong Xuan and Six-Eared Macaque examined Cheng Yue's method and began cultivating while Cheng Yue lounged outside.
• The Dragon Race searched the East Sea for San Xiao and Zhao Gongming, and Tongtian asked one of the dragons where their Great Power was.

Tongtian set out for the South Sea to seek a Great Power, but his master summoned him to Purple Heaven Palace. Meanwhile, the Dragon Race found the San Xiao and Zhao Gongming and persuaded them to travel to the South Sea to meet the Senior who wished to take them as disciples.

• Tongtian headed toward the South Sea, then changed course for Purple Heaven Palace after hearing his master's summons.
• A Dragon Race member found Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao and told them a Senior in the South Sea wanted to take them and Zhao Gongming as disciples.
• Yunxiao remained doubtful, so Bixiao went to find Zhao Gongming while the sisters waited for him to decide with them.
• Zhao Gongming arrived, heard the Dragon Race member's account, and agreed to go with the San Xiao to meet the Senior.
• The four followed the Dragon Race member toward the South Sea as Dragon Race members celebrated and praised the Senior's disciples.

Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, and San Xiao became Cheng Yue’s disciples after Yinglong brought them to his dojo, and Cheng Yue promised the Dragon Race a reward by accepting Ao Caizhu as a disciple. He ordered the new disciples to cultivate until they reached Quasi-Sage, then introduced them to Six-Eared Macaque, who had just broken through to Taiyi Golden Immortal.

• Yinglong brought Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, and San Xiao to Cheng Yue’s dojo, where they learned that Cheng Yue was Nuwa’s master.
• Cheng Yue accepted the four as disciples, gave them cultivation methods and Wooden Tokens, and promised to accept Ao Caizhu as a reward for the Dragon Race’s help.
• Cheng Yue listed his other disciples, told the newcomers to seek Divine Treasures from Nuwa, and confirmed to Qiongxiao that he had fought a Sage.
• Cheng Yue told the new disciples they could not leave the dojo until they reached Quasi-Sage, and San Xiao accepted his warning about the dangers outside.
• Six-Eared Macaque emerged from the great hall after breaking through to Taiyi Golden Immortal, introduced himself to the newcomers, and was told by Cheng Yue to return to cultivation.

Six-Eared Macaque impressed San Xiao, Zhao Gongming, and Kong Xuan with his ability to hear distant events, while Kong Xuan learned that the Phoenix Race planned to seek Nuwa’s protection. In Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun distributed treasures, and the Three Pure Ones’ disagreements deepened as Tongtian left his brothers behind.

• Six-Eared Macaque told San Xiao and Zhao Gongming that his six ears had let him hear their conversations and know they would become Cheng Yue’s disciples.
• Six-Eared Macaque failed to hear Purple Cloud Palace but listened to the Phoenix Race for Kong Xuan and reported that they planned to send Golden Phoenix to seek Nuwa’s protection.
• San Xiao and Zhao Gongming began cultivating in the Daoist ground while Cheng Yue considered the difficulty of finding more disciples.
• Hongjun distributed treasures to Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian, and warned Tongtian that the Four Swords of Zhu Xian could not suppress fortune.
• Laozi reflected on his lost opportunity to spread the Dao among humans and suspected it was connected to attaining the Dao.
• Tongtian left after Yuanshi challenged his look, while Laozi advised Yuanshi to cultivate and then asked Hongjun to speak privately.

Laozi realized that his opportunity to attain the Dao was tied to founding a doctrine among the human race, but Hongjun remained troubled by Nuwa’s obstruction. Nuwa destroyed the Three Pure Ones’ dojo, then unintentionally encouraged Hongyun to stop fixating on the Primordial Violet Qi and return to cultivating.

• Laozi told Hongjun that his opportunity to attain the Dao lay among the human race and likely involved establishing a doctrine, but Hongjun dismissed him without explaining how to proceed.
• Hongjun urged Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Jieyin to seek their own opportunities to attain the Dao, leaving them anxious and without answers.
• Laozi blamed Nuwa for obstructing his Dao, so Nuwa pursued him into the chaos and later destroyed the Three Pure Ones’ dojo on Mount Kunlun.
• Western Queen Mother followed Nuwa briefly, then returned to Western Kunlun when she could not keep up.
• Hongyun asked Nuwa about his opportunity to attain the Dao, and her harsh advice led him to reconsider his fixation on the Primordial Violet Qi and fly back toward Wuzhuang Temple to cultivate.

Hongjun secretly prepared to influence humanity by sending altered souls through reincarnation, then arranged for a divine infant to be born among a human tribe. The infant received the Kongtong Seal and was taken to the Human Ancestral Land, where Suiren Shi decided to keep him and oversee his cultivation.

• Hongjun created living souls, added something imperceptible to them, and sent them into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• A human clan mother gave birth safely to a boy after her tribe prayed to Nuwa, and the immortal maiden who helped deliver him reminded the tribe of its promise to make the child her disciple.
• Golden light and purple qi appeared around the infant, and Hongjun secretly gave him the Kongtong Seal.
• The clan mother took the infant to the Holy Mother Temple, where Suiren Shi and Ziyi Shi examined him and recognized his potential as a cultivator.
• Suiren Shi decided the infant should stay near the Human Ancestral Land, leaving the clan mother unable to keep her promise to the immortal maiden.

Nuwa visited a human tribe to investigate a Divine Infant bearing a great Divine Treasure seal, then brought him to Cheng Yue so he could examine the child. Cheng Yue learned that Youchao Shi was still alive and resolved to repay the karma from taking the merit for building his house, while the infant began crying when Cheng Yue examined him.

• Suiren Shi and Ziyi Shi asked Nuwa to decide what to do with the Divine Infant, and she told them to raise him as a future pillar of the human race.
• Nuwa and the Western Queen Mother visited the tribe, where they met the three-year-old child, who refused to hand over his seal but agreed to go with Nuwa.
• Nuwa took the child to Cheng Yue in the South Sea, and Cheng Yue asked whether Youchao Shi was still alive.
• Nuwa confirmed that Youchao Shi was alive, and Cheng Yue explained that he had received the merit meant for him when building his own house and intended to repay the karma.
• Nuwa asked Cheng Yue to examine the child, but the infant began crying as Cheng Yue looked at him with golden light in his eyes.

Cheng Yue repaid Youchao Shi by giving him merit and making him the third ancestor of the human race, then watched the Divine Infant because he suspected the child and the Kongtong Seal might be part of a plot against the Human Dao. He sent Nuwa to investigate the child’s past lives while Western Queen Mother stayed with him.

• Cheng Yue sealed the crying Divine Infant’s voice and asked Nuwa and Western Queen Mother to take the child to the human race.
• Cheng Yue told Nuwa about his new disciples, including the San Xiao sisters, Zhao Gongming, Six-Eared Macaque, and Kong Xuan.
• Cheng Yue gave Youchao Shi his Golden Wheel of Merit, restoring his youth and establishing him as the human race’s third ancestor beside Suiren Shi and Ziyi Shi.
• Cheng Yue stayed in the Holy Mother Temple and watched the Divine Infant grow for ten years, noting that the child reached the Earth Immortal realm and possessed the Kongtong Seal.
• Cheng Yue warned Nuwa that Hongjun might use the Divine Infant to let the Heavenly Dao encroach on the Human Dao, and sent her to investigate the child’s past and present lives.
• Western Queen Mother declined to accompany Nuwa and told Cheng Yue she would stay to serve him.

Nuwa and Pingxin investigated the origins of a strange Divine Infant and discovered that the Book of Man had emerged from the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Cheng Yue explained how the Three Books related to the Three Daos and revealed that the divine path bound living beings through incense offerings.

• Nuwa asked Pingxin to use the Book of Life and Death to investigate the Divine Infant, whose soul had no past life but possessed immense merit.
• Pingxin concluded that someone had concealed the Divine Infant's origins, and she and Nuwa went to ask Cheng Yue about the Book of Man.
• Cheng Yue explained that the Three Books did not correspond directly to the Three Daos, and that the Book of Man recorded the fates of all living beings.
• Cheng Yue said the Investiture of the Gods disrupted the Earthly Dao's cycle of life and death by turning human True Spirits into gods.
• Cheng Yue described gods as beings empowered by worship and incense, explaining that the divine path could bind living beings and divert them from pursuing longevity.

Cheng Yue learned that a mysterious Divine Infant with the Kongtong Seal might threaten humanity, so he asked Fuxi to reincarnate and compete for the Human King’s position. Fuxi agreed and began studying Cheng Yue’s chess games while they waited for Pingxin to return from Mount Buzhou.

• Cheng Yue explained that Pingxin held the Book of Man, while Zhenyuanzi guarded the Book of Earth and the Earth Membrane.
• Nuwa told Cheng Yue that a human child had no past life but possessed immense merit, and Cheng Yue suspected the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun had created him to seize humanity’s power.
• Cheng Yue decided Fuxi should reincarnate to contend with the child for the Human King’s position, and Fuxi agreed after learning he might become a Human Dao Saint.
• Cheng Yue marked Fuxi so he could find him after his reincarnation and gave him a chessboard containing countless games to study.
• Fuxi began comprehending the chess games as Cheng Yue waited for Pingxin to reach Mount Buzhou and wondered how Di Jiang would react to her return.

Pingxin told Di Jiang that she had become the Earthly Dao’s reincarnation and was no longer part of the Witch Clan, so he expelled her. Cheng Yue warned Di Jun not to disturb his disciples on the Moon Star, then left with Fuxi; Di Jun began plotting revenge before an unknown figure appeared and asked if he wanted it.

• Pingxin explained to Di Jiang why she had transformed into reincarnation, and he stripped her of her Witch Clan identity and expelled her.
• Pingxin visited Xuan Ming, warned her to take the Witch Clan to the Netherworld or humanity if it faced a crisis, and then returned toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Cheng Yue watched Pingxin leave, then headed with Fuxi to the Heavenly Court to warn Di Jun not to disturb his two disciples on the Moon Star.
• Di Jun raged after Cheng Yue departed and began plotting revenge, but an unknown figure appeared and asked whether he wanted to take revenge.

Cheng Yue arranged for Fuxi to be reborn among humanity with his memories sealed until he fulfilled his merits. He then gave Pingxin a plan to expand the Netherworld’s reincarnation system and summoned Minghe to discuss it.

• Cheng Yue and Fuxi went to the Six Paths of Reincarnation, where Meng Po recognized Cheng Yue and he granted her that name.
• Pingxin agreed to help Fuxi be reborn as a human, and Cheng Yue sealed Fuxi’s memories before Fuxi entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Pingxin explained that souls from the Myriad Worlds were overwhelming the Six Paths, so Cheng Yue proposed ghost cities, underworld soldiers, the Ten Kings of Hell, and the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Cheng Yue suggested creating miniature Six Paths of Reincarnation across the Myriad Worlds and appointing members of Minghe’s Asura Clan as the Ten Kings of Hell to settle the karmic debt.
• Pingxin brought Minghe to meet Cheng Yue, and Minghe agreed to go with her after learning that Cheng Yue was Nuwa’s master.

Minghe agreed to let the Asura Clan help Pingxin manage reincarnation across the Myriad Worlds, while Cheng Yue warned him that the clan would need discipline. Cheng Yue then returned to the human race, where he suspected the Divine Infant was trying to seize the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors’ merit before their time.

• Pingxin told Minghe that she wanted to recruit the Asura Clan to maintain smaller Six Paths of Reincarnation across the Myriad Worlds, and Cheng Yue explained the plan and warned Minghe to restrain the clan’s killing intent.
• Minghe asked Cheng Yue whether he could prove the Dao, and Cheng Yue offered him vague encouragement before leaving with Pingxin and Minghe to discuss reincarnation.
• Cheng Yue returned to the human race and saw that the Divine Infant had grown into a Golden Immortal young man who gathered plants, drew diagrams, and led people hunting.
• Cheng Yue clouded the Divine Infant’s mind to stop him from claiming merit meant for the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, but the effect soon vanished and the Divine Infant continued toward the human race.
• Nuwa told Cheng Yue that the Divine Infant’s activities seemed ordinary, and Cheng Yue wondered whether he was trying to become the Human Emperor.