Chapter Summaries

Cheng Yue explained to Nuwa why he had arranged for Fuxi to be reborn among the humans as a path toward the Human Dao, then named him his second disciple and settled in his tribe. After discovering Fuxi had gained an innate foundation and Dao body, Nuwa accepted the plan and left to stop the Divine Infant from claiming the merit of the Three Sovereigns.

• Cheng Yue found the human tribe where Fuxi was being born and told Nuwa that Fuxi’s reincarnation could help bring forth the Human Dao and prepare for the Boundless Tribulation.
• Cheng Yue explained that Fuxi could become a Human Emperor and that the human race might reach the Sub-Saint realm, though Nuwa remained troubled by her elder brother’s lost foundation.
• Cheng Yue eased the mother’s pain, named the newborn Fuxi, accepted him as his second disciple, and healed his mother.
• Nuwa noticed that Fuxi possessed an innate foundation and innate Dao body, while Cheng Yue gave his mother a chessboard and zither as his Divine Treasures and established a home in the tribe.
• Cheng Yue told Nuwa to watch the Divine Infant and stop him from tasting herbs and drawing diagrams so he would not take all the merit of the Three Sovereigns; Nuwa hurried off to intervene.

Nuwa discovered that Divine Infant had been created by Hongjun and was persuading humanity to revere the Heavenly Dao, threatening humanity’s future. As she prepared for a possible conflict, the Western Queen Mother went to tell Cheng Yue, who was training the reincarnated Fuxi.

• Nuwa stopped Divine Infant from cultivating, then ordered Suiren Shi, Ziyi Shi, and Youchao Shi to treat him as an ordinary human and explained that Hongjun had created him.
• Nuwa warned that the Kongtong Seal had to remain within humanity and told the Three Ancestors to prepare for a possible war against the Heavenly Dao.
• Suiren Shi reported that six in ten people in the Human Ancestral Land and nearly ten surrounding tribes had been influenced by Divine Infant and come to believe in the Heavenly Dao.
• Nuwa asked the Western Queen Mother to inform Cheng Yue of the crisis, while Suiren Shi kept watch over the sleeping Divine Infant.
• Cheng Yue continued teaching Fuxi cultivation, and Fuxi said he had already reached the immortal level.

Cheng Yue protected Nuwa’s Divine Infant from Hongjun’s influence and sought a way to counter the spread of Heavenly Dao worship among human tribes. He brought Cangjie from a Lesser World to create characters, then gave Suiren Shi a tablet of cultivation methods gathered from across the worlds.

• Cheng Yue told Fuxi he could use his accompanying qin only after reaching the Heavenly Immortal realm, prompting Fuxi to decide to make one himself.
• Cheng Yue placed an array around the Divine Infant to sever its connection with Hongjun after Nuwa reported that the child could see through her concealment.
• Nuwa showed Cheng Yue the human-inhabited Lesser Worlds, and he summoned Cangjie from one of them.
• Cangjie wrote characters that gathered merit and strengthened the Human Dao, so Cheng Yue named him the human race’s fourth ancestor.
• Cheng Yue gave Suiren Shi a stone tablet containing cultivation methods summarized by humans across the worlds and told him to place it in the Human Ancestral Land.

Suiren Shi placed a mysterious stele in the Human Ancestral Land, while Cangjie became humanity’s Fourth Ancestor and was promised the status of a Human Dao Sage. Cheng Yue welcomed the Western Queen Mother among humanity, discovered Fuxi’s feelings for her, and the chapter ended with Kong Xuan arriving to wait for his master.

• Suiren Shi carried the heavy stele to the center of the Human Ancestral Land, where it merged with the ground and drew crowds of humans.
• Nuwa sensed humanity’s growing Power of Humanity as Cangjie finished creating his characters, and Cheng Yue invited him to remain as humanity’s Fourth Ancestor and become a Human Dao Sage when the Human Dao emerged.
• Cheng Yue learned that the Western Queen Mother had come looking for him and welcomed her to stay among humanity.
• Fuxi blushed and ran away after Cheng Yue suggested that he had fallen for the Western Queen Mother.
• Cheng Yue warned the Western Queen Mother that the Demon Race might threaten her fellow female immortals and offered protection if she brought them to humanity, so she set off for Kunlun.
• Kong Xuan left Cheng Yue’s South Sea Dao field, found Nuwa at the Holy Mother Temple, and agreed to wait there for Cheng Yue.

Nuwa and Kong Xuan examined the human race’s stele of cultivation methods, while Suiren Shi worried about humans influenced by the Divine Infant. The Phoenix Race arrived seeking to offer Nuwa a mount, and she accepted Golden Phoenix after Kong Xuan urged her to do so, leaving the awkward exchange unresolved.

• Nuwa explained to Kong Xuan that the stele offered humans cultivation methods from the Myriad Worlds, while Suiren Shi saw that some humans remained under the Divine Infant’s influence.
• Kong Xuan studied the stele and found that its diverse techniques had been strengthened with traces of the Daoist Canon, allowing some to reach the Taiyi Golden Immortal level.
• The Phoenix Race flew to the human ancestral land, and Kong Xuan stopped them before Nuwa appeared and clarified that he was her junior brother, not her mount.
• Kong Xuan told Nuwa that the Phoenix Race had come to offer her a mount, and Nuwa learned that Six-Eared Macaque had told him.
• Nuwa initially refused the offer, but accepted after Kong Xuan suggested the mount could help her contact their Master, so the Phoenix Race left Golden Phoenix behind.

Kong Xuan settled his ties with the Phoenix Race and stayed with Empress Nuwa, while Golden Phoenix remained at the Holy Mother Temple as Nuwa’s mount. After Yinglong mocked the Phoenix elders for rejecting Kong Xuan, he brought Ao Caizhu to find Cheng Yue and seek her acceptance as a disciple.

• Kong Xuan told Empress Nuwa that he had protected the Phoenix Race once to settle his karma and would no longer concern himself with it.
• Empress Nuwa called Golden Phoenix into the Holy Mother Temple and told her to stay until Nuwa departed; Golden Phoenix learned about Nuwa’s sect and began cultivating.
• Yinglong and Ao Caizhu encountered the departing Phoenix Race, and Yinglong taunted its elders for having rejected Kong Xuan and for now seeking to claim kinship with him.
• The Phoenix elders argued over their past decision to drive Kong Xuan away, while the returning Phoenix Race members regretted their clan’s decline.
• Yinglong and Ao Caizhu reached the Holy Mother Temple, where Empress Nuwa gave Yinglong directions to Cheng Yue, and they left to seek him so Ao Caizhu could become a disciple.

Cheng Yue accepted Ao Caizhu as his disciple and continued teaching the Dao before checking on the Human Ancestral Land. There, he found the Divine Infant still trying to form a Bagua image and erased its memory of the attempt.

• Cheng Yue urged Fuxi to cultivate, and the Western Queen Mother stayed because her presence motivated Fuxi and gave her a chance to hear Cheng Yue teach the Dao.
• Yinglong brought Ao Caizhu to Cheng Yue, who accepted her as his disciple and passed a cultivation method into her mind.
• Cheng Yue told Ao Caizhu that Fuxi had reincarnated for humanity and instructed her to focus on cultivation while he taught the Dao.
• After several years, Cheng Yue visited the Human Ancestral Land, saw Nuwa and others cultivating, and checked on the sleeping Divine Infant.
• The Divine Infant claimed he could form a Bagua image even while asleep, but Cheng Yue erased the image and made him forget what he had been doing.

Hongjun persuaded Di Jun to send Demon Race soldiers into the Primordial World to hunt humans and forge a Witch-Slaying Sword against the Witch Clan. The first soldiers descended, but Hongjun could not break the formation on the Moon Star to retrieve Di Jun’s remaining formation flag, leaving Bai Ze wary of the Sage’s intentions.

• The Divine Infant realized it had been abandoned, while Hongjun stayed outside the human race rather than risk entering Cheng Yue’s formation.
• Hongjun decided to pursue a way to address the Witch-Demon Cataclysm and proposed using human Lost Souls to forge a Witch-Slaying Sword.
• Di Jun accepted Hongjun’s plan to send Demon Race members to hunt humans, and Kunpeng warned Bai Ze that the scheme could bring disaster upon their race.
• Di Jun selected several dozen Taiyi Golden Immortal Demon Soldiers, and Hongjun opened a concealed passage through the seal so they could descend into the Primordial World in batches.
• Di Jun asked Hongjun to retrieve the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation flag from the Moon Star, but Hongjun admitted he could not break the formation.
• Bai Ze warned Di Jun that Hongjun might not have good intentions, while Di Jun remained silent.

Cheng Yue discussed humanity’s development with Fuxi while learning that Ao Caizhu’s Dragon Race had returned to the Four Seas. Unaware of the danger, Cheng Yue continued overseeing humanity as demons secretly abducted humans and began raising them to harvest their Lost Souls later.

• Cheng Yue taught Fuxi about guiding humanity and asked Ao Caizhu whether the Dragon Race still lived in the South Sea.
• Ao Caizhu explained that the Dragon Race had returned to the Four Seas and that the East Sea held its ancestral Dragon Tombs, protected by Ancestral Dragon’s seal.
• Near the North Sea, demons slaughtered a human tribe and agreed to capture humans, raise them, and kill them later to gather Lost Souls.
• A massive Mystic Turtle saw demons moving through the area but dismissed them and returned to cultivating.
• The demons abducted women, children, and adults, threatened them into obedience, and forced them to reproduce in a cave dwelling.
• The demons continued raising the captive humans, planning to slaughter them all at once after their population grew.

Cheng Yue sent Fuxi to investigate missing humans and demonic-beast attacks, while Ao Caizhu’s loose tongue earned her a thousand-year speech seal. At the Human Ancestral Land, Six-Eared Macaque revealed Fuxi wanted to marry the Western Queen Mother, and Cheng Yue sent disciples to join him.

• Fuxi asked Cheng Yue whether missing humans and slaughtered tribes pointed to something suspicious, and Cheng Yue told him to investigate.
• Fuxi asked whether the Western Queen Mother would return, and Cheng Yue said he could see her after becoming ruler of the human race.
• Ao Caizhu urged Cheng Yue to find a Dao Companion, so Cheng Yue sealed her ability to speak and transmit her voice for a thousand years.
• Cheng Yue went to the Human Ancestral Land and questioned Nuwa, San Xiao, and the others about their plans to protect humans.
• Six-Eared Macaque revealed that Fuxi wanted to marry the Western Queen Mother, prompting Nuwa to head for the Holy Mother Temple.
• Cheng Yue sent San Xiao, Zhao Gongming, Six-Eared Macaque, and Kong Xuan to help Fuxi, telling Kong Xuan to intervene only if Fuxi faced mortal danger.

Fuxi investigated the slaughter of human tribes and discovered that survivors in one settlement had lost a soul and spirit after searching for missing women and children. He promised the survivors he would uncover what happened and led his companions to search nearby without splitting up.

• Kong Xuan sensed that Fuxi was in danger and hurried with Six-Eared Macaque, San Xiao, and Zhao Gongming to find him.
• Fuxi and the humans traveling with him found several massacred tribes, buried more than a thousand dead, and concluded that beasts were not responsible.
• Fuxi found a surviving settlement where many people had gone mad, and he determined that they had lost a soul and a spirit.
• An old woman told Fuxi that women and children had vanished years earlier and that the villagers who went searching had returned deranged.
• Fuxi promised the old woman he would investigate and bring the people back if he could, then led his companions out to search together rather than divide their group.

Fuxi investigated the disappearances and massacres among human tribes, but three demons ambushed him and killed his companions. Kong Xuan arrived in time to save Fuxi, who revealed the Demon Race’s crimes, while Six-Eared Macaque could find no trace of any other demons.

• Fuxi searched the surrounding area for clues to the human disappearances but found no unusual signs or cultivators from other races.
• Three demons decided to kill Fuxi and his companions, while Fuxi agreed to seek help from nearby tribes the next day.
• The demons ambushed Fuxi’s camp, and Fuxi used his wooden zither to stun them as his companions fought and urged him to escape.
• Six-Eared Macaque sent Kong Xuan ahead after hearing the battle, and Kong Xuan killed the three demons before they could flee.
• Fuxi told Kong Xuan that the Demon Race had massacred dozens of human tribes, abducted women and children, and killed several of his companions.
• Six-Eared Macaque tried to locate the demons but could hear no information about them.

Fuxi and the disciples waited for signs of more demons while Zhao Gongming brought back wooden tokens containing Cheng Yue’s full-force strikes. Nuwa confronted Di Jun in the Heavenly Court over the slaughter of the Human Race, but he denied the Demon Race’s involvement and claimed someone was framing them.

• Fuxi chose to gather his dead brothers’ remains and wait with the others to see whether more demons remained.
• Kong Xuan sent Zhao Gongming to inform Cheng Yue and Nuwa, while the others stayed with Fuxi and kept watch.
• After half a month, demons in a cave realized the old ox and other demons had not returned and decided to remain hidden rather than investigate.
• Zhao Gongming returned with wooden tokens containing Cheng Yue’s full-force strikes and Nuwa’s instruction to keep watch for a hundred years.
• Nuwa flew to the Heavenly Court and accused Di Jun’s Demon Race of slaughtering the Human Race.
• Di Jun denied sending demons into the Primordial World and suggested someone was trying to frame his Demon Race.

Nuwa learned that Di Jun’s Demon Race was forging the Witch-Slaying Sword from human souls, but Cheng Yue urged her to delay confronting him until the human race was stronger. After Nuwa went to destroy the hidden Demon Race members, Cheng Yue studied the Daoist Canon and wondered whether he should sever his Three Corpses; Changxi and Xihe had already done so and reached the peak of the Quasi-Sage realm.

• Nuwa confronted Di Jun, heard his thoughts reveal the Witch-Slaying Sword plot, and left without killing him, vowing that the human race would repay the grudge later.
• Nuwa searched for the Demon Race members near Fuxi but could not find them, so she returned to Cheng Yue for help.
• Cheng Yue located the group at a hill ten thousand li east of Fuxi and sent Nuwa to kill them, then decided to begin closed-door cultivation and study the Daoist Canon.
• Cheng Yue wondered whether severing the Three Corpses was necessary, while Changxi and Xihe severed theirs with a streak of blade light and reached the peak of the Quasi-Sage realm.

Nuwa uncovered a Demon Race stronghold where humans were being held and learned a Heavenly Emperor and a Sage had ordered it. After she brought the half-human, half-demon survivors to Cheng Yue, he decided to erase their memories and send them to the Myriad Worlds, while Hongjun and his group worried that the Witch-Slaying Sword could not be forged.

• Nuwa entered a hidden hill, discovered humans imprisoned alongside Demon Race members, and killed the demons after one revealed that a Heavenly Emperor and a Sage had sent them.
• Nuwa told the remaining humans they could return to their tribes, then brought the half-human, half-demon survivors to Cheng Yue for guidance.
• Cheng Yue ordered Nuwa to erase the survivors’ memories and send them to the Myriad Worlds, fearing they would face rejection among humans.
• Cheng Yue reflected that he might have to fight the person who wanted him to reach a certain realm, then returned to secluded cultivation.
• Hongjun and his group grew anxious that the Witch-Slaying Sword would not be forged and the Wu-Yao War’s outcome could change.

After Di Jun offended Nuwa, Kunpeng left the Demon Race and its fortune weakened as members began fleeing. Di Jun guarded Eastern King Duke’s residence and then rushed after two fairy maidens from the Moon Star when Eastern Emperor Taiyi reported their emergence from seclusion.

• Di Jun raged over Nuwa’s disregard and vowed to make all beings submit to his Heavenly Court, while Bai Ze weighed whether to abandon the Demon Race.
• Kunpeng declared that he was leaving the Demon Race, weakening its fortune, and Di Jun found his residence empty after rushing there to confront him.
• Kunpeng blamed Di Jun for provoking Nuwa and warned that she might still target him, while Di Jun ordered Bai Ze to surround Eastern King Duke’s residence.
• Eastern King Duke and his followers considered leaving, but found Demon Soldiers surrounding his estate; Bai Ze claimed he had brought them for protection and declined Eastern King Duke’s invitation to defect.
• News of Di Jun’s offense spread, many members fled, and the Demon Race’s fortune fell by nearly ten percent.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi told Di Jun that the two fairy maidens of the Moon Star had emerged from seclusion, and Di Jun flew after them and called for them to wait.

Xihe and Changxi learned that Di Jun had used humans in his weapon-making plans and had allowed him to use the Moon Star to refine an array flag. Xihe cut off the Moon Star’s power and refused to let Di Jun continue, leaving them poised to fight.

• Di Jun asked Xihe and Changxi to let him use the Moon Star’s power to refine an array flag, and they agreed before heading toward the human race.
• Kong Xuan greeted Xihe and Changxi and told them that Di Jun’s Demon Race had imprisoned humans and used their souls and blood to refine a weapon.
• Xihe and Changxi decided to stop Di Jun; Xihe returned to the Moon Star while Changxi went to seek their Master’s protection for it.
• Xihe cut off the Moon Star’s power flowing into Di Jun’s array flag and ordered him to leave.
• Di Jun threatened to use force, but Xihe drew her crescent blade and stood against him.

Cheng Yue allowed Di Jun to refine the formation flags, believing the Demon Race needed strength to face the Witches, and explained how the Human and Earthly Daos could produce many Sages. Nuwa sought out Zhenyuanzi to offer him an opportunity, and the chapter ended with someone asking whether he wanted a good master.

• Di Jun left after Xihe refused to withdraw, and Changxi hurried to Cheng Yue for help protecting the Moon Star.
• Cheng Yue told Changxi to let Di Jun refine the flags, reasoning that the Demon Race needed them to contend with the Witches, and sent her back to Xihe.
• Cheng Yue told Nuwa that Fuxi's work among humans could help the Human Dao grow powerful and that Zhenyuanzi could attain the Dao through the Book of Earth.
• Nuwa flew to Wuzhuang Temple to find Zhenyuanzi, while Cheng Yue said he would help only if Zhenyuanzi accepted him as master.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, Zhenyuanzi spoke of how a good master made cultivation easier, and a voice asked whether he wanted such a master.

Nuwa warned Hongyun that Kunpeng and the Demon Race might target his Primordial Violet Qi, while persuading Zhenyuanzi to become her master's disciple. As they headed to the human race, Nuwa considered how to use her own Primordial Violet Qi and encountered Tongtian.

• Nuwa explained that Kunpeng had wanted Di Jun to seize Hongyun's Primordial Violet Qi and warned that the weakened Demon Race might also go after him.
• Zhenyuanzi agreed to become Nuwa's master's disciple, and Nuwa told Hongyun to stay with him among the human race for protection.
• Nuwa said her sect would not accept Hongyun unless he gave up his Primordial Violet Qi and the prospect of becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint, but Hongyun remained unwilling to part with it.
• Nuwa explained that the Demon Race's declining fortune and the loss of the Witch-Slaying Sword option could make Hongyun a target for Di Jun and Tai Yi.
• Nuwa considered retrieving her Primordial Violet Qi from Houtu and giving it to Minghe or Western Queen Mother, then wondered how the change might affect Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones.
• Nuwa saw Tongtian approaching the human race and asked what had brought him there.

Nuwa brought Tongtian to meet Cheng Yue, who warned him that becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint and using the Four Swords of Zhu Xian to suppress his sect’s fortune would lead to disaster. Tongtian left to reconsider his path, while Cheng Yue pointed Zhenyuanzi toward the Earthly Dao.

• Tongtian asked Nuwa how to attain the Dao, and she brought him to the human race to speak with Cheng Yue.
• Cheng Yue accepted Zhenyuanzi as a disciple and warned Tongtian that becoming a Sage could leave him under Heavenly Dao’s control.
• Tongtian learned that the Four Swords of Zhu Xian could not suppress his sect’s fortune and that his great sect might be destroyed if he relied on them.
• Cheng Yue urged Tongtian to pursue Proving the Dao by Force, explaining that Hongjun had lost to Yangmei, who was still alive in the chaos.
• Tongtian thanked Cheng Yue and left for Kunlun to focus on cultivation and reconsider how to attain the Dao.
• Zhenyuanzi asked where his Dao lay, and Cheng Yue told him that it was within the Earthly Dao and the mountains and waters recorded in the Book of Earth.