Chapter Summaries

Duobao settled among the human race to study their varied cultivation methods, while Randeng joined Hongyun’s Buddhism after learning that its teachings came from Nuwa’s Master. Hongyun taught the Buddhist Dao and invited those who cultivated Buddhist light to join, while Dragon Race members left to consult their clan.

• Duobao asked to stay among the human race, and Suiren Shi welcomed him; Duobao began studying their cultivation methods.
• Randeng arrived at Hongyun’s dojo, where Kunpeng brought him to meet Hongyun and Tongtian.
• Hongyun explained that no easy Method to Attain Dao existed, then offered Randeng a place as a deputy leader of Buddhism, citing Nuwa’s Master’s teachings; Randeng agreed to join.
• Hongyun, Kunpeng, Tongtian, and Randeng taught the Buddhist Dao, and Hongyun invited those who cultivated Buddhist light to join Buddhism.
• Dragon Race members hesitated to join and departed to consult their clan; Hongyun explained their ties to Nuwa’s Master, and Kunpeng described the Dragon princess he had taken as a disciple.

The Dragon Kings learned that their Ancestor approved of some dragons joining Buddhism and discovered that Golden Dragon had become a powerful divine sword. Yinglong then brought Golden Dragon and Ao Caizhu to the Dragon Tomb to offer its dragon souls a chance to be reborn as human martial souls.

• The North Sea Dragon King agreed that dragons could join Buddhism, and the East Sea Dragon King confirmed that their Ancestor approved of it.
• The East Sea Dragon King told his brother that Senior Golden Dragon had become a top-grade postnatal Divine Treasure capable of fighting Sages.
• Golden Dragon demonstrated his power while sparring with Yinglong, and Yinglong explained that the Senior had proposed a method to resurrect dragon souls through human cultivation.
• Yinglong, Ao Caizhu, the Dragon Kings, and Golden Dragon went to the Dragon Tomb and offered its dragon souls the chance to become human martial souls.
• The dragon souls accepted the plan, and Yinglong said they would enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation alongside humans without losing their memories.

Randeng traveled to the Human Race to find Duobao Mouse and accept him as a Buddhist disciple. With Cheng Yue’s approval, Duobao joined Buddhism and was promised the position of World-Honored One if he attained the Dao.

• Hongyun and Kunpeng discussed their slow cultivation as Randeng’s Buddhist practice advanced, and Randeng left the North Sea to seek Duobao Mouse.
• Randeng reached the Human Race, introduced himself to Suiren Shi and the others, and explained that he wanted to accept Duobao as a disciple.
• Cheng Yue arrived and moved Duobao before Randeng, who assured the frightened mouse that he intended to teach him rather than enslave him.
• After learning that Duobao had helped the Human Race, Cheng Yue authorized Randeng to take him as a disciple and declared that Duobao would become Buddhism’s World-Honored One and public voice if he attained the Dao.
• Randeng brought Duobao back to the North Sea and told Hongyun that Cheng Yue had designated his disciple for the future position.

Cheng Yue restored Nuwa’s statue in the Human Ancestral Land and began devising a cultivation method to help revive the Dragon Race. Meanwhile, Di Jun worried about the Demon Race’s prospects against the Witch Clan, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi secretly forged the Moon Star’s formation flag before returning to the Heavenly Court.

• Cheng Yue restored Nuwa’s statue, sent Golden Phoenix to check on Fuxi, and told Changxi and Xihe that the Wu-Yao War was approaching.
• Cheng Yue noticed the growing number of dragon souls among humanity and returned to his dojo to create a new cultivation method.
• Hongyun appeared in Lingxiao Palace after hearing Eastern Emperor Taiyi insult him and injured Taiyi with a single blow.
• Di Jun worried that the Demon Race might not defeat the Witch Clan, while Eastern Emperor Taiyi insisted they could rely on the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi went to the Moon Star and spent a hundred years condensing its formation flag while Changxi and Xihe chose not to interfere.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi completed the formation flag and flew back to the Heavenly Court.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi completed the Lunar Formation Flag, but the Demon Race's preparations for the Wu-Yao War remained clouded by doubts about its enemies. Di Jun returned from meeting Hongjun convinced that Heaven favored the Demon Race, while Hongjun privately doubted their confidence and faced pressure over the Three Purities' failure to attain Dao.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi gave Di Jun the completed Lunar Formation Flag, and Di Jun planned to seek Hongjun's help against the Witch Clan and its powerful allies.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi found the Demon Soldiers and Demon Sages unprepared; Bai Ze warned that the human race and Nuwa's master could still threaten the Demon Race.
• The Eye of the Heavenly Dao appeared before the Demon Sages, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi took it as proof that Heaven supported the Demon Race; Bai Ze remained wary and began considering backup plans.
• Di Jun met Hongjun, who promised that he, the Heavenly Dao, Yuanshi, and Hongyun would restrain the Demon Race's opponents; Di Jun returned believing the war was theirs to win.
• Hongjun privately said Di Jun was celebrating too early, then questioned Laozi and the two Western Sages about attaining Dao; Laozi left the Purple Firmament Palace to visit the Primordial World.

Laozi secretly preached his Golden Core Great Dao to a western human tribe, hoping to gain an opportunity to attain the Dao, but Cheng Yue arrived and drove him away. Cheng Yue then revealed the nearby beings who had been watching and trapped them in place.

• Laozi found a western human settlement whose people had been bullied by nearby cultivators and offered to teach them cultivation.
• As Laozi preached, some humans began to recover their health and cultivate, while nearby beings recognized him and sent someone to report his actions.
• Cheng Yue sensed a fluctuation in human fortune, found Laozi preaching, and confronted him for violating the ban on preaching among humans.
• Laozi defended his actions, but Cheng Yue dismissed his Golden Core Great Dao as useless and sent him away.
• Cheng Yue immobilized the nearby watchers and revealed them to the humans.

Cheng Yue gathered the humans scattered across the Primordial World and brought them back to the Human Ancestral Land, while Laozi abandoned his plans for the human race and established the Demon Teaching. Hongjun and Laozi left still blaming Cheng Yue for disrupting their plans.

• Cheng Yue spared the creatures who had threatened the humans, bound them to serve the human race for ten thousand years, and offered the humans cultivation methods in the Human Ancestral Land.
• The humans recognized Cheng Yue as the Holy Master and agreed to return, so he transported them away and gathered humans from across the Primordial World.
• Cheng Yue sent Golden Phoenix to bring Nuwa back, while Laozi vented his anger by killing the fleeing creatures before deciding to seek a path among the Demon Race.
• Hongjun met Laozi and approved his move to the Demon Race, where Laozi established the Demon Teaching with Di Jun's support and became a Sage.
• Laozi asked Hongjun whether the Demon Race's future decline would affect his realm, and both men vowed to take revenge on Cheng Yue for obstructing their plans.

Cheng Yue prepared for the approaching Wu-Yao War by gathering the human race and sending Fuxi to unite its tribes as the first Human Emperor. After warning Pingxin to alert the Witch Clan, he weighed the coming conflict and summoned his disciples to hear him expound the Dao.

• Cheng Yue explained to Nuwa that the human race had gathered near its ancestral land for protection, then sent her to have Fuxi resolve conflicts among the tribes.
• Cheng Yue told his disciples to leave the tribes to Fuxi, and Fuxi departed to organize the human warriors and unite the human race.
• Cheng Yue visited Pingxin at the Six Paths of Reincarnation and warned her that the Wu-Yao War was approaching, prompting her to alert the scattered Witch Clan.
• Minghe thanked Cheng Yue for helping the Asura Clan, then mistakenly took Cheng Yue's vague promise of future opportunities as a sign that he would prove the Dao.
• Cheng Yue observed the Witch Clan and Heavenly Court preparing for war, considered the balance of powerful allies, and called his disciples to the great hall to expound the Dao.

Fuxi unified the Human Race and led it back to the ancestral land as Cheng Yue worried about its safety before the coming Wu-Yao War. Zhenyuanzi returned to Wuzhuang Temple seeking a chance to attain the Dao, while Tongtian set out to find a new cultivation ground in the East Sea.

• Fuxi settled the tribes, became Human King at Mount Tai, regained memories of his previous life, and ordered the Human Race to remain in its ancestral land.
• Cheng Yue left Nuwa to manage the growing Human Race and returned to his dojo to continue teaching the Dao.
• Zhenyuanzi sensed his opportunity approaching, returned to Wuzhuang Temple, and began cultivating beneath the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• The Ginseng Fruit Tree transformed into golden light and merged into Zhenyuanzi, but he still could not attain the Dao.
• Zhenyuanzi questioned his Boy Servants about events at the temple, then returned to contemplating the Dao.
• Tongtian decided to establish his cultivation grounds away from Mount Kunlun and flew toward the East Sea, while Hongjun watched with a faint smile.

Hongjun removed the seal separating the Witch and Demon Clans, setting the Wu-Yao War in motion as Di Jun mobilized the Demon Race and Xuan Ming gathered the Witches. Hongjun watched the Six Paths of Reincarnation for Pingxin while the two armies began preparing to face each other.

• Hongjun lifted the seal without anyone noticing, and Demon Soldiers later reported its disappearance to Di Jun.
• Di Jun confirmed the seal was gone and ordered the Demon Race to gather and attack the Witch Clan before it could react.
• Western Queen Mother sought shelter with Nuwa, who arranged an awkward reunion between her and Fuxi before teasing him about marrying her.
• Hongjun concealed himself near the Six Paths of Reincarnation to watch Pingxin, while Minghe sensed his presence from the Blood Sea.
• Pingxin told Xuan Ming that the seal had broken, and Xuan Ming assembled the Witches and led them toward Mount Buzhou.
• Xuan Ming sent Great Witches to warn the other Ancestor Witches as more beings discovered that the seal was gone.

The Demon Race activated the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation against the Witch Clan, while Pingxin was prevented from intervening by the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun. As the battle continued, Cheng Yue left his island and confronted the three Sages who were watching the human race.

• Di Jun sent the Demon Race army against the Witch Clan, and Zhu Rong and the other Ancestor Witches joined the battle.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi activated the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation, trapping the eleven Ancestor Witches and crushing the Witch Clan forces.
• Pingxin prepared to intervene, but the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun stopped her from joining the battle.
• Cheng Yue noticed the damage around Mount Buzhou and saw that the Heavenly Dao had also moved against his island.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian waited near the human race for Nuwa, but Cheng Yue arrived and ordered the three Sages to leave.

Cheng Yue drove Yuanshi and Laozi away from the human territory, then watched the Witch-Demon War with Nuwa and the others. Eager for a fight, he challenged the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, which fled before Hongjun directed him to battle in the chaos.

• Cheng Yue slapped Yuanshi and Laozi out of the human territory, let Tongtian leave, and reunited with Nuwa, Western Queen Mother, and Golden Phoenix at the Holy Mother Temple.
• The Eye of the Heavenly Dao appeared, and Cheng Yue warned it to stay outside; Western Queen Mother then promised to give him Innate Ren Water Flat Peaches once they ripened.
• Cheng Yue predicted Eastern King Duke would die during the Wu-Yao War and noted that Hongjun had strengthened the Demon Race's Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation, though he offered to break a formation star if needed.
• Cheng Yue decided to fight the Heavenly Dao and challenged the Eye, which vanished; a figure with Hongjun's appearance told him to take the battle into the chaos.
• Cheng Yue headed into the chaos, while Nuwa protected Golden Phoenix and led her and Western Queen Mother after him to watch.

Cheng Yue temporarily banished the Heavenly Dao, causing the Primordial World’s Sages to lose their cultivation until the Heavenly Dao escaped. Afterward, Cheng Yue explained the dangers of banishing Great Daos to Nuwa and refused to teach her the technique.

• Cheng Yue attacked the Heavenly Dao with compressed Chaos Spiritual Energy and trapped it in a black sphere using spatial distortion and a flame of Earth Fire Water Wind.
• The Heavenly Dao’s temporary disappearance caused Laozi and the other Sages, along with Hongjun, to lose their realms, while Nuwa and Pingxin were unaffected.
• Pingxin left to reach the Wu-Yao battlefield, but Hongjun transformed into the Heavenly Dao, suppressed her, and took her away.
• The Heavenly Dao escaped its confinement, and Cheng Yue decided to return with Nuwa after reflecting on the risks of banishing it.
• Cheng Yue told Nuwa that Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Daos could be banished, but warned that banishing foundational Great Daos could destroy the world.
• Nuwa asked to learn the banishment technique, but Cheng Yue refused and told her to comprehend it herself.

Pingxin rejected Hongjun's demand for control of the Six Paths of Reincarnation while Cheng Yue judged the Wu-Yao War and turned to strengthening the human race. He began gathering its leaders for cultivation, preparing them to face a future Tribulation.

• Pingxin realized Cheng Yue had exiled the Heavenly Dao, then refused Hongjun's offer to preserve a Witch Clan bloodline in exchange for letting the Heavenly Dao govern the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Cheng Yue returned to the Primordial World, found the Wu-Yao War dragging on, and told Nuwa to bring the human race's ancestors to his dojo for instruction.
• Cheng Yue summoned Fuxi and instructed him to study the human race's cultivation methods, accumulate its strength, and hold lectures to expound the Dao.
• Fuxi brought the Four Ancestors of the human race to Cheng Yue, who invited them to cultivate with him for a thousand years and set Quasi-Sage as their target.

Cheng Yue lectured the four Human Ancestors and his disciples on the Dao while Fuxi revised the human race’s cultivation methods to improve and combine them. When he could not copy the cultivation-method stele himself, he went to Nuwa for help, and she agreed to accompany him back to Cheng Yue’s sect with Western Queen Mother and Golden Phoenix.

• Cheng Yue brought the four Human Ancestors to his dojo and began a hundred-year lecture on the Dao, which helped stabilize their cultivation and advance Cangjie.
• Fuxi revised the cultivation methods on the human race’s stele for several decades, improving them and combining body tempering with other paths.
• Fuxi tried to copy the stele onto ordinary stone but failed because the stone could not hold all the methods.
• Fuxi visited Nuwa and asked her to copy the cultivation-method stele, but she said only Cheng Yue could manage it.
• Nuwa ended her meditation and set off for Cheng Yue’s sect with Fuxi, Western Queen Mother, and Golden Phoenix.

Cheng Yue returned with Nuwa and Fuxi to the human race, distributed revised cultivation-method steles, and entrusted Fuxi with a protective formation. At the Holy Mother Temple, Nuwa explained Western Queen Mother’s obstacles to attaining Dao and suggested she either become Cheng Yue’s disciple or marry Fuxi.

• Fuxi asked Cheng Yue to copy the human cultivation-method steles so the tribes could cultivate more easily, and Cheng Yue took the group back to the human race.
• Cheng Yue copied and revised the cultivation methods, sent steles to the tribes, and gave Fuxi instructions for a protective formation.
• Nuwa told Western Queen Mother that she needed to find a focused Dao and seek Hongjun’s guidance about what came after severing the Three Corpses.
• Nuwa said Western Queen Mother might learn Cheng Yue’s Method to Attain Dao by becoming his disciple or marrying Fuxi.
• Western Queen Mother considered both possibilities, while Nuwa took out a red embroidered ball and thought she could benefit from officiating their marriage.

Nuwa examined the red embroidered ball and told the Western Queen Mother that the Primordial World’s fate had been shaped by a hidden force, though her master and Daoist Canon had disrupted its plans. After the two women resumed cultivation, Cheng Yue reflected on humanity’s hardships and resolved to prevent humanity from being drawn into Investiture of the Gods.

• The Western Queen Mother told Nuwa that the red embroidered ball had stirred her desire for a Dao Companion, so Nuwa began refining it and explained that Divine Treasures and the world itself had been arranged by greater powers.
• Nuwa said her master or Daoist Canon might be the force that escaped the Great Dao’s design, and she told the Western Queen Mother that her future held little beyond a peaceful life and occasional dealings with the Heavenly Court.
• Nuwa discovered that the red embroidered ball revealed marriage threads, but neither she nor the Western Queen Mother had one; she concluded that the Heavenly Court had used the treasure to manipulate people’s karmic ties.
• The Western Queen Mother and Nuwa returned to cultivation while the Western Queen Mother privately lamented that she had not become Nuwa’s disciple sooner.
• After receiving the memories of his vanished incarnation, Cheng Yue regretted his past handling of humanity’s migrations but accepted that their hardships had made them resilient.
• Cheng Yue vowed not to let humanity follow the path of Investiture of the Gods, and the Boy Servants opened their eyes and looked at him.

Cheng Yue watched the Witch-Demon battle and obtained Hongjun’s Zhou Tian Star Dou Formation Diagram after agreeing not to intervene. He tried adapting the formation with the Power of Humanity, briefly stirring the Human Dao, then vanished after conceiving another idea.

• Cheng Yue watched the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation overwhelm the Witch Clan and sent an avatar toward it to test its strength.
• Hongjun stopped Cheng Yue and gave him the Formation Diagram after Cheng Yue agreed that he and his disciples would not intervene in the battle.
• Cheng Yue studied the diagram by the South Sea and tried using worlds and the Power of Humanity to create formation flags for a new formation.
• The immense Power of Humanity startled Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao, Nuwa, and Fuxi, but Cheng Yue dispersed the unfinished formation flags.
• Cheng Yue suddenly vanished after looking at the Formation Diagram, leaving Nuwa and Fuxi wondering what he was planning.

Cheng Yue visited Wuzhuang Temple and found Zhenyuanzi struggling to break through, then proposed that he use the Primordial World's rivers and mountains to create a great formation. Zhenyuanzi sensed an opportunity in the task and prepared to leave, while Cheng Yue ensured the two Boy Servants would keep their plans secret.

• Cheng Yue waited while Zhenyuanzi cultivated and realized that the Ginseng Fruit Tree had disappeared from Wuzhuang Temple.
• Two Boy Servants challenged Cheng Yue, but they recognized his power, apologized, and told him they did not know why the Ginseng Fruit Tree was gone.
• Cheng Yue explored Wuzhuang Temple, read its inscriptions, and later found Zhenyuanzi wavering near the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Cheng Yue told Zhenyuanzi that his breakthrough lacked an opportunity and gave him two Formation Diagrams to study for a plan using the Primordial World's rivers and terrain.
• Zhenyuanzi agreed to attempt the formation, sensed that it might help him attain the Dao, and received Wooden Tokens containing Cheng Yue's power.
• Cheng Yue sealed the two Boy Servants' ability to reveal what had happened, and Zhenyuanzi prepared to carry out the task.

Zhenyuanzi traveled across the Primordial World to condense array flags for his master's planned great array, recruiting the Dragon Race to help with locations across the seas. He reached Mount Sumeru and made an array flag there, while leaving Jade Capital Mountain until last to avoid drawing Hongjun's attention.

• Zhenyuanzi left Wuzhuang Temple, warned the Boy Servants to serve his master if he returned, and began condensing array flags with the Book of Earth as his guide.
• While traveling toward the East Sea, Zhenyuanzi watched the Witch Clan and Demon Race's battle continue and marveled at the Witch Clan's power.
• Zhenyuanzi asked Yinglong to have the Dragon Race refine array flags at designated locations across the seas, and Yinglong agreed to arrange it.
• Zhenyuanzi spent several centuries traveling through the Primordial World and condensing array flags, growing more profound as he studied its mountains and rivers.
• Zhenyuanzi reached ruined Mount Sumeru, condensed an array flag from its weakened earth veins, and decided to leave Jade Capital Mountain until last to avoid Hongjun's suspicion.