Chapter Summaries

After leaving Xuan Yuan Mountain, Zhou Yi settled in Chongshan County, where he investigated a demonic disturbance at the Yu Residence and uncovered a scheme involving the Land God and the Limitless Ghost God. The surviving conspirator revealed ties that led Zhou Yi to suspect the Celestial Court had revived the old wild-god methods.

• Sun Changsheng told the Yellow Ox how he and the Heavenly Emperor had crippled the Three Immortals and killed most of the Celestial Court's gods, and the Yellow Ox informed Zhou Yi.
• Angered that Sun Changsheng's actions might implicate him, Zhou Yi left Xuan Yuan Mountain and spent ten years enjoying life in Chongshan County.
• After sensing demonic qi, Zhou Yi visited the Yu family and gave its head a jade talisman before a revenant calling himself Third Master Yu arrived to take revenge.
• Third Master Yu exposed Seventh Uncle's past crimes, killed his soul, and attacked the Yu family, but the Land God drove him off and claimed the family's relics.
• Zhou Yi learned that the Land God and Li Shitou had staged the attack to obtain the Yu family's treasures, with Li Shitou acting under the Limitless Ghost God's guidance.
• After hearing Li Shitou's account, Zhou Yi suspected the Limitless Ghost God was connected to the Celestial Court and reflected that the Celestial Court had cut off mortals' path to immortality.

Over five centuries, Zhou Yi returned to Xuan Yuan Mountain, saw Ling Weizi through his final years, and helped the Xuan Yuan Sect rebuild under Xuan Yu’s leadership. After a long period of cultivation, he fused his True Dragon Body with his Xiantian True Human body and gained exceptional aptitude.

• Zhou Yi returned to Xuan Yuan Mountain and discovered that Ling Weizi had extended his life by a few years and that Xuan Yu had become the Land God of Chongshan County.
• Ling Weizi arranged for Xuan Yu to receive her divine post and taught Zhou Yi how to recruit disciples without openly violating the Heavenly Laws.
• Five years later, Ling Weizi died, and Xuan Yu became sect master while Zhou Yi became deputy sect master.
• Xuan Yu rose to become the Seventh Rank Vice Prefect of Huai Ning Prefecture, allowing Xuan Yuan Sect disciples to fight nearby demons under rules Zhou Yi established.
• Zhou Yi stepped down as deputy sect master as the sect grew, and it eventually expanded to more than three hundred disciples.
• After a thousand years of effort, Zhou Yi fused his True Dragon Body with his Xiantian True Human and absorbed spiritual energy with extraordinary ease.

After eight thousand years of cultivation, Zhou Yi gained an innate foundation and learned that the three Human Immortals would soon ascend, leaving the Celestial Court without its final restraint. A century later, Yellow Ox underwent the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation as Sun Changsheng defended him from the Celestial Court’s True Gods.

• Zhou Yi refined his innate foundation, scattered the resulting lightning tribulation, and decided to repay the Mending Heaven Sect by preserving its teachings when it declined.
• Zhou Yi met Zhao Zhi at Spring Breeze Pavilion, where Zhao Zhi told him the three Human Immortals were preparing to ascend and leave the Celestial Court unrestrained.
• Duke Shoushan, Mingzhen Zi, and Dajue Arhat ascended, and the Heavenly Emperor issued laws that barred Orthodox Gods’ descendants from entering Dao Academies for five generations.
• A century later, Yellow Ox’s tribulation began above Green Cloud Mountain, and he swallowed the seven-colored lightning as Sun Changsheng stood by him.
• Holy Sun Emperor Lord ordered the Celestial Court’s True Gods to stop Yellow Ox, but Sun Changsheng refused to abandon his sworn elder brother, and the gods attacked them.

Sun Changsheng and Yellow Ox fought off the Celestial Court gods as Yellow Ox completed his tribulation and became a Demon Saint. The Celestial Court recognized Yellow Ox’s territory and title, while Zhou Yi learned of his breakthrough and planned to return to Green Cloud Mountain after more secluded cultivation.

• Sun Changsheng used his Blood God Doppelgangers to trap the Celestial Court gods in a formation while he fought nine True Gods with the God Smashing Cudgel.
• Yellow Ox endured the eighty-first tribulation strike, recovered from his grievous wounds, and attained the Demon Saint realm as the gods fought over objects from another world.
• Yellow Ox demanded two Innate Spiritual Objects from the Celestial Court, and Holy Sun Emperor Lord agreed to provide them and recognize Yellow Ox’s claim.
• In the year 1726, the Celestial Court granted Green Cloud Mountain’s surrounding territory to Yellow Ox and named him the demon race’s first Demon Emperor.
• Zhou Yi learned that Yellow Ox had become a Demon Saint and decided to remain with the Xuan Yuan Sect for about another century before returning to Green Cloud Mountain.

Zhou Yi commemorated Xuan Yuan Sect’s flourishing history at its three-thousandth-anniversary celebration, where he discovered that Yang Jin descended from his old friend Xuan Li. After the celebration, Zhou Yi avoided taking on sect duties and settled in the Scripture Pavilion, where Yang Jin found him asleep and drunk.

• Zhou Yi attended Xuan Yuan Sect’s anniversary celebration and praised the sect’s growth under Tong Xuan’s leadership.
• During the sect competition, Zhou Yi recognized Yang Jin’s flying sword and learned that Yang Jin was Xuan Li’s descendant, then refused to take him as a disciple.
• After the competition, Tong Xuan restored the sect’s ancestral system with Xuan Yu’s approval, and Zhou Yi chose to guard the Scripture Pavilion rather than oversee a major hall.
• Yang Jin visited the Scripture Pavilion to borrow books and found Zhou Yi sprawled asleep with a jar of Spiritual Wine.

Zhou Yi spent his final years guiding Yang Jin through Daoist scriptures before faking his death and returning to Green Cloud Mountain. Disguised as a mortal youth, he joined Azure Cloud Temple’s disciple selection and revealed a wood-attributed Heavenly Spirit Root.

• Zhou Yi advised Yang Jin on cultivation and assigned him scripture readings and lengthy reflections, which Yang Jin continued for ten years despite falling behind his peers.
• Yang Jin eventually established his foundation and became a Spirit Treasure Hall steward, but he kept visiting Zhou Yi with stories and books as Zhou Yi grew old.
• Zhou Yi gave Yang Jin two protective magical treasures, ordered him to burn two hundred copied scriptures after his death, and told him to keep his impending passing secret from Xuan Yu.
• Tongxuan announced that Patriarch Xuan Yi had died, and Yang Jin gave Xuan Yu Zhou Yi’s farewell letter while claiming only ashes remained.
• Zhou Yi escaped by feigning his death, returned to Green Cloud Mountain as a mortal, and went through Azure Cloud Temple’s karmic light, which revealed his wood-attributed Heavenly Spirit Root.

Zhou Yi joined Azure Cloud Temple as the Heavenly Spirit Root disciple Chang Yi, rapidly advanced to Golden Core and Nascent Soul, and eventually became the seventh-generation Heavenly Master. Over a century, the Celestial Court’s influence expanded across the Eastern Divine Continent, while Zhen Gu passed the temple leadership to Zhou Yi and praised the first-generation Heavenly Master—who was Zhou Yi himself—as a True Immortal.

• Zhenzhi accepted Zhou Yi, disguised as Tang Xuan, as his disciple and gave him the Daoist name Chang Yi after bringing him to Azure Cloud Temple.
• Zhou Yi chose the Supreme Mystery Scripture, established his foundation two years later, and reached Golden Core after twelve years, surviving a powerful lightning tribulation.
• Over the following century, the Celestial Court expanded its power through widespread worship and new laws, while mortals gained protection and cultivators faced tighter restrictions.
• Zhen Gu brought Zhou Yi to the Celestial Master's grave and passed the position of seventh-generation Heavenly Master to him.
• Zhen Gu praised the first-generation Heavenly Master as a True Immortal who had returned to the immortal realm, while Zhou Yi silently listened beside his own grave.

Zhou Yi received the Celestial Master inheritance, became the seventh-generation Celestial Master, and formed an alliance of sorts with the Demon Saints while the Heavenly Court watched him warily. Ten years later, he continued reducing his karmic burden, while Yang Jin and Zhao Yao prepared to send their children without spirit roots to live among mortals.

• Zhen Gu gave Zhou Yi the Sun Concealing Robe and Mysterious Heaven Divine Shuttle, which Zhou Yi refined and accepted as inherited treasures.
• After learning of Zhou Yi’s innate foundation, the Heavenly Emperor rejected Ao Kun’s proposal to investigate him directly and ordered Bai Suixin to congratulate him instead.
• Zhou Yi killed the devils pursuing Yang Jin and Zhao Yao, then learned through soul search that they had sought to capture Zhao Yao for her mysterious constitution.
• At the enthronement ceremony, Zhou Yi became the seventh-generation Celestial Master and received a congratulatory message and Spirit Transformation treasure from the Heavenly Emperor.
• Sun Changsheng, the yellow ox, and Zhou Yi swore brotherhood, while Zhou Yi continued doing good deeds over the next ten years to reduce his karmic burden.
• Yang Jin and Zhao Yao arranged mortal identities for their children, Xuan’er and Sisi, who had no spirit roots, and Yang Jin suggested having another child.

Yang Xuan grew up without a spiritual root but developed inexplicable, immense strength, eventually setting out with his black dog to explore the mountains. At a demon strength contest, he revealed a strange ability to grow larger and overpower the silver-backed ape, then challenged the watching demons.

• Zhao Yao gave birth to Yang Xuan, who had no spiritual root but displayed unusual strength from infancy.
• Yang Xuan grew at an extraordinary rate, learning to crawl, walk, and speak far earlier than normal, while Yang Jin and Zhao Yao found no sign of past-life memories or awakened wisdom.
• As Yang Xuan grew older, his strength continued increasing without training, and he eventually wandered into the mountains with his black dog.
• Yang Xuan reached a demon wrestling gathering, caught the black bear thrown from the arena, and met Sun Dali and the assembled demon kings.
• Yang Xuan entered the strength contest and initially struggled against the silver-backed ape, then grew to more than twelve chi tall and hurled it away.
• Yang Xuan stood on the arena and challenged the other demons to face him.

Yang Xuan won the Green Cloud Mountain strength contest, earned a black iron staff, and embraced a life of feasting with his demon friends despite his inability to cultivate. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi accumulated merit in Linyang County before discovering that a disciple of the Unforeseen Ghost God had abducted Yang Xuan and Yang Si; Yang Si later returned to Green Cloud Mountain.

• Yang Xuan defeated a two-headed tiger demon, an elephant demon, and a wolf demon, then won the contest and received a black iron staff from Sun Dali.
• Yang Xuan celebrated with the demons, drank for three days, and told Yang Jin and Zhao Yao that he wished to stay with them despite having no way to cultivate immortality.
• Yang Xuan began visiting demon friends around Green Cloud Mountain and rode a Golden Eagle between their feasts.
• Zhou Yi posed as an old Daoist, wiped out Linyang City's criminal Beggars' Sect, and spent a month helping the city's residents while accumulating merit.
• Zhou Yi killed a black-robed Daoist who was pursuing Yang Xuan and Yang Si, learned the man served the Unforeseen Ghost God, and noted the enemy as a source of merit.
• Half a month later, Yang Si returned to Green Cloud Mountain more than twenty years after leaving it.

Yang Xuan learned that his brother had been captured and his father had vanished after confronting Wu Wang, while his mother left Green Cloud Mountain with Yang Si. Five years later, Sun Changsheng recognized something unusual in Yang Xuan’s strength and offered to take him as a disciple on his master’s behalf.

• Yang Xuan rescued Yang Si from demon wolves and brought her to Yang Jin and Zhao Yao, where she revealed that the Crimson Soul Demon Lord had captured her brother.
• Yang Jin went to Crimson Soul Mountain to rescue his son, but Wu Wang swallowed him and flew toward the Great Heng Dynasty.
• The Land God told Zhao Yao that Yang Xuan had died and that Yang Jin was waiting in the capital, then fled after revealing that the Prince Consort was alive.
• Zhao Yao left Green Cloud Mountain with Yang Si, while Yang Xuan stayed behind to wait for his parents.
• Five years later, Yang Xuan demonstrated his extraordinary strength at Monkey Mountain, and Sun Changsheng discovered that his body bore patterns resembling those of a ghost god.
• Sun Changsheng offered to accept Yang Xuan as his disciple on his master’s behalf and teach him to cultivate blood qi and acupoints.

Zhou Yi discovered Shan City’s unusual devotion to the Heavenly Emperor and identified its county magistrate, Zhou Ziming, as a promising source of merit. Meanwhile, Yang Xuan trained under Sun Changsheng, learned that his mother was a descendant of the Heavenly Emperor, and revealed his own Witch Clan heritage before asking for help reaching the Witch God Temple.

• Zhou Yi entered Shan City under a false Daoist identity, earned merit, and learned that the county magistrate required people to invoke the Heavenly Emperor in daily courtesies.
• Zhou Yi watched county magistrate Zhou Ziming resolve complaints with supernatural insight and decided to seek his promotion to gain a share of his merit.
• Sun Changsheng taught Yang Xuan to cultivate qi and blood, and Yang Xuan trained until he could rival a Golden Core body cultivator.
• Sun Changsheng revealed that Yang Xuan’s mother descended from the Heavenly Emperor’s direct line and was a possible future ruler of the Divine Continent.
• Sun Changsheng told Yang Xuan that his parents were safe in a blessed land, and Yang Xuan decided to travel to Great Yong’s capital to find them.
• Yang Xuan revealed his Gou Mang Witch Clan bloodline and innate gift for accelerating plant growth, then asked Sun Changsheng to help him reach the Witch God Temple for its baptism.

Yang Xuan entered the Witch God Temple’s deadly trial while Sun Changsheng barred all rivals for over fifty years until Yang Xuan secured the inheritance. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi became a Transformation God Lord, confronted an inner demon born from his sense that all things were fleeting, and returned to cultivation after discovering it weakened with time.

• Yang Xuan entered the Witch God Temple and began fighting strange birds in a primeval forest beneath ten suns as he headed toward a distant mountain.
• Sun Changsheng guarded the temple’s hundred-mile boundary, killed intruders, and drove the Celestial Court to withdraw while Yang Xuan completed the trial over more than fifty years.
• The Witch God Temple vanished, and Sun Changsheng realized Yang Xuan had obtained the inheritance.
• Zhou Yi’s Primordial Spirit left his body after he advanced to the Transformation God Realm, and he resolved to settle old scores once he became a Human Immortal.
• Zhou Yi welcomed the Celestial Court’s Orthodox Gods, then recognized his detachment from the fleeting mortal world as an inner demon that resisted scriptures and travel.
• Zhou Yi spent five hundred years in secluded cultivation and found that the inner demon had weakened, so he planned to cultivate to the peak of Spirit Transformation.

Yang Xuan endured the Witch God Temple’s mountain trial, claimed the Witch God Heart, and inherited the power and memories of the Gou Mang Witch Clan. Beneath the altar, he awakened Zu Xing, who revealed how outsiders entered the world and how the Witch Clan was ultimately destroyed.

• Yang Xuan climbed hundreds of thousands of weight-adding steps, reached the summit, and discovered he was the only contender for the inheritance.
• Yang Xuan merged with the Witch God Heart, replaced his blood with Witch God blood, and gained the Gou Mang lineage’s memories and combat skills.
• Yang Xuan tore up the altar, found a cavern beneath it, and descended to a statue of the Witch God Zu Xing.
• Zu Xing awakened and told Yang Xuan that the Mending Heaven Sect’s founder, Hunyuan, had brought humans into the world through the Heaven Leak.
• Zu Xing recounted how Hunyuan recruited outside powers and how the Demon Race betrayed the Witch Clan, leading to its destruction.

Yang Xuan emerged from a thousand years of cultivation in the Witch God Temple with a perfected vital blood technique and learned that his mother was imprisoned in the Celestial Court. He and Sun Changsheng set off to rescue her, while Zhou Yi divined supreme good fortune and continued cultivating in seclusion.

• The statue explained to Yang Xuan that the Mending Heaven Sect drained the world's origin through cultivation and ascension, and that karmic sin required a supreme treasure to suppress.
• The statue gave Yang Xuan the Heavenly Pillar's remnant branch and ordered him to cultivate, grow the Witch Clan, and pass on its bloodline.
• The statue helped Yang Xuan develop vital blood cultivation that transformed his whole body, then dissipated after urging him to adapt and continue the technique.
• Yang Xuan emerged from the Witch God Temple after a thousand years and learned from Sun Changsheng that his mother was imprisoned in the Celestial Court while his father had become the capital's City God.
• Sun Changsheng and Yang Xuan flew toward the Celestial Court to rescue Yang Xuan's mother, while Zhou Yi drew an oracle slip indicating supreme good fortune and returned to cultivation.

Yang Xuan and Sun Changsheng attacked the Celestial Court to find Yang Xuan’s imprisoned mother, Zhao Yao, and fought the gods after the Heavenly Emperor denied them access. They reached the Hall of Celestial Glory, where the Heavenly Emperor revealed Zhao Yao was at the Heavenly Pool, but the Demon Suppression Tower halted Sun Changsheng’s attack.

• At a Celestial Court assembly, the Heavenly Emperor set new policies for Dao Academies, Orthodox God appointments, and the purge of demonic cultivators.
• Sun Changsheng and Yang Xuan broke through the Celestial Court’s formations and demanded to see Yang Xuan’s mother, Zhao Yao.
• After the Heavenly Emperor denied that Zhao Yao was there, Sun Changsheng and Yang Xuan fought the Celestial Court’s True Gods, and Sun Changsheng shattered the formations with his cudgel.
• Sun Changsheng and Yang Xuan entered the Hall of Celestial Glory, where the Heavenly Emperor said Zhao Yao was cultivating at the Heavenly Pool and claimed Yang Xuan as his descendant.
• Yang Xuan attacked the Heavenly Emperor, and Sun Changsheng joined him as the gods intervened and summoned the Demon Suppression Tower, stopping Sun Changsheng’s cudgel.

Sun Changsheng and Yang Xuan defeated the Heavenly Emperor, secured Zhao Yao’s release, and left Yang Xuan ruling Peach Mountain as the God of War. After ten thousand years of cultivation, Zhou Yi celebrated his birthday, only to learn that his registered disciple had helped cause a new Celestial Court upheaval and increased Zhou Yi’s karmic sin.

• Sun Changsheng and Yellow Ox helped Yang Xuan overcome the Heavenly Emperor and the gods, and Yang Xuan forced the Emperor to release Zhao Yao.
• At Zhao Yao’s request, Yang Xuan accepted investiture as the God of War, claimed Peach Mountain as his territory, and departed with her and Sun Changsheng.
• The surviving gods spread news of the Celestial Court battle, while the Heavenly Emperor expanded the Celestial Court’s forces and cultivators began openly doubting its authority.
• After his inner demons vanished, Zhou Yi cultivated for another century, reached perfection in Spirit Transformation, and celebrated his ten-thousandth birthday at Spring Breeze Pavilion.
• Yellow Ox told Zhou Yi that his registered disciple had become one of the Witch Clan and fought alongside Sun Changsheng in the Celestial Court, causing Zhou Yi’s karmic sin to grow to three oxen.

Zhou Yi investigated the strange coincidences surrounding Yang Xuan, reunited with his brothers, and returned to Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, where he negotiated with the Jianmu Tree and reclaimed the Spirit Ginseng Child. The chapter ended with a mysterious Daoist killing You Mountain’s mountain god after the Hun Yuan Green Lotus appeared, determined to keep it from Green Cloud Mountain.

• Zhou Yi used the Heaven Severing Art and suspected the Old Man Heaven was arranging fateful coincidences around him.
• Zhou Yi invited Sun Changsheng and Yang Xuan to Moyun Cave, where the four brothers shared wine and discussed the Witch Clan, the Heavenly Pillar, and the Jade Dew Art.
• Zhou Yi and the yellow ox found Kunlun Grotto-Heaven beneath the East Sea and reunited with the Spirit Ginseng Child, Qingfeng, and Mingyue.
• Zhou Yi offered the Jianmu Tree a thousand years of lifespan in Creation Jade Dew, and the tree accepted it.
• The Hun Yuan Green Lotus emerged at You Mountain, and a mysterious Daoist killed the mountain god to prevent the lotus from reaching Green Cloud Mountain.

Yang Xuan exposed Jing Lingzi’s theft of the Hun Yuan Green Lotus and massacre at You Mountain, prompting the Celestial Court to attack the Mending Heaven Sect. When Jing Lingzi summoned Iron Crown Immortal, the ancestor reclaimed the treasure, punished the Celestial Court, and appointed Zhou Yi as the sect’s leader for a thousand years.

• Yang Xuan showed the Celestial Court Jing Lingzi’s crimes, and the Heavenly Emperor ordered the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of War, and Grand Duke Department to retrieve the Hun Yuan Green Lotus.
• Jing Huazi led one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to surround Heaven Mountain, while Zhou Yi and his companions watched from a distance.
• Jing Lingzi attacked Jing Huazi, prompting the Celestial Court forces to storm the Mending Heaven Sect and destroy its protective formation.
• Jing Lingzi sacrificed himself to summon an ancestral master, and Iron Crown Immortal descended, seized the green lotus, and sealed Jing Huazi’s mana for five thousand years.
• Iron Crown Immortal gave the Hun Yuan Green Lotus to Zhou Yi and appointed him leader of the Mending Heaven Sect for one thousand years, and Zhou Yi accepted.

Zhou Yi became the Mending Heaven Sect Leader after Iron Crown Immortal warned him about the Celestial Court and the Immortal Realm. He chose to remain in the mortal world after mending heaven, while the Heavenly Emperor faced growing opposition and a demand to discuss appointing a Crown Prince.

• Iron Crown Immortal gave Zhou Yi the Hun Yuan Green Lotus, promised the sect immortal artifacts, and warned him that the Heavenly Emperor might be the Chosen One.
• Zhou Yi took charge of the Mending Heaven Sect and arranged for his sworn brothers to protect him and support the sect.
• Zhou Yi weighed ascending against remaining in the mortal world and decided to abandon ascension for now and eventually mend heaven.
• Zhou Yi held a grand sect leader celebration, prompting rumors that the First Celestial Master had reincarnated and renewed conflict with the Celestial Court.
• Zhou Yi studied the sect's cross-realm summoning method and recited cultivation scriptures to the green lotus.
• Facing the Mending Heaven Sect's growing influence, the Heavenly Emperor considered flipping the table, while Yu Chanzi requested a discussion about appointing a Crown Prince.