Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhou met Shennong and Xuanyuan in Shennong Valley and proposed bringing Big Dipper lineages to Earth to shelter them from the coming Dark Turmoil. He promised to protect Earth and those dear to him, leaving the two emperors deeply moved but uncertain whether he could stop the Dark Supremes.

• Lu Zhou apologized to Deer Child for taking its spirit fish and gave it Crocodile Ancestor meat, then Deer Child led the group into Shennong Valley.
• Deer Child and Xu Qiong guided Lu Zhou and the others through the valley, where they met Old Gai, Shennong, and Xuanyuan at Shennong Mountain.
• Shennong and Xuanyuan asked Jiang Tingting, Ji Ziyue, and the others about the Jiang and Ji families, and the group talked for several days about the Big Dipper and the coming Dark Turmoil.
• Lu Zhou proposed creating small worlds on Earth to shelter Daoist lineages, and Old Gai explained Lu Zhou's ties to the Big Dipper's major powers.
• Shennong warned that gathering lineages on Earth could draw multiple Dark Supremes and endanger its inhabitants.
• Lu Zhou vowed to keep the Dark Supremes away from Earth, saying he had no retreat because his homeland and loved ones would be there; Shennong and Xuanyuan were moved but doubted his confidence was enough.

After leaving Shennong Valley, Lu Zhou explained his plan to lure the Dark Supremes to Earth and destroy them together, while preparing Ye Fan and the others for the coming Dark Turmoil. The group continued toward City B, with Lu Zhou keeping his specific arrangements for them secret.

• Lu Zhou and the others listened to Old Gai and Emperors Yan and Huang expound on the Dao, then made breakthroughs during their month in Shennong Valley.
• Two months later, Lu Zhou signed in at Shennong Valley, received ten thousand jin of Divine Source Fluid, and departed with the others.
• On the way back to City B, Ye Fan asked whether Lu Zhou planned to use forces from the Big Dipper as bait to draw Dark Supremes to Earth, and Lu Zhou confirmed it.
• Lu Zhou explained that he feared Supremes would scatter and harvest living beings during the Dark Turmoil, so he planned to lure them to Earth and trap them in the surrounding starry sky.
• Ye Fan, Jiang Tingting, Jiang Caixuan, Ji Ziyue, and Xu Qiong felt the pressure to grow stronger, while Lu Zhou reassured them that he had the situation under control.
• Lu Zhou told Ye Fan they would fight side by side and hinted that he had plans for the others, then led the group onward toward City B.

Lu Zhou and his Dao Companions continued their travels on Earth as they cultivated and reflected on their paths to Dao Severing. An Miaoyi reached the pinnacle of love, severed her Dao three years ahead of the original timeline, and entered the Immortal Three Stages of Dao Severing; Lu Zhou then prepared to return to the Big Dipper while Ye Fan stayed on Earth.

• Lu Zhou worried about Yan Ruyu's plan to sever her Azure Lotus Demon Body, while Zixia and Shi Yao expressed confidence in their own Dao Severing paths.
• An Miaoyi realized that her Dao was Lu Zhou, and his other Dao Companions left the couple alone to spend time together as an ordinary Earth couple.
• One month later, An Miaoyi's Dao Severing triggered a heavenly tribulation, which she successfully passed and emerged at the peak of the first level of the Immortal Three Stages of Dao Severing.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Ji Ziyue, Qin Yao, Li Tian, Yan Yixi, and Old Gai came to congratulate An Miaoyi, and Lu Zhou prepared to return to the Big Dipper.
• Pang Bo, Li Tian, and Yan Yixi chose to return with Lu Zhou, while Ye Fan stayed on Earth with his family and wives to explore, guide his nominal disciples, and sever his Dao.

Before leaving Earth, Lu Zhou and the others explored the moon after Old Gai sensed something unusual there, and his restored images revealed the Moon Laurel Immortal Divine Tree had once grown on it. Lu Zhou privately connected the discovery to the Taiyin Origin Soil he had obtained on the moon, which was helping revive a petrified sapling he suspected was the divine tree; the group then split up, with Ye Fan returning to Earth and Lu Zhou taking the others back to the Big Dipper.

• Before departing Earth, Lu Zhou told Ye Fan about the Ancient Starry Road at Hangu Pass, and Old Gai asked to investigate the moon.
• On the moon, the group sensed faint Taiyin Sacred Power and ancient traces, while Old Gai used a divine art to reveal that Laozi Li Er, Sakyamuni, Emperors Yan and Huang, and other figures had visited it.
• Old Gai's visions showed a great battle on the moon in which the Moon Laurel Immortal Divine Tree was obtained by a saint believed to be the Taiyin Human Emperor.
• Lu Zhou recalled that signing in on Taiyin Star had rewarded him with Taiyin Origin Soil, which had begun reviving the petrified sapling he suspected was the Moon Laurel Immortal Divine Tree.
• After finding nothing else on the moon, Ye Fan and the others returned to Earth, while Lu Zhou used a teleportation array disc to take Old Gai and the others back to the Big Dipper.

After returning to Yaoguang, Lu Zhou learned that hostile forces had used his year-long absence to spread rumors, test the major powers, and attack their holdings. The probes had grown bolder, and an ancient race had demanded that Yaoguang leave its mines and strongholds in the Northern Region.

• Lu Zhou stopped panicked Yaoguang disciples and learned that rumors claimed he and his Dao Companions had vanished on the Ancient Starry Road.
• Holy Master Yaoguang explained that revived Ancestor Kings had failed to divine Lu Zhou's true situation but had confirmed some of his companions were gone.
• Secret attackers raided Yaoguang's mines, killing guards and stealing Origin Stones, while attacks spread to other forces' holdings and strongholds.
• Yaoguang and its allies used the attacks to set traps and kill many assailants, suffering fewer losses than their enemies.
• Holy Master Yaoguang revealed that an ancient race had publicly demanded Yaoguang withdraw from its Northern Region mines and strongholds, and Lu Zhou asked which race it was.

Lu Zhou learned that ancient clans were pressuring humanity and that major Primordial forces might be involved, while Holy Master Yaoguang shared new intelligence about their heirs and the Primordial Ancient Mine. The chapter ended with Lu Zhou asking how Hua Yunfei had left the Ruthless Emperor lineage.

• Holy Master Yaoguang reported that the Spirit Valley, Green Ghost Clan, Purple Lightning Clan, and other ancient clans had demanded humanity withdraw from the Northern Region.
• Holy Master Yaoguang said Ancient Emperor Mountain and the Myriad Dragon Nest were likely involved, while Yuan Gu had challenged Lu Zhou; Lu Zhou suggested Yuan Gu fight Kane instead.
• Holy Master Yaoguang revealed that Huo Qilinzi had repeatedly watched the Primordial Ancient Mine and nearly entered it, and Lu Zhou inferred that he suspected his father, the Kirin Emperor, was inside.
• Holy Master Yaoguang told Lu Zhou that Hua Yunfei had left the Ruthless Emperor lineage, surprising him because he had believed Hua Yunfei remained trapped by its control in the original story.
• Lu Zhou asked Holy Master Yaoguang to explain Hua Yunfei's current situation and how he had turned against the Ruthless Emperor lineage.

Holy Master Yaoguang explained how Lu Zhou’s actions weakened the Ruthless Emperor lineage and helped Hua Yunfei escape its control. Hua Yunfei returned to the Taixuan Sect after publicly killing his Guardian of the Dao and abolishing his cultivation, leaving Lu Zhou and the others stunned.

• Holy Master Yaoguang told Lu Zhou and the others that the Taixuan Sect’s sect master had asked Yaoguang to help bring Hua Yunfei back to Taixuan.
• Holy Master Yaoguang explained that Lu Zhou had helped Hua Yunfei by driving the Ruthless Emperor lineage from Yaoguang, taking the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, and placing a bounty on the lineage.
• Holy Master Yaoguang said Hua Yunfei joined forces with a woman to kill his gray-robed Guardian of the Dao and declared that no Hua Yunfei of the Ruthless Emperor lineage remained.
• Hua Yunfei shattered the Great Dao Treasure Bottle above his head, abolished his cultivation, and was taken away by the woman.
• Yao Xi, Shi Yao, Zixia, and Lu Zhou were astonished to learn that Hua Yunfei had abandoned his cultivation to return to the Taixuan Sect.

Lu Zhou learned that Hua Yunfei had truly crippled his cultivation and returned to Taixuan Sect with Li Xiaoman, then decided to attack Spirit Valley as his first move against the Primordial Races. He agreed to notify allied factions and planned to strike when the moon was full.

• Holy Master Yaoguang confirmed that Hua Yunfei had genuinely crippled his cultivation, sworn a Dao oath, and returned to Taixuan Sect with Li Xiaoman.
• Lu Zhou said Hua Yunfei had finally obtained the life he wanted, and Holy Master Yaoguang discussed the events of the year Lu Zhou and the others had been away.
• Yan Ruyu asked what Lu Zhou planned to do about the Primordial Races, and he declared that old debts were due and named Spirit Valley as his first target.
• Holy Master Yaoguang warned that attacking Spirit Valley could trigger war, but Lu Zhou argued the Primordial Races were divided and would not unite to fight them.
• Lu Zhou asked Holy Master Yaoguang to notify their allies and said they would attack when the moon was full.

Spirit Valley’s leaders debated escalating their provocations against the human factions, convinced that the humans lacked the strength and unity to respond. The chapter revealed that Spirit Valley was knowingly acting as a pawn for Myriad Dragon Nest and other Primordial powers, while underestimating Lu Zhou’s allies and resources.

• A Spirit Valley elder reported that their covert attacks and demands against Northern Region mines had failed to draw Lu Zhou out.
• Spirit Valley’s leaders argued that the human race was divided and that its sealed Saint-level reserves would not intervene, then called for an invasion of the Northern Region.
• The Ancestor King’s grandson dismissed the human factions’ Imperial Weapons as ineffective in the hands of their weaker cultivators.
• The Ancestor King had secured Qianlun’s promise that Myriad Dragon Nest would lend the Myriad Dragon Bell and join the conflict if needed.
• Spirit Valley knowingly accepted its role as a pawn in the Primordial Races’ test of the human race, hoping to gain greater rewards if they prevailed.

Spirit Valley’s Ancestral King ordered Yaoguang Holy Land to withdraw from the Northern Region, but news arrived that Lu Zhou had appeared at Yaoguang and issued a threat against Spirit Valley. The chapter ended with Spirit Valley’s Primordial Beings enraged and ready for war.

• Spirit Valley’s Ancestral King ordered his forces to gather at dawn and gave Yaoguang Holy Land a final ultimatum to leave the Northern Region.
• A messenger reported that Lu Zhou and his Dao Companions had appeared at Yaoguang Holy Land.
• The messenger said Lu Zhou’s Holy Son’s Edict demanded that Spirit Valley’s Ancestral Kings kneel and kowtow to Yaoguang, apologize, and accept death, or face the destruction of Spirit Valley on the night of the full moon.
• An unknown attacker killed the messenger after he delivered the edict.
• Spirit Valley’s Ancestral King’s grandson and the other Primordial Beings condemned Lu Zhou’s threat and declared that Spirit Valley had been insulted.

Lu Zhou’s Holy Son’s Edict demanding Spirit Valley’s ancestral king confess and accept death ignited fierce reactions across the Five Regions. Spirit Valley answered with its own ultimatum, ordering Lu Zhou to kneel before it or face Yaoguang’s destruction and the slaughter of everyone surnamed Lu after the full moon.

• Lu Zhou’s return and his edict against Spirit Valley spread across the Five Regions, alarming humans and enraging the Primordial Races.
• Hua Yunfei, Yuan Gu, Huo Qilinzi, Huo Lin’er, Huang Xudao, and the Divine Silkworm Daoist reacted to the edict, with several preparing to go to Spirit Valley.
• Dragon Girl decided to visit Spirit Valley to question Lu Zhou about trespassing in Myriad Dragon Nest, taking its True Dragon Immortal Divine Medicine, and leaving a warning.
• Spirit Valley answered Lu Zhou’s edict by demanding that he kneel there and accept death or face Yaoguang’s destruction and the slaughter of everyone surnamed Lu after the full moon.

Lu Zhou gathered with his allies at Yaoguang as Spirit Valley renewed its threats, then led them aboard the Five-Colored Jade Ship to march on Spirit Valley. Their departure spread across the Five Regions, leaving war imminent.

• Lu Zhou reunited with allies at Yaoguang, and they discussed how his interventions had strengthened their cultivation and changed their fates.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King asked Lu Zhou about his plans after Spirit Valley threatened Yaoguang, while Liu Kou, the Peacock King, and others urged an immediate attack.
• The Black Emperor said Duan De and the Old Blind Man had gone ahead to scout Spirit Valley, and Lu Zhou learned that Spirit Valley had threatened Yaoguang's mines and people surnamed Lu.
• Lu Zhou summoned the Five-Colored Jade Ship, boarded it with Yan Ruyu, the Black Emperor, Pang Bo, Li Heishui, and others, and set out for Spirit Valley.
• News of Lu Zhou's march and his allies' battle cries spread across the Five Regions, enraging Spirit Valley's forces.

Lu Zhou traveled toward Spirit Valley as wave after wave of assassins attacked the Five-Colored Jade Ship, only to be defeated by the powerful figures accompanying him. As the ship neared Spirit Valley, observers realized the journey was building Human Race momentum ahead of a coming clash with the Primordial Ten Thousand Races.

• The Azure Flood Dragon King intercepted a twelve-winged Primordial Being who attacked the Five-Colored Jade Ship, and the two began a fierce battle.
• The Peacock King repelled an attack by the Northern Plains Jin Family’s Golden Tower and fought its white-haired Slaying the Dao cultivator.
• The Old Peng King, Crow Daoist, and Old Daoist Crimson Dragon blocked eighteen Human World and Hell assassins, while other hidden Slaying the Dao cultivators from human powers defeated further ambushes.
• A former Purple Mansion Holy Maiden who had become a Half-Saint defeated a Spirit Valley Half-Saint Primordial Being and destroyed his body, forcing him to retreat to Spirit Valley.
• Observers learned that Spirit Valley’s repeated attacks were meant to probe Lu Zhou’s forces and break their momentum, while Lu Zhou’s overland advance displayed Human Race power and built momentum for the coming war.

As Lu Zhou’s jade ship neared Spirit Valley, he publicly demonstrated increasingly powerful Origin Arts, seizing dragon veins and Divine Source and reshaping mountains and rivers. He explained that he was not yet an Origin Master and was preparing to use Origin Arts against Spirit Valley as the group reached its destination.

• Observers discussed why Lu Zhou was confronting Spirit Valley openly, while others speculated that human Saints had already intercepted Spirit Valley’s Ancestor Kings.
• Lu Zhou used Origin Arts from the jade ship to seize dragon veins and Divine Source from the Northern Region, astonishing the people following him.
• The spectators discussed whether Lu Zhou was the sixth Origin Master and recalled the mysterious disappearance of the Origin King lineage’s ancestor and the death of Divine Calculator’s disciple surnamed Gu.
• Lu Zhou altered mountains and rivers and engraved Origin Heavenly patterns onto Divine Source as Li Heishui and Pang Bo asked whether he had become an Origin Master.
• Lu Zhou said he was still one step short and was preparing to use Origin Arts against Spirit Valley, hoping to show that the art could suppress and kill enemies.
• As the jade ship approached Spirit Valley under the stars, someone pointed out the radiant land ahead.

Lu Zhou launched a devastating assault on Spirit Valley, activating the Origin Heaven Forbidden Divine Array as Fu Zhan appeared to confront its two Ancestor Kings. The battle became a brutal war of extermination, with Lu Zhou and his allies slaughtering Spirit Valley’s defenders.

• Lu Zhou arrived at Spirit Valley and ignored the crowd’s taunts as he prepared to attack.
• Lu Zhou activated the Origin Heaven Forbidden Divine Array, trapping Spirit Valley beneath deadly starlight, dragon veins, and Origin Fire.
• Spirit Valley’s two Ancestor Kings attacked Lu Zhou, but Fu Zhan appeared and blocked them, identifying himself as a Saint King from Ziwei Ancient Star.
• Fu Zhan revealed the shared origins of the human races on Ziwei and the Big Dipper, then fought Spirit Valley’s Ancestor Kings using the power of the Ziwei Emperor Star.
• Lu Zhou, Big Black Dog, Pang Bo, Li Tian, Li Heishui, Yan Ruyu, and their allies charged through Spirit Valley, killing its defenders as Lu Zhou fought with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.

Lu Zhou’s forces attacked Spirit Valley, overwhelming its defenders until an awakened old ancestor king and Jiang Taixu joined the battle. As Spirit Valley neared destruction, more primordial ancestral kings arrived in response to a desperate call for help.

• Lu Zhou’s human and demon allies battled Spirit Valley’s forces, while Fu Zhan held off its two ancestor kings and the younger fighters overwhelmed their opponents.
• Wang Teng emerged to attack Lu Zhou, but the Divine Knight intercepted him and challenged him to continue their fight from ten years earlier.
• Zixia and Shi Yao intercepted Zi Tianfeng and Zitiandu, crushing them as Spirit Valley suffered mounting casualties.
• Spirit Valley’s awakened old ancestor king shattered Lu Zhou’s forbidden array and attacked his forces, but Jiang Taixu intervened and drew him into the God King Pure Land.
• Fu Zhan wounded Spirit Valley’s two ancestor kings, but one survived as a divine being of light and attacked him with a secret technique.
• As Zitiandu and Zi Tianfeng neared defeat, Spirit Valley’s winged ancestor king called for aid, and several primordial ancestral kings appeared on the horizon.

Lu Zhou and his allies continued their assault on Spirit Valley despite the arrival of eight Primordial Ancestor Kings, and the God King killed one of them in battle. When twenty more Ancestor Kings arrived to support Spirit Valley, Lu Zhou demanded to know whether they all intended to oppose him.

• Lu Zhou, Shi Yao, and Zixia killed Spirit Valley’s Zi Tianfeng and Zitiandu while the God King and Fu Zhan kept Spirit Valley’s Ancestor Kings occupied.
• Eight Ancestor Kings arrived, but Lu Zhou’s group ignored their challenge until Yang Yi intervened against their attacks.
• The God King drew six Ancestor Kings into his God King Pure Land, while Yang Yi fought two others; the God King then killed the Purple Lightning Clan’s Ancestor King with his own spear.
• The surviving Ancestor Kings argued that their numbers would overwhelm humanity, while Fu Zhan challenged Spirit Valley’s Ancestor Kings to face him.
• Twenty more Primordial Ancestor Kings arrived, and Lu Zhou demanded to know whether they meant to oppose him as well.

Lu Zhou challenged twenty Primordial Ancestor Kings over their interference in the conflict at Spirit Valley and demonstrated that he had powerful support. As new figures emerged from a rift in the heavens, the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Lu Zhou questioned the twenty Ancestor Kings, while Jiang Taixu and the other human Saints let him speak for the human side.
• When three Ancestor Kings called Lu Zhou an ant and questioned his qualifications, Lu Zhou ordered them killed.
• A Seven-Colored Elk appeared after its divine laws killed the three Ancestor Kings, and Lu Zhou asked whether he qualified to speak with them.
• One Ancestor King acknowledged Lu Zhou's qualifications but said they meant nothing, and another voice insisted that they would interfere anyway.
• Several figures emerged from a rift in the heavens, prompting a Primordial Being to bow in worship.

More Primordial Ancestor Kings arrived to pressure humanity, but Old Deer overpowered Fallen Sky King and Blood Lightning Ancestor King before Great Sage Qianlun intervened. The Silkworm Princess then revealed that Lu Zhou had saved her and was her sworn younger brother, leaving Qianlun and the other Primordial forces facing a growing coalition around humanity.

• Taixuan Ancestor King, Blood Lightning Ancestor King, Vine Green Ancestor King, Ancestor King Haoyang, and Fallen Sky King arrived, and Fallen Sky King challenged Old Deer while opposing Lu Zhou.
• Old Deer stomped toward Fallen Sky King and the others, nearly forcing them to kneel until Great Sage Qianlun broke his attack and rescued them.
• Qianlun accepted Old Deer's challenge, but descendants of the Eight Divisions and two Saint Kings from Primordial Beginning Lake arrived, making the Primordial forces threaten humanity while Qianlun stayed behind.
• The Silkworm Princess arrived and declared that Lu Zhou had saved her life and was her sworn younger brother, then confronted Qianlun over Myriad Dragon Nest's intent to kill him.
• Several Ancestor Kings urged the Silkworm Princess and Qianlun to resolve the dispute peacefully, while she looked to Lu Zhou for his view as Monkey stood beside him.

Lu Zhou rebuked the Primordial Races for underestimating humanity, revealed that Ancient Emperors still slept within the Primordial Ancient Mine, and challenged the restricted-zone Supremes to emerge. The Primordial Ancient Mine responded with terrifying signs of wrath, but Lu Zhou stood firm and dared its beings to face him.

• Lu Zhou credited the Silkworm Princess with saving some Primordial Races and condemned them for looking down on the Human Race despite their lack of Quasi-Emperors and Great Emperors.
• Lu Zhou reminded the Primordial Beings of the Human Race’s past emperors and declared that humanity would rise again to defeat dark turmoil and restricted-zone Supremes.
• Qianlun tried to dismiss Lu Zhou’s claims as belonging to the past, but Lu Zhou asked whether he meant the Ancient Emperors sleeping in the Primordial Ancient Mine, shocking the gathered beings.
• Lu Zhou told the restricted-zone Supremes to emerge if they dared, while the Divine King privately warned him not to provoke them.
• The Primordial Ancient Mine unleashed ominous visions and a dreadful aura, but Lu Zhou challenged its inhabitants to come out and face him, leaving the crowd wondering whether humanity could defeat them.