Chapter Summaries

Pingxin decided to cultivate for the coming battle against Hongjun, but remembered she had promised to explore Heavenly Dao space with her little brother. Meanwhile, Hongjun discovered that Jieyin had founded Buddhism early in Qin Xuan's Creation Heaven and resolved to deal with Jieyin and Zhunti when they returned to Spirit Mountain.

• Great Emperor Fengdu joked about using the Thirteen Great Heavenly Gods and Demons Arrays against Hongjun, while Pingxin resolved to grow strong enough to stand beside her siblings in the next battle.
• Pingxin handed the Underworld's affairs to Great Emperor Fengdu, then remembered her plan to explore Heavenly Dao space with her little brother and left.
• Hongjun sensed that Jieyin had founded Buddhism in Creation Heaven and was shocked that it had happened before the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Hongjun blamed Qin Xuan for pushing Jieyin to become a Buddha and vowed to deal with Jieyin and Zhunti when they returned to Spirit Mountain.
• Jieyin asked Qin Xuan for permission to send disciples to teach the Earthly Sovereign, and Qin Xuan turned to ask Yuanshi Tianzun what he thought.

Qin Xuan assigned the Earthly Sovereign’s teacher position to Jieyin’s disciple and divided the Five Emperors’ teaching roles among the other Saints. After the Saints departed, Nuwa asked Qin Xuan if she could teach Fuxi as the Heavenly Emperor, leaving him bewildered by her proposal.

• Qin Xuan gave Jieyin’s disciple the position of Teacher of the Earthly Sovereign and warned Jieyin against teaching Western Sect conversion and exploitation.
• Qin Xuan assigned the Five Emperors’ teaching roles to Grand Supreme Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian, persuading Grand Supreme Laozi by appealing to his concern for Xuan Du.
• Grand Supreme Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, Jieyin, and Zhunti departed after Qin Xuan settled the appointments.
• Tongtian asked Qin Xuan for a role, and Qin Xuan promised him one of the Five Emperors’ teacher positions.
• Nuwa asked Qin Xuan to let her teach Fuxi as the Heavenly Emperor, insisting she was serious even after Qin Xuan pointed out that Fuxi was her brother.

Qin Xuan agreed to help Nuwa teach Fuxi after she promised to invite Changxi next time, then disguised himself as Hongjun and secretly went to observe the Heavenly Court. There, he discovered Bai Ze offering his service to Haotian.

• Nuwa pleaded with Qin Xuan to teach Fuxi, and he agreed after she promised he could invite Changxi next time.
• Qin Xuan told Nuwa to change her identity when teaching Fuxi, since it would be improper for her to do so openly as the Human Race's Holy Mother.
• Qin Xuan transformed himself to resemble Hongjun, matched his lofty bearing, and left Creation Heaven without telling Nuwa where he was going.
• Qin Xuan concealed himself near the Heavenly Court and spotted Bai Ze meeting Haotian in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Bai Ze told Haotian that he had come in response to the Heavenly Emperor's recruitment edict and offered his service.

Haotian accepted Bai Ze into the Heavenly Court and appointed him Star Lord of the Nine Luminaries, while Qin Xuan secretly arranged to watch him. Qin Xuan then disguised himself as Hongjun and visited Haotian, whose embrace and sobbing left Qin Xuan struggling to maintain the impersonation.

• Haotian suspected Bai Ze but accepted his explanation that he had foreseen the mutual destruction of the demon and immortal races and could not persuade Dijun to withdraw.
• Haotian warmly welcomed Bai Ze and appointed him Star Lord of the Nine Luminaries to predict fortune and misfortune.
• Qin Xuan secretly told Six-Eared Macaque to monitor Bai Ze.
• Qin Xuan concealed the Heavenly Court's heavenly secrets with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and descended into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall disguised as Hongjun.
• Haotian noticed small differences in Qin Xuan's manner but decided he was Hongjun, hugged his thigh, and sobbed that he had suffered greatly.
• Qin Xuan fought the urge to kick Haotian away, while Haotian noticed that his master's thigh felt strange.

Qin Xuan, disguised as Hongjun, comforted Haotian while maneuvering to reclaim the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus, prompting the real Hongjun to suspect Qin Xuan was plotting to keep his Creation Jade Plate. Hongjun asked the Heavenly Dao how to evade their Great Dao oath, and the Heavenly Dao dismissed the possibility that Qin Xuan could do so.

• Haotian complained to the disguised Qin Xuan that the Heavenly Court was empty and the Saints wanted to bargain for authority, and Qin Xuan told him to wait for the right time.
• Haotian decided to stay in Zixiao Palace with his master, while Qin Xuan asked whether he had comprehended the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus.
• Haotian claimed he had only grasped the treasure's surface, so Qin Xuan took it back and promised to find him a more suitable treasure later.
• The real Hongjun sensed someone was plotting against him, identified Qin Xuan, and feared he would keep the Creation Jade Plate.
• Hongjun asked the Heavenly Dao whether a Great Dao oath could be evaded, and the Heavenly Dao considered the possible methods.

Hongjun tortured Jieyin and Zhunti again after failing to determine how Qin Xuan could keep the Creation Jade Plate, prompting the brothers to plan their roles in helping teach the Earthly Sovereign. Meanwhile, Qin Xuan obtained the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus from Haotian and promised to compensate him with an equal treasure.

• The Heavenly Dao told Hongjun that there might be a way to violate a Great Dao oath, but it did not know what it was.
• Hongjun took out his frustration by kneading Jieyin and Zhunti's Primordial Spirits, while the brothers had been discussing how to divide Great Vehicle and Lesser Vehicle Buddhism.
• After the pain faded, Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to avoid offending Qin Xuan and to support his plan to teach the Earthly Sovereign; Jieyin would accompany Medicine Master when the Earthly Sovereign was born.
• Zhunti led experienced disciples east to seek alms, while Jieyin stayed on Spirit Mountain to manage Buddhism and await Qin Xuan's message.
• Qin Xuan persuaded Haotian to hand over the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus and promised to compensate him with a treasure of no lesser value.

Qin Xuan returned to Creation Heaven with the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus and told Nuwa that Haotian had given it to him, while hinting that he had left Haotian a mysterious treasure. Pingxin then summoned Qin Xuan to a hidden space near Zixiao Palace, where they prepared to enter together.

• Qin Xuan presented Nuwa with the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus and claimed Haotian had offered it to him in exchange for a treasure.
• Pingxin opened a spatial rift and urged Qin Xuan to follow her, leaving Nuwa behind to reduce the risk of discovery.
• Qin Xuan concealed their auras with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe as Pingxin led him through the Primordial Chaos toward Zixiao Palace.
• Pingxin revealed that she had sensed a hidden space and suspected it had a special origin.
• Pingxin used the Ancestral Dragon Pearl to show that their eleven siblings were connected to their plan, and Qin Xuan opened the hidden space so they could slip inside.

Qin Xuan and Pingxin discovered that Hongjun had taken control of the Heavenly Dao, but chose to retreat and prepare before confronting him. After they reached Buzhou Mountain to consult Pangu Father God, Hongjun seized Jieyin’s Primordial Spirit again.

• Hongjun sensed an unknown threat, blamed Qin Xuan, and joined the Heavenly Dao in searching for answers.
• Qin Xuan and Pingxin discovered an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao that looked exactly like Hongjun and realized he had seized control of it.
• Qin Xuan decided not to destroy the incarnation until they understood Hongjun’s power and could prepare for a final confrontation.
• Qin Xuan and Pingxin escaped the Heavenly Dao’s space and went to Buzhou Mountain to seek Pangu Father God’s advice.
• Hongjun saw Qin Xuan and Pingxin at Buzhou Mountain, then reached into the Heavenly Dao’s space and seized Jieyin’s Primordial Spirit.

Qin Xuan and Pingxin told Pangu about Heavenly Dao’s predicament and Hongjun’s ambition, and Pangu explained why the Heavenly Dao incarnation remained bound by the Great Dao’s rules. He then blamed himself for Hongjun’s rise and began recounting the origins of the Heaven-Opening Calamity, leaving Qin Xuan and Pingxin listening closely to his story.

• Qin Xuan and Pingxin returned to Buzhou Mountain and told Pangu about the Heavenly Dao space, Heavenly Dao’s current predicament, and Hongjun’s suspected ambition to replace it.
• Pangu reassured them that the Heavenly Dao incarnation had to follow the Great Dao’s order and would be punished if it overstepped its bounds.
• Qin Xuan deduced that it did not matter who served as the Heavenly Dao incarnation, while Pingxin questioned why Heavenly Dao had developed an independent consciousness and chosen Hongjun.
• Pangu said Hongjun’s arrival was his fault, but Pingxin and Qin Xuan defended him and insisted Hongjun’s escape into the Primordial World was a coincidence.
• Pangu began telling them about the Heaven-Opening Calamity, the Three Thousand Demon Gods, and how he had awakened inside an enormous eggshell.

Pangu recounted how he opened the Primordial World and how Hongjun survived the Chaos Demon Ape’s abuse through extreme forbearance. He then revealed that during the battle to stop the heavens from opening, Hongjun hid in his earthworm form, and Pangu struck at his hiding place.

• Pangu described awakening inside an egg surrounded by three Chaos Supreme Treasures and being the last Demon God born.
• After receiving guidance from the Great Dao, Pangu split Primordial Chaos and created the Primordial World, prompting the Three Thousand Demon Gods to attack him.
• Qin Xuan explained that the Demon Gods fought Pangu because they refused to accept his potential superiority, then asked about Hongjun.
• Pangu recounted how Hongjun endured the Chaos Demon Ape’s beating and won the Demon Ape’s protection by apologizing instead of seeking revenge.
• During the battle over the opening of the heavens, Pangu found Hongjun hiding as an earthworm inside a crack in a Chaos stone and swung his axe at him.

Pangu told Qin Xuan and Pingxin how he entered the Great Dao Realm, left an avatar behind, and held up the Primordial World while his true body departed. He revealed that visions of twelve blood-related figures had appeared to him, leaving Qin Xuan worried that Pangu knew he was an outsider.

• Pangu explained that Hongjun survived his axe strike after splitting his body in two.
• Pangu said the Great Dao forced him out of Primordial Chaos after he broke through, so he left an avatar to manage the Primordial World.
• Pangu recounted that his avatar held up the collapsing heaven and earth, then died and transformed into all things.
• Pangu revealed that Hongjun, Yang Mei, Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and Luohu entered the Primordial World while he held up the sky.
• Pangu described seeing visions of twelve simple-minded figures connected to him by blood, and Pingxin wondered whether he meant her siblings.
• Qin Xuan realized the visions seemed to exclude him and feared Pangu knew he was an outsider.

Pangu explained that his visions of the future showed the Witch-Demon Tribulation and the deaths of most of his children. Qin Xuan learned that he was the consciousness born from one of Pangu’s thirteen drops of essence blood and sent into the river of time, leaving him to wonder whether he was actually the eldest Ancestral Witch.

• Pangu told Qin Xuan that he had foreseen the future when he split Heaven and Earth, unsettling Qin with the possibility that Pangu knew his true origins.
• Pangu described a vision in which the Witch Clan fought the Demon Clan, and Pingxin learned that all the Ancestral Witches except Houtu, who became Pingxin, perished.
• Pangu said he had used Shichen’s Wheel to investigate the future, but found no one alive to send there.
• Pangu revealed that he forced thirteen drops of essence blood from his heart, and one drop developed an independent consciousness.
• Pangu explained that he separated the consciousness and cast it into the river of time, allowing Qin Xuan to realize he was born from Pangu’s essence blood.
• Qin Xuan wondered whether the order of their births made him the eldest Ancestral Witch.

After accepting that he was Pangu’s son and the Thirteenth Ancestral Witch, Qin Xuan awakened the full inheritance of Pangu’s Law of Strength and rapidly advanced in cultivation. He emerged with his power greatly increased as Pangu and Pingxin watched.

• Qin Xuan realized Pangu had arranged his future memories and accepted that he truly belonged to the Primordial World as Pangu’s son and the Thirteenth Ancestral Witch.
• Qin Xuan’s bloodline power erupted, repelling Pingxin’s attempt to calm him, while Pangu reassured her that he had encountered an opportunity.
• Pingxin vowed that she and her siblings would bring Hongjun’s head to Pangu, who encouraged her and waited with her for Qin Xuan’s transformation to finish.
• Qin Xuan fused the Law of Strength bloodline into his body and received Pangu’s cultivation insights, advancing his law, cultivation, physical body, and primordial spirit to the sixth level of the Grand Unity Realm.
• Qin Xuan opened his eyes with greatly increased power, restrained his confidence about defeating Hongjun, and heard Pangu ask how he felt.

Qin Xuan reunited Pangu with the Creation Jade Plate and presented him with five lotus platforms, proposing that they might restore the Chaos Green Lotus. Pangu kept the jade plate and promised to hold it until Qin Xuan’s agreement with Hongjun came due.

• Qin Xuan gave Pangu the Creation Jade Plate and explained that he had borrowed it from Hongjun for ten thousand years after swearing a Great Dao oath.
• Qin Xuan asked whether the Law of Karma could sever the oath’s binding force, and Pangu rebuked him while secretly worrying that the Great Dao might hear.
• Pangu told Qin Xuan to leave the Creation Jade Plate with him until the agreement’s deadline, and Qin Xuan agreed.
• Qin Xuan showed Pangu the five lotus platforms and explained that he had tricked Haotian into giving him the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus.
• Qin Xuan proposed gathering the five lotus platforms to nurture a Chaos Green Lotus, hoping to reunite Pangu’s three Chaos Supreme Treasures.

Pangu planned to return a replica of the Creation Jade Plate to protect Qin Xuan’s reputation, then learned how Hongjun had mistreated the original. The Plate asked Pangu to recover its scattered fragments, but he had already broken them apart and distributed their power of laws.

• Pangu decided to make an identical replica of the Creation Jade Plate so Qin Xuan could fulfill his oath without returning the original.
• Pangu discovered the original Plate was black and dim, and it told him that Hongjun had mistreated it.
• Pangu comforted the Plate and explained his plan to fool Hongjun with a replica, which delighted the Plate.
• The Plate asked Pangu to recover its lost fragments, explaining that Hongjun had failed to find them.
• Pangu realized he could not return the fragments because he had already broken them apart and distributed their power of laws.

After Hua Xu Shi became pregnant by stepping into a giant footprint, Nuwa arrived disguised as Kong Xuan and protected her from the tribe’s suspicion. Ten months later, Hua Xu Shi had not yet given birth, and the tribe regarded the unborn child as an extraordinary sage.

• Pangu resolved to recover the Creation Jade Plate’s fragments, and five thousand years passed.
• Hua Xu Shi stepped into a giant footprint, and rosy light entered her abdomen; the sages recognized the first Human Emperor’s reincarnation.
• When Hua Xu Shi’s pregnancy alarmed her tribe, Nuwa appeared disguised as Kong Xuan and declared the child a reincarnated human sage.
• Nuwa settled beside Hua Xu Shi, and the tribe began treating her with great care.
• Ten months passed without Hua Xu Shi giving birth, and the tribe praised the unborn child’s patience.

Fuxi was born amid extraordinary heavenly signs, prompting the Saints to prepare their disciples to teach him. Nuwa, disguised as Kong Xuan, offered to take Fuxi as her disciple and asked Hua Xu Shi whether the child had a name.

• On the twelfth year, Hua Xu Shi gave birth to Fuxi as divine dragons, phoenixes, purple qi, and other auspicious signs filled the skies.
• Grand Supreme Laozi realized that Fuxi's birth meant he would soon teach the Earthly Sovereign, while Yuanshi Tianzun ordered Guang Chengzi to teach the Human Emperor and surpass Duobao.
• Tongtian sent his disciples together to the human race and appointed Duobao as Fuxi's teacher, warning him not to let Guang Chengzi surpass him.
• The Three Ancestors recognized the River Diagram and the Luo Script in Hua Xu Shi's arms and believed the Dao Venerable had bestowed the treasures on Fuxi.
• Nuwa, disguised as Kong Xuan, offered to take Fuxi as her disciple, stopped Hua Xu Shi from kneeling, and asked what the child was named.

Nuwa named Fuxi and took him as her disciple, while Qin Xuan secretly sealed away Fuxi’s past-life memories. As Fuxi grew wise and improved life for the human tribes, the chapter ended with him asking Nuwa why the stars moved.

• Nuwa named Hua Xu Shi’s child Fuxi and declared him her disciple, prompting the gathered humans to thank her on his behalf.
• Nuwa realized the tangled family ties Fuxi’s new discipleship created, while Qin Xuan sealed away Fuxi’s memories to spare him the shock of learning them too soon.
• Nuwa taught Fuxi about the Primordial World, its powerful figures, and the calamities that had shaped it.
• Fuxi learned from a spider to make hunting and fishing nets, then began keeping captured beasts so food would not go to waste.
• Fuxi’s reputation for wisdom spread as nearby tribes joined him, and he asked Nuwa why the stars moved.

Nuwa guided Fuxi toward discovering a way to preserve humanity’s knowledge, using a carved turtle shell to show him how records could endure. Fuxi rushed off to find shells, while Nuwa secretly began considering having a child with Qin Xuan.

• Nuwa asked Fuxi to consider humanity’s urgent needs instead of focusing only on understanding the laws of heaven and earth.
• Fuxi explained that observing nature had taught him how ants moving their home could warn people of approaching rain.
• Nuwa asked how humanity could preserve its ancestors’ wisdom without errors from word-of-mouth retelling.
• Nuwa carved a mark into the Black Tortoise of the North Sea’s shell and used a time-law formation to let nearly a thousand years pass inside it.
• Fuxi saw that the mark remained clear and decided to record human experiences on turtle shells, then hurried away to find some.
• Nuwa wondered whether Fuxi could have been her child and considered hiding a future pregnancy from Qin Xuan.

Fuxi created nine hundred characters to give the human race an accessible way to record and pass down its inheritance. He presented his achievement to Nuwa and Qin Xuan rather than the Heavenly Dao, while Hongjun watched in anger.

• Fuxi realized that symbols could represent things and events after hearing old men identify beasts by their tracks, and he began carving characters on Turtle Shells.
• After years of work, Fuxi struggled to devise a character for "person" until he saw an old man laboring in a field and carved a symbol based on the man's posture.
• Fuxi added a vertical stroke inspired by the human race's ancestral teachings, completing the character and bringing his total to nine hundred.
• When golden merit clouds gathered, Fuxi rejected the Heavenly Dao as witness and proclaimed his creation to Holy Mother Nuwa and Lord Dao Venerable.
• The characters illuminated the Primordial World, inspiring insight and gratitude among the human race and other clans, while Hongjun grew angry that Fuxi had appealed to Nuwa and Qin Xuan.