Chapter Summaries

After recognizing the first line of Di Xin’s poem, Nuwa wrongly blamed Jieyin and Zhunti and attacked them in the west. The battle left Jieyin injured, while Di Xin wondered why Nuwa had reacted so quickly.

• Nuwa recognized the opening line of Di Xin’s poem, sensed Jieyin and Zhunti nearby, and accused them of humiliating her.
• Jieyin and Zhunti denied involvement, then fled toward Spirit Mountain as Nuwa pursued them with the Red Hydrangea Ball.
• Jieyin and Zhunti shielded the western lands with their Dharma golden bodies, but Nuwa’s attack overwhelmed their treasures and shattered one of Jieyin’s arms.
• Yuanshi Tianzun watched the battle from Jade Void Palace and took pleasure in seeing Jieyin and Zhunti beaten.
• Di Xin heard the clash from Nuwa Palace and wondered why Nuwa had attacked so quickly.

After Di Xin left a poem at Nuwa Palace, Gonggong discovered it and asked Hou Tu to interpret it. Hou Tu realized that Jieyin and Zhunti had schemed against Di Xin’s incarnation, and she and Gonggong set out to summon their brothers.

• Shang Rong and the other officials urged Di Xin to erase his poem, but Di Xin defended it as praise of Nuwa and returned to the palace with Queen Jiang.
• After Di Xin’s group departed, Gonggong entered Nuwa Palace and memorized the poem on the wall.
• Gonggong told Hou Tu the poem, and she recognized it as evidence that Jieyin and Zhunti had schemed against their little brother’s incarnation.
• Gonggong explained that he had seen Nuwa beating Jieyin and Zhunti in the west, and Hou Tu decided to gather their brothers.

Gonggong summoned the Ancestral Witches after Di Xin was attacked, and they set out to punish Jieyin and Zhunti. On the Western Continent, the witches summoned Pangu True Body, leaving the two Saints facing its crushing attack.

• Gonggong told the Ancestral Witches that Di Xin had been bullied, and Hou Tu clarified that the victim was Qin Xuan's blood essence incarnation.
• Dijiang ordered the Ancestral Witches to form the Great Heavenly Gods and Demons Array and flatten the West.
• Jieyin and Zhunti endured Nuwa's attacks and suspected Yuanshi Tianzun had framed them.
• Nuwa disappeared, but Jieyin and Zhunti saw the Pangu True Body summoned by the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Dijiang accused Jieyin and Zhunti of scheming against their brother, and Pangu True Body brought down a colossal palm as Zhunti wet himself in terror.

Qin Xuan warned Dijiang not to damage the Western Continent, so Hongjun stopped the Pangu True Body’s attack while claiming he would not interfere in the Witches’ dispute with Jieyin and Zhunti. Guided by Qin Xuan’s message, Dijiang halted the strike and exposed Hongjun’s role in the west’s ruin, leaving the other Ancestral Witches baffled by his unusual behavior.

• Pingxin worried that the Pangu True Body’s attack would devastate the Western Continent, and Qin Xuan assured her he had sent word to Dijiang.
• Hongjun arrived as Pangu’s palm descended and raised a barrier to protect the Western Continent.
• Dijiang stopped the attack and demanded that Hongjun answer for Jieyin and Zhunti’s plot against the Witch Clan.
• Hongjun declared that he had come only to protect the Western Continent and would not take sides in the dispute.
• Jieyin and Zhunti realized Hongjun had not come to rescue them and feared facing the Pangu True Body alone.
• Dijiang repeated Qin Xuan’s words exposing Hongjun’s role in destroying the western earth veins, while the other Ancestral Witches wondered what had come over him.

Dijiang publicly challenged Hongjun, causing many beings to lose their reverence for him and weakening his fortune. After Hongjun vanished, the Twelve Ancestral Witches beat Jieyin and Zhunti with golden bricks before Dijiang warned them not to provoke the witches again.

• Dijiang’s words shook the Primordial World, and Hongjun’s fortune shrank as beings reconsidered their trust in him.
• Hongjun denied responsibility for the Western Continent’s ruined Earth Veins and vanished from the scene.
• The Ancestral Witches dissolved the Pangu True Body and surrounded Jieyin and Zhunti with golden bricks in hand.
• Dijiang ordered the Twelve Ancestral Witches to strike, and they beat Jieyin and Zhunti until their heads were covered in towering bumps.
• Dijiang ended the beating and warned Jieyin and Zhunti that another offense would bring worse consequences.

After the Ancestral Witches left, Jieyin and Zhunti blamed Yuanshi Tianzun for their humiliation and considered turning against the Mystic Gate, but Jieyin judged the time was not right. In Chaoge, Di Xin received his mission rewards, rose to Golden Immortal cultivation, and examined his new treasures while considering whom to test the Primordial Chaos Heaven Measuring Ruler on.

• After the Ancestral Witches departed, Zhunti vowed to take revenge on Yuanshi Tianzun, and Jieyin agreed that Yuanshi had abandoned them.
• Zhunti suggested they leave the Mystic Gate, but Jieyin said their foundation was too weak and the opportunity had not yet arrived.
• Zhunti looked toward Kunlun Mountain and declared that the Chan Sect's eleven Golden Immortals were destined for the West.
• After Di Xin returned to Chaoge, the system awarded him Golden Immortal cultivation, one drop of Ancestral Witch blood essence, He Tu Luo Shu, and the Primordial Chaos Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Di Xin discovered that the blood essence held the power of space and chose to save it for when he was stronger.
• Di Xin summoned the Heaven Measuring Ruler and wondered whom he could safely test it on, dismissing Fei Zhong, You Hun, and Jiang Ziya as unsuitable targets.

After Queen Jiang announced her pregnancy, Di Xin refused her suggestion to choose more consorts, but a system quest then required him to take Su Daji as one. He accepted for the promised treasures and left the chapter facing the awkward task of reversing his refusal to Queen Jiang.

• A maid told Di Xin that Queen Jiang was pregnant, and he hurried to the rear palace to make her stop cooking and rest.
• Queen Jiang urged Di Xin to select women from respectable families as consorts, but he insisted that he needed only her.
• The system triggered a side quest requiring Di Xin to take Su Daji, daughter of Su Hu, as a consort, with several supreme spiritual fruits as rewards.
• Di Xin recalled Su Daji's role in the original Investiture of the Gods and accepted the quest despite uncertainty over whether the same events would unfold in this world.
• Queen Jiang again urged Di Xin to take consorts for the royal bloodline and her reputation, while Di Xin struggled with having just refused her proposal.

Di Xin sought a way to bring Su Daji into the palace without forcing Su Hu to rebel, and Fei Zhong offered to help. Fei Zhong’s broad proposal to gather beauties from across the realm failed, and Di Xin realized the official did not yet know about Su Daji.

• Di Xin accepted Queen Jiang’s counsel and returned alone to the hall to consider how to persuade Su Hu to send Daji to the palace willingly.
• Fei Zhong arrived to seek Di Xin’s favor, and Di Xin told him he was troubled by a peerlessly beautiful woman he had seen.
• Fei Zhong proposed ordering the four regional lords to send one hundred beauties each to Chaoge.
• Di Xin rejected the proposal as costly and burdensome, hoping Fei Zhong would suggest Su Daji instead.
• Di Xin recalled that Fei Zhong would not recommend Su Daji until the following year, after Su Hu withheld a gift, and realized neither Fei Zhong nor Su Hu was currently in Chaoge.

Di Xin ordered Fei Zhong to search for Jiang Shang while quietly resisting schemes against Great Shang, but the search in Chaoge found nothing. Meanwhile, Yuanshi Tianzun obeyed Hongjun's order and sent the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb to enter Di Xin's inner palace and bewilder him.

• Di Xin dismissed Fei Zhong's request for more time to devise a plan, then ordered him to search secretly for Jiang Shang in Chaoge.
• Fei Zhong and You Hun repeatedly visited Di Xin and proposed harmful schemes, which Di Xin brushed aside; Shang Rong and Bi Gan urged him to distance himself from them, but he challenged them to name any immoral act he had committed.
• Fei Zhong and You Hun searched Chaoge for several months without finding Jiang Shang, so Di Xin ordered them to search beyond the city.
• After Hongjun left Jade Void Palace, Yuanshi Tianzun summoned the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb and ordered them to enter Di Xin's inner palace and bewilder him without harming living beings.

Di Xin emerged from seclusion with inventions he had developed for the human race, including the Curved-shaft Plough. After he demonstrated the plough to the ministers, they realized it could greatly increase farming efficiency.

• Di Xin stayed in the inner palace for more than a month, prompting Shang Rong, Bigan, and other officials to seek an audience while You Hun intercepted their petitions.
• Di Xin finished making the Curved-shaft Plough and Black Gunpowder, then ordered a servant to attend him.
• Di Xin emerged from the palace with guards, the plough, and an ox, while Shang Rong and the other ministers begged him to return his attention to state affairs.
• Di Xin led the ministers to wasteland outside the palace and hitched the Curved-shaft Plough to the ox.
• Di Xin demonstrated the plough, and the ministers watched it reclaim far more land than a man could till by hand in a day.

Di Xin’s Curved-shaft Plough was renamed the Xin Yuan Plough, and his Blast Furnace Steelmaking further advanced Great Shang. As the feudal lords’ court visit approached, Di Xin sent Fei Zhong to Xi Qi to investigate Ji Chang for treason.

• The ministers apologized to Di Xin for doubting him, and he assigned Bigan to promote the Curved-shaft Plough throughout the realm.
• You Hun proposed naming the plough the Xin Yuan Plough, and Di Xin approved the name.
• Over the following months, Di Xin developed Blast Furnace Steelmaking while the Xin Yuan Plough improved farming around Chaoge.
• Di Xin asked Fei Zhong and You Hun about Ji Chang’s reputation for virtue, and You Hun accused the Marquis of the West of secretly winning people’s support and offered to arrest him.
• Fei Zhong claimed Ji Chang was recruiting troops and forging weapons, then volunteered to investigate in Xi Qi; Di Xin agreed to send him.

Di Xin accepted Fei Zhong’s scheme against Ji Chang, then decided to travel to Ji Prefecture after a quest told him to recruit Zheng Lun and offered to increase Great Shang’s national fortune. As Di Xin approached with You Hun and Huang Feihu, Su Hu feared the ruler had come for his daughter and resolved not to let her enter the palace.

• Fei Zhong promised to expose Ji Chang’s supposed crimes when they returned to court, while Di Xin decided to let him carry out the plan.
• You Hun offered to travel to Ji Prefecture and escort Su Hu’s beautiful daughter to the palace, but Di Xin hesitated over the risk of provoking Su Hu.
• A system quest directed Di Xin to recruit Zheng Lun, a grain supervisor in Ji Prefecture, and promised to increase Great Shang’s national fortune.
• Di Xin announced that he would inspect Ji Prefecture, silenced the ministers’ objections, and set out with You Hun and Huang Feihu.
• Su Hu heard that Di Xin’s procession was approaching and resolved to kill his daughter rather than allow her to marry the ruler he considered a tyrant.

Di Xin arrived in Ji Prefecture, where Su Hu feared the king had come for his daughter, Su Daji. Instead, Di Xin ignored her to seek out Zheng Lun, whom he hoped to win over, leaving Su Hu baffled as they entered the city together.

• Su Hu brought his family and Ji Prefecture's officials to welcome Di Xin at the city gates.
• Di Xin approached Su Daji, but told her she was blocking his view and moved her aside.
• Di Xin recognized Zheng Lun and invited him to accompany him into the city for a talk.
• Di Xin praised Zheng Lun's talents and questioned why he served only as Ji Prefecture's Grain Supervisor.
• Su Hu followed behind them, wondering why Di Xin had ignored his beautiful daughter.

Di Xin attended Su Hu’s welcoming banquet in Ji Prefecture, where Su Hu repeatedly tried to draw attention to his daughter, Daji. The chapter ended with Di Xin realizing that publicly praising Daji in front of the assembled officials would be improper.

• Su Hu hosted a banquet for Di Xin and seated Daji beside the king to attend to him.
• The Ji Prefecture officials toasted You Hun and Huang Feihu, but both men kept their distance from the crowd.
• Di Xin admired Daji’s unpossessed beauty and asked her name as she offered him wine.
• Su Hu interrupted Daji to introduce her, and You Hun tried to pull him away from Di Xin.
• Su Hu broke free and asked Di Xin what he thought of Daji, leaving Di Xin uneasy about answering in front of the ministers.

At a banquet in Ji Prefecture, Di Xin announced the Institute for the Investigation of Things and recruited Zheng Lun to help establish it. The system rewarded him with twenty years of national fortune beyond Heavenly Dao’s fixed fate, leaving Di Xin wondering who might control the system.

• Di Xin asked his ministers why the Xia Dynasty had fallen and lamented the hardships he had witnessed across Great Shang.
• Di Xin announced the Institute for the Investigation of Things, which would study the principles of nature and develop useful tools for the country and its people.
• Di Xin asked Zheng Lun to join the new institute, and Zheng Lun accepted; Su Hu also agreed to let him serve.
• The system confirmed that Di Xin’s mission to subdue Zheng Lun was complete and awarded Great Shang twenty years of national fortune, extending its fate from twenty-eight years to at least forty-eight.
• Di Xin asked the system for a much larger reward, was rebuffed, and wondered whether someone was controlling it before deciding he was still fortunate to have been reincarnated as Human Emperor.

Di Xin woke beside Daji after their night together and asked her to return to Chaoge as his consort. Daji went back to her father alone, while Di Xin secretly followed, and Su Hu resolved to kill her and himself to preserve his honor.

• Di Xin drank heavily at Su Hu’s banquet, took Daji to the rear hall, and the ministers let them leave together.
• Di Xin woke beside Daji, realized they had slept together, and asked her to return to Chaoge with him; she agreed.
• Daji left to return to her father alone, and Di Xin concealed himself and followed her.
• A servant told Su Hu that Daji had left the banquet with Di Xin, and Su Hu collapsed in despair.
• Su Hu blamed Daji for bringing humiliation upon his clan and decided to kill her before taking his own life.

Daji confronted Su Hu over blaming her for entering Di Xin’s bed after he had deliberately arranged for her to serve the ruler, leaving Su Hu ashamed and unable to object when Di Xin later took her to the palace. Di Xin then began the return journey to Chaoge with Daji, Su Quanzhong, and hundreds of recruits for the Institute for the Investigation of Things.

• Su Hu confronted Daji with a sword, but she accused him of arranging her place beside Di Xin and using her to win the ruler’s favor.
• Su Hu realized he had pushed Daji into the situation, dropped his sword, and left in shame while Di Xin secretly withdrew his protective magic.
• The next day, Di Xin formally took Daji to the royal palace, and Su Hu bowed and saw her off without objecting.
• After staying in Ji Prefecture for half a month, Di Xin set out for Chaoge with hundreds of young recruits inspired by the Institute for the Investigation of Things.
• Di Xin took Su Quanzhong with him, and the system granted him twenty years of national fortune because Su Quanzhong was the Po Jun Star Lord.

Di Xin took Daji away and disguised Su Hu as her, while Ji Chang set out for Chaoge despite Bo Yikao’s concerns. At an En Prefecture post station, the Nine-tailed Demon Fox mistook Su Hu for Daji and recoiled when his mask slipped.

• Di Xin dressed Su Hu in Daji’s clothes and secretly departed with the real Daji.
• Bo Yikao warned Ji Chang that Fei Zhong’s visit seemed suspicious and offered to travel to Chaoge in his place, but Ji Chang trusted his divination and stayed firm.
• Ji Chang instructed Bo Yikao to handle provisions for the Northern Sea army, then left for Chaoge with Fei Zhong and a cart of treasures.
• At an En Prefecture post station, Huang Feihu ordered the postmaster to prepare rooms despite warnings that a demon haunted the place.
• Su Hu, masked and dressed as Daji, spent the night in the station while the Nine-tailed Demon Fox approached his bed.
• The Nine-tailed Demon Fox saw Su Hu’s broad figure in the pink dress and retched when his mask shifted to reveal his stubble.

Di Xin captured the Nine-tailed Demon Fox before she could possess Daji and forced her to choose between serving him and reincarnation. He planted a Divine Sense imprint in her Primordial Spirit, giving him control over her life and leaving her fully exposed to his perception.

• The Nine-tailed Demon Fox was trapped inside a barrier, and Huang Feihu entered before revealing himself as Di Xin.
• Di Xin revealed the fox’s true form and explained that he had brought Su Hu as bait while Daji slept safely inside his sleeve.
• The Nine-tailed Demon Fox struck Su Hu with her tails when he tried to touch her.
• Di Xin threatened to send the fox into reincarnation, so she opened her Sea of Consciousness and acknowledged him as her master.
• Di Xin planted a Divine Sense imprint on the Nine-tailed Demon Fox’s source Primordial Spirit and realized he could destroy it with a thought.

Di Xin returned to Chaoge with Daji and received powerful immortal fruits from the system, then visited pregnant Queen Jiang and offered her a Peach of Immortality. Queen Jiang urged him to keep the treasure for himself, calling his longevity a blessing for Great Shang and its people.

• Di Xin returned to the palace with Daji and received a Peach of Immortality, a Ginseng Fruit, an Immortal Apricot, a Yellow Middle Plum, and five five-needle pinecones as mission rewards.
• Di Xin questioned the system about their connection, while Qin Xuan and Pingxin discussed keeping Di Xin's origins secret; the system dismissed him.
• Di Xin learned from a maid that Queen Jiang was well, then went to see her in her chambers.
• Di Xin gave Queen Jiang the Peach of Immortality and explained its effects.
• Queen Jiang pushed the peach back toward Di Xin and urged him to keep it for the sake of Great Shang and its people.