Chapter Summaries

Qin Xuan completed the Humanity Origin Scripture, triggering the manifestation of Humanity's Fortune and earning vast Great Dao Merit. As the Heavenly Dao's Eye appeared before him, it stared in anger or reluctance while Qin Xuan stood ready with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.

• Qin Xuan deduced the final three levels of his cultivation technique and named it the Humanity Origin Scripture.
• The technique's creation manifested Humanity's Fortune, and the Kongtong Seal entered the golden river as Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao incarnation discussed controlling humanity.
• Hongjun sent Heavenly Dao power toward Grand Supreme Laozi, who realized his chance to become a Sage lay with the human race and secretly headed for the Eastern Sea.
• Qin Xuan received a vast pillar of Great Dao Merit, absorbed half, and sent the rest to Pangu Temple before emerging from Dao Lord Hall.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches surrounded Qin Xuan, then the Eye of the Heavenly Dao appeared and stared at him as he readied the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.

Qin Xuan used Heavenly Dao and Great Dao merit to turn eleven bricks into acquired Merit Spiritual Treasures for the Ancestral Witches. Before leaving Nüwa’s preaching, he gave her a jade slip containing the first seven levels of the Humanity Origin Scripture, which she accepted and agreed to share.

• The Heavenly Dao reluctantly sent down merit after Qin Xuan demanded it.
• Qin Xuan collected eleven bricks from the Ancestral Witches, while Hou Tu hid her personal brick and claimed she had left it on Buzhou Mountain.
• Qin Xuan infused the bricks with Heavenly Dao and Great Dao merit, transforming all eleven into acquired Merit Spiritual Treasures and distributing them to the Ancestral Witches.
• The crowd noticed Laozi had disappeared, and Qin Xuan worried he had gone to teach the human race before preparing to leave with his brothers.
• Qin Xuan gave Nüwa a jade slip containing the first seven levels of the Humanity Origin Scripture and asked her to explain it to the gathered cultivators.
• Nüwa accepted the jade slip and thanked Qin Xuan as the assembled cultivators praised him for passing down the method.

Qin Xuan hurried the Ancestral Witches toward the East Sea, leaving Xihe, Changxi, and the Queen Mother of the West behind and promising to pursue Xihe and Changxi himself after attaining the Dao. At the human settlement, Laozi realized that founding a sect and teaching humanity could be his path to sainthood, but he worried that creating and spreading a suitable cultivation method would take too long.

• Qin Xuan escaped with the Ancestral Witches as Xihe, Changxi, and the Queen Mother of the West arrived too late to see him.
• Nüwa watched the women's reactions to Qin Xuan and wondered why she felt confused and stifled.
• Qin Xuan told Hou Tu and Xuan Ming that he liked Xihe and Changxi and would visit the Taiyin Star himself after attaining the Dao.
• Qin Xuan denied having any relationship with the Queen Mother of the West as Hou Tu teased him about her interest in him.
• Laozi reached the human settlement, saw its vast population and the Dragon Clan living among the humans, and realized that teaching them might earn him the merit needed to become a saint.
• Laozi's Primordial Violet Qi reacted to the idea, but he worried that developing and spreading a cultivation method among humans would take too much time.

Laozi began creating a rapid cultivation method for the Human Race that would sacrifice their future potential and lifespan. Qin Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches arrived to confront him, leaving Laozi surrounded by Merit Bricks and gripped by a familiar sense of danger.

• Laozi decided to create a method that would rapidly raise the Human Race's cultivation at the cost of their future potential and lifespan.
• The Dragon Clan alerted Zhu Long that Laozi was in the Human Race, and Zhu Long promised Suiren he would protect them if Laozi threatened them.
• Qin Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches appeared in the Human Race's ancestral hall, and Qin Xuan led them to meet Laozi.
• Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches used Dijiang's Law of Space to surround Laozi as eleven Merit Bricks appeared in their hands.
• Laozi sensed an ominously familiar danger while he was immersed in his enlightenment.

Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches stopped Laozi from spreading the Dao among the human race, then prepared to teach them a cultivation method instead. As Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao worried over Qin Xuan’s interference, the Heavenly Dao claimed he had a plan.

• The Ancestral Witches struck Laozi with Merit Bricks, leaving eleven golden-marked bumps on his head.
• Qin Xuan invited Laozi to stay and observe as he prepared to teach the human race, while Zhurong and Gonggong blocked him from leaving.
• Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi thanked Qin Xuan, who told them to gather the clans for a lecture in a thousand years.
• Zhu Long went to help gather the human tribes, leaving Qin Xuan alone with Laozi.
• In Zixiao Palace, Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao worried that Qin Xuan had disrupted Taishang’s path to sainthood.
• The Heavenly Dao declared that he had a plan to counter Qin Xuan’s move.

The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun planned to have Laozi establish a Human Sect and become a saint, while Qin Xuan secretly urged Laozi to leave the Mystic Sect and enlighten all living beings instead. Laozi was shaken by the proposal but remained unsure whether to defy Hongjun.

• The Heavenly Dao persuaded Hongjun to have Laozi preach a Dao superior to Qin Xuan’s, divert humanity’s fortune, and establish the Human Sect to become a saint.
• Qin Xuan drew the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and used it to seal the area and obscure its heavenly secrets, alarming Laozi and the Ancestral Witches.
• Qin Xuan argued that relying on humanity would leave Laozi beneath Nüwa and urged him to leave the Mystic Sect, enlighten all living beings, and establish a new great sect.
• Laozi questioned what he should do if Hongjun tried to stop him, and Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches promised their support.
• Laozi struggled with the decision as Qin Xuan considered how his departure and eventual sainthood could undermine Hongjun’s influence.

Qin Xuan persuaded Laozi to leave the Mystic Sect and establish a Dao Sect, promising the Ancestral Witches would help him withstand Hongjun. After Laozi departed, Qin Xuan crafted merit-bearing fishing rods and invited the witches to fish with him.

• Qin Xuan told Laozi that Hongjun was an earthworm and urged him to establish the Dao Sect, winning Laozi over with the prospect of becoming the Grand Supreme Dao Ancestor.
• Laozi agreed to leave the Mystic Sect and travel the Primordial World to comprehend the Dao, then escaped the Ancestral Witches’ crowded circle.
• Qin Xuan told the Ancestral Witches they would help Laozi establish his status as a second Dao Ancestor, and they understood his mischievous plan.
• Qin Xuan shaped Shouyang Mountain copper into thirteen fishing sets, which gained merit and transformed into acquired Merit Spiritual Treasures.
• Qin Xuan arranged rocking chairs and spiritual fruits by the river, then invited the Ancestral Witches to join him in fishing.

Laozi regretted joining Qin Xuan’s plan, but Hongjun urged him to keep spreading his Dao among the human race and promised the Heavenly Dao’s support. Torn between the two powers, Laozi set off to confront Zhunti and Jieyin, while Yuanshi plundered Mount Sumeru and hid nearby to await them.

• Hongjun appeared before Laozi, healed the eleven lumps on his head, and instructed him to spread his cultivation method among the human race after Qin Xuan left.
• Hongjun told Laozi to claim that his method surpassed Qin Xuan’s and promised that he and the Heavenly Dao would support him.
• Laozi realized that either choice would offend Qin Xuan or Hongjun, then decided to seek revenge on Zhunti and Jieyin for their past attack.
• On Mount Sumeru, Yuanshi forced tens of thousands of bald disciples to surrender their treasures and kicked Yaoshi unconscious when he pleaded for mercy.
• Yuanshi took the treasures, concealed himself in the void, and waited for Jieyin and Zhunti to arrive.

As Qin Xuan began a ten-thousand-year sermon teaching humanity a new cultivation path, its teachings drew fortune and inspired the Twelve Ancestral Witches. Nüwa also preached the Humanity Origin Scripture in Creation Heaven, sending most of the fortune she gathered to humanity and leaving her wondering how she could repay Qin Xuan.

• Laozi and Yuanshi met outside Mount Sumeru and agreed to blame Jieyin and Zhunti for their losses as they prepared to confront them.
• Qin Xuan began teaching the 129,600 innate humans the Humanity Origin Scripture and the cultivation of the body's hidden treasures.
• Humanity's fortune surged during Qin Xuan's sermon, and the resulting torrent flowed into his body through the Kongtong Seal.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches listened intently and imagined using inner worlds to torment their rivals or capture Kunpeng.
• Nüwa comprehended Qin Xuan's scripture and preached it to the mighty figures gathered in Creation Heaven.
• The sermon sent eighty percent of the gathered fortune to humanity and twenty percent to Nüwa, who worried about her growing debt to Qin Xuan.

After Nüwa finished her sermon, she could not explain how she had become a Sage and sent Jieyin and Zhunti away without revealing a path to Sagehood. Back in Nüwa Palace, she created Ling Zhuzi from an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

• Duke Dong asked Nüwa how to advance after cultivating the body’s particles into mustard-seed worlds, and she advised the gathered powers to master the teachings first.
• Jieyin and Zhunti asked Nüwa for guidance on becoming Sages, but she told them their opportunity had not yet arrived.
• Nüwa ended the sermon, and Jieyin and Zhunti hurried toward Mount Sumeru after Jieyin sensed that something serious had happened there.
• Nüwa made a clay figurine resembling Qin Xuan, crushed it when she thought of Xihe and Changxi, then created another figurine that calmed her emotions.
• Nüwa poured creation divine light into an Innate Spiritual Treasure, transformed it into a child, and named him Ling Zhuzi.

Nüwa named Ling Zhuzi and gave him a supreme cultivation method. Meanwhile, Laozi and Yuanshi attacked Jieyin and Zhunti at Mount Sumeru, accusing them of past wrongs and forcing them to surrender treasures before the brothers vowed not to let the loss go unanswered.

• Nüwa named the newly enlightened child Ling Zhuzi and gave him the Humanity Origin Scripture and her cultivation insights.
• Laozi and Yuanshi ambushed Jieyin and Zhunti as they approached Mount Sumeru, suppressing Zhunti in the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Pagoda and holding Jieyin at blade-point.
• Laozi beat Zhunti inside the pagoda for joining in the attack on him, while Yuanshi accused Jieyin and Zhunti of robbing Jade Void Palace.
• Yuanshi seized Yaoshi and threatened Mount Sumeru, forcing Jieyin to surrender more than half the treasures he had gathered in the east to save his disciple.
• Laozi and Yuanshi departed, and Zhunti, battered and bruised, told Jieyin they could not let the loss go unanswered.

Jieyin and Zhunti chose to enter seclusion to strengthen themselves after their humiliation, while Qin Xuan ended his sermon to humanity and received merit from the Heavenly Dao. Hou Tu’s question inspired Qin Xuan to devise a way for the Twelve Ancestral Witches to exchange blood essence and enrich their inner worlds with one another’s laws.

• Jieyin agreed with Zhunti that they could not defeat Laozi and Yuanshi, and resolved to make the accusation that they had looted Kunlun Mountain true rather than bear the blame without cause.
• Jieyin recognized that their weakness had left Mount Sumeru vulnerable, and he and Zhunti entered seclusion after settling their disciples.
• Qin Xuan ended his sermon when most of the humans could no longer follow, and the 120,000 humans thanked him as the Heavenly Dao bestowed merit upon him.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches awoke from cultivation, and Qin Xuan said that completing his method and opening worlds within themselves might let them prove the Dao as Hunyuan.
• Hou Tu asked whether they should keep cultivating their original laws, prompting Qin Xuan to realize that the Ancestral Witches could exchange drops of origin blood essence and use one another’s laws to strengthen their inner worlds.

Qin Xuan kept the Ancestral Witches near the human race to guard against Taishang Laozi while they prepared to open the world, and he waited by the river with a bare hook. Believing Qin Xuan and the Witches were gone, Laozi headed toward the human tribe to secretly spread his teachings and establish the Human Sect.

• Qin Xuan explained his plan to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who agreed to cultivate nearby until they could open the world.
• Hou Tu persuaded the Witches to stay and protect the human race from Laozi, and Qin Xuan agreed.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun brought Hou Tu a Kunpeng wing, then left in the direction of the North Sea.
• The Ancestral Witches entered seclusion while Qin Xuan concealed the area's aura and fished with a bare hook.
• Laozi decided to secretly spread the Golden Core Great Dao among the humans and establish the Human Sect while Qin Xuan was away.
• After searching for Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches without finding them, Laozi silently approached the human tribe.

Xuan Du sought to become Qin Xuan’s attendant, and Qin Xuan accepted after testing his loyalty to the human race. Meanwhile, Laozi tried to preach to a human tribe, where Zhu Long’s rumors had turned the people against him, so he forced them to hear his Golden Core Great Dao.

• Xuan Du knelt behind Qin Xuan and asked to serve him in repayment for Qin Xuan’s role in creating the human race.
• Qin Xuan asked Xuan Du how he would act if Qin Xuan opposed or abandoned the human race, and Xuan Du chose Qin Xuan over his own people.
• Qin Xuan told Xuan Du to rise and walk with him, and Xuan Du followed, hoping to gain a place as Qin Xuan’s disciple.
• Laozi arrived above a human tribe, but the people recognized him from Zhu Long’s unflattering stories and mocked his reputation.
• Laozi silenced the tribe with his Quasi-Sage pressure and forced its people to hear his Golden Core Great Dao.

Qin Xuan stopped Laozi from preaching to the human race and arranged for him to take Xuan Du as his disciple. After Laozi promised to repay the favor, the resulting karmic connection loosened Qin Xuan’s bottleneck at the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.

• Qin Xuan appeared beside Laozi as he preached to the humans, then brought Laozi and Xuan Du back to the riverbank.
• Laozi admitted he sought his chance to become a Sage among the human race and offered Qin Xuan a karmic debt in exchange for leniency.
• Qin Xuan proposed that Laozi take Xuan Du as his disciple, and Laozi recognized Xuan Du’s exceptional human lineage and fortune.
• Laozi accepted Xuan Du as his only disciple and gave him an Innate Spiritual Treasure, while Xuan Du reluctantly bowed to his new teacher.
• Laozi thanked Qin Xuan and promised to repay him, causing Qin Xuan’s bottleneck to loosen through their karmic connection.

Qin Xuan used the Karma accumulated through his past actions to break through to the Primordial Great Golden Immortal realm, hiding the breakthrough in Pangu Temple deep within Primordial Chaos. He secretly returned to the human race and began deducing how to open an inner world, while Hongjun sensed his return from Zixiao Palace.

• After Laozi left with Xuan Du, Qin Xuan realized his Karma Dao had reached perfection and decided to break through to Hunyuan in Primordial Chaos.
• Qin Xuan concealed his aura and heavenly secrets with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and Pangu Temple before releasing his cultivation suppression.
• Qin Xuan shattered the Hunyuan bottleneck and advanced both his Law of Strength and Law of Karma to the Primordial Great Golden Immortal realm.
• Qin Xuan saw the threads of Karma connecting him to others, including a vast thread linking him to Nüwa, and realized he could manipulate and transfer Karma.
• Qin Xuan returned unnoticed to the human race, rested in his rocking chair, and began deducing a method to open an inner world.
• Hongjun froze in Zixiao Palace when Qin Xuan reentered the Primordial World.

Hongjun used the Creation Jade Plate to investigate the Primordial Golden Immortal aura and learned that Yang Mei had entered the Primordial World, though he could not locate him. Meanwhile, Laozi sensed that the opportunity to become a Saint had arrived and told Xuan Du he was about to prove the Dao.

• Hongjun sensed a trace of a Primordial Golden Immortal's aura, but his search of the Primordial World found no trace of it.
• Hongjun rubbed the Creation Jade Plate and learned that Yang Mei was in the Primordial World but remained hidden.
• The Heavenly Dao asked why Taishang had still made no move, and Hongjun looked toward Laozi's dojo on Shouyang Mountain.
• Laozi preached to Xuan Du and gave him a six-revolution golden pill to refine.
• Laozi's Primordial Violet Qi trembled, revealing that his opportunity to become a Saint had arrived.
• Laozi told Xuan Du he was about to prove the Dao and become a Saint, and Xuan Du congratulated him.

Laozi proclaimed the establishment of the Human Sect to gain merit and become a Sage, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the Primordial World. Just as merit was about to descend, Qin Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches disrupted the ceremony, and a furious Nüwa appeared as well.

• Laozi declared the Human Sect established on Shouyang Mountain and dedicated it to enlightening humanity.
• Hongjun sent down the Heavenly Dao’s power, while Qin Xuan gathered the Twelve Ancestral Witches and brought the Pangu Temple near Shouyang Mountain.
• Zhunti, Jieyin, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Dijun, Taiyi, and Nüwa reacted to Laozi’s attempt to establish a sect, with Nüwa secretly taking position near Shouyang Mountain.
• As merit gathered above Laozi, Qin Xuan summoned the Thirteen Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation, and the Pangu True Body struck the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Pagoda away.
• Qin Xuan declared Laozi’s plan not allowed, and another furious Sage manifestation appeared and echoed his words.

Laozi tried to establish the Human Sect by claiming the human race’s fortune, but Qin Xuan and Nüwa confronted him before his sainthood could be completed. In Zixiao Palace, the Heavenly Dao persuaded Hongjun to intervene, but Hongjun grew wary of the karmic consequences and chose to use his own power instead.

• Qin Xuan used the Pangu True Body to halt Laozi’s impending sainthood, while Nüwa stood against him.
• Qin Xuan challenged Laozi for seizing the human race’s fortune without permission, and Nüwa questioned whether he meant to command her as the Human Sect’s leader.
• Laozi looked to Hongjun for help as the Heavenly Dao proposed breaking Qin Xuan’s Kongtong Seal so Laozi could become a Saint and be revived if necessary.
• Hongjun agreed with the Heavenly Dao’s plan, then reconsidered when he feared intervention could bring karmic backlash.
• Hongjun abandoned the attempt to use Heavenly Dao power and silently prepared to act with his own Saintly power.

Qin Xuan used the Kongtong Seal to strip Xuan Du of humanity’s fortune, ruining Laozi’s attempt to establish his teachings and become a Sage. Nüwa then expelled Xuan Du from humanity, and Qin Xuan severed his final karmic connection, leaving Xuan Du terrified of what he had become.

• Hongjun sent Sage Power to break Qin Xuan’s fortune seal on Xuan Du, but Qin Xuan countered with the Pangu True Body.
• Qin Xuan invoked the Kongtong Seal and declared that Xuan Du had betrayed humanity and would lose its fortune.
• Laozi tried to stop Qin Xuan but was flung into Shouyang Mountain, while the Kongtong Seal stripped Xuan Du of his connection to humanity.
• Nüwa declared Xuan Du no longer human, and Qin Xuan used the Law of Karma to sever his last tie to humanity.
• Xuan Du realized he was no longer human and asked in terror what he was.