Chapter Summaries

Tongtian acknowledged Xuan Yang’s superior strength after losing their spar, while observers recognized the combat advantage of Chaos Golden Immortals over Quasi-Saints. Ten thousand peaceful years passed, but Nuwa remained stuck at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and grew anxious about her slow progress.

• Tongtian accepted his defeat to Xuan Yang and praised the power of his Solar and Lunar Laws.
• Primordial Wilderness cultivators watched the battle and concluded that Chaos Golden Immortals had a major combat advantage over Quasi-Saints.
• Laozi regretted not taking the path of Chaos, while Yuanshi dismissed Chaos Golden Immortals and resumed comprehending the Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Tongtian returned to Kunlun Mountain to consolidate his cultivation, and Xuan Yang went back to the Sun Star.
• Another ten thousand years passed peacefully as the Witch Tribe grew, the Immortal Court expanded, and the Demon Court maintained strict standards and order.
• Nuwa remained at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and worried that she had not broken through to the Chaos Golden Immortal realm.

Tongtian tried to persuade Laozi to abandon the Three Corpses path and cultivate the Primordial Path, but Laozi hesitated over the cost of severing his bond with Hongjun and destroying his Three Corpses. Xuan Yang agreed to seek a solution, while Heavenly Dao Hongjun discovered the attempt and realized Laozi might leave his control.

• Tongtian explained that the Primordial Path could free Laozi from the Heavenly Path and offer a chance at a higher realm, but Laozi feared repaying Hongjun and destroying his Three Corpses.
• Tongtian stopped pressing Laozi and said he would consult Xuan Yang for a solution.
• Nuwa, Di Jun, and Taiyi told Xuan Yang about their plan to have Tongtian persuade Laozi, and Xuan Yang said he had been considering the same idea.
• Tongtian told Xuan Yang about Laozi's concerns, and Xuan Yang asked him to reassure Laozi while he looked for a concrete solution.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun sensed that Tongtian was trying to recruit Laozi away and began planning how to prevent it.

Xuan Yang visited Grand Pure Laozi at Shouyang Mountain and asked him to refine the Kongtong Seal. After 2,500 years, Grand Pure Laozi produced a seal, but it showed none of the signs of the Supreme Treasure of the Human Race, leaving the refinement a failure.

• The Three Pure Ones had split apart after Grand Pure Laozi sided with Xuan Yang, with Laozi establishing his Dao Field at Shouyang Mountain.
• Xuan Yang arrived at Shouyang Mountain and called for Grand Pure Laozi, who welcomed him into the Eight Views Palace.
• Xuan Yang asked Grand Pure Laozi to refine the Kongtong Seal and explained its uses and materials.
• Grand Pure Laozi spent 2,500 years refining the seal, but it manifested no heavenly phenomenon or Human Race Destiny.
• Grand Pure Laozi awkwardly showed Xuan Yang the unsuccessful seal.

Xuan Yang realized East King Duke might seek merit to offset his Karmic Debt and set out to get ahead of him, though he kept the method secret from the Diary Owners. He went to Five Villages Temple and asked Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun for help.

• East King Duke worried that he lacked enough merit to protect himself from future bouts of qi deviation and searched for a way to gain more.
• Xuan Yang predicted East King Duke would try to use merit to offset his Karmic Debt and decided to block his path first.
• Xuan Yang considered ways to gain merit, then announced that he had remembered a method East King Duke could use but stopped writing before explaining it.
• Nuwa resented Xuan Yang for leaving the Diary Owners hanging again, while Fuxi tried to console her.
• Xuan Yang left the Sun Star for Five Villages Temple and asked Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun to help him with an important matter.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun agreed to help Xuan Yang, saying they would even enter Immortal Volcano or descend into the Sea Eye if needed.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun tried to warn East King Duke that the Demon Race was heading west to repair the Earth Veins for Merit, but East King Duke dismissed every hint. As the Demon Court’s forces approached the West, Zhunti and Jieyin spotted the army and feared they had come to attack them.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun controlled an Immortal Court soldier to tell East King Duke that the Demon Race was marching west, but East King Duke assumed they were targeting Zhunti and Jieyin.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun used the soldier to hint that the Demon Race planned to repair the West’s Earth Veins and gain Merit, but East King Duke rejected the idea and sent him away.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun cursed East King Duke for being too foolish to heed his warnings.
• Laozi pondered Xuan Yang’s intentions while Yuanshi criticized Tongtian for traveling with the Demon Court’s forces.
• Kunpeng and Styx wondered what Xuan Yang was planning as the Demon Court advanced toward the West.
• Zhunti and Jieyin noticed the approaching Demon Court forces and feared they had come to attack them.

Yuanshi refused to join Laozi in repairing the Western Earth Veins, while Laozi went alone and East King Gong led the Immortal Court toward the West to claim merit. Xuan Yang’s allies activated formations that sealed off most of the Western Earth Veins, enraging East King Gong as he approached.

• Yuanshi refused Laozi’s invitation to travel West, so Laozi went alone to repair the Earth Veins.
• East King Gong led the Immortal Court’s immortal soldiers toward the West, while Styx, Kunpeng, and Laozi had already arrived.
• Zhunti and Jieyin lamented East King Gong’s arrival, and Hongyun warned Xuan Yang that the Immortal Court was coming.
• Xuan Yang asked Tongtian and Zhen Yuanzi to carry out their plan, and they activated the Earthly Book Formation and Earth Vein Repair Formation.
• Tongtian and Zhen Yuanzi’s formations sealed off most of the Western Earth Veins, and East King Gong flew into a rage.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun secretly guided East King Duke into planning a war against the Demon Court. East King Duke ordered Immortal Court to seize the Demon Race’s territories and destroy the stars that powered its formation, leaving his forces preparing to act.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun implanted strategies in East King Duke’s mind over a hundred thousand years, leading him to believe that defeating the Demon Court would resolve Immortal Court’s problems.
• East King Duke stirred up resentment against the Demon Race among Immortal Court’s cultivators during their return journey.
• East King Duke persuaded Immortal Court’s high-ranking cultivators to attack while the Demon Race was away in the West.
• East King Duke ordered Immortal Court to seize tribes protected by the Demon Race and dispatch Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin cultivators to destroy the stars powering the Grand Formation of the Stars.
• Immortal Court’s leaders accepted East King Duke’s orders and went to carry them out as he anticipated a surprise attack on the Demon Race.

Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi stopped Zhunti and Jieyin from going to the Immortal Court, only to realize that the two were pretending to be defeated so they could avoid helping. Heavenly Dao Hongjun saw through their act and turned his attention to Laozi and Yuanshi at Kunlun Mountain.

• Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi attacked Zhunti and Jieyin, and Zhen Yuanzi trapped them inside the Earthly Book Formation.
• Zhunti and Jieyin welcomed the beating, claimed they lacked the strength to help, and blamed Hongjun for not giving them more treasures or guidance.
• Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi realized Zhunti and Jieyin wanted to be held back, then reduced their attacks while the brothers continued pretending to be badly hurt.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun saw through Zhunti and Jieyin's performance, called them shameless and unreliable, and looked toward Kunlun Mountain to check on Laozi and Yuanshi.

Xuan Yang gathered the materials needed to help Nuwa attain the Dao and arrived at the Demon Court, while Nuwa, Fuxi, and others waited anxiously. Hongjun discovered Nuwa had reached the peak of Chaos Golden Immortal and feared the Human Path would emerge, but he could not calculate what Xuan Yang was planning.

• Xuan Yang prepared the Innate Gourd Vine, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Universe Cauldron, and Three Lights Divine Water for Nuwa.
• Nuwa sensed Xuan Yang's diary update and learned he was coming to help her attain the Dao, delighting her and Fuxi.
• Diary owners across the Primordial Wilderness, including Houtu, watched the Demon Court as they considered the significance of Nuwa's possible breakthrough.
• Tongtian saw Xuan Yang's plan after Laozi and Yuanshi returned from Purple Cloud Palace, and he privately judged Xuan Yang more reliable than Hongjun.
• Hongjun calculated that Nuwa had reached the peak of Chaos Golden Immortal and feared her success would bring forth the Human Path, but he could not see anything involving Xuan Yang.
• Xuan Yang arrived outside Nuwa's palace at the Demon Court.

Xuan Yang took Nuwa to the East Sea Coast and guided her to create living beings, helping her grasp the Creation Law. After her first attempts to create humans failed, he brought out four prepared treasures, and Hongjun realized the Human Path was about to emerge.

• Xuan Yang visited Nuwa, congratulated her on reaching Peak Golden Immortal of the Origin, and invited her to take a stroll; Fuxi watched them leave the Demon Court.
• Xuan Yang led Nuwa to the East Sea Coast and asked her to demonstrate the Creation Law, prompting her to mold living beings from the soil.
• Nuwa’s creations grew more perfect over a hundred years, but her understanding stalled until Xuan Yang suggested creating beings whose true forms were innate Dao bodies.
• Nuwa molded clay figures to create humans, but her first batch lacked intelligence and cultivation.
• Xuan Yang brought out the Water-Element Gourd, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Innate Gourd Vine, and Universe Cauldron, while Hongjun realized the Human Path was about to emerge.

Xuan Yang considered why the Human Path had declined in the original Primordial Wilderness and blamed Nuwa’s conflicting loyalties and failure to fully protect the Human Race. Nuwa felt ashamed, while Fuxi reassured her that the current circumstances were different and urged her to avoid those mistakes.

• Nuwa and Fuxi discussed helping Xuan Yang develop the Human Race, while Di Jun and Taiyi also prepared to support him.
• Xuan Yang began considering why the Human Path had failed to develop in the original Primordial Wilderness.
• Xuan Yang wrote that Nuwa’s status as a Heavenly Dao Saint and founder of the Demon Race had kept her from wholeheartedly supporting the Human Race.
• Xuan Yang cited Nuwa’s indecision during the Witch Slaying Sword incident, when the Human Race suffered devastating losses to provide blood for the Demon Race’s weapon.
• Nuwa admitted that her actions had contributed to the Human Path’s failure, and Fuxi reassured her that she could avoid repeating those mistakes.

Di Jun and Taiyi guarded the Human Race against Heavenly Dao and Hongjun’s schemes while Xuan Yang remained in seclusion devising cultivation techniques. Laozi began comprehending the Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Nuwa and Fuxi returned to the Primordial Wilderness, leaving the Human Race’s next steps unresolved.

• Di Jun and Taiyi continued monitoring the Human Race while Xuan Yang devised cultivation techniques for them.
• Rumors spread that eating the Human Race could grant innate Dao bodies and Nuwa’s destiny fortune, but Di Jun and Taiyi killed would-be attackers and declared the Human Race under the Demon Race’s protection.
• After learning Laozi had begun comprehending the Hongmeng Purple Qi, Taiyi proposed suppressing him, but Di Jun urged patience and trust in Xuan Yang.
• Nuwa and Fuxi returned to the Primordial Wilderness after establishing Empress Wa’s Heaven and went to the Sun Star to ask Di Jun and Taiyi about the Demon Race and Human Race.
• Nuwa affirmed that she would continue treating Di Jun and Taiyi as friends despite attaining the Dao, and Fuxi redirected their conversation to the matter at hand.

Xuan Yang founded Martial Dao for the Human Race and endured Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s escalating lightning tribulations until the path was accepted by the Primordial World. His success enraged Hongjun, while Laozi and Nuwa each began considering new plans.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun used the Martial Dao tribulation to attack Xuan Yang with increasingly powerful lightning, from the basic tribulation to the Three-Nine and forty-nine Divine Lightning.
• Xuan Yang endured the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning by activating his techniques and laws, then used his Innate Spiritual Treasure Grand Formation and Merit of Creating Humans to survive.
• The dark clouds dispersed, leaving Heavenly Dao Hongjun unable to attack Xuan Yang without cause.
• Laozi watched Xuan Yang’s triumph and began considering a choice that would betray his master’s teachings.
• Di Jun and Taiyi celebrated Xuan Yang’s success and believed Martial Dao’s growth would benefit the Demon Race.
• Nuwa watched Xuan Yang and suddenly came up with a new plan.

After Tongtian attained the Dao, Laozi and Yuanshi sensed his overwhelming strength and struggled to accept that he had surpassed them. Xuan Yang recorded that Tongtian’s breakthrough could undermine Hongjun’s Saint’s Dao and benefit the Demon Race and Human Race, leaving the other Diary Owners stunned by his entry.

• Laozi and Yuanshi probed Tongtian’s cave mansion and realized he had become a Chaotic Origin Golden Immortal.
• Laozi silently admired Tongtian’s aura, while Yuanshi raged that he had expected to be first.
• Cultivators throughout the Primordial Wilderness learned that Tongtian had attained the Dao.
• Xuan Yang used Tongtian’s breakthrough as the subject of his diary, saying it showed the Immortal Way offered better prospects than Hongjun’s Saint’s Dao.
• The other Diary Owners read Xuan Yang’s entry and could no longer contain their reactions.

Zhunti and Jieyin established the Western Sect, made thirty-six great vows, and used the resulting Heavenly Dao Merit to become Saints. Their unconventional success shocked cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness, including Styx, who considered trying the same method.

• Jieyin explained to Zhunti that founding a sect could earn merit even before taking in disciples, and Zhunti proposed making grand vows to gain more.
• Zhunti and Jieyin established the Western Sect and offered the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and twelve-petaled Merit Golden Lotus to stabilize its fortune.
• After the sect’s merit proved insufficient, Zhunti and Jieyin made thirty-six great vows, drawing down enough merit to break through from Quasi-Saint peak and become Saints.
• Styx watched their success and wondered whether he could establish a sect and make vows to attain Dao as well.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun criticized East King Duke for failing to use a similar method and instead taking on karmic debt.
• Xuan Yang picked up his diary on the Sun Star after witnessing Zhunti and Jieyin’s attainment of Dao.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun tried to reassure Grand Pure Laozi and keep him from abandoning the Heavenly Dao, but his vague answers only strengthened Laozi’s interest in the Hunyuan path. Hongjun then summoned Primordial Lord of Heaven, hoping to speak with him instead.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun sent a phantom to Grand Pure Laozi and summoned him to Purple Heaven Palace.
• Grand Pure Laozi asked whether he still had an opportunity to become a Saint, and Hongjun offered only vague assurances and advice to be patient.
• Grand Pure Laozi returned to Kunlun Mountain more eager to pursue the Hunyuan path, while Heavenly Dao Hongjun realized his persuasion had failed.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun sent another phantom to Primordial Lord of Heaven, who greeted his master respectfully and asked why he had come.

Grand Pure Laozi defied Heavenly Dao Hongjun and kept the Taiji Diagram and Hongmeng Purple Qi, following Xuan Yang’s guidance. Hongjun gave up the dispute, then raged in Purple Cloud Palace and vowed to prevent Laozi from attaining the Dao.

• Taiyi and Di Jun recognized Xuan Yang’s influence in Grand Pure Laozi’s defiant reply and welcomed the outcome.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven watched with conflicted feelings, while Tongtian worried that Hongjun would take Laozi’s treasures; Xuan Yang and Nuwa reassured him.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun gave up trying to reclaim the Taiji Diagram and told Grand Pure Laozi to leave.
• Styx and Kunpeng reflected on Laozi’s victory and the damage he had suffered by detonating his Three Corpses.
• Back in Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun smashed a table in fury and vowed that he and Grand Pure Laozi would never coexist and that Laozi would wait many Eons to attain the Dao.

After severing his ties with Hongjun, Grand Pure Laozi returned to Kunlun Mountain and received merit and support from Xuan Yang, Nuwa, and Tongtian. Once he recovered, Xuan Yang advised him to master the Law of Alchemy and advance his cultivation before teaching the Golden Core Great Dao to the Human Race.

• Grand Pure Laozi left the Purple Sky Palace after preserving the Taiji Diagram and returned to Kunlun Mountain, having self-destructed his Three Corpses and fallen to the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Xuan Yang, Nuwa, and Tongtian welcomed Grand Pure Laozi and each gave him merit to heal his injuries and restore his foundation.
• Grand Pure Laozi recuperated for ten thousand years while Xuan Yang discussed the Dao with Nuwa and Tongtian.
• After recovering, Grand Pure Laozi visited Xuan Yang and the others, and Xuan Yang advised him to study the Law of Alchemy and reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm before teaching the Golden Core Great Dao to the Human Race.

Fuxi severed his obsession and reincarnated into the Human Race, while Xuan Yang and Nuwa arranged for Duobao to become his teacher. The chapter ended with Fuxi’s birth beneath a sign of Imperial Purple Qi.

• Fuxi severed his obsession, weakening his cultivation, and entrusted Houtu with the matter of Reincarnation.
• Fuxi successfully reincarnated into the Human Race, and Hou Yi reported the news to Xuan Yang.
• Xuan Yang and Nuwa asked Tongtian to appoint one of his disciples as the Heavenly Emperor’s teacher, and Tongtian chose Duobao.
• Duobao found Fuxi’s household and declared that he had come to teach the Heavenly Emperor and protect the Human Race.
• Fuxi’s mother carried him for three years before giving birth, and Duobao recognized the Imperial Purple Qi surrounding the newborn.

East King Duke agreed to send two thousand Dragon Race members to the Immortal Court in exchange for part of Ancestor Dragon’s Destiny Dao Method, then discovered Di Jun and Taiyi had never offered a competing price. Bound by his Heavenly Dao Oath, he left the Dragon Palace in fury.

• East King Duke tried to lower his price, but Ancestor Dragon insisted on the original deal and threatened to end negotiations.
• East King Duke swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to accept two thousand Dragon Race members in exchange for part of Ancestor Dragon’s Destiny Dao Method.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun sensed the oath in Purple Cloud Palace, cursed East King Duke, and then returned to plotting.
• Ancestor Dragon, Houtu, Di Jun, and Taiyi celebrated the agreement while East King Duke asked what price Di Jun and Taiyi had offered.
• Di Jun and Taiyi revealed they had made no offer and had only sought cultivation guidance from Ancestor Dragon, leaving East King Duke devastated.
• East King Duke, unable to retract his oath, stormed out of the Dragon Palace without saying goodbye.