Chapter Summaries

An unseen figure planted a seal in the Fusang Tree as the Demon and Wu Clans prepared for war. Meanwhile, Niu Ben waited for Cangjie to approach, then challenged the youth to prove his perseverance if he wished to become his disciple.

• An indistinct figure slipped into the Sun Star and planted a hidden seal in the Fusang Tree while the Ten Little Golden Crows played nearby.
• The Demon Clan accelerated its forging of the Slaying Witch Weapon, while the Wu Clan focused on helping Chiyou become an Ancestor Witch and the Human Race recovered from war.
• Niu Ben spent more than ten years watching Cangjie grow after discovering that the Human Race's Ancestor of Literature had been born.
• Cangjie approached Niu Ben and asked whether he was an immortal, and Niu Ben confirmed that he was.
• Cangjie knelt and asked to become Niu Ben's disciple, but Niu Ben said he would need to prove his perseverance and closed his eyes again.

Cangjie persisted for three years in seeking Niu Ben as his master, and Niu Ben finally took him traveling through Human settlements and the wilderness to learn by observing the world. Their journey drew the attention and speculation of Huang Tian, the Three Pure Ones, and Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Cangjie continued visiting Niu Ben each day and observing the world beneath the ancient tree, despite mockery from his fellow Humans.
• After three years, Niu Ben acknowledged Cangjie's perseverance and took him away to explore the mortal world.
• Niu Ben guided Cangjie through Human settlements and natural landscapes, encouraging him to record what he observed with symbols.
• Huang Tian noticed Niu Ben traveling with Cangjie and wondered whether the youth would become his junior disciple brother.
• The Three Pure Ones and the great powers speculated about Niu Ben's purpose, while Jieyin and Zhunti decided to wait and see.

After ten years of traveling through the Human Race with Niu Ben, Cangjie described his insight into the forms and principles of all things but could not grasp how to depict them. Niu Ben revealed his identity, formally accepted Cangjie as his third Personal Disciple, and began explaining the Human Race’s need for a shared way to preserve knowledge, clearing the obstacle to Cangjie’s breakthrough.

• Niu Ben and Cangjie reached a surging river after traveling through the Human Race for ten years.
• Niu Ben asked Cangjie what he had learned, and Cangjie explained that he sensed the patterns of all things but could not grasp how to depict them.
• Niu Ben revealed that he was the First Disciple of the Three Pure Ones, the Human Emperor’s teacher, and the founder of the Human Race’s Martial Dao.
• Niu Ben formally accepted Cangjie as his third Personal Disciple, and Cangjie bowed to him as Master.
• Niu Ben explained that the Human Race lacked an effective, consistent way to record and pass down knowledge, and his words made the mist blocking Cangjie’s insight seem to dissipate.

Niu Ben’s mention of written characters awakened Cangjie’s accumulated insights, triggering extraordinary phenomena across the Primordial Wilderness. The great powers mistook the event for Huang Tian or another Human Race figure nearing Sainthood, while the Saints identified Cangjie as its source.

• Niu Ben explained to Cangjie that the Human Race needed unified written characters to record language, express things, and pass knowledge down through generations.
• Cangjie heard Niu Ben name written characters, broke through his mental barrier, and released a powerful will of civilization and wisdom.
• Original Characters appeared around Cangjie as fortune, violet qi, golden lotuses, and other auspicious signs filled the Primordial Wilderness.
• The great powers traced the phenomena to the Human Race but could not identify Cangjie, and many suspected Human Emperor Huang Tian was about to become a Saint.
• The Ancestor Witches welcomed the possibility of a Human Race Saint, while Di Jun restrained the alarmed Demon Clan leaders.
• At Penglai Immortal Island, Primordial Heavenly Lord and Tongtian recognized that Cangjie had caused the phenomena and wondered about his connection to Niu Ben.

Cangjie created Written Characters for the Human Race with Niu Ben present, earning vast Heavenly Dao Merit and a Merit Lingbao. The chapter ended as powerful beings witnessed the Merit descend but dared not claim it because Niu Ben was there.

• Taishang, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti sensed an immense phenomenon and recognized Niu Ben’s involvement, with Zhunti growing angry and Jieyin lamenting that the Merit would not descend upon the West.
• Cangjie rose into the air, declared that he would create Written Characters for the Human Race, and received the people’s grateful aspirations.
• Cangjie summoned the Brush of Civilization, a Merit Lingbao, and wrote characters such as “man,” “heaven,” “earth,” “fire,” and “thunder,” each revealing its Dao resonance.
• After Cangjie finished writing, a vast Golden Cloud of Merit descended and enveloped him.
• Countless mighty experts marveled at Cangjie’s Merit but refrained from seizing it because Niu Ben was present.

After guiding Cangjie through the creation of characters, Niu Ben returned to Penglai Immortal Island and prepared to use his new Mysterious Lottery Chance. Cangjie became the Human Race’s Literary Ancestor, while Niu Ben remained just short of attaining the Dao of Primordial Chaos.

• Cangjie received Merit for creating characters, rose to the perfected Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, and thanked Niu Ben for his guidance.
• Huang Tian arrived, and Niu Ben introduced Cangjie as his third junior disciple brother before telling Huang Tian to take him to the Human Ancestral Land.
• Niu Ben left Cangjie to follow his own path and returned to Penglai Immortal Island, where he met Taishang, Primordial Heavenly Lord, and Tongtian Saint.
• Huang Tian issued a decree naming Cangjie the Human Race’s Literary Ancestor, with status equal to the Three Ancestors.
• Niu Ben returned to his cave abode and told the system to begin the Mysterious Lottery.

Niu Ben won a genuine drop of Pangu’s Essence Blood and left Penglai Immortal Island to return to the Underworld. Inspired by Cangjie’s merit for creating characters, Kunpeng decided to create written characters for the Demon Clan and headed to the Demon Heavenly Court to borrow something.

• Niu Ben saw the lottery rewards, including an imitation Pangu Axe, a Saint Pill, a divine medicine, and Pangu’s Essence Blood.
• Niu Ben spun the lottery wheel and won one genuine drop of Pangu’s Essence Blood.
• Niu Ben planned to use the blood to temper his body and pursue the Great Dao of Strength, then left to oversee the Underworld.
• Kunpeng reflected on the merit Cangjie gained by creating characters and resolved to create written characters for the Demon Clan.
• Kunpeng looked toward the Demon Heavenly Court and flew there to borrow something.

Di Jun lent Kunpeng the River Diagram and Luo Script, which Kunpeng used to begin deducing Demon Script. Niu Ben returned to the Underworld and entered seclusion, leaving its affairs to the Five Ghost Emperors as Golden Spirit Holy Mother suspected he was seeking to become a Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

• Di Jun brooded over Niu Ben’s share of Cangjie’s Merit and resolved that his own Sub-Saint cultivation would let him suppress Niu Ben.
• Kunpeng asked Di Jun to lend him the River Diagram and Luo Script so he could advance his cultivation technique, and Di Jun agreed.
• Kunpeng began using the treasures and stellar power to deduce written symbols that embodied the Demon Clan’s Origin Essence.
• Niu Ben summoned the Five Ghost Emperors and told them to manage the Underworld together while he entered seclusion, asking them not to disturb him except in crucial matters.
• Xuandu and True Man Huang Long wondered whether Niu Ben sought Sainthood, while Golden Spirit Holy Mother suspected he intended to forge another path to the Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

Niu Ben entrusted the Underworld to Empress Pingxin and entered seclusion there to pursue the Hunyuan Dao Fruit. He used all thirty-six Sea Calming Divine Pearls to create a Great Thousand World and entered it to cultivate.

• Niu Ben told Chijingzi and the others to manage the Underworld while he entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Sainthood.
• Niu Ben asked Empress Pingxin to guard the Underworld during his seclusion, and she agreed.
• After Niu Ben left, Pingxin wondered why she felt an uncontrollable emotion whenever she faced him.
• Niu Ben chose a secluded cultivation site in the Underworld to avoid interference from the Heavenly Dao.
• Niu Ben assembled the thirty-six Sea Calming Divine Pearls and used their power to form a Great Thousand World.
• Niu Ben entered the Great Thousand World to cultivate.

Kunpeng used the River Diagram and Luo Script to create Demon Script, seeking Heavenly Dao merit by giving the Demon Clan a unified written language. After his declaration swept across the Primordial Wilderness, the chapter left his creation before the Heavenly Dao’s judgment.

• Niu Ben began refining the drop of Pangu’s Essence Blood in the Great Thousand World of Chaos.
• Kunpeng used the River Diagram and Luo Script to combine his deductions into 365 Demon Script characters.
• Kunpeng’s creation released a vast aura across the Demon Race Heavenly Realm, alarming Di Jun and countless Demon Clan beings.
• Great powers across the Primordial Wilderness sensed Kunpeng’s aura and wondered whether he was about to prove Dao.
• Zhen Yuanzi saw Kunpeng’s manifestation in the void and recalled his grudge over Hong Yun’s death.
• Kunpeng declared before the Heavenly Dao that he had created Demon Script to record the Demon Clan’s powers and history and unify its civilization.

Kunpeng created the Demon Script with Di Jun’s River Diagram and Luo Script, earning Heavenly Merit and advancing to the Sub-Saint Level. Di Jun resented Kunpeng for taking most of the credit, and Taiyi urged him to rob Kunpeng and seize his Merit.

• Kunpeng created the Demon Script and received a vast amount of Heavenly Merit, advancing from the Quasi-Saint Level to the Sub-Saint Level.
• Di Jun received a small share of Merit for lending Kunpeng the River Diagram and Luo Script, but regretted not creating the Demon Script himself.
• Taiyi arrived and learned that Kunpeng had borrowed Di Jun’s treasure to create the Demon Script.
• Taiyi proposed that Di Jun rob Kunpeng and take the Merit he had earned.

After Kunpeng created Demon Script and reached the Sub-Saint Realm, Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi demanded most of his Merit for the Demon Clan. Kunpeng refused, and they surrounded him in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, leaving him trapped before an imminent confrontation.

• Di Jun agreed with Emperor Taiyi that Kunpeng should surrender the Merit he had earned.
• Zhen Yuanzi resolved to grow stronger so he could avenge his second brother, while Huang Tian and Cangjie worried that the Demon Clan's growing power threatened the Human Race.
• Kunpeng returned the River Diagram and Luo Script to Di Jun and declared that he aspired to the Demon Emperor Throne.
• Emperor Taiyi demanded that Kunpeng hand over most of his Merit to benefit the Demon Clan, but Kunpeng refused.
• Emperor Taiyi summoned Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, Fei Lian, and Shang Yang, and they joined Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi in surrounding Kunpeng.

Kunpeng refused to surrender the Merit he earned for creating the Demon Script, so Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi sent the Four Demon Gods to seize it. Kunpeng fought them to a standstill and began to suppress them, while observers across the Primordial Wilderness suspected the Demon Heavenly Court had turned against him for his Merit.

• Kunpeng accused Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi of plotting to take his Merit, and Di Jun claimed his River Diagram and Luo Script had helped create the Demon Script.
• Emperor Taiyi ordered Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, Fei Lian, and Shang Yang to attack Kunpeng, who used his Sub-Saint strength to repel their abilities.
• Kunpeng and the Four Demon Gods fought from Lingxiao Treasure Hall into the void, where Kunpeng held his own against all four.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Ancestor Minghe, Huang Tian, Cangjie, the Ancestral Witches, and Saint Nuwa sensed the battle, and several suspected Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi wanted Kunpeng's Merit.

Kunpeng overwhelmed the Four Demon Gods but struggled against Emperor Taiyi and the Eastern Emperor Bell. As Taiyi’s bell expanded to cover the sky and trap Kunpeng’s true form, the battle remained unresolved.

• Saint Nuwa concluded that the Demon Clan’s Four Demon Gods had joined forces against Kunpeng because of his Merit.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian discussed the Demon Clan’s internal conflict, while Zhunti and Jieyin saw it as an opportunity to convert Kunpeng to the West.
• Niu Ben refined a drop of Pangu’s Essence Blood inside the Great Thousand World formed from the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Kunpeng defeated Fei Lian, Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, and Shang Yang, then faced Emperor Taiyi, who attacked him with the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Taiyi’s bell shattered Kunpeng’s mana halberd, battered away the Demon Master Palace, and injured Kunpeng before expanding over his true form.

Emperor Taiyi used the Eastern Emperor Bell to defeat and pin down Kunpeng, while Di Jun demanded the Merit Kunpeng had earned for creating Demon Script. Kunpeng surrendered it to save his life, then fled with his cultivation foundation damaged.

• Kunpeng charged at the Eastern Emperor Bell, but Emperor Taiyi struck him with its sound waves and forced him back into human form.
• Emperor Taiyi repeatedly attacked Kunpeng with the bell, then suppressed him until he fell to his knees.
• Di Jun stopped Emperor Taiyi and demanded that Kunpeng hand over his Merit for the Demon Clan's future Fortune.
• Kunpeng reluctantly surrendered the Merit, and Emperor Taiyi released the suppression.
• Di Jun collected the Merit as Kunpeng fled, weakened and with his foundation damaged.

Di Jun gave Kunpeng’s seized Power of Merit to Emperor Taiyi, who expected it to help him reach the Sub-Saint realm. After Kunpeng went to the Western Realm at Zhunti’s invitation, Di Jun suspected he might betray the Demon Clan, and Kunpeng arrived at Mount Sumeru to meet Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Di Jun stopped Emperor Taiyi from pursuing Kunpeng and gave him the Power of Merit for his breakthrough.
• Kunpeng returned to his North Sea Dao Field, cursed Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi, and lamented that he could not defeat them.
• Kasyapa invited Kunpeng to the Western Realm on Zhunti’s behalf, and Kunpeng accepted, wary of the Demon Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun learned that Kunpeng was heading west and suspected he planned to betray the Demon Clan, while Emperor Taiyi regretted not killing him.
• Kasyapa brought Kunpeng to Mount Sumeru, where Kunpeng greeted Jieyin and Zhunti, and Zhunti expressed sympathy for his misfortune.

Zhunti and Jieyin urged Kunpeng to leave the Demon Clan and join the Western Teachings, offering him the Position of Third Buddha and their protection. Convinced the Demon Clan's fortune was running out, Kunpeng accepted their offer.

• Zhunti praised Kunpeng's talents and invited him to spread the Western Teachings' dharma.
• Jieyin offered Kunpeng the Position of Third Buddha, high status, and access to the Western Teachings' resources and secret arts.
• Kunpeng hesitated over abandoning the Demon Clan, while Zhunti promised the Western Teachings would protect him from Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Jieyin hinted that the Demon Clan's destiny was nearing its end, prompting Kunpeng to reconsider his allegiance.
• Kunpeng bowed to Jieyin and Zhunti and agreed to join the Western Teachings.

Kunpeng left the Demon Clan and joined the Western Teachings, severing his ties with the Demon Clan and shifting Fortune between the two factions. Enraged, Di Jun sent an army to destroy Northern Darkness Palace, while the Wu Clan watched the force descend and saw it head for the North Sea instead of their territory.

• Kunpeng returned to Northern Darkness Palace and publicly renounced the Demon Clan, declaring his refuge in the Western Teachings.
• Kunpeng's departure severed his Fortune bond with the Demon Clan and boosted the Western Teachings' Fortune, shocking powers across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun condemned Kunpeng's betrayal and ordered the Ten Demon Gods to lead one hundred thousand soldiers to destroy Northern Darkness Palace.
• Di Jun assembled the army and declared that he would execute Kunpeng and restore order to the Demon Clan.
• The Ancestral Witches worried the descending Demon Army might attack them while Chiyou refined Houtu's Ancestor Witch Essence Blood.
• The Demon Army bypassed the Wu Clan's territory and headed straight for the North Sea.

The Wu Clan and the Primordial Wilderness powers watched as Di Jun led the Demon Army toward Northern Darkness Palace to punish Kunpeng for leaving the Demon Clan. Kunpeng gathered his followers to face the invasion, but with Di Jun, Emperor Taiyi, and the Ten Demon Gods present, he feared the Western Teachings might not come to his aid.

• Ju Mang and Zhu Rong urged Dijiang to exploit the Demon Clan’s turmoil, but Dijiang refused and ordered the Wu Clan to wait.
• The Primordial Wilderness powers discussed the Demon Army’s attack on Kunpeng, while Zhen Yuanzi celebrated the threat to the man he blamed for Hong Yun’s death.
• Kunpeng sensed the Demon Army approaching Northern Darkness Palace and gathered his followers above the North Sea.
• Kunpeng told his warriors that the Western Teachings would protect them, then faced Di Jun, Emperor Taiyi, and the Ten Demon Gods as they arrived.

Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi led the Demon Clan in an assault on Kunpeng and the Northern Darkness forces, trapping them in the Great Formation of the Stars of the Heavens. As Emperor Taiyi prepared to kill the badly wounded Kunpeng with the Eastern Emperor Bell, Saint Zhunti appeared and shattered the bell’s Mysterious Yellow Qi.

• Di Jun ordered the Demon Clan to attack, and Kunpeng led the Northern Darkness demons into battle.
• Emperor Taiyi activated the Great Formation of the Stars of the Heavens, surrounding Northern Darkness with stellar power and devastating its forces.
• The Ten Demon Gods attacked Kunpeng, who fought back in his true form but was wounded and gradually weakened.
• Emperor Taiyi brought out the Eastern Emperor Bell and enveloped Kunpeng in Mysterious Yellow Qi as he prepared to kill him.
• Saint Zhunti appeared in Buddha Light and shattered the Mysterious Yellow Qi surrounding Kunpeng.