Chapter Summaries

Niu Ben prepared an independent Innate Blessed Land as a refuge for the Ox Clan and arranged for Fuxi to reincarnate as a human with Empress Pingxin’s help. He entered the new world and swallowed the Cultivation Pill, whose power erupted within him as he began refining it.

• Niu Ben decided that the Ox Clan could use his independent Innate Blessed Land to avoid the coming Tribulation.
• Niu Ben brought Fuxi to Pingxin Palace and asked Empress Pingxin to help Fuxi reincarnate as a human.
• Empress Pingxin opened the Six Paths of Reincarnation and sent Fuxi’s True Spirit through the Human Path.
• Niu Ben entered the Innate Blessed Land, created a Dao Palace, and made preparations for the Ox Clan’s future migration.
• Niu Ben swallowed the Cultivation Pill inside the Blessed Land, and its vast medicinal force erupted within him.

Niu Ben refined the Cultivation Pill while Haotian and Jade Pool rebuilt the ruined Heavenly Court. A newborn human, revealed as Fuxi and the first of the Three Sovereigns, marked the beginning of the Human Race’s destined prosperity.

• Niu Ben entered seclusion to refine the Cultivation Pill, whose power drove his cultivation toward a breakthrough.
• Haotian and Jade Pool descended to the ruined Heavenly Court and began restoring it after surveying the destruction.
• Haotian rebuilt the South Heavenly Gate and Lingxiao Treasure Hall while Jade Pool restored the streets and planted the Peach Root.
• After many years, the Heavenly Court regained some of its former grandeur, and Haotian and Jade Pool pledged to establish order across the Three Realms.
• A river of Human Race Fortune descended upon a newborn infant, and the Heavenly Dao revealed that he was the first of the Three Sovereigns, the Heavenly Emperor.
• Nuwa recognized the newborn as her elder brother Fuxi, while Tongtian remarked to Taishang that the coming age would see the Human Race prosper.

After the Heavenly Dao revealed that the Human Race would flourish and produce the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Saints considered competing to guide them and claim Merit. Niu Ba, Di Jun, and Dijiang each reacted to the news, while the Three Pure Ones and Western Teachings headed toward the Human Race.

• The Three Pure Ones realized they could gain Merit by assisting the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, so Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian left to visit the Human Race.
• Zhunti sensed that one of the Three Sovereigns had already been born and persuaded Jieyin to seek Imperial Teacher positions for Western Teachings.
• Niu Ba wondered why the Human Race would surpass the Ox Clan, but decided to remain with his clan rather than seek Niu Ben in the Underworld.
• Di Jun mocked the Ox Clan for failing to rule Primordial Heaven and Earth and vowed that the Demon Clan would one day return and reclaim what it had lost.
• Dijiang accepted the Human Race's coming rise and said the Wu Clan should focus on strengthening itself.

Niu Ben and Huang Tian learned that the Human Race was entering the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. As all six Saints gathered at the Human Ancestral Land, Huang Tian challenged their right to interfere in Human Race affairs.

• Niu Ben sensed the Heavenly Dao's revelation about Fuxi and anticipated that the Saints would seek the Merit and Fortune of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Huang Tian told Cangjie and the Human Race leaders that the Heavenly Dao had foretold the Human Race's rise, and sensed that one of the Three Sovereigns had descended among a remote tribe.
• Nuwa arrived at the Human Ancestral Land, followed by the Three Pure Ones and then Jieyin and Zhunti, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Huang Tian asked the six Saints why they had come, and Zhunti accused him of pretending not to know their purpose.
• Huang Tian argued that the Saints should not interfere in the Human Race's internal affairs, angering Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti while the Three Pure Ones remained unmoved.

The Saints argued over who could guide the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, until the Eye of Heavenly Dao appeared over Kongtong Mountain and ordered the positions to be shared among different factions. Heavenly Dao assigned Nuwa to protect her brother Fuxi as he attained the Dao, leaving the Two Saints of the West displeased.

• Zhunti and Jieyin argued that Western Teachings should help guide the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, while Nuwa insisted she should protect her reincarnated elder brother Fuxi.
• Nuwa released an icy aura as Zhunti challenged her claim, and Huang Tian sought support from the Three Pure Ones.
• Before Taishang could finish speaking in support of Huang Tian, the Eye of Heavenly Dao appeared over Kongtong Mountain.
• Niu Ben realized Heavenly Dao intended to distribute the Imperial Preceptor positions and dismissed the matter as unimportant to him.
• Heavenly Dao declared that the merits of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors could not belong to one faction and assigned Nuwa to protect Fuxi as he attained the Dao.
• Nuwa accepted Heavenly Dao's arrangement, while the Two Saints of the West turned grim.

Heavenly Dao assigned the Three Pure Ones most of the quotas to educate the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, leaving the Western Teachings only one. After the Saints departed, Huang Tian told Cangjie to wait for Heaven's decree to become clear.

• Heavenly Dao assigned the Three Pure Ones the education of the Earth Emperor, the Human Emperor, and four of the Five Emperors, while the Western Teachings received one Five Emperor quota.
• Jieyin and Zhunti accepted the allocation after Heavenly Dao asked whether anyone objected, despite Zhunti's anger.
• Jieyin asked Taishang to share quotas with the Western Teachings, but Tongtian refused and challenged the Two Saints of the West to a contest of techniques.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Nuwa departed, followed by Jieyin and Zhunti, leaving Huang Tian and Human Tribe leaders at the Human Ancestral Land.
• Cangjie asked Huang Tian what had happened, and Huang Tian told him not to ask and to wait for Heaven's decree to become clear.

The Three Pure Ones summoned the Three Teachings Disciples to Penglai Immortal Island to choose guides for the Human Race’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. When Saint Taishang asked Niu Ben to take part, Niu Ben declined, leaving the selection unresolved.

• Niu Ben returned to Penglai Immortal Island with Xuandu and the other Three Teachings Disciples after the golden bell summoned them.
• Saint Taishang explained that the Heavenly Dao had assigned the Three Teachings to guide the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, with two Sovereign positions and four Emperor quotas for education.
• Xuandu, Guangchengzi, Duobao Daoist, and other disciples volunteered for the opportunity to earn merit.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian left the candidate selection to Saint Taishang, who asked Niu Ben whether he would participate.
• Niu Ben told Saint Taishang that he would not take part.

Niu Ben declined a Three Teachings quota for educating the Human Race’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, so Xuandu, Guangchengzi, and Duobao received the assignments. On his way back to the Netherworld Underworld, Niu Ben was stopped by Niu Ba, who asked him to secure an education quota for the Ox Clan.

• Niu Ben told the Three Pure Ones that he had no time to educate the Human Race and that Heavenly Dao Merit was of little use to him.
• Saint Taishang assigned one education quota each to Xuandu, Guangchengzi, and Duobao.
• The Three Pure Ones dismissed the disciples, who would have to wait until Fuxi proved his Dao before educating the remaining rulers.
• Niu Ben left Penglai Immortal Island but was stopped by his father, Niu Ba.
• Niu Ba asked Niu Ben to persuade the Three Pure Ones to grant the Ox Clan a quota to educate one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

Niu Ben returned to Penglai and secured one of the Three Teachings’ quotas to educate the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors for the Ox Clan. Back in the Underworld, he received Zhen Yuanzi, who came seeking an audience, and greeted him as a fellow Daoist.

• Niu Ben returned to Penglai and asked Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian to grant the Ox Clan a quota to educate the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi agreed, and Taishang awarded the Ox Clan one education quota.
• Niu Ben told Niu Ba that the Ox Clan had received a quota, and Niu Ba returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Niu Ben returned to the Underworld and learned that Zhen Yuanzi had come to see him, suspecting the visit concerned Hong Yun.
• Zhen Yuanzi bowed to Niu Ben, who asked him to address them as fellow Daoists.

Zhen Yuanzi asked Niu Ben to help Hong Yun’s remaining True Spirit reincarnate as a human and become one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Niu Ben chose to help, and the chapter ended before he acted on the request.

• Zhen Yuanzi told Niu Ben that Hong Yun had perished after being besieged and that he had preserved a wisp of Hong Yun’s True Spirit.
• Zhen Yuanzi revealed Hong Yun’s True Spirit and explained that reincarnation and the Human Race’s Fortune could help restore him.
• Zhen Yuanzi pleaded with Niu Ben to send Hong Yun into human reincarnation and help him become one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Niu Ben received a choice mission offering Pangu’s Essence Blood for helping Hong Yun or an Innate Spiritual Treasure for refusing.
• Niu Ben chose to help Hong Yun.

Niu Ben agreed to help Zhen Yuanzi arrange Hong Yun’s reincarnation as one of the Human Race’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and Empress Pingxin took Hong Yun’s True Spirit to nurture it until the proper time. After completing his choice mission, Niu Ben began refining Pangu’s Essence Blood, whose power started transforming his body and soul.

• Niu Ben agreed to help Zhen Yuanzi send Hong Yun’s True Spirit into reincarnation as one of the Human Race’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors when the time was right.
• Niu Ben brought Hong Yun’s True Spirit to Empress Pingxin, who agreed to nurture it with the power of Reincarnation before sending it into the Reincarnation passage.
• Niu Ben returned to Fengdu City and received Pangu’s Essence Blood as his choice mission reward.
• Niu Ben entered his independent Innate Blessed Land and began refining Pangu’s Essence Blood.
• Pangu’s Essence Blood unleashed violent power that scoured Niu Ben’s body and soul, while his Chaos Divine Ox Power began guiding and digesting it.

Niu Ben refined Pangu's Essence Blood as Zhen Yuanzi secured permission for Hong Yun's reincarnation as a human. Huang Tian and Zhen Yuanzi established the Human Emperor Realm, and Saint Nuwa took the young Fuxi as her disciple to prepare him for his future role.

• Niu Ben absorbed Pangu's Essence Blood and gained memories that deepened his understanding of the Dao and World-Creating.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Huang Tian and Cangjie that Niu Ben had approved Hong Yun's reincarnation as a human, and Huang Tian agreed to look after him.
• Huang Tian proposed creating a sacred space for Human Race experts, and Zhen Yuanzi agreed to help establish the Human Emperor Realm.
• Saint Nuwa arrived at the Hua Xu Tribe and asked to take the young Fuxi as her disciple.
• Fuxi agreed to learn from Saint Nuwa, who began teaching him to observe Heaven's way by watching the natural world.

Saint Nuwa guided Fuxi to observe the patterns of nature, and he grew into a Human King before creating the Eight Trigrams. When Fuxi still felt his Dao was incomplete, Nuwa said he lacked something that would let him enter the Dao, then went to the Underworld to seek it.

• Nuwa taught young Fuxi to look beyond appearances and recognize the patterns behind the natural world.
• Fuxi learned to record events, practice divination, and study the heavens, then devised hunting patterns and a calendar as he grew.
• At fifteen, Fuxi created the earliest Eight Trigrams, and by eighteen he had been elected Human King.
• Fuxi traveled widely and completed the Eight Trigrams, but still felt that his Dao was missing one final step.
• Fuxi asked Nuwa what his Dao was, and she told him he lacked the thing that would let him enter the Dao.
• Nuwa left for the Yao Realm and arrived at the Netherworld Underworld, where Niu Ben sensed her while refining Pangu's Essence Blood.

Saint Nuwa entered the Yao Realm to borrow Di Jun’s River Diagram and Luo Script so Fuxi could attain the Dao as a Human Emperor. Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi refused, insisting that Fuxi had left the Demon Clan and was now an outsider.

• Niu Ben granted Saint Nuwa permission to enter the Yao Realm and returned to refining Pangu’s Essence Blood after she departed.
• Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi learned that Saint Nuwa had arrived and suspected she might take another member of the Demon Clan away.
• Di Jun received Saint Nuwa in the Heavenly Court, where she asked to borrow his River Diagram and Luo Script for Fuxi.
• Saint Nuwa explained that Fuxi needed the treasures to attain the Dao, but Di Jun refused, and Emperor Taiyi declared that the Demon Clan had no obligation to help an outsider.

Saint Nuwa borrowed Di Jun’s River Diagram and Luo Script to help Fuxi attain the Dao, agreeing to return them intact and give Di Jun twenty percent of Fuxi’s Merit. Di Jun explained to Emperor Taiyi that the loan would also deepen Nuwa and Fuxi’s ties to the Demon Clan.

• Nuwa offered Di Jun a share of the Merit Fuxi would gain if he lent the River Diagram and Luo Script.
• Emperor Taiyi urged Di Jun not to lend the treasures, but Di Jun agreed and set two conditions: Nuwa had to return them intact and give him twenty percent of Fuxi’s Merit.
• Nuwa accepted Di Jun’s conditions, and Di Jun handed over the River Diagram and Luo Script.
• Nuwa took the treasures and left the Yao Realm.
• Emperor Taiyi questioned Di Jun’s decision, and Di Jun said he expected the loan to bring Merit and strengthen the Demon Clan’s ties with Nuwa and Fuxi.

Di Jun explained that he had sought Merit from Nuwa to help Emperor Taiyi improve his chances of becoming a Saint and aid the Demon Clan’s plans. Nuwa brought the River Diagram and Luo Script to Fuxi, who secluded himself to study them alongside the Eight Trigrams and began deriving the sixty-four hexagrams.

• Di Jun told Emperor Taiyi that the Merit from Nuwa could strengthen his future attempt to Prove Dao and Become a Saint.
• Emperor Taiyi thanked Di Jun and vowed to cultivate so he could help the Demon Clan rise again.
• Nuwa returned to the Huaxu Tribe and gave Fuxi the River Diagram and Luo Script as the essential tools for entering the Dao.
• Fuxi sensed that the treasures were familiar, accepted them, and entered seclusion to study them with the Eight Trigrams.
• Over several years, Fuxi matched the River Diagram’s numbers to the Eight Trigrams and used the Luo Script’s Nine Palaces to deduce the transformations of the sixty-four hexagrams.

Fuxi’s fusion of the River Chart and Luo Book produced a vast heavenly phenomenon, signaling that he was about to prove Dao as the Human Race’s Heavenly Emperor. Saints and great powers watched, anticipating the start of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era.

• Fuxi’s seclusion erupted with Violet Qi as his comprehension of the River Chart and Luo Book reached its final stage.
• The Three Pure Ones watched the phenomenon, and Taishang noted that their disciples Xuandu, Guangchengzi, and Duobao Daoist would assist the coming rulers.
• Nuwa excitedly realized that her brother Fuxi was about to prove Dao and hoped his sealed memories would return.
• Jieyin and Zhunti lamented that the Western Teachings had received only one education quota, while Jieyin urged Zhunti to take things one step at a time.
• Niu Ben recognized that Fuxi’s impending ascension would usher in the Human Race’s era, and Niu Ba eagerly anticipated the Ox Clan’s quota to educate one of the Five Emperors.

Fuxi proved Dao and became the Human Race's Heavenly Emperor after creating the Eight Trigrams, receiving most of the Heavenly Dao Merit. Merit also reached Nuwa and the Yao Realm, where Di Jun gave his share to Emperor Taiyi to aid his path to Sainthood. Niu Ben suspected the Demon Clan still sought to return to the Primordial Wilderness and continued refining Pangu's Essence Blood.

• Niu Ba recalled how Niu Ben had helped him obtain a slot to Educate one of the Five Emperors and eagerly watched Fuxi's impending proof of Dao.
• Fuxi emerged from seclusion, declared that he had created the Eight Trigrams, and announced that he had attained the position of Heavenly Emperor.
• The Heavenly Dao sent Fuxi the largest share of Merit, raising his cultivation to the Quasi-Saint level, while Nuwa received another share for guiding and protecting him.
• The Heavenly Dao sent roughly twenty percent of Fuxi's Merit to the Yao Realm, and Di Jun passed it to Emperor Taiyi to support his hopes of becoming a Saint.
• Niu Ben realized that Nuwa had borrowed the River Diagram and Luo Script from Di Jun for Fuxi and resolved to warn Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi after refining Pangu's Essence Blood.

After helping Fuxi attain the Dao as the Human Race’s first Sovereign, Nuwa watched him take up his duties and eventually abdicate. As signs gathered that the second Sovereign was near, Niu Ben anticipated that Hong Yun’s True Spirit might reincarnate into the Human Race.

• Fuxi awakened his sealed memories, thanked Nuwa for securing his reincarnation, and began ruling the Human Race.
• Fuxi taught the Human Race useful skills and customs, then abdicated after his merit was fulfilled and entered the Human Emperor Realm.
• Violet qi gathered over the Human Race, alerting the Saints and other great powers that the second Sovereign was about to be born.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed the approaching Sovereign and the merits Western Teachings might gain from educating the Five Emperors.
• Niu Ben sensed the change in the Human Race’s fortune and expected Xuandu to assist the new Sovereign and Empress Pingxin to send Hong Yun’s True Spirit into reincarnation.

Pingxin sent Hong Yun’s True Spirit into Human Reincarnation to become the Earth Emperor, while Xuandu named the newborn Shennong and later found him struggling to cure a deadly plague. Shennong vowed to devote his life to saving the world, and Xuandu sent a ray of light into his brow.

• Pingxin sealed Hong Yun’s past memories and sent his True Spirit through the Human Path to be reborn as the Earth Emperor.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Saint Taishang sensed the Human Race’s Fortune shift, and Taishang ordered Xuandu to guide the coming Earth Emperor.
• Xuandu arrived at Shennong’s birth, named him, and promised to protect him while he followed his own path.
• Years later, a terrible plague spread through the mortal world, and Shennong failed to find herbs that could reliably cure it.
• Xuandu asked Shennong if he would devote his life to the suffering world, and Shennong agreed; Xuandu then sent a ray of light into his brow.