Chapter Summaries

After Niu Ben erased the Heavenly Dao’s pressure, Huang Tian asked for his support in helping the Human Race establish its Dao. Niu Ben agreed, received a Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill from the system, and withdrew to his private Dao Field to prepare for a breakthrough into the Heavenly Dao Realm.

• Niu Ben casually erased the Heavenly Dao pressure, shocking the Saints and other powerful beings across the Primordial Wilderness.
• The system offered Niu Ben a choice between aiding the Human Race and receiving a Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill, or refusing and receiving an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Niu Ben chose to support Huang Tian and promised to appear when the Human Race established its Dao.
• Huang Tian thanked Niu Ben and returned to the Human Ancestral Land to prepare.
• Niu Ben entered his private Dao Field, summoned the pill, and prepared to attempt a breakthrough into the Hunyuan Supreme Ultimate Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.

Niu Ben swallowed the Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill and broke through to the Heavenly Dao Realm, triggering his Fourth Ancestral Return. After transforming into a life form beyond the Chaos Demon Gods, he prepared to act on the Human Race’s side.

• Niu Ben swallowed the Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill and endured its immense energy as it reshaped his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Niu Ben shattered the barrier between realms and advanced to the Hunyuan Supreme Ultimate Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, known as the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• The system announced that Niu Ben met the conditions for his Fourth Ancestral Return.
• Niu Ben endured a bloodline transformation that changed his Chaos Azure Ox form into a being whose aura reached beyond chaos and the Great Dao.
• After the Fourth Ancestral Return ended, Niu Ben returned to his Dao Body form and turned his attention toward the Human Race.

Huang Tian returned to the Human Ancestral Land with Niu Ben’s promise to safeguard the human race, then declared that he would establish the Human Path and attain sainthood in a hundred years. Meanwhile, Yang Jian emerged from seclusion and sought permission to travel the Primordial Wilderness, receiving Niu Ba’s approval and warning.

• Huang Tian told the human leaders that Niu Ben had agreed to safeguard their path, prompting their celebration.
• Huang Tian issued a decree that the human race would offer sacrifices at the East Sea Shore in a hundred years and that he would establish the Human Path using Primordial Violet Qi.
• Great Experts across the Primordial Wilderness sensed the decree, while Zhunti reacted with resentment and Ancestor Minghe sharpened Yuantu and Abi.
• Yang Jian emerged from seclusion at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and went to Niu Ben’s Dao Field, but learned that his master was in seclusion.
• Yang Jian told Niu Ba he wanted to travel the Primordial Wilderness to seek opportunities and temper his Dao Heart.
• Niu Ba approved Yang Jian’s journey and began giving him a stern warning.

Yang Jian left the Ox Clan Sacred Land for Guanjiang Mouth, determined to grow stronger and eventually rescue his mother from Peach Mountain. Soon after, Niu Ben appeared before Niu Ba with power beyond the Saints, leaving his father stunned.

• Niu Ba urged Yang Jian to face trouble boldly and promised to avenge him if anyone proved too strong.
• Yang Jian left the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, swore to rescue Yaoji and settle his family's blood debt with Haotian, and headed toward Guanjiang Mouth.
• Niu Ba sensed a terrifying aura above the Ox Clan Sacred Land and prepared to fight, wondering if Dao Ancestor Hongjun had arrived.
• Niu Ben appeared beside Niu Ba, and Niu Ba recognized that his son concealed power surpassing the Saints and the laws of the Primordial Wilderness.

Niu Ben told Niu Ba he had reached the Heavenly Dao Realm, but warned that Hongjun’s fusion with the Heavenly Dao made him far more formidable. Niu Ben also accepted that Yang Jian had left to confront his obsession and gain experience.

• Niu Ben revealed his breakthrough to the Heavenly Dao Realm, and Niu Ba celebrated the power it would bring the Ox Clan.
• Niu Ben warned Niu Ba that the Heavenly Dao Realm was not enough to challenge Hongjun, who had fused with the Primordial Wilderness’s Heavenly Dao.
• Niu Ben reassured Niu Ba that Hongjun generally could not interfere with the greater course of the Primordial Wilderness and urged the Ox Clan to proceed steadily.
• Niu Ba told Niu Ben that Yang Jian had left the mountain to travel, and Niu Ben said he had foreseen the departure and believed Yang Jian needed to face his obsession.

Yang Jian arrived at Guanjiang Mouth and rescued its people from an evil flood dragon and its water demons. After promising to protect his hometown, he faced a new threat descending from the sky.

• Niu Ben warned Niu Ba that Huang Tian planned to establish the Human Path in a hundred years and told him to keep the Ox Clan in its sacred land while Niu Ben dealt with threats.
• An evil flood dragon demanded a hundred people from Guanjiang Mouth and threatened to flood the settlement after rejecting the villagers’ offering of two children.
• Yang Jian arrived at Guanjiang Mouth, endured the flood dragon’s water-arrow attack, and killed it with a single blow of his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd.
• Yang Jian used his Heavenly Eye and heavenly lightning to destroy hundreds of water demons, then reassured the villagers and promised to protect them.
• A powerful presence descended from the sky and accused Yang Jian of killing its subordinates.

Yang Jian fought the Three-Headed Flood Dragon, the Heavenly Court-appointed Water God of Guankou, after it threatened him for killing its nephew. He drew the battle away from civilians, but the dragon struck his ordinary weapon with venom and taunted him for relying on a weapon too weak to match his body.

• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon rose from the river and revealed that the slain black flood dragon had been its nephew.
• Yang Jian accused the Water God of allowing his subordinates to prey on civilians and charged at him.
• Yang Jian cleaved through the dragon’s frost breath and struck its crimson head, but the dragon blocked his halberd with a claw.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon attacked with frost, fire, and poison, so Yang Jian lured it away from the people on shore and fought it over the river.
• Yang Jian’s strikes wounded the dragon’s scales, but the dragon spat venom onto his weapon and mocked its weakness.

Yang Jian defeated the Three-Headed Flood Dragon with his bare hands and Heavenly Eye, then protected the people of Guanjiang Mouth from the resulting flood. The dragon’s corpse transformed into an Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd, which flew to Yang Jian.

• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon broke Yang Jian’s saber, so Yang Jian used Heaven and Earth Manifestation to fight him barehanded.
• Yang Jian battered the Three-Headed Flood Dragon, breaking his scales and tearing off his ice-breathing head.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon charged toward the unarmed people on shore, and Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye and destroyed the dragon’s demon core with its Divine Radiance.
• Yang Jian blocked the flood unleashed by the dragon’s falling corpse and protected the people of Guanjiang Mouth.
• A nine-colored glow refined the Three-Headed Flood Dragon’s corpse into the Innate Spiritual Treasure Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd, which flew to Yang Jian.

Yang Jian slew the flood dragon, received the villagers’ worship, and gained incense fortune that stabilized his Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. Haotian grew furious over Erlang Temple, but Niu Ben warned the Heavenly Court not to interfere as the factions prepared for the coming upheaval surrounding Huang Tian and the human race.

• Yang Jian told the villagers he had slain the flood dragon, revealed his name, and left to grow strong enough to rescue his mother from Peach Mountain.
• The villagers built Erlang Temple in Yang Jian’s honor, and its first incense offering sent human fortune to him, stabilizing his realm and tying him more closely to Guanjiang Mouth.
• Haotian raged at Yang Jian’s temple, but Niu Ben threatened the Heavenly Court, and Venus Star Lord urged Haotian to wait for the Centennial Period.
• Haotian ordered the Heavenly Court’s gods to seal their mountain gates and stay out of the lower realm for a hundred years, while other factions also lay low.
• Huang Tian sensed human fortune gathering at Guanjiang Mouth, praised Yang Jian, and continued refining the Primordial Violet Qi as the coming storm approached.

After Di Yi’s death, Zi Shou ascended the throne as Di Xin and immediately abolished human funerary sacrifices. Meanwhile, Yang Jian decided to leave Guanjiang Mouth to pursue a mysterious opportunity and seek the strength to rescue his mother, leaving a powerful magical incarnation to protect the people.

• Wen Zhong announced Di Yi’s final decree naming Zi Shou the successor, and Zi Shou took the throne as Di Xin.
• Di Xin ordered the abolition of human funerary sacrifices and threatened ministers who opposed him.
• Huang Tian recognized Di Xin’s formidable aura, while Niu Ben anticipated the Investiture Tribulation and resolved to defy the fate of Great Shang.
• Yang Jian judged that he needed to leave Guanjiang Mouth and seek a mysterious summons to break through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Yang Jian placed a rune in the Erlang Temple’s divine statue, giving it an aura matching his Primordial Unity Golden Immortal strength to guard Guanjiang Mouth.

Yang Jian protected Guanjiang Mouth with a powerful avatar and traveled toward Buzhou Mountain, where he encountered a battle between Heavenly Court soldiers and the Demon Race. He watched a formidable white ape turn the tide of the fight, but sensed that the Heavenly Court had not yet revealed its true trump card.

• Yang Jian empowered a divine statue to protect Guanjiang Mouth for a hundred years, then set off for Buzhou Mountain to seek a chance to reach the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Yang Jian sensed Heavenly Court immortals fighting the Demon Race and hurried to the battlefield, where he concealed himself on a peak.
• Yang Jian watched a hundred-zhang white ape wield an iron staff and slaughter Heavenly Soldiers despite having only Golden Immortal cultivation.
• The white ape killed several Heavenly Court commanders, broke through their formation, and inspired the Demon Race warriors to counterattack.
• Yang Jian considered cultivating the white ape but held back because he sensed the Heavenly Court's real trump card had yet to appear.

Divine Might Heavenly General overwhelmed Yuan Hong and prepared to kill him, his six sworn brothers, and the demons around them. Just as the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei faced death, an icy voice interrupted the Heavenly General.

• Divine Might Heavenly General descended and ordered Yuan Hong to kneel and submit to the Heavenly Court.
• Yuan Hong refused and charged Divine Might Heavenly General, but the general struck him down and sent his iron staff flying.
• Yuan Hong’s six sworn brothers rushed to his aid, dug him out of the crater, and vowed to die alongside him.
• Divine Might Heavenly General mocked the brothers and prepared to erase them and the surrounding demons.
• An icy voice condemned the Heavenly Court, startling Divine Might Heavenly General and interrupting his attack.

Yang Jian arrived to save Yuan Hong and the Six Monsters of Mount Mei from the Heavenly Court army, then slaughtered the soldiers after they attacked him. The Divine Might Heavenly General watched his formation collapse as Yang Jian continued his assault.

• Yang Jian appeared above the battlefield and challenged the Divine Might Heavenly General, dismissing the Heavenly Court's authority.
• Yang Jian drew his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd, and the Divine Might Heavenly General ordered the Heavenly Soldiers to form the Heavenly Net Formation.
• Yang Jian shattered the formation with one strike and charged into the Heavenly Soldiers, killing them in droves.
• The Heavenly Soldiers panicked and fled despite the Divine Might Heavenly General's orders, but Yang Jian pursued and killed more than a hundred.
• Yuan Hong watched Yang Jian's rampage and told his brothers that the senior was incredibly fierce.

Yang Jian slaughtered most of the Heavenly Soldiers and defeated the Divine Might Heavenly General in battle. He stood over the helpless general and prepared to strike, dismissing the threat of Haotian’s retaliation.

• Yang Jian killed most of the Heavenly Soldiers, leaving the survivors to flee in terror.
• The Divine Might Heavenly General attacked Yang Jian, but Yang Jian overpowered him and drove him back with a relentless assault.
• The Divine Might Heavenly General used Heaven and Earth Manifestation, but Yang Jian transformed into an even larger giant and smashed him back into his original form.
• Yang Jian approached the badly injured Divine Might Heavenly General, who warned him that the Jade Emperor would take revenge.
• Yang Jian asked whether the general thought he cared about Haotian and raised his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd.

Yang Jian spared the Divine Might Heavenly General after defeating him and declared that he would personally ascend the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and rescue his mother from Peach Mountain. After the Heavenly Court’s troops fled, Yuan Hong and the other six monsters knelt before Yang Jian and pleaded for help, having nowhere else to turn.

• Yang Jian stopped his halberd just short of killing the Divine Might Heavenly General and ordered him to tell Haotian that he would come to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and free his mother from Peach Mountain.
• The Divine Might Heavenly General recognized Yang Jian as Fairy Yunhua’s son and fled with the surviving Heavenly Soldiers.
• Yang Jian watched the troops retreat, intent on making the Heavenly Court fear his return rather than simply killing its general.
• Yuan Hong and the six other monsters recovered from the battlefield’s devastation and realized the Heavenly Court would soon retaliate.
• Yuan Hong and his brothers knelt before Yang Jian, thanked him for saving them, and said they had nowhere left to seek shelter.

Yang Jian accepted Yuan Hong and his six brothers as followers, seeing them as potential allies against the Heavenly Court. After treating their injuries, he revealed that he was the disciple of Niu Ben, astonishing the seven demons.

• Yuan Hong and his six brothers asked Yang Jian to take them in and pledged to follow him against the Heavenly Court.
• Yang Jian considered the demons’ loyalty and their enmity with the Heavenly Court, then agreed to accept them as followers.
• Yang Jian healed the seven demons and told them his name, asking them to call him Second Master.
• Yang Jian revealed that he had studied under Niu Ben, leaving Yuan Hong and the others stunned by their new master's connection to the legendary Saint.

Yang Jian secured the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei as loyal followers and made Mount Mei the first base for his plans against the Heavenly Court. After the Divine Might Heavenly General reported his defeat, Haotian erupted in fury over Yang Jian’s threats.

• Yuan Hong and the other six swore Heavenly Dao oaths to follow Yang Jian after learning he was Saint Niu Ben’s personal disciple.
• The seven monsters explained that they had fought the Heavenly Court after the Divine Might Heavenly General tried to conscript them and seize Mount Mei.
• Yuan Hong declared Yang Jian the lord of Mount Mei, and the little demons bowed to him.
• Yang Jian sat in Mount Mei Cave and resolved to build his first force there as a foothold against the Heavenly Court.
• The Divine Might Heavenly General reported his defeat and Yang Jian’s threats to Haotian in Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Haotian erupted in anger, recalling his earlier humiliation by Niu Ben and condemning Yang Jian for pressing forward.

Haotian ordered a hundred-thousand-strong army to destroy Mount Mei and capture Yang Jian, dismissing warnings about Niu Ben. Niu Ben appeared in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, leaving Haotian terrified and his order unfinished.

• Haotian dismissed Queen Mother of Jade Pool and ordered the Heavenly Court to seize Yang Jian and the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei.
• Venus Star Lord begged Haotian not to provoke Niu Ben, but Haotian kicked him away and declared he would defend the Heavenly Court's honor.
• An aged voice erased Haotian's Saint pressure and stopped him from issuing his decree.
• Niu Ben stepped through warped space into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, suppressing its laws and spiritual energy.
• Haotian recognized Niu Ben, lost his composure, and stammered a greeting to him.

Niu Ben confronted Haotian in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall over his threat against Yang Jian, humiliating the Heavenly Emperor by taking his throne and overpowering him with his presence. Haotian’s private doubts about Niu Ben were exposed, leaving him horrified as the confrontation continued.

• Haotian bowed deeply to Niu Ben, who ignored the salute and sat on Haotian’s dragon throne before the assembled immortals.
• Niu Ben challenged Haotian over his threat to punish Yang Jian, and Haotian claimed the threat had only been a joke.
• Niu Ben repeated Haotian’s order to send an army against Mount Mei and have Yang Jian destroyed, then pinned Haotian in place with his aura.
• Niu Ben quoted Haotian’s unspoken belief that he would not dare oppose the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Dao, leaving Haotian shocked that his thoughts had been read.

Niu Ben cleared the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and isolated it from the Heavenly Dao, leaving Haotian to fear he was about to be attacked. Instead, Niu Ben questioned Haotian’s judgment and challenged his view of Yaoji, whose imprisonment remained a painful stain for him.

• Niu Ben dismissed the immortals and gods from the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, leaving only Haotian with him.
• Niu Ben sealed the hall with a formation that cut it off from the Primordial Heaven and Earth and blocked investigation.
• Haotian braced for Niu Ben to attack, but Niu Ben told him the Heavenly Dao had blinded his eyes.
• Niu Ben asked whether Haotian believed Yaoji deserved death for secretly descending to the mortal world and having children with a mortal.
• Haotian called Yaoji a disgrace to the Heavenly Court and said he had shown mercy by imprisoning her beneath Peach Mountain.