Chapter Summaries

Nuwa received the Hongmeng Sacred Sword, and Li Fan and the goddesses discussed its power and the Heavenly Emperor’s authority. They learned that the Dragon Clan possessed a wondrous treasure from Return to Ruins, while Luohu tightened his grip on the imprisoned great powers of the hundred clans in the Demon Realm.

• Nuwa admired the Hongmeng Sacred Sword as Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Ziguang explained its unusual nature and immense power.
• Nuwa, Wangshu, Ziguang, and Taiyuan teased Li Fan about supervising his rule, and Li Fan promised to consult them on major matters.
• Baili hinted that she wanted a better spiritual treasure, and Taiyuan warned that forging a Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure required great fate or special materials.
• Taiyuan revealed that the Dragon Clan had obtained a supreme wondrous object from the Innate Origin released when Return to Ruins erupted after the Longhan Era calamity.
• Wangshu and Xihe recalled how the great powers of the hundred clans intercepted Innate Origins, including Yunxiao’s, before Luohu lured those powers into the Demon Realm.
• The imprisoned clan leaders taunted Luohu about his defeat and seal, so Luohu tightened the chains around their Dao Fruits and silenced them with their screams.

As the Interception Sect’s growing influence sharpened its conflict with the Chan Teachings, Taishang decided the Three Pure Ones could no longer remain together. Tongtian led his disciples away from Kunlun Mountain, leaving Yuanshi alone as Li Fan watched the brothers separate.

• Yuanshi condemned Tongtian’s outer disciples and their preaching among the Human Race, while Tongtian defended the Interception Sect’s principle that all beings could seek the Dao.
• Taishang announced that he would leave Kunlun Mountain, and Tongtian agreed that the brothers’ incompatible ideals made separation necessary.
• Taishang divided Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Imprint between Yuanshi and Tongtian, and the brothers exchanged copies of their imprints before Taishang departed.
• Tongtian ordered all Interception Sect disciples to follow him away from Kunlun Mountain and establish a new Daoist grounds elsewhere.
• Yuanshi remained alone at Jade Void Palace as the Three Pure Ones’ separation shocked the Grand Unity Experts, and Li Fan watched from Grand Unity Palace.

Tongtian sought to establish the Interception Sect’s dao ground in the East Sea, but Ancestor Dragon blocked him and sent him to seek the Heavenly Emperor’s approval. Li Fan forbade the East Sea and ordered Tongtian to choose the South Sea or West Sea instead, leaving Tongtian to accept the ruling unwillingly.

• Tongtian declared his intention to settle the Interception Sect in the East Sea, and Ancestor Dragon barred his disciples from entering because the region guarded the Return to Ruins.
• Tongtian and Ancestor Dragon nearly fought, but Jin Ling stopped Duobao from escalating the conflict and warned of the consequences.
• Tongtian left his disciples at the East Sea Shore and went to Grand Unity Palace to ask Li Fan for permission to establish the sect there.
• Nuwa, Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Ziguang questioned Tongtian’s reasons for choosing the East Sea and criticized his approach to spreading the Dao.
• Li Fan rejected the East Sea as too risky for the Return to Ruins and ordered Tongtian to choose the South Sea or West Sea; Tongtian agreed reluctantly.

Tongtian established the Interception Sect’s ancestral court in the South Sea, while Xihua held the Kunlun Immortal Gathering to restore her standing as Head of Female Immortals. The gathering ended with her title, Queen Mother of the West, resounding throughout the Prehistoric Universe, as she anticipated the dangers of her coming role as Gouchen Shanggong Heavenly Emperor.

• Tongtian made the golden ao Gui Ling a direct disciple and established the Interception Sect’s sacred ground in the South Sea.
• The Blood-Winged Black Mosquito was born in the Blood Sea and began feeding on corpses, evading Jiang Chen with its ability to become billions of forms.
• Xihua invited female immortals to West Kunlun for the first Female Immortal Convention, and Changxi, Xihe, Nine Heavens Xuan Nü, Su Nü, Nüyi, Yaochi, and many others attended.
• Xihua welcomed the guests, offered Kunlun peaches, and gave young female cultivators advice on cultivation.
• The gathering renewed Xihua’s prestige as Head of Female Immortals, and she reflected on the dangers awaiting her as Gouchen Shanggong Heavenly Emperor.

Di Jun endured the Hunyuan body tribulation and entered the River of Fate to pursue his Dao, while Taiyi guarded him and the Ancestral Witches argued over how to stop him. The chapter left Di Jun charging deeper into the river as the Witches remained divided.

• Li Fan and the others sensed Taiyang Star's growing turmoil, while Wangshu and the Purple Light Empress feared Di Jun's attempt would destabilize the stars.
• Di Jun summoned the Hunyuan tribulation and survived its nine Purple Firmament Divine Thunders with the Eastern Emperor Bell, though he was left gravely weakened.
• Di Jun entered the River of Fate, where karmic threads linked his Dao path to Taiyi, the Heavenly Emperor, Xihe, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Li Fan altered a karmic thread toward Xihe, while Taiyi stood guard beneath the River of Fate and warned off anyone who might obstruct Di Jun.
• Di Jun felt some karmic entanglements disappear and charged deeper into the River of Fate, while the Ancestral Witches argued over whether and how to interfere.
• Gonggong left Pangu Hall after the Ancestral Witches failed to agree on a plan.

Di Jun’s attempt to attain the Dao triggered Pangu’s Axe Rectifies All, which restored the Eastern Emperor Bell to the Chaos Bell and drove Di Jun to charge toward Buzhou Mountain. Gonggong then struck Pangu Hall’s foundations and carried the hall away as Zhu Jiuyin warned that Di Jun’s impact was near.

• Gonggong secretly evacuated the Witch Clan tribes and waited at the point where Pangu Hall joined Buzhou Mountain’s origin.
• Di Jun struggled against karmic sin and Fate’s backlash in the River of Fate, and Taiyi used the Eastern Emperor Bell to shield him.
• Pangu’s axe light descended, severed the bell’s ties to Taiyi and the Demon Clan, and restored its original name, Chaos Bell.
• Di Jun burned his Great Sun Dao Fruit and raced toward Buzhou Mountain, while Li Fan contained the flames erupting from Taiyang Star.
• Gonggong struck Pangu Hall’s connection to Buzhou Mountain, lifted the hall onto his back, and left as Zhu Jiuyin warned that Di Jun’s impact was imminent.

Di Jun destroyed himself to bring down Buzhou Mountain, unleashing a catastrophe across the Primordial World. Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu diverted Pangu’s Sky-Opening Axe Light into three thousand Medium Worlds, which advanced into Great Thousand Worlds, while the heavenly waters were contained by the saints.

• Di Jun crashed his Great Sun Dao Fruit into Buzhou Mountain, causing the divine mountain to collapse and the heavens to fall into chaos.
• Dijiang, Xuanming, and the other ancestors emerged from Pangu Hall and found Gonggong as three thousand Medium Worlds burst from the ruins.
• Taiyuan, Empress Ziguang, Taishang, Primordial Lord of Heaven, Sect Leader Tongtian, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Taiyi worked to contain the floods and protect living beings.
• Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu joined forces above Buzhou’s ruins to withstand Pangu’s Sky-Opening Axe Light and guide it toward the scattered worlds.
• Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu forced the axe light into a vortex formed by the three thousand Medium Worlds, transforming them into three thousand Great Thousand Worlds.

Li Fan summoned Tongtian Jianmu to support the collapsing heavens as the Saints tried to seize the Chaos Bell from the River of Fate. Hongjun and Houtu revealed that the bell belonged to the one who could stabilize the world, and it chose Li Fan, who rallied the Saints to repair the heavens.

• Li Fan summoned Tongtian Jianmu, which pierced the vault of heaven and supported the collapsing world, though the strain threatened to overwhelm it.
• Tongtian, Zhunti, and the other Saints rushed to seize the Chaos Bell from the River of Fate while Wangshu, Nuwa, and Empress Ziguang challenged their priorities.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun and Houtu arrived, restrained the Saints' treasures, and declared that the bell's destined owner was the one capable of stabilizing the Prehistoric Universe.
• Houtu explained the Chaos Bell's purpose, and it broke free from the Heavenly Dao chains and flew to Li Fan, helping heal cracks in the heavens.
• Li Fan took the Chaos Bell to the peak of Tongtian Jianmu and called on the Saints to repair the heavens; Tongtian agreed to slay the Black Tortoise for its limbs.

After the Black Tortoise accepted its fate and Sect Leader Tongtian severed its four limbs, Li Fan coordinated Nuwa, the Saints, and the Divine Lords to mend the heavens and restore the Prehistoric Universe. The repair succeeded, the contributors received Heavenly Dao merit, and Nuwa sent one five-colored stone toward an East Sea ancestral vein.

• Li Fan sent the Black Tortoise a message explaining that it could preserve its primordial spirit by surrendering its limbs, and the Black Tortoise sealed its Dao Fruit and fell into a deep slumber.
• Sect Leader Tongtian severed the Black Tortoise's four limbs and collected them to reinforce the four poles of Heaven and Earth.
• Li Fan ordered the goddesses to gather materials, and Nuwa refined them into five-colored stones with help from Goddess Taiyuan.
• The Four Divine Lords used the Black Tortoise's limbs to stabilize the four poles as Nuwa, the Saints, and Houtu repaired the sky and restored the land.
• Li Fan declared the heavens mended and ordered the Saints to safeguard the cosmic order; the Heavenly Dao manifested and distributed merit among those who had contributed.
• Nuwa received the largest share of merit and threw a five-colored stone toward an East Sea ancestral vein, drawing Zhunti's attention.

After the World Calamity, the Saints judged Gonggong for his part in Buzhou Mountain’s collapse, and Li Fan arranged for him to be sealed in the Sea Eye of the Four Seas. As the reckoning ended, Li Fan declared that the Upper Ancient Era had come to an end.

• Houtu summoned Gonggong while the Saints debated whether he should die for his role in Buzhou Mountain’s collapse.
• Taiyi called for Gonggong’s death, while Primordial Lord of Heaven argued that his punishment belonged to Pangu’s Orthodox Lineage.
• Li Fan proposed that Gonggong be permanently suppressed in the Sea Eye of the Four Seas to guard the Return to Ruins and stabilize the Water Veins.
• Houtu accepted the punishment, and Li Fan sealed Gonggong’s divine power and sent him to the Sea Eye.
• Ancestor Dragon bound Gonggong with black water and profound ice, while the Saints departed and Houtu returned to the Underworld.
• Li Fan looked across the Sea of Clouds and announced that the Upper Ancient Era had ended.

As the Middle Ancient Era began and spiritual qi grew unstable, Hongjun sent Haotian to retrieve the Ten Thousand Immortals Array while Li Fan and Nuwa discussed the Human Race’s coming struggles and the growing flood crisis. Haotian secured the array from Taiyi by promising the Demon Clan a peaceful home in Heaven, then hurried back to Purple Heaven Palace.

• Hongjun postponed Haotian’s succession to the Western Extreme position and ordered him to retrieve the Ten Thousand Immortals Array from Taiyi.
• Li Fan told Nuwa that Hongjun and Taishang would act in the contest over the Human Race, and urged Nuwa to make her move soon.
• Li Fan explained that the rising Four Seas and the intensifying influence of the Return to Ruins threatened a catastrophic flood across the Primordial World.
• Haotian met Taiyi in the far north, where Taiyi agreed to hand over the Ten Thousand Immortals Array if Haotian swore to let the Demon Clan enter Heaven and live in peace.
• Haotian made the oath, received the array from Taiyi, and hurried back toward Purple Heaven Palace.

Nuwa severed karma with the Hongmeng Sacred Sword and attained the Hunyuan Dao through the combined resonance of the Heavenly Dao and Humanity Dao. As the Human Realm manifested, Li Fan summoned the Saints to Grand Unity Palace, where their deliberations over the changing Primordial World Pattern were about to begin.

• Nuwa used the Hongmeng Sacred Sword to sever the Threads of Karma and advanced along the River of Fate with the aid of her three treasures.
• Nuwa attained the Hunyuan Dao as the Heavenly Dao and Humanity Dao answered her, while humanity’s three ancestors and beings across the universe celebrated.
• The Human Realm appeared again, prompting Li Fan to summon the Saints to Grand Unity Palace.
• Taishang, Primordial Lord of Heaven, Zhunti, Jieyin, Tongtian, and Taiyi set out for the gathering as Zhen Yuanzi wondered who would claim the Humanity Dao Saint Positions.
• Nuwa received congratulations from Li Fan and the other women in Grand Unity Palace as the Saints’ auras approached.

Li Fan gathered the Saints to establish rules for the rising Humanity Dao, but Taishang’s bid to promote the Kongtong Seal sparked a dispute. The meeting accepted Hongjun’s compromise and Li Fan’s restriction on Saint disciples, leaving the selection of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors as the next question.

• Li Fan summoned the Saints to discuss the Human Realm and the Humanity Dao, while Three Corpses Hongjun proposed that the Three Emperors govern and the Five Emperors establish order.
• Taishang promoted the Kongtong Seal as a treasure that could safeguard the human race’s fortune, but Goddess Wangshu and Goddess Taiyuan accused him of seeking merit and influence.
• Li Fan presented the Hongmeng Sacred Sword as a Humanity Dao sacred artifact, and Hongjun proposed placing the Kongtong Seal in the Human Ancestral Land while the sword served as the Humanity Dao’s final arbiter.
• Li Fan and Nuwa declared that the Humanity Dao had twelve Saints, that the Three Emperors and Five Emperors were separate from those Saints, and that holding one of those positions did not guarantee sainthood.
• Li Fan accepted Hongjun’s proposal but ruled that Saint disciples could assist the human race without interfering in its affairs, and the Saints accepted the rule.

Li Fan and Nuwa defended the Human Race’s right to choose its own Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, setting rules for reincarnated All Grand Unity Experts. After the saints left, Li Fan proposed that Nuwa help Wulong Clan become a Human Dao Saint, setting the plan in motion.

• Nuwa, Taishang, and Li Fan argued that the Human Race should determine its own rulers, while Tongtian and Zhunti advocated for reincarnated All Grand Unity Experts to assist it.
• Three Corpses Hongjun suggested a Heavenly Dao oath restricting reincarnated experts, but Wangshu and Taiyuan rejected the compromise and Ziguang warned that saints could scheme from outside the rules.
• Li Fan required contenders to use the Supreme Hongmeng Dao of Reincarnation and declared that Humanity Dao would judge merit based on each side’s achievements.
• The saints departed after Li Fan ended the meeting, leaving the Human Race to choose its own path.
• Li Fan proposed that Nuwa help Wulong Clan, ancestor of the Five-Colored Human Race, become a Human Dao Saint, and Nuwa agreed.

Nuwa gave Wulong Clan an opportunity to become a Human Dao Saint as the Saints’ disciples struggled to teach the human race. Xihua accepted the position of Emperor Gouchen and prepared to take up the post amid the coming conflict.

• Nuwa bestowed Human Emperor aura on Wulong Clan, setting him on the path to becoming a Human Dao Saint.
• Chan Teachings, the Interception Sect, and Western Teachings failed to help the human race, while Li Fan and the goddesses discussed how Human Dao Saints differed from other Saints.
• Nüyi reported that preparations for Emperor Gouchen’s handover were complete, but Xihua worried that the position would draw her into conflict.
• Li Fan urged Xihua to face the challenge, and she accepted the position of Emperor Gouchen and vowed to uphold order in the Northern Xuan Tian Domain.
• Li Fan scheduled the handover for one hundred thousand years later and ordered Nüyi to invite the other Heavenly Emperors and Grand Unity Experts.
• Xihua left with Nuwa to learn about the Xuantian Realm and its powers before assuming her new role.

Xihua succeeded Nuwa as Gouchen Shanggong Heavenly Emperor and vowed to wield the Heavenly Realm’s arms and punishment. Li Fan, Nuwa, and their allies chose Fuxi to undergo the Reincarnation Hongmeng Dao, and Fuxi prepared to face the opportunity despite recognizing their scheme.

• Xihua accepted Nuwa’s Mysterious Jade Imperial Seal and became Gouchen Shanggong Heavenly Emperor, declaring that she would maintain balance and carry out punishment by arms.
• Li Fan formally recognized Xihua’s succession, while the assembled gods and immortals congratulated her.
• Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng speculated that Xihua’s oath concerned the Dao of Thunder and the Innate Divine Path Authority left behind by Leize.
• Houtu asked Li Fan about activating the Reincarnation Hongmeng Dao, and Nuwa proposed Fuxi as its candidate.
• Nuwa, Li Fan, and their companions decided to wait for Fuxi in the Underworld as he sensed their plot and resolved to pursue the opportunity.
• Fuxi summoned an embryonic Innate Eight Trigrams diagram and merged its eight trigrams with the vital energy of heaven and earth.

Li Fan and the others gathered in the Underworld to send Fuxi through reincarnation, teasing him before carrying out the solemn ritual. Fuxi’s memories and Grand Unity Dao Fruit were sealed as his soul headed toward the human race, leaving Nuwa to hope he would return soon.

• Xuanming prepared the altar, and Fuxi arrived after receiving Nuwa’s summons.
• Nuwa offered Fuxi Meng Po’s Soup, while Xuanming suggested he soak in the Spirit Vat, prompting the gathered gods to tease him.
• Li Fan warned Fuxi that he must reach the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm to awaken his sealed memories and restore his Grand Unity Dao Fruit.
• Houtu opened the Reincarnation Hongmeng Dao, and Li Fan and Nuwa infused the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk with the power of their Hongmeng treasures.
• Fuxi entered the Reincarnation Hongmeng Dao, which sealed his memories and Dao Fruit and guided his soul toward the human race.
• After Fuxi’s reincarnation succeeded, Nuwa said she hoped he would return soon.

Huaxu became pregnant after stepping into Leize’s ancient footprint, setting Fuxi’s birth and the human race’s rise in motion. As Taishang sent Xuandu to protect the child, Huang Tian faced an impending challenge for his heavenly domain.

• Huaxu stepped into Leize’s lightning-marked footprint, and its Heavenly Dao aura entered her body as Ziwei Star shone brightly.
• Taishang sent Xuandu with the Kongtong Seal and Taiji Diagram to find the destined bearer, while the Saints planned the human race’s first battle against Huang Tian.
• Huang Tian watched the Taiping Divine Kingdom and judged that attempting a breakthrough to Hunyuan Grand Unity would likely end in failure.
• Huaxu’s father, Suiming Clan, brought her to a mountain priest, who declared that her pregnancy was an auspicious sign of a Sacred Being’s reincarnation.
• Xuandu arrived and pledged to protect Huaxu’s unborn child, while the priest agreed to help and guard the child’s path.

Fuxi was born with extraordinary gifts, learned Nuwa’s cultivation inheritance, and helped the human race flourish through wise guidance and social reforms. Meanwhile, Li Fan and the goddesses considered how to strengthen a thunder pool enough to judge powerful cultivators, and Li Fan proposed using Dutian Divine Thunder.

• Huaxu gave birth to Fuxi after twelve years of pregnancy, and Fuxi could speak and walk as soon as he was born.
• Suiren Shi passed Nuwa’s Quasi-Saint inheritance to Fuxi, who quickly understood it and broke through to the Golden Immortal realm.
• Fuxi advised the Fengyan Tribe, taught Huaxu to cultivate, and promoted marriage outside one’s clan through examples and rites, helping the human race grow stronger.
• Nuwa, Li Fan, Goddess Wangshu, Empress Ziguang, and Goddess Taiyuan discussed Fuxi’s prospects and teased Nuwa about arranging a marriage for him.
• Xihua explained that the Xuantian Realm’s innate thunder pool could not threaten Golden Immortals or Grand Unity Golden Immortals when spread across the Primordial World.
• After Changxi mentioned the Dragon Clan’s Nine Heavens Responding Yuan Thunder Pool and Goddess Wangshu insisted that Quasi-Saints must also be judged, Li Fan proposed Dutian Divine Thunder.

Xuanming revealed that Dutian Divine Thunder could not be tolerated by heaven and earth, and Li Fan warned that a Return to Ruins Storm carrying the thunder was approaching. As the storm threatened the Southern Land, Fuxi prepared to perfect the Innate Eight Trigrams, and Xuandu secured the River Diagram and Luo Book from Taiyi to take to him.

• Xuanming told Li Fan and the others that heaven and earth had once suppressed the Twelve Ancestral Witches' attempt to summon Dutian Divine Thunder.
• Li Fan warned that the wind entrance of Return to Ruins was gathering primordial energy and that a great disaster was imminent; Fuxi reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and divined an omen of catastrophe.
• Fuxi asked Xuandu to borrow the River Diagram and Luo Book, while Li Fan and Wangshu sensed the Dutian Thunderstorm Hurricane gathering in the far south.
• Yuanfeng ordered the Phoenix Clan back to Immortal Volcano as the storm threatened the Yan Tian Domain, while Taishang and Three Corpses Hongjun reacted to the upheaval.
• Xuandu reached the Spiritual Teaching and asked Taiyi for the River Diagram and Luo Book; Taiyi lent them and ordered Lu Yi to accompany Xuandu to the human race.
• Xuandu left with the treasures and Lu Yi, hurrying east to deliver them to Fuxi.