Chapter Summaries

Fuxi comprehended the Innate Eight Trigrams, reached the Perfection of Hunyuan Golden Immortal, and received Humanity Dao’s merit. As the Guixu Storm threatened Yan Tian Domain, Li Fan realized the Chaos Bell might offer a way to stop it.

• After more than a year of waiting, Xuandu placed the River Diagram and Luo Book on a dragon turtle’s shell, helping Fuxi comprehend the Innate Eight Trigrams.
• Fuxi formed the sixty-four hexagrams, reached the Perfection of Hunyuan Golden Immortal, and spread the Eight Trigrams’ Dao resonance among humanity.
• Humanity Dao sent merit to Fuxi, Xuandu, Lu Yi, the dragon turtle, and the River Diagram and Luo Book; Fuxi thanked Xuandu and Lu Yi and said humanity now had a Glimmer of Life.
• The Guixu Storm breached Yan Tian Domain’s realm barrier despite Huang Tian’s efforts, and Li Fan blocked its gale winds with the Law of World.
• Nuwa, Goddess Wangshu, Goddess Taiyuan, and Empress Ziguang arrived as the storm’s Dutian Divine Thunder threatened the Xuantian Realm, and Li Fan realized the Chaos Bell might break the deadlock.

Li Fan used the Chaos Bell to suppress the Guixu Storm and seize the Dutian Divine Thunder, then left the weakened storm for Huang Tian and Fuxi to face. Fuxi launched the first battle of Felling Heaven but was crushed by Huang Tian’s Emperor Authority and left wounded in the Eastern Primordial World, where he realized the human race had suffered a devastating defeat.

• Li Fan absorbed the Dutian Divine Thunder into the Chaos Bell, weakening the Guixu Storm, and repaired the Yantian Realm’s damaged barrier.
• Li Fan left the remaining Guixu Storm to Huang Tian and Fuxi as a trial for Heaven and Earth’s living beings.
• Fuxi gathered human cultivators and experts, then challenged Huang Tian in the Yantian Realm while the armies advanced behind him.
• The Yantian Domain’s barriers empowered Huang Tian to Sub-Saint strength, and he struck Fuxi through the barriers of nine Great Thousand Worlds into the Eastern Primordial World.
• Nuwa tried to intervene, but Li Fan stopped her and said Fuxi’s defeat might reveal how to break the deadlock; Fuxi remained conscious in the crater, recognizing the battle as a crushing loss.

Fuxi secured the Dragon Clan’s support and reclaimed the Kongtong Seal to prepare a second Human attack on Heaven. As the Guixu Storm spread into Yantian Realm, the favorable moment arrived for him to establish the Taihao Divine Kingdom.

• Huaxu told Fuxi that people across Human settlements were dying while testing medicines and poisons, and Fuxi accepted that their efforts could still benefit the Human Race.
• Fuxi visited Ancestor Dragon, who agreed to support Humanity’s attack on Heaven, and Fuxi outlined his plan to attack during the Guixu Storm.
• Fuxi went to Grand Unity Heaven and asked Li Fan for Mount Tai as the site of his Fengshan rite.
• Nuwa accompanied Fuxi to Eight Sceneries Palace and demanded that Taishang return the Kongtong Seal, which Taishang handed to Fuxi for the Human Emperor to wield.
• Fuxi and Nuwa saw the Guixu Storm spread into Yantian Realm, and Fuxi resolved to perform the Fengshan rite and launch the second attack on Heaven.

Huang Tian traded complete Heavenly Origin to Primordial Lord of Heaven for the Pangu Banner, then attacked Fuxi’s Mount Tai investiture. Fuxi completed the founding of the Taihao Divine Kingdom under Huang Tian’s assault, and the Dragon Clan prepared to support the Human Race as the War of Felling Heaven began its final battle.

• Huang Tian offered complete Heavenly Origin to Primordial Lord of Heaven and received the Pangu Banner in exchange for help stopping Fuxi’s Taihao Divine Kingdom.
• Li Fan continued comprehending Dutian Divine Thunder while Wangshu used the Chaos Bell to advance toward the Immeasurable Law, with Taiyuan observing them.
• Fuxi held the Mount Tai investiture with Nuwa guarding the altar, and the Human Race cheered as he vowed to secure a bright future for them.
• Huang Tian arrived with the Pangu Banner and attacked the altar, while Nuwa protected the gathered Human Race and Fuxi resisted with the Kongtong Seal.
• Fuxi completed the ritual and declared the Taihao Divine Kingdom, drawing on Human Race Fortune to push back the Pangu Banner’s power.
• Ancestor Dragon sent Candle Dragon and Dragon Mother to support the Human Race but ordered them not to interfere in Fuxi and Huang Tian’s battle.

Fuxi fought Huang Tian to a stalemate and abandoned the campaign to take the Southern Yan Tian Domain, leading the human race to migrate to the Eastern Cang Tian Domain. As the Guixu Storm threatened the earth, Li Fan opened all Five Directions Heavenly Domains to refugees, and the great migration began.

• Fuxi unleashed the Hunyuan Eight Trigrams Grand Formation against Huang Tian, but their final clash left both badly wounded and neither able to defeat the other.
• Huang Tian departed after declaring that he would oppose another human attack on Heaven, and Nuwa told Fuxi to move the human race to another Heavenly Domain.
• Fuxi ordered the human race to migrate to the Eastern Cang Tian Domain, while the Dragon Clan helped escort them.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven opened the Cang Tian Domain's gates, and Li Fan ordered all Five Directions Heavenly Domains opened to those seeking refuge from the Guixu Storm.
• Nüyi, the Big Dipper Star Gods, Dragon Lord Jin Xiao, Tian Yin True Phoenix, Qilin Lord Yu Xiang, Qisha Zhenjun, and Taihua coordinated the refugee migration and protected its routes.
• The migration swept across the Prehistoric Universe, while those caught by the Guixu wind calamity faced death or eternal torment in the Return to Ruins.

During the year-long Prehistoric Wind Tribulation, Goddess Wangshu condensed the Immeasurable Law, intensifying the storm and revealing that the Heavenly Emperor and Taiyin Star Lord had opened two paths of the Innate Five Primes. Li Fan and Yunxiao sensed a treasure emerging from Return to Ruins, and the Gate of Myriad Wonders chose Yunxiao as its master, leaving her Dao aura surging as she called for the River of Time.

• Goddess Wangshu condensed the Immeasurable Law, and her Taiyin Moon Essence made the Prehistoric Wind Tribulation even colder.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven, Taishang, Sect Leader Tongtian, and other experts realized that the Heavenly Emperor and the Taiyin Star Lord had opened the Hunyuan Taiyi and Hunyuan Taiji Great Dao Paths.
• Li Fan and Yunxiao sensed that an opportunity was emerging from Return to Ruins, and Yunxiao revealed the treasure's name as the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders bound itself to Yunxiao's Divine Soul and sent her pure Great Dao Power while speeding toward the Primordial World.
• Yunxiao's Dao aura surged, and she involuntarily called for the River of Time to appear.

Yunxiao broke through to Hun Yuan Golden Immortal and was welcomed by the great powers gathered on the River of Time. Li Fan arrived to congratulate her, then announced rules for the opportunity in Return to Ruins, setting off a stir among the Saints.

• Yunxiao entered the River of Time, broke through her restraints, and became a Top-Grade Innate Divine with a stabilized Hun Yuan Golden Immortal realm.
• Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Chang'e celebrated Yunxiao's breakthrough, while the great powers across the Primordial World sensed her new pressure.
• Tongtian recognized Duobao's frustration, and Kong Xuan admitted that Yunxiao's Grand Unity Dao Fruit had surpassed him.
• Yunxiao received congratulations and invitations from the gathered powers, while Goddess Wangshu warned them against jealousy and reckless action.
• Li Fan appeared on the River of Time, congratulated Yunxiao, and declared that Return to Ruins treasures would be decided by fate, forbidding bullying, wanton killing, and disruption of the Primordial Order.
• The Saints stirred at Li Fan's announcement, and Wangshu, Yunxiao, Taiyuan, Nuwa, and the others departed the River of Time with him.

The Saints and Hunyuan experts clashed over a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi emerging from Return to Ruins, while Li Fan discovered two more strands and the Gate of Myriad Wonders below. After Primordial Lord of Heaven seized the first strand and Li Fan drew out the other two, the factions faced one another in a tense stalemate.

• The Saints and five Hunyuan experts gathered above Return to Ruins after Minghe spotted Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Li Fan's group confronted the Saints.
• The first strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi broke free, and the Saints fought over it while Laozi restrained Taiyi.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven took a blow from Zhunti but seized the first strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Li Fan used the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and Chaos Law to pull two more strands from Return to Ruins, where he also sensed the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
• Wangshu froze the East Sea and warned the Saints against attacking Li Fan's group, leaving both sides in a stalemate.

The Gate of Myriad Wonders emerged from the Return to Ruins, and Li Fan fought Taishang as the treasure raced toward Grand Unity Heaven. The gate recognized Yunxiao as its master, forcing the Saints to withdraw while Taishang suffered a Dao injury.

• The Gate of Myriad Wonders appeared as the Return to Ruins’ wind calamity ended, and Li Fan and Taishang began fighting over it.
• Li Fan overwhelmed Taishang with the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, while the gate flew toward Grand Unity Heaven and the Saints pursued it.
• Taishang tried to seize the gate, but Li Fan struck him away and injured his Dao origin.
• The Saints attacked the gate, but Wangshu, Nuwa, Empress Ziguang, and Goddess Taiyuan blocked their interception, allowing it to enter Grand Unity Heaven.
• Yunxiao claimed the Gate of Myriad Wonders and used it to suppress the battle’s aftershocks, prompting the Saints to leave.
• Zhen Yuanzi departed alone as the experts celebrated Yunxiao’s fortune and the Heavenly Emperor’s victory.

After the saints fought over the Hongmeng Purple Qi, the Three Pure Ones’ conflict deepened, while Li Fan used two strands to nurture the Karma Red Lotus and Pure World White Lotus. Nuwa then asked Li Fan to make Fuxi the Eastern Azure Emperor, despite the danger posed by the surviving former emperors.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven claimed the Hongmeng Purple Qi from Tongtian, and Tongtian left Kunlun Mountain while Taishang withdrew to recuperate.
• Li Fan invited the goddesses to discuss the two remaining strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi, and they agreed the Pure World White Lotus and Karma Red Lotus should receive them.
• Li Fan infused one strand into the Karma Red Lotus held by Xihe and the other into the Pure World White Lotus, setting both on the path toward becoming Innate Supreme Treasures.
• Nuwa proposed that Fuxi lead living beings into the heavens and become the Eastern Azure Emperor, though Wangshu warned that Yang Mei and Luohu still lived.
• Li Fan recognized that Nuwa was seeking the vacant Eastern Azure Emperor position for Fuxi, and Nuwa remained determined to secure it for her brother.

Nuwa delivered the Heavenly Emperor’s edict appointing Fuxi Eastern Taihao Azure Emperor, then pressed him to send the Heavenly Realm’s residents back to the Primordial World. After a hundred years, the land began to recover, while Yang Mei learned that his own Eastern Azure Emperor title had been taken away.

• Nuwa announced Fuxi’s appointment as Eastern Taihao Azure Emperor and urged him to enforce the Heavenly Emperor’s order to reclaim the Primordial World.
• Fuxi ordered all living beings from the land to descend within three days, and Hong Ya and Bai Huang organized the expulsion.
• Ao Guang and the Dragon Clan soldiers forced reluctant residents down Tongtian Jianmu as Li Fan watched the mass migration.
• A hundred years later, Fuxi saw life returning to the Primordial World, and Nuwa told him to seek her help if he faced difficulties.
• Yang Mei sensed that his Eastern Azure Emperor title had been stripped away and lamented the loss of its usefulness.

Changxi became the first Saint of the Earthly Dao while Wulong Clan became a Human Dao Saint, drawing attention from powerful figures across the Primordial World. After celebrating Changxi’s breakthrough, Li Fan and the others returned together to Grand Unity Palace.

• Fuxi guided Shennong through repeated reincarnations until he reached Grand Unity Golden Immortal and brought inventions to humanity.
• Changxi reached Perfection of Hunyuan Golden Immortal, and the Earthly Dao Fruit Position descended as Wulong Clan approached sainthood through Humanity Dao fortune.
• Changxi became an Earth Dao Saint, and Wulong Clan became a Human Dao Saint, while powerful figures including Primordial Lord of Heaven, Zhunti, Minghe, and Houtu reacted to their breakthroughs.
• Luohu laughed from the sealed Demon Realm and declared that the Earthly Dao would eventually need the Demon Realm to become complete.
• Li Fan congratulated Changxi, and Changxi teased Xihe by turning her Dao lesson into a joke about food.
• Li Fan, Wangshu, Changxi, Xihe, and Nüyi traveled back to Grand Unity Palace together.

Fuxi completed his reign and transferred the Human Emperor position and Kongtong Seal to Shennong, who began the era of agricultural development. Nuwa granted Huoyun Cave to the Human Race as its sacred land, and Fuxi and Nuwa departed for it as Shennong’s reign began.

• Shennong cultivated and spread the Houtian Five Grains with Fuxi’s secret support, while Fuxi announced he would pass the throne to him in a year.
• Human leaders and ancestors gathered in Chendu to witness Fuxi’s succession ceremony.
• Fuxi handed the Kongtong Seal to Shennong, who vowed to promote farming, irrigation, farming tools, and medicine.
• Shennong awakened memories of his previous lives and declared that agriculture would strengthen the Human Race in the Houtian Era.
• Nuwa granted Huoyun Cave to the Human Race, then departed with Fuxi for the sacred land.

Shennong and Tingsi’s Earthly Marriage drew the great powers of the Prehistoric Universe to Chendu, where Earthly Dao merit transformed the wedding and helped Shennong break through to Quasi-Saint. The ceremony ended in celebration, while the gathered powers considered the growing strength of the human race and its future Human Dao Saints.

• Suiren Shi delivered the human race’s Earthly Marriage invitation to Grand Unity Palace, and Li Fan prepared to attend with Nuwa after she returned.
• Nuwa forced Huoyun Cave to recognize Fuxi as its master, prompting Zhen Yuanzi to accept that he could not resist her and decide he had to attend the ceremony.
• Li Fan, Nuwa, and their companions traveled to Chendu, where the Three Pure Ones, the Two Sages of the West, and many other great powers gathered.
• Nuwa announced the auspicious hour, and Shennong and Tingsi exchanged vows on the altar before the Earthly Dao sent down merit.
• Shennong used the merit to sever his shackles and reach Quasi-Saint, while Li Fan shielded Chendu from his released pressure and the merit strengthened Nuwa’s Red Embroidered Ball.
• Shennong and Tingsi completed the rites as the human race celebrated, and the gathered powers reflected on the human race’s rising strength and prospects for Human Dao Saints.

Shennong’s daughter faced a death tribulation because she shared Nuwa’s true name, so Qiongxiao and Bixiao visited Chendu and had Shennong rename her Linghe. The danger passed, and the two disciples returned to Grand Unity Palace with millet wine, where Li Fan shared Innate Spirit Wine with the goddesses.

• Li Fan foresaw the coming Human Dao Tribulation, while Nuwa warned that Shennong’s daughter would face a death tribulation because she shared Nuwa’s name.
• Nuwa sent Qiongxiao and Bixiao to Chendu to tell Shennong to rename his daughter and avert the calamity.
• Shennong named his daughter Linghe, and Earthly Dao radiance gathered around her as the death tribulation dissolved.
• Bixiao and Qiongxiao accepted jugs of millet wine from Shennong and returned to Grand Unity Palace.
• Li Fan gave the goddesses Innate Spirit Wine flavored with Huangzhong Plum, and Bixiao entered a drunken state of enlightenment.

Shennong brought Linghe to Grand Unity Palace to ask Li Fan and Nuwa for guidance on succession and the unintegrated Witch-Human tribes. Nuwa told him the Human Emperor would not pass the throne on and that the next Human Emperor had already been born, leaving Shennong to depart troubled.

• Shennong’s rule brought prosperity as the Human Race developed the five grains and Six Livestock, while Jiu Ying resented the rise of livestock farming.
• Guang Chengzi sought out Shaodian and began cooperating with Xuanyuan, teaching him cultivation methods through the Chan Teachings.
• Shennong took Linghe to Grand Unity Palace and asked Li Fan and Nuwa how to manage succession and the Witch-Human tribes that remained outside the greater Human Race.
• Nuwa declared that the Human Emperor’s position would no longer be passed down and said Shennong could step down because the next Human Emperor had already been born.
• Shennong left with Linghe, while Li Fan and the goddesses discussed the Human Race’s transition beyond the tribal era and criticized Shennong’s efforts to integrate the Witch-Human tribes.

After Shennong abdicated and retreated to Huoyun Cave, the Human Race split into eastern and southern factions competing for the vacant throne. As the conflict gathered momentum, Houtu and the others debated whether the Witch-Human Race could join the succession, and Nuwa ruled that the next Human Emperor had to come from Human Race Orthodoxy.

• Shennong abdicated, took the Kongtong Seal, and moved to Huoyun Cave with Tingsi and Linghe, where Fuxi and Huaxu welcomed them.
• Fuxi and Huaxu told Shennong that the next Human Emperor would emerge through Humanity Dao, while Fuxi warned that rival eastern and southern forces might clash.
• Chief Jiang Yu rallied the Shennong Clan to contend for the throne, while Xuanyuan prepared to unite the Human Race with Guang Chengzi's support.
• Houtu told Li Fan that she had stopped Dijiang, Chi You, and the others from launching an unauthorized war against the Human Race.
• Nuwa declared that the Human Emperor could not be a Witch-Human, and Houtu proposed that Witch-Humans who refused to merge should relocate away from Human territory.

Guang Chengzi arranged for Xuanyuan’s alliance to ambush Jiang Yu’s forces during the supposed peace conference at Banquan, then used the Twelve Golden Immortals to suppress the Yan Emperor Alliance. Jiang Yu’s forces were defeated, leaving Xuanyuan on course to claim the Human Emperor’s throne.

• Guang Chengzi persuaded the Twelve Golden Immortals to exploit the peace conference by arranging a surprise attack on the Yan Emperor Alliance.
• At Banquan, Xuanyuan urged Jiang Yu to avoid war, but Jiang Yu demanded that Xuanyuan give up the Human Emperor’s throne.
• The armies clashed, and the Twelve Golden Immortals appeared around Jiang Yu while Guang Chengzi questioned his right to rule.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals suppressed the battlefield with their auras, and Guang Chengzi blocked Jiang Yu from fighting back.
• The Yan Emperor Alliance suffered a hasty defeat, and Li Fan of Grand Unity Palace watched Xuanyuan’s path to the throne clear.

Xuanyuan’s rule was marred by his vast harem, while Houtu arranged for the Witch-Human Race to return to the Underworld. At Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan revealed that someone had created the Mystic Immortal realm, and the goddesses wondered who had done it.

• Xuanyuan used political marriages to win tribal support, but his harem disrupted Human Ethics and earned him lasting karma, drawing criticism from Li Fan and Nuwa.
• Li Fan questioned Fuxi for criticizing Yuanshi only after the Chan Teachings’ disciples had helped Xuanyuan, while Jiang Yu accepted that he had become a sacrifice in the unification of the Human Race.
• Houtu stopped the ancestral witches from rushing out to confront Xuanyuan and assigned Chi You and Xuanming to bring the Witch-Human Race back to the Underworld through the passage at Mount Tai.
• Li Fan told the goddesses that someone had opened a new cultivation realm, Mystic Immortal, between Heavenly Immortal and Golden Immortal.
• Goddess Wangshu urged Li Fan to strike whoever had created the realm, and Goddess Taiyuan anticipated trouble for Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones.

Li Fan confronted the Three Pure Ones over the origins and control of the Profound Immortal path, while they defended it by invoking Hongjun’s decree. He claimed the path for Yunxiao and ordered a trial that would begin a mysterious tribulation, leaving the Three Pure Ones and cultivators across the Primordial World to consider the consequences.

• Li Fan questioned Taishang about the sudden appearance of the Profound Immortal realm, and Goddess Taiyuan accused the Three Pure Ones of abusing Heavenly Dao Authority.
• Yuanshi claimed the Three Pure Ones had comprehended the Profound Immortal path from Hongjun’s teachings, while Tongtian warned that Heavenly Will’s Single Slash could destroy millions of cultivators’ Dao Foundations.
• Taishang presented Hongjun’s decree placing the Profound Immortal inheritance under the Mystic Gate and ordering a public forum at Kunlun.
• Li Fan countered by decreeing that Yunxiao would be master of the Profound Immortal path, and the competing decrees shook Grand Unity Palace.
• Li Fan declared that Heavenly Will’s Single Slash would draw its sheathed blade and begin the Prehistoric Universe’s Mysterious Tribulation, alarming Tongtian.
• The Three Pure Ones departed, and news of the confrontation spread as the Primordial World’s Grand Unity Experts began making their own calculations.