Chapter Summaries

Li Fan, Yunxiao, and four goddesses established the Mysterious Dao by merging the Gate of Myriad Wonders into the Primordial World and triggering Heavenly Will’s Single Slash. The new path was recognized by the world, but its tribulation killed or injured many Mysterious Immortals, leaving Tongtian furious and the cultivation order transformed.

• In Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan, Wangshu, Taiyuan, Yunxiao, and the others developed the Mysterious Dao and its path from Heavenly Immortal cultivation toward Golden Immortal and beyond.
• Li Fan used the Chaos Bell and his World Origin laws to establish the Mysterious Tribulation, causing Heavenly Dao judgment to descend upon every Mysterious Immortal and higher cultivator.
• The tribulation shattered Dao Foundations and killed or injured cultivators across the Prehistoric Universe, including hundreds of Interception Sect disciples on Golden Ao Island.
• Tongtian accused the Heavenly Emperor of using the tribulation to suppress the Interception Sect, but Daoist Duobao persuaded him not to interfere.
• Wangshu, Taiyuan, Ziguang, and Nuwa helped Yunxiao merge the Gate of Myriad Wonders into the Primordial World, replacing the Three Pure Ones’ Mysterious Immortal path with the Mysterious Dao.
• The Primordial World acknowledged the Mysterious Dao as a Great Dao, while Hongjun and Zhen Yuanzi considered its consequences and Li Fan warned everyone to take care.

Chi You discovered an innate secret realm and won the loyalty of its largest Iron-Eating Beast by offering it new kinds of bamboo. He left with a giant mount for the Witch-Human Race, while the imbalance between Earthly Dao and Humanity Dao continued to trouble Li Fan.

• Chi You found an innate secret realm while searching for mineral veins and saw an opportunity to develop the Witch-Human Race.
• Li Fan recognized that Reincarnation had too many blank souls and that Earthly Dao and Humanity Dao were falling out of balance.
• Chi You found a group of Iron-Eating Beasts in a purple bamboo forest and offered the largest one bamboo to gain its attention.
• Chi You summoned Xuanming, who brought Green Spirit Bamboo that the Iron-Eating Beast eagerly tasted.
• The largest Iron-Eating Beast pledged loyalty to Chi You in exchange for daily bamboo, and Chi You manifested his Ancestral Witch true form to ride it.

Xuanming brought the Iron-Eating Beast clan’s fragile cub to Grand Unity Palace, where Nuwa and Li Fan restored its incomplete Innate Origin. The cub became a complete Innate Being and happily reunited with its mother, while the clan remained at Grand Unity Palace.

• Xuanming and Chi You visited the Iron-Eating Beast ancestral grounds, where the beasts explained their origins and the cub’s unstable half-Innate nature.
• Xuanming and Chi You took Shi Zhu Yaozhu and her cub to Grand Unity Heaven so the little beast could receive help.
• At Grand Unity Palace, Nuwa agreed to treat the cub, and Li Fan created Innate Yin Yang Origin with the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Nuwa used the Law of Creation to infuse the cub with the new origin, stabilizing it and transforming it into a complete Innate Being.
• Shi Zhu Yaozhu thanked Nuwa and Li Fan as the cub reunited with her, then everyone fed and fawned over it in Grand Unity Palace.

Xuanyuan learned that Humanity Dao required him to wage the War of Felling Heaven and received Nuwa’s support to prepare for the western heavenly region. Houtu armed Chi You with Buzhou Mountain’s core source stone so he and the Zunlu Clan could forge a weapon for the coming battle against Haotian.

• Fuxi told Xuanyuan that the Human Race had to triumph over Heaven or lose its fortune, and Shennong sent him to Grand Unity Palace for Nuwa’s guidance.
• Nuwa promised to establish the Human Immortal Path to help Xuanyuan advance, then ordered him to prepare for war against the western heavenly region.
• Li Fan, Houtu, and Nuwa planned for Xuanyuan to face Emperor Donghua, Chi You to fight Haotian, and Primordial Lord of Heaven to counter the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
• The Heavenly Emperor revealed that Haotian might possess three Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, so Houtu took Chi You to the secluded Zunlu Clan.
• Houtu gave Chi You Buzhou Mountain’s core source stone and charged him with carrying Earthly Dao’s will into battle.
• Chi You and the Zunlu Clan forged the source stone into a dark green Weapon Tree infused with Earthly Dao runes.

Nuwa established the Human Immortal Path and used it to attain Perfection of Hunyuan Golden Immortal, while Xuanyuan inherited the path and broke through to Quasi-Saint. As the Human and Witch-Human races prepared for war, Emperor Donghua feared the conflict could ruin him and considered leaving his position.

• Nuwa summoned Humanity Dao and the River of Time, then created the Human Immortal Dao Seal by establishing the Human Immortal Path.
• Li Fan realized Nuwa had used the path to comprehend the Law of Time and reach Perfection of Hunyuan Golden Immortal, while other powerful figures considered the implications of her achievement.
• Nuwa's Dao Seal reached Xuanyuan, who swore to protect the Human Race and received the worship and wish power of its people.
• Xuanyuan inherited the Human Immortal Path and broke through to Quasi-Saint, gaining strength enough to contend with a mid-stage Quasi-Saint.
• The Human and Witch-Human races prepared for battle as onlookers expected a civil war, while Emperor Donghua worried about his weak foundation and considered abandoning his position.

The Human Race's war against the Western Haotian Realm erupted after years of preparation, and the battle at Zhuolu devastated both armies. As the Chan Teachings secretly turned Ying Gou, Hou Qing, and Nu Xi into vessels for the Zombie Progenitors, Emperor Xuanyuan sensed the baleful aura rising behind the front lines.

• Xuanyuan mobilized Human Race cultivators and built war fortresses while Emperor Donghua and the Haotian Realm held their defenses.
• In the third century, Emperor Donghua sent a dead star crashing toward the Eastern Primordial Earth, and Emperor Xuanyuan shattered it with his sword, beginning total war.
• The Four Heavenly Kings led heavenly armies against the Human Race at Zhuolu, where both sides suffered catastrophic losses over three centuries of fighting.
• Guang Chengzi and the Twelve Golden Immortals used Hou's remains and the battlefield's deathly forces to transform Ying Gou, Hou Qing, and Nu Xi into nascent Zombie Progenitors.
• Emperor Xuanyuan sensed a familiar aura within the baleful force rising behind the front, while Li Fan and the goddesses recognized that the Chan Teachings' actions had deepened the Human Dao Tribulation.

Xuanyuan dragged the Human Ancestral Land into the war, destroying it and forcing its survivors to flee toward Huoyun Cave. He then extended the campaign to the Witch-Human Race, whose warriors joined forces with the Human Race and broke the Haotian Realm army’s battle line.

• Fuxi and Shennong criticized Xuanyuan for shutting them out of the war and warned that the Human Race could suffer heavy losses.
• After learning the Human Ancestral Land had stayed out of the fighting, Xuanyuan secretly redirected Haotian Realm forces to attack it.
• The Human Ancestral Land fell, and Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi led the survivors toward Huoyun Cave.
• Xuanyuan’s grandson Zhuanxu earned distinction through repeated military service, laying groundwork for his future succession as Human Emperor.
• The Witch-Human Race met the Haotian Realm army with a fierce charge, awakened their Totem Battle Bodies, and shattered the enemy’s formation.
• The Human and Witch-Human forces drove the Haotian Realm army back, shifting the war’s advantage toward their side.

Emperor Donghua withdrew his support from Haotian, leaving Hongjun to reconsider how to preserve his plans as Xuanyuan's forces advanced. At Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan proposed an open election for the Supreme Jade Emperor of the West, prompting Yaochi to consider whether she could win the position.

• Emperor Donghua stopped supporting the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, worsening Haotian's position and disrupting Hongjun's plans.
• Hongjun sent Haotian to assist Donghua and told Yaochi that Xuanyuan would have to abdicate if he became a Human Dao Saint.
• Hongjun instructed Yaochi to ask the Heavenly Emperor about who should inherit the Position of Supreme Jade Emperor of the West.
• Yaochi arrived at Grand Unity Palace as the assembled powers watched Xuanyuan's army and the Witch-Human Race army approach the Haotian Realm.
• Li Fan proposed a Grand Unity Assembly election in which Quasi-Saints and Hun Yuan Golden Immortals could run and the gods and immortals could vote.
• Yaochi considered seeking the throne with support from Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones, then realized the Ancestral Witches backed Xuanyuan and that powerful rivals stood in her way.

Emperor Donghua struck Xuanyuan down and stripped away part of his Human Emperor's Fortune, while Ying Gou and Hou Qing became world-threatening Zombie Progenitors. The Heavenly Emperor erased both demons, and then summoned the Primordial Lord of Heaven to answer for his disciples' actions.

• Emperor Donghua wounded Xuanyuan with a strike of Pure Sun purple qi and stripped away thirty percent of his Human Emperor's Fortune.
• Ying Gou and Hou Qing emerged as Zombie Progenitors, unleashing devastating evil and curses across the battlefield as Nu Xi became Nu Ba and lost control of her drought-demon power.
• The Heavenly Emperor wielded the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to erase Hou Qing and Ying Gou, freeing the battlefield from their resentment and death qi.
• Xuanyuan apologized to Nu Ba, whose remaining will was protected by a thread of Creation clear light.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered Primordial Lord of Heaven to come see him, leaving the armies and Grand Unity Experts in stunned silence.

Emperor Donghua withdrew to the Azure Heaven Realm while Xuanyuan returned to the Haotian Realm battlefield and faced Haotian alone. As Haotian’s attack threatened to finish the wounded Xuanyuan, Nuwa’s Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword intervened, leaving Xuanyuan alive but still in grave danger.

• Emperor Donghua waited in the Azure Heaven Realm after the Haotian Realm’s troops and officials retreated under Emperor Qinghua’s control.
• Xuanyuan arrived at the emptied Haotian Realm, where Haotian attacked him with the Law of Heaven.
• Xuanyuan burned his origin and joined his power with the human army’s will to break Haotian’s Realm Seal.
• Nuwa sent the Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword from the Grand Unity Palace toward Xuanyuan.
• Haotian summoned the Haotian Sword, Haotian Pagoda, and Haotian Mirror, but the Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword knocked away his sword and interrupted his attack.
• Xuanyuan withdrew his Dharma Body to recover while Haotian prepared to press his advantage.

Chi You arrived with the Blade of the God of Soldiers and defeated Haotian, helping Xuanyuan’s Human Race prevail in the War of Felling Heaven. Xuanyuan then broke Chi You’s Ancestral Witch true body with the transformed Heavenly Emperor Human Emperor Sword, ending the conflict between witches and humans as he collapsed from his injuries.

• Chi You emerged with the Blade of the God of Soldiers and challenged Haotian while Yaochi held Xuanyuan back.
• Chi You shattered Haotian’s Pagoda, overcame his other defenses, and sent him flying; Yaochi carried Haotian to the Purple Heaven Palace.
• Chi You challenged Xuanyuan to settle the conflict between the Human Race and the Jiuli Tribe, and Xuanyuan accepted.
• Xuanyuan’s Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword changed into the Heavenly Emperor Human Emperor Sword and split Chi You’s Ancestral Witch fist, with the Blade of the God of Soldiers blocking the strike from going further.
• Chi You acknowledged the sword’s power and withdrew, ending the witches-and-humans conflict; Xuanyuan nearly collapsed as the Human Race warriors celebrated their victory.

Li Fan planned to use the Three Officials Great Emperors and Humanity Dao to restore balance to the Primordial World's water essence, while arranging Xuanyuan's transfer of the Position of Supreme Emperor. As Xuanyuan prepared to relinquish the role, he realized he would not keep the position of Western Extreme God and resolved to set a precedent among humanity.

• Li Fan told Yuanshi that three of humanity's Five Emperors would take the roles of the Heavenly, Earthly, and Water Officials to stabilize the Primordial World's water essence, and ordered a democratic election for Western Extreme God three epochs later.
• Xuanyuan led his army into the Lingxiao Heavenly Palace, while Chi You opened Mount Tai's passage to the Nine Netherworlds and led the Witch-Human Race toward the Underworld.
• Yuanshi ordered the Twelve Golden Immortals into seclusion until they reached Grand Unity Golden Immortal and sent Randeng and Immortal Official of the South Pole to oversee the transfer of the Position of Supreme Emperor.
• Randeng told Emperor Donghua that the ceremony would follow the old customs of the Divine Dao, and Emperor Donghua agreed to cooperate.
• Immortal Official of the South Pole informed Xuanyuan of the transfer, and Xuanyuan concluded that he would not retain the position of Western Extreme God and resolved to set a precedent among humanity.

Xuanyuan accepted the Position of Western Extreme God, but the Heavenly Dao warned that the Divine Path would not enter the Human Dao. As Xuanyuan and Zhuanxu vowed to preserve humanity’s path, Hongjun prepared Haotian and Yaochi, whose origins gave them the potential to attain Hunyuan.

• Emperor Donghua transferred the Western Extreme God's imperial seal to Xuanyuan, and the Heavenly Dao manifested the warning, “Divine Path Does Not Enter Human Dao.”
• Zhuanxu told Xuanyuan that humanity could forge its own path despite the Heavenly Dao’s disapproval, and Xuanyuan urged him to protect the human race’s flourishing fortune.
• Hongjun told Haotian and Yaochi that the Human Dao would face backlash, while Li Fan and the others discussed the cost of Xuanyuan’s victory and his limited strength.
• Goddess Taiyuan and Nuwa revealed that Yaochi cultivated the law of life and had concealed her strength while Xuanyuan recovered during their battle.
• Li Fan concluded that Haotian and Yaochi both had the potential to attain Hunyuan, and the chapter revealed how Hongjun fused pure yin origin with Life Origin to create Yaochi.

Xuanyuan spent his million-year reign disrupting trade and handing out divine titles before abdicating in favor of Zhuanxu. As Xuanyuan learned that hereditary succession could block a Human Dao Saint, Li Fan and the other gods discussed the human army and Donghua’s entry into Reincarnation.

• Xuanyuan flooded the myriad races with Human Emperor’s Treasure, driving its exchange rate against the Heavenly Emperor’s purple coins from one to ten thousand to one to one hundred thousand.
• Xuanyuan invented and distributed countless divine titles, and the Grand Unity Palace allocated funds to cover the inflated roster.
• After rumors spread that he would pass the throne to Zhuanxu, Xuanyuan abdicated in the Haotian Realm, but the Heavenly Emperor moved the human army back to the Primordial World.
• In Huoyun Cave, Fuxi warned Xuanyuan that passing the Human Emperor’s position down his bloodline could prevent the human race from producing a Human Dao Saint.
• Li Fan and Nuwa criticized Zhuanxu’s plan to keep the human army in the Heavenly Realm, while Donghua entered Reincarnation under Yuanshi’s protection.
• Li Fan and the goddesses discussed the dangers of cultivating the Way of the Sun and the future of the Way of Pure Yang.

Haotian spread word that Hongjun would impeach Huang Tian at the next Grand Unity Assembly, prompting Huang Tian to prepare to attain the Dao before the political pressure grew. Meanwhile, Nuwa conferred Human Dao Sainthood on Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan, who returned to Humanity Dao as its Three Emperors.

• Hongjun told Haotian to spread the rumor that he would impeach Huang Tian at the Grand Unity Assembly, hoping to force Huang Tian to attain the Dao.
• Haotian circulated the news, drawing reactions from Zhunti, the Three Pure Ones, Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and others; Yuanfeng prepared to second the impeachment.
• Huang Tian heard the rumor, feared losing his position as Emperor Nanji, and decided to attain the Dao immediately while vowing to make Haotian pay.
• Nuwa summoned Humanity Dao Fortune at Huoyun Cave and named Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan Human Dao Saints.
• Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan received Hongmeng sacred radiance, manifested their distinct Human Dao powers, and pledged to protect Humanity Dao before returning to it.

Li Fan responded to Zhuanxu’s bid to elevate the human Emperor by restricting the gods’ roles and preparing to divide the Primordial World into separate realms and territories. He left Grand Unity Palace determined to establish boundaries after the Water Yuan Tribulation and prevent the Saints’ conflicts from destroying the world.

• Li Fan ordered Nüyi to tell Ancestor Dragon that the Dragon Clan would control favorable weather throughout the Primordial World, while the Heavenly Gods and earthly deities were confined to their respective domains.
• Nüyi delivered the decree to Ancestor Dragon, who accepted it as the Dragon Clan’s experts realized the Primordial World was being sealed off without a time limit.
• Li Fan told Wangshu, Nuwa, and the others that after the Water Yuan Tribulation he would divide the Three Realms and make the Primordial World a realm of its own.
• Li Fan used the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to demonstrate his plan to establish three thousand boundary steles, divide the land into Nine Provinces and Twelve Domains, and assign territories among humanity and the other races.
• Li Fan proposed barriers between the Heavenly Realm, the land, and the Underworld, and said the Saints could teach in the Nine Provinces but would face united resistance if they tried to overturn the new order.

Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and Wulong Clan formed an alliance of Human Dao Saints while Zhuanxu broke through to Grand Unity Golden Immortal and promoted the Ancient Immortal Path among the Human Race. Yuanshi retaliated by cutting off the Human Race’s access to the Heavenly Immortal Path, and the chapter warned that the Ancient Immortal Path would later be severed as well.

• Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and Wulong Clan swore an alliance to support one another against the Heavenly Emperor and the Saints.
• Li Fan and the goddesses discussed the alliance, while Nuwa worried that Fuxi was neglecting his chance to attain the Dao of Hunyuan.
• Zhuanxu broke through to Grand Unity Golden Immortal and decreed that the Human Race would promote the Ancient Immortal Path.
• Yuanshi, angered by Zhuanxu’s decree, ordered the Chan Teachings to stop teaching the Human Race the Heavenly Immortal Path.
• The chapter revealed that Heavenly Will’s Single Slash would eventually sever the Ancient Immortal Path, leaving later Human Emperors with no way forward.

Huang Tian endured the nine strikes of the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder and completed his Hunyuan body tribulation by using the Purple Lightning Hammer and the Yan Tian Domain’s power. He then headed toward the River of Fate for the Dao Fruit tribulation, while Hongjun and others anticipated that Haotian would move to stop him.

• Huang Tian began his Hunyuan Dao tribulation above the Yantian Realm as Purple Heaven Divine Thunder gathered overhead.
• Huang Tian used the Purple Lightning Hammer to withstand the first eight strikes, but the hammer was badly damaged and he was heavily injured.
• Huang Tian summoned the Emperor Nanji's Authority and the Yan Tian Domain’s world power to survive the ninth strike and complete his Hunyuan body tribulation.
• Huang Tian healed himself with the domain’s power, then walked toward the manifested River of Fate to face the Dao Fruit tribulation.
• Haotian protested Huang Tian’s use of the Emperor Nanji's Authority, while Hongjun warned that the Heavenly Dao would no longer tolerate such shortcuts.
• Li Fan and the others predicted that Haotian would block Huang Tian at the River of Fate and hinted that Haotian possessed the Heaven Suppressing Coffin.

Haotian confronted Huang Tian in the River of Fate with the Heaven Suppressing Coffin, but Huang Tian survived its ultimate attack at the cost of severely injuring his Dao Fruit and severing his path to Hunyuan Grand Unity. Huang Tian then defeated Haotian and prepared to suppress him at the bottom of the river.

• Haotian returned from Purple Heaven Palace, seized the Threads of Karma, and challenged Huang Tian with the Heaven Suppressing Coffin.
• Haotian opened the coffin and unleashed its ultimate burial attack, but Huang Tian used the River of Fate and his Dao Fruit to break free, damaging the coffin and suffering a severe Dao injury.
• Huang Tian reached Haotian and overpowered him with his Law of Heaven, shattering Haotian's Myriad Gods Phantom Worship and knocking him into the River of Fate.
• Huang Tian declared that he would permanently suppress Haotian at the bottom of the River of Fate, while observers including Li Fan, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Zhunti, and Jieyin reacted to the coffin's power.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun and Li Fan stopped Huang Tian from killing Haotian, and Huang Tian demanded that Haotian’s Pure Qi Origin of Heaven be permanently split. Huang Tian then escaped the River of Fate at terrible cost, while the stirred Fate hinted at a new calamity.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun ordered Huang Tian and Haotian to stop, and Li Fan stabilized Huang Tian’s damaged Dao Fruit and urged him to abandon his attack.
• Huang Tian agreed to stop but demanded that Haotian’s Pure Qi Origin of Heaven be split in two, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun granted his demand.
• Nuwa split Haotian’s origin with the Creation Heavenly Blade, erased Haotian’s imprint from one half, and placed it in the Creation Green Lotus.
• Huang Tian shattered his connection to the River of Fate and vanished from its tangible scope, suffering the collapse of his Divine Soul and Dao Fruit.
• The River of Fate faded as its turbulence stirred countless futures, while the sleeping Fate Demon God seemed to open its eyes.