Chapter Summaries

Yao abdicated the Human Emperor’s throne to Shun, who took the Human Emperor Seal and issued a decree to dredge blocked waterways. In Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu discussed the Human Race’s internal division of fortune and the growing crisis in Reincarnation, while anticipating further conflict among the forces governing the Prehistoric Universe.

• Yao publicly abdicated after nine eras of rule and passed the Human Emperor Seal to Shun at the succession ceremony in Pingyang.
• Shun vowed to protect the Human Race and received the people’s acclaim as the new Human Emperor.
• Shun issued his first decree, ordering citizens to dredge mountains, rivers, and canals to address the Water Essence Tribulation.
• Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu discussed how retired Human Emperors were dividing Human Race Fortune and how the Humanity Dao’s era had strained Reincarnation.
• Li Fan warned that the growing imbalance in Reincarnation could lead to souls being erased or evil ghosts remaining in the Human Realm.
• Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu considered the Heavenly Dao’s influence over Hunyuan Grand Unity beings and the future turmoil involving Pangu, Hongjun, and the Three Pure Ones.

As the Water Essence Tribulation worsened, Shun’s delayed plan to use Earth Veins failed, and the Western Teachings struggled to contain a flood caused by a Hunyuan power. Medicine Master urged Shun to seek help from the Heavenly Emperor and Nuwa, while Shun regretted his lost chance to become a Human Dao Saint.

• Ancestor Dragon suppressed the awakened Eye of Return to Ruins, calming the Four Seas’ surface waters while secretly welcoming their rise.
• At Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan and the goddesses judged that Shun had acted too late to use the Earth Veins safely and predicted Ancestor Dragon would eventually fail.
• Maitreya, Ksitigarbha, Medicine Master, and Mahasthamaprapta found a dike breach concealed by a Hunyuan power; Maitreya absorbed floodwater and Mahasthamaprapta temporarily repaired the breach.
• Ksitigarbha told the Western Teachings disciples to notify Shun and avoid being drawn further into the Human Dao calamity.
• Medicine Master told Shun that only the Heavenly Emperor or Nuwa might save the situation, and Shun agreed to seek an audience while regretting that he had no fate with the position of Human Dao Saint.

Shun’s plans collapsed after the human race’s fortune plunged and floods drove the people from the new capital. Seeking help from the Heavenly Court, he received Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and began kneading mud to control the waters, a task that lasted a hundred thousand years.

• Jieyin and Zhunti concluded that the Five Emperors of Huoyun Cave had guided Shun as a test, while Fuxi and Shennong blamed Xuanyuan for the scheme and Human Race Fortune fell by a tenth.
• Shun emerged from a year of seclusion to find Pingyang abandoned, Gaoyang flooded, and Maitreya, Medicine Master, and the other Western Teachings disciples gone.
• Shun went to Grand Unity Palace for help, and Li Fan sent him Nine Heavens Breathing Soil before the palace doors shut.
• Nuwa used spatial power to send Shun and the Breathing Soil to the human race’s sacred altar, where the expanding mud encased him and the guards mistook him for a monster.
• Shun subdued the guards, explained the misunderstanding, and kneaded the Breathing Soil for a hundred thousand years as the human race used it to block the floods.
• Li Fan and the goddesses watched Shun’s ordeal in a water mirror, while Nuwa revealed that she had arranged it to teach him a lesson.

As floods threatened the Primordial World, Yuanfeng used the Water Essence Tribulation to ignite her accumulated Fire Great Dao and challenge the Purple Firmament Heavenly Tribulation. She shattered the tribulation’s violet Dao shadow, but the River of Fate descended, leaving her true trial ahead.

• Emperor Shun watched the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil barriers crack as the floods swallowed more land, and Li Fan arrived above the Nine Heavens.
• Yuanfeng began her Dao attainment, transforming into a seven-colored phoenix and unleashing her Nirvana Fire against the waters of the Four Seas.
• The clash of water and fire disrupted yin and yang, so Li Fan and the other Five Great Emperors stabilized the Five Sacred Mountains and the Nine Netherworlds barrier.
• Yuanfeng summoned seven supreme divine flames into a Heavenly Blade and struck at the Purple Firmament tribulation lightning.
• Yuanfeng shattered the violet Dao shadow and defied the Heavenly Dao, while the River of Fate descended to begin her true trial.

Yuanfeng burned through the River of Fate and attained Hunyuan, becoming the leader of fire essence and helping restore balance between water and fire in the Prehistoric Universe. She joined Li Fan, Nuwa, Wangshu, and others at Grand Unity Palace, where her new status strengthened their pact of mutual benefit.

• Yuanfeng entered the River of Fate and used her Dao Fruit and Southern Li Di Flame Light Banner to burn away her karmic ties and charge toward its far shore.
• Yuanfeng broke free of fate and attained Hunyuan through fire, while the Vermillion Bird mansions formed a flaming star bridge and the Phoenix Clan celebrated her success.
• The world's fires bowed to Yuanfeng, and the Four Seas receded from the land, easing the water-and-fire crisis and allowing Ancestor Dragon to stop suppressing the upheaval.
• Fate Demon God watched Yuanfeng's success from beneath the River of Fate, while Taishang, Primordial Lord of Heaven, Zhunti, Jieyin, Nuwa, Zhen Yuanzi, and Minghe each considered its implications.
• Yuanfeng arrived at Grand Unity Palace, where Li Fan, Nuwa, and Wangshu congratulated her and the gathered Hunyuan experts recognized her as a valuable addition to their pact.

Shun assigned Gun to control the floods while weighing candidates to succeed him, and generations of Gun’s descendants carried on the work until Da Yu took over and met Nu Jiao. Meanwhile, Li Fan and the goddesses suspected Cangli Clan had survived, as Cangli prepared to return from the Return to Ruins after repairing his Dao Fruit.

• Shun promised Gun he would consider him for the position of Human Emperor and ordered him to govern the waters.
• The flood-control duty passed through eighteen generations of Gun’s family before Da Yu took up his aging father Gun Fu’s work.
• Da Yu met Nu Jiao of the Tushan Clan, who suggested diverting the floodwaters through a gorge and began advising him.
• Li Fan and the goddesses discussed whether Huang Tian had avoided Reincarnation because Cangli Clan might still be alive.
• In the Return to Ruins, Tianling Clan used a Primal Origin Sacred Pearl to repair Cangli Clan’s Dao Fruit, and Cangli resolved to return once he reached Sub-Saint.

Shun abdicated in favor of Da Yu as the Water Essence Tribulation neared its end and Red Dust Qi spread through the Primordial World. At Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan and the goddesses debated how Red Dust Qi might transform cultivation, while its rise continued to unsettle powerful figures across the world.

• Shun passed the Human Emperor Seal and Yuheng to Da Yu, who accepted the throne and vowed to protect the Human Race.
• Nu Jiao watched Da Yu enter the palace, while a wisp of Chaos Qi swept through the Return to Ruins as the Water Essence Tribulation neared its end.
• Houtian Qi mingled with Human Race Fortune and produced Red Dust Qi, which spread across the Primordial World and alarmed Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• The Supreme Elder gave the Taiji Diagram to Xuandu, while Primordial Lord of Heaven, Sect Leader Tongtian, and Zhen Yuanzi reacted to Red Dust Qi and the changing spiritual energy.
• Hongjun told Yaochi to prepare for Haotian's Reincarnation and preserve her position as Supreme Emperor of the West, which the Heavenly Emperor had acknowledged.
• At Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan and the goddesses discussed Red Dust Qi as a possible path of cultivation, and Li Fan declared that it refined obsession and Dao Hearts rather than living beings.

Da Yu’s flood-control effort at the Huai River was blocked by Wu Zhiqi, who attacked him before Nu Jiao forced a retreat. Da Yu returned to the Human Emperor Hall and entered seclusion, while Li Fan suspected Lu Ya was directing the Demon Clan’s interference.

• Wu Zhiqi confronted Da Yu at the Huai River, claiming he was protecting his cultivation and dismissing the lives endangered by the flood-control work.
• Wu Zhiqi sent a wall of water at Da Yu, whose Flood Control Canon blocked the attack, and Nu Jiao protected the group with Qingqiu Fox Fire.
• Nu Jiao led Da Yu and his guards away; Wu Zhiqi later received Jiu Ying’s order to destroy the Flood Control Canon within three days.
• Wu Zhiqi killed the Demon Clan scout who delivered the order and privately resolved to oppose Jiu Ying.
• Da Yu returned to Human Emperor Hall, thanked Nu Jiao, and entered seclusion to seek a breakthrough to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm; Nu Jiao prepared to return to Qingqiu.
• Li Fan watched from Grand Unity Palace and suspected Lu Ya was behind the Demon Clan’s actions, noting that Lu Ya had entered seclusion after Yuanfeng attained the Dao.

Da Yu searched for the Huai River Dragon King after Ao Guang refused to reveal where he was, while the Dragon Clan backed the king’s escape. At Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan warned Shi Qilin that the River of Fate was in turmoil and Heavenly Emperor Cangli might still be alive, leaving Shi Qilin alarmed about the coming upheaval.

• Da Yu confronted Ao Guang at the East Sea Dragon Palace branch palace and demanded the Huai River Dragon King’s whereabouts, but Ao Guang claimed the king had vanished and ordered Da Yu to leave.
• Da Yu returned to the Human Emperor Hall and ordered his spies to search the Four Seas Eight Wastelands for the missing dragon king.
• The Huai River Dragon King relaxed on a South Sea coral island, unaware that Da Yu had made him a primary target, while Ao Guang secretly urged him to stay hidden.
• Shi Qilin went to Grand Unity Palace seeking guidance on attaining the Dao, and Li Fan told him the River of Fate was in turmoil and Heavenly Emperor Cangli might not be dead.
• Li Fan warned Shi Qilin that Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng attaining the Dao was only a prelude to a greater storm, which would begin when the Cangli Clan returned.

Da Yu entered the East Sea's Eye and helped Gonggong turn the Sea-Suppressing Primordial Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain into the Flood-Control Mountain-Splitting Axe and the Sea-Suppressing Primordial Yuan Magnetic Divine Needle. Li Fan then used the Hunyuan cauldron and the Twelve Yuan Chen Sea Suppressing Grand Formation to refine the Divine Needle toward a Top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure, while Heavenly Dao Merit continued to increase.

• Da Yu followed the Twelve Yuan Chen light into the East Sea's Eye, where he found Gonggong trapped beneath the Sea-Suppressing Primordial Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain.
• Da Yu and Gonggong briefly joined forces to stabilize the Divine Mountain, and Da Yu drew the Flood-Control Mountain-Splitting Axe from its source.
• The Divine Mountain transformed into the Sea-Suppressing Primordial Yuan Magnetic Divine Needle, but Ancestor Dragon refused to let Da Yu take it without the Heavenly Emperor's permission.
• Li Fan sent Hunyuan power from his cauldron to the Divine Needle, driving away the Dragon Clan experts and refining its acquired spiritual charm into an ancient innate aura.
• Ancestor Dragon recognized Li Fan's effort to create a Top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure, and Heavenly Dao Merit began increasing as the Divine Needle suppressed the sea eye.

Da Yu defeated Wu Zhiqi in a staged battle and accepted the Water Tribe’s surrender, believing the victory would help him control the Huai River. Li Fan and the retired Human Emperors recognized that the conflict was really about ancient authority seized by the Dragon Clan, and the Innate Divine Beings prepared to reclaim it.

• Wu Zhiqi’s forces retreated as the human army advanced, and he asked Jiu Ying for reinforcements before deciding to face Da Yu himself.
• Da Yu fought Wu Zhiqi with the Mountain-Splitting Axe, while Wu Zhiqi concealed his strength and eventually pretended to flee after more than a thousand exchanges.
• Prime Minister Turtle and several Water Tribe members surrendered to Da Yu, who celebrated his victory without realizing Wu Zhiqi’s escape was part of a larger plan.
• Li Fan observed that Wu Zhiqi had gone to Grand Unity Heaven and that the Huai River’s authority was the real source of the coming conflict.
• The Three Emperors of the human race recognized that the Dragon Clan had seized the Huai River from its Innate Divine Being, while Taihua, Qijue, Ruoshui, the Huai River, Redwater, and Blackwater prepared to reclaim their sacred grounds.

Taihua and the Huai River gathered allies to reclaim Huai River authority from the Dragon Clan, drawing the Human Race and Demon Clan into a tense confrontation. When the fighting began, Heavenly Dragon, Taihua, Shennong, and Wu Zhiqi attacked the Demon Clan first, driving Lu Ya away and leaving the Huai River dispute unresolved.

• Taihua told Li Fan that the Dragon Clan had usurped Huai River authority, and Li Fan tacitly permitted action outside the Sacred Immortal Path Alliance contract.
• Taihua joined the Huai River and Wu Zhiqi, summoned Qijue, Ruoshui, Chishui, and Heishui, and led them to confront Da Yu at the Huai River.
• Lu Ya and Jiu Ying arrived for the Demon Clan, the Huai River Dragon King and Heavenly Dragon represented the Dragon Clan, and Shennong argued that the Human Race could intervene.
• As the four sides confronted one another, Heavenly Dragon, Taihua, and Shennong attacked Jiu Ying while Wu Zhiqi struck at Lu Ya.
• Jiu Ying lost eight heads and fled, while Lu Ya escaped Wu Zhiqi; the Demon Clan was the first side driven from the conflict.

Yaochi and Xihua enforced the Heavenly Emperor’s “One River, Three Systems” decree, ending the Huai River conflict and restoring Huai River’s sacred domain. At Grand Unity Palace, Baili and Xihe celebrated their progress toward becoming Earth Dao Saints, while Nuwa revealed a spirit pearl she hoped to send through Reincarnation.

• Yaochi and Xihua announced the decree assigning the Human Clan, Dragon Clan, and Huai River separate responsibilities over the river, and the Heavenly Dao contract took effect.
• Heavenly Dragon withdrew with the Dragon Clan, Shennong accepted the Human Clan’s duties, and Taihua and Huai River agreed to maintain the balance; the Huai River Dragon King lost his divine office.
• Huai River reclaimed his sacred domain, and he told Wu Zhiqi to help guard the Water Veins.
• Yaochi and Xihua returned to Grand Unity Palace, where Xihe and Baili explained that they had advanced toward the Earth Dao Saint realm.
• Li Fan hosted a celebration and promised a thousand-day banquet when Baili and Xihe attained the Dao.
• Nuwa showed Baili and Wangshu a spirit pearl and proposed that it develop intelligence and pass through Reincarnation.

Da Yu completed his flood-control work as humanity prospered, while Li Fan watched Xihe and Baili attain sainthood and establish order in Reincarnation. The chapter ended with Heaven, Earth, and Humanity Dao resonating together to stabilize the Primordial World.

• Da Yu finished controlling the floods, and humanity flourished as cultivators increasingly left human territory for the Heavenly Realm and Huoyun Cave.
• Li Fan watched Xihe and Baili stand atop Mount Tai as Earthly Dao Fortune gathered around them.
• Xihe became the Netherworld Karmic Fire Saint, and Baili became the Nine Nether Soul Venerate Saint, pledging to stabilize Reincarnation.
• Houtu emerged from Reincarnation and exchanged a tacit understanding with the Heavenly Emperor as Earthly Dao proclaimed order across the universe.
• Earthly Dao distributed merit to heal the Earth Veins and empower Xihe and Baili, while the laws of heaven and earth became clearer and more ordered.
• Li Fan declared that Earthly Dao shone and the laws returned to their places, as Heaven, Earth, and Humanity Dao manifested together.

After Xihe and Baili attained sainthood, Li Fan invited the Prehistoric Universe’s powers to a feast at Grand Unity Palace and announced plans for a new City God branch of the Underworld Officials. The invitation stirred concern and speculation across the world, as the human race and other powers prepared to negotiate their place in the changing order.

• Li Fan, Nuwa, and the goddesses congratulated Xihe and Baili on attaining the Saint Dao, while Wangshu wondered how many Human Dao Saints Nuwa would allow.
• Li Fan sent an invitation for a thousand-day feast at Grand Unity Palace eighty-one years later, framing it as a gathering to discuss the new age and the future of the Prehistoric Universe.
• Wangshu asked whether Li Fan intended to redistribute Underworld authority, and Li Fan announced that the Underworld Officials would establish a new City God system.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, Minghe, and Zhen Yuanzi each considered the invitation, while Zhunti summoned Maitreya and Zhen Yuanzi planned to bring Ginseng Fruits.
• Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and the Four Emperors debated how the human race should approach the feast and agreed to attend cautiously to defend its interests.

At the Heavenly Emperor’s banquet for the new Earthly Dao Saints, Li Fan proposed establishing a City God system jointly governed by the Humanity Dao and the Earthly Dao. As the assembled factions weighed the proposal, Taishang realized the Six Case Official positions under the Heavenly Emperor had been left vacant, and dark clouds gathered outside Grand Unity Palace.

• Xihua, Nüyi, and Yaochi prepared for the banquet as guests from across the Prehistoric Universe gathered at Grand Unity Palace, including disguised infiltrators from several factions.
• Li Fan welcomed Xihe and Baili as the new Earthly Dao Saints, and the gathered guests raised their cups to congratulate them.
• Li Fan announced that the order of the Underworld Officials should be reestablished and proposed a City God system to guide souls and govern good and evil in the Human Realm.
• Houtu displayed the Nine Paths of Reincarnation and explained that the City God system would be jointly governed by the Humanity Dao and the Earthly Dao.
• Li Fan invited the gathered Daoists to speak, but the factions stayed silent while considering who would control the system.
• Taishang remembered that the Six Case Official positions under the Heavenly Emperor remained vacant as dark clouds gathered over the Sea of Clouds.

Li Fan established six trials to select the officials who would govern the City God system and Underworld documents. The trials ended with Siming, Taibai, Ink Qilin, Xuanyuan, the three Ancient Priests, and Kunpeng passing, while the Nine Netherworlds edicts were set to be issued in one hundred thousand years.

• Li Fan rejected the factions’ competing claims to the Six Case Official posts and announced six trials based on each office’s duties.
• Li Fan sent the candidates through six gates to face trials for the Heavenly, Earthly, Nether, Divine, Human, and Ghost Case Official positions.
• Siming passed the Heavenly trial, Taibai passed the Divine trial, and Ink Qilin passed the Earthly trial.
• Xuanyuan narrowly defeated Dragon Mother in the Human trial, and the three Ancient Priests passed the Nether trial by cutting through the karmic entanglement.
• Kunpeng passed the Ghost trial by using the Great Dao of feng shui to bring life to the Underworld, beating Fire Phoenix.
• Li Fan declared the trials complete and said the Nine Netherworlds would issue its edicts in one hundred thousand years.

At Grand Unity Heaven’s banquet, the Human Emperors mourned the Primordial World’s decline in Innate Spiritual Qi while Grand Unity Heaven remained untouched by the Houtian Era. After Nuwa’s warning that even Saints could not escape the tribulations of heaven and earth, Primordial Lord of Heaven resolved to pursue Hunyuan ahead of time to protect Chan Teachings and surpass the Interception Sect.

• The immortals marveled that Grand Unity Heaven still possessed the Innate Dao Rhyme lost from the Primordial World, while Yuanfeng warned that conditions there would worsen.
• Shennong, Xuanyuan, Emperor Ku, and Fuxi lamented that the Human Race suffered in the Houtian Era and wished Grand Unity Heaven could share its Innate Spiritual Qi.
• Nuwa revived Shennong’s withered grain stalk with Creation Qi and remarked that even Heavenly Saints could not avoid the tribulations of heaven and earth.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven took Nuwa’s words as a warning and told Taishang he intended to attain Hunyuan early to protect Chan Teachings.
• Taishang warned Primordial Lord of Heaven not to force his path, but Primordial Lord of Heaven resolved to act and make Chan Teachings surpass the Interception Sect.

At the Grand Unity Palace banquet, Nuwa reestablished human marriage rites by presiding over Da Yu and Nu Jiao’s wedding, with the Heavenly Dao bearing witness and empowering the Red Embroidered Ball. The three marriages of Heaven, Earth, and humanity were fulfilled, and the banquet ended as the assembled immortals departed.

• Fuxi suggested that Nuwa use Da Yu and Nu Jiao’s love to establish the substance of human marriage.
• Da Yu asked Nuwa to reestablish human marriage rules and witness his union with Nu Jiao, while Zhuanxu reacted with humiliation.
• Li Fan declared the wedding part of the banquet, and Nuwa began the ceremony on the Heavenly Dao altar.
• Nuwa announced that humans in love could marry openly, and the Heavenly Dao descended with merit that elevated the Red Embroidered Ball into a Top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed merit on Da Yu and Nu Jiao, and Nuwa declared that human marriage now had rites.
• The immortals celebrated the completion of the three marriages, then departed from Grand Unity Palace as the banquet ended.

Five great Divine Kingdoms rose across the world, while Li Fan visited the overcrowded Nine Netherworlds and promised its overworked judge relief once City Gods were established. The chapter left Cangwu grateful for the Heavenly Emperor’s promise, though the goddesses mocked Li Fan for praising hard work.

• Da Yu established the Xia Kingdom through Humanity Dao, and the Dragon Mother, Phoenix Ancestor, Ink Qilin, and Lu Ya founded the Canglan, Yan Huang, Rui Huan, and Myriad Monster Divine Dynasties.
• Li Fan reflected that five of the six great races had formed Divine Kingdoms, while Baili observed that the rulers were delaying the establishment of City Gods to keep their authority.
• Li Fan traveled with Wangshu, Taiyuan, Ziguang, and the other goddesses through the Nine Netherworlds and saw that the first three levels of Hell were full and inmates were waiting in line.
• Immortal Venerable Cangwu told Li Fan that the new Divine Kingdoms had caused evil souls to flood Hell and handed over an emergency notice about the overcrowding.
• Li Fan promised Cangwu that establishing City Gods would soon ease his workload and that he would approve leave, then told him that capable people should do more work.