Chapter Summaries

Bai Jin gathered Shangqing Peak’s Outer Sect Disciples and established morning scripture recitation as the first sect rule. He ended by warning them not to harm fellow disciples or defy their elders, fixing his gaze on Long Ears Dingguang Immortal.

• Bai Jin returned to Shangqing Peak and greeted its disciples as he walked back to his palace.
• The next morning, Bai Jin asked Shi Ji to gather the Outer Sect Disciples at Mirror Lake.
• Bai Jin announced that all Outer Sect Disciples not in secluded cultivation must gather each morning to recite scriptures.
• Bai Jin led the disciples in reciting the Yellow Court Scripture, earning approving reactions from Tongtian, Yuanshi, and Taishang.
• Daoist Duobao dismissed the gathering as grandstanding, while Holy Mother Wudang defended Bai Jin and said the recitation could calm the disciples.
• After the recitation, Bai Jin told the disciples not to kill fellow disciples or defy their elders, and looked directly at Long Ears Dingguang Immortal.

Bai Jin tried to provoke conflict between the outer disciples and Daoist Duobao after imposing strict sect rules, while Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears gathered followers around Duobao. Bai Jin confronted them at Youquan Waterfall, where Long Ears claimed Duobao had taught them the Way of Combat.

• Bai Jin warned the Shangqing Peak disciples to obey his new rules, then privately hoped their resentment would cost him his position as Head Outer Sect Disciple.
• Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears and several disciples appealed to Daoist Duobao, who invited them to discuss the Dao at dawn.
• Bai Jin found that Long Ears and the others had skipped the morning gathering at Mirror Lake to meet Duobao.
• Duobao and the gathered disciples shared food and praise, while Long Ears described their desire to live freely rather than strive for the summit.
• Bai Jin arrived at Youquan Waterfall, challenged the gathering about what Dao Duobao had taught, and Long Ears answered that it was the Way of Combat.

Bai Jin provoked Daoist Duobao into striking him, then asked Tongtian to remove him as Head Outer Sect Disciple. Tongtian refused, leaving Bai Jin stuck with the role while quietly watching Duobao’s ambitions.

• Bai Jin challenged Daoist Duobao over teaching the Outer Sect Disciples, and Duobao attacked him with a powerful palm technique.
• Bai Jin withdrew his Taiji Diagram and let Duobao’s palm send him flying, then claimed he had been defeated and left the valley.
• Bai Jin visited the martial uncles and then complained to Tongtian, asking to be removed as Head Outer Sect Disciple.
• Tongtian refused to remove Bai Jin or let him manage Duobao, and told him to perform his duties and cultivate.
• Bai Jin accepted the position for now while thinking Duobao might be a suitable successor, and Tongtian reflected on Duobao’s path of sole supremacy.

Bai Jin spoke with Holy Mother Wudang about Duobao targeting him and vowed to seek Master’s help rather than fight Duobao directly. Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived at Mount Kunlun to reclaim the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage, and Yuanshi refused his offer to exchange treasures for it.

• Holy Mother Wudang visited Bai Jin, praised his leadership, and explained that Duobao’s hostility might stem from losing Master’s favor.
• Bai Jin told Holy Mother Wudang he would not back down from Duobao but would report him to Master if necessary.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived at Mount Kunlun in a dragon-pulled imperial carriage and requested an audience with the three senior brothers.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi asked about the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage, which Bai Jin had taken after injuring Bifang Demon God with the Taiji Diagram.
• Yuanshi refused to return the carriage or exchange it for two Innate Spiritual Treasures, saying it represented his martial nephew’s heartfelt intentions.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi wagered with Primordial Lord of Heaven and Sect Master Tongtian over the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage, then sent Bai Yu to fight Daoist Duobao. Duobao was wounded by Bai Yu’s seven Immortal Slaying Flying Daggers, and Bai Jin offered to help but worried that intervening would be improper.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi proposed that the carriage be lent to him if his Demon Court’s prodigy defeated a disciple of the Three Pure Ones, and Primordial Lord of Heaven and Sect Master Tongtian accepted the wager.
• Daoist Duobao and Bai Yu, both Taiyi Golden Immortals, began their duel, and Duobao initially blasted Bai Yu back with a punch.
• Bai Yu used the seven Immortal Slaying Flying Daggers to muddle Duobao’s primordial spirit and repeatedly attack him.
• Duobao fought back with his sword, but the daggers broke through his attacks and wounded him while the disciples watched anxiously.
• Bai Jin told Holy Mother Wudang that he had a magical treasure capable of restraining the daggers, but questioned whether he should intervene.

Bai Jin lent Daoist Duobao the Treasure Dropping Coin, which stopped and collected Bai Yu’s seven Immortal Slaying Flying Daggers and helped Duobao win the duel. After Duobao was injured by an exploding box, Tongtian and Eastern Emperor Taiyi agreed to a best-of-three contest, and Bai Jin learned he might be called to fight next.

• Bai Jin gave Holy Mother Wudang the Treasure Dropping Coin to pass to Daoist Duobao, and Duobao used it to collect Bai Yu’s seven Immortal Slaying Flying Daggers.
• Duobao forced Bai Yu to concede and pursued the box Bai Yu threw, but it exploded and injured him.
• Duobao crashed onto the mountain path, while Tongtian claimed the round and Eastern Emperor Taiyi argued that the contest should not count because an outsider had interfered.
• Yuanshi challenged Eastern Emperor Taiyi, who proposed a best-of-three contest, and Tongtian agreed.
• Holy Mother Wudang told Bai Jin he would fight a Golden Immortal, and Bai Jin protested that Jinling should take his place.

Bai Jin watched Shi Ji lose to Qi Hu, then challenged Ying Lian after Qi Hu wounded Shi Ji despite the concession. Bai Jin defeated Ying Lian with a strike during his bow, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi accepted the loss and left with his forces.

• Qi Hu fought Shi Ji and wounded her after Bai Jin called for the match to end.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi punished Qi Hu for disobeying, then asked Tongtian to lend him the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage; Tongtian asked Bai Jin to decide.
• Bai Jin declared his Sword Dao and challenged Ying Lian, who accepted the duel.
• Bai Jin struck Ying Lian while Ying Lian was bowing, defeating him with a wound across his chest and back.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi conceded, declared the karmic ties settled, and departed with his group.

At Shangqing Palace, Tongtian discovered that Duobao’s misfortunes had begun after he used Bai Jin’s Treasure Dropping Coin and restored Duobao’s chaotic fortune. Duobao thanked his master, while the coin remained with Tongtian.

• Bai Jin helped the injured Shi Ji leave, and Holy Mother Wudang teased him about how he had reacted when Duobao was hurt.
• Duobao was buried by a falling rock, then suffered a series of mishaps on his way to Shangqing Palace and asked Tongtian to uphold justice for him.
• Tongtian summoned Bai Jin, and Duobao thanked him for the Treasure Dropping Coin even as Bai Jin protested that he had only lent it.
• Tongtian took the coin and explained that using it further could bring Duobao close to perishing, prompting Duobao to realize it had triggered his bad luck.
• Tongtian rebuked Duobao for letting his chaotic fortune cloud his judgment, then gathered Duobao’s fortune back into a divine wheel.

Bai Jin reclaimed the Treasure Dropping Coin from Tongtian and obtained healing pills from Taishang for Shi Ji. Taishang also sent him to deliver tea to Nuwa at Buzhou Mountain, and Bai Jin set out with the errand ahead.

• Tongtian returned the Treasure Dropping Coin to Bai Jin after warning him about its cost and risks.
• Bai Jin visited Taishang, who praised his restraint during the duel and gave him healing pills for Shi Ji in exchange for delivering tea to Nuwa.
• Taishang told Bai Jin to find Buzhou Mountain by silently reciting its name, and Bai Jin accepted the tea box.
• Bai Jin gave Shi Ji the healing pills and told her to rest while he handled matters outside for a few days.
• Tongtian overheard Bai Jin describing him as cold on the outside but warm within, and Bai Jin hurriedly left Shi Ji's palace.

Bai Jin traveled from Mount Kunlun to Buzhou Mountain with tea for Nuwa and met her brother Fuxi. After sharing tea, Bai Jin listened as Fuxi played the zither, and the music carried him into a trance.

• Bai Jin left Mount Kunlun and spent several years traveling to Buzhou Mountain.
• Bai Jin followed a guiding sensation through the clouds to a valley where Fuxi was playing the zither.
• Bai Jin introduced himself and presented the tea Taishang had sent for Nuwa, and Fuxi explained that Nuwa was comprehending the Dao.
• Fuxi and Bai Jin sat in Nuwa's pavilion, where Fuxi brewed the tea with Cold Pond Heavenly Dew.
• Fuxi played the zither for Bai Jin, who became absorbed in the music and felt as though he were traveling between heaven and earth.

Bai Jin’s clay sculpture helped Nuwa complete her understanding of the Dao of Creation, and she began using the Qiankun Cauldron and Breathing Soil to create living beings. As her creations repeatedly turned back into clay, Bai Jin prepared to ask Fuxi a different question.

• Fuxi played music while Bai Jin comprehended the Dao of Speed, then took him to see Nuwa.
• Bai Jin shaped a Horned Wolf from soil, and his remark that it would be better alive inspired Nuwa to realize her Dao was complete.
• Fuxi took Bai Jin to watch Nuwa use the Qiankun Cauldron and Breathing Soil to create living creatures.
• Nuwa formed a monkey and a tiger that briefly came to life before turning back into clay.
• Bai Jin told Fuxi that his question was not why Nuwa’s creations turned back into clay.

Nuwa completed the Great Dao of Creation and prepared to create a new race called humans as the path to proving her Dao. As the era of saints began, the other major powers reacted to her attainment, and Bai Jin supplied Three Lights Divine Water for her first attempt.

• Nuwa's creation Dao connected with the Heavenly Dao, and immortals across the world sensed that she had attained sainthood.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian watched from Mount Kunlun, while Jieyin and Zhunti discussed abandoning the Profound Sect's Dao.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi told Dijun that the first saint had appeared, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches decided to send Nuwa congratulatory gifts.
• Nuwa completed her clay-creature experiments, then asked Bai Jin what race she should create.
• Bai Jin described the primordial world as vast and lonely, and Nuwa decided to create a race in their likeness called humans.
• Nuwa lit the Qiankun Cauldron and asked Bai Jin for Three Lights Divine Water, which he poured into it.

Empress Nuwa created the Human Race with her essence blood and attained sainthood after receiving Heaven’s merit. She left for the Chaos to establish her Dao field, while Nuling claimed leadership of the newly created humans.

• Nuwa used her essence blood and the Qiankun Cauldron to create Nuling and other humans, then used the Gourd Vine to make their numbers reach ten thousand.
• Nuwa declared the creation of the Human Race, and Heaven’s merit made her a saint while granting merit to the Gourd Vine, the mud pool, and Bai Jin.
• The primordial world’s powerful beings bowed to Saint Nuwa, who announced that she would expound the Great Dao in the Chaos and asked Fuxi and Bai Jin to look after the humans.
• Nuwa accepted the blue luan and Colorful Phoenix as attendants and departed for the Chaos, while Fuxi and Bai Jin vanished from the valley.
• Nuling silenced the humans and declared herself their Clan Leader, arguing that she was the first person Nuwa created and that the Human Race should honor women above all else.

After advancing to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, Bai Jin learned that Fuxi was overseeing the Human Race and agreed not to interfere with their development. Fuxi relocated their settlement from Buzhou Mountain to a safer plain by a great river, where he immediately destroyed an approaching demon horde.

• Bai Jin broke through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, thanked Fuxi for guarding him, and joined him for tea.
• Fuxi explained that the Human Race had become a matriarchal society and that he and Bai Jin had been entrusted with its care; he urged Bai Jin to let the humans develop on their own.
• Fuxi said Buzhou Mountain was unsuitable for the Human Race and used pillars of light to lift their settlement and carry it south to a plain near a great river.
• Nuling asked why Fuxi had moved the humans, and he told them the new land had abundant resources and would be safer for their growth.
• Bai Jin spotted demon clouds approaching from the east, and Fuxi obliterated the demons with a single strike.

Fuxi and Bai Jin left their secluded guardianship of the Human Race after Nuwa invited them to Wa Huang Palace for a Dao lecture. Bai Jin understood nothing from the lecture, and Nuwa told him to return once he had found his own Dao.

• Fuxi and Bai Jin watched the Human Race multiply into tribes for three years while living in seclusion.
• A Colorful Phoenix arrived on Nuwa's order and invited Fuxi and Bai Jin to Wa Huang Palace, where the Human Race hailed them as Sacred Envoys as they departed.
• Bai Jin arrived with Fuxi at Wa Huang Palace, greeted Tongtian, the other great powers, and Nuwa, and took a seat beside Holy Mother Wudang.
• Nuwa expounded the Dao, but Bai Jin could not understand it and admitted that he had gained no insight.
• Nuwa recognized that Bai Jin had yet to comprehend his own Dao and invited him to return for another lecture when he did.

Nuwa concealed her intentions toward the Demon Race while Fuxi joined the Demon Court, prompting the Wu Clan to prepare for war. Back on Mount Kunlun, the Three Pure Ones questioned Bai Jin about Nuwa’s path to Sainthood, and he began describing what he and Fuxi had witnessed.

• Taiyi praised Nuwa for becoming a Saint and declared that the Demon Race had someone to rely on, while Dijun asked her to accept his ten sons as disciples and she refused.
• After the gathering ended, Nuwa told Fuxi to join the Demon Court and earn the Demon Race’s trust, revealing that she intended to let events unfold to her advantage.
• Dijun and Taiyi welcomed Fuxi into the Demon Court, and the Wu Clan learned of his decision and ordered its warriors to prepare for war.
• On Mount Kunlun, Tongtian, Taishang, and Yuanshi questioned Bai Jin about his connection to Nuwa and how she became a Saint.
• Bai Jin told the Three Pure Ones that he and Fuxi had entered the place where Nuwa comprehended the Dao and seen strange things, prompting them to ask for details.

Bai Jin told the Three Pure Ones how his offhand comment had helped Nuwa attain sainthood, then returned to Shangqing Peak. After junior disciples asked him to stop Qiu Shou Xian and Ling Ya Xian from taking over their scripture-reading spots, Bai Jin promised to act, and the rival disciples prepared to challenge them the next morning.

• Bai Jin explained that Nuwa had created humans and attained sainthood after he molded a cute Horned Wolf from mud and said he wished it were alive.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed Nuwa's achievement, and Yuanshi sent Duobao and Wudang away so the brothers could discuss the Dao.
• Shi Ji and other junior disciples told Bai Jin that Qiu Shou Xian and Ling Ya Xian had seized Mirror Lake and another place where they recited scriptures.
• Bai Jin told Shi Ji and the others to resume their morning class at Mirror Lake and promised to avenge a junior sister whose braids Qiu Shou Xian had tugged.
• The next morning, Ling Ya Xian and Qiu Shou Xian heard the disciples reciting scriptures and dismissed Bai Jin's authority compared with Duobao's.

Bai Jin confronted the Outer Sect Disciples who disrupted Mirror Lake, invoked their violations of sect rules, and ordered them into thirty years of seclusion. Ling Ya Xian challenged him, and Bai Jin began the duel with a Qing Tian Sword as Ling Ya Xian raised his twin swords.

• Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears warned Ling Ya Xian not to provoke Bai Jin because Bai Jin could report them to Shangqing Palace.
• The Outer Sect Disciples disrupted Shi Ji and the others’ scripture chanting at Mirror Lake with drinking and noisy play.
• Bai Jin struck the disciples who refused to leave Mirror Lake and declared that it belonged to their Master, not to them.
• Bai Jin questioned Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears about their rule-breaking and ordered the Outer Sect Disciples into thirty years of seclusion.
• Ling Ya Xian challenged Bai Jin, who accepted and summoned a Qing Tian Sword as Ling Ya Xian prepared to fight with his twin swords.

Bai Jin defeated Ling Ya Xian and disciplined the Outer Sect Disciples after arguing that their behavior at Mirror Lake dishonored Tongtian's intentions. Tongtian renamed the lake Quiet Self Lake and sealed the cultivation of those who had indulged there, while Bai Jin later explained his strict approach to Holy Mother Wudang.

• Bai Jin used the Qingxiao Sword to defeat Ling Ya Xian, breaking his shoulder and sending him crashing into a crater.
• Duobao questioned Bai Jin for acting harshly against fellow disciples, and Bai Jin argued that their drinking and feasting at Mirror Lake violated Tongtian's hopes for the place.
• Tongtian renamed Mirror Lake Quiet Self Lake and ordered the cultivation of the disciples who had indulged there sealed for ten years.
• Bai Jin warned the Outer Sect Disciples to obey sect rules and ordered them to sit and recite the Yellow Court Scripture under Shi Ji's guidance.
• Bai Jin told Holy Mother Wudang that he played the villain to keep the Outer Sect in line, then begged her to take over the role, but she declined.

Daoist Duobao warned Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Qiu Shou Xian, and Ling Ya Xian not to provoke Bai Jin, recounting his exploits and influence. The three disciples realized Bai Jin far surpassed their expectations, while Duobao admitted Bai Jin might soon be beyond even his level.

• Holy Mother Wudang declined Bai Jin’s suggestion that she play the villain and floated away.
• Daoist Duobao sealed a secluded valley and asked Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Qiu Shou Xian, and Ling Ya Xian why they had troubled Bai Jin.
• Duobao described how Bai Jin had defied the Western Sect, injured Bifang Demon God, taken the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage, and outwitted Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
• Duobao warned the three disciples that Bai Jin was ruthless and ingenious, and that even he might not be able to save them if they provoked him.
• Duobao revealed that Bai Jin had attended Empress Nuwa’s lecture with Great God Fuxi and had guided a saint toward attaining the Dao.
• Dingguang Immortal with Long Ears, Qiu Shou Xian, and Ling Ya Xian were stunned as Duobao said Bai Jin might eventually outgrow him as an opponent.