Chapter Summaries

Nuwa challenged Zheng Fa to explain why humans should be created, prompting him to launch a Dao Body Design project in both the Nine Mountains Realm and the Modern World. At the Five Organs Temple, White Lotus displayed his Merit Golden Wheel and was seen as a possible candidate for the seventh meditation cushion.

• Nuwa revealed that she had studied seventy-two powerful lifeforms while seeking a species suited to carrying and advancing the Dao, then asked Zheng Fa why she should choose humans.
• Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains University group concluded that humans served as vessels for the spread and development of the Dao, and the Heavenly Emperor Body proposed researching the ideal Dao Body.
• Gu Chang suggested that human Spirit Roots enabled compatibility with many cultivation methods, giving the group a starting point for Dao Body Design.
• The Heavenly Emperor Body arranged a Dao Body Design project in the Nine Mountains Realm, while Zheng Fa set up complementary research in the Modern World.
• White Lotus showed the Five Organs Temple group his Merit Golden Wheel, which could aid comprehension and ward off evil, and the Lu Clan's Great Elder suggested White Lotus might earn the seventh meditation cushion.

Zheng Fa sought guidance from White Bone Devil Ancestor on transformation arts and adapted the Ten Thousand Transforming Bones method to advance Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Transformation. After several years of secluded cultivation, he mastered the method and transformed into a true dragon, though its cultivation was only at the True Spirit Realm.

• Gu God and White Bone Devil Ancestor urged Zheng Fa to share what he had learned from the first Dao lecture, hoping to keep White Lotus from claiming the Primordial Purple Qi.
• Zheng Fa asked White Bone Devil Ancestor about transformation arts and described his doubts about Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Transformation.
• White Bone Devil Ancestor explained the Ten Thousand Transforming Bones method, inspiring Zheng Fa to begin his transformations with a single cell that could reproduce and grow into a complex body.
• Zheng Fa spent several years comprehending the method while the others pursued Merit and opportunities.
• Zheng Fa flew east to a deserted island and transformed into a green true dragon, reaching mastery of Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Transformation.

Zheng Fa attended Daoist Hongjun’s second sermon, which explained cultivation methods tailored to different races. As the Lu Clan struggled to understand the teachings, Zheng Fa’s transformations into a phoenix and Bai Ze drew an overwhelming shower of golden flowers.

• Zheng Fa transformed into a dragon and then a phoenix above the Eastern Sea before Hongjun summoned him to Purple Cloud Palace for the second sermon.
• White Lotus arrived with the Lu Clan’s support, while Zheng Fa realized their alliance mattered because the Lu Clan controlled the gateway to Nine Luminaries Heaven.
• Hongjun began explaining cultivation paths adapted to different races, leaving the human Lu Clan listeners unable to gain much from the sermon.
• The Lu Clan Grand Elder saw that White Lotus and Creation Daoist were gaining greatly, while Zheng Fa initially seemed to receive few golden flowers.
• As Hongjun taught the Phoenix Clan’s cultivation method, Zheng Fa transformed into a multicolored phoenix and was engulfed by golden flowers, then changed into Bai Ze when Hongjun began explaining that creature’s method.

During Hongjun’s second Dao Discussion, Shi Nandang absorbed the cultivation methods of seventy-two powerful races and created the Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Transformations, reaching completion in the Mahayana Stage. The chapter ended with the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa treating him as an equal while the two Buddhist Founders asked White Lotus about their connection to him.

• Shi Nandang used Hongjun’s preaching on seventy-two powerful life forms to forge a Dao Body suited to himself and the Human Race.
• Wrapped in a cocoon of golden flowers, Shi Nandang’s meditation cushion advanced to the foremost seat, though he could not cross the final gap to the seventh cushion before the preaching ended.
• Shi Nandang awoke having completed the Mahayana Stage and realized that he still needed to understand and create a ritual to achieve the Dao Fruit.
• Shi Nandang thanked Nuwa and White Bone Devil Ancestor for inspiring his transformation technique, which he named the Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones praised Shi Nandang’s cultivation art and discussed it with him, while White Lotus watched their closeness with envy.
• Zhunти Founder asked White Lotus whether he knew Shi Nandang, and White Lotus explained that Shi Nandang was their Master’s junior disciple with a deep connection to him.

Zheng Fa accepted Yuanshi’s invitation to the Three Pure Ones Dharma Assembly, which expanded into a Kunlun Dharma Assembly that Nuwa, Zhunти, and Jieyin would also attend. Meanwhile, Cloud True Immortal returned from the Underworld to find Vast Sun Mountain weakened and divided, and grew suspicious after learning Stone Ancestor had escaped during the Underworld’s previous opening.

• Yuanshi invited Zheng Fa to the Three Pure Ones Dharma Assembly in half a year, and Zheng Fa agreed.
• Nuwa asked to attend the gathering, and Zhunти and Jieyin joined; Taishang renamed it the Kunlun Dharma Assembly.
• Nuwa reminded Zheng Fa that she could no longer delay attaining the Dao, leaving him to ponder her question and the Merit tied to creating humanity.
• Cloud True Immortal and other prisoners emerged from the Underworld, and a monk told Cloud True Immortal that the Founder questioned the strange circumstances of its previous opening.
• Cloud True Immortal returned to Vast Sun Mountain and learned the Hundred Immortals Alliance had seized territory, Gu God was gravely injured, and the Lu Clan had fed him captives from allied clans.
• Cloud True Immortal learned that Shi Nandang had escaped during the Underworld’s previous breach and questioned what had happened then.

Cloud True Immortal returned to Vast Sun Mountain and confronted growing loyalty to Stone Nandang among the Yun and Luo Clans, while he investigated Stone Nandang’s identity and prepared the Lu Clan to stop him. As Stone Nandang remained inside Nine Luminaries Heaven, Cloud True Immortal secretly armed the Golden Sun Burning-Heaven Formation and warned of spies within the sect.

• Yun Fan pleaded with Cloud True Immortal not to suspect Stone Nandang, arguing that Stone Nandang had protected Vast Sun Mountain and the Yun Clan from the Lu Clan.
• Cloud True Immortal struck Yun Fan down, then listened as Yun Fan insisted that Stone Nandang’s actions mattered more than his unknown identity and warned that Vast Sun Mountain could not survive the dangers facing Xuanwei alone.
• Cloud True Immortal questioned Stone Nandang’s master about his disciple’s history and concluded that the current Stone Nandang might not be the original, while Stone Nandang’s master realized the intruder could be after the Holy Ancestor Relic in Nine Luminaries Heaven.
• Cloud True Immortal learned who had entered Nine Luminaries Heaven and revealed that he had long controlled the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow, then ordered the Lu Clan to prepare the Golden Sun Burning-Heaven Formation.
• Cloud True Immortal warned Stone Nandang’s master that Nine Mountains Sect might have spies among the Yun and Luo Clans, and ordered him to keep the formation plan secret from everyone outside the Lu Clan.

The Nine Mountains Sect decided to pursue Vast Sun Mountain’s Golden Sun Burning-Heaven Formation, while Zheng Fa traveled to Kunlun to present his Dao Body Design research. He entered the secluded place of the Three Pure Ones, but the other Five Organs Temple members were barred, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng lost his cultivation knowledge and bloodline inheritance after forcing his way in.

• The Nine Mountains Sect learned that Cloud True Immortal planned to ambush Zheng Fa and discussed acquiring Vast Sun Mountain’s Golden Sun Burning-Heaven Formation; Old Yuan proposed using the Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Transformations to help Cloud True Immortal switch sides.
• Zheng Fa prepared his Dao Body Design manuscript and rode a Golden Phoenix to Kunlun, while Gu God, White Bone Devil Ancestor, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, White Lotus, and Creation Daoist secretly followed him.
• Zheng Fa reached a hidden mountain path and was admitted to the secluded place of Yuanshi, while his pursuers failed to gain entry.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng forced open a vortex and tried to enter, but Lady Nuwa struck him and erased the cultivation methods and inheritance he had learned.
• White Lotus revealed that Thunderclap Temple’s methods originated with the two Founders, and Zheng Fa realized that six powerful Saints would judge his presentation.

Zheng Fa defended the creation of the Human Race before Nuwa and the Five Sages, arguing that human compatibility, low cultivation costs, and innate wisdom allowed Dao methods to spread and evolve. Nuwa accepted that Zheng Fa had grasped the value of humanity, while the Five Sages offered him a choice of one of their inheritances if he passed her test.

• Tongtian proposed that the Five Sages each offer Zheng Fa a treasure or cultivation method if he passed Nuwa’s test, with Zheng Fa allowed to choose only one.
• Zheng Fa presented his paper and explained that humanity’s Spirit Roots would let people cultivate widely shared Dao methods and exchange them across generations.
• Zheng Fa argued that humans were inexpensive to reproduce and possessed innate wisdom that enabled them to create, revise, and improve cultivation methods.
• Zheng Fa credited others for much of his work and said humanity’s strength lay in cooperation and in future generations surpassing their predecessors.
• Nuwa admitted she had not planned the deeper meaning Zheng Fa described, and Yuanshi said Zheng Fa’s ideas aligned with his disciples’ principles.

Zheng Fa showed Nuwa and the Five Saints how Human Race members advanced Daoist arts through broad education and organized research, presenting evidence from his two worlds. The demonstration impressed the saints, but Tongtian’s comparison of their disciples’ achievements left the hall in tense silence.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian argued over whether disciples should be selected from the most exceptional or accepted widely, then asked Zheng Fa whose view was right.
• Zheng Fa told Nuwa that he could not judge whether creating humans was right or wrong, and presented a documentary of his two worlds instead.
• Tang Lingwu’s footage showed the Immortal Way Federation’s research institute, where free education and skilled teachers helped cultivate promising Human Race researchers.
• Mu Qingyan showed Literary Star Island, where the Nine Mountains Sect compiled knowledge and produced new cultivation methods, Dharma Treasures, medicines, and formations.
• Tongtian challenged Yuanshi to name comparable achievements by his disciples, and the hall fell silent.

Zheng Fa proved the Human Race’s strength by defeating three Sage disciples with the Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Transformations and the Green Duckweed Sword, then learned that Nuwa’s test had been whether he understood why she created humanity. The Sages left the Jade Void Palace with Zheng Fa and Nuwa, while White Lotus watched Zheng Fa speak comfortably with his Founder.

• Tongtian, Yuanshi, and Zhunти sent Holy Mother Guiling, Yellow Dragon True Person, and Ksitigarbha to test Zheng Fa, who agreed to fight without his Heavenly Dao-bestowed divine abilities.
• Zheng Fa transformed into a Blood-Winged Black Mosquito and forced Holy Mother Guiling to concede, then used a Golden-Winged Great Peng transformation to defeat Yellow Dragon True Person.
• Ksitigarbha trapped Zheng Fa in the Womb Treasury Realm, but Zheng Fa used the Green Duckweed Sword to shatter it and defeat him.
• Nuwa revealed that Zheng Fa had passed her test by understanding why she created the Human Race, and she admitted she had brought him along partly to show off her talented creation.
• The Sages emerged from the Jade Void Palace, and White Lotus watched Zheng Fa and Nuwa converse with them, losing his smug expression.

Zheng Fa watched Nuwa create humanity with the Cosmos Cauldron and learned how it could turn Postcelestial things into Precelestial ones. After Nuwa attained Sainthood and entrusted humanity’s future to Zheng Fa, merit descended upon him and she urged him to attain his Dao Fruit.

• Taishang and the other Saints explained that Precelestial treasures were manifestations of the Heavenly Dao, and Nuwa revealed that the Cosmos Cauldron could merge Postcelestial things with it.
• Nuwa used ordinary yellow earth and the Cosmos Cauldron to create over a thousand humans, then made three wishes for humanity’s survival, peace, and wisdom.
• Nuwa attained the Dao as golden merit surged from Heaven, and the Saints joined her in pledging to protect humanity.
• Nuwa solemnly entrusted humanity’s future to Zheng Fa, stunning White Lotus, Creation Daoist, and the others.
• Nuwa sent a portion of the merit toward Zheng Fa and told him to attain his Dao Fruit, prompting him to leap into the air.

Zheng Fa revealed his true identity and began proving a Dao Fruit founded on humanity, cooperation, and renewal, with the newborn Human Race serving as his entire audience. His vow was acknowledged and the Loose Immortal Tribulation began, while Gu God faced pressure to sabotage him at his most vulnerable moment.

• Nuwa explained that rituals connected the Three Powers and helped Zheng Fa understand the Dao Fruit as both the cultivator’s unity and a seed spread through heaven, earth, and humanity.
• Zheng Fa revealed himself as he opened his consciousness and cultivation to all, exposing that he had been disguised as Shi Nandang; Gu God, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, and White Lotus recognized him and discussed stopping his ascension.
• White Lotus urged Gu God to attack Zheng Fa during his tribulation, promising Thunderclap Temple’s aid and saying she could be resurrected if she died in Nine Luminaries Heaven.
• Zheng Fa vowed to uphold humanity, the many, and renewal, calling on the Human Race to inherit earlier wisdom, merge methods, and open new heavens.
• The newborn humans repeated Zheng Fa’s vow, and the assembled powers realized that their acknowledgment could serve as the audience his Dao Fruit required; the ritual succeeded and the Dao Fruit Tribulation began.
• White Lotus told Gu God that Zheng Fa’s powerful oath would make the tribulation especially difficult and pressed her to use that moment to stop him.

Zheng Fa passed the Heavenly Heart and Earth Tribulations with help from his avatars, then faced a Human Tribulation in which the myriad races attacked him. Nuwa’s merit protected him from every assault, allowing him to attain the Dao Fruit as a Loose Immortal.

• Zheng Fa’s Heavenly Heart Tribulation scattered him across countless lives, but the Sword Dao Body awakened him and helped him return to his Dao Path.
• Zheng Fa emerged from the Earth Tribulation unscathed, while White Lotus explained that his final Human Tribulation would come from those bound to him by karma.
• The myriad races gathered to stop Zheng Fa, and White Lotus and the others considered intervening to protect their chance at obtaining the Primordial Purple Qi.
• The myriad races attacked Zheng Fa, but Nuwa’s merit dissolved their blows and gathered behind his head.
• Nuwa congratulated Zheng Fa on attaining the Dao Fruit, and he thanked her for protecting him.

After becoming a Loose Immortal, Zheng Fa received the Void Crown and was offered inheritance tokens by the Five Saints, who urged him to choose carefully. While he stayed in Kunlun, White Lotus and the others debated how to deal with him, and Golden-Winged Great Peng warned that Zheng Fa might take the Primordial Purple Qi and claim Thunderclap Temple’s leadership.

• Nuwa’s Merit formed the Void Crown above Zheng Fa, granting him a powerful defensive treasure, and Tongtian and the others congratulated him on attaining Loose Immortalhood.
• White Lotus accused Zheng Fa of being an enemy of Buddhism, but Zhunти blamed Thunderclap Temple for the conflict and proposed passing its leadership to Zheng Fa.
• Jieyin, Tongtian, Taishang Daoist, and Yuanshi each gave Zheng Fa an inheritance token, while Nuwa told him to choose according to his heart and not rush.
• White Lotus returned to Five Organs Temple and learned that Shi Nandang had been Zheng Fa in disguise; fearing another disguise, he dismissed the Lu Clan members before discussing Zheng Fa with the others.
• Zheng Fa used Thousand-Eyed Cicadas to spy on White Lotus and the others, who argued over whether to destroy the Nine Luminaries Heaven illusion or let Zheng Fa obtain the Primordial Purple Qi and then kill him.
• Golden-Winged Great Peng warned White Lotus that Zheng Fa could take the Golden Lotus to Thunderclap Temple and become its master, leaving White Lotus’s own future uncertain.

White Lotus tried to destroy the Nine Luminaries Heaven illusion and seize Zheng Fa, but Creation Daoist revealed overwhelming power and subdued him, exposing himself as a threat to Zheng Fa. The Nine Mountains Sect prepared an escape route and plans to strengthen its defenses, then infiltrated Vast Sun Mountain’s treasuries to secure the resources it needed.

• White Lotus chose to break the illusion and attack Zheng Fa, but Creation Daoist turned on him and subdued him, revealing that he was not a True Immortal.
• The Heavenly Emperor Body and Senior Sister Zhang realized Creation Daoist wanted the Primordial Purple Qi and planned to seize Nine Luminaries Heaven’s entrance and upgrade the Immortal-Slayer Sword Formation.
• The Nine Mountains Sect discovered it lacked the spirit materials to upgrade the formation, so Old Yuan proposed taking Vast Sun Mountain’s Golden Sun Burning-Heaven Formation and resources.
• Shi Nandang's master obtained Cloud True Immortal’s token and verbal decree, allowing the disguised Nine Mountains Sect members to requisition Thousand Wonders Peak’s treasury.
• Uncle-Master Pang used the decree to drive Yun Fan away, and the group opened Vast Sun Mountain’s treasury passage and prepared to take its accumulated wealth.

With the Bodhi Seed’s aid, Zheng Fa comprehended a new cultivation path and earned the seventh cushion in Purple Cloud Palace. He awoke in the modern world beside Daoist Hongjun, who questioned whether Zheng Fa’s treasure was also called the Creation Jade Disc.

• Daoist Hongjun explained Proving the Dao Through Force, gaining Merit, and severing the Three Corpses as paths to Sagehood.
• Zheng Fa used the Bodhi Seed to comprehend the Inner Landscape Scripture, which described cultivating Body Spirits and advancing beyond the Dao Fruit.
• The Bodhi Seed shattered as Zheng Fa completed the scripture, and his Body Spirits emerged in a surge of immortal essence.
• Daoist Hongjun praised Zheng Fa and moved him to the seventh cushion, while the other guests congratulated him and Creation Daoist secretly coveted his insights.
• Zheng Fa awoke above a Federation Spirit Vein with Daoist Hongjun beside him, and Hongjun asked whether his Dharma Treasure was also called the Creation Jade Disc.

Daoist Hongjun explored Zheng Fa’s modern world firsthand, then visited the Nursing Home and pressed Zheng Fa to accept Primordial Purple Qi. Zheng Fa feared Creation Daoist would steal it, but Hongjun revealed that the modern world was also Nine Luminaries Heaven, making the Qi necessary to protect it.

• Daoist Hongjun recreated the universe in his palm, then walked through the modern city with Zheng Fa and sampled its food while learning about ordinary people’s lives.
• Hongjun attended an elementary school, worked a day, and secretly studied at a university before he and Zheng Fa reached Rainbow Mountain months later.
• At the Nursing Home, Hongjun told Zheng Fa that he was qualified to receive Primordial Purple Qi, but Zheng Fa hesitated because Creation Daoist might take it.
• Tang Lingwu defended Zheng Fa and urged him to recognize the value of accepting the Qi.
• Hongjun asked how Zheng Fa would protect the world without Primordial Purple Qi and revealed that the modern world was also Nine Luminaries Heaven.

Daoist Hongjun explained that Primordial Purple Qi arose through the Human Race’s growth and the spread of Dao methods, and that its final strand would determine the Human Race’s mature path. Zheng Fa learned that Lu Mo had pursued the qi across several lives and that the Fusang Wood tied their rivalry to the fate of the Modern World.

• Daoist Hongjun told Zheng Fa that Creation Daoist could reach the Modern World through the Nine Luminaries Heaven, whose entrance was hidden by Primordial Purple Qi.
• Zheng Fa explained that he would choose the Modern World over the Xuanwei Realm, and Hongjun revealed that Lu Mo had pursued Primordial Purple Qi across his lives by becoming part of the Human Race.
• Hongjun explained that Primordial Purple Qi was born through the Human Race’s development and the spread of Dao methods, while the Sages disagreed over how humanity should perfect or escape the incomplete Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun told Zheng Fa that the final strand of Primordial Purple Qi would determine the Human Race’s mature Dao-method system, making Zheng Fa responsible for choosing its direction.
• Hongjun revealed that Eastern Emperor Taiyi had hidden the qi he seized from Hongyun inside the Fusang Wood, explaining why Zheng Fa and Lu Mo could not coexist.

Zheng Fa learned that the Primordial Purple Qi would let the Human Race determine its own future, then received it from Hongjun and the six Sages. After the Purple Cloud Palace vanished, Creation Daoist demanded the purple qi, but Zheng Fa escaped to another world and left him behind.

• Hongjun explained to Zheng Fa that the Primordial Purple Qi determined the future of Human Race civilization and that Zheng Fa would have to choose its path.
• Zheng Fa returned to the Purple Cloud Palace, studied Hongjun's teachings, and received the Primordial Purple Qi, which connected the Creation Jade Disc across worlds.
• Hongjun and the six Sages saluted Zheng Fa and entrusted him with guiding Human Race civilization before they disappeared with the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Creation Daoist demanded the Primordial Purple Qi, revealing his anger at Lu Mo for leaving him to guard Nine Luminaries Heaven.
• Zheng Fa asked what Lu Mo had guarded against, then vanished and told Creation Daoist that he had been guarding against another world.

Zheng Fa merged with his Modern World counterpart and hid in the Modern World to escape Creation Daoist, then discovered that the Primordial Purple Qi could fuse with the Fusang Wood and grant him control over the world’s flow of time. The chapter ended with Old Man Bai asking how much the Modern World’s time could be accelerated.

• Zheng Fa entered the Modern World, where the Yin-Yang Fish Jade Pendant merged his two selves into one.
• Zheng Fa told Old Man Bai, Tang Lingwu, and the others about Creation Daoist, the passage between worlds, and his plan to use an avatar as a diversion while hiding the Primordial Purple Qi.
• The Primordial Purple Qi flew from Zheng Fa’s hand and settled on the Fusang Wood in the sun, so Zheng Fa placed the Creation Jade Disc there as well.
• Zheng Fa sensed that the Primordial Purple Qi and Fusang Wood let him regulate time, and he accelerated the Modern World to twice the speed of the Xuanwei Realm.
• Old Man Bai eagerly asked Zheng Fa how fast he could make time flow.