Chapter Summaries

Di Jun asked Wu Tian to accept all ten Golden Crows as disciples, hoping to protect his sons amid the coming conflict between the Witch and Demon Clans. Wu Tian refused for now, then proposed making a deal after learning about Nüwa's warning.

• Di Jun admitted he had an important matter to discuss with Wu Tian and asked him to take all his sons as disciples.
• Wu Tian considered the request and worried that accepting the Golden Crows would disrupt his plans involving Zhunti and Hou Yi.
• Di Jun offered Wu Tian the Innate Star Tree and said he would meet other requests, but Wu Tian still declined.
• Di Jun told Wu Tian that Goddess Nüwa had warned him, and Wu Tian remained unwilling to accept the Golden Crows for now.
• Wu Tian used the Pangu Seal and Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler to disrupt the heavenly secrets and proposed a deal to protect the Golden Crows.

Wu Tian offered to protect the Golden Crows and take them as disciples after the Witch-Demon Tribulation in exchange for Di Jun’s support in bringing forth the Human Dao. Di Jun remained reluctant to abandon the Demon Dao, but Wu Tian argued that the coming tribulation made the Human Clan’s rise inevitable.

• Wu Tian offered to protect the Golden Crows during the Witch-Demon Tribulation and take them as disciples afterward, and Di Jun agreed to hear his other condition.
• Wu Tian asked Di Jun to support the Human Dao, arguing that the Demon Dao could not encompass all living beings without the Human Clan and the Witch Clan.
• Wu Tian warned that the Witch-Demon Tribulation could not be avoided and that the Human Clan would be the protagonist of the next tribulation.
• Di Jun argued that they might still overcome the coming tribulation, but eventually asked what Wu Tian wanted him to do.
• Wu Tian asked Di Jun to contribute Demon Clan Fortune to help the Human Dao emerge, and Di Jun rolled his eyes at the suggestion that he compete with Wu Tian for it.

Di Jun agreed to help Wu Tian promote the Human Dao and let Human Clan members serve in the Heavenly Court, while Wu Tian promised to intervene if anything happened to the Golden Crows. When Wu Tian demanded the Chaos Bell in exchange for offering Di Jun a chance to attain the Primordial Origin Dao, Di Jun refused and left.

• Di Jun agreed to support the Human Dao and allowed Human Clan members to serve in the Heavenly Court.
• Wu Tian told Di Jun to proceed with his plans for the Golden Crows and promised to help if trouble arose.
• Di Jun asked what Tongtian had offered for Wu Tian's guidance, and Wu Tian explained that Tongtian's situation was different.
• Wu Tian offered Di Jun an opportunity to attain the Dao and proposed another deal.
• Wu Tian asked Di Jun to give him the Chaos Bell, and Di Jun refused because it belonged to Taiyi.
• Di Jun reaffirmed their earlier agreement, asked Wu Tian to protect his sons and help ease the Witch-Demon Tribulation, then left the Houtu Shrine.

Di Jun struck a deal with Wu Tian to have the Demon Clan support the Human Dao, hoping to protect the Golden Crows, while Wu Tian warned the Ancestral Witches about the growing tribulation aura. Di Jun returned to the Heavenly Court and told Taiyi that he had forgotten to ask about attaining the Dao.

• Di Jun left the Houtu Tribe after agreeing to consider Wu Tian's proposal, and Wu Tian later explained the deal to Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin.
• Wu Tian warned Dijiang that the Heavenly Dao's growing completeness would intensify the tribulation aura, and Dijiang promised to keep the Ancestral Witches in line.
• Di Jun visited Changxi and the Golden Crows beneath the Fusang Tree, told Changxi about his deal with Wu Tian, and confirmed that the barrier around them was complete.
• Di Jun returned to the Heavenly Court, where Taiyi questioned his decision to support the Human Dao instead of establishing the Demon Dao.
• Taiyi asked whether Di Jun had asked Wu Tian about attaining the Dao, and Di Jun admitted that he had forgotten.

As the calamity aura intensified, Di Jun warned Taiyi to guard himself and Fuxi returned to the Demon Clan despite Nüwa’s pleas. Meanwhile, the Human Clan became a center for competing teachings, and Zhunti waited for the growing Witch-Demon conflict to create an opening for the Western Sect.

• Di Jun stopped Taiyi from seeking Wu Tian and told him to use the Chaos Bell to protect himself as the calamity aura rose.
• Nüwa warned Fuxi that the Demon Clan was destined for decline, but Fuxi returned to the clan to repay its karma.
• The rising calamity aura made the two clans’ conflicts more frequent, while Wu Tian watched without intervening and kept his attention on the Human Clan.
• Di Jun brought some members of the Human Clan into the Heavenly Court, while Tongtian’s disciples spread the Shangqing Immortal Arts among them.
• Tongtian’s teachings gained influence among the Human Clan, frustrating Yuanshi and Zhunti as the Western Sect’s efforts were suppressed.
• Zhunti stayed hidden and anticipated that the intensifying Witch-Demon conflict would eventually end the suppression of the Western Sect.

After leaving Kunlun Mountain amid worsening tensions with Yuanshi, Tongtian discovered Golden Ao Island and met Xuan Lang and the three clouds who would become the Three Heavens. He accepted Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao as disciples but revealed that Xuan Lang had another destined master.

• Tongtian left Kunlun Mountain after arguing with Yuanshi and Taiqing, then found and anchored Golden Ao Island in the East Sea.
• Tongtian discovered three spiritually aware clouds and Xuan Lang, an Innate Human Clan member posing as a breeze, and recognized that the mark Wu Tian had given him resonated with Xuan Lang.
• Tongtian transformed the three clouds, dismissed their tribulation, named them Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, and accepted them as his disciples.
• Tongtian gave Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao the Primal Chaos Golden Dou and Golden Flood Shears, while an invisible force prevented Xuan Lang from bowing as a disciple.
• The Three Heavens defended Xuan Lang as their elder brother, and Tongtian told them that Xuan Lang had another destined master and an opportunity of his own.

Wu Tian personally accepted Xuan Lang as his disciple and renamed him Zhao Gongming, then entrusted Tongtian with teaching him while Wu Tian attended to Suirenshi’s emergence. Zhao Gongming stayed with Tongtian and the Three Heavens, carrying a Martial Dao mark from Wu Tian and receiving treasures from Tongtian.

• Wu Tian manifested through the mark Zhao Gongming had received, and Xuan Lang and the Three Heavens greeted him as their Ancestor.
• Wu Tian accepted Xuan Lang as his disciple and gave him the name Zhao Gongming.
• Wu Tian told Zhao Gongming that he would study under Tongtian for now, then passed a Martial Dao mark into his brow before departing.
• Tongtian agreed to keep Zhao Gongming in the Intercepting Sect and said he would cultivate alongside the Three Heavens.
• Tongtian gave Zhao Gongming several treasures and privately wondered why Wu Tian had not stayed to discuss cultivation insights.

Wu Tian sealed Suirenshi’s cultivation so he could experience mortal life and solve the Human Clan’s need for fire himself. After Suirenshi invented fire-making with flint, Human Clan Fortune surged and Wu Tian used the first Mortal Fire to herald the emergence of Human Dao.

• Wu Tian visited a Human Clan tribe and found Suirenshi struggling to keep fire burning for mortal clansmen.
• Wu Tian told Suirenshi to discover how mortals could make fire themselves, then sealed his cultivation so he could understand their lives firsthand.
• Suirenshi lived among mortals and tried many ways to make fire, experiencing their hardship of eating raw meat.
• Suirenshi saw flint produce sparks against other stones and invented a way to make fire.
• Human Clan Fortune surged, Suirenshi’s cultivation and insights returned, and Wu Tian sent the first Mortal Fire’s divine intent into the Human Clan’s River of Fortune.
• The River of Fortune blazed with Mortal Fire as a profound aura gathered and Human Dao began to emerge.

Wu Tian used Suirenshi’s newly kindled fire and the Human Clan’s fortune to forge the Human Dao, drawing the Heavenly Dao’s wrath. As tribulation lightning descended, the Ancestral Witches arrived to help him.

• Wu Tian entered the Human Clan’s River of Fortune and used the fire to weave laws into the embryonic Human Dao.
• Illusory sparks carrying the beliefs and cultivation laws of the Human and Witch Clans gathered around Wu Tian.
• Master Tongtian, Taiqing, and Yuanshi observed the upheaval, and Taiqing urged the others not to intervene.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered dark tribulation clouds and sent lightning crashing toward Wu Tian.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches shattered the tribulation clouds and declared they had come to help Wu Tian.

Wu Tian strengthened the emerging Human Dao by gaining the Witch Clan’s, Dao Sect’s, Phoenix Clan’s, and Dragon Clan’s support. The Human Dao grew more substantial, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun still had not appeared.

• Wu Tian asked Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches to let the Witch Clan follow the Human Dao, and they offered their fortune and power to its kindling fire.
• Wu Tian claimed the Dao Sect’s Vice Sect Master karmic status, and Taiqing allowed its fortune to enter the Human Dao despite Yuanshi’s protest.
• The Primordial Dragon urged Zhu Long to support Wu Tian, and the Phoenix Clan’s totem also plunged into the kindling fire.
• Zhu Long sent Dragon Clan fortune to the Human Dao through the Human Clan’s dragon totems.
• Wu Tian drew traces of power from deities and totems that received Human Clan incense, adding their auras to the Human Dao.

Wu Tian advanced the Human Dao’s emergence as Di Jun and the Demon Clan lent their Fortune, while Empress Pingxin and Zhen Yuanzi waited for the right moment to help. Just as the Human Dao began to manifest, Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared and sent the Heavenly Dao’s power to invade it.

• Wu Tian wondered why Dao Ancestor Hongjun had not intervened, then urged Di Jun to act.
• Di Jun consulted Fuxi, who argued that supporting the Human Dao could also benefit the Demon Clan, and then sent the Demon Clan’s Fortune toward the Human Clan’s River of Fortune.
• Taiqing considered whether the Human Dao held the opportunity Wu Tian had mentioned, while Tongtian hesitated to intervene; Primordial Dragon and Zhu Long were relieved they had joined Wu Tian earlier.
• Empress Pingxin told the anxious Zhen Yuanzi to wait until Dao Ancestor Hongjun made his move, so they could counter him at the crucial moment.
• The Demon Clan felt a new path stir within them, and the Human Dao’s Fortune gathered enough strength for an arcane aura to emerge.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared and sent black Heavenly Dao chains toward the Human Dao’s River of Fortune, prompting Wu Tian to activate his formation and raise the Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler.

Hongjun Dao Ancestor tried to suppress the Human Dao as it emerged, while Wu Tian and his allies resisted with the Earth Dao and their combined strength. Empress Pingxin appeared in the Primordial Wilderness, and Hongjun Dao Ancestor questioned why she had broken their agreement.

• Hongjun Dao Ancestor attacked the emerging Human Dao with the Heavenly Dao’s laws, and the Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler clashed with the Creation Jade Plate.
• Empress Pingxin tried to bring the Earth Dao to the Human Dao, but Zixiao Palace suppressed its power and blocked her.
• Taiqing persuaded Yuanshi and Tongtian not to intervene, while Di Jun used the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Formation to protect the Primordial World and questioned whether the Witch-Demon War could be avoided.
• The Ancestral Witches attacked Hongjun Dao Ancestor’s treasures as Wu Tian drew on his own power and unleashed the Earth Dao to resist the Heavenly Dao.
• Pangu Hall struck Zixiao Palace aside, and Empress Pingxin appeared on a twenty-fourth-grade lotus platform as Hongjun Dao Ancestor asked why she had left the Underworld despite their agreement.

Empress Pingxin intervened when Dao Ancestor Hongjun tried to suppress the newly emerged Human Dao, arguing that Heaven, Earth, and Humanity must remain in balance. Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao Saints opposed the Human Dao’s rise, and the chapter ended with Wu Tian challenging Yuanshi’s claim that Wu Tian sought to control it.

• Empress Pingxin invoked her agreement with Hongjun to justify leaving the Underworld and warned that strengthening the Heavenly Dao while suppressing the Earthly and Human Dao would unbalance the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hongjun refused to back down, calling his opposition the great trend of the Heavenly Dao, and summoned the Heavenly Dao Saints to act against the Human Dao’s emergence.
• The Three Pure Ones, Di Jun, and other powerful figures gathered while the Ancestral Witches stood behind Wu Tian, ready to fight.
• Wu Tian worried that conflict among the three Dao would harm living beings and asked Hongjun what the great trend of the Heavenly Dao meant.
• Yuanshi accused Wu Tian of trying to seize control of the Human Dao, and Wu Tian retorted that Yuanshi sought to replace Heaven’s heart with his own.

Wu Tian declared that he would not monopolize Human Dao and transformed it into an inheritance shared among all living beings of the Primordial Wilderness. His decision left Yuanshi and Di Jun humbled as Human Dao spread through the hearts of the myriad beings.

• Taiqing stopped Yuanshi from confronting Wu Tian, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun silently endured Wu Tian's veiled criticism.
• Empress Pingxin urged Wu Tian to let Human Dao remain hidden in the Human Clan's River of Fortune, but Wu Tian chose to act differently.
• Wu Tian used the Pangu Seal to vow that Human Dao would belong to all living beings and that those with merit could receive its Fortune.
• Wu Tian sent the Pangu Seal into Human Dao, causing its inheritance to scatter into the hearts of all living beings across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Yuanshi felt ashamed of his suspicions, and Di Jun admired Wu Tian for giving up the chance to control Human Dao.

Wu Tian spread the Human Dao into the hearts of all living beings, making it difficult for Dao Ancestor Hongjun to suppress without opposing the Primordial Wilderness. As the Human Dao stabilized the world, Hongjun withdrew, leaving Wu Tian’s new path open.

• Di Jun realized that his Demon Dao had failed because he had not opened it to all living beings, while Primordial Dragon and Zhu Long celebrated the Dragon Clan’s chance to gain Human Dao Fortune.
• Primordial Dragon reconsidered reincarnating into the Human Clan and told Zhu Long to send younger Dragon Clan members to serve among humans and strengthen the Dragon Clan totem.
• Sage Zhunti resented that Wu Tian had excluded the Western World, though Zhunti had contributed nothing to the Human Dao’s emergence.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun silently signaled Empress Pingxin and withdrew, letting the oppressive Heavenly Dao Power dissipate as heaven and earth grew stable.
• Wu Tian smiled when he understood that Hongjun had left because further confrontation would only damage the Dao Ancestor’s dignity.

Suirenshi received Heavenly Merit for discovering fire, and Wu Tian urged him to spread fire-making methods among the Human Clan to complete his merit. After Wu Tian invited cultivators to join the Human Dao, Empress Pingxin brought him and the Ancestral Witches to the Underworld, where he explained why he had opened the Human Dao to all living beings.

• Heavenly Merit descended for Suirenshi's discovery of fire, and Wu Tian told him to teach fire-making throughout the Human Clan and develop additional methods.
• Wu Tian invited the gathered cultivators to join the Human Dao and gain its Fortune, then Empress Pingxin transported him and the Ancestral Witches away.
• Primordial Dragon, Di Jun, and Tongtian were left unable to speak with Wu Tian, while the others noticed Zhunti had disappeared.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches confronted Wu Tian for yielding control of the Human Dao, but Wu Tian explained that it had to embrace all living beings to attract their support.
• Empress Pingxin praised Wu Tian for giving things up to earn people's trust, and Dijiang worried that the Human Dao had been given away for nothing.
• Empress Pingxin asked Dijiang who said it had been a loss.

Empress Pingxin explained that the Human-Witch Alliance and Wu Tian would retain their standing even if he gave up direct control of Human Dao. After the Ancestral Witches left with Pangu Hall, she warned Wu Tian that Hongjun could exploit the turmoil caused by Human Dao and that Heavenly Dao might draw the Saints into the Witch-Demon Tribulation.

• Xuan Ming reasoned that Wu Tian would remain the Human Saint-Father because Human Dao rested on the Human-Witch Alliance and his contribution, and Empress Pingxin agreed.
• Wu Tian received a flood of insights from Human Dao’s Fortune while Empress Pingxin returned Pangu Hall to Dijiang to suppress the Witch Clan’s Fortune.
• Dijiang accepted Pangu Hall and led the Ancestral Witches through a Netherworld passage, preparing to discipline Zhu Rong, Gonggong, and the other troublemakers.
• Empress Pingxin told Wu Tian that Hongjun could use turmoil in Heavenly Dao to deepen his control over it.
• Empress Pingxin warned Wu Tian that Heavenly Dao might send the Saints into the fray and ignite the Witch-Demon Tribulation.

Wu Tian arranged for Zhen Yuanzi to leave the Underworld and help protect the Human-Witch Alliance during the coming Lich War tribulation. Zhen Yuanzi agreed, while his dharma-body remained in Fengdu City, and Wu Tian prepared to return to the Primordial World.

• Zhen Yuanzi apologized to Wu Tian and Empress Pingxin for being unable to help when the Human Dao emerged, and they praised his work strengthening the Earthly Dao through Fengdu City.
• Zhen Yuanzi offered to leave a dharma-body in Fengdu City and return to the Primordial Wilderness to help Wu Tian.
• Wu Tian asked Zhen Yuanzi to stay at Wuzhuang Temple and use the Earth Book to stabilize Heaven and Earth and protect the Human-Witch Alliance during the coming great battle.
• Zhen Yuanzi recognized that the assignment would bring him merit and Human Dao Fortune, but agreed to protect their people.
• Zhen Yuanzi sent his Fengdu Emperor dharma manifestation back to Fengdu City, then he and Wu Tian bid farewell to Empress Pingxin and prepared to return to the Primordial World.

Wu Tian returned from the Underworld with Zhen Yuanzi and went to the Houtu Tribe, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun considered how to steer the Tribulation of the Lich War and strengthen the Demon Clan. Hongjun then appeared before Zhunti, who had been gathering spiritual treasures, and Zhunti asked what instructions he had.

• Empress Pingxin suggested the Ancestral Witches might only accept retreating to the Underworld at the last moment, and Wu Tian departed with Zhen Yuanzi.
• Wu Tian suggested Zhen Yuanzi move Five Manor Temple to the East Sea, then descended toward the Houtu Tribe after Zhen Yuanzi left.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun reflected on Wu Tian rejecting control of the Human Dao and considered ways to influence Di Jun and the Lich War.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun decided to approach Jieyin and Zhunti, who hoped to use the war to strengthen the Western Sect.
• Sage Zhunti gathered spiritual plants and beasts, then encountered Dao Ancestor Hongjun and asked what instructions he had.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun persuaded Sage Zhunti to help steer the Witch-Demon Tribulation by promising a period of great prosperity for the west, though he left Zhunti without instructions. Back at Kunlun Mountain, the Three Pure Ones returned to find Zhao Gongming and the Intercepting Sect disciples fighting the Expounding Sect, and Yuanshi blamed Tongtian for the conflict.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun hinted that the west would prosper during a Tribulation, prompting Sage Zhunti to commit to upholding the Heavenly Dao’s great trend.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun vanished before explaining when or how the west would prosper, leaving Sage Zhunti to conclude that he had no choice but to act.
• The Three Pure Ones returned to Kunlun Mountain and stopped a brawl between the Expounding Sect and the Intercepting Sect.
• Zhao Gongming had started the fight after condemning Human Clan disciples of the Expounding Sect for criticizing Wu Tian and forgetting their origins.
• Yuanshi berated Tongtian for accepting all kinds of disciples and keeping an outsider’s disciple, Zhao Gongming, among them.