Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ming completed her Primordial Origin Dao attainment, and Taiqing reconsidered the Three Pure Ones’ path after witnessing her transformation. She offered to fight for Wu Tian again, leaving the Witch Clan’s allies united in the Underworld.

• Xuan Ming’s Dharma manifestation regained her true aura and vanished, leaving Taiqing and Yuanshi unsettled.
• Taiqing wondered whether the Three Pure Ones had to follow Hongjun’s Three Corpses path and defended Wu Tian’s favor toward Xuan Ming.
• Taiqing told Yuanshi to calm his anger and stabilize his Dao Heart before returning to Mount Shouyang.
• Xuan Ming unified her aura with the Primordial Origin, absorbed the Innate Red Hydrangea, and thanked Empress Pingxin.
• Xuan Ming told Wu Tian that she could fight for him again if anyone opposed him.

Wu Tian reunited Xuan Ming with the Ancestral Witches and arranged for Zhen Yuanzi to prepare for Hongyun’s attainment of the Dao as the Earthly Sovereign. They returned to Thunder Marsh, where Queen Mother of the West and Nüwa heard how Empress Pingxin had helped Xuan Ming attain the Dao.

• Empress Pingxin brought Wu Tian and the Ancestral Witches into the Six Paths Reincarnation Hall, where they celebrated Xuan Ming’s attainment of the Dao.
• Empress Pingxin proposed sending the Ancestral Witches into Chaos to temper themselves, and Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin agreed.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived in the Underworld and asked Wu Tian whether he should seek Hongyun’s reincarnated body before Fuxi attained the Dao.
• Wu Tian invited Zhen Yuanzi to return with him to the Primordial Wilderness, while Xuan Ming stayed behind to stabilize her cultivation.
• Wu Tian and Zhen Yuanzi returned to Thunder Marsh, where Wu Tian explained Xuan Ming’s attainment to Queen Mother of the West and Nüwa.

Queen Mother of the West and Nüwa left after visiting Wu Tian, while Zhen Yuanzi stayed to discuss the Human Clan and Fuxi’s cultivation with him. Fuxi gained the tribes’ recognition as their Common Lord and began seeking the Dao that would guide mortals; as he contemplated the Luo River, Ying Long arrived carrying the Hetu Luoshu.

• Queen Mother of the West departed with Zhao Gongming and the Three Heavens, and Nüwa left after saying she would return when her elder brother attained the Dao.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked Wu Tian about the Human Clan, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and Human Clan Fortune, and Wu Tian answered his questions.
• Fuxi spread his inventions and teachings about marriage, earning recognition from the tribes as their Common Lord of All Under Heaven.
• Fuxi contemplated the Taiji Diagram but realized it only offered inspiration, then considered how to teach mortals to understand heaven and earth and avoid misfortune.
• Fuxi observed the heavens, earth, and living things before sitting beside the Luo River, where Xuandu and Kong Xuan arranged for Ying Long to bring him the Hetu Luoshu.
• Ying Long appeared before Fuxi in his true dragon form with the Hetu Luoshu on his back, interrupting Fuxi’s immersion in enlightenment.

Fuxi studied the Hetu Luoshu and attained enlightenment while Ying Long, Xuandu, and Kong Xuan protected him. He created the Innate Eight Trigrams, but heaven and earth’s pressure descended upon them as they began to manifest.

• The Hetu Luoshu flew into Fuxi’s hand, and its insights carried him into enlightenment.
• Ying Long, Xuandu, and Kong Xuan formed a protective formation around Fuxi.
• Wu Tian and Zhen Yuanzi watched Fuxi’s progress and discussed disciples and their attendants.
• Fuxi awakened, summoned the eight trigrams, and declared, “Innate Eight Trigrams, arise!”
• The trigrams began to revolve and transform as bleak winds and clouds gathered and immense pressure bore down on Fuxi.

Fuxi’s comprehension of the Innate Eight Trigrams provoked heavenly tribulation, but Wu Tian protected him and negotiated Human Dao restrictions on using the trigrams to reveal heavenly secrets. Fuxi then broke through to the Quasi-Sage realm, and the chapter ended with his aura stabilized and the Eight Trigrams turning in his eyes.

• Xuandu, Kong Xuan, and Ying Long prepared to defend Fuxi as heavenly tribulation gathered, but Wu Tian and Zhenyuanzi appeared and told them to withdraw.
• Wu Tian shielded Fuxi with the Pangu Seal and proposed that the Human Dao impose backlash on those who abused the Innate Eight Trigrams to reveal heavenly secrets.
• The Innate Eight Trigrams entered the Human Dao’s River of Fortune, gained a closer connection to it, and dissolved the final bolts of tribulation lightning.
• Fuxi absorbed the laws embodied by the trigrams and broke through from peak Great Luo Golden Immortal to Quasi-Sage, with his merit driving his cultivation further.
• Kong Xuan reassured Ying Long that Fuxi’s rise came from his circumstances and urged him to cultivate patiently; Xuandu praised Kong Xuan’s care for his junior.
• Fuxi stabilized his aura and opened his eyes, where the Eight Trigrams revolved.

Fuxi suppressed his recovered memories of being the Demon Tribe’s Xi Emperor and continued preparing to attain the Dao as Human Clan Heavenly Sovereign, while Shennong advanced agriculture under Zhen Yuanzi’s guidance. As Fuxi’s attainment drew near, Saints and other great cultivators set out for the Human Clan, including Kunpeng, who hoped to see Wu Tian again.

• Fuxi awakened his past-life memories but declared that only Fuxi of the Human Clan remained and suppressed those memories until after he attained the Dao.
• Wu Tian advised Fuxi to continue cultivating among the Human Clan, and Fuxi returned to his tribe to perfect the Innate Eight Trigrams and guide its people.
• Zhen Yuanzi accepted Hongyun’s reincarnated body as his disciple, and the tribes named him Lieshan and Shennong after he taught them to cultivate the five grains.
• Wu Tian took a branch from the Enlightenment Tea Tree and granted it merit, intending to prepare it for Shennong’s future path of medicine.
• Fuxi praised Shennong and named him his successor as co-ruler of the Human Clan as Fuxi’s merits neared completion.
• When Fuxi’s opportunity to attain the Dao arrived, the Saints and Kunpeng headed toward the Human Clan, and Kunpeng looked forward to seeing Wu Tian.

Wu Tian guided Fuxi through his rise as the Human Clan’s common ruler and helped him approach proving the Dao, but a Primordial Violet Qi Fragment appeared that could bind Fuxi to the Heavenly Dao. Xuan Ming prepared to stop it as Taiqing and Yuanshi readied themselves to intervene.

• Kunpeng arrived at the Human Clan’s settlement and took his place behind Wu Tian beside Xuan Ming.
• Nüwa rebuked Yuanshi for rushing to speak, and Taiqing pulled him back.
• Wu Tian summoned Fuxi and proclaimed him the Human Clan’s common ruler, then recounted Fuxi’s merits as the Human Dao empowered him.
• Wu Tian used the Pangu Seal to stabilize the Human Clan’s Fortune and send the Heavenly Sovereign position rune into Fuxi.
• Fuxi’s transformation stalled just short of Primordial Origin until Heavenly Merit descended, and Wu Tian spotted a Primordial Violet Qi Fragment among it.
• Xuan Ming prepared to stop the fragment from merging with Fuxi, while Taiqing and Yuanshi gripped their treasures and raised their power.

Wu Tian stopped Xuan Ming from confronting the Heavenly Dao Saints, explaining that Fuxi's Heavenly Dao position would help him gain influence in the Heavenly Court and keep Fuxi within the Origin Realm. Fuxi attained the Dao as the Human Clan's Heavenly Sovereign, reaffirmed Wu Tian as his teacher, and reunited with Nüwa as her brother.

• Wu Tian stopped Xuan Ming from acting against Taiqing and Yuanshi and explained why he wanted Fuxi to take a Heavenly Dao position.
• Xuan Ming withdrew her aura and agreed to Wu Tian's plan, though she remained hostile toward Taiqing and Yuanshi.
• Fuxi fused with the fragment of Primordial Violet Qi, perfected his Innate Eight Trigrams, and attained the Dao as the Human Clan's Heavenly Sovereign.
• The Human Clan's ancestral figures and people congratulated Fuxi, whose realm stabilized as he turned toward Wu Tian.
• Wu Tian offered to address Fuxi as a fellow Daoist, but Fuxi insisted on calling him Teacher and bowed in gratitude.
• Nüwa called Fuxi her brother, and he returned her greeting before she congratulated him on attaining the Dao.

After Fuxi attained the Dao as the Heavenly Sovereign, Wu Tian sent him to Fire Cloud Cave to cultivate and suppress the Human Clan's Fortune, while Nüwa followed to visit her brother. The chapter ended with Taiqing reclaiming the Taiji Diagram and Xuandu staying among the Human Clan to accumulate merit.

• Wu Tian told Fuxi to cultivate in Fire Cloud Cave and suppress the Human Clan's Fortune, and Fuxi agreed.
• Ying Long offered to escort Fuxi, carried him toward Fire Cloud Cave, and Nüwa followed after receiving Wu Tian's permission.
• Taiqing asked Wu Tian for the Taiji Diagram, and Wu Tian returned it along with the Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler that had been inside.
• Yuanshi challenged Wu Tian to let them study the Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler, but Wu Tian refused to let Yuanshi examine it, angering him into leaving.
• Xuandu told Taiqing that he wished to remain among the Human Clan to accumulate merit, and Taiqing let him stay before following Yuanshi.

After Taiqing left, Tongtian thanked Wu Tian for helping the Three Heavens ascend to Heaven, then borrowed the Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler to seek enlightenment. Wu Tian hoped the insights would strengthen Tongtian and the Intercepting Sect before the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, while Kunpeng felt compelled to strive harder to keep up.

• Xuandu set aside his worries about Taiqing and prepared to continue working with Kong Xuan among the Human Clan.
• Tongtian thanked Wu Tian for helping the Three Heavens enter the Heavenly Court and gain promising positions.
• Wu Tian offered Tongtian the Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler for enlightenment, and Tongtian eagerly accepted it.
• Wu Tian lent Tongtian the treasure in hopes of helping him disperse the Intercepting Sect's baleful qi before the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Tongtian urged the Intercepting Sect disciples to work hard and obey Wu Tian before he departed.
• Kunpeng saw how many powerful figures had drawn close to Wu Tian and resolved to strive harder.

Wu Tian arranged roles for his disciples in the coming affairs of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, preparing them to gain merit and advance their cultivation. After reassuring Kong Xuan about Primordial Phoenix’s future, he took Kunpeng and Xuan Ming into the Primal World.

• Wu Tian sent Xuan Wu to the Heavenly Court to serve under Queen Mother of the West with the soldiers he had trained.
• Wu Tian told Xuandu to remain among the Human Clan, teach Shennong the Dao of the Golden Elixir, and return after the Earth Sovereign attained the Dao.
• Wu Tian gave Kong Xuan a spiritual branch of the Enlightenment Tea Tree and assured him that Primordial Phoenix could eventually escape her suffering.
• Ying Long learned from Fuxi that Fire Cloud Cave belonged to the Primal World and was under Wu Tian’s control, then Wu Tian urged him to gain merit among the Human Clan.
• Wu Tian departed with Kunpeng and Xuan Ming for the Primal World.

Wu Tian told Kunpeng that the Human Clan needed its own writing and urged him to create it after the Earth Sovereign attained the Dao. Kunpeng chose to reincarnate with his true body, entrusting his fate to Wu Tian and Empress Pingxin as he committed himself to the task.

• Wu Tian reassured Kunpeng that he had not needed to join the Witch-Demon Tribulation and told him he would have sought him out in the North Sea.
• Wu Tian explained that the Human Clan needed writing and asked Kunpeng to create it, with the work to begin after the Earth Sovereign attained the Dao.
• Wu Tian opened a passage to reincarnation and suggested that Kunpeng send his Demon Teacher incarnation into the Human Clan.
• Kunpeng refused to use his incarnation and declared that he would reincarnate with his true body to create writing for the Human Clan.

Kunpeng resolved to reincarnate into the Human Clan, and Wu Tian took him to the Underworld to seek Empress Pingxin’s help. Meanwhile, Nüwa reunited with Fuxi in Fire Cloud Cave, then returned to the Origin Realm and invited Golden Spirit to join a gathering that could stir tensions with Xuan Ming.

• Kunpeng firmly chose to reincarnate with his true body, so Wu Tian offered to take him to Empress Pingxin to enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation as a member of the Human Clan.
• Wu Tian left Xuan Ming with Wangshu in the Origin Realm and departed with Kunpeng through an Underworld Passage.
• Nüwa arrived at Fire Cloud Cave, learned that it had become part of the Origin Realm, and reunited with her brother Fuxi after his attainment of the Dao.
• Nüwa told Fuxi that Wu Tian’s guidance had helped her stop holding herself back, and Fuxi said he would stand with Wu Tian and the Human Dao.
• Nüwa sensed Wu Tian’s return but found only Wangshu and Xuan Ming, then proposed inviting Golden Spirit to gather and discuss the Dao.
• Wangshu agreed, and Nüwa sent a saint’s talisman decree toward Yaochi in the Heavenly Court.

Kunpeng reincarnated with his true body under Empress Pingxin’s protection, while Wu Tian learned that Houtu had awakened and now shared a connected but independent existence with Empress Pingxin. When they asked which of them should refine the other, Wu Tian urged them to keep things as they were.

• Kunpeng chose to reincarnate with his true body, and Empress Pingxin sealed his cultivation so he could earn merits among the Human Clan and later regain it.
• Empress Pingxin teased Wu Tian about the gathering of goddesses in the Origin Realm, but he blocked it from his awareness and declined to join the fun.
• Wu Tian asked after Houtu, and Empress Pingxin brought her forth, prompting Wu Tian and Houtu to greet each other warmly.
• Empress Pingxin explained that she and Houtu were connected yet independent, and asked Wu Tian which should refine the other.
• Wu Tian rejected the choice and said the two should keep their current arrangement.

Wu Tian reunited with Houtu, who agreed with Empress Pingxin to remain hidden until she was needed, while the Human Clan prospered under Shennong. Tongtian began studying the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, prompting Taiqing to reconsider Wu Tian and Yuanshi to grow furious and summon the Expounding Sect disciples.

• Empress Pingxin and Houtu agreed that Houtu would keep her return secret and strike unexpectedly when needed.
• Wu Tian stayed with Houtu in the Six Paths Reincarnation Hall and told her what had happened since she became reincarnation.
• Shennong spread the cultivation of five grains, while Ying Long and the Dragon Clan supported the Human Clan's growing prosperity.
• Tongtian studied the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to remove the Baleful Qi from the Intercepting Sect's Fortune, and Taiqing sensed the change and realized Wu Tian had lent it to him.
• Yuanshi grew angry that Wu Tian had lent Tongtian the treasure and blamed Wu Tian for driving a wedge between the Three Pure Ones.
• Yuanshi sent a message to White Crane Disciple, whose ringing of the golden bell summoned the Expounding Sect disciples.

Yuanshi sent Guangchengzi and the Expounding Sect disciples to seek out the Human Emperor in the Youxiong Tribe and claim the teacher’s position. After Taiqing agreed that Xuandu would not compete, Yuanshi turned to complaining about Tongtian.

• Yuanshi asked his disciples to discuss how to secure the Human Emperor Teacher position, and Guangchengzi proposed finding the Human Emperor early.
• Yuanshi appointed Guangchengzi to lead the Expounding Sect disciples to the Youxiong Tribe and told them to return for guidance if they faced difficulties.
• Yuanshi went to Mount Shouyang and persuaded Taiqing to have Xuandu withdraw from the contest for the Human Emperor Teacher position.
• Taiqing agreed to call Xuandu back after the Earth Sovereign attained the Dao, and Yuanshi then asked him to restrain Tongtian.

Wu Tian learned that the Expounding Sect had taken Xuanyuan as a disciple early and was encouraging him to conquer neighboring tribes before Shennong attained the Dao. He remained confident that the Human Clan would produce a worthy Human Emperor, while resolving to cultivate and keep his allies clear of the coming karma.

• Yuanshi complained to Taiqing about the Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler, but Taiqing chose not to interfere.
• Wu Tian asked Empress Pingxin about Hongjun's strength, and she warned that Hongjun could wield Heavenly Dao power and might have hidden contingencies.
• Wu Tian resolved to cultivate during the peaceful era after the Earth Sovereign attained the Dao so he could face the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Guangchengzi took Xuanyuan as his disciple, and the Expounding Sect's guidance led the Youxiong Tribe to wage war against Shennong's tribe before Shennong had attained the Dao.
• Hou Tu worried that Yuanshi's disciples would manipulate Xuanyuan, but Wu Tian said Xuanyuan had to prove himself and that another Human Emperor could emerge if he failed.

Kong Xuan and Xuandu agreed to confront the Youxiong Tribe’s escalating provocations so Shennong’s path to attaining the Dao could continue without drawing Zhenyuanzi into a direct conflict. Zhenyuanzi sent them with his support, while Wu Tian watched Chi You’s rise among the Nine Li Tribe.

• Wu Tian considered Xuanyuan’s claim to the Human Sovereign’s position and saw Chi You cultivating among the Nine Li Tribe with an Iron-Eating Beast as his mount.
• Shennong tasted heartbreak grass while searching for medicinal herbs, and Kong Xuan saved him with a branch of the Primordial Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Shennong declared tea medicine for all ailments and planted the branch, earning merit for Kong Xuan and the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• The Youxiong Tribe’s provocations forced Shennong to return to his tribe, angering Zhenyuanzi and the Intercepting Sect disciples.
• Kong Xuan proposed that he and Xuandu handle the matter, and Zhenyuanzi sent them with permission to use any means and promised his backing.

Xuandu and Kong Xuan confronted Guangchengzi and the Expounding Sect disciples over their interference in the Human Clan’s affairs. Kong Xuan defeated them with his Five-Colored Divine Light and asked if they could talk properly now.

• Xuandu and Kong Xuan arrived at the Youxiong Tribe after Zhenyuanzi sent them to address the Expounding Sect’s actions.
• Guangchengzi defended his efforts to cultivate Xuanyuan’s domineering bearing, claiming they followed the Heavenly Dao’s grand trend.
• Kong Xuan unleashed his aura when Guangchengzi and the other disciples challenged him, while Xuandu chose not to intervene.
• The Expounding Sect disciples attacked Kong Xuan with Spiritual Treasures, but his Five-Colored Divine Light swallowed their treasures and engulfed them.
• Kong Xuan released the battered disciples and asked whether they could talk properly now.

Kong Xuan subdued the Expounding Sect disciples and Xuandu warned them and Xuanyuan against interfering with the Earth Emperor’s path. Xuanyuan was left worrying that his teacher had put him in deep trouble.

• Kong Xuan swept up the Expounding Sect disciples with his Innate Five-Colored Divine Light and weakened them.
• Guangchengzi stopped Juliusun from provoking Kong Xuan after realizing Kong Xuan was Wu Tian’s disciple and might kill them.
• Guangchengzi tried to call the incident a misunderstanding, but Xuandu intervened and warned the disciples about the Earth Emperor’s master and the Fengdu Emperor.
• Xuandu told Xuanyuan that becoming Human Emperor depended on his merits and the ancestor’s approval, not flattering words.
• Xuandu and Kong Xuan departed, and Xuanyuan lamented that his teacher had gotten him into deep trouble.