Chapter Summaries

Hongjun confronted the Wu Clan, but fled when Xing Tian took Zhou Ming’s place in the Du Tian Shen Sha Great Array. Inside the Immortal Slaying Formation, Zhou Ming faced the six Sages, and the Three Pure Ones charged him after Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti refused to fight.

• Hongjun threatened Houtu, but Di Jiang ordered the Wu Clan to form the Du Tian Shen Sha Great Array.
• Xing Tian replaced Zhou Ming in the array, and Hongjun fled toward the Depths of Chaos.
• Zhou Ming questioned the six Sages, while Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti claimed they had only obeyed Hongjun’s command to trap him.
• Yuanshi Tianzun urged the Sages to attack Zhou Ming, but Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti refused to continue fighting.
• Yuanshi Tianzun, Taiqing, and Tongtian Sect Master charged Zhou Ming together.

Zhou Ming overwhelmed the Three Pure Ones inside the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, while Pangu Will wounded Hongjun as he fled. The Ancestral Wu then shattered the formation and joined Zhou Ming in surrounding the Six Saints, who now faced consequences for ambushing him.

• Zhou Ming suppressed the Three Pure Ones despite their borrowed Heavenly Dao power, and Primordial Lord Tianzun realized Jieyin and Zhunti had misled them about Zhou Ming's strength.
• Grand Pure One Laozi proposed a truce, but Zhou Ming refused and intensified his attacks.
• Pangu Will struck Hongjun as he fled into Chaos, wounding him before allowing him to escape.
• The Ancestral Wu used Pangu True Body to break the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and joined Zhou Ming in surrounding the Six Saints.
• Zhou Ming told the Six Saints they would answer for joining forces to ambush him.

After defeating the Six Sages, Zhou Ming demanded compensation for letting them leave the Sea of Blood. Once they paid his terms and departed, he let Houtu and Calm Heart resume their great vows.

• Zhou Ming demanded one-third of Jieyin and Zhunti's future lineage merit and an additional ten percent of Nuwa's share of Human Clan Fortune.
• Jieyin and Zhunti tried to bargain, but accepted Zhou Ming's terms and fled the Sea of Blood.
• Nuwa agreed to give Zhou Ming sixty percent of the Human Clan's Fortune and left.
• Grand Pure One Laozi handed Zhou Ming the Taiji Diagram, and Primordial Lord Tianzun surrendered the Pangu Banner, while Zhou Ming spared Tongtian.
• The Three Pure Ones left, and Zhou Ming told Houtu and Calm Heart to continue their great vows.

Pingxin completed the Six Paths of Reincarnation and, with Zhou Ming’s help, opened the Underworld. She then established its institutions and proclaimed the emergence of the Earthly Dao, becoming its lord.

• Pingxin transformed as the Six Paths of Reincarnation formed, consuming much of the Sea of Blood and alarming Ancestor Minghe.
• Zhou Ming borrowed Zhen Yuanzi’s Earth Book and used it to open and stabilize the Underworld beneath the Six Paths.
• Merit was bestowed on Zhou Ming, Ancestor Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, and Houtu, while Pingxin reappeared bound to the Netherworld.
• Pingxin established the Eighteen Levels of Hell, the Yellow Springs Road, the River of Forgetfulness, the Ten Yama Kings, and the Great Emperor Fengdu.
• Pingxin proclaimed the Earthly Dao, which emerged as the Primordial Wilderness’s second Great Dao and recognized her as its lord.

After Calm Heart established the Netherworld, she offered Zhen Yuanzi the position of Great Emperor Fengdu and Minghe the role of Lord of the Asura Dao, both of which could lead to becoming an Earthly Dao Saint. With Zhou Ming’s encouragement, Zhen Yuanzi accepted the position and agreed to help govern the Underworld.

• Zhou Ming congratulated Calm Heart on establishing the Netherworld and warned her to control the Earthly Dao rather than merge with it.
• Calm Heart led Zhou Ming, the Ancestral Wu, Zhen Yuanzi, and Minghe through the Netherworld to Fengdu Imperial Palace.
• Calm Heart offered Zhen Yuanzi the vacant position of Great Emperor Fengdu, explaining that it could eventually lead to becoming an Earthly Dao Saint.
• Minghe volunteered for the position, but Calm Heart judged him unsuitable and instead offered him the role of Lord of the Asura Dao.
• Zhou Ming urged Zhen Yuanzi to accept the position as the opportunity to attain the Dao he had promised him.
• Zhen Yuanzi accepted the position of Great Emperor Fengdu and pledged to help Calm Heart govern the Underworld.

Calm Heart established the Underworld’s leadership, appointing Zhen Yuanzi as Great Emperor Fengdu and Minghe as Lord of the Asura Path while assigning the Ancestral Wu further roles. In the Depths of Chaos, Hongjun feared the Heavenly Dao’s silence and resolved to delay merging with it while preparing an escape route.

• Calm Heart appointed Zhen Yuanzi as Great Emperor Fengdu, granting him a deep connection to the Underworld and Earthly Dao.
• Calm Heart appointed Minghe as Lord of the Asura Path, and he pledged his loyalty to her.
• Calm Heart asked Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Wu to serve as the Ten Yama Kings, and Di Jiang agreed to select Wu Clan members for other Underworld positions.
• Zhou Ming left Calm Heart to guard Reincarnation after the Underworld’s leadership was arranged.
• In Purple Firmament Palace, Hongjun worried that the Wu Clan would next support the Humanity Dao and threaten the Heavenly Dao’s dominance.
• Hongjun concluded that the Heavenly Dao’s silence concealed a plot and decided to delay merging with the Dao while making plans to break free.

After their defeat by Zhou Ming, the Three Pure Ones decided to establish their sects and accept disciples before comprehending Pangu’s Sky-Opening Imprint. Jieyin and Zhunti, alarmed that promising Western disciples were heading east, opened the Western Teachings and set out to stop them.

• Yuanshi Tianzun raged over Zhou Ming’s defeat of the Three Pure Ones and the loss of the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner.
• Tongtian urged his brothers to join forces to comprehend the Sky-Opening Imprint, and Taiqing advised Yuanshi and Tongtian to first establish their sects and settle their karmic causes.
• Yuanshi announced the Clarify Sect and Tongtian announced the Jie Sect, drawing countless beings toward Kunlun Mountain to become their disciples.
• Zhunti and Jieyin noticed promising beings from the Western Lands traveling east to Kunlun Mountain and feared their plans to make the West flourish would fail.
• Jieyin and Zhunti announced the Western Teachings and flew toward the East-West border to keep the departing beings in the West.

At Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi accepted Randeng as Chan Sect’s Deputy Sect Master after refusing to take him as a disciple, while Tongtian gathered a vast following for Jie Sect. The three Sages taught their disciples for ten thousand years, then entered seclusion and left the disciples to cultivate on their own.

• Randeng passed Yuanshi’s White Jade Staircase trial and pleaded to become his disciple, but Yuanshi refused before appointing him Deputy Sect Master of Chan Sect.
• Yuanshi instructed his disciples, including Randeng, to remain on Kunlun Mountain and prepare for a lecture a thousand years later.
• Tongtian completed Jie Sect’s recruitment, accepting Duobao, Jinling, Wudang, Guiling, and countless other living beings.
• Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtian jointly expounded the Dao to their disciples for ten thousand years.
• After the lecture, Yuanshi and Tongtian told their disciples to obey the sect rules and cultivate diligently, then the three Sages vanished to enter seclusion.

Wu proposed that the Human Tribe migrate, citing Taiqing's nearby Dao Field, an important task he needed to undertake, and the possibility of a future Great Calamity. The ancestors and Xuandu agreed to follow his plan, but asked where he intended to lead them.

• Wu met with Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu to discuss migrating the Human Tribe.
• Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu objected, warning that the journey would expose the weak tribe to dangers and cost many lives.
• Wu explained that Shouyang Mountain, Taiqing's Dao Field, lay within their territory, and he wanted to move the tribe before undertaking an important task.
• Wu warned that a Great Calamity might threaten the Human Tribe, and Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi agreed that they had to prepare by relocating.
• Xuandu said he trusted Wu and would follow his arrangements, while Suiren asked where the tribe could move to find safety.

Wu persuaded the Human Clan leaders to migrate toward Buzhou Mountain, where the Wu Clan’s influence could deter threats. He kept the dangerous task he planned to undertake secret and decided the Ancestral Land would begin the migration first.

• Wu proposed moving the Human Clan close to Buzhou Mountain, along the edge of Wu Clan territory, to gain protection without provoking the Wu Clan.
• Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu accepted Wu’s plan after considering the Human Clan’s weakness and the Wu Clan’s past goodwill.
• Ziyi and the others urged Wu to abandon any dangerous task, but Wu said the Earthly Dao’s emergence had created a rare opportunity and that he would act only after securing a stable base near the Wu Clan.
• Wu refused to reveal what he planned to do, saying that speaking of it would add variables and that they would learn once he succeeded.
• Wu proposed beginning the migration immediately, with the Human Clan Ancestral Land going first and the other tribes following in batches; Suiren agreed to make arrangements at once.

Wu welcomed Hou Yi back from Pangu Hall and explained that the Human Tribe had moved near the Wu Clan for protection. Hou Yi urged Wu to relocate beside the Houtu Tribe and then challenged him to spar.

• Hou Yi returned from Pangu Hall and reunited with Wu at the Human Tribe's settlement near Buzhou Mountain.
• Wu told Hou Yi that the humans had moved to Wu Clan territory because the Primordial Wilderness was growing dangerous and their people needed protection.
• Hou Yi assured Wu that the Wu Clan feared no threat and proposed moving the Human Tribe beside the Houtu Tribe for closer protection.
• Hou Yi offered to bring Kuafu and other clansmen to help relocate the humans, and Wu reluctantly agreed.
• Hou Yi challenged Wu to spar, promising to suppress his cultivation to Wu's late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Wu accepted Hou Yi’s challenge to test his Martial Path against a late Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and lost after a fierce fistfight. Hou Yi praised Wu’s strength and promised to help relocate his tribe beside theirs, where Wu looked forward to sparring with the Wu Clan.

• Wu agreed to fight Hou Yi after Hou Yi promised to suppress his cultivation to Wu’s late Grand Unity Golden Immortal level.
• Wu and Hou Yi fought outside the tribe using only their fists, and Hou Yi’s superior physical strength initially forced Wu onto the defensive.
• Wu adapted to Hou Yi’s attacks and used varied Martial Path techniques to counterattack, but Hou Yi ultimately knocked him into a crater.
• Hou Yi praised Wu’s strength as nearly equal to that of a Great Witch at the same realm, and Wu felt proud of the Martial Path he had created.
• Hou Yi said he and Kuafu would help relocate Wu’s tribe and warned that Wu would face frequent sparring challenges from the battle-crazed Wu Clan; Wu welcomed the prospect.

After ten thousand peaceful years, Wu secluded himself to create writing for the Human Tribe, believing the Earth Dao’s emergence had made the risk of defying the Heavenly Dao bearable. He emerged after tens of thousands of years with Three Thousand Characters, and the chapter ended as he wrote them into the laws of the Primordial World amid an immense heavenly and earthly upheaval.

• Wu decided that the Human Tribe’s peaceful growth gave him the chance to create writing, and he entered seclusion in a stone chamber.
• Wu spent tens of thousands of years studying heaven and earth and enduring repeated failures before creating Three Thousand Characters.
• Wu emerged from seclusion and declared that his writing would preserve humanity’s civilization and establish writing for humanity.
• Heaven and earth shook, dark clouds covered the sky, and ghosts and gods wailed as the great powers sensed the creation of writing.
• Wu wrote the characters for Human, Heaven, Earth, Sun, Moon, Mountains, and Rivers into the rules of the Primordial World while the tremors intensified.

Hongjun questioned Heavenly Dao for allowing Wu to create writing, but learned that it would wait until Pangu Will faded before acting against the Wu Clan. Wu completed the Three Thousand Characters, received merits, and announced that the Human Tribe could now record and pass down its civilization.

• Hongjun demanded to know why Heavenly Dao had not stopped Wu or the emergence of the Earth Dao.
• Heavenly Dao said it could not stop Zhou Ming while Pangu Will remained, and planned to wait for Pangu Will to dissipate before dealing with the Wu Clan.
• Heavenly Dao urged Hongjun to merge with the Dao, and Hongjun agreed to begin after concluding the Tribulation while secretly suspecting it was plotting against him.
• Wu wrote the final character, branded all Three Thousand Characters into the laws of the Primordial World, and received a vast Golden Light of Merits.
• Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, Xuandu, Hou Yi, and Kuafu gathered around Wu, who announced that the Human Tribe now had its own writing.
• The Human Tribe cheered as Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, Xuandu, and the others wept at the chance to preserve their wisdom, history, and civilization.

After Heavenly Dao and Hongjun failed to react to Wu creating writing, Wu accelerated the Human Tribe’s development and focused on cultivating the Martial Dao. As the Human Clan grew strong enough to expand beyond Wu Clan territory, Wu persuaded its four other leaders to help him deduce the Martial Path’s next breakthrough.

• Wu led the Human Tribe in developing animal husbandry, agriculture, and other skills, while his attempts to find or cultivate the Five Grains failed.
• Under Wu Clan protection and intense training, the Human Clan grew rapidly, and Wu, Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Suiren proposed relocating some tribespeople so the Human Clan could expand and develop its own strength rather than depend on the Wu Clan.
• Wu agreed and asked Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu to enter seclusion with him to help deduce the Martial Path beyond his cultivation bottleneck.
• Suiren and the others regained their confidence, agreed to help Wu, and began arranging the Human Clan’s migration.

The Three Pure Ones emerged from seclusion after failing to fully comprehend the Sky-Opening Imprint, and agreed to resume their studies later. Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian gathered their disciples and promised to expound the Great Dao a hundred years later, while Yuanshi resolved to address complaints about Tongtian’s disciples.

• Primordial Lord Tianzun lamented that the Three Pure Ones had gained little from more than an Epoch of studying the Sky-Opening Imprint, but Tongtian and Laozi urged patience.
• The Three Pure Ones ended their seclusion and left to guide their disciples and stabilize their Dao line.
• Guangchengzi told Yuanshi Tianzun that Tongtian’s disciples were noisy and disruptive, and Yuanshi promised to speak with his martial uncle while telling his own disciples to avoid conflict.
• Yuanshi Tianzun announced that he would expound the Great Dao for the Clarify Sect disciples in a hundred years.
• Duobao Daoist reported that the Jie Sect disciples had cultivated diligently, and Tongtian also promised to expound the Great Dao for them in a hundred years.

Tongtian and Yuanshi argued in Taiqing Palace over the conduct and worthiness of Tongtian’s Disciples, until Laozi intervened and urged them to preserve their brotherly bond. Tongtian agreed to discipline his Disciples, and the three brothers arranged to teach the Dao together in a hundred years.

• Yuanshi accused Tongtian’s Disciples of making a racket during seclusion and demanded that Tongtian discipline them.
• Tongtian divined what had happened and defended his Disciples, saying they had continued to cultivate and deserved the chance to seek the Dao regardless of their origins.
• Yuanshi insulted Tongtian’s Disciples and the Jie Sect, while Tongtian criticized Yuanshi’s focus on foundations; their argument shook Taiqing Palace with Sage pressure.
• Laozi stopped the argument, told Tongtian to instruct his Disciples to respect Kunlun Mountain’s peace, and urged Yuanshi to be more tolerant.
• Laozi proposed that the three brothers teach the Dao together in a hundred years, and Yuanshi and Tongtian agreed before leaving.

After the Three Pure Ones’ sermon, Yuanshi Tianzun challenged Tongtian to a sect-wide competition, expecting the Clarify Sect to prevail. The Jie Sect won most of the matches, and Duobao defeated Guangchengzi, leaving Yuanshi furious and his disciples resentful.

• Yuanshi Tianzun proposed a competition between the Clarify Sect and Jie Sect ten thousand years after the sermon, and Tongtian reluctantly agreed after Yuanshi provoked him.
• Yuanshi ordered his disciples to win, while Tongtian told the Jie Sect disciples to do their best without becoming arrogant or mocking their opponents.
• Ten thousand years later, the competition began on Kunlun Mountain, and the Jie Sect won far more matches than the Clarify Sect.
• Duobao used a succession of Spiritual Treasures to defeat Guangchengzi and knock him off the arena.
• Primordial Lord Tianzun left in anger, then ordered Guangchengzi, the Twelve Golden Immortals, and Randeng into seclusion until they broke through to the next realm.
• The punished Clarify Sect disciples blamed the Jie Sect, and resentment took root among them.

The Ten Golden Crows were born, and Di Jun celebrated with a grand banquet as Zhou Ming watched from Buzhou Mountain. At Mount Sumeru, Zhunti and Jieyin agreed to help bring about an Immortal-Demon Calamity, while Jieyin privately feared that attaining the Dao through laws might be impossible for them.

• Di Jun held a banquet for the birth of Xi He's ten sons and welcomed congratulations from across the Primordial Wilderness, including Xing Tian of the Wu Clan.
• Zhou Ming watched the celebration and wondered whether the Heavenly Dao would use the Ten Little Golden Crows to provoke a calamity.
• Zhunti told Jieyin that the Heavenly Dao wanted them to help bring about an Immortal-Demon Calamity, and Jieyin reluctantly agreed.
• Zhunti said Di Jun's ten sons would provide the opportunity and that they should wait for the right moment before acting.
• Jieyin admitted his progress on the Path of Laws had been slow, while Zhunti encouraged him and suggested they might later seek Zhou Ming's guidance.
• Jieyin privately suspected that attaining sainthood through merit had severed their Path of Laws, but he kept the fear from Zhunti.

The Little Golden Crows ran wild through the Heavenly Court, prompting Di Jun to order Taiyi to supervise their cultivation until they could control their True Sun Fire. Taiyi agreed to let them visit the Primordial Continent one at a time, with him accompanying them, and led them back to practice.

• The ten Little Golden Crows flew through the Heavenly Court, scorching flowers and injuring servants with their uncontrolled True Sun Fire.
• Di Jun restrained the Little Golden Crows, scolded them, and ordered Taiyi to supervise their cultivation until they mastered their flames.
• Taiyi tried to defend his nephews, but Di Jun insisted that they could no longer roam freely until they controlled their True Sun Fire.
• Taiyi promised the Little Golden Crows occasional outings if they made progress in cultivation.
• Taiyi agreed that one Little Golden Crow at a time could visit the Primordial Continent, provided he accompanied them and the others stayed to cultivate.
• Taiyi led the Little Golden Crows back to their palace to practice.