Chapter Summaries

After tens of thousands of years in seclusion, Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi recovered and prepared to pursue the Hongmeng Purple Qi and Saint Position. They rallied the Demon Race against Kunpeng and planned to go to the North Sea to force him back to the Heavenly Court.

• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi emerged from seclusion on the Sun Star, resolved to act on their plan, and chose Kunpeng as their first target.
• Di Jun returned to the Heavenly Court and heard Bai Ze report that the Demon Race had recovered from the previous war.
• Di Jun and Taiyi accused Kunpeng of betraying the Demon Race by staying in the North Sea during the final battle against the witches.
• Di Jun offered Kunpeng a chance to return and serve the Heavenly Court, while warning that he would face punishment if he refused.
• Di Jun ordered Taiyi to select elite Demon Gods and Demon Saints to accompany him to the North Sea and bring Kunpeng back.

Di Jun and Taiyi plotted to corner Kunpeng and take his Hongmeng Purple Qi, then led Demon Race elites to surround his North Sea lair. When Kunpeng refused to leave his protective formation, Di Jun ordered the Lesser Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array to attack it.

• Di Jun explained to Taiyi that the Demon Race would help block Kunpeng's escape and that they would use his response to justify taking his Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Di Jun and Taiyi led Bai Ze, Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, and other Demon Race elites to surround Kunpeng's North Sea lair.
• Kunpeng sensed the siege and refused Di Jun's demands to open his formation, claiming he was in critical seclusion.
• Di Jun threatened Kunpeng and ordered the Demon Saints and Demon Gods to form the Lesser Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array and break the formation.
• Kunpeng frantically reinforced his protective array as Di Jun ordered the attack.

Di Jun and Taiyi attacked Kunpeng at North Sea Palace, accusing him of betraying the Demon Race while seeking his Hongmeng Purple Qi. Kunpeng rejected Di Jun's offer to return to the Heavenly Court and tried to break through the siege, but the battle left him gravely wounded and facing a desperate choice.

• Di Jun and the Demon Gods shattered North Sea Palace's protective array, and Kunpeng's escape attempt was blocked by the River Diagram, Luo Shu, and the surrounding forces.
• Di Jun accused Kunpeng of abandoning the Demon Race during the Witch-Demon Great War and offered to spare him if he returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Kunpeng accused Di Jun and Taiyi of coveting his Hongmeng Purple Qi and blamed Di Jun's ambition for the Demon Race's defeat.
• Kunpeng refused Di Jun's offer and attacked Taiyi, hoping to exploit his loss of the Chaos Bell and escape.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Demon Gods surrounded Kunpeng with their treasures and the Lesser Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, wounding him as he searched for a way out.

Kunpeng tried to escape Di Jun and Taiyi’s siege by destroying his Good Corpse, but Di Jun blocked the blast and forced him to bargain for his life. Just as Kunpeng agreed to return to the Heavenly Court in exchange for the Hongmeng Purple Qi, the Qi detonated his Primordial Spirit, leaving Di Jun and Taiyi to depart empty-handed and suspicious.

• Kunpeng destroyed his Good Corpse to open an escape route, but Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Shu to contain the blast.
• After Kunpeng refused Di Jun’s demand for his natal Primordial Spirit, he offered the Hongmeng Purple Qi in exchange for an oath that Di Jun would not kill or imprison him.
• Di Jun agreed to spare Kunpeng’s natal Primordial Spirit but insisted that he return to the Heavenly Court and serve the Demon Race.
• The Hongmeng Purple Qi suddenly detonated Kunpeng’s Primordial Spirit, destroying the Lesser Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array and injuring Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Demon forces.
• Di Jun and Taiyi searched the devastated area but found neither Kunpeng nor the Hongmeng Purple Qi, then returned to the Heavenly Court to discuss the strange explosion.

Di Jun and Taiyi concluded that the Heavenly Dao or Dao Ancestor Hongjun had used Kunpeng's Hongmeng Purple Qi to trigger his self-destruction and deny them the strand. They abandoned their pursuit of it and chose the Path of Laws, while keeping their suspicions secret.

• Taiyi and Di Jun discussed Kunpeng's final cry and reasoned that his Primordial Spirit had been forced to self-destruct.
• Di Jun concluded that the Hongmeng Purple Qi remained under the control of the Heavenly Dao and Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who had destroyed it to block their plans.
• Di Jun declared that the final strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi had been bait and that they would not risk using it, so he and Taiyi chose the Path of Laws instead.
• Di Jun told Taiyi to claim publicly that Kunpeng had self-destructed and the Hongmeng Purple Qi had dissipated, while keeping their suspicions secret.
• Di Jun ordered them to heal their injuries in seclusion and focus on comprehending the Great Dao of Laws, and Taiyi left to make arrangements.

After Kunpeng died and rumors spread that Di Jun and Taiyi had taken his Hongmeng Purple Qi, Fuxi tried to learn their intentions but was told they had entered a long seclusion. Tens of thousands of years passed without them emerging or attacking anyone else, leaving Nuwa and the other Great Powers wary and uncertain.

• Di Jun and Taiyi’s seizure of Kunpeng’s Hongmeng Purple Qi and his death alarmed the Great Powers who possessed Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Fuxi traveled to the Heavenly Court to question Di Jun and Taiyi, but Bai Ze said they had entered seclusion for tens of thousands of years.
• Fuxi returned to Phoenix Nest Mountain and told Nuwa that he had failed to meet the two emperors.
• Tens of thousands of years passed with Di Jun and Taiyi remaining in seclusion and the Primordial Wilderness unusually quiet.
• Nuwa and Fuxi wondered why the brothers had made no further move, and Nuwa resolved to wait and watch.

After emerging from seclusion, Zhou Ming told the Twelve Ancestral Witches he could attain the Hunyuan Dao whenever he wished but was waiting on an unresolved matter. He learned of the Demon Race’s strange retreat and then agreed to lead all twelve siblings to the summit of Buzhou Mountain to see Father God together.

• Zhou Ming emerged from seclusion and teased the Twelve Ancestral Witches before revealing that he could attain the Hunyuan Dao whenever he wished.
• Zhou Ming said he was delaying his breakthrough until a matter weighing on his heart was resolved, though he would not explain what it was.
• Di Jiang reported that Kunpeng had destroyed his primordial spirit rather than surrender his Hongmeng Purple Qi, while Di Jun and Taiyi later withdrew into seclusion and halted the Demon Race’s aggression.
• Zhou Ming judged the Demon Race’s behavior suspicious but told the Twelve Ancestral Witches to focus on strengthening their own power.
• Houtu asked to accompany Zhou Ming to see Father God, and Zhou Ming agreed to take all twelve siblings together to the summit of Buzhou Mountain.

After a Yuanhui of peace, Hongjun and Heavenly Dao planned the Six Saints’ emergence, Houtu’s transformation into Samsara, and a war to weaken the Wu Clan. Nuwa felt compelled to travel across the Primordial Wilderness and left Phoenix Nest Mountain after saying farewell to Fuxi.

• Hongjun and Heavenly Dao agreed to bring the Six Saints into the world and arrange Houtu’s transformation into Samsara.
• Hongjun explained that Nuwa could negotiate with Zhou Ming for the items she needed to attain the Dao.
• Heavenly Dao proposed provoking an Immortal-Demon War to stir slaughter and awaken Houtu’s compassion.
• Heavenly Dao ordered Hongjun to have the Three Pure Ones act against the Wu Clan after attaining sainthood, then merge with the Dao.
• Nuwa told Fuxi she wanted to travel through the Primordial Land, and Fuxi let her go after asking her to return early.

Nuwa realized that creating a new race could let her Prove the Dao and become a Saint, but her first attempts failed without the Creation Cauldron and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. She obtained Three Lights Divine Water from Primordial Lord Tianzun and set out for Buzhou Mountain to confront Zhou Ming and reclaim the treasures.

• Nuwa reached the East Sea Coast, conceived the idea of creating a new race, and recognized that doing so could lead her to sainthood.
• Nuwa's clay figures remained lifeless, so she concluded that she needed the Creation Cauldron, divine water, and divine earth.
• Nuwa realized Zhou Ming had taken the Creation Cauldron and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and decided to seek them from the Wu Clan.
• Nuwa visited Kunlun Mountain and asked Primordial Lord Tianzun for Three Lights Divine Water to create living beings.
• Primordial Lord Tianzun gifted Nuwa a jade bottle of Three Lights Divine Water, and she left for Buzhou Mountain.

Nuwa visited Pangu Hall to demand the Creation Cauldron and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, which Zhou Ming had kept despite knowing they were tied to her path to sainthood. Zhou Ming hinted he might return them for a price, leaving Nuwa waiting to hear his terms.

• Nuwa arrived at Pangu Hall, and Zhou Ming told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that her visit meant the time had come for his Hunyuan Dao opportunity.
• Zhou Ming and the Twelve Ancestral Witches welcomed Nuwa, while he pretended not to know why she had come.
• Nuwa named the Creation Cauldron and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and Zhou Ming argued that the Wu Clan held rightful claims to both.
• Nuwa accused Zhou Ming of deliberately taking the treasures because they were essential to her becoming a Saint, shocking the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Zhou Ming said he might return the two items if Nuwa paid a price.

Nuwa negotiated with Zhou Ming to borrow the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Creation Cauldron so she could create humans and attain sainthood. Zhou Ming demanded that she create one more human than the Heavenly Dao’s fixed number, and Nuwa resisted as he threatened to end their deal.

• Zhou Ming agreed to lend Nuwa the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil on the condition that she return whatever remained, and demanded her Red Embroidered Ball as compensation for using the Creation Cauldron.
• Nuwa confirmed that she planned to create the Human Clan, and Zhou Ming suggested that she make 129,601 people instead of the 129,600 she had learned from the Heavenly Secrets.
• Nuwa realized Zhou Ming was urging her to defy the Heavenly Dao and warned that the extra human could bring down punishment.
• Zhou Ming argued that Heavenly Dao might be too distracted to intervene before Nuwa gained Merit, but Nuwa refused to accept the risk.
• Zhou Ming threatened to withdraw the Wu Clan’s help, and Nuwa swallowed her anger and pleaded with him not to be upset.

Zhou Ming persuaded Nuwa to create one extra Human, promising to divert the Heavenly Dao’s attention and assuring her that her merit would support further cultivation. Nuwa agreed cautiously, while Zhou Ming left her considering whether to use merit to sever her third corpse and unite all three corpses.

• Zhou Ming assured Nuwa that he could distract the Heavenly Dao while she created the extra person, and Nuwa agreed on the condition that she could abandon the plan if his method failed.
• Zhou Ming told Nuwa that the merit from creating the Human Clan could sever her third corpse, the Corpse of Self-Attachment.
• Nuwa worried that severing a corpse would consume too much merit, but Zhou Ming insisted she would still have enough to attain sainthood.
• Zhou Ming suggested that after severing all three corpses, Nuwa could spend merit to merge them into one.
• Nuwa suspected Zhou Ming was setting another trap and questioned whether she could afford the merit cost, while he denied intending to deceive her.

Zhou Ming advised Nuwa to use her vast Merit to attempt Three Corpses Unity, then explained to Houtu that the path required three innate spiritual treasures of the same origin. He admitted he had encouraged Nuwa to try because he wanted to test whether Merit could overcome that restriction, leaving Houtu worried that Nuwa might fail to become a Saint and retaliate.

• Zhou Ming told Nuwa that Three Corpses Unity could make her far stronger than an ordinary Merit-based Sage and urged her to consider risking her Merit on it.
• Zhou Ming went with Houtu to retrieve the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Creation Cauldron, while the other Ancestral Wu stayed with Nuwa.
• Houtu questioned why Zhou Ming had encouraged Nuwa to become stronger, and he said Merit Sages remained constrained by the Heavenly Dao and had a lower limit than Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• Zhou Ming revealed that Three Corpses Unity required three innate spiritual treasures of the same origin, and explained that Hongjun had concealed this condition during his sermons.
• Houtu realized Zhou Ming had urged Nuwa to attempt Three Corpses Unity as a test of whether Merit could break the rule, and warned that Nuwa might retaliate if the attempt ruined her path to Sainthood.

Zhou Ming prepared to place a fragment of his former human self into the extra person Nuwa would create, hoping the anomaly could change the Human Clan’s fate. He left Houtu responsible for the fragment and rejected her offer for the Wu Clan to protect the newborn race.

• Zhou Ming told Houtu that Nuwa’s creation of humans and path to sainthood would proceed according to the Heavenly Dao, then traveled with her to Pangu Hall.
• Zhou Ming asked Houtu to collect the Innate Gourd Vine and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, leaving the remaining blue gourd on the vine to receive Nuwa’s Merit.
• Zhou Ming gave Houtu an independent primordial spirit fragment containing his former memories, cultivation insights, and attachment to the Human Clan, and ordered her to merge it into The 129,601st Person after Nuwa created that person.
• Zhou Ming explained that the extra person was an Anomaly beyond the Heavenly Dao’s fixed numbers and could bring variables to the Human Clan’s fate.
• Houtu offered to have the Wu Clan declare its protection over the Human Clan, but Zhou Ming refused and said he hoped the Human Clan would rely on themselves.

Zhou Ming explained that his severed Primordial Spirit would guide humanity independently while remaining separate from the Wu Clan. He planned to attain the Primordial Chaos during Nuwa’s creation of humanity to distract the Heavenly Dao, and revealed that the Dao Origin Divine Pearl might be a Chaos Supreme Treasure made from Father God’s System.

• Zhou Ming told Houtu that his Primordial Spirit shard was fully severed from him and would become an independent person who could help humanity develop.
• Zhou Ming gave Houtu the Dao Origin Divine Pearl and instructed her to merge the shard into the one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred and first person while concealing him from the Heavenly Dao.
• Houtu worried that the Heavenly Dao would strike the anomaly with Heavenly Punishment Thunder, and Zhou Ming said he would draw its attention by attaining the Primordial Chaos during Nuwa’s creation of humanity.
• Zhou Ming revealed that the Heavenly Dao had been suppressing his cultivation and that the Dao Origin Divine Pearl had helped him resist it.
• Houtu realized the pearl could be a Chaos Supreme Treasure, and Zhou Ming said Father God had refined it from a System he compared to a Wealth Bringing Boy.

Zhou Ming accompanied Nuwa and the Twelve Ancestral Witches to the East Sea Coast, where Nuwa began creating the Human Clan. Using the Innate Gourd Vine to speed up the process, she secretly molded an extra figure while planning to destroy it if Zhou Ming failed to draw Heavenly Dao’s attention.

• Zhou Ming told Houtu and the other Ancestral Witches to guard Nuwa and use the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Formation if Heavenly Dao interfered with his attainment of Hunyuan.
• Houtu gave Nuwa the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Creation Cauldron, and Innate Gourd Vine, and Zhou Ming urged Nuwa to keep the vine.
• Nuwa and Zhou Ming led the Twelve Ancestral Witches to the East Sea Coast, where Nuwa began creating humans with Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, and the Creation Cauldron.
• After shaping three thousand clay figures by hand, Nuwa used the Innate Gourd Vine to fling mud that transformed into many living humans.
• Nuwa secretly molded an extra clay figure inside her sleeve and resolved to destroy it if Zhou Ming did not attract Heavenly Dao’s attention.

Zhou Ming announced that he would attain the Primordial Chaos at the East Sea Coast and began proving the Dao through Laws, drawing countless powerful figures to witness him. In Purple Sky Palace, Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao Will realized their suppression had failed and argued over who should stop him.

• As Nuwa approached creating 129,600 humans, she signaled Zhou Ming to act, and he moved away from the human-making area.
• Zhou Ming proclaimed his intention to attain the Primordial Chaos and began breaking through to the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm through Laws.
• The Three Pure Ones, Di Jun, Taiyi, and other powerful figures reacted with shock and traveled toward the East Sea Coast to witness Zhou Ming's proving of the Dao.
• Hongjun questioned the Heavenly Dao Will about failing to delay Zhou Ming, and it suspected Pangu had left the Wu Clan a way to resist suppression.
• Hongjun refused to confront Zhou Ming, warning that his perfected Laws would let him try to prove the Dao again and that neither of them could withstand many more strikes from the Pangu Will.

Zhou Ming drew the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun’s Purple Xiao Divine Thunder while Nuwa finished creating the Human Clan and Houtu secretly placed Zhou Ming’s Primordial Spirit into the final clay figure. Nuwa then announced the Human Clan’s creation before Heaven.

• Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao decided they could not stop Zhou Ming from attaining Dao, so the Heavenly Dao struck him with Purple Xiao Divine Thunder as he deliberately slowed his advancement to give Nuwa more time.
• Great Powers including East King Duke, Candle Dragon, the Three Pure Ones, Di Jun, and Taiyi gathered at the East Sea Coast and watched Zhou Ming withstand the lightning.
• Hongjun took turns with the Heavenly Dao in striking Zhou Ming with stronger and varied bolts of Purple Xiao Divine Thunder.
• Nuwa formed one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred members of the Human Clan and completed a final clay figure while the Heavenly Dao remained focused on Zhou Ming.
• Nuwa gave the final figure to Houtu, who used the Dao Origin Divine Pearl to conceal it and placed Zhou Ming’s Primordial Spirit inside.
• Nuwa declared that she had created a new race called Human and called for the Human Clan to arise.

After Nuwa created the Human Clan, she used the immense merit she received to sever her Corpse of Attachment and then merged the remaining merit with her Hongmeng Purple Qi to become a Sage. The chapter ended with the assembled Great Powers wondering why no lightning tribulation appeared for her.

• Nuwa's proclamation drew the Heavenly Dao's attention away from Zhou Ming, who then revealed his cultivation and broke through to Hunyuan Grand Unity.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed an ocean of merit on Nuwa, with smaller portions flowing to the Innate Gourd Vine and the Creation Cauldron.
• Nuwa used some of her merit to sever her Corpse of Attachment, then decided against attempting Three Corpses Unity.
• Nuwa guided the remaining merit into her primordial spirit, awakening her Hongmeng Purple Qi and enabling her to become a Sage.
• The Great Powers witnessed Nuwa's Sage-attainment phenomena and questioned why no lightning tribulation descended.

After Nuwa became a Saint by creating the Human Clan, she promised to teach the Dao alongside Zhou Ming and declared the Human Clan under her protection. Zhou Ming and the Twelve Ancestral Wu returned to Pangu Hall, leaving the newborn Human Clan on the East Sea Coast.

• The Great Powers celebrated Nuwa’s ascension, while the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti resolved to seek her guidance on becoming Saints.
• Nuwa invited the Great Powers to hear her teachings at Empress Wa’s Palace in a thousand years, and Zhou Ming said he would teach alongside her.
• Nuwa declared that she would protect the Human Clan and warned other Great Powers not to harm them.
• Nuwa and Fuxi returned to Phoenix Nest Mountain, and Zhou Ming told Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun he would visit them at Wuzhuang Temple.
• After the Great Powers departed, Zhou Ming and the Twelve Ancestral Wu returned to Pangu Hall, leaving the Human Clan at the East Sea Coast.