Chapter Summaries

Chi You fought Guang Chengzi and the Chan Sect disciples with the Nine Li Army’s formation, but the Chan Sect called in more reinforcements to overwhelm him. As they prepared to strike, Chi You shouted for his master to save him.

• Guang Chengzi ignored Xuanyuan’s calls to stop slaughtering the Nine Li soldiers, and Chi You assembled the Nine Li Army’s formation and drove him back with the Tiger Soul Saber.
• Xuanyuan ordered the You Xiong Tribe army to retreat as Chi You fought Guang Chengzi, Taiyi, Yu Ding, and Chi Jingzi, while both sides suffered serious injuries.
• Guang Chengzi called for Randeng and the other Chan Sect disciples to join the fight, and Xuanyuan pleaded with him to spare Chi You.
• Chi You mocked Guang Chengzi and claimed to have a trump card, then gathered his strength and shouted, “Master, save me!”

Ao Guang arrived at the Battle of Zhuolu and revealed that Chi You was his disciple, acting under Hong Yun’s orders. When Guang Chengzi and Randeng tried to pressure them over Xuanyuan’s claim to be Co-Lord of the Human Race, Ao Guang challenged the Chan Sect as its members surrounded him.

• Ao Guang descended in golden dragon form, greeted Randeng and the Chan Sect, and identified Chi You as his disciple.
• Ao Guang scolded Chi You for challenging his Martial Uncles, while Chi You protested that they had interfered in Human affairs and outnumbered him.
• Randeng defended the Chan Sect’s position that Chi You had obstructed Xuanyuan’s rise as Co-Lord of the Human Race, and Ao Guang questioned how Xuanyuan’s claim had been settled.
• Guang Chengzi invoked the Battle of Zhuolu and Hong Yun’s authority to demand that Ao Guang take Chi You away, then threatened to oppose him with Randeng and the Chan Sect.
• As the Chan Sect disciples formed a circle around Ao Guang and Chi You, Ao Guang raised his hand and sent a golden streak into the sky, summoning several powerful auras.

Kong Xuan, the Three Xiāo, and Lu Ya arrived on the Zhuolu Battlefield to protect Ao Guang and his allies, overwhelming the Chan Sect immortals with their strength. Randeng and Guang Chengzi backed down, and Ao Guang stopped Kong Xuan from escalating the confrontation.

• Kong Xuan descended onto the battlefield and declared that no one could bully the disciples of the Floating Island Lineage.
• The Three Xiāo arrived with their Spiritual Treasures, followed by Lu Ya, while Chi You and Xuanyuan marveled at the Floating Island's power.
• Yu Ding Zhenren asked Guang Chengzi whether they should keep fighting, and Guang Chengzi decided to back down.
• Randeng greeted the Floating Island disciples with a fawning smile and began considering a trip to the Shore of the East Sea to seek Spiritual Treasures.
• Kong Xuan challenged the Chan Sect immortals for preparing to attack Ao Guang, then forced Guang Chengzi back with his aura.
• Ao Guang stopped Kong Xuan from continuing to intimidate Guang Chengzi.

Ao Guang arranged a duel between Chi You and Xuanyuan to decide the Human Race's Co-Lord, and Xuanyuan gave the injured Chi You time to recover before they fought. Xuanyuan tried to lose after a hundred exchanges, but Chi You seized his sword and declared himself defeated before Xuanyuan could finish the duel.

• Ao Guang proposed that Chi You and Xuanyuan settle the Co-Lord position in a fair fight, and Guang Chengzi agreed to hold it at Zhuolu despite Chi You's injuries.
• Chi You reassured the Jiu Li soldiers that he could fight, while Kong Xuan praised his heroic bearing and promised him good wine.
• Xuanyuan offered Chi You three days to recover, but Chi You insisted on fighting immediately, winning the Jiu Li soldiers' respect.
• Chi You and Xuanyuan exchanged powerful attacks across the battlefield, and neither gained the upper hand after seventy or eighty moves.
• Xuanyuan planned to lose on the hundredth move, but Chi You let Xuanyuan's sword approach his chest, grabbed its blade, and declared that he had lost.

At the Battle of Zhuolu, Chi You staged his own defeat so Xuanyuan would become Human Race Co-Lord, leaving Xuanyuan furious even as both tribes celebrated the end of the civil war. Yuanshi, unaware of the truth, praised the Chan Sect and expected Guang Chengzi to become a Quasi-Saint, while the chapter ended with the Three Sovereigns nearing completion and the Five Emperors ahead.

• Chi You grabbed Xuanyuan's sword, stabbed himself, and declared that he conceded the duel.
• Chi You ordered the Jiu Li Tribe to submit to Xuanyuan, and soldiers from both tribes cheered Xuanyuan as the new Co-Lord.
• Guang Chengzi and the Chan Sect disciples accepted their victory and anticipated receiving Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs from Yuanshi.
• Yuanshi praised Guang Chengzi and the Chan Sect, unaware that Chi You had deliberately arranged the outcome.
• Yuanshi celebrated the prospect of Guang Chengzi becoming a Quasi-Saint and boasting of victory over Hong Yun.

Xuanyuan prepared to complete his Merit at the Mount Tai Fengshan Ceremony and pass the position of Co-Lord to Zhuanxu. As Kong Xuan brought Cang Jie to observe, Cang Jie fell into a strange insight while studying the Human Race, and the Great Powers gathered for Xuanyuan’s ceremony.

• Xuanyuan complained that he had spent twelve thousand years handling domestic affairs while Chi You led campaigns, then looked forward to retiring after Zhuanxu succeeded him.
• Kong Xuan brought Cang Jie to Mount Tai for the ceremony and scolded him for neglecting cultivation, but Cang Jie became absorbed in observing the Human Race.
• Ao Guang and Chi You arrived, and Kong Xuan praised Chi You’s progress toward the Daluo Realm while Chi You flattered him.
• Cang Jie briefly returned to himself after Kong Xuan struck his head, then sank back into contemplation as the two senior brothers chatted.
• The Great Powers gathered at Mount Tai, and Yuanshi arrived in a Nine Dragon Incense Carriage pulled by nine Dragon Clan powerhouses, with the Twelve Golden Immortals and other attendants accompanying him.

Hong Yun presided over Xuanyuan’s completion of his Merit, but the Three Daos granted far less Merit than expected and divided it between Xuanyuan and Chi You. Yuanshi realized Hong Yun had anticipated the outcome, then watched as Merit strengthened participants from both sides, with more surprises still unfolding.

• Yuanshi’s grand display drew criticism from the Ancestor Witches, Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, Laozi, and the Human Race, who praised Hong Yun’s modest arrival instead.
• Hong Yun used the Kongtong Seal to announce that Xuanyuan had completed his rule and could attain the position of Human Sovereign.
• The Heavenly Dao chose not to respond to Hong Yun’s prayer, though Merit from the Three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Man still descended.
• The Three Daos granted Xuanyuan only half as much Merit as Fuxi and Jiang Xuan had received, then divided it between Xuanyuan and Chi You.
• Chi You, Ao Guang, Guang Chengzi, and others refined their Merit, raising the cultivation of those who had contributed to the Human Race’s civil war.
• Yuanshi took comfort in the Merit gained by the Chan Sect disciples and boasted to Laozi and Tongtian, but the following scene abruptly changed his expression.

The Three Daos’ Merit exposed the Chan Sect disciples’ immense Karmic Debt, devastating Yuanshi as their Merit was consumed. Ao Guang reached the edge of the Quasi-Saint Realm, then broke through after Chi You gave him nearly half of his own Merit, leaving Guang Chengzi eyeing Xuanyuan with hopeful expectation.

• The descending Merit revealed that Guang Chengzi and several Chan Sect disciples carried staggering Karmic Debt, while Randeng and others had less.
• Yuanshi reeled at the sight of his disciples’ Karmic Debt, and Laozi and Tongtian tried to console him.
• Ao Guang used his Merit to reach Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Perfection but fell half a step short of the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Chi You gave Ao Guang nearly half of his Merit and urged him to use it to break through.
• Ao Guang refined Chi You’s Merit and successfully entered the Quasi-Saint Realm, earning admiration for their master-disciple bond.
• Guang Chengzi looked toward Xuanyuan with longing, while Xuanyuan reacted with confusion.

At Xuanyuan’s Fengshan Ceremony, Merit propelled Xuanyuan and Chi You into the Quasi-Saint Realm while Kong Xuan lamented that his distracted disciple Cang Jie lacked ambition. The ceremony left the gathered powers puzzled by how little Merit remained, as Cang Jie opened his eyes and the world’s winds and clouds began to shift.

• Xuanyuan ignored Guang Chengzi’s pleading and refined his Merit, while Yuanshi reflected on his disciples’ conduct and Zhen Yuanzi and Minghe secretly arranged to fight after the ceremony.
• Kong Xuan grew jealous of Ao Guang’s advancement and tried to rouse Cang Jie from his reverie, but Cang Jie remained absorbed in the diagram in his mind.
• Xuanyuan broke through to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint Realm, and Chi You reached the Early-stage Quasi-Saint Realm after giving some of his Merit to Ao Guang.
• The Fengshan Ceremony ended, and the gathered powers wondered why so little Merit had appeared.
• Hong Yun watched Cang Jie as the young man opened his eyes, causing the winds and clouds of heaven and earth to change.

Cang Jie created three thousand primordial characters for the Human Race and received immense Merit, which raised him to Quasi-Saint Great Perfection and advanced Kong Xuan's cultivation. The chapter ended with Cang Jie calmly asking Kong Xuan to repeat what he had just said.

• Cang Jie prayed to the Great Dao and Human Dao, then created three thousand characters to preserve Human Race civilization.
• The Great Powers realized Cang Jie was creating Human Race writing, while Kong Xuan recognized that his supposedly dull disciple had been studying character creation.
• The Three Daos bestowed vast Merit on Cang Jie and a smaller share on Kong Xuan, prompting the Heavenly Dao Saints to react with envy toward Hong Yun's growing influence.
• Kong Xuan refined his Merit and advanced to Early-stage Quasi-Saint, while Cang Jie rose from Grand Unity Golden Immortal to Quasi-Saint Great Perfection.
• After refining the Merit, Cang Jie returned to his calm demeanor and asked Kong Xuan to repeat what he had just said.

Cang Jie thanked Kong Xuan for raising him, and Xuanyuan absorbed Eastern Prince’s True Spirit before renouncing his former identity and becoming Human Emperor. After thanking Hong Yun for saving his life in his previous existence, Xuanyuan joined Fuxi and Jiang Xuan as the Three Sovereigns Era ended and the Five Emperors Era began.

• Cang Jie reassured Kong Xuan that he was grateful for saving and raising him, while Kong Xuan apologized for doubting his work on written characters.
• Eastern Prince’s True Spirit appeared from Xuanyuan, revealing his former identity and prompting Tai Yi to suggest killing him.
• Xuanyuan merged Eastern Prince’s memories and swore that his past Karma had ended and that he was now only the Human Emperor.
• Xuanyuan renewed his bond with Chi You, then thanked Hong Yun for saving his life in his previous existence and promised to serve him.
• Xuanyuan greeted Fuxi and Jiang Xuan as the Three Sovereigns Era ended and the Five Emperors Era began.

Zhuanxu cracked down on cultivators who exploited the Human Race, then used the Kongtong Seal to swear a Human Dao oath severing outsiders from the Human Race’s Qi Luck and Merit. His decree angered powerful immortals and gods, but he silenced officials who challenged it.

• Zhuanxu ordered a Grand Unity Golden Immortal who spread a plague and stole the Muddy Water Tribe’s faith to be burned to ashes.
• As secret interference continued, Zhuanxu issued nine death orders against outsiders who entered Human Race territory or manipulated its people.
• Zhuanxu visited Fire Cloud Cave and used the Kongtong Seal to swear that unrecognized outsiders would receive no Human Race Qi Luck or Merit, and that heaven and earth would be severed within Human Race territory.
• The Human Dao approved Zhuanxu’s oath, and its decree appeared above Human Race territory as the words “Severing Heaven and Earth, the Human Race shall be immortal!”
• When a bribed official questioned Zhuanxu’s decision, Zhuanxu had him dragged away and warned the other officials against betraying the Human Race.

Zhuanxu enforced strict laws against the Myriad Races and made those rules ancestral teachings before completing his Merit and becoming a Human Race Quasi-Saint. As the Human Sovereigns’ ages passed, Guang Chengzi and other Chan Sect disciples secretly labored among humans to clear their Karmic Debt, while Zhunti and Jieyin consoled themselves by comparing their disciples favorably with Yuanshi’s.

• Zhuanxu explained why he punished the Myriad Races, enforced his decrees, and made protections against their corruption of the Human Race ancestral teachings.
• Duobao became a Quasi-Saint, prompting Guang Chengzi to resent his own standing as he secretly worked as a pig farmer alongside Taiyi.
• Guang Chengzi tended Spirit Pigs diligently while villagers praised him and joked about finding him a wife.
• The Human Race’s later Co-Lords, including Shao Hao, Di Ku, Yao, and Shun, succeeded one another as its development continued.
• Zhunti complained that Maitreya and Yaoshi had gained less Merit than other sects’ disciples, but Jieyin pointed out that they had advanced more than Yuanshi’s debt-ridden disciples.
• Zhunti and Jieyin concluded that their teaching ranked among the best, while Yuanshi’s disciples suffered a ruined reputation ahead of the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.

Shun sought someone to control the devastating floods and promised the successful candidate would inherit his position as Human Race Co-Lord. Gun’s efforts to contain the waters ultimately worsened the disaster, and he died by suicide, leaving Shun mourning the loss of a capable successor.

• Shun offered the position of Co-Lord to anyone who could eradicate the floods, prompting Gun to travel to the capital and pledge his life to the task.
• Shun entrusted Gun with flood control and promised to make him his successor if he succeeded.
• Gun built dams and contained the water for more than five hundred years, earning widespread praise before the barriers broke and floods submerged most of Human Race territory.
• Gun regretted his failure and killed himself on Feather Mountain, and his head and flood-control insights were sent to Shun.
• Shun wept over Gun’s death and mourned the loss of a worthy successor.

Three years after Gun’s death, Hong Yun found Yu inside Gun’s corpse and raised him on the Floating Island with the Three Xiāo. Fifteen years later, Yu was ready to leave the mountain and inherit his father’s flood-control legacy, but Bi Xiao dragged him off to try on another outfit.

• Three years after Gun died, Hong Yun visited his preserved corpse with the Three Xiāo, discovered a baby inside it, and named him Yu.
• Hong Yun and the Three Xiāo brought Yu to the Floating Island, where Nuwa and the others mistook him for Hong Yun’s child before learning he was Gun’s son.
• Yu grew up under the Three Xiāo, learned the first three layers of the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Merit and Gun’s flood-control insights, and became skilled at observing flowing water.
• Fifteen years later, Hong Yun told Yu to leave the mountain and control the floods, and Yu eagerly agreed to inherit his father’s legacy.
• Bi Xiao chased Yu to make him try on a new outfit, and Hong Yun teased him by suggesting he do so before leaving the mountain.

Yu arrived to control the floods, confident he could succeed where his father Gun had failed. He began dredging rivers and diverting floodwaters into the Four Seas, earning the Human Race’s hope, but the immense effort drew the attention of the Myriad Races and trouble soon followed.

• Yu spent twenty years surveying the Human Race’s flood-stricken lands before visiting Shun and pledging to present his head if he failed to control the floods.
• Shun appointed Yu to control the waters and promised to make him the next Human Race Co-Lord if he succeeded.
• The Human Race cheered after learning Yu was a personal disciple of Three Xiāo, and Yu concluded that dredging was better than blocking the floods.
• Yu led the Human Race in carving channels and diverting floodwaters toward the Four Seas, while sharing his flood-control lessons in books.
• The floods gradually diminished, but the immense labor and resources drew the Myriad Races’ attention, and Yu soon faced trouble.

Yu’s flood-control project reached the Huai River, where Wu Zhiqi refused to let the Human Race divert the water and defeated the experts sent to confront him. With Shun considering calling on the Human Race’s sacred lands, Yu insisted he had another way to handle the matter.

• The Human Race’s Enforcement Hall punished cultivators who obstructed Yu’s canal work, but Wu Zhiqi continued to block the project at the Huai River.
• After months of storms prevented the team from entering the river, Yu politely asked Wu Zhiqi to allow the Human Race to divert its floodwaters.
• Wu Zhiqi mocked Yu, demanded compensation, and swept Yu and his team a million li away.
• Yu summoned three Peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals, but Wu Zhiqi defeated them with three punches.
• Shun considered calling on the Human Race’s sacred lands, but Yu stopped him and said he would handle Wu Zhiqi by calling for backup.

The Three Xiāo went to the Huai River to help Yu confront Wu Zhiqi, while Hong Yun remembered to send the Five-Colored Divine Stone that would become the monkey’s former body. Wu Zhiqi knelt before the Three Xiāo just as they prepared to fight him.

• After Yu pleaded for help, Bi Xiao persuaded Yun Xiao and Qiong Xiao to leave the island with her.
• Hong Yun remembered the missing Five-Colored Divine Stone and sent it to a spiritual vein in Southern Jambudvipa.
• Yu returned to the Huai River with his construction team and challenged Wu Zhiqi, claiming his Masters would defeat him.
• The Three Xiāo arrived, and Bi Xiao stepped forward to protect Yu with her purple hammer and Profound Origin Water Control Banner.
• Wu Zhiqi charged at Bi Xiao, then suddenly knelt before the Three Xiāo and greeted them.

Wu Zhiqi revealed that he had obstructed Yu’s flood control to attract the Floating Island disciples and ask to join them, hoping to escape a coming tribulation. The Three Xiāo initially rejected him for being too ugly, but accepted him after he transformed into an adorable little monkey, while Bi Xiao’s interest in dressing him up left Yu quietly retreating.

• Wu Zhiqi explained to the Three Xiāo that he had caused trouble for Yu because he wanted to join the Floating Island Lineage and avoid a future tribulation.
• Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao refused to take Wu Zhiqi as a disciple or companion, and Bi Xiao bluntly said he was too ugly.
• Wu Zhiqi used the Water Mirror Technique, saw his own appearance, and transformed into a tiny snow-white monkey to look cute.
• Bi Xiao scooped up Wu Zhiqi, and Yun Xiao agreed that he could follow the sisters from then on.
• Bi Xiao began considering outfits for Wu Zhiqi, prompting Yu to back away as a recruitment standard based on extreme good looks spread through the Primordial Wilderness.
• In the Demon Master Palace, Beiming Jerry compared his looks to Zhen Yuanzi and Minghe, who both rejected him as too ugly.

Yu spent eighty-one years controlling the floods and avoided visiting the Floating Island, while his growing fame concealed his relief at escaping his masters’ cross-dressing schemes. After Shun handed him the Human Race Co-Lord position, further advances by Hong Yun’s disciples intensified the Four Sects’ disciples’ determination to catch up.

• Yu endured interference from demons during flood control until the Human Race Holy Land stopped the Great Powers from obstructing his work.
• Yu passed the Floating Island three times without entering, earning renown for putting flood control before his family while secretly avoiding cross-dressing.
• Yu and Shun argued over the Co-Lord position, then agreed that Yu would take over in exchange for three jars of Kirin Whip Wine.
• Shun’s Merit raised him and his master Lu Ya to the Quasi-Saint Realm, increasing the Floating Island’s ranks of powerful disciples.
• Guang Chengzi refused a marriage proposal while working as a pig farmer and lamented that his cultivation had fallen behind Hong Yun’s disciples.
• The Four Sects’ disciples resolved to cultivate harder and surpass the Three Xiāo, unaware that Yu’s Merit would be extraordinary.