Chapter Summaries

Yu established the Xia Dynasty and began forging the Nine Cauldrons to mark the Nine Provinces, causing the Human Race’s Qi Luck to surge. After burying the cauldrons across the provinces, he returned to the capital and began a ceremony with the Kongtong Seal, leaving his declaration unfinished.

• Yu summoned the tribal leaders to Tushan and won their support for abolishing the tribes and establishing a unified state.
• Yu proclaimed the Xia Dynasty, becoming its first king, and announced that the Nine Cauldrons would define the Nine Provinces.
• The Human Race’s Qi Luck manifested as a golden dragon, strengthening Fuxi and drawing the attention of Laozi and other powerful figures.
• Yu enfeoffed lords and obtained Shouyang Mountain’s copper mother and the Qian Kun Cauldron through Bi Xiao to forge the Nine Cauldrons.
• Yu completed the initial forging of the cauldrons, engraved them with the Human Race’s history, and buried them throughout the Nine Provinces.
• Yu returned to the capital, took out the Kongtong Seal at the ancestral altar, and began a declaration to the Great Dao, Human Dao, Pangu, Earthly Dao, and Hongjun.

Yu established the Nine Provinces Barrier with the Nine Cauldrons, protecting ordinary humans from cultivators and restricting outside powers in Human territory. The Heavenly Dao took offense at Yu’s prayer and summoned the most severe Heavenly Punishment over Great Xia, while Hongjun realized his teasing had provoked it.

• Yu used the Nine Cauldrons and Human Race Qi Luck to create a barrier that suppressed immortals, gods, and cultivators within the Nine Provinces.
• Ordinary humans celebrated the protection, while the Chan Sect disciples still doing manual labor found their work harder under the barrier.
• Hongjun awoke in the Purple Cloud Palace, pleased by the Floating Island Lineage’s strength, and kicked down the Heavenly Dao’s door to ask what it thought of Yu’s actions.
• The Heavenly Dao declared that Yu had disrespected it and summoned Heavenly Punishment above Great Xia’s capital.
• Hongjun panicked, while Hong Yun and Nuwa rushed to the capital and Yu wondered why the Heavenly Dao had singled him out.

The Heavenly Dao unleashed a devastating punishment against Yu for establishing the Nine Provinces barrier, but Hong Yun and allies from across the Primordial Wilderness intervened. The coalition destroyed the tribulation clouds, leaving Yu protected and Hong Yun frustrated that the lightning had not helped him break through.

• Hongjun tried to weaken the Heavenly Punishment and persuade the Heavenly Dao to spare Yu, but the Heavenly Dao refused.
• Hong Yun blocked the first bolt with the Myriad Heavens Qingyun, and Nuwa joined him against another bolt containing the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Houtu, Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Di Jun, Tai Yi, the Four Ancestors of Humanity, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, three Quasi-Saints, and Tongtian attacked the tribulation clouds to defend Yu and Hong Yun.
• Jieyin stopped Zhunti from joining the battle, while the combined attacks of the other allies destroyed the tribulation clouds.
• Hong Yun lamented that the lightning had vanished before it could help him break through, Yu marveled at his Grand Master Ancestor's connections, and the Heavenly Dao felt utterly dispirited.

Hong Yun protected Yu from the Heavenly Dao’s punishment, reunited with old friends, and later watched Yu’s Fengshan Ceremony draw a huge gathering to Mount Tai. Yuanshi arrived with a modest procession and was mocked by the Human Race, leaving him furious.

• Hong Yun and the other powerful figures stopped the Heavenly Dao’s punishment, and Great Xia’s people cheered for Saint Father.
• Yu tried to reunite with Hong Yun, but Minghe, Zhenyuan, and the Ancestor Witches crowded around him and left him at the edge.
• After Yu established the Nine Provinces and the Human Race prospered, he held his Fengshan Ceremony at Mount Tai ten thousand years later.
• Two familiar figures staged their usual swordplay on the mountain, while Rogue Cultivators passed by without stopping.
• The Saint Realm experts arrived, with Hong Yun making a grand entrance alongside Houtu and Nuwa and Yuanshi arriving in a Nine Dragon Incense Carriage pulled by Huang Long.
• Human Race powerhouses praised Hong Yun’s procession and mocked Yuanshi for his modest one, making Yuanshi furious.

At Yu’s Fengshan Ceremony, his achievements were recognized and a vast amount of Merit raised his cultivation to the Sub-Saint level. The Three Xiāo also advanced to the Quasi-Saint realm, while the assembled Great Powers praised Hong Yun’s lineage and mocked Yuanshi’s sect.

• Hong Yun invoked the Kongtong Seal, and pillars of light rose from the places where Yu had buried the Nine Tripod Cauldrons.
• Hong Yun declared Yu’s Merit complete and called for him to be recognized as a Human Sovereign; Merit from Heaven, Human Dao, and Earthly Dao descended.
• Most of the Merit went to Yu, while three streams went to Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao; Bi Xiao celebrated and frightened Yu with a gesture suggesting a reward.
• Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao each advanced to the Quasi-Saint realm, prompting the Great Powers to praise Hong Yun’s lineage and mock the Chan Sect.
• Yu refined his Merit, advanced through the Quasi-Saint realm, and reached the Sub-Saint level before his cultivation stopped short of sainthood.
• Tongtian praised Yu and disparaged Xuanyuan again, prompting Laozi to rebuke him and Yuanshi to glare at him ominously.

After Yu passed the throne to Bo Yi, Great Xia shifted to hereditary rule under Qi and his descendants, while the Western Saints worried about their sect’s decline. Zhunti disguised himself as Daoist A'pu and secretly entered the Heavenly Court to seek a way for the West to gain Merit and Qi Luck, freeing a sealed Three-headed Flood Dragon as he arrived.

• Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace bruised after sparring with Yuanshi, and rumors that his sword formation was weak stirred up conflict between the Jie Sect and Chan Sect.
• Yu passed the throne to Bo Yi, but ministers later forced Bo Yi to pass it to Qi, who began hereditary succession by passing the throne to Tai Kang.
• Zhunti told Jieyin that the Western Sect needed Merit and Qi Luck, then decided to infiltrate the Heavenly Court and look for an opportunity.
• Zhunti transformed into Daoist A'pu and slipped past the Heavenly Court’s guards into Lingxiao Palace.
• Daoist A'pu sent a streak of azure light at the sealed Three-headed Flood Dragon, freeing it to flee the hall.

Daoist A'pu arranged for his disciple Ayou, disguised as Yang Tianyou, to marry Yao Ji and channel the Heavenly Court's fortune toward the Western Lands. Hong Yun sent Kong Xuan to become Yao Ji's Dao Companion instead, and both men headed toward the battle where Yao Ji pursued the Three-headed Flood Dragon.

• Daoist A'pu exposed the Three-headed Flood Dragon to Yao Ji, then tracked her as she chased the fleeing dragon beyond the Heavenly Court.
• Hong Yun summoned Kong Xuan and pressured him into accepting a fated marriage with Yao Ji, claiming it would help clear the Phoenix Clan's remaining Karmic Debt.
• Hong Yun praised Kong Xuan, gained a Chaos Divine Light Fragment from the System, and sent him toward Southern Jambudvipa.
• Hong Yun revealed that he had anticipated Zhunti's scheme and wondered whether Kong Xuan and Yao Ji's union would still lead to the birth of Yang Jian and Yang Chan.
• Daoist A'pu prepared Ayou, disguised as Yang Tianyou, to win Yao Ji's heart and sent him toward her battle with the Three-headed Flood Dragon.

Yao Ji fought the Three-headed Flood Dragon in a swamp, but it destroyed her Dao Heart before fleeing. Yang Tianyou tried to use a scheme to approach her, but Kong Xuan rescued her and carried her to a cave, where she remained gravely injured.

• Yao Ji pursued the Three-headed Flood Dragon into a poisonous swamp and fought it to a standstill with her Innate Spiritual Treasure sword.
• Yao Ji severed two of the Three-headed Flood Dragon's heads with her sword, but it clawed out her Dao Heart and fled.
• Yang Tianyou secretly released Yin Yang Harmony Powder toward Yao Ji and the fleeing Three-headed Flood Dragon, then prepared to approach the wounded Yao Ji.
• Kong Xuan arrived in a flash of five-colored radiance and carried Yao Ji away before Yang Tianyou could speak to her.
• Kong Xuan took Yao Ji to a cave, where she thanked him before coughing up blood and remembering how badly she was hurt.

Kong Xuan healed Yao Ji’s injuries with a Nine Revolutions Heart Mending Pill, but the Lust Poison repeatedly overwhelmed her, forcing him to knock her unconscious with Enlightenment Strikes. As Kong Xuan resigned himself to their fated bond, Yang Tianyou stumbled upon the poisoned Three-headed Flood Dragon.

• Kong Xuan sensed Yao Ji’s empty Dao Heart, gave her a Nine Revolutions Heart Mending Pill, and helped her recover and break through to the Perfected Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• The Yin Yang Harmony Powder overcame Yao Ji, and she threw herself at Kong Xuan; he repeatedly struck her head to clear her mind until she was knocked unconscious.
• Kong Xuan reflected on Hong Yun’s claim that Yao Ji was his fated Dao Companion and resolved to endure the match for the Phoenix Clan’s future.
• Yang Tianyou searched for Yao Ji and found the Three-headed Flood Dragon, which had also been poisoned and dragged him over with its tail.

Yao Ji woke after Kong Xuan cured her poison and, after recognizing him as a renowned disciple of the Floating Island, agreed to become his Dao Companion. Kong Xuan misunderstood what Dao Companions meant and took her to meet Hong Yun, while the Three-headed Flood Dragon remained behind with a sleeping scholar.

• Yao Ji woke in the cave with a painful lump on her head and remembered that Kong Xuan had saved her without taking advantage of her.
• Yao Ji learned that her rescuer was Kong Xuan of the Floating Island and praised his reputation and appearance.
• Kong Xuan asked Yao Ji to become his Dao Companion, and she agreed after he mistook her bashful hesitation for rejection and started to leave.
• Kong Xuan took Yao Ji by the hand and flew with her toward the Floating Island to meet Hong Yun.
• The Three-headed Flood Dragon remained in the weeds beside a sleeping, tear-streaked scholar after Kong Xuan and Yao Ji departed.

The Three-headed Flood Dragon decided to keep Yang Tianyou alive after their encounter, then assaulted him again when he tried to escape. Meanwhile, Hao Tian searched desperately for Yao Ji, and when she returned leaning on a handsome man, he rushed out in alarm.

• The Three-headed Flood Dragon chose not to kill Yang Tianyou, but when Yang Tianyou woke and fled, the Flood Dragon dragged him back and attacked him again.
• On Mount Sumeru, Zhunti assured Jieyin that his scheme to take the Heavenly Court’s Qi Luck and Merit would succeed because Hong Yun was not involved.
• Hao Tian ordered the Heavenly Court to search for Yao Ji, then sent Grand White Golden Star to ask Xuanyuan and the Human Race for help.
• A guard reported that Yao Ji had returned accompanied by a handsome man, and Hao Tian hurried out after hearing that she was leaning on the man’s shoulder.
• Hao Tian ordered the guard castrated for making him misunderstand the report, then continued toward Yao Ji.

Kong Xuan brought Yao Ji to Heavenly Court to seek Hao Tian’s blessing for their union as Dao Companions. After recognizing Kong Xuan and considering his standing and the Floating Island Lineage, Hao Tian accepted him as his brother-in-law.

• Kong Xuan and Yao Ji arrived at South Heaven Gate, where Yao Ji worried that Hao Tian would oppose their relationship.
• Hao Tian hurried out to reunite with Yao Ji, then pretended to reprimand her for descending to the mortal world.
• Yao Ji explained that she had gone to capture the Three-headed Flood Dragon, and the Grand White Golden Star reminded Hao Tian that the monster had escaped its seal.
• Hao Tian noticed Kong Xuan and prepared to confront him, but recognized him as Hong Yun’s disciple and greeted him as a Daoist Friend.
• Kong Xuan told Hao Tian that he and Yao Ji wished to become Dao Companions and that Hong Yun had approved.
• Hao Tian weighed Kong Xuan’s merits and the benefits of an alliance with Floating Island, then decided to accept him as Yao Ji’s partner.

Hao Tian warmly welcomed Kong Xuan as Yao Ji’s Dao Companion and invited him to help strengthen the Heavenly Court. Kong Xuan presented Hong Yun’s gifts, and Hao Tian’s refusal faltered when he learned they included the Zhou Tian Star Formation.

• Hao Tian accepted Kong Xuan as Yao Ji’s Dao Companion, and the Heavenly Court immortals welcomed him with a banquet.
• Over wine, Hao Tian complained about the Saint’s disciples and asked Kong Xuan to join the Heavenly Court, but Kong Xuan said he would first consult Hong Yun.
• Kong Xuan presented Hao Tian with the River Diagram and Luo Shu, but Hao Tian refused them to avoid appearing to have accepted gifts in exchange for Yao Ji.
• Kong Xuan revealed that Hong Yun had also sent the Zhou Tian Star Formation, and Hao Tian immediately reconsidered his refusal.

Hundred Flowers Fairy gave birth to the Chosen Ones Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan after the Heavenly Dao arranged her meeting with Yang Tianbi. Their birth sent the Four Sects and Hong Yun scrambling to claim them as disciples, while Yang Tianyou remained trapped with the Three-headed Flood Dragon.

• Hao Tian accepted Hong Yun's offer of the Zhou Tian Star Formation and arranged to discuss his marriage to Yao Ji, while Kong Xuan and Yao Ji chose to take their time.
• When Kong Xuan and Yao Ji's relationship produced no children, the Heavenly Dao arranged for Hundred Flowers Fairy to meet Yang Tianbi, and she later gave birth to Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan.
• Hong Yun sent Ao Guang to Peach Mountain to find a Floating Island disciple, while Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti sent their disciples to recruit the three children.
• Jieyin and Zhunti lamented that they could not locate Yang Tianyou, whom the Three-headed Flood Dragon had kept captive for years.
• Yang Tianyou refused the Three-headed Flood Dragon's offer to become Dao Companions, and Hong Yun watched from Floating Island, pleased with his revenge.

The Heavenly Court sent Tian Peng to arrest the Hundred Flowers Fairy, but Yang Tianbi died trying to stop him. Yu Ding arrived to take Yang Jian as his disciple, and Ao Guang appeared just as the Fairy considered his offer.

• Tian Peng arrived with Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to arrest the Hundred Flowers Fairy, offering to reduce her punishment if she returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Yang Tianbi charged Tian Peng with a kitchen knife, then slit his throat when the Hundred Flowers Fairy agreed to go with him.
• Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan rushed out and grieved with their mother over Yang Tianbi's body.
• Yu Ding and Randeng arrived, and Yu Ding asked to take Yang Jian as his disciple while refusing to accept the other two siblings.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy asked Yu Ding to protect all three children, but before she could agree to his offer for Yang Jian alone, Ao Guang arrived.

Ao Guang and Yu Ding arrived at Peach Mountain to recruit Yang Jiao and Yang Jian, but Hundred Flowers Fairy sought a place in Ao Guang’s lineage for all three of her children. Yu Ding offered Yang Jian only a conditional path into the Chan Sect, until Duobao arrived and offered to take him as his disciple.

• Ao Guang arrived at Peach Mountain and greeted Randeng, Yu Ding, Hundred Flowers Fairy, and Marshal Tianpeng.
• Ao Guang revealed that he had come to take Yang Jiao as his disciple, while Yu Ding said he intended to take Yang Jian.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy asked Ao Guang to accept Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan, but Ao Guang said only Yang Jiao and Yang Chan had ties to his lineage.
• Yang Jian rejected his mother’s pleading, and Yu Ding offered to make him an outer disciple for three years before considering him for direct discipleship.
• Duobao arrived and offered to take Yang Jian as his disciple.

Duobao confronted Yu Ding and Randeng over Yang Jian, then accepted Yang Jian as his disciple despite the Chan Sect’s objections. Yu Ding left in disgrace, while two golden streams of light flew toward Peach Mountain.

• Duobao greeted Ao Guang and the others, then discovered that Ao Guang was nearing a breakthrough to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm by accident.
• Yu Ding and Randeng challenged Duobao for interfering with the Chan Sect’s claim to Yang Jian, but Duobao overwhelmed them with his aura and defended his right to take the boy as a disciple.
• Yang Jian chose Duobao as his master without waiting for Hundred Flowers Fairy’s consent, and Duobao accepted him as the Jie Sect’s second direct disciple.
• Yu Ding spat blood and threatened the mother and son, so Duobao warned him not to harm them; Yu Ding and Randeng then returned to Kunlun Mountain.
• Two golden streams of light flew toward Peach Mountain.

Maitreya and Yaoshi failed to recruit the three Yang siblings, but took Yang Tianbi’s corpse after claiming the Western Saints might revive him. Maitreya proposed reviving Yang Tianbi and recruiting him to control his children, so Jieyin and Zhunti headed to the Netherworld to seek Houtu’s help.

• Maitreya tried to claim Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan for the Western Sect, but Ao Guang and Duobao revealed the siblings had already been promised or accepted as disciples.
• Maitreya turned his attention to Yang Tianbi’s corpse, and Hundred Flowers Fairy handed it over after he said the Western Saints might revive her husband.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy went with Tian Peng to the Heavenly Court, Yang Jiao and Yang Chan went with Ao Guang, Yang Jian went with Duobao, and Maitreya and Yaoshi carried Yang Tianbi’s corpse west.
• Maitreya proposed reviving Yang Tianbi and recruiting him so the Western Sect could use him to influence the three Yang siblings, and Zhunti praised the plan.
• Jieyin and Zhunti set out for the Netherworld Sea of Blood to ask Houtu to help revive Yang Tianbi.

Hao Tian held the Flat Peach Assembly to recruit Saint disciples into the Heavenly Court, but their refusals and Guang Chengzi’s insult triggered a clash between the Chan Sect and Jie Sect. Hao Tian ended the confrontation with an angry display of his power.

• Zhunti and Jieyin took Yang Tianbi’s soul from Minghe, resurrected him, and accepted him as their disciple, while Hao Tian imprisoned Hundred Flowers Fairy beneath Peach Mountain for three hundred thousand years.
• Grand White Golden Star reported that the Saints had declined Hao Tian’s invitations, though their disciples would attend, and that Hong Yun alone had agreed to come personally.
• The Flat Peach Assembly drew rogue cultivators seeking peaches, but Xuandu, the Western Sect disciples, and Duobao all refused Hao Tian’s invitation to join the Heavenly Court.
• Guang Chengzi bluntly rejected Hao Tian’s recruitment and disparaged the Heavenly Court, provoking Turtle Spirit Saint Mother and Yu Ding to challenge each other’s sects.
• Yu Ding tried to pressure Randeng into leading the Chan Sect against the Jie Sect, but Hao Tian rebuked everyone and unleashed his Mid-stage Quasi-Saint aura.

After the Flat Peach Banquet ended in conflict and humiliation for Haotian, he went to Purple Cloud Palace to complain to Hongjun and ask him to stand up for the Heavenly Court. Hongjun finally let Haotian inside and asked what had happened, leaving Haotian poised to accuse the senior disciples.

• Duobao and Guang Chengzi withdrew their sects from the banquet, but Randeng’s faction only moved after he signaled, further embarrassing Guang Chengzi.
• Xuandu, Duobao, the Heavenly Origin Sect disciples, and the Western Sect disciples left the Heavenly Court banquet.
• Hong Yun told Haotian that his proposal depended on Ao Guang and the others agreeing, then departed with the Floating Island disciples.
• Haotian asked Yao Chi to oversee the cleanup and traveled to Purple Cloud Palace to seek Hongjun’s help.
• After Haotian knelt for an unknown length of time, Hongjun summoned him inside and asked what had happened.
• Haotian wept before Hongjun and began complaining about the senior disciples.