Chapter Summaries

Zhen Yuanzi sheltered Hong Yun in Wuzhuang Temple from those seeking his Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, but Hong Yun left to draw the danger away from his friend. Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng cornered Hong Yun while the Ten Great Demon Gods trapped Zhen Yuanzi, leaving Hong Yun facing a desperate fight.

• Zhen Yuanzi warned Hong Yun that powerful enemies were watching Wuzhuang Temple and advised him to stay inside the Qiankun Wutu Great Formation.
• Di Jun and Taiyi waited for Hong Yun to leave, while Hong Yun endured tens of thousands of years in the temple before slipping away to protect Zhen Yuanzi.
• Di Jun and Taiyi pursued Hong Yun as the Ten Great Demon Gods trapped Zhen Yuanzi outside Wuzhuang Temple, cutting him off from the earth's energy.
• Zhen Yuanzi tried to summon Yang Mei with the Willow Branch, but Yang Mei could not hear him because he was in secluded cultivation.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng cornered Hong Yun and demanded his Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, and Hong Yun vowed to die rather than hand it over.

Hong Yun fought Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng but self-destructed rather than surrender the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, which vanished into the void. Zhen Yuanzi arrived too late to save him and swore vengeance on the three and the Demon Race as they departed to search for the Purple Qi.

• Hong Yun attacked Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng with the Soul Devouring Bronze Bell, but Taiyi's Chaos Bell nullified its power and Di Jun wounded him with the Sun God Wheel.
• Hong Yun self-destructed, destroying his body and soul; the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi escaped into the void, while his damaged Soul Devouring Bronze Bell remained.
• Di Jun and Taiyi searched for the missing Purple Qi, and Kunpeng honored his promise by joining the Demon Race as its Demon Master.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived after breaking free of the Ten Great Demon Gods' Trapping Formation and attacked Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng with the Earth Book.
• Taiyi struck Zhen Yuanzi with the Chaos Bell, and Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng left to search for the Purple Qi.
• Zhen Yuanzi swore he would avenge Hong Yun against the three and the entire Demon Race.

Lin Tian emerged from seclusion at the middle Heavenly Dao Realm after refining the God-Slaying Spear into a Low-grade Chaos Spiritual Treasure. Zhen Yuanzi sought his help to avenge Hong Yun, became Yang Mei’s disciple, and began rebuilding his Dao after abolishing his three corpses.

• Lin Tian absorbed Lingguang’s remaining origin energy and broke through to the middle Heavenly Dao Realm.
• Lin Tian fused a Chaos Spiritual Treasure fragment into the God-Slaying Spear, advancing it to a Low-grade Chaos Spiritual Treasure.
• Shebishi told Lin Tian that Zhen Yuanzi had been waiting, and Zhen Yuanzi recounted Hong Yun’s death and asked Lin Tian to accept him as a disciple.
• Lin Tian summoned Yang Mei, who agreed to take Zhen Yuanzi as his disciple and avenge Hong Yun if needed.
• Lin Tian explained the flaws in the path of Slaying Three Corpses and advised Zhen Yuanzi to abolish his three corpses and cultivate the Dao of Earth anew.
• Zhen Yuanzi destroyed his three corpse incarnations, fell from the late Quasi-Saint stage to the peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage, and left with Yang Mei for the Three Immortal Islands.

Tongtian argued with Yuanshi over whether beings with humble origins deserved to pursue the Dao, then left Kunlun in anger after Taishang reprimanded him. Taishang sought Hongjun’s guidance about the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi and learned that its opportunity had not yet arrived, while Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao discussed how Lin Tian had disrupted the original path to sainthood.

• Tongtian proposed that the Three Pure Ones search for Hong Yun’s missing Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, but Yuanshi accused him of wanting it for Duobao and disparaged his disciples’ origins.
• Tongtian defended all beings’ right to pursue the Dao, and he grew furious when Taishang’s attempt to mediate seemed to blame him.
• Tongtian left Kunlun Mountain in resentment, while Yuanshi asked Taishang whether he had deciphered his Primordial Chaos Purple Qi.
• Taishang went to Purple Cloud Palace, where Haotian and Yaochi received him, and Hongjun told him to wait for the right time and comprehend the purple qi quietly.
• After Taishang departed, Hongjun asked the Heavenly Dao how to handle the others’ paths to sainthood now that Nuwa’s fate had changed, and the Heavenly Dao blamed Lin Tian and admitted the opportunities required another method.

Nuwa sought Lin Tian’s guidance on her stalled comprehension of the Law of Creation. His questions led her to realize that true creation meant bringing a wholly new life into existence, and he invited her to follow him somewhere.

• Fuxi congratulated Nuwa on comprehending eighty percent of the Law of Creation, then suffered a backlash while trying to divine the answer to her bottleneck.
• Fuxi urged Nuwa to seek Lin Tian’s guidance, and she left for Pangu Hall.
• The Six-eared Macaque showed Lin Tian the Enlightenment Tea Tree he had found at Wuyi Mountain, and Lin Tian asked whether he had discovered anything else there.
• Nuwa explained her difficulty to Lin Tian, who asked her to consider what all beings shared and why transformed beings took the form of the Innate Dao Body.
• Nuwa realized that true creation meant bringing a completely new kind of life into existence, and Lin Tian invited her to follow him.

Nuwa created humanity from Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Three-light Divine Water with Lin Tian’s guidance, and completing the creation brought her the Dao of Creation. Her breakthrough as a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal drew the attention of powerful beings across the Primordial Wilderness.

• Nuwa’s first clay figures came to life briefly before cracking apart, and Lin Tian explained that ordinary soil could not sustain beings with Innate Dao Bodies.
• Lin Tian mixed Three-light Divine Water with Breathing Soil, then added his essence blood to the male figure while Nuwa added hers to the female figure, bringing both to life as Golden Immortals.
• Nuwa molded three thousand innate humans by hand, then used the gourd vine to scatter divine clay and create another 129,600 humans.
• As the final human was born, Nuwa comprehended the complete law of Creation and attained the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• The Three Pure Ones, Di Jun, Taiyi, Minghe, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed Nuwa’s breakthrough, while Lin Tian watched the birth of humanity.

Nuwa endured the Hunyuan tribulation and proved the Dao, then declined Hongjun’s offer to become a Heavenly Dao Saint. She left to establish a Dao field in Chaos, entrusting Lin Tian to protect humanity.

• Nuwa survived the Hunyuan lightning tribulation by using the Map of Mountains and Rivers and her laws of creation, then gathered the immense merit into a protective golden ring.
• Mo Ling, daughter of the Kirin Clan’s chief, offered to serve as Nuwa’s mount, and Nuwa accepted her.
• Hongjun invited Nuwa to fuse with the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi and become a Heavenly Dao Saint, but Lin Tian objected and Nuwa declined.
• Hongjun told Nuwa to establish a Dao field in Chaos, and Nuwa proclaimed that humanity must remain undisturbed for one hundred thousand years.
• Nuwa asked Lin Tian to watch over humanity, announced that she would establish her Dao field in ten thousand years, and departed for Chaos on Mo Ling.
• The newly created humans gathered around Lin Tian on the East Sea shore.

Lin Tian guided the newly created humans toward making clothing, and Zi Yi Shi earned Heavenly Dao Merit for inventing garments. He named her and ordered her to teach humanity, while Di Xuan and Yue Yao helped spread the craft.

• Lin Tian named the first awakened humans Di Xuan and Yue Yao, appointed them to lead humanity, and gave them the gourd vine as a supreme treasure.
• Lin Tian told Di Xuan and Yue Yao that humanity needed clothing, then led the humans to a thicket and encouraged them to use its leaves.
• A woman named Zi Yi Shi made a garment from leaves and vines, earning Heavenly Dao Merit that raised her cultivation and turned the garment into a postnatal merit supreme treasure.
• Lin Tian named the woman Zi Yi Shi and ordered her to teach humanity how to make clothing.
• Di Xuan adapted the garment into a skirt, gained Heavenly Dao Merit, and joined Yue Yao in helping Zi Yi Shi teach the humans.

Lin Tian guided humanity through the first steps of civilization, helping them find food, cook it, and shelter from the weather. Sui Ren Shi and You Chao Shi earned great merit and became Grand Unity Golden Immortals, while humanity gained fire and its first house.

• Lin Tian led the hungry people to the forest, where Di Xuan killed several dozen Boar-like Beasts for food.
• Lin Tian roasted the meat and taught the people to seek a way to make fire; an unnamed man created fire by drilling dry wood.
• Heavenly Dao Merit raised the man's cultivation, transformed his flame into the acquired supreme treasure Indestructible Tinder, and Lin Tian named him Sui Ren Shi.
• Lin Tian guided humanity to identify edible wild fruits, then asked them to devise shelter when a downpour left them cold and drenched.
• A middle-aged man imitated a bird's nest to build a wooden house, earning merit that raised his cultivation and transformed the house into an acquired merit supreme treasure.
• Lin Tian named the man You Chao Shi and told him to pass on the house-building method; he joined Zi Yi Shi and Sui Ren Shi as a merit-bearing Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Nuwa demonstrated the power of a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal by creating Nuwa's Grotto-Heaven in Chaos, leaving the gathered great powers to reflect on Prove Dao by Law. Back on the Moon Star, Xi He agreed to take Chang Xi to the Primordial Wilderness with Dao Venerable Lin Tian.

• Nuwa arrived in Chaos, where the great powers gathered to observe her establish a Dao field.
• Nuwa used her Law of Creation and the Map of Mountains and Rivers to form and stabilize a complete mid-thousand world, which she named Nuwa's Grotto-Heaven.
• The gathered powers recognized that Nuwa's strength came from herself rather than the Heavenly Dao; Tongtian showed interest, while Di Jun left with Taiyi to attend to the Demon Race.
• Chang Xi complained to Xi He about their long seclusion and asked to visit the Primordial Wilderness and see the human race.
• Xi He agreed to go with Chang Xi if Dao Venerable Lin Tian accompanied them and they followed his arrangements.

Lin Tian discussed the human race’s vulnerability with Di Xuan and Yue Yao after they asked him to protect their people. He urged them to become self-reliant and began considering a path suited to the human race.

• Xi He and Chang Xi visited Lin Tian among the human race and tried his roasted meat.
• Xi He asked Lin Tian why the humans possessed Innate Dao Bodies, and he explained how Nuwa had created them.
• Di Xuan and Yue Yao told Lin Tian that humans had suffered deaths and injuries from beasts and other races, then begged him to guide them.
• Lin Tian said he could not protect the human race forever and told them to strive for self-improvement.
• Lin Tian recalled martial arts manuals from his previous life and began deducing a path suited to the human race.

Di Jun learned that Kunpeng had reached the late quasi-saint stage, but the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi remained missing. When Taiyi suggested seeking Lin Tian’s guidance on proving Dao by Law, Di Jun refused and vowed to forge his own path.

• Taiyi told Di Jun that Kunpeng had emerged from seclusion at the late quasi-saint stage after observing Nuwa establish her Dao field.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to conquer the myriad races and demand submission or death.
• After learning that humans hunted Demon Race members near Lin Tian, Di Jun ordered his forces to stay away from the area.
• Taiyi told Di Jun that Nuwa had advised him to seek Lin Tian’s guidance on proving Dao by Law.
• Di Jun angrily rejected the idea of asking Lin Tian for help and resolved to find his own path to power.

Lin Tian established the Martial Way, a cultivation system for the Human Race, and entrusted its teachings to its leaders. The stele recording the method received Heavenly Dao Merit, while Nuwa sensed a mysterious change connected to the Human Race’s future and entered seclusion.

• Lin Tian announced the nine realms of the Martial Way and imparted the system to Di Xuan, Yue Yao, Zi Yi Shi, Sui Ren Shi, and You Chao Shi.
• Lin Tian created a black stone stele containing the True Explanation of the Martial Way and techniques that only those with Human Race bloodlines could comprehend.
• Lin Tian teased Chang Xi that she would have to discard her cultivation to practice the Martial Way, and she refused to start over.
• Heavenly Dao Merit descended, and Lin Tian directed both his share and the stele’s share into the stele, empowering it.
• Nuwa sensed that the Human Race’s destiny had surged because of the Martial Way and detected a mysterious connection to a distant place.
• Nuwa ordered Mo Ling to seal her Grotto-Heaven and refuse visitors while she investigated the sensation in seclusion.

Jieyin and Zhunti introduced their newly created Buddhist Dharma to their disciples, but most struggled to understand it. They forcibly converted Eastern cultivators into devoted followers, then an explosion outside Spiritual Mountain interrupted them as Zhunti went to investigate.

• Jieyin and Zhunti taught their disciples the Buddhist Dharma they had developed from Hongjun's Dao and remnants of Rahula's demonic path.
• Zhunti grew angry when most of the Western disciples failed to comprehend the new teachings, and Jieyin explained that the West's foundations were weaker than the East's.
• Zhunti brought captured Eastern cultivators before Jieyin and Zhunti, and the pair used golden light and the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to forcibly convert them.
• The converted cultivators pledged devotion to Buddhist Dharma, and Jieyin and Zhunti planned to take them to the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.
• An explosion sounded outside Spiritual Mountain, and Zhunti flew out to confront whoever had caused it.

Zhunti confronted Qiangliang and Ru Shou as the Ancestral Witches sorted the Western earth veins, fearing they would take the merit he and Jieyin hoped to claim. The fight escalated when Jieyin and the Western disciples arrived, and the Witch Clan warriors formed the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Formation.

• Zhunti found Qiangliang and Ru Shou sorting earth veins in the West and demanded that they leave.
• Ru Shou refused Zhunti’s demand, so Zhunti attacked him with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree; Qiangliang joined the battle against Zhunti.
• Jieyin arrived with Yao Shi, Maitreya, and other Western disciples, who fought alongside Zhunti against the Ancestral Witches and their warriors.
• Zhunti explained the stakes to Jieyin, and the two martial brothers joined forces against Qiangliang and Ru Shou.
• Lian Yu ordered the Witch Clan warriors to summon the Twelve Heavenly God-Demon Banners, forming two Pangu phantoms, and Yao Shi identified the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Formation.

Qiangliang and Ru Shou revealed their ancestral witch forms but were still battling Jieyin and Zhunti when Houtu sensed their danger and summoned the other ancestral witches. Di Jiang forced the two western sages to end their opposition, and Jieyin resolved to study the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi while Zhunti privately vowed revenge.

• Qiangliang and Ru Shou transformed into their ancestral witch true forms and pressed Jieyin and Zhunti, while the transformed Witch Clan warriors defeated Yao Shi, Maitreya, and the others.
• Houtu sensed that Qiangliang and Ru Shou were in danger and alerted Di Jiang and the other ancestral witches.
• Di Jiang led the ancestral witches west, where eleven of them surrounded Jieyin and Zhunti and threatened to destroy them and Spirit Mountain if they kept obstructing the Witch Clan.
• Jieyin yielded and agreed to stop opposing the Witch Clan's work in the western region, so the ancestral witches returned to Buzhou Mountain with their warriors.
• Jieyin decided to enter seclusion and comprehend the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, while Zhunti agreed but vowed that he would make the Witch Clan pay one day.

The Human Race flourished under Lin Tian’s Martial Way, while Di Xuan and Yue Yao reached the Mid-stage Martial God Realm. The Six-eared Macaque arrived seeking Lin Tian, but mistook Di Xuan for him and angered the Human Race by speaking casually about their Father God.

• Di and Shan discussed Shan’s stalled cultivation, and Di offered to help him improve.
• Di Xuan, Yue Yao, Zi Yi Shi, Sui Ren Shi, and You Chao Shi reached the Mid-stage Martial God Realm as the Human Race grew stronger.
• The Six-eared Macaque left the Witch Clan and found the Human Race settlements while searching for Lin Tian.
• Human Race members surrounded the Six-eared Macaque, mistaking him for a Demon Race trespasser.
• Di Xuan confronted the Six-eared Macaque, who mistook him for Lin Tian and called him Lord Dao Venerable.
• Di Xuan declared that he was the Human Race leader and rebuked the Six-eared Macaque for disrespecting Father God.

Six-eared visited the human race, fought Di Xuan and the other human experts, and asked Lin Tian to teach him the martial way. Lin Tian let him study the Martial Way Stone Tablet, and a thousand years later Six-eared comprehended his own martial way despite the restriction Lin Tian had set.

• Six-eared's words about the human race angered Di Xuan and the others, and Di Xuan challenged him to fight.
• Di Xuan and Six-eared exchanged blows until Yue Yao and the Three Ancestors joined the battle, forcing Six-eared to face five human experts at once.
• Lin Tian arrived and stopped the fight, then explained that the human race practiced the martial way he had created.
• Six-eared asked to learn the martial way, and Lin Tian sent him to study the Martial Way Stone Tablet in the Martial Way Hall.
• After a thousand years of meditation, Six-eared awakened the tablet's runes and comprehended his own martial way, surprising Lin Tian.

Qin Yuan gave birth to ten Golden Crow princes, whose arrival filled the Thirty-three Heavens with scorching clouds and heat. Di Jun celebrated their birth, rewarded Qin Yuan, and decreed a grand celebration for a thousand years later, leaving the Demon Race rejoicing and his ambitions renewed.

• The Thirty-three Heavens shook as scorching white clouds spread, and Di Jun woke from cultivation to investigate the unfamiliar sun essence.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi told Di Jun that Qin Yuan had given birth, and the two rushed to Phoenix Abode Palace.
• Di Jun and Taiyi saw ten Golden Crow chicks circling above the palace, and Di Jun celebrated the continuation of their bloodline.
• Di Jun bestowed three Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures on Qin Yuan and promised a grand celebration for the ten princes in a thousand years.
• News of the princes' birth spread across the Primordial Wilderness, and the Demon Race celebrated as Di Jun decreed that all under heaven would celebrate them.

The ten Golden Crow Princes’ uncontrollable True Sun Fire wreaked havoc across the Thirty-three Heavens, so Di Jun and Taiyi sent them to the Sun Star to cultivate beneath the Fusang Tree. The princes accepted their confinement through tears and promised to master their power so they could return home.

• The ten Golden Crow Princes repeatedly set palaces, gardens, and clouds ablaze, prompting Kan Yu to warn Di Jun that they might destroy the Thirty-three Heavens.
• Di Jun decided to send the princes to the Sun Star, and Taiyi agreed that its environment would help them control their True Sun Fire.
• Qin Yuan wept at the decision but agreed after Di Jun promised to bring their sons home once they could control their power.
• Di Jun and Taiyi took the princes to the Fusang Tree and sealed a vast area around it with a powerful restriction formation.
• The princes panicked when they realized they were trapped, but Di Yi urged his younger brothers to cooperate and promised their father and uncle that they would cultivate diligently.
• Di Jun and Taiyi left the ten Golden Crows on the Sun Star, where they began exploring the area around the Fusang Tree.