Chapter Summaries

Unable to find the path to sainthood, Taishang left Kunlun Mountain to seek inspiration in the Primordial Wilderness. His curiosity about the human race and its repeated merit drew him to a tribe, where Lin Tian noticed his arrival and wondered whether Taishang would still establish the Human Teachings.

• Taishang grew frustrated with his stalled progress toward sainthood and decided to travel through the Primordial Wilderness.
• Taishang learned from Si Xiang that Yuanshi was in seclusion and left without disturbing him.
• Taishang recalled the human race's repeated merit and suspected Dao Venerable Lin Tian had helped them.
• Taishang disguised himself as an ordinary old man and entered a human tribe, where he was surprised by the people's vitality, training, and buildings.
• Lin Tian sensed Taishang's arrival and watched with amusement, wondering whether Taishang's Golden Core Great Dao would emerge alongside the martial path.

Taishang entered the Linshui Tribe disguised as a homeless old man to learn about humanity and its martial arts. After hearing of Father God and the Demon Race’s attacks, he was welcomed by Shi Tou’s family and agreed to stay in the tribe.

• Shi Tou found Taishang alone and brought him home for water and rest.
• Instructor Lei noticed Shi Tou leading an unfamiliar old man but turned back to correct the trainees.
• Shi Tou’s parents heard Taishang’s story and described the Demon Race’s attacks and the human race’s weakness.
• Taishang asked about Father God and martial arts, and Shi Tou’s father explained their origins and importance to humanity.
• Taishang asked to stay in the tribe, and Shi Tou’s family offered him a home and help building a house.

Taishang lived among humans under the alias Li Er and tried to learn their martial way, but he could not sense or gather vitality despite following Instructor Lei’s lessons. He considered creating a human incarnation to cultivate, while keeping his identity and the reason for his failure concealed.

• Taishang settled into the tribe as Old Li, observed human life, and asked Shi Jian to help him learn the martial way.
• Shi Jian introduced Taishang to Instructor Lei, who taught him basic Body Tempering Realm techniques.
• Taishang practiced for several days but could not sense any vitality, so Instructor Lei examined him and found no fluctuation.
• Instructor Lei explained that the martial way was created for humans and suggested Taishang might need help from the ancestors at the ancestral land.
• Taishang returned to his hut and wondered whether he needed to create a human incarnation to cultivate the martial way.

After reaching the Meridian Connecting Realm through an incarnation, Taishang learned that Instructor Lei knew no further Martial Way methods. Hearing Yan wish for an easier cultivation path sparked an enlightenment, and Taishang created the Golden Core Great Dao.

• Taishang merged with his incarnation after it reached the Meridian Connecting Realm and asked Instructor Lei for the Core Elixir Realm method.
• Instructor Lei admitted he had only comprehended methods up to the Martial Saint Realm and told Taishang he could later study the Martial Way Stone Tablet at the ancestral land.
• Taishang heard Yan complain that Martial Way cultivation was exhausting, while A Yu defended the path and stormed away after scolding him.
• Yan's wish for a new cultivation method stirred the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, and Taishang realized that his Dao lay in enlightenment.
• Taishang secluded himself to derive a new cultivation system and later emerged holding a divine scroll containing the Golden Core Great Dao.

Taishang revealed himself to Huo Yan, taught the Golden Core Great Dao to the Linshui Tribe, and established Human Teachings. Just as merit gathered for his proclamation, Lin Tian appeared with five Human Race Martial God Realm experts and declared his opposition.

• Taishang gave Huo Yan the Golden Core Great Dao and revealed that he was Taiqing, Taishang, one of Pangu's Three Pure Ones.
• Huo Yan gathered the Linshui Tribe, and Taishang taught them the Golden Core method; nearly one-third of the people began cultivating, including Yan and A Yu.
• Taishang proclaimed that he would establish Human Teachings, use the Taiji Diagram to suppress its destiny, and guide the Human Race.
• Golden Clouds of Merit gathered above the Linshui Tribe, but Lin Tian arrived with Di Xuan, Yue Yao, Zi Yi Shi, Sui Ren Shi, and You Chao Shi.
• Lin Tian told Taishang that he did not agree with establishing Human Teachings and spreading the Golden Core Great Dao.

Lin Tian stopped Taishang from establishing the Human Teachings among the human race, arguing that Taishang had acted without permission. Di Xuan and the human leaders declared their opposition, leaving Taishang humiliated and his path to sainthood blocked; Dao Ancestor Hongjun then appeared.

• Lin Tian confronted Taishang and said he would not allow him to establish the Human Teachings after secretly entering the human race without permission.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian arrived, and Yuanshi challenged Lin Tian's right to speak for the human race.
• Di Xuan declared that Lin Tian was the human race's guardian and announced that the human race opposed Taishang establishing his teachings.
• Yue Yao, the Three Ancestors, and many humans joined Di Xuan in rejecting Taishang's plan, sending the Human Way's will into the sky.
• Taishang spat out golden blood as the gathered observers watched his humiliation, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared.

Lin Tian refused to let Taishang establish a teaching among the human race, and the Heavenly Dao failed to persuade or threaten him into yielding. After Hongjun called off Taishang’s attempt, A Yu rejected Taishang’s offer to become his disciple, while Yan accepted and received the name Xuandu.

• Hongjun arrived and urged Lin Tian to let Taishang establish the Human Teachings, but Lin Tian refused despite Hongjun’s pressure.
• Nuwa sided with Lin Tian, and Hongjun stopped Taishang from attacking her.
• The Heavenly Dao negotiated with Lin Tian and threatened calamities against the human race, but Lin Tian warned that he could replace it, forcing it to withdraw.
• Hongjun told Taishang to leave, ending his attempt to establish a teaching and attain sainthood.
• Taishang invited A Yu to Kunlun Mountain as his disciple, but A Yu refused because he wanted to remain with his people.
• Yan begged to become Taishang’s disciple, and Taishang accepted him as a registered disciple and renamed him Xuandu.

Lin Tian had Xuandu expelled from the human race after stopping Taishang’s attempt to establish a sect and become a saint. The Twelve Ancestral Witches arrived too late to witness the dispute, but became fascinated by the human Martial Dao and asked whether they could cultivate it.

• Di Xuan declared Xuandu expelled from the human race, and Nuwa confirmed the decision, severing his bond with humanity.
• Taishang took Xuandu away after threatening Lin Tian with future retribution, while Yuanshi and Tongtian also departed.
• Nuwa worried that Taishang might target the human race, but Lin Tian assured her he would protect them.
• Di Jiang and the Twelve Ancestral Witches arrived with Fuxi, argued over their delay, and learned that Lin Tian had stopped Taishang from becoming a saint.
• Shebishi noticed the humans’ unusual vitality and blood, and Nuwa explained that Lin Tian had created the Martial Dao for them.
• Di Jiang asked Lin Tian to explain the Martial Dao, and Qiangliang asked whether the Ancestral Witches could cultivate it.

Taishang left Purple Sky Palace after Hongjun promised him another path to sainthood and warned him against confronting Lin Tian. At the human ancestral land, Lin Tian offered to teach the Ancestral Witches adapted combat techniques and proposed intermarriage between the Witch and human races to address the Witch Clan’s low population.

• Taishang complained to Hongjun that Lin Tian had blocked his path to sainthood, but Hongjun told him Lin Tian had reached the middle stage of the Heavenly Dao Realm and promised to find another way for Taishang to attain the Dao.
• Hongjun ordered Taishang to return to Kunlun Mountain and cultivate in seclusion, while the Heavenly Dao told Hongjun to keep Taishang from disrupting its plans.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and the other Ancestral Witches tried and failed to comprehend the human race’s True Explanation of the Martial Way because its core methods required a human bloodline.
• Lin Tian explained the restriction and offered to adapt the martial way’s unrestricted combat techniques for the Witch Clan.
• Houtu lamented the Witch Clan’s difficulty reproducing, and Lin Tian proposed intermarriage between the Witch and human races, stunning the Ancestral Witches, Nuwa, and Fuxi.

Lin Tian proposed intermarriage between the human race and the Witch Clan, and both sides agreed after learning how their descendants might combine their strengths. The first children were born with Witch Clan bloodlines and primordial spirits, while Hongjun sensed that the two races’ heavenly secrets had changed.

• Lin Tian explained that intermarriage could help the Witch Clan’s numbers and give their descendants both powerful physiques and primordial spirits, winning the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ approval.
• Di Xuan and Nuwa agreed on behalf of the human race, and Lin Tian assigned Di Xuan and Yue Yao to handle human affairs while Di Jiang managed the Witch Clan’s participation.
• Houtu and Xuan Ming selected one hundred thousand members of the Witch Clan, while Di Xuan and Yue Yao rallied human tribes to join the intermarriage.
• Three years later, Lin Tian examined the first children born to human-Witch unions and found that they possessed both Witch Clan bloodlines and primordial spirits, with some showing an affinity for laws.
• Lin Tian let the children choose whether to remain with the human race or the Witch Clan and pursue either race’s cultivation methods.
• Hongjun sensed that the heavenly secrets of the human race and the Witch Clan had changed, but his divination could not reveal what Lin Tian had done.

Six-eared Macaque adapted martial arts principles into the Great Evolution Battle Heaven Art and broke through, then tested his new strength against Di Jiang. After the spar, Ao Jia arrived from the Eastern Sea, startling Lin Tian and Six-eared.

• Six-eared Macaque emerged from the Martial Way Hall with late-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal cultivation and explained that he had refined his own cultivation method using martial arts principles.
• Lin Tian praised Six-eared’s insight, and Di Jiang challenged him to a spar within a protective barrier.
• Six-eared and Di Jiang fought with their techniques and weapons until Di Jiang gained the advantage and Six-eared conceded.
• Fuxi declined Nuwa’s suggestion to study the Martial Way Stone Tablet, saying he would remain on his own path.
• Waves rose across the Eastern Sea, and Ao Jia arrived on shore, surprising Lin Tian and Six-eared.

Ao Jia told Lin Tian that a mysterious boy claiming to be from the Phoenix Clan was eating dragons and using Lin Tian’s name for protection, so Lin Tian went to investigate. The chapter ended with the boy eating roasted dragon meat on Fire Reef Island as someone asked him how Water Dragon tasted.

• Ao Jia reported that a seven- or eight-year-old Golden Immortal had eaten a Dragon Clan general and defeated South Sea Dragon Clan Taiyi Golden Immortals with the Yin Yang Law.
• Ao Jia said the boy claimed to belong to the Phoenix Clan and declared that Lin Tian protected him, prompting Lin Tian to investigate the claim.
• Lin Tian left Di Xuan in charge of the human race and traveled south with Ao Jia, while Six Ears followed them.
• Fuxi failed to divine the boy’s origins, and Nuwa insisted on guiding him at Nuwa’s Grotto-Heaven.
• On Fire Reef Island, the boy sat beside a bonfire eating dragon meat, surrounded by demonic dragons and gnawed bones.

Lin Tian arrived at Fire Reef Island with Ao Jia and confronted a young Phoenix Clan member who had been tricked by the demonic dragon Ao Xin into attacking the Dragon Clan. Lin Tian effortlessly broke the boy’s Yin Yang Law and restrained him, while Ao Xin and the other demonic dragons prepared to flee.

• The Golden-winged Great Peng Bird believed Ao Xin’s false account and promised to defend the demonic dragons from Ao Jia and Lin Tian.
• Ao Jia asked Lin Tian to uphold justice, while Ao Xin again accused the Dragon Clan of persecuting his people and urged the boy to attack.
• The boy boasted of his Phoenix Clan heritage and his connection to Dao Venerable Lin Tian, then launched his Yin Yang Law at Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian erased the boy’s attack with a fingertip and sealed his magic power, leaving him suspended and unable to move.
• Ao Xin and the other demonic dragons tried to escape, but Lin Tian told them they had no permission to leave.

Lin Tian discovered that the child who had led demonic dragons against the Dragon Clan was Yuanfeng’s Golden-winged Great Peng Bird, and reunited him with his mother. Yuanfeng compensated Ao Jia for the damage, while Lin Tian began asking how the child had been born.

• Lin Tian annihilated the three demonic dragons and made the terrified Golden-winged Great Peng Bird explain how they had manipulated him.
• The boy revealed that he had hatched from an egg and heard a voice calling itself his Mother Queen; Lin Tian recognized him as Yuanfeng’s son, born from Innate Yin Yang Qi.
• Yuanfeng arrived in a rage, recognized Lin Tian, and joyfully reunited with her missing child.
• Ao Jia told Yuanfeng that her son had been used to slaughter and eat Dragon Clan members, and the boy confirmed it.
• Yuanfeng apologized and offered Ao Jia two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures as compensation; Ao Jia accepted them after Lin Tian’s approval.
• Lin Tian asked Yuanfeng how she had given birth to the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird, and she began recounting what had happened.

Yuanfeng told Lin Tian how his essence led to the birth of two extraordinary eggs, one of which hatched into a divine bird while the other was hidden away. After Yuanfeng took the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird home to discipline him, Lin Tian promised Ao Jia a gift of Creation to compensate the Dragon Clan.

• Yuanfeng secretly gave birth to two eggs bearing the Five Elements and Yin Yang Laws, then raised them in seclusion and told them about the Phoenix Clan and Lin Tian.
• The five-colored egg hatched into a powerful divine bird, and Yuanfeng fled with it and the unhatched egg when unfamiliar figures approached.
• Yuanfeng hid the Yin Yang egg in a mountain cave, but later found the cave ransacked and the egg missing.
• Yuanfeng explained her connection to Lin Tian, who guessed that her other child was Kong Xuan, and Six-Eared and Ao Jia noticed Lin Tian's aura in the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird.
• Yuanfeng took the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird away to discipline him after he demanded to find his father.
• Lin Tian punished Six-Eared with one hundred thousand years of secluded cultivation and promised Ao Jia a gift of Creation for the Dragon Clan.

Jieyin and Zhunti visited Taishang, who angrily dismissed them after they asked about the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi. After returning to his cave, Taishang entrusted Xuandu’s care to Green Ox before entering seclusion, while Jieyin revealed he had gained insight into the purple qi and hurried back to the Spiritual Mountain with Zhunti.

• Zhunti and Jieyin visited Taishang, questioned him about the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi, and were ordered to leave.
• Yuanshi asked Taishang about the visitors, then dismissed Jieyin and Zhunti as inferior to the Pangu Three Pure Ones.
• Taishang asked Green Ox about Xuandu and gave him pills to deliver before entering seclusion.
• Green Ox gave Xuandu the pills, and Xuandu vowed to cultivate diligently while remembering A Yu.
• Zhunti told Jieyin that the relationship among the Three Pure Ones had weakened, and Jieyin said he had gained insight into the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi.
• Jieyin and Zhunti hurried back to the Western Spiritual Mountain to discuss Jieyin’s insight.

Yuanfeng returned to the Phoenix Clan with the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird and introduced him as her second son, insisting that he and Kong Xuan had no father. The chapter ended with Kong Xuan accepting his role as the older brother while Peng'er protested being treated as the younger one.

• Bing Li greeted Yuanfeng and learned that the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird was her child.
• The Great Elder questioned Yuanfeng about her sons’ origins, but Yuanfeng repeated that they were born from heaven and earth without a father.
• Yuanfeng announced to the gathered Phoenix Clan that the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird was its Second Prince.
• Kong Xuan arrived and asked the Golden-winged Great Peng Bird if he was his younger brother.
• The Golden-winged Great Peng Bird claimed he was the older brother, but Yuanfeng corrected him and told Kong Xuan to keep an eye on his younger brother.

After Hongjun advised Taishang to establish the Dao teaching and impart the Dao to all beings, Taishang created the Dao De Jing and gained immense merit. He proved the Dao and became a Saint, drawing congratulations from the Primordial Wilderness’s great powers and his disciples.

• After ten thousand years of fruitless cultivation, Taishang received Hongjun’s advice to establish a teaching called Dao and enlighten fated beings.
• Taishang spent tens of thousands of years organizing his understanding of the Dao and inscribed the Dao De Jing.
• Taishang declared that he would establish the Dao teaching, use the Taiji Diagram to suppress its fortune, and enlighten all beings.
• The Heavenly Dao granted his vow, and the merit he received awakened his merit of opening heaven and helped him become a Saint.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, the Queen Mother of the West, Minghe, and other great powers came to congratulate Taishang, followed by Yuanshi, Tongtian, Xuandu, and Daoist Duobao.

Taishang’s guidance helped Yuanshi and Tongtian awaken to their respective Daos, and both established sects and became Heavenly Dao Saints. Tongtian hesitated over surrendering part of his freedom to the Heavenly Dao, but ultimately accepted the merit and joined his brothers as a saint.

• Taishang explained that the Three Corpses method had reached a bottleneck and encouraged Yuanshi and Tongtian to find their own Daos.
• Taishang’s saintly power guided Yuanshi and Tongtian into enlightenment, and Yuanshi established the Chan Sect and became a third-level saint.
• Tongtian established the Interception Sect, vowing to give all beings a chance to seek the Dao, which angered Yuanshi.
• Tongtian questioned whether becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint would cost him his freedom, but Taishang and Yuanshi urged him to accept the merit.
• Tongtian accepted the Heavenly Dao Merit and became a third-level saint, feeling the Heavenly Dao’s restraint as the Three Pure Ones stood together as saints.

Jieyin and Zhunti vowed to establish the Western Teachings and Buddhism, borrowing Heavenly Dao Merit through forty-eight great vows to become Saints. They achieved sainthood, but their vows bound them to a heavy debt as they faced the long task of raising the west.

• Zhunti pressed Jieyin to find a way for them to become Saints, and Jieyin proposed borrowing Heavenly Dao Merit through great vows.
• Jieyin and Zhunti left the Mystic Gate and proclaimed the establishment of Buddhism and the Western Teachings, pledging to save sentient beings and bring prosperity to the west.
• Jieyin and Zhunti issued forty-eight great vows, drawing scorn from Venerable Yuanshi, Tongtian, Di Jun, Taiyi, and other powerful figures.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered Golden Clouds of Merit and poured them into Jieyin and Zhunti, breaking them through to the Saint Realm.
• The Primordial Wilderness's powerful figures acknowledged the two new Saints, while Jieyin and Zhunti recognized the heavy burden their vows had placed on them.