Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi welcomed Ancestor Phoenix and the Phoenix clan into the Human Dao Sacred Court and accepted Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng as disciples. After promising to restore Ancestor Phoenix’s damaged true spirit, Gu Xi left with the phoenix eggs as the Five Elements Daoist began establishing the Fire and Water Mansions.

• Gu Xi arrived at Earth Lung Mountain, welcomed Ancestor Phoenix and the Phoenix clan into the Human Dao Sacred Court, and accepted her two unborn sons as disciples.
• Gu Xi bestowed the Great Five Elements Art on Kong Xuan and the Great Yin-Yang Art on the Golden-Winged Great Peng, then stopped Ancestor Phoenix from sacrificing her origin to them.
• Ancestor Phoenix explained that damage to her true spirit had prevented her from completing nirvana, and Gu Xi promised he would find a way to restore it.
• Gu Xi stored the two phoenix eggs and departed for Penglai Island as the Five Elements Daoist began establishing the Heaven and Earth Fire Mansion with Bing Fire Daoist.
• Ren Water Daoist established the Heaven and Earth Water Mansion in the East Sea as Candle Dragon and Ying Long watched him gather authority over the water origin.

Five Elements Daoist reached Buzhou Mountain’s ancestral vein to establish the Heaven and Earth Earth Mansion in secret. Just as he prepared to summon Wu Earth Daoist beside an ancestral aperture, the Yellow Court Dao Master appeared and attacked him.

• Five Elements Daoist entered Buzhou Mountain discreetly and used the Earth Immortal Orthodox Method to locate its ancestral vein.
• The ancestral vein’s power guided Five Elements Daoist through the white mist and natural restrictions to its dragon-shaped torrent and nine apertures.
• Five Elements Daoist chose an ancestral aperture as the site for the Heaven and Earth Earth Mansion and prepared to summon Wu Earth Daoist.
• The Yellow Court Dao Master appeared, recognized the Primordial Earth Element Great Dao fluctuations in Five Elements Daoist, and attacked him with a massive earthen-yellow palm.

Five Elements Daoist fought Yellow Court Dao Master over control of the Primordial Earth Element Great Dao and destroyed his incarnation of will at the Ancestral Vein. Yellow Court Dao Master then appeared in person, while Fuxi suspected Five Elements Daoist was connected to Gu Xi.

• Yellow Court Dao Master attacked Five Elements Daoist, claiming the Ancestral Acupoint and the Primordial Earth Element Great Dao as his own.
• Five Elements Daoist realized Yellow Court Dao Master was a rival cultivator of the Primordial Earth Element Great Dao and fought back with the Creation Heavenly Tablet.
• Five Elements Daoist drew power from three Great Daos and used the Great Five Elements Art to destroy Yellow Court Dao Master's incarnation of will.
• The Great Supernatural Beings of Buzhou Mountain noticed the battle, and Fuxi saw Five Elements Daoist with the Yellow Middle Plum and wondered whether he was connected to Gu Xi.
• Yellow Court Dao Master roared in anger, left his ancient palace, and appeared in person within the Barrier Space-time.

The Yellow Court Dao Master attacked the Five Elements Daoist to seize his treasures, but Fuxi moved their battle away from Buzhou Mountain’s Ancestral Vein. Gu Xi arrived and effortlessly killed the Yellow Court Dao Master, leaving the gods and demons of Buzhou Mountain stunned.

• The Yellow Court Dao Master attacked the Five Elements Daoist in Barrier Space-time, intending to take his treasures and Dao Fruit.
• Fuxi used his innate Eight Trigrams Diagram to transfer them above Buzhou Mountain, explaining that he would not allow a battle near the Ancestral Vein.
• Fuxi let the Yellow Court Dao Master continue his private grudge, and Gu Xi arrived as the Yellow Court Dao Master attacked again.
• Gu Xi caught the Yellow Court Dao Master's palm, crushed him with two swift strikes, and destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Gu Xi gave the Yellow Court Dao Master's Dao Fruit and mountain-shaped Primordial Spiritual Treasure to the Five Elements Daoist, while the watching gods and demons and Fuxi were left shocked by his strength.

Gu Xi and Five Elements Daoist claimed Yellow Court Dao Master’s former Ancestral Acupoint and established the Heaven and Earth Earth Mansion. They then traveled to western Hong Huang to purify the shattered Western Geng Metal Ore Vein, where Gu Xi’s use of the Divine Light of Redemption drew the attention of Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti.

• Fuxi explained that Buzhou Mountain’s nine strongest Great Supernatural Beings each temporarily controlled part of an Ancestral Acupoint, and Gu Xi claimed Yellow Court Dao Master’s former domain.
• Gu Xi and Five Elements Daoist destroyed Yellow Court Dao Master’s energy-intercepting formation, built their own, and established the Heaven and Earth Earth Mansion with Wu Earth Daoist guarding it.
• Gu Xi and Five Elements Daoist traveled to western Hong Huang to restore the shattered Western Geng Metal Ore Vein and establish the Heaven and Earth Gold Mansion.
• Gu Xi found the wasteland filled with lingering killing intents from Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Demon Ancestor Luohu, and Great Immortal Yang Mei, and began purifying it with the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus and the Ten Directions True Scripture of Salvation.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti noticed the Divine Light of Redemption descending over western Hong Huang and looked toward its source.

Gu Xi purified the Western wasteland and restored its vast Geng Metal Ore Vein, drawing the envy of the Western Gods and Demons. Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin attacked him to claim the vein, and the chapter ended with their treasures clashing against Gu Xi’s.

• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti watched as Gu Xi used the Salvation Holy Light to purify the Western land over three months.
• Gu Xi and the Five Elements Daoist spent six months restoring the shattered Geng Metal Ore Vein and its surrounding Earth Veins and Earth Spirit Apertures.
• The restored vein released immense Geng Metal Qi, and the Western Gods and Demons realized Gu Xi intended to claim it.
• Western Gods and Demons protested Gu Xi’s claim, while Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti decided the vein should belong to the West.
• Daoist Zhunti attacked with the Six Roots Pure Bamboo and Daoist Jieyin attacked with the Green Lotus Treasure Banner, prompting Gu Xi to counter with the Yellow Springs Treasure Wheel and Pure World White Lotus.
• The four treasures collided, shaking the Western region as the Western Gods watched the battle begin.

Gu Xi confronted Jieyin, Zhunti, and the Western Gods who tried to claim the revived Geng Metal Ore Vein, mocking their shameless demands. After Gu Xi killed a Western Great Supernatural Being with one strike, the other powers of Hong Huang recognized his terrifying strength, while Jieyin and Zhunti seethed.

• Jieyin, Zhunti, and the Western Gods demanded that Gu Xi give them the revived Geng Metal Ore Vein, claiming it belonged to the West.
• Gu Xi mocked the Western Gods for their shamelessness, drawing agreement from many Great Supernatural Beings who recalled Jieyin and Zhunti's past conduct.
• A Western Great Supernatural Being attacked Gu Xi, and Gu Xi killed him with a single palm strike, leaving only his Dao Fruit.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Ancestor Minghe reacted with shock to Gu Xi's rapidly growing strength and took note of him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti burned with anger at Gu Xi, who remained calm in front of them.

Gu Xi fought Daoist Zhunti after Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin confronted him, and proved stronger by defeating Zhunti’s attacks in the chaos. The chapter left Zhunti badly wounded and furious after Gu Xi declared that nothing was impossible for him.

• Daoist Zhunti attacked Gu Xi with the Six Roots Pure Bamboo, but Gu Xi’s Pure World White Lotus shattered the strike and knocked him back.
• Daoist Zhunti challenged Gu Xi to fight in the chaos, and Daoist Jieyin followed them there.
• Daoist Zhunti unleashed the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and hundreds of millions of destruction worlds, but Gu Xi countered with more than a hundred of the Three Thousand Great Daos and sent him flying, coughing up blood.
• Daoist Zhunti charged again with both treasures, but Gu Xi’s divine arts blasted them far into the chaos and wounded Zhunti further.
• Gu Xi told Daoist Zhunti not to judge him by his own standards, enraging Zhunti until he vomited blood.

Gu Xi stopped fighting Daoist Zhunti when Daoist Jieyin joined the battle, but welcomed their attacks in a familiar, undefended pose. Chaos Divine Thunder struck Jieyin, Zhunti, and their treasures, leaving the two Western leaders trapped and scorched in worlds of lightning.

• The Great Supernatural Beings marveled at Gu Xi’s mastery of more than a hundred supreme divine abilities, while Yuanshi dismissed the importance of divine abilities.
• Daoist Jieyin joined Daoist Zhunti against Gu Xi, who judged that he could not defeat them both and decided to end the fight.
• Gu Xi spread his arms and calmly welcomed the pair’s attacks, prompting Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches to recognize his familiar setup.
• Daoist Jieyin realized the danger and urged Daoist Zhunti to recall their treasures, but black clouds appeared and Chaos Divine Thunder split into three bolts.
• The thunder blasted the Green Lotus Treasure Banner, Six Roots Pure Bamboo, and Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree away, then trapped Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti in separate lightning-filled worlds.
• Gu Xi sat watching the pair suffer as Zhunti accused him of lacking martial virtue, and the assembled Great Supernatural Beings recoiled at the thunder’s power.

Gu Xi established the Five Elements Yuan Mansions and made his Five Elements incarnations the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors, granting them control of the Five Elements origins and Quasi-Saint status. Their rise stunned the Primordial World and enraged cultivators who had hoped to pursue the Five Elements Great Dao to Sainthood.

• Gu Xi endured no objections to his claim over the Western Geng Metal Ore Vein after Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti were released from a month of Chaos Divine Thunder punishment and retreated to Mount Sumeru.
• Geng Metal Daoist established the Heaven and Earth Gold Mansion within the ore vein, and Gu Xi and Jia Wood Daoist then found a valley in southeastern Hong Huang where Jia Wood Daoist established the Heaven and Earth Wood Mansion.
• The Five Elements incarnations linked their Yuan Mansions through the earth's veins, quietly spreading their powers while Gu Xi returned to Penglai Island and the Witch, Demon, and Human Races' conflicts intensified.
• After a thousand years, Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng had joined Chang'e as Gu Xi's disciples, and the Five Elements Qi across the Primordial World suddenly froze as five pillars of light rose from the Yuan Mansions.
• Geng Metal Daoist, Jia Wood Daoist, Ren Water Daoist, Wu Earth Daoist, and Bing Fire Daoist declared themselves the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors, received divine positions and Merit, and advanced to Quasi-Saints.
• The Three Pure Ones and other Quasi-Saint Giants realized Gu Xi had spent more than a thousand years securing the five positions, while Five Elements cultivators feared their path to Sainthood had been blocked.

The Five Directions Heavenly Emperors faced a massive assault from Gods and Demons who opposed their control over the five elements. Gu Xi’s Five Elements Yuan Mansion protected them, leaving Geng Metal Daoist and the other four secure in their divine thrones.

• Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, Zhu Rong, and countless other beings attacked the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors to stop them from claiming their thrones.
• Gu Xi reassured Chang'e, Kong Xuan, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng that the five emperors were empowered by Hong Huang’s elemental origins.
• Five divine mansions appeared and formed an Innate Five Elements Grand Formation across Hong Huang.
• The attackers’ weapons and abilities failed to break the mansions, which Taiqing Laozi recognized as vital hubs of the Primordial World.
• Di Jun and the other attackers abandoned their assault, while Geng Metal Daoist descended beneath the earth with his mansion and the five emperors secured their thrones.

After Gu Xi’s Five Directions Heavenly Emperors became essential to the Five Elements origin, the great powers accepted that they could not be destroyed. As Di Jun celebrated his marriage to Xihe, Taiqing Laozi realized that his chance to become a Saint lay with the Human Race and flew toward them.

• Di Jun and the Ancestral Witches recognized that the Five Elements Yuan Mansion could not be destroyed without destabilizing the Primordial World, and they suspected Gu Xi had created the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors as incarnations.
• Di Jiang declared that the perfected Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation could challenge even Saints, and the Ancestral Witches agreed to target the Demon Race before Gu Xi and the Human Race.
• The gods and demons praised Gu Xi’s many achievements, and his reputation rose to rival that of the Three Pure Ones and other Quasi-Saint Giants.
• Di Jun held a Heavenly Marriage with Xihe, with Nuwa as matchmaker, and the Merit he received raised his Dao Practice to Quasi-Saint Great Perfection.
• Taiqing Laozi sensed that his opportunity to become a Saint lay with the Human Race and flew toward them, leaving Yuanshi and Tongtian bewildered.

Laozi visited the Yunshui Tribe, hoping to find the opportunity to become a Saint, but was shocked by the Human Race’s strength and the many deities in an ordinary tribe. Gu Xi learned of Laozi’s arrival and went to confront him over his intentions toward the Human Race.

• Laozi sensed that his opportunity to become a Saint lay with the Human Race and descended into the Yunshui Tribe.
• An elderly woodcutter told Laozi that the tribe was Chang'e’s birthplace and praised Gu Xi for the Human Race’s rise.
• The woodcutter described his own Martial Dao practice and his grandson’s progress in immortal cultivation, leaving Laozi surprised by the ordinary human’s bearing.
• Laozi discovered that the Yunshui Tribe had many Earth Gods, mountain gods, and water gods, and decided to investigate its secrets.
• Four Seasons Daoist reported Laozi’s arrival to Gu Xi, who left Penglai Island to stop him from exploiting the Human Race’s fortune.

Laozi investigated the prosperous Human Race and learned that his path to sainthood supposedly required him to establish the Human Teaching, though he could find little to teach them. When Gu Xi challenged his claim, Laozi threatened to act against him, and Gu Xi summoned his Human Dao Golden Body as powers across the Primordial World took notice.

• Laozi secretly visited Human Tribes and found that their civilization and cultivation were highly developed, with knowledge and methods he did not possess already available to them.
• Laozi concluded that establishing a teaching for the Human Race was his opportunity to become a saint, despite doubting what he could teach them.
• Laozi asked Gu Xi to let him establish the Human Teaching, but Gu Xi questioned what he could offer the Human Race.
• Laozi invoked fate and threatened Gu Xi, displaying the Taiji Diagram and demanding that he not interfere.
• Gu Xi challenged Laozi to fight and summoned his Human Dao Golden Body, drawing the attention of powerful beings throughout the Primordial World.

Gu Xi confronted Supreme Pure Laozi as the Primordial Gods watched, but Laozi chose to establish the Human Teaching and draw upon Human Race Fortune to attain sainthood. Gu Xi used the Kongtong Seal to suppress that fortune, interrupting Laozi’s attempt and sending the fortune back to the Human Race.

• The Primordial Gods marveled at Gu Xi’s powerful Human Dao Golden Body and wondered whether the Witch and Demon Races could also use their fortune to create Golden Bodies.
• The gathered powers recognized Supreme Pure Laozi confronting Gu Xi and anticipated a battle between the two.
• Supreme Pure Laozi announced that he was establishing the Human Teaching and would use the Taiji Diagram to suppress its fortune.
• The Human Race Fortune began flowing toward Laozi as a vast Ocean of Merit appeared, and the Primordial Gods realized he was seeking to become a Saint.
• Gu Xi declared that he would not allow Laozi to claim the Human Race Fortune and used the Kongtong Seal to suppress it, forcing it back into the Human Race and interrupting Laozi’s attempt at sainthood.

Gu Xi stopped Laozi from attaining sainthood by suppressing the Human Race Fortune, arguing that Laozi had not earned the Human Race's recognition. When Laozi attacked with the Taiji Diagram, Gu Xi revealed three powerful treasures and their combined might stood against it.

• Laozi's attempt to become a Primordial Chaos Saint was interrupted when Gu Xi suppressed the Human Race Fortune and blocked its recognition of Human Teaching.
• Gu Xi challenged Laozi to explain what he could teach the Human Race, while Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, Ziyi Shi, and others praised Gu Xi for protecting their fortune.
• Laozi unleashed the Taiji Diagram's full power to intimidate Gu Xi, astonishing the watching Quasi-Saint Giants and Primordial Gods.
• Gu Xi combined the Kongtong Seal's Human Race Fortune with the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus and the Book of Life and Death to oppose the Taiji Diagram.
• The observers were shocked by Gu Xi's hidden treasures, while Laozi found that his Taiji Diagram could not force Gu Xi to yield.

Gu Xi blocked Supreme Pure Laozi from establishing the Human Teaching, forcing Laozi to establish the Spirit Teaching as an alternative path to sainthood. Laozi gained little fortune from the races, and he ended the chapter furious at those who refused to support him.

• Supreme Pure Laozi realized Gu Xi’s hidden strength made it impossible to establish the Human Teaching and feared his merit would disperse.
• Laozi proclaimed the establishment of the Spirit Teaching, intended to enlighten all intelligent beings, and used the Taiji Diagram to suppress its fortune.
• Gu Xi suppressed the Human Race Fortune, while Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Dragon Clan, and the Phoenix clan suppressed their own fortunes.
• Laozi received only a small amount of fortune from races without powerful guardians, far less than the Human Race Fortune he had expected.
• Laozi glared at Gu Xi and the other factions, resolved to remember their refusal, and seethed over the humiliation.

Taiqing Laozi used borrowed fortune and Pangu’s world-opening merit to begin transforming his Dao Fruit into a Saint’s. The Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate summoned a primordial chaos tribulation, and Taiqing Laozi faced its first strike.

• Taiqing Laozi absorbed the borrowed fortune and Pangu’s merit, then reunited with his Three Corpses as his Dao Fruit began transforming.
• The Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate realized that Saints should face a primordial chaos tribulation and summoned one across Hong Huang.
• Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and the other onlookers were shocked by the tribulation, while Nuwa watched with delight.
• Taiqing Laozi learned that the Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate had created the tribulation and furiously confronted him.
• The tribulation eye fired a Blood Divine Thunder bolt at Taiqing Laozi, who focused all his strength on resisting it.

Taiqing Laozi survived the Primordial Chaos Tribulation and became a Primordial Chaos Saint, stunning Hong Huang and inspiring other leaders to pursue Sainthood. When he tried to kill Gu Xi, the Eyes of Heaven's Will appeared and threatened to erase him, revealing that Heavenly Dao was protecting Gu Xi.

• Taiqing Laozi used the Taiji Diagram and Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to survive the Primordial Chaos Tribulation and attain Sainthood.
• Old Ancestor Minghe lamented his failed attempt to become a Saint, while Di Jun planned to destroy the Witch and Human Races and have Kunpeng seize Daoist Hongyun's Primordial Violet Qi.
• Donghuang Taiyi left for the North Sea Demon Master Palace to recruit Kunpeng for Di Jun's plan.
• Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Daoist Jieyin gained hope or insight into their own opportunities to become Saints after witnessing Taiqing Laozi's ascension.
• Taiqing Laozi confronted Gu Xi and prepared to kill him, but the Eyes of Heaven's Will appeared and warned that it would erase Taiqing Laozi if he attacked.

Saint Taiqing Laozi became a Saint but withdrew after Heavenly Dao warned him not to kill Gu Xi. Gu Xi anticipated that the coming Saint Era would threaten the Human, Witch, and Demon Races, and began planning to scatter the Human Race to keep it safe.

• Saint Taiqing Laozi returned to Kunlun Mountain after Heavenly Dao warned him to spare Gu Xi, leaving other powerful beings wary of Gu Xi's connection to Heavenly Dao.
• Saint Taiqing Laozi told Yuanshi and Tongtian that Heavenly Dao protected Gu Xi, then shared his path to sainthood and prompted them to consider their own routes.
• Zhen Yuanzi urged Daoist Hongyun to join Gu Xi's faction for protection, but Hongyun refused and chose to remain independent despite the danger from Daoist Kunpeng.
• Gu Xi reasoned that the Saints would try to control the Primordial World and might provoke a war among the Human, Witch, and Demon Races.
• Gu Xi began developing a plan to scatter the Human Race and temporarily yield the stage to the Witch and Demon Races.