Chapter Summaries

Hong Yuan revived Luohu, Qiankun, and Five Elements after they died during their mission in the Primordial Universe, then sent them away to cultivate after teasing them about their deaths. In the Primordial Wilderness, Fuxi held the Human Marriage ceremony with Nuwa, who had taken the form of an ordinary human woman.

• Hong Yuan realized Five Elements had died and decided to use the imitation Universe Cauldron to buy more time while hoping his true body would break through.
• Hong Yuan's Chaos Bead External Body used the origin left behind by Luohu, Qiankun, and Five Elements to revive them.
• Hong Yuan joked that dying was an impressive gain, prompting Luohu to leave angrily for cultivation and Qiankun and Five Elements to depart as well.
• Fuxi's calendar spread throughout the Primordial Wilderness, and the Three Ancestors of the human race had made him their Human Emperor.
• Under the guidance of the Antarctic Immortal Elder, Fuxi held the Human Marriage ceremony with Nuwa, who appeared as an ordinary human woman.

Fuxi established marriage rites, surnames, and family bonds that strengthened human civilization and fortune, then decided to find a successor so he could pursue sainthood. He identified a possible candidate in the Lieshan Tribe, where Shaodian Shi and Nü Deng struggled to comprehend their newborn son’s unusual appearance.

• Fuxi married Nuwa and established marriage customs, including the Six Rites and Three Bows, earning immense merit from the Three Paths.
• Fuxi created a surname system to prevent close-relative marriages and declared the family the foundation of social stability.
• Over tens of thousands of years, Fuxi created arithmetic, and the human race developed its own civilization and grew greatly in fortune.
• Fuxi told the Three Ancestors that his mission was complete and that he needed to find a successor before abdicating.
• Fuxi looked toward the Lieshan Tribe, where Shaodian Shi and Nü Deng’s son was born with an ox’s head, a partly transparent body, and a Nine-eared Millet Seedling in his hand.

Nü Deng and Shaodian Shi accepted their extraordinary calf-headed son, Jiang Shinian, who grew into a youth fascinated by Spiritual Plants. While observing one, Jiang Shinian met Zhen Yuanzi in person and bowed in fear and reverence before the Saint.

• Nü Deng wept when Shaodian Shi confirmed their newborn had a calf's head, and he reassured her by pointing to the infant's unusual signs and the Nine-eared Millet Seedling above him.
• The Lieshan Tribe gradually accepted the child, and a hundred years passed as he grew into the valiant Jiang Shinian.
• Jiang Shinian preferred quietly watching Spiritual Plants over cultivation or play, while the Nine-eared Millet Seedling's golden light coiled around him.
• Zhen Yuanzi appeared beside Jiang Shinian, whose divine sense could not perceive him and whose memory could not hold his appearance.
• Jiang Shinian recognized Zhen Yuanzi as a Saint, fell to his knees, and repeatedly begged forgiveness before paying his respects.

Zhen Yuanzi visited Jiang Shinian and asked him to become his disciple, explaining that Jiang Shinian was worthy of the honor. After Jiang Shinian accepted, Zhen Yuanzi bestowed Earth Immortal cultivation knowledge and a vast collection of Spiritual Plants, leaving Jiang Shinian free to follow his interests.

• Zhen Yuanzi told Jiang Shinian he had come to forge a bond of Causality and asked him twice to become his disciple.
• Jiang Shinian worried that his ordinary background and True Immortal cultivation would bring shame to Zhen Yuanzi, but Zhen Yuanzi reassured him that he was outstanding.
• Jiang Shinian accepted Zhen Yuanzi as his master with three bows and nine kowtows, and Heavenly Dao thunder witnessed their bond.
• Zhen Yuanzi passed Earth Immortal Dao Rhyme and a foundational cultivation technique to Jiang Shinian, strengthening his affinity with Spiritual Plants.
• Zhen Yuanzi gifted Jiang Shinian a mountain-sized collection of Spiritual Plants and told him to follow his heart.

Zhen Yuanzi accepted Jiang Shinian as his disciple, gave him an Earth Immortal Token, and encouraged him to pursue his mission of studying Spiritual Plants. Jiang Shinian returned home with his parents and began documenting medicinal plants for the Hundred Herbs Scripture.

• Zhen Yuanzi gave Jiang Shinian an Earth Immortal Token that let him contact his master from anywhere in the Primordial Wilderness.
• Zhen Yuanzi disappeared as Shaodian Shi and Nü Deng hurried to check on Jiang Shinian, and Jiang Shinian told them he was unharmed.
• Jiang Shinian told his parents that Sage Zhen Yuanzi had accepted him as a disciple, and Shaodian Shi excitedly declared that his son could become a Human Sovereign.
• Shaodian Shi, Nü Deng, and Jiang Shinian returned to the Lieshan Tribe without announcing the new discipleship to the tribespeople.
• Jiang Shinian began tasting and observing Spiritual Plants, recording their effects and flavors for the Hundred Herbs Scripture.

Fuxi watched Jiang Shinian study dangerous Spiritual Plants and grew curious about the mysterious Jade Token that repeatedly saved him. Meanwhile, Han Su reclaimed most Teleportation Array fee revenue for the Heavenly Court and appointed Taishang a Saint Venerable, setting up Hong Yuan’s plan to reclaim the Chaos Bead and have Taishang merge with the Dao.

• Fuxi sent an External Body to the Lieshan Tribe to teach Jiang Shinian, but found him staying indoors to study Spiritual Plants.
• Jiang Shinian repeatedly suffered severe poisoning from the plants, and the Jade Token Zhen Yuanzi had given him purified his body whenever he cried, “Master, save me!”
• Fuxi asked Antarctic Immortal Elder about Jiang Shinian’s teacher and learned only that the teacher was under Saint Zhen Yuanzi.
• Han Su brought Zhen Yuanzi before the Heavenly Court’s eight Saints and persuaded him to return most Teleportation Array fee rights, reducing the Earth Spirit Race’s share from fifty percent to ten percent.
• Han Su appointed Houtu and Taishang as Heavenly Court Saint Venerables, while Hong Yuan planned to withdraw his Chaos Bead External Body and have Taishang merge with the Dao.

Han Su arranged for Taishang to become one of the Three Venerables and gave Di Jun the position of Great Emperor Ziwei, while Ping Peng and Xuan Gui remained locked in a draw over who would become Hong Yuan's mount. Their negotiations failed, and they began another fight above the Heavenly River.

• Han Su made Taishang one of the Three Venerables and handed Di Jun the title of Great Emperor Ziwei, which Shuo Feng willingly gave up.
• Ping Peng and Xuan Gui continued their duel after three thousand draws, each hoping the other would concede and become a mount.
• Xuan Gui grew extra heads to claim he had more than Ping Peng, but Ping Peng pointed out that the watching immortals and gods were enjoying their betting pools.
• Wu E ran the betting pool and earned Merit Coins by taking wagers and collecting a handling fee.
• Ping Peng and Xuan Gui abandoned their attempts to negotiate and prepared to fight again above the Heavenly River.
• Ping Peng attacked first, unleashing a powerful suction force from his two mouths.

Ping Peng and Xuan Gui unleashed devastating powers against each other in the Heavenly River, escalating their long-running fight into a clash that threatened the surrounding heavens. Their battle continued as Di Jun watched from the Sun Palace and reflected on his sleeping brother, Tai Yi.

• Ping Peng summoned the World Devouring Divine Wind and struck Xuan Gui with a Chaos fluctuation, but Xuan Gui dissolved it with his Taiji Diagram.
• Ping Peng mocked Xuan Gui as an old turtle, and Xuan Gui answered by calling him a two-headed pig and turning the Heavenly River into his domain.
• Xuan Gui formed the Innate Eight Trigrams Golden Bridge with his life essence blood and sent it crashing toward Ping Peng.
• Ping Peng transformed into a Chaos Beast and unleashed a suction force that pulled at the Heavenly River, starlight, and space itself.
• Xuan Gui and Ping Peng collided, rapidly draining the Heavenly River as Di Jun watched from the Sun Palace and spoke of his sleeping brother, Tai Yi.

Tai Yi awakened in the Sun Palace and reunited with Di Jun after surviving as a wisp of indestructible spiritual light, while Hong Yuan continued attacking worlds and fleeing in the Primordial Universe. The chapter left Hong Yuan believing the mission had succeeded but expecting the surviving allies to face growing danger from the nine Chaos Demon Gods.

• The restored Teleportation Array and Tai Yi's connection to it enabled him to break through and awaken as a saint.
• Tai Yi's saintly aura spread through the Heavenly Court, shocking its immortals and prompting Queen Mother of the West to remember East King Duke.
• Tai Yi emerged from the Solar True Fire and reunited with Di Jun, telling his elder brother that he had returned.
• Hong Yuan continued striking major worlds and fleeing to avoid the nine Chaos Demon Gods and their External Bodies.
• Causality was discovered by a Chaos Demon God, who followed the river of Causality and killed him, while Yang Mei and Fu Xiao continued attacking and escaping.
• Hong Yuan judged that the destruction of many major worlds had completed their mission, though he feared the surviving allies would eventually be exposed and killed.

Hong Yuan raided Saints’ dojos across the Primordial Universe, swallowing their domains and defenders into the Universe Cauldron to strengthen the Primordial Wilderness. He stopped when he sensed that the nine Hao Shi beings had discovered him, carrying away a substantial haul.

• Hong Yuan decided to keep hunting Star Domain Saints and plundering their treasures for the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hong Yuan used the Universe Cauldron to swallow a Star Domain Saint’s dojo and capture the seventh-heaven Primordial Origin Golden Immortal inside.
• Hong Yuan repeatedly raided Saints’ and Primordial Origin Golden Immortals’ dojos, collecting their inhabitants, lands, and treasures in the cauldron.
• Hong Yuan sensed danger and stopped his raids before the nine Hao Shi beings could catch him.
• Hong Yuan counted his haul: five Star Domain Saints, three Primordial Origin Golden Immortals, and their dojos and treasures.

Hong Yuan, Fu Xiao, and Yang Mei reached the boundary between the Primordial Universe and the Primordial Wilderness Universe, where Quan Hong had sealed the route with a massive killing formation. Unable to return safely, they chose to wait in hiding and use the delay to strengthen the Primordial Wilderness while Hong Yuan's true self prepared to grow stronger.

• Quan Hong's External Body set a vast killing formation at the boundary between the two universes to trap Hong Yuan and his companions.
• Hong Yuan arrived at the formation and realized that entering it would expose him to Quan Hong and possibly the other eight External Bodies.
• Hong Yuan chose to remain concealed outside the formation rather than risk breaking through it.
• Fu Xiao and Yang Mei joined Hong Yuan, and he explained that waiting would give their universe time to develop and his true self time to approach a breakthrough.
• Hong Yuan revealed that his true self had captured Saints from the Primordial Universe and planned to bring them back to refine Great Tonic Pills for Fu Xiao and Yang Mei.

Hong Yuan promised Yang Mei and Fu Xiao pills made from the captured saints, but postponed refining them until they returned to the Primordial Wilderness. Meanwhile, Jiang Shinian finished the first draft of The Classic of Herbal Medicine and set out to study ordinary plants, despite the severe poison he had accumulated while testing medicines.

• Hong Yuan told Yang Mei and Fu Xiao he would refine the captured saints into pills after they returned to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Jiang Shinian completed the first draft of The Classic of Herbal Medicine but decided it needed to include ordinary plants accessible to everyday people.
• Jiang Shinian left his long-sealed residence to travel across the Primordial Wilderness and record more Spiritual Plants, first intending to tell his parents.
• Jiang Shinian's appearance shocked the Lieshan Tribe, and Shaodian Shi and Nü Deng worried over his poisoned body.
• Jiang Shinian reassured his family that he had deliberately kept the toxins in his body to study the plants' medicinal properties.

Jiang Shinian left the Lieshan Tribe to complete The Classic of Herbal Medicine, healing and teaching living beings throughout the Primordial Wilderness as Fuxi secretly assessed him. After the completed work brought down vast merit and advanced Jiang Shinian’s cultivation, Fuxi asked him to become the Human Sovereign.

• Jiang Shinian said farewell to Shaodian Shi, Nü Deng, and the Lieshan Tribe, shared his discoveries about combinations of Spiritual Plants, and set out to complete The Classic of Herbal Medicine.
• Fuxi followed Jiang Shinian and watched him travel through the Primordial Wilderness, study plants, heal injured beings, and share his medical knowledge.
• Living beings across the wilderness came to call Jiang Shinian Shennong as stories spread of his generosity and skill.
• Jiang Shinian completed The Classic of Herbal Medicine, and vast merit descended, raising him to the early Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm and turning the book into a Postnatal Merit Supreme Treasure.
• Fuxi revealed himself before Jiang Shinian and asked whether he would become the Human Sovereign of the Human Race.

Fuxi urged Jiang Shinian to succeed him as Human Sovereign, arguing that Jiang Shinian’s work and ambitions made him the right choice. Jiang Shinian remained hesitant until Fuxi revealed he hoped to become a Saint and joked that his wife was ready to kill him, leaving Jiang Shinian stunned that anyone dared hit the Heavenly Sovereign.

• Fuxi named Jiang Shinian as his chosen successor and asked him to become the next Human Sovereign.
• Jiang Shinian said he was unworthy, but Fuxi praised his reputation as Shennong and his The Classic of Herbal Medicine.
• Fuxi explained that becoming Human Sovereign would let Jiang Shinian spread his plans and teachings throughout the human race.
• Jiang Shinian argued that he could help humanity without taking the position, but Fuxi said the title would give him the standing to lead.
• Fuxi admitted that accepting a successor would allow him to fulfill his merit and become a Saint, then complained that his wife was ready to kill him.
• Jiang Shinian reacted in horror and asked whether Fuxi’s wife really dared to hit him.

Fuxi persuaded Jiang Shinian to succeed him as Human Sovereign, then brought him into the human race’s sacred land and introduced him to its affairs. The chapter ended with news spreading that Fuxi was preparing to abdicate and Shennong Jiang Shinian would take his place.

• Fuxi told Jiang Shinian that his wife could overpower him despite seeming to be only an early-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal, and admitted he wanted to abdicate so he could have children with her and be beaten less.
• Fuxi pleaded with Jiang Shinian to become the next Human Sovereign, and Jiang Shinian agreed after asking whether he could handle the role.
• Fuxi returned with Jiang Shinian to the Lieshan Tribe, then took him to the valley where Nuwa had created humanity and the human race’s sacred land.
• Jiang Shinian spent time learning human affairs, meeting its leaders, and visiting the Dragon Phoenix Qilin clans’ territories with Fuxi.
• News spread throughout the Primordial Wilderness that Fuxi would soon abdicate and that Shennong Jiang Shinian would succeed him as Human Sovereign.

Fuxi held a grand abdication ceremony to pass the position of Human Emperor to Jiang Shinian, while the many powers attending also witnessed the moment before Fuxi’s path to sainthood. Jiang Shinian accepted Fuxi’s challenge and began ascending the immortal platform.

• Fuxi announced that he would formally pass the Human Emperor position to Jiang Shinian at the ceremony honoring Holy Mother Nuwa.
• Envoys and prominent disciples from across the Primordial Wilderness gathered in the Human capital to witness the ceremony.
• Fuxi ascended the immortal platform and recounted the achievements of his reign before declaring that his merits were fulfilled.
• Fuxi summoned Jiang Shinian and praised his benevolence, medicinal knowledge, and ability to serve as Human Emperor.
• Fuxi asked whether Jiang Shinian could lead the Human race further, and Jiang Shinian stepped forward to climb the platform.

Jiang Shinian pledged to lead the human race to greater heights as Fuxi departed, and Fuxi attained sainthood through the merit he received. Fuxi recovered the memories of his past life and learned that his wife was Nuwa, who teased him before he insisted she call him Brother.

• Jiang Shinian vowed to lead the human race to greater heights, and the people bowed to send Fuxi off.
• Merit descended upon Fuxi, and he broke through to become a saint as the human race and other peoples congratulated him.
• Fuxi recalled his past life, including creating the human race and being killed by Kunpeng during the Human-Demon Calamity.
• Fuxi declared himself both Sage Emperor Fuxi and Heavenly Emperor Fuxi, then recognized his wife as Nuwa.
• Nuwa teased Fuxi about calling him Brother or Husband, and Fuxi insisted that she call him Brother.

After regaining his memories, Fuxi objected to Nuwa calling him her husband, but her chilling response forced him to accept their marriage and promise to return to Wa Huang Palace. Nuwa departed, and humanity remembered Fuxi’s identity as its creator and Sage Emperor.

• Fuxi told Nuwa to call him Brother and not Husband, citing their sibling relationship and the rules he had established as Human Sovereign.
• Nuwa froze everyone present and threatened Fuxi until he agreed that their relationship mattered more than worldly opinions.
• Fuxi praised his own honesty and reassured Nuwa, who asked him to return to Wa Huang Palace after stepping down as Human Sovereign.
• Hong Yuan secretly recorded Fuxi and Nuwa’s exchange with the Law of Mirror and said he would show it to Qiankun.
• Nuwa vanished, the frozen beings returned to normal without remembering it, and humanity recalled that Fuxi was its creator, Sage Emperor, and Nuwa’s elder brother.

Fuxi reassured Jiang Shinian after revealing himself as the Sage Emperor, then departed to meet other powerful figures. After several Yuan Hui, Jiang Shinian introduced abundant millet crops across the human tribes, whose harvest moved the people to loudly pledge their loyalty to him.

• Jiang Shinian was shocked to learn that Fuxi was the Sage Emperor, but Fuxi reassured him that he remained his elder brother and encouraged him to pursue sainthood.
• Fuxi left to visit the Dao Venerable, his master, and the other Saints, while Jiang Shinian completed his succession as the new Human Emperor.
• Jiang Shinian distributed The Classic of Herbal Medicine and waited several Yuan Hui before introducing plans to increase the human race's food supply.
• Jiang Shinian gave tribal leaders seeds from the Nine-eared Millet Seedling and taught them to farm and raise livestock.
• After one year, the tribes discovered enormous harvests of sweet, nourishing millet and celebrated the food Jiang Shinian had provided.
• Across the Ten Domains, humans cried that they were willing to die for the Human Emperor, alarming other beings who feared a new war.

After Jiang Shinian bestowed Sprout Seedling on the human race, the other races praised him as the Earth Emperor, and Heavenly Dao Merit raised his cultivation to the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm. He discovered he had obtained Earthly Path Primordial Violet Qi and believed that finding a successor for humanity could earn him enough merit to become an Earthly Path Saint.

• The beings living near human territory learned that Sprout Seedling could provide food and hoped humans would stop hunting and eating them.
• Jiang Shinian gained the title of Earth Emperor for creating The Classic of Herbal Medicine and bestowing Sprout Seedling, which reduced slaughter across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Heavenly Dao Merit raised Jiang Shinian's cultivation to the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.
• Jiang Shinian sensed Earthly Path Primordial Violet Qi within himself and wondered why he had received it instead of Human Path Primordial Violet Qi.
• Jiang Shinian concluded that finding a successor for the human race could complete his merit and let him refine the Primordial Violet Qi to become an Earthly Path Saint.