Chapter Summaries

Hong Yuan reunited Cuiwei with Houtu and showed him the Primordial Universe’s desperate war against the Two Realms Lock Heaven Battlefield, leaving Cuiwei stunned by how powerful his allies had become. Hong Yuan revealed that Great Tonic Pills had helped them advance, and Cuiwei eagerly asked for some.

• Hong Yuan scolded Cuiwei for continuing their act, and Cuiwei blamed Black Tortoise for making him die repeatedly.
• Houtu appeared, greeted Hong Yuan, and welcomed Cuiwei back as her senior brother.
• Houtu asked whether Cuiwei would take charge of the Heavenly Court or join the battlefield, prompting him to ask Hong Yuan what battlefield she meant.
• Hong Yuan sent Cuiwei information about the Primordial Universe and the Two Realms Lock Heaven Battlefield, where Cuiwei saw familiar allies fighting powerful enemies.
• Cuiwei was shocked by how strong his allies had become, and Hong Yuan explained that Great Tonic Pills had helped them break through.
• Cuiwei knelt before Hong Yuan and eagerly declared that he wanted the pills.

After Xuanyuan succeeded Shennong as Human Emperor, Jiang Shinian met Hong Yuan, Houtu, and the reincarnated Cuiwei in the Underworld and received pills to prepare for the battlefield. Cuiwei agreed to take control of the Heavenly Court but said he wanted to do something first.

• Jiang Shinian declared Xuanyuan the next Human Emperor, completed his merit, and became a saint of the Earthly Path.
• Jiang Shinian arrived in the Underworld and was shocked to find Xuanwei alive as Cuiwei beside Hong Yuan and Houtu.
• Houtu explained that Cuiwei was her senior brother and Hong Yuan’s chief attendant, and Jiang Shinian apologized for mistaking him for a fellow daoist.
• Hong Yuan gave Jiang Shinian three Great Tonic Pills and told him to absorb them before following Cuiwei to the battlefield.
• Cuiwei agreed to assume control of the Heavenly Court but said he wanted to do something first.

Hong Yuan arrived at Shouyang Mountain and released powerful treasures salvaged from the Primordial Universe, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the Primordial Wilderness. The Queen Mother of the West sensed that the treasures offered her a chance to become a saint and rushed toward the mountain.

• Qingluo and the Qingwu Tribe settled in the Ten Domains, while Xuanyuan strengthened the human race through new laws and institutions.
• Cuiwei appeared before Qingluo and the Qingwu Tribe, announced that he planned to become the Heavenly Emperor, and invited them to join him for salaries.
• Hong Yuan remembered the treasures he had salvaged from the Primordial Universe and traveled to Shouyang Mountain to distribute them.
• Hong Yuan cast the treasures into the air, unleashing immortal light that stirred powerful beings throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Queen Mother of the West sensed that the treasures could awaken her Dao Fruit and give her a chance to become a saint, then hurried to Shouyang Mountain.
• Duobao, the Antarctic Immortal Elder, and Xuandu noticed the Queen Mother of the West's departure and wondered what she had sensed.

Duobao and the leading figures of the Three Teachings sensed a mysterious pull toward Shouyang Mountain, while Demon Master Kunpeng also rushed there in search of a treasure for attaining the Dao. As treasure hunters fought over Hong Yuan’s scattered treasures, Hong Yuan spoke with Mosquito Daoist and recognized his interest in absorbing Shouyang Mountain’s Pure Yang Innate Qi.

• Duobao decided to head to Shouyang Mountain, where he found San Xiao, Zhao Gongming, the Seven Attendant Immortals, Antarctic Immortal Elder, Xuandu, and the Twelve Golden Immortals had also gathered after sensing the same pull.
• Demon Master Kunpeng sensed a treasure for attaining the Dao and flew toward Shouyang Mountain, shattering the void as he departed.
• At Shouyang Mountain, Grand Unity Golden Immortals fought over the tens of thousands of treasures Hong Yuan had scattered while Hong Yuan watched from beside a spiritual tree.
• Mosquito Daoist approached Hong Yuan, who saw through his concealed treasure collecting, and explained that Mosquito Daoist hoped to absorb Shouyang Mountain’s Pure Yang Innate Qi to improve his cultivation.

Hong Yuan exaggeratedly boasted to the Mosquito Daoist that he would become a saint and rule the Primordial Wilderness, then called Heavenly Dao his nephew. After Hong Yuan was struck by tribulation lightning, the Mosquito Daoist fled but was struck too, and crawled from the ground protesting his innocence.

• The Mosquito Daoist secretly collected a few treasures before approaching Hong Yuan, hoping to befriend someone he mistook for a saint's disciple.
• When the Mosquito Daoist asked which saint he served, Hong Yuan claimed he was Wang Teng and declared that he would become a saint and rule over all things.
• Hong Yuan offered to make the Mosquito Daoist a Heavenly Venerable Protector, frightening him into fleeing.
• Hong Yuan called Heavenly Dao his nephew and asked whether he was wrong, prompting a tribulation bolt and a voice agreeing with him.
• The fleeing Mosquito Daoist heard the thunder, assumed Hong Yuan had been reduced to ashes, and was struck by tribulation lightning himself.
• The charred Mosquito Daoist crawled out of the ground and pleaded with Heavenly Dao that he had nothing to do with Hong Yuan.

Kunpeng and Xuanyuan tried to seize the treasures, but powerful forces from across the Primordial Wilderness arrived and attacked them. Xuanwei led the Heavenly Court among the gathering factions, leaving Xuanyuan facing his former rival.

• Kunpeng's overwhelming pressure annihilated the cultivators in the region and caused the gathered treasures to reappear.
• Kunpeng reached for the treasures, but Xuanyuan severed his giant hand with a sword strike and challenged him on behalf of the Human Race.
• Xuanyuan and Kunpeng sensed powerful figures approaching, then resumed gathering treasures as the newcomers closed in.
• Countless attacks struck Xuanyuan and Kunpeng, driving them back hundreds of thousands of miles.
• The Jie Teaching, Chan Teaching, Western Teachings, great shamans, and many other factions arrived, with Xuanwei leading the Heavenly Court.
• Xuanyuan recognized Xuanwei and looked at him with a complicated expression.

Cuiwei revealed himself as the Heavenly Emperor while Hong Yuan stood among the independent cultivators gathered at Shouyang Mountain. The Fierce Beast Kings arrived seeking a treasure they believed was fated for them, and Qiong Qi announced that the Fierce Beast clan would be joining the gathering.

• Cuiwei told Xuanyuan that he was the current Heavenly Emperor, and Xuanyuan realized he had been slightly outmatched in their earlier fight.
• Hong Yuan stood behind the Queen Mother of the West among the gathered independent cultivators.
• Qiong Qi, Taotie, and Taowu arrived with dozens of powerful Fierce Beasts, alarming the factions at Shouyang Mountain.
• Taotie angrily challenged Candle Dragon and the Earth Qilin after they questioned the Fierce Beast clan's presence.
• Cuiwei intervened, and Qiong Qi explained that the Fierce Beasts had come seeking a fated treasure and could now leave the Primordial Wilderness freely.
• Qiong Qi declared that the Fierce Beast clan would trouble the gathering from then on.

Hong Yuan provoked the Fierce Beast Race, and the three kings traced the insult to the Golden-Winged Great Peng and attacked him. Vermilion Bird intervened to protect him, but she was badly outmatched and urged him to flee.

• Hong Yuan secretly mocked the Fierce Beast Race, provoking Qiong Qi, Taotie, and Taowu into releasing their overwhelming auras and knocking many gathered immortals from the sky.
• Cuiwei recognized that the taunt could have come from his master, while Hong Yuan hid behind Queen Mother of the West and watched with amusement.
• The three kings followed the threads of Causality to the Golden-Winged Great Peng and unleashed a giant claw, believing he had insulted them.
• Kong Xuan and Vermilion Bird suspected the Golden-Winged Great Peng had spoken the words, though he silently insisted he had been framed.
• Vermilion Bird blocked the kings’ attack with Southern Bright Lihuo, but the clash wounded her and left her wings cracking, so she shouted for the Golden-Winged Great Peng to escape.

Kong Xuan and the human race intervened to protect the Golden-Winged Great Peng as the Fierce Beast race attacked the Phoenix Clan. While the factions fought, the gathered experts scrambled for heavenly treasures, and Hong Yuan was confronted by an Earth Spirit Race Quasi-Saint after obtaining an immortal fruit.

• Kong Xuan sent the Golden-Winged Great Peng away, but Qiong Qi, Taotie, Taowu, and the Fierce Beast race pursued him and attacked the Phoenix Clan.
• Xuanyuan saved the Golden-Winged Great Peng from several Primordial Origin Golden Immortals, then joined the Three Ancestors and human cultivators in fighting the Fierce Beast race.
• Duobao and other experts battled over the scattered treasures, while San Xiao and Zhao Gongming obtained one ordinary item using the Nine-Curves Yellow River Formation.
• Queen Mother of the West tried to claim a piece of jade, but Candle Dragon, Chang Xi, and Jidu joined forces to stop her.
• Hong Yuan obtained an immortal fruit and faced a Two-Corpse Quasi-Saint from the Earth Spirit Race.

Hong Yuan confronted Daoist Liuguang, who demanded the Profound Yellow Dao Fruit and attacked when Hong Yuan taunted him with it. After Hong Yuan broke Liuguang’s Earth Vein chains, the two compared their treasures, leaving Liuguang anxious over Hong Yuan’s reaction to his description of the Gen Mountain Lamp.

• Daoist Liuguang demanded Hong Yuan hand over the Profound Yellow Dao Fruit in exchange for his life.
• Hong Yuan displayed the fruit to provoke Daoist Liuguang, who attacked with Earth Vein chains.
• Hong Yuan evaded the attack and used the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade to shatter Liuguang’s chains.
• Daoist Liuguang summoned the Gen Mountain Lamp and began boasting about its power.
• Hong Yuan interrupted to recite an elaborate account of the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade’s supposed exploits, then asked Daoist Liuguang about his treasure.
• Daoist Liuguang described the Gen Mountain Lamp and nervously awaited Hong Yuan’s response, while Hong Yuan sighed.

Hong Yuan feigned weakness while fighting Daoist Liuguang, using their clash and the wider battlefield to draw factions into the coming Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. The fighting spread across the Primordial Wilderness, while Cuiwei watched Hong Yuan’s battle with interest.

• Daoist Liuguang used the Gen Mountain Lamp to trap Hong Yuan, who pretended to be wounded and outmatched as they exchanged tens of thousands of blows.
• Hong Yuan’s plan was to make the factions form lines of Causality so they could not avoid entering the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Kunpeng, Xi He, and Chang Xi attacked Queen Mother of the West, prompting Xuanyuan and the human experts to join her side.
• The Witch Clan and Phoenix Clan fought the Fierce Beast Clan, while Zi Qiao joined the Witch Clan to test her strength.
• The Dragon Clan and Qilin Clan attacked the Demon Race, and Cuiwei allowed the battle to continue before watching Hong Yuan and Daoist Liuguang fight.

Cuiwei watched Hong Yuan fight Daoist Liuguang and tried to convince Shuo Feng, Ping Peng, Wu E, and the others that Hong Yuan was a composed, formidable fighter. The chapter ended with Hong Yuan taking a hit, tossing away his Dao Fruit, and fleeing, leaving Cuiwei to defend his failed prediction.

• Shuo Feng, Wu E, Black Tortoise, Ping Peng, and the others returned to Cuiwei after collecting treasures, while the Witch Clan joined the Phoenix Clan against the Fierce Beast Clan and the Dragon and Qilin Clans fought the Demon Race.
• Ping Peng questioned why Cuiwei was interested in Hong Yuan's battle with Daoist Liuguang, and Cuiwei insisted they watch more carefully.
• Cuiwei praised Hong Yuan's precise evasions and courage, but Wu E and the others pointed out that Hong Yuan was frightened and trying to escape.
• Cuiwei claimed Hong Yuan was feigning weakness to lure Daoist Liuguang in, despite the others' doubts.
• Hong Yuan let a chi dragon strike his shoulder, spat golden blood, threw his Dao Fruit into the air, and fled, while Cuiwei tried to portray the escape as a lesson in knowing one's limits.

Hong Yuan left the battlefield and introduced magical chess games to human territory, earning a fortune through a championship before handing most of the proceeds to the Heavenly Court and the human race. The human share delighted Shaohao, Xuanyuan’s son and the current Human Emperor, who hoped to earn enough merit to become a Saint.

• Daoist Liuguang captured the Profound Yellow Dao Fruit while Hong Yuan escaped, then Cuiwei met Hong Yuan and left for the Two Realms Locking Heaven Array with Jiang Shinian.
• Hong Yuan watched the heavenly-treasure conflict wind down, then disguised himself as a scholar and traveled through human territory.
• Hong Yuan created magical Chinese chess and Go, then organized a King Chess Championship with a ten-billion-Merit-Coin prize pool.
• Hong Yuan profited by more than 260 billion Merit Coins from the championship’s betting pools and handed the operation to the Heavenly Court and the human race, which received ten percent.
• Xuanyuan’s son Shaohao became Human Emperor after Xuanyuan abdicated and attained sainthood; Shaohao was overjoyed by the human race’s share of the proceeds.

Shaohao, Zhuanxu, and Diku each ruled the human race in turn, strengthening its culture and prosperity before passing the throne onward. After Yao became Human Emperor, a catastrophic Yellow River flood carrying deadly Chaos torrents threatened the human race.

• Xuanyuan discovered that Shaohao was his destined successor, and Shaohao and Cangjie created the Human Race Script, earning merit and renown.
• Xuanyuan abdicated to Shaohao and attained sainthood, but Shaohao later reached only the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm before passing the throne to Zhuanxu.
• Zhuanxu refined Fuxi's calendar, organized competitions across the Primordial Wilderness, and eventually abdicated to Diku.
• Diku expanded the human race's territory, maintained harmony among its tribes, and later yielded the throne to Yao.
• Soon after Yao ascended, the Yellow River burst its banks, and hidden Chaos torrents turned the flood into a force that destroyed tribes, cities, and living beings.

Yao appointed Gun to control the catastrophic floods, and Gun restrained them by building a massive dam. After years of pressure from the Chaos Qi, the dam burst, killing Gun and countless Human Race soldiers and unleashing an even worse flood; the disaster left the newly enthroned Shun facing a grim crisis.

• Yao rejected proposals to seek outside help and appointed Gun to take charge of flood control, giving him Breath Soil.
• Gun built a vast dam at Feather Mountain and reinforced it with Water Suppressing Runes and formations, temporarily restraining the floodwaters.
• Yao rewarded Gun with the title of Water Master Duke, but Gun continued extending and strengthening the dam.
• After more than eight Yuan Hui, accumulated Chaos Qi shattered the dam and swallowed Gun, his soldiers, and countless members of the Human Race.
• Hong Yuan observed that blocking the waters was inferior to dredging, while Shun faced the devastating news in the Human Emperor's Sacred Palace.

Emperor Shun faced the worsening Chaos flood and the Dragon Clan’s warning that humanity might need to abandon its homeland. Da Yu presented a plan to dredge the waterways and received Shun’s authority to control the floods.

• Gao Yao reported that the Dragon Clan could not control the Chaos flood and recommended relocating humanity.
• Da Yu knelt before Emperor Shun and asked to lead flood control, explaining that he had discovered why his father Gun failed.
• Da Yu revealed his father’s Great Desolation Water Classics Annotation and showed how Chaos Qi gathered at failed dikes.
• Da Yu proposed dredging eighty-one drainage routes to disperse the Chaos Qi and guide the floodwaters.
• Emperor Shun appointed Si Wenming Imperial Commissioner for Flood Control and pledged humanity’s full support.

Shun sent Da Yu to control the floods, and Da Yu went to the Heavenly Court to borrow a measuring treasure. Wu E revealed four powerful rods forged by his master, and Da Yu asked to borrow all of them.

• Shun gave Da Yu a personal letter and ceremonial sash, and Da Yu vowed to control the floods and return safely.
• Da Yu went to the Heavenly Court and presented Shun’s letter to Wu E at the South Heaven Gate.
• Da Yu asked Wu E for a heavy rod that could measure the floodwaters and for an introduction to Black Tortoise.
• Wu E summoned four divine pillars and explained the powers of the Ruyi Jingu Bang, Wishful Iron Rod Soldier, Sea Binh Iron Rod, and Purple Gold Beam.
• Da Yu asked Wu E if he could borrow all four treasures.

Da Yu borrowed four treasures from Wu E and recruited the Black Tortoise to help control the floods. With his soldiers gathered, he prepared to open mountains and divert the waters, guided by the Black Tortoise’s route map.

• Wu E gave Da Yu the four divine rods and helped him initially refine them over several hundred years.
• Da Yu met the Black Tortoise, who agreed to help control the flooding and accompanied him to the lower realm.
• Da Yu returned to the human race with the Black Tortoise, raising the soldiers’ confidence.
• Da Yu summoned the Ruyi Jingu Bang and used its reflected landforms to identify blocked rivers and mountains.
• The Black Tortoise revealed a flood-control route based on the Earth Veins, and Da Yu ordered the soldiers to open the mountains and divert the waters.

Da Yu used four powerful staves to clear channels through the floodwaters, calm the disaster, and restore vitality to the land, while the human race praised his sacrifice. After the flood-control work was completed, he gave Wu Zhiqi the Purple Gold Beam, and the chapter began to explain how Wu Zhiqi had joined his team.

• Da Yu used the four staves to carve river channels through the floodwaters and mountains, causing the waters to recede without building dams.
• Emperor Shun and the human race celebrated Da Yu’s success, while stories spread of his repeated visits home and devotion to the people.
• Da Yu and his workers opened the final water vein, calming the floods and dispersing their Chaos Qi into life-giving spiritual energy.
• Bo Yi and the Black Tortoise recognized that the floodwaters had become an opportunity to restore the land, and Da Yu understood the meaning of the Black Tortoise’s teaching about water.
• Da Yu gave the Purple Gold Beam to Wu Zhiqi, who caught it gladly and praised Da Yu for keeping his word.
• The chapter revealed that the four staves had been refined for four monkeys and began to recount why Wu Zhiqi had joined Da Yu’s flood-control team.

After flood control ended, the Black Tortoise took his disciple Wu Zhiqi to meet Hong Yuan, the Dao Venerable who had personally refined the Purple Gold Beam. Wu Zhiqi stood awestruck before Hong Yuan, while the Black Tortoise greeted his master.

• The Black Tortoise decided to take Wu Zhiqi to meet his master after the floods were subdued, and Wu Zhiqi eagerly agreed.
• Da Yu asked the Black Tortoise to wait for his merit and explain how to suppress the human territories' fortune, but the Black Tortoise departed with Wu Zhiqi.
• The Black Tortoise and Wu Zhiqi received heavenly merit on their journey, then followed the Black Tortoise's guidance to Hong Yuan's thatched cottage.
• Wu Zhiqi and the Black Tortoise watched Hong Yuan trim an Innate Spiritual Root and sensed the profound mysteries in his movements.
• Hong Yuan acknowledged their arrival, the Black Tortoise bowed to greet his master, and Wu Zhiqi remained frozen in shock.