Chapter Summaries

Haotian and Yaochi asked Cangyuan to help strengthen the Heavenly Court, and Cangyuan agreed to take the title of Central Ziwei North Great Emperor after learning the system would reward him with the Chart of Myriad Stars. After Haotian and Yaochi departed, Houtu visited Cangyuan and made a private request, prompting him to conceal the Chaos Three Immortal Island.

• Haotian and Yaochi explained that the Heavenly Court lacked capable subordinates, and Cangyuan offered to arrange some Jie Sect disciples and Golden Immortals to ascend.
• Haotian offered Cangyuan one of the Four Sovereign positions, and the system presented rewards for accepting or refusing the invitation.
• After learning the Chart of Myriad Stars could evolve into a real Star Sea, Cangyuan accepted the Central Ziwei North Great Emperor title and received the treasure.
• Cangyuan told Haotian that the Jie Sect members he sent must be free to leave whenever they wished, and Haotian agreed.
• After Haotian and Yaochi left, Houtu visited Cangyuan, requested a courtyard at his dojo, and made a private request.
• Cangyuan activated the Sky-Covering Array around the Chaos Three Immortal Island, while Tongtian wondered what they were discussing.

Cangyuan advised Houtu to have Chiyou challenge Xuanyuan, allowing Chiyou to gain merit as the Ancestor of Weapons even if he lost. After receiving the Martial Dao Sacred Hall, Cangyuan sought to spread Martial Dao and free the Human Race’s leaders from confinement in Huoyun Cave, then released five million trillion humans into the Prehistoric World and announced his declaration to the Heavenly Dao.

• Houtu explained that the Witch Race needed merit to dissolve its remaining Karma and asked Cangyuan for help.
• Cangyuan advised Houtu to arrange for Chiyou to oppose the Human Sovereign, explaining that Chiyou could earn merit as the Ancestor of Weapons even in defeat.
• Houtu left her Ancestral Witch Dao Body behind when her consciousness departed, and Cangyuan settled it before joking with Yunxiao.
• Cangyuan received the Martial Dao Sacred Hall, which gathered Martial Dao Destiny and could suppress a race’s destiny.
• Cangyuan released five million trillion humans into the Prehistoric World and began announcing his declaration to the Heavenly Dao.

Cangyuan established Martial Dao for the Human Race, gaining Heavenly Dao’s recognition and merit while suppressing the Human Race’s destiny in the Martial Dao Sacred Hall. The chapter ended with Martial Dao officially founded and Cangyuan prepared to keep the Human Race from being confined to Huoyun Cave.

• Cangyuan proclaimed Martial Dao to the Primordial World, drawing the Eye of Heavenly Dao and the attention of the Seven Saints and other powerful figures.
• Tongtian praised Cangyuan, while Primordial Lord of Heaven, Taiqing Laozi, Nuwa, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Old Ancestor Styx reacted to the new cultivation system.
• Cangyuan declared himself the Martial Ancestor and used the Martial Dao Sacred Hall to suppress Martial Dao and the Human Race’s destiny.
• The Human Race’s Destiny Golden Dragon and a Martial Dao Destiny Golden Dragon entered the hall, empowering it and allowing Cangyuan to draw on five sources of destiny.
• Heavenly Dao granted Martial Dao recognition and bestowed merit, most of which Cangyuan refined into his Golden Wheel of Heavenly Dao Merit.

As the Human Race entered its era of great prosperity, Cangyuan received Fuxi’s True Spirit from Nuwa and arranged for his rebirth as a human. He also gave Houtu a True Spirit Gathering Bottle, offering her hope of restoring one of her deceased brothers.

• Karmic Tribulation Energy arose to conceal the Heavenly Secrets from Saints and Great Supernatural Beings as the Human Race’s era began.
• Cangyuan bound the Indestructible Hearth Fire Trait to the Human Race and entrusted Suiren Shi, Ziyi Shi, and Youchao Shi with guiding their people until the Human Sovereign emerged.
• Nuwa gave Cangyuan Fuxi’s True Spirit in the An Shen Bottle and agreed to let him use the Qiankun Cauldron after he requested it.
• Cangyuan showed Houtu a True Spirit Gathering Bottle that could recover one deceased person’s True Spirit, and she accepted his offer to help Fuxi reincarnate.
• Houtu sent Fuxi’s True Spirit into the Humanity Path, allowing him to be reborn as a human.

Houtu confirmed that the True Spirit Gathering Bottle could retrieve Di Jiang’s true spirit from the River of Time and preserved Ancestral Witch Essence Blood for the Ancestral Witches’ future revival. Back at the Jie Sect, Cangyuan proposed sending its disciples to take Divine Positions in the Heavenly Court, and Holy Mother Jin Ling eagerly asked whether his promise of rapid cultivation was true.

• Houtu suspended the True Spirit Gathering Bottle over the River of Time and drew Di Jiang’s true spirit into it.
• Houtu decided to keep the clan’s Ancestral Witch Essence Blood to rebuild the Ancestral Witches’ Dao Bodies after their revival.
• Cangyuan returned to the Jie Sect after Zhao Gongming and the other Great Luo Golden Immortals purged those who had abused the sect’s name, stabilizing its destiny.
• Cangyuan asked the Jie Sect disciples to take Divine Positions in the Heavenly Court and described the positions, rewards, and cultivation benefits Haotian offered.
• Cangyuan suggested Divine Positions for Holy Mother Jin Ling and Holy Mother Guiling, and Holy Mother Jin Ling eagerly asked whether she could attain the Dao of a Quasi-Saint within ten Yuanhui.

Cangyuan brought more than three hundred Jie Sect disciples to join the understaffed Heavenly Court, where Haotian and Yaochi welcomed them and worked with Cangyuan to arrange their positions. With the new recruits gathered, Haotian and Yaochi formally announced the Heavenly Court’s founding and used their treasures to suppress its fortune.

• Jin Ling, Guiling, Bixiao, Qiongxiao, Bai Lianxin, Zhao Gongming, and many other Jie Sect disciples volunteered for Heavenly Court positions, and Cangyuan selected more than three hundred to go.
• Cangyuan and the disciples entered the Heavenly Court through the East Heavenly Gate, where Haotian and Yaochi came out to greet them in person.
• Haotian asked Cangyuan to advise him on appointing the Jie Sect disciples, and the two agreed to secure suitable positions for them.
• Haotian used the Heavenly Emperor Pagoda to suppress the Heavenly Court’s fortune and announced his decree to rebuild and rule the Heavenly Court.
• Yaochi used the Ren Shui Immortal Peach Tree to suppress the Heavenly Court’s fortune and declared that she would establish its rules and commandments.

Haotian and Yaochi restored the Heavenly Court, advanced their cultivation, and appointed Cangyuan and Jie Sect immortals to its divine offices, greatly strengthening the court and the Jie Sect. Cangyuan secured control of both its leadership and its foundations before returning to Chaos Three Immortal Island, and one Yuanhui passed.

• Haotian and Yaochi used the Heavenly Court’s fortune and merit to sever corpses and advance to Late and Mid Quasi-Saint realms, respectively.
• Haotian appointed Cangyuan, Jin Ling, Guiling, and other Jie Sect immortals to Heavenly Court offices, and the recipients gained merit and advanced in cultivation.
• Nuwa and Primordial Lord of Heaven observed the Jie Sect’s gains, while Zhunti and Jieyin lamented that they had not sent their disciples to take divine positions.
• Cangyuan sent his Martial God Realm Incarnation to guard the Ziwei Imperial Palace with the Chart of Myriad Stars and ordered it to gather the origins of stars.
• Cangyuan settled large numbers of Human Race cultivators in the Heavenly Court, returned to Chaos Three Immortal Island to cultivate, and one Yuanhui passed.

Huaxu became pregnant after visiting Thunder Marsh, and the child in her womb remained unborn for five thousand years. Xuandu arrived at the Fenggun Tribe and revealed that her child was a Great Sage destined to lead the Human Race to prosperity.

• Huaxu left the Fenggun Tribe, visited Thunder Marsh, and unknowingly conceived a child after entering a giant footprint as purple light entered her body.
• Huaxu returned home and told her Golden Immortal father how she became pregnant, and he concluded that a spirit of Heaven and Earth had caused it.
• Huaxu carried the child for five thousand years, while she remained healthy and occasionally punched her belly in frustration.
• Taiqing Laozi sent Xuandu to the Fenggun Tribe to find Huaxu and assist the Heavenly Sovereign in her womb.
• Xuandu stopped Huaxu from hitting her belly and told her father that her child was a Great Sage destined to bring prosperity to the Human Race.

Xuandu stayed with Huaxu until she gave birth to Fuxi, a serpent-bodied child whose arrival brought auspicious signs and increased the Human Race’s Destiny. Xuandu later taught Fuxi cultivation, and Fuxi began improving life in the Fenggun Tribe by inventing fishing nets and animal husbandry.

• Xuandu settled in the Fenggun Tribe, cared for Huaxu, and helped nourish her while keeping his distance after she said he would have to marry her if he touched her.
• Huaxu gave birth to Fuxi, who had a human head and body, a serpent’s tail, and a golden Innate Eight Trigrams Pattern; his birth brought celebration and raised the Human Race’s Destiny.
• Huaxu lamented that Fuxi had no little ding-ding, while Xuandu picked up the newborn and Nuwa watched with relief from Nuwa Palace.
• Xuandu named Fuxi and accepted him as his disciple; after Fuxi turned five, Xuandu taught him the Golden Core Great Dao, and Fuxi rapidly reached the Profound Immortal realm.
• Fuxi made a fishing net, taught the Fenggun Tribe to fish, then gathered young beasts and developed animal husbandry, earning merit for both contributions.

Fuxi rose from tribal leader to Co-Lord of the Human Race, then sought a way to foretell disasters after an earthquake killed hundreds of millions. Xuandu went to seek the Hetu Luoshu for him, and Nuwa descended upon the North Sea to demand it from Kunpeng.

• Fuxi identified the dangers of close-relative marriages, established marriage customs, and became leader of the Fenggun Tribe.
• Fuxi united neighboring tribes, earned the support of the Three Ancestors of Humanity, and spent sixty years spreading inventions and establishing his capital in Chen.
• After a catastrophic earthquake killed five hundred million people, Fuxi resolved to devise a method for the Human Race to avert disasters but reached a bottleneck.
• Xuandu advised Fuxi to study the patterns of the heavens and earth, then went to borrow the Hetu Luoshu from Kunpeng.
• Nuwa arrived in the North Sea and demanded that Kunpeng hand over the Hetu Luoshu, threatening to pardon him for fleeing.

Nuwa tracked the Hetu Luoshu to Cangyuan, who arranged for Guiling to deliver it to Fuxi. Fuxi used the treasures to begin creating a method for divining fortune and misfortune, while Xuandu tried to comfort Huaxu afterward.

• Nuwa questioned Kunpeng about the missing Hetu Luoshu, learned it had been stolen by a mysterious figure using Devouring Power, and refused to pardon Kunpeng for betraying his race.
• Nuwa visited Cangyuan and asked to borrow the Hetu Luoshu for Fuxi; Cangyuan agreed to send it directly to Fuxi and asked Tongtian to summon Guiling.
• Cangyuan gave Guiling the Hetu Luoshu and carefully instructed her to deliver it to Fuxi.
• Fuxi found the Hetu Luoshu on a spiritual turtle at the Wei River, took the treasures, and returned to begin his deductions.
• Xuandu thanked Guiling for delivering the treasure, and Huaxu worried that she was too foolish to help her son, prompting Xuandu to reassure her that she was not obviously smart enough.

Fuxi created the Innate Eight Trigrams and completed his merit, prompting Tongtian to appoint Duobao to guide the Earthly Emperor. Cangyuan arranged Hongyun’s reincarnation, while Ren Si became pregnant after seeing a mysterious Red-Bearded Divine Dragon.

• Fuxi created and expounded the Innate Eight Trigrams, earning enough merit to complete his Heavenly Sovereign role.
• Tongtian chose Duobao to guide the Earthly Emperor, and Duobao accepted the opportunity.
• Cangyuan asked Houtu to reincarnate Hongyun, who was born into the Human Race immediately.
• Ren Si saw a Red-Bearded Divine Dragon in the clouds, though her father could not see it.
• Ren Si’s father examined her and discovered that she was pregnant.

Ren Si gave birth to Jiang Shinian, whom Duobao raised and trained as he searched for ways to feed his people. After discovering and spreading the Five Grains, Jiang Shinian earned Fuxi’s support as his successor and began preparing to lead the Human Race.

• After a thousand years of pregnancy, Ren Si gave birth to Jiang Shinian, and Duobao later accepted him as a disciple.
• Jiang Shinian asked Duobao to teach him how to feed his clansmen, then discovered and cultivated Ji to ease the tribe’s food shortage.
• Jiang Shinian found rice, wheat, beans, and sorghum, completing the Five Grains, and promoted their cultivation across the Human Race.
• After a century of spreading the Five Grains, Jiang Shinian helped the Human Race shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture.
• Fuxi named Jiang Shinian his successor and trained him in Chendu for a hundred years.

At Fuxi’s Fengshan Ceremony on Mount Tai, he became the Human Sovereign and Xuandu attained the Quasi-Saint realm. The Three Ancestors of Humanity then abdicated to guard the Martial Dao Sacred Hall, awakening the Humanity Path and forcing the Heavenly Dao to withdraw.

• The Six Saints gathered at Mount Tai as Tongtian proclaimed Fuxi’s completed merits and invested him as Heavenly Emperor Fuxi.
• Merit raised Fuxi’s cultivation to the Sub-Saint stage, and Fuxi declared that he belonged to the Human Race in both past and future lives.
• Xuandu used the merit he received to sever his Good Corpse and reach the peak of Early Quasi-Saint, while Guiling also gained merit and advanced to Perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Suiren Shi, Ziyi Shi, and Youchao Shi swore to abdicate and guard the Human Race’s Destiny from the Martial Dao Sacred Hall.
• The Kongtong Seal awakened the Humanity Path, which clashed with the Heavenly Dao until the Heavenly Dao withdrew; the Saints then questioned what would happen to Huoyun Cave.

After Fuxi abdicated to Jiang Shinian and went to guard the Martial Dao Sacred Hall, Jiang Shinian became Co-Lord and began investigating epidemics among the Human Race. Guided by Duobao, he researched medicinal herbs, repeatedly dying from poison and being revived with Three Lights Divine Water, until Duobao sought help from Plague Immortal Lu Yue.

• Taiqing Laozi searched for Huoyun Cave and found that it had vanished, while Fuxi abdicated and named Jiang Shinian the new Co-Lord of the Human Race.
• Fuxi returned Hetu Luoshu to Cangyuan, gave Jiang Shinian final instructions, and left with Huaxu for the Martial Dao Sacred Hall.
• After an epidemic spread through several tribes, Jiang Shinian ordered the sick, injured, and healthy separated, then visited the affected tribes to investigate the causes.
• Duobao advised Jiang Shinian to pursue the Medicine Dao and discover the effects of herbs for himself.
• Jiang Shinian repeatedly tested herbs, died from poison, and was revived by Duobao with Three Lights Divine Water as he compiled the Medicine Scripture.
• Duobao returned to the East Sea's Jie Sect and sought help from Plague Immortal Lu Yue.

Duobao gave Jiang Shinian a cauldron to help him test herbs, allowing him to complete the Medicine Scripture and Herbal Classic and earn the title Shennong. Jiang Shinian later married Tingyao and had two daughters, and six-year-old Nuwa secretly rode her Little Donkey toward the East Sea.

• Duobao got Lü Yue to clean his Green Small Cauldron, which could identify poisonous herbs, and brought it to Jiang Shinian.
• Jiang Shinian used the cauldron to test herbs and compiled the Medicine Scripture and Herbal Classic over a hundred years, reducing deaths among the Human Race by ninety-eight percent.
• The Human Race honored Jiang Shinian with the title Shennong, and his Green Small Cauldron became known as the Shennong Cauldron.
• At three thousand years old, Jiang Shinian married Tingyao, who helped govern the Human Race, invented hemp clothing, and bore him Yaoji and Nuwa.
• When Nuwa was six, she sneaked away on her Little Donkey to visit the East Sea.

Nuwa went to the East Sea with Little Donkey, where a Black Dragon Crown Prince attacked her after learning she was human. Little Donkey revealed himself as Taotie and rescued her, then called out Zhu Rong over the Dragon Clan’s assault.

• Nuwa rode Little Donkey to the East Sea and played on the beach, while Little Donkey watched for the Dragon Clan.
• The Black Dragon Crown Prince heard Nuwa laughing and ordered his Sea Patrol Yaksha to investigate; after learning she was human, he ordered the waves to sweep her into the sea.
• Nuwa tried to flee the Water Tornado, but Little Donkey revealed himself as Taotie, shattered it, and seized the Black Dragon and his soldiers with a hand of Void.
• Taotie protected Nuwa on his back and told her he was Taotie, though she kept calling him Little Donkey.
• Taotie called out Zhu Rong and condemned the Dragon Clan for attacking the Daughter of the Human Co-Lord, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the Prehistoric World.

The Human Race mobilized its forces against the East Sea after Ao Bai’s son attacked Nuwa, while Taotie killed the Black Dragon and Nuwa’s parents reunited with her. As Fuxi called Zhu Rong to account, the Dragon Clan’s weakened elder conceded defeat to a young man in an Azure Dao Robe.

• Fuxi and the Three Ancestors ordered the Human Race to gather its experts and march on the East Sea.
• Ao Bai confronted Taotie and demanded that he release the Black Dragon, but Taotie crushed and devoured the dragon and his soldiers.
• Jiang Shinian and Tingyao arrived with the Human army, and Tingyao scolded Nuwa for running off alone.
• Fuxi challenged Zhu Rong to stop hiding in the Dragon Tomb and face the Human Race.
• Zhu Rong told the young man in an Azure Dao Robe that he had won.

The Dragon Clan’s attack on Jiang Shinian’s six-year-old daughter drew the Human Race and powerful allies to the shores of the East Sea, alarming the Dragon King Ao Bai. The Dragon Clan stripped Ao Bai of his position and offered vast treasures and resources to seek forgiveness.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven called the Dragon Clan stagnant and instructed Guangchengzi to watch over the Human Sovereign’s reign.
• Tongtian prepared to attack the Dragon Palace, but Holy Mother Wudang persuaded him to leave the matter to Taotie and Jiang Shinian’s allies.
• Laozi sent Xuandu, Nuwa sent Golden Phoenix, and Jieyin and Zhunti sent Medicine Master and Maitreya to support the Human Race.
• Zhenyuanzi and Styx joined the gathering forces at the East Sea, where one hundred thousand Human Golden Immortals and numerous powerful allies confronted the Dragon Clan.
• Ao Bai realized the scale of the crisis and called for Old Ancestor Zhu Rong’s help.
• The Dragon Clan declared Ao Xiang’s death deserved, removed Ao Bai as Dragon King of the East Sea, appointed Ao Guang in his place, and offered the Human Race immense compensation.

Zhu Rong settled the East Sea conflict by condemning Ao Xiang, stripping Ao Bai of the Dragon King title, and securing the Dragon Clan’s submission and compensation to the Human Race. Ao Guang became the new Dragon King, while Fuxi began to suspect that Jiang Shinian was Hongyun reincarnated; back in the Dragon Tomb, Zhu Rong presented Cangyuan with the wagered Essence Blood.

• After losing his chess game with Cangyuan, Zhu Rong went to the East Sea shore and severely reprimanded Ao Bai.
• Zhu Rong declared Ao Xiang’s death deserved, removed Ao Bai as Dragon King, named Ao Guang his successor, and offered the Human Race compensation.
• Fuxi accepted Zhu Rong’s apology, and the allied army withdrew; Ao Bai was sent to suppress the East Sea Eye while Ao Guang took the throne.
• Ao Guang promised to guide the Dragon Clan’s revival and issued an order forbidding dragon descendants from bullying Human Race children on the beach.
• As the allies departed, Styx’s remark about Zhenyuanzi’s attentiveness led Fuxi to wonder whether Jiang Shinian was Hongyun reincarnated.
• Back in the Dragon Tomb, Zhu Rong gave Cangyuan the three drops of his elder brother’s Essence Blood that he had wagered.