Chapter Summaries

Cangjie created three thousand Primordial Characters and established the Literary Dao, then defended it against the Heavenly Dao’s forty-nine Purple Firmament Divine Thunders. As the Literary Dao nearly ran out of strength, the Will of the Great Dao descended, and Cangyuan prepared to bring out a treasure to protect Cangjie.

• Cangjie proclaimed that he would create three thousand Primordial Characters and establish the Literary Dao, drawing the attention of beings across the Prehistoric World.
• Kunpeng recognized Cangyuan as the one who had taken the Hetu Luoshu, concealed his resentment, and watched Cangjie begin creating characters.
• Cangjie completed three thousand characters, and the Heavenly Dao began testing the new Literary Dao with forty-nine Purple Firmament Divine Thunders.
• Cangjie used the characters to block all forty-nine thunder strikes, but the power of the characters and Literary Dao was nearly exhausted.
• The Will of the Great Dao descended, and Cangyuan realized Cangjie could not withstand its strike and prepared to bring out a treasure.

The Great Dao’s Chaos Divine Thunder threatened Cangjie as he established Literary Dao, so beings across the Prehistoric World rallied their treasures and formations to protect him. As the thunder struck, Hongjun reflected that a predetermined script could be broken.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven sent Guangchengzi to Mount Tai with the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner to help Cangjie, while Xuandu and Golden Phoenix also set out with treasures.
• The Saints and powerful beings across the Prehistoric World dispatched their disciples or brought treasures to aid Cangjie, and Jieyin persuaded Zhunti to send Medicine Master and Maitreya with the Eastern Green Lotus Precious Color Banner.
• Styx, Jiu Feng, Zhu Rong, Bai Ze, and the Human Race joined the effort, while Cangyuan gave Cangjie a merit-infused Turtle Shell that wrapped around him.
• As Chaos Divine Thunder descended, the gathered beings formed the Innate Five Directions Banners Array and assembled a vast defense of spiritual treasures and formations.
• Hongjun opened his eyes in Zixiao Palace and declared that a predetermined script existed to be broken.

After Cangjie survived the Great Dao’s Chaos Divine Thunder, he received Heavenly Dao and Great Dao Merit, attained perfected Hunyuan Golden Immortal cultivation, and brought his Literary Dao laws to 69% mastery. His identity as the reincarnated Black Tortoise of the North Sea was revealed, and he declared himself both the Black Tortoise and Cangjie of the Human Race.

• Cangjie and the others survived the Chaos Divine Thunder, though their Spiritual Treasures were damaged and they suffered severe injuries.
• The Heavenly Dao awarded merit to Cangjie, Cangyuan, the Kongtong Seal, and those who had helped with the tribulation; Cangjie attained the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm with 60% Literary Dao law mastery.
• The Seven Saints took measures to purify or offset the Great Dao Karma that descended upon them.
• The Great Dao rewarded Cangjie and his helpers, raising Cangjie to perfected Hunyuan Golden Immortal and 69% Literary Dao law mastery.
• The Dragon and Phoenix Clans used their merit to reduce their karmic burden, while Old Ancestor Styx praised Cangyuan for guiding them to merit.
• Zhu Rong recognized Cangjie as the reincarnated Black Tortoise of the North Sea, and Cangjie affirmed that he was also Cangjie of the Human Race.

Cangyuan honored Cangjie as the Human Race’s Fifth Ancestor, the Literary Ancestor, after Cangjie opened the Literary Dao. He then proposed that the Dragon Clan ally with the Human Race as its totem, offering the dragons a path to ease their Heavenly Dao Karma.

• Cangyuan used the Kongtong Seal to name Cangjie the Literary Ancestor and Fifth Ancestor of the Human Race, greatly increasing Human Race Destiny.
• Cangjie thanked the gathered cultivators who had helped him withstand the final Chaos Divine Thunder, and they departed Mount Tai Peak.
• Zhu Rong presented Cangyuan with one-fifth of his brother’s origin, and Cangyuan asked Zhu Rong to assess the Human Race’s strength.
• Cangyuan proposed an alliance in which the Dragon Clan would serve as a Human Race totem, helping with rain, harvests, seas, and water disasters in exchange for faith power to offset its karma.
• Zhu Rong gratefully accepted the proposal, and Cangyuan told him to discuss it with Xuanyuan.

Cangyuan returned to Chaos Three Immortal Island while Zhu Rong and Xuanyuan forged an alliance between the Dragon Clan and the Human Race. Meanwhile, Kong Xuan planned to visit the Human Race, and Cangyuan encountered a fleeing Golden Peng over the East Sea.

• Cangyuan returned to Chaos Three Immortal Island to use the Chart of Myriad Stars in his secluded cultivation.
• Zhu Rong and Xuanyuan proclaimed an alliance binding the Dragon Clan and Human Race under the witness of the Heavenly Dao and Humanity Path.
• Kong Xuan and Azure Luan Ancestor discussed the alliance, and Kong Xuan decided to visit the Human Race while learning that Great Peng had been allowed to leave.
• Cangyuan stopped the pursued Golden Peng by freezing the space around him.
• A Golden Dragon Great Luo Golden Immortal identified Cangyuan to Golden Peng as a Hunyuan Golden Immortal and several powerful leaders.

Cangyuan had Lu Ya beat Golden Peng for hunting dragons, then protected him and brought him to Biyou Palace at Tongtian’s request. Lu Ya learned Golden Peng might become Tongtian’s disciple and worried he would hold the beating against him.

• Ao Guai told Cangyuan that Golden Peng had hunted the Dragon Clan’s descendants, and Cangyuan asked about Golden Peng’s elder brother, Kong Xuan.
• Cangyuan summoned Lu Ya, who defeated Golden Peng and scorched his feathers with True Sun Fire.
• Kong Xuan exchanged greetings with Cangyuan, and Cangyuan ordered Lu Ya to stop beating Golden Peng.
• Cangyuan made Golden Peng compensate the Dragon Clan; Ao Guai accepted the settlement after learning the victims were pseudo-dragons and left.
• Cangyuan brought Golden Peng to Biyou Palace, warned him not to refine his Innate Yin Yang Qi into a Spiritual Treasure, and sent him inside to meet Tongtian.
• Lu Ya asked why Tongtian wanted Golden Peng, and Cangyuan suggested that Tongtian might accept him as a disciple; Lu Ya worried Golden Peng would resent him for the beating.

Cangyuan began transforming his Inner Space by using the Chart of Myriad Stars to create a starry sky. As Xuanyuan’s merit neared completion, Tongtian asked his disciples who would guide the next Human Sovereign, and Yunxiao recommended Zhao Gongming.

• Cangyuan returned to his Inner Space and used the Chart of Myriad Stars to manifest stars, including the Moon Star, Sun Star, Purple Star, and Big Dipper.
• Xuanyuan married Leizu, who invented silkworm raising and silk weaving, and after ten thousand peaceful years he began seeking his successor.
• Tongtian summoned the Jie Sect disciples and asked who would guide the next Human Sovereign after Xuanyuan.
• Holy Mother Jin Ling declined because she was close to attaining the Dao as a Quasi-Saint, and the other disciples discussed their cultivation and readiness.
• Yunxiao said her Dao practice needed further perfection and recommended that Tongtian entrust the task to Zhao Gongming.

Xuanyuan completed his reign and was invested as the Human Sovereign, while Shaohao was chosen as his successor under Zhao Gongming’s guidance. Chiyou accepted his identity as a Human and became War Lord, then sent his merit to the Witch Race before Houtu returned it.

• Zhao Gongming accepted Tongtian’s command to guide Shaohao, who was born amid auspicious signs and received instruction from Xuanyuan and Zhao Gongming.
• Tongtian invested Xuanyuan as Human Sovereign at Mount Tai, and Xuanyuan’s cultivation rose to the Sub-Saint realm.
• Xuanyuan’s merit empowered the Xuanyuan Sword, helped Guangchengzi become a Quasi-Saint, and advanced Lu Ya and the Nine Heavens Profound Lady.
• Tongtian recognized Chiyou as a Human of the Nine Li Tribe and invested him as War Lord after Chiyou acknowledged his Human identity.
• Chiyou sent his merit to the Netherworld Underworld to repay the Witch Race, and Houtu returned it while urging him to remain the Chiyou she remembered.

Chiyou received Heavenly Dao merit, reached the Late Quasi-Saint realm, and became the Human Race’s War Lord. After the Fengshan Ceremony, Sin Dragons brought tribulation energy and killing karma to those involved in the Battle of Zhuolu, while Xuanyuan prepared to reunite with Fuxi and Shennong.

• Chiyou absorbed the returned merit, advanced to Late Quasi-Saint, and gained recognition as the Human Race’s War Lord.
• The Saints discussed the rewards for assisting the Great Sages, and Nuwa wondered whether Cangyuan had arranged Chiyou’s role.
• Sin Dragons struck the Twelve Golden Immortals and entered the bodies of others who had fought at Zhuolu, inflicting varying amounts of tribulation energy and killing karma.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven learned that his disciples had slaughtered mortal armies and ordered them to enter seclusion at Kirin Cliff.
• Taiqing Laozi left as Tongtian questioned why his disciples had also been tainted, while Zhunti was relieved that the Western Teach had stayed out of the conflict.
• Fuxi and Shennong congratulated Xuanyuan, who promised to visit the Human Race Martial Dao Sacred Hall and welcomed Chiyou into the Human Race.

Xuanyuan passed the Co-Lord position to Emperor Shaohao, who took his nephew Zhuanxu to Xinzheng to raise him as a potential successor. Cangyuan discovered that Di Yu had been left out of the expected succession, chose to enlighten him and help him establish the Xia Dynasty, and then heard Xing Tian threaten Haotian’s Heavenly Court.

• Xuanyuan passed the Co-Lord position to Emperor Shaohao, who promised to lead the Human Race to new heights.
• Changyi and Changpu’s son Zhuanxu was born with Human Sovereign Purple Qi, and Emperor Shaohao took him to Xinzheng to teach him.
• Cangyuan completed the Star Sea in his Inner Space and began planning to refine Star Banners for the Great Array of Zhou Tian Stars.
• Cangyuan realized that Di Yu might be overlooked after Emperor Shun’s reign and chose the system mission to enlighten Di Yu and help establish the Xia Dynasty.
• Xing Tian roared that he would destroy Haotian’s Heavenly Court for interfering with Chiyou’s plans.

Cangyuan chose to wait at Changyang Mountain for Xing Tian’s head after Xing Tian challenged Haotian, while Houtu sent Xuanming and other Great Witches to bring Xing Tian back. Xing Tian broke into the Heavenly Court and fought Donghua, until a golden-robed figure appeared and told Donghua to stand down.

• The system offered Cangyuan two choices with the same reward of two drops of Pangu Essence Blood, and he chose to wait at Changyang Mountain for Xing Tian’s head.
• Houtu heard that Xing Tian had attacked the Heavenly Court and ordered the Great Witches to retrieve him, while Xuanming decided to lead the rescue herself.
• Xing Tian smashed through the East Heavenly Gate and entered the First Heaven, where a powerful force blasted him back out.
• Donghua confronted Xing Tian and warned him to retreat, but Xing Tian refused and demanded Haotian’s life.
• A golden-robed figure appeared amid auspicious light and told Donghua to stand down.

Haotian confronted Xing Tian over Chiyou’s defeat, but Xing Tian was beheaded and transformed into a Quasi-Saint-level fighter before killing Haotian. Xuanming rescued Xing Tian from Emperor Donghua, while Xing Tian’s severed head fell near Cangyuan at Changyang Mountain.

• Haotian used the Heavenly Emperor Sword to sever Xing Tian’s head after Xing Tian attacked him.
• Xing Tian survived, gained Quasi-Saint-level strength, and killed Haotian with his axe.
• Emperor Donghua tried to stop Xing Tian, but Xuanming arrived and took Xing Tian away.
• At Changyang Mountain, Cangyuan saw Xing Tian’s head fall from the sky and recognized it.

Cangyuan rescued Xing Tian’s severed head from Changyang Mountain, earning two drops of Pangu Essence Blood, and restored Xing Tian in the Netherworld. Houtu questioned whether Cangyuan had knowingly sent Chiyou into a lost struggle, before Haotian arrived in the Underworld and explained that Xing Tian had killed him deliberately by accident.

• Cangyuan caught Xing Tian’s Head before Changyang Mountain could swallow it, stored it in the Void Realm, and received two drops of Pangu Essence Blood from the system.
• Xuanming, Xing Tian, Jiu Feng, and Xiang Liu met Cangyuan at Changyang Mountain, and he returned with them to the Netherworld Underworld.
• Cangyuan reattached Xing Tian’s Head, restoring his origin as the Witch Race celebrated his recovery and increased combat strength.
• Houtu asked whether Cangyuan had known Chiyou would lose to Xuanyuan, and Cangyuan argued that Chiyou had still become the War Lord.
• Jiu Feng brought Haotian’s Primordial Spirit to Pingxin Hall, where Cangyuan asked whether Xing Tian had killed him on purpose or by accident, and Haotian said it was deliberately by accident.

Haotian asked Houtu to let him reincarnate as a human so he could better fit into the Heavenly Court, and Cangyuan agreed after choosing the Heavenly Law Fragment reward. After returning to Chaos Three Immortal Island, Cangyuan found Six-Eared Macaque near the Perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal realm and began comprehending the Heavenly Dao Law.

• Haotian told Houtu and Cangyuan that he had faked his death to leave the Heavenly Court and wanted to reincarnate as a human.
• Houtu made Haotian’s reincarnation depend on Cangyuan’s approval, and Cangyuan chose to let him proceed.
• Houtu sent Haotian’s Primordial Spirit through the Humanity Path of Reincarnation, and Cangyuan received three Heavenly Law Fragments.
• Cangyuan left the Netherworld Underworld and returned to Chaos Three Immortal Island, where he found Six-Eared Macaque cultivating at Perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal.
• Cangyuan asked the system to help him comprehend the Heavenly Dao Law.

Emperor Shaohao completed his reign and passed the position of Co-Lord to Zhuanxu, while Zhao Gongming used the resulting merit to attain the Quasi-Saint realm. As Zhuanxu struggled to curb cultivators’ crimes in Human Territory, he devised a plan with Holy Mother Wudang and began invoking the Kongtong Seal before Heaven and Earth.

• Emperor Shaohao completed his merit, reached the Late Quasi-Saint realm, and passed the position of Co-Lord to Zhuanxu.
• Zhao Gongming used Heavenly Dao Merit and the Innate Five Elements Spirit Pearls to attain the Quasi-Saint realm, then challenged Xing Tian to fight again.
• Zhuanxu publicly executed a Great Luo Golden Immortal who had slaughtered a Human Race tribe, but other cultivators continued committing crimes.
• Zhuanxu ordered unpermitted cultivators to leave Human Territory within a year and used troops to kill those who resisted.
• After pondering a solution, Zhuanxu asked Holy Mother Wudang to retrieve the Kongtong Seal, then held it aloft in the Human Race Central Capital and addressed the Humanity Path.

Human Sovereign Zhuanxu proclaimed that the Human Race would rely on its own strength and bar hostile outsiders from its territory. The Human Dao Will answered by enveloping the Human Territory in the Calamity of the Mortal World, a curse that made it a deadly forbidden land for Immortal Gods.

• Zhuanxu declared that the Human Race would sever its ties with outside Immortal Gods and called on the Human Dao to protect its people and cut off the blessings of those who coveted their destiny.
• The Human Dao Will fused with the Human Race's Destiny and formed the dark-red Calamity of the Mortal World over the Human Territory.
• Several Great Luo Golden Immortals tried to enter or break through the calamity, but it tainted their Dao hearts, assimilated their bodies, or drove them to flee as Human Race pursuers attacked.
• The calamity became a forbidden barrier that harmed no humans but threatened Immortal Gods with Inner Demons, ruined cultivation, or permanent assimilation.
• In Western Teach, Zhunti and Jieyin discussed the calamity's power and concluded that Saints were immune to it.

The Human Race’s Calamity of the Mortal World kept Immortal Gods from causing trouble in its territory as the Human Race prospered under Emperor Zhuanxu. As Zhuanxu’s merit neared completion, he brought the next Human Sovereign, Emperor Ku, to Cangyuan, who said another teacher would guide him.

• Jieyin and Zhunti recognized that the Human Race’s growing Destiny could make its calamity a threat even to Saints, and agreed not to provoke the Human Race.
• Taiqing Laozi, Primordial Lord of Heaven, Tongtian, and Nuwa considered the Human Race’s growing power and the consequences of its Calamity of the Mortal World.
• A thousand years after Severing Heaven and Earth, the Human Race developed agriculture, the Immortal Dao, and the Martial Dao under Emperor Zhuanxu’s rule, while outsiders needed permission to enter its territory.
• Emperor Zhuanxu told Cangyuan that his merit was nearly complete and introduced the next Human Sovereign, Ku, the son of Ji Ji.
• Ku knelt and asked Cangyuan to accept him as a disciple, but Cangyuan said another being would teach him.

Medicine Master became Emperor Ku’s master, healed the Human Race, and gained merit when Emperor Ku completed his reign and passed the throne to Emperor Yao. Emperor Yao continued benevolent rule, but widespread floods threatened his reign.

• Medicine Master entered the Human Territory, became Emperor Ku’s master, and treated the sick while traveling across the Human Race.
• Jiang Shinian discussed the Medicine Dao with Medicine Master for two and a half years.
• Emperor Zhuanxu completed his reign at Mount Tai, passed the throne to Emperor Ku, and his merit advanced him to the Great Perfection of the Quasi-Saint while Wudang became a Quasi-Saint.
• Emperor Ku ruled for fifteen hundred years, promoted benevolent governance and agriculture, and then received merit that advanced him to the Late Quasi-Saint as Medicine Master became a Quasi-Saint.
• Emperor Ku passed the throne to Emperor Yao, whose guide was Maitreya of the Western Teach.
• Emperor Yao continued benevolent policies and established the Yao Calendar, but floods across the Human Territory gave him a pressing problem.

Holy Mother Jin Ling attained Quasi-Sainthood, while Emperor Yao completed his reign and found Shun as the next Human Sovereign. Tongtian assigned Guiling to instruct Shun, and Cangyuan volunteered to accompany her as the floods continued to threaten the Human Race.

• Holy Mother Jin Ling attained Quasi-Sainthood, becoming the eighth person among the Four Sects to do so, and returned to Jin'ao Island.
• Emperor Yao completed his merit after another 1,500 years, returned to Mount Tai Peak, and reached the Mid Quasi-Saint Realm, while Maitreya failed to sever his corpse despite receiving part of Yao's merit.
• Emperor Yao found Shun, whose father Gusou had repeatedly tried to kill him, and brought him to the Human Capital City to teach him governance.
• Tongtian chose Holy Mother Guiling to instruct the Fifth Emperor after Bai Lianxin declined the task and Duobao backed Guiling.
• Cangyuan volunteered to accompany Guiling, intending to watch over Shun and the coming birth of Emperor Yu.

Cangyuan helped Holy Mother Guiling take Shun as her disciple, and Shun became Human Sovereign after Emperor Yao abdicated. When floods returned during Shun’s reign, Gun tried to control them by building dams, but the barriers eventually failed and Gun died in despair.

• Cangyuan and Holy Mother Guiling met Emperor Yao and Shun, and Guiling accepted Shun as her disciple.
• Emperor Yao abdicated to Shun, who ruled the Human Race through a long era of peace.
• Floods erupted across half of Human Territory, and Emperor Shun called for someone to control the rivers and Water Veins.
• Gun accepted the task and built dams to block the floods, winning praise as his plan initially saved many people.
• The dams broke within five hundred years, and Cangyuan, Holy Mother Guiling, and the Martial Dao Sacred Hall rescued survivors as floods threatened nine-tenths of Human Territory.
• Gun regretted building the dams, died in despair on Mount Yu, and left written flood-control records for someone to find.