Chapter Summaries

After Nuwa drove back Eastern Emperor Tai Yi’s incarnation, Shen Gui reunited with Yao Yue, Shang Yang, and Ci Tie’s forces. He told Ci Tie he planned to leave Heavenly Demon City to help Nuwa, and Ci Tie agreed that he and his more than one hundred thousand men would follow Shen Gui.

• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi retreated, and Nuwa praised Shen Gui’s unexpectedly powerful defense before leaving.
• Shen Gui caught up with Yao Yue, Shang Yang, and Ci Tie after learning Nuwa had met them earlier and watched his fight from nearby.
• Shen Gui told Yao Yue that he planned to become independent from Heavenly Demon City to carry out a task for Nuwa, and Yao Yue said she and Shang Yang would go with him.
• Shen Gui asked Ci Tie whether he would stay in Heavenly Demon City or leave with them.
• Ci Tie pledged that he and the more than one hundred thousand men under his command would follow Shen Gui.

Shen Gui persuaded Yao Yue, Shang Yang, and Ci Tie to accept Northern Kurukshetra Continent as their foundation by claiming descent from the sleeping Mystic Tortoise. Meanwhile, Fuxi confronted Nuwa over her attack on Di Jun’s forces and revealed that he had chosen to support Di Jun and Tai Yi, leaving Nuwa resentful.

• Shen Gui claimed that the sleeping power beneath Northern Kurukshetra Continent was a Mystic Tortoise and that he was its descendant, convincing Yao Yue, Shang Yang, and Ci Tie.
• Shang Yang suggested that Ci Tie take his men directly to Northern Kurukshetra Continent, and Ci Tie agreed to go ahead while Shen Gui and the others returned to Heavenly Demon City.
• Fuxi confronted Nuwa about sending people to Southern Jambudvipa and killing one of Di Jun’s Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• Fuxi told Nuwa he had chosen to support Di Jun and Tai Yi because he believed they were the best candidates to unify the Primordial Wilderness.
• Nuwa said nothing as Fuxi left, then vowed to remember Di Jun and Tai Yi.

Shen Gui told Nuwa he planned to establish a force in the Northern Kurukshetra Continent, and she promised to help him if needed. Back in Heavenly Demon City, he prepared to leave with Shang Yang and Yao Yue while considering whether he could recruit Li Han.

• Nuwa told Shen Gui that Fuxi intended to help Di Jun and Tai Yi unify the Primordial Wilderness, then asked about Shen Gui's plans.
• Shen Gui explained his origins and his intention to build a force in the Northern Kurukshetra Continent, and Nuwa offered him her support.
• Shen Gui returned to Heavenly Demon City and found Shang Yang ready to lead her former subordinates out.
• Shen Gui delayed leaving so he could try to recruit Li Han, who he thought was unlikely to follow Fuxi into serving Di Jun.

Shen Gui told Li Han that Great Sage Fuxi intended to submit Heavenly Demon City to the Demon Country and invited him to join a new force for those who opposed the move. Li Han refused to decide before the plan was confirmed, and Shen Gui left him the option of joining later in Northern Kurukshetra Continent.

• Shen Gui visited Li Han and asked whether he still wanted revenge against Di Jun, and Li Han said he would wait until he had repaid Great Sage Fuxi for saving his life.
• Shen Gui told Li Han that Great Sage Fuxi planned to submit Heavenly Demon City to the Demon Country and that Empress Nuwa had ordered him to establish a separate force.
• Li Han said he would leave Heavenly Demon City rather than serve under Di Jun if Great Sage Fuxi joined the Demon Country.
• Shen Gui urged Li Han to join the new force for protection and a greater chance of taking revenge, but Li Han said it was too early to decide.
• Shen Gui told Li Han he could find him in Northern Kurukshetra Continent if he later wished to join, then left.

After leaving Li Han, Shen Gui set out with Shang Yang and Yao Yue, while the chapter shifted to East King Gong’s expansion plans. East King Gong brought the West Queen Mother into the Immortal Court and established a foothold in the Eastern Divine Continent as Fuxi and Di Jun’s discussions neared their end.

• Shen Gui left Li Han and went to Shang Yang’s camp, where he ordered Shang Yang and Yao Yue to depart with him.
• The chapter described Daoist Fusang, who had been born from the Fusang Tree on Yingzhou Island and established the Immortal Court as East King Gong.
• East King Gong chose the Eastern Divine Continent as his next target but sought a way to avoid provoking the Three Pure Ones.
• East King Gong invited the West Queen Mother to join the Immortal Court, and she became its leader of female immortals alongside him.
• The West Queen Mother’s presence gave the Immortal Court a foothold in the Eastern Divine Continent, while Fuxi and Di Jun’s discussions were also nearing their end.

Fuxi completed negotiations with Di Jun and Tai Yi to merge Heavenly Demon City into the Demon Country, securing suitable positions for its people. After returning to the city, he summoned its cultivators and met first with its four Grand Unity Golden Immortals, whose support was crucial to the merger.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi came to trust Fuxi’s motives and offered him the position of Xi Huang, equal in status to Tai Yi.
• Fuxi and Di Jun and Tai Yi negotiated the terms for Heavenly Demon City’s incorporation, including the positions of its people, and reached an agreement.
• After Shen Gui and East King Gong left to pursue their own plans, Fuxi returned to Heavenly Demon City and called its cultivators to a council.
• Fuxi sought out Ling Yunzi, Feng Xinzi, and Daoist Lu Shu, along with Li Han, the city’s four Grand Unity Golden Immortals, to persuade them about the merger.

Fuxi told Heavenly Demon City’s four Daluo that he planned to enter the coming tribulation by helping Di Jun and the Demon Country unify the Primordial Wilderness, hoping to lessen the suffering of its living beings. Feng Xinzi, Ling Yunzi, and Daoist Lu Shu agreed to follow him, while Li Han refused because of his old grudge against Di Jun.

• Fuxi explained that the coming struggle among the Immortal Court, the Demon Country, and the Palace of the Demon Master threatened to bring widespread suffering.
• Fuxi said he had chosen to assist Di Jun, judging him more capable than East King Gong of unifying the Primordial Wilderness.
• Fuxi assured the others that he would not force anyone to join the Demon Country and that Di Jun would treat his followers well.
• Feng Xinzi pledged to follow Fuxi, and Ling Yunzi and Daoist Lu Shu agreed to follow as well.
• Li Han declined to join the Demon Country because Di Jun was his enemy, and Fuxi accepted his decision.

After leaving Heavenly Demon City, Li Han led a group of cultivators toward Northern Kurukshetra Continent. Lu Ren warned them that a terrifying ancient being slept beneath the continent, explaining why powerful cultivators avoided it.

• Most Golden Immortal and higher cultivators stayed with Fuxi when Heavenly Demon City merged into the Demon Country, while Li Han and others left.
• Yu Ji joined Li Han, and the cultivators who followed him asked where he planned to go.
• Li Han chose to travel to Northern Kurukshetra Continent and offered to protect anyone who accompanied him.
• Lu Ren warned that Northern Kurukshetra Continent was unsuitable for settlement because a vast, ancient being slept beneath it.
• Lu Ren explained that he had sensed the being’s immense aura after reaching the Taiyi realm and had fled to Central Continent.

After learning that the ancient Mystic Tortoise incarnation terrified even Great Sage Fuxi, most of Li Han’s companions refused to travel to the Northern Kurukshetra Continent with him. Meanwhile, Shen Gui and his allies began recruiting cultivators and building a city to establish their force there.

• Lu Ren said Great Sage Fuxi did not know the Mystic Tortoise’s limits and believed no one except the Dao Ancestor could match it before Saints emerged.
• Li Han chose to investigate the Northern Kurukshetra Continent despite the danger, and Yu Ji agreed to accompany him.
• Lu Ren explained that some cultivators who sensed the Mystic Tortoise became its fervent believers, though it might kill them if it awakened.
• Only six Grand Unity Golden Immortals and forty-six Golden Immortals agreed to follow Li Han; the rest left.
• Shen Gui focused on building a city and recruiting cultivators, as Shen Gui, Yao Yue, Shang Yang, and Ci Tie each took charge of one side.

Shen Gui and his companions established four cities across Northern Kurukshetra Continent and assigned each one a leader. With their recruitment underway, Shen Gui planned to persuade the Mystic Tortoise-worshipping organization to join them by claiming descent from the Mystic Tortoise.

• Shen Gui and his companions named their four cities Northern Profound City, Iron City, Rainfall City, and Sunset City, assigning Shen Gui, Ci Tie, Shang Yang, and Yao Yue to oversee them respectively.
• The group began recruiting people across Northern Kurukshetra Continent.
• Shen Gui identified an organization of Grand Unity Golden Immortals who worshipped the Mystic Tortoise as a threat to his plans and a chance to gain powerful allies.
• Shen Gui decided to approach the organization as the Mystic Tortoise's descendant and ask them to support his efforts to establish a power in Northern Kurukshetra Continent.

After Heavenly Demon City merged into the Demon Country, Di Jun honored Fuxi and the absent Nuwa with equal rank and welcomed the city’s cultivators. A report that East King Gong and West Queen Mother had moved into Eastern Divine Continent prompted Di Jun to plan a rapid settlement of Central Continent before expanding there.

• Di Jun hosted Fuxi and Heavenly Demon City's senior cultivators at a banquet and promised them equal treatment in the Demon Country.
• Di Jun named Fuxi Xi Huang and Nuwa Empress Nuwa, and Fuxi felt a surge of Destiny/Fortune settle upon him.
• After the banquet, Bai Ze reported that East King Gong had allied with West Queen Mother and deployed the Immortal Court's forces into Eastern Divine Continent.
• Di Jun said he would resolve matters in Central Continent quickly, then advance into Eastern Divine Continent before the Immortal Court could claim it.
• Fuxi promised to help the Demon Country absorb Heavenly Demon City's former forces as quickly as possible.

Su San and the Mystic Venerable Sect discovered that Shen Gui had built Northern Profound City atop their Sacred Mountain, where the Mystic Tortoise's head lay. Su San set out to persuade the city's lord to move it, unaware that Shen Gui was also looking for him.

• Su San had founded and led the Mystic Venerable Sect, whose members stayed in Northern Kurukshetra Continent to worship and guard the being they called the Mystic Venerable.
• Su San emerged from seclusion and discovered that Northern Profound City had been built atop the Sect's Sacred Mountain.
• The Sect's members debated how to remove the city without showing further disrespect to the being beneath the mountain.
• Su San agreed to meet the city's lord and reason with him about moving the city.
• Shen Gui was also looking for Su San.

Su San and over a hundred Mystic Venerable Sect experts came to Northern Profound City to demand that Shen Gui relocate it from their sacred mountain, where the Mystic Tortoise’s head lay. Shen Gui refused and revealed his overwhelming power, leaving Su San’s group stunned.

• Su San led more than a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortal experts from the Mystic Venerable Sect to Northern Profound City, and Shen Gui went out to meet them.
• Su San asked Shen Gui to move the city, explaining that it stood on the sacred mountain where the lord they protected lay.
• Shen Gui recognized the group as the Mystic Tortoise worshippers he had been searching for and refused to relocate his city.
• Su San threatened to make the group reason with Shen Gui together, and his followers began releasing their auras.
• Shen Gui crushed their combined pressure with his own and manifested an enormous Mystic Tortoise phantom above Northern Profound City.

Shen Gui’s conflict with Su San and the other cultivators ended when the Mystic Tortoise appeared and revealed that Shen Gui was its junior. The Mystic Tortoise spared the group and ordered them to serve Shen Gui, who led them into Northern Profound City to talk.

• Su San and the others recognized the enormous Mystic Tortoise phantom and knelt before it.
• The Mystic Tortoise questioned why its believers had come to cause trouble, and Su San explained that they had wanted to relocate Northern Profound City out of respect.
• The Mystic Tortoise revealed that it had instructed Shen Gui to build the city atop its head and condemned the believers for acting without understanding the situation.
• The Mystic Tortoise spared Su San and the others but ordered them to serve Shen Gui as punishment, and they accepted eagerly.
• Shen Gui stopped teasing Su San and led him and the others into Northern Profound City to talk.

Shen Gui led Su San and the Mystic Venerable Sect group through Northern Profound City, where they witnessed demons of different strengths working together according to their skills. At the City Lord's Mansion, Shen Gui brought the group's Grand Unity Golden Immortals into the main hall while the others waited in a side hall.

• Shen Gui guided Su San and his companions through the busy construction sites of Northern Profound City, astonishing them with how demons of different ranks cooperated.
• Su San stopped calling Shen Gui “Little Ancestor” and asked why a low-cultivation lizard demon could berate a stronger rhinoceros demon.
• Shen Gui explained that specialized ability could matter more than cultivation, citing a renowned builder whose talents earned him a place in the city’s construction work.
• Shen Gui led Su San’s group to the City Lord’s Mansion and asked him to choose representatives to enter the main hall.
• Su San’s Grand Unity Golden Immortal companions stepped forward, and Shen Gui took them into the main hall while the rest were escorted to a side hall.

Shen Gui met the five Grand Unity Golden Immortals of Su San's Mystic Venerable Sect and heard each introduce themselves. The introductions ended with You Mo revealing that she was already at the peak and might soon break through, leaving everyone else stunned and demoralized.

• Shen Gui surveyed Su San's four powerful companions and was startled to find that You Mo, a little girl in a blue-and-green dress, had reached the peak of Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Su San introduced himself as an Ink Flood Dragon, and Hot Fire introduced himself as a Flame Dragon before apologizing for previously offending Shen Gui.
• The White-faced Scholar introduced himself as a White Snake, and Yuan Feng identified himself as a Long-armed Ape-Monkey.
• You Mo introduced herself as an Innate Spiritual Root Tranquil Heart Orchid and said she might soon break through again.
• Su San and the others were shocked by You Mo's potential, and she asked them what was wrong.

Shen Gui asked the five followers what skills they could contribute so he could assign them roles. You Mo offered pill refining and healing, Yuan Feng was assigned to organize Northern Profound City's defenses, and the chapter left Su San and Daoist Rehuo still being questioned after the White-faced Scholar was sent to assist Yuan Feng.

• Shen Gui asked the five followers to name their specialties, and You Mo said she could refine pills and treat injuries.
• Yuan Feng said he only knew how to fight, so Shen Gui assigned him to organize Northern Profound City's defense.
• Su San, Daoist Rehuo, and the White-faced Scholar admitted they had no specialties besides cultivation.
• The White-faced Scholar suggested that his unusually long tail might count as a specialty, and Shen Gui sent him to assist Yuan Feng.
• Shen Gui turned to Su San and Daoist Rehuo to ask what they could do.

Shen Gui assigned duties to the Mystic Venerable Sect cultivators as Northern Profound City continued organizing its forces. Su San and Hot Fire were put in charge of managing the sect’s Taiyi cultivators, while Yuan Feng handled recruitment and guards and You Mo oversaw medicine supplies.

• Shen Gui asked Su San and Hot Fire about their special talents, then assigned Su San to manage the Mystic Venerable Sect’s Taiyi cultivators and keep them from causing trouble.
• Shen Gui told Hot Fire to assist Su San, and Hot Fire reluctantly agreed.
• Shen Gui instructed Yuan Feng to recruit willing people for Northern Profound City’s guards and seek helpers from Su San’s people if needed.
• Shen Gui tasked You Mo with directing the collection of spiritual roots and herbs for pill refining and treatment, and told Su San and Yuan Feng to support her.
• Shen Gui said he would arrange residences for them and led the group outside.

Di Jun shifted the Demon Country’s focus from the Central Continent to the Eastern Divine Continent to challenge East King Gong, unknowingly leaving the Wu Clan undisturbed. Meanwhile, Hu Niu grew furious after joining East King Gong’s Immortal Court as West Queen Mother and discovering he was attracting female immortals to his palace, so she returned to West Kunlun.

• Di Jun decided to pause the Central Continent campaign and move against the Immortal Court in the Eastern Divine Continent.
• Hu Niu recalled how East King Gong persuaded her to join the Immortal Court by promising she would manage the female immortals as West Queen Mother.
• Hu Niu noticed female immortals repeatedly visiting East King Gong’s palace at night and accused him of poaching her people.
• Hu Niu flew into a rage and returned to West Kunlun.

After Hu Niu left the Immortal Court, East King Gong refused to ask her to return until Di Jun threatened his claim to the Eastern Divine Continent and the Demon Country gained Fuxi as an ally. East King Gong then hurried back to West Kunlun, where Hu Niu was welcomed home by its residents.

• Hu Niu left the Immortal Court and returned to West Kunlun, while East King Gong insisted he would not beg her to come back.
• East King Gong learned that Di Jun was gathering troops at the Eastern Divine Continent's border and began preparing for war.
• East King Gong discovered that the Demon Country had merged with Fuxi and Nuwa's Heavenly Demon City, giving it Fuxi's strength as well as Di Jun and Tai Yi.
• Worried by the new balance of power, East King Gong returned to West Kunlun to seek Hu Niu.
• Hu Niu's followers in West Kunlun celebrated her return.