Chapter Summaries

Fuxi reincarnated into Huaxu Clan after she fell unconscious in Thunder Marsh, and she slept for nearly a hundred years. She awoke pregnant with Fuxi, returned to Fenghua City, and was recognized by Tianfeng.

• Fuxi appeared in the void, bowed to the phantom of the Primordial Hall, and asked Six-Eared Macaque to oversee his reincarnation.
• Nuwa bid her brother farewell, and Fuxi merged with Huaxu Clan, successfully beginning his reincarnation as her child.
• After nearly a hundred years of sleep, Huaxu Clan awoke outside Thunder Marsh, discovered she was pregnant, and realized she could not abort the child.
• Huaxu Clan recognized Huaxu Mountain near Fenghua City and decided to return to her homeland.
• At Fenghua City's gate, Tianfeng recognized Huaxu Clan and excitedly asked where she had been for two hundred years.

Huaxu Clan returned home to see her dying mother, then settled on Huaxu Mountain and carried her extraordinary child for eighteen thousand years. Fuxi was finally born, and Six-Eared Macaque prepared to guide him in uniting and leading the Human Race.

• Tianfeng brought Huaxu Clan to Fenglan, who died shortly after reuniting with her daughter.
• Huaxu Clan buried Fenglan, moved to a secluded valley on Huaxu Mountain, and waited for her child to be born.
• For nearly ten thousand years, Huaxu Clan's strength waned while Qilin, dragons, and phoenixes protected her and brought auspicious signs.
• During the eighteen thousand years of waiting, Six-Eared Macaque observed the Human Race's problems, including close-kin marriages, food shortages, lost faith, and tribal conflicts.
• Rosy light and purple qi filled the valley as Huaxu Clan's child began to stir and was finally born.
• Six-Eared Macaque emerged from hiding to approach the stone house, while Xuanxiao and the Sages of the Primordial Wilderness turned their attention toward Huaxu Mountain.

Six-Eared Macaque arrived to take Huaxu Clan’s newborn son as his disciple, and revealed his ties to powerful Dao Venerables, Sages, and humanity’s Martial Ancestor. He named the child Fuxi, promised he could remain with his mother until adulthood, and left Huaxu Clan and her son in the care of Fenghua City.

• Six-Eared Macaque told Huaxu Clan he had come to accept her newborn son as his disciple.
• A Golden Immortal cultivator and five Profound Immortal cultivators from Fenghua City arrived, and Six-Eared Macaque revealed his prestigious lineage, including his connection to the Martial Ancestor.
• Huaxu Clan and the six cultivators kowtowed, then gladly entrusted the child to Six-Eared Macaque.
• Huaxu Clan asked Six-Eared Macaque to name the child, and he named him Fuxi and gave her a Foundation-Nourishing Pill that raised her cultivation to the Golden Immortal realm.
• Six-Eared Macaque reassured Huaxu Clan that Fuxi would stay with her until adulthood, then departed.
• Huaxu Clan returned to Fenghua City with Fuxi and the six cultivators.

On Fuxi’s eighteenth birthday, Six-Eared Macaque accepted him as a disciple and told him his destiny was to change the Human Race’s plight rather than simply pursue cultivation. Fuxi remained in Fenghua City to consider his mission, received the Dao Scripture, and began absorbing its inheritance.

• After eighteen years of rapid cultivation, Fuxi reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm and waited in Fenghua City for the master his mother had promised would come.
• Six-Eared Macaque arrived on Fuxi’s eighteenth birthday, and Fuxi respectfully became his disciple while learning he could remain with Huaxu Clan in Fenghua City.
• Six-Eared Macaque told Fuxi that his mission was to lead the Human Race to rise and change its dependence on worshiping so-called gods.
• Fuxi criticized the Human Race’s worship of the God of Thunder Marsh, and Six-Eared Macaque revealed that the god was Fuxi’s Grandmaster, Dao Venerable Xuanxiao.
• Six-Eared Macaque encouraged Fuxi to fulfill his destiny and gave him the Dao Scripture, whose knowledge overwhelmed Fuxi as he began to absorb it.

After ten thousand years observing human tribes with Six-Eared Macaque, Fuxi sought a way to ease the human race’s food shortages. Six-Eared Macaque led him to see how a spiderweb could inspire a fishing net, and Fuxi began searching for materials to make one.

• Fuxi told Six-Eared Macaque that primitive hunting and gathering left humans vulnerable to famine and starvation.
• Six-Eared Macaque brought Fuxi to a river, where Fuxi saw fish and shrimp but explained why humans could not catch them reliably.
• Six-Eared Macaque pointed out that humans lacked suitable tools and showed Fuxi a spiderweb trapping insects.
• Fuxi realized he could imitate the spiderweb to make a fishing net that might also aid hunting.
• Fuxi searched the woods for net-making materials, found the available vines unsuitable or scarce, and persisted in his search.

Over ten thousand years, Fuxi united the tribes around Thunder Marsh and reformed their worship, teaching them to rely on human effort rather than false gods. After secretly observing Fuxi’s leadership, Suirenshi returned convinced of his worth, while Fuxi’s growing influence spread the title of Co-Lord of the Human Race.

• Fuxi’s reputation for benevolent rule spread across the eastern Primordial Wilderness and reached the Human Race Holy Land, prompting the Three Ancestors to discuss preparations for his rise as Co-Lord.
• Suirenshi insisted on personally assessing Fuxi, then agreed to observe without interfering after Ziyishi and Youchaoshi warned him against defying the sages’ decrees.
• Fuxi began abolishing the worship of local gods and spirits, patiently explaining natural disasters and teaching practical ways to protect the tribes.
• The tribes dismantled false shrines and adopted unified rites honoring Dao Venerable Xuanxiao, Holy Mother Nuwa, the Martial Ancestor, the Three Ancestors, and the Twelve Zodiac Beasts, with Fuxi declaring that humans should bow but never kneel.
• Suirenshi witnessed the Fenggun Tribe’s renewed confidence and prosperity, lost his doubts about Fuxi, and returned to the Human Race Holy Land.
• Fuxi shared his inventions with submitting tribes, mediated their disputes, and drew more of them under the Fenggun Tribe as his title of Co-Lord spread.

Fuxi recognized that close-relative unions and the absence of marriage customs harmed the Human Race, so he introduced new rules for marriage and child-rearing. When the tribes resisted, Six-Eared Macaque advised him to lead by example, and Fuxi began seeking a partner.

• Fuxi told Six-Eared Macaque that close-relative unions were linked to congenital defects and infant deaths, while children commonly knew only their mothers.
• Fuxi explained how the Human Race's early hardships and maternal-line tribal structure had fostered these customs, and Six-Eared Macaque urged him to establish marriage rites and bloodline records.
• With Six-Eared Macaque's approval, Fuxi introduced rules requiring tribal approval for marriage, banning unions between close relatives within three generations, and making both parents responsible for their children.
• The Fenggun Tribe and other tribes resisted Fuxi's new rules, leaving him distressed.
• Six-Eared Macaque advised Fuxi to practice the marriage rites himself, and Fuxi began seeking a partner within the tribe.

After a century of searching, Fuxi found and became engaged to Lei Zu, then learned from Xuanxiao that their wedding was the Human Marriage and that Nuwa would witness it. Xuanxiao warned Fuxi about the Divine Alliance, tested him in a century-long game of Go, and departed after offering to help Six-Eared Macaque with one thing.

• After searching for over a hundred years, Fuxi met Sang Ling, whom her tribe called Lei Zu for discovering silkworm raising and silk weaving, and decided she was the partner he sought.
• Fuxi brought Lei Zu to meet Huaxu Clan, who warmly welcomed her, and then took her to meet Six-Eared Macaque.
• Fuxi and Lei Zu found Six-Eared Macaque standing respectfully beside Xuanxiao, whom he identified as the Dao Venerable and their Grandmaster.
• Xuanxiao told Fuxi that his marriage to Lei Zu was the Human Marriage and that Nuwa would serve as its witness, then warned him that the Divine Alliance was plotting against him.
• Xuanxiao played Go with Fuxi for nearly a hundred years, testing his strategies as they considered the Primordial Wilderness and humanity's future, and Fuxi ultimately lost.
• Xuanxiao praised Fuxi, offered to help Six-Eared Macaque with one thing, and vanished.

Fuxi announced his Human Marriage ceremony to draw the Divine Alliance out, then gathered the human leaders to prepare for the conflict. After learning the alliance had nearly ten Grand Luo Golden Immortals and over a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortals, the council panicked, and Fuxi turned to Six-Eared Macaque for help.

• Six-Eared Macaque warned Fuxi about the Divine Alliance and urged him to prepare for Human Marriage without delay.
• Fuxi returned to the Fenggun Tribe, told its leaders about the wedding and the threat, and decided to publicize the ceremony to lure the hidden enemies out.
• News of Fuxi's Human Marriage spread, prompting concealed members of the Divine Alliance to reveal themselves and gather against the Fenggun Tribe.
• Fuxi introduced Six-Eared Macaque at a council meeting, where Fengqizi recognized his old acquaintance as Fuxi's master.
• An intelligence leader reported that the Divine Alliance had nearly ten Grand Luo Golden Immortals and over a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortals, while Fuxi said the Human Race Holy Land would not intervene.
• Fuxi looked to Six-Eared Macaque, hoping his master could help him face the crisis.

Six-Eared Macaque promised to protect Fuxi and attacked the Divine Alliance before its planned assault on Fenggun City. After exposing Yan Hun’s crimes and rejecting his threats as a disciple of Tongtian, Six-Eared Macaque began fighting the Alliance’s Grand Luo Golden Immortals while Fuxi led the human forces against the rest.

• Six-Eared Macaque assured Fuxi that he would handle any Grand Luo Golden Immortals, while Fuxi and the human leaders prepared to face the Divine Alliance.
• The Divine Alliance assembled its forces and plotted to attack Fuxi on his wedding day, with human traitors demanding that humanity return to worshipping the gods.
• Six-Eared Macaque struck the Alliance’s grand hall with the Golden Cudgel, killing and injuring many fighters before Fuxi arrived with human experts.
• Yan Hun threatened Six-Eared Macaque by invoking his status as a disciple of Tongtian, but Six-Eared Macaque exposed his murderous deeds and refused to retreat.
• Six-Eared Macaque attacked the Alliance’s eight Grand Luo Golden Immortals, while Fuxi led the human forces into battle against the Alliance’s lower-ranked fighters.

Yuanshi and the other Sages watched the struggle over Fuxi’s rise as Co-Lord of the Human Race, while Tongtian discovered that Yan Hun and other Interception Sect disciples had abused their status. Tongtian resolved to purge the sect, but Yuanshi arrived at Penglai Island and reignited his anger.

• Yuanshi saw Yan Hun fighting Six-Eared Macaque and decided to visit Tongtian at Penglai Island.
• Zhunti and Jieyin took pleasure in the conflict within the Dao Venerable Lineage, while Laozi also set out for Penglai Island.
• Tongtian discovered that Yan Hun and other Interception Sect disciples had used the sect’s name to act recklessly and accrue karmic debt.
• Tongtian steadied his Dao heart and declared that the Interception Sect needed a thorough purge because he had been too lenient.
• Yuanshi called out to Tongtian from outside Biyou Palace, and Tongtian rose to confront him as the island’s storm intensified.

Yuanshi came to Biyou Palace to warn Tongtian about Yan Hun’s entanglement in the Human Race’s fate, but Tongtian mistook his concern for hostility until Laozi mediated. Tongtian resolved to purge his sect and deal with Yan Hun, then left for the battlefield, where Yan Hun pleaded with Six-Eared Macaque as a Dao voice rang out.

• Yuanshi confronted Tongtian over Yan Hun’s conflict with Six-Eared Macaque and warned that the affair could bring Karma upon the Interception Sect and the Chan Sect.
• Laozi arrived and explained that Yuanshi feared Tongtian would act rashly, while warning that the Human Race’s fate made Yan Hun’s matter especially dangerous.
• Tongtian accepted Yuanshi’s warning and ordered the Interception Sect to investigate and punish its unruly disciples, vowing to settle Yan Hun’s Karma himself.
• Laozi told Tongtian to visit Thunder Marsh after the matter was settled, and Tongtian agreed to apologize to Second Uncle.
• Tongtian left Biyou Palace as Yan Hun, the last of eight Grand Luo Golden Immortals on the battlefield, begged Six-Eared Macaque not to kill him; Six-Eared Macaque said his master would make Tongtian understand, and a Dao voice sounded from the void.

Tongtian arrived after Yan Hun called for help, killed his own disciple for attacking humanity, and gave Fuxi a formation diagram as compensation. With the Divine Alliance destroyed, Fuxi and Six-Eared Macaque returned to the Fenggun Tribe to prepare for the Human Marriage ceremony.

• Tongtian appeared on the battlefield and confronted Six-Eared Macaque while Yan Hun begged for mercy.
• Tongtian killed Yan Hun, explaining that the disciple deserved to die for his crimes against humanity.
• Tongtian suppressed Six-Eared Macaque briefly, then told Fuxi he was a fellow disciple of Gou Chen and offered humanity the Myriad Immortals Yellow Xuan Formation diagram.
• Fuxi initially refused the diagram, but Six-Eared Macaque urged him to accept it as protection for humanity.
• Tongtian departed for Thunder Marsh to apologize to Gou Chen, and Six-Eared Macaque led Fuxi and the others back to the Fenggun Tribe to prepare for the Human Marriage ceremony.

Tongtian visited Xuanxiao to apologize for the Interception Sect’s disciple Yan Hun disrupting humanity’s fate. Xuanxiao explained how circumstances and lenient leadership could corrupt disciples, and Tongtian left resolved to guide the sect with rules as well as compassion.

• Tongtian came to Thunder Marsh to apologize for Yan Hun’s actions, and Xuanxiao reassured him that the incident was minor.
• Xuanxiao told Tongtian that the Interception Sect needed proper discipline, prompting Tongtian to reflect on how its disciples had become lawless.
• Xuanxiao showed Tongtian visions of Yan Hun following different paths, demonstrating how circumstances and restraints shaped his character and fate.
• Xuanxiao used a wolf and a lamb to explain that saving one life could cost another, and that those granted a chance at life needed rules and guidance.
• Tongtian understood that his leniency had contributed to the sect’s troubles, thanked Xuanxiao, and left to put his advice into practice.

Tongtian’s purge and reforms strengthened the Interception Sect, while Fuxi and Lei Zu’s wedding drew the attention of the Primordial Wilderness after Nuwa announced it would establish the Human Marriage. Nuwa officiated their ceremony, and the marriage’s merit advanced their cultivation and strengthened the Human Race Destiny.

• Tongtian purged corrupt Interception Sect disciples and put Zhao Gongming in charge of enforcing rules among the outer sect, whose order and destiny gradually recovered.
• Nuwa’s role as officiant and the Human Marriage significance of Fuxi’s wedding drew Sage disciples, Human Race Holy Lands representatives, and other guests to the Fenggun Tribe.
• Nuwa presided over Fuxi and Lei Zu’s three bows and joined them with the Red Embroidered Ball’s marriage threads.
• Heaven and Earth bestowed merit after the Human Marriage was completed, advancing Fuxi to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm and Lei Zu to the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Merit also strengthened Nuwa and the Red Embroidered Ball, the Huaxu Clan and Six-Eared Macaque, and the Human Race Destiny.

Fuxi, having reached a cultivation bottleneck, sought Six-Eared Macaque’s help in finding the merit needed to advance, and learned that a divination method for mortals might be the key. Six-Eared Macaque took him toward Thunder Marsh to seek Xuanxiao, who recognized Fuxi’s purpose but stayed in Pingding Mountain with Zidian and Yunting.

• Xuanxiao watched from the void as Fuxi’s wedding secured the foundation for his rise as Co-Lord of the Human Race, then decided to make Mo Yuan and Huo Ling'er complete their Earthly Marriage.
• Mo Yuan sensed someone plotting against him in Sapota World, failed to identify them by divination, and continued fighting Brahma as the Primordial Wilderness absorbed the world.
• Fuxi became Co-Lord of the Human Race and reached the perfected Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, but could not break through without completing a final merit.
• Fuxi told Six-Eared Macaque that ordinary mortals needed a way to divine danger, and Six-Eared Macaque suggested using Fuxi’s promise from Xuanxiao to seek a solution.
• Six-Eared Macaque and Fuxi set out for Thunder Marsh while Xuanxiao remained in Pingding Mountain, where Zidian and Yunting shared their discoveries with him.

Fuxi sought Xuanxiao’s guidance on creating divination for the Human Race and learned he needed Di Jun’s River Diagram and Luo Script. Xuanxiao sent him to meet Di Jun in an exile realm, where Fuxi asked to borrow the treasure, but Di Jun had not yet answered.

• Six-Eared Macaque and Fuxi met Xuanxiao’s incarnation, who explained that the Human Race had to create its own divination method using its Destiny.
• Xuanxiao identified Di Jun’s River Diagram and Luo Script as the key treasure and offered to send Fuxi to Di Jun, while refusing to seize it by force.
• Xuanxiao transported Fuxi to a desolate void realm and allowed Six-Eared Macaque to search the Primordial Realm for treasures he was fated to find.
• Fuxi met Di Jun, who recognized him as a former fellow Daoist and wondered why he had reincarnated into the Human Race.
• Fuxi asked Di Jun to lend him the River Diagram and Luo Script so he could create divination and protect the Human Race.

Fuxi borrowed the River Chart and Luo Script from Di Jun and entered seclusion to create a path of deduction for humanity. As Fuxi’s merit neared completion, Laozi sent True Person Du'e to the Jiang Clan Tribe to await and guide the next Co-Lord of the Human Race.

• Di Jun lent Fuxi the River Chart and Luo Script, hoping to make amends for the Demon Race’s slaughter of humanity, and warned him to leave the Derivative World.
• Fuxi returned to the Fenggun Tribe and entered seclusion, while humanity’s tribes grew more united and prosperous despite looming dangers.
• Laozi foresaw that Fuxi would soon complete his merit and assigned True Person Du'e to guide the coming Earthly Emperor and establish Laozi’s position in humanity’s sacrificial hall.
• Du'e observed humanity’s hunger, disease, and other dangers, and concluded that the Earthly Emperor would need to solve its problems of survival.
• Following Heavenly Dao’s guidance, Du'e reached the Jiang Clan Tribe and settled there to await the next Co-Lord’s birth while protecting the people.

The Primordial Wilderness’s membrane began expanding as the Sapota World’s consciousness was destroyed and its source power faded. Luohu arrived and demanded Shiva’s submission, then fought Gou Chen and Mo Yuan while Gui Mi restrained the battlefield and guarded Sapota’s remaining gods.

• Fuxi continued cultivating in seclusion, while the Sages and Di Jun noticed the Primordial Wilderness’s membrane beginning to expand.
• Luohu appeared after suppressing Sapota’s world consciousness and offered Shiva a position serving under him.
• Gou Chen challenged Luohu’s interference, and Mo Yuan joined him in resisting Luohu’s overwhelming pressure.
• Luohu summoned the God-Slaying Spear and attacked Gou Chen and Mo Yuan, beginning a destructive battle.
• Gui Mi contained the spatial destruction and warned Shiva and his companions not to move.

As the Sapota World’s origin was plundered, Luohu overwhelmed Gou Chen and Mo Yuan, then killed Brahma after the world’s protection was lost. He left Vishnu and Shiva terrified, unaware that a hidden observer watched him from the Chaos shadows.

• Thirty cultivators, including Zhenwu and rising prodigies, devoured the Sapota World’s remaining origin power.
• Luohu defeated Gou Chen and Mo Yuan, bound them in black qi, and mocked their resistance.
• Luohu recognized Brahma as the builder of Mount Sumeru and refused his pleas to submit to the Demon Realm.
• Luohu pierced Brahma’s neck with the God-Slaying Spear and obliterated his body and soul.
• Vishnu and Shiva realized that death was permanent without the world’s consciousness, while an unseen pair of eyes watched Luohu.