Chapter Summaries

At Deer Terrace, Bi Gan saw the drunken immortals’ demonic features and realized Daji and the others were demons. He slipped away to seek Huang Feihu, while Daji tried to send the exposed demons away before the deception was uncovered.

• The drunken little demons lost control of their disguises, revealing tails and other demonic features to Bi Gan.
• Bi Gan recognized Daji as a fox demon and feared the demons might harm Di Xin, so he hid his discovery.
• Bi Gan asked Di Xin to leave Deer Terrace, then hurried off to find Huang Feihu and mobilize troops.
• Daji noticed Bi Gan’s steady departure and realized he had likely seen through the demons’ disguises.
• Daji urged Di Xin to let the immortals return to the Immortal Court, and the little demons reluctantly prepared to leave.

Bi Gan and Huang Feihu tracked the demons who had impersonated immortals to Xuanyuan Tomb and burned them inside. After a surviving fox told Daji what had happened, she vowed to use Di Xin to kill Bi Gan and Huang Feihu.

• Bi Gan and Huang Feihu arrived at Deer Terrace with the Imperial Guards, but Daji concealed the demons’ identities and convinced Di Xin to dismiss them.
• After leaving Deer Terrace, the disguised demons headed for Morning Song’s southern gate, where the guards spotted them.
• Bi Gan stopped Huang Feihu from attacking the demons immediately and persuaded him to follow them to their lair.
• Bi Gan and Huang Feihu tracked the demons to Xuanyuan Tomb, then ordered the guards to smoke out and burn its inhabitants.
• A small white fox escaped and told Daji that the demons in Xuanyuan Tomb had been killed.
• Daji raged over the deaths and planned to use Di Xin to eliminate Bi Gan and Huang Feihu.

Daji feigned a fatal heart illness to gain Di Xin’s sympathy and advance a scheme against Bi Gan and Huang Feihu. As Di Xin wept beside her, Daji felt a reluctant trace of genuine affection for him.

• Daji pretended to fall gravely ill, and Di Xin rushed to her bedside in alarm.
• Daji claimed her heart ailment was incurable and fainted in Di Xin’s arms.
• Di Xin questioned the imperial physicians and killed the lead physician when he could not cure Daji.
• The Pipa Spirit and Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit told Di Xin that Daji had endured a lifelong illness for his sake.
• Di Xin wept while holding Daji, who secretly felt resentment toward Bi Gan and Huang Feihu alongside guilt and affection for him.
• Daji’s scheme was revealed: she and the two spirits had planned the illness performance after learning Xuanyuan Tomb had been destroyed.

Daji and the Pipa Spirit manipulated Di Xin into believing that Bi Gan’s heart could cure her, and Di Xin ordered Bi Gan summoned despite his lingering gratitude toward his uncle. Wang Hu intercepted the palace attendant and went to summon Bi Gan himself, while Bi Gan, Huang Feihu, and Shang Rong discussed how to oppose Daji without provoking civil war; the chapter ended as hurried footsteps interrupted their meeting.

• Xuanxiao watched Di Xin and Daji’s romance and reflected that their affection could not save them from the Great Tribulation.
• The Pipa Spirit told Di Xin that Bi Gan’s Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart could cure Daji, and Daji’s feigned suffering overcame Di Xin’s hesitation.
• Di Xin ordered an attendant to summon Bi Gan, but Wang Hu intercepted the attendant and went to Bi Gan’s residence himself.
• Bi Gan, Huang Feihu, and Shang Rong discussed Daji’s demonic identity and feared that moving against her rashly could trigger civil war.
• Bi Gan resolved to eliminate Daji and the other demons, but hurried footsteps interrupted the ministers’ discussion.

Wang Hu warned Bi Gan that Di Xin intended to take his Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart for Daji, but Bi Gan entered the palace hoping to persuade his nephew. After Di Xin demanded the heart and ordered him to act, Bi Gan stabbed himself in the chest.

• Wang Hu told Bi Gan, Huang Feihu, and Shang Rong that Di Xin planned to take Bi Gan's heart to treat Daji, and urged Bi Gan to flee.
• Bi Gan refused to escape and went alone to the palace, asking Huang Feihu and Shang Rong to wait for Grand Tutor Wen and protect Great Shang.
• Daji feigned illness while secretly seeking revenge for Bi Gan's burning of Xuanyuan Tomb, and Di Xin demanded Bi Gan's Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart.
• Di Xin had a dagger brought and pressed Bi Gan to cut out his heart, while Bi Gan bowed to the ancestral temple and then stabbed himself in the chest.

Bi Gan tore out his Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart to save Daji, then rode west in search of a way to survive. Daji intercepted him in the western market and tricked him into despair, leaving him dead and her plotting to kill Huang Feihu next.

• Bi Gan removed his Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart and gave it to Di Xin, then left the palace with his life fading.
• Bi Gan sensed hope to the west and rode his dragon-horse toward the western market.
• The Pipa Spirit reported Bi Gan’s escape to Daji, who set out west to kill him herself.
• Daji disguised herself as an elderly vegetable seller and told Bi Gan that people could not live without hearts.
• Bi Gan collapsed and died in the western market, and Daji vowed to kill Huang Feihu next.

Wu Ji met Jiang Ziya while passing Pan Creek, dismissed the old fisherman's claims, and ignored his warning not to enter the city. Jiang Ziya recognized Wu Ji as a potential disciple and future vanguard commander, but Wu Ji left believing he was being cursed.

• Wu Ji questioned Jiang Ziya about fishing for a month with a straight, baitless hook, and Jiang Ziya said he was fishing for kings and lords.
• Wu Ji laughed at Jiang Ziya's claim and left to continue chopping wood.
• A golden carp bit Jiang Ziya's straight hook, and he took it as an omen that his opportunity was near.
• Jiang Ziya examined Wu Ji and recognized his unusual potential and a bond between them as master and disciple.
• Jiang Ziya warned Wu Ji that entering the city that day would bring a bloody calamity, but Wu Ji angrily ignored him and left.
• Jiang Ziya released the carp and resumed fishing.

Wu Ji ignored Jiang Ziya’s warning and entered Western Qi City to sell firewood, where a crowd accident caused his carrying pole to kill a man. Soldiers arrested him and took him away, leaving him terrified that his elderly mother would be left without anyone to care for her.

• Wu Ji dismissed Jiang Ziya’s warning of a bloody calamity and carried his firewood into Western Qi City to sell it.
• Wu Ji followed the crowd to see Ji Chang, but the crush of people made him stumble and lose control of his carrying pole.
• Wu Ji discovered that his bloodstained carrying pole had struck and killed a man.
• The patrol officer ordered the soldiers to arrest Wu Ji and take him to the authorities for questioning.
• Wu Ji protested that the death was accidental, but the soldiers dragged him away as he worried about his frail mother.

After Ji Chang allowed Wu Ji three days to settle his affairs before returning to face punishment for accidentally killing a man, Wu Ji went home and told his mother what had happened. She urged him to seek help from Jiang Ziya, and Wu Ji traveled to Pan Creek, where he waited for the old immortal and fell asleep beside his fishing stone.

• Ji Chang heard Wu Ji’s account of the accidental killing and allowed him to return home for three days before coming back to receive his sentence.
• Wu Ji returned to his cottage and confessed the incident to his worried mother.
• Wu Ji’s mother reminded him that Jiang Ziya had predicted his calamity and urged him to beg the old immortal for help.
• Wu Ji hurried to Pan Creek at night, found Jiang Ziya absent, and fell asleep beside the bluestone while waiting for him.

Wu Ji begged Jiang Ziya to save him from his fated Death Tribulation, and Jiang Ziya accepted him as a disciple and taught him how to evade it. After Jiang Ziya used magic to erase Wu Ji from the underworld’s records, Xuanxiao punished him with divine lightning and blamed Yuanshi for his disciple’s misconduct.

• Wu Ji woke and repeatedly apologized to Jiang Ziya, pleading for help because his death would leave his aged mother without care.
• Jiang Ziya accepted Wu Ji as his disciple and whispered instructions for concealing his apparent death; Wu Ji hurried home and told Mother Jiang how to prepare.
• As the three-day deadline approached, Wu Ji hid in a pit while Mother Jiang placed Everlasting Lamps and scattered rice and tangled grass around him.
• At Pan Creek, Jiang Ziya used Qimen Dunjia to erase Wu Ji's living soul from the underworld’s registers and conceal his fate.
• Xuanxiao condemned Jiang Ziya for interfering with the laws of fate and struck him with divine lightning, then resolved to confront Yuanshi over his disciple’s actions.

Primordial Heavenly Lord mistakenly blamed Jieyin and Zhunti after discovering Jiang Ziya had been punished for altering fate, while Xuanxiao healed Jiang Ziya and warned him not to interfere with fate again. Wu Ji learned that Ji Chang had closed his case, returned to Pan Creek, and began studying martial arts and military strategy under Jiang Ziya.

• Primordial Heavenly Lord found Jiang Ziya gravely injured, learned he had deceived the underworld, and wrongly suspected Jieyin and Zhunti of plotting against him.
• Xuanxiao healed Jiang Ziya and warned him never to alter fates or deceive the underworld again; Jiang Ziya vowed to obey and left Pan Creek to recover.
• Ji Chang divined that Wu Ji had died and closed the case, while Wu Ji stayed hidden at home until the authorities stopped searching for him.
• Wu Ji secretly entered Western Qi, confirmed the case was closed, and hurried to Pan Creek to thank Jiang Ziya.
• Jiang Ziya ordered Wu Ji to arrive before dawn each day for lessons in Martial Dao and military strategy, and Wu Ji began serving and studying under him.

Sanyi Sheng captured Wu Ji in Western Qi, and Ji Chang learned that Wu Ji’s master was Jiang Ziya, the man he had sought as the Flying Bear from his dream. Ji Chang visited Jiang Ziya at Pan Creek, where Jiang Ziya revealed that he had been fishing for a ruler; he then offered to descend the mountain if Ji Chang agreed to let him ride in a carriage.

• Wu Ji ran when Sanyi Sheng recognized him in Western Qi, but the guards captured him and brought him before Ji Chang.
• Ji Chang confirmed Wu Ji’s identity, learned that Jiang Ziya had hidden Wu Ji from divination, and recognized Jiang Ziya’s Daoist title, Flying Bear, as the omen from his dream.
• Ji Chang led his officials and a thousand guards to Pan Creek, where Jiang Ziya caught a carp on a straight hook suspended above the water.
• Jiang Ziya told Ji Chang that he had been fishing for people, and Ji Chang realized that Jiang Ziya had lured him there as a worthy ruler seeking talent.
• Jiang Ziya agreed to descend the mountain and assist Ji Chang if Ji Chang let him ride down in a carriage.

Ji Chang sought Jiang Ziya’s counsel on how to challenge Yin Shang, and Jiang Ziya laid out a strategy for strengthening Western Qi before agreeing to leave seclusion and assist him. The chapter left Ji Chang confused and anxious when Jiang Ziya refused the exclusive carriage he had promised to ride in.

• Ji Chang welcomed Jiang Ziya’s request to ride down the mountain in a carriage and invited him to advise Western Qi.
• Jiang Ziya described Yin Shang’s decline, the feudal lords’ discontent, and Western Qi’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Jiang Ziya advised Ji Chang to win the people’s hearts, secretly build strength, form alliances with feudal lords, and recruit capable officials.
• Ji Chang bowed and urged Jiang Ziya to leave the mountains and help save the people; Jiang Ziya agreed to assist Western Qi against King Zhou.
• Ji Chang offered Jiang Ziya his exclusive carriage, but Jiang Ziya refused it, leaving Ji Chang to wonder whether he had changed his mind or wanted another favor.

Ji Chang proved his sincerity by pulling Jiang Ziya's carriage for 873 steps, then appointed him prime minister with full military and civil authority over Western Qi. As Western Qi's destiny rose against the Shang Dynasty, Xuanxiao sensed a Great Thousand World approaching the Primordial Wilderness and went to investigate.

• Jiang Ziya asked Ji Chang to pull his carriage, and Ji Chang rejected his ministers' objections and agreed.
• Ji Chang pulled Jiang Ziya's carriage for 873 steps before exhaustion forced him to stop; Jiang Ziya praised his sincerity.
• Xuanxiao observed Western Qi's destiny rising to half that of the Shang Dynasty as the Shang continued to weaken.
• Ji Chang welcomed Jiang Ziya to Western Qi and appointed him prime minister with command of all civil and military affairs.
• Xuanxiao sensed a Great Thousand World approaching the Primordial Wilderness and left the Human Realm to investigate.

The Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian crossed Chaos to seek the Primordial Wilderness’s help against the possessed Heavenly Dao threatening their world. Xuanxiao, Hongjun, and Houtu received them, but the visitors learned their power alone could not secure aid and entered the Primordial Wilderness to discuss their world’s crisis.

• The Demon Lord told Dugu Baitian that their world had no choice but to seek help after discovering an unknown being possessed its Heavenly Dao and caused repeated calamities.
• Hongjun and Xuanxiao identified the visitors’ world as the Tomb of Gods World, while Xuanxiao suspected the two might be pawns connected to the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Xuanxiao, Hongjun, and Houtu appeared before the Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian, and Xuanxiao frightened them with a joke before welcoming them.
• Hongjun said the Primordial Wilderness would not help for nothing, and Houtu explained that the two visitors’ cultivation was too weak to serve as sufficient payment.
• Xuanxiao revealed that the possessed Heavenly Dao was only at the early Sage stage, and Hongjun invited the Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian inside to discuss their world’s affairs.

Xuanxiao gave Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord Great Dao Fruits, allowing Dugu Baitian to reach the peak of the Defying Heaven tier and strengthening the Demon Lord’s distant true body. He brought them to the Primordial Wilderness to show them its power, leaving them stunned by the Starry Sky Clan and the many formidable races and factions there.

• Houtu eagerly ate a Great Dao Fruit while Xuanxiao explained that such fruits ripened in the Primordial Realm.
• Xuanxiao gave Great Dao Fruits to Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord, and Dugu Baitian entered enlightenment as the Demon Lord’s distant true body recovered and grew stronger.
• The Demon Lord learned that the Primordial Hall stood in Xuanxiao’s cultivation ground, the Primordial Realm, and asked to see the Primordial Wilderness.
• Dugu Baitian broke through to the peak of the Defying Heaven tier, and he and the Demon Lord accepted that their world would become subordinate to the Primordial Wilderness if it intervened.
• Xuanxiao took Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord to the Primordial Starry Sky, where he described Gou Chen and the Starry Sky Clan’s strength.
• Xuanxiao revealed that several other races and religious traditions had Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortals, while humanity had three Primordial Unity-level combatants.

Xuanxiao gave the Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian powerful spirit treasures, then confronted Luo Hou about secretly turning Great Thousand Worlds into Devil Dao domains. After Luo Hou accepted that his scheme had been exposed, Xuanxiao explained why the Demon Lord had fled his world, and Luo Hou asked him to recount what had happened.

• Luo Hou asked Xuanxiao for welcome gifts for his new disciple, and Xuanxiao gave the Demon Lord the Stillness Dao Armor and Dugu Baitian the Ancient Desolation Cauldron.
• Luo Hou led Xuanxiao, the Demon Lord, and Dugu Baitian into his palace, then changed its appearance after Xuanxiao noticed it resembled Hongjun's Zixiao Palace.
• Xuanxiao told Luo Hou he could expand the Demon Race's influence but must not damage Great Thousand Worlds or rewrite their rules for the Devil Dao.
• Luo Hou dropped his act after Xuanxiao exposed his secret plan to turn several Great Thousand Worlds into Devil Dao domains.
• Xuanxiao told Luo Hou that the Demon Lord had fled after his world's Heavenly Dao was seized by a wounded being bent on destroying the world and slaughtering its people.
• Luo Hou asked the Demon Lord to explain what had happened in the Tomb of Gods World, and the Demon Lord began recounting the events.

Xuanxiao ordered Luo Hou and the Witch Clan to lead an expedition against the Evil Heavenly Dao in the Tomb of Gods World, with an avatar assigned to keep Luo Hou in check. As the armies gathered in Chaos, a bewildered young man climbed out of a grave in the Gods and Devils Cemetery.

• Luo Hou agreed to lead the Demon Race against the Evil Heavenly Dao, and Xuanxiao ordered the Witch Clan to join the expedition and warned Luo Hou not to claim the world for himself.
• Xuanxiao said his avatar would accompany the army, then ordered Luo Hou to gather the Demon Race for a departure in a thousand years.
• Houtu told the Ancestral Witches to assemble, and they fought to decide who would stay behind to guard the Underworld; Dijiang and Xuanming were eliminated.
• Zhu Jiuyin led the remaining Ancestral Witches and a Witch Clan army out of the Netherworld Underworld, while Luo Hou gathered the Demon Race and departed the Demon Realm.
• A thousand years later, the Witch Clan and Demon Race met in Chaos as planned.
• A bewildered young man climbed out of a grave in the Gods and Devils Cemetery and wondered where he was.

Chen Nan awoke after ten thousand years in the Gods and Devils Cemetery, where he discovered that legendary Eastern and Western gods and devils had been buried. He left the graveyard determined to learn what had happened and wondered whether a woman from his memories was still alive, unaware that Demonic Qi was spreading behind him.

• Chen Nan read the gravestones of legendary figures such as Zhan Wuji and realized he had crawled out of his own grave.
• His memories returned, revealing that he was Chen Nan and had died in a duel before somehow coming back to life.
• Chen Nan judged from the weathered gravestones that ten thousand years had passed, then refilled his grave and left the cemetery.
• A snow maple blossom awakened memories of a woman, and Chen Nan wondered whether she was still alive.
• Demonic Qi rose through the cemetery as Chen Nan dismissed the strange growls behind him and hurried toward inhabited land.

Chen Nan encountered a frail old man after returning to life ten thousand years later and struggled with a world whose language and writing he could no longer understand. As Chen Nan tried to cultivate in the hut, the old man headed toward Gods and Devils Cemetery with a lantern and snow maple blossoms.

• Chen Nan met a gentle old man who spoke an unfamiliar language and realized ten thousand years had erased the language of his era.
• The old man gave Chen Nan clean clothes and warm porridge, then settled him in a hut.
• Chen Nan found he could not read the old man's books and reflected on how his family, friends, and beloved had likely died during the ten thousand years.
• Unable to sleep, Chen Nan circulated his family's cultivation art and confirmed that true qi still flowed through his meridians.
• Chen Nan wondered why the frail old man lived alone in the wilderness, while the old man carried a lantern and snow maple blossoms toward Gods and Devils Cemetery.