Chapter Summaries

The seven sages and eight Dragons of Extraterritorial Chaos joined forces to attack Taiyi and seize the Investiture of the Gods List, while Nüwa, Houtu, Yang Mei, and Rahula were blocked from helping him. The Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons formed a pagoda from the eight dragons, and its Chaos Spiritual Treasure pressure startled Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.

• The seven sages attacked Taiyi while the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons intercepted Nüwa, Houtu, Yang Mei, and Rahula.
• Nüwa and Houtu realized Hongjun had secretly approved the dragons’ presence as part of the plot against Taiyi.
• Taiyi overwhelmed the seven sages, forcing Eastern King Duke to demand that Zhunti Demon Buddha use his trump card.
• Zhunti Demon Buddha summoned the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons, whose eight dragons merged into the Eight Divisions Pagoda.
• Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao discussed the pagoda’s power and the Chaos Supreme Treasures wielded by Pangu.

Taiyi faced Zhunti Demon Buddha’s summoned Lord Sumeru, who attacked him with three rounds of Buddhist Dharma. Taiyi dispelled the first two attacks, but Lord Sumeru trapped him in Chaos Nirvana Buddha Light, leaving Taiyi to recognize its connection to the later Buddhist Sect’s techniques.

• Taiyi shattered the Eight Divisions Pagoda’s divine light with his spear, and Zhunti Demon Buddha summoned Lord Sumeru through the Mount Sumeru Seal.
• Lord Sumeru’s first Great Might Heavenly Dragon Buddhist light weakened Taiyi, but Taiyi cleared its effects with the Greater Restoration Art.
• Lord Sumeru’s second attack tried to erase Taiyi’s power as emptiness, but Taiyi declared the Buddhist Dharma false and dispelled it.
• Lord Sumeru unleashed Chaos Nirvana Buddha Light, which permeated Taiyi’s body and primordial spirit and seemed to immobilize him.
• Taiyi recognized that Jieyin and Zhunti’s later Nirvana techniques had been inherited from Lord Sumeru.

Taiyi overcame Archbishop Sumeru’s Chaos Nirvana Buddha Light and turned the battle against the invaders, while Nüwa, Houtu, Yang Mei, and Rahula used the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation to contain the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons. As Taiyi battered Archbishop Sumeru, his allies fled and Zhunti escaped toward the Western Continent.

• Archbishop Sumeru struck Taiyi with the Mount Sumeru Seal and Chaos Nirvana Buddha Light, but Taiyi emerged unharmed and shattered the attack with the Chaos Bell and his divine fist.
• The Eight Divisions Pagoda joined Archbishop Sumeru in attacking Taiyi, who ordered Nüwa, Houtu, Yang Mei, and Rahula to form the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and guard the gateway to the Primordial Wilderness.
• The four sages entered the formation’s swords and began fighting the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons while Taiyi attacked Archbishop Sumeru without restraint.
• Taiyi beat Archbishop Sumeru into helplessness as Duke of the East mocked Zhunti and Taishang Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun fled.
• Duke of the East also withdrew, and Jieyin urged Zhunti to escape to the sealed realm of Mount Sumeru, so Zhunti fled toward the Western Continent.

Taiyi defeated Mount Sumeru Holy Monk, then used Human Dao power and the Great Dao Investiture of the Gods List to capture the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons. He confronted Jieyin over Western Buddhism’s role in the conflict, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long fled as Taiyi crushed Mount Sumeru Holy Monk, and Jieyin resolved to bear the consequences to protect Western Buddhism.
• Taiyi finished off Mount Sumeru Holy Monk, took the Mount Sumeru Seal, and entered the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.
• Taiyi used Human Dao power to destroy the Eight Divisions Pagoda and sealed the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons inside the Great Dao Investiture of the Gods List.
• Taiyi confronted Jieyin about Western Buddhism’s wrongdoing, while Nüwa, Houtu, Yang Mei, and Rahula stood behind him.
• Jieyin asked what Taiyi required to spare Western Buddhism, and Taiyi accused the Buddhist Sect of shifting blame.

After Jieyin Sage Buddha rejected Taiyi’s implied demand, Taiyi announced a campaign against Western Buddhism and offered Heavenly Merit for killing its members. As a vast force gathered to attack the Western Continent, Jieyin Sage Buddha and Zhunti Demon Buddha prepared to face the coming battle and hoped for support from the Sumeru Holy Sect.

• Jieyin Sage Buddha left Taiyi after declaring that war was the only remaining option, and Demon Ancestor Rahu questioned why Taiyi had let him go.
• Taiyi said he would expose Western Buddhism’s crimes and ordered preparations for an attack on Spirit Mountain.
• Taiyi’s edict accused Western Buddhism of conspiring with dragons from the Extraterritorial Chaos and forcibly converting living beings, then promised Heavenly Merit to those who killed its members.
• Living beings and cultivators from across the Primordial World surged toward the Western Continent, including disciples of the Eastern Sage.
• Jieyin Sage Buddha and Zhunti Demon Buddha watched the forces gather beneath Mount Sumeru and prepared for battle while awaiting support from the Sumeru Holy Sect.

Taiyi led the Heavenly Court’s forces to besiege Mount Sumeru and demand the Buddhist Sect’s surrender. After Zhunti rejected the accusations, Taiyi ordered an assault, and the Western Two Sages prepared to fight back.

• Taiyi surrounded Mount Sumeru with one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, while the Four Sages of the Heavenly Court and Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters sealed it with two formations.
• Kua Fu called on the Buddhist Sect to surrender, but Zhunti Demon Buddha denied the charges and accused Taiyi of twisting the truth.
• Taiyi dismissed Zhunti’s protest and ordered the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and Nine Bend Yellow River Formation to attack the Western Paradise’s protective barrier.
• The Four Sages’ sword formation battered Mount Sumeru’s barrier, terrifying the Buddhist Sect’s inhabitants and leaving the mountain close to collapse.
• Jieyin Sage Buddha warned Taiyi that destroying the Western Sages would leave the Primordial Wilderness vulnerable to the Extraterritorial Sages, but Taiyi mocked him.
• Zhunti Demon Buddha and Jieyin Sage Buddha exchanged a determined glance and declared that they would fight.

Taiyi besieged Mount Sumeru with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and the Nine Bend Yellow River Formation, determined to destroy Western Buddhism while the extraterritorial threat was absent. After years of isolation drained the Western Sect’s territory and fortune, Zhunti and Jieyin emerged and threatened to detonate the Western Earth Veins, but Taiyi challenged their courage.

• Taiyi rejected Zhunti and Jieyin’s warning and ordered the two killing formations to attack Mount Sumeru at full strength.
• Taiyi prepared for a prolonged siege, while the formations devastated the land around Mount Sumeru and drove the Western Continent’s inhabitants to flee.
• Zhunti warned Jieyin that the siege would drain Western Buddhism’s fortune until the sect collapsed, but Jieyin said they had no way to stop it.
• Taiyi isolated Mount Sumeru from the surrounding world, causing its spiritual energy and the Western Sect’s resources to dwindle further.
• Zhunti and Jieyin emerged from Mount Sumeru and threatened to detonate the Western Earth Veins, but Taiyi mocked them as too fearful to follow through.

Taiyi confronted Zhunti and Jieyin on Mount Sumeru, and they summoned the Mount Sumeru Holy Monk to aid them. The Holy Monk’s full-force Buddha’s Palm vanished when Taiyi simply said “Freeze,” leaving his enemies stunned.

• Taiyi demanded that Zhunti and Jieyin choose war or peace, and his pressure forced them to summon the Mount Sumeru Holy Monk.
• The Mount Sumeru Holy Monk arrived and tried to overwhelm Taiyi and the Heavenly Court faction with Buddhist chants, but Taiyi’s great sun dispelled them.
• Taiyi rejected the Holy Monk’s offer to convert him, and the enraged monk attacked with Buddha’s Palm.
• Taiyi said “Freeze,” stopping the Buddha’s Palm and erasing it, which left the Mount Sumeru Holy Monk, Zhunti, and Jieyin horrified.

Taiyi and Mount Sumeru Holy Monk clashed until Hongjun intervened to enforce the Heavenly Dao’s ban on outsiders interfering across eras. Mount Sumeru Holy Monk abandoned his demand to govern alongside the Heavenly Court and left after paying compensation, while Taiyi declared the matter ended.

• Mount Sumeru Holy Monk failed to harm Taiyi and prepared to attack again, but Hongjun appeared and ordered him not to interfere in the current epoch.
• Hongjun and Mount Sumeru Holy Monk battled until both withdrew, and Mount Sumeru Holy Monk proposed that Buddhism share authority over the Primordial Wilderness.
• Taiyi rejected Mount Sumeru Holy Monk’s demand and demanded compensation to spare Western Buddhism from destruction.
• Hongjun backed Taiyi’s demand, and Mount Sumeru Holy Monk threw out a pile of precious materials before returning to the past.
• Taiyi collected the materials and declared that the matter had ended.

Taiyi and Hongjun met at the Purple Cloud Palace to discuss the threat posed by the Extraterritorial Sages. They agreed that the Taiyi Heavenly Court and the Mystic Dao Court would cooperate against the coming invasion.

• Taiyi accepted Hongjun's summons to the Purple Cloud Palace, while Nüwa warned Houtu that Western Buddhism and outside allies might threaten the Heavenly Court.
• Taiyi teased Hongjun about giving him the Purple Cloud Palace, then recognized that its origins seemed to predate the current Chaos Epoch.
• Hongjun warned that the Sumeru Sect Venerable and other Extraterritorial Sages could severely damage or overwhelm the Primordial World.
• Taiyi argued that crossing the spacetime barrier would weaken the invaders and that sages from different Chaos Epochs would struggle to unite.
• Hongjun proposed setting aside future disputes to resist the invasion, and Taiyi agreed that the Taiyi Heavenly Court and Mystic Dao Court would stand together.

Cangjie created writing for the Great Dao Human Race, drawing an immediate response from the Great Dao and causing the Human Race’s fortune to manifest as a colossal Auspicious Golden Dragon. Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long watched in shock from the True Dragon Great World.

• Taiyi and Hongjun agreed to keep their alliance against the Extraterritorial Sages secret, and Taiyi returned to the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Over three thousand years, the Great Dao Human Race developed rapidly, producing its three ancestors and figures who would become the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Cangjie declared that he would create human script to help spread the Human Dao and record events.
• The Great Dao answered Cangjie’s declaration with thunder and descended Merit as he created and categorized pictographic characters.
• The Great Dao Human Race’s fortune surged and formed a vast sacred Golden Dragon, astonishing Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long.

Cangjie completed the Human Race characters and earned immense Great Dao Merit, rising to the peak of the quasi-Sage realm as the Great Dao Human Race’s destiny surged. His Human Character Monument left room for future additions, while Eastern King Duke ordered the Immortal Clan to create its own written characters.

• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long feared the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon form of the Great Dao Human Race’s destiny might threaten the Dragon Clan, and they considered using Extraterritorial Sages to target the humans.
• Cangjie finished creating the Human Race characters, and Great Dao Merit raised his cultivation from Grand Luo Golden Immortal to the peak of the quasi-Sage realm.
• Cangjie raised the three-thousand-zhang Human Character Monument, engraving his characters on one-third of it and leaving the rest for future descendants to add to.
• Tianyi, Nüwa, and the other innate members of the Great Dao Human Race praised Taiyi as they witnessed the monument and their race’s growing power.
• Taishang Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun recognized that the Great Dao Human Race’s merit and destiny had become comparable to those of the ancient Innate Three Clans.
• Eastern King Duke, frustrated by the Purple Palace Immortal Court’s stagnation, ordered immortal experts to research Immortal Clan Written Characters and seek merit and destiny.

Cangjie created three thousand Great Dao Characters, and Taiyi recognized them as the embryonic forms of the Three Thousand Great Dao Source Characters. Taiyi supplied Chaos Origin Qi, allowing Cangjie to recreate the characters and transform the Humanity's Character Stele into an Innate Top-Grade Merit Spiritual Treasure, while the Human Race’s future path remained uncertain.

• Cangjie completed the three thousand Innate Great Dao Characters and entrusted the younger generations with creating the remaining Postnatal Primordial Characters.
• Taiyi recognized the characters as embryonic Great Dao Source Characters and realized they could eventually empower the Great Dao Human Race.
• Taiyi sent Chaos Origin Qi to Cangjie, who bowed to the Holy Father and accepted the gift.
• Cangjie spent a thousand years redrawing the three thousand characters with Chaos Origin Qi and infused the remaining energy into the Humanity's Character Stele.
• The Humanity's Character Stele became an Innate Top-Grade Merit Spiritual Treasure, carrying the promise of the Three Thousand Great Dao Source Laws.

As Cangjie created characters and the Human Race drew the Primordial Wilderness’s attention, Taiyi and Houtu established merit-based rules for reincarnation into the Human Race. The policy discouraged possession and redirected the desire to join the Human Race into widespread merit-seeking, while Taiyi continued to govern from the Thirty-Third Heaven.

• Cangjie created characters, and the sight of the Humanity's Character Stele made beings across the Primordial Wilderness eager to join the Human Race.
• Many beings sought reincarnation through the Human Path, while Taiyi and Houtu prepared measures to regulate the influx.
• Taiyi and Houtu decreed that the Underworld would judge each soul’s merit and deeds to determine whether it could be reborn into the Human Race and what innate talent it received.
• Taiyi’s rules prevented opportunists from retaining their memories and powers through possession and gave the Human Race a way to gain merit while easing resentment among the myriad races.
• Beings across the Primordial Continent began pursuing merit through good deeds, and Taiyi ruled the Primordial Wilderness from the Thirty-Third Heaven.

Hongjun recognized that Cangjie’s creation of writing had brought the Great Dao Human Race immense merit and destiny, threatening the immortal Dao’s influence. Taiyi honored Cangjie as the Ancestor of Writing, granted him a share of the Human Race’s destiny, and left him convinced the race could control its own fate.

• Hongjun realized that the Great Dao Human Race had become a powerful independent force and feared its destiny would diminish the immortal Dao’s influence.
• Taiyi decided that Cangjie’s creation of Great Dao Script deserved recognition and a place in the Human Race’s destiny.
• Taiyi summoned Cangjie and welcomed him onto a throne equal in rank to those of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Taiyi formally bestowed on Cangjie the title of Ancestor of Writing and granted him a share of the Great Dao Human Race’s destiny.
• Cangjie discovered that Taiyi’s projection vastly exceeded his own power and felt confident that Taiyi would protect the Human Race from outside control.

Taiyi urged Cangjie to see writing as more than a means of preserving Human Race knowledge, and Cangjie realized that the Great Dao Scripts could form an independent Way of Culture for all races. Cangjie established the Way of Culture and received Great Dao merit and recognition as the Human Race's Ancestor of Writing, leaving him sustained by Human Race fortune.

• Taiyi encouraged Cangjie to expand his vision of the Great Dao Scripts beyond the Human Race, and Cangjie reflected on writing's power to preserve knowledge and civilization.
• Cangjie resolved to establish the Way of Culture and spread it among the myriad races, and Taiyi sent him back to the Human Race Character Stele.
• Cangjie declared that he had created the three thousand Great Dao Scripts to record the universe and its principles, then established the Way of Culture and used the scripts to suppress its fortune.
• Great Dao Merit descended upon Cangjie and transformed his aura toward Primordial Unity.
• Tianyi proclaimed Cangjie the Human Race's Ancestor of Writing, and the Human Race's fortune granted him a share of its blessing.

Cangjie became the first Literary Dao saint, strengthening the Great Dao Human Race and its control over the fortune owed by the Three Pure Ones. The Three Pure Ones argued over repaying their karmic debt, while Laozi acknowledged that the Human Race’s future had become unfathomable.

• Cangjie attained the Literary Dao and became a saint, gaining the fortune of the Literary Dao and the Great Dao Human Race.
• Duke of the East regretted failing to claim the Literary Dao for the Purple Palace Immortal Court and raged at Cangjie's success.
• Taishang Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian Jiaozhu discussed the Three Pure Ones’ debt to the Human Race, with Tongtian insisting they repay it.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu challenged Laozi’s objections to the Human Race’s growing strength, and the discussion ended bitterly.
• Laozi rejected Yuanshi Tianzun’s suggestion to exclude Tongtian and reflected on the Human Race’s formidable future.

After scripts spread among the Primordial Wilderness’s races, Kunpeng gained Taiyi’s permission to revise Demon Script. Sage Cangjie emerged from seclusion, completed the Path of Culture, and ushered the Primordial Continent into an era of cultural qi.

• Cangjie’s creation of characters inspired the Purple Palace Immortal Court, Zhenyuanzi, and Goddess Houtu to create scripts for their respective groups, increasing their races’ destinies and merits.
• Kunpeng asked Taiyi for permission to revise Demon Script, and Taiyi approved his plan to bring a more complete script to the Demon Clan.
• After thousands of years in seclusion, Cangjie emerged having comprehended the laws of the Path of Culture and advanced toward the Primordial Unity realm.
• Cangjie declared that scholars could cultivate cultural qi and passed down the Great Righteous Qi Method, allowing the Human Race to cultivate the Path of Culture alongside the Martial Dao.
• Cangjie formally became the Sage of Culture, and billions of living beings revered him.

Cangjie completed the Dao of Characters, became a Sage, and created Humanity's Book, strengthening the Great Dao Human Race’s independence and influence. Taiyi, Nüwa, and Houtu celebrated his achievement and prepared to welcome him to the Heavenly Court.

• Cangjie declared his Dao complete and received a scroll formed from three thousand Great Dao Characters, which Taiyi recognized as Humanity's Book.
• The chapter explained that Cangjie's Book of the Dao of Characters embodied the Path of Humanity and could help the Human Race comprehend the Dao and govern itself.
• Heavenly Dao and Hongjun recognized that the Path of Humanity and the Earth Dao now had masters and that Heavenly Dao no longer stood supreme alone.
• Nüwa and Houtu were astonished by Cangjie's achievement, while Taiyi rejoiced that the Human Race had secured its place on the Primordial Continent.
• Houtu congratulated Taiyi and Nüwa, and Nüwa's merit and destiny surged enough to let her advance three minor realms.
• Taiyi invited Nüwa and Houtu to accompany him in welcoming Cangjie to the Heavenly Court.

Taishang Laozi regretted missing the chance to become Humanity Sect Leader when a Void Black Shadow appeared in his palace, passed through his formation, and withstood his strongest attack. The shadow claimed an outsider was changing the Primordial World’s fate and pointed out how far the Human Dao Sages had outpaced Laozi, but it left its purpose unresolved.

• Taishang Laozi lamented that Nüwa and Taiyi had taken the chance to make him Humanity Sect Leader, leaving him bound to Hongjun as Mystic Sect Leader.
• The Void Black Shadow passed through the Two Elements Dust Formation and appeared behind Laozi, who attacked it with the Taiji Diagram.
• The shadow let Laozi’s attack pass through its projection and said only a Limitless Grand Primordial Luo Golden Immortal could harm it.
• The Void Black Shadow claimed an uninvited guest was altering the Primordial World’s fate and said it had come to restore the proper course.
• Laozi challenged the shadow about Taiyi’s origins, and the shadow admitted it did not know them.
• The Void Black Shadow said Cangjie had reached Sage Realm Triple Heaven while Laozi remained at Sage Realm Fourth Heaven.