Chapter Summaries

Taiyi chose to cultivate in peace rather than intervene in Emperor Shun’s birth, gaining an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo that greatly increased his affinity with the Great Dao. He tested his new strength by breaking Zhunti’s Demon Subduing Pestle, leaving Zhunti injured and bereft of his treasure.

• Taiyi received the Innate Plague Law Source and considered using its plague power against the Sages.
• Guangchengzi became the newborn Qi Fangxun’s master, and Qi Fangxun later ruled as Emperor Yao before ascending to Fire Cloud Cave with the floods still unresolved.
• The system offered Taiyi rewards tied to Emperor Shun’s birth, and Taiyi chose the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.
• Taiyi fused with the physique and judged that his chance of fusing the Three Thousand Laws of the Dao had risen from below thirty percent to fifty percent.
• Taiyi snapped the Demon Subduing Pestle in two, and Zhunti spat blood after sensing the loss.

Taiyi tested his newly acquired Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo against the Chaos Bell, alarming the sages, while the Human Race struggled under floods of Weak Water. As Da Yu’s birth approached, Taiyi chose to remain in the palace and received the Supreme Bone.

• Sage Zhunti learned that Taiyi had destroyed the Demon Subduing Pestle and complained to Sage Jieyin.
• Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell three times to test his new body, frightening beings across the Primordial Continent and drawing the sages’ attention.
• Emperor Shun failed to control the Weak Water floods, abdicated to Da Yu, and went to Fire Cloud Cave.
• The system offered Taiyi rewards for three choices as Da Yu’s birth approached, including the Supreme Bone for remaining in the palace.
• Taiyi chose to remain in the palace and received the Supreme Bone.

Taiyi fused the system-rewarded Supreme Bone and learned the Great Dao Heavenly Lightning divine ability. Meanwhile, Si Wenming began his flood-control mission as the Human Race’s fifth emperor, surveying the Nine Provinces and clearing obstacles from his path.

• Taiyi examined the Supreme Bone, fused it into his body, and discovered that it granted him Great Dao Heavenly Lightning.
• Taiyi began refining the bone to gain complete control of the divine ability.
• Si Wenming was born as the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor and descendant of Zhuanxu, and he witnessed the floods devastate the Human Race while growing up.
• After inheriting authority from Emperor Shun, Da Yu chose dredging over blocking and led a team to survey the Nine Provinces.
• Da Yu used the Lei Si bestowed by Taishang Laojun to defeat local Mountain Gods and River Earls who obstructed his flood-control work.
• The Exposition Sect’s Saint ordered other powerful spirits and monsters to move aside, allowing Da Yu’s work to continue without compensation.

Taiyi chose to remain in seclusion and absorbed a drop of Chaos Demon Ape Blood Essence while Da Yu captured Wuzhiqi and completed his flood-control work. Da Yu’s achievements led to the Assembly at Tu Mountain and the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty, ending the Human Race’s tribal alliance system.

• Taiyi chose the system’s second option and received a drop of Chaos Demon Ape Blood Essence.
• Taiyi swallowed the essence and considered whether bloodline could provide a path to the Dao.
• With help from the Exposition Sect, Da Yu captured Wuzhiqi, sealed his powers, and imprisoned him beneath the Huai River Well.
• Da Yu controlled the floods, improved waterways and land routes, divided the land into Nine Provinces, and earned the Human Race’s respect.
• After more than nine hundred years, Da Yu proclaimed himself emperor and established his capital in Yang City.
• Da Yu convened the Assembly at Tu Mountain, laying the foundation for the Great Xia Dynasty and the end of the tribal alliance system.

Xia Yu established the Cauldrons of the Nine Provinces and tried to secure Xia rule through hereditary succession, but Xia Qi killed Yi and replaced abdication with inheritance. Centuries later, Shang Tang overthrew the tyrannical Xia Jie, founded the Shang Dynasty, and eventually died after a long reign.

• Xia Yu cast the Cauldrons of the Nine Provinces, infused them with dragon blood, and restricted their use to his descendants and the Xia emperor.
• Xia Yu staged an abdication to Yi, but Xia Qi later killed Yi, claimed the throne, and made the Human Race's rule hereditary.
• Xia Jie burdened the people and feudal states with harsh taxes and demands, prompting the feudal rulers to plot against the Xia Dynasty.
• Shang Tang, aided by Yi Yin and Zhong Hui, overthrew Xia Jie and established the Shang Dynasty in Bo City.
• Shang Tang issued the Tang Proclamation, governed the Xia survivors leniently, and ruled until he died at the age of one hundred.

After awakening from a long seclusion, Taiyi discovered that Cheng Tang had founded the Shang Dynasty and reviewed his formidable cultivation and treasures. When the System offered him a choice concerning Yaoji and Yang Tianyou, he chose to ignore their love, accepted the Innate Demonic Dao Source, and sent an incarnation to the mortal realm, where he planned to travel and make a few small moves.

• Taiyi woke from his seclusion and saw that Cheng Tang had conquered Xia and founded Shang.
• Taiyi reviewed his mastered laws, treasures, and increasingly powerful Chaos Divine Light.
• The System offered Taiyi choices after Yaoji fell in love with Yang Tianyou and faced punishment, and Taiyi chose to remain uninvolved and received the Innate Demonic Dao Source.
• Taiyi began refining the demonic source and sent a Star Incarnation to the mortal realm to travel and possibly kill offending heavenly generals.
• Haotian ordered the celestial inspectors to allow anyone emerging from the Sun Star to pass without exception.

Taiyi’s Star Incarnation wandered through the mortal world and arrived in Chuan Kingdom, where he went to see Yaoji and encountered An Xiuru and An Xinxin. After briefly glimpsing Taiyi, An Xiuru was left wondering about the handsome stranger who had disappeared around the corner.

• Taiyi’s Star Incarnation spent months exploring the bustling mortal world, and a tale spread that an Azure Bird Envoy from Heaven was roaming the capital of Yin Shang.
• Taiyi’s incarnation traveled to Chuan Kingdom and learned that Yaoji had secretly descended there to reunite with Yang Tianyou, with Zhunti’s help.
• Taiyi entered Guanzhou City, sealed away his divine powers, and drew attention with his striking appearance and bearing.
• An Xinxin spotted Taiyi passing by and urged her sister An Xiuru to look at him.
• An Xiuru caught a fleeting glimpse of Taiyi before he disappeared around a corner, and she felt disappointed when he did not return.

Taiyi found Yaoji living with Yang Tianyou and protected their family as their children were born. When the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals came to capture them, Taiyi chose to ignore the matter.

• Yaoji and Yang Tianyou married in the mortal world and awaited their first child while hoping to avoid discovery by Heavenly Emperor Haotian.
• Taiyi found the pregnant Yaoji, told her to keep his presence secret, and settled nearby.
• Taiyi concealed the birth of Yang Jiao and restored Yaoji's strength, then named the child at her request.
• Taiyi later named Yaoji and Yang Tianyou's second child Yang Jian, while they named their daughter Yang Chan.
• The system warned Taiyi that Heavenly Soldiers and Generals were coming to capture Yaoji and Yang Tianyou, and Taiyi chose to ignore the matter.

Taiyi swallowed and began refining the Innate Slaughter Law Source while Haotian ordered Yaoji and Yang Tianyou arrested. The Heavenly Soldiers overwhelmed Yaoji, and the Golden Armor Divine General ordered Yang Tianyou and their three children killed.

• Taiyi swallowed the Innate Slaughter Law Source and began refining and comprehending it.
• Haotian learned that Yaoji had married Yang Tianyou and borne three children, so he ordered Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to arrest them dead or alive.
• Yaoji and Yang Tianyou asked Taiyi to look after their children, and he agreed.
• The Golden Armor Divine General confronted Yaoji and confirmed that Haotian had issued the arrest order; Yaoji refused to surrender and fought his men.
• The Golden Armor Divine General defeated and restrained Yaoji, then ordered his soldiers to kill Yang Tianyou, Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan.

Taiyi rescued Yang Tianyou and his children from the Heavenly Court’s soldiers but left Yaoji in their custody, then ended his relationship with Yang Jian. After Yaoji was taken away, Yang Jiao and Yang Jian became disciples of Real Person Yuding, Yang Chan became a disciple of Old Mother of Mount Li, and Taiyi stopped watching over the family.

• Taiyi rescued Yang Tianyou and his three children, forced the Golden Armor Heavenly General to retreat, and allowed him to take Yaoji back to heaven.
• Yang Tianyou pleaded with Taiyi to save Yaoji, but Taiyi gave the family protective talismans and declared his bond with Yang Jian over.
• Yang Jian accepted that Taiyi had only favored him for his potential, while Yang Tianyou and his children resolved to grow stronger and rescue Yaoji.
• Yang Jiao and Yang Jian went to Golden Haze Cave on Jade Spring Mountain, where Real Person Yuding accepted them as disciples.
• Yang Chan followed Yang Tianyou’s guidance and became a disciple of Old Mother of Mount Li.
• Taiyi recalled his Star Incarnation, saw that Yang Jian’s family’s fate had changed little, and stopped paying attention to them.

Taiyi chose to cultivate in peace rather than interfere with Yang Jian’s journey to save his mother, and used the reward to master Curse Law. He fused the law into the Heaven Suppressing Coffin, transforming it into the Burial Earth, a treasure that could seal, bury, and refine powerful enemies, including Sages.

• Taiyi rejected the choices to help or stop Yang Jian and claimed the Innate Curse Source by choosing to cultivate in peace.
• Taiyi refined the Curse Law Source with Solar Truefire and learned a vast range of curse abilities.
• Taiyi fused his Curse Law power into the Heaven Suppressing Coffin to test how the two would interact.
• After a thousand years, the Heaven Suppressing Coffin transformed into the Burial Earth, whose graves could imprison targets ranging from Grand Yi Golden Immortals to Sages.
• Taiyi learned that the Burial Earth could suppress or refine prisoners and grow stronger by absorbing their remains, then renamed the evolved treasure.

Taiyi learned that Haotian’s complaint to Hongjun had triggered the appearance of the Investiture of the Gods List and the coming calamity. He chose to ignore the crisis and cultivate, absorbing a Primordial Bloodline Law Source as strange beasts manifested across the Sun Star.

• Haotian grew furious at the Heavenly Court immortals’ defiance and went to Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace to complain to Hongjun.
• The system told Taiyi that Hongjun had brought out the Investiture of the Gods List and offered him three choices.
• Taiyi sensed the calamity qi spreading through the Primordial World and considered how the coming war could damage the world and benefit Hongjun.
• Taiyi chose to ignore the matter and received a portion of Primordial Bloodline Law Source.
• Taiyi swallowed the bloodline source and refined it as visions of dragons, phoenixes, qilin, and other divine beasts filled the Sun Star.

Taiyi completed refining the Source of the Law of bloodlines and gained power over bloodline creatures, while the Six Sages gathered at the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace to sign the Investiture of the Gods List. Under Hongjun’s pressure, the Sages reluctantly listed only insignificant disciples, leaving their sects’ important figures untouched.

• Haotian and the Six Sages witnessed the ancient bloodline phenomena erupting from the Sun Star, but they chose not to interfere with Taiyi.
• After eight hundred years, Taiyi finished refining the Source of the Law of bloodlines and gained the ability to transform into bloodline creatures and influence their lives and deaths.
• The Six Sages traveled to the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace after Haotian persuaded Hongjun to summon them to sign the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Taiyi considered visiting Lady Pingxin in the Underworld and continued comprehending the laws while the Sages met.
• Hongjun demanded that the Three Sects sign the list, and the Sages reluctantly wrote down only insignificant disciples’ names.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun gave Yuanshi Tianzun the Investiture of the Gods List and God Beating Whip, setting the Saints to discuss the coming calamity. As war erupted across the human realm, Taiyi completed his mastery of the Dao of Bloodlines within the Sun Star.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun rebuked the Six Saints for filling the Investiture of the Gods List with unsuitable names, then ordered them to rely on their own abilities to add people to it.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun gave Yuanshi Tianzun the Investiture of the Gods List and God Beating Whip, and Yuanshi Tianzun sensed their power to appoint and restrain the gods.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu feared that his numerous Interception Sect disciples would be targeted, while Zhunti and Jieyin welcomed the prospect of the Western Sect rising during the calamity.
• The Six Saints left Purple Cloud Palace to discuss the Investiture of the Gods, but Goddess Nüwa declined to join them and departed in her Cloud River Fragrant Chariot.
• War resumed across the human realm as the Quanrong, Yi-Di, and other border tribes rebelled against Cheng Tang's Yin Shang, while Taiyi mastered the Dao of Bloodlines within the Sun Star.

Taiyi chose to cultivate in seclusion and gained the Source of Innate Faith Law while the Investiture of the Gods Calamity began to gather momentum. As King Zhou prepared to offer incense at Nüwa Palace, Taiyi received another choice from the system, marking the imminent start of the calamity’s central events.

• Taiyi rejected the options to recruit or kill Jiang Ziya and chose to pursue the Dao of Stealth, receiving the Source of Innate Faith Law.
• Taiyi swallowed the source and began refining the Faith Law, while visions of beings across the Primordial World worshipping him appeared in his mind.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu warned the Interception Sect disciples to hide their identities and posted instructions outside Biyou Palace, but some disciples eventually resumed roaming beyond the sect.
• Taiyi finished refining the source and learned that King Zhou of Shang, Di Xin, was preparing to conduct the customary sacrifice at Nüwa Palace.
• The system offered Taiyi choices to stop Di Xin, ignore the matter, or assist him, as the story approached King Zhou’s poem insulting Nüwa and the Three Demons of Xuanyuan’s scheme.

Taiyi chose the Great Dao Heavenly Demon Formless Divine Skill and spread heart demons throughout the Primordial World, drawing Rahula’s attention. Rahula challenged Hongjun, but after an eight-hundred-year battle he retreated to the Heavenly Devil Realm, while Hongjun vowed to use him to complete the Heavenly Dao.

• Taiyi chose his system reward and began cultivating the Great Dao Heavenly Demon Formless Divine Skill.
• Taiyi’s heart demons spread through the Primordial World, entering living beings and making their breakthroughs subject to his Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Rahula awakened in the Heavenly Devil Realm, sensed the Demonic Dao’s growth, and laughed that his Dao was not alone.
• Hongjun suppressed the disturbance in the Heavenly Devil Realm, prompting Rahula to attack the Primordial World and Hongjun to confront him.
• Hongjun defeated Rahula after eight hundred years of battle, and Rahula retreated to the Heavenly Devil Realm while vowing to return.
• Hongjun declared that Rahula would become nourishment for his promotion, and the Six Sages sealed their daoist grounds in fear.

Hongjun failed to uncover Taiyi’s role in the Great Dao Heart Demon’s appearance, while Taiyi chose peaceful cultivation over joining either side of the conflict. In the human realm, Di Xin prepared to sacrifice to Nüwa as the Western Sages appeared above Chaoge.

• Hongjun abandoned his search for the source of the Great Dao Heart Demon and returned to the Heavenly Dao, while the Six Sages reflected on Rahula’s survival.
• Taiyi received four choices from the Homebody Choice System and selected peaceful cultivation, gaining three Jade Creation Shards.
• Taiyi added the shards to his Jade Plate of Creation Pendant and considered restoring the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Di Xin prepared for a heaven-and-earth sacrifice celebrating Nüwa’s birthday after fasting for seven days.
• Zhunti and Jieyin appeared above Chaoge and looked down at the Shang capital.

Zhunti and Jieyin secretly manipulated Di Xin into writing an obscene poem on the wall of Nüwa Palace during the Goddess’s birthday ceremony, hoping to hasten the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. Di Xin regained his senses and tried to dismiss the incident, while others recorded the poem and prepared to exploit it.

• Zhunti and Jieyin discussed the immense Human Race fortune and descended into Chaoge disguised as mortals.
• At Nüwa Palace, a fierce wind clouded Di Xin’s consciousness, and he demanded brush and ink to write a poem.
• Di Xin inscribed an obscene poem praising Nüwa’s beauty and expressing a desire to bring her to serve him, shocking the gathered officials and worshippers.
• Zhunti and Jieyin withdrew their influence and left for Western Paradise before Nüwa could discover them.
• Di Xin regained his senses, saw the poem, and tried to save face by claiming he had merely been carried away by poetic inspiration.
• People secretly recorded Di Xin’s poem, and undercurrents began stirring throughout Chaoge.

After Di Xin erased his lewd poem and praised Nüwa, Taiyi chose to remain in seclusion but sent a Star Incarnation to protect him. Nüwa saw Di Xin’s poem and was pleased, while Taiyi continued cultivating with sixteen Jade Creation Shards.

• Di Xin summoned the imperial guards to erase the lewd poem and inscribed a poem praising Nüwa, winning praise from Shang Rong and the other officials.
• The system revealed that Di Xin was Cangjie’s reincarnation and offered Taiyi three choices concerning his fate.
• Taiyi chose to remain unmoved and received three Jade Creation Shards, bringing his total to sixteen.
• Taiyi added the shards to his Jade Creation Disc Pendant and immersed himself in comprehending the Dao.
• Taiyi sent a Star Incarnation from the Sun Star to Chaoge City to protect Di Xin.
• Nüwa saw Di Xin’s praise poem through her statue and smiled, pleased by his sacrifice and praise.

Taiyi chose to let Nezha’s fate proceed so he could gain the Six Paths of Reincarnation Source, while his incarnation warned Di Xin about the coming calamity and promised to protect him. Acting on Taiyi’s hint about an opportunity at Chen Tang Pass, Di Xin traveled there and met Li Jing.

• Nüwa sent the Spirit Pearl Child to be born as Li Nezha, and Taiyi chose to ignore the matter in exchange for the Six Paths of Reincarnation Source.
• Taiyi’s incarnation appeared before Di Xin, revealed that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity would destroy Shang and endanger the Human Race, and promised to handle the threat.
• Taiyi concealed himself in a Dragon-Pattern Black Gold Ring on Di Xin’s thumb and told him to turn it if he faced danger.
• Di Xin learned from Taiyi that Nüwa had bestowed an opportunity at Chen Tang Pass and set out from Chaoge despite his ministers’ objections.
• Li Jing welcomed Di Xin’s royal procession thirty li from Chen Tang Pass, and Di Xin asked about his family’s generations of service guarding the frontier.