Recaps

The Three Tribes’ breakthroughs opened new paths to Sainthood as Xuan Qing reshaped the Netherworld and restored its rulers. Zhen Yuanzi became Dao Master of the Heavenly Human Dao, while the Saints prepared a convention that would pit their disciples against Buddhism.

• Ancestor Phoenix became Saint Yuan Feng, while Zu Long and Ancestor Kirin became Saints Shi Lin and pledged to guard the East Sea and Three Divine Continents.
• Haotian expanded the Heavenly Court, but Nanji and Wudang joined forces to purge his agents and seize control of key departments.
• Xuan Qing restored Tai Yi and the nine Golden Crows, then helped Houtu establish a Nether Sun and Nether Moon with Xi He and Chang Xi.
• Xuan Qing recovered the Ancestral Witches’ True Spirits and restored Ju Mang, Ru Shou, and Qiang Liang, while Gonggong received a new body and began cultivating.
• Zhen Yuanzi attained Primordial Chaos Great Luo and declared himself Dao Master of the Heavenly Human Dao, then barred Zhunti, Jieyin, and Western Lands living beings from traveling east.
• Karma revealed that Hongjun had made Jieyin and Zhunti bear the Western Lands’ earth-vein karma, then compelled Jieyin to repay two karmic debts.
• Jieyin and Zhunti left the Mystic Gate to establish the Buddhist Sect, while Yuanshi arranged a Dao discussion convention meant to challenge Buddhism through a disciples’ contest.
• Guang Chengzi delivered Yuanshi’s invitations to the Saints, and Ming He offered to take the invitation to Empress Pingxin himself.

Fuxi changed the Human Race through new customs, marriage, and the Eight Trigrams before becoming its Heavenly Emperor and passing leadership to Shennong. As Shennong began his rule, Xuan Qing offered Fuxi and Tai Zhen’s son Hui Xi a chance to become his disciple.

• Yuanshi and the Buddhist Saints held a contest on Kunlun Mountain, where Cihang, Chi Jingzi, Guang Chengzi, and Xuandu faced Buddhist opponents before Laozi and Yuanshi fought Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Han Xi guided Fuxi as he became Co-Lord, united tribes, challenged evil-god worship, and developed animal husbandry, fishing, and new customs for the Human Race.
• Fuxi defeated the demons and monsters threatening his people with Kong Xuan’s help, established Human Marriage with Tai Zhen, and later created the Eight Trigrams using the River Diagram, Luo Script, and Xuan Wu’s shell.
• Xuandu guided Shennong as he investigated food shortages, cultivated crops, and identified the Five Grains, while Fuxi completed the Later Heaven Bagua and chose Shennong as his successor.
• Fuxi abdicated to Shennong, became a Saint, and was recognized as the Human Race’s Heavenly Emperor after Han Xi and Nuwa prevented the other Saints from sending him to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Fuxi entrusted the Human Race to Shennong and left with Queen Mother of the West and Cang Shuo, while Xuan Qing advanced after receiving insights from the Three Daos.
• Xuan Qing met Hui Xi beside a river and offered to take him as a disciple, but Hui Xi asked to learn how to change the Human Race.

Shennong cured the Human Race’s decline, resisted the Western Saints’ influence, and passed the Co-Lord position to Xuanyuan. As Xuanyuan began his era, Heaven and earth transformed, and the Heavenly Dao revealed plans to separate immortals and mortals and reshape the Prehistoric Era.

• Xuan Qing accepted Hui Xi as a disciple and taught him to find his Dao among ordinary people, while Fuxi reunited with Nuwa and prepared to return to the Human Race.
• Tongtian broke free of half his Dao Fruit’s connection to the Heavenly Dao and entered Primordial Chaos Great Luo, with Xuan Qing protecting him from the Heavenly Dao’s divine thunder.
• Shennong searched for remedies among the tribes, survived accumulated poison with Xuandu’s help, and grieved when Nüwa died and became the Glazed Little Bird Jingwei.
• Fuxi and Nuwa confronted Zhunti and Jieyin over their plot against the Human Race, while Shennong and Xuandu joined the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Three Tribes to counter the spread of Western Buddhism.
• Shennong expelled Buddhist believers from Human Race territory, strengthened the Human Race with the Three Tribes as its totems, and completed Shennong's Materia Medica.
• Xuanyuan rose as a Co-Lord candidate under Guang Chengzi’s guidance, while Chi You and Gu Sha gained power among rival tribes.
• Shennong selected Xuanyuan as his successor and passed the Co-Lord position to him, earning Human Dao recognition and helping erase the Three Tribes’ remaining karmic sin.
• After Shennong departed with Fuxi’s promise to meet him in Heluo Divine Continent, Xuan Qing asked the Heavenly Dao about the upheaval, and it revealed plans to separate immortals and mortals and transform the Prehistoric Era.

Xuanyuan defeated Chi You and unified the Human Race, while Cangjie settled old Karma and Hui Xi became an Earth Dao Saint. As Xuanyuan began addressing trade and the suffering of humans in the Western Lands, Xiao brought him tools for reform and the story turned toward helping those distant people.

• Xuan Qing asked Zhen Yuanzi to guide Cangjie, then found Hui Xi studying life and death among the Human Race.
• Xuanyuan tried to abolish the tribes and rule through virtue, but Gu Sha resisted and transformed through a Buddhist-like technique before Xuan Qing destroyed his manifestation.
• Cangjie established Human Script, declared that he was Hong Yun returned to life, and settled his Karma with Ming He and Kunpeng.
• Chi You defeated Xuanyuan in battle, but Xuanyuan gained the Xuanyuan Sword, learned military strategy, and used South-Pointing Chariots to counter Chi You’s formations.
• Nü Ba dispersed the enemy’s weather attacks, and Xuanyuan killed Chi You’s body with the Xuanyuan Sword before accepting the Human-Witch army as part of the Human Race.
• Xuanyuan guarded against the Chan Sect’s designs as Guang Chengzi founded the Kongtong Sect, while Hui Xi attained Primordial Grand Luo and became the Earth Dao’s second Earth Dao Saint.
• Xiao removed Treasure-Dropping Coins that had altered Cao Bao and Xiao Sheng’s fates, borrowed Houtu’s Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler, and brought both treasures to Xuanyuan.
• Xuanyuan turned to Xiao for help with currency and the Western Lands, where humans suffered under the Buddhist Sect and the Netherworld Sea of Blood.