Chapter Summaries

Laozi taught Xuandu the Golden Pill Great Dao, while Yuanshi and Tongtian instructed their disciples in cultivation methods. On Mount Sumeru, Jieyin and Zhunti faced the unruly animal-like beings who had gathered to join the Western Teach.

• Laozi warned Xuandu not to focus on guiding the Human Race before advancing his own cultivation, then taught him inner alchemy.
• Yuanshi lectured his disciples on cultivation from the Mysterious Immortal realm to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, sending the Twelve Golden Immortals away before teaching Ran Deng further.
• Tongtian taught the Shangqing Golden Scripture to Jin Ling and several favored disciples, who converted their cultivation methods to it.
• Zhunti tried to silence the noisy crowd on Mount Sumeru, but Jieyin reminded him that the West had few other living beings to recruit.
• Zhunti accepted that the Western Teach would have to take in the unruly beings and declared that he would endure hardship for the West.

Zhunti and Jieyin recruited Maitreya, Medicine Master, and many other followers into the Western Teach. After Houtu discovered that human-witch descendants combined the strengths of both races, the ancestral witches decided to bring the children and their human parents to Zhou Mountain, even by force, while Houtu objected.

• After a thousand years of expounding the Dao at Mount Sumeru, Jieyin accepted Maitreya as his disciple, and Zhunti accepted Medicine Master, giving him the Sutra of Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata and a Nine-Leaf Lingzhi.
• Jieyin and Zhunti welcomed the gathered beings into the Western Teach and instructed them to observe its rules and spread its doctrines.
• Houyi told Houtu that children born to human and witch parents had strong bodies and primordial spirits, and Houtu confirmed their unusual talents.
• Houtu reported the discovery to the other ancestral witches, who celebrated the possibility of continuing the Witch Clan’s bloodline without relying solely on the Pangu Blood Pool.
• Di Jiang decided to bring the mixed-race children and their human parents to Zhou Mountain, and Zhu Jiuyin and the other ancestral witches blocked Houtu when she protested that taking them by force would turn the human race against them.

Di Jiang and the Witch Clan devised a scheme to take human women and their children back to Zhou Mountain to preserve the Witch Clan’s bloodline. After the Witch Clan seized many resisting humans and left the Yellow River Basin, Sui Ren Shi set out to seek help from Nuwa.

• Houtu questioned the other Ancestral Witches’ plan, but they kept her confined in Pangu Hall while Di Jiang summoned the Great Witches.
• Di Jiang ordered the Witch Clan men to marry human women and gradually persuade them to move with their children to Zhou Mountain.
• Xing Tian announced that the Witch Clan would return to its ancestral land, and the Witch Clan tried to convince the human women to go with them.
• The Witch Clan knocked out the humans who refused to leave, seized many of them, and departed the Yellow River Basin.
• Sui Ren Shi blamed himself and raged after hearing that the Witch Clan had taken the humans, then decided to ask Nuwa for help.

Xiao’s impending breakthrough to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm drew tribulation clouds across the Prehistoric Era and alarmed its great powers. The Human Ancestors evacuated the Yellow River Basin as Xiao left the area to face the clouds, while the saints and their disciples watched and debated what his breakthrough meant.

• Sui Ren Shi, You Chao Shi, and Zi Yi Shi recognized that the growing tribulation clouds gathered over Xiao’s secluded cultivation site and began evacuating the Human Race.
• Xiao flew beyond the Yellow River Basin’s Formation, drawing the tribulation clouds after him and spreading their might throughout the Prehistoric Era.
• Hongjun and the other great powers mistook Xiao for Xuan Qing before realizing that Xiao was a human whose aura and appearance resembled the Dao Venerable’s.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian watched Xiao from Biyou Palace, and Laozi explained to Jin Ling, Zhao Gongming, Bi Xiao, and Yunxiao that the omen marked an extraordinary breakthrough to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Bi Xiao worried that Xiao might die beneath the lightning, and Tongtian rebuked her for speaking carelessly about the Dao Venerable.

Laozi and Tongtian revealed that Xiao’s identity made him far more dangerous than his apparent strength suggested, then watched as he endured a Heavenly Dao tribulation after comprehending Great Dao Law. Xiao emerged as a Great Dao Grand Luo Golden Immortal, leaving the Three Pure Ones and other experts astonished by the return of a path they had thought unattainable.

• Laozi told Jin Ling and the others that their master feared the mysterious person’s identity, and Tongtian warned them not to be arrogant as Saint disciples.
• Yunxiao learned that the person was a Dao Venerable whose divine sense might have cultivated an incarnation, while Laozi and Yuanshi considered warning their own disciples about him.
• Xiao faced a lightning tribulation after comprehending Great Dao Law and absorbed the lightning rather than being harmed by it.
• Xiao’s True Spirit rose from the River of Destiny, and an azure Twelve-grade Earth Flower appeared as his aura reached the mid-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal level.
• Laozi, Tongtian, Yuanshi, and other experts recognized that Xiao had become a Great Dao Grand Luo Golden Immortal, and they marveled at the return of Great Dao Law.

After breaking through, Xiao returned to the Human Race and addressed the Witch Clan’s abduction of its members, urging the clan to grow strong rather than rely on the Holy Mother. His lesson restored the Human Race’s resolve, and the chapter left them inspired to endure hardship and strive for strength.

• Xiao returned to the Human Race after breaking through and promised to adapt Saint Laozi’s Golden Pill Great Dao into a cultivation method for the clan.
• Sui Ren Shi told Xiao that the Witch Clan had taken many Human Race members to Zhou Mountain and asked whether they should seek Holy Mother Niang Niang’s help.
• Xiao refused to let the Human Race depend on outside rescue and gathered its leaders to teach them that weakness invited suffering and strength was the answer.
• Xiao encouraged the Human Race by recounting how the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Three Races had risen from weakness, prompting the crowd to vow they would not surrender.
• Xiao crushed flowers and grass to show that resilience mattered more than outward beauty, and Sui Ren Shi and the Human Race leaders bowed in thanks for his guidance.

Sui Ren Shi led the Human Race to leave the Yellow River Basin and establish settlements across the Primordial Land, hoping that spreading out would prevent the race from being wiped out. The Demon Clan chose not to intervene, while Zhu Jiuyin warned the Ancestral Witches that attacking the humans again could provoke Nuwa.

• Sui Ren Shi proposed that the Human Race spread across the Primordial Land, and You Chao Shi made the migration voluntary while promising to honor those who died.
• The Human Race began migrating from the Yellow River Basin, leaving some young people behind to maintain their home base.
• Di Jun recognized that the humans were dispersing to avoid being wiped out at once, but decided the Demon Clan would leave the matter to the Witch Clan.
• Ju Mang welcomed the humans' departure from the Formation, but Zhu Jiuyin cautioned that capturing them now could provoke Nuwa's wrath.
• Zhu Jiuyin told the Ancestral Witches that the Human Race's expansion was the consequence of their earlier abductions, and the Witch Clan would have to tolerate it.

After the Human Race’s costly migration, Xiao comforted the Three Ancestors and revealed a cultivation method intended to free humans from the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions. As the Human Race began cultivating the Human Dao Method, its destiny rose, and Nuwa recognized Xiao as an embodiment of Xuan Qing’s Obsession.

• The Ancestral Witches abandoned their plans to capture more humans, and the Human Race spread across the Prehistoric Era at the cost of nearly sixty percent of its people.
• Sui Ren Shi and the other Three Ancestors mourned the clan members who died during the migration as their life fires went out in the heroes’ hall.
• Xiao told the Three Ancestors that he had created a method based on Sage Laozi’s Golden Pill Great Dao that could cultivate practitioners to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• At the plaza, Xiao preached the Human Dao Cultivation Method, causing the Golden Immortals’ Golden Elixirs to shatter and their cultivation to transform.
• Nuwa sensed the Human Dao Destiny rise, looked toward the Yellow River Basin, and realized that Xiao was an embodiment of Xuan Qing’s Obsession.

After Xiao taught the Human Race the Human Dao Golden Pill Method, over a thousand members advanced to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Laozi recognized how the technique strengthened Human Teachings. Xiao left to seek spirit roots, while the Human Dao raised a stele naming the method and crediting Xuan Qing, Immeasurable Dao Venerable, whose name Sui Ren Shi could barely remember after a century-long trance.

• Laozi sensed Human Teachings' auspicious qi rise and realized Xiao's cultivation method had strengthened the Human Race.
• After Xiao finished preaching, over a thousand Human Race members broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Sui Ren Shi and the other two ancestors reached its mid-stage.
• Xiao cautioned the Human Race against pride, urged them to spread the method, then left for Azure Nether Island to obtain spirit roots and strengthen his cultivation.
• The Kongtong Seal phantom flew from Nuwa to the Preaching Square, where it joined with the Innate Dao Patterns and Human Race auspicious qi to raise a stele bearing the title Human Dao Golden Pill Method and the name Xuan Qing, Immeasurable Dao Venerable.
• Sui Ren Shi repeated Xuan Qing's name, fell into a trance for over a hundred years, and awoke to find the name fading from his memory.

Sui Ren Shi and the others feared the connection between Xiao and the name on the Stele, while Xiao traveled to the Azure Nether Sea Domain and was mistaken for Xuan Qing. His arrival led to a clash with the Clam Clan delegation, drawing the Island Master out of seclusion.

• Sui Ren Shi allowed Human Race members who had contributed to their people to cultivate at the Stele’s square, then warned You Chao Shi not to speculate aloud about Xiao and the name on it.
• Xiao reached the Azure Nether Sea Domain, where merfolk mistook him for the Dao Venerable, and asked the Clam Clan members to take him to their delegation’s leader.
• The Clam Clan’s Grand Luo Golden Immortal leader accused Xiao of impersonating the Dao Venerable and attacked him with a Spiritual Treasure.
• The fight broke the Azure Nether Sea Domain’s long peace and drew the attention of its residents.
• The Island Master appeared, and the Clam Clan leader insisted that Xiao was an impostor.

Xiao arrived in the Azure Nether Sea Domain, reassured the Clam Clan woman who mistook him for Xuan Qing, and arranged for her to trade Clam Pearls for spiritual fruit. He told Chong Shan that he intended to strengthen the Human Race, then reached Azure Nether Island as the Qing Ya Sisters began a breakthrough.

• The Clam Clan woman mistook Xiao for the Dao Venerable, but Xiao explained that he was only a part of Xuan Qing and comforted her.
• Xiao asked the woman to provide Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level Clam Pearls in exchange for spiritual fruit, then left with Chong Shan for Azure Nether Island.
• Xiao told Chong Shan he had returned to gather Innate Spiritual Roots and spiritual fruit to prepare the Human Race for future calamities.
• Xiao explained that he believed the Human Race was destined to rise and would need to stand on its own rather than rely on powerful protectors.
• When Xiao and Chong Shan reached Azure Nether Island, a Law Torrent and dense life force appeared, signaling that the Qing Ya Sisters were about to break through.

The Qing Ya sisters proved the Dao of Life and became Primordial Chaos Great Luo, causing vitality to fill the Prehistoric sky. Zhunti learned from Karma that a new Great Dao controller would turn others who followed the same path into nourishment, leaving him alarmed about his own cultivation.

• The Qing Ya sisters transformed their Dao seed into a Great Dao Flower, and vitality spread across the Prehistoric World.
• Laozi, Tongtian, and Yuanshi failed to discover the source of the phenomenon through deduction.
• Zhunti visited the imprisoned Karma while Jieyin warned him to be cautious about delaying their promise to release him.
• Zhunti told Karma about the sky’s changes, and Karma recognized that someone was breaking through to Primordial Chaos Great Luo.
• Karma explained that the new controller of a Great Dao path would absorb other cultivators of that path as nourishment, frightening Zhunti because he practiced the Way of Karma.

Zhunti and Jieyin struggled to judge Karma’s warning that Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortals threatened beings who cultivated the same Great Dao, even as life energy from the Qing Ya Sisters restored the Western and Northern Continents. Mystic Turtle recognized the sisters’ breakthrough and ordered Tian Feng to establish rules for the Northern Continent’s recovering lands.

• Karma regretted revealing information that made Zhunti suspicious, while Zhunti left to report his warning to Jieyin.
• Zhunti told Jieyin that Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortals could threaten others who cultivated the same Great Dao, and Jieyin questioned whether Karma had deceived him.
• Life energy descended across the Prehistoric Era, rapidly restoring the Western Continent and further improving the Northern Continent’s Earth Veins.
• Mystic Turtle recognized the life energy as the work of Xuan Qing’s Qing Ya Sisters and told Tian Feng that two Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortals had emerged.
• Mystic Turtle ordered Tian Feng to send people to the Northern Continent and use an Imperial Edict to regulate competition over its recovering Blessed Lands.

Tian Feng proclaimed Saint Mystic Turtle’s edict to end the Northern Continent’s uncontrolled slaughter, revealing a powerful protector of the North. The edict halted the fighting, while Zhunti and Jieyin reconsidered their assumptions about the continent and Nuwa asked Han Xi to tell her about Xuan Qing’s past.

• As war over Blessed Lands ravaged the North, King Pan swept away many fighters with his gu insects and urged the survivors to stop the slaughter.
• Tian Feng told King Pan that he had come to proclaim an Imperial Edict from Saint Mystic Turtle, a Primordial Saint of the North.
• Tian Feng raised the edict and announced rules permitting conflict over Blessed Lands but forbidding the extermination of any race.
• The edict formed a giant turtle phantom, and the living beings across the North stopped fighting and obeyed.
• Zhunti and Jieyin discussed Saint Mystic Turtle’s emergence and decided against causing trouble on other continents.
• Nuwa asked Han Xi to tell her about Xuan Qing’s past.

Han Xi recounted how King Pan met Mystic Turtle, offered him the Life Gu, and was entrusted with governing the Northern Continent. As the Qing Ya Sisters’ breakthrough blessed the Azure Nether Sea Domain, King Pan learned more about the Dao Venerable’s hidden influence and the powerful community surrounding Azure Nether Island.

• Tian Feng led King Pan to Mystic Turtle after King Pan offered him a Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• King Pan presented Mystic Turtle with the Life Gu, and Mystic Turtle granted him authority over the Northern Continent.
• Mystic Turtle took the Life Gu to Azure Nether Island to congratulate the Qing Ya Sisters on becoming Primordial Saints.
• Tian Feng told King Pan about the Dao Venerable, Azure Nether Island, and the Azure Nether Sea Domain.
• The Qing Ya Sisters’ breakthrough filled the Azure Nether Sea Domain with vitality and healed the hidden wounds of beings injured in the Dao-Demon War.
• Old monsters warned their younger companions not to mistake the Azure Nether Sea Domain’s powerful protectors for permission to cause trouble.

Xiao visited Azure Nether Island and took Innate Spiritual Roots and Spiritual Treasures back for the Human Race. After Mystic Turtle arrived with a Life Gu, Xuan Qing broke through to the fifth level of the Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, and the leaked Immeasurable Law subtly changed the Prehistoric Era.

• Qing Ling and Qing Ya recognized Xiao as Xuan Qing’s Obsession Body, and the group settled on calling him Venerable Xiao.
• Xiao asked Qing Ya for ordinary Innate Spiritual Roots for the Human Race, then left with a batch of roots and three Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Mystic Turtle congratulated Qing Ya and Qing Ling and gave them a Life Gu that carried the Law of Life.
• Xuan Qing broke through to the fifth level of the Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, and a trace of his Immeasurable Law swept across Azure Nether Island and reached the Prehistoric Era.
• The World Origin silently absorbed the trace of Immeasurable Law, while Qing Ya sensed many familiar laws within it and Mystic Turtle was shocked by Xuan Qing’s progress.

After breaking through, Xuan Qing discovered a hidden Creation Dao Seed beside his Infinite Dao Flower and concealed it from the Great Dao. He reunited with the Qing Ya Sisters and Mystic Turtle, then prepared to visit the Four Sacred Spirits.

• Qing Ya suspected Xuan Qing's breakthrough had revealed a contingency he had hidden, while his Immeasurable Law resonated with the other Supreme Laws.
• Xuan Qing discovered an illusory Creation Dao Seed bearing Pangu's aura and hid it with the Immeasurable Law so the Great Dao would not discover it.
• Xuan Qing emerged from seclusion, teased Qing Ling, and learned Mystic Turtle had come to thank the Qing Ya Sisters for helping the North recover.
• Qing Ling asked when she could see Qing Yue again, and Xuan Qing said it would happen after Houtu attained the Dao and Earth Dao Emergence followed.
• Xuan Qing asked Qing Ya to prepare spiritual fruit and set out to meet the Four Sacred Spirits, while Mystic Turtle excused himself.

Xuan Qing arranged for the Four Sacred Spirits to feign drunkenness so he could lure Chaos Demon Gods into a trap near the Prehistoric Era. He brought Lei Li and Yun Jing to Azure Nether Island and ordered them to stay away from the Four Extremes Land during the Measure Tribulation.

• Xuan Qing visited Azure Dragon and asked him and the other three Sacred Spirits to act like drunkards to entice the Chaos Demon Gods into entering the Prehistoric Era.
• Xuan Qing gave Azure Dragon spiritual fruit and wine, then visited the other extreme lands to deliver supplies to the remaining Sacred Spirits.
• Lei Li told Xuan Qing that Yuanshi had neglected the Kirin Clan, so Xuan Qing invited the clan to move to Penglai Divine Continent.
• Xuan Qing asked Yun Jing to accompany Lei Li to Azure Nether Island and ordered both of them to avoid the Four Extremes Land during the Measure Tribulation.
• After Xuan Qing left with Lei Li and Yun Jing, the Four Sacred Spirits began making arrangements across the Four Extremes Land.

The Chaos Demon Gods learned that the Four Sacred Spirits were dissatisfied with their confinement and used hidden routes to enter the Prehistoric Era. Meanwhile, Xiao planted an orchard of Innate Spiritual Roots for the Human Race and gave its leaders a treasure to protect their Auspicious Qi.

• A Chaos Being overheard Azure Dragon complaining to Xuan Wu and Vermillion Bird about the Four Clans’ confinement, then reported their words to the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Destiny reassured the Demon Gods that Shanhai and Karma had shortcuts into the Prehistoric Era, and Shichen led them through the gate.
• Xiao planted the Innate Spiritual Roots he had brought from Azure Nether Island beside the Yellow River and built a house near the orchard.
• Sui Ren Shi, You Chao Shi, and Zi Yi Shi found the orchard, and Xiao claimed the spiritual roots had come from Holy Mother Niang Niang.
• Xiao offered the Human Race a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure for the Heroes’ Shrine, while Sui Ren Shi continued to wonder whether Nuwa had truly bestowed the gifts.

Xiao gave Sui Ren Shi a powerful spiritual treasure and other precious items for the Human Race’s treasury while Xi He gave birth to ten Golden Crows on the Lunar Star. Di Jun and Tai Yi learned of the birth, and Di Jun arrived to take his children, leaving Xi He to rest.

• Xiao gave Sui Ren Shi the Creation One Qi Pagoda, Spiritual Fruits, and Clam Pearls, and the three stored the treasures in the Human Race’s treasury.
• Solar power surged through the Starry Sky as Chang Xi helped Xi He endure the birth of ten Golden Crows.
• Chang Xi sent the newborn Golden Crows out of the Great Hall and scolded them for disturbing Xi He.
• Di Jun sensed the birth of his children and rushed toward the Lunar Star, while Tai Yi ordered Bai Ze to gather people to accompany them.
• Di Jun reached the Lunar Star, and Chang Xi handed him the ten Golden Crows so Xi He could rest.