Recaps

Qi WuHuo met Tian Yangzi on the battlefield and showed him how Li Zhai’s campaign had improved life in conquered cities and how prosperous the Shenwu Kingdom had become. When Tian Yangzi questioned who would hold a unified world accountable, Qi WuHuo resolved to live and die with the Mortal World, as the Nine Stone Tablets and its divine order lit up.

• Qi WuHuo followed Tian Yangzi’s invitation to the battlefield, where Li Zhai halted his forces and the two Daoists began a debate on the Dao.
• Tian Yangzi challenged Li Zhai’s unification campaign, and Li Zhai defended it as a way to end wars between humanity’s divided kingdoms.
• Qi WuHuo took Tian Yangzi through cities captured by the Shenwu Kingdom, where Tian Yangzi saw that Li Weifeng’s policies had preserved order and improved people’s lives.
• Qi WuHuo showed Tian Yangzi the Shenwu Kingdom’s prosperity, but Tian Yangzi questioned whether its rulers could be trusted to protect the people after unification.
• Qi WuHuo pointed to the Mortal World and declared that he would take it as his measure and live and die with it as the Nine Stone Tablets and the divine order illuminated the realm.

Qi WuHuo’s transformation linked the human realm together and earned Tian Yangzi’s surrender, while Fuxi concealed the ritual’s significance to protect Qi WuHuo from Changsheng. Tian Yangzi secured a promise for the people of the Qiu Long Kingdom by sacrificing his cultivation, then died peacefully in his temple.

• The human realm changed under Qi WuHuo’s command, and Fuxi recognized that Qi WuHuo had gained a path toward the Imperial realm and hid the ritual from Changsheng.
• Tian Yangzi conceded the debate to Qi WuHuo, agreed to open the Qiu Long Kingdom’s gates, and secured a promise that its people would be treated well.
• Tian Yangzi returned to the Qiu Long Kingdom, handed over its Human Dao Destiny treasures, and reassured the people as Li Zhai’s army entered the city.
• Tian Yangzi returned to his temple, released his cultivation and the kingdom’s Human Dao Destiny, and rejected the Jade Talisman that could have made him a god after death.
• Tian Yangzi remembered his Master and died peacefully; Li Zhai found his body, and the Jade Yang Master’s body scattered into the world.

Qi WuHuo followed a mysterious prompting toward a fateful encounter while the Buddhas discussed the human world's reunification and sent a powerful monk to preserve their Dharma. He met the young monk Golden Cicada and introduced himself as Qi WuHuo.

• Qi WuHuo sensed that returning to the Shenwu Kingdom's Nine Stone Tablets would complete a crucial step in his cultivation, but he calmly followed a faint trace of Heaven's secrets in another direction.
• The Buddhas discussed the Shenwu Kingdom's conquest of the Qiu Long Kingdom and worried that the human world would reunite beyond Buddhism's reach.
• Namo Joyful Sound and Light Tathagata revealed that a senior Buddhist had surrendered his cultivation foundation to enter the human world and teach the Dharma.
• Qi WuHuo saw a young monk tormenting a Black Tortoise and recognized that their fates were connected to the future, then chose to intervene.
• Qi WuHuo rescued the Black Tortoise and introduced himself to the monk, who gave his dharma name as Golden Cicada.

Qi WuHuo challenged Golden Cicana’s orthodox Buddhist teachings and explained that the Dao was the source of all things, while a true path to Buddhahood meant passing on the Dharma without building sects or seeking offerings. Golden Cicada recognized a new understanding of Buddhism within his own heart at the foot of Square Inch Mountain.

• Golden Cicada accused Qi WuHuo of slaughtering monks at Lantuo Temple, while Qi WuHuo denied responsibility and Golden Cicada explained why he would kill corrupt monks himself.
• Golden Cicada revealed that he had come to spread orthodox Buddhist Dharma and raced Qi WuHuo through a debate on Buddhist teachings and the Dao.
• Qi WuHuo answered Golden Cicada’s arguments with brief Daoist principles, eventually leaving Golden Cicada unable to advance his case.
• When Golden Cicada asked what the Dao was, Qi WuHuo explained that the Dao was the Mother of all things, not the things themselves, and questioned whether Buddhist leaders truly sought to save all beings.
• Qi WuHuo proposed passing on Buddhist Dharma without conversion rules, sect hierarchies, or offerings, so that everyone could become a Buddha.
• Golden Cicada realized that the Dharma and Buddha were in his heart, and understood the meaning of Square Inch Mountain as he stood before Qi WuHuo.

Qi WuHuo challenged Golden Cicada’s Buddhist beliefs and let him leave to test the Dharma for himself. After honoring Jade Yang Master’s return to Heaven and Earth, Qi WuHuo completed a ritual linking the Human Dao Destiny of Shenwu Kingdom and Qiu Long Kingdom, breaking through the bottleneck in his Human Qi.

• Qi WuHuo invited Golden Cicada to cultivate both the Dao and the Buddha at Square Inch Mountain, but Golden Cicada rejected his claims and departed to test the Dharma himself.
• Qi WuHuo sensed that Tian Yangzi had died and bowed in farewell to his senior brother, Jade Yang Master.
• Qi WuHuo reached the capital of the Shenwu Kingdom and used the Nine Cauldrons to ignite and connect the mortal world’s Human Dao Destiny.
• Qi WuHuo summoned the Human Dao artifacts in Qiu Long Kingdom and smelted them into the Qiu Long Cauldron, which anchored and linked that kingdom’s Human Dao Destiny with Shenwu Kingdom’s.
• With the ritual complete, Qi WuHuo broke through the bottleneck in his Human Qi.

Qi WuHuo’s second Nine Cauldron drove Human Qi to Great Accomplishment, allowing him to advance the Severing Heaven and Earth formation while the Human World’s Destiny surged. The change concealed the birth of a faint new Imperial Exalt aura, which Great Dao Lord Yuchen mistook for a challenger and set out to test.

• Qi WuHuo absorbed the surge of Human Qi, refined it instantly, and reached a state in which the Five Qi Facing the Origin became possible.
• Empress Nuwa’s incarnation vanished when the passage through Taiyi’s sealed realm collapsed, and Fuxi reassured her that she would return while secretly planning to frighten Qi WuHuo.
• Qi WuHuo manifested the ancient Human Race’s divine form and realized that Human Qi had reached Great Accomplishment through the second Nine Cauldron.
• Qi WuHuo used the River Diagram and Luo Script to activate a second core of the Severing Heaven and Earth formation at Qiu Long Kingdom, strengthening its protection over the Human World.
• Shangqing Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable and Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable sensed a faint, extraordinary aura, while Great Dao Lord Yuchen identified it as a new Imperial Exalt and prepared to challenge it.

WuHuo’s breakthrough stirred the Six Realms, prompting powerful figures to prepare for a future confrontation while they wrongly focused on Fuxi’s schemes. As the calamity of reckoning expanded, the Fire Star’s rank and Spirit Charm surged.

• Great Dao Lord Yuchen recognized WuHuo’s aura in the sea of blood, restrained his urge to attack, and released his frustration with a sword sweep that shook the Heavenly River Navy.
• Great Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable divined WuHuo’s new chance to rule, celebrated, then cursed when he realized the opportunity was only a tiny sliver.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable and Tai Shang discussed WuHuo’s first step toward becoming a ruler and agreed that he must choose and walk the rest of his path himself.
• Judicial Great Celestial Venerable ordered his forces to prepare a grand formation to attack True Martial Demon Queller when the human realm’s seal was lifted, treating him as an enemy of Great Grade.
• Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole guessed at Fuxi’s possible plans and began preparing for a confrontation sixty to three hundred years ahead.
• As the Judiciary and other powers entered the growing calamity, the Fire Star’s golden flames swelled and its rank and Spirit Charm surged.

Qi WuHuo completed the Severing Heaven and Earth formation and glimpsed the perspective of an Imperator, then prepared to explain the Three Vehicles of cultivation. As the Jade Firmament Daoist Lord strengthened the Blood Sea ritual with his blood, the stars erupted in response to the upheaval.

• Fire Luminary struggled to contain the Spirit Charm feedback, while the other Eleven Luminaries erupted and forced their Star Lords to cultivate.
• The Jade Firmament Daoist Lord added his blood to the Blood Sea ritual to challenge Qi WuHuo and push his limits.
• Qi WuHuo completed the Severing Heaven and Earth formation and drew the River Diagram and Luo Script into his sleeve.
• Qi WuHuo considered whether to advance through the Five Qi Facing the Origin and gained a glimpse of his Imperator self.
• Qi WuHuo declared that he would expound the Dao and began describing the upper, middle, and lower paths of breakthrough as the Three Vehicles.

Qi WuHuo examined three possible paths to the Great Dao and chose a supreme path that established and preserved the Human, Earth, and Heavenly Daos for all beings. After briefly entering the Imperator state, he deliberately stepped back out of it, astonishing Fuxi.

• Qi WuHuo rejected the lower path of suppressing Heaven, Earth, Man, God, and Ghost because it would limit his progress toward the Great Grade.
• Qi WuHuo judged the middle path of uniting the Nine Cauldrons and ruling the Six Realms insufficient for the highest Dao.
• Qi WuHuo chose the supreme path: establish the Human, Earth, and Heavenly Daos, unite the Five Qi, bring order to the underworld and human world, and deliver all beings before departing of his own accord.
• Qi WuHuo recalled answering Teacher that he wanted to cultivate the supreme, unsurpassed Great Dao, while Teacher seemed to recognize the words from the future.
• Fuxi concealed the immense disturbance caused by Qi WuHuo's awakening and planned to help him remain in the Imperator state longer.
• Qi WuHuo told Fuxi that he had not fallen out of the Imperator state but had taken half a step back and walked out of it himself.

After stepping back from the Imperator realm, Qi WuHuo used the insight he had gained to open a passage through Taiyi’s remnant realm and bring Empress Nuwa back to the mortal world. Her arrival released a vast aura across the world, striking Qi WuHuo first.

• Qi WuHuo explained to Fuxi that he had left the Imperator realm because he would not claim a state he could not truly command.
• Fuxi told Qi WuHuo that Empress Nuwa needed help and asked him to widen the passage through the seal Taiyi had left behind.
• Qi WuHuo entered the Taiyi Realm, used the True Talisman of Controlling Heaven's Creation, and tore open a fissure despite the realm's stronger resistance.
• Fuxi stabilized the fissure as Empress Nuwa stepped through into the mortal world.
• Empress Nuwa's gentle aura spread across the mortal world and struck Qi WuHuo, who stood nearest.

Qi WuHuo helped Empress Nuwa briefly escape Taiyi Realm, but Fuxi released her when the realm’s backlash caused her pain. Nuwa crowned Qi WuHuo in a coming-of-age ceremony, and he returned to Fuxi carrying a fragment of Taiyi’s Origin that might offer another way to free her.

• Nuwa’s return strengthened Human Qi and restored Qi WuHuo’s Imperator state, while Fuxi realized WuHuo had unexpectedly gained a second chance to experience it.
• Qi WuHuo and Fuxi brought Nuwa into the mortal world, but Fuxi released her when Taiyi Realm’s counterattack hurt her, and WuHuo cut off its pull to send her back safely.
• Nuwa performed Qi WuHuo’s capping ceremony inside Taiyi Realm, and WuHuo’s Imperator state silenced the realm’s backlash.
• Fuxi accepted that he and Qi WuHuo would have to build Human Dao Destiny to free Nuwa, until WuHuo revealed he had taken a fragment of Taiyi’s Origin.
• Fuxi saw the fragment as a possible opportunity and began to consider a new plan.

Qi WuHuo learned that Fuxi wanted him to impersonate Taiyi and use Taiyi’s authority to free Empress Nuwa, while Human Dao Destiny faced a crucial turning point. Meanwhile, Li Weifeng left his government work to meet Mingxin and Little Medicine Spirit, but overheard people dismissing his contributions beside Li Zhai’s victories.

• Fuxi explained that Qi WuHuo could fool the Taiyi Realm by using his Taiyi Cultivation Body and Taiyi’s Origin, and Qi WuHuo agreed to try the plan to free Empress Nuwa.
• Qi WuHuo showed Fuxi the flickering Human Dao Fire, and they realized Human Dao Destiny’s turning point might be tied to someone who could anchor Empress Nuwa’s return.
• Li Weifeng finished a stack of government work and prepared to meet Mingxin and Little Medicine Spirit after receiving their invitation.
• Li Weifeng left the palace with tea and pastries, while his attendant reported that Li Zhai’s victory had been publicized and the people were celebrating.
• Li Weifeng heard people praise King Wei Wu Li Zhai and dismiss Prince Qin’s work managing supplies, leaving him to confront how little the public valued his efforts.

Li Weifeng struggled with the public praise of Li Zhai and chose to pursue his own path rather than meet Mingxin and Little Medicine Spirit. Meanwhile, Qi WuHuo used Taiyi's Origin to strengthen his Primordial Spirit avatar, leaving Fuxi stunned as he realized how to complete the balance of his three avatars.

• Li Weifeng's guard confronted townspeople praising Li Zhai, but Li Weifeng stopped him and accepted that public opinion served his needs.
• Li Weifeng sent Mingxin and Little Medicine Spirit pastries through his guard, then refused to visit them and resolved that he would not lose to Li Zhai or anyone else.
• Mingxin and Little Medicine Spirit waited in the cold, but Li Weifeng never came, and the tea he had sent was cold.
• Qi WuHuo considered the changes in Human Dao Destiny and decided not to interfere directly as he prepared to free Empress Nuwa.
• Fuxi urged Qi WuHuo to master Taiyi's Origin, but Qi WuHuo channeled it into his Primordial Spirit avatar instead.
• Taiyi's Origin transformed Qi WuHuo's avatar, and he thanked Fuxi for giving him the hint he needed.

Qi WuHuo slowly absorbed Taiyi’s Origin while Fuxi prepared for Empress Nuwa’s return, as Li Weifeng struggled to govern in the shadow of Li Zhai’s growing fame. After resisting the temptation to seize the Human Emperor’s throne, Li Weifeng watched Li Zhai’s army return with news that the campaign against Zhao would continue, and the last glimmer in his eyes vanished.

• Qi WuHuo and Fuxi agreed to keep their plan to restore Empress Nuwa secret from her while Qi WuHuo cautiously absorbed Taiyi’s Origin.
• Qi WuHuo and Fuxi noticed that Human Dao Destiny had surged to three times its previous strength.
• Li Weifeng integrated Qiu Long Kingdom into Shenwu’s governance and worked relentlessly, but Li Zhai’s reputation eclipsed his after Qiu Long’s ruler came to pay respects.
• Overwhelmed by despair, Li Weifeng went to the Treasury Chamber but left without asking Qi WuHuo for help, then resisted the urge to claim the Human Emperor’s throne and clear his parents’ names.
• Li Weifeng renewed his efforts to govern, but Li Zhai’s returning army announced that he would continue the campaign against Zhao, and Li Weifeng’s last glimmer of hope disappeared as Ming saw him.

Li Weifeng abandoned his promise to cultivate with Mingxin and Little Medicine Spirit, became the Human Emperor, and pursued justice for the Jinzhou victims. After executing the former Human Emperor, he consolidated his rule, while Qi WuHuo prepared to bring Empress Nuwa back.

• Li Weifeng announced that he would become the Human Emperor, and Mingxin confronted him at the palace, but Li Weifeng said he could not turn back and chose to remain in the era.
• Mingxin left chestnuts at the hall and departed; Li Weifeng’s Daoist aura scattered as Human Dao Destiny filled him, and he naturally entered Primordial Prenatal Qi.
• After ascending the throne, Li Weifeng reopened the Jinzhou case, exposed those involved, and ordered the former Human Emperor and other accused to be executed.
• Li Weifeng personally beheaded the former Human Emperor, who accused him of being just like his uncle before dying.
• Qi WuHuo told the Green-robed Scholar that he had left a lamp for Li Weifeng, then said the struggle had ended and it was time to bring Empress Nuwa back.

Qi WuHuo helped Fuxi free Empress Nuwa’s Primordial Spirit, but the rescue brought him face to face with the source of the Great Dao and its assimilating power. Fuxi pulled him to safety after he glimpsed his Teacher, Taiqing Moral Celestial Venerable, before transcendence.

• Fuxi prepared a vast formation across the Shenwu Kingdom’s capital, letting Qi WuHuo enter the deepest part of the Taiyi Realm and bring Empress Nuwa’s Primordial Spirit out.
• The [One] surged toward Qi WuHuo and began assimilating him, so he used the Tribulation Sword to resist.
• Fuxi appeared, activated a formation that shielded Qi WuHuo, and offered him access to the [source of the Great Dao] as payment for rescuing Empress Nuwa.
• Qi WuHuo absorbed the source’s countless insights until Fuxi pulled him away from danger; Qi WuHuo said he had seen his Teacher’s back.
• When Qi WuHuo approached Empress Nuwa in the mortal world, his Pure One Spirit Charm clarified the insights, revealing Taiqing Moral Celestial Venerable before transcendence turning toward him.

Qi WuHuo encountered the Kai Huang-era reflection of his future Teacher in the Origin of Taiyi and discussed the Dao with him for several days. The reflection promised to leave Qi WuHuo a path to seek at Doushuai Palace and a sword, then erased the encounter from his own records before returning to the past.

• Qi WuHuo saw a middle-aged Daoist with Tai Shang’s aura, who identified himself as Late Tribulation of Kai Huang and tested Qi WuHuo by discussing the Dao with him.
• Tai Shang noticed the disturbance in the Daoist rhythms and let Qi WuHuo continue, while Fuxi carried the unconscious Qi WuHuo away and confirmed that his condition was stable.
• Late Tribulation of Kai Huang learned that his future self had changed his path, but said he would still follow the choices of his present self.
• Late Tribulation of Kai Huang accepted Qi WuHuo as his disciple and told him to seek Doushuai Palace on the Ninth Heaven for guidance about the path from extreme to transcendence, promising him a sword as well.
• Late Tribulation of Kai Huang shattered the Origin of Taiyi’s records of their meeting and returned to the Primordial Era, where he woke from a dream with a vague sense that he would have a fine disciple.
• Jade Firmament Daoist Lord and Late Tribulation of Kai Huang challenged each other over whose disciples would prove superior.

After waking from a month-long coma, Qi WuHuo reflected on his Teacher’s promised legacy and recognized that Heaven’s formations were preparing for conflict with both him and the Human Realm. He resolved to face the coming threat, while Fuxi wondered whether he would become Qing or Yu; at Ziwei Palace, a young girl watched the Human Realm and lamented how long it had been.

• Qi WuHuo woke, and Fuxi complained about having cared for him for a month before demanding to know what he had seen.
• Qi WuHuo recalled [Emperor End-Tribulation Celestial Venerable]’s promise of Doushuai Palace, a sword, and the direction of [From Extreme to Transcendence].
• Qi WuHuo noticed that Heaven’s formation had begun to show signs of becoming a killing array, with one force targeting him and another targeting the Human Realm.
• Qi WuHuo warned Fuxi that Heaven might attack as the power of Severing Heaven and Earth weakened, and Fuxi urged him to focus on his own Dao.
• Qi WuHuo said he had to act because he was the tallest person beneath the threatened sky, while Fuxi wondered whether he would become Qing or Yu.
• At Ziwei Palace of the North Pole, a young girl watched the Human Realm and sighed that it had been a long time.

Yun Qin decided to cultivate so she could stand beside WuHuo, while the Human World’s rulers and Mingxin each set out on their own paths. Qi WuHuo planted the Imperial Qi of Yu in the mortal world, giving its people sixty years of spring and autumn, and left Fuxi speechless.

• Yun Qin learned that only a few years had passed since WuHuo left, then resolved to cultivate so she could one day save him.
• Qi WuHuo gave the late Human Emperor the posthumous title Li, while Li Zhai judged his father with the title You and continued his campaign.
• Mingxin said farewell to Qi WuHuo and left Shenwu Capital to travel the Human World, accompanied by the amnesiac Yin.
• Li Weifeng received Li Zhai’s judgment, combined the posthumous titles into You Li, and descended from the Star Picking Tower to begin his reign.
• Qi WuHuo drove the Imperial Qi of Yu from himself, shaped it into a seed, and planted it in the mortal world, declaring that he was gifting the Human World sixty years of spring and autumn.
• Fuxi confronted Qi WuHuo after sensing the surge of pure qi, then fell silent when Qi WuHuo explained his choice.

Over ten years, Qi WuHuo spread Daoist teachings and cultivated Human Dao Destiny across the mortal world while waiting for the seed of Imperial Pure Qi to sprout. As Fuxi warned that a catalyst was needed to break the heavens’ balance, a gifted fifteen-year-old named Qiu set out for the capital to find Qi WuHuo.

• Qi WuHuo planted a seed of Imperial Pure Qi in the mortal world, and he and Fuxi disagreed over whether it would ever grow.
• Over the next decade, the Human Emperor’s capital brought people from many lands together, while Qi WuHuo’s Nine Stone Tablets and Daoist scriptures spread cultivation throughout the human world.
• Xi Men Da Chong attended Qi WuHuo’s lecture and learned that Qi WuHuo would teach the rest of the Daoist scriptures when the seed finally sprouted.
• Fuxi told Qi WuHuo that the Judicial Great Celestial Venerable had prepared a deadly array for True Martial, while Qi WuHuo said he was waiting for an unknown catalyst.
• Fuxi realized that someone would need to break the existing balance and lead the human world’s outstanding talents for the seed to sprout.
• A gifted fifteen-year-old named Qiu told his mother he wanted to study and travel, and she directed him to find the Daoist priest in the capital.

A fifteen-year-old boy prepared to travel to Shenwu Capital to seek the Dao from Qi WuHuo, while Qi WuHuo recorded ancient techniques and waited for a breakthrough in his cultivation. Years later, Xi Men Da Chong met Qi WuHuo beside the river during the Lantern Festival, as the Human World's fortune settled and a young man named Qiu entered the capital.

• The boy agreed to travel to Shenwu Capital after the New Year, and his mother reassured him that her health had improved.
• Qi WuHuo recorded techniques drawn from ancient records and the Daoist resonance within the Taiyi Cultivation Body, while Fuxi questioned whether his accumulated cultivation would ever transform.
• Xi Men Da Chong's neighbor took him to see lanterns floating on the river, where he encountered Qi WuHuo making a wish for someone he could not see.
• Xi Men Da Chong learned that sesame pastries had been made for a dear old friend, and he thought of Qi WuHuo as the Daoist walked away beneath the stars.
• The immortals saw the Human World's fortune settle and felt reassured, while a young man named Qiu entered Shenwu Capital.

Qiu arrived in the Human World and sought the Daoist, while Qi WuHuo and Fuxi watched the standoff between the Human World and the heavens intensify. When Qiu finally met Qi WuHuo, their encounter stirred Human Dao Destiny and broke the Six Realms’ deadlock, leaving Fuxi to conceal their meeting.

• Qiu entered the Human World, paid respects at the Nine Stone Tablets, and went to the Treasury Chamber seeking WuHuo, but Old Green Ox said the Book Keeper was elsewhere in the city.
• Qi WuHuo fished with Fuxi nearby as the Heavenly Realm’s Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind Ear monitored the swelling Human World destiny and the growing tension among the Six Realms.
• Fuxi sensed the calamity begin to disperse as Qiu’s arrival stirred the Human Dao Destiny, and Qi WuHuo announced that he had waited for him.
• Qiu bowed to Qi WuHuo and said he had come to seek the Dao, causing Human Dao Destiny to surge and the frozen balance of the Six Realms to split open.
• Fuxi concealed the radiance of their meeting from the heavens, then praised Qi WuHuo and veiled the great sun to keep the encounter unknown.

During a three-day discussion of the Dao, Qi WuHuo guided the gifted boy Qiu and urged him to travel the Human World and find his own path. Qiu set out determined to leave his name among the Nine Stone Tablets, while the seed of the Way of Imperial Clarity finally broke through the soil.

• Fuxi concealed the sun and the changes in humanity's destiny while Qi WuHuo discussed the world and the Dao with Qiu for three days and nights.
• Qi WuHuo advised Qiu to learn from water and choose between traveling the Human World or staying to observe its changes; Qiu chose to find his own path and asked to return for guidance.
• Qiu revealed that he was seventeen by his hometown's custom, and Qi WuHuo told him they would meet again in seventeen years.
• At Shenwu Capital's Nine Stone Tablets, Qiu studied the Daoist scriptures and Li Zhai's cultivation method, then declared that one tablet must bear his name.
• Qiu's words about setting his ambition on the Dao silenced the people who had mocked him, and his departure caused a crack in humanity's destiny.
• Fuxi restored the sun, and the accumulated destiny flowed into the seed of the Way of Imperial Clarity, which finally sprouted after twelve years.

Qi WuHuo resisted the urge to claim the Imperial Qi that had sprouted from his seed and began preaching a higher Dao before the Nine Stone Tablets. As his words stirred the Human World’s destiny, the immortals realized that Qi WuHuo—not Fuxi—had caused the upheaval and turned their attention to him.

• Fuxi sensed the seed Qi WuHuo had planted sprout into an unending source of Imperial Qi rooted in the Human World.
• Qi WuHuo told Fuxi that both Qiu’s destiny and his own Dao had arrived, then walked toward the Nine Stone Tablets.
• Fuxi took Qi WuHuo’s bamboo fishing rod and drew the immortals’ attention by announcing that those who carried destiny should take the hook.
• Qi WuHuo sat before the Nine Stone Tablets, refused to absorb the tender shoot’s Great Dao breath, and began his familiar lecture.
• When Qi WuHuo continued past the lesson’s usual ending to preach the Dao of Taiyi and Xuanxu, the green shoot grew and Human Dao Destiny surged skyward.
• Fuxi snapped the fishing rod and laughed as the immortals turned from him and recognized Qi WuHuo as the source of the upheaval.

Qi WuHuo taught the Dao beneath the Nine Stone Tablets, strengthening Human Dao Destiny while the immortals watched. When Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole sent a thunderbolt toward the human realm, Severing Heaven and Earth formed a golden figure that caught it, and Qi WuHuo commanded it to stop.

• The immortals realized Fuxi had distracted them while Qi WuHuo’s preaching drove the human realm’s growing destiny, and the Jade Emperor and a white-clothed woman watched him through mirrors.
• Qi WuHuo expanded his foundational teachings into a complete cultivation path, drawing crowds and causing the Imperial Pure Tree to grow as listeners gained insight.
• The immortals recognized Qi WuHuo as the source of the human realm’s transformation, while Judicial Great Celestial Venerable seethed over the Dao Fruit he had lost.
• A thunderbolt carrying Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole’s power descended toward the human realm, as the Northern Emperor expected Fuxi to intervene.
• Severing Heaven and Earth gathered golden light into a vast figure that caught the thunderbolt, while Qi WuHuo continued teaching and ordered, “Stop here.”