Recaps

Zhao Wushang demanded the Divine Dao quota from the Six Yang Mountain God, and Imperial Lord Changqing arrived to defend the Capital City God’s claim. After Zhao Wushang revealed his ties to the Demon Dao and the debt the Divine Dao owed him, Changqing yielded the quota and offered him an Innate Jia Wood Spiritual Root; the Six Yang Mountain God then chose to serve Zhao Wushang.

• Zhao Wushang threatened the Six Yang Mountain God until Imperial Lord Changqing arrived and revealed that the quota had been given to the Capital City God, eldest son of Imperial Lord Dongyang.
• Zhao Wushang explained that the quota would let him gain merit and destiny in the Human Dao struggle for the dragon, and insisted that he would take it himself if the Divine Dao refused.
• Zhao Wushang reminded Changqing that the Divine Dao owed him for the Demon Dao’s destiny and for his past death in a scheme involving the Buddhist Dao.
• Imperial Lord Changqing yielded the quota, offered Zhao Wushang an Innate Jia Wood Spiritual Root as an apology, and departed to arrange Dongyang’s compensation.
• Zhao Wushang invited the Six Yang Mountain God to visit his Dragon Palace and left for the Nine River Marquis’s Manor; the Mountain God decided to follow him and led his white-jade demon elephant.

Zhao Wushang bargained with Chen Xuance to support his bid for the throne in exchange for being invested as Dragon King of the Vast Ocean Sea. Chen Xuance conquered Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and Zhao Wushang returned to the Dragon Palace to study the collected classics as the Myriad Dao Book stirred within Zhou Yuan.

• Zhao Wushang arrived at the Marquis Manor of Nine Rivers with the Liuyang Mountain God and was welcomed by Chen Xuance and Wu Zhao.
• At the banquet, Zhao Wushang asked Chen Xuance to use a future dynasty’s Human Dao destiny to invest him as Dragon King of the Vast Ocean Sea, and Chen Xuance and Wu Zhao swore to support the bargain.
• Zhao Wushang ordered the gods to aid Chen Xuance’s army in clearing demonic miasma and conquering Jiangnan and Jiangbei, prompting Heaven’s killing intent and the start of the Human Dao Tribulation of Slaughter.
• With divine aid, Chen Xuance won twenty-nine battles without defeat and took control of Jiangnan and Jiangbei within two years.
• After a dragon of destiny appeared above Jiuyang Prefecture, Zhao Wushang returned to the Dragon Palace to study his collected classics, while Zhou Yuan opened his eyes in Wuyi Mountain.

Zhou Yuan contemplated his forming Primordial Dao Fruit as conflict between the Witch and Demon Clans escalated. In Tang Valley, a Golden Crow rescued a fleeing demon from a Witch and confronted him for insulting Di Jun.

• Zhou Yuan reflected on the spiritual-civilization cycle, considered recruiting agents to gather knowledge from other worlds, and concluded that Taiqing and the others had stirred up the world’s karma.
• Kinnara and his companions inflamed tensions between the Witch and Demon Clans, and Di Jun’s edict against attacking witches only increased resentment and secret hunts.
• Di Jun and Xi He kept the Ten Golden Crows in Tang Valley to remedy their innate deficiencies, but the young princes longed to leave and see the outside world.
• The youngest Golden Crow spotted a demon fleeing an old Witch who pursued him for devouring a tribe, and heard the demon curse Di Jun as unworthy.
• A Golden Crow burned the old Witch to ashes with Solar Divine Fire, then challenged the demon for insulting his father.

An ox demon manipulated the Ten Golden Crows into leaving Tang Valley to patrol the Primordial World, where their radiance devastated the land and killed members of the Witch Clan. Kuafu pursued them, and the Golden Crows formed Di Jun’s Ten Suns Patrol Heaven array to face him.

• The ox demon criticized Di Jun’s handling of the Witch Clan conflict, then persuaded the Ten Golden Crows to leave Tang Valley and earn merit by rescuing demons.
• The Ten Golden Crows flew into the Primordial World and, drawing on the Sun Star, appeared as ten suns that scorched the land and killed many members of the Witch Clan.
• Kuafu saw his tribespeople dead or dying and, clouded by Calamity Qi, pursued the Golden Crows while they burned Witch Tribes.
• Kuafu fought the Ten Golden Crows and nearly struck down the Eighth Golden Crow, prompting the Great Golden Crow to order his brothers to form their array.
• The Ten Golden Crows linked their power to the Sun Star and formed Di Jun’s Ten Suns Patrol Heaven array.

Kuafu pursued the Ten Golden Crows to protect the Witch Clan tribes, but their True Sun Fire exhausted him and he died. Hou Yi then shot down the Ninth Golden Crow and, as the remaining princes fled, the Great Golden Crow First Prince sacrificed himself to block another arrow.

• Kuafu repeatedly struck the Ten Golden Crows' formation, but they retreated east and burned Witch Clan tribes to provoke him as he chased them.
• Kuafu refused to stop, encouraging the tribes he passed and drinking rivers to sustain himself, until the Golden Crows' fire destroyed his strength and he died, leaving a peach grove.
• Hou Yi appeared and shot the Ninth Golden Crow with the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Arrow, causing the Ten Suns Patrol Heaven formation to weaken.
• Hou Yi nocked another arrow as the remaining Golden Crows fled, and the Great Golden Crow First Prince used the Golden Crow Transformation Rainbow Technique to take the arrow meant for them.
• The Great Golden Crow First Prince died, and Hou Yi's arrow continued toward the fleeing princes as they urged Little Ten to run to the sun and seek their father.

After Hou Yi killed nine of the Ten Golden Crows, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi intervened to save the last and fought Hou Yi until the Twelve Ancestor Witches arrived. Xi He and Di Jun demanded vengeance, and the Witch and Demon Clans clashed, leaving their alliance broken as Empress Nuwa set out from her mountain.

• Hou Yi shot down the Golden Crow princes until Tai Yi froze time with the Eastern Emperor Bell and rescued the fleeing Tenth Golden Crow Prince.
• Tai Yi fought Hou Yi, whose arrows challenged the Eastern Emperor Bell, until Tai Yi summoned a Golden Crow manifestation to destroy Hou Yi's eighth arrow and prepared to kill him.
• A silver portal halted Tai Yi's bell long enough for Di Jiang and the other eleven Ancestor Witches to appear and shield Hou Yi.
• Xi He accused the Witch Clan of allowing the Golden Crows' destruction and demanded that Di Jun avenge her children; Di Jun chose blood for blood, and Di Jiang refused to surrender Hou Yi.
• Xi He and Chang Xi attacked, followed by Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the Demon Clan, while the Twelve Ancestor Witches fought back; Empress Nuwa watched without intervening, then left her mountain.

As the Witch and Demon Clans descended into mutual destruction, Empress Nuwa realized that creating the Human Race could establish order and fulfill her path to sainthood. She began refining Innate Xirang at the Eastern Sea Shore, while Zhou Yuan prepared to pursue the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.

• The Witch and Demon Clans fought across the Primordial World, spreading destruction and Calamity Qi as Empress Nuwa chose not to intervene.
• Remembering Grand Pure Daoist's counsel, Empress Nuwa resolved to create the Human Race and bring order to the Primordial World.
• At Wuyi Mountain, Zhou Yuan sensed that Nuwa was about to attain sainthood and said his own turn would soon follow.
• Zhou Yuan examined the Dao Fruit forming from his present and future selves and sent a wisp of immortal light toward the Eastern Sea Shore.
• Empress Nuwa refined Innate Xirang in the Universe Cauldron for forty-nine years, then decided the soil could not properly nurture life.
• As Empress Nuwa pondered how to improve the vessel, she heard a clear spring flowing nearby.

Empress Nuwa created the Human Race with guidance from Zhou Yuan, then attained Sainthood through the merit she earned. She protected the humans’ ancestral land and forbade powerful beings from interfering for one Yuan Assembly.

• Zhou Yuan gave Empress Nuwa Three Lights Divine Water and advised her to use the virtue of water to create the Human Race.
• Empress Nuwa spent eighty-one years refining Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Three Lights Divine Water, then molded three thousand humans who possessed Golden Immortal essence.
• Empress Nuwa used the Gourd Vine to create another 129,600 humans, and they hailed her as the Holy Mother of the Human Race.
• Empress Nuwa declared the Human Race’s creation, received boundless merit, and became a Saint as powerful beings across the world paid their respects.
• Empress Nuwa named the land by the great river on the East Sea the Human Race’s ancestral land and decreed that no one at or above the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm could interfere for one Yuan Assembly.

Empress Nuwa invited Zhou Yuan and Fuxi to witness her opening Taisu Heaven, while Di Chu Shi guided the newborn Human Race through its vulnerable beginnings. Over the next centuries, Youchao Shi, Suiren Shi, and Ziyi Shi established nests, fire, and clothing, setting humanity on the path of civilization.

• Empress Nuwa opened Taisu Heaven in Chaos as Zhou Yuan and Fuxi observed the Three Thousand Great Daos unfold.
• Di Chu Shi led the 129,600 humans to build a statue of Empress Nuwa and remain gathered under its protection for a thousand years.
• Youchao Shi earned Human Dao merit by building the first human nest and teaching the Human Race to construct dwellings.
• Suiren Shi drilled wood to make fire, ending the Human Race's age of eating raw flesh and drinking blood.
• Ziyi Shi wove animal hides and leaves into clothing to protect humans from the cold.

After Empress Nuwa explained that Saints could not interfere in the great calamity, she considered having Fuxi leave the Demon Clan and lead the Human Race. Di Jun then bound Nuwa and Fuxi to the Demon Clan by establishing the Demon Religion and naming them its leader and his equal in the Heavenly Court.

• Empress Nuwa preached the Dao for three thousand years, then told the gathered divine beings that Saints had to remain outside the great calamity’s course.
• The divine beings worried that Saints would be unable to restrain the Witch and Demon Clans, while Nuwa reflected that the contest for the Primordial World’s fortunes remained uncertain.
• Nuwa proposed that Fuxi give up his position as Emperor Xi and take charge of the Human Race, but a sudden disturbance made her realize Di Jun had acted.
• In Ling Xiao Palace, Di Jun established the Demon Religion in Nuwa’s name and declared Fuxi equal in rank to himself as ruler of the Heavenly Court.
• The Demon Clan’s offerings laid invisible karma upon Nuwa and Fuxi, and Di Jun concluded that Nuwa could only be the Demon Clan’s Saint.

Di Jun and the Demon Clan's ministers discussed the Mystic Gate Immortal Path's return and how to face it. Di Jun ordered restraint while invoking Empress Nuwa's support, then raised concerns about the Human Race, and a demon god urged him not to risk alienating Nuwa.

• Di Jun asked his ministers how the Demon Clan should respond as Mystic Gate lineages emerged from seclusion and tensions with the Witch Clan made an alliance impossible.
• Shang Yang, Teng She, and Bai Ze argued that the Demon Clan was stronger than the Mystic Gate and should avoid unnecessary conflict while waiting for the saints to withdraw from the world.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Clan's divisions to restrain their members and avoid clashes, while declaring that the clan need not fear the Mystic Gate because Empress Nuwa backed it.
• The Tushan Clan leader and the other demons realized that Di Jun was invoking Nuwa's ties to the Demon Clan to draw her into its struggle for supremacy.
• Di Jun asked his ministers what they thought of the Human Race, and a demon god urged him not to exterminate Nuwa's creation or sever the Demon Clan's ties with her.

Di Jun debated how the Demon Clan should deal with the Human Race, created by Empress Nuwa, and ordered Tu Shan to bring them into the clan. After Ji Meng proposed using the Human Race against the Witch Clan, Di Jun put him in charge of their affairs and gave him authority to decide how to proceed.

• The demon gods warned Di Jun that slaughtering the Human Race could offend Empress Nuwa, so Bai Ze advised accepting them into the Demon Clan.
• Di Jun ordered Tu Shan to deliver a decree accepting the Human Race into the clan and granting them protection under its fortune.
• After the court dispersed, Bai Ze and Bi Fang urged Di Jun to eliminate the Human Race before it could grow powerful.
• Ji Meng argued that Di Jun should help the Human Race flourish and later drive them into battle against the Witch Clan.
• Di Jun approved Ji Meng’s proposal and made him responsible for the Human Race’s affairs.

Panshi Village hunted a dragon-blooded Savage Beast to bring as an offering to Holy Mother Empress Wa and traveled to the Human Race’s ancestral temple in Heavenly Desolate City. After sending the younger villagers to explore, Panshi went to meet an old friend, while Human King Di Chu Shi sat in the Human King Hall with three others.

• Panshi and his villagers killed a dragon-blooded Savage Beast using the Human Immortal Martial Dao and decided to take it as Panshi Village’s offering.
• Panshi reflected on how difficult it was to attain the Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit despite nearing completion of his Dharma Form.
• Panshi led the villagers into Heavenly Desolate City, where their dragon-blooded offering drew attention from other visitors.
• Panshi told the younger villagers to explore the city and arranged to meet them again in three days.
• Di Chu Shi sat in the Human King Hall holding the Human Creation Whip, alongside three other figures.

The Three Ancestors of the Human Race debated whether their people should leave the ancestral land and seek resources, with Suiren Shi urging patience despite Youchao Shi and Ziyi Shi’s calls to prepare through struggle. Dichu Shi announced that the awaited Heavenly Court envoy had arrived, and Tu Shan entered Heavenly Desolate City to deliver a decree before the Holy Mother.

• Youchao Shi argued that the Human Race’s growing martial cultivators needed resources and wanted to explore beyond the ancestral land.
• Suiren Shi warned that the Human Race lacked the strength and allies to survive outside Nuwa’s protection, while Youchao Shi and Ziyi Shi argued that future survival required present struggle.
• Suiren Shi continued to urge the others to wait, until Dichu Shi noticed the arrival of the person he had been expecting.
• Tu Shan arrived with a grand procession, and Dichu Shi reassured the wary residents of Heavenly Desolate City that the visitor was an honored guest.
• Tu Shan identified himself as a Heavenly Court envoy carrying a decree, and Dichu Shi invited him to deliver it before the Holy Mother in the ancestral temple.

During the Human Race’s Holy Mother Goddess Rite, Di Chu Shi gained insight into the Great Luo realm as the Myriad Beasts Blood Pool opened for human prodigies. At Wuyi Mountain, Zhou Yuan formed his Primordial Grand Unity Dao Fruit and prepared to begin his breakthrough.

• Di Chu Shi and the Three Ancestors of the Human Race appeared for the Holy Mother Goddess Rite, and Di Chu Shi lit incense to complete the sacrifice.
• Suiren Shi opened the Myriad Beasts Blood Pool, allowing the tribes to exchange their offerings for cultivation time.
• Di Chu Shi received a surge of fortune and comprehended that his Martial Dao led toward the Strength Dao and the Great Luo realm.
• The Three Ancestors of the Human Race activated a grand formation to protect Di Chu Shi as he approached his breakthrough.
• At Wuyi Mountain, Zhou Yuan’s two illusory worlds helped form the Primordial Grand Unity Dao Fruit, and he prepared to begin.

Zhou Yuan attained Primordial Grand Unity by uniting the Dao of the past, present, and future, and his breakthrough transformed the Primordial World. Ancestor Minghe conceded defeat and offered him the Blood Sea Authority, while the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls returned to Wuyi Mountain.

• Di Chu Shi revealed the Prologue of the Human Dao and declared, "I am the past," while an emperor in the lower River of Time declared, "I am the future."
• Zhou Yuan gathered the many Daos within himself, formed an undying Immortal Dao Radiance, and transcended the River of Time with the Primordial Grand Unity Dao Fruit.
• Daoist Hongjun, Empress Nuwa, and other Great Powers sensed Zhou Yuan's breakthrough and turned their attention to the River of Time.
• Zhou Yuan's World-Crossing Boat crossed beyond the Chaos Mother River, and the Primordial World responded with flourishing Water Virtue, spiritual energy, and Dao resonance.
• Ancestor Minghe prepared to unleash his killing intent, but the Twelve Dark Beads contained the Blood Sea; he accepted defeat and offered Zhou Yuan the Blood Sea Authority.
• The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls left the Blood Sea and returned toward Wuyi Mountain.

Zhou Yuan attained Primordial Grand Unity on Wuyi Mountain and declared himself the Abyssal Pivot, Void-Uniting, Essence-Penetrating, Change-Wielding, Immeasurable Grand Heavenly Venerable. After cleansing the Primordial Great Land with Water Essence, he departed to create a new heaven beyond the chaos and invited Xuanmen cultivators to witness it.

• Zhou Yuan transcended time and space, claimed the Primordial Grand Unity Dao Fruit, and perfected his Primordial Chaos Golden Chapter.
• Zhou Yuan returned to Wuyi Mountain, where heaven and earth reacted to his presence and welcomed his manifestations.
• Zhou Yuan announced his title, declared his station in Water Essence, and repaid heaven and earth by cleansing the Primordial Great Land.
• Zhou Yuan announced that he would create a new heaven beyond the chaos and invited fellow Daoists of Xuanmen to attend.
• All beings recovered from their shock and bowed in respect to Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan opened a stable new heaven called Tai Xuan Heaven and combined three supreme-grade Innate Lotus Platforms into an Innate Supreme Treasure. He invited the gathered Xuanmen divine beings to his palace to hear his insights.

• Zhou Yuan used the three lotus platforms and the creative power of opening heaven and earth to form a twenty-four-tier Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Empress Nuwa praised Zhou Yuan’s feat, while Daoist Zhunti and the Three Pure Daoists worried that he might seek their lotus treasures.
• Zhou Yuan chose not to pursue the Chaos Green Lotus and continued shaping the newly opened heaven.
• Zhou Yuan established Tai Xuan Heaven around a vast green bamboo and inscribed its name across the sky.
• Zhou Yuan invited the Xuanmen divine beings to his palace, and they followed Empress Nuwa and the Infinite Dao Venerable toward Tai Xuan Heaven.

Zhou Yuan declined to interfere directly in the great tribulation after attaining the Primordial Dao Fruit, so the Mystic Gate leaders discussed how the Human Race could rise while the Witch and Demon Clans remained dominant. He concealed the Human Race’s fortune with his divine ability, Do Not Observe Me, and left the gathered Dao Lords briefly unable to remember what they had been doing.

• Zhou Yuan told the Mystic Gate immortals that he could not meddle in the great tribulation and that the Human Race had to become Heaven and Earth’s protagonist on its own.
• The Grand Pure Daoist said he was nearing sainthood and warned that the Witch and Demon Clans’ strength threatened the Mystic Gate’s plans.
• Daoist Jieyin and the other leaders agreed that the Human Race had to contend for the Human Dao itself, and an ancient immortal proposed worsening the feud between the Witch and Demon Clans to buy the Human Race time.
• The Jade Pure Daoist asked how the Mystic Gate could bolster the Human Race without attracting the Witch and Demon Clans’ notice.
• Zhou Yuan revealed his divine ability Do Not Observe Me, and the gathered immortals helped him veil the Heavenly Secrets as he concealed the Human Race’s fortune.
• Zhou Yuan’s divine ability made the Dao Lords forget what they had been discussing until a clear light restored their memories.

After Zhou Yuan promised the Heavenly Dao not to interfere further in the great tribulation, he urged the Mystic Gate lineages to recruit Human Race disciples and compete for the Human Dao. He then taught the Wuyi Mountain disciples and followers for a hundred years, appointed Wu Zhiqi and Liu Xuan to oversee the lineage, and distributed Innate Spiritual Objects to anchor its Seventy-two Caves.

• Zhou Yuan promised the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao that he would not interfere again in the great tribulation, and the Heavenly Dao withdrew.
• Zhou Yuan ordered the Mystic Gate lineages to open their mountain gates to the Human Race and compete to shape the Human Dao.
• Zhou Yuan's disciples and followers congratulated him on attaining the Primordial Dao Fruit, and he explained the Great Dao to them for a hundred years.
• Zhou Yuan appointed Wu Zhiqi and Liu Xuan to oversee the Wuyi Mountain lineage's role in the Human Dao contest and gave Wu Zhiqi the Pure Jade Bamboo.
• Zhou Yuan distributed Innate Spiritual Objects to his disciples and followers to anchor the fortune of their Seventy-two Caves.

After Zhou Yuan’s decree called on the great powers to enlighten the Human Race, leaders across the Kunlun, Buddhist, earth immortal, and Wuyi Mountain lineages mobilized their disciples. The chapter leaves Jin Chentao hoping that success in the Human Dao struggle will advance his lineage and bring him closer to Great Luo.

• The Kunlun Dao lineage received the decree, and an old Daoist obeyed his Grandmaster’s counsel by preparing to send disciples to the Human Race.
• Daoist Zhunti sent Mahasthamaprapta, Bhaisajyaguru, and Maitreya east to spread his teachings, while Daoist Jieyin considered the mission an opportunity for the west.
• Zhen Yuanzi ordered earth immortal disciples to guide worthy humans into mountain and land god posts or pass their teachings to Human tribes.
• Liu Xuan and Wu Zhiqi mobilized Wuyi Mountain’s Seventy-two Caves in response to Zhou Yuan’s decree.
• Jin Chentao learned that his lineage had established sects and temples, then offered a true disciple position to the group that best enlightened the Human Race.
• Ao Lin agreed to convey Jin Chentao’s orders, while Jin Chentao returned to cultivation and reflected on reaching Great Luo.