Chapter Summaries

Zhou Yuan, an Innate Ren Water Spirit Bamboo who had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years, discovered that two God-Demons were plotting to seize his Innate Spiritual Treasure. He prepared to turn their scheme against them, while the conspirators grew confident that his injuries had left him vulnerable.

• Zhou Yuan used the Heavenly Machine Chessboard to uncover the plot of the Black and White Divine Demon and a golden-robed Golden Peng.
• Zhou Yuan revealed that the Myriad Dao Book concealed heavenly secrets and the Heavenly Machine Chessboard calculated karma, giving him confidence in his advantage.
• At Withered Flourishing Mountain, the Black and White Divine Demon told the Golden Peng that they had wounded Pure Clarity three thousand years earlier with an Innate Bing Fire Divine Fiend.
• The Black and White Divine Demon explained that doctored treasures and a spy serving as Pure Clarity's mount had helped worsen and track his injuries.
• The Golden Peng and the Black and White Divine Demon agreed that they would claim Pure Clarity's Innate Spiritual Treasure and use it to pursue the True One Marvelous Realm.

The Black and White Divine Demon and Golden Light Venerate tricked Zhou Yuan into swallowing a Nether Jade Fruit that triggered the Profound Fire Divine Fiend within him, hoping to seize his Innate Spiritual Treasure. Zhou Yuan turned the attack into a desperate mutual destruction, and the two assailants survived the resulting devastation in a weakened state, still intent on claiming the treasure.

• The Black and White Divine Demon and Golden Light Venerate brought Zhou Yuan a Nether Jade Fruit and persuaded him to open Myriad Bamboo Mountain’s gates.
• Zhou Yuan swallowed the fruit, which triggered the dormant Profound Fire Divine Fiend and began corroding his Dao body.
• The Black and White Divine Demon revealed their scheme and demanded Zhou Yuan’s Innate Spiritual Treasure, while Golden Light Venerate attacked him with a Fang Tian Hua Ji Halberd.
• Zhou Yuan fled as the two divine demons pursued and battered him, then suddenly charged at them while unleashing the Profound Fire Divine Fiend.
• The Black and White Divine Demon raised a black-and-white shield, but the Profound Fire Divine Fiend devastated Myriad Bamboo Mountain and left both attackers weakened.
• Golden Light Venerate declared that their plan had succeeded and remained determined to obtain Zhou Yuan’s Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Zhou Yuan trapped the Black and White Divine Demon and Golden Light Venerate in a sword formation, then revealed himself as Daoist Taiyuan and killed them. He plundered their treasures and destroyed Withered Flourishing Mountain, returning to Myriad Bamboo Mountain with new resources to refine.

• The Black and White Divine Demon realized Pure Clarity might still be alive and tried to flee, but Zhou Yuan's formation trapped him and Golden Light Venerate.
• Zhou Yuan waited fifteen years as the formation battered the two Divine Demons, then appeared as Daoist Taiyuan and killed them with his bamboo staff.
• Zhou Yuan killed the betraying mount, flew to Withered Flourishing Mountain, and destroyed it ten years later before returning to Myriad Bamboo Mountain.
• Zhou Yuan sorted the treasures taken from the Divine Demons and set aside their Innate Yin and Yang Qi, Geng Metal Qi, and Evil-Averting Golden Bamboo.
• Zhou Yuan refined the Evil-Averting Golden Bamboo, hoping its origin would help his true body advance.

Zhou Yuan reached the True One Realm, strengthened his divine abilities, and prepared to travel east in search of Dao essence and fellow cultivators. After securing Myriad Bamboo Mountain, he left to explore the Primordial World.

• Zhou Yuan transcended his grotto-heaven world and completed his breakthrough to the True One Realm.
• Zhou Yuan examined the Myriad Dao Book and refined the Five Elements Mystic Gate and Myriad Transformations Divine Mechanism divine abilities.
• Zhou Yuan considered his need for Dao essence and fellow cultivators as the Witch-Demon Tribulation approached, and his calculations pointed toward great fortune in the east.
• Zhou Yuan packed his accumulated treasures, left a formation to guard Myriad Bamboo Mountain, and flew east.

Zhou Yuan attended a gathering at Myriad Spirit Mountain where two Innate Divine Beings preached cultivation and the Great Dao. Their teachings helped him refine Innate Yin and Yang Qi into a Greater Divine Ability and greatly deepen his understanding of heavenly secrets.

• Zhou Yuan gathered spiritual herbs and divine materials while traveling, then encountered Myriad Spirit Mountain and learned that two Great Divine Ability Users were preaching there.
• Zhou Yuan paid a passing being with a rare spiritual herb for directions and joined the crowd gathered on the mountain's Three Thousand Stone Steps.
• The first Innate Divine Being taught the path of cultivation and the Dao of Creation, and Zhou Yuan comprehended Yin-Yang Dao Rhyme and formed the Innate Yin-Yang Primordial Chaos Divine Light.
• The second Innate Divine Being preached the Principles of Change and heavenly secrets, and Zhou Yuan gained insights by comparing the sermon with [Five Elements Mystic Gate].
• The second divine being noticed Zhou Yuan's exceptional comprehension and decided to explain everything he had learned without reservation.

After the sermon by Fuxi and Nuwa, Zhou Yuan learned about the Primordial Great Land and settled in the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range. When a cultivator tried to seize his Innate Yin and Yang Qi, Zhou Yuan killed him with a Greater Divine Ability and decided to take over his abode.

• Zhou Yuan learned from Guizhenzi that the two Dao Lords were Fuxi and Nuwa, and that the Primordial Great Land was dominated by the Witch Gate and divine demon powers.
• After the cultivators agreed to meet every five hundred years, Zhou Yuan descended into the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range to cultivate.
• A crimson-robed True One Realm cultivator followed Zhou Yuan and invited him to his abode, revealing his desire to take Zhou Yuan’s Innate Yin and Yang Qi.
• Zhou Yuan struck the crimson-robed cultivator with his bamboo staff, then countered his Innate Spirit Fire with the Innate Yin-Yang Primordial Chaos Divine Light and killed him.
• Zhou Yuan warned the watching cultivators away and decided to take over the dead cultivator’s abode.

Zhou Yuan clarified his path toward the Great Dao of Water after struggling to comprehend the Yin-Yang Law, then decided to reopen the Chessboard Mountain Marketplace. The mountain’s creatures prepared to trade for treasures as news of the marketplace spread.

• Three creatures tending the medicinal garden heard that Zhou Yuan would reopen the marketplace and considered gathering mystical arts and daoist books to trade for Magical Treasures.
• The Rabbit Steward caught the creatures whispering and ordered them back to work.
• Zhou Yuan found that mastering the Innate Yin-Yang Primordial Chaos Divine Light had not brought him close to the Yin-Yang Law or the Grand Unity Great Sage Realm.
• With the Myriad Dao Book’s help, Zhou Yuan discerned a path to cultivate the Great Dao of Water through pure yin, pure yang, and the cycle of all things.
• Zhou Yuan decided the marketplace could reopen and struck the Jade Chime.

After leaving seclusion, Zhou Yuan organized the Chessboard Mountain Marketplace and rewarded its stewards. Guizhenzi visited to collect a spiritual treasure Zhou Yuan had forged, and the two went to exchange insights on heavenly secrets.

• Zhou Yuan left seclusion, praised the twelve Celestial and Divine stewards, and taught them for three days before assigning their clans rotating oversight of the marketplace.
• Guizhenzi visited Chessboard Mountain and admired Zhou Yuan’s thriving marketplace and skill in managing the mountain.
• Zhou Yuan presented Guizhenzi with the Two Forms Mysterious Tortoise Shell, a Houtian Spiritual Treasure he had spent several hundred years forging.
• Guizhenzi tested the tortoise shell, praised its suitability for his cultivation, and gave Zhou Yuan a Vermilion Bird tail feather bearing Southern Bright Leaving Fire.
• Zhou Yuan invited Guizhenzi into his cave abode to exchange insights on heavenly secrets and calculations.

Zhou Yuan learned from Guizhenzi how the myriad beings were divided and heard his invitation to join the Myriad Races Alliance, which Zhou Yuan recognized as the future Demon Race. Guizhenzi left believing Zhou Yuan had agreed, while warning him to stay within the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range until great changes arrived.

• Zhou Yuan and Guizhenzi discussed the Dao, and Guizhenzi said their exchange had greatly advanced his understanding.
• Guizhenzi described four categories of beings and explained that his postnatal turtle clan had cultivated a method to Reverse to Innate.
• Guizhenzi invited Zhou Yuan to join the Myriad Races Alliance and help protect the postnatal races from the gods and demons.
• Zhou Yuan recognized the alliance as the future Demon Race but avoided committing to join it.
• Guizhenzi revealed that the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range was a base supported by Dao Lord Fuxi and Empress Nuwa, then departed believing Zhou Yuan had agreed.
• Guizhenzi warned Zhou Yuan that great changes would occur within one Yuan Assembly and told him not to leave the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range when an envoy arrived.

Zhou Yuan divined that danger and great opportunity awaited beyond the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range, so he prepared to refine a demon-refining treasure with merit and Southern Bright Leaving Fire. Meanwhile, Guizhenzi reported recruits to the Myriad Races Alliance, whose leaders began preparing the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range as a battlefield ahead of the Demon Clan Heavenly Court’s establishment.

• Zhou Yuan used the Heavenly Machine Chessboard to divine a dangerous upheaval beyond the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range and decided to prepare by refining a treasure.
• Zhou Yuan gathered Heavenly Dao Merit from his Marketplace and considered using it to refine the bronze lamp into a Merit Spirit Treasure.
• Guizhenzi reported that 108 divine mountains and numerous cultivators had agreed to join the Myriad Races Alliance, and the three Grand Unity Great Sages rewarded him.
• Fairy Cai Feng, Bai Xi, and Teng She discussed the coming conflict and the need to prove the alliance’s strength before establishing the Demon Clan Heavenly Court.
• Fairy Cai Feng ordered Teng She and Bai Xi to return to Phoenix Perch Mountain, summon allies, and mobilize Dao soldiers for battle in the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range.

Zhou Yuan refined the Crimson Bright Profound Sky Golden Lamp and left Chessboard Mountain to investigate strange activity in the Wei River. After he departed, a Golden Armored Divine General arrived with news of upheaval in the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range and told the mountain's guardians to prepare.

• Zhou Yuan used accumulated merit to refine the golden lamp into the Crimson Bright Profound Sky Golden Lamp, adding a powerful offensive treasure to his arsenal.
• Rat Ancestor Zishu reported that the Wei River was veiled in mist and surging spiritual energy, and Zhou Yuan's divination could not penetrate the concealment.
• Zhou Yuan decided to investigate the Wei River, instructed his followers to guard Chessboard Mountain, and departed.
• The Golden Armored Divine General arrived at Chessboard Mountain with several hundred soldiers, but Rat Ancestor Zishu told him Zhou Yuan had already left.
• Guizhenzi suggested Zhou Yuan had gone to investigate Divine Demon Dao Lineage cultivators near the Huai River, and the Golden Armored Divine General accepted the explanation.
• The Golden Armored Divine General gave Rat Ancestor Zishu a jade token and ordered the mountain's races to prepare for a great change in the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range.

Zhou Yuan entered the mist-covered Wei River region, where he discovered that the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty's Eighteenth Prince was searching for the emerged underwater manor and its Water God's Golden Seal. After a group of cultivators ambushed Zhou Yuan, he defeated them and carried their leader away to question him.

• Zhou Yuan followed the waterways into the Wei River's strange mist, where even divine sense and Heavenly Machine divination were suppressed.
• The Eighteenth Prince revealed that he sought the Wei River Water God's Golden Seal and ordered his forces to search for the grotto-heaven, killing anyone they encountered.
• Zhou Yuan noticed that the beings gathering in the Wei River were increasingly tense and that the air stank of blood.
• A group of cultivators ambushed Zhou Yuan, but his Ren Water barrier easily blocked their attack.
• Zhou Yuan used his bamboo staff and golden lamp to kill the attackers, knocked their leader unconscious, and carried him away.

Zhou Yuan learned that the Wei River Water Mansion was about to choose a new master and decided to seize the chance to refine the river and pursue the Water Element Law. He killed an informant, turned the corpse into a puppet, and sent it to lure more Tianshui cultivators to him.

• A group of divine-robed beings found the slain Kui Water Tribe cultivators and chose to report the massacre to the Eighteenth Prince rather than pursue the culprit.
• Zhou Yuan questioned a blue-robed divine demon about the Tianshui Dynasty’s forces, then killed him after suspecting he had concealed details and tried to manipulate him.
• Zhou Yuan concluded that the Wei River Water Mansion would soon emerge and resolved to compete for it, believing the Water Element Law could help him reach the Great Sage rank.
• Zhou Yuan used the Myriad Transformations Divine Mechanism to turn the divine demon’s corpse into a puppet that could pass as a Tianshui attendant.
• Zhou Yuan sent the puppet and dozens of other puppets to lure more Tianshui cultivators to him.

The Eighteenth Prince used a blood sacrifice to awaken the Wei River Water Lord’s secret realm, then led his forces into the emerging Water Mansion. Zhou Yuan entered in disguise and found the ruined halls, while the Eighteenth Prince raced toward the central palace.

• The Eighteenth Prince explained that Dao Lord Tianshui’s sacrifice method had awakened the altar and ordered his forces to kill outsiders and enter the secret realm.
• Cultivators from across the Wei River rushed toward the Water Mansion as it emerged amid surging waves, and Zhou Yuan concealed himself among them.
• After the last living being entered, the Water Mansion vanished into the Primordial World and hid itself.
• Zhou Yuan entered the secret realm unseen and judged from its ruined buildings and powerful skeletons that an external enemy had likely killed the former Water Lord.
• Other entrants fought over the ruins while the Eighteenth Prince flew toward the central palace, followed by True One Realm and Heavenly Human Realm cultivators.

The Eighteenth Prince tried to claim the Wei River Golden Seal, but independent cultivators challenged the Tianshui Divine Dynasty faction. The Old God used the threat of Dao Lord Tianshui and promises of resources to persuade the three True One Realm cultivators to consider pledging themselves to the prince.

• The Eighteenth Prince moved to seize the Wei River Golden Seal before the other cultivators could claim it.
• A pig-headed deity attacked him with Earth Dragons formed from Innate Divine Sand, and the Old God intervened as the cultivators joined the battle.
• The Eighteenth Prince warned the independent cultivators that his father, Dao Lord Tianshui, would retaliate and that the dynasty had surrounded the Wei River.
• The Old God eased the confrontation, arguing that the three True One Realm cultivators could not refine the seal and should avoid antagonizing the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty.
• The Old God offered the three cultivators resources and a chance to jointly govern the Wei River and Huai River if they pledged themselves to the Eighteenth Prince.

The Eighteenth Prince offered amnesty and Tianshui Imperial Dynasty titles to persuade three rogue True Ones to help him seize the Water God's Golden Seal. Zhou Yuan intervened in the trial by having a Heavenly Human Realm god-demon expose the dynasty's perilous position, leaving the three True Ones doubtful after the Eighteenth Prince killed the speaker.

• The Eighteenth Prince promised to forgive the rogue cultivators and recommend them for heavenly official ranks if they helped him seize the Water God's Golden Seal.
• Zhou Yuan recognized that the Eighteenth Prince's offer was swaying the three True Ones and used his bamboo staff to alter the scene.
• A thick-browed Heavenly Human Realm god-demon warned the rogue True Ones that the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty was besieged by the Myriad Races Alliance and urged them to join it instead.
• The Tianshui Old God attacked the speaker, but an emerald-robed Daoist blocked the Xuanming Treasure Bead and let him continue.
• The Heavenly Human Realm god-demon argued that the dynasty could not protect the rogue True Ones and suggested they offer the Golden Seal and Eighteenth Prince to the Alliance.
• The Eighteenth Prince killed the speaker with his Fang Tian Hua Ji Halberd, leaving the three rogue True Ones suspicious of the dynasty.

Zhou Yuan secretly manipulated the conflict in the Water God Palace, provoking the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty and three rogue True Ones into battle. The Eighteenth Prince killed the three with the Blood Slaughtering Magic Sword, leaving the wounded dynasty alone before the Water God's Golden Seal.

• Zhou Yuan used karma to stir rogue cultivators into urging the three True Ones to attack the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty.
• A Heavenly Human cultivator from the dynasty charged the rogue True Ones and exploded when the green-robed True One's vine struck him, triggering a battle between both sides.
• The Eighteenth Prince fought alongside the white-haired Old God against the three rogue True Ones as the Water God Palace shook under their attacks.
• The Eighteenth Prince sacrificed his blood essence to unleash the Blood Slaughtering Magic Sword, which reduced the three rogue True Ones to ash.
• Zhou Yuan watched from the shadows and decided to wait after sensing the laws that had surfaced in the Water God Palace.
• The wounded Eighteenth Prince gazed at the Water God's Golden Seal and anticipated claiming the Wei River and advancing toward the Great Dao.

The Wei River Water Lord emerged from the Water God Palace and attacked the Eighteenth Prince, but the prince countered with a Blood River Great Array. When the Water Lord tried to possess him, an Innate Spiritual Treasure revealed a Dao Lord phantom that destroyed the Water Lord’s remnant soul and indestructible essence.

• The Wei River Water Lord manifested through the palace statue, revealed that he had survived in the secret realm, and used the Water God's Golden Seal to crush the white-haired Old God of the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty, whom the Eighteenth Prince sacrificed as a substitute.
• The Eighteenth Prince broke free, activated the Blood River Great Array, and sacrificed the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty cultivators to trap and weaken the Wei River Water Lord.
• Zhou Yuan’s final puppet was destroyed, and he set out to collect the debt he was owed from the Water Lord or the Eighteenth Prince.
• The Wei River Water Lord burned the secret realm’s reserves and entered the Eighteenth Prince’s sea of consciousness to possess him.
• An Innate Spiritual Treasure revealed a Dao Lord phantom, who struck down the Wei River Water Lord and severed his indestructible essence before the phantom dissipated.

Zhou Yuan defeated the Eighteenth Prince, refined the Water God's Golden Seal, and ascended as Wei River Water God. After imposing order on the water manor, he learned that the seal carried Water Ancestor's legacy and gave him the qualifications to contend for the water element's supremacy and the Black Emperor's Position.

• Zhou Yuan knocked the exhausted Eighteenth Prince unconscious before he could refine the Water God's Golden Seal.
• Zhou Yuan refined the seal, gained initial control of the Wei River's authority, and proclaimed himself its Water God.
• Zhou Yuan ordered trespassers to serve in the water manor for One Yuan Assembly and punished a celestial god-demon who challenged his decree.
• Zhou Yuan appointed chief stewards, ordered the water manor repaired and sealed, and returned to consider his new authority.
• The seal's information revealed Water Ancestor's legacy and led Zhou Yuan to realize he could contend for the Black Emperor's Position.

Zhou Yuan realized the Wei River Water God's Golden Seal could let him inherit the Black Emperor's Water Element authority and planned to build his cultivation on that foundation. Beneath the Water God Palace, he discovered an Innate Water Eye and a Primordial Dao Embryo containing the Yellow Middle Plum.

• Zhou Yuan recognized the Golden Seal's potential to restore the Black Emperor's authority and let him pursue the Water Element Dao.
• Zhou Yuan crippled the Eighteenth Prince, stripped him of his treasures, and stored him in the Pot-Heaven Magical Treasure.
• Zhou Yuan protected the Water God Palace, opened the hidden passage beneath it, and entered the underground palace.
• Zhou Yuan found the Innate Water Eye, the source of spiritual qi in the Wei River secret realm.
• Zhou Yuan saw the Primordial Dao Embryo floating above the Water Eye and identified the Innate Jia Wood treasure within as the Yellow Middle Plum.