Chapter Summaries

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.