Recaps

Fu Xi rejected Haotian’s attempt to summon him, created the Innate Eight Trigrams, and accepted the Human Race elders’ proposal to become Emperor. His enthronement restored his past-life memories and raised him to the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm, leaving the Primordial World and the Sages reacting to the Human Race’s rise.

• Fu Xi rejected Taibai Jinxing’s summons on Haotian’s behalf and sent the envoy away.
• Ten years later, Fu Xi created the Innate Eight Trigrams, earning greater prestige among the Human Race.
• The elders proposed establishing an honorific title for Fu Xi, and he agreed to be called Emperor.
• At the Fengshan Altar, Fu Xi declared himself Heavenly Emperor and received a great mass of merit from Heaven.
• The merit restored Fu Xi’s memories and powers, helping him rise to the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm and develop the Destiny Divine Path.
• The Primordial World was shaken by Fu Xi’s ascension; Lao Zi resented the declaration, while Nuwa was pleased.

Haotian plotted to seize the Human Race’s destiny, while Fu Xi, Shennong Shi, and Xuanyuan Shi led the Human Race to unprecedented power. Li Yi gained Fu Xi’s permission to spread his faith among them, prompting Lao Zi to discover that the destiny supporting him was draining away and vow to put the Human Race in order.

• Haotian concealed his strength and schemed to control the Human Race, believing its destiny could help him attain Sagehood and make Fu Xi a rival.
• Shennong Shi and Xuanyuan Shi proclaimed themselves the Earthly Emperor and Human Emperor, and the Human Race grew to more than seventy billion people over ten thousand years.
• Li Yi left the Reincarnation Emperor Palace and asked Fu Xi for permission to spread his faith among the Human Race; Fu Xi agreed.
• Temples dedicated to Li Yi spread across the Human Race’s lands, drawing more incense than the offerings to the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and the others.
• Lao Zi used Manifest Destiny to discover that the Human Race’s destiny had diminished, then declared that the Human Race needed to be put in order.

Li Yi refined the Jade Butterfly of Creation fragment after overcoming its defenses, then merged his Will Sarira with it to experience merging with the Heavenly Dao. He withdrew when he sensed his will and soul beginning to merge with the Dao, leaving the fragment’s power intact.

• Li Yi used his golden dragon and rune chains to break through the Jade Butterfly fragment’s defenses and refine it over ten years.
• Li Yi discovered that the fragment contained countless divine arts, great powers of deduction, and a trace of the chaos void’s origin.
• Hongjun raged after the fragment was refined and vowed to make Li Yi pay.
• Li Yi merged his Will Sarira with the fragment and saw the Primordial World’s web of Rule Lines.
• Li Yi realized that his will and soul were merging with the Heavenly Dao, so he withdrew from the merger.

Li Yi used the refined Jade Butterfly fragment to separate the Netherworld Underworld from the cycle of reincarnation, cutting it off from outside detection and interference. After the Sages witnessed his power, Lao Zi began to doubt Hongjun and made a sudden decision.

• Li Yi poured his Magic Power into the Jade Butterfly fragment and began separating the Netherworld Underworld from reincarnation.
• Golden Rule Lines enveloped the Underworld as strange phenomena spread across the sky, drawing cultivators and the Sages to the Blood Sea.
• Li Yi lifted the Underworld into place, making its aura vanish from the Sages’ senses and cutting it off from the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yi used a giant hand to extinguish the phenomena, then told the gathered cultivators and Sages that he had only been cultivating a divine ability.
• Lao Zi wondered what Hongjun was hiding and concluded that the Sages might be pieces in Hongjun’s plan, then made a sudden decision.

Haotian visited the Tenth Prince in Tang Valley and tried to incite him against the Human Race, hoping to draw the Yao into conflict. The Tenth Prince saw through Haotian’s scheme but planned to use the conflict to weaken the Heavenly Court, while resisting a mysterious presence inside his body.

• Haotian decided to avoid acting against the Human Race himself and went to seek the Tenth Prince’s help in stirring up trouble.
• The Tenth Prince attacked Haotian when he arrived in Tang Valley, then stopped after Haotian identified himself as the Heavenly Court’s ruler.
• Haotian claimed the Human Race was killing the Yao and urged the Tenth Prince to respond, but the Tenth Prince dismissed him after hearing him out.
• After Haotian left, the Tenth Prince admitted to a mysterious voice that he intended to exploit the conflict to weaken the Heavenly Court and protect his followers.
• The mysterious voice urged the Tenth Prince to surrender control of his body, and the Tenth Prince threatened to refine it as their consciousnesses struggled for control.

After Haotian sent a messenger to summon the Witch Clan, Xingtian attacked the Heavenly Court and condemned Haotian for scheming against his people. Haotian and Xingtian exchanged devastating blows, and their clash remained obscured by dust.

• Haotian waited for the messenger while plotting to use the Witch Clan as cannon fodder.
• Xingtian broke into the Heavenly Court, killed its cultivators, and mocked Haotian as Hongjun's gatekeeping boy.
• Enraged, Haotian unleashed his golden dragons and attacked Xingtian outside the Heavenly Court.
• Xingtian countered with his battle axe, then Haotian summoned the Son of Heaven Dragon Sword.
• Xingtian transformed into his giant Witch Clan form and brought his axe down on the sword, creating a shock wave that hid the outcome from view.

Xingtian fought Haotian and was overwhelmed by Haotian’s giant jade seal, but Houyi struck Haotian with a distant arrow. Haotian was blasted away and vowed revenge on Houyi.

• Heavenly Court cultivators cursed Xingtian as Haotian expected him to survive the first attack.
• Xingtian emerged from the dust and wounded Heavenly Court cultivators with a savage axe strike before clashing with Haotian’s dragon-patterned shield.
• Xingtian unleashed hundreds of axe strikes, and Haotian decided to use greater power to crush him and the Witch Clan.
• Haotian summoned a colossal jade seal that shattered Xingtian’s attacks and smashed him into a chasm.
• Houyi shot Haotian with an arrow from afar, blasting him away and drawing his furious vow to kill Houyi.

Haotian battled Hou Yi and Xing Tian while ordering more than seventy billion Heavenly Court cultivators to attack the Witch Clan. Li Yi joined the outnumbered Witch Clan with his weak clone and reached out to his Main Body for help.

• Hou Yi fired a powerful golden arrow at Haotian as Xing Tian joined the fight, but the three fought to a stalemate.
• Haotian ordered the Heavenly Court army to wipe out the Witch Clan while he held Hou Yi and Xing Tian back.
• Li Yi and the Sages watched the battle through the Mystic Light Mirror, and Li Yi rushed toward the Witch Clan's territory.
• The Heavenly Court army surrounded the Witch Clan, and its numbers and formations pushed the Witch warriors into a disadvantage as Jiu Feng was occupied by Yaochi and other experts.
• Li Yi attacked the Heavenly Court forces with wood-element abilities, realized his clone was too weak to turn the battle, and connected with his Main Body in the Witch God Plane.

Main Body summoned the Blood Prison Five Ancestors and their forces from Blood Prison City to the Primordial World battlefield. They routed the Heavenly Court army, while Haotian and the watching Sages realized the Witch Clan had far greater backing than they had expected.

• Main Body commanded the Blood Prison Five Ancestors to mobilize, and more than a hundred thousand Blood Prison City cultivators entered a passage to the Primordial World.
• A golden vortex appeared above the battlefield, and the Witch Clan celebrated as the Five Ancestors and their forces descended.
• The Three Pure Ones and other Sages watched through the Mystic Light Mirror, while Haotian sensed danger and Hou Yi and Xing Tian mocked him.
• Golden Armor Ancestor led the Blood Prison City cultivators in an attack, and their blood-path abilities devastated the Heavenly Court forces.
• The Heavenly Court army broke and fled, and the Blood Prison Five Ancestors urged their followers to pursue and promised the top three a chance to study the Sacred Sacrifice art.

The Blood Prison Five Ancestors and Witch Clan routed the Heavenly Court army until Haotian revealed his full power and struck back. As Haotian wounded the Five Ancestors, the Blood Prison City forces summoned the Blood Fiend Array, and its demonic blade struck him before he could respond.

• The Blood Prison Five Ancestors and Witch Clan warriors slaughtered the fleeing Heavenly Court cultivators, reducing their army to ten billion survivors.
• Haotian unleashed his peak Quasi-Saint cultivation and summoned ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine golden dragons to attack the Blood Prison City forces.
• The Blood Prison Five Ancestors formed a blood wall, but Haotian's dragon domain shattered it and left them badly wounded.
• Golden Armor Ancestor ordered the Blood Prison City forces to form the Blood Fiend Array, which created a colossal demonic blade.
• The blade's strike reached Haotian before he could counterattack, and he lost all sensation.

Li Yi and the Blood Prison Five Ancestors destroyed the Heavenly Court’s forces after the Sages rescued Haotian from a fatal blow. Hongjun restored Haotian in Purple Sky Palace, where Haotian awoke weakened and furious over his defeat.

• The Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa rescued Haotian and Yaochi after Li Yi’s attack split Haotian’s body in two.
• Li Yi ordered the Blood Prison Five Ancestors to stop pursuing Haotian and kill the remaining Heavenly Court cultivators, and Blood Prison City slaughtered them and devoured their corpses.
• The Witch Clan’s priests and warriors arrived through a golden passage, and the Blood Prison Five Ancestors returned to their plane.
• The Witch Clan moved to the northern Primordial World, while cultivators discussed its growing power.
• Hongjun repaired Haotian’s body and soul in Purple Sky Palace, and Haotian awoke weakened and resentful.

Nearly a thousand years after the great battle, the Human Race's Three Sovereigns condensed their Divine Path Dharma Images to strengthen the Human Race and free it from dependence on others. Their near-Sage power shook the Primordial World, and Lao Zi reacted with murderous anger.

• Li Yi decided to study the Destiny Divine Path after returning to the Underworld so his temporary clone would be stronger.
• Nearly a thousand years passed as Haotian rebuilt a smaller, low-profile Heavenly Court and the Human Race grew in population and power.
• Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan resolved to draw on the Human Race's destiny and condense their Divine Path Dharma Images despite the risk of angering the Six Sages.
• The Three Sovereigns formed their Dharma Images, unleashing world-spanning phenomena and auras that seemed nearly comparable to the Sages.
• Lao Zi saw the Three Sovereigns' rise and released his killing intent as he spoke their names.

Primordial and Lao Zi attacked Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan for proclaiming themselves Emperors and using Human Race fortune, but the Three Sovereigns resisted with their Dharma Images. They formed a grand array that created a resilient world embodying the Human Race, leaving the Sages unable to break through.

• Primordial launched his Jade Ruyi at the Three Sovereigns’ Dharma Images, but Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan joined with their images and struck it back.
• Primordial accused the Three Sovereigns of defying the Dao Ancestor and stealing fortune, while Xuanyuan rejected his authority and fought with their sovereign treasures.
• Lao Zi joined Primordial with the Taiji Diagram, overwhelming the Three Sovereigns’ weapons and threatening to suppress them.
• Fu Xi ordered Shennong and Xuanyuan to form an array, which manifested a vast world sustained by the Human Race’s cries and unyielding will.
• Lao Zi frowned and Primordial grew livid as their attacks failed to damage the array’s world.

Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan used their combined divine ability to battle Lao Zi and the Primeval Lord of Heaven, who attacked their manifested realm. Li Yi intervened with a reincarnation projection and proposed negotiations at Kunlun Mountain, leaving the Three Sovereigns alive but facing a discussion over their actions.

• Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan resisted the combined assault of Lao Zi and the Primeval Lord of Heaven with their otherworldly realm.
• The Three Sovereigns combined their power into a Three-Eyed Golden Dragon, which fought the Primeval Lord of Heaven and his Pangu Banner to a stalemate.
• As Lao Zi prepared to join the fight with the Taiji Diagram, Li Yi summoned a reincarnation projection and invited everyone to talk at Kunlun Mountain.
• Lao Zi accepted Li Yi's proposal, and the Primeval Lord of Heaven withdrew with him.
• Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan reverted from the dragon, thanked Li Yi, and learned that their divine ability could challenge a Sage only for a limited time.

Li Yi arrived at Kunlun Mountain for negotiations over Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan’s conflict with the Sages, who debated stripping the Three Sovereigns of their positions. As the Sages waited for Li Yi to decide the matter, he realized the Human Race’s place as the Primordial World’s protagonist depended on the Sages’ support, leaving him fearful that a wrong choice could doom it.

• Li Yi traveled to Kunlun Mountain and worried that the Sages might punish Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan for obstructing their enlightenment.
• White Crane Boy welcomed Li Yi to Kunlun Mountain, and Li Yi instructed his maids to stay quiet before following him to Jade Void Palace.
• Li Yi greeted the Sages and the Three Sovereigns, then recognized that most of the Sages viewed Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan with displeasure.
• Yuanshi demanded that the Three Sovereigns be severely punished and stripped of their positions, while Nuwa objected and Lao Zi and Jieyin condemned their actions.
• The Sages looked to Li Yi to decide the matter, and he realized that the Human Race’s status as the world’s protagonist depended on the Sages’ favor.

Li Yi accepted Lao Zi’s three conditions for Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan, who agreed to retire to Huoyun Cave and accept limits on future Human Sovereigns and cultivators. In Tang Valley, the Tenth Prince of the Golden Crows plotted against the Human Race while resisting a mysterious shadow that sought control of his body.

• Lao Zi proposed that the Three Emperors retire to Huoyun Cave, future Human Sovereigns attain the Dao through merit, and cultivators live separately from mortals.
• Jieyin and the other Sages supported Lao Zi’s conditions, and Li Yi left the decision to Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan.
• Shennong warned Fu Xi and Xuanyuan that refusing could cost the Human Race its status, so all three agreed to the conditions.
• The decision spread through the Primordial World, and cultivators recognized the Sages’ power while avoiding the protected Human Race.
• In Tang Valley, the Tenth Prince revealed his Quasi-Saint strength and planned to attack the Human Race through a puppet while asking a shadow to conceal the heavenly secrets.
• The shadow tried to persuade the Tenth Prince to surrender his body, while the Prince continued cultivating and his True Sun Fire began turning milky white.

After Emperor Shun became the Human Race’s fourth Co-Lord, the Tenth Prince summoned Wu Zhiqi to Tang Valley and announced a plan to strike the Human Race. Wu Zhiqi warned that the attack could doom the Demon Race, but the Tenth Prince insisted he could conceal their involvement and ordered the demons to prepare.

• The Human Race entered Emperor Shun’s rule as the four great sects gained influence among its people.
• Wu Zhiqi traveled to Tang Valley after the Tenth Prince summoned him and was startled by the prince’s Quasi-Saint aura.
• The Tenth Prince said the Human Race’s persecution of demons had prompted him to plan a devastating attack on humanity.
• Wu Zhiqi objected that the Sages would discover the plan and destroy the Demon Race’s remaining elites.
• The Tenth Prince claimed he could hide the attack from the heavenly secrets and ordered Wu Zhiqi to prepare more than one hundred thousand demon immortals and spirits.
• Wu Zhiqi reluctantly agreed and left Tang Valley worried about the consequences.

The Tenth Prince of the Golden Crows and Wu Zhiqi triggered a flood that devastated Human Race settlements, while an unseen force concealed their involvement. Li Yi discovered the Tenth Prince was behind the disaster and set out to confront him.

• The Tenth Prince gathered more than one hundred thousand demons and spirits, then spent years planting formations near Human Race settlements.
• The Tenth Prince activated the formations, unleashing a catastrophic flood that swept through Human Race territory before he fled.
• The six Sages and Li Yi tried to suppress the flood, but they could not stop it from devastating the land.
• Unable to divine who caused the flood, Li Yi went to Guanjiangkou and attacked Wu Zhiqi.
• Li Yi searched Wu Zhiqi's soul, learned that the Tenth Prince of the Golden Crows was responsible, and reduced Wu Zhiqi to dust.

Li Yi confronted the Tenth Prince of the Golden Crow at Tang Valley, suspecting a hidden Primordial powerhouse was behind the flood. Their battle began with the Tenth Prince revealing his true form to meet Li Yi’s forest-powered attack.

• Li Yi suspected the Tenth Prince’s ability to conceal the secrets of Heaven came from a hidden Primordial powerhouse and rushed to Tang Valley.
• Li Yi accused the Tenth Prince of causing the flood and attacked him, but the Tenth Prince dodged the blow.
• The Tenth Prince consulted the shadow in his sea of consciousness, which identified Li Yi as a Quasi-Saint-level clone and urged him not to fear the fight.
• Li Yi sent enormous trees crashing toward the Tenth Prince, who countered with a sea of True Sun Fire and began burning them.
• Li Yi used the Path of Rebirth to revive the trees and unite them into a formation that produced a wooden giant.
• The Tenth Prince transformed into a Three-legged Golden Crow surrounded by True Sun Fire, and his sun-like form collided with the wooden giant’s forest attack.

Li Yi overwhelmed the Three-legged Golden Crow, but the Tenth Prince’s hidden master seized control of him before the attack could finish. The master revealed himself as the resurrected Galen, whose holy swords clashed with Li Yi’s sword lotuses.

• The Three-legged Golden Crow attacked Li Yi with a holy sword and accusations, but Li Yi summoned the Green Lotus Ancient Sword and unleashed Rebirth Sword Dao.
• Li Yi’s sword lotuses destroyed the Tenth Prince’s holy sword energy and trapped him with no way to escape.
• A shadow in the Tenth Prince’s sea of consciousness revealed that it had raised him as a vessel and swallowed his soul, preventing his attempted self-destruction.
• The shadow took over the Tenth Prince’s body, transformed into Galen, and reached the Quasi-Saint peak.
• Galen unleashed countless Swords of Holy Light, destroying Li Yi’s sword lotuses as he appeared before Li Yi.

Li Yi fought Galen, whose Light Gate overwhelmed Li Yi’s strongest attack and left his clone gravely wounded. Galen escaped Li Yi’s final counterattack, and Li Yi’s ruined Wood Spirit Clone exploded, sending his soul toward the Underworld.

• Li Yi attacked Galen with the Green Lotus Ancient Sword, and their powers clashed without either gaining the advantage.
• Li Yi used Life as One to fuse with the sword and summon the world’s power against Galen.
• Galen opened a Light Gate that began swallowing Li Yi’s green sun, forcing Li Yi to detonate it and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Galen moved to seize Li Yi’s clone, but fled when Li Yi appeared ready to use another move.
• Li Yi used Reincarnation against Galen, who escaped while threatening to enslave Li Yi someday.
• Li Yi’s Wood Spirit Clone exploded, and a wisp of his soul flew toward the Underworld.

After taming the floods, Da Yu became Co-Lord and forged the Nine Cauldrons to protect the Human Race’s destiny and ley lines. Li Yi sent the Nine Sons of the Ancestral Dragon to serve as the cauldrons’ spirits, and the completed treasure strengthened the Human Race’s destiny and shielded its settlements.

• Da Yu succeeded Emperor Shun as Co-Lord after Emperor Shun died, then ordered the forging of the Nine Cauldrons of Inheritance.
• Da Yu’s ministers gathered the rare materials, and temple priests began forging the nine cauldrons as the Human Race prayed for their success.
• Li Yi sensed the prayers and commanded the Nine Sons of the Ancestral Dragon to serve as the cauldrons’ spirits for one hundred thousand years.
• The Nine Sons entered the completed cauldrons, and Golden Light of Merit empowered them, rewarded Da Yu, and benefited several sacred places.
• Da Yu declared the Nine Bronze Cauldrons the Human Race’s inheritance treasure, and they formed a barrier that suppressed most non-Human cultivators entering the Human Race’s main settlements.
• The barrier strengthened the Human Race’s destiny, which came to occupy three-fifths of the Primordial World’s destiny.

Li Yi fused the Netherworld Underworld with his Reincarnation Gears and used them to deduce a rule rooted in reincarnation, existence, and nothingness. After eliminating countless possible paths, he merged with the sole remaining phantom and proved his Dao, reaching the Hunyuan realm.

• Li Yi clarified that his new rule would take Reincarnation Intent as its foundation and draw qualities from his other comprehended intents.
• Li Yi poured his Will Sarira into the Reincarnation Gears and ordered them to fuse with the entire Netherworld Underworld, causing the realm to shake.
• King Yama threatened the terrified wraiths into silence, while King of Samsara predicted that Li Yi was about to advance.
• Li Yi emerged above the Blood Sea and transformed his body into Reincarnation Gears, generating countless alternate worlds and potential Dao paths.
• Li Yi's gears destroyed the incorrect paths until only one phantom remained, and he merged with it to prove his Dao.
• A pillar of light rose from Li Yi as a rule pillar appeared in his sea of consciousness, and he recognized that he had reached the Hunyuan realm.

After proving the Dao of Hunyuan, Li Yi faced the world's demand that he become a Sage or suffer a deadly tribulation. Rejecting the Heavenly Dao, he chose to defy the tribulation, and his first clash with its demons began above the Blood Sea.

• Li Yi felt his strength surge after proving the Dao of Hunyuan, but an overwhelming pressure and black Gale Wind soon descended upon the Blood Sea.
• Li Yi understood that the world was forcing him to become a Sage or face a deadly tribulation, and he considered three possible paths.
• The sky split between auspicious celestial visions and crimson Blood Waves, shocking the watching cultivators and prompting Lao Zi and the other five Sages to suspect Hongjun had concealed the true path of cultivation.
• Li Yi rejected becoming a Sage because he sought eternity and distrusted the Heavenly Dao, then declared that he would defy the tribulation.
• Li Yi summoned Reincarnation Gears and lotuses and punched toward the Blood Waves as countless savage demons attacked him with blood blades; their attacks collided.

Li Yi endured a deadly calamity of slaughter, resisting illusions and fighting an ocean of attacks infused with the Origins. He survived by unleashing the Path of Illusion and Annihilation, and the chapter ended with blood rain falling as the calamity receded.

• Li Yi destroyed the demons and resisted the prisons’ illusions, rejecting their temptations in favor of pursuing eternal life.
• Li Yi recognized that the Blood Waves’ whirlpools were unleashing attacks infused with multiple Origins and formed six divine ability worlds to meet them.
• The ocean of divine abilities shattered Li Yi’s six worlds, leaving him on the verge of defeat.
• Li Yi revealed the Path of Illusion and Annihilation, causing the formations and divine abilities to vanish.
• The calamity receded, and blood rain fell as heaven and earth mourned their failure to subdue Li Yi.