Recaps

Li Yi strengthened the Underworld and built a world within himself while the Sages emerged and the Witch-Yao conflict approached. After surviving a destructive tribulation, he sensed the Yao’s threat to the Human Race and chose not to intervene in its early tribulation.

• Nuwa married Di Jun, and Li Yi later recruited Feng Xian and gathered forces for the Underworld as tensions between the Witch and Yao Tribes escalated.
• The Witch and Yao armies fought, but Hongjun stopped their conflict and then faced the Blood Prison Main Body, which defeated him before the Heavenly Dao intervened.
• Li Yi expanded his influence across the Netherworld, while Hongjun gave treasures to the cultivators and joined with the Dao, and Stone in Sword also advanced, and Di Jun prepared the Zhou Tian Star Array.
• Nuwa created the Human Race and became a Sage, while Li Yi secretly helped the humans and forged a complete world within his sea of consciousness.
• Lao Zi, Tongtian, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti each proved the Dao as Sages, while Hong Yun died after fleeing Kunpeng and other pursuers.
• Li Yi formed a virtual Heavenly Dao in his inner world, survived a destructive tribulation, and left a Lightning Divine Ability at Lightning Mountain.
• As baleful energy stirred hostility between the Witch and Yao Tribes, Di Jun decided to take human souls to heal the Yao’s soul damage, and Li Yi chose to leave the Human Race’s early tribulation unchecked.

Li Yi survived Hongjun and Yang Mei’s attempt to seal him, then returned to the Underworld as the Primordial World entered a new era. With Li Yi’s guidance, Fuxi was reborn among the Human Race and began pursuing a path to lead and protect it.

• Li Yi intervened as demons slaughtered human cultivators, fought Nuwa, and agreed to spare the Demon Race after she trapped him in the Rivers and Mountains Painting.
• Hou Yi killed nine Golden Crow princes, triggering the Witch–Yao war, whose final battle ended with both clans’ armies devastated and the Witch Clan’s self-destruction splitting the heavens.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei joined forces against Li Yi’s Main Body, sealing him in an Ancient Divine Prison, but he escaped, shattered the Jade Butterfly of Creation, and fled the Heavenly Dao.
• Five hundred years later, Li Yi returned to the Reincarnation Emperor Palace, advised the River Styx on creating the Asura Clan, and refined a Wood Spirit Clone from captured cultivators.
• Nuwa asked Li Yi to arrange Fuxi’s reincarnation, and Li Yi sent Fuxi’s remnant soul into the Human Dao on the condition that Fuxi would belong to the Human Race.
• Fuxi grew to lead the Huaxu Tribe, became the Human Race’s first Co-Lord, and received the River Diagram, Luo Book, and Li Yi’s Destiny Divine Path secret canon.
• After witnessing flood casualties, Fuxi entered seclusion to devise a way for ordinary people to predict disasters and weather, while Haotian sent envoys to summon him to the Heavenly Court.

Li Yi intervened in wars and crises that reshaped the Human Race, then proved the Dao of Hunyuan. When Heaven forced him to choose between Sagehood and a deadly tribulation, he refused Sagehood and survived by defying the calamity.

• Fu Xi created the Innate Eight Trigrams, proclaimed himself Heavenly Emperor, and used the merit he received to recover his memories and power.
• Li Yi refined the Jade Butterfly fragment and separated the Underworld from reincarnation, while Haotian sought allies against the Human Race and clashed with Xingtian and Hou Yi.
• Li Yi summoned the Blood Prison Five Ancestors, whose forces helped the Witch Clan defeat Haotian’s army before Hongjun repaired Haotian in Purple Sky Palace.
• Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan challenged Lao Zi and the Primeval Lord of Heaven, then accepted the Sages’ terms to retire to Huoyun Cave and separate cultivators from mortals.
• The Tenth Prince caused a devastating flood with Wu Zhiqi’s help, but Li Yi traced the plot to Tang Valley and fought the prince until a hidden shadow took over his body as Galen.
• Da Yu forged the Nine Bronze Cauldrons with the Nine Sons of the Ancestral Dragon as their spirits, strengthening the Human Race’s destiny and protecting its settlements.
• Li Yi fused the Reincarnation Gears with the Underworld and proved the Dao of Hunyuan, then rejected Sagehood and fought off the Blood Waves’ tribulation.
• Li Yi used the Path of Illusion and Annihilation to erase the calamity’s attacks, and the tribulation receded as blood rain fell.

As Hongjun’s schemes and the Investiture of the Gods calamity destabilized the Primordial World, Li Yi and Tongtian joined forces against the other Sages. The fighting ended with Li Yi shattering Lao Zi and Jieyin’s Rule Bodies as the Primordial World broke apart.

• Tongtian revealed that Li Yi had reached the Hunyuan Realm, while Li Yi explained that proving the Dao did not necessarily require Hong Meng Purple Qi.
• Hongjun plotted to exploit turmoil in the Human Race, while Li Yi’s Main Body moved its fortune into an alternate dimension and Li Yi resolved to thwart Hongjun.
• Tongtian underwent a dangerous tribulation to divine his fate, then partnered with Luo Hou after learning that Hongjun had concealed the truth about Luo Hou.
• Luo Hou’s Desire Demon Seed corrupted King Zhou, whose actions helped bring the Shang Dynasty toward collapse as Stone in Sword defeated Medicine Buddha and Li Yi fought Jieyin and Zhunti to a standstill.
• As war spread, Tongtian asked Li Yi to join his final battle against Hongjun, and Li Yi agreed in exchange for Tongtian’s future support.
• Luo Hou activated King Zhou’s demon seed, and King Zhou sacrificed himself through the Nine Cauldrons of Destiny, summoning dragons that devastated the Western Qi army and struck down the Twelve Golden Immortals’ bodies.
• Tongtian confronted Yuanshi and the other Sages, and Li Yi joined him, countering their attacks with the Power of Samsara and the Annihilation Rule.
• Li Yi fought Lao Zi and Jieyin, surviving their counterattacks before striking through their defenses and shattering their Rule Bodies, while the Primordial World broke into countless fragments.