Chapter Summaries

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.

Li Yi hosted a celebration on Penglai Island after proving the Dao and revealed to the gathered cultivators that he had reached the Hunyuan Realm. His explanation unsettled the Sages, who left to reconsider their ties to Hongjun, while Li Yi told the remaining guests to comprehend a rule and survive the tribulation to prove the Dao of Hunyuan.

• Tongtian brought Duo Bao, San Xiao, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, and his other disciples to Penglai Island for Li Yi’s celebration.
• Li Yi welcomed Tongtian personally and received the visiting Sages and other powerful figures, leaving Stone in Sword and the Ten Palace Yama Kings to greet the rest.
• After the celebration, Tongtian asked Li Yi what realm he had reached, and Li Yi revealed that he had entered the Hunyuan Realm.
• Li Yi explained that Sages were Hunyuan cultivators recognized by heaven and earth, and his remarks suggested that Hong Meng Purple Qi was not essential to proving the Dao.
• Lao Zi and the other Sages departed, while Li Yi advised the cultivators who remained to comprehend a rule and survive the tribulation.

After centuries of upheaval in the Human Race, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi awakened from tens of thousands of years in Space Turbulence, having survived the ancient war and greatly refined the Chaos Bell. He escaped into hiding after Li Yi sensed his presence, intent on secretly rebuilding the Demon Race and taking revenge on the Witch Clan.

• Da Yu departed for Huoyun Cave after remaining among the Human Race for over a century and passed the Co-Lord position to Bo Yi.
• Xia Qi killed Bo Yi and founded the Xia Dynasty, which Shang Tang later overthrew to establish the Shang Dynasty as independent powers spread across the Human Race's territory.
• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi awoke in Space Turbulence and revealed that he had survived, severed his third corpse, and refined eighty percent of the Chaos Bell.
• Tai Yi vowed to avenge Di Jun and destroy the Witch Clan, but chose to hide and secretly gather the Demon Race rather than confront the Sages directly.
• Li Yi sensed Tai Yi's aura in the Netherworld Underworld, but the aura vanished before he could identify its source.
• Tai Yi escaped through Space Turbulence using the Chaos Bell to conceal his presence.

Luo Hou returned to Chaoge, searched the sleeping city's possible futures, and identified King Zhou as the source of turmoil. He tricked King Zhou into drawing the Desire Demon Seed into his heart, then vanished while the Auspicious Golden Dragon could only watch.

• Luo Hou used the Dreams of All Living Beings to put everyone in Chaoge to sleep and search their dreams for the source of turmoil.
• Luo Hou found the unconscious King Zhou and created a Desire Demon Seed from countless temptations.
• The Auspicious Golden Dragon emerged from King Zhou and knocked the seed away, warning Luo Hou that forcing it into the Human Emperor could expose him to the power of Human Race destiny.
• Luo Hou summoned demonic visions to stir King Zhou's inner demonic nature, causing black vapor to pull the seed into his heart.
• Luo Hou left Chaoge after the seed entered King Zhou, while the Auspicious Golden Dragon cried out helplessly.

Haotian planned a grand Peach Banquet for Yaochi’s birthday, hoping to attract Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s attention and strengthen the Heavenly Court. Li Yi received an invitation, suspected the banquet signaled the coming Investiture of the Gods tribulation, and sent Candle Dragon to represent the Underworld while he pursued other matters.

• Haotian worried that the Heavenly Court had lost its standing and that he could not challenge the Witch Clan, the Underworld, or the Sages.
• Yaochi asked Haotian whether to celebrate her birthday, and he decided to host a grand Peach Banquet to draw Hongjun’s attention.
• Invitations went out across the Primordial World, including to the Witch Clan and the Underworld, and cultivators began traveling to the Heavenly Court.
• Li Yi suspected the Peach Banquet would precede the Investiture of the Gods tribulation and wondered what scheme Hongjun intended to advance.
• Li Yi told Candle Dragon to attend the Peach Banquet on the Underworld’s behalf while he handled other business.

At the Peach Banquet, Haotian deliberately invited the Sages and powerful cultivators to celebrate Yaochi’s birthday, then used their contempt for the occasion to seek Hongjun’s intervention. Hongjun sent Haotian back to the Heavenly Court and, seeking to recover his strength, began planning to disrupt Human Race fate and devour part of the Heavenly Dao.

• Haotian welcomed the Sages and cultivators to the Peach Banquet, then announced it was a celebration of Yaochi’s birthday.
• Yuanshi, Lao Zi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti left, followed by the other guests, while Haotian concealed his satisfaction.
• Haotian went to Purple Cloud Palace, wept to Hongjun about the Heavenly Court being ignored, and threatened to resign as Heavenly Emperor.
• Hongjun sent Haotian back to the Heavenly Court and reflected that his stolen fate and the damaged Jade Butterfly of Creation had weakened his fusion with the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun examined the Human Race’s fate and planned to throw it into turmoil so he could exploit the resulting disorder and devour part of the Heavenly Dao.