Recaps

Yuan Hong and the other disciples of the Sect of Interception overwhelmed the Western Teachings disciples, exposing how weak their foundations were. Maitreya confidently challenged Kong Xuan, but Kong Xuan swallowed him with his Five-Colored Divine Light, leaving the Western Teachings in shock.

• Yuan Hong struck Mahasthamaprapta so hard that he flew away and fainted when Yuan Hong unleashed his full strength.
• The Sect of Interception disciples defeated the Western Teachings disciples with ease, and Yun Zhongzi and the others recognized how hollow their cultivation was.
• Maitreya assured Guangchengzi and True Person Taiyi that his Nirvana Great Dao and status as a Primordial Golden Immortal would let him hold Kong Xuan to a draw.
• Kong Xuan swept Maitreya away with his Five-Colored Divine Light, and the Western Teachings disciples assumed he had hidden himself in the Dao of Extinction.
• After Maitreya failed to reappear, Kong Xuan revealed that he had swallowed him.

The Interception Sect disciples defeated Guangchengzi, True Person Taiyi, and the Western Teachings cultivators who had come to interfere in the East Sea Coast affair. After the Chan Sect disciples departed, Fuxi revealed his hatred of the Western Teachings and demanded that their captives be killed.

• Kong Xuan captured Maitreya with Five-Colored Divine Light, and the Great Peng Bird defeated Guangchengzi while Wuzhiqi subdued True Person Taiyi.
• The Great Peng Bird argued that the Western Teachings had no right to interfere in the East and accused them of provoking conflict between the Chan and Jie Sects.
• Yun Zhongzi persuaded Guangchengzi and True Person Taiyi to leave, and they departed with their group.
• The Interception Sect disciples surrounded and cuffed the Western Teachings cultivators after they tried to leave.
• Fuxi told the disciples to capture the Western Teachings cultivators because he blamed them for the Human Race's past suffering.
• When the Great Peng Bird asked Fuxi how to deal with the captives, Fuxi said he wanted them dead.

Fuxi demanded the deaths of Buddhism’s leaders and followers, accusing them of harming the Human Race, until Saint Zhunti arrived to defuse the confrontation and recruit the Interception Sect disciples. Yun Zhongzi avoided Zhunti’s invitation by invoking their Grandmaster’s orders, and the group returned to the task of helping the Human Emperor attain the Dao.

• Fuxi accused Buddhist monks of weakening and enslaving the Human Race and insisted they must die.
• The Great Peng Bird put his sword to Maitreya’s neck, but Saint Zhunti arrived from the Ultimate Bliss World and stopped him.
• Zhunti praised the Interception Sect disciples and declared that they had an affinity with the Western Teachings.
• Yun Zhongzi cited their Grandmaster’s orders to assist the Human Emperor and offered to ask permission before visiting Zhunti’s Western Land.
• Zhunti dropped the invitation for the moment and urged the disciples to complete the Human Dao undertaking first.

Saint Zhunti pressured Yun Zhongzi and the others into accepting books imbued with his influence, then tried to leave after declaring the dispute settled. Fuxi demanded that Zhunti’s disciples die for harming the Human Race, so Zhunti punished him by suppressing him beneath a mountain.

• Saint Zhunti gave Yun Zhongzi and the others books containing his insights, and they accepted them after Qingyuan promised to protect them.
• Saint Zhunti announced that the conflict was over and prepared to return to the Western Land with his disciples.
• Fuxi called Zhunti’s disciples bald donkeys and insisted they were responsible for harming the Human Race and had to die.
• Great Peng Bird tried to dissuade Fuxi, but Fuxi drew his sword and threatened to stop Zhunti from leaving.
• Saint Zhunti declared that he would suppress Fuxi for one hundred years and sent a five-finger Giant Peak down upon him.

Fuxi shattered Zhunti’s Five-Finger Mountain and injured the Saint, awakening the Human Dao Will and shaking the Primordial Wilderness. The Saints gathered at the East Sea Coast, where Taiqing ordered the Western Teachings’ followers punished and barred them from the Eastern Lands while Fuxi served as Human Race Co-Lord.

• Zhunti attacked Fuxi with a Five Elements mountain, but Fuxi’s Human Dao aura transformed him into a majestic Human Emperor and he shattered the mountain with one finger.
• Fuxi’s strike sent Zhunti’s treasures flying and cracked his Sixteen-Foot Golden Body, injuring the Saint.
• The Human Dao Will appeared behind Fuxi, invigorating the Primordial Wilderness and drawing the attention of its living beings and Heavenly Dao Saints.
• The figure in Zixiao Palace divined that the Human Dao’s future had become hazy and wondered who the Anomaly was.
• The Saints arrived at the East Sea Coast, and Taiqing ordered the Western Teachings’ followers confined for five hundred years and banned from the Eastern Lands while Fuxi remained Human Race Co-Lord.

Fuxi accepted a temporary ban on Western Teachings members entering the East Sea Coast, and Tongtian confronted Zhunti and Jieyin before they departed. Nuwa asked Tongtian to let Qingyuan teach her troublesome attendants, but he refused, and Pingxin then asked him to arrange an appointment with Qingyuan.

• Taiqing settled the dispute by having Zhunti bar Western Teachings members from the East Sea Coast while Fuxi served as Human Race Co-Lord, and Fuxi agreed to kill any who violated the ban.
• Taiqing and Yuqing left, and Tongtian confronted Zhunti over Bodhi Leaves and accused the Western Saints of having undermined his sect.
• Jieyin and Zhunti left with their disciples, leaving Tongtian, Nuwa, and Pingxin on the East Sea Coast.
• Nuwa asked Tongtian to send her troublesome attendants to Qingyuan for instruction, but Tongtian refused because Qingyuan was recovering in seclusion.
• Pingxin asked Tongtian to arrange an appointment with Qingyuan, explaining that her people could not reach him without one.

Pingxin asked Tongtian to help her meet Qingyuan, while Fuxi recovered from the Human Dao’s possession and resolved to unite the East Sea Coast. After the Fútiān Army’s forces were crushed, Fuxi’s army marched south to eliminate Futian’s remaining rule.

• Pingxin told Tongtian she had waited a long time to meet Qingyuan and asked him to arrange an appointment, and Tongtian agreed to find out.
• After the Saints departed, Fuxi woke and recalled feeling healed while immersed in a warm presence he believed was his mother.
• Fuxi ordered the Fútiān Army’s leaders killed and its common soldiers enslaved for two thousand years, striking down those who protested.
• Yun Zhongzi urged the others to break the grand formation, and Taibai Golden Star and the Asura Race joined the fight against the Fútiān Army.
• The Heavenly Court and the Asura Race killed hundreds of thousands of Fútiān Army members, while the survivors submitted as slaves.
• After restoring order in the central East Sea Coast, Fuxi’s army marched south to eradicate Futian’s remaining rule.

Qingyuan used his authority as Human Dao’s master to imprint his laws on its origin, then fished up the Human Dao Seal and merged it into Human Dao. After discussing Haotian’s cultivation, he heard Willow Immortal cry for help as the willow tree went berserk.

• Qingyuan shaped the newborn Human Dao with his Great Dao Laws while Haotian watched in shock.
• Qingyuan fished up the Human Dao Seal, a supreme treasure that could command Human Dao and appoint or depose Human Emperors.
• Qingyuan refined the Human Dao Seal and merged it into Human Dao Origin, strengthening his control over Human Dao.
• Qingyuan sent his Ten Demon God Incarnations to guard the Human Dao Origin Realm and made further arrangements there.
• Qingyuan asked Haotian why he had not severed a corpse, and Haotian said he sought the Hunyuan realm instead.
• Willow Immortal’s branches thrashed wildly behind the seaside villa, and it cried out for Qingyuan to save it.

Willow Immortal’s breakthrough was disrupted when Great Immortal Yang Mei tried to assimilate it and descend through its body, but Qingyuan waited for Yang Mei’s consciousness to fully arrive. Willow Immortal’s power surged into the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, leaving Haotian unsure whether Qingyuan could stop what came next.

• Haotian witnessed Willow Immortal’s violent breakthrough and sensed a Chaos Demon God’s aura within it.
• Qingyuan recognized that Great Immortal Yang Mei was trying to assimilate Willow Immortal and use it as his Present Body.
• Willow Immortal cried out as Yang Mei’s memories and consciousness overwhelmed it, while Qingyuan told Haotian to wait before intervening.
• Yang Mei’s aura descended through Willow Immortal, whose body and Dharma Aspect expanded under the pressure.
• Willow Immortal advanced from the Peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm into the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, astonishing Haotian.

Yang Mei’s descending consciousness appeared through a willow tree and tried to devour Qingyuan’s Herb Garden, but Qingyuan gave Haotian a Thunder Seal to fight it. Haotian drove Yang Mei back, and Yang Mei vowed to remember his grudge against him.

• Yang Mei’s consciousness took over a massive willow tree and overwhelmed Haotian with its aura.
• Qingyuan explained that Yang Mei could possess willow plants that reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Haotian begged Qingyuan to intervene.
• Yang Mei spotted Qingyuan’s Herb Garden and sent willow branches toward it to devour its treasures.
• Qingyuan gave Haotian a Thunder Seal and ordered him to beat Yang Mei half to death and capture him.
• The Thunder Seal empowered Haotian with Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level Thunder Dao, and he struck Yang Mei back with lightning.
• Yang Mei’s willow form weakened as he retreated, accusing Hongjun of plotting against him and vowing to remember Haotian.

Qingyuan stopped Yang Mei from destroying himself, cleansed his captured Primordial Spirit, and used it to restore Willow Immortal and advance him to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. Willow Immortal became Qingyuan’s disciple and received the name Willow Yuan.

• Haotian attacked Yang Mei with lightning after urging Qingyuan to destroy him, while Yang Mei suspected Hongjun had set a trap.
• Yang Mei burned part of his Primordial Spirit to send a warning, but Qingyuan froze space-time and revealed himself as a Chaos Demon God rather than Hongjun.
• Qingyuan extracted and cleansed Yang Mei’s remaining Primordial Spirit, then combined it with Willow Immortal’s future imprint and body to restore him and raise him to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Willow Immortal awakened, thanked Qingyuan, and accepted his offer to become a disciple.
• Qingyuan granted Willow Immortal a cultivation method and treasures, then named him Willow Yuan.

Qingyuan received a wealth of rewards for taking Liu Yuan as his disciple, including a terrifying Hongmeng cultivation method that made him reconsider his strength and remain wary of Hongjun. After sending Liu Yuan to cultivate, Qingyuan offered Haotian guidance on entering the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and walking the Hunyuan Path.

• Qingyuan examined his rewards, including the Nine Ancient Steles Pagoda, new divine abilities, and the Chaos Myriad Sources Great Dao Body Hongmeng Formula.
• Qingyuan could not finish reading the cultivation method without suffering injuries, so he restrained his pride and considered the strength of Hongjun.
• Qingyuan gave Liu Yuan a hundred drops of Three Lights Divine Water and told him to stabilize his realm in secluded cultivation.
• Haotian envied Liu Yuan's gifts but rejected the thought of becoming Qingyuan's disciple because he did not want to betray the Dao Ancestor.
• Haotian returned the Thunder Seal, and Qingyuan asked whether he wanted to enter the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and walk the Hunyuan Path.
• Haotian, who had avoided the flawed Severing Three Corpses Method, eagerly asked Qingyuan for guidance.

Qingyuan gave Haotian a cultivation method and Ascension Pill while secretly using him to turn Yang Mei against Hongjun. After Haotian left, Yang Mei learned of the apparent plot and vowed revenge, leaving Qingyuan’s scheme set in motion.

• Qingyuan gave Haotian the Primordial Golden Immortal Chapter of the Nine Revolutions Primordial Art and an Ascension Pill, and Haotian swore he would never resent him.
• Haotian left to return to the Heavenly Court, pleased with the gifts and believing he had gained Qingyuan’s favor.
• Qingyuan revealed that he had manipulated Haotian into striking Yang Mei so Yang Mei would blame Hongjun and Hongjun would distrust Haotian.
• Qingyuan returned to his cultivation beneath a coconut tree north of Golden Ao Island, refining treasures and studying divine abilities.
• Yang Mei learned that Hongjun had supposedly plotted against him and, furious over the betrayal, vowed to take revenge.

Yang Mei attacked Zixiao Palace and was apparently destroyed by Hongjun, who began investigating the cause of the attack. At Shouyang Mountain, Yuanshi urged Taiqing to compete with the Interception Sect for influence over Human Dao, just as Zhunti and Jieyin arrived.

• Yang Mei disrupted Zixiao Palace and accused Hongjun of plotting against him, but Hongjun silenced him and struck him down, leaving only a willow twig behind.
• Hongjun suspected Yang Mei had used a fake body and used the Creation Jade Disk to investigate him.
• Laozi questioned Xuandu about not assisting Fuxi, and Xuandu explained that Fuxi was already leading the Human Race well without him.
• Yuanshi warned Taiqing that Human Dao’s growing power could strengthen Tongtian and the Interception Sect, and urged Taiqing to claim control over Human Dao.
• Xuandu announced that Zhunti and Jieyin had arrived to visit Taiqing and Yuanshi.

Jieyin and Zhunti urged Taiqing to take control of the Human Race, arguing that Qingyuan had held the position of Human Lord long enough and should yield it. Taiqing asked what they intended to do, and the chapter ended with him ordering Xuandu to bring seats and tea.

• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived at Taiqing and Yuanshi’s temple and said they had come to help the Human Sect reclaim influence over the Human Race.
• Zhunti argued that the Human Race had strayed by following the Interception Sect and proposed that Taiqing lead the Human Race and guide the coming Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Yuanshi supported Zhunti’s case and offered the Human Sect one Sovereign and three Emperor positions, but Taiqing questioned whether Xuandu could teach every generation alone.
• Zhunti and Jieyin called for Qingyuan to surrender the Human Lord position, claiming Taiqing was its rightful holder and offering to help defeat the Interception Sect.
• Taiqing asked what Jieyin and Zhunti intended to do, then ordered Xuandu to bring seats and serve tea.

At Shouyang Mountain, four Heavenly Dao Saints planned to join forces over the Human Emperors before witnessing Great Immortal Yang Mei attack Zixiao Palace. As they headed to ask the Dao Ancestor what had happened, Nuwa also left for Chaos, while Tongtian found that he needed an appointment to see his disciple Qingyuan.

• Zhunti discussed the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors with Taiqing, Yuqing, and Jieyin, including how to persuade Qingyuan to yield the Human Emperor position.
• The four Saints witnessed Yang Mei's assault on Zixiao Palace and heard the Dao Ancestor's voice calm the Primordial Wilderness.
• Laozi warned that growing Variables required thunderous measures, and the four Saints set out for Zixiao Palace to question their teacher.
• Nuwa learned that Ling Zhuzi and Lu Ya had resumed fighting over their reading pace, then left Jin Ning to watch them and departed for Chaos.
• Tongtian discovered that he needed an appointment to visit Qingyuan, but could not make one without seeing Qingyuan first.

Sect Master Tongtian failed to obtain an appointment with Qingyuan for Pingxin, then joined the Saints at Zixiao Palace after Chaos Demon Gods attacked it. After explaining that Yang Mei had caused the disaster, Hongjun asked the Saints to protect the Primordial Wilderness and summoned Haotian to Zixiao Palace.

• Sect Master Tongtian tried to persuade Yu Xin to take him to Qingyuan, but she refused without an appointment, leaving Tongtian unable to help Pingxin.
• Tongtian sensed the attack on Zixiao Palace and arrived to find Taiqing, Yuqing, and the Two Shakya already gathered; Nuwa and Pingxin arrived afterward.
• Hongjun told the Saints that Yang Mei had caused the disaster and someone had framed him, then asked them to guard the Primordial Wilderness against changes that could trigger the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Hongjun announced that he would enter Secluded Cultivation to find Yang Mei, and the Saints promised to help him defeat Yang Mei.
• After Haotian celebrated his breakthrough to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, Hongjun summoned him to Zixiao Palace at once.

Hongjun summoned Haotian to Zixiao Palace and interrogated him about Yang Mei, but Haotian concealed where the encounter happened to avoid offending powerful figures. Haotian left with his trust in Hongjun shaken, while Hongjun’s deductions pointed toward the East Sea without revealing who was plotting against him.

• Yaochi Golden Mother realized Hongjun had summoned only Haotian and, believing he disapproved of her ambitions, withdrew to her sleeping chambers.
• Haotian eagerly traveled to Zixiao Palace, expecting praise, but Hongjun sternly asked whether he knew his crime.
• Haotian described how he and another expert had subdued Yang Mei’s Primordial Spirit, but withheld the location and the expert’s identity.
• Hongjun accused Haotian of deceiving him and demanded to know where Yang Mei had descended; Haotian stayed silent to avoid offending Tongtian and other powerful figures.
• Hongjun dismissed Haotian, who left feeling their relationship would grow more distant.
• Hongjun traced Haotian’s connections through the River of Time and found only that he had once stayed in the East Sea, then decided to deal with Yang Mei first.

Haotian returned from Zixiao Palace hurt by Hongjun’s distrust, but chose to remain loyal and focus on the Heavenly Court. Meanwhile, Daoist Randeng’s rushed cultivation nearly collapsed, and his master summoned him to help.

• Haotian returned to the Heavenly Court, dismissed the gathered immortals, and drank alone with Taibai Golden Star.
• Haotian told Taibai Golden Star that Hongjun had questioned his efforts, then realized he was taking out his anger on a loyal minister and sent him away.
• Haotian decided to stay in the Heavenly Court, cultivate further, and reduce his visits to the East Sea to reassure Hongjun.
• Daoist Randeng’s cultivation faltered after he rushed to prove himself, so he called for his master to save him.
• Daoist Randeng’s master summoned him to a cloud-borne place and asked why he had ignored the advice to cultivate patiently.

Qingyuan gave Daoist Randeng cultivation manuals, pills, and a way to contact him, and Randeng used the gifts to break through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. Meanwhile, Fuxi unified most of the Human Race and led its development.

• Qingyuan gave Daoist Randeng the Nine Revolutions Primordial Art, a Hunyuan Martial Path method, pills, and an incense burner for summoning him.
• Qingyuan explained that he had taught the Martial Path to the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect under another identity, then reassured Randeng that he could pursue the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors opportunity.
• Daoist Randeng studied Qingyuan’s teachings, used the Three Lights Divine Water and pills to restore his foundation, and broke through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Daoist Randeng concealed his new cultivation and continued secluded training for several thousand years.
• Fuxi brought the East Sea Coast and most Human Tribes under his rule, becoming the Human Race’s common leader and devoting himself to its prosperity.

Fuxi devoted himself to improving the Human Race and sought a way to predict and avert disasters. As he entered enlightenment beside the Yellow River, Qingyuan sent his disciples to obtain the River Diagram and Luo Book from Kunpeng with help from the True Dragon Realm.

• Fuxi advanced the Human Race through writing, agriculture, housing, medicine, music, and other reforms, then worked to reduce disaster deaths with astronomical and geographical knowledge.
• Fuxi realized he could try to predict disasters and continued observing the heavens, earth, and all things.
• Fuxi fell into deep enlightenment beside the Yellow River, and Great Peng Bird consulted Qingyuan after growing concerned.
• Qingyuan explained that Fuxi was comprehending his Dao and instructed the disciples to retrieve the River Diagram and Luo Book from Kunpeng.
• Qingyuan gave the disciples a token to summon help from the True Dragon Realm and promised rewards when they returned.
• The disciples left Wuzhiqi to guard Fuxi and hurried to the True Dragon Realm.

Yun Zhongzi and the others found the True Dragon Realm and recruited Candle Dragon and the Dragon Clan to help retrieve the River Diagram and Luo Book from Ancestor Kunpeng. They surrounded the Demon Master's Palace, but Kunpeng activated a powerful defensive formation, and the battle began.

• Yun Zhongzi, Kong Xuan, Great Peng Bird, and the others found the drifting True Dragon Realm and entered it with a bronze token.
• Candle Dragon welcomed them warmly, agreed to help Qingyuan retrieve the River Diagram and Luo Book, and set out with the Dragon Clan for Northern Darkness.
• Candle Dragon surrounded the Demon Master's Palace with seven Corpse-Severing Quasi-Saints, Yun Zhongzi and the others, and many Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• Candle Dragon demanded the River Diagram and Luo Book, but Ancestor Kunpeng refused to surrender them and challenged the group to take them.
• Ancestor Kunpeng activated a grand formation made from the deep sea of Northern Darkness, with his Three Corpses as Formation Eyes and the River Diagram and Luo Book as its formation treasure.
• Great Peng Bird shouted for the group to attack as Kunpeng's defensive formation enclosed them.

Demon Master Kunpeng fortified his palace in Northern Darkness with a powerful formation, but Qingyuan shattered it with a mere projection and seized him. Kunpeng surrendered the River Diagram and Luo Book and begged Qingyuan to spare his life.

• Demon Master Kunpeng used the River Diagram and Luo Book to build a formidable defensive formation around his palace.
• Candle Dragon and the Disciples of the Sect of Interception attacked the formation, but Yun Zhongzi stopped Candle Dragon from using his full strength and risking Heavenly Retribution.
• Kunpeng mocked Qingyuan and boasted that even the First Disciple of the Interception Sect could not break his formation.
• Qingyuan's projection grasped Northern Darkness, extinguished the River Diagram and Luo Book's spiritual light, and seized Kunpeng.
• Kunpeng gave Qingyuan the River Diagram and Luo Book and begged him to spare his life.

Qingyuan subdued Kunpeng in Northern Darkness and offered to guide him into the Hunyuan realm. Kunpeng accepted Qingyuan as his master, and Qingyuan left him with a new treasure and instructions to visit the East Sea after Fuxi’s matter was settled.

• Qingyuan’s projection broke through Kunpeng’s formation and seized him, stunning Kunpeng’s followers, Yun Zhongzi, and the Dragon Clan.
• Kunpeng offered the River Diagram and Luo Book to Qingyuan and begged for his life.
• Qingyuan sealed Northern Darkness from outside detection and asked whether Kunpeng wanted to enter the Hunyuan realm.
• Kunpeng agreed and kowtowed to accept Qingyuan as his master.
• Qingyuan explained that the River Diagram and Luo Book were meant for Human Emperor Fuxi, then gave Kunpeng the Innate Yin Yang Bagua Diagram.
• Qingyuan told Kunpeng to join Yun Zhongzi and the others in the East Sea after Fuxi’s matter was settled, then disappeared.

Ancestor Kunpeng received the Innate Yin Yang Bagua Diagram and joined Jie Sect, while Candle Dragon urged him to remain loyal to their Master. At the Yellow River, Fuxi saw the River Diagram and Luo Book brought by Dragon Horse and comprehended his Dao, preparing to create Bagua.

• Ancestor Kunpeng accepted the Innate Yin Yang Bagua Diagram from Yun Zhongzi and returned the River Diagram and Luo Book to him.
• Yun Zhongzi and the other Interception Sect disciples welcomed Kunpeng as a fellow disciple, though he felt humiliated by his new status.
• Candle Dragon returned to the Northern Darkness, encouraged Kunpeng to trust their Master, and revealed his progress toward the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Wuzhiqi guarded Fuxi at the Yellow River and grew alarmed as Fuxi used his essence blood to deduce the secrets of heaven.
• Dragon Horse arrived with the River Diagram and Luo Book on Candle Dragon's orders, and Wuzhiqi allowed him to approach Fuxi.
• Fuxi saw the treasures, attained enlightenment, and declared that he would create Bagua to deduce the secrets of heaven and divine fortune and misfortune.