Recaps

Qingyuan killed Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate and sent Great Sage Dao Venerate to spread the Divine and Martial Paths throughout the Primordial Wilderness. Great Sage Dao Venerate revealed his Hunyuan Saint aura, drawing Tongtian to Qingyuan’s residence, where Tongtian learned about their long association before leaving in exasperation.

• Qingyuan destroyed Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate, then created Great Sage Dao Venerate from Jieyin Incarnation’s shell and tasked him with teaching the Divine and Martial Paths.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate claimed he could not make a spectacle, then erupted with Hunyuan Saint power and shook the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Heavenly Dao Saints recognized the aura near Golden Ao Island and accepted that Qingyuan, the First Disciple of the Interception Sect, knew another Hunyuan Saint.
• Sect Master Tongtian confronted Qingyuan and learned that Great Sage Dao Venerate had discussed the Dao with him for years.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate boasted to Tongtian until Tongtian left for Biyou Palace, then began roaring across the Primordial Wilderness.

Great Sage Dao Venerate announced that he had deduced Primordial Golden Immortal methods for the Divine Path and Martial Path and would teach them at the East Sea Coast in a hundred years. Zhen Yuanzi and Minghe prepared to seek insight from his teaching, while the Heavenly Dao Saints grew murderous.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate revealed his Hunyuan Saint aura and proclaimed that he would teach the Primordial Golden Immortal methods of the Divine Path and Martial Path beneath the Martial Dao Monument in a hundred years.
• Living beings across the Primordial Wilderness were shocked by the new methods, and many set out for the East Sea Coast to hear the Dao.
• Zhen Yuanzi read Yun Zhongzi's letter praising the First Disciple of Interception Sect, then decided to meditate before attending Great Sage Dao Venerate's teaching.
• Minghe learned that Qingyuan had befriended a Hunyuan Saint, considered his advice to pursue another path, and resolved to visit the East Sea Coast after a hundred days of cultivation.
• Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Quasi-Saints considered going to the East Sea Coast, while the Heavenly Dao Saints filled with killing intent.

Great Sage Dao Venerate challenged Venerable Yuanshi after the Heavenly Dao Saints condemned his public display and teachings. He repelled Yuanshi’s attacks and absorbed his spiritual treasures, then taunted the Saints and demanded that Yuanshi use the Pangu Banner.

• Venerable Yuanshi attacked Great Sage Dao Venerate, who mocked him and called on his Netherworld incarnations for power.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate struck back and forced Yuanshi’s arm into the chaotic void, astonishing the Primordial Wilderness’s onlookers.
• Yuanshi summoned his Dharma Aspect and launched a barrage of spiritual treasures at Great Sage Dao Venerate.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate used the Five Elements Great Dao to swallow Yuanshi’s treasures, leaving the watching powers to wonder at his strength.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate taunted Yuanshi and the Heavenly Dao Saints, demanding that Yuanshi bring out the Pangu Banner.

Great Sage Dao Venerate taunted the Heavenly Dao Saints over his plans to spread teachings among the Human Race and seize the Human Dao, then confronted them with an Eight Souls Banner bearing their names. The Saints fell silent rather than risk its terrifying killing power, while Hongjun wondered why his name was written on it twice.

• The Heavenly Dao Saints appeared after Great Sage Dao Venerate insulted them, but he mocked their numbers and challenged them to fight.
• Taiqing and Yuanshi demanded answers and threatened to kill him, while Tongtian restrained Yuanshi and Nuwa questioned his plans for the East Sea Coast.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate declared that he would spread teachings among the Human Race, take control of the Human Dao, and challenge its three Hunyuan Saints.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate threatened Jieyin and Zhunti, then berated Tongtian and the other Saints until they brought out their treasures and sealed off his escape routes.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate revealed the Eight Souls Banner, whose killing aura threatened the Saints, and they refrained from attacking.
• Hongjun watched from Zixiao Palace and cursed when he saw his name written twice on the banner.

Great Sage Dao Venerate used the Eight Souls Banner to intimidate the Heavenly Dao Saints, then agreed to teach at the East Sea Coast in one hundred years. After Hongjun departed, the witnesses were left stunned by the Saints’ retreat and resolved to attend the teaching.

• Hongjun appeared to stop the Saints from fighting, but Great Sage Dao Venerate continued provoking them with the Eight Souls Banner until Jieyin begged him to erase his name.
• The Saints withdrew rather than challenge Great Sage Dao Venerate, and Hongjun discussed the banner’s power and the Dao Venerate’s plans with him.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate told Hongjun he would teach the Human Race and other listeners at the East Sea Coast for up to one million years, and Hongjun left him to proceed.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate announced that his teaching would begin in one hundred years and warned visitors not to arrive late or cause trouble among the Human Race.
• The witnesses marveled that Great Sage Dao Venerate had driven off the Heavenly Dao Saints and decided they should attend his teaching.

Qingyuan dealt with his unruly incarnation Great Sage Dao Venerate, then discussed the Dao with Sect Master Tongtian and realized the Dao Ancestor was plotting against him. Meanwhile, Lu Ya’s plans against Jingwei were disrupted by Great Sage Dao Venerate’s threats, and he sought Saint Nuwa’s counsel, leaving him shaken.

• Qingyuan struck Great Sage Dao Venerate for his ostentatious threats, but the incarnation defended his behavior and went on to swagger through Heavenly Palace Immortal City before disappearing into the sea.
• Sect Master Tongtian praised Qingyuan for enduring Great Sage Dao Venerate and discussed the Dao with him, discovering how much Qingyuan’s understanding had grown.
• Qingyuan suspected the Dao Ancestor had allied with former enemies to kill him and planned to act after the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Lu Ya summoned the Demon Saints and Great Demons and asked how they should proceed with their scheme against Jingwei after Great Sage Dao Venerate threatened anyone causing trouble on the East Sea Coast.
• Lu Ya dismissed his hesitant subordinates and contacted Saint Nuwa for advice; after her phantom vanished, he stood frozen with an ugly expression.

Great Sage Dao Venerate confronted Lu Ya for insulting him, beat him savagely, and destroyed his Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife. After he killed Nuwa’s first incarnation and threatened to destroy Wa Huang Heaven, Nuwa appeared again and attacked him with the Red Embroidered Ball.

• Lu Ya declared that he would challenge Great Sage Dao Venerate after a hundred years, and Great Sage Dao Venerate appeared to confront him.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate berated Lu Ya, beat him, and snapped the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife when Lu Ya used it against him.
• Lu Ya attacked Great Sage Dao Venerate as a Three-Legged Golden Crow, but Great Sage Dao Venerate beat him again and prepared to kill him with a Destruction spear.
• Nuwa’s incarnation pleaded for Lu Ya, but Great Sage Dao Venerate pierced and killed it, then continued threatening Lu Ya.
• Nuwa appeared again and challenged Great Sage Dao Venerate after he dismissed her and threatened Wa Huang Heaven, then hurled the Red Embroidered Ball at him.

Great Sage Dao Venerate defeated Saint Nuwa after she attacked him, took the Mountain and River Diagram, and forced her to destroy Wa Huang Heaven before leaving. He then made Lu Ya pull his carriage and warned the Demon Race Remnants to keep order during his sermons as the sermon day arrived.

• Saint Nuwa attacked Great Sage Dao Venerate, but he overwhelmed her with his weapons and took the Mountain and River Diagram.
• The other Heavenly Dao Saints intervened, and Great Sage Dao Venerate threatened them with the Eight Souls Banner.
• Saint Nuwa apologized, but Great Sage Dao Venerate refused to return her treasure and demanded that she destroy Wa Huang Heaven before leaving.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate confronted Lu Ya and the Demon Race Remnants, then ordered Lu Ya to pull his carriage and Ying Zhao to make it.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate warned the demons not to cause trouble during his sermons, and the story of Lu Ya pulling his carriage spread before the sermon day arrived.

Great Sage Dao Venerate arrived at the East Sea Coast to prepare a sermon that drew an enormous gathering of Primordial Wilderness powers. As Haotian and Yaochi separately traveled there, their rivalry and Haotian’s unease over the Dao Ancestor’s favor remained unresolved, while a new arrival appeared before the crowd.

• After a hundred years of travel, Great Sage Dao Venerate and Lu Ya arrived at the Martial Dao Monument, where countless cultivators had gathered for the sermon.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate embarrassed Lu Ya by exposing his phone habits, then ordered him to register attendees and take their photos; after Dao Venerate killed troublemakers, the crowd formed an orderly line.
• Haotian decided to attend the sermon, wondering whether Yuan Qing and Great Sage Dao Venerate were connected, and departed the Heavenly Court in a grand procession.
• Haotian and Yaochi Golden Mother encountered each other on their way to the East Sea Coast and continued separately without greeting, reflecting their growing rivalry within the Heavenly Court.
• At the Martial Dao Monument, Haotian was astonished by the gathering of great powers, registered, and spoke with figures including Ancestor Minghe, the Queen Mother of the West, and Great Immortal Zhenyuan.
• Primordial Violet Qi appeared from the east, and the gathered cultivators straightened and waited respectfully for the newcomer.

Heavenly Dao and Human Dao Saints, Empress Pingxin, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun arrived to hear Great Sage Dao Venerate preach, and each had to sign in and be photographed. After Fang Yuan and Hongjun complied, Venerable Yuanshi asked when the lecture would begin.

• Saint Jieyin and Saint Zhunti were stopped by Lu Ya, then signed in and had their photographs taken before joining the audience.
• Saint Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones signed in, while Empress Pingxin arrived with members of the Witch Clan and also registered.
• Daoist Zixu, Thunder Ancestor, and Daoist Feng arrived and took their seats as the gathering of Saints grew.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun arrived alongside Fang Yuan, and the gathered cultivators and Saints respectfully greeted him.
• Fang Yuan questioned the sign-in book, but he and Hongjun signed in and posed for photographs before entering the Dojo.
• When Great Sage Dao Venerate still had not begun preaching, Venerable Yuanshi asked when he would start.

Great Sage Dao Venerate expounded the Primordial Golden Immortal stages of the Divine Path and Martial Path, crediting his Dao discussions with Qingyuan. As cultivators and Saints began comprehending the methods, he announced that he would also explain the paths’ Divine Abilities.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate waited until the appointed time, then began his sermon and credited Qingyuan with helping deduce the later Divine Path and Martial Path stages.
• He explained that Divine Path cultivators could reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm by recognizing the self as the true deity and condensing Primordial Unity True Intent.
• Divine Path cultivators and Saints began comprehending the method, while Fuxi, Shennong, Zhen Yuanzi, Queen Mother of the West, and Ancestor Minghe held back.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate explained how Martial Path cultivators could analyze and elevate their path, forge themselves with Martial Dao Laws, and condense Martial Dao Hunyuan True Intent.
• Saints and other great powers began cultivating Martial Dao Hunyuan, while Witch Clan and Demon Race cultivators were captivated by the method.
• As cultivators praised Great Sage Dao Venerate and Qingyuan, he announced that he would explain the Divine Path and Martial Path Divine Ability methods.

Great Sage Dao Venerate lectured the cultivators on Divine Path and Martial Path abilities for five hundred years, then dismissed them and continued traveling with Lu Ya as his carriage driver. When Lu Ya demanded to be released and refused to pull the carriage for life, Great Sage Dao Venerate appeared before him and asked if he wanted to die.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate explained how Qingyuan had created the Divine Path and Martial Path but lacked the power to develop their matching combat abilities, then began teaching the gathered cultivators.
• Most listeners failed to comprehend the increasingly profound lecture, while a few powerful cultivators and the Saints gained insights; attempts to record the teachings produced only chaotic images and symbols.
• After five hundred years, the lecture ended, and the cultivators and Saints thanked Great Sage Dao Venerate before leaving.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate ordered Lu Ya to drive his carriage again, and after more than a hundred years Lu Ya asked to be freed, promising to do anything in return.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate told Lu Ya to pull the carriage for the rest of his life, and Lu Ya threw down the whip, refused, and declared he would rather die.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate appeared before Lu Ya and asked whether he wanted to die.

Lu Ya confronted Great Sage Dao Venerate over years of servitude, and the Dao Venerate finally released him and gave him two pills. Lu Ya set off to revive the Demon Race and earn a chance to apologize, while Great Sage Dao Venerate continued wandering and encountered a Sky-Mending Stone.

• Lu Ya angrily challenged Great Sage Dao Venerate to kill him, while the Dragon Horse begged the Dao Venerate to spare him.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate slapped Lu Ya, then kicked the Dragon Horse and carriage away and gave Lu Ya and the Dragon Horse two pills to settle eight hundred years of Karma.
• After Great Sage Dao Venerate disappeared, Lu Ya gathered the broken carriage pieces and struggled to decide what to do with his newfound freedom.
• Lu Ya refused the pills for himself, resolved to find Ying Zhao and the others, and vowed to revive the Demon Race before welcoming Great Sage Dao Venerate back and apologizing.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate watched Lu Ya and the Dragon Horse depart, continued wandering, and encountered a Sky-Mending Stone at a coastal mountain summit the next day.

Great Sage Dao Venerate empowered the Sky-Mending Stone that would become Sun Wukong, while Saint Nuwa later discovered it and clashed with him over its fate. After failing to claim the stone, Nuwa went to Zixiao Palace to ask Hongjun for an audience.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate infused the Immortal Stone with Creation Vitality and Laws, helping its Stone Fetus develop and promising to help it escape future deception if it sought his sect.
• The Divine Path and Martial Path spread throughout the Primordial Wilderness as living beings and factions flocked to cultivate them.
• Saint Nuwa studied both paths, sensed that an Immortal Stone was fated to her, and traveled to find it.
• Nuwa strengthened the mountain’s earth veins, then discovered that Great Sage Dao Venerate had already altered the Stone Fetus and refused to yield it.
• Nuwa attacked Great Sage Dao Venerate’s phantom after he mocked her claim, but she left the Immortal Stone untouched when he warned her against interfering.
• Nuwa went to Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun admitted her and asked what had brought her there.

Nuwa sought Hongjun’s help against Great Sage Dao Venerate, but Hongjun prioritized his plans against the Human Race and assigned Nuwa to support Chi You while arranging Haotian’s death. Centuries later, Lu Ya mobilized the Demon Race Remnants against the Human Race, and Jingwei encountered a fortune-telling Daoist on her way to the East Sea.

• Nuwa told Hongjun about her grievance with Great Sage Dao Venerate, but Hongjun postponed dealing with him until after his current plans.
• Hongjun approved the Saints’ scheme against the Human Race and ordered Nuwa to help Chi You contend for the Human Emperor’s position.
• Hongjun told Nuwa that Haotian was fated to die at the hands of the Witch Clan, and Nuwa accepted the assignment.
• Lu Ya gathered the Demon Race Remnants, borrowed Nuwa’s Demon-Summoning Banner, and recruited demons and reclusive experts for an attack on the Human Race.
• The demons incited unrest across the East Sea Coast and lured Shennong’s daughter, Jingwei, toward the seaside while Shennong went to pacify the land.
• Jingwei slipped away toward the East Sea and encountered a strange old Daoist whose stall advertised fortune-telling.

Jingwei challenged the fortune-teller Great Sage Dao Venerate, who guessed her identity from her waist token and gave her a Peace Talisman before she left for the East Sea. When Shennong’s guards confronted the Daoist, their leader Qingshan recognized him and fell to his knees in tears.

• Jingwei mocked Great Sage Dao Venerate and demanded that he tell her fortune or let her smash his stall.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate made a series of guesses about Jingwei, then identified her as Shennong’s daughter after spotting her name on her waist token.
• Jingwei transferred 100 Immortal Crystals to Great Sage Dao Venerate, accepted his Peace Talisman, and burrowed away toward the East Sea.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate returned to sleep as Shennong’s hidden guards arrived and ordered their attendants to question him.
• The attendants overturned Great Sage Dao Venerate’s stall and dragged him before Qingshan, who recognized the Daoist and immediately kowtowed in tears.

Great Sage Dao Venerate confronted Qingshan and his guards after they bullied him, condemning the Human Race’s abuse of power and summoning Shennong. Shennong promised to investigate and punish the offenders, but Great Sage Dao Venerate shortened his pledge to protect the Human Race to two hundred thousand years and left.

• Qingshan recognized Great Sage Dao Venerate, begged for mercy, and tried to kill himself, but Great Sage Dao Venerate stopped him and denounced his conduct.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate ordered Qingshan to call Shennong, who arrived with Fuxi and Daoist Randeng and watched a video of Qingshan and his guards abusing their authority.
• Shennong beat Qingshan, promised to interrogate him and investigate injustices throughout the Human Race, and vowed to punish officials who bullied others.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate criticized the Human Race’s corruption, reduced his protection pledge to two hundred thousand years, and left despite Shennong’s efforts to stop him.
• Shennong imprisoned Qingshan and the others, arranged protection for Jingwei, and returned to Fuxi City.

Jingwei left her usual seaside retreat to travel toward Golden Ao Island, but an Old Flood Dragon swallowed her during its disastrous breakthrough. Shennong led the Human Race against the East Sea Dragon Clan, and as Ao Guang protested the clan’s innocence, Daoist Randeng arrived with the captured Flood Dragon.

• Jingwei decided the familiar beach no longer satisfied her and secretly set off across the East Sea toward Golden Ao Island.
• An Old Flood Dragon injured by its breakthrough devoured Jingwei and several sea creatures, then killed one of her Taiyi Golden Immortal guards and wounded another while escaping.
• The surviving guard Xia Heng reported Jingwei’s death to Shennong and showed the attack recorded on an Image-Recording Stone.
• Shennong led millions of Human Race troops to the East Sea, and Ao Guang denied that the Dragon Clan had killed Jingwei.
• Daoist Randeng arrived with the Old Flood Dragon and demanded to know who had ordered it to harm Shennong’s daughter.

The Human Race confronted Ao Guang over the Old Flood Dragon’s killing of Shennong’s daughter, but the Flood Dragon’s accusations and the True Dragon Register’s revelation convinced Shennong to blame the Dragon Clan. Shennong gave Ao Guang ten days before the Human Race marched on the East Sea Dragon Palace, while Ao Guang ordered the Dragon Clan recalled.

• The Human Race gathered above the East Sea as Ao Guang brought the Old Flood Dragon forward to explain the conflict.
• Ao Guang presented the True Dragon Register and offered to verify that the Old Flood Dragon was not part of the Dragon Clan, but the captive insulted the Human Race and claimed the Dragon Clan intended to enslave it.
• When Shennong demanded to know why the Flood Dragon had killed his daughter, it mocked her and then self-destructed, leaving Ao Guang under suspicion.
• Daoist Randeng put the Flood Dragon’s blood into the True Dragon Register, which revealed its ties to the former East Sea Dragon King’s most loyal servant.
• Shennong gave Ao Guang ten days before the Human Race marched on the East Sea Dragon Palace, then struck and wounded the Dragons as they fled.
• Ao Guang ordered the Dragon Bell rung to recall every Dragon Clan member of the Primordial Wilderness.

Haotian and the immortals watched in shock as the Human Race and Dragon Clan slaughtered each other across the East Sea, while Lu Ya waited to exploit their losses. Jingwei survived a dragon attack because of Cai Xukun’s talisman, then called him and found him being beaten as he warned that she had caused a catastrophe.

• Haotian used the Haotian Mirror to reveal the brutal East Sea war between the Human Race and the Dragon Clan, abandoning plans for the Heavenly Court’s Yuan Hui banquet.
• Lu Ya held his demons back, waiting for Fuxi to appear and for both races to weaken before he attacked.
• Jingwei awoke alive in the East Sea and realized Cai Xukun’s talisman had saved her from the evil flood dragon.
• Jingwei ignored her father’s missed calls and video-called Cai Xukun to thank him and invite him to Fuxi City.
• Jingwei saw Cai Xukun being beaten, and Great Sage Dao Venerate warned that her trip to the East Sea had caused a catastrophic disaster.

Jingwei learned that her apparent death had been used to provoke a war between the Human Race and the Dragon Clan, then reached the battlefield and revealed she was alive. Shennong rushed to her side, but the Dragon Clan refused Daoist Randeng’s calls for a ceasefire, leaving the battle raging.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate told Jingwei that someone had staged her death to turn the Human Race and the Dragon Clan against each other.
• Jingwei searched online, saw the devastating war and its casualties, and blamed herself for going to the East Sea.
• Jingwei burned her mana and lifespan to tell the battlefield that she was alive and that someone had plotted against both sides.
• Shennong recognized Jingwei, abandoned the fight, and rushed to her as Daoist Randeng was overwhelmed by the Dragon Clan’s formation.
• The Dragon Clan rejected Daoist Randeng’s pleas to halt the war, insisting that the Human Race answer for its attack and the deaths of their people.
• Shennong revived Jingwei and asked how she had survived, and she explained that an old Daoist’s protective talisman had saved her and that he had warned of a plot.

Jingwei blamed herself for the war between the Human Race and the Dragon Clan and sacrificed herself to halt the fighting temporarily. Shennong summoned Great Sage Dao Venerate to identify the mastermind, but the chapter ended with Dao Venerate challenging the Dragon Clan’s claim of innocence.

• Shennong learned from Jingwei that Cai Xukun had said the Human Race and Dragon Clan were both targets of a scheme, but the Dragon Clan refused his call for a truce.
• Jingwei apologized to both sides and self-destructed, prompting the Human Race and Dragon Clan to temporarily stop fighting.
• Daoist Randeng urged the sides to investigate the mastermind, while the Dragon Clan’s Old Ancestor demanded that the culprit be identified before the conflict could be settled.
• Shennong called Cai Xukun and offered to drive Great Sage Dao Venerate’s carriage for eight thousand years in exchange for help.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate appeared above the East Sea and began addressing the leaders, then rejected the Dragon Clan’s claim of innocence because the Old Flood Dragon really belonged to them.

Great Sage Dao Venerate revealed that Old Flood Dragon had been a Dragon Clan member acting on an ancestor’s orders, while Human Race conspirators had helped provoke the war and plot against Jingwei. After their motives were exposed, over a hundred Human Race cultivators self-destructed, leaving Shennong devastated above the East Sea.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate explained that Old Flood Dragon had belonged to the Dragon Clan and had acted under orders from an ancestor in the True Dragon Realm.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate revealed that Human Race figures had wanted war and were involved in the plot against Jingwei, and Daoist Randeng restrained the suspects as they tried to flee.
• Shennong confronted the captured Human Race cultivators and demanded to know why they had plotted against the Dragon Clan and killed Jingwei.
• The conspirators declared that they opposed the Dragon Clan’s growing status and influence among humans, then self-destructed rather than face judgment.
• One conspirator claimed Jingwei had to die to help the Human Race annex the Dragon Clan, then self-destructed with the others as Shennong wept in grief.

As Shennong mourned Jingwei and apologized for the Human Race’s role in the conflict, Great Sage Dao Venerate exposed evidence that Dragon Clan Old Ancestors had colluded with the Demon Race. The accused Old Ancestors were confronted by their own clansmen, and one self-destructed before Great Sage Dao Venerate questioned another.

• Shennong grieved over Jingwei’s death, while Daoist Randeng blamed himself and Shennong accepted responsibility for the Human Race’s failures.
• Dragon Clan great powers accused the Human Race of plotting against them, and Shennong offered to make amends.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate challenged the Dragon Clan’s account, and Ao Guang swore he had no part in the Old Flood Dragon’s plot.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate pointed out the Dragon Clan’s unusual readiness for war and accused its Old Ancestors of cooperating with the Demon Race.
• Several Dragon Clan Old Ancestors tried to flee but were trapped, and one defended the Dragon Clan’s claim to rule before self-destructing.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate dismissed the Old Ancestor’s explanation as incomplete and asked another Old Dragon to reveal the truth.

Great Sage Dao Venerate forced the Dragon Clan’s Quasi-Saint Old Ancestors to reveal that the Demon Race had persuaded them to attack the Human Race and seize its place as protagonist of Heaven and Earth. Their resentment also stemmed from the First Disciple of Interception Sect’s past control over the Dragon Clan, leaving the Human Race to realize its Human Lord had shaped the Dragon Clan’s rise.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate tortured a silent Dragon Clan Old Ancestor and threatened to ruin its bloodline until it agreed to reveal the conspiracy.
• The old dragon confessed that the Demon Race had promised the Dragon Clan Human Fortune and dominion over earth if it helped replace the Human Race, and it explained that Jingwei’s abduction had been staged to ignite war.
• After Great Sage Dao Venerate offered to spare their descendants, two more old dragons disclosed the same plot and then self-destructed.
• One old dragon revealed that its resentment came from the First Disciple of Interception Sect subduing Candle Dragon and killing Dragon Clan Old Ancestors, and it died after declaring its hatred.
• The Human Race cultivators realized the Human Lord had been working behind the scenes, while the Dragon Clan’s old-established Quasi-Saints silently feared the reckless elders had doomed their people.