Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan overwhelmed Yi and the other Great Witches, then interrupted their attempt to combine their strength. He sensed the Human Race under attack at the East Sea Coast and turned his attention to the Demon Race army.

• Yi’s clash with Qingyuan shattered the land, but Qingyuan’s immense body and rapid healing let him overpower Yi.
• The Great Witches rushed to save Yi, but Qingyuan drove them back and inflicted heavy injuries on Chi You, Wind Master, and Jiu Feng.
• Jiu Feng urged the witches to unite their auras through Yi, but Qingyuan suppressed her and used a roar infused with his Laws to sever their bloodline resonance.
• Qingyuan heard the Human Race’s cries through Human Race Destiny and saw a Demon Race army, led by three Grand Unity Golden Immortals, attacking the East Sea Coast.
• Qingyuan’s killing intent surged as he recognized the attack on the Human Race.

Qingyuan defeated the Witch Clan’s Great Witches, then left for the East Sea Coast as powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness reevaluated him. There, Xun Yu and the Demon Race slaughtered Human Tribes to strike back at Qingyuan, until an arrival stopped their triumphant laughter.

• Qingyuan spared Jiu Feng, offered to teach her if she sought him out, and flew toward the East Sea Coast while Yi led the defeated Witch Clan away.
• Quasi-Saint powers across the Primordial Wilderness witnessed Qingyuan’s strength and began treating him as a peer rather than a junior.
• Xun Yu, the Wood Dragon Yao God, and the Ze Shan Yao God led Demon Armies in slaughtering Human Tribes along the East Sea Coast.
• Xun Yu urged the Demon Race to kill more humans, intending to make Qingyuan suffer through the destruction of the Human Race.
• Xun Yu and the two Yao Gods laughed over the devastation, but their laughter stopped in the next instant.

Qingyuan rescued the Human Race with the Sky-Shading Mountain Sea Curtain, then confronted the three Demon Gods responsible for slaughtering them. When they attacked, he revealed his immense true form and killed Xun Yu, leaving the other Demon Gods facing him.

• Qingyuan used the Sky-Shading Mountain Sea Curtain to engulf the battlefield in darkness, causing demons to slaughter one another before he gathered the humans and made them vanish.
• Qingyuan confronted Xun Yu, Wood Dragon, and Marsh Mountain and demanded to know whether Demon Emperor Di Jun had ordered the massacre.
• Xun Yu and Wood Dragon agreed to keep killing humans, and the three Demon Gods attacked Qingyuan when he threatened to search their Primordial Spirits.
• Qingyuan grew into a five-million-zhang Fiend God and crushed thousands of demons with his aura.
• Qingyuan impaled Xun Yu, destroyed her body, and used a gray banner to swallow her fleeing Primordial Spirit.

Qingyuan killed Xun Yu, Wood Dragon, Marsh Mountain, and the demons invading the East Sea Coast, then proclaimed a Divine Path Method to the Human Race. Countless tribes began worshipping him, and their faith formed a Divine Seal as the Divine Path took its first shape.

• Qingyuan rejected Wood Dragon and Marsh Mountain's surrender and chased them as they fled.
• Qingyuan killed Marsh Mountain and captured Wood Dragon's scattered Primordial Spirit in the Human Lord Banner.
• Qingyuan unleashed his weapons and treasures against the demons on the East Sea Coast, capturing their souls and destroying them.
• Qingyuan transmitted a Divine Path Method to humans across the East Sea Coast and offered protection to tribes that worshipped him.
• Countless human tribes pledged their reverence, and their faith formed a gold-red Divine Seal as the Divine Path began to take shape.

Countless East Sea Coast tribes built shrines and worshipped Qingyuan, whose gathered faith propelled his Divine Path directly to the Eighth Realm, though he lacked the power to match it. He used his remaining Divine Source to begin enfeoffing the souls of humans killed by the Demon Race as deities.

• Thousands of Human Tribes built humble shrines to Qingyuan and prayed for his protection, sending vast wishing power toward him.
• The incoming faith transformed Qingyuan’s Divine World and raised his Divine Path to the Eighth Realm, comparable to a Primordial Golden Immortal.
• Qingyuan realized the tribes’ belief had let him bypass the Divine Path’s trials, but his realm was hollow and he possessed little actual strength.
• Qingyuan learned that Saint Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones had noticed and analyzed the Divine Path, though they dismissed it as a heterodox external path.
• Qingyuan gathered the souls of humans slain by the Demon Race, selected the strongest, and spent his remaining Divine Source to enfeoff ten thousand deities and ignite the tribes’ shrines.

Qingyuan’s Divine Path spread across the Human Tribes, protecting settlements and helping devoted worshippers grow stronger. As humans credited him rather than Heaven for their protection, he announced that he would forge a Martial Path for the Human Race.

• Countless Human Tribes built altars and worshipped the True God, while the newly enfeoffed deities drove evil beings and monsters away from their settlements.
• Some humans advanced through the Divine Path realms, and Qingyuan distributed Divine Source among a million tribes to empower their deities and protect their lands.
• Devout worshippers broke through several realms, prompting humans across the East Sea Coast to give thanks for their new protection.
• Some humans rejected the idea that Heaven had helped them and declared that the Human Lord deserved their gratitude.
• Mighty beings of the Primordial Wilderness witnessed the Divine Path’s spread and considered destroying its temples and practitioners.
• Drawing on Human Race Destiny, Qingyuan announced that he would forge the Martial Path for the Human Race.

Qingyuan introduced the Human Race to the Martial Path, outlining seven realms that reached the power of a Daluo Golden Immortal. He erected the Primordial Martial Dao Eternal Determination Stele at the East Sea Coast, and humans began setting out to study the new path.

• Qingyuan described the Martial Path’s seven realms, from Martial Dao True Sea to Martial Dao True Self, and explained that its highest realm rivaled a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Qingyuan said the Martial Path currently ended at the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, but he would continue developing it if he reached a higher realm in the Future Branch.
• The Human Race knelt to thank Qingyuan for granting them both the Divine Path and Martial Path.
• Qingyuan summoned the Primordial Martial Dao Eternal Determination Stele to the central land of the East Sea Coast and said only the Human Race could comprehend it without his permission.
• Qingyuan invited those with strong wills to study the Martial Stele, bring copies back to their tribes, and pass on the Martial Path.
• Humans from tribes across the East Sea Coast began traveling toward the Martial Stele.

The Archaic Mighty Ox Demon failed to move or damage the Martial Dao Ancient Stele and was subdued when he tried to defile it. The stele’s unseen master spared him, appointed him its guardian, and named him Fan Mo.

• Creatures tested the Martial Dao Ancient Stele and tried to carry it away, but it remained unmarked and immovable.
• The Archaic Mighty Ox Demon tried to lift the stele, break it with his axe, and burn it with his Demonic Fire, but none of his efforts worked.
• The Ox Demon prepared to urinate on the stele, but an overwhelming pressure crushed him to his knees and frightened the gathered creatures away.
• A cold voice ordered the Ox Demon to guard the stele, repel intruders, and guide and protect members of the Human Race who came to seek the Dao.
• The Ox Demon accepted the duty, and the voice named him Fan Mo and instructed him to gather his will before the Martial Dao True Realm Stele and comprehend its Dharma.

Fan Mo received the Bull Demon Swallowing Heaven Great Strength Fist from the Martial Dao True Realm Stele and rapidly cultivated it, discovering a possible path to Daluo Golden Immortal. He reached the Heavenly Gate but could not open it, and the Human Tribe arrived nearby.

• Fan Mo thanked the stele and comprehended a Martial Dao technique that promised a path toward Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Fan Mo learned the Bull Demon Swallowing Heaven Great Strength Fist and the Bull Demon Primordial Nine Transformations Vast Mind Method, then returned to the real world.
• While waiting for the Human Tribe, Fan Mo cultivated the fist method and formed his Martial Dao True Sea, One Hundred Eight Martial Veins, and Three Hundred Sixty-Five True Apertures.
• Fan Mo forged a powerful Martial Dao True Body and completed the Ten Thousand Steps Heavenly Ladder, but his Yin God could not open the Heavenly Gate.
• Fan Mo decided to strengthen his Yin God with the companion mind method and noticed the Human Tribe arriving several hundred thousand li away.

Fan Mo waited beneath the Martial Dao True Realm Stele to guide arriving humans, but his terrifying appearance kept them at a distance until Huang inspired nine others to approach. The ten began comprehending Martial Dao, and Huang was the first to resonate with a Martial Stele and receive an inheritance.

• Fan Mo waited beneath the Martial Dao True Realm Stele, unaware that his appearance and demonic aura were frightening away the humans who had gathered nearby.
• Huang urged the fearful humans to advance for the sake of the Human Race, and Gu, Zhan, Shan, Shi, Lian, Yi, Zhao, Chi, and Mang joined him.
• Hundreds followed the ten at first, but only the original group continued for several thousand li toward Fan Mo.
• Fan Mo welcomed the ten and explained how to calm their minds and merge their consciousness with the Martial Dao True Realm Stele; he also told them he had been ordered to guide and protect them.
• The ten thanked Fan Mo and began comprehending the Martial Steles, and Huang was first to obtain an inheritance called the Great Law of Self-Transformation.

Huang received the Great Law of Self-Transformation from the Martial Dao True Realm and rapidly cultivated after consuming a fruit from the stele. He guided the gathered humans to seek their own Martial Dao inheritances while he and the other nine pioneers sought to bring Martial Dao Branch Steles back to their tribes.

• Huang awoke from the Martial Dao True Realm with the Great Law of Self-Transformation, and Fan Mo explained how to cultivate the Martial Path.
• Huang discovered that the art could create powerful transformed bodies, ate a fruit from the stele, and rapidly advanced through the Martial Dao realms.
• Fan Mo realized that Huang had reached a level comparable to his own, while the other nine pioneers received their Martial Dao Methods and fruits.
• Huang told the gathered humans that Fan Mo was their Stele Guardian and encouraged them to seek their own opportunities at the Martial Stele.
• The gathered humans began receiving Martial Dao inheritances, while Huang and the other nine pioneers tried to gain recognition to bring Branch Steles to their tribes.
• Qingyuan identified the ten pioneers as the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao and chose to let the Human Race strive for its own strength.

Qingyuan left Suiren Ancestor to protect the Human Race and went to take revenge on Xun Yu’s forces at the Sturgeon River. After slaughtering Xun Yu’s offspring and generals, he confronted a Peacock who recognized someone’s aura on him.

• Suiren Ancestor realized why Qingyuan had let the Human Race seek out the Martial Dao for themselves, and Qingyuan urged him to grow strong enough to protect his people.
• Qingyuan told Suiren Ancestor that Xun Yu and two Demon Gods had acted against the Human Race to avenge her offspring, then left to collect interest from the Demon Race.
• Suiren Ancestor asked why Qingyuan would not accept him as a true disciple, but Qingyuan departed without answering.
• Qingyuan went to the Sturgeon River, destroyed Xun Yu’s Water Mansion, and killed more than a million Water Demons with the Human Lord Banner.
• Qingyuan used Tracing Roots and Origins to reach into the Water Mansion’s bloodlines, and a Peacock confronted him, demanding to know what he had done to someone whose aura he carried.

Qingyuan fought Kong Xuan after the peacock sensed the Golden-winged Great Peng’s scent on him and demanded to know what had happened to his brother. Qingyuan overwhelmed Kong Xuan and offered him a chance to become his disciple and seek revenge later.

• The Sturgeon River’s souls and living beings were devoured by Qingyuan’s black soul banner as Kong Xuan caught the Golden-winged Great Peng’s scent on him and charged.
• Qingyuan broke Kong Xuan’s sword-feather attack with his swordsmanship, then resisted the Five-Colored Divine Light with Ten Thousand Evils Not Invade.
• Kong Xuan repeatedly swept Qingyuan with the Five-Colored Divine Light, but it had no effect and exhausted his magic power.
• Kong Xuan lunged at Qingyuan, who pinned him down with a Golden Light Pearl; Kong Xuan then invoked the Phoenix Clan and learned Qingyuan was a Personal Disciple of Interception Sect.
• Qingyuan offered Kong Xuan the chance to become his disciple and take revenge once he was strong enough.

Qingyuan accepted Kong Xuan as his disciple and gained new divine abilities and treasures, then rode Kong Xuan toward the Reincarnation Site in the Netherworld Sea of Blood. Ancestor Minghe appeared and invited them to his dojo, leaving Qingyuan unsure of his intentions.

• Kong Xuan agreed to become Qingyuan’s disciple and reluctantly addressed him as Master.
• The system rewarded Qingyuan with treasures, divine abilities, and increased cultivation after he took Kong Xuan as his disciple.
• Qingyuan ordered Kong Xuan to carry him to the Netherworld Sea of Blood and reflected on the lost souls trapped there.
• Qingyuan decided not to use the Human Lord Banner to devour the souls, fearing the karmic consequences.
• Ancestor Minghe emerged from the Blood Sea, greeted Qingyuan warmly, and invited him and Kong Xuan to his dojo.
• Qingyuan accepted Ancestor Minghe’s invitation and rode with him toward the dojo.

Qingyuan visited Ancestor Minghe in the Netherworld Sea of Blood, where Minghe treated him warmly and gave him spiritual roots. After Qingyuan escorted the Human Race Lost Souls to Reincarnation, Minghe asked him to reveal how he could advance his cultivation, and Qingyuan warned that the karmic debt was too great to repay.

• Qingyuan and Ancestor Minghe greeted each other as brothers while Kong Xuan watched with disgust.
• Ancestor Minghe gave Qingyuan several Innate and Houtian Spiritual Roots, which Qingyuan initially refused.
• Qingyuan explained that he had come to escort the Human Race Lost Souls to Reincarnation, and he and Minghe went there together.
• Qingyuan released the Lost Souls at the Reincarnation Site while Kong Xuan remained distrustful of him.
• Ancestor Minghe asked Qingyuan to help him find a path to advance after his cultivation had stalled since severing two corpses.
• Qingyuan told Ancestor Minghe that the karmic debt was too great for him to repay.

Qingyuan suggested that Minghe could create a race to give the Lost Souls of the Blood Sea a chance at rebirth, and Minghe swore brotherhood with him in gratitude. The chapter ended with Minghe invoking the Blood Sea and declaring that he would create the Asura Race.

• Minghe swore a Heavenly Dao oath to become Qingyuan's older sworn brother and promised to aid him.
• The Ancestral Witches were shocked by Minghe's oath and ordered Hou Yi, Jiu Feng, Xing Tian, Kuafu, and the other Great Witches to hunt Primordial Fierce Beasts as punishment for their defeat.
• Di Jun dismissed Tai Yi's proposal to attack Minghe and ordered the Demon Race to unify the Primordial Wilderness within ten thousand years before destroying the Witch Clan.
• Sect Master Tongtian praised Qingyuan, while Venerable Yuanshi accused him of leading Qingyuan astray, worsening the discord among the Three Pure Ones.
• Qingyuan told Minghe that creating a chance for the Lost Souls of the Blood Sea to live again could resolve their suffering.
• Minghe transformed his Blood God Sons into blood and vitality, stirred the Blood Sea, and declared that he would create the Asura Race.

Minghe created the Asura Race from the Blood Sea and its Lost Souls, earning vast Merit and alarming powers across the Primordial Wilderness. Unable to advance further toward becoming a Sub-Saint, he founded the Asura Cult and declared slaughter its doctrine.

• Minghe created hundreds of millions of Asuras from the Blood Sea and named four Asura Kings and five Asura Generals to lead them.
• Kong Xuan marveled at the Asuras’ strength, while Qingyuan watched without surprise.
• Heavenly Merit descended for Minghe’s creation, drawing the attention of the Primordial Wilderness’s great powers.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Saints and Demon Gods to conquer the Primordial Wilderness within five thousand years, while Fuxi assured him the Asuras could not compete for dominion.
• Minghe absorbed the Merit and came close to becoming a Sub-Saint, but failed to advance further.
• Minghe established the Asura Cult, declared slaughter its doctrine, and named Yuan Tu Abi, the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, and the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner as its treasures.

Ancestor Minghe established the Asura Cult through slaughter, severed his third corpse, and declared Qingyuan its Vice Sect Leader, offering to share the race’s Fortune Aura with him. The declaration reignited the conflict between Venerable Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian, who ended their argument by announcing he would leave the Kunlun Mountains.

• As the Heavenly Dao bestowed Merit on the Asura Race, Minghe comprehended the Self, severed his third corpse, and reached the peak of Quasi-Saint.
• Venerable Yuanshi condemned Minghe’s Slaughter-Proving Dao, while Tongtian said Minghe had chosen a path that would ultimately end his progress.
• Venerable Yuanshi accused Tongtian of choosing the wrong path by sheltering the Interception Sect’s disciples and criticized Qingyuan for associating with Minghe.
• Minghe declared that Qingyuan was an Old Ancestor and Vice Sect Leader of the Asura Race and offered to share its Fortune Aura with him.
• Venerable Yuanshi used Minghe’s declaration to rebuke Tongtian, who defended his teachings and announced he would leave the Kunlun Mountains.

Sect Master Tongtian led the Interception Sect out of the Kunlun Mountains after Venerable Yuanshi demanded that he abandon his disciples. Saint Taiqing also departed, and Venerable Yuanshi split Kunlun into East Kunlun and West Kunlun before retreating to the Jade Void Palace, where his disciples left him alone.

• Sect Master Tongtian ordered the Interception Sect disciples to pack up and leave the Kunlun Mountains after Venerable Yuanshi insulted them as beasts.
• Venerable Yuanshi threatened to sever his brotherly ties with Tongtian unless Tongtian followed Heaven's will and separated himself from the Interception Sect, but Tongtian gathered his disciples and treasures and left.
• Saint Taiqing departed with Xuandu, Du'e, and his other disciples, leaving Venerable Yuanshi alone on the Three Pure Ones Peaks.
• Venerable Yuanshi drove the living beings out of the Kunlun Immortal Market and split the Kunlun Mountains with the Pangu Banner, creating East Kunlun and West Kunlun.
• Venerable Yuanshi moved the three peaks to Qilin Cliff, renamed the palace the Jade Void Palace, and entered secluded cultivation.
• The Chan Sect immortals left to find dojos and lamented the lost Immortal Market without asking how Venerable Yuanshi felt, dimming his expression.

After Yuanshi and Tongtian split, Laozi settled at Shouyang Mountain while Tongtian established the Interception Sect on Golden Ao Island. The Western sages welcomed new disciples and discussed converting Qingyuan, whom Jieyin considered the key to their teachings’ flourishing.

• Yuanshi dismissed his doubts, blamed the Interception Sect disciples for turning Tongtian against him, and vowed to crush the sect.
• Laozi brought his disciples to the Human Race, praised its vitality, and established a dojo at Shouyang Mountain.
• Tongtian chose Golden Ao Island for his dojo, accepted Gui Ling as a Personal Disciple, and allowed Wuyun Xian to join the Outer Sect.
• The Three Pure Ones’ separation shocked the Primordial Wilderness, while Nuwa watched and the Western sages held back from intervening in the east.
• Zhunti brought Yaoshi, Maitreya, Ksitigarbha, Kinnara, Akasagarbha, and others to Jieyin, who accepted them as Personal Disciples.
• Jieyin praised the new disciples but said the Western Teachings would flourish if Qingyuan could be converted.