Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan used Merit to stop Patriarch Minghe from provoking the Heavenly Dao, but Hongjun decreed that the Asura Race could not leave the Netherworld Sea of Blood until the Immeasurable Calamity. After accepting the decree, Minghe embraced Qingyuan as his younger brother and gave him the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus.

• Saint Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti praised Qingyuan's benefits to the Western Lands and discussed trying to bring him to their side.
• After severing his Three Corpses, Minghe reached the Peak Quasi-Saint realm, lost control to killing intent, and threatened the heavens.
• Qingyuan gave Minghe Merit to clear his mind, and Hongjun decreed that the Asura Race must remain in the Netherworld Sea of Blood until the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Di Jun ordered the Heavenly Court to prepare to subdue rebellious Demon Race tribes and destroy the Witch Clan without waiting for its formation to be completed.
• Minghe accepted Hongjun's decree, sent the Asura Kings and their people away, and thanked Qingyuan for saving him.
• Minghe and Qingyuan reaffirmed their sworn brotherhood, and Minghe gifted Qingyuan the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus.

Qingyuan accepted Minghe’s Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, then returned to the East Sea Coast as Di Jun’s campaign plunged the Primordial Wilderness into war. As Kong Xuan struggled to judge good and evil, Qingyuan taught him powerful techniques and told him to cultivate.

• Minghe gave Qingyuan the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, and Kong Xuan received Pills from Minghe as he approached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Minghe told Qingyuan that Di Jun sought to become a Saint through the path of an overlord and had ordered the Demon Saints to attack those who resisted.
• Qingyuan and Kong Xuan left the Blood Sea, avoided the battles across the Primordial Wilderness, and returned to the Suirenshi Tribe, where Qingyuan urged the Human Race to avoid the Witch-Demon conflict.
• Qingyuan offered to teach Kong Xuan a technique, and Kong Xuan questioned how good and evil could be judged after witnessing the actions of Minghe and Di Jun’s forces.
• Qingyuan taught Kong Xuan the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, the Origin of the Five Elements Great Dao, and the Five Directions Senluo Tianyuan Slaughter Sword Dao, then ordered him to cultivate.

Kong Xuan accepted Qingyuan’s treasures and left to refine them while the Witch-Demon War escalated and the Human Race’s Divine and Martial Paths flourished along the East Sea Coast. The chapter ended with Qingyuan sensing that Di Jun had unexpectedly arrived there.

• Kong Xuan accepted Qingyuan’s treasures, swore to remember his kindness while still vowing to avenge his younger brother, and left to refine the gifts.
• The Heavenly Court crushed its opponents and sent enslaved forces against the Witch Clan, whose Twelve Ancestor Witches and rising Great Witches devastated the Demon Race’s vanguards.
• The Divine Path expanded among the Human Tribes, and Qingyuan stripped the power from Temple Deities whose tribes sacrificed living people.
• Huang, Gu, Zhan, and the other Martial Dao pioneers spread the Martial Path, becoming the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao as its practitioners grew in strength.
• Suiren Ancestor rallied priests, cultivators, and warriors to defend the Human Tribes from fleeing Demon soldiers and Fierce Beasts.
• Qingyuan opened his eyes during cultivation and wondered why Di Jun had come to the East Sea Coast.

Qingyuan refined the Nirvana Immortal Creation Source and Phoenix True Fire, gaining extraordinary recovery and nine rebirths, before welcoming Di Jun to the Human tribes. Curious about Qingyuan’s Martial Path, Di Jun entered the Martial Dao Realm to experience it for himself.

• Qingyuan completed a century of refining phoenix treasures and origins, transforming his body and gaining near-instant recovery through nine rebirths.
• Qingyuan sensed Di Jun at the Martial Dao True Realm Stele and used the Human Race’s network of Martial Steles to appear before him.
• Di Jun praised Qingyuan’s foundation and powers, then spoke with him about his ambitions to rule and unify the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun asked Qingyuan to show him the Martial Path, and Qingyuan invited him to approach the stele.
• Di Jun joined his will with the Martial Dao True Realm Stele and entered the Martial Dao Realm, where tens of thousands of humans were gathered.

Di Jun entered the Martial Dao True Realm to investigate the Martial Path and obtained the Chaos Great Sun Divine Fist, rapidly cultivating to Martial Daluo in one year. He questioned Qingyuan about advancing beyond Daluo Golden Immortal, but Qingyuan concealed that the path had been deliberately limited.

• Di Jun merged his will with the Martial Dao True Realm, causing billions of steles to tremble and display their phenomena.
• Di Jun obtained the Chaos Great Sun Divine Fist, while Qingyuan privately noted that its later stages were blocked at Peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Book to cultivate through the Martial Dao realms and reached Martial Daluo in one year.
• Di Jun's breakthrough strengthened Qingyuan through their connection, and Fan Mo fled in fright after learning the cultivator was Demon Emperor Di Jun.
• Di Jun asked Qingyuan whether the Martial Path ended at Daluo Golden Immortal, and Qingyuan maintained his silence about its limits.

Qingyuan agreed to let the Demon Race and other living beings cultivate the Martial Path after Di Jun swore not to slaughter the Human Race on a large scale. Di Jun then asked how to obtain Merit, and Qingyuan explained that deeds benefiting the Primordial Wilderness could earn it.

• Di Jun offered Qingyuan a position in the Heavenly Court and promised protections for the Human Race, but Qingyuan refused the appointment.
• Di Jun asked to spread the Martial Path among the Demon Race, and Qingyuan agreed only if the Demon Race refrained from large-scale massacres of the Human Race.
• Di Jun swore that the Demon Race would lose its standing and the Heavenly Court would collapse if it exterminated the Human Race, then agreed to Qingyuan's restrictions around the Martial Dao Monument.
• Di Jun declared that all living beings could cultivate the Martial Path and asked Qingyuan how to obtain Merit.
• Qingyuan explained that anyone who served the Primordial Wilderness and benefited its living beings could obtain Merit.

Qingyuan advised Di Jun to gain Merit through marriage and Heavenly Rules, but refused a place in the Heavenly Court. Di Jun announced three policies, then the Witch Clan summoned Pangu True Body and routed the Demon Race.

• Qingyuan urged Di Jun to marry openly, establish family customs, and regulate the Primordial Wilderness through Heavenly Rules to earn Merit.
• Di Jun offered Qingyuan the position of Martial Path Master, but Qingyuan declined and focused on developing the Human Race and its Immortal Markets.
• Di Jun announced policies for Heavenly Marriage, Heavenly Rules, and Demon Race study of the Martial Path, but the demons resisted the Martial Path and postponed the marriage.
• The Heavenly Court promulgated Heavenly Edicts and received Merit, while ten percent of the Merit flew to the East Sea Coast.
• The Demon Race attacked the Witch Clan at Buzhou Mountain, but the Twelve Ancestor Witches formed the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array and summoned Pangu True Body.
• Pangu True Body struck once and devastated the Demon Race, leaving it in a crushing defeat.

The Twelve Ancestor Witches summoned the Pangu True Body and nearly destroyed the Demon Heavenly Court, forcing the Demon Race to flee. Dao Ancestor Hongjun intervened and ordered the Witch-Demon Two Clans to divide rule between Heaven and Earth; when the witches refused to stop, he shattered their Pangu True Body.

• The Pangu True Body annihilated countless demons and struck Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the Demon Heavenly Court’s forces with devastating losses.
• Tai Yi gathered the remaining Demon Saints and Demon Gods’ power into the Chaos Bell and escaped with the core figures to the Nine Heavens, but the Twelve Ancestor Witches pursued them and wrecked the Heavenly Realm.
• Patriarch Minghe and the other great powers watched in shock as the Witch Clan appeared capable of threatening even the Saints.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun arrived and ordered the Witch-Demon Two Clans to cease hostilities, declaring that demons would govern Heaven and witches would govern Earth.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches ignored Hongjun and attacked Di Jun and the others again, so Hongjun shattered the Creation Axe and broke apart the Pangu True Body.

After the Witch Clan devastated the Demon Heavenly Court with the Pangu True Body, Di Jun vowed vengeance and forced the surviving demons to commit to the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and the Hunyuan River Luo Array. He then confronted Qingyuan, accusing him of knowing the Demon Race would lose and failing to warn them.

• The Dao Ancestor stopped the fighting, stabilized heaven and earth, and ordered the Witch Clan not to start wars lightly.
• After the Twelve Ancestor Witches withdrew, Di Jun learned that only 372 Grand Unity Golden Immortals and fewer than one-tenth of the Taiyi and Golden Immortals remained alive.
• Di Jun vowed that the Demon Race and Witch Clan would never coexist under the same sky, promised compensation to survivors, and ordered the surviving Demon Gods to support the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array plan.
• Di Jun killed Demon Gods who objected to the array plan, then ordered preparations for a Heavenly Marriage and the creation of both the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and the Hunyuan River Luo Array.
• Di Jun found Qingyuan teaching a Little Girl on the East Sea Coast and angrily accused him of knowing the Demon Race would lose without warning them.

Qingyuan advised Di Jun that the Demon Race had been swept along by forces it could not stop, then continued teaching Little Girl how to make clothes. Di Jun worked to strengthen the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and asked Xi He to arrange a meeting between Qingyuan and Wang Shu, whose furious refusal left the request unresolved.

• Di Jun erupted at Qingyuan over the Demon Race's defeat, then apologized after Qingyuan challenged him and explained that the tide of events had been impossible to turn.
• Qingyuan accepted Di Jun's invitation to the Heavenly Marriage and taught Little Girl about making clothing while Di Jun returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun inspected the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array's reconstruction and asked Xi He to help recruit Wang Shu for a meeting with Qingyuan.
• Xi He visited Wang Shu and relayed Di Jun's request as though Qingyuan admired her and wished to meet her.
• Wang Shu rejected the idea, ordered Xi He to tell Qingyuan to focus on cultivation, and threatened to show no mercy if he made another impertinent request.

Xi He persuaded Di Jun to abandon his plan to marry Wang Shu and proposed using their future children to build ties with Qingyuan. Meanwhile, Qingyuan met the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao, who reported that the Martial Dao Beginning Tree was nearing maturity, and he went with them to gather the martial artists.

• Wang Shu dismissed Xi He after rejecting the idea of marrying the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect, and Xi He promised to explain her intentions to Di Jun.
• Di Jun accepted that he had offended Wang Shu and agreed not to raise the marriage proposal again; Xi He suggested their future children could become Qingyuan's disciple or spouse, and Di Jun carried her into the palace.
• Huang and the other Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao arrived to tell Qingyuan that the Martial Dao Beginning Tree was about to mature and that more than ten thousand elite human martial artists were waiting for his orders.
• Qingyuan led the Ten Ancestors to the Martial Dao True Realm Stele, where humans and demons gathered to cultivate and greeted him with respect.
• Qingyuan reflected that the flourishing Martial Path had advanced his own cultivation to the Eighth Realm Hunyuan and strengthened his Diamond Immortal Deathless Hunyuan Perfect body.

Qingyuan welcomed the Asura Race to learn the Martial Path and stopped a clash between them and the Demon Race. He brought Human Race martial artists into the Small Thousand World to claim fruit from the matured Martial Dao Beginning Tree, then prepared a separate gift for the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao.

• More than a thousand Asuras arrived at the Martial Dao True Realm Stele and paid respects to Old Ancestor Qingyuan, explaining that Patriarch Minghe had sent them to study and spread the Martial Path.
• Demon Gods challenged the Asuras, who mocked the Demon Race and nearly fought until Qingyuan suppressed both sides and forbade slaughter near the stele.
• Qingyuan announced that he would teach the Martial Path in twenty years for three hundred years, and the Asuras and Demon Race settled down to cultivate.
• Qingyuan met Huang, the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao, and more than ten thousand Human Race martial artists outside the Small Thousand World, then led them inside to claim one fruit each from the matured Martial Dao Beginning Tree.
• Qingyuan took Huang and the other nine ancestors to a nearby mountain and presented them with ten Immortal Apricots bearing the Wind Thunder Law.

Qingyuan persuaded the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao to strengthen their foundations with Wind Thunder Immortal Apricots, then preached the Martial Path to a vast gathering of beings. He revealed a path reaching toward Martial Dao Hunyuan but stopped short of teaching its method, leaving the listeners eager to continue.

• Qingyuan explained the value of strong foundations, and the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao accepted the Wind Thunder Immortal Apricots.
• The Ten Ancestors gained Wind Thunder abilities, deepened their foundations, and advanced toward the Early Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• Qingyuan gathered more than a hundred million beings beneath the Martial Dao True Realm Stele and began preaching the Martial Path.
• As Qingyuan's teachings deepened, powerful beings and disguised Quasi-Saints listened intently to the Martial Path's higher realms.
• Qingyuan described Martial Dao Hunyuan but stopped before explaining its method, and he invited the listeners to discuss how to deduce what came next.
• Di Jun asked the Demon Saints and Demon Gods to assess the Martial Path, and they acknowledged its growing depth.

The Demon Race and Witch Clan secretly cultivated Qingyuan’s Martial Path while Hongjun recognized it as an orthodox Mystic Gate path, giving Qingyuan authority over it. As Qingyuan continued teaching, Zi spread clothing-making among the Human Tribes, signaling the emergence of another Ancestor of Humanity.

• Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to prepare a grand Heavenly Marriage and, after hearing that the Witch Clan was helping rebellious demons, proposed building floating artifacts to govern the heavens.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches discussed deducing the Martial Path’s higher realms and planned to draw on Pangu’s power, while other beings and Saints also studied the path.
• Hongjun used the Creation Jade Disk to deduce much of the Martial Path, then proclaimed Qingyuan its master and declared it an orthodox path of the Mystic Gate.
• Qingyuan realized Hongjun’s declaration was eroding the Martial Path’s Fortune Aura, but continued preaching, trusting that its cultivators’ strength would return to him.
• A Demon God Incarnation traveled with Zi among the Human Tribes as she wove and promoted clothing, and Qingyuan recognized that another Ancestor of Humanity was about to emerge.

Ziyishi spent seven hundred years teaching the Human Race to make and wear clothes, earning Human Dao Merit and becoming an Ancestor of Humanity. Qingyuan received Merit and new rewards as he considered ways to master the primordial forces of the Primordial Wilderness, while the Human Race welcomed Ziyishi.

• Ziyishi traveled among the Human Tribes, teaching people to weave clothing and explaining its importance for warmth, protection, and propriety.
• After seven hundred years of spreading her teachings, Ziyishi collapsed and died, and Qingyuan led countless humans in mourning her.
• Saint Nuwa declared that Ziyishi had fulfilled her merit by spreading the Weaving Principle and teaching shame, and eighty percent of the Human Dao Merit entered Ziyishi, ten percent entered her weaving tools and first animal-hide coat, and the remainder entered Qingyuan.
• Ziyishi rose to the Quasi-Saint realm, thanked Qingyuan for guiding her, and was welcomed as an Ancestor of Humanity by the Human Race.
• Qingyuan gained fifty million years of Daoxing, Mastery of Five Thunders, and the Human Dao Robe, then contemplated pursuing the primordial sources of lightning, wind, fire, water, and earth.

Ancestor Ziyi became the Human Race’s second Quasi-Saint ancestor, strengthening its destiny and drawing the Witch-Demon Two Clans’ attention. Qingyuan trained his Demon God Incarnations with Divine Firmament Purple Thunder, then accepted Bai Yan’s invitation to attend a Heavenly Court banquet with the Human Race leaders.

• Ancestor Ziyi became an Ancestor of Humanity after teaching humans to wear clothes, and the Human Race’s fortune grew.
• Saint Nuwa appointed an incarnation named Yue Lao to oversee Heavenly Emperor Di Jun’s marriage, while the Three Pure Ones and Two Shakya departed.
• Qingyuan recalled the Ten Demon God Incarnations and trained with them by refining their bodies using Divine Firmament Purple Thunder.
• After decades of thunder cultivation, Qingyuan and the ten incarnations were revealed on a mountain as their lightning vanished, prompting onlookers to fight over the crystallized peak.
• Bai Yan invited Qingyuan to the Heavenly Court banquet, and Qingyuan summoned Suirenshi, Ziyishi, and the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao to accompany him.
• Bai Yan brought out a carriage pulled by nine True Dragon corpses, and Qingyuan led the group aboard for their journey to Heaven.

Qingyuan and the Human Ancestors arrived at the Nine Heavens for the Heavenly Court’s wedding feast and were confronted by the Demon Race’s immense wealth and gathered Quasi-Saints. The banquet turned tense when Wang Shu challenged Qingyuan to perform after Fuxi played, accusing him of being all reputation and no substance.

• Bai Yan guided the Nine-Dragon Carriage carrying Qingyuan and the Human Ancestors to the Nine Heavens, where they saw the Heavenly Court’s lavish palaces and resources.
• Bai Yan led Qingyuan’s party into Lingxiao’s Ten Thousand Heavens Hall, where nearly a hundred Quasi-Saints and other powerful guests had gathered.
• Qingyuan greeted the assembled powers and took his seat; Houtu and Zhen Yuanzi toasted him, while Minghe moved beside him and greeted him warmly.
• Qingyuan noticed the Three Pure Ones sitting in silence, strange behavior from several sect disciples, and an unfamiliar fierce woman glaring at him.
• After Fuxi performed music for the guests, Wang Shu challenged Qingyuan to offer a piece for the Heavenly Emperor and dismissed him as a show-off, while Di Jun tried to stop the confrontation.

At Di Jun and Xi He’s wedding, Qingyuan faced criticism from Wang Shu and the assembled powers, then silenced them with two original zither pieces. After Di Jun accepted the melodies and rewarded him, the Heavenly Marriage began.

• Wang Shu challenged Qingyuan to perform for the wedding and accused him of failing to repay Di Jun’s support for the Martial Path.
• Qingyuan borrowed Fuxi’s zither and performed “Phoenix Seeks Phoenix,” moving the hall and earning praise from Di Jun and Fuxi.
• Di Jun asked for “Phoenix Seeks Phoenix,” and the Heavenly Court musicians recorded it; Fuxi exchanged a token with Qingyuan.
• After Wang Shu and Xiang Liu called for another piece, Qingyuan played “Cloud Palace Swift Sound,” which stunned the gathering.
• Di Jun accepted the second melody and gave Qingyuan a bottle of Imperial Flowing Sap; after three rounds of wine, the Heavenly Marriage began.

Di Jun and Xi He’s Heavenly Marriage established the Marriage Great Dao, giving Yue Lao control of the Marriage Register and granting Qingyuan a share of the merit. After the banquet, Qingyuan stopped Wang Shu and followed her to Moon Star, while Di Jun worried about what might happen between them.

• Di Jun and Xi He vowed to establish marriage rules, and the Heavenly Dao responded by granting merit as Yue Lao offered the Red Embroidered Ball to the Marriage Great Dao.
• Yue Lao’s Red Embroidered Ball became countless Marriage Red Threads, and the Marriage Register appeared in her hands.
• The Heavenly Dao Merit was divided among Di Jun and Xi He, Nuwa, Yue Lao and her treasures, and Qingyuan.
• Minghe offered to kill Wang Shu, but Qingyuan declined and asked to borrow a small flag instead.
• After the banquet ended, Qingyuan invited Wang Shu to hear his music, and she allowed him to follow her to Moon Star.
• Xi He reassured the worried Di Jun that Qingyuan’s visit to Wang Shu might benefit the Heavenly Court.

Qingyuan lured Wang Shu to the Moon Star under the pretense of performing a love song, then attacked her and overwhelmed her with his Martial Path power. He left her battered and the onlookers outside the concealed Moon Star mistaking the battle for a passionate encounter.

• The great powers outside Lingxiao Divine Palace watched Qingyuan follow Wang Shu to the Moon Star, while Patriarch Minghe stayed behind in case Qingyuan needed help.
• Wang Shu asked Qingyuan to perform his tune, and he deployed the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner to isolate the Moon Star from the outside world.
• Qingyuan revealed his intent by attacking Wang Shu with a series of devastating weapons and Martial Path techniques, destroying the Moon Palace and forcing her to rely on the Moon Origin to recover.
• Wang Shu summoned her spiritual treasure and Moon Great Dao Law, but Qingyuan continued beating her back with the aid of the Ten Demon God Incarnations.
• The great powers and Demon Heavenly Court heard sounds leaking through the banner and mistook Qingyuan's assault on Wang Shu for a passionate encounter.
• Di Jun, Patriarch Minghe, and the Asura Kings reacted with astonishment as Qingyuan's ferocity became apparent.