Chapter Summaries

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.

Fuxi created and spread the Eight Trigrams, strengthened the Human Race, and was acclaimed as its first Human Emperor. At the investiture ceremony, Grand Pure Laozi declared that Fuxi lacked the virtue to be invested, leaving his elevation in doubt.

• Fuxi comprehended the Innate and Acquired Eight Trigrams by the Yellow River and revealed their Dao to beings across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Fuxi taught the Eight Trigrams to all who wished to learn and organized Human Race officials under dragon titles, forming ties with the Dragon Clan to protect human lands.
• After Fuxi ruled for three thousand six hundred years, the Human Race built an altar and recommended him as its first Human Emperor, summoning great merit and the Heavenly Dao Saints.
• Fuxi bowed to the Saints without kneeling, prompting Saint Zhunti to argue that his conduct disqualified him from investiture.
• After the gathered humans and disciples called for Fuxi's investiture, Grand Pure Laozi declared that Fuxi had no regard for ritual, lacked respect for the Saints, and was unfit to serve as Human Emperor.

Grand Pure Laozi refused to invest Fuxi as Human Emperor because Fuxi had not bowed to him, and the other Saints pressed Fuxi to submit. Fuxi and the Human Race rejected their demands, and the Human Dao Will appeared behind him as the chapter ended.

• Grand Pure Laozi declared that Fuxi would not become Human Emperor because he had shown no respect to a Saint and defended his authority as leader of the Human Sect and keeper of the Kongtong Seal.
• Saint Nuwa urged Laozi to forgive Fuxi while proposing that the Saints guide the Human Race and benefit from the Human Dao.
• Saint Zhunti told Fuxi to kneel, apologize, and obey Saint Taiqing, but Fuxi refused and challenged the Saints for having ignored humanity's suffering.
• Countless humans joined Fuxi in rejecting the Saints, and their defiance strengthened the Human Race Destiny.
• The Human Dao Will gathered into a dragon behind Fuxi, holding something in its mouth.

Fuxi claimed the Human Dao Seal and proclaimed himself Human Emperor, gaining immense merit and rising to the Sub-Saint stage. When Nuwa called him her elder brother, he rejected his former identity as the Demon Race’s Demon Emperor Fuxi.

• Human Dao Consciousness manifested as a dragon and presented Fuxi with the Human Dao Seal, a supreme treasure that could command Human Dao Origin and appoint or depose the Human Emperor.
• Fuxi joined the seal with his essence blood and proclaimed himself Human Emperor, citing his service and inventions for the Human Race.
• Human Dao Merit surged to Fuxi and his allies, and Fuxi’s cultivation rose from True Immortal to Sub-Saint.
• Nuwa called Fuxi her elder brother, prompting the other Saints and Fuxi’s disciples to realize she recognized his past identity.
• Fuxi declared himself Human Emperor Fuxi of the Human Race and told Nuwa not to call him the former Demon Race demon spawn.

Fuxi rejected his former identity as Xi Huang and declared himself the Human Race’s Human Emperor, backed by the Human Dao. As the Saints questioned his appointment through the Human Dao Seal, Grand Pure Laozi invoked the Kongtong Seal to abolish him.

• Fuxi rejected Nuwa’s attempt to remind him of their past and insisted he was only the Human Emperor Fuxi.
• Nuwa privately explained why she had allowed him to reincarnate and argued that the Human Race’s slaughter had led to its rise, but Fuxi called on her to speak openly.
• Saint Zhunti urged the Saints to discuss Fuxi’s future, while Grand Pure Laozi questioned how Fuxi had bypassed the Kongtong Seal.
• Fuxi revealed the Human Dao Seal and declared that the Human Race itself should appoint its Human Emperor without outside interference.
• Grand Pure Laozi empowered the Kongtong Seal and declared that Fuxi had no virtue to serve as Human Emperor, ordering his abolition.

Fuxi resisted the Heavenly Dao Saints’ attempt to depose him as Human Emperor, revealing that the Human Dao Seal protected his position from the Kongtong Seal. He accused the Saints of seeking to enslave the Human Race and control the Human Dao, leaving their intentions exposed.

• Zhunti condemned Fuxi and urged him to submit the Human Race to the Heavenly Dao Saints in exchange for the title of Human Emperor.
• Fuxi defended his rule and challenged the Saints’ demand that the Human Race worship Heaven as its father, warning that their actions could provoke an Immeasurable Calamity.
• Taiqing activated the Kongtong Seal again to depose Fuxi, but the seal failed to affect him as the Human Dao Consciousness strengthened behind him.
• Taiqing questioned Fuxi about the treasure that blocked the Kongtong Seal, and Fuxi identified it as the Human Dao Seal bestowed in recognition of his merits.
• Fuxi demanded that the Saints withdraw and accused them of seeking to enslave the Human Race and seize control of the Human Dao.

The Heavenly Dao Saints condemned Fuxi for challenging them and threatened the Human Race with calamities unless they worshipped Saints. Fuxi rallied the Human Race to stand on its own, and Sect Master Tongtian stepped between him and the Saints to ask them to relent.

• Jieyin, Nuwa, Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Laozi condemned Fuxi and declared that the Human Race would suffer calamities for his disrespect.
• Jieyin and Zhunti urged the Human Race to worship Saints in exchange for protection, longevity, and blessings.
• Fuxi called on the Human Race to reject dependence on outsiders and strive for its own strength.
• The Human Race rose from its knees and echoed Fuxi’s call, strengthening the Human Dao Will behind him.
• Sect Master Tongtian stood before Fuxi and urged the other Saints to end the dispute and spare the Human Race.

The Heavenly Dao Saints pressured Fuxi and the Human Race, but the Human Dao stood firm. Tongtian offered to withdraw from future Human Emperor affairs to end the conflict, and Zhunti demanded that Fuxi surrender the Human Dao Seal and enter Huoyun Cave.

• Zhunti, Yuanshi, and Jieyin accused the Human Race of disrespecting the Saints as the Saints' pressure threatened to overwhelm them.
• The Human Dao Consciousness resisted the Saints' pressure, while Fuxi stood firm and refused to submit.
• Taiqing used the Human Sect's karmic connection to search for flaws in the Human Dao but found none.
• Tongtian offered to withdraw from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and stop competing to assist future Human Emperors in exchange for peace.
• Zhunti demanded that Fuxi hand the Human Dao Seal to Taiqing and Yuanshi for safekeeping and that the Human Emperor enter Huoyun Cave to suppress Human Path Fortune.

Sect Master Tongtian tried to protect Fuxi and the Human Race from the Saints’ demands by offering major concessions, including a share of the Interception Sect’s profits. Venerable Yuanshi and Saint Taiqing resisted his terms, leaving Tongtian hurt by his brothers’ contempt.

• Saint Zhunti demanded that Fuxi surrender the Human Dao Seal and enter Huoyun Cave, while arguing that the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors should also be confined there.
• Saint Zhunti suggested that Sect Master Tongtian might use Fuxi’s continued rule to expand the Interception Sect’s influence, making Saint Taiqing and Venerable Yuanshi wary.
• Sect Master Tongtian pleaded with his brothers to spare Fuxi and offered to withdraw the Interception Sect from Human Race affairs, welcome the Human Sect and Chan Sect, and cede them forty percent of Heavenly Palace Immortal City’s profits.
• Venerable Yuanshi countered by demanding eighty percent of the profits and the Human Dao Seal, while Tongtian refused to surrender the seal but promised to keep it away from the Human Race.
• Venerable Yuanshi disparaged the Interception Sect’s disciples, and Saint Taiqing’s cold glance prompted Tongtian to ask whether their long brotherhood was worth even a little consideration.

Sect Master Tongtian tried to secure Fuxi’s safety by offering concessions, but the Saints refused to spare him unless Qingyuan surrendered the Human Lord position. Fuxi rejected the Saints’ demands and declared that Human Dao would fight anyone who opposed it, then challenged their assumption that Human Dao had no Saints behind it.

• Sect Master Tongtian offered to surrender half the Interception Sect’s benefits and withdraw it from the Human Race if the Saints spared Fuxi and the Human Dao Seal.
• Venerable Yuanshi agreed to consider the offer only if Qingyuan relinquished the Human Lord position, and Sect Master Tongtian rejected the condition.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked Taiqing to spare Fuxi, but Taiqing’s silence confirmed his refusal.
• Fuxi thanked Sect Master Tongtian, reaffirmed the Interception Sect’s place as the Human Race’s sacred sect, and declared that Human Dao would crush anyone who opposed it.
• Venerable Yuanshi, Saint Zhunti, and Saint Jieyin condemned Fuxi and called for his execution, while Fuxi asked who said Human Dao had no Saints behind it.

Fuxi confronted the Heavenly Dao Saints over their attempt to control the Human Race, while Saint Zhunti seized him and reached for the Human Dao Seal. Daoist Zixu appeared to stop Zhunti, claimed to be a Human Dao Saint, and challenged the Saints to deny that they had come to congratulate Fuxi rather than make the Human Race their puppets.

• Fuxi declared that the Human Race was guarded by Human Dao, but Saint Zhunti argued that Tongtian was a Heavenly Dao Saint and that the other Saints could overcome him.
• Saint Zhunti attacked Fuxi, severed his space from the rest of the world, and joined Taiqing in seeking to take the Human Dao Seal.
• Daoist Zixu mysteriously appeared in Zhunti's palm, and Zhunti flung him and Fuxi into the clouds.
• Daoist Zixu greeted the Saints and said that Human Dao had acknowledged him as a Human Dao Saint who wielded the Human Dao Origin.
• Taiqing threatened Daoist Zixu, who challenged the Saints to confirm that they had come only to congratulate Fuxi and not to make the Human Race their puppets.