Chapter Summaries

Daoist Zixu intervened to protect Fuxi from the Heavenly Dao Saints and defeated Saint Taiqing with a single strike. He then declared that the Human Dao would not stand alone, as the Thunder Ancestor arrived and revealed himself as another Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

• Saint Taiqing attacked Daoist Zixu with the Taiji Diagram, but Zixu emerged unharmed.
• Daoist Zixu struck back with his whisk, cracked the Taiji Diagram, and sent Saint Taiqing flying into Chaos.
• Fuxi thanked the Human Dao Saint, and Daoist Zixu asked the other Saints to let the matter end.
• Venerable Yuanshi challenged Zixu, who replied that the Human Dao had more than one protector.
• The Thunder Ancestor arrived and revealed an aura of a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, shocking the Saints.

Daoist Zixu and Thunder Ancestor confronted Saint Taiqing after he returned to the Primordial Wilderness, and their displayed power forced the Saints to reconsider pressing the Human Race. As Daoist Zixu proposed ending the conflict with a celebration of Human Emperor Fuxi’s attainment, Great Love Heavenly Venerate arrived and identified the two newcomers as anomalies.

• Saint Taiqing returned to the Primordial Wilderness armed with his treasures and challenged Daoist Zixu to fight again.
• Daoist Zixu argued that Taiqing had unfairly overturned the conflict, while Thunder Ancestor challenged him to exchange thunder arts in Chaos.
• Thunder Ancestor revealed his control of numerous divine thunders, including Dutian Divine Thunder and Chaos Divine Thunder, alarming the Heavenly Dao Saints.
• Saint Taiqing asked what Daoist Zixu wanted, and Daoist Zixu proposed ending the dispute and celebrating Human Emperor Fuxi’s attainment of the Dao.
• Great Love Heavenly Venerate arrived, greeted the Saints, and said Daoist Zixu and Thunder Ancestor were anomalies within the Primordial Wilderness.

Daoist Zixu, Thunder Ancestor, and Feng confronted the Heavenly Dao Saints over Fuxi, and Hongjun arrived to end the dispute. The Saints agreed to leave future Human Emperor affairs to Mystic Gate disciples, while Hongjun invited everyone to Zixiao Palace.

• Daoist Zixu defended Anomalies as a sliver of Creation and mocked Great Love Heavenly Venerate for once being an Anomaly himself.
• The Heavenly Dao Saints considered how to handle Fuxi and the growing influence of the Human Dao, while Thunder Ancestor urged them to settle the matter.
• A youthful Hunyuan arrived and introduced himself as Fellow Daoist Feng, then challenged the Saints to a contest.
• Hongjun arrived and declared that the Heavenly Dao Saints should stop interfering in future Human Emperor matters, leaving them to Mystic Gate disciples.
• Hongjun congratulated Fuxi with gifts, then invited all the Saints to discuss matters at Zixiao Palace.

After the Human Dao Saints appeared to protect the Human Race, Fuxi explained to the Interception Sect immortals that he had only learned of his backing during the crisis. Yun Zhongzi and the others stayed to help stabilize the Human Race, while Fuxi refused to sever his bond with his teachers after becoming Human Emperor.

• Countless factions sent delegations toward the East Sea Coast to congratulate Fuxi and cultivate ties with the Human Race.
• Fuxi told Yun Zhongzi, Great Peng Bird, Kong Xuan, and the other Interception Sect immortals that the Human Dao Consciousness had given him the Human Dao Seal and urged him to act like a Human Emperor.
• Great Peng Bird questioned the three newly revealed Hunyuan Saints, but Kong Xuan rebuked him, and Yun Zhongzi warned the group not to provoke powerful beings or draw trouble to the Interception Sect.
• Yun Zhongzi said the teachers would stay to stabilize the Human Race until Fuxi secured his rule, then return to Golden Ao Island.
• Fuxi knelt and insisted that Yun Zhongzi and the others would always be his teachers, despite becoming Human Emperor.
• Kong Xuan explained that Fuxi would remain among the Human Race even after abdicating to regulate its destiny and guard against calamities, while Great Peng Bird's teasing eased the group's sorrow.

Hongjun asked the gathered Saints to help locate and kill Yang Mei, offering benefits to secure their aid. Great Love Heavenly Venerate agreed only on the condition that Hongjun accept his terms.

• Hongjun hosted the Saints in Zixiao Palace and asked them to join forces against Yang Mei, who had attacked his palace and threatened revenge.
• Great Love Heavenly Venerate refused to interfere in the affairs of Hongjun’s Space-Time, and Daoist Zixu and the others likewise hesitated to provoke Yang Mei without compensation.
• Thunder Ancestor mocked Hongjun’s assurances by recalling how the Heavenly Dao Saints had failed to save Hong Yun, and Daoist Feng challenged Saint Zhunti to a fight to the death.
• Hongjun offered the Hunyuan Saints freedom to establish Dojos and lineages in the Primordial Wilderness, and Daoist Zixu demanded a share of Yang Mei’s treasures if they helped kill him.
• Hongjun asked Great Love Heavenly Venerate for assistance, and Great Love Heavenly Venerate agreed conditionally after finishing his tea.

The Great Love Heavenly Venerate asked Hongjun to lend him the Creation Jade Disk in exchange for helping suppress Yang Mei, but Hongjun refused and offered other treasures instead. They agreed that Hongjun would assist the Great Love Heavenly Venerate nine times, and the Great Love Heavenly Venerate revealed a Chaos Exotic Treasure that could imprison Yang Mei.

• The Great Love Heavenly Venerate asked to borrow Hongjun's Creation Jade Disk, but Hongjun refused and offered him Innate Spiritual Treasures instead.
• The Great Love Heavenly Venerate rejected the treasures and offered to suppress or refine Yang Mei in exchange for studying the Creation Jade Disk.
• Hongjun refused to lend the Creation Jade Disk, so the Great Love Heavenly Venerate asked him to act for him nine times without harming Hongjun, the Primordial Wilderness, or the other Saints.
• Hongjun and the Great Love Heavenly Venerate swore oaths upon the Great Dao, which responded to their agreement.
• The Great Love Heavenly Venerate revealed a nine-story Chaos Exotic Treasure called a Desolate Pagoda and explained that it could bind Yang Mei and refine him to death.

At Zixiao Palace, Great Love Heavenly Venerate and the Saints agreed that Hongjun would secretly deduce Yang Mei’s whereabouts. Qingyuan then directed his disciple Daoist Randeng to seek out the Human Emperor and help him attain Dao, leaving Randeng with two precious Golden Cores and a summons from Yuanshi.

• Great Love Heavenly Venerate presented an ancient pagoda as evidence of his journey through Chaos, and Hongjun agreed to arrange the matter connected to it.
• Great Love Heavenly Venerate advised Hongjun to deduce Yang Mei’s whereabouts alone so the other Saints could assist secretly without alerting Yang Mei.
• Qingyuan summoned Daoist Randeng and explained that he should help the Human Emperor attain Dao rather than scheme against the Human Race.
• Qingyuan told Randeng to volunteer for the task when Yuanshi discussed the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and revealed that the Human Emperor was in the Lie Shan Tribe.
• Qingyuan gave Randeng two Nine Revolutions Grand Unity Pills to cultivate loyal followers, and Randeng returned to Yuanjue Cave as the bell at Qilin Cliff rang.

Daoist Randeng gave White Crane Boy and the Sika Deer Golden Cores to help them reach the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, then went to Jade Void Palace and revealed that he had entered the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. When Venerable Yuanshi sought a disciple to assist the coming Earth Sovereign, one disciple unexpectedly volunteered.

• Daoist Randeng summoned White Crane Boy and the Sika Deer, gave them Golden Cores, and named the deer Lu Guang.
• Daoist Randeng protected the two spirits as they cultivated, then went to Jade Void Palace for Venerable Yuanshi's summons.
• Venerable Yuanshi recognized that Daoist Randeng had entered the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and rewarded him with pills.
• Cihang explained that Guangchengzi had stayed away out of shame after failing in the Human Emperor matter, and Venerable Yuanshi ordered him to return next time.
• Venerable Yuanshi asked the Chan Sect disciples to assist the Earth Sovereign, but they hesitated because of the dangers of Tribulation Qi.
• An unnamed disciple told Venerable Yuanshi that he was willing to go.

Daoist Randeng volunteered to assist Human Emperor Fuxi but delayed his departure while Fuxi transformed the Human Race and reached the height of his rule. After the Interception Sect Immortals completed their mission, they said farewell to Fuxi and left him to govern on his own.

• Daoist Randeng offered to descend the mountain and help Fuxi, but Venerable Yuanshi warned him not to fail, and the other Chan Sect Immortals refused to accompany him.
• Daoist Randeng returned to Spirit Vulture Mountain, saw that his disciples were advancing, and gathered Daoist materials while waiting to assist Earth Emperor Shen Nong later.
• Fuxi issued reforms across the Human Race, developed agriculture, cities, temples, and academies, and toured the land with the Interception Sect Immortals to defeat demons and build his prestige.
• Yun Zhongzi announced that the Interception Sect Immortals would leave after helping Fuxi establish a prosperous era, and Fuxi pleaded with his teachers not to abandon him.
• Yun Zhongzi advised Fuxi to listen to his people and govern diligently, while Great Peng Bird urged the group to leave before they all cried.
• Fuxi bowed to the departing teachers and wished them a safe journey.

After helping Fuxi attain the Dao, Yun Zhongzi and the other Interception Sect disciples returned to Golden Ao Island with Candle Dragon and Kunpeng, who had joined the sect. Watching their success, Duobao and the other Personal Disciples planned how to find and assist the next Human Emperor.

• On the way back to Golden Ao Island, Great Peng Bird joked with Kong Xuan, and Yun Zhongzi reassured the disciples that they would meet Fuxi again.
• Yun Zhongzi summoned Kunpeng with a bronze token, but Candle Dragon arrived with him and said he was going to Golden Ao Island to listen to Qingyuan’s Dao.
• Yun Zhongzi welcomed Kunpeng as a junior brother and invited both him and Candle Dragon to travel with the group.
• The returning disciples received praise in Heavenly Palace Immortal City for helping Fuxi become a Human Dao Quasi-Saint, while Duobao and the other Personal Disciples watched with envy.
• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother proposed searching for Human children born with unusual signs and examining their Fortune Aura to identify the next Human Emperor.
• Duobao asked the other Personal Disciples to join him in seeking Human Dao Merit by assisting the next Human Emperor.

The Interception Sect’s disciples asked Tongtian for permission to seek the next Human Emperor, and he directed them to the East Sea Coast in three thousand years. Daoist Randeng had already settled at the Lie Shan Mountains, where he built the Jiang Tribe into a unified and prosperous power, leaving him confident he would become Earth Emperor Shen Nong’s teacher.

• Duobao, the other Personal Disciples, and the Seven Attendant Immortals asked Tongtian to let them seek the next Human Emperor, and Tongtian sent them to the East Sea Coast in about three thousand years.
• Water-Fire Boy livestreamed the meeting at Biyou Palace, and the news of the Interception Sect’s plans spread online.
• Daoist Randeng arrived early at the Lie Shan Mountains and used his knowledge to help a small tribe called Jiang improve farming, trade, and cultivation.
• After neighboring tribes attacked and Jiang defeated them, Daoist Randeng guided the Jiang Tribe as it annexed the others and became the Lie Shan Tribe.
• Daoist Randeng abolished slavery, established laws and administrative systems, and spent centuries helping the merged tribes become a peaceful whole.
• Daoist Randeng watched the Biyou Palace video and believed he was already ahead of his rivals in the race to teach Earth Emperor Shen Nong.

After preaching for three million years inside the Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi Tower, Qingyuan received powerful rewards and helped his disciples advance. Kunpeng dispersed his Three Corpses to abandon his old path and join Qingyuan’s sect, and Qingyuan promised to teach him the Hunyuan Dao once he recovered; the chapter ended when Qingyuan sensed an abnormal change in the Human Dao Origin.

• Qingyuan ended his three-million-year sermon, received the system’s rewards, and used the Daoxing and treasures to strengthen his Chaos Demon God incarnations and cultivate the Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi Tower.
• Qingyuan sent his disciples into separate spaces to cultivate, then discussed Candle Dragon’s slow conversion of Dragon Script into Law seals and promised to help him advance.
• Kunpeng asked Qingyuan how he could reach Hunyuan after severing the Three Corpses, and Qingyuan asked whether he had the resolve to disperse them.
• Kunpeng dispersed his Three Corpses and their three Innate Spiritual Treasures, then declared that he would sever his karmic ties with the Dao Ancestor and join Qingyuan’s sect.
• Qingyuan gave the injured Kunpeng Three Lights Divine Water and pills, promised to teach him the Hunyuan Dao after his recovery, and continued advising Candle Dragon until he sensed an abnormal change in the Human Dao Origin.

Qingyuan sensed Shennong’s birth and instructed Randeng to guide him patiently rather than rush his education. Randeng found the child Stone, who grew up learning medicine from Shugen and earned the name Shennong, leaving the Earth Emperor’s path underway.

• Qingyuan sensed that the Earth Emperor Shennong had been born in Lie Shan and summoned Randeng to explain how to guide him.
• Qingyuan told Randeng to befriend Shennong as a child, let him grow naturally, and teach him medicine and related skills when he was older.
• Randeng searched Lie Shan’s household registers, found Shennong’s family, and secretly protected them while the child Stone grew up.
• When Stone’s father broke his leg, Shugen taught Stone about medicinal herbs and helped him prepare a treatment that healed his father.
• Stone studied medicine with Shugen, treated people throughout the tribe, and became known as Shennong.

The Human Race’s Fortune Aura surged, prompting the Heavenly Dao Saints to send their disciples to pursue the Human Emperor’s opportunity. Daoist Duobao and the Interception Sect immortals reached the East Sea Coast, determined to find the Human Emperor and earn the chance to assist him.

• The Human Race’s Fortune Aura flourished, granting its cultivators breakthroughs, and Heavenly Emperor Fuxi declared new benefits and an amnesty.
• Grand Pure Laozi ordered Great Master Xuandu to seek the Human Emperor and gave him treasures, warning that the Interception Sect was also pursuing the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Venerable Yuanshi urged the Chan Sect disciples to compete for the Human Dao opportunity, but they hesitated and asked about Randeng, who had settled among a remote Human Tribe.
• Venerable Yuanshi’s disciples promised to act when the Supreme Emperor emerged, then changed the subject to cultivation.
• Daoist Duobao, the Interception Sect’s direct disciples, and the Seven Attendant Immortals departed Golden Ao Island amid cheers and headed for the East Sea Coast.
• The Interception Sect immortals admired the Human Race’s cities and development, then Daoist Duobao led them toward the central region to find the Human Emperor.

The Interception Sect immortals arrived in Fuxi City to seek help finding the Earth Sovereign, but Fuxi rebuked their presumptuousness before agreeing to assist. As they searched the Human Race for auspiciously born children, Shennong began studying alchemy with Daoist Randeng.

• The Interception Sect immortals saw Fuxi City's National Fortune, and Fuxi appeared and warned them after they touched the National Destiny Golden Dragon.
• Fuxi hosted the immortals and explained that the Human Race needed policies suited to its present conditions, not outsiders imposing sweeping changes.
• Daoist Duobao and the others respectfully asked Fuxi to help them find the Earth Sovereign, and Fuxi agreed to discuss their request over a meal.
• After drinking with Fuxi, Daoist Duobao asked him to have the Dragon Officials identify children born with unusual phenomena and auspicious signs, and Fuxi ordered them to help.
• The Interception Sect immortals began reviewing the registers and investigating, while Shennong started studying alchemy with Daoist Randeng.

Qingyuan lured Hongjun to witness the Great Dao Fishing Rod and Nine Ancient Steles Pagoda suppressing a Chaos Demon God. Hongjun agreed to help wound the captured Wind Great Dao Demon God, and Qingyuan began hauling it from the River of Time.

• Qingyuan fished in the East Sea while cultivating and discovered a Chaos Demon God's companion Lingbao caught on his rod.
• Qingyuan entered Chaos, set up the Sun-Moon-Star Diagram and Great Dao Hall, and summoned Hongjun to demonstrate his Treasure Pagoda.
• Hongjun entered the ancient star-domain fragment, took a star as a memento, and exchanged an Innate Spiritual Treasure for it.
• Qingyuan showed Hongjun the Wind Great Dao Demon God struggling on the fishing line and asked him to wound it so Qingyuan could suppress it in the Treasure Pagoda.
• After initially refusing to take the lead, Hongjun agreed to help in exchange for counting the favor against Qingyuan's oath, then wounded the demon with the Creation Jade Disk as Qingyuan hauled it out.

Qingyuan and Hongjun captured and sealed the Wind Great Dao Demon God in the Nine Ancient Steles Pagoda, then hosted the gathered Saints and discussed the treasure’s power. The gathering ended with Qingyuan proposing a wager on which of the Three Pure Ones’ lineages would help the Earth Sovereign attain complete Dao realization.

• Hongjun wounded and restrained the Wind Great Dao Demon God while Qingyuan brought out the Nine Ancient Steles Pagoda.
• Qingyuan used the pagoda to imprison the Wind Great Dao Demon God, whose refinement would eventually yield his Great Dao and insights.
• The Heavenly Dao Saints and Human Dao Saints cautiously joined Qingyuan and Hongjun for tea and a discussion of the pagoda.
• Qingyuan explained that the pagoda could refine Great Immortal Yang Mei and that he would share the benefits if the Saints helped suppress him.
• Qingyuan proposed a wager on which of the Three Pure Ones’ lineages would help the Earth Sovereign attain complete Dao realization, staking an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Qingyuan hosted a wager among the Saints on which sect would find the Human Emperor, choosing Daoist Randeng while most others backed the Interception Sect. At the East Sea Coast, Shennong of the Lie Shan Tribe transformed human life with herbal medicine and slash-and-burn farming, though the Saints’ wager remained unresolved.

• Qingyuan showed the Saints the Three Sects’ activities at the East Sea Coast and offered his spiritual treasures as stakes in a wager.
• Most Saints chose the Interception Sect, Venerable Yuanshi chose Daoist Randeng, and Qingyuan also bet on Randeng.
• After a hundred years of searching, Daoist Duobao and the Interception Sect disciples still had not found anyone with the fate of a Human Emperor.
• Shennong of the Lie Shan Tribe tasted and recorded hundreds of herbs, devised medicines, and taught tribes across the East Sea Coast how to treat illnesses.
• Shennong observed that burned land was more fertile, developed slash-and-burn agriculture, and taught people how to prepare fields for better harvests.

The Heavenly Dao Saints watched as Daoist Randeng began teaching Shennong, prompting Venerable Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian to clash over whether the Interception Sect could receive outside aid. Fuxi refused the Interception Sect’s offer to rapidly develop the Human Race but agreed to introduce its disciples to Shennong, leaving Daoist Randeng alarmed when they arrived.

• Venerable Yuanshi laughed at the Interception Sect’s failure to find Shennong, then tried to send him the Pangu Banner, but Sect Master Tongtian objected and accused him of past unfairness.
• Qingyuan forbade the Saints from intervening in the wager and warned Venerable Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian that they could fight him if they disagreed.
• Daoist Duobao and the Interception Sect disciples asked Fuxi to broker a meeting with Shennong and promised resources, connections, and technology to help the Human Race prosper.
• Fuxi rejected the Interception Sect’s offer of rapid assistance, arguing that the Human Race should develop through its own efforts, but agreed to introduce its disciples to Shennong.
• Fuxi located Shennong in the Yellow River region, where he was treating the sick and teaching people about medicinal herbs; Daoist Randeng was alarmed when Fuxi and the Interception Sect arrived.

Shennong treated the sick by the Yellow River while struggling to find a way to spread medical knowledge across the Human Race. Fuxi arrived and tested Shennong’s resolve, then asked him to meet some people on his behalf.

• Shennong treated patients and lamented that he lacked the means to train healers and bring his medical texts to the Human Emperor.
• Fuxi arrived at the tribe, recognized Shennong, and praised his work and talent.
• Fuxi asked what Shennong would do if his ideas were rejected, and Shennong vowed to spread his knowledge himself, even at the cost of his life.
• Daoist Randeng tried to interrupt their conversation, and Fuxi acknowledged him as an immortal of the Chan Sect.
• Fuxi revealed that he had promised others he would speak with Shennong and asked whether Shennong would meet them.