Chapter Summaries

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.

The Dragon Clan Old Ancestors punished a dragon who slandered the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect and made clear how much the clan depended on him. After Great Sage Dao Venerate left the Human Race and Dragon Clan to investigate the cause of their war, Fuxi appeared to track down the Demon Race.

• The Dragon Clan Old Ancestors savagely punished the dragon who had slandered the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect, stripping him of his bloodline and condemning his clan.
• The leading Old Ancestor apologized to the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect, while Great Sage Dao Venerate protected the True Spirits of two dragons but allowed the slanderer’s bloodline to be destroyed.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate left after the Dragon Clan agreed to handle the sinners as he requested, and he urged both sides to find the cause of the war themselves.
• Daoist Randeng called on the Human Race and Dragon Clan to seek the Demon Race, whose tracks they could not uncover through deduction.
• Fuxi appeared above the East Sea with the River Diagram and Luo Book and offered to deduce where the Demon Race had gone.

Fuxi rallied the Human Race and Dragon Clan to unite against the Demon Race, deduced the demons’ hidden realm, and transported their forces there. The Demon Race celebrated the clans’ losses until Fuxi’s arrival revealed that their sanctuary might no longer be concealed.

• Fuxi reassured the remorseful Shennong, then persuaded the Dragon Clan Old Ancestors and Human Race warriors to join forces against the Demon Race.
• Fuxi used the Human Dao Seal to overcome the mist hiding the Demon Race’s location and discovered the Great Thousand Worlds where they were entrenched.
• Fuxi used the River Diagram and Luo Book to transport the Human Race and Dragon Clan warriors from the East Sea into the Demon Realm.
• Lu Ya and the Demon Race watched the battle’s aftermath and celebrated the losses suffered by the Human Race and Dragon Clan, while Lu Ya concealed his complicated feelings about Great Sage Dao Venerate.
• After Great Sage Dao Venerate departed, the demons dismissed the threat of being found, but grew alarmed when they realized Fuxi had become a Human Dao Saint.

Fuxi attacked the Demon Realm after discovering the demons’ plot against the Human Race, but Saint Nuwa removed him and argued that Heaven should control the Human Dao. Fuxi rejected her demand and returned to find the war over, with both sides devastated and the Demon Race’s strength shattered.

• Fuxi led Human Race and Dragon Clan cultivators into the Demon Realm and unleashed a deadly assault on Lu Ya and the demon leaders, then suddenly vanished along with the River Diagram and Luo Book.
• Human Race and Dragon Clan warriors charged the demons, who rallied and fought back, turning the Demon Realm into a slaughterhouse.
• In the Palace of Nuwa, Fuxi confronted Saint Nuwa, who explained that she had intervened to prevent the Human Dao from escaping Heaven’s control; Fuxi rejected her reasoning and left.
• Fuxi returned to the Demon Realm after the battle and found fewer than one in ten Human Race and Dragon Clan fighters alive, while the Demon Race had suffered even greater losses.
• Fuxi bowed to the surviving Human Race and Dragon Clan, apologizing that he had returned too late.

After the Human Race and Dragon Clan destroyed the Demon Race’s forces, Fuxi yielded authority to Shennong as the two races parted on strained terms. At the East Sea, Great Sage Dao Venerate challenged Qingyuan’s efforts to prevent conflict, arguing that the Human Race and Dragon Clan would have clashed eventually.

• Fuxi comforted the Human Race survivors and organized the rescue of the wounded and the clearing of the battlefield.
• Shennong blamed himself for the Human Race’s losses, but Daoist Randeng urged him to focus on governing and restoring the people.
• The Human Race and Dragon Clan divided the spoils, destroyed the Demon Realm, and returned to the East Sea Coast with their losses and battle-hardened strength drawing the attention of Primordial Wilderness powers.
• The Dragon Clan refused Fuxi’s invitation and departed, while Fuxi told Shennong to take sole responsibility for ruling the Human Race and then left.
• At the East Sea, Great Sage Dao Venerate told Qingyuan that the Human Race and Dragon Clan’s divisions would have led to conflict even if their war had been prevented that day.

Great Sage Dao Venerate visited the Netherworld and advised Empress Pingxin that the Underworld Bureau’s disorder came from living beings managing the dead. He offered her the True Spirits of the Human Race and Dragon Clan dead as new personnel, leaving her to decide how to use them.

• Qingyuan let Great Sage Dao Venerate pursue his plans for the Underworld Bureau and warned him that the Heavenly Dao Saints and Yang Mei might soon target them.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate entered the Netherworld and announced his arrival, startling its inhabitants and drawing Empress Pingxin to meet him.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate criticized the Underworld Bureau’s reliance on living recruits, and Pingxin realized that mixing their motives and responsibilities had made the organization chaotic.
• Pingxin thanked Great Sage Dao Venerate for his advice and offered to repay the favor.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate revealed that he had gathered the Human Race and Dragon Clan dead’s True Spirits, including two Quasi-Saint Old Dragon True Spirits, and offered them as Underworld Bureau personnel.

Great Sage Dao Venerate brought Human Race and Dragon Clan True Spirits to Pingxin to help rebuild the Underworld Bureau, then asked her to replace her Meng Po incarnation with Jingwei. Pingxin agreed to let Jingwei serve as Meng Po, giving the remorseful daughter of Shennong a chance to atone.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate offered Pingxin the Human Race and Dragon Clan True Spirits, and Pingxin accepted them for the Underworld Bureau.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate asked Pingxin to dismiss her Meng Po incarnation and install a replacement, and Pingxin suspected he had come with ill intent.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate summoned Jingwei, who grieved over the deaths caused by her past actions and begged to change the past.
• Great Sage Dao Venerate told Jingwei that she could not reverse time but could atone by serving as Meng Po.
• Pingxin hesitated over appointing Shennong's daughter, but Great Sage Dao Venerate assured her Shennong would agree, and Pingxin accepted Jingwei for the role.

Great Sage Dao Venerate arranged for Jingwei to serve as Meng Po on a hundred-year probation, while Pingxin reorganized the Underworld Bureau. Shennong restored the Human Race but remained consumed by guilt over the war and Jingwei’s death, just as Randeng received a video.

• Great Sage Dao Venerate agreed to Pingxin’s terms and brought Jingwei to the Bridge of Helplessness, where she took Meng Po’s place on probation.
• Pingxin convened the Underworld Court, ended other beings’ automatic access to important posts, and established assessments for underworld officials.
• Shennong devoted a thousand years to relief and reconstruction, and the Human Race gradually recovered while the Dragon Clan continued to recuperate.
• Daoist Randeng urged Shennong to rest, but Shennong confessed that he blamed himself for the war, the Human Race’s losses, and failing to understand Jingwei.
• Daoist Randeng’s phone rang with a newly received video.

After Daoist Randeng showed Shennong a video revealing that Jingwei was serving in the Underworld Bureau as Meng Po, Shennong recovered his resolve and summoned the Human Race’s leaders to Fuxi City for an announcement. A hundred years later, a vast crowd of humans and hidden observers from other factions awaited him in the city’s central plaza as he appeared.

• Daoist Randeng received a video from Cai Xukun, whom Shennong identified as Great Sage Dao Venerate, and watched it with Shennong.
• The video showed Jingwei working as Meng Po in the Underworld Bureau, cleansing Lost Souls’ memories before reincarnation.
• Shennong wept as he learned where Jingwei was and how Great Sage Dao Venerate had arranged for her to atone.
• Shennong regained his composure, told Daoist Randeng he had made up his mind, and returned to Fuxi City to summon the Human Race’s leaders.
• Shennong’s decree gathered Human Race officials and other curious factions in Fuxi City over the next hundred years, while he kept the purpose of the meeting secret.
• When the hundred years ended, a huge crowd filled Fuxi City’s central plaza, and Shennong appeared.

Shennong resigned as Human Race Co-Lord and spent centuries helping neglected tribes improve their farming and medicine. After Daoist Randeng departed to follow his own path, Shennong headed to the Underworld, where his gaze met the old woman at the Bridge of Helplessness.

• Shennong apologized for the harm caused by the Demon Race's schemes, resigned as Human Race Co-Lord, and went to Huoyun Cave to suppress Human Race Destiny.
• The Human Race begged Shennong to remain, but over the following centuries its cities and tribes gradually divided and competed for power in his absence.
• Shennong traveled among small East Sea Coast tribes, teaching agriculture and sharing improved methods while Daoist Randeng followed him.
• Daoist Randeng drank with Shennong, said they should pursue their own paths, and departed for Yuanjue Cave to visit his other disciples.
• Shennong paid for the wine, traveled to the Underworld, and reached the Bridge of Helplessness, where he met the old woman there with his gaze.

In the Underworld, the Yin Spirits learned that Meng Po was formerly Jingwei and watched Shennong find comfort in seeing his daughter again. Daoist Randeng returned to Kunlun, where Juliusun and the other Chan Sect Immortals concealed a mysterious undertaking as a Five-Colored Divine Deer approached.

• King Yamas and judges gathered to wonder how Shennong knew Meng Po, and Great Witch Feng refused to explain.
• Empress Pingxin revealed that Meng Po was the newly appointed Jingwei and warned the Yin Spirits not to disturb Shennong or spread rumors.
• The Yin Spirits realized Shennong’s visit had eased his long-held guilt and felt comforted themselves.
• Daoist Randeng returned to Kunlun and found Juliusun, Daoist Tianzun, and Qingxu Daode Zhenjun hiding an array in the forest.
• Juliusun and the others concealed their activity from Daoist Randeng as a Five-Colored Divine Deer approached.