Chapter Summaries

Nuwa and Fuxi visited Luo Qing to claim the Nine Heavens Breath Bag, which he gave Nuwa, then received Three Lights Divine Water from Xihua at his suggestion. Nuwa set out to perfect her Creation Dao, while Luo Qing worried that Houtu might establish the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk before his clone Luo Xuan could act.

• Nuwa asked Luo Qing to fulfill his old promise, and he gave her the Nine Heavens Breath Bag instead of merely lending it.
• Luo Qing advised Nuwa to ask Xihua for Three Lights Divine Water, and Xihua gave the siblings some from the Jade Pool.
• Nuwa told Fuxi she would travel the Primordial Wilderness to seek living beings and perfect her Creation Dao, while Fuxi returned to help Di Jun.
• Luo Qing resolved to speed up Luo Xuan's cultivation because Houtu might establish the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk first.

Luo Qing visited the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven and reviewed Luo Xuan’s plan to transform it into the Primordial Nether Realm by merging countless illusory worlds. The dangerous plan could also allow the Netherworld Ghost Willow to become a Chaotic Spiritual Root, and Luo Qing agreed to pursue it.

• Luo Qing toured the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven and observed its powerful Ghost Deities and the flourishing Netherworld Ghost Willow.
• Luo Qing met his clone Luo Xuan beneath the Ghost Willow and asked whether he had a plan to transform the Grotto-Heaven into the Primordial Nether Realm.
• Luo Xuan gave Luo Qing a Jade Slip describing the Art of World Merging, which would combine over one hundred thousand illusory Netherworld Small Worlds during his Sainthood breakthrough.
• Luo Xuan explained that success could transform the Netherworld Ghost Willow into a Chaotic Spiritual Root, while failure could cost them their chance to open the Primordial Nether Realm.
• Luo Qing decided that he liked Luo Xuan’s plan and would pursue it.

Luo Qing and Luo Xuan discussed how to create a Six Paths of Reincarnation system for the Primordial World, but lacked a suitable supreme treasure. Luo Qing rejected forcibly capturing Houtu and instead planned for Luo Xuan to challenge her in a Dao Struggle when she chose to become the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.

• Luo Xuan warned Luo Qing that opening the Primordial Nether Realm would be easy, but building a reincarnation system for the Primordial World and its Affiliated Universes would be difficult.
• Luo Qing realized that his existing Reincarnation Divine Treasures could not support the Primordial World and that he could not refine the necessary Innate Supreme Treasure himself.
• Luo Xuan proposed capturing Houtu the Ancestral Witch and using her body to create the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.
• Luo Qing rejected the proposal because it could provoke the Twelve Ancestor Witches, Ancestor Hongjun, and Ancestor God Pangu.
• Luo Qing proposed waiting for Houtu to transform herself into the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, then having Luo Xuan challenge her in a Dao Struggle and seize the disk for the Primordial Nether Realm.
• Luo Xuan accepted the plan, while his identity and strength remained unknown to nearly everyone outside a few core members of the Hua Tian Jade Pool factions.

Luo Qing began helping Luo Xuan cultivate so he could reach Peak Quasi-Sage before Houtu transformed into reincarnation, while the Method of One Yuan Perfection spread among the Primordial Wilderness’s Immortal Gods. The Witch Clan feared the method would strengthen its rivals, but Di Jun ordered the Demon Clan to use it to produce more Quasi-Sages.

• Luo Qing and Luo Xuan agreed to share cultivation insights in the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven so Luo Xuan could reach Peak Quasi-Sage in time.
• The Method of One Yuan Perfection spread among top Immortal Gods, and Grand Luo Immortal Gods began calling Luo Qing Fire Virtue Dao Ancestor.
• Houtu and the Twelve Ancestor Witches concluded that the method did not suit most Witch Clan cultivators and worried that it would give the Demon Clan an advantage.
• Zhurong accused Luo Qing of targeting the Witch Clan, but Di Jiang rebuked him and urged the Ancestor Witches to focus on attaining Sainthood.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Clan to teach the method to every Grand Luo Golden Immortal and support those at the peak of the realm in breaking through.

Di Jun and Fuxi completed the Great Formation of the Stars, giving the Demon Clan a potential answer to the Witch Clan’s Dutian Divine Fiend Great Array. They recognized that the formation’s massive force would need extensive training, risking the secret’s exposure.

• Di Jun asked why Nuwa had not returned, and Fuxi said she was traveling alone through the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hongjun Dao Ancestor opened the Jade Capital Great Thousand World in Jade Capital Mountain and named it the Jade Capital Realm.
• The Method of One Yuan Perfection and the spread of Cave Heaven Worlds eased conflicts and strengthened the Primordial World as fifty thousand years passed.
• Di Jun and Fuxi emerged after completing the Great Formation of the Stars, designed to unite the power of 129,600 stars and a vast force of cultivators.
• Di Jun told Fuxi to keep the formation’s details secret, while Fuxi warned that more than 120,000 participants needed training.
• Di Jun recalled how the Demon Clan’s untrained troops had scattered during their defeat in the Second War of Wu and Yao.

Di Jun secretly arranged for the Demon Clan to train in the Great Formation of the Stars, while he pursued cultivation and the ten Golden Crow Princes emerged, strengthening the Heavenly Court's fortunes. As the Witch Clan mocked the newborn princes, two Divine Egg Wombs in the Jade Pool World began absorbing its World Origin ahead of the birth of Luo Qing and Holy Mother Xihua's children.

• Di Jun and Fuxi agreed that Kunpeng would train the Demon Clan's soldiers in separate groups to keep their Great Formation of the Stars practice discreet.
• Di Jun entered the Heavenly Emperor Palace to cultivate, while Kunpeng led Demon Clan forces through batches of training in the Primordial Star Sea and the Witch Clan dismissed the exercises as ordinary military preparations.
• Ten Golden Crow Princes emerged in Chang Xi's palace, and their birth strengthened the Fortune of the Heavenly Court and Demon Clan.
• The Heavenly Court celebrated the princes for ten years, while Witch Clan warriors mocked them and threatened to capture and eat them.
• In the Jade Pool Origin Land, Holy Mother Xihua and Luo Qing's incarnation watched two Divine Egg Wombs absorb the world's World Origin as their children neared birth.

Luo Qing and Holy Mother Xihua welcomed their children, who emerged from Divine Eggs with powerful foundations. Luo Qing named them Luo Tian and Luo Yao, and arranged for them to be raised in the Jade Pool Universe.

• Luo Qing and Xihua watched as their children greedily absorbed World Origin inside their Divine Eggs, and Luo Qing urged them to hatch.
• Luo Tian and Luo Yao broke out of their eggs and appeared as a boy and girl with cultivation comparable to Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• The children greeted Luo Qing and Xihua, and Luo Qing named them Luo Tian and Luo Yao.
• Luo Qing and Xihua informed the core members of the Hua Tian and Jade Pool lineages, and Long Ling and Huang Ting welcomed their new junior siblings.
• Luo Qing left Luo Tian and Luo Yao in Xihua's care in the Jade Pool Universe, with Xuan Nü ready to look after them when Xihua entered secluded cultivation.

After five Kalpa Cycles, Luo Xuan reached Peak Quasi-Sage with Luo Qing’s help, though his cultivation remained unstable and he had no hope of attaining Sainthood for now. Luo Qing returned to the Hua Tian Immortal Realm, reunited with Long Ling and his grown children, and sent Luo Tian and Luo Yao to fetch their mother and Aunt Xuan Nü.

• Luo Xuan reached Peak Quasi-Sage, and Luo Qing told him to stabilize his foundation and build his reserves before waiting for Houtu to transform into the reincarnation.
• Luo Qing arranged for Bai Hua to keep Luo Xuan company so the two could say farewell before Luo Xuan’s planned disappearance.
• Luo Qing returned to the Hua Tian Immortal Realm and found Luo Tian and Luo Yao fighting with their Yin and Yang powers.
• Long Ling called the siblings down to greet Luo Qing, and the three welcomed him after he returned.
• Luo Yao complained that Luo Tian bullied her, while Luo Tian blamed her for repeatedly challenging him to spar.
• Luo Qing told Luo Tian and Luo Yao to invite their mother and Aunt Xuan Nü, promising them a reward if they did it well.

After emerging from seclusion, Luo Qing arranged a celebration while Nuwa traveled the Primordial Wilderness seeking to perfect the Great Dao of Creation. Near the Southern Region, she discovered a surviving branch of the Five Colors Human Race and sensed that they were crucial to her path to Sainthood.

• Luo Qing told Long Ling to gather Shu Dao Ren, Kong Xuan, Huang Ting, and the others for a celebration in the Hua Tian Immortal Realm.
• Nuwa left the Endless Volcano with Cai Feng and Qingluan, having accepted the Phoenix Clan branch outside the Undying Volcano as her subordinates.
• Nuwa traveled through the Southern Region for over a thousand years while pursuing insight into the Great Dao of Creation.
• Nuwa discovered tens of thousands of innate Five Colors Human Race members living in a small mountain settlement and sensed they could be her opportunity to attain Sainthood.
• The surviving tribe was revealed to be a scattered branch that Long Ling and Yan Sheng had not brought to the Hua Tian World, and it now relied on a single Golden Immortal ancestor.

After emerging from seclusion, Luo Qing celebrated with the Jade Pool and Hua Tian lineages and reviewed how the Witch and Demon Clans had grown stronger while their leaders remained unable to break through to Sainthood. After Xihua returned to seclusion to recover and cultivate, Luo Qing turned his attention to reports on the Primordial Wilderness.

• Luo Qing welcomed his core associates at a banquet and considered the roles and prospects of Xuan Nü, Yan Tianyu, Long Ling, Huang Ting, Kong Xuan, Luo Tian, and Luo Yao.
• Nuwa, the Demon Clan leaders, and the Twelve Ancestor Witches advanced their cultivation, while Great Witch Boyue became the Witch Clan’s first ordinary Quasi-Sage.
• The Demon Clan accumulated more than twenty Quasi-Sages, leaving the Witch Clan worried about the balance between the two clans.
• Fuxi realized that Primordial Violet Qi was necessary for Sainthood, while the Peak Quasi-Sages of both clans and those who possessed Primordial Violet Qi remained unable to take the final step.
• Luo Qing sent Xihua back to cultivate and recover from the toll of giving birth, then examined reports on the Primordial Wilderness and noted that many had reached Peak Quasi-Sage.

Luo Qing considered why the Primordial Wilderness’s Peak Quasi-Sages had not cultivated Cave Heaven Worlds into Affiliated Universes, which could give them a path to sainthood. He compared the different ways Nuwa, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, Hongjun, and he himself could cross the Saint Realm threshold, while waiting to see who would discover the opportunity first.

• Hua Tian Peak’s Cave Heaven Treasure Pearls trade brought Luo Qing intelligence about the growing number of Peak Quasi-Sages across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Luo Qing noted that most powerful Quasi-Sages neglected their Cave Heaven Worlds, unaware that developing one into an Affiliated Universe could offer a ticket to sainthood.
• Luo Qing reasoned that Nuwa would attain sainthood by perfecting the Great Dao of Creation, while Hongjun and he had advanced by pioneering their own paths.
• Luo Qing concluded that the Three Pure Ones would use merit to complete their transformations, whereas Jieyin and Zhunti would rely on Heavenly Dao Great Grand Vows.
• Luo Qing judged that gaining recognition from the Heavenly Dao was beyond most Quasi-Sages, even if they made vows of their own.

Nuwa observed the struggling Five Colors Human Tribe and experienced the emotions of ordinary life, gaining new insight into her Great Dao of Creation. After another hundred thousand years passed with the leading cultivators still unable to enter the Saint Realm, Nuwa finally perfected her understanding of creation.

• Luo Qing assessed Nuwa’s approach to sainthood and considered how the balance of power might change once more cultivators became Saints.
• Nuwa watched the Five Colors Human Tribe dwindle until its Golden Immortal ancestor died, then experienced the tribe’s fear, hardship, and other emotions through a merged clone.
• Nuwa abandoned her plan to create a perfect sacred race and instead envisioned a race rich in emotions and desires.
• Over the next hundred thousand years, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti remained unable to cross into the Saint Realm, while Luo Qing lived peacefully in the Hua Tian Immortal Realm.
• Nuwa opened her eyes after perfecting the Great Dao of Creation, briefly displaying the complex emotions she had comprehended before her gaze returned to tranquility.

Nuwa used the remains and bloodline of the extinct Five Colors Human Race to create a new race whose weak bodies carried intense emotions. As the new humans greeted her, her Great Dao of Creation began transforming toward the Hunyuan Sage Realm, and Luo Qing brought Long Ling to witness the event.

• Nuwa realized that she could create a weak race filled with ultimate emotion, and the vanished Five Colors Human Tribe's ruin revealed that its destruction had inspired her understanding.
• Nuwa gathered the Five Colors Human Race's bloodline and used the Nine Heavens Breath Bag, Five Colors Divine Soil, and Three Lights Divine Water to shape more than ten thousand mud figures.
• Nuwa imbued the figures with life, divided souls, and Seeds of Ultimate Emotion, creating a new race of mortal humans.
• Luo Qing sensed the emergence of the Primordial Wilderness Human Race and told Long Ling that someone was about to Attain Sainthood.
• Luo Qing took Long Ling to the Southern Domain, where the new humans greeted Nuwa as their Holy Mother and her Great Dao of Creation began transforming toward the Hunyuan Sage Realm.

Nuwa created the Human Race and empowered a group of its members to protect it before leaving to undergo her Saintly Thunder Tribulation. Luo Qing and Long Ling witnessed the new tribe at Shouyang Mountain, then went to the Starry Sky as Nuwa’s tribulation began.

• Nuwa named the tens of thousands of beings the Human Race, granted some of them cultivation, and charged them with protecting their people.
• Nuwa left for the void beyond the Nine Heavens to prepare for her tribulation.
• Luo Qing and Long Ling saw the Heavenly Dao Merit descend, then found the Human Race building a tribe beside Nuwa’s former dwelling at Shouyang Mountain.
• Luo Qing recognized Nuwa as the Human Race’s creator and explained to Long Ling that other immortals could also create a race.
• Luo Qing and Long Ling traveled to the Starry Sky, where Luo Qing confirmed that Nuwa’s Thunder Tribulation had begun.

Luo Qing and Ancestor Hongjun watched Nuwa undergo her Saint Ascension Tribulation, while Luo Qing let Long Ling experience the ordeal through his Eye of the Great Dao. As Nuwa neared the end of the tribulation, two Thunder Tribulation Incarnations appeared, revealing why Luo Qing believed the number of Sages would not become excessive.

• Luo Qing and Long Ling settled in the void to watch Nuwa's Saint Ascension Tribulation, and Ancestor Hongjun joined them.
• Luo Qing used his Eye of the Great Dao to show Long Ling the tribulation and protected her primordial spirit as she immersed herself in the experience.
• Ancestor Hongjun warned Luo Qing that giving his disciple too much help could hinder her growth, but Luo Qing continued protecting Long Ling.
• Luo Qing and Ancestor Hongjun observed Nuwa withstand the early stages of the thunder tribulation, aided by her Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• As Nuwa neared the end of the tribulation, Dao Ancestor Hongjun Incarnation and Dao Ancestor Luo Qing Incarnation appeared in the thunderclouds, and Ancestor Hongjun understood Luo Qing's earlier view about the number of Sages.

Nuwa survived the Saint Ascension Tribulation and became a Sage, while Luo Qing and Ancestor Hongjun watched. Nuwa credited Luo Qing for helping her attain the Dao, leaving Ancestor Hongjun facing an awkward rift with his newly ascended disciple.

• Nuwa fought two Thunder Tribulation Incarnations with her Innate Spiritual Treasures and defeated them one by one.
• Luo Qing ended Long Ling’s simulated tribulation, and Long Ling asked whether Nuwa had succeeded.
• Nuwa completed her transformation and appeared before Luo Qing and Ancestor Hongjun as a Sage.
• Nuwa thanked Luo Qing for the Nine Heavens Breath Bag and Three Lights Divine Water, and promised to visit Hua Tian Peak.
• Luo Qing invited Nuwa and Ancestor Hongjun to visit, then left with Long Ling and gave the two disciples space alone.

On the way back to Kunlun Mountain, Luo Qing explained to Long Ling why Nuwa and Hongjun Dao Ancestor had a distant master-disciple relationship. After Nuwa announced that she would establish her Dao Field at Phoenix Perch Mountain, the Three Pure Ones decided to visit her and ask how she had broken through to sainthood.

• Long Ling asked Luo Qing why Nuwa seemed distant from Hongjun Dao Ancestor, and Luo Qing explained that they had met only a few times and were barely closer than ordinary fellow Daoists.
• Luo Qing predicted that Hongjun Dao Ancestor would struggle to control his disciples, while Long Ling concluded that disciples should be raised from childhood.
• Nuwa announced that she would establish her Dao Field at Phoenix Perch Mountain in five thousand years and lecture for three thousand years.
• Luo Qing wondered whether Nuwa had chosen Phoenix Perch Mountain herself or was distancing herself from the Demon Clan, and he reflected on how her sainthood changed the balance between the Witch and Demon Clans.
• Tongtian urged Laozi and Yuanshi to visit Nuwa and ask how she had broken through the Saint Path Bottleneck, and the Three Pure Ones agreed to go to Phoenix Perch Mountain.

After Nuwa attained sainthood and established her Dao Field at Phoenix Perch Mountain, Di Jun worried she planned to leave the Demon Clan and arranged a test of her loyalty. The Witch Clan also feared Nuwa would use her new power to destroy them.

• Di Jun celebrated Nuwa’s sainthood before Tai Yi warned him that she had left Heavenly Court to establish her Dao Field at Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Di Jun cautioned Tai Yi to show Nuwa respect and instructed him to keep Fuxi in Heavenly Court by granting his requests.
• Di Jun ordered Tai Yi to attend Nuwa’s preaching in five thousand years with gifts and the ten Heavenly Court Crown Princes, asking her to accept one as a disciple.
• After Tai Yi left, Di Jun resolved to pursue sainthood himself, while Fuxi celebrated Nuwa’s achievement and rose in status within the Demon Clan.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches gathered at Buzhou Mountain and feared that Nuwa might take revenge on the Witch Clan and bring about its destruction.

After Nuwa became a Sage, the Witch and Demon Clans cautiously prepared for her stance, while Nuwa reconsidered her ties to the Heavenly Court under an agreement barring Sages from interfering in the Primordial Wilderness. Luo Qing watched the thriving Human Race in the Primordial Main World and considered how to advance the Hua Tian Human Race.

• Di Jiang ordered the Witch Clan to scatter its people across the Primordial Wilderness, keep a low profile, and leave clan affairs to Gonggong, Zhurong, and the others while he, Zhu Jiuyin, and Houtu pursued breakthroughs.
• The Demon Clan remained restrained as both clans waited to learn Nuwa’s attitude after her preaching, while Immortal Gods speculated that she might separate from Di Jun’s Heavenly Court.
• Fuxi brought Demon Clan members to Phoenix Perch Mountain to build Nuwa’s palaces, displeasing Nuwa because she wanted to distance herself from the Heavenly Court.
• Nuwa accepted Hongjun Dao Ancestor’s agreement with Luo Qing that Sages could not personally interfere in the Primordial Wilderness, and reconsidered relying on the Demon Clan because her own forces were weak.
• Luo Qing surveyed the vast Human Race in the Primordial Main World and contemplated developing the Hua Tian Human Race further.

Luo Qing opened an Ascension Passage so Hua Tian Human Race immortals could escape resource scarcity and seek advancement in the Primordial Main World. Yan Tianyu also left for the Primordial Wilderness to make his own way, while Luo Qing secretly ensured his safety.

• Luo Qing lifted the restrictions on ascension for True Immortals and above, and tens of thousands of Hua Tian Human Race immortals entered the Primordial Main World near Kunlun Mountain.
• Luo Qing offered the remaining clan elders from the Five Colors Human Race the choice to return to the Primordial World, and some departed while others stayed to protect and teach the younger generations.
• Luo Qing noticed that Yan Tianyu had left the Hua Tian Universe and found him with Yan Wolf outside Kunlun Mountain, then secretly placed a strand of divine sense on him for protection.
• Yan Tianyu told Yan Wolf he wanted to rely on himself rather than remain sheltered or simply become the Human Emperor, and the pair left Kunlun Mountain to explore the Primordial Wilderness.
• Luo Qing watched Yan Tianyu go and accepted that the first concentrated wave of ascenders had ended as the Hua Tian Human Race’s departures shifted to a steady flow.