Chapter Summaries

After thirty thousand years of guiding the Five Elements Immortal Sect, Luo Qing arranged for Qingfeng to become its Golden Immortal sect master and left with Holy Mother Xihua. Though Luo Qing claimed the sect’s future was no longer his concern, Holy Mother Xihua saw that he had secretly left Qingfeng a protective gift.

• Luo Qing and Holy Mother Xihua established the Five Elements Immortal Sect and guided its early growth, while its first generations of disciples suffered many deaths.
• After thirty thousand years, Luo Qing grew eager to leave and arranged for Qingfeng to take immortal medicine and become the sect’s first Golden Immortal disciple.
• Luo Qing handed Qingfeng the sect master position, encouraged him, and departed with Holy Mother Xihua before he could protest.
• Holy Mother Xihua questioned Luo Qing about abandoning Qingfeng, then noticed that he had secretly sent a streak of golden light into his disciple’s body.

Fuxi formed an alliance between Phoenix Perch Mountain and Hua Tian Peak, then accepted Jiang Zi and Bao Fuzi as his disciples and established a residence at Gu Xi Mountain. Luo Qing sensed the calamity’s core figures had emerged and noticed that Jiang Zi carried unusually pure Human Emperor Qi.

• Nuwa accepted an alliance with Hua Tian Peak while keeping Phoenix Perch Mountain’s support for the Human Race secret.
• After repaying the debts from becoming a Sage, Fuxi sensed his destined disciples had appeared and traveled to the Human Race’s territory.
• Fuxi took the six-year-old Jiang Zi as his first disciple near the Luo River.
• Fuxi named the demon-race black leopard spirit Bao Fuzi, then established Gu Xi Mountain in the Central Region as his home.
• Jiang Zi and Bao Fuzi began cultivation, accelerating the Investiture of the Gods Calamity and bringing the struggle for supremacy closer.
• Luo Qing noticed that Jiang Zi possessed Human Emperor Qi purer than Yan Tianyu’s.

After returning to Kunlun, Luo Qing watched the approaching tribulation drive the demon race and the other clans into a struggle for control of the Central Domain. The chaos ended with three major powers dividing the region, while the two alliances prepared to unite against the demon race.

• Luo Qing agreed with Holy Mother Xihua to return to Kunlun as the great tribulation approached.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng led the demon race’s expansion, and Lu Ya’s demons conquered or devoured hundreds of nearby clans.
• The Central Domain’s clans began expanding and forming coalitions, including the Feathered Clan, Celestial Clan, and Purple Blood Clan’s Myriad Races Alliance.
• Over tens of thousands of years, the demon race seized the eastern and northern regions, while displaced clans formed the Anti-Hegemon Alliance in the west.
• After eighty thousand years of war, the demon race controlled half the Central Domain, and the Myriad Races Alliance and Anti-Hegemon Alliance each held a quarter.
• The two alliances moved toward joining forces, making further demon expansion difficult.

As the Demon Race's expansion war subsided, the Northern Clans feared an invasion and the Heavenly Court's inability to protect them. Twenty-four powerful Grand Luo clans formed the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance to unite the region and cultivate Quasi-Saints.

• The Demon Race ended hostilities after occupying half of the Central Domain, while the other domains strengthened their defenses.
• Alarmed by the Demon Race's proximity and the Heavenly Court's restrictions, Northern Clan leaders debated uniting to resist a possible invasion.
• A Peak Grand Unity powerhouse urged the clans to break free of Heavenly Court control and establish their own alliance before the Heaven and Earth Calamity.
• The Northern Clans' Grand Luo Golden Immortal Ancestors agreed to unite twenty-four powerful clans with smaller forces in the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance.
• The twenty-four powerful clans announced the alliance, which aimed to protect the Northern Domain and use shared Fortune to help produce one or two Quasi-Saints.

Huang Tian and the Four Great Emperors decided to remain neutral toward the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance while requiring any Quasi-Sage it produced to join the Heavenly Court or leave the Northern Domain. With the Heavenly Court taking no public action, more clans joined the alliance, while the Eastern Region remained divided among its many Quasi-Sage forces.

• Huang Tian summoned the Four Great Emperors to discuss how the Heavenly Court should respond to the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance.
• Kong Xuan warned that supporting the alliance could help it produce Quasi-Sages, while Holy Mother Zi Guang said its rise could no longer be prevented without attacking the clans.
• Taishang Laojun proposed waiting for the coming struggle for supremacy to weaken the alliance, then recruiting its Quasi-Sages or driving them from the Northern Domain.
• Huang Tian and the Four Great Emperors agreed to remain neutral, and Great Crimson Heavenly Dragon stationed himself at Yunmeng Marsh to monitor the alliance through White Brow.
• The Heavenly Court stayed silent, prompting more clans to join the alliance and concentrate the Northern Domain's Fortune.
• The Eastern Region failed to form an alliance because its many Quasi-Sage forces would not submit to one another.

The Eastern Region’s Quasi-Sages formed the Myriad Immortals Alliance as the Primordial Wilderness’s Fortune and Tribulation Qi signaled an approaching calamity. Luo Qing judged the Human Race the likeliest World Protagonist and assigned Luo Lian and Yun Xiao roles in the coming struggle, leaving Hua Tian Peak’s forces under Yun Xiao’s command.

• Several Peak Quasi-Sages united the Eastern Region’s forces into the Myriad Immortals Alliance, and the Tribulation Qi began rising across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Luo Qing observed that the Human, Buddhist, and Demon Races had the strongest Fortune, but the Human Race was increasingly likely to become the World Protagonist.
• Luo Qing told Luo Lian to spread the Grand Unity Holy Mother’s name and help the Human Race claim that position, while Zi Luo promised to assist her.
• Luo Qing placed Hua Tian Peak’s subordinate deities, retainers, and Third Generation Disciples under Yun Xiao’s command, and Yun Xiao accepted the task.

Luo Qing visited his daughter Luo Yao on the Lunar Star, where she showed him how she had cultivated its spiritual resources. He praised her efforts and encouraged her to pursue the Sage realm before her elder brother.

• As the Heaven and Earth Calamity approached, Immortals and gods fled to remote lands and the overseas regions while the major forces prepared their armies and competed to strengthen their cultivation.
• Fortune surged among the races and alliances, bringing new Quasi-Sage experts to the Shizu, the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance, and the Eastern Region's Myriad Immortals Alliance.
• After tens of thousands of years of stalemate, Luo Qing descended to the Lunar Star, where Luo Yao greeted him and complained that he had not visited her and her elder brother sooner.
• Luo Yao showed Luo Qing the Lunar Laurel Forest and other spiritual growth on the Lunar Star, and he praised her stewardship and the star's flourishing origin.
• Luo Qing encouraged Luo Yao to govern the Lunar Star carefully and told her she might reach the Sage realm before her elder brother, leaving her yearning for that achievement.

Luo Qing visited Luo Yao on the Lunar Star and asked her to gradually reduce the moonlight reaching the land, restricting the Demon Clan’s ability to produce demon immortals during the coming tribulation. Lu Ya sensed danger in the Demon Kingdom but could not identify its source.

• Luo Yao admitted that she doubted she could reach the Sage realm, and Luo Qing told her that the Lunar Star’s potential would grow as the Primordial World developed.
• Luo Qing told Luo Yao that she and Luo Tian must stay out of the Kalpa Tribulation, but said she could still help indirectly.
• Luo Qing asked Luo Yao to reduce the Lunar Moonlight Essence released by the Lunar Star, since demon cultivators needed it to become immortals.
• Luo Qing and Luo Yao began gradually reducing the moonlight over thirty thousand years to weaken the Demon Clan without making the cause obvious.
• Lu Ya felt a sudden, fleeting chill in the Demon Kingdom and wondered whether an alliance was preparing to attack the Demon Clan.

The Human Race and its allies rapidly expanded their armies, triggering a military competition across the Primordial Wilderness and deepening fears of an impending Acquired Kalpa Tribulation. As rival alliances mobilized along their borders, Lu Ya and the Demon Race's leaders dismissed the Northern and Eastern forces as weak and expendable.

• Lu Ya ordered intelligence gathering on the major factions, but the investigation found nothing and was abandoned.
• Luo Lian, Zi Luo, and Yun Xiao led Hua Tian Peak's Subordinate Deities to the Human Race, where Yun Xiao trained a powerful Army Formation.
• Innate factions poured troops and cultivation resources into the Human Race, whose forces grew to more than fifty million Immortal soldiers.
• The Human Race's military buildup prompted six other Acquired Forces to join the arms race, while factions increasingly expected the Acquired Kalpa Tribulation and Investiture of the Gods Calamity within 120,000 years.
• The Myriad Races Alliance, Anti-Hegemon Alliance, Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance, and Myriad Immortals Alliance of the Eastern Region arrayed armies along their borders amid fears of war.
• Lu Ya and Demon Race leaders mocked the Eastern Region's mobilization and claimed the Northern and Eastern alliances would be easy to defeat once their powerful backers abandoned them.

As the races and Saint lineages amassed forces for supremacy, a divination predicted that the Human Race’s Fortune would peak in a thousand years. Yan Tianyu chose to begin the coming Kalpa Tribulation, and the Southern Domain changed dramatically after he swore the Human Race would win.

• Lu Ya rallied the Demon Kings to focus on conquering the Central Region and defeating the Human Race and Shizu Race.
• Interception Sect disciples joined the Demon Clan, while Chan Sect’s Twelve Immortals and Daoist Randeng led disciples toward the Human Race.
• The races and alliances expanded their armies until the immense costs threatened to exhaust their resources.
• A Quasi-Sage and ten Grand Luo Golden Immortals predicted that the Human Race’s Fortune would peak in a thousand years and identified that time as the best moment to wage war.
• Yan Tianyu declared that the Human Race would begin the Kalpa Tribulation and swore to share its fate; the Southern Domain changed dramatically.

Humanity prepared to launch the Kalpa Tribulation, prompting the Myriad Races Alliance, the demon race, and the Buddhist race to mobilize their armies. On Gu Xi Mountain, Fuxi sent Jiang Zi and Bao Fuzi down the mountain to serve humanity and the demon race, giving each a half of the Investiture of the Gods List to compete for the right to unite the lists and grant divine investitures.

• Humanity prepared to attack the Myriad Races Alliance when the millennium mark arrived, while the alliance, demon race, and Buddhist race mobilized their armies.
• Fuxi watched Jiang Zi and Bao Fuzi cultivate and decided the time had come to send them down the mountain as the Kalpa Tribulation began.
• Bao Fuzi pledged to fight for the demon race, while Jiang Zi pledged to contribute to humanity, and the two disciples eyed each other competitively.
• Fuxi gave Jiang Zi and Bao Fuzi the Yin and Yang auxiliary lists, explaining that the winner between them would unite the lists and preside over the Investiture of the Gods.

Jiang Zi and Bao Fuzi left Gu Xi Mountain with opposing halves of the Investiture of the Gods and returned to the Human and Demon Races, setting themselves against each other in the struggle for supremacy. As both races prepared for war, Lu Ya and Bao Fuzi agreed that the Demon Race must defeat the Human Race.

• Bao Fuzi urged Jiang Zi to join the Demon Race and coveted his half of the Investiture of the Gods, but Jiang Zi refused and warned that the Demon Race's prospects were poor.
• Bao Fuzi left for the Demon Race, and Jiang Zi returned to the Southern Domain, promising himself that he would spare Bao Fuzi after defeating his race.
• Fuxi watched both disciples depart, hoped they might survive the coming tribulation, and sent messages to the other Sages that the Investiture of the Gods had entered the world.
• Luo Qing sensed Jiang Zi and Bao Fuzi's return to the world and recognized that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity was about to begin.
• The Human Race welcomed Jiang Zi as a leading figure, while news that fallen warriors could become deities on the Investiture of the Gods emboldened them to fight.
• Lu Ya welcomed Bao Fuzi, and the two agreed that the Demon Race's chief rival was the Human Race and that it should be defeated.

Humanity launched a devastating invasion of the Myriad Races Alliance, prompting the demon race, the Anti-Hegemon Alliance, and the Buddhist Race to join the widening conflict. After more than a thousand years of fighting, the Myriad Races Alliance stood on the brink of collapse.

• After a thousand years, Yan Tianyu led fifty million human Immortal Army soldiers in a full-scale attack on the Myriad Races Alliance, destroying its border forces and capturing one-fifth of its territory.
• The demon race attacked the Myriad Races Alliance less than half a year later, seeking territory and preventing humanity from taking it all.
• The Anti-Hegemon Alliance advanced toward the demon race to pressure it, but the Buddhist Race invaded the Anti-Hegemon Alliance and forced it to redirect most of its troops.
• Humanity, the demon race, the Buddhist Race, and two Acquired Races’ alliances fought across the southwestern region for more than a thousand years.
• Humanity and the demon race steadily seized Myriad Races Alliance territory and accepted surrenders, leaving the alliance close to destruction.

Luo Qing summoned the ten Saints who had signed the Investiture of the Gods to address the devastation caused by the war among the five factions. They agreed to protect the Primordial Earth Continent, and Luo Qing prepared to demonstrate how they could stabilize it.

• Immortals and gods across the Primordial Wilderness petitioned the Saints to prevent the Kalpa Tribulation from destroying the land.
• Luo Qing heard the prayers and, suspecting an underlying cause for the widespread fear, called the Saints together beyond the heavens.
• Luo Qing showed the Saints the war’s devastation and warned that continued fighting could turn the Primordial Wilderness into ruins.
• Ancestor Hongjun, Nuwa, Fuxi, Yuanshi, and the other Saints agreed that the Primordial Earth Continent must be preserved.
• Luo Qing proposed that all ten Saints join forces to strengthen the land, then rose and looked toward the five regions to begin his demonstration.

The ten Sages reinforced the Primordial Great Land, greatly reducing the damage that immortals and gods could inflict on it. After the change became known, Yan Tianyu ordered the Human Race army to avoid populated areas and limit damage in future battles, while the demon and Buddhist races welcomed the greater freedom to fight.

• Luo Qing used the Creation Green Lotus to strengthen the Primordial Great Land, and Ancestor Hongjun added the power of the world's origin through the Jade Disk of Creation.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Fuxi, Jieyin, Zhunti, Tongtian, and Xihua each used treasures and Dao techniques to reinforce the land, making it far more resistant to immortal attacks.
• The ten Sages dispersed after completing their work, and Luo Qing concluded that only an assault on Buzhou Mountain and the Earth Pulse Ancestral Root could destroy the entire continent.
• The Human Race and other forces discovered that their attacks now caused much less damage, and Yan Tianyu recognized the change as a sign of the Sages' displeasure with their battles.
• Yan Tianyu ordered the Human Race army to avoid scenic immortal mountains and densely populated areas and to limit damage to the land, while the demon and Buddhist races welcomed the change.

The Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance and Eastern Region Myriad Immortals Alliance attacked the demon and Human races to relieve the besieged Myriad Races Alliance. Yun Xiao led Hua Tian Peak’s army to crush the invading Eastern Region forces, leaving their army in disarray as survivors fled toward home.

• The Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance invaded the demon race’s rear while the Eastern Region Myriad Immortals Alliance crossed into the Southern Region to attack the Human Race.
• Yun Xiao led a ten-million-strong Hua Tian Peak detachment against the invading Eastern Region army, which lacked the resolve to fight to the death.
• Yun Xiao ordered her army to concentrate its Army Formation power and annihilate the invaders rather than merely drive them back.
• After testing the enemy’s strength, Yun Xiao unleashed a powerful sword strike that split the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s Army Formation and killed a million soldiers.
• The two Quasi-Sage commanders fled, and Yun Xiao’s next three sword strikes killed millions more as the remaining soldiers scattered toward the Eastern Region.

The Myriad Immortals Alliance’s invasion collapsed, while the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance abandoned its failed rescue attempt. With the Myriad Races Alliance facing destruction, its remaining leaders chose to surrender to the Human Race, prompting Yan Tianyu to claim its territory as Lu Ya grew suspicious of the Human Army’s rapid advance.

• Yun Xiao’s forces captured nearly thirteen million Myriad Immortals Alliance soldiers after a heavenly net blocked their escape, though two Quasi-Sages fled.
• The Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance was stopped by the Demon Race Army and began planning a withdrawal, leaving the Myriad Races Alliance without reinforcements.
• The remaining Quasi-Sages of the Myriad Races Alliance chose surrender and agreed to submit to the Human Race rather than the Demon Race.
• Yan Tianyu ordered his forces to take over the Myriad Races Alliance’s territory and push back the Demon Race while avoiding a decisive war.
• Lu Ya ordered scouts to investigate the Human Race’s unexpected presence deep in the Myriad Races Alliance’s territory, suspecting a major defeat had occurred.

After the Myriad Races Alliance surrendered to the Human Race, Lu Ya and Bao Fuzi avoided a decisive battle and divided its territory with the Human Race. The Human and Demon Races turned toward the Eastern Region and Northern Domain, while the Western Teachings raced to defeat the Anti-Hegemon Alliance.

• Scouts reported that the Myriad Races Alliance had surrendered to the Human Race, enraging Lu Ya, but Bao Fuzi persuaded him to avoid war and seize more territory instead.
• Lu Ya ordered the Demon Race to attack the Myriad Races Alliance, and it captured nearly forty percent of the alliance’s former lands before the Human Race’s army blocked further expansion.
• Yan Tianyu’s Immortal Army grew to sixty-five million after incorporating the surviving forces and prisoners, while the Human and Demon Races withdrew their main forces toward the Eastern Region and Northern Domain.
• The fall of the Myriad Races Alliance shocked the Primordial Wilderness, and Immortal Gods judged the Western Teachings less favorably because they had made little progress against the Anti-Hegemon Alliance.
• A Western Teachings Quasi-Sage ancestor urged the army to destroy the Anti-Hegemon Alliance before the Human and Demon Races finished their campaigns in the other regions.
• The Western Teachings and Anti-Hegemon Alliance intensified their brutal fighting in the Central Domain as attention shifted toward the Northern Primordial Territory and Eastern Region.

After the Myriad Immortals Alliance lost most of its Eastern Region army to the Human Race, its four Quasi-Sage ancestors sought help from the Quasi-Saint Lineages that controlled it. Most refused to provide reinforcements, and a delegation of five Quasi-Sages instead went to negotiate with the Human Race.

• The defeat of the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s expedition left the Eastern Region fearing a Human Race counterattack.
• The four Quasi-Sage ancestors agreed that the Alliance could not face the Human Race alone and sent requests for aid to the Quasi-Saint Lineages.
• Most Quasi-Saint Lineages judged the Alliance’s defeat proof that it could not become the World Protagonist and declined to commit troops.
• The Alliance’s envoys begged the Eastern Region’s immortal sects for support but received little aid and were often barred from their mountain gates.
• A delegation of five Quasi-Sages representing the Eastern Region’s immortal sects arrived at the Human Race’s camp to negotiate.

Yan Tianyu hosted the Eastern Region’s immortal sect representatives as they negotiated over the Acquired Races, while their leader, Gu Mu, suspected Yan Tianyu was the reincarnation of Saint Huode’s vanished chief disciple, Yan Sheng. Luo Lian and Yun Xiao revealed Hua Tian Peak’s close ties to Yan Tianyu, leaving the delegation to reconsider its demands.

• Yan Tianyu met with the Eastern Region delegation to negotiate ownership of the Acquired Races, with Yun Xiao, Luo Lian, and Zi Luo standing beside him.
• Gu Mu recalled rumors that Saint Huode’s chief disciple Yan Sheng had been reborn as a human and suspected Yan Tianyu was his reincarnation.
• Gu Mu abandoned the delegation’s plan to intimidate Yan Tianyu and saluted him, prompting the other four Quasi-Sages to follow.
• Luo Lian called Yan Tianyu her Senior Brother, and Yun Xiao addressed him as Uncle-Master, confirming his connection to Hua Tian Peak.
• Gu Mu and the other Quasi-Sages realized Hua Tian Peak was backing Yan Tianyu and understood they could not use the negotiations to extort a substantial benefit.