Chapter Summaries

Yan Tianyu negotiated a treaty with Gu Mu and the Eastern Region’s immortal sects, securing terms for the Human Race’s settlement and growth in the region. After the treaty was signed and the Myriad Immortals Alliance was handed over, Jiang Zi warned Yan Tianyu that the sects’ respect for the Human Race was only a result of the Kalpa Tribulation.

• Gu Mu demanded that the Human Race spare the Eastern Region’s immortal sects from retaliation and let them choose which race to support; Yan Tianyu agreed, provided they had not committed monstrous blood debts, and asked for a chance to win their support.
• Gu Mu declared that his Gu Mu Immortal Mountain would support the Human Race, while the two sides negotiated the Eastern Region’s tribute and autonomy arrangements.
• Yan Tianyu secured terms allowing the Human Race to settle across the Eastern Region, establish camps and cities, and send members to join the sects as disciples.
• After half a month of negotiations, Yan Tianyu and Gu Mu signed a treaty, and the Eastern Region’s immortal sects relinquished the Myriad Immortals Alliance and its forces to the Human Race.
• Jiang Zi warned Yan Tianyu that the Eastern Region’s sects had never valued the Acquired Races and treated the Human Race specially only because of the Kalpa Tribulation.

The Human Race took control of the Eastern Region after its immortal sects abandoned the Myriad Immortals Alliance, which collapsed before the Human Race had to fight it. When Lu Ya and Bao Fuzi learned the news at the Northern Domain border, Lu Ya was stunned and enraged.

• Yan Tianyu told Jiang Zi that the Human Race would eventually need its own strength and encouraged him to become one of its future pillars.
• The Eastern Region's immortal sects let the Human Race advance unhindered, while the Myriad Immortals Alliance's four Quasi-Sages argued over surrendering, defecting, or abandoning their races.
• The four Quasi-Sages split into rival groups, causing the Myriad Immortals Alliance to disintegrate before the Human Race attacked its main forces.
• Yan Tianyu accepted the surrender of two Quasi-Sages and agreed to help their races break free from the Eastern Region's immortal sects.
• The Human Race occupied the Eastern Region, adding it to its holdings in the Southern Region and the southern Central Domain.
• Lu Ya and Bao Fuzi learned that the Eastern Region had fallen to the Human Race, and Lu Ya froze in disbelief before growing furious.

Lu Ya and Bao Fuzi decided that the Demon Race should press its attack on the Northern Domain while the Human Race consolidated its newly conquered territory, and the Buddhist Race likewise intensified its campaign against the Anti-Hegemon Alliance. Yan Tianyu and the other Human Race leaders delayed plans to fight either rival so they could stabilize the coalition army, where foreign races now outnumbered the Human Race.

• Lu Ya worried that the Human Race might attack the Demon Race before it finished conquering the Northern Domain, but Bao Fuzi argued that it would first need time to govern its expanded territory.
• Bao Fuzi warned that the Human Race’s rapid expansion had made its foreign subjects and affiliated races stronger than the Human Race itself, leaving its control vulnerable if it suffered heavy losses.
• Lu Ya regained confidence and ordered the Demon Race Army to intensify its attack on the Northern Domain and the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance.
• The Buddhist Race, guided by its own expert, launched a more reckless offensive against the Anti-Hegemon Alliance and committed Spirit Mountain’s reserves to the war.
• Yan Tianyu and the other Human Race leaders chose to postpone attacks on the Demon Race and Buddhist Race and focus on bringing the coalition army’s many foreign forces firmly under Human control.

As the Human Race seized the Eastern Region, Yellow Heaven led the Heavenly Court to support the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance against the Monster Race, hoping to weaken the Monster Race and expand Heavenly Court control. Luo Qing recognized that Yellow Heaven had intervened in the Kalpa Tribulation again but chose not to stop him.

• The Human Race rapidly captured the Eastern Region while the Monster Race attacked the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance.
• Luo Qing concluded that the Human Race's victory was nearing and realized Yellow Heaven had again entered the conflict by backing the Northern alliance.
• Yellow Heaven proposed that the Heavenly Court support the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance, and Kong Xuan, Holy Mother Zi Guang, and Taishang Laojun agreed.
• Great Crimson Heavenly Dragon opposed the plan but accepted it after the other rulers supported Yellow Heaven.
• Yellow Heaven sent cultivation resources and war supplies through Yunmeng Marsh to help the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance resist the Monster Race.

The Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance accepted the Heavenly Court’s aid while preparing to fight the demon race, though some members hoped to gain independence whichever side prevailed. As war approached and the Human Race struggled to control its expanded forces, Holy Mother Zi Guang received an insight that revealed her chance to complete her heavenly mandate.

• The Self-Salvation Alliance’s leaders agreed to take the Heavenly Court’s resources and fight the demon race before considering negotiations.
• The alliance assembled thirty million Immortal soldiers, and Huang Tian felt reassured when he saw them preparing to resist the invasion.
• The Shi Clan drove the Anti-Hegemon Alliance toward destruction while the Human Race delayed further wars to reorganize its attached races and Immortal Army.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang continued seeking a way to fulfill her mandate by nurturing powerful Origin Stars rather than opening a universe for Primordial Violet Qi.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang felt an enlightenment descend and realized that her chance to complete the Dao had appeared.

Holy Mother Zi Guang seized an opportunity to perfect her Dao Fruit after deducing that the calamity would not affect the Star Sea. She prepared a star formation for protection and began her attempt, drawing the attention of Luo Qing in the Hua Tian Immortal Realm.

• Holy Mother Zi Guang used the power of the Star Sea to deduce the next thousand years and saw that the Starry Sky would prosper despite the calamity.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang decided not to seek help from Saint Huode because she did not want to incur more karmic debt to Hua Tian Peak.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang ordered the Star Gods to form a vast protective array from nearly ten thousand Primordial Stars and more than a hundred thousand ordinary stars.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang gathered her power and began trying to perfect her Dao Fruit, sending powerful fluctuations through the Starry Sky.
• Luo Qing sensed Holy Mother Zi Guang's attempt and looked toward the Primordial Era Starry Sky.

Luo Qing and Ancestor Hongjun recognized that Holy Mother Zi Guang’s attempt to perfect her Dao had drawn her into the Heavenly Court’s calamity, while the Demon Race reconsidered its costly war against the Northern Domain. Lu Ya chose negotiations and assigned Bao Fuzi to seek the Northern Domain’s submission in exchange for a powerful position and its Fortune.

• Luo Qing judged that Holy Mother Zi Guang had acted hastily and would have to bear the consequences of the calamity herself.
• Ancestor Hongjun calculated Holy Mother Zi Guang’s coming fate but decided the backlash against the Heavenly Court would have little effect on Jade Capital Mountain.
• The Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance and the Demon Race fought two bloody battles, suffering millions of casualties on both sides.
• Bao Fuzi urged Lu Ya to seek Demon Saint Kunpeng’s help, but Lu Ya explained that Kunpeng would avoid the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Lu Ya decided to negotiate with the Northern Domain and promised to make Bao Fuzi the Demon Race’s National Preceptor if he brought it under their rule.
• Bao Fuzi accepted the assignment, hoping to gain the Demon Race’s Fortune and advance to the Quasi-Sage realm.

Holy Mother Zi Guang began perfecting her Dao Fruit by combining her power with the Star Sea's Origin to nurture a new Origin Star. She created the first of nine planned Sub-Stars, while the Heavenly Court stood guard around her.

• Huang Tian recognized that Holy Mother Zi Guang was perfecting her Dao Fruit and believed she was nearing Sainthood.
• Huang Tian sent eighteen Grand Luo Golden Immortal generals and five million Heavenly Soldiers to protect the Star Sea, while Kong Xuan and Taishang Laojun prepared to intervene.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang drew on the Star Sea's Origin and her own power to nurture a small blue Origin Star.
• The blue star rapidly grew into a Quasi-Sage-level celestial body, becoming the first Origin Star of its kind in the Starry Sky apart from the Sun and Moon Stars.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang decided to nurture eight more Origin Stars to complete her planned Dao Fruit of great perfection.

Holy Mother Zi Guang gestated two Quasi-Sage Origin Stars and five Grand Luo Origin Stars, exhausting herself as she pursued her goal of creating nine. As the Demon Race and the Immortal armies faced off in the Northern Primordial Territory, Bao Fuzi brought Demon Emperor Lu Ya a contract with the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance for him to sign.

• Holy Mother Zi Guang gestated a blue Quasi-Sage Origin Star, then created a second Quasi-Sage Origin Star despite the severe drain on her strength.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang gave up on gestating more Quasi-Sage stars and created five Grand Luo Origin Stars, then began gestating an eighth star.
• Luo Qing recognized that Holy Mother Zi Guang planned to create nine Origin Stars and feared the Heaven and Earth Calamity would strike when she was most depleted.
• The Demon Race and Immortal armies assembled in the Northern Primordial Territory, each awaiting orders to begin battle.
• Bao Fuzi presented Demon Emperor Lu Ya with the contract agreed upon by the Demon Race and the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance, and Lu Ya read its terms.

Lu Ya agreed to the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance’s terms, then devised a plan to exploit Zi Guang’s attempt to perfect her Dao Fruit and weaken the Heavenly Court. He ordered the Demon Race to prepare to seize the Northern Domain’s Fortune at a critical moment, leaving Zi Guang vulnerable to its backlash.

• Bao Fuzi explained that the Demon Race had to accept the Northern clans’ autonomy in exchange for their soldiers and Fortune, and Lu Ya agreed to sign the contract.
• Lu Ya revealed the Star Sea to the Demon Race and accused Zi Guang of taking it while she perfected her Dao Fruit.
• Lu Ya said the Demon Race would settle its grievances with the Heavenly Court by seizing the Northern Domain’s Fortune, potentially triggering a severe backlash against Zi Guang.
• Bao Fuzi recognized Lu Ya’s plan, and Lu Ya ordered the Demon forces to prepare and told Bao Fuzi to notify another army to assemble.

Holy Mother Zi Guang neared completion of her Dao by creating nine Origin Stars, leaving her briefly drained. As she approached the final moment, Demon Emperor Lu Ya and the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance secretly forged a surrender contract, shifting the Northern Domain’s Fortune from Heavenly Court to the demon race.

• Holy Mother Zi Guang created eight Origin Stars and nearly completed the ninth, exhausting her divine power as the stars’ creation neared its end.
• The five Quasi-Sage ancestors of the Northern Domain learned from Bao Fuzi that Lu Ya intended to disrupt Holy Mother Zi Guang’s path to completing her Dao.
• Lu Ya watched Holy Mother Zi Guang’s power run dry, then signed a contract with the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance leader making the demon race supreme over the Northern Domain.
• Great Luo Golden Immortals on both sides sensed the contract and reacted with shock, while their leaders calmed the unrest through messages.
• The Northern Domain’s Fortune severed its bridge to Heavenly Court, flowed into the demon race’s Fortune, and increased the demon race’s Fortune by thirty percent.

The Northern Domain joined the demon race and the Self-Salvation Alliance, causing the Heavenly Court's Fortune to collapse and injuring its highest-ranking members. Holy Mother Zi Guang was struck during the final stage of completing her Dao Fruit and faced a choice between continuing and risking annihilation or stopping to heal.

• The demon race's pact with the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance severed the Northern Domain's connection to the Heavenly Court, abruptly cutting the Heavenly Court's Fortune in half.
• Huang Tian suffered a primordial spirit injury from the Fortune backlash and realized the Northern Domain had left the Heavenly Court.
• The Fortune backlash shook the Heavenly Realm and injured Huang Tian, Taishang Laojun, Kong Xuan, and Great Crimson Heavenly Dragon, while the Heavenly Court's Fortune began to recover.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang was struck while condensing her ninth Origin Star, and the backlash split her primordial spirit and damaged her origin.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang faced the choice of continuing to complete her Dao Fruit or stopping to repair the spreading Dao injury.

Holy Mother Zi Guang chose to endure her injuries and finish perfecting her Dao Fruit, while countless immortals and gods eyed the nine Origin Stars she might soon be unable to protect. Luo Qing sent a golden Spiritual Light to guard the stars, and Huang Tian learned that the demon race and the Self-Salvation Alliance had caused the Heavenly Court’s Fortune backlash.

• Holy Mother Zi Guang decided that preserving her chance at the Great Dao mattered more than surviving, and continued condensing her ninth Origin Star despite her severe injuries.
• Immortals and gods across the Primordial Wilderness saw Holy Mother Zi Guang’s weakening aura and began coveting the nine Origin Stars.
• Luo Qing foresaw that the nine stars would be vulnerable after Holy Mother Zi Guang fell into slumber, and sent a golden Spiritual Light to protect them for a time.
• Huang Tian investigated the Heavenly Court’s backlash, discovered the demon race and the Self-Salvation Alliance were responsible, and burned with resentment.

Huang Tian, enraged by the Heavenly Court’s humiliation and the Northern Territory’s defection, ordered a retaliatory strike using the Heavenly Emperor’s Treasure Seal. As the seal raced toward the battlefield to destroy the surrender contract, Lu Ya welcomed the chance to confront Huang Tian.

• Huang Tian refused to seek help over Holy Mother Zi Guang and turned his anger toward the Demon Race and the Northern Territory.
• Huang Tian ordered the Ten Directions Heavenly Soldiers to prepare for an attack, despite Taishang Laojun and Kong Xuan recognizing the danger.
• Huang Tian gathered the Heavenly Realm’s power into the Heavenly Emperor’s Treasure Seal and sent it across domains toward the Northern Territory.
• Lu Ya arranged for Bao Fuzi to carry the contract slowly so the Heavenly Court would retaliate and give him a reason to strike back.
• Bao Fuzi flew toward the Self-Salvation Alliance with the contract as the Heavenly Emperor’s Treasure Seal arrived at the battlefield.

Lu Ya used the Demon Race and Self-Rescue Alliance armies’ combined power to strike at the Heavenly Emperor’s Treasure Seal as it targeted Bao Fuzi’s contract. Their clash shattered the battlefield, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Lu Ya warned Bao Fuzi that the Heavenly Court’s attack would target the contract and ordered the Demon Race Army to raise its formation.
• The five Quasi-Sage ancestors of the Self-Rescue Alliance ordered their forces to raise their formation and directed its power toward Lu Ya.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Treasure Seal descended from the Heavenly Court and locked onto the contract in Bao Fuzi’s hands, suppressing him with its divine might.
• Lu Ya combined the power of both armies into a divine saber and slashed at the Treasure Seal.
• The Treasure Seal redirected its power to meet Lu Ya’s saber, and their collision shattered the battlefield as Bao Fuzi escaped using earth evasion.

Lu Ya used the Demon Emperor's Seal to attack the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal, hoping to destroy the symbol of the Heavenly Court's Fortune. The seals clashed, and the Demon Emperor's Seal gained the upper hand as their competing strands of Fortune fought.

• Lu Ya realized his ordinary supernatural powers could not break the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal and decided to risk a clash between the two seals.
• Lu Ya summoned the Demon Emperor's Seal and fed it power from two Army Formations and his own divine power.
• The Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal sensed danger and tried to flee, but Lu Ya hurled the Demon Emperor's Seal after it before it had reached full strength.
• Luo Qing, Ancestor Hongjun, Nuwa, Fuxi, and other Sages watched as the Demon Emperor's Seal struck the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal.
• The Demon Emperor's Seal overpowered its opponent, and a Fortune Golden Crow seized and attacked the Heavenly Court's Fortune while it resisted.

The Demon Emperor's Seal shattered the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal, wounding Huang Tian and weakening his control over the Heavenly Emperor Authority. As Huang Tian tried to recall the fragments, Lu Ya considered whether to claim them and pursue his dream of restoring the Ancient Demon Court.

• The Demon Emperor's Seal tore through the Heavenly Court's Fortune and shattered the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal into five jade fragments.
• The seal's destruction caused Fortune backlash that severely wounded Huang Tian and reduced his control over the Heavenly Emperor Authority.
• Kong Xuan urged Huang Tian to summon the fragments before the Demon Race could seize them, and Huang Tian began recalling them.
• Lu Ya celebrated the Demon Race's victory while the Northern Territory Clans and Self-Rescue Alliance feared retaliation from Huang Tian and Hua Tian Peak.
• Lu Ya watched over the fragments and was tempted to claim them and reclaim the Heavenly Emperor position, though he knew the seal was not his to take.

Lu Ya abandoned his bid for the Heavenly Throne but struck at the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal, sending one of its five fragments into the Space Turbulence while the other four returned toward the Heavenly Court. He then declared victory over the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance, leaving the Demon Race with rising prestige and a stronger position in the contest to become the World Protagonist.

• Lu Ya gave up his desire to seize the Heavenly Throne and decided to hinder the Heavenly Court from reclaiming the broken jade fragments.
• Huang Tian summoned the five fragments, and Lu Ya used the Demon Emperor's Seal to attack them as they fled into the void.
• One fragment lost its Spiritual Nature and vanished into the Space Turbulence, while the other four escaped toward the Heavenly Court.
• Lu Ya declared the Demon Race's victory after the Northern Territory Self-Salvation Alliance surrendered.
• The Demon Race's triumph swayed Quasi-Sages toward supporting it, and its competition with the Human Race for World Protagonist returned to an even footing or better.

After the demon race shattered the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal, Kong Xuan and Taishang Laojun redirected the Heavenly Court toward protecting the nine Origin Stars expected from Holy Mother Zi Guang's Dao completion. Luo Qing foresaw that a fragment of the seal would fuse with the first Origin Star, bringing the Zi Wei Emperor Star into existence.

• The shattered Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Seal returned to Huang Tian, and the Heavenly Court's immortals blamed the demon race for their humiliation.
• Kong Xuan urged the Heavenly Court to focus on the Starry Sky and protect the nine Origin Stars rather than immediately retaliate against the demon race.
• Taishang Laojun warned that Holy Mother Zi Guang would complete her Dao at the cost of her life and then enter seclusion.
• Huang Tian agreed to protect the nine Origin Stars, though the Heavenly Court's forces might not be strong enough to hold them against rivals.
• Luo Qing saw that the seal fragment would fall onto the first Origin Star born from Holy Mother Zi Guang and recognized that their fusion would create the Zi Wei Emperor Star.

Luo Qing recognized that the Heavenly Dao had used the upheaval to weaken the Heavenly Emperor and bolster the demon race, keeping the coming contest for World Protagonist balanced. In the Starry Sky, Holy Mother Zi Guang completed her Dao as nine Origin Stars took their places, but she was left dying and worried about whether the Heavenly Court would protect her children.

• Luo Qing concluded that the Heavenly Dao had weakened the Heavenly Emperor Authority and made the demon race a stronger rival to the Human Race for the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• The fragment of jade reached the Starry Sky as Holy Mother Zi Guang's Spiritual Light vanished and the ninth Origin Star came into being, weaker than its siblings.
• The nine stars arranged themselves into a constellation, with seven Great Luo stars forming a ladle, Tian Quan as its dim connecting star, and Zi Wei and Gou Chen beyond them.
• Luo Qing lamented that Holy Mother Zi Guang's injury would force her to sleep and make her future chance of attaining Sainthood uncertain.
• Holy Mother Zi Guang accepted that her Divine Body and primordial spirit were disintegrating, rejoiced at her nine children's emergence, and worried whether the Heavenly Court would protect the Star God Lineage.