Chapter Summaries

Hu Fangyuan arrived at You Xiong Tribe hoping to find Ji Xuanyuan and help him unite humanity, but discovered that disciples of rival sects were already competing to become the Human Emperor’s master. The chapter ended with Ji Xuanyuan facing the choice between Guangchengzi and Zhao Gongming, while Ying Yuan watched from the riverbank.

• Hu Fangyuan taught human children and traveled to You Xiong Tribe to seek Ji Xuanyuan.
• A tribesman told Hu Fangyuan that three people sent by Saints Yuqing and Shangqing had already come to assist Ji Xuanyuan.
• Hu Fangyuan saw Ji Xuanyuan facing Guangchengzi, Zhao Gongming, and Ying Yuan outside his home.
• Zhao Gongming challenged Guangchengzi for interfering, and Guangchengzi prepared to fight him.
• Ying Yuan urged Guangchengzi and Zhao Gongming to let Ji Xuanyuan choose, leaving Ji Xuanyuan weighing the consequences.

Ji Xuanyuan accepted Zhao Gongming, Guangchengzi, Hu Fangyuan, and Ying Yuan as teachers, drawing the rival disciples into cooperation. As the Human Emperor Calamity began, Laozi watched from afar, sent his Good Corpse to help the Heavenly Court, and joked in the Prehistoric Chat Group, alarming Xuan Du.

• Hu Fangyuan arrived to assist Ji Xuanyuan, and Zhao Gongming and Guangchengzi suspected he wanted a share of Human Way Destiny.
• Ji Xuanyuan asked Zhao Gongming, Guangchengzi, Hu Fangyuan, and Ying Yuan to all become his teachers, and each agreed to teach him their respective specialties.
• Xuan Du asked Laozi whether events were straying from fate, and Laozi said fate was not fixed and that Lin Yan had gone to build Ji Xuanyuan's reputation.
• Laozi explained that Lin Yan could learn from the other disciples and use his chat group for advice, while Laozi's Good Corpse went to help Hao Tian manage the Heavenly Court.
• Laozi posted a joking warning in the Prehistoric Chat Group, and Xuan Du mistook his amused expression for a sign that an Outer-Heaven Demon had possessed him.
• Laozi reassured Xuan Du that a Heavenly Dao Sage could not be possessed and sent him back to Shouyang Mountain.

Xiong Tie, a panda-like Iron Eater Beast with a roulette system, became Chiyou’s mount and used knowledge of the future to persuade him to unite the Jiuli through negotiation rather than force. Chiyou began relying on Xiong Tie’s supposed dreams, while the system warned that revealing secrets had tied Xiong Tie’s fate to Xuanyuan.

• Xiong Tie drew the First Turn Profound Technique, and Chiyou noticed he could absorb baleful energy and claimed him as a mount for the Jiuli campaign.
• Xiong Tie spent 50 points on roulette draws, gaining physical enhancement, favorability, and cuteness, while Chiyou prepared to march against neighboring tribes.
• After learning the system’s quest involved the Human Emperor’s Struggle, Xiong Tie warned Chiyou that Xuanyuan would unite the tribes against him if he ruled through force.
• Chiyou questioned Xiong Tie about his knowledge, and Xiong Tie claimed it came from strange dreams about the future.
• Chiyou ordered the Great Witches to pursue negotiations, alliances, and shared benefits, then demanded that Xiong Tie report his dreams each night.
• The system awarded Xiong Tie 200 Causality Points and warned that revealing heavenly secrets had increased his causal entanglement with Xuanyuan.

Xiong Tie watched Chiyou unify the Nine Li tribes and prepare to march on Ji Water to challenge Ji Xuanyuan. He warned Chiyou that Chan Teachings disciples might intervene, but Chiyou dismissed the threat and vowed to fight them.

• Xiong Tie received rewards from the system, including the Second Turn Profound Art, and continued improvising dreams for Chiyou.
• Chiyou completed the unification of the Nine Li tribes and declared himself their ruler.
• Chiyou announced that he would march to Ji Water to test the fated Human Emperor, Ji Xuanyuan.
• Xiong Tie received the Third Turn Profound Art and a mission to help Chiyou gain the upper hand in the first battle at Ji Water.
• Xiong Tie warned Chiyou that Chan Teachings disciples might have intervened, but Chiyou vowed to use their blood to consecrate his battle axe.

Lin Yan built support for Ji Xuanyuan as the Human Emperor, while Ji Xuanyuan’s growing destiny was interrupted by Chiyou’s invasion of the You Xiong Tribe. Zhao Gongming challenged the Jiuli army but was stopped effortlessly by Xingtian, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lin Yan proclaimed Ji Xuanyuan Heaven’s chosen ruler at Huayang and inspired the gathered people to support him.
• Lin Yan consulted the group chat, followed Zhuge Liang’s advice to recruit influential tribal leaders, and sent immortal pills as a red packet.
• Ji Xuanyuan sensed Human Way Destiny gathering around him and neared a breakthrough to the Golden Immortal realm.
• Chiyou led the Jiuli army against the You Xiong Tribe, while Guangchengzi and Ying Yuan held back and Zhao Gongming stepped forward to defend Xuanyuan.
• Zhao Gongming attacked Chiyou with his twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, but Xingtian scattered them with one punch and left Zhao Gongming stunned.

Ying Yuan rescued the badly wounded Zhao Gongming and stopped Chiyou’s army from advancing, then escaped Guangchengzi’s attack with the Chaos Bead. Chiyou temporarily withdrew, while Ji Xuanyuan began questioning whether the human race should rely on Immortal Gods.

• Xingtian repeatedly overpowered Zhao Gongming, but Zhao Gongming’s God-Tier Recovery kept healing his wounds.
• Ying Yuan used the Ancestral Dragon Bead to summon a flood from the Heavenly River, halting the Jiuli army and forcing Xingtian to defend its formation.
• Guangchengzi attacked Ying Yuan with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, but Ying Yuan’s Chaos Bead absorbed the strike and carried him and Zhao Gongming away.
• Chiyou ordered the Jiuli army to withdraw temporarily, while Ji Xuanyuan saw Guangchengzi’s hostility toward Ying Yuan and Zhao Gongming.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate summoned Guangchengzi back to Yuxu Palace, and Ji Xuanyuan concluded that the human race needed to find its own path.

Ying Yuan brought the wounded Zhao Gongming to Three Immortals Island, where Yun Xiao suspected his cultivation was far higher than he let on. After waking, Zhao Gongming convinced the San Xiao that Guangchengzi had ambushed him and Ying Yuan, turning them against Guangchengzi while plotting to manipulate them further.

• Ying Yuan delivered the unconscious Zhao Gongming to Three Immortals Island and returned to Biyou Palace after Yun Xiao thanked him.
• The San Xiao watched over Zhao Gongming, and Yun Xiao concluded that Ying Yuan was likely a Great Luo hiding his cultivation.
• After waking, Zhao Gongming imagined Ying Yuan had staged his rescue as part of a scheme to take his position.
• Zhao Gongming told the San Xiao that Guangchengzi had ambushed him and Ying Yuan with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, and he used his [God-Tier Charm] trait as he spoke.
• Yun Xiao condemned Guangchengzi and vowed to demand an explanation at Yuxu Palace, while Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao agreed to oppose him.
• Zhao Gongming felt satisfied that he had turned the San Xiao against Guangchengzi and planned to frame Ying Yuan next.

Yuanshi forced Guangchengzi to surrender the Chaos Bead and sent him back to aid the Human Emperor under the watch of the other Golden Immortals. Meanwhile, Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti reforged the Witch-Slaying Sword into the Human Emperor Sword.

• Yuanshi confronted Guangchengzi over his actions at the Ji River and demanded the Chaos Bead as compensation.
• Guangchengzi surrendered the Chaos Bead, and Yuanshi ordered him and the other eleven Golden Immortals to assist the Human Emperor.
• Guangchengzi secretly resented Yuanshi, while his system urged him to grow strong enough to kill the Sages.
• Jieyin and Zhunti asked Laozi to reforge the Witch-Slaying Sword into a weapon for the Human Emperor.
• Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti used the Bagua Furnace and their powers to create the dark-gold Human Emperor Sword.

Xuan Du delivered the Human Emperor Sword to Ji Xuanyuan, who found resolve in its power and Laozi’s counsel amid the Twelve Golden Immortals’ disruption of human affairs. With the sword in hand, Ji Xuanyuan prepared to confront Chiyou and lead the human race toward independence.

• Ji Xuanyuan established rituals and laws among the You Xiong Tribe and its allies while Cangjie created human script, but the Twelve Golden Immortals’ arrival threw the alliance into chaos.
• Guangchengzi secretly used the Group Stupidity Halo on Chijingzi and the other Golden Immortals, worsening the turmoil and deepening Ji Xuanyuan’s distrust of immortal masters.
• Xuan Du visited Ji Xuanyuan on Laozi’s decree and presented the Human Emperor Sword, transformed from the Witch-Slaying Sword after its malevolence was purged.
• Xuan Du explained the sword’s power to defeat enemies and its warning that the Human Emperor must heed the people and remain true to his principles.
• Ji Xuanyuan accepted the sword, resolved that the human race would grow strong on its own, and prepared to battle Chiyou at Zhulu.

Chiyou and Ji Xuanyuan’s armies fought at Zhulu, while Guangchengzi overwhelmed the Jiuli Great Witches. Ji Xuanyuan defeated Chiyou with the Human Emperor Sword and the gathered will of humanity, leaving the battle’s outcome poised in his favor.

• Chiyou ordered the Jiuli tribes to gather at Zhulu after learning Ji Xuanyuan had united seventy-two tribes as the Yanhuang Alliance.
• Ji Xuanyuan offered Chiyou a chance to submit, but Chiyou rejected him and both armies charged into battle.
• Guangchengzi wounded Fengbo and Xiangliu with the Heaven-Overturning Seal and drove the Jiuli Great Witches into retreat.
• Chiyou slaughtered human cultivators and soldiers with his six weapons and baleful energy until Ji Xuanyuan confronted him with the Human Emperor Sword.
• Ji Xuanyuan dispelled Chiyou’s baleful energy, wounded his six arms, and struck him down with the Humanity Dao’s gathered will.

The Battle of Zhulu ended with Jiuli’s surrender after Empress Pingxin intervened to spare Chiyou and the surviving Witchfolk. Three years later, Ji Xuanyuan unified humanity at Mount Tai, received the Kongtong Seal, and became a sage of the Human Way.

• Xingtian and Yushi fell to the Human Emperor Sword and Guangchengzi’s Heaven-Overturning Seal as the Jiuli army collapsed.
• Empress Pingxin and Chen Tian arrived, stopped the battle, and ordered Chiyou and the remaining Jiuli warriors to guard the Underworld’s Netherworld.
• Chiyou accepted Pingxin’s terms and surrendered, ending the Battle of Zhulu with Xuanyuan’s victory.
• Three years later, Ji Xuanyuan swore an oath at Mount Tai and received the Kongtong Seal as humanity’s common ruler.
• The Human Way’s destiny raised Ji Xuanyuan’s cultivation, while Fuxi and Shennong appeared to mark the Three Sovereigns’ establishment and the Human Way’s revival.

After Xuanyuan shattered the Kongtong Seal and returned the Human Dao to all living beings, Qin Yuan recorded the ceremony and met Ying Yuan, who asked to be excluded from the historical record. Qin Yuan agreed to omit him from unofficial history, but then added a surprising claim about Ying Yuan to the official record.

• Xuanyuan shattered the Kongtong Seal and scattered its fragments throughout the Prehistoric World, declaring that the human race's fate would be decided by the human race itself.
• Fuxi and Shennong accepted Xuanyuan's decision, and Xuanyuan returned to the human ancestral hall on Shouyang Mountain to guard the ancestral lands.
• Qin Yuan recorded the Three Sovereigns' succession and encountered Ying Yuan, who asked him to erase his name from history.
• Qin Yuan refused to alter official history but offered to reconsider Ying Yuan's presence in unofficial history, and Ying Yuan agreed.
• Ying Yuan wrote in his diary about meeting the historian, and Tongtian Cult Master read the entry and wondered about Qin Yuan.
• Qin Yuan added to the official record that Yinglong, originally named Ying Yuan, had been Xuanyuan's mount and was said to have fathered Huang Long of the Chan Sect.

San Xiao accompanied Zhao Gongming to Kunlun Mountain to confront Guangchengzi, but Primordial Heavenly Venerate revealed that several powerful figures had been possessed by Outer-Heaven Demons. San Xiao left with Zhao Gongming and returned to Three Immortals Island, unsure how to deal with their elder brother.

• Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, Bi Xiao, and Zhao Gongming arrived at Kunlun Mountain and demanded that Guangchengzi answer for allegedly ambushing Zhao Gongming.
• Guangchengzi denied the accusation, but gave Zhao Gongming a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure to settle the dispute.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate removed the intelligence-lowering aura from San Xiao and warned them that Guangchengzi, Zhao Gongming, Tongtian, and Ying Yuan had been possessed by Outer-Heaven Demons.
• San Xiao realized Zhao Gongming had influenced them, ended the confrontation, and left Kunlun Mountain with him.
• Back at Three Immortals Island, San Xiao worried that Zhao Gongming and possibly Tongtian had been possessed, and Yun Xiao urged them to keep Zhao Gongming calm while they considered what to do.

Zhang Hao completed the Destiny Limitless Great Dao, merged it into the Prehistoric World, and took Yang Mei to visit the Myriad Worlds in search of an old friend and the other half of his True Spirit. Before leaving, he gave the Transmigrators a hundred-year vacation in a projection world.

• Zhang Hao derived the Destiny Limitless Great Dao, separated the Destiny Demon God's True Spirit from it, and merged the Dao into the Prehistoric World.
• The new Limitless Great Dao made destiny clearer to the world's inhabitants, while Zhang Hao saw that the Transmigrators were making slow progress at the World Barrier.
• Zhang Hao invited Yang Mei to travel with him to the Myriad Worlds to visit an old friend and search for the other half of his True Spirit.
• Zhang Hao freed the Transmigrators from their pits and granted them a hundred years off, warning them not to interfere with the Prehistoric World.
• Zhang Hao sent the Transmigrators who had no plans to a projection world, where they could enjoy their vacation and possibly comprehend a Hun Yuan Great Dao.

Zhang Hao left the Prehistoric World with Yang Mei to explore the Myriad Worlds, entrusting Hongjun with its protection. In a remote Great Thousand World, they caught Dao Venerable selling a Supreme Choice System to another Chaos being, who mistook Dao Venerable for Zhang Hao’s lackey.

• Zhang Hao summoned Hongjun and left him in charge of the Prehistoric World while he traveled to the Myriad Worlds with Yang Mei.
• Zhang Hao created an avatar using the three Primordial Limitless Great Daos, then dragged the reluctant Yang Mei through the World Barrier into Chaos.
• Zhang Hao and Yang Mei traveled through the growing sea of worlds as Yang Mei observed the strange, embryonic worlds forming in Chaos.
• Dao Venerable persuaded a chaotic light to invest in the True Prehistoric World and sold it a Supreme Choice System for a seventy-thirty split.
• Zhang Hao appeared beside Dao Venerable, startling him and making the chaotic light accuse Dao Venerable of being Zhang Hao’s lackey.

Zhang Hao collected most of the Chaos Light and Shadow’s saved Source, then agreed to let it introduce him to other system-makers in Chaos in exchange for considering positions for them. He set off with Yang Mei and the two schemers to expand the Prehistoric World’s influence while continuing to look for Wang Shu.

• The Dao Venerable introduced the Chaos Light and Shadow to Zhang Hao, who hinted that he needed money.
• The Chaos Light and Shadow handed Zhang Hao most of its saved Source, hoping to avoid trouble.
• The Chaos Light and Shadow revealed its true form and offered to lead Zhang Hao to other system-makers in exchange for positions for its associates.
• Zhang Hao agreed to discuss the positions and introduced Yang Mei as the Prehistoric World’s Chaos branch chairman.
• The Dao Venerable and the Chaos Light and Shadow argued over whether they were brothers or father and son as they prepared to leave.

Zhang Hao visited the System District and learned how its system makers harvested worlds and exploited Transmigrators. After Jin Yuan submitted to him, Zhang Hao claimed the Three Thousand Worlds and ordered that its inhabitants no longer be oppressed.

• Dao Venerable and the Chaos projection led Zhang Hao toward Jin Yuan, and Zhang Hao let them go ahead to persuade him to invest in the Prehistoric World.
• The Chaos projection and Dao Venerable pointed out other system makers and described their schemes as they traveled through the Chaos.
• Zhang Hao explored a Great Thousand World in the System District and saw its systems turn worlds and Transmigrators into a production line of exploited labor.
• Zhang Hao learned that the district’s manager crushed rebellions and that harvested worlds included ones from the Prehistoric World.
• Yang Mei, Dao Venerable, and the Chaos projection brought Jin Yuan to Zhang Hao, who marked the Three Thousand Worlds as his own and ordered Jin Yuan to stop oppressing its inhabitants.

After consolidating several system hubs and appointing Yang Mei to lead their makers, Zhang Hao traveled with him to meet Wang Shu, the Taiyin Demon God. Wang Shu revealed that she had encountered another version of Zhang Hao and gave him coordinates tied to one of that version’s subordinates, then followed Zhang Hao and Yang Mei as they departed.

• Zhang Hao merged the system hubs, placed Yang Mei in charge of the system makers, and added the Wheel of Destiny to their new world’s core.
• Zhang Hao told the Dao Venerable he was going to find Wang Shu, and Yang Mei opened a spatial passage to her domain.
• Zhang Hao met Wang Shu and asked for her Taiyin Dao of Limitless, then questioned her about the missing half of his True Spirit.
• Zhang Hao invoked Xi He and Chang Xi to persuade Wang Shu to reveal a world connected to his other half of the True Spirit.
• Wang Shu explained that she had met another version of Zhang Hao and that the coordinates led to one of his subordinates; Zhang Hao left with Yang Mei, and Wang Shu followed them.

Zhang Hao and Yang Mei entered the Sovereign Space, where they were invited to become Reincarnators. After they accepted, four powerful Daoists attacked them, but Zhang Hao shattered their Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and left them badly injured.

• Zhang Hao and Yang Mei followed the strange tunnel into the Sovereign Space and found a glowing orb offering them the choice to become Reincarnators.
• Zhang Hao and Yang Mei both pressed [Yes], prompting the Sovereign Space to begin generating their identification numbers.
• The Sovereign Space announced that it was under attack, and Daoist Zhu Xian, Daoist Lu Xian, Daoist Jue Xian, and Daoist Xian Xian appeared.
• Daoist Lu Xian attacked Zhang Hao and Yang Mei with a blade of the Great Dao of Slaughter, but Zhang Hao made it vanish with a glance.
• Daoist Zhu Xian led the four Daoists in forming the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, but Zhang Hao twisted it apart and caused all four to suffer a severe backlash.

Zhang Hao and Yang Mei encountered the Sovereign of Jie Teachings, a powerful cultivator who revealed that he had created his simulated worlds using the true Chaos Bead left by Zhang Hao’s other True Spirit. The revelation explained how he had reached the Primordial Limitless realm while hiding from the Destruction Demon God.

• Zhang Hao defeated Zhu, Lu, Jue, and Xian, but the Sovereign of Jie Teachings appeared and transformed them into the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.
• The Sovereign of Jie Teachings explained that he had created the Sovereign Space to simulate worlds and observe how choices changed the course of fate.
• The Sovereign of Jie Teachings recognized a familiar aura in Zhang Hao, and Wang Shu returned to explain that he was one of Zhang Hao’s other True Spirit’s creations.
• The Sovereign of Jie Teachings revealed the true Chaos Bead, which Zhang Hao’s other self had left behind and which he used to evolve worlds and conceal himself from the Destruction Demon God.