Chapter Summaries

Xuan Yin endured Heavenly Tribulation to temper his body and forge his Law Dao, then was summoned by Empress Nuwa. Jin Ning escorted him through Chaos toward Tai Su Heaven, where he arrived at a world-heaven far larger than he expected.

• Xuan Yin used the Heavenly Tribulation and the remaining Three Light Divine Water to survive nine cycles of destruction and recovery, strengthening his Dao body and primordial spirit.
• Xuan Yin comprehended the Heavenly Tribulation's rules, incorporated its power into his Dao Fruit, and declared his Law Dao complete.
• Sect Master Tongtian praised Xuan Yin's breakthrough as Jin Ning arrived with Empress Nuwa's decree summoning him to Nuwa Palace.
• Xuan Yin accepted the summons, and Jin Ning carried him through Chaos while he tried to learn about Empress Nuwa's preferences.
• Jin Ning brought Xuan Yin to Tai Su Heaven, whose vastness astonished him.

Jin Ning brought Xuan Yin to Tai Su Heaven, where he met Empress Nuwa and the irreverent Divine Beast Diting. Empress Nuwa ordered Xuan Yin to take Diting with him, then confronted him about rumors involving Dijun, Xihe, and Fu Xi, leaving him fearing for his life.

• Jin Ning and Xuan Yin entered Tai Su Heaven and paid their respects to Empress Nuwa.
• Diting mocked Xuan Yin, was repeatedly punished by Jin Ning and Empress Nuwa, and was ordered to leave Tai Su Heaven with Xuan Yin.
• Empress Nuwa examined Xuan Yin and teased him about his flattery before deciding that he and Diting were a suitable pair.
• Empress Nuwa showed Xuan Yin rumors about Dijun, Xihe, and Fu Xi and demanded to know what was behind them.
• Xuan Yin realized Tianwu had spread the rumors and panicked because Empress Nuwa cared deeply about Fu Xi.

Empress Nuwa granted Xuan Yin an imperial edict that strengthened his Buzhou Mountain God authority, then privately entrusted him with Earth Mother Authority to help Houtu. She revealed that the Wu Clan’s plan to make Houtu a complete Earthly Dao Sage would fail without outside intervention, but she was willing to help.

• Xuan Yin denied involvement in rumors about Fu Xi, while Di Ting accused him of teaching Tianwu to spread sensational and misleading stories.
• Xuan Yin suppressed Di Ting with his Primordial Magnet Force Field, then admitted he had helped inspire the rumors after Nuwa hinted she might reward him.
• Nuwa enfeoffed Xuan Yin as the Buzhou Mountain God, strengthening his Divine Path Dao Fruit with the authority of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity.
• Nuwa isolated Xuan Yin from the others and explained that the Wu Clan’s plan for Houtu to become a complete Earthly Dao Sage was destined to fail without outside help.
• Nuwa gave Xuan Yin the Earth Mother Authority and told him he could merge it into Samsara to help Houtu avert danger.

Nuwa gave Xuan Yin the Earth Mother Authority Dao Fruit and sent Di Ting to accompany him, though Xuan Yin suspected Nuwa had arranged it to give Di Ting a chance to attain Grand Unity. After learning about Di Ting’s bloodline shackles and the dangers of changing fate, Xuan Yin reluctantly agreed to keep him with him.

• Xuan Yin received the Earth Mother Authority Dao Fruit from Nuwa and considered why she had chosen to help Houtu and the Wu Clan.
• Nuwa sent Xuan Yin, Di Ting, and Jin Ning out of Empress Wa's Palace, and Jin Ning brought Xuan Yin and Di Ting back to the Primordial True Realm.
• Xuan Yin learned from Yan Lin that Di Ting’s conflicting bloodlines and the Heavenly Dao’s shackles made it difficult for his race to attain Grand Unity.
• Xuan Yin reasoned that Nuwa might have paired him with Di Ting so his unusual fate could help Di Ting overcome his predetermined limits.
• Di Ting eagerly promised to obey Xuan Yin, and Xuan Yin reluctantly agreed to keep him as his companion.

Xuan Yin faced Guang Chengzi in a battle after the latter came seeking to settle their grudge, while Daoist Randeng prevented Yan Lin and Xuan Shuang from intervening. Xuan Yin used his Primordial Magnet abilities and newly comprehended Law Dao to withstand Guang Chengzi, and by the end he had found an opening to counterattack.

• Di Ting abandoned his despair, pledged himself to Xuan Yin, and called him Master.
• Guang Chengzi arrived with Daoist Randeng, who used his Dao aura to keep Yan Lin and Xuan Shuang out of the fight.
• Guang Chengzi attacked with the Four Symbols Seal, but Xuan Yin countered with Primordial Magnet Divine Light and Samadhi Divine Wind.
• Xuan Yin combined Samadhi Divine Wind with Six Ding Divine Fire to trap Guang Chengzi, who broke free with the Sky-Turning Seal divine ability.
• Guang Chengzi deployed the Dismay Bell and Male-Female Twin Swords, and Xuan Yin inscribed three Law Dao rules into his Primordial Magnet Force Field.
• As their battle continued, Xuan Yin studied Guang Chengzi's strength, found an opportunity to counterattack, and prepared to seize it.

Xuan Yin defeated Guang Chengzi by exploiting his reliance on the Sky-Turning Seal and imitating the divine ability with the Fighting Character Secret. Afterward, he returned to Upper Clarity Peak, where Sect Master Tongtian began guiding him on refining his Mystic Immortal Dharma body.

• Xuan Yin identified Guang Chengzi's reliance on the Sky-Turning Seal, then overwhelmed him with the Primordial Magnet Force Field and a relentless barrage from the As-You-Will Golden-Rod Staff.
• Xuan Yin imitated the Sky-Turning Seal and struck Guang Chengzi with a Buzhou Mountain phantom, devastating his Dao heart before Daoist Randeng pulled him from the earth veins.
• Daoist Randeng reassured Guang Chengzi that Xuan Yin's Buzhou Mountain backing explained the strength of his copied divine ability, and Guang Chengzi vowed to defeat him next time.
• Xuan Yin told Guang Chengzi to catch up to him, then joked with Di Ting and said he would introduce Di Ting to Tianwu when they went to Buzhou Mountain.
• Xuan Yin returned to Upper Clarity Peak, where Sect Master Tongtian taught him that the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts could help perfect the Mystic Immortal Dharma body built around his Law Dao.

Xuan Yin explained how he became the Buzhou Mountain God, and the Jie Sect disciples tried creating divine positions through the Method of Empty Proof. Wu Dang became the Boundless Saint Ancestor, gaining a powerful Earth God status and a new Dao Fruit.

• Sect Master Tongtian gave Xuan Yin the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, and Xuan Yin considered using his own Great Dao to build a Dao body.
• Zhao Gongming and the other Jie Sect disciples asked Xuan Yin how he had become the Buzhou Mountain God, and Xuan Yin explained the Method of Empty Proof.
• Inspired by Xuan Yin’s method, Wu Dang created an Earth God position and asked Tongtian to appoint her the Boundless Saint Ancestor.
• Tongtian granted Wu Dang an Imperial Edict, causing the Boundless Land to emerge and her divine and Immortal Dao fruitions to merge.
• Wu Dang explained that the Boundless Land was the Primordial World’s singularity and that Pangu’s first ray of axe light had been reflected there.

Xuan Yin learned that Saint Mother Wu Dang had established a mountain god position and urged Zhao Gongming to seek an opportunity at Mount Wuyi. At Buzhou Mountain, Xuan Yin encountered an imprint of the Earth Sovereign Yuejian Clan, who explained why the Earthly Dao had fallen behind the Heavenly Dao and left Houtu’s prospects uncertain.

• Saint Mother Wu Dang’s success with Empty Proof prompted Xuan Yin and the Jie Sect disciples to congratulate her, and Zhao Gongming saw a chance to pursue a god position of his own.
• Xuan Yin suggested Zhao Gongming visit Mount Wuyi to seek the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin, and Sect Master Tongtian urged him to try because it might help him survive the Investiture of the Gods tribulation.
• Xuan Yin traveled to Buzhou Mountain with Di Ting and meditated on its Pangu Dao Rhyme, hoping to advance his Divine Path Grand Unity Dao Fruit.
• The Heavenly Emperor Golden Talisman and Nuwa’s Earth Mother Authority resonated with Buzhou Mountain, summoning an imprint of the Earth Sovereign Yuejian Clan.
• Yuejian Clan told Xuan Yin that damage to the Primordial World’s origins and Jiutou Clan’s Calamity of Losing the Dao had weakened the Earthly Dao and Humanity Dao, leaving their completion to future inheritors.

Yuejian Clan explained how Jiutou Clan created the Innate Five-Colored Human Race and how the Dragon Persons’ arrogance and conflict with other divine factions led Jiutou Clan to destroy them. The resulting slaughter made Jiutou Clan doubt Humanity Dao, leaving its evolution stalled and its founder in the Calamity of Losing the Dao.

• Xuan Yin realized the history of the Innate Five-Colored Human Race and its disappearance had been erased from the River of Time and Space.
• Yuejian Clan recounted how he and Jiutou Clan tried to evolve the Earthly Dao and Humanity Dao, with Jiutou Clan creating the Innate Five-Colored Human Race.
• Ancestor Dragon proposed that the Five-Colored Human Race absorb Dragon Qi, and the Five Dragon Clan developed a method that made their descendants powerful Dragon Persons.
• The Dragon Persons extracted Dragon Qi, rejected ordinary humans, and clashed with Yuejian Clan’s earth deities and Jiutou Clan’s Human Gods.
• Jiutou Clan used the Dragon Person Annihilation divine art to destroy countless Dragon Persons after they resisted him.
• Jiutou Clan doubted the Humanity Dao he had founded and fell into the Calamity of Losing the Dao.

Yue Jian Shi explained how the Dragon People’s rise and the Jiutou Clan’s downfall derailed the evolution of the Earthly Dao and Humanity Dao, then described how Hongjun established the Heavenly Dao. He appointed Xuan Yin Buzhou Mountain God, passed on his Earthly Dao insights, and offered to guide him to an Innate Spiritual Root in the North Sea.

• Yue Jian Shi and Xuan Yin discussed how the Dragon People abandoned ordinary humans, prompting the Jiutou Clan to destroy them and causing the Three Talents to fall out of balance.
• Yue Jian Shi recounted how Cang Hua exiled ordinary humans, Ancestor Dragon spread the ideal of Everyone is like a Dragon, and the Dragon Race emerged before the Age of Gods ended.
• Yue Jian Shi explained how Hongjun and other powerful beings completed the Heavenly Dao, and told Xuan Yin that Hong Yun’s Primordial Violet Qi could not grant anyone Sagehood.
• Yue Jian Shi offered Xuan Yin his Earthly Dao plans but said he had left no treasures, then granted him an Imperial Edict naming him Buzhou Mountain God.
• Yue Jian Shi passed his Earthly Dao conception and cultivation experience to Xuan Yin, and offered to guide him to an Innate Spiritual Root in the North Sea before fading away.
• Xuan Yin considered sharing Yue Jian Shi’s Earthly Dao insights with the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Zhen Yuanzi, while recognizing that the Divine Dao knowledge and spiritual root could help his cultivation.

Xuan Yin received the Moon Essence Wheel from Xuan Ming, refined it, and developed the Dao Evolution Divine Body. After learning that a mysterious figure had taken the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin, he headed to the Northern Sea to seek an innate spiritual root and collect a karmic debt from Divine Lord Xuanwu Zhiming.

• Xuan Ming gave Xuan Yin the Moon Essence Wheel, and Zhu Jiuyin encouraged him to accept it.
• Di Ting and Tianwu spread embellished rumors about the Heavenly Court, stirring anger among those targeted and interest among the Primordial True Realm’s Da Luo.
• Zhao Gongming failed to find the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin at Mount Wuyi and reported its disappearance to Sect Master Tongtian, who suspected the Two Sages of the West had concealed it.
• After thirty thousand years, Xuan Yin finished refining the Moon Essence Wheel and formed the embryonic Dao Evolution Divine Body.
• Xuan Yin left Di Ting to guard Buzhou Mountain and set out for the Northern Sea to seek the innate spiritual root and collect his karmic debt from Divine Lord Xuanwu Zhiming.

Xuan Yin found Yuanzhou Immortal Island and brought it, along with the Five-Needle Pine, into his own world, allowing a vast Spirit Realm to take shape. When he emerged, Fu Xi was waiting for him.

• Dijun gathered the Demon Clan's Great Powers to train the Star Dou Great Formation and discussed finding a cultivator to fill the Lunar Star's role.
• Fu Xi, Bai Ze, and Xihe set out to seek help from Divine Lord Jianbing, Mysterious Martial Zhi Ming, and Queen Mother of the West.
• Using Ziwei Numerology and the Yuejian Clan's guidance, Xuan Yin located Yuanzhou Immortal Island in the North Sea and entered it with Xuan Shuang and Yan Lin.
• Xuan Yin chose to integrate the island and its Five-Needle Pine into his world, and the three worked for tens of thousands of years to relocate it.
• The Five-Needle Pine stabilized Xuan Yin's world as it grew into the Spirit Realm, and Fu Xi appeared before Xuan Yin when he emerged.

Fu Xi met Xuan Yin in the North Sea, recognized his unusual cultivation and the opportunity he had obtained, and imparted the Indestructible Immortal Sense. After Fu Xi departed, Xuan Yin resolved to combine that method with the Three Pure Ones’ cultivation methods and pursue his next breakthroughs.

• Fu Xi refused to involve himself in the conflict between the Wu Clan and Demon Clan after Zhiming rejected his request for help.
• Fu Xi recognized Xuan Yin as the Buzhou Mountain God and questioned him about the Innate Item he had obtained.
• Fu Xi reassured Xuan Yin that he would not trouble him over his ties to the Wu Clan, then asked him to tell Tianwu that Fu Xi intended to settle their dispute.
• Xuan Yin revealed that he had obtained Yuanzhou Immortal Island and the Five-Needle Pine, and offered Fu Xi five spiritual fruits.
• Fu Xi gave Xuan Yin the Indestructible Immortal Sense and explained how it could temper spiritual particles into an enduring consciousness.
• After Fu Xi left, Xuan Yin decided to combine the Indestructible Immortal Sense with the Three Pure Ones’ methods, refine the Five-Needle Pine fruits, and visit Zhiming.

Xuan Yin perfected the Five Qi in his Chest and strengthened his Primordial Magnet Force Field by incorporating the Five Elements Great Dao. He settled a karmic debt with Divine Monarch Zhiming by securing the Mysterious Origin Water Control Banner, then searched the North Sea and discovered a strange place.

• Xuan Yin spent nine thousand years refining the Five-Needle Pine's spiritual fruits, perfecting the Five Qi in his Chest and deepening his understanding of the Five Elements Great Dao.
• Xuan Yin merged the Five Elements Great Dao into his Primordial Magnet Force Field, increasing its power and considering whether he could borrow the strength of his future self.
• Xuan Yin visited Divine Monarch Zhiming in the Arctic region and asked him to promise to lend the Mysterious Origin Water Control Banner unconditionally once in the future.
• Divine Monarch Zhiming agreed and lent Xuan Yin the banner until before the Investiture of the Gods, then sent him away from the Arctic region.
• Xuan Yin searched the North Sea for several thousand years for the legendary North Sea Black Tortoise but instead discovered an exceedingly strange place.

Xuan Yin encountered True Man Nanhua in a dream realm linked to the River of Time and Space and received Nanhua’s Five Dreams Seven Mind Aspects. After Xuan Yin left the North Sea, Nanhua revealed that he had deliberately arranged the encounter to repay a future karmic debt more easily.

• Xuan Yin entered a yellow mist over the North Sea and found himself in a dreamlike East Kunlun, where True Man Nanhua introduced himself.
• Nanhua described how Xuan Yin’s actions during the Investiture of the Gods War had weakened both the Chan and Jie Sects and led to the Human Sect’s later troubles.
• Xuan Yin persuaded Nanhua to share his Dream Dao teachings by arguing that Nanhua owed him a karmic debt from the future.
• Nanhua passed Xuan Yin his insights into the Five Dreams Seven Mind Aspects, and Xuan Yin agreed not to take the Mirage Dragon’s remains.
• Xuan Yin left the dream realm and headed toward Buzhou Mountain, while Nanhua revealed that he had intentionally used the encounter to repay his future debt to Xuan Yin.

Xuan Yin returned to the Human Ancestral Land after several Epochs away, hoping to reconnect with the Human Race and deepen his cultivation insights. He shared cultivation knowledge and treasures with the Three Ancestors, then recognized the unusual artifact-refining method used on their treasures as an ancient Divine Dao technique.

• Xuan Yin cultivated the Dream Dao on Buzhou Mountain, forming four Mind Aspects but realizing he lacked the insight to complete his five-layer dream.
• Xuan Yin decided to visit the Human Ancestral Land, brought Di Ting along, and left Buzhou Mountain after informing Tianwu.
• Suirenshi recognized Xuan Yin when he arrived near Phoenix Perch Mountain, where the Human Race had grown and formed many settlements.
• Xuan Yin shared his understanding of cultivation realms, refined Low-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures for the Human Race, and left behind his Myriad Star Sword Art and Mayfly Sword Art.
• Suirenshi showed Xuan Yin the High-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasure made from the Suiming Tree branch, and Xuan Yin recognized its refining method as the Divine Dao technique used during the Archaic Three Sovereigns’ rule.

Xuan Yin learned that Bai Huang had taught Suirenshi and the others ancient Divine Dao methods, and suspected he was Huang Bo of the Five Dragon Clan. After Di Ting located Bai Huang Mountain, Xuan Yin went there and found cypress trees connected to the vanished divine tree Ruomu, then began collecting them to draw Bai Huang out.

• Xuan Yin heard how Bai Huang had helped Ziyishi, Suirenshi, and Youchaoshi, recognized their methods as linked to the Five Dragon Clan, and suspected Bai Huang was Huang Bo.
• Xuan Yin offered Di Ting a chance to tend the Five-Needle Pine in exchange for finding Bai Huang, and Di Ting located Bai Huang Mountain south of Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• After Xuan Yin left, Di Ting tried to bite the Five-Needle Pine and was blasted away and pierced by its needles before apologizing.
• Xuan Yin traveled to Bai Huang Mountain, announced his arrival, and received no reply.
• Xuan Yin discovered that the mountain's cypress trees had been derived from Ruomu and began harvesting them to see whether Bai Huang would appear.

Xuan Yin stopped harvesting Bai Huang Mountain’s spiritual roots after Huang Bo warned that the Ghost Cypresses restrained Qiongqi’s baleful aura. Xuan Yin argued that Jiutou Clan’s Humanity Dao had failed for lack of laws to restrain power, and Huang Bo began to consider whether later generations could complete its work before revealing what Jiutou Clan had left behind.

• Huang Bo warned Xuan Yin that removing the Ghost Cypresses could allow Qiongqi beneath Bai Huang Mountain to rise, and Xuan Yin stopped.
• Xuan Yin recognized Huang Bo as the former Human God and Buzhou Mountain God, and Huang Bo lamented his role in the failure of Jiutou Clan’s Humanity Dao.
• Xuan Yin urged Huang Bo to face his lingering belief in Jiutou Clan’s ideals and explained how human laws could restrain desire and power.
• Huang Bo reconsidered the shortcomings of Humanity Dao and asked whether Xuan Yin’s Law Dao could help complete it.
• Xuan Yin asked whether Jiutou Clan had left an inheritance, and Huang Bo said he had left several hundred blank Human Emperor Edicts but no spiritual treasures.

Xuan Yin received ten Human Emperor Purple Seals from Huang Bo and used one to enfeoff himself as Buzhou Mountain God. After learning why Qiongqi was sealed beneath Bai Huang Mountain, he persuaded Huang Bo to let him seek a Sage’s help, then left for the Human Ancestral Land.

• Huang Bo explained that Jiutou Clan had left him and his brothers hundreds of Human Emperor Edicts, and he gave Xuan Yin ten of them.
• Xuan Yin used an edict to enfeoff himself as Buzhou Mountain God and argued that accepting benefits for good deeds helped establish sustainable rewards.
• Xuan Yin asked about Qiongqi’s remains and the Ghost Cypress, and Huang Bo explained that Qiongqi had devoured the Dragon Person Race’s resentment before Azure Emperor Cang Hua sealed him with Ruomu’s origin and Ghost Cypresses.
• Xuan Yin proposed asking a Sage to eliminate Qiongqi and admitted he wanted the remains to forge a Fierce Fiend Spiritual Treasure.
• Huang Bo agreed to let Xuan Yin pursue the matter with a Sage but said he did not know where Ruomu’s true body was.
• Xuan Yin left for the Human Ancestral Land without collecting Qiongqi’s remains, wary that asking Sect Master Tongtian to act would make his senior uncles more suspicious.

Xuan Yin’s edicts raised Suirenshi, Ziyishi, and Youchaoshi’s status, prompting Huoyun Cave’s Human leaders to debate whether to change the calamity tied to humanity’s prosperity. Future versions of the Three Ancestors warned Xuan Yin about the Demon Clan’s slaughter of humans, and he condemned future beneficiaries who let ordinary people suffer for their own gain.

• Xuan Yin issued edicts naming Suirenshi the Sui Emperor, Ziyishi the Rite Emperor, and Youchaoshi the Nest Emperor, and their fortune surged.
• The Human Emperors in Huoyun Cave debated whether to prevent the Demon Clan’s slaughter of humans, which was tied through karma to the Human Race’s prosperity.
• Fu Xi argued that the Three Ancestors should meet Xuan Yin and that Huoyun Cave should let events unfold; Shen Nong and Xuanyuan backed a consensus to stand aside.
• Future Suiren, Ziyi, and Youchao appeared before Xuan Yin and explained that Huoyun Cave’s Grand Unity Golden Immortals had never agreed on whether to stop the calamity.
• Future Youchao explained the karma behind the Demon Clan’s slaughter of humans, and Xuan Yin denounced future Grand Unity Golden Immortals for benefiting from ordinary humans’ sacrifices.