Chapter Summaries

Ye Xuan reached the peak of the Venerable Realm but held back from igniting his divine fire, seeking a path that relied on his own body. Meanwhile, Shi Hao opened his eighth Cave Heaven, leaving Zhu Yan and Little Red stunned by the brothers’ progress.

• Ye Xuan sent Furball and Little Red to receive Willow Deity’s guidance, and they learned how to refine their bloodlines and ignite their Dao fires.
• After three more months of cultivation, Ye Xuan reached the peak of the Venerable Realm and chose to pursue the Seed of the Self instead of using an external kindling flame.
• Shi Hao opened three Cave Heavens in succession, bringing his total to eight.
• Ye Xuan praised Shi Hao and urged him to aim for Ten Cave Heavens or a Unique Cave Heaven.
• Furball and Vermilion Bird watched the brothers’ cultivation and despaired at how quickly they advanced.

Vermilion Bird bargained for her freedom by giving Ye Xuan her treasure art, then flew back toward Fire Country. Ye Xuan decided Little Shi Hao was ready to leave Stone Village and see the outside world, where he hoped to find his parents.

• Vermilion Bird asked Ye Xuan to let her return home and offered to arrange a marriage between him and Huo Ling'er.
• Ye Xuan refused the match and demanded Vermilion Bird's Treasure Art as ransom for her release.
• Vermilion Bird gave Ye Xuan her primordial true bone, and he mastered the art before returning it and letting her go.
• Vermilion Bird flew away toward Fire Country and called back that she still planned to arrange the match with Huo Ling'er.
• Ye Xuan asked Little Shi Hao whether he wanted to explore the outside world, and Little Shi Hao agreed, hoping to find his parents.

Ye Xuan left Stone Village with Little Shi Hao to travel to Sky-Mending Pavilion, stopping first at the Stone Kingdom’s Second Ancestral Land. There, Ye Xuan revealed that a child had suffered because of Shi Hao, and they entered the manor as abuse and lashes sounded from within.

• Willow Deity gave Ye Xuan a branch transformed into a ring to protect him and Little Shi Hao on their journey.
• Ye Xuan and Little Shi Hao said farewell to the villagers and departed Stone Village aboard the Azure Sky Roc, bound for Sky-Mending Pavilion.
• During the flight, Little Shi Hao teased and spanked the sealed Furball while Ye Xuan watched.
• Ye Xuan landed with Little Shi Hao at the Stone Kingdom’s Second Ancestral Land and explained that a child there had suffered because of Shi Hao.
• Ye Xuan took Little Shi Hao into the desolate manor, where they heard abuse and lashes coming from the courtyard.

Ye Xuan and Little Shi Hao rescued Shi Qingfeng and his great-grandfather from abuse by servants of the Yu Clan, then brought them to the Sky-Mending Pavilion. The chapter ended as they arrived for the pavilion’s disciple recruitment trials.

• Little Shi Hao attacked the servants beating the old man and Shi Qingfeng, while Ye Xuan killed the remaining servants who tried to flee.
• The old man recognized Little Shi Hao as Hao'er, and Ye Xuan healed him with Three Lights Divine Water.
• Ye Xuan promised Shi Qingfeng that his suffering was over and took him and the others from the ancestral lands.
• Ye Xuan summoned the Azure Sky Roc, and the group traveled to the Sky-Mending Pavilion.
• Little Shi Hao surveyed the crowd gathered for the recruitment trials and eagerly declared he would make a splash.

Ye Xuan brought Shi Hao to Sky-Mending Pavilion to begin his cultivation and negotiated access to its Ancient Sacred Academy. The Master of Sky-Mending Pavilion agreed to break the sect’s rule in exchange for Ye Xuan’s promise to aid the pavilion during its coming calamity, while Shi Hao stood out among the youths gathered for assessment.

• Ye Xuan arrived at Sky-Mending Pavilion on the Azure Sky Roc and told Shi Hao to make a name for himself there.
• The Master of Sky-Mending Pavilion greeted Ye Xuan, who introduced Shi Hao as his younger brother and asked that he be allowed to study at the pavilion.
• Ye Xuan requested entry to the Ancient Sacred Academy, but the Four Elders objected because outsiders were forbidden from entering.
• Ye Xuan revealed that the pavilion’s Sacrificial Spirit was dying and a Great Calamity was approaching, then promised to help preserve its Dao Lineage if allowed inside.
• The Master of Sky-Mending Pavilion accepted Ye Xuan’s offer and granted him entry to the Ancient Sacred Academy.
• Shi Hao arrived at the Assessment Arena carrying an oversized bundle and a milk jar among the gathered youths.

Little Shi Hao revealed his Eight Cave Heavens at the Sky-Mending Pavilion’s examination and was named a Core Inherited Disciple. Ye Xuan then entered the forbidden Heavenly Ladder leading to the Ancient Sacred Academy and used his Double Pupils to see through its deadly array.

• A fine-clothed young man mocked Little Shi Hao and attacked him, but Shi Hao’s Eight Cave Heavens erupted and sent him and the surrounding onlookers flying.
• The Sky-Mending Pavilion Master made Shi Hao a Core Inherited Disciple and admitted him to the Inner Sect without an examination.
• Shi Hao entered the pavilion as the old man and Shi Qingfeng watched tearfully, and news of the Eight Cave Heavens prodigy spread across the kingdoms and major powers.
• The Sky-Mending Pavilion Master opened the seal to the Ancient Sacred Academy and warned Ye Xuan that the Nine-Tiered Heavenly Ladder had defeated past geniuses.
• Ye Xuan activated his Double Pupils, saw the flaws in the Heavenly Ladder’s killing array, and calmly walked onward.

Ye Xuan entered an Ancient Small World and met the Gray-Robed Woman, an ancient bearer of Double Pupils. Their pupil arts clashed, and after she recognized the greater source of his Chaos Heavy Pupils, Ye Xuan asked her name.

• The Sky-Mending Pavilion Master watched Ye Xuan pass through the killing arrays unharmed and marveled at his Double Pupils.
• Ye Xuan crossed the Ancient Small World and found the Gray-Robed Woman meditating in a Stone Pavilion.
• The Gray-Robed Woman opened her Ancient Double Pupils, and Ye Xuan met her gaze with his Chaos Heavy Pupils.
• Ye Xuan's pupil power suppressed hers, so both withdrew their powers after she recognized the chaos in his eyes.
• Ye Xuan introduced himself and called her the Twin Pupils Woman, prompting her to object and ask him to call her Senior or Sister.
• Ye Xuan accepted her correction and asked the Gray-Robed Woman for her name.

Ye Xuan’s thoughts about subduing and marrying the Ancient Double Pupils Woman were exposed by her Mind Reading ability. After teasing him about his ambitions, she revealed her name as Ao Tong, and Ye Xuan immediately began calling her Big Sister Ao Tong.

• Ao Tong used her Double Pupils’ Mind Reading to hear Ye Xuan’s thoughts as he admired her and imagined winning her heart.
• Ao Tong confronted Ye Xuan with his thoughts, including his remark that a woman three thousand years older was Ranked Among Immortals.
• Ye Xuan blushed and tried to explain that his thoughts were compliments about Ao Tong’s beauty and strength.
• Ao Tong told Ye Xuan to stop calling her the Twin Pupils Woman and revealed that her name was Ao Tong.
• Ye Xuan called Ao Tong Big Sister Ao Tong, and she found his attempt to close their seniority gap exasperating and amusing.

Ye Xuan and Ao Tong made a hundred-year agreement: he would try to surpass her, while failure would make him her attendant for ten thousand years. Ao Tong then taught him the Sky-Mending Technique, and Ye Xuan immediately entered enlightenment.

• Ao Tong offered Ye Xuan a hundred years to challenge and suppress her, or he would serve as her attendant for ten thousand years.
• Ye Xuan accepted the agreement and vowed to catch up to Ao Tong in less than a hundred years.
• Ye Xuan asked Ao Tong to teach him the Sky-Mending Technique, and she agreed, explaining how it could reverse time to restore someone to their pre-injury state.
• Ao Tong sent the technique's runes into Ye Xuan's Consciousness Sea, and he used his Double Pupils to study them as he entered enlightenment.

Ye Xuan mastered the Sky-Mending Technique in just an hour and persuaded Ao Tong to leave her long isolation in the Sacred Academy. He emerged with her beside him, leaving the Sky-Mending Pavilion’s Pavilion Master stunned by the powerful Ancestor.

• Ye Xuan formed the Time Runes and understood how the Sky-Mending Technique restored the present with a fragment of the past.
• Ye Xuan invited Ao Tong to see the outside world, and she agreed to leave the Chaos Small World with him.
• Ao Tong emerged from the Sacred Academy with Ye Xuan, revealing her overwhelming presence to the Pavilion Master of the Sky-Mending Pavilion.
• Ye Xuan told the Pavilion Master he had brought out a true Ancestor, but Ao Tong corrected him and told him to call her Big Sister.

Ye Xuan restored the Sky-Mending Pavilion’s lost inheritance, then watched Ao Tong depart after reminding him of their Hundred Year Agreement. He returned from Perfect World to the Primordial World, where the crushing difference in strength made him realize he needed to improve humanity’s cultivation methods.

• Ye Xuan returned the complete Sky-Mending Technique to the Pavilion Master, who named him Grand Elder of the Sky-Mending Pavilion.
• Ao Tong left to explore the mortal world after warning Ye Xuan about the Eight Realms’ dangers and reminding him of their Hundred Year Agreement.
• Ye Xuan asked the Pavilion Master to protect Shi Hao while he secluded himself, then activated the Double Piercing Gate.
• Ye Xuan returned to Human Valley beneath Mount Buzhou and felt the Primordial World’s laws suppress his Venerable-realm power.
• Ye Xuan decided that improving humanity’s cultivation methods was necessary for humans to survive in the Primordial World.

Ye Xuan created a cultivation method suited to humanity and used it to reach the Great Emperor realm in a single seclusion. He emerged from the stone hut before the awestruck people of Human Valley, whose hopes for their race had been renewed.

• Ye Xuan rejected the Perfect World's beast-dependent cultivation arts and resolved to create a method that drew out the human body's own potential.
• Using the Primal True Scripture as his foundation and the Six Paths Samsara Heavenly Art as his framework, Ye Xuan devised the Human Body Secret Realm Method.
• Ye Xuan cultivated through the Wheel Sea, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform secret realms, reaching the Great Emperor realm.
• Ye Xuan judged that his Great Emperor strength could rival a Peak Golden Immortal of the Primordial Wilderness.
• Suiren Shi, Youchaoshi, Ziyishi, and the others witnessed extraordinary visions above the stone hut and realized Ye Xuan had broken through.
• Ye Xuan opened the stone hut and emerged before the kneeling people, apologizing for keeping them waiting.

Ye Xuan taught the Human Race the Human Body Secret Realm cultivation method, transforming their strength over fifty years. The chapter ended with Suiren Shi, Youchaoshi, and Ziyishi attaining Great Emperorhood together.

• Ye Xuan imparted the Human Body Secret Realm method to the three Human Race ancestors and taught it to the gathered people through a vast meridian diagram.
• The Human Race began cultivating, and the day became known as the Human Emperor's Preaching Day.
• Fifty years later, the Human Race had grown powerful, with many first-generation Innate Humans reaching the Immortal Platform or Quasi-Emperor realms.
• Suiren Shi used his accumulated merit to attain Great Emperorhood, followed by Youchaoshi and Ziyishi.
• The three ancestors' Great Emperor auras intertwined and cleared the ancient mists around Mount Buzhou.

After the Human Race created its own cultivation system, Ye Xuan formed the Golden Wheel of Merit and declared that the Human Race had risen. Nuwa recognized his achievement and sent him the Kongtong Seal, confirming his authority as Human Emperor.

• The Heavenly Dao granted merit after Suiren Shi, Youchaoshi, and Ziyishi attained the Great Emperor Realm, with most of it flowing to Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan forged the merit into a Golden Wheel and announced the Human Race’s rise to the gathered people.
• Nuwa sensed the Human Race’s surging destiny, saw Ye Xuan’s achievements, and decided to confirm his status.
• Nuwa sent the Kongtong Seal to Ye Xuan at the foot of Mount Buzhou.
• Ye Xuan caught the seal and recognized it as the symbol of the Human Emperor’s authority.

After receiving the Kongtong Seal, Ye Xuan ordered humanity to expand and fight back against the demons. The humans slaughtered the Black Panther Demon’s patrol and feasted on their defeated foes, prompting the Black Wind Demon King to muster an army for revenge.

• Ye Xuan thanked the Holy Mother for the Kongtong Seal, then ordered the human race to expand and hunt the demons.
• The Black Panther Demon sent hundreds of demons to seize humans, but a human army led by a young cultivator charged out to meet them.
• The young cultivator tore a Tiger Demon apart barehanded, while Suiren Shi burned the Black Panther Demon to ash.
• The humans routed the remaining demons and celebrated by roasting and eating them outside the Human Valley as Ye Xuan declared this was only the beginning.
• After learning that his Leopard Vanguard had been killed and eaten, the Black Wind Demon King ordered thirty thousand demon soldiers to attack the Human Valley.

Black Wind Demon King attacked Human Valley with three hundred thousand demons, but the human warriors’ body cultivation let them overwhelm the invading army. When the Three Ancestors were threatened by the demon king’s Natal Demon Core, Ye Xuan drew a blade of grass and unleashed the Grass Character Sword Art.

• Black Wind Demon King led his army against Human Valley, and the Three Ancestors used their Great Emperor phantoms to withstand his pressure.
• Suiren Shi led the human warriors into battle, where their Human Body Secret Realm Method let them defeat demons with stronger conventional cultivation.
• Black Wind Demon King attacked the Three Ancestors, but their teamwork and tough bodies held him off.
• Black Wind Demon King released his Natal Demon Core to unleash a devastating attack, forcing the Three Ancestors to prepare to defend Human Valley.
• Ye Xuan stepped in, infused a foxtail grass with divine power, and swung it with the Grass Character Sword Art.

Ye Xuan slew the Black Wind Demon King and secured the Human Race’s homeland before leaving to seek opportunities in the East Sea. There, Ao Qing of the East Sea Dragon Palace demanded that Ye Xuan become his battle slave, and Ye Xuan faced him with cold resolve.

• Ye Xuan killed the Black Wind Demon King with a blade of grass, and the surviving demons fled as the human army pursued them.
• Ye Xuan planted the Human Creation Divine Vine to protect Human Valley and ordered Suiren Shi, Youchaoshi, and Ziyishi to guard the homeland and cultivate the Human Body Secret Realm Method.
• Ye Xuan left Human Valley and flew east for several months until he reached the East Sea.
• Ao Qing devoured creatures on an island, spotted Ye Xuan, and demanded that he kneel, offer his vital blood, and become a battle slave.
• Ye Xuan regarded Ao Qing coldly as the dragon blocked his path.

Ye Xuan killed Ao Qing, a Golden Immortal True Dragon, after defeating him with his physical strength and treasures. Ao Qing’s father, the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Ao Lie, arrived and pursued Ye Xuan as he fled across the East Sea.

• Ao Qing attacked Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan shattered his dragon claw with a punch.
• Ye Xuan burned Ao Qing with Southern Bright Leaving Fire, pinned him with the Cycle Treasure Technique, and killed him with the Grass Character Sword Art.
• Ye Xuan stored Ao Qing’s corpse in the System Space and prepared to leave.
• Ao Lie emerged from the sea, recognized Ye Xuan as his son’s killer, and threatened to kill him.
• Ye Xuan fled using the Azure Sky Roc Treasure Art, and Ao Lie chased him across the East Sea.

Ye Xuan fought Ao Lie across the East Sea, injuring the Grand Unity Golden Immortal before Ao Lie brought out the Flame God Pearl. As Ye Xuan prepared to escape, the Three Xiāo Fairies spotted his enormous Golden Wheel of Merit.

• Ye Xuan stopped fleeing and used Chaos Heavy Pupils—Heaven Splitting to weaken Ao Lie, but Ao Lie broke the domain with his Five Qi in his Chest.
• Ye Xuan struck Ao Lie's seventh inch with the Grass Character Sword Art, piercing his scales, and Ao Lie retaliated by smashing Ye Xuan into the sea.
• Ye Xuan used the Sky-Mending Technique to restore his injuries in a single breath, frightening Ao Lie.
• Ao Lie summoned the Flame God Pearl and launched it at Ye Xuan, who prepared to open a portal to Perfect World.
• The Three Xiāo Fairies saw Ye Xuan standing on the boiling sea and noticed the nearly solid Golden Wheel of Merit behind his head.

Bixiao killed Ao Lie with the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors while he was attacking Ye Xuan, and Ye Xuan introduced himself to the Three Fairies of Interception Sect. He invited Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bixiao to a feast made from the slain dragon, and they gathered on an island as he began cooking.

• Bixiao used the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to destroy Ao Lie’s Flame God Pearl and sever his body, killing him.
• Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bixiao introduced themselves to Ye Xuan, who revealed that he was the Human Emperor and that his merit came from creating cultivation methods for humanity.
• Ye Xuan stored Ao Lie’s corpse and invited the three fairies to share a Full Dragon Feast; Bixiao eagerly accepted, and Yun Xiao agreed on their behalf.
• The group landed on a nearby island, where Ye Xuan prepared dragon meat with Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, filling the island with an enticing aroma.