Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan led the Demon Hunters to the demons’ hidden lair in Black Goat Forest, where Soron completed a ritual to summon the Mother of Reproduction. After using a Dante clone to protect the Hunters from her reproductive corruption, Fang Yuan attacked the celestial body himself, and it fought back with an army of Demonic Beasts.

• Fang Yuan interrogated a captured spellcaster, learned that the demons’ last stronghold was in Black Goat Forest, and led the Demon Hunters there.
• Fang Yuan and the Hunters found a vast sacrifice site filled with corpses, a Blood Pool, and an altar where Soron was performing a ritual to summon the Mother of Reproduction.
• Soron sacrificed himself, triggering the ritual and causing the Mother of Reproduction to emerge beyond Alka Continent’s atmosphere.
• Fang Yuan sent out a Dante clone, which healed the Hunters’ swollen bellies and shielded them from the Mother of Reproduction’s corruption.
• Fang Yuan attacked the Mother of Reproduction with enormous cyan palms, and it counterattacked by sending Demonic Beasts against him.

Fang Yuan fought the Mother of Reproduction, seized its core, and negotiated a trade with the awakened World Will of the Alka World. He left with World Power and the Demon Placenta after giving the world its refined Origin Power and agreeing never to return.

• Fang Yuan and his allies fought the Mother of Reproduction and the Blood Pool placenta as Solo’s forces bombarded the Black Goat Forest.
• Fang Yuan used his planted spell to turn the Demon Hunters against the resistance leaders, killing Solo and the other commanders.
• Fang Yuan’s Dante clone unleashed Second release and broke into the Mother of Reproduction to seize its purple core.
• Fang Yuan offered the Origin Power inside the core in exchange for World Power and the World Will’s permission to leave without revealing the world’s coordinates or returning.
• The World Will accepted the trade, reclaimed the Origin Power, and Fang Yuan took the World Power and Demon Placenta before preparing to leave.

Fang Yuan used the Demon Placenta and his Creation Sword Array to reach the Creator realm, reclaiming Sage-level power in the Great Gan World. He confronted the former Sages who plotted against him, killed them, and left the gathered Dream Masters facing a choice between submission and death.

• Fang Yuan studied the Demon Placenta and used World Power to form the Mountain Sword, completing the seven-sword Creation Sword Array and reaching the Creator realm.
• Fang Yuan realized he could now create intelligent life and decided to abandon his cautious plan and force the Great Gan World to submit.
• Sage Bai Ze and the Evil Sage plotted to seize Fang Yuan's secret and restore their former power with the Dream Masters gathered in their barrier.
• Fang Yuan entered the barrier and revealed his Cave Heaven power, causing Sage Bai Ze and the Evil Sage to flee.
• Fang Yuan trapped both former Sages and killed them with his Chaos Creation Divine Fist, then demanded the remaining Dream Masters submit.
• One of the gathered Dream Masters silently knelt before Fang Yuan.

At the Hailan City assembly, Zhang Tianling tried to unite the East Sea’s Spirit Scholars under the Heavenly Spirit Association before Fang Yuan arrived and revealed himself as a Sage. Fang Yuan subdued the gathering and demanded submission, but Zhang Tianling began to dissolve rather than yield.

• Hong'er sensed Qian Huan Yi and Wan Sheng Wu Zun in hiding, but Qian Huan Yi struck back and planted a suggestion that left her unconscious.
• Zhang Tianling addressed the assembly and called on the sects to join the Heavenly Spirit Association, prompting several small sects to swear allegiance.
• Shen Tao of the Evil Saint Sect interrupted Zhang Tianling and challenged his authority to give away the East Sea provinces.
• Fang Yuan arrived with the Dream Masters, asked the assembly to submit, and erased a True Sage’s martial will with a breath.
• Fang Yuan killed several Spirit Scholars who called for resistance and used his grotto-heaven power to silence and subdue the venue.
• Zhang Tianling refused to submit again and began dissolving into specks of light.

After becoming the first Sage, Fang Yuan consolidated control over the East Sea and prepared to unite the Great Gan World by eradicating the demonic calamity. He confronted a Demon Commander and revealed seven powerful young men, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• Fang Yuan claimed the East Sea for the Nine Absolute Mountains, won the submission of the local sects and Heavenly Spirit Association, and killed a fleeing mighty expert.
• Fang Yuan ordered the Spirit Search Palace and Martial Alliance to submit, then organized the Nine Absolute Mountains’ expansion and granted territory to allied sects.
• Fang Yuan chose to march north against the demonic calamity, appointed Shen Tao Vice Mountain Master, and decided to refine and spread a Dream Master cultivation technique.
• Fang Yuan confronted the Two-tailed Scorpion Lion and its demon troops, but his punch struck a formation created by gathered Demon Commanders.
• Fang Yuan summoned seven sword-bearing young men, each radiating the might of a great expert, and the Scorpion Lion reacted with alarm.

Fang Yuan used the Power of Creation to open a Cave Heaven, then created a world whose continents and primitive life developed under his observation. After consolidating control over Great Gan, he turned his attention to cultivation and the worlds beyond it, leaving the new Cave Heaven still developing.

• Fang Yuan created seven powerful beings, whose Seven Star Sword Formation helped him defeat eighteen Demon Commanders and their forces.
• Fang Yuan took control of Great Gan, and within half a year the Nine Absolute Mountains nominally ruled its provinces and capital; he learned that the Hidden Dragon Venerable Lord had fled overseas.
• Fang Yuan decided to investigate the Yuanwu Continent later and focused on studying the Power of Creation, managing his Cave Heaven, and refining the Demon Placenta.
• Fang Yuan traveled to the edge of the Great Gan World and unleashed his Cave Heaven Seed into the chaos, where it expanded into a complete world with the Five Elements Continent and the Light-Dark Continent.
• Fang Yuan created wind and life in the Cave Heaven, then watched its plants and animals evolve as its time flow slowed to just over three hundred times faster than Great Gan's.
• Fang Yuan visited the Light-Dark Continent, observed its dense forests and a small animal resembling a guan dog, and examined an object in his hand.

Fang Yuan shaped the Light-Dark Continent's races and accelerated human evolution on the Five Elements Continent, then studied the Demon Placenta as civilization developed. He discovered that giant beasts had formed a written kingdom, but feared their voracious appetites would destroy the continent and resolved to intervene.

• Fang Yuan created the Wolf Clan and Blood Clan, transformed Caesar and Dracula into their progenitors, and gave both races the power to reproduce by infecting humanoids.
• Fang Yuan awakened several intelligent apes and monkeys on the Five Elements Continent with Exotic Flowers and Strange Plants, rapidly advancing their evolution.
• Fang Yuan secluded himself to study the Demon Placenta, concluding that refining it would require the power of a developed grotto-heaven.
• Fang Yuan explored the Five Elements Continent and found primitive human tribes living beneath the threat of giant beasts.
• Fang Yuan discovered a giant-beast kingdom whose members used megalithic arrays as writing and sang of their king's conquests.
• Fang Yuan realized the giant beasts might consume the continent and cause mass extinction, and decided he would intervene if necessary.

Xuan ate strange berries that gave him control over flames, allowing him to kill a giant beast and sparking his ambition to rule humanity. On the Light-Dark Continent, Dracula reorganized the Blood Clan into a feudal hierarchy and declared himself its Grand Duke as war with the Wolf Clan loomed.

• Xuan found purple berries, ate them as a giant beast swallowed him, and survived by burning through its belly with his newly awakened flames.
• Xuan realized the dead giant beast could feed his tribe and decided to become humanity’s leader and unite the tribes under his rule.
• Fang Yuan watched the changes he had set in motion and turned his attention to the growing conflict between the Blood Clan and Wolf Clan.
• Dracula declared that the Blood Clan must conquer the werewolves and established five peerage ranks to organize its lands and members.
• Dracula proclaimed himself the Blood Clan’s first Grand Duke, and the vampires cheered while the Wolf Clan remained unaware of the coming war.

Dracula led the Vampires to victory over the Werewolves and enslaved the captives, hoping to make them fight among themselves while Caesar remained alive. Count Catherine chose a young Werewolf as her personal slave and renamed him Sese.

• Dracula prayed before a statue resembling Fang Yuan and vowed to destroy the Werewolves.
• Dracula led fifty thousand armored Vampires against the Werewolves, whose Mass Frenzy Technique drove them into battle.
• The Vampire cavalry routed the Werewolves, killing twenty thousand and capturing thirty thousand, while Caesar escaped.
• Dracula ordered the captured Werewolves enslaved, fitted with transformation-suppressing chains, and put to labor and service.
• Count Catherine selected a young Werewolf prisoner, named him Sese, and ordered a slave collar engraved with his new name and her ownership.

Fang Yuan stopped Xuan’s campaign from drawing the Giant Beast Kingdom’s attention by causing a meteor to destroy the kingdom. Xuan’s forces then killed a lone giant beast, and the tribes hailed him as their Beast King.

• Xuan united the Great River tribes and swore to fight the giant beasts, prompting Fang Yuan to decide to intervene before they encountered the Giant Beast Kingdom.
• Meng noticed a star changing course and falling toward the Giant Beast Kingdom, while the giant beasts watched in terror.
• A meteor struck and wiped out the Giant Beast Kingdom, killing the Beast King and all its inhabitants with surprisingly little damage beyond the impact zone.
• Xuan led his troops after the giant beasts’ footprints and found one resting in a mountain valley.
• Fei carried Xuan into the air, and Xuan blinded the giant beast with fire before the warriors killed it.
• Xuan stood atop the giant beast’s corpse as the tribes cheered and called him Beast King.

Fang Yuan erased the giant beast kingdom and watched Xuan build a human state on the Five Elements Continent. As Xuan’s rule fell into turmoil, Fang Yuan appeared as an immortal, taught humans and beasts cultivation for seven days, then departed as Daoist Taichu.

• Fang Yuan destroyed the giant beast kingdom, while descendants of giant beasts spread across the continents.
• Xuan united human tribes into a state, ruled the wild folk through tribute and slavery, and later tried to pass power to his son, plunging the state into turmoil.
• Peng, a woodcutter among the wild folk, followed an ethereal voice into a mountain valley and found Fang Yuan’s avatar teaching a gathering of humans and beasts.
• Fang Yuan declared himself an immortal and taught the gathered creatures cultivation methods for seven days and seven nights.
• A Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird learned to speak and a nine-tailed white fox departed after thanking Fang Yuan, who revealed the name Daoist Taichu before vanishing.

After leaving Daoist Taichu’s tutelage, Peng discovered that seven years had passed outside the mountains and used a spell to stop Xuan State warriors from arresting him. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan founded the Immortal Mountain Kunwu, enlightened three creatures, and entrusted them with its upkeep.

• Peng and the other disciples exchanged names before leaving the mountains as the surrounding animals drove them away.
• Peng returned to his tribe and learned that seven years had passed while he had spent only seven days with Daoist Taichu.
• Peng chose to leave the tribe and build a hut in the mountains, but Xuan State warriors arrived to arrest him for evading taxes.
• Peng used the Body-Fixing Spell to immobilize two warriors, astonishing Jing Jun and the tribespeople.
• Fang Yuan transformed a spiritual mountain into the Immortal Mountain Kunwu and established it as his sect’s mountain gate.
• Fang Yuan enlightened a macaque, a pheasant, and a five-colored stone, naming them Yuan Hong, Mei Xi, and Shi Sheng and assigning them to care for Kunwu Mountain.

Fang Yuan watched Adam’s mixed Vampire-Werewolf heritage produce the first Western humans and prepared to empower humanity, while he assessed the growing threat to the Great Gan World. He concluded that he needed to refine the Demon Placenta and reach the source-power realm to face the being that had harvested the Dream Master path.

• Dracula sentenced Catherine to be burned for loving Sese, bearing Adam, and allegedly aiding the Werewolves, but she refused to reveal Sese’s location and was burned alive.
• Adam woke from a nightmare and told Sese he wanted power so he could rescue his mother; Sese suggested he try the Blood Demon Technique.
• Fang Yuan explained that the mingled Vampire and Werewolf bloodlines had produced humans and that Adam would receive a gift granting humanity powerful reproductive abilities and immunity to their infection and embrace.
• Fang Yuan observed that the Great Gan World was recovering but had been polluted by Dream Origin Power and drawn into the Inner Demon Realm’s influence.
• Fang Yuan judged that he needed to refine the Demon Placenta and reach the source-power realm before confronting the being that had stripped away the Way of the Dream Master.

After returning from seclusion, Fang Yuan refined thirty-six Nine Revolutions Golden Cores and entrusted one to Mei Xi to prepare as a Medicinal Spring. When Mei Xi secretly offered it to the carp, one swallowed the pill and transformed into a dragon that escaped Kunwu Mountain, leaving Mei Xi and Yuan Hong to pursue it.

• Fang Yuan returned to Kunwu Mountain after twenty years in the grotto-heaven and observed the growth of Xuan State and the Immortal Dao.
• Mei Xi defended the red carp in the Spirit Pool after Yuan Hong scolded her for treating them as equals.
• Fang Yuan refined thirty-six Nine Revolutions Golden Cores and gave Mei Xi a gourd containing one to turn into a Medicinal Spring.
• Mei Xi secretly brought the Golden Core to the pond so the carp could taste it, but Yuan Hong caught her and the gourd fell into the water.
• A carp swallowed the Golden Core, transformed into a fiery red dragon, broke through the mountain wards, and flew away.
• Mei Xi resolved to confess to Fang Yuan, but Yuan Hong insisted they first capture the dragon and bring it back.

Fang Yuan punished Mei Xi and Yuan Hong after a red dragon escaped with his golden elixir, while King Xuan died and the Great Xuan State descended into rebellion. Peng escaped execution on a crane, and Kun Xie prepared to invade.

• Fang Yuan sent Mei Xi to Red Cloud Cave and ordered Yuan Hong to receive a hundred lashes, then told Shi Sheng to wait decades before pursuing the red dragon.
• King Xuan died after ordering his soldiers to execute Peng, and his eldest son Zhang took the throne as the feudal lords rebelled.
• Peng drove off the soldiers with magic and escaped the palace on a white crane.
• Kun Xie learned that Xuan was dead and Peng had fled, then ordered the Kun Tribe to raise its troops and march against Xuan.

Kun Xie used a Daoist talisman to destroy Hou Tu City's defenses and capture the city, while Li Ru Bi was born amid the chaos and escaped with his mother. In Xuan's capital, King Zhang sought help from a palace beauty, who planned to make humanity fight itself by directing extraordinary allies against Kun Xie.

• Kun Xie rejected Fei Yun's refusal to surrender and used the Mountain Shaker talisman to collapse part of Hou Tu City's wall.
• Kun Xie empowered his troops with Daoist arts, captured Hou Tu City, and ordered its people to swear allegiance or face plunder.
• A newborn named Li Ru Bi rapidly grew into a boy, killed two Kun soldiers, and escaped the city with his mother in an ox cart.
• Kun Xie entered Hou Tu City and dismissed his lingering unease, believing no one could stop his conquest of Xuan State.
• King Zhang learned that Kun Xie had attacked Hou Tu City and accepted a palace beauty's offer to introduce extraordinary people who could aid him.
• The palace beauty secretly resolved to make humanity destroy itself and identified Kun Xie as the opposing force.

Fang Yuan observed the fortunes of Xuan State, Kun Kingdom, and the Demon Race as he considered the coming conflict between Heaven's will and humanity. As Kun Xie’s army reached Xuan State’s capital, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird swallowed ten thousand soldiers, suffered a backlash, and revealed his Ghost Immortal Method as a way for demons to reincarnate as humans.

• Fang Yuan saw the Demon Race’s fortune seep into Xuan State’s and judged that demons lacked the numbers to contend for the continent, while the conflict between Xuan State and Kun Kingdom would test Heaven’s will against humanity.
• Kun Xie marched on Xuan State’s capital with an army swollen to thirty thousand and prepared to demand King Zhang’s surrender before attacking.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird revealed himself as Great Xuan’s National Teacher and swallowed ten thousand of Kun Xie’s soldiers with his Heaven and Earth Manifestation ability.
• The Great Peng Bird suffered a backlash from humanity’s power and warned the Palace Dress Beauty that it might damage his cultivation.
• The Great Peng Bird explained his Ghost Immortal Method and proposed that demons reincarnate as humans to gain intelligence and cultivation potential.

Li Ru Bi recruited Peng after visiting Mount Tuan, and the Mountain Division allied with Kun to resist Xuan as the three powers faced off. Fang Yuan sent Shi Sheng into the mortal world with two treasures; Shi Sheng descended into Li Ru Bi’s camp after recognizing Peng, and Li Ru Bi ordered that he be welcomed.

• After losing ten thousand troops, Kun Xie withdrew, and Xuan State strengthened its defenses as the two states entered a long confrontation.
• Five years later, Li Ru Bi visited Mount Tuan, where Peng offered him restorative medicine and agreed to serve him after they wagered the mountain on a game of Taiji Chess.
• In the fiftieth year of the Xuan calendar, Xuan’s victories drove Kun Xie to ally with Li Ru Bi’s Mountain Division, and all three powers met on the Great River Plain.
• Fang Yuan sent Shi Sheng down from Kunwu Mountain with the Huantian Banner and Soul-Slaying Flying Knife, telling him to support a worthy ruler and not spare Yuan Hong if they met.
• Shi Sheng reached the battlefield, recognized Yuan Hong among Xuan’s allies and Peng in the Mountain Division camp, then swept away the soldiers’ arrows with the Huantian Banner.
• Li Ru Bi ordered his soldiers to invite Shi Sheng into the main tent and treat him with respect.

Shi Sheng urged Li Ru Bi to earn merit as a Human Emperor so he could seek Mei Xi’s release, while Yuan Hong joined Xuan State and Kun Xie learned that Shi Sheng had come from Kunwu Mountain. As the armies gathered for a decisive battle, Yuan Hong challenged Shi Sheng, and the two former companions prepared to meet on the battlefield.

• Li Ru Bi learned that Mei Xi was still imprisoned at Red Cloud Cave, and Shi Sheng advised him to unify the world and earn merit to atone for his past.
• Yuan Hong reveled in Xuan State’s camp, vowed to kill Li Ru Bi, and concealed his resentment over the Golden Core and his punishment.
• Kun Xie learned that Shi Sheng had joined the mountain tribe and suspected that another Kunwu Mountain cultivator might be with Xuan State.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird prepared to use his Talent Supernatural Ability as the armies of Xuan State, Kun Kingdom, and the mountain tribe began fighting.
• Yuan Hong confronted Shi Sheng across the battlefield, declared their friendship over, and challenged him to fight.

The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird killed Kun Xie before Shi Sheng used the Soul-Slaying Flying Knife to destroy the demon, allowing Li Ru Bi to defeat Xuan State and unify the Five Elements Continent. Years later, Li Ru Bi returned to Kunwu Mountain to ask Fang Yuan to spare Mei Xi, and Fang Yuan sent him to Red Cloud Cave to atone with his merit.

• Kun Xie and his allies wounded the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, but its wounds healed as it drove them back and killed Kun Xie.
• Shi Sheng trapped the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird with the Huantian Banner, then destroyed its soul with the Soul-Slaying Flying Knife after it escaped and killed Kun Xie.
• Li Ru Bi led the Kun Division in a counterattack, defeated Xuan State, and was elected lord of the Kun Kingdom before renaming it the Mountain Kingdom.
• The Mountain Kingdom conquered Xuan State, unified the realm, and Li Ru Bi became the Supreme Being of the Ninth Five.
• Shi Sheng brought Yuan Hong back to Kunwu Mountain, and Fang Yuan ordered Yuan Hong sent to the rear mountain with a copper ring through his nose.
• Li Ru Bi asked Fang Yuan to spare Mei Xi, and Fang Yuan allowed Li Ru Bi to enter Red Cloud Cave and use his merit to atone.