Chapter Summaries

Su Miao watched Bai Yan win an Illusionary Realm match through persuasion, then presented the examination rewards and affirmed that Farm Teachings welcomed Disciples of every origin. The seven-day examination ended with promotions and commendations, and Su Miao left the Disciples united by their identity as members of Farm Teachings.

• Bai Yan persuaded all five Human Race opponents to abandon their attack and drink tea with his team, earning his side victory.
• The referees ruled that Bai Yan's eloquence and nonviolent tactics suited Farm Teachings' philosophy, while Tongtian praised his talent.
• After seven days, the examination ended, with nine Inner Sect Disciples promoted to Personal Disciples and more than three thousand seven hundred Outer Sect Disciples promoted to the Inner Sect.
• Su Miao presented rewards to the promoted Disciples and told Bai Yan that Farm Teachings valued his ability to resolve conflict.
• Su Miao addressed the gathered Disciples and said that, despite their different origins, they all shared the identity of Farm Teachings Disciples.

Su Miao rallied Farm Teachings’ disciples around protecting the land and living beings beneath their feet, while Tongtian told her that Pilgrimage delegations were arriving to entrust promising Human Race youths to her care. In the crowded Holy City, a youth from the Western Wasteland guarded a basket of rare melons he had brought for the Saint Master.

• Su Miao urged Farm Teachings’ disciples to build Vitality and Order through unity, and a million disciples cheered her words.
• Tongtian told Su Miao that more than half of the Pilgrimage delegations had arrived and warned that they would soon request an audience.
• Su Miao recognized that the Human Race sought Farm Teachings’ protection from the coming Witch-Demon War and accepted the responsibility.
• Pilgrims crowded the Holy City’s inns and taverns, trading news about events across the Prehistoric World.
• A Western Wasteland youth explained that he had carried rare Sand Old Man Melons to offer the Saint Master, and the shopkeeper encouraged him to keep them for the audience.

Nuwa reprimanded Fuxi for neglecting her while he served the Demon Court, then made him promise to bring her gifts. After he left, she secretly tracked him with Saintly Thought and watched Miao Heng lead the Human Race.

• Fuxi visited Nuwa at Wa Huang Palace after a long absence and explained that his duties as Xi Huang kept him busy.
• Nuwa showed Fuxi Miao Heng’s public ceremony and contrasted the girl’s attentiveness to her teachers with Fuxi’s failure to remember his sister or bring her a gift.
• Fuxi apologized and offered to bring Nuwa several treasures, agreeing to return within one thousand five hundred years.
• Nuwa teased that she would create an obedient elder brother if Fuxi failed to return, and Fuxi left Wa Huang Palace promising to bring the gifts.
• After Fuxi departed, Nuwa revealed that she had secretly placed Saintly Thought on his sleeve and watched him enter Chaos.
• Nuwa viewed Miao Heng leading the Human Race and praised her while calling Fuxi foolish for getting caught up in the Demon Court’s affairs.

The tribes presented their most precious offerings to Su Miao at the Outer Altar Plaza, where she welcomed them and invited eligible cultivators to join Farm Teachings. After accepting Shi A'tu's modest basket of Western Wasteland melons, Su Miao was told that someone had arrived and ordered them admitted.

• The Pilgrimage Team entered through the Lingxing Gate and gathered at the Outer Altar Plaza, where Shi A'tu carried melons from the Western Wasteland.
• Su Miao addressed the tribes, welcomed them as guests, and invited those at the Tribulation Stage to register for Farm Teachings.
• The Yan Tribe, Lin Tribe, Northern Plains Snow Tribe, South Sea Fishing Village, and Eastern Forest Mountain People presented offerings from their homelands.
• Shi A'tu offered Sand Old Man Melons, and Su Miao tasted one, praised its sweetness, and accepted all thirty melons.
• After the tribes finished presenting their offerings, a middle-aged man from the External Affairs Hall whispered to Su Miao, who ordered the arrivals admitted.

Phoenix elder Li Zhu brought Kong Xuan and Dapeng to Farm Teachings and asked Su Miao to let them take the Heart Questioning Array examination. She explained that the Phoenix race faced dwindling offspring, an unstable Immortal Volcano, and pressure from Di Jun, and the chapter ended with her offering a gift in hope of securing the clan a chance to survive.

• Li Zhu arrived early with Kong Xuan and Dapeng, whose tense reactions Kong Xuan restrained as they approached Su Miao and Tongtian.
• Su Miao explained that both princes had to pass Farm Teachings’ Heart Questioning Array, while Tongtian teased Dapeng and Kong Xuan apologized for his younger brother’s temper.
• Li Zhu told Su Miao that the Phoenix race had little more than a hundred newborns, struggled to suppress the Immortal Volcano, and faced Di Jun’s attempts to annex them.
• Li Zhu asked that Kong Xuan and Dapeng be allowed to take the examination so they could earn Merit and help preserve their clan’s bloodline.
• Su Miao agreed that they could take the examination under the same rules as everyone else, and Li Zhu offered a gift to express the Phoenix race’s sincerity.

Li Zhu presented Farm Teachings with the Phoenix race’s remaining treasures and revealed that her people were near collapse, seeking refuge for their bloodline. Su Miao accepted the gifts in exchange for a promise of aid and arranged for Kong Xuan and Dapeng to take the Heart Questioning Array in three days.

• Li Zhu brought out a vast collection of Phoenix treasures, including three of Yuan Feng’s remaining true feathers, as gifts to Farm Teachings.
• Su Miao calculated the treasures’ value while Tongtian marveled at the Phoenix race’s generosity.
• Li Zhu explained that Yuan Feng was nearing the end of her strength suppressing Immortal Volcano, while Di Jun threatened to make the Phoenix race his vassals.
• Su Miao agreed that Kong Xuan and Dapeng could join if they passed the Heart Questioning Array, and promised Farm Teachings would answer up to three requests for aid from the Phoenix race.
• Dapeng demanded fair treatment if he passed, and Su Miao assured him that all disciples followed the same rules and standards.
• Su Miao scheduled the array for three days later and invited Li Zhu, Kong Xuan, and Dapeng to rest in the Holy City.

Li Zhu warned Kong Xuan and Dapeng that they would have to prove their usefulness to Farm Teachings and follow its rules if they passed the Heart Questioning Array. As more candidates gathered in Holy City, Su Miao wondered how chaotic the Prehistoric World would become, and Tongtian assured her that the three Saint Masters would hold up the sky if it fell.

• Li Zhu told Kong Xuan and Dapeng to pass the Heart Questioning Array and warned Dapeng that Farm Teachings would not indulge his arrogance.
• Li Zhu explained that the Phoenix race was counting on Farm Teachings as a refuge and reminded the brothers that they would become disciples who had to obey its rules and earn Contribution Points.
• Kong Xuan promised to keep an eye on Dapeng, and the brothers sat cultivating in the Phoenix race's courtyard.
• Candidates from across the Prehistoric World gathered in Holy City as young geniuses prepared to challenge the Heart Questioning Array.
• Su Miao wondered how chaotic the Prehistoric World would become, and Tongtian told her that the three Saint Masters would hold up the sky if it fell.

Kong Xuan began the Heart Questioning Array after nineteen human candidates passed its Mortal Desire Pass. He resisted an illusion offering him power and a way to save the Phoenix race, then continued toward the next trial.

• Thirty-seven Tribulation Stage candidates entered the array, and Shi A'tu overcame an illusion of an oasis by remembering how real oases were made.
• Nineteen candidates passed the Mortal Desire Pass while eighteen withdrew, and Su Miao invited Kong Xuan and Dapeng to attempt the array.
• Kong Xuan went first after ordering Dapeng to behave, then climbed steadily through the array's pressure and illusions.
• An illusion of Emperor Jun offered Kong Xuan power and a means to resolve the Phoenix race's Karmic Debt, but Kong Xuan refused and declared that the Phoenix race would find its own way to survive.
• Kong Xuan reached six hundred steps and faced an illusion of beautiful women surrounding him.

Kong Xuan passed Farm Teachings’ Heart Questioning Array by affirming that he would protect his clan without betraying his principles, and Su Miao admitted him as an Outer Disciple. Dapeng then faced his own assessment, stepping toward the jade stairs as his brother watched.

• Kong Xuan resisted illusions tempting him to abandon his clan, choose sides in the Witch-Demon conflict, or devour Dapeng for power.
• Kong Xuan rejected the vision of Dapeng’s betrayal and continued climbing without using his cultivation to resist the pressure.
• At the final three steps, Kong Xuan vowed to shoulder the Phoenix race’s fate while walking the Great Dao and upholding Farm Teachings’ rules.
• Kong Xuan emerged with his Five-Colored Divine Light refined, and Su Miao gave him an Outer Disciple Jade Tablet that he accepted.
• Kong Xuan reassured Elder Li Zhu that he would walk the rest of the road himself, while Dapeng stepped forward to begin his assessment.

Dapeng faced the Heart Questioning Array, where illusions exposed his impatience, hunger for power, and struggle to protect the weak, and he failed Farm Teachings' assessment. After leaving the stairs in shame, he said he would return to cultivate, but Kong Xuan stopped him.

• Dapeng raced up the stairs and resisted an illusion that challenged his pride in being the fastest bird.
• Dapeng turned away from an illusory feast of Dragon Liver after remembering Farm Teachings' rules and Contribution Points.
• Dapeng struggled with an illusion forcing him to choose between saving three Phoenix chicks and rescuing hundreds, then carried three toward safety.
• Dapeng fought illusions tempting him with power and plunder, crawled the final steps, and was told that he had failed the assessment.
• Dapeng left the stairs in shame and said he would return to cultivate, but Kong Xuan told him to stop.

After Dapeng failed the Heart Questioning Array, Kong Xuan pleaded with Su Miao to give him another assessment chance, offering the Phoenix race’s treasures and even his own Five-Colored Origin Seed. Kong Xuan ended by offering a Heavenly Dao Oath to share any punishment Dapeng might earn.

• Dapeng admitted he had lost and angrily rejected Kong Xuan’s pity, though he still believed his brother could find a way to help him.
• Kong Xuan knelt before Su Miao and offered three large Fire Veins and a hundred fire-element Innate Spiritual Plants for another chance for Dapeng.
• Kong Xuan stripped out a thread of his Five-Colored Divine Light Origin Seed and offered it to Farm Teachings, while Dapeng tried to stop him.
• Elder Li Zhu pledged her Crimson Gold Elder Token and the remaining thirty percent of the Clan Treasury’s treasures, vouching that Dapeng was not evil by nature.
• Kong Xuan offered to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath, give Farm Teachings all his merit for ten thousand years, and share Dapeng’s punishment, leaving Dapeng filled with guilt.

Su Miao established an Atonement Assessment for those burdened by Karmic Debt who had not deliberately committed grave sins, allowing them to exchange resources or service for one chance to join the Farm Teachings. Dapeng received three months to prepare, while the Phoenix race offered valuable resources that could help sustain the sect through the coming Tribulation.

• Su Miao announced that eligible applicants could exchange resources or complete sect tasks for one Atonement Assessment, with success granting Outer Disciple status and failure permanently closing the path.
• Su Miao let Dapeng use the Phoenix race’s offering for another assessment in three months and ordered the Disciplinary Hall to supervise his service in the sect.
• Dapeng thanked Su Miao, and Su Miao returned Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Origin Seeds rather than taking them as payment.
• Su Miao reviewed the Phoenix race’s generous resource list, including Fire Vein maps, spiritual plant records, stored treasures, and Blessed Lands.
• Su Miao directed the Internal Affairs Hall to send Dapeng to Granny Yan at the Discipline Hall, while Tongtian teased her about the deal’s calculations.

Su Miao established Farm Teachings’ new atonement policy, allowing applicants to offset Karmic Debt and gain opportunities by contributing resources. As ancient powers rushed to send gifts to Mount Tai, Shi A'tu wondered how the impoverished Western Wasteland could ever afford to atone.

• Su Miao explained to Tongtian that Farm Teachings needed resources and issued detailed rules for reviewing atonement applications.
• Wen Shou Zhuo was appointed Chief Officer of a Special Assessment Group, and Su Miao told the three Little Dragons that their Dragon race could apply under the rules.
• Tongtian told Su Miao that many living beings only needed an opportunity, and she vowed to give them one.
• After the policy was announced, Elder Ao Qin, Kunpeng, Zhunti and Jieyin, Minghe, and Houtu each arranged gifts for Farm Teachings.
• Shi A'tu asked the Clan Elder what the Western Wasteland could offer if it needed to atone, and she said they could offer their Oasis as long as their people survived.

The Phoenix race delivered its promised treasures, and Dapeng vowed to serve Farm Teachings and face the Heart Questioning Array again or pay for his failure. As Pilgrimage Teams crowded Mount Tai, Su Miao established the Dao Seeking Platform to handle the influx, while aspiring disciples queued to challenge the Heart Questioning Array.

• The Phoenix race’s battle generals delivered crates of treasures, and Dapeng promised Li Zhu he would work hard and accept severe consequences if he failed his next challenge.
• Kong Xuan told Dapeng that another failure would end their partnership and leave Kong Xuan as the Phoenix race’s sole hope.
• Mission Hall announced strict redemption rules, requiring substantial treasures or dangerous missions to settle Karmic Debt.
• Pilgrimage Teams arrived from across the Prehistoric World, filling Holy City’s inns and forming a temporary marketplace outside its walls.
• Su Miao established the Dao Seeking Platform, where True Person Xuan and Qing He gave lectures and answered cultivation questions to growing crowds.
• External Affairs Hall organized daily examination tokens as advanced Human Race cultivators lined up to challenge the Heart Questioning Array, and Dapeng began his service at Discipline Hall with Kong Xuan.

Dapeng completed one hundred days of humiliating service with his powers sealed, gradually learning patience and resolve. After his seal was lifted, he reunited with Kong Xuan and prepared to report to the Heart Questioning Array the next day.

• Granny Yan sealed Dapeng's powers and assigned him a hundred days of service, which he accepted at Kong Xuan's urging.
• Dapeng swept the Dao Seeking Platform, maintained order during a lecture, and learned the Dust Cleaning Technique from a Tribulation Stage cultivator.
• Dapeng carried Cold Pond Water to the Fire Element Experimental Zone, enduring the physical strain with help from Yan Shuo.
• Over the course of his service, Dapeng grew accustomed to his daily labor and, on his final day, told a cultivator that those burdened by Karmic Debt could start over and make amends.
• Dapeng's powers returned when his service ended, and Granny Yan told him to report to the Heart Questioning Array the next morning.
• Dapeng met Kong Xuan at sunset, and the brothers silently clasped hands before Dapeng's next trial.

Dapeng faced the Heart Questioning Stairway again and passed its trials by confronting his fear, the Phoenix race's Karmic Debt, and his former arrogance. Su Miao admitted him to the Farm Teachings Outer Sect, and Tongtian sensed that someone had arrived.

• Dapeng climbed the Heart Questioning Stairway steadily, enduring its pressure without resisting it with magic power.
• Dapeng overcame illusions of absolute darkness and unrestrained freedom, realizing that freedom included refusing to harm others.
• Dapeng accepted responsibility for the Phoenix race's Karmic Debt and chose to guide others to safety rather than abandon the clan.
• Dapeng rejected his arrogant former self and stepped onto the final stair with a clear resolve.
• Su Miao allowed Dapeng to enter the Farm Teachings Outer Sect, and Kong Xuan welcomed him with a quiet pat on the shoulder.
• Tongtian looked toward the sky and announced that someone had finally arrived.

The Ten Golden Crows escaped Tanggu Valley and scorched the Eastern Region as they played, while Su Miao shielded Mount Tai and organized Farm Teachings to respond to the disaster. The chapter ended with Kong Xuan and Dapeng setting out to rescue survivors as the suns continued their rampage.

• The Ten Golden Crows broke through Tanggu Valley's barrier and flew into the Prehistoric World despite the Demon God's warnings.
• The Golden Crows' play burned forests, dried rivers, and killed countless creatures, including Crane Elder and the Immortal Cranes.
• Tongtian raised a Blue Light Shield around Mount Tai and the nearby Human Race settlements as the heat spread.
• Li Zhu left to defend the Phoenix race's Immortal Volcano, entrusting Kong Xuan and Dapeng to Su Miao's care.
• Su Miao ordered Farm Teachings to mobilize supplies, protect settlements, and rescue those affected, while opening the Holy City to refugees.
• Kong Xuan and Dapeng received Su Miao's permission to lead a rescue team, with orders to retreat if they faced overwhelming danger.

As the Ten Suns devastated the Prehistoric World, Su Miao used the wish power of the Human Race to shield people with light from Saint Master statues. Kong Xuan and Dapeng joined a rescue team headed for an outpost whose defenders had gone silent.

• Ten Suns burned cities, villages, and a Human Race convoy, while casualty reports rose into the tens of millions.
• Wen Shou Zhuo reported that outposts had lost contact and fewer than one in a hundred Cultivators below the Earth Immortal Stage remained in several regions.
• Su Miao sent wish power from the Wishing Pool through the Saint Master statues, creating protective barriers around people across the world.
• The barriers shielded elderly people and children in an East Sea city and protected a fleeing Pilgrimage group, sending more wish power back to Su Miao.
• Kong Xuan and Dapeng joined Team Jia Three and received orders to reinforce or evacuate survivors at Eastern Seventh Outpost, Qinglinze.
• Team Jia Three departed aboard a Mountain River Boat and entered the scorching wasteland beyond the Saint's Formation.

Kong Xuan and the other rescue teams searched the scorched Qinglinze outpost and evacuated nine survivors, while Mount Tai organized relief for refugees and the injured. Kong Xuan asked to take Fire-Resistant Vine seeds into the disaster area, and Su Miao reflected that the visitors gathered at Mount Tai would return home with ways to survive; the chapter ended as the Wu Race’s suffering came into view.

• Kong Xuan led a search of the ruined Qinglinze outpost, where the team found three remains and signs of survivors trapped in an underground secret room.
• Kong Xuan and Dapeng entered the secret room and rescued nine people, including a young girl whom Dapeng carried out.
• Kong Xuan returned to Mount Tai with the survivors, where relief teams, the First Generation Sages, and Farm Teachings organized rescues, shelter, medical care, and supplies for the refugees.
• Kong Xuan persuaded Su Miao to provide Fire-Resistant Vine seeds so he could scatter them through the disaster area to create patches of shade.
• Tongtian pointed out that the disaster had gathered promising young Cultivators at Mount Tai, and Su Miao said they would take home a way to survive.
• The chapter showed that The West remained protected by Zhunti and Jieyin, then noted that the Wu Race had also suffered under the ten suns.

Kuafu pursued the Ten Golden Crows after they set fire to his tribe’s wheat fields, but the chase exhausted him under the scorching suns. After finding the Yellow River dry, he drank rain created by Farm Teachings Disciples and continued after the Crows.

• The smallest Golden Crow’s fire scorched the tribe’s wheat fields and injured Witchfolk harvesting there, so Kuafu left to pursue the ten suns.
• Kuafu grew into a thousand-zhang Giant and chased the Golden Crows, who mocked him and deliberately dodged his staff.
• The Golden Crows’ Solar True Fire exhausted Kuafu, and he found the Yellow River dried up and drank muddy water from its cracked bed.
• Kuafu reached a Farm Teachings supply point, where the Disciples gathered water vapor into a cloud for him.
• Kuafu infused the cloud with Wu Race vital energy, drank its rain, thanked the Disciples, and resumed the chase.