Chapter Summaries

Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun accepted disciples into their lineages, while Nuwa agreed to become a guest seat Elder of Farm Teachings so she could take Taihao as her disciple. The chapter ended with Taihao accepting Nuwa as his master, unaware that she recognized him as her reincarnated brother.

• Zhen Yuanzi arranged for his new disciples to keep studying in Farm Teachings while spending half of each year at Wuzhuang Temple, and Hongyun accepted more than ten disciples, including Dapeng and San Xiao.
• Hongyun told his disciples not to play themselves to death, then promised Bi Xiao he would visit them at Mount Tai.
• Nuwa watched Taihao writing Human Race characters and told Su Miao she wanted to take him as her disciple.
• Su Miao asked Nuwa to serve as a guest seat Elder and lecture at least once every thousand years, and Nuwa agreed to teach, guide, and protect Farm Teachings.
• Su Miao summoned Taihao, and Nuwa offered to take him as her disciple; Taihao knelt and paid respects to her as his master.

Nuwa chose Taihao as her chief disciple, while Farm Teachings concluded its competition and began rewarding and recruiting standout participants. As the disciples left Jinao Island and the halls organized their next steps, the selection’s influence began spreading across the Prehistoric World.

• Nuwa named Taihao her chief disciple, gave him introductory Creation Deduction materials, and departed Jinao Island.
• The competition ended as disciples left the island and the Artifact Forging Hall and Spiritual Plant Hall began packing equipment and surveying land.
• Farm Teachings’ Hall Masters selected promising competitors for transfers, and Su Miao approved participation rewards and additional Contribution Points for standout disciples.
• Iron Abacus distributed rewards and the halls issued transfer orders, drawing competitors into new roles across Farm Teachings.
• The chapter ended with the selection’s influence spreading as more cultivators and races sought ties with Farm Teachings.

News of Farm Teachings’ Holy Son Selection spread throughout the Prehistoric World, inspiring ordinary cultivators and stirring pride among the Human, Demon, Phoenix, and Dragon races. Su Miao then opened her treasure vault and invited Xuandu, Kong Xuan, and Xue Rong to choose treasures, leaving them surrounded by countless options.

• Storytellers and cultivators across the Prehistoric World discussed the competition, and a Rabbit Demon decided to seek a place in Farm Teachings.
• Human settlements celebrated their achievements, while Lesser Demons were encouraged by Xue Rong’s third-place finish to pursue Farm Teachings and atone for their Karmic Debt.
• Duobao prepared Spirit Mountain for the arrival of several hundred new Western Teachings disciples.
• The Phoenix race celebrated its two Young Masters’ results with a display of flying Phoenixes, while Ao Qin urged the Little Dragons to cultivate and maintain good relations with Farm Teachings.
• Cultivators joked about Dapeng’s speed and Kunpeng’s disgraced reputation, while Kunpeng struggled to refine the River Diagram and Luo Book.
• Su Miao brought Xuandu, Kong Xuan, and Xue Rong into her treasure vault and told them to choose any Dharma Treasures they wanted.

Xuandu, Kong Xuan, and Xue Rong chose Dharma Treasures suited to their needs, then selected or deferred Mountain God missions. Ten thousand years later, the Prehistoric World had entered an era of peace and prosperity, while Farm Teachings expanded and flourished.

• Xuandu chose the Innate Bagua Purple Gold Furnace to support his planned study of Alchemy under Grandmaster Taiqing.
• Kong Xuan selected the Yin-Yang Qi Bottle for Dapeng, while Xue Rong accepted the Spirit Soil Ring to help her cultivate Spirit Plants.
• Kong Xuan chose Immortal Volcano as his Mountain God mission, and Xue Rong chose a mountain near Wuzhuang Temple; Xuandu deferred choosing a mission.
• Su Miao returned the remaining Dharma Treasure spheres to the Chaos Bead after the three left the vault.
• Ten thousand years passed as the Prehistoric World recovered and prospered, and Farm Teachings grew through its Disciples, Teleportation Array, Spirit Plant Garden, and Artifact Forging Hall.

After nearly ten thousand years studying under Laozi, Xuandu watched Su Miao depart with the Three Pure Ones for a summons from Hongjun at Purple Sky Palace. Her unease left Xuandu suspecting that something was wrong with the Dao Ancestor, and he resolved to ask Su Miao about it when she returned.

• Xuandu continued his cultivation and studies under Laozi while Su Miao divided her time between Kunlun Mountain and Farm Teachings.
• Su Miao acted spoiled around the Three Pure Ones at Kunlun, showing Xuandu a side of her he remembered from her early days among the Human Race.
• Hongjun summoned the Three Pure Ones and separately invited Su Miao as the Nine Extremes Great Emperor to discuss an undisclosed important matter.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian worried about Hongjun's purpose, but Su Miao agreed to go with the Three Pure Ones despite her unease.
• After watching them depart, Xuandu sensed Su Miao feared the unknown and decided to ask her about Hongjun when she returned.

Su Miao attended Hongjun’s gathering at Purple Sky Palace, where the Saints learned he intended to rebuild the Heavenly Court and asked them to recommend a Heavenly Emperor. The chapter left the Saints weighing Hongjun’s demand as Su Miao’s Merit Golden Wheel revealed his wariness of her.

• The Three Pure Ones brought Su Miao to Purple Sky Palace and seated her between them, shielding her from Hongjun’s scrutiny.
• Su Miao’s Great Dao Merit Golden Wheel appeared, and Hongjun reacted with wariness while Tongtian openly approved.
• Hongjun announced that the Witch-Demon Calamity had ended and that he intended to rebuild the Heavenly Court to restore order.
• Laozi questioned why Hongjun asked the Saints to recommend a ruler after already deciding to rebuild the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun told the Saints to recommend a candidate for Heavenly Emperor, and the Three Pure Ones silently exchanged their thoughts.

The Saints debated candidates to rule the Heavenly Court, while Hongjun pressed Su Miao to name someone. Zhunti ended the chapter by proposing that Su Miao herself take charge.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian suggested Farm Teachings disciples Xuandu and Duobao, while Zhunti and Nuwa also voiced support for Farm Teachings candidates.
• Tongtian joked about recommending White Crane, and Yuanshi told him to be quiet.
• Hongjun asked each Saint to nominate a candidate, then asked Su Miao who could serve as Heavenly Emperor.
• Su Miao said her disciples were accustomed to freedom and unsuited to the responsibility, and Hongjun accepted her reasoning.
• Tongtian proposed that the Saints return and consider the matter, but Hongjun insisted the Heavenly Court needed a ruler.
• Zhunti suggested that Su Miao take charge of the Heavenly Court.

Su Miao resisted being made Heavenly Emperor as Zhunti and the other Saints argued that she was the best candidate, while Hongjun weighed his options. As the debate continued in Purple Sky Palace, Su Miao announced that she had someone better in mind.

• Zhunti urged Hongjun to appoint Su Miao Heavenly Emperor, citing her status, support, and achievements, and Tongtian agreed.
• Su Miao tried to avoid taking sides, saying she stood with reason, while Hongjun judged her difficult to control.
• The Human Dao offered to appoint Su Miao directly, but she refused and said she was acting.
• Laozi offered to reside permanently in the Heavenly Court if Su Miao became its ruler, strengthening the Saints' support for her.
• Su Miao addressed Hongjun and the Saints and declared that she had a better candidate.

Su Miao declined the position of Heavenly Emperor and nominated Haotian and Yaochi, while insisting that Farm Teachings remain separate from the Heavenly Court. Hongjun accepted the nomination, and Zhunti was left facing Hongjun’s suggestion that he send disciples to help the new rulers.

• Su Miao nominated Haotian and Yaochi as Heavenly Emperor and Empress, explaining that Farm Teachings would not interfere in the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun questioned whether Haotian might become estranged from Farm Teachings, and Su Miao stated that the two institutions would keep to their own affairs.
• Hongjun accepted Su Miao’s proposal, while Nuwa and Zhunti recognized that she had yielded the throne without sacrificing Farm Teachings’ independence.
• Zhunti questioned whether Haotian and Yaochi could rebuild the Heavenly Court, and Su Miao replied that Hongjun would guide them.
• Hongjun told Zhunti he could send disciples to assist Haotian and Yaochi, leaving Zhunti dismayed over his newly accepted disciples.

Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi as the Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress, empowering them to rule the Prehistoric World. They reached the ruined Heavenly Court and began planning how to rebuild it with the resources Haotian had saved.

• Su Miao recommended Haotian and Yaochi to lead the Heavenly Court, while Yuanshi and Nuwa voiced their objections for different reasons.
• Hongjun summoned Haotian and Yaochi, named them Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress, and raised their cultivation to the Quasi-Saint level.
• Hongjun ordered the pair to restore the ruined Heavenly Court, and they left Purple Sky Palace for the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Haotian and Yaochi found the Heavenly Court stripped and shattered, with the South Heaven Gate the only relatively intact structure.
• Haotian decided they would rebuild, began listing repairs and materials, and took out his saved treasures to fund the work.

Haotian and Yaochi spent nearly ten thousand years rebuilding the ruined Heavenly Court with resources from Hongjun and materials they gathered themselves. Meanwhile, Su Miao showed the Three Pure Ones an image of Xuandu’s joke in the Secret Treasury, and Xuandu decided to make Bai Ze work harder for recording it.

• Haotian pleaded with Hongjun for help rebuilding the Heavenly Court, and Hongjun gave him coordinates to a resource-filled Grotto-Heaven.
• Haotian and Yaochi prioritized Lingxiao Palace and the South Heaven Gate, and Haotian learned artifact refining so he could make the needed supplies himself.
• After Hongjun provided a second, limited batch of resources, Haotian and Yaochi gathered materials across the Prehistoric World and rebuilt the Heavenly Court piece by piece.
• Yaochi harvested spirit plants from the Imperial Garden and Medicine Garden, keeping some for alchemy and selling the rest to buy supplies.
• Su Miao showed the Three Pure Ones an Image Stone of Xuan’s message, “Bankrupt, do not worry. —Xuan of Farm Teachings.”
• Xuandu realized Bai Ze had recorded the message and resolved to give his junior brother more work.

Xuandu regretted carving “bankrupt” into the Heavenly Court and taking its floor tiles, while the Three Pure Ones discussed Haotian’s difficult rebuilding efforts. Haotian sent recruitment notices throughout the Prehistoric World, but after waiting decades, only Demon Clan members burdened with heavy Karmic Debt came, leaving him to refuse them and face an empty Heavenly Court.

• Xuandu admitted that he had written “bankrupt” in the Heavenly Court’s secret chamber and helped take its floor tiles, and Tongtian, Laozi, and Yuanshi teased and cautioned him.
• Su Miao and Laozi discussed Haotian’s hardship rebuilding the Heavenly Court, and Yuanshi warned Xuandu not to cause trouble for Haotian or the Dao Ancestor again.
• Yaochi gave Haotian a Recruitment Notice, and Haotian sent copies throughout the Prehistoric World to attract capable recruits.
• After decades without applicants, Haotian rewrote the notice with better benefits and waited another hundred years, when a few Demon Clan members finally arrived.
• Haotian refused the applicants because their heavy Karmic Debt would damage the Heavenly Court’s reputation, and they left cursing him.

Haotian struggled to recruit suitable officials for the Heavenly Court as rogue cultivators favored Farm Teachings and the applicants had heavy karmic debts. After five hundred more years without a single recruit, Haotian left for Purple Sky Palace to ask the Dao Ancestor what to do.

• Haotian overheard rogue cultivators dismiss the Heavenly Court in favor of Farm Teachings and watched them leave, feeling defeated.
• Haotian rejected more than thirty applicants with criminal pasts and heavy karmic debts, while Yaochi comforted him and offered to borrow Farm Teachings Disciples.
• A wolf demon whom Haotian had rejected three hundred years earlier sought refuge from a Human Race Demon Hunting Squad, and Haotian refused to hand him over or let the squad fight inside the Heavenly Court.
• The Demon Hunting Squad left after warning Haotian, while he turned away from the frightened wolf demon without responding.
• After another five hundred years with no recruits, Haotian told Yaochi he would ask the Dao Ancestor for guidance and set out for Purple Sky Palace.

Haotian visited Hongjun to complain that no one would join the newly established Heavenly Court. Hongjun gave him the Investiture of the Gods List and God-Beating Whip, leaving Haotian hopeful that the coming Tribulation would provide subjects for his court.

• Haotian told Hongjun that the Heavenly Court’s recruitment had attracted only evildoers and criminals, and vowed not to retreat from his position as Heavenly Emperor.
• Hongjun gave Haotian the Investiture of the Gods List, which could appoint 365 righteous gods from those who died in the Tribulation, and the God-Beating Whip, which could control them.
• Haotian asked where the people for the list would come from, and Hongjun said he would discuss the next Tribulation with the Saints and told Haotian to wait.
• Hongjun warned Haotian not to appoint gods recklessly, and Haotian left the Purple Sky Palace resolved to await the calamity.

Haotian announced that the Heavenly Court was recruiting Orthodox Gods through the Investiture of the Gods List, while beings across the Prehistoric World reacted with suspicion or indifference. Su Miao kept Farm Teachings apart from the affair, the Human Race barred its cultivators from joining, and Hongjun waited for the Tribulation to begin.

• Haotian unfurled the Investiture of the Gods List and proclaimed that anyone willing to serve the Heavenly Court could be invested as a god.
• Rogue cultivators and demons across the Prehistoric World dismissed the offer or feared becoming cannon fodder, while Yuanshi and Laozi recognized the list as a shackle tied to the coming calamity.
• Su Miao told Xuandu that Farm Teachings would tend its fields and waters, and she advised him that strength and unity were their best preparations.
• Iron Abacus wondered whether he could become the God of Wealth, but Granny Yan's question made him reaffirm that he would not leave Farm Teachings.
• Suiren Clan ordered Human Race cultivators not to join the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun sensed that the list had taken effect and declared that the chess pieces had fallen as he awaited the rise of the Tribulation.

During the peaceful years after the Witch-Demon Calamity, Su Miao enjoyed traveling between Kunlun, the Farm Teachings, and the Netherworld Underworld while struggling to stay awake during her masters’ lessons. After fleeing Yuanshi’s lecture when Tongtian teased her, she dozed through Laozi’s teaching and learned that he had prepared bitter tea and a Sugar Bean to keep her alert.

• Su Miao began nodding off during Yuanshi’s lesson on the Way of Order, and Yuanshi tapped her forehead to wake her.
• Su Miao tried to justify her nap as an example of Order within disorder, but Yuanshi called it asking for a beating.
• Tongtian teased Su Miao about reaching Peak Quasi-Saint and provoked Yuanshi, so Su Miao fled to Supreme Purity Peak.
• Su Miao listened to Laozi teach the Way of Pure Non-Action while snacking on spiritual melon seeds, then began to fall asleep.
• Laozi gave Su Miao bitter tea to awaken her mind, then handed her a Sugar Bean to sweeten the taste.

Su Miao trained with the Three Pure Ones, strengthening her foundation while choosing to delay opening heaven despite the temptation. When she tried to escape Yuanshi’s thirty-thousand-word assignment by turning into a child and pleading, he gave her an even thicker stack of beginner coursework instead.

• Su Miao visited Tongtian, who taught her to comprehend the intertwined Sword Intents of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird.
• Su Miao reflected that Yuanshi, Laozi, and Tongtian each taught her in a different way as her Law comprehension and cultivation foundation steadily improved.
• Su Miao demonstrated her perfected Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique by shattering the void with one punch, earning the Three Pure Ones’ approval.
• Su Miao suppressed her growing urge to open heaven, trusting her intuition that she should wait longer.
• Yuanshi assigned Su Miao a thirty-thousand-word essay, so she turned into a child and tried to wheedle her way out of it.
• Yuanshi refused to relent and handed Su Miao a stack of beginner coursework three times thicker than the essay.

Su Miao finished an assignment Yuanshi had given her and shared affectionate moments with him and Tongtian before deciding to return to Farm Teachings. Yuanshi let her travel alone, and she arrived in Holy City, where familiar street scents welcomed her back.

• Yuanshi assigned Su Miao a lengthy lesson on rules, then let her write it beside him and corrected her work.
• Su Miao finished the assignment and kissed Yuanshi on the cheek, making him blush; Tongtian asked for a kiss too, and Laozi gave Su Miao digestive pills.
• Su Miao decided to return to Farm Teachings for a few days, but Yuanshi stopped Tongtian from accompanying her and helped straighten her clothes and hairpin before she left.
• Su Miao arrived in Holy City, greeted the wonton seller, and savored the familiar scents of the bustling streets.

Su Miao disguised herself as a male Farm Teachings Personal Disciple and strolled through the bustling Holy City Marketplace, where she saw cultivators from many races living alongside one another. After startling a Tiger Demon in a candied-fruit queue and sharing a laugh with the crowd, she continued exploring and stopped at a musical instrument shop when she heard a sound from inside.

• Su Miao admired the Holy City's prosperous, high-tech streets and noted that cultivators from many races had gathered there.
• Su Miao disguised herself as a handsome young male Personal Disciple and suppressed her cultivation to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• A Tiger Demon saw Su Miao's Jade Tablet in the candied-fruit queue, mistook her for someone frightening, and nervously stepped aside when she told him not to cut in line.
• A Human Race auntie teased the Tiger Demon, gave him braised meat, and made the queue laugh; Su Miao joined in, and the Tiger Demon enjoyed the food.
• Su Miao bought candied fruit, accepted a jar of Spirit Date Candied Fruit from the shop owner, and continued wandering.
• Su Miao stopped at a musical instrument shop after hearing an unusual sound from inside.

Su Miao explored Holy City, seeing Human and Demon Clan Cultivators living and working together, then ate at a noodle stall where the owner nearly recognized her as the Sect Master. She overheard Farm Teachings Disciples saying they missed her and left without revealing herself.

• Su Miao fled past a Human Disciple whose terrible flute playing drove a Rabbit Demon shop owner to offer him a refund.
• Su Miao saw Human Race Cultivators acting confidently, Demon Clan Cultivators studying Human etiquette, and vendors selling imitations of her hairpins.
• Su Miao followed the scent of bone broth to a noodle stall and enjoyed a bowl of noodles.
• The noodle stall owner thought Su Miao resembled the Saint Master and gave her an extra fried egg, while Su Miao concealed her identity.
• Su Miao overheard Farm Teachings Disciples say they missed the Sect Master, then finished her meal and asked the owner for the bill.