Chapter Summaries

Shennong overcame a frail childhood, studied medicine, and traveled across the Earth Immortal Realm tasting and recording herbs so he could save others. As his knowledge and reputation grew, he also taught Agriculture, helping his city prosper and ending hunger.

• Shennong survived repeated childhood illnesses and became determined to find cures after witnessing his uncle die without one.
• An old physician cured Shennong’s rash, took him as an apprentice, and taught him medicine for three years before giving him the Red Whip on his deathbed.
• Shennong traveled the Earth Immortal Realm, using the Red Whip to identify herbs and tasting them himself while recording their effects and dangers.
• Shennong survived poisonings and dangerous reactions from herbs, including uncontrollable laughter and hallucinations, and continued his research despite his clan’s pleas to stop.
• Shennong heard of Taihao’s achievements and admired him, then taught his own clan improved farming methods that increased grain yields and ended hunger in the city.

Shennong completed the Shennong Materia Medica after decades of testing herbs and passed it to his successor before his soul left the Earth Immortal Realm. The people built temples in his honor, while Su Miao and Zhunti watched his deeds on a water screen.

• Shennong finished recording three hundred and sixty-five herbs and prescriptions, then received the Golden Light of Merit as his red whip became his life-bound Dharma Treasure.
• Shennong entrusted his herbal knowledge to his successor and urged the clan members to preserve it for future generations.
• Shennong's soul left his body and returned to its rightful place beyond the Earth Immortal Realm.
• The Human Race built temples for Shennong, honoring his work in medicine and agriculture.
• Zhunti praised Shennong's perseverance, and Su Miao said the Human Race remembered those who treated them well.

Yan Hao grew up as the son of Xuanyuan City's leader, but the Wolf Tribe attacked and destroyed the city when he was ten. After his father and mother died, he took the name Xuanyuan and swore to remember his roots and keep moving forward.

• Yan Hao grew up strong and ambitious under the care of Yan Chang and Fu Bao.
• The Wolf Tribe attacked during a bonfire celebration, and Yan Chang led the city's men to fight the wolf demon.
• Fu Bao carried Yan Hao south while Yan Chang and the defenders were killed, and the wolf demon's pack burned and slaughtered Xuanyuan City.
• Fu Bao led the survivors to a southern mountain, but an infected arrow wound left her dying.
• Fu Bao gave Yan Hao Yan Chang's Jade Pendant, renamed him Xuanyuan, and urged him to keep moving forward.
• Xuanyuan clutched the pendant and vowed to remember his parents, his ruined home, and his hatred of the wolf demon.

After years of building a refuge, training an army, and learning strategy, Xuanyuan led his people to face Iron Mane’s invading Black Wolf Army. The chapter ended as Iron Mane confronted Xuanyuan’s circular formation on the chosen battlefield.

• Xuanyuan took his mother’s Jade Pendant, adopted the name Xuanyuan, and led the survivors into the mountains to establish a farming settlement.
• In his third year in the mountains, Xuanyuan dreamed of a white-haired old man who taught him military strategy and War Arrays, then began training the camp’s people as soldiers.
• When Tie Niu refused to train, Xuanyuan entrusted him with his mother’s Jade Pendant and urged him to keep moving forward; Tie Niu returned to training that night.
• Xuanyuan trained an army of three thousand, found the Xuanyuan Sword in a cave, and spent five years fighting Demon Clan forces to gain battlefield experience.
• When Iron Mane’s Black Wolf Army moved south and survivors begged for help, Xuanyuan rejected retreat and prepared to fight on open ground using formations and ambushers.
• Iron Mane led three thousand wolf demons to the battlefield and mocked the Human Race formation as it faced them.

Xuanyuan defeated the Wolf Demons’ Iron Mane and later slew a Flood Dragon that besieged Xuanyuan City. His victories drew the northern Human Cities to him, and after unifying the north, he began creating shared systems, starting with standardized clothing and headwear.

• Xuanyuan led the Human Race warriors in formation against Iron Mane’s Wolf Demons and killed Iron Mane with the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Xuanyuan hung Iron Mane’s head at the camp entrance, and the Wolf Demons fled the area.
• A Flood Dragon and its Demon Beasts attacked Xuanyuan City, but Xuanyuan cut the Flood Dragon into pieces and ended the threat.
• Human Cities across the north submitted to Xuanyuan, who spent ten years unifying hundreds of cities.
• Xuanyuan began establishing a system for the unified Human Race and set out to standardize clothing and headwear.

Xuanyuan established distinctive robes, universal literacy, and written laws for the Human Race during his life in the Earth Immortal Realm, then returned to the Holy City. He learned Shennong had earned more Merit than he had and discovered that planting his Xuanyuan Sword in the floor had cost him Contribution Points.

• Xuanyuan designed black-and-yellow robes for the citizens of Xuanyuan City and revised them after a child said he looked like a peacock.
• Xuanyuan required every city to teach writing, and the Strong Man eagerly agreed to learn so he could write love letters to his wife.
• Xuanyuan and the city Elders established written laws, and Xuanyuan defended his authority by saying he could protect the Human Race.
• Xuanyuan visited his parents' graves, said he had avenged them, and promised to collect every blood debt owed to the Human Race.
• Xuanyuan's soul left the Earth Immortal Realm and returned to his body, where Guang Chengzi told him Shennong had earned more Merit by writing the Shennong Materia Medica.
• Xuanyuan learned damaging the quiet room's White Jade floor with his sword would cost Contribution Points.

Suiren Clan abdicated and entrusted the Human Race to Taihao, Shennong, and Xuanyuan as joint rulers, assigning each distinct responsibilities. As the Three Sovereigns began choosing aides, Xuanyuan and Shennong argued over Feng Hou, who chose to follow Taihao instead.

• Suiren Clan announced that Taihao, Shennong, and Xuanyuan would jointly govern the Human Race, then handed each of them a token of authority.
• Suiren Clan assigned Taihao to oversee rites, marriage, and enlightenment; Shennong to oversee agriculture, medicine, and livelihoods; and Xuanyuan to oversee war, laws, and the military.
• The hall approved a plan to train one hundred talented candidates in the Earth Immortal Realm before selecting aides for the Three Sovereigns.
• Xuanyuan and Shennong argued over recruiting Feng Hou, each citing his skills and claiming to have approached him first.
• When Taihao told Feng Hou to choose for himself, Feng Hou said he wanted to follow Taihao.

Feng Hou chose to serve Taihao because he preferred rites and music to fighting and poison testing, while Suiren Clan completed the handover to the Three Sovereigns. The new leadership took shape with Taihao, Shennong, and Xuanyuan governing the Human Race together under a rule that required all three to agree on major matters.

• Feng Hou explained why he had chosen Taihao, and Xuanyuan and Shennong conceded him to Taihao.
• Su Miao watched Suiren Clan hand the token to the Three Sovereigns and reflected on whether she, too, should step down.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, Haotian, the Three Pure Ones, and Nuwa sent congratulations or attended the handover ceremony.
• Suiren Clan and Xuan reunited after the ceremony and walked away together to share a drink.
• Taihao took charge of rites, music, and education; Shennong took charge of agriculture and medicine; and Xuanyuan took charge of warfare and defense.
• The Three Sovereigns established that major matters required the agreement of all three.

The Hundred-Person Trial ended with only five of the Human Race’s elite passing, while the rest failed after abandoning their missions or succumbing to temptation. Su Miao and the Three Sovereigns suspected a problem with the Earth Immortal Realm, and she brought the reports to Laozi to investigate.

• Youchao Clan announced the trial rules, and one hundred Human Race elites reincarnated in the Earth Immortal Realm to complete tasks during a mortal lifetime.
• After the hundred-year trial, only five contestants passed, and the other ninety-five returned as failures.
• Shennong discovered that Disciple had forgotten his mission, embezzled grain, and spent his life in luxury, so he ordered him to grow back one hundred times the stolen grain.
• Taihao, Shennong, and Xuanyuan questioned why so many tested Farm Teachings disciples had succumbed to temptation and sent their reports to Suiren Clan.
• Su Miao reviewed the reports, made anti-fraud training a required course, and went to Kunlun Mountain to tell Laozi that something was wrong.

Laozi revealed that Hongjun had seeded the Earth Immortal Realm with demonic nature, intensifying mortals’ desires and making the Human Race’s trials far more difficult. Su Miao arranged to seal the realm and began planning to turn its dangers into character training, while Hongjun remained confident that the Tribulation could not be stopped.

• Laozi traced the Earth Immortal Realm’s Laws to the Purple Sky Palace and explained that Hongjun’s demonic influence made Inner Demons more likely and had contributed to the Hundred-Person Trial’s poor results.
• Su Miao realized the realm’s overwhelming desires could make it a real-world test of character, and Laozi approved her idea.
• Su Miao told the Suiren Clan and the Three Sovereigns about Hongjun’s scheme and proposed sealing the Earth Immortal Realm, restricting travel between it and the Prehistoric World.
• The Suiren Clan and the Three Sovereigns approved the seal, and Su Miao urged them to train the five Disciples who had completed the mission.
• Hongjun sensed the reinforced barrier around the Earth Immortal Realm but believed the Tribulation’s gears had already begun turning and could not be stopped.

Su Miao turned Hongjun’s scheme to trap the Human Race in desire into a training opportunity, arranging for Farm Teachings Disciples to enter the Earth Immortal Realm under strict conditions. After the Human Race sealed the realm, Su Miao left to handle sect affairs while Zhunti and Jieyin wondered how she kept going.

• Suiren Clan and the other Quasi-Saints sealed the Earth Immortal Realm, hiding Dongsheng Divine Continent from the Prehistoric Continent.
• Xuanyuan asked how he could train in the sealed realm, and Su Miao told him to reincarnate; he chose to go fight wars instead.
• Suiren Clan, Taihao, Xuanyuan, and Shennong agreed to let Farm Teachings Disciples train in the Earth Immortal Realm through reincarnation or Divine Descent, with sealed memories and suppressed cultivation.
• Su Miao and Suiren Clan set a one-thousand-Contribution-Point admission fee, split the proceeds equally, and limited outsiders to one hundred places a year.
• Farm Teachings Disciples flooded the Mission Hall with applications, while Rogue Cultivators sought entry quotas to temper their hearts.
• Zhunti and Jieyin praised Su Miao for turning Hongjun’s scheme into an opportunity, then watched her return to the Yaoguang Realm as they wondered whether she ever got tired.

After the Three Sovereigns took their positions, Taihao, Shennong, and Xuanyuan began reforms to organize time, strengthen food and medical care, and secure the Human Race’s borders. Xuanyuan encountered an Ox Tribe seeking to submit, but remained wary of their intentions.

• The Suiren Clan handed the Human Emperor Seal to Taihao, Shennong, and Xuanyuan, then withdrew from daily governance while retaining supervisory authority.
• Taihao established a calendar that gave the Human Race a unified system for tracking days, months, seasons, and festivals.
• Shennong distributed high-yield crop seeds, established medical clinics and a materia medica, and introduced policies to stabilize population growth.
• Xuanyuan spent a thousand years fortifying the borders with formations and watchtowers, reducing Demon Clan raids by ninety percent.
• An Ox Tribe of more than ten thousand people arrived at Xuanyuan’s camp and offered to submit, but Xuanyuan remained suspicious.

Xuanyuan accepted the Ox Tribe’s surrender and helped establish legal protections for Demon Clan members who obeyed Human Race laws. Over the following centuries, the Three Sovereigns’ rule united the Human Race and ushered in a prosperous age, leaving Holy City as the center of a vast, advanced civilization.

• Xuanyuan accepted the Ox Tribe’s surrender under strict laws and agreed that the tribe would raise livestock for the Human Race.
• The Three Sovereigns added legal protections for law-abiding sentient Demon Clan members to Human Race law, despite controversy.
• Trade spread among Human cities, and over a thousand years Xuanyuan expanded the Human Race’s territory and connected its cities with Teleportation Arrays.
• The Sages stepped back from practical rule as the Three Sovereigns, Elders, and city lords formed a functioning administrative system.
• Holy City grew into a vast, technologically advanced center filled with shops, spirit artifacts, spirit boats, and flying cars.

Hongjun secretly manipulated the Heavenly Dao Authority while plotting to seize the resources of both the Prehistoric World and Su Miao’s future world. He sent gray mist through the barrier into the Earth Immortal Realm and arranged a contingency for the coming great calamity.

• Hongjun concealed his secret activity from the Earthly Dao Will by pretending to meditate.
• Hongjun reflected on the Human Race’s growing strength and decided to pursue his plan through Su Miao and the Chaos Bead.
• Hongjun plotted to intervene when Su Miao opened the heavens and connected the Hongmeng World to the Prehistoric World.
• Hongjun sent gray aura through the Earth Immortal Realm’s barrier, slipping past its defenses.
• Hongjun used his half of the Heavenly Dao Authority to arrange a contingency for the great calamity, then returned to meditation.

After a thousand years of retirement, Suiren Clan returned to Farm Teachings as the Scripture Hall’s Chief Officer and began teaching a course on Human History. His practical lessons spread the Human Race’s approach to governance among young Disciples of many races, leaving old clan hierarchies increasingly questioned.

• Restless in retirement, Suiren Clan took Youchao Clan’s advice and went to Farm Teachings to end his leave and seek a position at the Scripture Hall.
• Iron Abacus arranged for Suiren Clan to take an Inner Sect promotion assessment, and Xuandu brought him a Nine-Turn Golden Core and study materials.
• After Suiren Clan passed the assessment, Su Miao appointed him to teach a new elective called Human History, based on his experiences leading the Human Race.
• Suiren Clan taught practical lessons on governance, warfare, and maintaining people’s trust, prompting Kong Xuan and Yellow Dragon to consider how those lessons applied to their own races.
• Disciples from many races enrolled, and Suiren Clan’s teachings spread across the Prehistoric World as younger members questioned their clans’ bloodline hierarchies and established authority.

Linsheng rejected the Qilin Clan Elder’s demand that he return to the Qilin Clan, recounting how the clan had mistreated him after his father died. Su Miao defended his choice to remain in Farm Teachings, and Linsheng left with Bai Yan for the Dining Hall.

• The Qilin Clan Elder tried to persuade Linsheng to return by invoking his family, status, and duty to the clan.
• Linsheng confronted the elder over years of neglect and abuse, then declared that he was a Farm Teachings Disciple and had nothing more to do with the Qilin Clan.
• Linsheng knelt before Su Miao and said he did not want to return; she helped him up and affirmed that Farm Teachings was his home.
• Su Miao told the Qilin Clan Elder that no one could take Linsheng without his consent, and the elder left with his clan members.
• Su Miao comforted Linsheng and sent him back to class; later, Bai Yan gave him a handkerchief and invited him to eat grilled fish.

Ling Zhuzi traveled through the Prehistoric World, collecting seafood and learning about volcanic farming before encountering a man whose extraordinary luck seemed undeserved. After handing the man over to a Human Race martial brother, Ling Zhuzi set out to investigate the source of that luck.

• Ling Zhuzi traveled to the East Sea, caught seafood, and stayed for half a month to gather ingredients and pearls.
• Ling Zhuzi visited the volcanic region of Nanzhan Buzhou, learned about improving soil with volcanic ash, and visited the Immortal Volcano Branch Sect.
• Ling Zhuzi wandered the Prehistoric World for several years, avoiding trouble with his forceful temperament.
• Ling Zhuzi heard about a woodcutter who had gained a divine sword and improbable good fortune, then secretly followed him.
• Ling Zhuzi discovered that the man used his luck and cultivation to bully others and steal their resources, so he subdued him and handed him to a Human Race martial brother with evidence of his crimes.
• Ling Zhuzi suspected the man's luck had been borrowed and left to investigate its source.

Ling Zhuzi discovered that Hongjun had secretly empowered numerous ill-intentioned people with extraordinary luck, and Su Miao sought the Human Dao’s help to expose them. The Human Dao agreed to disrupt the exposed Chess Pieces’ luck and share its authority with Yuanshi, while the hidden ones remained a threat.

• Ling Zhuzi investigated people with unusually good luck and poor character, traced their fortune to the same hidden force, and contacted Xuanyuan before deciding to consult Nuwa.
• Nuwa and Fuxi realized Hongjun had planted many Chess Pieces across the Prehistoric World, and Nuwa informed Su Miao.
• Su Miao decided to call on the Human Dao to disrupt the Heavenly Secrets that sustained the Chess Pieces’ luck.
• The Human Dao agreed to interfere with the exposed Chess Pieces but warned that hidden ones would become harder to find and that it was already overworked.
• Su Miao persuaded the Human Dao to share its authority with Yuanshi, then tore through space to Kunlun.

Su Miao asked Yuanshi to take control of the Heavenly Dao authority, and he used it to punish the favored children of fate who had abused their luck. Inside the Chaos Bead, Su Miao felt an ominous warning against opening the heavens, so she explored its thriving world and decided to seek Yuanshi's counsel.

• Su Miao told Yuanshi about the situation, and he accepted the Human Dao's offer of Heavenly Dao authority.
• Yuanshi restored order through the authority and stripped the favored children of fate of their luck, causing their fortunes to collapse across the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Ling Zhuzi watched a captured chosen one being escorted away and lamented that the fallen cultivators had ruined their own Dao Paths.
• Su Miao examined the Chaos Bead's expanding inner world and nearly began opening the heavens before her sixth sense warned her to stop.
• The Chaos Bead showed Su Miao its flourishing treasures and plants, easing her unease, and she decided to go complain to Master.

Su Miao fled to Jade Purity Peak after her intuition warned her not to perform Heaven Opening, despite her restored Chaos Bead and strong odds of success. Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Laozi comforted her and found no discernible flaw, leaving the source of her unease unresolved.

• Su Miao rushed to Yuanshi in her child form, clung to him, and told him she had nearly died.
• Su Miao explained that the Chaos Bead was fully repaired and the Three Thousand Laws were nearly complete, but her intuition warned her against performing Heaven Opening.
• Yuanshi reassured Su Miao that her Masters would protect her, while Tongtian promised to find and punish whoever had harmed her.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian examined Su Miao’s body, soul, Chaos Bead, and Laws but found no corruption or abnormality.
• Laozi told Su Miao that fear could keep her from acting recklessly, and Tongtian wondered whether her unease was intuition or overthinking.
• Su Miao asked where her problem was, but her Masters still had no answer.