Chapter Summaries

Wu Xuantian climbed the Dao Mountains, challenged Pangu, and continued cultivating as Chaos changed around him. He accompanied the World Tree to her hidden domain and discovered her followers were already choosing a replacement leader.

• Wu Xuantian climbed the Dao Mountains with Pangu and Huang, claimed second place on the Dao Ranking, and left to absorb the Great Dao's reward.
• After the Dao Mountains opened again, Wu Xuantian fought Pangu, wounded him, and withdrew after seeing the gap between their strength.
• Wu Xuantian mastered more Great Dao laws, strengthened his Martial Dao Seal with merit, and agreed to help the World Tree find her followers.
• Wu Xuantian and the World Tree reached her concealed domain, where she introduced him to the Star Tree, starlight grass, Pup Demon Tree, and other plant gods and demons.
• Wu Xuantian and the World Tree secretly arrived as the Star Tree called a meeting to replace the missing World Tree as their leader.

World Tree returned just as Star Tree tried to take her place, and Wu Xuantian defeated the gods and demons attacking their stronghold. After witnessing Pangu open a new world and perish, Wu Xuantian entered the primordial world as its first age began and the Fierce Beasts rose.

• World Tree emerged from Wu Xuantian's shadow domain and stopped Star Tree from claiming leadership, then beat her and reclaimed her position.
• Thirty powerful gods and demons attacked the World Tree stronghold, and Wu Xuantian killed twenty-seven with one strike while the three strongest fled.
• Wu Xuantian continued cultivating through chaos, mastered the Three Thousand Great Daos, and learned that Pangu's Heaven-Opening had begun the Chaos Calamity.
• Pangu opened a primordial world and fought the demon gods who tried to stop him, then held heaven and earth apart and transformed his body into all things.
• Heaven-Opening merit formed several treasures and partly descended upon Wu Xuantian, who entered the new world as the age of chaos ended.
• Fierce Beasts, led by Shen Ni and the other four kings, arose from the baleful energy of the slain demon gods, and the chapter ended at Kunlun Divine Mountain.

Taixu survived his transformation tribulation, became Taiyi, and later lived among the Human Race as Suiren before splitting off a clone and founding the Martial Dao. As the Human Race grew and Taiqing established the Human Sect and became a Saint, Taixu refined his Martial Dao while the story left Taiqing looking toward a place in the human tribe.

• Taixu survived his golden tribulation, reached the early Golden Immortal stage, and later advanced to Taiyi while wandering the Primordial Universe.
• Nuwa created the Human Race, attained Sainthood through merit, and opened Wa Empress Palace in a newly created world in Chaos.
• Suiren discovered how to drill wood to make fire, and Youchao and Ziyi Shi helped lead the Human Race as its first Progenitors.
• Suiren created the Human Race's Martial Dao cultivation method, split off a clone to take the name Emperor Sui, and became Taixu, the Martial Ancestor.
• Taixu founded the Martial Academy and endured a hundred-year Heavenly Tribulation, while the Human Race developed its civilization and cultivation.
• Taiqing established the Human Sect and attained Sainthood after expounding the Golden Elixir Dao, then looked toward a place in the Human Race tribe.

The Witch Race withdrew after Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s wager, and Taixu later secured an alliance between the Human Race and Houtu’s tribe. Styx created the Asura race and established the Asura Cult without becoming a Saint, while Hong Yun’s death and the struggle over his relics left Zhen Yuanzi hostile toward Styx.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun stopped the Pangu True Body with one strike and declared that the Demon Race would govern the heavens while the Witch Race governed the earth for one hundred Yuanhui.
• Taixu moved the surviving Human Race to a new ancestral land, later persuaded Houtu to ally with them, and returned with Hou Yi and a Witch army.
• Styx created the Asura race and founded the Asura Cult, gaining merit and reaching Quasi-Saint Perfection but failing to become a Saint.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun ambushed Hong Yun for his Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Hong Yun died after self-detonating while Zhen Yuanzi tried to protect him.
• Styx took Hong Yun’s gourd but found no Hongmeng Purple Qi inside, then fought Zhen Yuanzi over Hong Yun’s belongings and drove him away wounded.
• Taixu retrieved the Hongmeng Purple Qi from the Void and began examining it.

The Human Race repelled the Demon Race’s assault at Mount Shouyang after Taixu revealed overwhelming power, though Nuwa intervened to save Dijun. Ten thousand years later, Houtu resolved to create reincarnation for the wandering dead and began transforming herself in the Blood Sea, while Taixu watched.

• The Human Race’s warriors declared war on the Demon Race and fought back fiercely when Dijun and Taiyi led an army against Mount Shouyang.
• Human Ancestors and dozens of Da Luo-level martial artists emerged from the Ancestors’ Hall, then Taixu defeated Dijun and overpowered Taiyi’s forces.
• Nuwa stopped Taixu from killing Dijun, and Taixu rebuked her before raiding five Witch Ancestral Witch Halls and defeating the Ancestral Witches who confronted him.
• Ten thousand years later, Houtu left her tribe, gained insight into the wandering dead, and reached the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Taixu gave Houtu Pangu’s Primordial Spirit fragment and Hongmeng Purple Qi, then accompanied her to the Blood Sea to establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation with Minghe’s help.
• Houtu vowed to transform herself into reincarnation, prompting beings across the world to bow as she began to be drawn toward the Netherworld Realm.

Taixu defeated Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and the Witch-Demon war devastated Hong Huang before the Saints restored the land and Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to rule the new Heavenly Court. The Human Race spread across Hong Huang, and the chapter ended with Holy Mother Guiling preparing to take the newborn Feng Clan Fuxi as her disciple.

• Taixu suppressed and sealed Eastern Emperor Taiyi, while Dijun and countless surviving demons and witches destroyed themselves, devastating Hong Huang and forcing Taixu to protect the Human Race.
• The Saints restored Hong Huang, assigned the surviving witches and demons to the Northern Lands or their chosen patrons, and Taixu reclaimed Dijun's Witch-Slaying Sword.
• Hongjun declared that the Human Race would take center stage and appointed Haotian and Yaochi as rulers of the reestablished Heavenly Court, granting them treasures and a magnificent palace complex.
• Taixu urged the Human Race to spread across Hong Huang, honor its fallen warriors, and eventually establish the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Huaxu entered Leize, encountered a glowing jade qin, and became pregnant; after her tribe expelled her, a Qilin brought her food until she gave birth to Feng Clan Fuxi.
• Tongtian instructed Holy Mother Guiling to find the coming Human Emperor, and Guiling arrived at Huaxu's hut as Fuxi was born and asked to take him as her disciple.

Houtu established Samsara, attained Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal, and became Empress Pingxin, while Taixu later watched the Human Race grow in strength. After the ten Golden Crows burned Kuafu’s tribe and killed Kuafu, Hou Yi slew nine of them, triggering a war among the Witch, Demon, and Human Races that remained unresolved as the Pangu True Body raised its axe.

• Houtu established Samsara, broke through to Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal, and declared that she was Empress Pingxin, who would guard the Netherworld.
• Over several thousand yuanhui, Taixu watched the Human Race expand and develop its martial practitioners as the Witch and Demon Races prepared for a tense peace.
• The ten Golden Crows burned Kuafu’s tribe, and Kuafu pursued them until he died; Hou Yi then killed nine Golden Crows before Dijun arrived and wounded him.
• Hou Yi broke through to the Ancestral Witch realm, and the arriving Ancestral Witches confronted Dijun as the Demon Race demanded his surrender.
• Taixu arrived with the Human Race, and the Witch, Demon, and Human Races began an all-out war; Dijun and Dijiang raised their formations while Taixu fought them.
• The Pangu True Body fought the Stellar True Body amid the battlefield’s devastation, then gathered baleful energy and swung its Pangu Axe.

Taixu and Fuxi reached Hunyuan and strengthened the Human Race, while Fuxi passed leadership to Shennong before returning to Heavens City. As the Investiture of the Gods tribulation approached, King Zhou became infatuated with Nuwa after a hidden Daoist influenced him, and Fei Zhong began advising him on how to obtain beautiful women.

• Taixu broke through to Hunyuan, subdued his Heavenly Tribulation with the Martial Tower, and recovered memories of his original self.
• Shennong cultivated the five grains and taught farming to the Human Race, easing food shortages and earning Fuxi's respect.
• Fuxi passed the position of Co-Lord to Shennong, then proved his Dao as Human Emperor and broke through to the supreme emperor realm.
• Taixu and Fuxi visited Heavens City before returning to the Ancestral Land, while the Three Sovereigns took their places and the Human Race continued to prosper.
• Hongjun announced the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, gave the Saints the Investiture of the Gods and God-Striking Whip, and left them to decide whose disciples would be listed.
• After King Zhou wrote a lustful poem about Nuwa, Nuwa sent the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb and Lingzhuzi into the Lower Realm, while Fei Zhong advised King Zhou on obtaining beauties.

Taixu refined the Little Pagoda, uncovered the Dao character at its core, and later witnessed Buddhism’s founding amid the Spring and Autumn upheaval. The Great Dao Gate then appeared in chaos, where Wu Xuantian completed his transformation toward the Hongmeng source as the gate began to open.

• Taixu refined the Little Pagoda’s Primordial Universe, destroyed the strand of will left by the Xuankong Heavenly Lord, and revealed the Dao character at the Tower Pearl’s core.
• Jieyin and Zhunti sent their corpses into the Human Realm as disorder spread, while Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree and became Shakyamuni Buddha.
• Jieyin and Zhunti established Mahayana Buddhism, but the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito devoured the Twelfth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus until it fell to the Ninth Grade before Zhunti captured it.
• The Great Dao Gate appeared in chaos, drawing Taixu, Wu Xuantian, and powerful beings from many worlds to gather beneath it and comprehend the Dao.
• After hundreds of thousands of years, the Great Dao Gate opened a vast passage, and Wu Xuantian completed the transformation of his Martial Character Great Dao into the source of Hongmeng.

Wu Xuantian collected ancient Dao characters and learned the path to Dao integration, while Taixu and other powers helped Hong Huang prepare for wars among worlds. Hong Huang absorbed the Great Thousand World led by Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen, and after ages of expansion Taixu stood on Mount Shouyang facing an unknown distance.

• Wu Xuantian refined the origin of the Flame Sea and gathered ancient characters from many worlds, then realized Dao integration meant joining the body with the Dao and returning many Daos to one.
• Taixu escaped the closing Great Dao Gate with the Five-Elements True Liquid and Great Dao Lotus, later reaching Dao Integration Hongmeng through the Five Elements Great Dao as Hongjun, Luohou, and Fuxi did as well.
• Hongjun and Luohou organized Chaos battlefields, and the Original Ancestor created a Virtual Universe that earned Great Dao merit and brought him to the Hongmeng level.
• Hong Huang's forces entered the Great Thousand World, overcame its defenders' attacks, and persuaded Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen to join their world with Hong Huang.
• Hong Huang absorbed the Great Thousand World, strengthening its Heavenly Dao and allowing Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen to break through to Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals.
• After tens of thousands of yuanhui and the rise of the Ten Realms of Chaos, Taixu stood silently atop Mount Shouyang and gazed into the distance.

Taixu led Hong Huang’s forces to war against the Eternal Xuanhuang Realm and the Ancient Heaven Realm, defeating their strongest rulers and claiming a mysterious light character. After countless ages of cultivation, Wu Xuantian severed a thread binding him to the Martial Character, setting Hong Huang and the void on a path toward eternal transcendence.

• Hongjun ordered Hong Huang to prepare for war and preached the Dao for ten thousand years before mobilizing two-thirds of its elite forces against three rival worlds.
• Taixu, Xuanming, Xingtian, and other leaders divided their forces between the Eternal Xuanhuang Realm and the Ancient Heaven Realm.
• Taixu fought the Xuanhuang Heavenly Lord and Eternal God Venerable, survived the Great Dao tribulation, and killed both opponents while the Xuanhuang Great Seal shattered.
• Taixu returned to the battlefield and struck the Eternal allied forces as their world collapsed, while the Immemorial Heavenly Emperor was defeated and abandoned the Ancient Heaven Realm.
• Taixu refined the damaged orb into a character for light, restoring the Light Great Dao within the Kongtong Seal and increasing its power.
• After several hundred thousand Hunyuan immeasurable calamities, Wu Xuantian severed a thread binding him to the Martial Character, cast the severed Dao into Hong Huang, and watched the void transform into a boundless starry sky.

Gu Hui, a transmigrated Mount Hua disciple, examined the Evil-Warding Sword Art and adapted its speed techniques into his own swordsmanship. He left Fujian resolved to restore Mount Hua’s glory, with his Nurturing Self Sword Art nearing the level of a sect-defending art.

• A mysterious figure in white sealed a mirror-like object and sent it through the Fate River of spacetime.
• Gu Hui found the Evil-Warding Sword Art’s castration warning, destroyed that portion of the cassock, and altered the manual’s moves.
• Gu Hui recalled his past life, his rebirth at Mount Hua, and his gratitude toward Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze.
• Gu Hui resolved to strengthen Mount Hua and used the Evil-Warding Sword Art’s speed principles to advance his Nurturing Self Sword Art.
• Gu Hui returned the cassock to its place and vanished into the darkness.

Gu Hui visited Lin Zhennan at the Fuwei Escort Agency in Fuzhou after leaving Mount Hua to travel and gain experience. Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze worried about Gu Hui’s long absence, while the Lin family welcomed him and settled him in a guest room after a long night of drinking.

• Ning Zhongze worried that Gu Hui had been away from Mount Hua for three months without sending word, while Yue Buqun reassured her and considered Gu Hui’s potential as a future sect leader.
• A gatekeeper told Lin Zhennan that Mount Hua’s senior disciple had come to visit, and Lin Zhennan welcomed Gu Hui as an old friend who had once saved him.
• Gu Hui greeted Lin Zhennan, Madam Lin, and Lin Pingzhi, explaining that he had come to travel and gain experience after breaking through in his cultivation.
• Gu Hui and Lin Zhennan exchanged praise, while Madam Lin privately judged Gu Hui to be someone who should not be trusted casually.
• Gu Hui and Lin Zhennan drank and talked late into the night, and Madam Lin arranged for Gu Hui to stay in a guest room.

Gu Hui left the Lin Residence after offering Lin Pingzhi swordsmanship advice and promising the Mount Hua Sect would help the Lin family if trouble arose. After hearing that Zuo Lengchan planned to lead the Five Mountains against the Demonic Cult, Gu Hui traveled to a town below Black Wood Cliff to wait for Yue Buqun and his wife, where he remained frustrated by his stalled cultivation.

• Gu Hui woke sober after drinking with Lin Zhennan and realized that Lin Zhennan had understood his attempt to win the Fortune Prestige Escort Agency's support.
• Lin Zhennan and his wife watched as Gu Hui advised Lin Pingzhi on improving his swordsmanship and explained the stages of mastering a set of forms.
• Gu Hui offered the Lin family Mount Hua's help in a future crisis, then left Fuzhou despite Lin Zhennan's invitation to stay.
• While traveling south, Gu Hui helped people in need and gained a reputation as Mount Hua's eldest disciple.
• After learning Zuo Lengchan planned to lead the Five Mountains against the Demonic Cult, Gu Hui hurried to a town below Black Wood Cliff to wait for Yue Buqun and his wife.
• Gu Hui failed another attempt to break through his cultivation bottleneck, wandered to a lake under the moonlight, and was caught in a sudden drizzle.

After breaking through to the peak of martial arts, Gu Hui searched Black Wood Cliff for the Taiji Fist Sutra but escaped when he found the Sun Moon Divine Cult gathered there. Over the next three years, he built his reputation and Fortune Pavilion while searching old sect ruins for martial arts treasures, without finding what he sought.

• Gu Hui reached the peak of martial arts, practiced his techniques, and decided to search Black Wood Cliff for the Taiji Fist Sutra.
• Gu Hui infiltrated Black Wood Cliff during the Five Mountains’ siege, searched its Scripture Depository and Ren Woxing’s residence, then fled after seeing Dongfang and the Sun Moon Divine Cult.
• Gu Hui continued traveling for more than three years, killed skilled men sent to ambush him, and earned the title Sword Saint Hunyuan.
• Gu Hui secretly expanded Fortune Pavilion across the Five Mountains’ sphere of influence and used it to gather intelligence.
• Gu Hui searched the Tomb of the Living Dead, Bright Summit, and Kunlun Valley for martial arts secrets but found nothing.

Gu Hui found the Nine Yang Manual and medical texts near Kunlun Valley, then spent years improving his skills and building his reputation as the Great Medicine Immortal. After handing Fortune Pavilion and the manuals to Yue Buqun, he headed back to Mount Hua with Yue Lingshan, intending to train her.

• Gu Hui discovered six books hidden beneath an old marker, including the Nine Yang Manual, Medical Classic, and Poison Classic.
• He mastered the first three volumes of the Nine Yang Manual, studied medicine, and later became known throughout the martial world as the Great Medicine Immortal.
• During his years traveling, Gu Hui learned of Dongfang Bubai's rise and completed his Nine Yang cultivation, opening six extraordinary meridians.
• Yue Buqun and his wife found Gu Hui, learned he had founded Fortune Pavilion, and took the manuals back to Mount Hua; Yue Buqun also passed the Zixia Divine Skill to him.
• Yue Lingshan stayed with Gu Hui as he traveled, and outside Luoyang City he decided to return to Mount Hua after eight years away.
• Gu Hui told Yue Lingshan to train seriously on the journey home, and she agreed to return and practice martial arts with him.

Gu Hui visited the Sword Sect elders on Zhongtiao Mountain and urged them to return to Mount Hua and set aside their feud with the Qi Sect. When Feng Buping refused, Gu Hui proposed a wager and defeated Feng Buping, Cheng Buyou, and Cong Buqi in a single move, leaving their decision unresolved.

• Gu Hui redirected his journey with Yue Lingshan to Zhongtiao Mountain to visit Feng Buping, Cheng Buyou, and Cong Buqi.
• Gu Hui urged the Sword Sect elders to return to Mount Hua, arguing that the conflict between sword and energy was a struggle for power and that the sect needed to unite.
• Feng Buping rejected Gu Hui's appeal and declared that the Sword Sect would eventually seize Mount Hua's leadership from Yue Buqun.
• Gu Hui proposed that the elders return to Mount Hua whether he won or lost, promising to persuade Yue Buqun to yield the sect leader position if he lost.
• Cong Buqi challenged Gu Hui, but Gu Hui invited all three elders to attack together and struck each with his sword hilt, immobilizing them in one move.

Gu Hui brought Feng Buping, Cheng Buyou, and Cong Buqi back to Mount Hua, where Yue Buqun and Feng Qingyang welcomed them. Feng Qingyang then challenged Gu Hui to a sparring match that ended with neither able to overcome the other.

• Gu Hui won his wager with Feng Buping, who agreed to return to Mount Hua with Cheng Buyou and Cong Buqi.
• After a month of travel, Gu Hui and the group reached Mount Hua, where Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze welcomed them.
• Feng Qingyang appeared, welcomed the returning disciples, and urged them to support Yue Buqun and avoid another internal conflict.
• Feng Qingyang challenged Gu Hui to spar, and they moved their fight to the lake beneath Cliff of Repentance.
• Gu Hui and Feng Qingyang exchanged techniques across the water, each restraining his cultivation, and neither gained the upper hand.

Gu Hui fought Feng Qingyang to a draw, then trained Mount Hua’s younger disciples so harshly that they nicknamed him Devilish Eldest Senior Brother. Yue Buqun decided to pass the Sect Leader position to Gu Hui, who accepted that the decision was final as preparations began for the succession in three months.

• Gu Hui and Feng Qingyang exchanged techniques until their match ended in a draw, and Feng Qingyang accused Gu Hui of holding back.
• Gu Hui promised to train Yue Lingshan, Feng Qing'er, Cong Yu, and the other younger disciples, then put them through a demanding practice session the next morning.
• Yue Buqun told Feng Buping, Feng Qingyang, and the other elders that he intended to pass the Sect Leader position to Gu Hui so Mount Hua could flourish without the old sword-and-qi divisions.
• Gu Hui objected to taking the position because he was young, but Yue Buqun set the succession for three months later and ordered Gu Hui to begin carrying out the Sect Leader’s duties immediately.

Gu Hui proposed restructuring Mount Hua into a system of pavilions and departments, with elders sharing authority and able to remove an unsatisfactory sect leader. He assigned the returning elders their roles and revealed the Nine Yang Manual, warning them of its dangerous cultivation requirements.

• Gu Hui proposed restoring the Sword Qi Soaring Pavilion, creating Mount Hua's Elders' Pavilion, Scripture Depository, Industry Pavilion, and Finance Department, and allowing elders to remove a sect leader if more than seventy percent opposed him.
• Feng Qingyang and the others recognized the scale of Gu Hui's plans, agreed to support him, and worried that Mount Hua lacked enough first-rate experts to staff the new positions.
• Gu Hui named Yue Buqun as master of the Elders' Pavilion, Feng Qingyang as master of the Industry Pavilion, Yue Buqun's wife as head of Finance, and Feng Qingyang as overseer of the Scripture Depository.
• Gu Hui clarified that the decentralization would not have been implemented during Yue Buqun's tenure, but said the elders' unanimous agreement had prompted him to enact it early.
• Gu Hui revealed that he had obtained the four-volume Nine Yang Manual and warned that reaching mastery was perilous and that exhausting one's inner strength before then could cause death.
• Yue Buqun handed the four booklets to Feng Qingyang, and the elders copied the manual before returning to their quarters.