Chapter Summaries

Fuxi gathered leaders from across the East Sea Shore at Mount Tai and declared himself Co-Lord of the Human Race, triggering a powerful imperial sign that drew the attention of Haotian, Dijun, Chu, and Nuwa. The chapter left Fuxi poised to attain his Dao as the Human Race welcomed its first emperor.

• Chu traded for Qilin, Phoenix, and Dragon precious bones, then developed Qilin Step, Phoenix Claw, and True Dragon Fist and distributed copies to several schools.
• After decades of growth, Fuxi summoned leaders from cities across the East Sea Shore to Mount Tai.
• Fuxi declared himself Co-Lord of the Human Race and vowed to unite his people and make them the leading race of Heaven and Earth.
• Imperial aura surged around Fuxi, and a golden beam formed a gigantic Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon.
• Haotian regarded Fuxi as a new emperor, while Dijun recognized why Fuxi had refused to join the Demon Race.
• Chu and the other Progenitors welcomed the Human Race's new emperor, while Nuwa watched happily, believing Fuxi was about to attain his Dao.

After becoming the Human Race’s Common Sovereign, Fuxi devised a simplified Eight Trigrams that ordinary people could use to predict fortune and misfortune. A century later, the Human Race had grown vastly stronger, and Fuxi’s adviser reported that an age of prosperity seemed to be beginning.

• Fuxi reflected on the hardships ordinary humans faced from natural disasters and the slow pace of their cultivation.
• Fuxi realized he could simplify the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams for ordinary people, and his breakthrough brought him into the Acupoint Realm.
• Fuxi borrowed the Earth Book from Zhen Yuanzi, studied the land, and developed a version of the Eight Trigrams that ordinary people could use.
• Fuxi ordered his Eight Trigrams taught in major cities, and his prestige rose as the Human Race’s strength surged over the following century.
• Several Da Luo Golden Immortals emerged among the Human Race, bringing its total to nearly fifty, while Chu remained its only Quasi-Sage.
• A middle-aged adviser told Fuxi that the Human Race had grown more than a thousandfold in strength and appeared to be entering an age of prosperity.

Fuxi received the Human Race's five elite guards and the Kongtong Seal, becoming its true Common Lord and emperor. After a thousand years of defending the Human Race and consolidating its strength, he realized his mission was complete and prepared to return to the ancestral land and find the next Common Lord.

• Fuxi went to Huaxu City's walls after learning that millions of powerful experts had surrounded the city.
• The Qinglong Guard, Zhuque Guard, White Tiger Guard, Black Tortoise Guard, and Qilin Guard bowed before Fuxi and pledged their service.
• The Kongtong Mirror's middle-aged form announced the progenitors' decree, appointing the five guards to Fuxi and granting him the Kongtong Seal.
• Fuxi received the seal, and the Human Race's golden dragon of fate grew to a hundred thousand zhang as the people recognized him as their emperor.
• Over the next thousand years, the five guards repelled invading races and protected the Human Race's territory.
• Fuxi realized his mission was complete and decided to return to the ancestral land, suppress the Human Race's fate, and seek a successor.

Fuxi gathered Human Race leaders to choose his successor and, after evaluating several candidates, selected Shennong as the next Common Sovereign. He announced that he would abdicate to Shennong at a Fengshan ceremony on Mount Tai one year later, and the Human Race accepted his decision.

• Fuxi summoned more than a thousand Human Race members and asked them to name candidates for the next Common Sovereign.
• The gathered leaders recommended Shennong, Chi You, and other candidates, whose accomplishments Fuxi considered.
• Fuxi summoned the candidates to assist him with Human Race affairs for several decades.
• Fuxi told Shennong that he was the most suitable successor and said he would yield the position to him at Mount Tai.
• Fuxi announced the succession ceremony to the Human Race, and Shennong's selection met with no significant objection.

Fuxi passed the Co-Lord position to Shennong at Mount Tai, and the Human Race’s merit elevated him to become a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal. The chapter ended with Fuxi breaking through the final barrier after receiving additional merit from the Human Ancestral Land.

• Fuxi prayed to the Human Progenitors, Nuwa, and Laozi at Mount Tai, and Youchao, Ziyi, Suiren, and Chu appeared.
• Nuwa and Laozi arrived, and both were astonished by Chu’s growing cultivation and aura.
• Fuxi announced that he had served as Co-Lord for thirteen thousand five hundred and thirty-two years and handed the Kongtong Seal to Shennong.
• Xuan Huang merit descended, raising Huaxu’s cultivation, rewarding the Human Race and Fuxi’s ministers, and empowering Fuxi.
• Fuxi absorbed the merit and rose to the half-step Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal level before further merit from the Human Ancestral Land carried him to the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal level.

After Fuxi returned as a Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal, Chu left Hong Huang for the Other Shore and spent twenty million years cultivating. After defeating the Dao Lord Hun Hen in battle, Chu entered seclusion and began breaking through the Dao Lord bottleneck.

• Fuxi broke through to Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal, while Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi reached Quasi-Saint after Chu gave them his merit.
• Chu sent Fuxi to guard the Human Ancestral Land, then left an incarnation behind and traveled to Transcendence City.
• Over twenty million years, Chu and the other former prodigies cultivated on the Other Shore, while those prodigies’ earlier travels helped advance Human civilization in Hong Huang.
• Chu fought Hun Hen, a Dao Lord elder of the Hun Clan, and grievously wounded him with the Third Form of the Emperor Sword Art, forcing him to flee.
• Chu entered seclusion in the Vast Mountain Range and, a hundred years later, began attacking the Dao Lord bottleneck in his Azure Dragon form.

Chu broke through to the Dao Lord realm on Golden Continent, drawing the attention of powerful factions across the Other Shore. As his fellow prodigies congratulated him, a colossal hand of killing intent descended to attack him.

• Cultivators and powerful figures across the Other Shore sensed the omens of a new Dao Lord, while Di Tian and Su Xia began watching over Chu’s breakthrough.
• Chaos Demon Gods in Dark Night discussed Chu’s growing threat and agreed that he should be killed.
• After three months of effort, Chu’s dragon body exploded and reformed with ten claws as he endured the eighty-one divine thunderbolts and entered the Dao Lord realm.
• Hai Wu Bian and the other prodigies congratulated Chu, who appeared in human form and thanked them.
• A colossal hand filled the sky and crashed toward Chu with overwhelming killing intent.

Xiao Shi, the Stone Ancestor, killed the Half-Step Heaven Realm Chaos Demon Gods who had attacked the Other Shore, while Su Xia and Di Tian recovered from their injuries. After traveling for over a hundred thousand years, Chu arrived at the Tomb of the Starry-Sky Supreme Sage as it opened.

• Xiao Shi appeared, defeated the Chaos Demon Gods, and refined their bodies and souls into essence that nourished the Other Shore and formed the Chaos Domain.
• Xiao Shi restored Su Xia and Di Tian, then declared that Dark Night's Half-Step Heaven Realm Chaos Demon Gods were dead and warned powerful factions against preying on the weak.
• Chu thanked Su Xia and Di Tian for saving him, and they explained that they had acted because of their ties to Nuwa and the Dao Palace.
• Chu traveled for ten thousand years, learned that the Tomb of the Starry-Sky Supreme Sage would open, and continued studying the Other Shore until only a year remained.
• Chu's Starry-Sky Tomb Token transported him to a mist-shrouded plaza, where he joined dozens of Dao Lords gathered before the tomb and its towering statue.

Chu met powerful cultivators gathered at the Tomb of the Starry-Sky Supreme Sage, formed an alliance with Nuwa and Houtu, and entered the tomb after its owner opened it. Separated from them upon arrival, Chu encountered and defeated a powerful Golden One-Horned Lion, intending to make it follow him.

• Gu Changsheng introduced Chu to cultivators from across the Origin Continent, and Chu secretly allied with Nuwa and Houtu.
• The Starry Sky Supreme Saint announced that his inheritance awaited the fated and warned that the tomb had no rules before opening its entrance.
• Chu entered the tomb and was randomly teleported to an unnamed mountain range, apart from Nuwa and Houtu.
• Chu found a Golden One-Horned Lion and decided to subdue it for the Human Race.
• The lion attacked Chu, but he wounded it with Chaos sword qi and a golden greatsword.

Chu learned that cultivators needed one hundred points to enter Sacred Mountain and that scarce Fierce Beasts would drive them to fight one another. When a Taiji Sacred Realm demon cultivator demanded Chu’s Points Token, Chu fought back, but the demon’s Demon God’s Hand overwhelmed his sword-qi attack.

• Chu subdued the wounded Golden One-Horned Lion and found a Points Token worth one hundred points, learning that Sacred Mountain held the true Supreme Saint’s Tomb.
• Chu spent ten years hunting Fierce Beasts, earned points by killing ten Dao Master Realm beasts, and concluded that the shortage was meant to provoke cultivators into killing one another.
• A black-robed demon cultivator appeared before Chu and demanded his Points Token in exchange for sparing his life.
• Chu and the demon cultivator exchanged powerful attacks; Chu’s Qiankun Cauldron swallowed the demon’s blade, wounding him.
• The demon cultivator revealed his Ancestral Demon True Body and struck with the Demon God’s Hand, which smashed through Chu’s torrent of sword qi.

Chu defeated a fifth-level Heavenly Dao Master demonic cultivator and claimed his corpse despite Xuan Hao’s attempt to steal it. Feng Xi then proposed that Chu join their group to kill a Wuji Saint Realm fierce beast and share its points.

• Chu used his Origin Sword to split the demonic cultivator’s attack, then defeated him with a clash of world-destroying techniques.
• An unseen cultivator tried to seize the demonic cultivator’s corpse, but Chu shattered his vital-energy hand with the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Xuan Hao attacked the Qiankun Cauldron with the Wuji Ring, but Chu repelled him and collected the corpse.
• Feng Xi, Zhao Jun, Xing Zhao, and Xuan Hao emerged from hiding, and Feng Xi apologized for Xuan Hao’s actions.
• Feng Xi told Chu that only seven hundred of the original thousand cultivators remained and proposed a pact to kill a Wuji Saint Realm fierce beast and divide its one hundred points equally.

Chu and the others found the Wuji-realm Azure Dragon, only to discover it was intelligent and had seen through their plan to ambush it. The Azure Dragon offered them a chance to claim its points if they could withstand three attacks, leaving Chu to ask whether they could face those attacks together or one at a time.

• Feng Xi and the others accompanied Chu to the center of the space, concealed their auras, and approached the Dominator Fierce Beast's lair.
• Chu and the others found an Azure Dragon cultivating in a canyon and began discussing a sneak attack.
• The Azure Dragon revealed that it was intelligent, transformed into a cyan-robed young man, and confronted them about their plan.
• Chu reasoned that the Azure Dragon did not intend to kill them, and it confirmed that they could obtain its points by withstanding three attacks.
• Chu asked whether all five of them could join forces against the Azure Dragon's three attacks or one person had to endure them alone.

Chu and the others faced Azure Dragon’s three attacks together in a trial of strength, barely surviving the first two before Azure Dragon unleashed a full-force strike. Their combined techniques failed to stop it, and the chapter ended as a dazzling sword qi appeared in the darkness.

• Chu and the others joined forces to shatter Azure Dragon’s first attack, Azure Dragon’s Claw, after it sent them flying backward.
• Azure Dragon swept its tail through the group’s attacks, but Chu used the Origin Sword to block it at the cost of shattering the sword and sustaining injuries.
• Azure Dragon unleashed Dragon God Descends into the World, a full-strength attack, and Feng Xi, Zhao Jun, Xing Zhao, Xuan Hao, and Chu countered with their strongest techniques.
• The illusory Azure Dragon shattered the group’s attacks, including Chu’s All-Life Dao Sword, and continued toward the injured, nearly exhausted fighters.
• A dazzling sword qi appeared as the illusory Azure Dragon’s attack struck and darkness engulfed the scene.

Feng Xi used the sword qi left by his master to defeat the Azure Dragon’s attack and secure the trial points for the group. After reaching the Sacred Mountain, Chu entered the Cosmic Tower and began climbing its Heaven-Piercing Stairway, where each step tested him with a stronger opponent.

• Feng Xi unleashed his master’s origin sword qi, shattering the Azure Dragon’s phantom attack and injuring the Azure Dragon’s true body.
• The Azure Dragon acknowledged that the group had passed the trial and left them a token containing one hundred points.
• Feng Xi and Chu each took twenty points, the group divided the rest as agreed, and they all reached one hundred points and teleported to the Sacred Mountain.
• Chu entered the first floor of the Cosmic Tower and found that its former treasures had already been taken.
• Chu climbed the Heaven-Piercing Stairway, defeating the beasts in its illusions as they grew stronger, with the ninth step’s beast at the great completion of the Quasi-Saint realm.

Chu climbed through the Cosmic Tower’s first four floors, where he found no cultivators or treasures and faced increasingly powerful stairway trials. On the fifth floor, he met Feng Xi and learned that treasures remained there, while the trial to reach the sixth floor was said to require combat power at the Wuji Saint Realm.

• Chu passed the trials and entered the second and third floors, finding both empty of cultivators and treasures.
• Chu found the fourth floor was a source realm with empty altars and faced a stairway trial whose first beast had reached the Heaven Grade of the fourth Dao Master level.
• Chu defeated the beasts and entered the fifth floor, where he found cultivators and six remaining treasures on altars guarded by difficult restrictions.
• Chu met Feng Xi, who said he had found no way to break the altar restrictions and had not attempted the sixth-floor trial.
• Feng Xi told Chu that the first step of the trial to the sixth floor held cultivators at the peak of the fourth Dao Master level.

Chu challenged the Nine-Layer Heavenly Stairway, where each step pitted him against an increasing number of cultivators at the peak of the Dao Lord Fourth Heavenly Layer. After defeating the groups through the earlier steps, he reached the eighth step and shocked Feng Xi.

• Chu learned from Feng Xi that all nine stairway steps held increasing numbers of cultivators at the peak of the Dao Lord Fourth Heavenly Layer, but he decided to attempt the trial anyway.
• Chu entered the illusion on the first step and defeated its cold-faced cultivator opponent.
• Chu cleared the next steps and overcame five opponents on the fifth step, though the fight was difficult.
• Six cultivators attacked Chu on the sixth step as Feng Xi wondered why Chu had not returned.
• Feng Xi sent his divine sense toward the stairway and discovered that Chu had reached the eighth step.

Chu overcame the ninth trial of the Nine-Layer Heavenly Stairway and entered the tower's sixth floor, while Feng Xi and the others realized they could not match his strength. Chu found the sixth floor was a higher-quality Source World and discovered that two treasures had already been taken.

• Chu remained trapped in the sixth-step illusion for three days, then advanced after overcoming its trial.
• Chu absorbed merit, broke through to the Fourth Heavenly Layer, and entered the illusion on the ninth step.
• Feng Xi and two cultivators tried the stairway, discovered its trials had not changed, and gave up as Chu reached the ninth step.
• Xing Zhao arrived and questioned Feng Xi about the stairway, but Chu crossed the ninth step and entered the sixth floor before Feng Xi could explain.
• Chu explored the sixth floor and noticed that two treasures had already been taken.

Chu obtained the All Beings Sword on the Sixth Layer, then began the Seventh Layer’s stairway trial, which made him fight increasingly powerful copies of himself. He defeated the first four trials by refining his combat skills, and continued climbing.

• Chu reached the Sixth Layer and spent three hundred years breaking an altar’s restriction, claiming the Innate Supreme Treasure All Beings Sword.
• Chu entered the stairway to the Seventh Layer and discovered that its first trial set him against a copy with the same cultivation, abilities, treasures, and fighting habits.
• Chu adapted during their battle, learned to wield his strength more fully, and defeated the first copy.
• Chu faced a stronger copy on the second step, improved through their fight, and won again.
• Chu defeated the stronger copies on the third and fourth steps, continuing toward the next trial.

Chu passed the seventh floor’s trials of will and reached the eighth floor, where he met the Starry Sky Supreme Saint, who offered him the inheritance. Chu steadied himself and asked the Supreme Saint a question.

• Chu entered the seventh floor’s starry sky, noticed its stars seemed to demonstrate a Great Dao, and found the stairway to the next floor.
• Chu passed all nine increasingly difficult trials of will, spending two thousand years and reaching the Supreme Saint Level.
• Chu stepped through the gate to the eighth floor and found the Starry Sky Supreme Saint’s body in a hall.
• The Starry Sky Supreme Saint came to life, praised Chu for reaching him, and declared him qualified to receive the inheritance.
• Chu greeted the Supreme Saint and asked whether he would answer a question.

Chu received the Starry Sky Supreme Saint’s inheritance and cultivated in the Cosmic Tower for two hundred million years, reaching the seventh level of Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal and attaining the Wuji Saint Realm. After leaving the tower, he concealed his strength and began a final journey across the Other Shore.

• The Starry Sky Supreme Saint explained that his inheritance was on the Cosmic Tower’s eighth level and would allow Chu to enter the ninth level and refine the tower.
• Chu received the inheritance, entered enlightenment, and broke through after a thousand years of cultivation.
• The Tomb of the Starry-Sky Supreme Sage expelled the other cultivators and announced that its inheritance had an owner, leading factions to suspect Chu and seek him.
• Chu remained hidden in the Cosmic Tower as factions searched for him, then continued cultivating for two hundred million years.
• Chu reached the seventh level of Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal, attained the Wuji Saint Realm, and placed the Cosmic Tower in his Purple Mansion.
• Chu left the tower, disguised himself as an Immortal Emperor cultivator, and set out to travel across the Other Shore.