Chapter Summaries

After a million years in the Other Shore, Chu returned to Hong Huang as his cultivation was suppressed to the Fifth Heaven. Ancestral Dragon escaped his predicament and returned to the Dragon Race, leaving Hong Huang’s powers anticipating a new shift in the balance.

• Chu noted the cultivation levels of his old acquaintances in the Other Shore and returned to Hong Huang after the Cosmic Tower suppressed his cultivation to the Fifth Heaven.
• Ancestral Dragon emerged from the Inheritance Dragon Pearl, transformed into human form, and accepted Zhulong and the elders’ congratulations.
• Ancestral Dragon praised Zhulong’s work for the Dragon Race and said he did not know whether First Qilin and Ancestral Phoenix had returned.
• Ancestral Dragon appeared above the East Sea, and the Dragon Race and powers throughout Hong Huang recognized his return and speculated about the other Patriarchs.
• Haotian learned of Ancestral Dragon’s return, told Taibai Jinxing to send the Dragon Race a generous gift, and said he would handle any consequences.

Ancestral Dragon returned to Hong Huang and attacked the Human Race’s territory, but Fuxi injured him with a warning that revealed how powerful the Human Race had become. After learning about the current balance of power, Ancestral Dragon accepted that the Dragon Race could not challenge the Human Race yet and began planning its recovery.

• Taishang sensed that Ancestral Dragon had returned to Hong Huang and attained Hunyuan, and suspected Ancestral Phoenix and First Qilin had returned as well.
• Ancestral Dragon attacked the Human Race’s territory on the East Sea shore, but Fuxi’s barrier stopped his strike and Fuxi injured him with the might of a Saint.
• After several hundred million years of Human Race growth, Fuxi had reached the third heaven of Hunyuan, while Shennong and Xuanyuan were half-step Hunyuan and other Human Race leaders had attained Quasi-Saint Great Perfection.
• Ziyi Shi said Ancestral Dragon might have died if Fuxi had meant more than to warn him, and Fuxi explained that the Dragon Race could help restrain other powers.
• After recovering for a hundred thousand years, Ancestral Dragon heard Zhulong list the Human Race’s powerful figures, including Chu, and said he would not recklessly attack them while the Dragon Race remained weak.

Chu returned to the Human Ancestral Land, reviewed the Human Race’s strength, and provided resources and a powerful ally to support its growth. A million years later, the Phoenix Race prepared to reappear in Hong Huang while First Qilin’s attendants reported its movements.

• Ancestral Dragon told Zhulong to arrange protection for innate races seeking the Dragon Race and to avoid rushing its development, while Ancestral Phoenix and First Qilin also chose to develop their races steadily.
• Chu’s true form appeared in the Human Ancestral Land and reunited with Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, Chi You, Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi.
• Chu sent the Innate Life Sword to Wa Empress Palace, advised Shennong to rename his daughter, and rewarded him with an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Suiren reported the Human Race’s forces and institutions, and Chu announced that he had brought back resources and subdued a half-step Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal Golden One-Horned Lion.
• Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Chi You entered seclusion, and a million years later Ancestral Phoenix ordered the Phoenix Race to reappear in Hong Huang in a thousand years.
• An attendant told First Qilin that the Phoenix Race was preparing to reappear in Hong Huang.

First Qilin decided that the Qilin Race would return to Hong Huang peacefully and focus on rebuilding rather than seeking hegemony. A thousand years later, Ancestral Phoenix and First Qilin announced their races’ return, bringing all three ancient races back into Hong Huang’s changing balance of power.

• First Qilin told the First Elder to prepare for the Qilin Race to return to Hong Huang in a thousand years and resolved to avoid the path of hegemony.
• After a thousand years, Ancestral Phoenix and First Qilin prepared to announce their races’ returns on the same day.
• Ancestral Phoenix declared that the Phoenix Race had settled its karmic debt and would return to Hong Huang to command the southern region.
• Countless beings and cultivators reacted with shock as Ancestral Phoenix’s declaration signaled the Phoenix Race’s return.
• First Qilin announced that the Qilin Race had settled its karmic debt and would return to command the northern region.
• The return of the Phoenix Race and the Qilin Race left all three ancient races active in Hong Huang, forcing affected beings and races to compete for resources and territory.

Ancestral Dragon watched the Phoenix and Qilin races as Chu advanced the Cosmic Tower and reached the peak of the ninth level of Hunyuan. After long ages of growth among the races, Yaoji’s forbidden marriage to Yang Tianyou was discovered, and Haotian’s forces arrived to arrest her.

• Ancestral Dragon decided to monitor Ancestral Phoenix and First Qilin while leaving them alone as long as their plans caused no harm.
• Chu upgraded the Cosmic Tower into a Chaos Supreme Treasure, expanded its trials, and placed part of it in the Human Ancestral Land for human experts to train.
• The Human Race produced the Five Emperors and grew to include eleven Half-Step Hunyuan experts and two Hunyuan Da Luo experts, while Chu reached the peak of the ninth level of Hunyuan.
• Yaoji secretly married Yang Tianyou and had three children, Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan, before Haotian’s soldiers discovered her descent to the mortal world.
• Heavenly soldiers and generals surrounded Yaoji at Guanjiang Estuary and announced Haotian’s order to arrest her, while Yang Tianyou asked who they were.

Yaoji sent her children away before she and Yang Tianyou went to the Heavenly Court to face Haotian, while Suiren and Yuding secretly watched over the family. A year later, Yang Jian proposed finding a master, but Yang Jiao questioned how they could locate one.

• Yang Tianyou agreed with Yaoji that they would go to the Heavenly Court together, and Yaoji used Haotian's talisman to send Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan away.
• Yaoji and Yang Tianyou followed the heavenly soldiers to the Heavenly Court, while Yuding decided to go there and plead with Haotian.
• Yang Jian calmed his siblings and led them through the mortal world as they searched for their parents, while Suiren secretly observed them.
• Suiren watched the siblings for a year, noting their resilience and unusual physiques, and Yuding returned from the Heavenly Court to observe them too.
• Yang Jian suggested seeking a master, and Yang Jiao replied that they had no idea where to find a cultivator.

Suiren took Yang Jiao as his disciple and taught him martial cultivation while arranging for Yang Chan to meet the Holy Mother. After a century of training, Yang Jiao reached the eighth level of the Innate Realm and traveled with Suiren toward the Human Race’s ancestral land, where they met Yun Meng.

• Yang Jian left with Yuding, while Yang Jiao and Yang Chan continued wandering through Human Race settlements.
• Suiren appeared before Yang Jiao and Yang Chan, offered to help them save their parents, and took Yang Jiao as his disciple.
• Suiren brought Yang Chan to a Holy Mother Temple, where Golden Phoenix arrived and took her to Wa Empress Heaven for a test to become the Holy Mother’s inner disciple.
• Yang Jiao trained under Suiren for a hundred years, reached the eighth level of the Innate Realm, and asked where their sect was located.
• Ten years later, Suiren brought Yang Jiao toward Ancestral City and introduced him to Yun Meng as his Senior Sister.

After centuries and trillions of years of cultivation across the Great Wilderness, Chu began his tribulation to transcend Hunyuan and transform his power into chaotic magical power. His terrifying tribulation drew powerful figures from across the Great Wilderness and chaos, and the chapter ended as Chu's aura erupted throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Yang Jiao reached the Twelfth Tier of Innate while cultivating at the Martial Academy, and Yang Jian continued training on Mount Yuquan, nearing the Immortal Realm.
• Yun Rui became dean of the Heavenly Profound Academy, while Hua Su, Wuhuai Shi, Tai Cang, Yun Jiuge, Wu Mu, and Ye Kong reached Quasi-Saint status, and Changxi entered the Hunyuan level.
• Di Wanyi, Chu's two-hundred-million-year-old disciple, rampaged through the first-floor barrier of the Cosmic Tower with Quasi-Saint cultivation, while Nuwa repeatedly tried to recruit her.
• Chu began his tribulation in the chaos beyond the Great Wilderness, transforming his flesh, magical power, Primordial Spirit, laws, and True Spirit into chaotic magical power.
• Hongjun, Nuwa, Houtu, Haotian, and other powerful figures sensed the tribulation and headed toward the chaos, while Xiao Xuan recognized Chu and praised his talent.
• Chu opened his eyes as his aura burst forth, and its immense roar spread across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and boundless spacetime.

Chu faced the Five Decays of Heaven and Man and a series of powerful lightning tribulations as he advanced beyond Hunyuan. He endured the first lightning waves and grew stronger, while the chapter explained that the Great Dao presided over tribulations at this level.

• The Five Decays of Heaven and Man bound Chu and began rotting his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Chu summoned the Thunder Pool, which devoured the decay qi and restored his body.
• A top-tier lightning tribulation descended, and Chu met the first wave with his magic power.
• The lightning damaged Chu, but golden light repaired and tempered his body, leaving him stronger when the wave passed.
• A denser second wave of lightning fell as the chapter explained that the Great Dao tested beings at Hunyuan and beyond.

Chu endured the Nine-Nine Dao Tribulation and used Immortal Marrow to survive its increasingly powerful strikes, advancing to the middle stage of the Half-Step Heaven Realm. Afterward, he met nearly a thousand powerful cultivators from the Other Shore, including Xiao Shi and Xiao Ruohan.

• Chu relied on Immortal Marrow to repair his body as the Nine-Nine Dao Tribulation repeatedly destroyed and tempered him.
• During the eighth wave, Chu's body surpassed the limits of an Innate Supreme Treasure and became a Half-Step Chaos Level treasure.
• Chu transformed into an eleven-clawed Azure Dragon and advanced to the middle stage of the Half-Step Heaven Realm, merging with fifty percent of his Imperial Dao.
• Nuwa, Houtu, Hongjun, and Haotian approached Chu and congratulated him on his breakthrough.
• Xiao Shi introduced Chu to nearly a thousand Half-Step Heaven Realm cultivators from the Other Shore, including Xiao Ruohan.
• Xiao Ruohan recognized Nuwa and Houtu as Xuan's disciples and urged them to reach the Half-Step Heaven Realm.

After returning to Hong Huang, Chu spent two yuan epochs consolidating his Half-Step Heavenly Realm cultivation in Chaos before emerging and expounding the Great Dao at the Human Ancestral Land. His arrival and teaching strengthened Human Race cultivators across their territory, while Jieyin returned to the Buddhist Domain and entered closed-door cultivation.

• Xiao Shi and others congratulated Chu, and Hunyuan experts withdrew after warning their clans not to massacre ordinary humans.
• Jieyin returned to the Great Thunderclap Temple and announced that he would cultivate in seclusion.
• After two yuan epochs in Chaos, Chu shattered his giant cocoon and emerged with his Half-Step Heavenly Realm cultivation consolidated.
• Chu returned to the Human Ancestral Land and expounded the Great Dao, helping Human Race cultivators enter states of enlightenment and break through.
• Di Wanyi advanced to the late Quasi-Saint stage inside the Cosmic Tower as cultivators throughout Human territory made breakthroughs.

Chu merged with Human Race fortune and sensed an upheaval, prompting him to warn the Human Race leaders. Over the next century, prodigies emerged across the major races, including Wu Lingtian, Yao Batian, Long Ze, the Great Phoenix Venerable, and Lin Zizai.

• Chu transformed into an eleven-clawed Azure Dragon and merged with Human Race fortune, gaining insight into changes across the Human Race.
• Pangu secretly created and sent new beings and protective thoughts into the Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, Demon, and Witch Races.
• Chu sensed an upheaval in Human Race fortune, and Yang Jiao relayed the warning to his family after receiving a message from an ancestor.
• Wu Lingtian rose to power among the Witch Race, while Yao Batian became a Demon Race prodigy and fought Wu Lingtian to a draw.
• Long Ze emerged as a nine-clawed Dragon Race prodigy, and the Great Phoenix Venerable became renowned after defeating challengers from many races, including Human Academy students.
• Lin Zizai, the Qilin holy son, rose to prominence and traveled through Hong Huang, often visiting the Human Race.

Chu warned Di Wanyi about extraordinary young talents emerging among the Witch, Demon, Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races, then set a projection of himself to test her combat skills inside the Cosmic Tower. Meanwhile, the eleven Ancestral Witches had attained Hunyuan through their physical bodies and began plotting in Pangu Hall.

• Chu recalled that gifted youths from rival races might threaten Human Race fortune, so he focused on training Di Wanyi.
• Chu pulled Di Wanyi from the Cosmic Tower trial, praised her progress, and warned her about the five races' extraordinary young talents.
• Chu left a projection of himself to fight Di Wanyi, who was overwhelmed by its attacks and lost decisively.
• Di Wanyi decided to return to clearing the ninth stage before challenging Chu's projection again.
• The eleven Ancestral Witches gathered in Pangu Hall and plotted after attaining Hunyuan through their physical bodies.

After the Ancestral Witches attained the Hunyuan Dao, they attacked the Demon Race with the Pangu True Body, and their assault also devastated the Human and Demon populations. The Human and Demon powerhouses rushed to confront them, and the Witch, Demon, and Human races plunged into a great war.

• The Ancestral Witches agreed to attack the Demon Race, despite Zhu Jiuyin warning that they might also provoke the Human Race.
• A hundred years later, the Ancestral Witches formed the Pangu True Body and attacked the Demon Race, while their power harmed countless people across Hong Huang.
• Fuxi confronted Dijiang, but Dahan struck him down and sent an axe blow toward the Human Ancestral Land, where a grand array stopped it.
• Dijun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and the Demon forces arrived, while Fuxi and the Human powerhouses assembled to defend their people.
• Dijun attacked Dijiang, and Di Wanyi joined the fighting after Chu sent her out of the Cosmic Tower.
• The Human Race struck both Witches and Demons amid the fighting, turning the clash into a three-clan war.

The Human, Demon, and Witch Races fought a devastating three-sided battle across Hong Huang. Fuxi wounded Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, but the Witch Race’s Hunyuan experts continued to overwhelm the Human and Demon leaders.

• The armies of the three clans clashed across Heaven and Earth, and their battle filled the battlefield with thunder, destruction, and slaughter.
• Fuxi joined Dijun, Kunpeng, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi against the eleven Hunyuan Realm Ancestral Witches, who repeatedly drove them back.
• Fuxi wielded the Fuxi Qin and struck Dijun with a powerful attack, leaving the Demon Emperor badly injured.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi charged at Fuxi to help Dijun, but Fuxi wounded him as well.
• Kunpeng, Suiren, and Dijun fought their opponents while Human Race experts formed a Demon-Annihilating Formation and cut through the enemy ranks.

The Witch, Demon, and Human Races fought a catastrophic battle while Nuwa and Houtu were prevented from intervening. As the slaughter continued, Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Gonggong cornered Eastern Emperor Taiyi and severely wounded him.

• The three races clashed with divine fire, floods, and demonic attacks, and tens of millions of cultivators fell within an hour.
• Nuwa prepared to protect Fuxi, but Laozi arrived at Wa Empress Palace and stopped her from intervening.
• Houtu confronted Chu outside Pangu Hall, and Chu refused to stop the battle, saying sacrifices were necessary and that he was watching over the Human Race’s talented experts.
• The battle spread across Hong Huang, devastating the land as casualties mounted.
• Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Gonggong trapped Eastern Emperor Taiyi with the Luo Heaven Net and attacked him.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi countered with the Chaos Bell, but the combined attack struck him, leaving him bleeding and severely weakened.

Shennong and the others fought the Witch and Demon forces as the Hunyuan battlefield raged, until Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s attack sent Gonggong crashing into Mount Buzhou. The heavenly pillar split and collapsed, devastating the surrounding land and the Heavenly Court while Haotian angrily blamed Gonggong.

• Shennong summoned the Hunyuan Lightning Tribulation and killed dozens of quasi-saints, then endured its lightning while taking nearly a thousand Witch and Demon quasi-saints down with him.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi poured his essence, energy, and spirit into the Chaos Bell and fought Dijiang and the other Ancestor Witches as Shebi Shi and Gonggong attacked Xuantian and Dijun.
• A ray of light restored Shennong, who charged into the Hunyuan battlefield and challenged Zhurong.
• Di Wanyi broke through to half-step Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal and held back an Ancestor Witch.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi struck Gonggong with the Eastern Emperor Bell, blasting him into Mount Buzhou and splitting the heavenly pillar.
• Mount Buzhou collapsed, killing nearby beings and destroying parts of the Thirty-Three Heavens, the Southern Heavenly Gate, and other Heavenly Court structures, prompting Haotian to roar in fury.

After Mount Buzhou collapsed, Ninth Heaven Weak Water flooded Hong Huang and killed countless living beings. Chu gathered the surviving Human Race and began mending the hole in the heavens with the Qiankun Cauldron and his divine fire, leaving the repair underway.

• Houtu emerged from space and saw Mount Buzhou’s collapse as Weak Water poured into Hong Huang.
• The Human Race, Witch Race, and Demon Race stopped fighting and tried to protect their people as the flood spread.
• Chu and the other great experts arrived, and Chu sent the surviving members of the Human Race to safety.
• Chu announced that he would mend the heavens and brought out the Qiankun Cauldron and several hundred Chaos crystals.
• Zhunti and the other experts tested Chu’s purple divine fire, which burned away their strands of primordial spirit power.
• Chu used the Law of Creation to refine the Chaos crystals into Xuanqing qi inside the cauldron.

Chu mended the heavens with Xuanqing Qi, and Fuxi restored the Four Poles, ending the disaster caused by Mount Buzhou’s collapse. The Heavenly Dao awarded Chu most of the merit, while the surviving powers blamed the Witch Race and moved to restrict its future.

• Chu used refined Xuanqing Qi to seal the breach in Heaven, then forged two innate spirit treasures and placed a nine-colored stone atop the Ten Isles Ancestral Vein.
• Fuxi slew an ao fish and used its limbs to reestablish the Four Poles, while Nuwa burned reeds into ash to block the floods.
• The Heavenly Dao gave Chu seventy percent of the merit; Chu scattered thirty percent across Hong Huang, and the other powerful beings shared twenty percent.
• The war ended with the Human, Witch, and Demon Races greatly weakened, while the Witch and Demon Races bore substantial karmic sin.
• Houtu accused Chu of scheming, but Chu claimed the Human Race had acted in self-defense and said he would not help restrain the Witch Race.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, Zhunti, the Creation Young Emperor, and the Heavenly Court’s ruler agreed that the Witch Race should be controlled, and the ruler promised blessings for the ravaged land.

After the Witch Race’s defeat, the Hunyuans imposed a limit on its population, while the Human Race counted the heavy losses from the war. In the Xuanji Realm, Xiao Xuan completed his breakthrough as the Five Elements laws merged with the Dao, and Di Hao continued cultivating in the Chaos of Xiao Xuan’s dantian.

• Houtu returned to the Netherworld Underworld, and the Hunyuans restricted the Witch Race’s population before departing.
• The Human Race had lost nearly five hundred Quasi-Saints, while Shennong attained the Hunyuan Dao.
• Xiao Xuan fused the Five Elements law origins into his Supreme Heaven Realm and underwent a violent tribulation.
• Xiao Xuan’s Five Elements laws reached the Heavenly Realm, greatly expanding his Supreme Heaven Realm and increasing his strength.
• Di Hao cultivated in the Chaos within Xiao Xuan’s dantian as chaotic spiritual qi and void lightning tempered his body.