Chapter Summaries

Nuwa and the gathered gods and demons entered Purple Cloud Palace to await the Dao Ancestor’s lecture. Jieyin and Zhunti arrived just before the gates closed, then found the hall full and Zhunti began crying to win a better seat.

• Nuwa entered Purple Cloud Palace and took the fourth of six golden prayer mats, while Fuxi declined her attempt to save him a seat.
• Gods and demons gathered in the hall until more than two thousand had arrived, and Haotian and Yaochi prepared to close the gates.
• Jieyin and Zhunti rushed in at the last moment, and Haotian let them enter before the palace gates shut.
• Jieyin and Zhunti found three thousand attendees and no seats remaining, so Zhunti pretended to weep about their hardships and lack of a seat.

Zhunti and Jieyin tried to claim seats at the front of Purple Cloud Palace, and Zhunti took Hongyun’s seat before forcibly displacing Kunpeng. The Dao Ancestor Hongjun then appeared, and everyone bowed to him.

• Zhunti wept and pleaded with the assembled gods and demons to give him a front-row seat, but no one yielded.
• Zhunti threatened to kill himself, and Hongyun gave up his seat; Jieyin took the sixth seat.
• Zhunti then insulted Kunpeng and, with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, knocked him from the fifth seat and sat down.
• Hongjun appeared on the white platform, radiating the pressure of a saint, and everyone bowed to him.

Hongjun lectured the gathered gods and demons on the Dao, introduced the Quasi-Sage realm, and selected two beings to govern Hong Huang. The chapter ended with Eastern King Gong and Queen Mother of the West named for the positions.

• Hongjun began his first lecture, explaining cultivation up to Da Luo Golden Immortals and the Three Thousand Great Daos while Xuantian secretly listened from Nuwa's jade box.
• After the first lecture ended, Hongjun introduced the Quasi-Sage realm in the second session, and several perfected Da Luo Golden Immortals advanced into it.
• Hongjun announced that two gods or demons would govern Hong Huang and quell its turmoil, prompting the gathered listeners to hope for the opportunity.
• Hongjun named Eastern King Gong and Queen Mother of the West, delighting Eastern King Gong and leaving Queen Mother of the West wary.

Hongjun appointed Eastern King Gong and the Queen Mother of the West as leaders of the male and female Immortals, giving them supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and authority to build a new faction. After the gathering dispersed, many beings headed for Penglai Immortal Island to join them, while Dijun went to Purple Star to pursue an opportunity for himself and the Demon Race.

• Hongjun named Eastern King Gong the Head of Male Immortals and the Queen Mother of the West the Head of Female Immortals, and bestowed the Dragon-Headed Staff and Pure Water Alms Bowl on them.
• Taiyi grew wary and angry about the new faction, but Dijun restrained him, reasoning that the Witch Race and Demon Race could use it to remove threats to their growth.
• Hongjun ended the second lecture, and many beings gathered around Eastern King Gong and the Queen Mother of the West before leaving Purple Cloud Palace.
• Dijun and Taiyi went to the Sea of Cosmic Stars, where Dijun began contemplating at Purple Star to strengthen himself and the Demon Race.
• Many hidden beings across Hong Huang set out for Penglai Immortal Island to join Eastern King Gong's faction.

After the Myriad Immortals Alliance grew into a major force, a mysterious ball of light warned Eastern King Gong and Queen Mother of the West that Hongjun’s decree had made them targets for the Witch and Demon Races. It offered to save them if they submitted, then vanished, leaving them to wonder whether it was a surviving Chaos God.

• After the sermon, gods and demons flocked to Penglai, and Eastern King Gong and Queen Mother of the West established the Myriad Immortals Alliance, whose growing power drew the Witch and Demon Races’ attention.
• After Hongjun ended his sermons, chose disciples, and merged with the Dao, Eastern King Gong and Queen Mother of the West reached the quasi-saint realm.
• Eastern King Gong proposed becoming Dao companions with Queen Mother of the West, but a ball of light appeared and wounded him when he tried to seize it.
• The ball of light warned Queen Mother of the West and Eastern King Gong that Hongjun’s decree could make their alliance a weapon against hidden threats and leave them exposed to the Witch and Demon Races.
• Eastern King Gong challenged the ball of light to prove it could protect them, and it said the coming saints would be eager to eliminate the Witch and Demon Races.
• The ball of light offered to save them if they submitted when cornered, then vanished, and Queen Mother of the West and Eastern King Gong speculated that it was a powerful surviving Chaos God.

Nuwa created the Human Race from Nine Heavens Xirang and became the second Saint after receiving immense merit. She protected the newborn humans in the Qingqiu Mountains, while Xuantian began guiding them and accepted the burden of teaching them.

• Nuwa used the Qiankun Cauldron, Nine Heavens Xirang, and her vital essence to create the first humans, then multiplied their numbers with the Gourd Vine and named them the Human Race.
• Heaven sent Nuwa immense merit, which combined with her Hongmeng Purple Qi and allowed her to become a Saint; she named the Golden Phoenix Jinning and took her as a mount.
• Nuwa protected the Human Race by sealing the Qingqiu Mountains against spiritually intelligent races for a thousand years, prompting the Three Pure Ones to discuss her attainment of the Dao.
• Nuwa returned to Wa Empress Palace, leaving the Gourd Vine behind, and Xuantian named himself and began answering the humans' questions.
• Xuantian recognized that the ignorant Human Race needed guidance and felt the weight of responsibility for their future.

Xuantian established the Human Race at Mount Shouyang and created a martial cultivation path as the tribe grew stronger. After the Human Race spread to the East Sea, contact with nearby witches led to many Human-Witch hybrids and closer ties between the races.

• Xuantian settled the newly born humans, taught them to find food and shelter, and later moved the tribe to Mount Shouyang.
• Ziyi Shi, Youchao, and Suiren earned heavenly merit for creating clothing, houses, and fire, while Xuantian developed the martial path and Juntian Shi and Feng Yun Shi became Human Race kings.
• The Demon Race established its Heavenly Court, the Witch and Demon Races fought beneath Mount Buzhou, and Queen Mother of the West left the Myriad Immortals Alliance.
• Over a yuanhui, the Human Race grew to more than ten billion, with the Three Sovereigns reaching Martial Emperor and the Two Kings reaching Martial Venerable.
• Witches from the nearby Houtu Tribe visited the humans, took human women as partners, and had Human-Witch hybrid children.
• Houtu lifted her restriction on witches visiting the Human Race, and the hybrids strengthened exchanges between the two races despite Suiren's inability to stop them.

Laozi followed the Hongmeng Purple Qi to the East Sea, where he lived among the Human Race and began to understand that his path to sainthood was connected to them. After naming and befriending Xuandu, he gained a clearer grasp of his opportunity, while Xuandu asked him for help cultivating.

• Laozi followed the Hongmeng Purple Qi from Kunlun Mountains to the East Sea, where it stopped stirring and led him to investigate the Human Race.
• Laozi disguised himself as an elderly man and met a concerned child who brought him to the Juntian Ten Tribes.
• Laozi named the child Xuandu and stayed with the tribe while searching for the mystery behind his chance to attain sainthood.
• Ten years later, Xuandu visited Laozi and remarked that he seemed eternal, then admitted he could not cultivate martial arts techniques.
• Laozi briefly entered deep contemplation, causing Xuandu to think he had died, then explained that he was one with heaven and earth.
• Xuandu recognized Laozi as a great cultivator and asked him how he could cultivate despite being unable to produce Dharma power.

Laozi devised and taught a cultivation method that let humans with poor aptitude cultivate, drawing the Human Race’s attention and strengthening its fortune. After the lecture, he founded the Human Sect and received vast merit, leaving him on the verge of becoming a Saint.

• Laozi developed a cultivation method for humans with declining aptitude, and Xuandu used it to become an Earth Immortal in secret.
• Xuantian sensed the Human Race’s fortune rising and warned that those who benefited from it without helping the humans could suffer its backlash.
• Laozi lectured beneath a great tree in the Equal-Heaven Tribe, attracting Xuandu, tribal elders, and people from nearby tribes.
• Nuwa observed Laozi’s teaching, while the Human Race’s Three Sovereigns recognized how his method could help more humans cultivate.
• Laozi declared the founding of the Human Sect, anchored its fortune with the Taiji, and received a great wheel of Xuan Huang merit.

Laozi became the first Saint by founding the Human Sect, and Yuanshi and Tongtian followed by establishing their own sects. Zhunti and Jieyin’s Western Sect earned merit but not enough for sainthood, so Jieyin proposed borrowing merit from the Heavenly Dao through grand vows.

• Laozi used merit to reach the Saint realm, proclaimed himself the Supreme Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue, and instructed the humans who followed him.
• Laozi’s Human Sect claimed a share of the Human Race’s fortune, prompting Nuwa and the Three Sovereigns to reckon with their reduced portions.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian each founded a sect, the Chan Sect and the Interception Sect, and used their remaining merit to transform their treasures into sacred artifacts of merit as they became Saints.
• After the Three Pure Ones attained sainthood, Zhunti and Jieyin founded the Western Sect, but the merit they received did not make them Saints.
• Jieyin realized that he and Zhunti lacked enough merit and proposed using grand vows to borrow merit from the Heavenly Dao.

After Jieyin and Zhunti founded the Western Sect and became saints through their forty-eight great vows, disturbances stirred across Hong Huang. Dijun and Taiyi moved against Eastern King Gong, demanding that he submit the Myriad Immortals Alliance to the Demon Race.

• Jieyin and Zhunti made forty-eight great vows, founded the Western Sect, and became saints with the Heavenly Dao’s merit.
• Xuantian considered the cost of relying on Heavenly Dao merit and continued tempering his body, while unusual disturbances arose in secret places across Hong Huang.
• Dijun accepted Kunpeng’s plan to conquer Eastern King Gong’s alliance and seize Hongyun’s primordial violet qi.
• Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, and a vast Demon Race army surrounded Penglai, and Taiyi killed one of its guards with Solar True Fire.
• Eastern King Gong apologized for his subordinates’ attacks on Demon Race members, but Taiyi demanded that he make the Myriad Immortals Alliance submit in exchange for being named an emperor.

Taiyi, Dijun, and Kunpeng fought Eastern King Gong and his allies at Penglai, determined to destroy the Myriad Immortals Alliance. After Kunpeng and Taiyi killed Daoist Yuanchen, Eastern King Gong renewed his vow of vengeance, and Taiyi sent Kunpeng to help Dijun finish the battle.

• Dijun trapped Eastern King Gong in the River Luo Formation while Taiyi and the others attacked him at Penglai.
• Dijun battled Daoist Rongku as Taiyi fought Eastern King Gong, and both Eastern King Gong and Daoist Rongku refused to surrender or switch sides.
• Taiyi and Kunpeng joined forces against Daoist Yuanchen, whose weakened defenses could not withstand their attacks.
• Kunpeng crushed Daoist Yuanchen with the Demon Master Palace, and Taiyi destroyed his Primordial Spirit with the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Eastern King Gong swore vengeance for Daoist Yuanchen, and Taiyi ordered Kunpeng to help Dijun end the battle quickly.

Eastern King Gong trapped Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, and their allies in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, but Taiyi and Dijun killed Daoist Rongku and overwhelmed him. Kunpeng and the others broke the formation, leaving the defeated Eastern King Gong surrounded.

• Eastern King Gong activated the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, trapping Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, Bai Ze, Jimeng, and the others in darkness.
• Dijun ordered Taiyi to protect the group while Kunpeng searched for the formation's core, and Taiyi blocked Eastern King Gong and Daoist Rongku from pursuing him.
• Taiyi lured Daoist Rongku out of the formation's protection, struck him with the Chaos Bell, and joined Dijun in killing him with Solar True Fire.
• Dijun and Taiyi turned their attacks on the wounded Eastern King Gong as Kunpeng and the others broke the formation.
• The formation collapsed, and Dijun, Kunpeng, and the others appeared beside Taiyi to confront Eastern King Gong.

Eastern King Gong was saved from the Demon Race by an unknown benefactor, while the Human Race reorganized its society under Xuantian’s guidance. After five thousand years in seclusion, Xuantian reached the Martial Emperor level and returned to find the Human Race’s destiny strengthened by its cities and a Purple Star formation.

• Eastern King Gong summoned an unknown senior, whose melody forced Dijun and the Demon Race to leave Penglai and installed Queen Mother of the West as leader of the Myriad Immortals Alliance.
• A hundred years later, Hongyun fell, and ten thousand years passed as the Human Race continued to grow.
• Xuantian proposed marriage rites, surnames, and a hierarchy of tribes, lineages, and families to manage the Human Race’s population.
• Xuantian delegated the reforms to Suiren and the others, then entered seclusion to temper his body.
• After five thousand years, Xuantian reached the Martial Emperor level and returned to find eight great cities supporting the Human Race’s destiny through a Purple Star formation.

Xuantian met Houtu and Pan while roasting a boar, and Houtu advanced to Quasi-Saint Great Perfection after drinking his Enlightenment Wine. He then climbed Mount Buzhou, comprehended a fragment of Pangu’s will, and broke through to the late Quasi-Saint stage.

• Xuantian reflected on the Human Race’s strength before leaving its territory to wander Hong Huang.
• Xuantian killed a wild boar, cooked it, and invited Houtu to share the meal.
• Houtu drank Xuantian’s wine and fell asleep, while Pan revealed himself and identified his avatar as Pan.
• Xuantian placed a barrier around Houtu and left; she woke that evening at Quasi-Saint Great Perfection.
• Xuantian climbed Mount Buzhou for several months, comprehended Pangu’s defiant will, and advanced to the late Quasi-Saint stage.

Xuantian climbed Mount Buzhou, forged the Buzhou Seal from its pressure, and entered the Nine Heavens Astral Wind Layer to temper his body with Xuanhuang Immortality. After enduring the astral winds and ascending into the Endless Fire Prison, he absorbed its flames and awakened the divine treasury of his heart into a fiery innate deity.

• Xuantian formed the Buzhou Seal and continued climbing Mount Buzhou for thousands of years, strengthening the seal as the pressure increased.
• Xuantian reached the Nine Heavens Astral Wind Layer and endured its destructive winds, repeatedly healing and tempering his body with Xuanhuang Immortality.
• Xuantian adapted to the astral winds and continued ascending, condensing and strengthening his supreme jade body.
• Xuantian entered the Endless Fire Prison and guided its flames into the divine treasury of his heart.
• Xuantian's Heart Dao gate opened, and the divine treasury rose as a fiery innate deity resembling him.

Xuantian perfected the Five Elements and Five Emperors, advanced his physical cultivation to the perfected Da Luo realm, and comprehended the law of extinction in the layer of ultimate ice. He then entered a layer of absolute darkness, where even his divine sense could not perceive anything.

• Xuantian refined geng-metal qi and perfected the Lung Divine Treasury, forming the White Emperor in its Dao Palace.
• Xuantian cultivated the astral wood, earth, and water layers, perfected all five divine treasuries, and formed the five innate deities and the Five-Colored Heaven-Earth Furnace.
• Xuantian created the Five Elements Seal, divided it into five seals, and tempered his body while comprehending lightning in the astral lightning layer for two hundred years.
• Xuantian allowed the extreme cold to freeze his body, primordial spirit, and soul, then revived a hundred years later with an initial understanding of the law of extinction.
• Xuantian passed through the ice layer and entered absolute darkness, where neither his eyes nor his divine sense could perceive anything.

Xuantian battled and killed the wounded Dark Demon God, taking the Origin of Laws of his Path of Darkness. He continued climbing Mount Buzhou and finally saw its summit as Pangu’s will surged around him.

• The Dark Demon God attacked Xuantian in the darkness and claimed that Pangu and Samsara had died.
• Xuantian fought back with fire, the Five Elements Seal, the Buzhou Seal, and the Yin-Yang Seal, overcoming the Dark Demon God’s attacks.
• The Dark Demon God tried to flee, but Xuantian struck him down with Thunderclap Purification and took his Dark Origin.
• Xuantian resumed climbing Mount Buzhou, enduring the rising pressure of Pangu’s will until he saw the summit.
• Pangu’s will surged a hundredfold and drew Xuantian into a strange state.

After comprehending the Imprint of Heaven Opening on Mount Buzhou, Xuantian advanced his cultivation during a million years of seclusion. The Demon Race began slaughtering humans to test the saints’ response and gather souls, leaving the Human Race gathering its survivors near Mount Shouyang as the calamity began.

• Xuantian perfected the Law of Earth, reached the summit of Mount Buzhou, and witnessed Pangu opening heaven and earth.
• Xuantian spent ten yuanhui comprehending the Imprint of Heaven Opening, advanced the Law of Darkness, and created the Nine-Turn Heavenly Art.
• Dijun and Taiyi decided to have demons devour humans and collect their souls to test whether Nuwa and Taiqing would protect the Human Race.
• Suiren ordered the Human Race to prepare for an attack and gather around Mount Shouyang.
• Dijun and Taiyi’s order sent demons across Hong Huang to slaughter human tribes, creating immense resentment and calamity aura.
• The Human Race sent experts to escort survivors toward the Ancestral Land around Mount Shouyang.

As the Demon Race slaughtered humans across Hong Huang, Lady Nuwa closed Wa Empress Palace and refused to intervene. The Human Race declared it would fight to the death, prompting Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi to send demons against the Human Ancestral Land and Mount Shouyang.

• The Myriad Immortals Alliance gathered and sheltered humans in Purple Mansion Province after Xuantian's means within the Human Race's fate activated.
• Lady Nuwa watched humans beg for help, then announced that Wa Empress Palace would close its gates, leaving the Demon Race free to intensify its massacre.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi sent more demons into the Lower Realm to slaughter humans.
• The Human Race's leaders at the Ancestors' Hall declared that anyone who harmed their people would be executed, and three Quasi-Saints, two Da Luo, and ninety thousand powerful beings answered with a defiant roar.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered countless Demon Race experts to attack the Human Ancestral Land and Mount Shouyang.