Chapter Summaries

The Demon Race attacked the Human Race at Mount Shouyang, prompting the Myriad Immortals Alliance to intervene while the Human Race fought desperately. Meanwhile, the Twelve Ancestral Witches decided to attack the Human Race to acquire resentment for weapons against the demons, despite Houtu's objections.

• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi led the Demon Race army to Mount Shouyang, where Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi Shi, and the Human Race forces charged to defend their people.
• Queen Mother of the West and Eastern King Gong arrived with the Myriad Immortals Alliance; Eastern King Gong challenged Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Queen Mother of the West fought Dijun, and the Human Race sovereigns faced Kunpeng.
• Gonggong told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that Human Race resentment could harm demon primordial spirits and be used to forge twelve Demon-Slaying Banners.
• Zhu Jiuyin warned Dijiang that one possible future showed the Human Race surviving while both the Witch Race and Demon Race vanished.
• Dijiang ordered the Witch Race to attack the Human Race, rejecting Houtu's plea to spare their ally; Houtu remained troubled, and Xuanming tried to comfort her.

After millions of years of cultivation, Xuantian emerged from the Inner Chaos and arrived at Mount Shouyang, where the Witch and Demon Races were attacking the Human Race. He crushed their forces and confronted Nuwa and Taiqing over their failure to protect the humans, leaving the battlefield transformed by the backlash of fortune and karma.

• Xingtian, Xiang Liu, and other powerful Witches went to Mount Shouyang to slaughter the Human Race and gather souls for the Demon-Slaying Banners.
• A soul palpitation awakened Xuantian from his cultivation in the Inner Chaos, and he learned that the Human Race faced disaster, with its kings and sovereigns badly wounded.
• Xuantian played the Immortal Transformation Ancient Flute, healing humans while annihilating hundreds of millions of Witch and Demon soldiers near Mount Shouyang.
• Xuantian struck Dijun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Kunpeng, Fuxi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, severely injuring the leaders before Nuwa blocked his attack on Fuxi.
• The Human Race's fortune recovered and healed its injured, while its backlash injured Nuwa and Taiqing; Xuantian challenged them and claimed his Martial Dao was no inferior to Hongjun's Immortal Dao.

Xuantian forced the Witch and Demon Races to ransom their leaders, then warned the Human Race to rely on its own strength as it rebuilt. After ten thousand years of uneasy peace, the Witch-Slaying Sword and Demon-Slaying Banners were forged, and Houtu summoned Hou Yi.

• Xuantian exchanged the Witch and Demon leaders for treasures from the Witch treasury, then secured another ransom from the Heavenly Court for the Demon leaders.
• Xuantian gave the ransomed treasures to the Three Sovereigns for the Human Race’s battle contributors and ordered them to rebuild Ancestral City and strengthen their people.
• Xuantian took Eastern King Gong and the Queen Mother of the West into the Inner Chaos, gave them cultivation methods, and described the ancient Chaos Fiendgods and beings of Chaos.
• The Witch and Demon Races withdrew to recover from their losses, and ten thousand years of uneasy peace passed across Hong Huang.
• Dijun forged the Witch-Slaying Sword, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches created the Demon-Slaying Banners.
• Houtu summoned Hou Yi to her Ancestral Witch Hall while looking troubled.

Houtu left her tribe and, while reflecting on the fate of the dead, comprehended the laws of the earth and greatly strengthened her cultivation. Seeing the souls of the dead trapped in Hong Huang, she began to understand Samsara and was left close to the Saint realm.

• Houtu entrusted the affairs of her tribe to Hou Yi and left to travel across Hong Huang.
• Houtu saw resentful souls and ghosts wandering after the great calamity and wondered whether the dead could be reborn.
• Houtu merged with the laws of heaven and earth, comprehended the earth’s power to bear all things, and advanced her cultivation toward the Witch Venerable realm.
• Houtu sensed the countless souls and accumulated resentment across Hong Huang and resolved to find a way to help them.
• Houtu observed the endless cycle of death and new life, realized it could be called Samsara, and approached the Saint realm in understanding.

Houtu went to the Blood Sea and transformed her ancestral witch body and spirit to establish the Netherworld Realm and the Six Paths of Reincarnation. As the new realm opened, living beings across Hong Huang mourned and honored her, while Houtu was drawn toward the Six Paths.

• Houtu told Styx she intended to establish Samsara in the Blood Sea, and Styx offered to help after learning it would include an Asura Path.
• Houtu released a vast compassionate aura, causing blood rain and grief throughout Hong Huang, and announced she would transform herself to complete heaven and earth.
• The ancestral witches rushed toward the Blood Sea as living beings, great cultivators, Zhen Yuanzi, Dijun, Taiyi, and the six saints bowed in reverence.
• Houtu entered the newly revealed Netherworld Realm and used her ancestral witch body to open it and manifest the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Houtu merged her ancestral witch spirit with the Six Paths as they drew in wandering souls, and the vast, newly opened Netherworld remained bleak and empty.

Houtu revived with Pangu’s Essence Blood and the merit of establishing reincarnation, becoming Hong Huang’s first Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal without Hongmeng Purple Qi. After setting Pingxin to oversee the Netherworld, she explored the River of Time and Space and learned from Xuantian why Pangu’s axe gleam blocked the way to the Chaos.

• Pangu’s Essence Blood rebuilt Houtu’s body, and the merit of reincarnation elevated her to Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal.
• Houtu sent her benevolent incarnation, Pingxin, to oversee Pingxin Hall, then searched the Witch Race’s tribes for anything unusual.
• Houtu traveled upstream through the River of Time and Space, encountered Pangu’s axe gleam, and fled when it swept toward her.
• Houtu met Xuantian in the Beast Era and learned that the axe gleam protected Hong Huang’s living beings but destroyed chaos-born beings.
• Xuantian explained that the axe gleam blocked passage upstream, the Heaven-Earth Womb could not be breached, and a black hole beyond the gleam led to the Chaos.

Houtu entered Chaos through a black hole and was stranded in the River of Time and Space until a blue-clad woman brought her to Taiyi Island. After becoming the woman’s disciple, Houtu learned about the Chaos Sea’s dangers and chose to focus on cultivation.

• Houtu crossed the black hole and emerged from a tributary of the River of Time and Space, where she could neither move upstream nor reach the main river.
• A blue-clad woman recognized Houtu’s connection to Great God Pangu, took her out of the river, and accepted her as a disciple on Taiyi Island.
• Houtu learned that Taiyi Island was a training ground for supreme beings and that only Hunyuan Supremes could become disciples.
• Ye Qingxian explained the Chaos Sea’s regions and dangers, warned Houtu to cultivate before traveling, and returned to her residence.
• Houtu resolved to concentrate on cultivation, while a woman in green observed her and reflected on how difficult advancement had become at higher realms.

After years of recovery, the Human Race had grown into a major power while the Witch and Demon Races prepared for their own aims. At Tang Valley, Lu Ya thwarted a black-robed figure’s attempt to release the ten Golden Crows, and Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi began suspecting the Western Saints.

• The Human Race gained nine Martial Emperors, while the Human and Witch Races faced off across Hong Huang and the Demon Race held the Heaven Realm.
• Dijun and Xihe’s ten Golden Crow princes were sealed in Tang Valley, where Lu Ya noticed a black-robed figure breaking the island’s restriction.
• Lu Ya restored the restriction before the Golden Crows could leave, and Dijun sensed the incident and rushed to Tang Valley.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi reconstructed images of the intruder and concluded that a powerful figure, likely a Saint, had tried to unleash the Golden Crows.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi identified the two Western Saints as the likeliest suspects.

Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi sought Empress Nuwa's counsel, then Xuantian spent hundreds of millions of years cultivating in the starry sky. When he investigated the Demon Race's move to the Northern Lands, he encountered Dijun and several ancient survivors who had regained their strength, and they agreed to meet at the Human Ancestral City in a hundred thousand years.

• Dijun took Xiao Shi and the others back and went with Eastern Emperor Taiyi to ask Empress Nuwa about the hidden threat, and she urged peace rather than a struggle for supremacy.
• Xuantian studied the three hundred and sixty-five ancient stars, absorbed their essence for hundreds of millions of years, and reached the eighth layer of Xuanhuang Immortality while creating the Star Divine Fist.
• Xuantian noticed the Demon Race moving its core forces into the Northern Lands and sent his Divine Sense there.
• Dijun challenged the spy, and Xuantian recognized that Di Tian had helped Dijun approach the Hunyuan Supreme realm.
• Di Tian, Wuxu, Batian, and a twelve-clawed Chaos Azure Dragon revealed themselves as ancient survivors, and Xuantian proposed a meeting at the Human Ancestral City in a hundred thousand years.

Hongjun explained the origins of Chaos creatures and Origin Demon Gods, Pangu’s power, and why outsiders could not enter Hong Huang. As the Saints prepared to investigate Mount Shouyang in a hundred thousand years, a burst of golden light erupted there and drew the attention of powerful beings across the realms.

• The Saints questioned Hongjun in Purple Cloud Palace about Chaos creatures, Origin Demon Gods, and the difference between Hunyuan Supremes and Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortals.
• Hongjun explained that Origin Demon Gods were born with Great Dao Origins, while Chaos creatures could rise to their ranks through cultivation and the Great Dao’s blessing.
• Hongjun told the Saints that Pangu’s axe light killed outsiders but spared Hong Huang’s native beings, and that Pangu’s barrier kept Chaos beings from entering.
• Hongjun sent the Saints away to prepare for a gathering at Mount Shouyang in a hundred thousand years, and the six decided to leave avatars behind while their true bodies explored.
• A golden light shot up from Mount Shouyang, shaking the Witch, Demon, Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races and drawing the attention of Dijun, Taiyi, Styx, and Pingxin.

The Kongtong Seal appeared at Mount Shouyang, and Xuantian claimed it to secure the Human Race’s fortune and protect it with powerful seals. He then gathered the Human Race’s leaders and proposed that the older generation step down and cultivate in seclusion, leaving leadership to their successors.

• The Kongtong Seal emerged from Mount Shouyang, and Xuantian took it before Taiqing, Nuwa, and the other Saints could reach it.
• Xuantian joined the Kongtong Seal with the Human Race’s fortune and placed powerful seals inside it to repel attacks.
• Xuantian summoned the Human Race’s leaders to discuss the race’s future and honor the sacrifices of the Innate Humans who had fallen.
• Xuantian proposed that the elder leaders choose successors, retire to the Ancestral Land, and cultivate toward becoming Martial Emperors or Quasi-Saints.
• The leaders agreed to step down, and Xuantian ordered the construction of the Primordial Ancestral God Hall as a place for them to cultivate.

Xuantian organized the Primordial Ancestral God Hall and established academies and inspection teams to strengthen the Human Race. Later, a mysterious white-haired Daoist appeared above the East Sea, and Pan spoke with a hidden fellow Daoist about the help they had given a girl.

• Xuantian proposed academies across the Human Race and explained how they would recruit students, fund teachers, and oversee learning.
• Suiren raised concerns about corruption, so Xuantian ordered inspection teams to investigate the academies and punish proven abuses.
• Within a hundred years, the teams and academies were established, and Xuantian sensed that the Human Race's destiny had grown stronger.
• Xuantian considered whether the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors could rise through the Dao of Humanity and wondered whether the Kongtong Seal would be crucial.
• A white-haired Daoist emerged above the East Sea, spoke of surviving Pangu's axe and the fate of his five fellow Daoists, then disappeared.
• Two figures appeared above the East Sea, and Pan thanked the hidden fellow Daoist for helping a girl.

Juntian Shi accepted Xuantian’s offer to take charge of Heavenly Punishment, severed his obsession, and created the Demon-Subduing Daoist before refining the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. He established a system of punishments for beings with karmic burdens and those of heaven-defying aptitude.

• Qin Hao and Shi Yi followed a mysterious pull to an island in the Chaos Sea, entered its vortex, and vanished as the island disappeared.
• Kunpeng perfected Demon Script, spread it across Hong Huang, and gained merit that raised his cultivation to the peak of half-step Hunyuan Supreme.
• Xuantian told Juntian Shi that his upright nature and mastery of lightning made him suited to enforce the Dao on Heaven’s behalf, while warning him to act impartially.
• Juntian Shi severed his obsession and used Nine Heavens Xirang and Three Lights Divine Water to create the Demon-Subduing Daoist.
• Juntian Shi accepted the role, refined the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, and established four levels of punishment for karmic transgressions, as well as punishment for beings of heaven-defying aptitude.

Jun Tian established Heavenly Punishment and gained merit, while Xuantian earned merit for his zither performance and urged the Human Race to develop its own writing. A young man named Qin had begun inventing symbols, and Xuan Yuan was assigned to protect him as he pursued the creation of Human writing.

• Jun Tian established Heavenly Punishment, received merit, and advanced to Great Perfection of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Xuantian played the Xuantian Zither, moved beings across Hong Huang, and gained merit and the titles Music Ancestor and Zither Ancestor.
• Xuantian encouraged the Human Race leaders to create writing and civilization, but Feng Yun Shi said their efforts had produced nothing.
• Xuan Yuan reported that Qin, a student at Windroll Academy, had created symbols to describe things, and Xuantian ordered the leaders not to interfere.
• Xuantian identified Qin and assigned Xuan Yuan to protect him secretly, intervening only if Qin's life was in danger.
• Qin resolved to organize and adapt the writing from his former world, then realized days later that an Emperor was secretly protecting him.

After ten thousand years of work, Qin of the Wind-Roll Tribe created three thousand characters and faced the Heavenly Dao’s trial. The Human Race’s collective will helped him survive, and the merit of creating writing advanced Xuan Yuan to the Quasi-Saint realm.

• Qin of the Wind-Roll Tribe finished carving three thousand characters and announced that he had created writing for the Human Race.
• The Heavenly Dao summoned a lightning tribulation above the Wind-Roll Tribe, and Qin endured its attacks as Xuan Yuan and the Imperial Guard watched.
• The Human Race’s people sent their will into Qin’s characters, and Qin wrote “Human will can overcome heaven!” to resist the tribulation.
• Qin survived the World-Destroying Divine Thunder, and merit descended upon him and the Wind-Roll Tribe.
• Xuan Yuan received a share of the merit, listened to the Heavenly Dao, and advanced to the Quasi-Saint realm.

After creating written language for the Human Race, Qin received the title of Literary Ancestor and command of the Human Race Imperial Guard, though he would need to earn the guards’ respect through strength. Elsewhere, a goddess arrived in Human Territory and discovered a mysterious blue-robed man cultivating a powerful technique.

• Qin poured the merit from creating characters into his jade stele, transforming it into a Merit Spiritual Treasure that could manifest the meanings of its written characters.
• Ziyi Shi named Qin the Human Race’s Literary Ancestor and took him to the Ancestral Land, where the Human Ancestors praised his achievement.
• Xuantian transferred command of the Human Race Imperial Guard to Qin, warning that he would have to prove his strength to win the guards’ allegiance.
• The Three Pure Ones, Ancestral Witches, Eastern Emperor, and Dijun separately gained insights and the Pangu True Formula after encountering an age before antiquity.
• On the East Sea Shore, a peerlessly beautiful goddess spotted a blue-robed man cultivating amid vast visions of the Dao.
• The man completed his cultivation, declared “Dao Soldiers Transform into Gods!” and opened eyes that swept across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

Xuantian met Nuwa after reaching the Fourth Heaven and taught her a method for advancing in Hunyuan. He discussed reincarnated Chaos-era beings with Nuwa and Yang Mei before departing, leaving Nuwa to continue traveling along the East Sea and wonder about Hongmeng.

• Xuantian appeared before Nuwa and explained that he had reached the Fourth Heaven after comprehending the Dao for ten thousand years.
• Nuwa told Xuantian that her saintly position made advancing to Hunyuan Da Luo difficult, and Xuantian gave her a method for condensing Great Dao laws and a Great Dao seed.
• Xuantian explained the nine Hunyuan levels and revealed that three Origin Demon Gods had appeared in Hong Huang, prompting Nuwa to ask about his identity.
• Yang Mei appeared, and Xuantian revealed that he had been Samsara during the Chaos Era; Yang Mei discussed the origins and fates of the Chaos Demon Gods before taking his leave.
• Xuantian departed, and Nuwa resumed her travels along the East Sea while wondering whether Hongmeng lay beyond Hunyuan.

Nuwa established the way of human relations, attained Hunyuan, and learned that Fuxi’s Dao lay within the Human Race. The Human Ancestors agreed to let Fuxi reincarnate there without assistance, while Xuantian instructed the Queen Mother of the West in attaining Hunyuan and gave her Taiyin origin.

• Nuwa proclaimed marriage rules for the Human Race, earning heavenly merit that brought her to Hunyuan and turned the Red Embroidered Ball into a merit spiritual treasure.
• Fuxi entered enlightenment through his bond with Nuwa and realized that his Dao lay within the Human Race.
• Nuwa told the Human Ancestors that Fuxi could reincarnate into the Human Race, and Xuantian asked whether he would truly become one of them.
• The Human Ancestors agreed to Fuxi’s reincarnation on the condition that the Ancestral Land would give him no assistance, and Nuwa agreed to ask her brother’s opinion.
• The Queen Mother of the West visited Xuantian to seek cultivation guidance, and he taught her the martial Dao and method of attaining Hunyuan.
• Xuantian gave the Queen Mother of the West Taiyin origin to improve her innate foundation.

Xuantian collected the Three Lights Divine Water and the Pure World White Lotus from Penglai, then learned of the mysterious genius Huang Tian and the rise of Fuxi. Fuxi comprehended the Primordial Eight Trigrams and used his knowledge to protect and organize the Human Race.

• Xuantian returned to Penglai, collected the Three Lights Divine Water and the twelve-tier Pure World White Lotus, and left the pond behind.
• Qin reported that Huang Tian had dominated the Nine Tribes Academy contests, but Xuantian could not divine his origins.
• Qin told Xuantian that Fuxi had been born amid extraordinary signs and had become leader of the Huaxu Tribe while still young.
• Fuxi pondered the Human Race's vulnerability beside the Luo River and comprehended the Primordial Eight Trigrams with the aid of the River Chart and Luo River Writing.
• Fuxi's cultivation returned to its former peak, and he taught the Human Race to foresee natural disasters, fish, and tame wild beasts.
• Fuxi united and organized the Human Race, established its institutions and rites, and passed the Primordial Eight Trigrams to gifted people.

Xuantian broke through to the Fifth Heaven as Fuxi’s rule greatly increased Human Race fortune. After fifteen thousand years as co-lord, Fuxi began his abdication ceremony at Mount Tai and passed heaven and earth’s nine-part trial, but his gathered merit remained suspended as the saints arrived.

• Xuantian fully formed his fifth divine wheel, and the Human Race’s growing fortune under Fuxi helped him break through to the Fifth Heaven.
• Ten thousand years later, Fuxi prepared to abdicate and held the transfer ceremony at Mount Tai with Shennong.
• Fuxi recounted his achievements and announced that he would retire to the Ancestral Land, leaving future generations to contend for the next co-lord.
• Fuxi endured nine sounds that tested his deeds and resolve, and heaven and earth appeared to acknowledge his position as Human Sovereign.
• Merit gathered above Fuxi but did not descend, and the saints of Hong Huang arrived as the three trials for proving the Human Sovereign’s Dao began.