Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen Xiang attacked Fang Lansheng, believing he was Jin Lei, but his Rebirth Mantra and memories convinced her they were different people. Learning that Jin Lei had died by He Wenjun’s grave, Ye Chen Xiang let go of her century-old hatred and passed into Samsara.

• Ye Chen Xiang accused Fang Lansheng of being Jin Lei and attacked him, but Yin Qianshang shielded him and Baili Tusu subdued her.
• Fang Lansheng struggled against violent memories and recited the Rebirth Mantra, purifying Ye Chen Xiang’s resentment.
• Ye Chen Xiang realized Fang Lansheng was not Jin Lei, and Fang Lansheng explained that he had found the Azure Jade Compass Pendant as a child.
• Ye Chen Xiang recalled Jin Lei grieving at He Wenjun’s grave, and Fang Lansheng told her Jin Lei had died there by suicide.
• Ye Chen Xiang questioned whether her hatred had any meaning, then dissipated into smoke and entered Samsara.

Xuantian and the others defeated Lei Yan after he seized for Yuheng, while Baili Tusu avenged the Wumeng Spirit Valley clan and Fang Ruqin was left gravely wounded. Months later, the survivors gathered for Yin Qianshang and Huashang’s wedding before parting to follow their separate paths.

• After the illusion vanished, Xuantian recovered the final Yuheng fragment and reunited with the others at the ruined manor, where Lei Yan and Jin Niang held Fang Ruqin hostage.
• Fang Ruqin escaped toward Fang Lansheng, but Jin Niang stabbed her; Ouyang Shaogong struck Jin Niang, and Xuantian’s group fought the Azure Jade Altar forces.
• Lei Yan tried to take Yuheng, but Xuantian’s hidden sword strike severed his hand; Baili Tusu confronted Lei Yan, who admitted he had ordered the Wumeng Spirit Valley massacre.
• Baili Tusu killed Lei Yan with Fenji, while Ouyang Shaogong tried to save Fang Ruqin; several months later, Yin Qianshang married Huashang at the House of Flowers.
• Ouyang Shaogong and Xunfang departed overseas, Fang Lansheng returned to Qinchuan with Fang Ruqin, and Xiang Ling left to seek her parents.
• Baili Tusu invited Feng Qingxue to travel with him, and she agreed; Ling Yue and Hongyu returned to Tianyong City.

Xuantian and Xu Weibear left their former world, explored the Tianyuan Continent and Heaven Realm, and established Dream Divine Dao. Xuantian opened and expanded an inner world, advanced to the limit of Heaven Tier, and returned to find Xu Weibear at peak God Emperor and Meng Shentong among their disciples.

• Xuantian gave Baili Tusu a Soul-Restoring Pill for his mother, then returned to Tianyong City as Baili Tusu and Feng Qingxue remained in Peach Blossom Valley.
• Over the following centuries, Xuantian reached Golden Immortal while Xu Weibear became a Celestial Immortal, and the pair left their world for the Tianyuan Continent.
• Xuantian and Xu Weibear traveled through the Tianyuan Continent and Heaven Realm, established Xuantian Dojo, and renamed it Dream Divine Dao.
• Xuantian created and expanded his inner world with Jianmu, merged it with the outside world, and advanced first to peak Heaven Tier and later to the limit of Heaven Tier.
• Xuantian returned to Dream Divine Dao after a thousand years and found Xu Weibear at peak God Emperor and Meng Shentong, whom he had brought back from his travels, at seventh tier.

Xuantian discovered that his daughter Xiao Yao had become the master of the Vast Righteous Dao and learned that the Taishang Record of Severing Emotion could revive Taishang through its practitioner. After destroying most of the soul remnant that formed inside him, he studied the arts he had obtained and began fusing three of his own Daos, leaving him poised to break through toward the Heaven-Defying level.

• Xuantian asked Old Man Tombkeeper about the Vast Righteous Dao and learned its founder had reached the peak of the Heaven Tier and become a taboo great god.
• Xuantian visited the Vast Righteous Dao, confirmed its master was his daughter Xiao Yao, and obtained her perfected Vast Righteous Qi Art along with several other techniques.
• After cultivating the Taishang Record of Severing Emotion, Xuantian reached the Heaven Tier's limit and fought the newly formed soul that sought to replace him.
• Xuantian destroyed most of the Celestial's soul remnant, then used Chengying to consume its fragments and prevent it from reviving inside him again.
• Xuantian spent millennia deriving Dreams of a Thousand Autumns and the Vast Righteous Qi Art into his own arts, then began fusing the Vast Righteous Dao, Yin-Yang Taiji Dao, and Dream Way.
• As the three Daos reached seventy percent fusion, Xuantian grasped mysteries beyond the Heaven Tier and gathered his power to force a breakthrough.

After reaching the Heaven-Defying King Realm, Xuantian returned to the Third Realm, where he fought Heaven Tier powers as the Six Realms began their final destruction. He protected the Human Realm from the World-Annihilating Millstone while his Taiji, Vast Righteous Dao, and Dream Way nearly merged, leaving him facing a devastating bolt of Heaven’s Punishment.

• Xuantian advanced to the Heaven-Defying King Realm, was exiled to the Third Realm by the Demon Lord, and returned after three days to ask about the founder of the Vast Righteous Dao.
• Xuantian went back to the Third Realm, killed and refined Heaven Tier opponents, and sensed the Human Realm and Heaven Realm collapsing beneath the World-Annihilating Millstone.
• Xiao Yao joined the returning ancient gods as the Six Realms’ destruction began, while escaped Heaven Tier prisoners attacked the Human Realm and were killed by Xuantian’s divine light.
• Xuantian used Taishang, the Vast Righteous Dao, and the Dream Way to defend the Human Realm, and the three paths nearly merged under the millstone’s pressure.
• Xuantian summoned Chengying to reinforce the Human Realm’s defenses as a vast bolt of Heaven’s Punishment streaked across the sky.

After the Ancient Seal began breaking, Xuantian joined the Demon Lord, the Haoran Dao Lord, and Dugu Baitian to stop the Chaos King and his allies from advancing through time. Xuantian revealed the overwhelming power of his three fused origins and tore the Chaos King into eight pieces, while Blue Heaven was left badly wounded.

• Xuantian recognized that the Ancient Seal separating the Primordial Era from the present was coming undone and urged the primordial gods to attack the Chaos Remnant Clan.
• Xuantian and Ancestor Chen entered the River of Time and joined the Demon Lord, the Haoran Dao Lord, and Dugu Baitian to delay the Chaos King, Blue Heaven, and the Four Chaos Sovereigns.
• Xuantian fused his Haoran, Dream Way, and Taiji origins, reached Heaven-Defying great perfection, and overpowered the Chaos King and Blue Heaven.
• The Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, the Haoran Dao Lord, and Chen the Demon fought the Four Chaos Sovereigns, while Dugu Baitian restored his body and regained his peak strength.
• Xuantian revealed that he had destroyed the Demon-Suppressing Stone and Sevenfold Hell, then tore the Chaos King into eight pieces and suppressed his remains in his inner world.

Xuantian and the gods waged a final war against the corrupted Heavenly Dao, sacrificing countless lives to destroy it and bring forth a new one. After the fallen began returning across the ages, Xiao Yao reunited with her parents, while Xuantian expounded on the path beyond Heaven-Defying Grade and the survivors continued their cultivation.

• Xuantian defeated the Chaos King and Blue Heaven, then joined Dugu Baitian and the others in opening the Heaven-Piercing Road and leading the gods toward the Nine Heavens.
• Demon Lord revealed that the Heavenly Dao had once embodied the will of all beings but had become a destructive, selfish entity, and the gods sacrificed themselves to empower the Divine Demon Diagram and its formations.
• Xuantian seized the World-Milling Disc, and the surviving gods battered the Heavenly Dao until Chen Nan used his Source World and the will of all beings to destroy it.
• The new Heavenly Dao offered Chen Nan and Xuantian dominion, but both refused; it promised to restore the fallen over time and divided the Heaven's Heart Imprint between them.
• After countless years, Xiao Yao returned and reunited with Xu Weibear and Xuantian, who explained the cultivation path beyond Heaven-Defying Grade and named its next realm Da Luo Golden Immortal.
• Several hundred thousand years later, Xu Weibear had reached Heaven-Defying Grade, while Chen Zhan, Dugu Baitian, Demon Lord, and Ghost Lord had reached Heaven-Defying Grade Great Perfection and pursued Da Luo.

Xuantian opened a vast new world, then vanished with Xu Weibear as his body became part of creation. While he watched Hong Huang’s ages pass in a diminished, silent state, Nuwa began to understand her destiny to create a peaceful race.

• Xuantian split the chaos with forty-nine saber strikes, formed a new world, and shaped its Heavenly Dao umbrella from Great Dao essences.
• Xuantian’s body became the world, with his eyes turning into the sun and moon; he ascended with Xu Weibear and left Xiao Yao behind to find her own path.
• Xuantian learned he was an incarnation and watched Hongjun, Primordial Beginning, Taizhen, and Taixuan emerge, then witnessed the rise and fall of Hong Huang’s great powers.
• Xuantian refined his three cultivation arts into new scriptures while waiting for his own emergence, and he observed Nuwa wandering near Mount Buzhou.
• Nuwa realized that her Dao of fortune could mean creating a peaceful race and believed the will of living beings and the Heavenly Dao had called her to do so.

Nuwa created the Human Race, gained immense merit, severed her third corpse, and became the second saint of Hong Huang before opening Wa Empress Heaven to preach the Dao. She left the Human Ancestor to protect the newborn humans, while Xuantian secretly entered one human and began rebuilding his cultivation.

• Nuwa realized she needed to create a new race, and after learning from Primordial Beginning's insights and witnessing a Phoenix's Nirvana, she understood that her creations needed both bodies and souls.
• Nuwa used the Creation Cauldron, Purifying Divine Water, Five-Colored Xirang, and Gourd Vine to create and temper the Human Race, which gained a vast share of Hong Huang's fortune and drew merit from Heaven.
• Nuwa used the merit to sever her third corpse, the Human Ancestor, then became a saint and learned that Primordial Beginning stood as a brother to the Heavenly Dao.
• Nuwa named Jinning as her mount, left the Human Ancestor to guard the Human Race, opened Wa Empress Heaven, and preached the Great Dao of Creation to gathered powers and disciples.
• Xuantian entered a human unnoticed, severed Nuwa's bloodline within him, and secretly rebuilt his cultivation up to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm while suppressing further advancement.

Jieyin and Zhunti realized that sainthood could combine merit with corpse-severing, while the Human Race struggled to survive and Black Tortoise's human incarnation, Turtle, faced setbacks and fled Little Lotus's proposal. Styx created the Asura Clan and gained merit enough to sever his second corpse, but failed to become a saint, leaving other powers to abandon their attempts at creating races for merit.

• Jieyin and Zhunti concluded that Nuwa's path to sainthood had combined corpse-severing and merit, then left to consider creating a race of their own.
• The Human Ancestor watched the great powers depart, while the Human Race's leaders worried about their people's survival and Turtle reflected on his failed attempt to claim Suiren's merit.
• Little Lotus proposed having a child with Turtle and naming it Little Monkey, so Turtle fled; Black Tortoise later argued with Zhurong over whether the Human Race should be exterminated.
• Feng Wu failed to persuade Ancestral Phoenix to protect the Human Race, and Laozi, Yuan Shi, Tongtian, Zhunti, and Jieyin found that creating a race would not let them become saints.
• Styx created the Asura Clan and gained enough merit to advance his cultivation and sever his second corpse, but the merit ended before he could become a saint.
• Styx's success prompted other powers to try creating races for merit, but they failed, and the practice gradually ceased.

Suiren, Ziyi, and Youchao earned merit by creating fire, clothing, and houses, helping the Human Race survive and grow. As the humans began seeking teachers beyond their territory, Laozi sensed his opportunity to become a Saint and encountered demons discussing their taste for humans.

• Suiren made fire by drilling wood, received Heavenly Dao merit that raised him to the Da Luo Golden Immortal level, and was named an ancestor by Nuwa's three-corpse incarnation.
• Ziyi created the first garment and Youchao built the first house; both earned merit, reached the Da Luo Golden Immortal level, and were named ancestors.
• Primordial Beginning considered how the Human Race's creations expressed the Supreme Law of Creation, while Xuantian secretly guided Turtle to spread cultivation methods among humans.
• Dijun rejected the idea of wiping out the Human Race, and the Demon Race decided to watch them as its fortune declined.
• The Three Ancestors agreed to send humans beyond their territory to seek masters and cultivation methods, despite the dangers.
• Laozi sensed that his opportunity had arrived, traveled for nearly ten thousand years, and wondered whether the Human Race was connected to his chance to become a Saint after demons threatened to eat him.

Laozi discovered that teaching the Human Race could lead him to Sainthood, founded the Human Sect, and became a Saint, then fought Nuwa over the fortune he took from her people. After Laozi returned to Kunlun, Yuanshi and Tongtian also founded sects and attained Sainthood, while Jieyin and Zhunti began making vows to follow them.

• Laozi entered a human settlement, realized the Human Race was his opportunity, and preached the Golden Elixir Dao for three thousand years.
• Laozi founded the Human Sect and attained Sainthood, taking a share of the Human Race's fortune and angering Nuwa.
• Nuwa challenged Laozi to a battle in the Chaos, where her attacks gained the upper hand but his treasures prevented her from defeating him.
• After Laozi returned to Kunlun, Yuanshi founded the Chan Sect and became a Saint, followed by Tongtian founding the Interception Sect and attaining Sainthood.
• Jieyin and Zhunti founded the Western Sect, received too little merit to become Saints, and began making forty-eight great vows.

The Demon Race’s ten Golden Crows ravaged the Human Race, prompting a confrontation that Nuwa struggled to settle as the Human Race demanded justice. Primordial Beginning intervened after the Human Race repeatedly tried to swear an oath against the Demon Race, warning them that their arrogance and reliance on protection threatened their rise.

• Styx founded the Ashura Sect and gained merit but failed to become a saint, while the Demon Race discussed using Dijun’s Heavenly Marriage with Xihe to gain merit and strengthen its position.
• Xuantian recovered his cultivation, planted his Dao in the Great Dao River, and left to seek the Vast Expanse Barrier after passing cultivation methods to Human Race youngsters.
• The ten Golden Crows descended to the Human Race, where nine of them unleashed Solar True Fire and destroyed a vast area; Dijun arrived and clashed with Human Race leaders who demanded an explanation.
• Turtle argued that the Demon Race was responsible for the destruction, but Dijun refused to hand over his sons, and the Human Race’s oath that humans and demons would never coexist was rejected by the Heavenly Dao.
• Nuwa arrived and asked how the Human Race wanted the matter handled, but the Human Race continued to demand irreconcilability with the Demon Race, prompting Primordial Beginning to appear and warn them against arrogance and reliance on Nuwa’s protection.

Primordial Beginning warned Hong Huang of an approaching calamity in which five seats of sainthood would be contested, then set the Human Race’s second calamity in motion through Gonggong. After the Human Race endured Gonggong’s flood, Turtle helped its leaders turn their humiliation into resolve, leaving them committed to growing stronger.

• Primordial Beginning warned Dijun to discipline the ten young Golden Crows and announced that a devastating calamity was coming, with five seats of sainthood at stake.
• Dijun confined the ten young Golden Crows on Fusang Island to train by illuminating the Endless Dark Sea, while they remained resentful and unrepentant.
• Primordial Beginning gave Gonggong wine that weakened his control, and the drunken Gonggong mistakenly flooded Human Race territory and killed many humans.
• Zhu Jiuyin stopped the fighting and explained that Gonggong had brought the Human Race’s second calamity, after which the Witch Race withdrew and the humans turned their grief toward revenge and growth.
• Turtle guided the Human Race’s leaders to learn from the resilience of wild grass, and they vowed to grow untamed and fear neither wind nor rain.

Zhunti's scheme sent the ten young Golden Crows rampaging across Hong Huang, where Hou Yi shot down nine and the Witch and Demon Races nearly began a decisive war. Wangshu stopped the fighting, and Primordial Beginning told Dijun and Xihe that their sons had not perished completely after Dijun agreed to relinquish his struggle for supremacy.

• Dijun warned the Demon Race to prepare for war, while Zhunti and Jieyin plotted to provoke a decisive conflict between the two races.
• Zhunti broke Yingzhou Immortal Island's formation and lured the ten young Golden Crows out, then led them across the East Sea and mainland as they killed countless beings.
• Kuafu tried to stop the Golden Crows, but Dijun's talisman killed him; Hou Yi then used Kuafu's Sun-Shooting Arrows to kill nine of the ten princes.
• The Witch and Demon Races clashed, and the Dragon, Qilin, and Phoenix clans severed their ties with the Demon Race; Wangshu saved Xihe and forced the armies to withdraw after Zhunti and Zhen Yuanzi arrived.
• Wangshu told Xihe and Dijun to seek Primordial Beginning, who revealed that the nine Golden Crows had not perished completely and would return after repaying their karmic debts and undergoing trials.
• Dijun agreed to abandon his struggle for supremacy, and Primordial Beginning said that his decision was crucial to saving his sons.

Zhu Jiuyin received Primordial Beginning’s guidance, and the Witch and Demon Races fought their final battle before renouncing their overlord status and earning merit. Yuanshi’s attack damaged heaven, forcing the saints to repair it; afterward, the saints disputed the races’ fate, and Tongtian began recruiting demons.

• Black Tortoise warned the ancestral witches that the conflict was a Saint’s scheme, and Zhu Jiuyin visited Primordial Beginning for guidance.
• Primordial Beginning told Zhu Jiuyin that the Witch Race existed to contribute to Hong Huang and gave him an array flag to replace Gonggong in the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiend Formation.
• Dijun and Zhu Jiuyin led the Demon and Witch Races through a prolonged war that ended when their formations destroyed one another, killing many fighters and badly wounding both sides.
• Dijun and Zhu Jiuyin swore that their races would surrender their overlord status and disperse their fortune, earning merit and preserving a path to survival.
• Yuanshi attacked the races inside Primordial Beginning’s Purple Lotus, but his strike rebounded and tore open heaven; Nuwa, Laozi, Tongtian, and others helped repair the damage and rescue living beings.
• Hongjun rewarded the Witch and Demon Races and summoned leaders to Purple Cloud Palace ten thousand years later; the saints then negotiated over the races’ territory, and Tongtian invited demons to join his Jie Sect.

After the Witch-Demon Tribulation, Primordial Beginning arranged a new home for the surviving Demon Race and Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to govern the Heavenly Court. The chapter ended with the demons learning of their new home and Haotian resolving to build a force that even the Saints would respect.

• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi rallied the surviving Demon Race, which gathered resources and mourned its dead while awaiting the Dao Ancestor's decision about its future.
• At the Purple Cloud Palace, Primordial Beginning offered the Demon Race nearly one hundred immortal islands, and the Saints argued over who should govern the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi as rulers of the Heavenly Court, and Primordial Beginning and Hongjun bestowed powerful treasures, resources, and guidance on them.
• Hongjun and Primordial Beginning confirmed that the Human Race would become the unchangeable, eternal master of fortune, while the Three Ancestors asked about the remaining Saints.
• After the Saints departed, the Three Ancestors, the Witch Race, and the Demon Race pledged support to Haotian, then Dijun brought Haotian and Yaochi to the Heavenly Court and announced the Demon Race's new home.

Xuantian became Patriarch of the Human Race and helped secure its rise as the master of eternal providence, while the Saints and other races pledged protection and support. After the Three Ancestors worried that the Saints would seize Human Race providence, Xuantian created an obsession corpse from the Kongtong Seal to control its flow.

• Xuantian returned from Chaos, took control of the Human Race, and established the Humanity Academy with Turtle's help.
• Hongjun ordered the Three Ancestors and Xuantian to withdraw from leadership once the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors began their rise, and Xuantian agreed.
• Tongtian and the other Saints pledged to protect the Human Race, while the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races linked their providence to it, establishing the Human Race as an Overlord.
• Nuwa chose her brother Fuxi to become the first Human Emperor, and Primordial Beginning assigned Saints to assist the rulers.
• Xuantian reassured the Three Ancestors and urged them to support the Dream God Sect, Dao Xuanqing, and Humanity Academy.
• Xuantian formed an obsession corpse from the Kongtong Seal and tasked it with suppressing the Human Race's providence dragon and controlling the flow of providence.

Nuwa sent Fuxi’s soul into the Human Path of reincarnation, and Yun Zhongzi traveled to the Fenggun Tribe to prepare for his birth. After Huaxu entered Leize, became pregnant, and endured years of hardship, Fuxi was born and later became Yun Zhongzi’s disciple.

• Nuwa sent Fuxi’s soul into the Human Path with Pingxin’s help, beginning his thousand-year reincarnation.
• Yun Zhongzi met Leize near the Fenggun Tribe and prepared to guide Fuxi when he was born.
• Huaxu entered Leize seeking to change her fate, found a footprint, and woke unconscious with a child growing inside her.
• The Fenggun Tribe cast Huaxu out after her pregnancy lasted nearly ten thousand years, but an auspicious Qilin protected her until Yun Zhongzi arrived as Fuxi’s birth approached.
• Yun Zhongzi gave Huaxu a pill, and she gave birth to Fuxi amid auspicious signs; he told the tribe he would teach the child and later named him.
• When Fuxi reached sixteen and had cultivated to the Celestial Immortal realm, Yun Zhongzi returned and formally accepted him as his disciple.

Fuxi transformed the Human Race through fishing, domestication, city-building, and new customs, then became its co-ruler and established human marriage with Mysterious Maiden. As his merit neared completion, he sought a way to help humanity divine fortune and misfortune, while Yuanshi grew suspicious of Primordial Beginning’s warning.

• Fuxi learned from Yun Zhongzi to eat fish and shrimp, then devised nets after observing a spiderweb; the Fenggun Tribe used them for fishing and hunting and developed knot-recording.
• Fuxi and Yun Zhongzi began storing live fish and domesticating animals, ending the tribe’s recurring food shortages; Fuxi became Patriarch and led reforms that spread across the Human Race.
• Fuxi united tribes, built cities, and purged the gods who exploited humanity; Kong Xuan arrived and destroyed the Evil God Alliance, allowing Fuxi to be accepted as the Human Race’s co-ruler.
• With Yun Zhongzi’s guidance, Fuxi established human marriage with Mysterious Maiden, and Nuwa officiated their wedding; the ceremony earned merit and helped establish human ethics and customs.
• As Fuxi’s merit approached completion, he asked Yun Zhongzi how the Human Race could divine fortune and misfortune, while Yuanshi wondered why Primordial Beginning had sent only an avatar to warn him about Queen Mother of the West.