Chapter Summaries

Nuwa visited Styx before her Dao lecture to ask about teaching cultivation methods while the Path of Laws remained sealed by the Heavenly Dao. Styx approved her plan and urged her to study the Human Dao and discuss the Dao with Ling'er, while Jin Ning received a treasure and grew more devoted to Nuwa.

• Nuwa brought Jin Ning to the outskirts of the Blood Sea and paid respects to Styx, whom she called her master.
• Nuwa asked Styx how she should preach the Path of Primordial Chaos Laws while the Heavenly Dao had sealed the Path of Laws.
• Styx let Nuwa spread the two Dao Proving Methods he had improved and advised her to study the Human Dao alongside the Blood Scripture.
• Styx told Nuwa to discuss the Dao with Ling'er, who was expected to leave seclusion soon, and opened a passage to the Styx Realm for them.
• Styx gave Jin Ning a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Phoenix Head Hairpin, as a meeting gift.
• Jin Ning followed Nuwa into the Styx Realm and resolved to stay close to her in hopes of growing strong enough to help the Phoenix Clan escape its karmic suppression.

Styx prepared for Houtu’s future creation of the Underworld by forging its key spiritual treasures, including the Eighteen Layers of Hell and cities for ghosts. He also planned a substitute for the Yellow Springs River, leaving the Underworld’s infrastructure ready to support its development.

• Styx decided to forge the Underworld’s spiritual treasures himself to spare its origin and began refining them with the Universe Cauldron and World Tree branches.
• Styx created the Netherworld Pagoda, designed to become the Eighteen Layers of Hell, along with halls for Yama and judges, ten cities for ghosts, and Ghost Gate Pass.
• Styx used Chaos Qi and Merit to turn the pagoda’s levels and instruments of punishment into thirty-six Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasures, though he could not link all of them together.
• Styx sought a substitute for the Blood Sea as the source of the future Yellow Springs River and conceived of refining Yellow Springs Blood Water, soul power, Grievance Qi, and Styx Blood Soil into a springhead.
• Styx planned to combine the springhead with Ghost Gate Pass and the Yellow Springs Road, with Ran Deng serving as Guide Envoy to lead Yin Souls toward judgment.

Styx gave the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum the Hundred Herbs Illustrated to help them overcome their cultivation bottleneck, then sent Nuwa to Mount Shouyang with guidance for Kunpeng and Fuxi. After learning how the Human Race had grown and developed its Martial Dao, Kunpeng and Fuxi accepted Styx’s guidance and entered seclusion.

• Styx gave the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum the Hundred Herbs Illustrated and instructed them to refine it together using the qi of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind.
• Nuwa returned to Mount Shouyang with Jin Ning and found that the Human Race had grown greatly over five Eons.
• Ming’s Martial Dao had been validated among the Human Race, and he entered seclusion to develop the path beyond its current limits.
• Nuwa relayed Styx’s intentions to Kunpeng and Fuxi, and Kunpeng accepted the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud.
• Kunpeng and Fuxi thanked Styx, arranged the Human Race’s affairs, and entered seclusion to follow the direction he had pointed out.

Nuwa gathered cultivators on the East Sea Coast to hear her preach the Dao and noticed the concealed Six-Eared Macaque among them. She decided to take him to her Master after the preaching, while the Six-Eared Macaque chose to stay despite sensing that a powerful expert had noticed him.

• Nuwa left Jin Ning, Changxi, and Xi He to look after the Human Race before going to the East Sea Coast to prepare for her preaching.
• Nuwa chose a small mountain as her preaching site, and cultivators gathered there according to their realms.
• Nuwa recognized the concealed Six-Eared Macaque and decided to seize him after the preaching and give him to her Master.
• The Six-Eared Macaque sensed that a powerful expert was watching him but stayed because he wanted to hear the Dao and felt an opportunity awaited him.
• Nuwa called the Six-Eared Macaque clever and turned her attention back to preparing her sermon.

Nuwa preached to the living beings of the Great Wilderness for one Eon, teaching cultivation paths and revealing a new Human Dao method. Her sermon greatly benefited Mount Shouyang and restored the Six-Eared Macaque’s damaged foundation, leaving him grateful to her.

• Nuwa began her first sermon as a Human Dao Saint, using the Human Dao’s power to make her teachings reach and benefit all who listened.
• Nuwa’s voice reached Mount Shouyang, where Ming advanced his Martial Dao deduction, Fuxi developed a cultivation method for the Human Race, and Kunpeng began deducing the Literary Dao.
• Nuwa taught the path from Earth Immortal to Da Luo Golden Immortal Perfection, explained Styx’s two Dao Proving Methods, and introduced an unfinished Human Dao cultivation path based on the Seven Emotions and Six Desires.
• Nuwa used the Human Dao to protect listeners who could no longer follow the sermon, allowing them to continue gaining from its Dao Resonance and spiritual energy.
• Nuwa repaired the Six-Eared Macaque’s ears and foundation, restoring his cultivation to the Early Golden Immortal realm and prompting him to weep with gratitude.

Nuwa concluded her Dao preaching, shared the gathered Fortune with the living beings, and left with the Six-Eared Macaque. She offered him a great opportunity and planned to take him to Mount Shouyang to watch over the Human Race.

• The living beings thanked Nuwa for explaining cultivation and resolving their doubts, while her preaching left them with guidance and confidence.
• Nuwa returned the Fortune gathered from their gratitude to the living beings and ended the preaching.
• Nuwa ignored those hoping to become her disciples and disappeared with the Six-Eared Macaque, while the Giant Rock began absorbing her lingering Dao Resonance.
• Nuwa told the Six-Eared Macaque she would bestow a great fortune on him, and he eagerly accepted.
• Nuwa invited the Six-Eared Macaque to accompany her to Mount Shouyang to watch over the Human Race, leaving him to seize the opportunity for himself.

Ming demonstrated two cultivation systems extending Martial Dao beyond the Martial Dao Celestial Being realm and inscribed their key methods on the Gourd Vine. Human Race cultivators gathered to receive the inheritance, leaving them with new paths for advancing their cultivation.

• Ming demonstrated the further Martial Dao methods he had deduced, extending cultivation beyond the Martial Dao Celestial Being realm.
• Ming outlined a system based on the Wheel Sea and Martial Dao Dharma Form, progressing through realms from Heavenly Martial Artist to Martial Dao Saint.
• Ming presented a second system that evolved a cultivator's bloodline through primordial qi, including the risks and opportunities of absorbing a great expert's blood essence.
• Ming inscribed the two systems' key points on the Gourd Vine so it could pass them to Human Race cultivators as inherited memories.
• Human Race cultivators and Nuwa gathered beneath the Gourd Vine, where they saw the methods and welcomed the new directions for Martial Dao.

Ming preached Martial Dao to the Human Race and organized its expansion beyond Mount Shouyang. After a period of growth and conquest, the Human Race established control over the surrounding territory and its fortune increased.

• Ming reached the Martial Venerable Realm, opened a Martial Dao World, and began teaching Martial Dao to the Human Race.
• Many Human cultivators broke through or abandoned Immortal Dao cultivation to switch to Martial Dao, drawing Human Dao fortune and Merit to Ming.
• Ming established a Contribution Hall, a reward-and-punishment system, and tasks for branches of the Human Race to expand outward.
• Ming formed Twelve Great Tribes around Mount Shouyang and spread Acquired Human Race members into smaller tribes while the Innate Human Race remained in the ancestral land.
• Over one Eon, the Human Race brought the territory within ten million li of Mount Shouyang under its rule, killing those who resisted and rapidly increasing its fortune.

Ming guided ordinary Human Race members as they developed weapons, clothing, and fire, earning Bing, Zi Yi, and Sui Ren recognition as the Three Ancestors. He accepted all three as disciples, and their inventions accelerated Human Race civilization.

• Ming separated Human Race members without Mana from the cultivator tribes and watched as they struggled to provide for themselves.
• A young man created weapons that reduced hunting casualties, and Ming named him Bing, though no Merit descended.
• A young girl made the first fur coat, received Merit, and was named Zi Yi.
• Ming extinguished the tribe’s fire, prompting a young man to discover how to make fire by drilling one branch into another.
• The young man received Merit and the name Sui Ren after spreading the fire-making method among the Human Race.
• Ming accepted Bing, Zi Yi, and Sui Ren as disciples, and the Human Race revered them as the Three Ancestors.

Fuxi and Kunpeng emerged from seclusion and presented Ming with new cultivation methods for the Human Race, which he approved for them to spread. They departed to teach the methods, leaving Ming hopeful that their work would strengthen the Human Dao and help them break through.

• Fuxi gave Ming a Jade Slip containing cultivation methods for the Human Race, including five realms below the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Ming approved Fuxi's methods and instructed him to spread the Dao among the Human Race.
• Kunpeng presented Ming with simplified written characters and eleven foundational realms of Literary Dao cultivation.
• Ming praised Kunpeng's Literary Dao methods and told him to spread them among the Human Race.
• Fuxi and Kunpeng left to put their teachings into practice, while Ming anticipated that their work would bring them Fortune and strengthen the Human Dao.

As the Human Race's cultivation methods spread, Fuxi neared Attaining Dao while Kunpeng's World Dao offered another path. Ming had Changxi and Xi He develop breeding and cultivation methods for the Human Race as tensions and breakthroughs unfolded among the Great Wilderness's powerful figures.

• The Human Race's Fortune grew as Fuxi and Kunpeng preached, bringing Fuxi close to Attaining Dao and leaving Kunpeng to consider advancing through the World Dao first.
• Ming taught Changxi and Xi He about breeding and cultivation so they could research and share their knowledge with the Human Race.
• The Sanqing grew anxious after Nuwa Attained Dao, and they entered secluded cultivation, with Tongtian accelerating his efforts toward the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm.
• Taiqing sensed that an opportunity had been seized while cultivating, but failed to deduce its cause; he then achieved Three Corpses Unity and reached the Quasi-Saint Peak.
• Yuanshi gained insight from Taiqing's breakthrough and achieved Three Corpses Unity after a thousand years of secluded cultivation, while the two at Mount Meru remained in the Late Quasi-Saint realm.

Houtu attempted to break through by fusing the Laws of the Great Earth and Reincarnation, but her Nascent Soul could not initially support the process. A light from Pangu Heart helped her merge the Laws and reach the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal, while Pangu Hall concealed her breakthrough.

• Di Jun and East King Duke reached the Quasi-Saint Peak and Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Peak Stage, respectively, while the Monster Race and Immortal Court remained evenly matched.
• The eleven Ancestral Witches and the Styx Incarnation watched over Houtu as she tried to fuse the Laws of the Great Earth and Reincarnation.
• The Styx Incarnation explained that Houtu's Nascent Soul was too weak to support the fusion and warned the others not to interfere.
• As Houtu's aura declined, a white light from Pangu Heart entered her body and helped the two Laws merge.
• Houtu broke through to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal, and Pangu Hall awakened, concealed her aura, and dispersed the pressure.

Houtu successfully fused two laws and became a Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal, while Styx prepared to act as the Witch Clan planned to establish Reincarnation. Styx anticipated that the Heavenly Dao would target Houtu and resolved to stop it.

• Houtu thanked the Pangu Heart for helping her break through, and the Eleven Ancestral Witches rejoiced that their clan had gained a Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.
• Houtu told the Styx Incarnation she was ready to help complete Pangu's unfinished task, but he urged her to stabilize her cultivation first.
• Houtu and the Eleven Ancestral Witches entered cultivation in Pangu Hall, keeping her breakthrough hidden from the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.
• Styx considered how establishing Reincarnation would awaken the Earth Dao and make Houtu its potential master, provoking the Heavenly Dao to interfere.
• Styx prepared to act, resolving to prevent the Heavenly Dao from trapping Houtu within Reincarnation.

After an Eon of preparation, Houtu began evolving Reincarnation with the Six Paths Samsara Disk, supported by the eleven Ancestral Witches and Styx. As the disk developed seven growing black holes, Styx sensed a trace of Heavenly Dao aura and left to confront it.

• Houtu and the Styx Incarnation spent an Eon studying ways to let fallen Witch Clan members enter Reincarnation.
• The Styx Incarnation moved Pangu Hall through the Earth veins to the Nether Blood Sea, where Houtu and the twelve Ancestral Witches traveled to the edge of Chaos.
• Houtu refined the Six Paths Samsara Disk and began evolving Reincarnation while the other eleven Ancestral Witches guarded her with Pangu Hall.
• Houtu applied the Samsara and Earth Laws to the disk, then merged into it a drop of essence blood Styx had given her.
• A seventh black hole formed at the disk’s center, and Styx sensed a trace of Heavenly Dao aura, left the Twenty-Four Grade Pure World White Lotus behind, and went into Chaos with Equality.

Styx confronted Heavenly Dao Hongjun in Chaos to stop him from attacking Houtu as she evolved Reincarnation. With Styx holding Hongjun back and the awakened Earth Dao empowering Houtu, Reincarnation neared completion, and Hongjun withdrew.

• Styx found Hongjun in Chaos and challenged his claim that Houtu had defied Heaven by evolving Reincarnation.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun attacked Styx with chains of rules and destructive power, but Styx blocked both assaults with the Equality Sword and the Twenty-Fourth Rank Karma Red Lotus.
• The Eleven Ancestor Witches protected Houtu with Pangu Hall while Wood Spirit guarded her from the darkness.
• Styx awakened the Earth Dao Will early and had it empower Houtu, accelerating the evolution of Reincarnation.
• Unable to overcome Styx or stop the awakened Earth Dao from protecting Houtu, Heavenly Dao Hongjun ended the fight and vanished.

After testing Heavenly Dao Hongjun, Styx considered whether the Heavenly Dao had developed its own will, then returned to guard Houtu as Reincarnation strengthened the Earth Dao. Across the Great Wilderness, powerful cultivators reacted to the battle, with Yang Mei resolving to cultivate in seclusion and the Heavenly Demon Realm Lord deciding to stay in his realm.

• Styx wondered whether Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao's will had controlled Hongjun, and considered the danger to the balance of the three Daos.
• Styx concluded that the Heavenly Dao could not yet command all its power, then sensed Houtu growing stronger as Reincarnation developed and resumed guarding her.
• Yang Mei watched the distant battle and, frustrated by how far Hongjun and Styx surpassed him, resolved to enter seclusion until he regained his former cultivation.
• The Heavenly Demon Realm Lord saw the battle and decided that even if he could leave the Heavenly Demon Realm, he would remain there as a shut-in.

After Styx fought Hongjun, the Great Wilderness's powerful figures reacted to the disturbance by guarding their interests or striving to grow stronger. Sanqing began major breakthroughs and transformations as cultivation intensified across the world.

• Wangshu watched Styx defeat Hongjun from the Moon Star, while Nuwa stopped herself from intervening and returned to guard the Nether Blood Sea.
• Wood Spirit rejoiced at Styx's display of strength as she secretly protected Houtu, while weaker beings sensed the disturbance but could not identify its cause.
• Sanqing grew more urgent about cultivating, and Shangqing Tongtian began transforming his sword qi toward Chaos Sword Qi.
• Taiqing Lao Tzu began smoothly merging with his Three Corpses, while Jade Purity Yuanshi worked to merge with the Creation Green Lotus.
• Other powerful beings made plans to improve their cultivation, and the Great Wilderness entered an intense period of cultivation.

Hongjun investigated the Sanqing’s breakthroughs and discovered that Tongtian was nearing the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal while Taiqing Lao Tzu and Jade Purity Yuanshi had achieved Three Corpses Unity. He realized his attempts to manipulate the brothers had failed, and he grew wary of Taiqing’s deep scheming.

• Hongjun sensed the Primordial Violet Qi stirring in the Sanqing’s Seas of Consciousness and used the Heavenly Dao to inspect their breakthroughs.
• Hongjun learned that Tongtian had combined the World Dao and Sword Dao Law and was close to attaining the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.
• Hongjun discovered that the Twenty-four-grade Creation Green Lotus had reappeared and that Yuanshi had obtained it despite the Sanqing’s shared treasures.
• Hongjun realized that Taiqing had used the Sanqing Origin to sever a corpse and had sacrificed the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and Coiled Dragon Flat Crutch to heal the brothers’ rift.
• Hongjun concluded that his schemes to divide the Sanqing had failed and became wary of Taiqing’s hidden depths.

Hongjun set out to bring the Sanqing under his control, then discovered that Jieyin and Zhunti were also drifting beyond his plans. He secretly blocked their path to Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal and kept them under surveillance, while the Karma Demon God retreated without warning them.

• Hongjun reviewed the seven owners of Primordial Violet Qi and decided the Western Duo would bear the Karma and causality weighing upon him.
• Hongjun investigated Jieyin and Zhunti after noticing signs that an unseen immortal had altered their cultivation method, but the Karma Demon God erased his traces and escaped detection.
• Hongjun used Heavenly Dao Power to tamper with the Western Duo’s Sarira, preventing them from attaining Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal through it.
• Hongjun left a trace of his consciousness to monitor Mount Meru, then headed for Kunlun Mountain.
• The Karma Demon God saw Hongjun’s actions but feared being dragged back to Purple Cloud Palace, so he abandoned his attempt to warn Jieyin and Zhunti and retreated into the Karma Threads.

Hongjun arrived at Kunlun Mountain and kept watch as Sanqing continued their breakthrough. Meanwhile, Houtu and Styx established the seven paths of reincarnation, which merged with the Great Wilderness and drew in wandering souls.

• Hongjun reached Kunlun Mountain and chose to guard Sanqing rather than interrupt their breakthrough.
• Sanqing sensed Hongjun outside their secluded cultivation site, stayed wary, and continued breaking through.
• Styx refined Essence Blood from Houtu, the eleven Ancestral Witches, and himself, then used it to merge the seven Samsara vortexes with the Primordial Heaven and Earth.
• Houtu offered the Six Paths Samsara Disk to the Great Dao and opened seven paths of reincarnation for the souls of the Great Wilderness.
• The Great Dao responded, wandering souls surged toward the Samsara Channels, and merit was distributed among Houtu, Styx, and the eleven Ancestral Witches.