Chapter Summaries

Zi Wei issued the Heavenly Court’s investiture edict, revealing a host of powerful immortals and gods, including Rahu. The display silenced complaints across the Great Wilderness and left Hongjun wary while the Heavenly Demon Realm Lord confronted the return of his old rival.

• The Two Saints of the West suppressed their objections to Zi Wei’s Heavenly Punishment Regulations after the other Saints accepted them.
• The Dragon Pattern Scroll disintegrated into the origin of the Thirty-six Heavens, strengthening the Heavenly Rules.
• Zi Wei returned to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and announced an edict naming the Heavenly Court’s immortals and gods, including Rahu, Shen Ni, and Ancestor Dragon.
• The Heavenly Court’s display of strength silenced complaints in the Great Wilderness and led Saint disciples to return to cultivation.
• Rahu’s appearance stirred Purple Cloud Palace and the Heavenly Demon Realm, and Zi Wei erased the dark-cloud omen over the Great Wilderness.
• Hongjun recognized Rahu as his true old adversary and grew wary of the Heavenly Court, while the Heavenly Demon Realm Lord accepted that only one of them could survive their grudge.

After Zi Wei’s investiture of the gods, Hongjun did not respond, and Zi Wei began the Heavenly Court’s official banquet. News of the resurrected ministers stirred the Great Wilderness and strengthened the Three Clans’ loyalty to Zi Wei.

• Luo Hu saw the reactions of the Purple Cloud Palace and the Heavenly Demon Realm but felt secure under the Heavenly Court’s protection.
• Hongjun did not emerge from the Purple Cloud Palace, disappointing Jieyin and Zhunti while Zi Wei considered what his silence revealed.
• The reborn gods paid respects to Zi Wei, who welcomed them and opened the Heavenly Court’s banquet.
• Survivors of the Dragon-Han Kalpa considered seeking refuge in the Heavenly Court after learning its ministers included powerful figures thought to be dead.
• The Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, and Qilin Clan learned their Old Ancestors had survived and grew more loyal to Zi Wei.

Zi Wei strengthened the Heavenly Court’s standing by bringing the Saints together, while Hongjun’s growing fear led him to reveal his earthworm body and seek a way to escape. The chapter ended with Hongjun separating the part of his body that the Heavenly Dao had not assimilated.

• Zi Wei invited the Saints to the Ninth Heaven, where they joined him in discussing the Dao.
• The Great Wilderness’s powerful figures abandoned thoughts of opposing the Heavenly Court and listened to the Saints preach.
• Hongjun felt an impending threat and realized that his body and Dao might soon perish.
• Hongjun transformed from his Daoist form into an enormous earthworm and said that its body might offer him a way to escape.
• Hongjun used the earthworm’s Endless Evolution ability to separate its unassimilated flesh, which grew into a complete earthworm.

Hongjun severed part of himself and escaped the Purple Cloud Palace as an earthworm, carrying the incomplete Jade Disc of Creation into Chaos. The remaining body was assimilated by the Heavenly Dao, which formed a Hongjun-like figure that turned its attention toward Styx.

• Hongjun revealed that he had spread earthworm avatars across the Great Wilderness as safeguards against his death and as sources of information.
• Hongjun fled the Purple Cloud Palace in a newly born earthworm body, taking the incomplete Jade Disc of Creation and the palace's valuables with him.
• Hongjun blamed Styx for ruining his plans and escaped toward Chaos because he feared both Styx and the increasingly strange Heavenly Dao.
• After Hongjun left, his earthworm avatars began multiplying throughout the Great Wilderness in response to his final command.
• The Heavenly Dao assimilated Hongjun's remaining body and produced a figure with Hongjun's face, who looked toward Styx before merging into the Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel.

Ming ended his unsuccessful seclusion and summoned the Human Race’s tribal leaders to Mount Shouyang, intending to expand the race into the power vacuum left by the destroyed Immortal-Demon races. As he waited for the leaders, he refined both his plans for the Human Race and his method for breaking through to the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm.

• After the Heavenly Court ceremony ended, the invited powers returned home and warned their disciples and friends not to provoke the Heavenly Court.
• Ming emerged from seclusion after failing to find a breakthrough opportunity, despite his merit and status as Human Race Chief.
• Seeing an opening for Human Race expansion after the Immortal-Demon races were destroyed, Ming used the Gourd Vine to summon all tribal leaders to the totem in one hundred years.
• The tribal leaders received Ming’s order through their totems, hurried to settle their affairs, and prepared reports on changes within their tribes.
• Ming contemplated his breakthrough method and plans for Human Race expansion, its structure, and its Subordinate Races while awaiting the leaders.

Ming gathered the Human Race leaders to discuss expansion into territory left open by the destruction of the Immortal-Demon races, then warned that the Human Race needed to build its own saint-level strength. He proposed reorganizing the race and establishing its fundamental path to prevent its Fortune from being wasted.

• Ming summoned the Human Race leaders, including Chang'e and the Three Ancestors, and proposed expanding beyond Mount Shouyang and the Two Rivers Region.
• Several leaders volunteered to serve as vanguard, but Ming paused the discussion to explain why past factions fought over Fortune.
• Ming warned that factions without their own saint-level powerhouse would eventually fall, and said the Human Race could not rely solely on Nuwa and Fuxi for protection.
• Chang'e agreed that the Human Race had to strengthen itself, and Ming said he had called the gathering to reorganize its internal structure and establish its fundamental path.

Ming proposed replacing the Human Race’s loose tribal structure with a Fortune Dynasty governed by unified institutions and laws. The leaders accepted his plan, though his ruthless approach to controlling and assimilating other races unsettled them.

• Ming announced that he would unify the Human Race’s tribes and subordinate races under a Fortune Dynasty with a new system of administration.
• Ming explained that the dynasty would organize official positions, distribute power and responsibility, and regulate the use of Fortune.
• Chang'e asked whether Ming intended to replace the tribal system with a ruler-and-subject system, and Ming confirmed it while emphasizing that different races could retain their customs under the dynasty’s laws.
• Ming proposed rewarding service with Fortune and punishing lawbreakers, while declaring that races that resisted should be killed and that the rest would eventually be assimilated.
• Suiren Shi praised the plan, but Zi Yi Clan stopped him from openly voicing its implications for the Human Dao.
• The leaders bowed to Ming and declared that they would not oppose his plan.

Ming and the tribal leaders discussed what was needed to establish the Human Race’s Fortune Dynasty, including its capital and territory. Ming settled on Mount Tai as the most suitable capital site, leaving the dynasty’s founding plans to move forward.

• Ming told the tribal leaders that the Fortune Dynasty needed a capital, territory, an imperial seal, and a Spiritual Treasure to suppress its Destiny.
• Suiren Shi proposed the Ancestral Court of the Human Way, but Ming rejected it because of its ties to Mount Shouyang and the Holy Mother’s cultivation.
• Chang'e proposed Origin City, but Ming rejected it because it belonged to the Human Race and its allies and was too remote for governing the Great Wilderness.
• Ming considered Zhou Mountain and Kunlun but set them aside because they were crowded or belonged to powerful figures.
• Ming chose Mount Tai because of its central position, imperial aura, proximity to key Human Race regions, and connection to Fengdu and the Underworld Administration.

Ming chose Mount Tai as the capital and starting point for the Fortune Dynasty, then planned an inheritance seal that would not use the Kongtong Seal itself. He sent the tribal leaders to prepare to expand Human Territory, while he stayed behind to refine the seal and plan the dynasty’s founding.

• Ming proposed Mount Tai as the Fortune Dynasty’s capital and explained its strategic location and abundant Fortune.
• Chang'e, Suiren Shi, and Youchao Shi approved Mount Tai, though Chang'e noted that it was Emperor Fengdu’s Dojo.
• Ming rejected using the Kongtong Seal as the dynasty’s inheritance treasure and planned to keep it for himself.
• Ming proposed refining a new seal from a Projection of the Kongtong Seal, Shoushan Copper, Mount Tai’s dragon vein, and Two Rivers Water Essence.
• Ming ordered the leaders to incorporate Mount Tai and the East Sea Coast into Human Territory within one Yuanhui, accepting willing allies where possible and avoiding excessive bloodshed.

Ming gathered rare materials and refined a Human Dao Fortune Dynasty seal on Mount Tai, then began preparing to forge the Investiture of the Gods. The seal was sent to Origin City for its final tempering, while the more arduous refinement of the Investiture lay ahead.

• Ming asked Styx for World Tree materials, traded with the Chaos Gourd Vine and the residents of Pangu Hall, and received refined blood from Styx's Earth Vein Incarnation.
• Ming traveled to Mount Tai, where Zi Wei's Universe Cauldron had arrived, and used the Mortal Flame to refine a Fortune Dynasty seal from the Kongtong Seal's aura, Mount Shouyang copper, and Mount Tai Dragon Vein energy.
• The Kongtong Seal drew Human Way Destiny into the new seal, which Ming sent to Origin City.
• Luo Chan and Wu Zhiqi tempered the seal with Water Law essence from the Yellow River and Huai River.
• Ming prepared to refine the Investiture of the Gods, a unique treasure whose forging would be arduous.

Ming refined a new Investiture of the Gods List and Society and Country Brush while Zi Wei blocked the Heavenly Dao’s efforts to interfere. The completed treasure could grant officials access to a Fortune Dynasty’s Destiny and let Ming monitor and adjust their Fortune.

• Ming began refining the Investiture of the Gods List at Mount Tai as the Heavenly Dao summoned dark clouds and thunder.
• Zi Wei dispersed the clouds and raised a barrier around Ming, then blocked the Heavenly Dao with the power of the Thirty-six Heavens Origin.
• Ming used the World Tree and Chaos Gourd Vine to form the scroll and its rollers, then made a Society and Country Brush from their auras.
• Ming infused the treasure with Reincarnation Origin, blood from the Blood Pool in Pangu Hall, and essence blood from the Myriad Races.
• Zi Wei redirected the Heavenly Dao’s lightning into a thunderstorm, and Ming let eighty-one bolts strike the scroll and brush until the clouds cleared.
• Ming completed the Investiture of the Gods List and discovered it could grant officials access to a Fortune Dynasty’s Destiny, reveal regional Fortune, and strip or bestow Fortune.

After the Human Race’s preparations for a Fortune Dynasty advanced, Zi Wei headed to Mount Buzhou as Kong Xuan and Jin Yu reunited with Ancestor Phoenix. She taught them how to cultivate their own forms of Nirvana Fire, leaving them inside cocoons absorbing the volcano’s power.

• Ming waited atop Mount Tai after the Human Race’s warriors marched toward the East Sea Coast and Mount Tai.
• Zi Wei withdrew his power from the Thirty-six Heavens and traveled toward Mount Buzhou.
• Ancestor Phoenix watched over Kong Xuan and Jin Yu as they cultivated inside cocoons beneath Mount Buzhou’s central volcano.
• Kong Xuan and Jin Yu reunited with Ancestor Phoenix, who assured them the Heavenly Emperor would soon free her from the fire poison.
• Ancestor Phoenix explained how Phoenix Bloodline cultivators could awaken unique Nirvana Fire and gave each brother a Southern Bright Lihuo Fire Seed.
• Kong Xuan and Jin Yu entered cocoons to refine their fire seeds and absorb the molten-rock power of Mount Buzhou.

Zi Wei arrived at Mount Buzhou as Kong Xuan and Jin Yu awakened their divine abilities and strengthened their bond with the Phoenix Clan. The Phoenix Ancestress said Colorful Phoenix was handling preparations for the Nirvana Realm, while the clan’s allies and returning members gathered to support its restoration.

• Kong Xuan and Jin Yu emerged from their cultivation with Five-Colored Divine Light and Yin-Yang Divine Fire, then bowed to Zi Wei.
• The Phoenix Clan members recognized Zi Wei and paid their respects to the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Phoenix Ancestress explained that she could not leave her post beneath Mount Buzhou and had entrusted the clan’s affairs to Colorful Phoenix.
• The Phoenix Clan’s envoys persuaded loyal subordinate races and Karma-worn Old Ancestors to come to Mount Buzhou and help establish the Nirvana Realm.
• Colorful Phoenix traveled to the Southern Pole, retrieved the Wutong Divine Tree, and brought back clan members who had been staying with the Vermilion Bird.

Zi Wei began transforming the Phoenix Clan’s ancestral breeding ground beneath Mount Buzhou into a world, using a new Formation to convert the mountain’s molten energy into Five Elements power. The space started generating World Power and changing into a Small World.

• After receiving a transmission from the Ancestor Phoenix, Colorful Phoenix and the other Phoenix Clan leaders returned to Mount Buzhou with the Subordinate Races.
• Zi Wei and the Ancestor Phoenix discussed establishing the Nirvana Realm, and the Ancestor Phoenix promised the Phoenix Clan would follow the Heavenly Court and serve Zi Wei after his nirvana.
• Colorful Phoenix told Zi Wei that the preparations were complete, and Zi Wei began the world-evolution process.
• Zi Wei refined the Phoenix Clan’s treasures and the Subordinate Races’ offerings into Formation bases and placed them throughout the space where the Phoenix Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestress had been born.
• The Formation converted Mount Buzhou’s molten power into Five Elements energy, began generating World Power, and turned the space into a Small World.

Zi Wei evolved a newborn world into the Phoenix Clan’s Nirvana Realm, using Formation foundations and the clan’s resources to raise it to a Middle Thousand World and make it suppress Mount Buzhou. After secretly adding the Phoenix remains’ Origin Power, the realm began transforming into a Great Thousand World.

• Zi Wei planted the Wutong Divine Tree in the newborn world and used Formation foundations to turn Chaos Qi into Innate Spiritual Qi and Spiritual Veins.
• Zi Wei combined the Star Dou Great Array, the Styx Earth Refining Array, Star Dou Fruits, and the Phoenix Clan’s resources to advance the world to a Middle Thousand World.
• Zi Wei placed the Middle Thousand World where the Phoenix Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestress had suppressed Mount Buzhou, then decomposed the Phoenix Ancestor’s body to nourish it.
• The Phoenix Ancestress and burdened Phoenix Clan and Subordinate Race members entered the world, and their bodies merged into its Formation foundations.
• After the Phoenix Ancestress agreed and Colorful Phoenix revealed the location, Zi Wei secretly converted preserved Phoenix and Subordinate Race bodies into Origin Power.
• The added Origin Power enabled the Nirvana Realm to begin transforming into a Great Thousand World.

Zi Wei helped the Phoenix Clan advance the Nirvana Realm, earning Merit that cleansed the younger generation’s Karma and revived the clan’s Fortune. After Colorful Phoenix offered him a share of that Fortune, Zi Wei redirected it to Jin Ning, Kong Xuan, and Jin Yu while keeping it within the Phoenix Clan.

• Colorful Phoenix and the Phoenix Clan helped the Nirvana Realm advance, and the Great Dao rewarded Zi Wei and the clan with Merit that reduced their Karma.
• The Phoenix Clan’s Fortune manifested in the Nirvana Realm and began expelling Karma as Merit and Heavenly Dao Merit descended.
• Colorful Phoenix thanked Zi Wei and offered him thirty percent of the Phoenix Clan’s Fortune.
• Zi Wei returned the Fortune to the Phoenix Clan’s Destiny River and directed its empowerment to Jin Ning, Kong Xuan, and Jin Yu.
• Jin Ning, Kong Xuan, and Jin Yu thanked Zi Wei, while Colorful Phoenix felt even more grateful to him.

Zi Wei, Kunpeng, and the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum traveled to Zhou Mountain to carry out Styx’s arrangements for strengthening it as the Great Wilderness advanced. The four maidens placed the Hundred Herbs Illustrated at a key mountain node to help establish the Spirit Realm and nurture Zhou Mountain’s power.

• Zi Wei set out for Zhou Mountain after settling matters in the Nirvana Realm, while the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum left the Blood Sea for the same destination.
• The Dao Preaching Steles flew to Kunpeng, who thanked his Master at the Blood Sea and hurried toward Zhou Mountain.
• Zi Wei, Kunpeng, and the four maidens met at Zhou Mountain’s foot, worshiped Great God Pangu, and Zi Wei entered the Qilin Clan’s ancestral land.
• The four maidens placed the Hundred Herbs Illustrated in the pool where the Creation Green Lotus had once grown, intending to suppress a Zhou Mountain node and connect the Spirit Realm to the Great Wilderness.
• The Spirit Realm was expected to nourish Zhou Mountain and help nurture its Mountain God, though bringing that powerful spirit into being would take many epochs.

The Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum transformed the Hundred Herbs Illustrated into a growing Spirit Realm, using divine trees, the World Tree, and formation foundations to shape its land and skies. The Spirit Realm merged with Zhou Mountain and became part of the Great Wilderness World.

• The Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum entered the Hundred Herbs Illustrated and raised four divine trees that released Four Symbols Power.
• They merged the illustrated treasure’s origin with the Four Symbols Origin, which the World Tree branch absorbed before growing into a fifth divine tree.
• The five trees expanded the inner space, forming a continent, rivers, oceans, and a more substantial Sun, Moon, and Stars.
• The Four Maidens added Star Fruits and formation foundations, while the protected Spiritual Roots and Spirit Plants benefited from the world’s evolution.
• The Hundred Herbs Illustrated merged with Zhou Mountain, and the Spirit Realm’s World Membrane joined part of the Great Wilderness World’s membrane to draw in Chaos Qi.
• The newly formed Spirit Realm became part of the Great Wilderness World.

The Four Symbols formations of the Spirit Realm and Great Wilderness merged, accelerating the growth of Zhou Mountain and raising the Spirit Realm to the level of a top-tier Great Thousand World. After the Spirit Realm took shape and received Merit and Fortune, its plants began transforming, while the central tree absorbed green auras from them.

• The Four Symbols Origin Great Array merged with the Spirit Realm’s formation, strengthening Zhou Mountain and the Spirit Realm.
• The Spirit Realm absorbed Chaos Qi through the Heaven and Earth Membrane and reached the level of a top-tier Great Thousand World.
• Great Dao Merit descended, with Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum, the Spirit Realm, the Four Symbols Divine Trees, and the Blood Sea receiving shares.
• Fortune from Zhou Mountain empowered Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum, while the Spirit Realm remained beyond the Three Ways of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity’s authority.
• Merit nourished the Spirit Realm’s plants, causing many Spiritual Plants and Spiritual Roots to begin Form Transformation.
• The World Tree trunk at the Spirit Realm’s center shook as green auras from the plants and Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum flowed into it.

The Ancient Tree of Life formed at the center of the Spirit Realm, producing Life Water and nurturing Plant Spirits to care for its plants. The Spirit Realm spread through the Great Wilderness, gathering transformed Plant Spirits and transplanting ownerless Spiritual Roots and Spirit Plants, while a new Fortune advanced Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum’s breakthroughs.

• The giant tree absorbed the Spirit Realm’s Origin Power and the life aura of its plants, becoming the Ancient Tree of Life and producing Life Water.
• Styx’s plan for Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum used the Spirit Realm’s accelerated growth and the Ancient Tree’s Plant Spirits to care for its Spiritual Roots and Spirit Plants.
• The Spirit Realm extended tendrils along Zhou Mountain’s earth veins and summoned transformed Plant Spirits to enter its protection.
• The Spirit Realm transplanted ownerless Spiritual Roots and Spirit Plants it found throughout the Great Wilderness, making them scarce outside its borders.
• Tiny Plant Spirits emerged from the Ancient Tree’s flower buds, used Life Water to irrigate and transplant new plants, and helped them grow rapidly.
• A new Fortune descended upon Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum and accelerated their breakthroughs.