Chapter Summaries

Yunxiao traded a peach tree and two divine treasures for the Five Grains fruits, helping Little Green stabilize the weakened Five Grains Spiritual Root. She stayed in the Spirit Realm with Qiongxiao and Bixiao to cultivate seeds with Little Green and the elves, hoping to speed the growth of the Five Grains.

• Yunxiao offered Little Green Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, and a peach tree in exchange for the five fruits.
• Little Green removed the fruits, then used the divine treasures and her own power to stabilize the withering Five Grains Spiritual Root.
• Yunxiao took the fruits and decided to cultivate Five Grains seeds in the Spirit Realm before returning.
• Little Green accepted the peach tree and volunteered to help Yunxiao cultivate the seeds, with the elves agreeing to assist.

Yunxiao and the Elves cultivated Five Grains seeds that could grow in both the Spirit Realm and ordinary Earth. When Yunxiao worried that the grains could not meet martial artists’ Blood Qi needs, Little Green offered to develop special seeds using blood from powerful or unusual living beings.

• Yunxiao chose a spiritually rich Ling Field, where Little Green and the Elves planted the Five Grains and adjusted their cultivation method to help the seeds adapt to different environments.
• Sanxiao and the Elves experimented with varying concentrations of Spiritual Aura and soil until they produced seeds that could grow in the Spirit Realm and ordinary Earth.
• The first crop matured, and Yunxiao tasted the rice, finding that it nourished ordinary Acquired Human Race members without overwhelming them.
• Yunxiao worried that the grains provided little Blood Qi for martial artists, and Qiongxiao and Bixiao shared her concern.
• Little Green offered to cultivate special Grain Seeds using blood from powerful or unusual living beings, and Yunxiao agreed to retrieve some from the Blood Sea.

Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao divided up their work to cultivate and distribute the Five Grains Spirit Seeds. After Qiongxiao began organizing their planting, Ming summoned Gui Ling from the Astrology Platform.

• Little Green advised Sanxiao to seek special blood that could help cultivate more varieties of Spirit Seeds, and Yunxiao assigned Qiongxiao to report to Ming while Bixiao stayed to work with the Elves.
• Yunxiao and Qiongxiao departed separately, while Bixiao helped cultivate and optimize the Spirit Seeds in the Spirit Realm.
• Qiongxiao reported to Ming and received his order to promote cultivation of the Spirit Seeds throughout Great Xia.
• Qiongxiao left the Imperial Palace Great Hall to organize people to reclaim land and plant the seeds.
• Ming considered establishing the Twenty-Four Tribulation Solar Terms and the Calendar, then woke Gui Ling and summoned her to the Council Hall.

Ming sent Gui Ling to borrow Fuxi’s eighty-one True Dragons and recruit Dragon Clan members to help Great Xia manage wind and rain as its territory expanded. Gui Ling accepted responsibility for the new Water Department, while Ming planned to reward the dragons with merit and faced no opposition from the Heavenly Court.

• Ming summoned Gui Ling and explained that Great Xia needed the eighty-one True Dragons to ensure favorable weather and good harvests.
• Ming ordered Gui Ling to visit the East Sea Dragon Realm and recruit Dragon Clan members with little Karma to assist Great Xia.
• Ming appointed Gui Ling to manage the dragons and establish a Water Department throughout Great Xia; Gui Ling reluctantly accepted after Ming promised she would gain merit.
• Gui Ling left to carry out Ming’s orders, and Ming reflected that Great Xia’s expansion could earn the Dragon Clan substantial merit.
• Ming dismissed concerns about usurping the Heavenly Court’s duties because its gods were mostly guarding the Primordial Chaos Ruins and Zi Wei would not oppose him.

Yunxiao visited Styx to seek help cultivating Spirit Seeds, and he supplied her with knowledge and rare blood samples. After she left for Zhou Mountain, Styx resolved to grow stronger before the next Tribulation and make greater changes to the Great Wilderness.

• Yunxiao arrived at the Blood Sea and entered a vortex to meet Styx’s Incarnation.
• Styx agreed to support Yunxiao’s plan and taught her about Dragon Tooth Rice, Blood Soul Fruit, and other Spirit Seeds.
• Styx gave Yunxiao blood from the Three Clans of the Longhan Era and other powerful Living Beings to help cultivate new Spirit Seeds.
• Yunxiao drank the Enlightenment Tea, gained new ideas, and carried the blood samples toward Zhou Mountain.
• Styx reappeared and vowed to reach the Primordial Chaos Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm before the next Tribulation.

Gui Ling gathered Fuxi’s eighty-one True Dragons to serve Great Xia and went to the East Sea to enter the Dragon Realm. She arrived before a winged True Dragon, with her mission to recruit more dragons still underway.

• Gui Ling delivered Ming’s decree to Fuxi, who agreed to send his eighty-one True Dragons to serve the Human Race under her command.
• Fuxi gave Gui Ling the Dragon Controlling Token, and the dragons pledged to follow her and work for Great Xia.
• Gui Ling traveled to the East Sea and met Ao Guang outside the Crystal Palace, requesting access to the Dragon Realm on the Great Xia Emperor’s orders.
• Ao Guang led Gui Ling to the East Sea’s Dragon abyss and asked the guardian to open the passage.
• The passage transported Gui Ling into the Dragon Realm, where she appeared before a winged True Dragon.

Gui Ling delivered Ming’s decree for the Dragon Clan to send young warriors and rain-calling members of its subordinate races to serve the Human Race. Ying Long accepted despite his reluctance, and Gui Ling revealed eighty-one True Dragons whose presence impressed the gathered clan.

• Gui Ling explained Ming’s decree to Ying Long, who worried about involving the Dragon Clan in the Great Wilderness again but agreed to comply.
• Ying Long summoned the clan’s talented young members and subordinate races skilled at calling clouds and bringing rain.
• Gui Ling praised Ying Long and released eighty-one True Dragons from the Dragon Controlling Token.
• The eighty-one True Dragons roared and devoured Dragon Qi, making the Dragon Clan members bow before their Saint Dao Resonance.
• Ying Long realized Gui Ling had noticed his displeasure and resolved to watch his words and remember his debt to the Blood Sea Lineage.

Gui Ling secured the Dragon Clan’s agreement to serve Great Xia, and Ming established the Water Department to support Qiongxiao in spreading grain seeds. He assigned Gui Ling and helpers from several tribes to coordinate the work.

• Gui Ling used the Dragon Controlling Token and Great Xia’s offer of Destiny Empowerment to recruit the Dragon Clan and its subordinate races, while Ying Long ordered them to obey the Emperor.
• Gui Ling returned to Mount Tai City with 3,000 True Dragons, 8,000 Flood Dragons, and 30,000 dragon-blooded Exotic Beasts, and Ming appointed her to lead the new Water Department.
• Ming ordered the Water Department to assist Qiongxiao in spreading grain seeds, and Gui Ling reluctantly agreed to take charge.
• Ming sent Hou Yi and Chang'e to guide Gui Ling and arranged for the Houtu, Gonggong, and Goumang Tribes to help prepare fields, irrigate them, and accelerate the seeds’ growth.
• After making the arrangements, Ming sat in the Council Hall and considered Great Xia’s future development.

Yunxiao developed fifteen varieties of Spirit Seeds and traveled toward Great Xia, where a strange birth drew her to a newborn with an ox head and a transparent abdomen. Ming identified the child as Shen Nong, born in response to destiny, and instructed Yunxiao to take him as her disciple.

• Yunxiao and Little Green developed more than a dozen special Spirit Seeds, including Dragon Tooth Rice, Dao Spirit Wheat, and Spirit Tooth Millet.
• Yunxiao set out for Great Xia carrying fifteen varieties of Spirit Seeds but was drawn to a tribe beside a tributary of the Yellow River.
• Nü Deng gave birth to a strange infant as nine wells appeared around her house, and Yunxiao sensed a Karma connection to the child.
• Ming investigated the birth and concluded that Shen Nong had appeared in response to the Five Grains and destiny.
• Ming asked Yunxiao to take Shen Nong as her disciple, and Yunxiao approached Nü Deng, who was bewildered by her newborn.

Yunxiao discovered that Nü Deng's unusual infant possessed extraordinary Human Race Luck and agreed to take him as her disciple under the Emperor's orders. She stabilized his body and gave Nü Deng and the child Jade Tokens for protection, leaving the infant with his mother until he grew older.

• The infant cried, transformed into an ordinary Human Race baby, and released a powerful aura that shook Yunxiao's Human Race Luck.
• Yunxiao recognized the infant as a future figure of great importance and asked Nü Deng to let him become her disciple.
• Nü Deng told Yunxiao how she had conceived the child after dreaming of a Crimson Dragon Head and how her tribe had expelled her.
• Yunxiao reassured Nü Deng, stabilized the infant's Innate Dao Body, and said she would return to formally accept him as her disciple when he was older.
• Yunxiao gave Nü Deng a Jade Token for protection, then held the smiling infant and hung another Jade Token around his neck.

Yunxiao named Nü Deng’s newborn son Lie Shan Shi, and the name triggered celestial signs that transformed his body into an Innate Being. Ming and Nuwa recognized his destiny and sent him gifts, leaving him blessed with Fortune and a sacred Gourd Vine.

• Yunxiao suggested the name Lie Shan Shi because the baby’s birth was marked by fire and crimson radiance.
• Lie Shan Shi’s laughter formed a Crimson Fire Lotus in his dantian, and the name appeared in the sky as Innate Dao Script before entering his body.
• Yunxiao discovered that Lie Shan Shi had gained an Innate Undying Spiritual Light and an Innate Being body, while the Nine Spirit Wells revealed a Divine Ox and grain.
• Ming recognized Lie Shan Shi’s destined role in agriculture and sent Fortune Dynasty’s Destiny to strengthen his fortune.
• Nuwa sent Lie Shan Shi a branch of the Gourd Vine infused with her Qi of Creation, intending it to support his future path.

Yunxiao left Nü Deng with Grain Seeds and explained that Lie Shan Shi needed an ordinary childhood, while Ming concealed the infant’s divine aura. The Nine Spirit Wells and Grain Seeds drew people to the area, where Nü Deng became chief of a growing tribe beside the newly named Jiang River.

• Yunxiao gave Nü Deng Grain Seeds and said she had to return to report to Your Majesty and oversee their spread.
• Ming used a ray of rosy light to conceal Lie Shan Shi’s extraordinary aura and Crystal Belly, and Yunxiao thanked him for intervening.
• Yunxiao explained to Nü Deng that hiding Lie Shan Shi’s nature would let him have a complete childhood, then departed.
• Nü Deng showed newcomers Yunxiao’s token and shared the Grain Seeds as people settled near the Nine Spirit Wells.
• The tribespeople made Nü Deng their chief, and the river beside the wooden hut became known as the Jiang River.

Yunxiao returned to Mount Tai with the special grain seeds, and Ming sent her to spread them across Great Xia and later take Lie Shan Shi traveling. After Lie Shan Shi discovered herbal medicine and began studying plants, Yunxiao returned to the tribe and announced she would formally take him as her disciple and show him the territory, leaving him awaiting Nü Deng’s answer.

• Yunxiao gave Ming the special seeds, and he ordered her to promote them and eventually take Lie Shan Shi around Great Xia to teach him cultivation and show him the people’s lives.
• Lie Shan Shi discovered a glowing plant, identified its healing properties through repeated trials, named it herbal medicine, and used it to treat injured tribespeople.
• The Gourd Vine enabled Lie Shan Shi to learn plants’ habits and effects, and he began trying to refine medicine with his fully formed Medicine Cauldron.
• Yunxiao returned to the now-grown tribe, where Lie Shan Shi recognized her and ran to greet his Master.
• Yunxiao told Nü Deng she would formally take Lie Shan Shi as her disciple and travel with him through Great Xia, and Lie Shan Shi eagerly waited for his mother’s response.

Yunxiao took Lie Shan Shi away from his tribe to teach him about medicinal plants and the varied conditions of the Human Race. After Lie Shan Shi asked why many tribes still lacked food despite the spread of Five Grains, Yunxiao explained how population growth and migration had scattered tribes into places poorly suited to farming.

• Nü Deng agreed through tears to let Lie Shan Shi become Yunxiao's disciple, and the tribe held an apprenticeship ceremony for him.
• Yunxiao and Lie Shan Shi traveled among the tribes, where she taught him about plants and recorded local customs and conditions.
• Lie Shan Shi saw both prosperous tribes with plentiful Five Grains and impoverished tribes still dependent on hunting and gathering.
• Lie Shan Shi asked Yunxiao why many tribes still could not eat Five Grains, and she showed him a water mirror of Great Xia's territory.
• Yunxiao explained how population growth and migration spread tribes across the Great Wilderness, including hills and forests less suited to planting Five Grains.

Lie Shan Shi and Yunxiao traveled among the tribes to find a way for people in hills and forests to grow the Five Grains. Lie Shan Shi devised a terraced irrigation method that formed a Mini Five Elements Formation, and Yunxiao agreed to test it with a nearby tribe.

• Lie Shan Shi worried that the gap between tribes in the plains and those in the hills and forests would cause internal conflict, and Yunxiao promised to help him find a solution.
• Lie Shan Shi and Yunxiao studied local farming methods, geography, and seeds as they traveled among the tribes.
• At a fire-scorched hilly region, Lie Shan Shi proposed using plant ash to fertilize the soil, but Yunxiao explained that water scarcity and imbalanced elements were the greater obstacles.
• Lie Shan Shi drew plans for terraced fields, a mountaintop lake, and irrigation channels or bamboo pipes to create a Mini Five Elements Formation.
• Yunxiao approved Lie Shan Shi's proposal and suggested they test it with a nearby tribe.

Lie Shan Shi and Yunxiao successfully introduced terraced Mountain Millet farming, and Lie Shan Shi spread the Mountain Farming Method throughout Great Xia. After seeing how inconsistent planting times ruined harvests, Lie Shan Shi began recording an Agricultural Timing Edict to guide farmers more precisely.

• Lie Shan Shi demonstrated terraced farming and a natural Minor Five Elements Array to a Mountain Tribe, whose chief agreed to adopt the method.
• Yunxiao summoned rain to fill a high-elevation lake, and the tribe celebrated when its first crop of Mountain Millet ripened.
• Lie Shan Shi compiled and spread the Mountain Farming Method while adapting it to the geography of different regions.
• Ming sensed Human Race Luck rising after the farming success and declared that Tasting Hundred Herbs was the next great trend.
• Lie Shan Shi and Yunxiao witnessed widespread crop losses caused by inconsistent planting and harvesting times.
• After Yunxiao advised him to study the heavens and the land, Lie Shan Shi began carving an Agricultural Timing Edict onto his bamboo slip.

Lie Shan Shi studied the Sun and stars over many years to establish a reliable way to track time and guide agriculture. After a thousand years of observations, he completed the first draft of the Agricultural Timing Edict and created instruments to record time.

• Lie Shan Shi observed the Sun’s shadow with a gnomon and identified the Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice.
• Zi Wei sensed Lie Shan Shi’s work and used the Chaos Bell to strengthen his understanding of the Starry Sky, while Yunxiao guarded him.
• Lie Shan Shi and Yunxiao traveled across Great Xia Territory and beyond, studying how stars and crop growth varied by region.
• After a thousand years, Lie Shan Shi and Yunxiao stood beside his accumulated shadow carvings and nearly completed Agricultural Timing Edict.
• Lie Shan Shi named his timekeeping creations the Sundial and the Celestial Sphere Instrument.

Lie Shan Shi completed the Agricultural Timing Edict and presented it, along with the Mountain and Field Farming Method, to Heaven, Earth, and Human Dao. The works spread their knowledge throughout the Great Wilderness, and the three Daos began tempering them into a treasure.

• Lie Shan Shi combined his observations of the stars, seasons, and living things to finish the Agricultural Timing Edict.
• Yunxiao prompted Lie Shan Shi to bow to Heaven and Earth and offer his farming works on behalf of the Human Race.
• Human Dao answered Lie Shan Shi’s offering, and merit gathered above him as Nuwa sensed the change and praised him.
• The Merit Golden Cloud revealed the farming knowledge to intelligent beings across the Great Wilderness, while Ming watched from the Council Hall.
• Human Way Destiny merged the Mountain and Field Farming Method into the Agricultural Timing Edict, and the powers of the three Daos began forming restrictions within it.

Lie Shan Shi received merit for the Agricultural Timing Edict, advanced to the Golden Immortal realm, and formed a new Agricultural Dao Law. He then used the Edict, Sundial, and Celestial Sphere Instrument to establish the Primordial Calendar for the Great Wilderness.

• Merit transformed the Gnomon and bamboo slip into treasures, while Lie Shan Shi and Yunxiao condensed Merit Golden Wheels.
• Lie Shan Shi absorbed the treasures and Human Way Destiny, advanced to the Golden Immortal realm, and created the Agricultural Dao Law.
• Ming reminded Lie Shan Shi not to overlook the Sundial and Celestial Sphere Instrument.
• Lie Shan Shi announced that he would combine the instruments and the Agricultural Timing Edict to establish a calendar for all beings.
• Lie Shan Shi set the year at 365 and one-quarter days, divided the year into twelve months and the day into twelve Shi Chen, and named the calendar the Primordial Calendar.

Ming and Zi Wei refined Lie Shan Shi’s Golden Scroll Projection into a Houtian Supreme Treasure, completing the Primordial Calendar and stirring the Great Wilderness’s Time Law. Zhu Jiuyin sent Lie Shan Shi a gift of Ancestral Witch Essence Blood, which strengthened his understanding of the Agricultural Dao and raised his physical cultivation.

• Lie Shan Shi’s words, “Primordial Calendar,” caused the three treasures to form a Golden Scroll Projection encompassing the cycles of time and the phenomena of Heaven and Earth.
• Ming and Zi Wei combined the World Tree leaf, divine tree leaves, Essence of Stars, and Heavenly Dao Fortune to refine the projection into a Houtian Supreme Treasure.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered a greater mass of Purple Qi and Profound Yellow Merit Cloud, sending ripples through the River of Time and awakening Zhu Jiuyin.
• Zhu Jiuyin sent Lie Shan Shi a drop of his Ancestral Witch Essence Blood to thank him for helping perfect the Time Law.
• Lie Shan Shi absorbed the blood, gaining insights into the Time Law and Agricultural Dao while his physical cultivation reached the Golden Immortal Peak.