Chapter Summaries

Wood Spirit emerged from seclusion with Creation and Destruction fully fused into her Life-Death Great Dao. Ming sent her to support the Primordial Chaos Ruins with two lotus treasures, then entered seclusion to break through to the Primordial Chaos Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.

• Wood Spirit emerged from the Nether Blood Sea after tempering her unstable constitution and mastering the fused powers of Creation and Destruction.
• Ming's ten Chaos Demon God Avatars advanced their worlds into Great Thousand Worlds, attained the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm, and formed independent Chaos Demon God Bloodlines.
• Ming instructed Wood Spirit to select the second batch of Blood Sea forces and lead them to the Primordial Chaos Ruins, giving her the Twenty-Four Grade Pure World White Lotus and the Twenty-four-grade Karma Red Lotus.
• Ming planned for Wood Spirit to devour the lotus treasures and strengthen her origin as she pursued transformation into the Thirty-six Grade Chaos Green Lotus.
• Ming placed the lotus treasures' spirits and the three fused Top-grade Innate Spiritual Roots into the Styx Realm for reincarnation, then began his breakthrough into the Primordial Chaos Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Styx gave Wood Spirit a Spiritual Treasure and entrusted him with defending the Great Wilderness as Styx continued refining the power of captured Chaos Demon Gods. The battle at the Primordial Chaos Ruins favored the Great Wilderness, while Yu began selecting officials in Mount Tai City.

• Wood Spirit thanked Styx, summoned reinforcements from the Blood Sea, and sent them to guard the Primordial Chaos Ruins.
• The Great Wilderness gained the upper hand against ordinary Chaos Creatures through added troops, support from the Twelve Zodiacs Division and Wood Spirit's clansmen, and the Shen Nong Army's supplies.
• Wood Spirit fused two Twenty-Four Grade Lotus Platforms into his origin and fought the Chaos Demon Gods, drawing more enemies around him and easing pressure on the Great Wilderness's Saint-level Powerhouses.
• Styx extracted bloodline origins from ten Chaos Demon God Avatars and combined their laws with his Law of Blood to develop powers unique to himself.
• In Mount Tai City, Yu began selecting new officials with help from Ming's incarnation as Great Xia's government filled out its ranks.

Yu consolidated Great Xia after succeeding Ming, using new officials, armies, and demands for Fortune Objects to assert his authority across the Primordial Continent. The races submitted to his rule, and Great Xia remained stable under his leadership.

• Ming's Incarnation judged that Yu could keep Great Xia unified during his reign and accepted that later division might benefit the Human Dao.
• Yu appointed new officials, opened the treasury, and established nine armies to guard Great Xia's eight directions and central imperial city.
• Yu ordered the Primordial Continent's races to send Fortune Objects to Mount Tai City, where he would use them to forge Fortune Supreme Treasures.
• The races hesitated but did not openly resist, fearing Ming's Incarnation and recognizing Yu's strength and the Human Race's support for him.
• Within ten thousand years, the races sent envoys bearing Fortune Objects to Mount Tai City, while Yu's officials gained cooperation throughout Great Xia.

Yu held a ceremony in Mount Tai City where the races of the Great Wilderness acknowledged him as Great Xia’s new emperor and offered gifts. He used their gifts and the empire’s Fortune to forge nine cauldrons that stabilized Great Xia’s national Fortune and raised his prestige.

• Yu received the envoys’ formal obeisance and accepted their gifts on behalf of Great Xia.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans presented precious objects of Fortune, followed by the other races.
• Yu used the Imperial Seal to gather the myriad races’ Fortune and refine their gifts.
• Yu directed Great Xia’s armies to raise nine Fortune Pillars across the empire and forged them into nine cauldrons.
• Yu declared that the Nine Cauldrons would suppress the eight directions and the Imperial Cauldron would suppress the center, stabilizing Great Xia’s Fortune.

Yu received Human Dao Merit as the Nine Cauldrons linked the Fortune of the Great Wilderness’s races and territories to Great Xia. The chapter ended with Yu having consolidated Great Xia’s rule over the Myriad Races and smoothly begun his era.

• The Human Dao Will rewarded Yu with ten thousand zhang of Human Dao Merit, and nine streams transformed into dragons of Fortune that infused the Nine Cauldrons with Mysterious Yellow Qi.
• The Nine Cauldrons displayed the regions of the Great Wilderness, while chains of Fortune connected their handles to the ancestral lands of various races.
• Fortune flowed from the races into the Nine Cauldrons and Great Xia’s Sea of Destiny Clouds, with some flowing back to the ancestral lands under Great Xia’s control.
• The envoys realized that their peoples’ Fortune was now surrendered to Great Xia and redistributed by it, leaving the races unable to challenge the dynasty while the Nine Cauldrons remained stable.
• Yu used the Nine Cauldrons to transfer Great Xia from Ming’s era into his own rule.

Yu completed the Nine Cauldrons and used them to establish a formation that bound the Great Wilderness’s myriad races to Great Xia. The Nine Sons of the Dragon volunteered to guard the cauldrons, leaving the races more fearful of challenging Great Xia.

• Yu finished refining the Nine Cauldrons with his essence blood and declared that the myriad races would worship them.
• The Nine Cauldrons formed the Nine Cauldrons World Suppressing Great Formation, incorporating the races’ Fortune into Great Xia and making it difficult for them to seek independence.
• The myriad races’ envoys realized Yu had used their Fortune-bearing treasures to bind their ancestral veins to Great Xia.
• The Nine Sons of the Dragon asked Yu to let them guard the Nine Cauldrons, and he granted their request.
• The Nine Sons received streams of Fortune, transformed into Dragon Princes, and coiled around the Nine Cauldrons.

Yu established the Nine Cauldrons and strengthened Great Xia’s authority across the Primordial Continent. He discovered that the Myriad Races still resented Great Xia in private, threatening the dynasty’s destiny despite their outward obedience.

• Ming recalled the Nine Sons from the Primordial Chaos Ruins and assigned them to guard the Nine Cauldrons, where destiny and Earth Attribute Dragon Qi accelerated their cultivation and bloodline return.
• The Nine Sons coiled around the Nine Cauldrons to protect them as Yu proclaimed that all races within Great Xia’s territory must revere Human Dao and that the Cauldrons marked royal territory.
• The Myriad Races returned to their ancestral lands, turmoil subsided, and Pixiu’s Marketplace prospered as trade and cultivation flourished.
• Yu entrusted government affairs to his officials and divided destiny among the nine great legions to strengthen them and their military formations.
• Yu and Dream Spirit investigated the Myriad Races’ response to the Nine Cauldrons and found that they privately resented Great Xia, potentially draining its destiny.

Yu sought to ease the Great Wilderness Myriad Races' resentment toward Great Xia and chose an open consort selection and court recruitment to unite them. After selecting twelve Imperial Consorts and naming Nü Jiao Empress, he brought talented members of the Myriad Races into government, and their resentment gradually faded.

• Yu recognized that Great Xia's harsh suppression of the Myriad Races risked turning the Human Dao against his rule, so he sought a way to offer them benefits.
• Yu observed the peaceful coexistence of races in Xuanyuan's territory and decided to hold an open consort selection and recruit officials from the Myriad Races.
• The Great Wilderness Myriad Races sent Saintesses and other talented candidates to Mount Tai City for the selection.
• After ten thousand years, Yu chose twelve Imperial Consorts from different races and named Nü Jiao of Tushan's Nine-tailed Fox Clan as Empress.
• Yu opened Great Xia's court to worthy candidates from the Myriad Races, whose resentment gradually dissipated as their elites entered government.

Yu established institutions and armies to balance the Myriad Races’ growing role with Human Race rule and to strengthen Great Xia’s forces. The court eventually stabilized as the races accepted Great Xia’s order and the legions’ loyalty training began to take effect.

• Yu proposed the Myriad Races Pavilion to let each race participate in government while preserving the emperor’s final authority, and he ordered the Myriad Races Codex compiled.
• Yu recruited powerful warriors and prodigies from the various races into the army, and the races sent their elites to Mount Tai City.
• Yu formed eighteen Myriad Races legions alongside the original nine major legions, while his avatars and Destiny Empowerment trained the soldiers to be loyal.
• The Myriad Races gained military backing in the court, and Human Race officials stopped underestimating them after suffering several defeats.
• Over the years, the imperial court grew stable as the Myriad Races acknowledged Great Xia’s order and the legions’ training began to take effect.

Yu used the precious wedding gifts and Great Xia’s treasury to prepare a Human Way Investiture of the Gods, which he intended to refine as his Lifebound Treasure and the foundation of his future Dao. He began forging it according to the Heavenly Court’s model, with plans to establish a Fortune Dynasty Lesser Thousand World within it.

• After settling Great Xia’s court and relations among the races, Yu selected precious materials from his wedding gifts to refine a Human Way Investiture of the Gods.
• Yu planned to infuse the treasure with his vital blood, the will of Great Xia’s living beings, and his Imperial Law, making it his Lifebound Treasure.
• Yu studied the Blood Scripture and chose to model the treasure on the Heavenly Court, intending to create a Fortune Dynasty Lesser Thousand World within it.
• Yu exchanged the remaining wedding gifts for additional treasures from Great Xia’s treasury and began refining the Investiture of the Gods.

Yu began refining the Human Way Investiture of the Gods with the Imperial Cauldron, while Empress Nü Jiao gave birth to their extraordinary son. The chapter ended with the newborn displaying powerful Human Way, royal dragon, and Nine-tailed Celestial Fox traits.

• Yu entered the Ancestor Dragon Vein beneath Mount Tai City and asked Qiuniu to guard him while he used the Imperial Cauldron.
• Yu began refining the Human Way Investiture of the Gods, a process expected to take a long time.
• In the three hundredth year of Yu's refinement, Nü Jiao went into labor as auspicious signs appeared across Mount Tai City.
• The Childbirth Protecting Immortal Maidens delivered Nü Jiao's son amid the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox phantom and nine Fortune Pillars.
• Nü Jiao saw that her newborn son possessed Human Way Golden Light, Royal Dao Dragon Qi, and an imposing aura.

Yu welcomed his first son, Qi, whose birth displayed signs of a Born Sage and an Emperor’s Destiny. Another boy, Bo Yi, was born with a similarly auspicious omen, while Yu sensed an unresolved karmic connection between the two infants.

• Yu sensed Nü Jiao had given birth and went to the Imperial Palace to see his son, whose birth was surrounded by Human Way Golden Light and Royal Dao Dragon Qi.
• Yu noticed a second auspicious birth and learned that the infant, named Bo Yi, had been born with signs of an Emperor’s Destiny.
• Yu named his son Qi and told Nü Jiao the name; she announced that he would inherit Emperor Yu’s aspirations.
• The officials and people of Great Xia celebrated Qi’s birth, while the Myriad Races considered supporting him as a future ruler.
• Old Fox celebrated on Tushan by opening the clan treasury and arranging a banquet after Fortune gathered over the clan.

Qi grew into a powerful Crown Prince while carefully balancing the Human Race and the other races in his faction. Meanwhile, Bo Yi earned the people's support by uniting tribes and improving irrigation, leaving both young leaders with growing influence in Great Xia.

• Qi studied widely under Nü Jiao's guidance and reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm at a young age.
• With Nü Jiao's approval, the officials brought Qi into court to oversee the state and gain experience in governance.
• Qi balanced appointments and the Prince's Personal Guard between the Human Race, the other races, and his own trusted followers.
• Over ten thousand years, Qi grew into a formidable Crown Prince with an increasingly powerful faction.
• Bo Yi united Human Race tribes into a giant city under his leadership and studied the writings of Lie Shan Shi.
• Bo Yi improved irrigation by leading his people to dig channels and divert river water, increasing harvests and earning widespread support.

Qi and Bo Yi united to thwart schemes that sought to divide Great Xia, and their cooperation ushered in an age of prosperity. As Yu’s power returned, his Human Way Investiture of the Gods was completed and began drawing the True Spirits of officials and troops into it.

• Bo Yi spread his agricultural methods and compiled the Complete Book of Agriculture while Qi earned growing respect for his governance.
• Schemers colluded with resentful members of the Myriad Races, spread rumors that Bo Yi meant to challenge Qi, and plotted to assassinate Bo Yi and frame Qi.
• Qi protected Bo Yi, investigated the plotters, and publicly praised Bo Yi as a sage of the Human Race.
• Bo Yi met with Qi in Mount Tai City, and Qi entrusted him with leading Great Xia’s agricultural reforms.
• Great Xia prospered under Qi and Bo Yi, while the Human Race and the Myriad Races lived in harmony.
• Five-Colored Divine Light appeared outside Mount Tai City as Yu’s aura returned, and his completed Human Way Investiture of the Gods drew wisps of True Spirit from officials and legions.

Yu emerged from seclusion after completing the Human Way Investiture of the Gods and reaching the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Peak Stage. He returned to Mount Tai City to issue edicts and stabilize the Human Dao, while leaving the question of his successor unresolved.

• Yu completed the Human Way Investiture of the Gods, advanced to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Peak Stage, and sensed that attaining Dao was near.
• Yu thanked Qiuniu for protecting his Dao and learned that Bo Yi had shown great virtue and talent.
• Yu weighed whether Bo Yi or his son Qi should inherit the throne, but postponed the decision until he could consult Ming's incarnation.
• Yu resolved to strengthen his forces through the Investiture of the Gods before he and his foundation went to guard the Primordial Chaos Ruins.
• Yu appeared above Mount Tai City, where Qi, Bo Yi, and the ministers welcomed him, and announced that he would issue edicts to stabilize the Human Dao.

Yu granted divine seats through the Human Way Investiture of the Gods to the Nine Sons of the Dragon, Great Xia officials, Human Race heroes, and meritorious members of the Myriad Races. The court’s loyalty to Yu and recognition of Great Xia grew, while Qi gained more support and surpassed Bo Yi in strength.

• Yu proclaimed the Nine Sons of the Dragon as Guardian Deities of the Nine Cauldrons, and their Divine Path Dharma Forms accepted their posts.
• Yu granted divine seats to Great Xia’s officials, heroes, and meritorious members of the Myriad Races, recording their True Spirits on the Human Way Investiture of the Gods.
• The chapter explained that reviving those listed after death would require Yu and Ming to supply sufficient power.
• Great Xia’s ministers thanked Yu, and members of the Myriad Races were impressed by the near-equal representation and merit-based appointments.
• The Myriad Races grew more loyal to Yu and recognized Great Xia’s authority, while Qi gained more talented followers and pulled ahead of Bo Yi.

Yu sought Ming’s advice about whether Qi or Bo Yi should succeed him as Human Emperor. Ming urged him to choose Qi, whose ability and support were stronger, and Yu left resolved to give his son the throne.

• Yu visited Ming’s incarnation and described his concerns about Qi and Bo Yi succeeding him.
• Ming compared their reputations and support, concluding that Qi had a far stronger foundation than Bo Yi.
• Ming warned that choosing Bo Yi could invite Qi to seize power and cause Great Xia’s first internal strife.
• Ming advised Yu to appoint the capable Qi and disregard criticism if his choice benefited the Human Dao and all living beings.
• Yu thanked Ming, agreed that Qi should have the opportunity to succeed him, and left to spend time with his family.

Yu met with Nü Jiao and Qi, then told them he would soon Attain Dao as Primordial Chaos and Great Xia would need a new Emperor. He left the succession open between Qi and Bo Yi, and Qi asked for a fair chance to prove himself.

• Yu entered the inner palace and greeted Nü Jiao and Qi, hoping to know his son personally.
• After speaking with them, Yu announced that he would soon Attain Dao as Primordial Chaos and lead the ministers to the Primordial Chaos Ruins, so Great Xia needed a new Emperor.
• Nü Jiao asked whether Yu had chosen a successor, while she and Qi worried that Qi's bloodline might weaken support for his claim.
• Yu praised Bo Yi's virtue and ability but said Qi was no less capable, easing their fears that he had already ruled Qi out.
• Qi asked Yu for a fair chance to compete for the throne and promised to support Bo Yi if Yu chose him instead.

Yu tested Qi's readiness to inherit Great Xia, and Qi proposed policies for governing the realm. Yu approved of his abilities but worried that Qi relied too much on strategies and underestimated the importance of personal strength.

• Yu praised Qi's resolve and decided he no longer doubted passing the throne to him.
• Nü Jiao urged Yu to give Qi the opportunity to succeed him, saying Qi cared for the common people and learned from Yu and Emperor Ming.
• Qi proposed continuing the Fortune Dynasty system, balancing the Human Race and the Myriad Races, establishing a central region governed through provinces and commanderies, and improving supervision.
• Yu recognized the merit of Qi's proposals but concluded that Qi mistakenly believed strategy mattered more than strength in the Great Wilderness.

Yu decided to appoint Qi Crown Prince and teach him the qualities he lacked before Yu became a Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal. Qi accepted the responsibility, while Yu reassured Nü Jiao that she had raised their son well.

• Yu judged that Qi had the ability to rule Great Xia but lacked the imposing bearing needed to become Human Emperor.
• Yu told Qi that he would appoint him Crown Prince and keep him by his side to teach him until he became a Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.
• Yu explained that Qi needed to balance long-term planning with attention to present concerns, and Qi vowed to learn from him.
• Nü Jiao blamed herself for not preparing Qi properly, but Yu comforted her and praised her care of their son and the imperial harem.