Chapter Summaries

Fuxi, Shen Nong, and Xuanyuan rose as successive leaders of the human race, bringing new systems of rule, farming, medicine, and military organization. After Shen Nong passed leadership to Xuanyuan, Jieyin and Zhunti anticipated that uniting the tribes would require a struggle and considered how they might gain the merit needed to prove the Dao.

• Fuxi received the diagrams and invented the Eight Trigrams, then united tribes and became the first Human Emperor.
• Shen Nong developed agriculture and medicine, compiled The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica, and succeeded Fuxi as Co-lord of the human race.
• Guang Chengzi took Xuanyuan as his disciple, and Xuanyuan later became chief of the You Xiong Tribe.
• Xuanyuan improved farming, organized the tribe's land and labor, trained its army, and succeeded Shen Nong as Co-lord.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed how Xuanyuan's effort to unite the human tribes could create an opportunity to prove the Dao.

Jieyin used the Method of Enlightenment in Dreams and forty-eight Great Vows to attain Sainthood, then shared his merit with Zhunti so he could advance toward Buddhahood. Zhunti’s enlightenment remained incomplete, and he committed himself to transforming living beings, including seeking disciples in the East.

• Zhunti asked whether Jieyin’s dream method could lead them to Sainthood, and Jieyin explained their lack of merit and the risks of their available paths.
• Jieyin made forty-eight Great Vows, received boundless merit and the Merit Golden Lotus, and attained Sainthood.
• Jieyin gave half his remaining merit to Zhunti and used his Sarira to suppress the evil thoughts inside Zhunti’s golden-body manifestation.
• Zhunti proclaimed his vow to save living beings and cut away his true self, but his Wisdom King’s golden body remained incomplete.
• Zhunti resolved to teach and transform beings and seek disciples in the East, while Jieyin stayed on Mount Sumeru to suppress chaos and maintain balance.

Wu Qi took the newborn Chi You to the hidden Blood Pool, where the infant absorbed its power and became a formidable Wu warrior. Chi You learned that the Wu People’s hope rested on winning the Human Emperor’s throne, and he prepared to unite the Jiuli Tribe despite Xuanyuan’s advantage.

• Wu Qi carried Chi You through the volcanic Forbidden Land to the Blood Pool, where thirty-six Wu priests prepared to awaken his bloodline.
• The blood-red Eight Trigrams refined the pool’s Essence Blood into a bead that entered Chi You, rapidly transforming him while draining the priests’ vitality.
• Chi You grew into a towering, many-limbed Wu warrior, and Wu Qi declared that the Wu People’s time to rise again had come.
• Wu Qi explained that Chi You must contend for the Human Emperor’s throne against Xuanyuan and that the Yan Tribe also opposed Xuanyuan.
• Chi You learned about the scattered Jiuli Tribe and the missing or sealed Great Wu, then said he would unite his people.

Chi You discovered a blood-reactive broken blade, reforged it into the Tiger Soul Blade, and led the Jiuli Tribe’s Wu forces against Xuanyuan’s You Xiong Tribe. After suffering defeats, Xuanyuan sought help from Guang Chengzi, who told him that he had to rely on himself to win the Human Emperor’s throne.

• Chi You found a broken blade in a Forbidden Land and decided to forge it into a Demonic Blade.
• Chi You and his Great Wus forged the Tiger Soul Blade using Daoists’ Essence Blood and a demonic tiger’s bones.
• Chi You ordered the Jiuli Tribe to attack the You Xiong Tribe, whose forces were weakened by war with the Yan Emperor Tribe and defections.
• The Jiuli forces defeated Xuanyuan’s troops, weakening his prestige and fracturing his alliance.
• Xuanyuan asked Guang Chengzi how to stop the Wu Clan, but Guang Chengzi warned him against relying on outside aid and told him to depend on himself.

Xuanyuan used the Falling Soul Bell to defeat the Yan Emperor Tribe and united his allies into the Yanhuang Tribe as he prepared to confront the Jiuli Tribe. In the far north, Wu Qi found the Pangu Great Hall, where Xing Tian weighed the Wu Race’s chance to rise again and set out to search for the missing Wind Master and Rain Master.

• Xuanyuan rejected Li Mu’s call to delay war, while Feng Hou and Da Hong proposed rallying the tribes and demonstrating their strength against the Yan Emperor Tribe.
• At the Plains of Banquan, Xuanyuan used Guang Chengzi’s Falling Soul Bell to disorient the Yan Emperor’s troops, then ordered a retreat after turning the battle in his favor.
• Feng Hou and Da Hong reported that the Yan Emperor Tribe had submitted, and Xuanyuan united allied tribes into the Yanhuang Tribe before preparing to face the Jiuli Tribe.
• Wu Qi reached the Pangu Great Hall with the help of the Tiger Soul Blade, and Xing Tian and the surviving Wu gathered there.
• Xing Tian warned Wu Qi that the Heavenly Court might be using the struggle for the Human Emperor’s position to target the Wu, but agreed that they had to seize their opportunity.
• After Wu Qi said the Wind Master and Rain Master might be trapped on Mount Buzhou, Xing Tian took up the Tiger Soul Blade and followed its resonance toward them.

Chi You’s Jiuli forces destroyed Li Mu’s vanguard, leaving Xuanyuan shaken until the Immortal Master’s message restored his resolve. As the Heavenly Court sent Nine Heavens Xuannü to offer Xuanyuan a celestial book, she asked to meet Guang Chengzi, who was in seclusion.

• Li Mu rallied his frightened soldiers, but Chi You’s Jiuli warriors overwhelmed the Yanhuang vanguard and killed nearly all of them.
• Chi You used twelve flags to absorb the battlefield’s wandering souls, corpses, and blood, while Li Mu escaped gravely wounded.
• Xuanyuan received the Immortal Master’s blank silk scroll, regained his resolve, and ordered his people to proclaim that Yanhuang would prevail.
• Xuanyuan offered Li Mu immortal medicine, but a guard then reported that an immortal from the Heavenly Court had arrived.
• Nine Heavens Xuannü presented Xuanyuan with a celestial book, explained its contents, and asked where Guang Chengzi was.
• Xuanyuan thanked Nine Heavens Xuannü and told her Guang Chengzi was secluded, comprehending the Great Dao and wandering through the void.

Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan learned to adapt the Heavenly Book’s teachings for the Yanhuang Tribe, received Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s essence, and prepared to fight the Jiuli Tribe. The battle began with Xuanyuan’s forces using talismans and formations to counter Chi You’s army, while a Beast Tide struck the Jiuli ranks.

• Guang Chengzi used the Fan Tian Seal to block the Jiuli Tribe and preserve peace while Xuanyuan studied the Heavenly Book.
• Xuanyuan realized its characters could not be copied safely, so Cangjie recorded Xuanyuan’s explanations in human writing and taught them to the people.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate bestowed essence upon Xuanyuan, who refined it for thirty years and gained a body strong enough to match Chi You’s.
• Xuanyuan declared war on the Jiuli Tribe, and Li Mu led the Yanhuang armies toward Chi You’s forces.
• Li Mu sent a thousand cultivators into battle, where they used divine lightning and Samadhi True Fire to strike the Jiuli army.
• A Beast Tide charged into Chi You’s ranks and threw his army into disarray.

Ying Long arrived to help Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan defeat Chi You, and the Dragon Clan flooded Zhuolu to devastate the Jiuli Tribe. Chi You and Rain Master turned the battle around by confronting Xuanyuan and Ying Long, leaving the outcome uncertain as a fiery woman began drying up the floodwaters.

• Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan welcomed Ying Long, who promised to defeat the Jiuli Tribe with the Dragon Clan’s command of water.
• Ying Long flooded Zhuolu, and the Dragon Clan attacked the Jiuli Tribe, killing and scattering many of its warriors.
• Rain Master arrived and attacked the Yanhuang cultivators with lethal water, while Chi You emerged to fight Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan with the Tiger Soul Blade.
• Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan and Chi You fought evenly, and their powers clashed in a struggle between the Human Emperor Seal’s golden dragon and Chi You’s demonic blade.
• Rain Master wounded Ying Long with heavy droplets, but a fiery woman rose into the sky and rapidly dried the floodwaters.

Xing Tian rescued Rain Master and Wind Master from Mount Buzhou, then fought his way into the Heavenly Court. After the Jade Emperor severed his head, Xing Tian continued fighting, and the Jade Emperor sealed him beneath Changyang Mountain.

• Xing Tian used the Tiger Soul Blade to open a gap in Mount Buzhou’s seal and rescued Rain Master, then joined Wind Master and searched for the Jiuli Tribe.
• Xing Tian attacked the South Heavenly Gate, defeated Lu Wu and the Heaven’s Soldiers and Generals, and forced his cultivation up to the Great Luo Realm.
• The Jade Emperor confronted Xing Tian and fought him to a standstill before immobilizing him with the Haotian Mirror and demanding his submission.
• Xing Tian refused to serve the Heavenly Court, so the Jade Emperor severed his head and sealed it inside Changyang Mountain.
• Xing Tian’s head returned to his body, and he continued fighting with his nipples as eyes and his navel as a mouth until the Jade Emperor sealed him beneath the mountains.

Chi You used the Nine-Nine Wu Origin Formation to trap and slaughter the Yanhuang army, but Nine Heavens Xuannü and Guang Chengzi helped Xuanyuan counter the formation. After Xuanyuan’s army escaped the demonic fog, he defeated Chi You’s Tiger Soul Blade and demanded his surrender.

• Chi You unleashed the Tiger Soul Blade’s demonic power against Xuanyuan, who escaped a fatal strike with a Substitute Talisman.
• Chi You activated the Nine-Nine Wu Origin Formation, engulfing the battlefield and the Youxiong army in demonic fog that disrupted sight, sound, and Spiritual Sense.
• Nine Heavens Xuannü used the Kui Skin Drum to dispel the illusions, while Guang Chengzi countered Tian Wu’s wind with the Wind Settling Pearl and Fan Tian Seal.
• Star Power destroyed the formation, and Chi You retreated behind the remaining fog as Xuanyuan’s forces searched for a way out.
• After three days, Xuanyuan’s army used a south-pointing cart to escape the fog, then advanced toward Chi You to the sound of war drums.
• Xuanyuan’s golden light destroyed the demonic tiger and shattered the Tiger Soul Blade, and he demanded that Chi You surrender.

Hongjun and Great Immortal Yang Mei tried to contain the destruction caused when Dao Lord Lu Ya tore Mount Buzhou from its foundations and hurled it through the worlds. As the Three Realms fused, Lu Ya attacked Xuanhuang’s hidden world, where Xuanhuang confronted him and sent him the Essence of Creation.

• Hongjun visited Great Immortal Yang Mei on Penglai and learned that Lu Ya had used a Space Crystal and the Power of Time to create a world of limited potential.
• After a thousand years, Hongjun sensed Lu Ya’s actions at Mount Buzhou and hurried there with Yang Mei.
• Lu Ya spun Mount Buzhou into a drill and drove it through the barrier into the Mortal Realm, causing devastation across the Mortal Realm and the Asura Demon Realm.
• Hongjun repaired the barrier while Yang Mei stabilized the worlds, and Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Yang Mei joined the three realms into one.
• Lu Ya found Xuanhuang’s hidden galaxy, forced Mount Buzhou against its protective barrier, and descended into the evolving world within it.
• Xuanhuang confronted Lu Ya and sent the Essence of Creation toward him.

Dao Lord Lu Ya attacked Xuanhuang’s carefully created world, seeking to seize its Origin Power and become its Heavenly Dao. Xuanhuang destroyed Lu Ya’s Great Thousand World and trapped him in a coffin of Xuanhuang Qi while the Primordial Violet Qi escaped.

• Dao Lord Lu Ya killed creatures and unleashed ice, fire, wind, and a net of power against Xuanhuang’s world, while Xuanhuang repelled his attacks with its rules.
• Lu Ya struck with power from another world, and Xuanhuang redirected him through a ceremonial archway into a desolate region of chaos.
• Xuanhuang used Destructive Power to destroy Lu Ya’s Great Thousand World after Lu Ya tried to refine the world’s Origin Power.
• Lu Ya summoned the Wheel of Time-Space, but Xuanhuang’s lotus-root-shaped palace swallowed it and sank into the depths of the world.
• Xuanhuang became Xuanhuang Qi and sent the Primordial Violet Qi away, then wrapped Lu Ya in a strange coffin to prevent him from pursuing it.

Old Ancestor Xuanbing broke through the barrier between the Immortal and Demon Realms, while Hongjun arranged for Ancestral Dragon to guard the widening passages. The Three Realms continued toward an inevitable merging, as the Three Pure Ones discussed the tribulation and the need to restore balance to heaven and earth.

• Old Ancestor Xuanbing fought Ancestral Dragon in the North Sea Eye, freezing its waters and using ice to evade him.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing formed an ice drill and pierced the barrier, falling through into the Asura Demon Realm.
• The Sea Eyes balanced the chaotic energy between the realms, and Hongjun told Ancestral Dragon to guard the Demon Realm and warned him not to absorb too much power.
• Hongjun's Dharma Body opened passages at several places, including the Netherworld Blood Sea, through which Minghe and Kun Peng entered the Asura Demon Realm.
• Lingbao Tianzun, Dao De Tianzun, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate discussed why Hongjun allowed the worlds to merge and how the Investiture of the Gods served heaven and earth's balance.

Immortal and Demon Realm powers searched the Mortal Realm for the sentient Primordial Violet Qi while clashing with one another. Minghe continued his search after Heavenly Ghost fled a battle, then confronted him when he returned injured by Yunxiao’s magic treasure.

• A Demonic Cloud crushed Demon Realm cultivators while searching for Primordial Violet Qi, but the Qi devoured the remains and escaped.
• True Person Ziyang defeated a zombie guarding a false trace and swallowed a tiny violet speck, suspecting the Primordial Violet Qi had fooled him.
• Minghe and Heavenly Ghost joined forces to search for the elusive Primordial Violet Qi as Western Golden Body power and a fierce sword battle shook the starry sky.
• Zhao Gongming defeated a sword cultivator with the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls, and Heavenly Ghost left after sensing someone was trying to steal his nephew’s treasure.
• Minghe sent Blood God Sons against an intruder, but Heavenly Ghost devoured them and returned injured, blaming Yunxiao and her Hunyuan Golden Dou.

True Person Ziyang and Big Head lured cultivators seeking Primordial Violet Qi into a trap, defeated a bald man who attacked their planet, and collected more fragments. True Person Ziyang gained no hidden information from the fragments, but they repaired his origin and deepened his understanding of violet qi.

• Lu Ya attacked Kun Peng over the deaths of his family and demanded his father's treasure, Hetu Luoshu, while Kong Xuan intervened to protect the planet.
• Kun Peng said Hetu Luoshu had flown away and offered Lu Ya a fragment of Primordial Violet Qi to settle their Karma.
• True Person Ziyang and Big Head discussed using their violet planet as bait to collect Primordial Violet Qi fragments from searching cultivators.
• A bald man arrived, used Heaven in the Palm to crush the planet, and collected a fragment of Primordial Violet Qi.
• True Person Ziyang trapped the bald man in the Ultimate Sky Fire Array, destroyed his Supreme Golden Body, and swallowed three fragments of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Big Head absorbed the golden body's metal essence, while True Person Ziyang explained that the fragments had repaired his origin and helped him understand the properties of violet qi.

True Person Ziyang refined Mount Buzhou into divine essence, Pangu's Marrow, and a black iron rod while Big Head fought the approaching Yun Zhongzi. After Yun Zhongzi explained artifact-refining, Ziyang gave him some of the mountain's divine liquid and was left with the three treasures.

• True Person Ziyang used Purple Fire to refine Mount Buzhou, carefully extracting its divine essence without destroying the Pangu's Marrow within it.
• Big Head intercepted Yun Zhongzi, and the two exchanged attacks until Yun Zhongzi's bell trapped part of Big Head's golden liquid.
• True Person Ziyang stopped Big Head and learned that Yun Zhongzi had come seeking Mount Buzhou as refining material.
• Yun Zhongzi shared his artifact-refining insights with True Person Ziyang and Big Head, then received some of Mount Buzhou's divine liquid from Ziyang.
• After Yun Zhongzi departed, True Person Ziyang examined the divine mountain liquid, a few drops of Pangu's Marrow, and a pitch-black iron rod.

Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Great Immortal Yang Mei fused the Immortal, Mortal, and Demon Realms into an imperfect yin-yang arrangement on the Creation Jade Disk. Hongjun then summoned the Sages and rulers to announce the Calamity of Investiture and the creation of 365 Heavenly Court gods, leaving Zhunti with permission to shoulder the karmic debt of those who joined his Western religion.

• Great Immortal Yang Mei and Hongjun discussed the collapsing three realms and proposed using the Creation Jade Disk, Hongjun, and Luo Hou to establish a balance of yin and yang.
• Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Great Immortal Yang Mei placed the three realms on the Creation Jade Disk, but the vast Mortal Realm and differences between the Immortal and Demon Realms left the arrangement unbalanced.
• Hongjun resolved to proceed with the Calamity of Investiture and entered seclusion, leaving a manifestation of Pure Qi in the Zixiao Palace to meet the Sages.
• The Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, the Western Sages, Haotian, the Three Sovereigns, and an illusory figure identified by Shennong as Youchao Shi arrived at the Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun announced that the coming calamity would send some beings into reincarnation and elevate others to the Divine or Immortal Dao, then ordered the Sages to nominate 365 gods for the Heavenly Court.
• Zhunti asked whether those who joined the Western religion could have their cause and effect and karmic debt shouldered by him, and Hongjun nodded.

A newly conscious spirit of Primordial Violet Qi devoured True Person Ziyang’s primordial spirit and took control of his body, then used its new ability to locate more Primordial Violet Qi. True Person Ziyang and Big Head found a planet containing Xuanhuang Qi, and Big Head proposed storing its memories in Great God Pangu’s marrow at Mount Buzhou.

• A monster formed from corpses and Primordial Violet Qi survived the destruction of its planet and developed into a zombie in the starry sky.
• True Person Ziyang’s purple qi attacked the zombie, and the purple corpse core entered his sea of consciousness as a conscious orb of Primordial Violet Qi.
• The purple orb overpowered True Person Ziyang, devoured his primordial spirit, and took control of his body despite his threats and resistance.
• Big Head traveled with the controlled True Person Ziyang as he sensed and gathered Primordial Violet Qi from remote planets.
• True Person Ziyang refined an ocher planet containing Xuanhuang Qi into a spirit stone, but worried that powerful cultivators could detect its stored memories.
• Big Head suggested using Great God Pangu’s marrow at Mount Buzhou to hold the memories, reminding True Person Ziyang that he had previously told him about the marrow.

True Person Ziyang and Big Head traveled through the Mortal Realm, planting Primordial Violet Qi and intervening in conflicts as they sought to accumulate merit. Their journey ended with True Person Ziyang trapped inside Ao Cang’s Darkness Sky Curtain, facing a monster that threatened to devour him.

• Big Head accidentally threw the Chaos Iron Rod into the void, where it vanished as the Three Realms were being merged.
• True Person Ziyang planted a wisp of Primordial Violet Qi in a planet and had Big Head help two Immortals manage its vegetation.
• True Person Ziyang and Big Head continued clearing planets before confronting Ao Cang, who had wrapped a Black Dragon around more than a dozen planets.
• Big Head’s golden weapons shattered the Black Dragon, and Ao Cang attacked True Person Ziyang after claiming he had only wanted to spar.
• Ao Cang trapped True Person Ziyang in the Darkness Sky Curtain, where a darkness monster swallowed his attacks and dragged him toward a black hole.

After barely surviving Ao Cang’s Darkness Power, True Person Ziyang chose reincarnation and traveled with Big Head to the Mortal Realm. At Mount Tai’s consecration, humanity gained recognition from the Mortal Realm’s Heaven and Earth, and Ziyang dissolved his purple Qi into its laws before the Daoist Scripture carried his true spirit toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Ao Cang fled when the Daoist Scripture stirred in True Person Ziyang’s sea of consciousness, and Ziyang decided to abandon his damaged body and reincarnate.
• Big Head took Ziyang to Earth, where human tribes rose and fell as they struggled for dominance and faith.
• The Yellow Emperor and gathered cultivators consecrated Mount Tai, merging their Dao Marks and divine powers into the Mortal Realm so its Heaven and Earth would recognize humanity.
• Big Head gave Ziyang a drop of his bodily essence, which the Daoist Scripture devoured as Ziyang transformed into purple Qi.
• Ziyang dispersed his purple Qi into the Mortal Realm, strengthening its laws, and the Daoist Scripture carried his true spirit toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation as Big Head called after him.