Chapter Summaries

Wu Tian helped Ji Xuanyuan understand his mission to unite humanity, and Shen Nong joined Xuanyuan’s growing Yanhuang Tribe. Meanwhile, Hao Tian attracted people to the Heavenly Court by offering Flat Peaches and Divine Office talismans.

• Wu Tian explained that Ji Xuanyuan should unite humanity, and Ji Xuanyuan sincerely accepted him as his teacher.
• Ji Xuanyuan trained an army, consolidated nearby tribes through persuasion, conquest, and marriage alliances, and advanced his cultivation.
• Wu Tian asked Shen Nong to support Xuanyuan, and Shen Nong joined his tribe with the Xuanyuan Tribe before returning to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Ying Long, Xuan Lang, and others came to help Wu Tian support Xuanyuan, while Wu Tian gained merit for bringing the tribes together.
• Hao Tian offered Flat Peaches to recruit people for the Heavenly Court, and many accepted appointments after learning Divine Office talismans could purify their Wish Power.

Hao Tian considered the purity of Wish Power and the Heavenly Court’s role in the Divine Path as Xuanyuan moved to unite the human tribes. When Xuanyuan condemned a Heavenly Court-appointed silver wolf as an unsanctioned spirit, Yao Chi persuaded Hao Tian to intervene without directly opposing Hong Yun, and Hao Tian set out to confront the dispute.

• Hao Tian discovered that the Wish Power drawn through his Heavenly Dao position was purer than the power he had gathered through a clone, and wondered if this was the proper way to cultivate the Divine Path.
• A tribe broke its promise to submit to Xuanyuan, so Xuanyuan led Yanhuang soldiers to punish it and faced a silver wolf deity empowered by human Wish Power.
• Xuanyuan declared the silver wolf an evil god and unsanctioned spirit, and the wolf’s Divine Office talisman invoked the Heavenly Dao as the Human and Heavenly Paths clashed.
• Hao Tian sensed the disturbance but hesitated to oppose Xuanyuan because he feared offending Hong Yun, while Yao Chi urged him to protect the Heavenly Court’s authority without harming Xuanyuan.
• Yao Chi argued that the human race and the Divine Path belonged to separate domains, and Hao Tian agreed to go see the confrontation.

Xuanyuan asserted the Human Emperor’s authority by executing the silver wolf and destroying Hao Tian’s Divine Office talisman. Hao Tian attacked with his imperial carriage to force Xuanyuan to submit, and their clash began as Wu Tian and the others watched.

• Xuanyuan realized that his duty as Human Emperor required all spirits to obey the human race and resolved not to compromise with Hao Tian.
• Xuanyuan killed the silver wolf and crushed the Divine Office talisman before its power could carry the wolf’s soul away.
• Hao Tian arrived and, furious at Xuanyuan’s defiance, charged at him in his golden imperial carriage.
• Wu Tian stopped Ying Long from intervening, saying the confrontation was between the Heavenly Emperor and the Human Emperor, while readying her spear.
• Xuanyuan stood firm and sent the Human Path’s fortune surging against Hao Tian’s Quasi-Saint aura.

Xuanyuan used the Human Dao’s fortune to contend with Hao Tian, who called upon the Heavenly Dao to overpower him. The Human Dao Seal protected Xuanyuan and forced Hao Tian to dodge, and Xuanyuan prepared to attack again as Hao Tian tried to invoke Ancestor Hong Yun.

• Xuanyuan stood against Hao Tian, and the human crowd shouted Long live the Human Emperor.
• Hao Tian called on the Heavenly Dao’s power, pressing Xuanyuan back as Wu Tian readied the God-Slaying Spear.
• The Human Dao Seal appeared to protect Xuanyuan and unleashed the Human Dao’s power against Hao Tian.
• Hao Tian dodged the Human Dao Seal, and Wu Tian’s killing intent faded.
• Xuanyuan raised the seal to charge at Hao Tian again, but Hao Tian called for him to wait and began to cite Ancestor Hong Yun.

Xuanyuan rejected Hao Tian’s claim that the Heavenly Court could freely govern gods among the human race and declared that all gods operating on human lands required the Human Emperor’s approval. The Human Path accepted his words as a new rule, leaving Hao Tian’s authority over those gods sharply curtailed.

• Hao Tian cited Hong Yun’s words calling him the beginning of the Divine Path to argue that the Heavenly Court should govern the gods.
• Wu Tian countered that Hong Yun had never said the entire Divine Path was under Hao Tian’s control, and Xuanyuan agreed that the human race would govern gods who received its offerings.
• Hao Tian argued that the merging of the Heavenly and Human Paths gave him authority over gods, but held back from fighting because Xuanyuan was protected by the Human Path and was Hong Yun’s disciple.
• Xuanyuan declared that every god operating within human lands had to be appointed by the Human Emperor, or be treated as an illegitimate evil god.
• The Human Path’s fortune surged, and Xuanyuan’s declaration became a rule of the Human Path.

Hao Tian accepted Xuanyuan’s authority over the human race, while Hong Yun watched from afar and focused on developing the Fire Cloud Cave World. Xuanyuan’s unification advanced until he reached the Nine Li Tribe, where its leader Chi You demanded that he prove his strength.

• Humanity’s recognition of Xuanyuan’s words reached Hao Tian, who withdrew to the Heavenly Court and accepted losing control over the Divine Path.
• Yao Chi questioned Hao Tian’s retreat, but he decided that the Heavenly Court could still recruit humans and that his reputation mattered less than future power.
• Hong Yun told Zhen Yuan Zi that Hao Tian’s retreat was in character, then left to focus on developing the Fire Cloud Cave World.
• Xuanyuan killed the deity of a tribe that had opposed him, and the news helped his unification of the human race advance.
• At the Nine Li Tribe, Chi You said he would accept Xuanyuan as Human Emperor only if Xuanyuan defeated him.
• A black stone streaked across the sky above the Nine Li Tribe like a shooting star.

Chi You rushed to protect the Nine Li Tribe from a falling meteor, but it changed course and scattered into black mist that possessed a white tiger. The tiger contained a fragment of Demon Ancestor Luohu, who clashed with the Iron-Eating Beast after it pursued the meteor.

• Chi You transformed into his Great Shaman form and tried to catch the meteor, but it veered away from the Nine Li Tribe.
• The Iron-Eating Beast raced toward the meteor’s landing place, where black mist possessed a white tiger and Luohu’s soul fragment declared that it had returned.
• Luohu’s black tiger struck the Iron-Eating Beast with its tail, but the beast endured the blow and dispelled the black mist from its paw.
• The Iron-Eating Beast lunged at Luohu, who dodged and counterattacked with blades of wind, growing furious at how weak his host body was.

Chi You mistook Luohu’s spiritual wisp, appearing as a black tiger, for a gift he could capture for Wu Tian and quickly subdued him. As Chi You carried Luohu away, Hong Yun realized Luohu had another trick and intervened, but Luohu escaped as black mist.

• Luohu revealed himself in black flames after the Iron-Eating Beast resisted his baleful energy and Bewitch Mind ability.
• Chi You arrived, recognized Luohu’s aura as reminiscent of Wu Tian’s, and decided to capture the black tiger as a gift for him.
• Chi You beat Luohu into submission and rode him, while Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi watched.
• Chi You enlarged his body, grabbed Luohu by the scruff, and carried him off to deliver to Wu Tian.
• Hong Yun sensed Luohu had another trick and thrust a finger toward him, but Luohu burst into black mist and slipped free.

Luohu revealed his demonic form and tried to possess Chi You, but Hong Yun intervened with a white net of power that drove Luohu back and kept Chi You clear-headed. Hong Yun told Chi You not to panic and called the struggle an opportunity.

• Luohu transformed the black tiger into a demonic silhouette, revealed himself as Demon Ancestor Luohu, and challenged Hong Jun.
• Chi You rejected Luohu’s demand to submit and charged at him, but his punch passed through the phantom.
• Luohu unleashed his remaining source energy and sent black demonic flames into Chi You, invading his mind and stirring his rage.
• Heavenly lightning struck Chi You as Hong Yun’s finger reached him and filled his body with pure-white threads that formed a net against Luohu.
• Hong Yun’s power kept Chi You clear-headed, and Hong Yun told him that the struggle was his opportunity.

Luohu possessed Chi You, prompting Dao Ancestor Hong Jun and Hong Yun to confront him. Hong Yun stopped Hong Jun from destroying Luohu’s spirit fragment and began pulling it out of Chi You, leaving Luohu threatening to damage his mind.

• Luohu took control of part of Chi You’s body, and Chi You felt reassured when he saw Hong Yun arrive.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun appeared and prepared to strike Chi You to send Luohu’s spirit fragment to the Netherworld.
• Hong Yun blocked Hong Jun’s palm and argued that Luohu’s presence was an opportunity for Chi You and aligned with the Heavenly Dao.
• Hong Jun agreed to leave, and Hong Yun activated a white net inside Chi You to ensnare and extract Luohu’s power.
• Luohu threatened to damage Chi You’s brain unless Hong Yun let him go.

Hong Yun turned Luohu’s remaining power into the fierce blade Tiger Soul and gave it to Chi You, explaining that the weapon could help him grow stronger. As Xuanyuan’s forces approached the Nine Li Tribe, Chi You began considering whether he could defeat Xuanyuan and claim the Human Emperor’s position.

• Luohu self-destructed his divine sense inside Chi You, but Hong Yun suppressed the blast and drew the remaining demonic power into the black tiger’s backbone.
• Hong Yun forged the backbone into the fierce blade Tiger Soul and gave it to Chi You, who felt its killing intent and the power it granted him.
• Hong Yun told Zhen Yuan Zi that Chi You’s conflict with Xuanyuan would help unite and temper the human race.
• A tribal messenger told Chi You that the nearby tribes had been defeated by Emperor Xuanyuan and that the Nine Li Tribe seemed to be next.
• Chi You considered whether defeating Xuanyuan could let him become Human Emperor, and reached toward Tiger Soul.

Chi You led the Nine Li Tribe in a fierce contest with Xuanyuan for the Human Emperor’s position, while Wu Tian and the Chan Sect weighed whether to intervene. In the Fire Cloud Cave World, Hong Yun watched the battle on a screen of light as Xuanming went to ask him about his intentions.

• Chi You refined the Tiger Soul Fierce Blade, failed to break through to Ancestral Shaman, and intensified his struggle against Xuanyuan.
• Wu Tian instructed Xuanyuan and warned Xuanwu and the others not to attack ordinary humans, since the contest was internal to the human race.
• Guang Chengzi persuaded the Chan Sect disciples to join the battle and help Xuanyuan earn merit.
• Empress Pingxin noticed Chi You lacked the fate of a Human Emperor and wondered what Hong Yun intended; Xuanming offered to visit him.
• Xuanming went to see Hong Yun, while a screen in the Fire Cloud Cave World showed the two tribes clashing.

Hong Yun explained to Xuanming why Chi You needed to compete with Xuanyuan for the Human Emperor position and why the contest could help Chi You become the Demon Lord. Xuanming worried that Chi You might cease to belong to the Witch Clan, but Hong Yun believed identity depended on how Chi You saw himself.

• Xuanming criticized the weakening of the Witch Clan and human fighters, while Hong Yun argued that ordinary humans showed humanity's true potential.
• Xuanming teased Hong Yun about Xuanyuan's dual cultivation technique, and Hong Yun insisted Ancestral Dragon had taught it, not him.
• Xuanming offered to summon Chi You back to the Netherworld, but Hong Yun said he had helped arrange the contest and would not interfere.
• Hong Yun explained that Chi You's contest with Xuanyuan could help him break through the Ancestral Shaman realm and become the Demon Lord.
• Xuanming worried that Chi You might no longer be part of the Witch Clan after transforming, and Hong Yun said identity depended on how a person viewed himself.

Hong Yun explained why the Human Dao’s authority had shifted the balance in his favor, then proposed taking Xuanming and the Ancestral Shamans into Chaos to explore other worlds. He briefly realized the surviving Ancestral Shamans might affect Hong Jun’s plans to merge with the Dao, but set the thought aside and left Xuanming eager to join the expedition.

• Xuanming agreed to let Chi You act as he pleased after Hong Yun explained that he had a plan.
• Hong Yun reflected that the Human Dao’s authority now extended over humans, gods, devils, and the Witch Clan, giving his side an advantage in the Heavenly Dao’s momentum.
• Hong Yun noticed that the Ancestral Shamans’ survival might have weakened the Primordial Wilderness and affected Hong Jun’s attempt to merge with the Dao, but decided to discuss it later with Zhen Yuan Zi or Pingxin.
• Hong Yun invited Xuanming to join him in dangerous battles and exploration, then described searching Chaos for other worlds and beings like the Karma Demon God.
• Xuanming questioned whether other worlds existed and how they could be found, and Hong Yun assured her that they did.

Hong Yun reassured Xuanming that he would find another world and invited her to watch Xuanyuan defeat Chi You. He brought her to Chi You’s sealed head, where Chi You discovered that a white light had suppressed Luohu’s influence and the Demon Lord’s memories began returning to him.

• Hong Yun stopped Xuanming from leaving and suggested gathering allies to search for another world while they watched Xuanyuan and Chi You’s battle.
• Xuanyuan obtained a Kui Niu from Liubo Mountain and made a drum whose thunderous sound helped him defeat Chi You.
• Xuanyuan divided Chi You’s body and sealed its pieces in different places because he could not kill the Great Shaman.
• Hong Yun took Xuanming to Changyang Mountain, where Chi You’s head had been sealed, and asked whether Chi You resented him.
• Hong Yun directed Chi You to examine his mind, revealing a white light suppressing a black rune as memories of Luohu’s divine-consciousness fragment returned.

Hong Yun gave Chi You a primordial spirit and restored him as the Demon Lord, allowing him to break through to the Ancestral Shaman realm. Chi You left with Xuanming to master his new strength while Hong Yun considered starting the campaign beyond the world's borders early, and Xuanyuan continued advancing human civilization.

• Hong Yun used the black rune and the merits from the struggle for the Human Emperor's position to help Chi You develop a primordial spirit.
• Hong Yun restored Chi You's body with power from the Fire Cloud Cave World, and Chi You broke through to the Ancestral Shaman realm as the Demon Lord.
• Xuanming invited Chi You to the Netherworld to stabilize and master his strength, and Chi You promised Hong Yun he would return to serve him.
• Hong Yun watched Xuanming and Chi You depart, then considered launching the campaign beyond the world's borders ahead of schedule.
• Xuanyuan unified the human race, ruled over those within the Human Emperor's jurisdiction, and spread inventions that advanced human civilization.

Cang Jie, Kun Peng reincarnated, created a system of written characters that embodied the essence of things and helped defeat the lightning tribulation. He attained the Dao as the Sage of Writing, and the chapter ended with him thanking Ancestor Hong Yun.

• Cang Jie drew inspiration from the Demon Master Tablet and studied the natural world to develop written characters.
• Cang Jie showed his characters to Xuanyuan, and they glowed with power as his Daoist aura grew.
• Hong Yun arrived and recognized that the human race was about to gain another sage.
• Cang Jie's characters rose into the sky and wore down the lightning tribulation with their combined powers.
• The characters entered the river of human fortune before flying into Cang Jie, whose primordial spirit entrusted itself to the river as he became the Sage of Writing.
• Cang Jie dispelled the strange phenomena and thanked Ancestor Hong Yun.

After Cang Jie became the human race’s Sage of Writing, he confirmed that he would remain Cang Jie among humans and Kun Peng in the North Sea, while pledging to spread writing. His success prompted powerful beings to consider joining the human race, and Zhun Ti returned west to explore gathering Wish Power there with Jieyin.

• Cang Jie told Hong Yun that he would be Cang Jie among humans and Kun Peng in the North Sea, then planned to spread writing before visiting Fire Cloud Cave.
• Hong Yun praised Xuanyuan, Wu Tian, Ying Long, and the others before departing, while the Chan Sect disciples watched anxiously.
• After Kun Peng’s success, Ancestral Dragon considered accepting Hong Yun’s offer to join the human race, but decided to wait for another opportunity.
• Zhun Ti decided against reincarnating an avatar into the human race and returned to the West to discuss his ideas about Wish Power with Jieyin.
• Zhun Ti and Jieyin spread the saying that those who chanted their true names would attain bliss, then examined golden bodies formed from incense and Wish Power.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti decided to leave the Mystic Gate’s path by creating a world whose inhabitants could offer them incense and Wish Power, prompting Hong Jun to calculate how to use their departure. Hong Yun sensed Hong Jun’s movements and waited for Xuanyuan’s ascension before gathering allies, then reassured Xi He that Lu Ya was safely transforming inside the Qiankun Cauldron.

• Jieyin and Zhun Ti proposed opening a world and cultivating living beings to provide them with incense and Wish Power.
• Hong Jun sensed that Jieyin and Zhun Ti had strayed from the Mystic Gate and calculated how to extract value from them before they left.
• Hong Jun found the Heavenly Dao’s secrets increasingly difficult to read as Hong Yun’s Human Dao flourished through the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree.
• Hong Yun suspected Hong Jun was making a move, postponed his plans until Xuanyuan attained the Dao, and returned to Fire Cloud Cave to watch over humanity.
• Xi He asked Hong Yun when Lu Ya would be ready, and Hong Yun checked the Qiankun Cauldron and found Lu Ya transformed into powerful fire essence.
• Hong Yun showed Xi He Lu Ya’s changing innate fire essence, reassuring her that the cauldron was transforming him.

Xi He and Wang Shu reunited with Hong Yun, who showed them the human race’s progress as Xuanyuan advanced civilization and medicine. Hong Yun promised he could protect them even if the Primordial Wilderness could no longer contain them, and the chapter left the three watching the human race together.

• Xi He and Wang Shu joined Hong Yun, and Xi He teased Wang Shu for missing him.
• Hong Yun showed Xi He and Wang Shu the human race and promised to take them into the chaos if the Primordial Wilderness became unsafe.
• Hong Yun observed that Xuanyuan had developed the Yellow Emperor’s Inner and Outer Canons and resolved to preserve the Outer Canon’s medical legacy.
• Xi He and Wang Shu teased Hong Yun about Xuanyuan’s many wives and descendants, and Hong Yun blamed the Ancestral Dragon’s essence blood and influence.
• Hong Yun felt glad that Xi He and Wang Shu had become comfortable living in the Fire Cloud Cave World.