Chapter Summaries

Ling Tian chose the Golden Core Great Dao and passed it to Nuwa as a cultivation method for the Human Race. After using the Classic of Dao and Virtue to supply its overarching principle, Ling Tian and Nuwa entered meditation, while Laozi sensed his opportunity to become a saint was connected to the Human Race.

• Ling Tian chose the first system option and obtained the Golden Core Great Dao before Laozi had deduced it.
• Nuwa misunderstood Ling Tian's laughter and tried to leave, but Ling Tian stopped her and passed her the Golden Core Great Dao.
• Nuwa observed that the technique lacked an overarching principle, prompting Ling Tian to use the Classic of Dao and Virtue as its guiding principle.
• Ling Tian recited the Classic of Dao and Virtue, and he and Nuwa entered a state of meditation and sudden enlightenment.
• Laozi sensed that his chance to become a saint lay with the Human Race, though he could not understand how.

Laozi wondered whether the Human Race could be his chance to attain Sainthood, while Ling Tian asked Nuwa to teach the Human Race his Golden Core Great Dao. After years of deadly hardship, the Human Race held a vast sacrificial ceremony, and its prayers resounded across Hong Huang, drawing the attention of countless Primordial Beings.

• Laozi considered visiting the Human Race but held back because Nuwa's ten-thousand-year protection was still in effect.
• Ling Tian asked Nuwa to teach the Human Race the Golden Core Great Dao and credit him as its creator, and Nuwa agreed.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi decided to hold another large-scale sacrificial ceremony to seek a cultivation method for the Human Race.
• The Human Race spent three years building an altar and sacrificing a captured beast, then Suiren Shi and a million people prayed to Nuwa for help.
• The Human Race's prayers became a Dao Sound heard throughout Hong Huang, prompting countless Primordial Beings to look toward them again.

Nuwa answered the Human Race’s prayers by returning to the Human Ancestral Land and teaching them the Golden Core Great Dao, a cultivation method created by Ling Tian. As she preached, spiritual rain and a vast merit cloud empowered the Human Race and transformed their homeland.

• Laozi resolved to visit the Human Race after the ten-thousand-year prohibition expired, while Nuwa left the Southern Ming Undying Volcano determined to help them.
• Nuwa appeared above the sacrificial altar, bringing the million Human Race members and their leaders Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi to tears and relief.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi asked Nuwa to give the Human Race a cultivation method before the prohibition ended.
• Nuwa promised to teach them, warned them to practice diligently, and revealed that Ling Tian had created the Golden Core Great Dao for the Human Race.
• Nuwa began preaching the Golden Core Great Dao as spiritual rain and a ten-million-mu merit cloud fell, transforming the Human Ancestral Land and strengthening the Human Race.

Nuwa’s lecture helped the million Humans cultivate, and the merit they absorbed sent them all toward the Heaven Immortal Tribulation. Nuwa destroyed the tribulation cloud to protect them, shocking the Primordial Beings and deterring most of their schemes against the Human Race.

• Nuwa taught the Human Race the essentials of the Classic of Dao and Virtue and the Golden Core Great Dao, and the Humans entered enlightenment as their cultivation began.
• Primordial Beings mocked the Human Race’s weakness and dismissed the resources invested in them, while Laozi continued watching because of the Hongmeng Purple Qi’s movement.
• When Nuwa ended her lecture, the Merit Auspicious Cloud poured its accumulated merit into the million Humans, who began breaking through.
• A thousand years later, the million Humans triggered Heaven Immortal Tribulations simultaneously, and the watching Primordial Beings doubted they could survive.
• Nuwa used the Law of Creation to scatter the tribulation cloud, allowing the million Humans to pass their tribulations and causing most Primordial Beings to abandon their schemes against the Human Race.

After a million humans reached at least the Heaven Immortal realm, Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi advanced to Grand Unity Golden Immortals, transforming the Human Race’s strength. When the humans thanked Nuwa for teaching them the Dao, she redirected their gratitude to Ling Tian, declaring him their teacher of the Dao.

• Most Primordial Beings withdrew their attention from the Human Race, while Laozi continued watching them and grew more interested.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi rose from ordinary humans to Grand Unity Golden Immortals in less than five thousand years.
• Among the million humans, ten thousand became Golden Immortals, five hundred thousand became True Immortals, and the rest became Heaven Immortals.
• The awakened humans rejoiced at their new strength and, led by Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi, knelt to thank Nuwa for imparting the Dao.
• Nuwa told the humans that Ling Tian had created the Golden Core Great Dao for them and named him their teacher of the Dao.

Nuwa explained that Ling Tian had created the Golden Core Great Dao for the Human Race, and the million humans pledged to honor him as their teacher. Their worship strengthened his statue, while Laozi realized Ling Tian had taken the opportunity to preach to the Human Race and vowed revenge after attaining sainthood.

• Nuwa rebuked the Human Race for doubting Ling Tian and explained how rare it was to create a cultivation technique suitable for them.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, Ziyi Shi, and the million members of the Human Race thanked Ling Tian and vowed to honor him as their teacher for generations.
• Nuwa raised a ten-thousand-zhang statue of Ling Tian, and the Human Race's surging aura flowed into it.
• Laozi sensed that his opportunity and the stirrings of the Hongmeng Purple Qi had weakened, then divined that Ling Tian had taken his chance to preach to the Human Race.
• Laozi vowed to settle accounts with the Phoenix Clan after attaining sainthood, while Ling Tian studied the strange aura that had entered his statue.

As Nuwa’s ten-thousand-year protection of the Human Race neared its end, the leaders sought help from their teacher, Ling Tian. Their prayers brought Ling Tian’s divine sense into the stone statue, where he prepared to answer them.

• Ling Tian sensed Human Dao authority within the faith gathered in his stone statue, then used the Five Elements Law Origin to strengthen his true form.
• Over five thousand years, the Human Race expanded to more than ten billion people and greatly increased its cultivation strength.
• With fewer than a hundred years left in Nuwa’s protection, Suiren Shi gathered the Human Race’s Grand Unity Golden Immortals to discuss the dangers ahead.
• Ziyi Shi urged the leaders to seek guidance from Ling Tian, and Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi led them to his statue.
• The Human Race leaders prayed for help, and their faith summoned Ling Tian’s divine sense into the statue as a system voice sounded in his mind.

Ling Tian answered the Human Race’s prayers by teaching its leaders a simplified Five Elements Great Array suited to their coming calamity. After ten years of studying it, the leaders believed the formation could save the Human Race and began preparing.

• Ling Tian chose to guide the Human Race and studied the Five Elements Great Array, realizing he could adapt it to their predicament.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, Ziyi Shi, and the other Human Race leaders prayed before Ling Tian’s statue, which finally moved and answered them.
• Ling Tian passed the leaders a simplified Five Elements Great Array that could be set up without the Innate Five Directions Banner and could draw power from many people.
• Ling Tian secretly sent three streaks of spiritual light into Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi.
• Ten years later, the Human Race’s leaders awoke from their enlightenment, thanked Ling Tian, and began making preparations.

As the Human Race prepared to defend itself after Nuwa's ten-thousand-year protection ended, Zunti and Jieyin plotted to unleash ferocious beasts on them and then pose as rescuers. Laozi secretly overheard and planned to profit from the scheme, while the Human Race rallied as the protective barrier shattered.

• Zunti and Jieyin arrived outside the Human Race's territory and discussed seizing its opportunities by force, but Jieyin warned that Nuwa and the Phoenix Clan's teacher might retaliate.
• Jieyin proposed sending countless ferocious beasts against the Human Race, then rescuing them to earn their gratitude, and Zunti praised the plan.
• Laozi overheard Zunti and Jieyin's scheme and decided to wait in hiding, hoping to reap the benefits if the beasts threatened the Human Race.
• As the ten-thousand-year deadline ended, ten billion members of the Human Race gathered in five formations while ferocious beasts massed beyond their weakening barrier.
• Suiren Shi rallied the Human Race to defend their families, and the members roared their determination to fight as the barrier shattered.

Zunti and Jieyin sent an endless beast tide against the Human Race, but the people’s formation stopped the attack with a powerful five-colored barrier. The Primordial Beings were left wondering what array the Human Race had used, while Zunti worried that their plan had failed.

• Zunti and Jieyin lured countless beasts toward the Human Race and inflamed their killing intent, while Primordial Beings doubted the young race could survive.
• Nuwa asked Ling Tian whether she had been too harsh on the Human Race, and Ling Tian reassured her that he would help her raise them.
• The beast tide crashed into the Human Race’s formation, where a five-colored curtain of light crushed the first waves of beasts and held firm.
• Primordial Beings suspected the barrier contained Five Elements Law but dismissed the idea that it was the Five Elements Great Array because it showed no trace of the Innate Five Directions Banner.
• Zunti asked Jieyin what they should do after the Human Race’s formation withstood the beast tide.

The Grand Unity Golden Immortal Beast King shattered the Human Race’s formation, putting the race on the brink of destruction. Guided by Ling Tian, Suiren Shi, Ziyi Shi, and Youchao Shi vowed to provide the Human Race with fire, clothing, and homes, and three Merit Auspicious Clouds appeared.

• The Beast King grew to a hundred thousand zhang and struck the Human Race’s five-colored barrier, cracking it under its attack and the surging beast tide.
• Nuwa moved to help the Human Race, but Ling Tian stopped her and said the Human Race would resolve the crisis.
• As the formation weakened, Ling Tian reminded Suiren Shi, Ziyi Shi, and Youchao Shi of what the Human Race needed before cultivation and the meaning of their names.
• Suiren Shi vowed to create an undying flame for the Human Race, Ziyi Shi vowed to create clothing, and Youchao Shi vowed to create homes.
• Thunder sounded and three purple Merit Auspicious Clouds gathered in the void.

Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi earned Great Dao Merit and broke through to Grand Unity Golden Immortals as the Human Race faced the Beast King's assault. They defeated their tribulations with newly forged Houtian Merit Supreme Treasures, while the Beast King shuddered.

• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi made Great Dao vows and received a million mu of merit each, surprising the Primordial Beings watching the Human Race's crisis.
• Zunti activated a formation inside the Beast King, driving it into madness as it attacked the Human Race's weakening [Five Elements Great Array].
• The ten billion members of the Human Race held their ground while the Beast King threatened to break through before their leaders could absorb the merit.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi broke through to Grand Unity Golden Immortals and turned the remaining merit into Houtian Merit Supreme Treasures.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi defeated their Grand Unity Heavenly Tribulations, and the Beast King shuddered.

The Human Race defeated the beast tide after Youchao Shi, Suiren Shi, and Ziyi Shi broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and killed its king. Zunti and Jieyin then arrived pretending they had rushed from the West to save the Human Race, leaving everyone baffled.

• Youchao Shi trapped the beast king with his little wooden house while Suiren Shi killed it with the Suiren Drill, and Ziyi Shi protected them with her hide garment.
• The beast tide retreated, and the Human Race celebrated its survival and its victory in Hong Huang.
• The watching Primordial Beings were shocked that the Human Race had repelled a tide led by a Grand Unity Golden Immortal beast king.
• Zunti and Jieyin lamented that their plot had failed, then hurried toward the retreating beasts with a new scheme.
• After loud fighting broke out, Zunti and Jieyin appeared covered in blood and claimed they had rushed from the West to save the Human Race.

Ling Tian told Nuwa that Zunti and Jieyin had caused the beast tide to attack the Human Race, and Nuwa went to confront them. She arrived at the Human Ancestral Land, praised the Human Race, and accused the two sages of orchestrating the attack, turning the people against them.

• Ling Tian told Nuwa that the beast tide was linked to the Heavenly Dao but had been triggered by Zunti and Jieyin, so Nuwa left to confront them.
• At the Human Ancestral Land, Suiren Shi thanked Zunti and Jieyin for coming to help, while the two planned to win the Human Race's gratitude and uncover its hidden opportunity.
• Zunti and Jieyin sensed Nuwa approaching and tried to reassure each other that their apparent aid would protect them from suspicion.
• The Human Race welcomed Nuwa, who lifted them to their feet and praised their efforts in repelling the beast tide.
• Nuwa accused Zunti and Jieyin of driving the ferocious beasts against the Human Race, and the people turned their furious gazes on the two sages.

Nuwa exposed Zunti and Jieyin’s plot against the Human Race and severely wounded them. She warned the Primordial Beings not to scheme against the Human Race, while urging the newly established people to keep strengthening themselves.

• Zunti and Jieyin denied scheming against the Human Race, but Nuwa trusted Ling Tian’s warning and attacked Zunti with the [Red Embroidered Ball].
• Jieyin used the [Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit] to shield Zunti, but Nuwa shattered its barrier and gravely wounded him.
• When Jieyin threatened to report Nuwa to Hongjun, she struck him down as well, leaving both men screaming in craters while the Primordial Beings condemned their scheme.
• Nuwa admonished the ten billion members of the Human Race to keep cultivating and not become complacent, and they pledged to obey her.
• Nuwa warned that anyone who secretly schemed against the Human Race would meet the fate of a mountain she reduced to dust.

Laozi secretly traveled among the Human Race for centuries, hoping to secure his chance to become a Saint, and discovered the Human Dao’s protective influence and his own connection to the [Golden Core Great Dao]. After Zunti and Jieyin returned to Mount Sumeru, Laozi met Xuan Du and asked him to become his disciple.

• After Nuwa warned the Primordial World against harming the Human Race, Laozi descended among them in disguise and traveled as an ordinary elder.
• Over several hundred years, Laozi observed the Human Race, sensed a mysterious protective power within them, and felt the [Hongmeng Purple Qi] growing stronger.
• Laozi recognized a strange familiarity with the [Golden Core Great Dao] and grew angry that Ling Tian had become the Human Race’s teacher before him.
• Zunti and Jieyin recovered enough to flee to Zixiao Palace, where Haotian gave them medicine and scolded them on Hongjun’s orders.
• Laozi met the young Xuan Du, recognized him as a promising talent, and asked whether Xuan Du would take him as his master.

Laozi failed to recruit Xuan Du, then discovered a path toward sainthood by preaching the Golden Core Great Dao to the Human Race. As he began teaching, Ling Tian received a system notification in the Southern Ming Undying Volcano.

• Laozi revealed his Quasi-Saint aura to persuade Xuan Du to become his disciple, but Xuan Du defended the Human Race and refused him.
• Laozi left in frustration and vowed to return as a Saint so Xuan Du would accept him.
• Laozi saw a Human Golden Immortal teaching the Golden Core Great Dao and realized that guiding the Human Race could earn him merit and help him establish the Human Teachings.
• Laozi announced that he would preach the Golden Core Great Dao to the Human Race for three thousand years and began teaching at the gathering.
• The Humans listening to Laozi fell into enlightenment, while Ling Tian opened his eyes in the Southern Ming Undying Volcano as a system notification sounded in his mind.

Laozi lost the Human Race's fortune to a strange vortex just as he was about to become a Saint, then tried to establish the Human Teachings as another path to Sainthood. Ling Tian warned the Human Race that Laozi had ulterior motives, and they rejected his offer.

• A strange card appeared before Laozi, and its vortex drew away the Human Race's fortune despite his attempt to stop it with the Taiji Diagram.
• After the vortex vanished, Laozi realized he could still seek Sainthood by establishing the Human Teachings and asked the Human Race to accept his guidance.
• Suiren Shi, Ziyi Shi, and Youchao Shi prepared to agree, but Ling Tian warned them that Laozi was scheming against the Human Race.
• The Three Ancestors and the billions of humans rejected the Human Teachings, leaving Laozi dumbfounded.

After the Human Race rejected Laozi’s attempt to establish the Human Teachings, Hongjun gave him fortune from his Zixiao Palace lectures, allowing him to establish the Dao Teachings and begin becoming a Saint. Ling Tian remained confident that Laozi could not threaten him, while Nuwa worried Laozi might seek revenge.

• Laozi’s attempt to establish the Human Teachings failed when the Human Race rejected him, and he raged in despair as Yuanshi, Tongtian, Zunti, and Jieyin watched.
• Hongjun told Laozi that Ling Tian had caused the Human Race’s rejection and gave him fortune to establish the Dao Teachings instead.
• Laozi vowed to establish the Dao Teachings, gained Heavenly Dao’s approval and merit, and began becoming a Saint.
• Yuanshi felt conflicted about Laozi’s success, Tongtian was glad for his elder brother, and Zunti and Jieyin lamented that their plans had failed.
• Nuwa worried Laozi would target Ling Tian, but Ling Tian assured her that he had the strength to defeat him.

After the Human Race rejected Laozi’s Human Teachings, Hongjun gave him fortune to establish the Dao Teachings, and Laozi began becoming a Saint. Ling Tian remained confident that Laozi could not threaten him if he learned Ling Tian had blocked his earlier attempts.

• Laozi despaired after the Human Race rejected his attempt to establish the Human Teachings, while Zunti and Jieyin hoped he would fail to become a Saint.
• Hongjun told Laozi that Ling Tian was behind the Human Race’s rejection and gave him fortune to establish the Dao Teachings.
• Laozi vowed to establish the Dao Teachings, gained Heavenly Dao’s approval, and began becoming a Saint through merit.
• Yuanshi felt conflicted, Tongtian was glad for Laozi, and Zunti and Jieyin were dismayed as they sensed his impending Sainthood.
• Nuwa worried that Laozi might target Ling Tian, but Ling Tian said he had enough power and other trump cards to deal with him.