Recaps

Nuwa created the Empress Wa Realm, preached the Dao of Creation, and entrusted the Human Race’s affairs and sacred whip to East King Duke before entering seclusion. Meanwhile, Tai Yi brought Kunpeng back to the Heavenly Court, where Di Jun demanded a sliver of Kunpeng’s True Spirit.

• Nuwa used the Red Embroidered Ball and Mountain and River Map to create the Empress Wa Realm, received Heavenly Dao Merit, and invited the gathered cultivators to hear her sermon.
• Nuwa preached the Dao of Creation for a thousand years, then gave East King Duke the Beating Man Whip and responsibility for the Human Race while she remained in seclusion for a hundred thousand years.
• Tai Yi went to Northern Darkness with the Chaos Bell and confronted Kunpeng for fleeing during the Witch-Demon War.
• Kunpeng begged for mercy and promised to return to the demon race, so Tai Yi took him to the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun accepted Kunpeng’s return but demanded a sliver of his True Spirit, shocking Kunpeng.

Di Jun forced Kunpeng to surrender a fragment of his True Spirit and return to the Heavenly Court, while East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West visited the Human Race and passed down cultivation methods. East King Duke revealed that the Human Race could produce four Saints and reassured Tai Zhen that he had plans to help her prove the Dao.

• Di Jun demanded Kunpeng's True Spirit as proof of loyalty, and Kunpeng surrendered a fragment under threat from Di Jun and Tai Yi.
• East King Duke returned to the Human Race with Queen Mother of the West and praised Suirenshi, Youchaoshi, and Ziyishi for guiding their people.
• At East King Duke's request, Queen Mother of the West taught the Three Ancestors three chapters of the Method of Seeking Dao of Tai Yin, earning substantial merit from Heaven's Will.
• East King Duke told the Three Ancestors that a disciple would watch over the Human Race after he left, then departed with Queen Mother of the West.
• East King Duke told Queen Mother of the West that the Human Race could produce four Saints and said he had a plan to help her prove the Dao.

After Xi He gave birth to the Golden Crow Princes and Moon Spirit Princesses, Di Jun and Tai Yi sent the unruly Princes to the Sun Star to learn control of their flames. On Mount Kunlun, Laozi sensed that the Human Race might hold his chance to become a Saint and decided to visit them.

• East King Duke sent Kong Xuan to the Human Race Territory, then secluded himself to cultivate the Yin-Yang Law.
• Xi He gave birth to ten Golden Crow Princes and ten Moon Spirit Princesses, delighting the Heavenly Court.
• The ten Little Golden Crows repeatedly lost control of their Solar True Fire and caused damage across the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi placed the ten Princes in the Fusang Tree on the Sun Star and assigned Bi Fang to guard them.
• Tongtian wondered why Heaven favored the Human Race, and Laozi sensed that visiting them might reveal his Saint Opportunity.

Laozi discovered that the Human Race lacked a Dao Lineage, created the Golden Core Great Dao, and founded the Human Religion to become a Saint. Primordial and Tongtian followed by establishing their own sects and becoming Saints, leaving the Heavenly Court worried about its position.

• Laozi lived among ordinary humans, confirmed that the Human Race had no inherited cultivation path, and realized that preaching to them was his Opportunity to Become a Saint.
• Laozi created the Golden Core Great Dao, preached it to the Human Race for a thousand years, and established the Human Religion with the Taiji Diagram to suppress its destiny.
• Laozi received Heavenly Dao merit and became a Saint, while the Human Race welcomed him as its Saint and Human Religion Sect Master.
• Primordial established the Chan Sect, and Tongtian established the Interception Sect; both received merit and became Saints.
• Primordial and Tongtian each claimed one tenth of the Human Race Destiny, while East King Duke retained more than half and Nuwa's share fell to two tenths.
• Di Jun and the others grew dejected as the Three Pure Ones became Saints, fearing the Heavenly Court's position would become increasingly awkward.

After the Three Pure Ones became Saints, Jieyin and Zhunti struggled to find their own Saint Opportunity while East King Duke’s Supreme Yang Lineage continued to grow in strength. The Western Duo established the Western Sect and, after making forty-eight Great Grand Vows, became Saints, though others doubted their power.

• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West advanced their cultivation, while Kong Xuan, Xuan Yang, Qing Ling, and the Daoist Boys also made progress on Mount Fang Island.
• Chang Xi reached the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm, surprising Xi He, Di Jun, and the Heavenly Court with the fortune of Mount Fang Island.
• Jieyin and Zhunti realized that establishing a sect could bring them a Saint Opportunity and founded the Western Sect on Mount Lingshan.
• When the merit from founding the sect proved insufficient, Jieyin and Zhunti made forty-eight Great Grand Vows to Heaven.
• The Heavenly Dao accepted their vows, and Jieyin and Zhunti received merit and became Saints.
• Beings across the Primordial World heard the vows and questioned whether the Western Duo’s Saint Positions and strength matched those of the other Saints.

With the Saints in seclusion and war between the Witch and Demon Clans looming, Di Jun sent Eastern Emperor Tai Yi to bring Penglai Immortal Island under Heavenly Court control. As Tai Yi prepared to claim the island, Penglai vanished beneath a mysterious aura.

• Di Jun asked his officials how the Heavenly Court should prepare for the end of the truce between the Witch and Demon Clans, and Bai Ze warned that Nuwa’s sainthood had weakened their position.
• Bai Ze advised recruiting Great Luo Golden Immortals and proposed taking Penglai Immortal Island, while Fuxi assured the court that the Saints would not interfere.
• Di Jun ordered Eastern Emperor Tai Yi to lead the Ten Heavenly Generals and a million soldiers to subdue the Penglai Lineage.
• Immortal Lord Fuhai accepted the Heavenly Court’s demand, and Tai Yi ordered the Penglai cultivators to leave the island and enter the Heavenly Court’s immortal registers.
• As Tai Yi prepared to refine Penglai Immortal Island, the island trembled, a mysterious pressure appeared, and the island vanished into spiritual mist.

East King Duke secretly took Penglai Island from Tai Yi and joined it with Yingzhou and Mount Fang Island. After the Heavenly Dao's Eye watched their merger for ten years, Queen Mother of the West entered the strange aura arising from the new land.

• Tai Yi failed to reveal the vanished Penglai Island with the Chaos Bell and returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Bai Ze suggested that a mysterious East Sea Great Supernatural Being had hidden Penglai, and Di Jun decided to let the island go.
• East King Duke revealed that he had taken Penglai and used the Chaos Bead to bring it together with Yingzhou and Mount Fang Island.
• The three islands began merging, stirring Chaos storms and drawing the attention of cultivators and Saints throughout the Primordial World.
• The Heavenly Dao's Eye appeared and watched East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West as the islands merged into a vast, Chaos-like continent.
• When a strange aura arose within the new land and the Heavenly Dao's Eye grew violent, East King Duke called to Queen Mother of the West, who plunged into the aura.

East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West merged the Three Immortal Islands into a Chaos Spirit Land, drawing the Heavenly Dao’s attention before Queen Mother of the West absorbed the islands’ nascent Heavenly Dao. After decades of cultivation, East King Duke prepared to prove the Dao in Chaos, but vanished shortly after leaving the islands.

• Queen Mother of the West absorbed the Three Immortal Islands’ nascent Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao’s Eye withdrew as the islands became a vast Chaos Spirit Land.
• East King Duke renamed Mount Fang Island the Three Immortal Islands of the East Sea and reassured its residents, while the Great Powers and Heavenly Court reacted to the transformation.
• Laozi deduced the islands’ origin, Primordial resented East King Duke’s possession of them, and Zhunti and Jieyin planned to expand the Western Sect into the East.
• East King Duke reached ninety-nine percent comprehension of his Chaos Yin-Yang Law, while Kong Xuan became a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• East King Duke decided to prove the Dao in Chaos and set out on the Eighteen-grade Innate Yin-Yang Dao Lotus, but vanished after leaving the islands.

Zhunti tried to convert the Human Race and take Kong Xuan to the Western Sect, but East King Duke intervened and fought him in the starry sky. After a century of battle, East King Duke warned Zhunti that he could harm even a Saint protected by the Heavenly Dao.

• Kong Xuan recognized Zhunti at the Human Race Ancestral Land as the Saint began preaching to the Human Race.
• Zhunti's ten-thousand-year sermon swayed the Human Race and the Three Ancestors toward the Western Sect, while Kong Xuan remained wary.
• Zhunti declared that the Three Ancestors and Kong Xuan should join the Western Sect, then reached to bind Kong Xuan.
• East King Duke arrived, dispelled the Western Sect's influence over the Human Race, and challenged Zhunti's claim of Heavenly Mandate.
• East King Duke and Zhunti fought for a hundred years in the starry sky, and East King Duke warned Zhunti that he could overcome the Saint's protection.

East King Duke sealed Zhunti in the starry sky before retreating into Chaos to prepare to Prove the Dao through the Chaos Yin-Yang Law. He formed a world inside the Chaos Bead and began developing the Power of Dominion needed to break the Heavenly Dao’s shackles.

• East King Duke used his Yin-Yang Dharma Bodies and Divine Mountain to seal Zhunti in the starry sky for up to ten thousand years.
• Jieyin joined forces with Zhunti and used the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus to break the seal, then warned Zhunti against acting rashly toward the human race.
• East King Duke traveled deep into Chaos and set up a Yin-Yang Sword Array before beginning to Prove the Dao.
• East King Duke perfected the Yin-Yang Law and used it to expand the Chaos Bead’s inner space into a world with the Five Elements and Yin and Yang.
• East King Duke formed the Power of Dominion within the Small World and prepared to break the Heavenly Dao’s shackles binding his original spirit.

East King Duke broke through the Heavenly Dao’s shackles and attained the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm by completing his Primordial Spirit Golden Sea. He visited Hongjun to return the Jade Plate of Creation and discuss their delayed plan to help Hongjun transcend, then returned to the Primordial World with a plan to establish his Small World as the Supreme Yang Lineage’s private domain.

• East King Duke formed a Small World inside the Chaos Bead, gathered the Power of Dominion, and shattered the Heavenly Dao’s shackles with nine strikes.
• His Three Flowers transformed into a Primordial Spirit Golden Sea, and his treasures entered it as he completed his breakthrough to the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• East King Duke tested his new strength, then resolved to link his Small World to the Primordial World as a hidden Yin-Yang Realm above the Three Immortal Islands.
• East King Duke visited Hongjun at the Purple Sky Palace, returned the Jade Plate of Creation, and agreed to wait until he reached the late stage of the Hunyuan Grand Unity realm before helping Hongjun transcend.
• Hongjun warned East King Duke that Heavenly Dao might oppose his return, but East King Duke said he had a plan and flew back to the Primordial World.
• East King Duke arrived above the Three Immortal Islands, where a Phenomenon Between Heaven and Earth appeared.

East King Duke revealed his Primordial Grand Unity cultivation and established the Yin-Yang Realm as an outer realm connected to the Primordial World, earning Heaven’s merit and declaring himself Yin-Yang Dao Venerable and Realm Master. His rise startled the Primordial World’s Saints, while Zhunti turned his attention toward the Witch and Demon Races.

• East King Duke’s return with the Chaos Bead drew Heaven’s punishment over the Three Immortal Islands, and Queen Mother of the West and the Supreme Yang Lineage gathered around him.
• Tongtian admired East King Duke’s defiance of Heaven’s Dao, while Primordial condemned him and Laozi told them to wait for Heaven’s judgment.
• East King Duke declared the Yin-Yang Realm established, connected it to the Primordial World, and named himself Yin-Yang Dao Venerable and Realm Master.
• Heaven’s pressure faded, and Xuanhuang Merit entered East King Duke as his hidden realm connected with the Primordial World.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed East King Duke’s new power, and Zhunti said he would pursue plans involving the Witch and Demon Races.

After attaining the Primordial Great Golden Immortal realm, East King Duke renamed his lineage and established the Yin-Yang Realm as its sacred land. In the Heavenly Court, Di Jun approved a secret plan to obtain Human Race flesh and blood to counter the Witch Clan, setting a calamity in motion while the humans remained unaware.

• East King Duke returned to the Three Immortal Islands, renamed his lineage and dojo, passed down a new cultivation scripture, and promised to preach for a hundred years.
• Tai Yi urged Di Jun to pursue the Primordial Great Golden Immortal realm, while Di Jun raised the looming conflict between the Witch and Demon Races.
• Jiu Ying reported that Human Race flesh and blood could suppress the Witch Clan’s bodies, and Bai Ze proposed using it to refine a weapon.
• Fuxi agreed to inform Nuwa, and Di Jun ordered the demons to secretly gather Human Race flesh and blood for testing.

Houtu left the Witch Clan to pursue the faint opportunity to become a Saint as the Ancestral Witches prepared for the coming Witch-Demon War. After Fuxi secured Nuwa’s agreement not to intervene, Di Jun began slaughtering the Human Race to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword, escalating their calamity.

• Houtu told the Ancestral Witches she would travel the Primordial World to seek her chance at Sainthood, then left the Witch Clan despite Dijiang’s concerns.
• Fuxi told Nuwa that the Demon Race planned to use Human flesh and blood to forge a weapon, and Nuwa agreed not to intervene while warning Di Jun against indiscriminate slaughter.
• Di Jun sent Qin Yuan to investigate the Human Race, and Qin Yuan discovered that their flesh and blood could empower a treasure capable of breaking a Witch’s true form.
• Di Jun ordered the Ten Heavenly Generals to attack the Human Race, and more than a million people were slaughtered while Kong Xuan was away.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi forged the Witch-Slaying Sword and ordered a full-scale invasion to gather enough Human flesh and blood to complete it.

After a century of teaching, East King Duke sent Kong Xuan to defend the Human Race from the Heavenly Court and prepared Queen Mother of the West to prove the Dao. East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West established the Way of Procreation, and she began her transformation into a Saint.

• East King Duke ended his hundred years of preaching and directed his disciples to cultivate in the Yin-Yang Realm.
• East King Duke ordered Kong Xuan to protect the Human Race as the Heavenly Court moved against them for the Yao Race’s benefit.
• East King Duke told Queen Mother of the West that the Human Race must endure its tribulation and urged her to prove the Dao.
• A hundred years later, East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West declared the Procreation Order and established the Way of Procreation for all living beings.
• Merit descended from heaven, and Queen Mother of the West entrusted part of her primordial spirit to the Heavenly Dao and part to the Yin-Yang Realm, beginning her ascent beyond the Quasi-Saint level.

Queen Mother of the West proved the Dao as Saint Mother Tai Zhen and established the Yin-Yang Lineage. As the Demon Race attacked the Human Race for their flesh and blood, the Three Ancestors swore that humans and demons could never coexist, and the war began.

• Queen Mother of the West became the seventh Heavenly Dao Saint, took the title Saint Mother Tai Zhen, and announced that the Yin-Yang Lineage would accept disciples.
• Kong Xuan sensed Queen Mother of the West's Saintly Might but continued toward the Human Race, which the Demon Race had surrounded to obtain flesh and blood for the Witch-Slaying Sword.
• Suirenshi challenged the Demon Race's attack, but Qin Yuan called humans tools of Empress Nuwa and demanded they submit; the Three Ancestors and the Human Race pleaded for Nuwa to issue a decree.
• Nuwa stayed hidden, and the Human Race despaired as Qin Yuan mocked them; Suirenshi, Youchaoshi, and Ziyishi then swore that humans and demons could never coexist.
• Heavenly Dao accepted the oath, which became the Human Race's founding maxim, and Qin Yuan led the Demon Race into battle against the united humans.

The Demon Race slaughtered the Human Race while the great powers, including Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones, refused to intervene. Kong Xuan arrived to defend the survivors and trapped four Demon Saints, leaving the battle poised for his fight against them.

• The Demon Race overwhelmed the Human Race, and the Three Ancestors fought Jiu Ying and Gui Che as millions of humans died.
• Tongtian urged Laozi and Primordial to save the Human Race, but they refused, while Jieyin and Zhunti also remained uninvolved.
• Nuwa watched the slaughter despite her role as the Human Race’s Saint Mother, and Qin Yuan ordered Ji Meng to attack the exhausted Three Ancestors.
• Kong Xuan arrived with the Five Elements Pearl and halted Qin Yuan, Ji Meng, Jiu Ying, and Gui Che as they were about to kill the Three Ancestors.
• Qin Yuan offered to withdraw, but Kong Xuan refused to let the Demon Race escape and trapped all four Demon Saints with his Five Elements Magic Power.

Kong Xuan used his Five Elements treasure and Yin-Yang techniques to overwhelm the Demon Saints and protect the Human race, prompting Di Jun to send Tai Yi and Fuxi to stop him. As Tai Yi prepared to attack, East King Duke’s Chaos Clone appeared and pinned the Demon race beneath Saint-level pressure.

• Kong Xuan hurled his Five Elements Divine Pearl through the Demon ranks, killing many demons and drawing Qin Yuan, Ji Meng, Gui Che, and Jiu Ying away from the Three Ancestors of the Human Race.
• Kong Xuan fought the four Demon Saints with his Five-Colored Divine Light and Yin-Yang Divine Fist, gradually suppressing them while using his treasure to aid the Human race.
• Great Powers watched Kong Xuan’s battle, while Di Jun sent Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and Fuxi to the Human race after Kong Xuan disrupted the Demon race’s plans.
• Tai Yi and Fuxi arrived and demanded that Kong Xuan stop, but Kong Xuan refused to abandon the Human race because his master had sent him to protect them.
• Tai Yi summoned the Chaos Bell to attack Kong Xuan, but East King Duke’s Chaos Clone appeared and forced Tai Yi, Fuxi, and the Demon race to bow beneath its overwhelming pressure.

Azure Emperor defended humanity against the demon army, while Nuwa intervened only to save the demons. East King Duke then went to the Heavenly Court and destroyed its South Heaven Gate, leaving Nuwa and the demon leaders to face him.

• Kong Xuan introduced Azure Emperor as his uncle-master, and Azure Emperor declared that he had been entrusted by East King Duke to guard humanity.
• Azure Emperor trapped Tai Yi, Fuxi, four Demon Saints, and millions of demons in the Yin-Yang Annihilation Great Array, killing nearly a million demons and gravely wounding the Demon Saints.
• Nuwa arrived, rebuked Azure Emperor, and used the Mountain and River Map to take the surviving demons away without addressing the humans’ suffering.
• East King Duke decided to act against the demons and traveled to Buzhou Mountain, where he shattered the array concealing the path to heaven.
• East King Duke reached the Heavenly Court and destroyed the South Heaven Gate with a single finger.
• Nuwa, Tai Yi, Fuxi, and the other demons rushed outside and saw East King Duke standing before the ruined gate.

East King Duke stormed the Heavenly Court to confront the Demon Race over its slaughter of the Human Race, then rebuked Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones for abandoning the people. As Human destiny gathered around him and the Saints’ influence waned, East King Duke challenged Laozi and prepared to fight him.

• East King Duke destroyed the Heavenly Gate and sent Xi He flying when she challenged his assault.
• East King Duke rejected Fuxi’s defense of the Human Race’s tribulation and swore that Fuxi would never share in its destiny.
• East King Duke immobilized Tai Yi’s Chaos Bell and bound the gathered Demon Race with Yin-Yang Law until Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones arrived.
• Laozi attacked East King Duke’s bindings with the Taiji Diagram, and East King Duke released the Demon Race members.
• East King Duke condemned Nuwa and Laozi before the Primordial World, prompting Human destiny to gather around him and diminish the Saints’ destinies.
• Laozi threatened East King Duke, who refused to back down and challenged him to fight.

East King Duke challenged Primordial after Primordial attacked him with the Pangu Banner, and the two Saints fought before the watching powers of the Primordial World. East King Duke overwhelmed Primordial and severed his right little finger, shocking everyone.

• Primordial denounced East King Duke for defying the Saints and attacked him with the Pangu Banner’s Chaos Sword Qi.
• East King Duke dispelled Primordial’s sword net with the Yin-Yang Law and struck him with three Chaos Yin-Yang Divine Fist punches.
• Laozi and Tongtian warned Primordial as he struggled to withstand the punches, while Nuwa shielded the Heavenly Court with the Mountain and River Map.
• Primordial drew on Heavenly Dao Power to stop the third punch, but East King Duke followed with a swift sword strike.
• East King Duke severed Primordial’s right little finger, which fell from the Heavenly Court and transformed into a gigantic divine mountain.

East King Duke wounded Primordial in battle, prompting the Three Pure Ones and Queen Mother of the West to prepare for a clash that could damage the Primordial World. Hongjun stopped them, but East King Duke rejected the Heavenly Dao’s claim that the human race’s slaughter was fated and openly rebuked it.

• Primordial lost a finger to East King Duke, shocking the onlookers and confirming East King Duke’s overwhelming strength.
• Laozi and Tongtian moved to help Primordial, and the Three Pure Ones joined their power against East King Duke.
• Queen Mother of the West arrived to support East King Duke, bringing the five Saints’ combined might to the brink of battle.
• Hongjun intervened and ordered both sides to stand down, then told East King Duke that the human race’s calamity was Heaven’s will.
• East King Duke condemned the Heavenly Dao for allowing the human race to be slaughtered, and Hongjun’s aura surged with fury.

East King Duke defied the Heavenly Dao over the Human-Demon conflict and forced it to restrict participation by powerful beings. Afterward, Nuwa regretted her estrangement from the Human Race and learned that Fuxi feared an approaching calamity.

• East King Duke drew on his treasures, the Yin-Yang Realm's power, and the Human Race's Will to withstand the Heavenly Dao Incarnation.
• Nuwa regretted severing herself from the Human Race, while Fuxi sensed that East King Duke's oath to sever his bond with the race had brought calamity close.
• East King Duke demanded an explanation for the Human-Demon conflict, and the Heavenly Dao barred beings at or above the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm from participating in the fighting.
• East King Duke left the Heavenly Court with Saint Mother Tai Zhen, and Nuwa told Di Jun to obey the Heavenly Dao before departing with Fuxi.
• At Empress Wa Palace, Fuxi described his weakened soul and foreboding, and Nuwa failed to divine his fate but promised to protect him.

East King Duke secured the human race’s defense and Zhunti shifted his schemes toward the demon race, recruiting Kunpeng with a promise to protect his True Spirit. At the Sea of Blood, Houtu met East King Duke and asked him to explain the Heaven-ordained opportunity she sensed there.

• East King Duke praised the human race, ordered Kong Xuan to keep guarding them without joining the war, and promised to send Xuan Yang and Qing Ling to help.
• Jieyin and Zhunti decided to set aside schemes against the human race and pursue their plan involving the demon race instead.
• Zhunti summoned Kunpeng, showed him a way to preserve his True Spirit, and won his agreement to carry out the saint’s scheme.
• After wandering for ten thousand years, Houtu followed a growing sensation to the Sea of Blood and waited there for several hundred years without understanding her mission.
• East King Duke appeared before Houtu, who asked him to guide her toward the opportunity to become a saint.

Houtu realized her mission was to create reincarnation and surrendered her Witch Body to establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation. After stabilizing the new realm, her True Spirit began to dissipate while the merit above her showed no response, and East King Duke became furious.

• East King Duke guided Houtu to study life, death, departed souls, and reincarnation at the Sea of Blood, where she spent a hundred years understanding her mission.
• Houtu gave East King Duke her Ancestral Witch Essence Blood and asked him to deliver it to Dijiang so the Witch Clan could appoint a new Ancestral Witch.
• Houtu summoned Ancestor Minghe and offered him the position of Asura Dao Lord, which he accepted.
• Houtu invoked the Six Paths of Reincarnation, creating a vast new realm and appointing Minghe to govern the Asura Dao; the merit raised his cultivation to Quasi-Saint Peak.
• Houtu transformed her Witch Body into the Six Paths of Reincarnation to stabilize the realm, but her True Spirit began to dissipate as East King Duke watched the merit fail to respond.