Chapter Summaries

Ru Shou intervened to save Zhen Yuanzi from Di Jun and Tai Yi, prompting Zhen Yuanzi to seek friendship with the Wu Clan after Hong Yun’s death. A thousand years later, Nüwa proposed creating a powerful race to restrain the Ten Thousand Clans and preserve balance, and Bei Ming recognized her idea as the beginning of the Human Race.

• Ru Shou struck apart the qi formation and forced Di Jun and Tai Yi to leave, ending their attack on Zhen Yuanzi.
• Zhen Yuanzi thanked Ru Shou and invited him to Wuzhuang Temple, while deciding to befriend the Wu Clan after falling out with the Demon Race.
• Zhen Yuanzi departed, and the struggle over the Hongmeng Purple Qi temporarily subsided as the Primordial Wilderness returned to outward calm.
• A thousand years later, Nüwa told Bei Ming that her cultivation had advanced through studying Destruction and Creation.
• Nüwa proposed supporting a race capable of restraining the Ten Thousand Clans and maintaining balance, and Bei Ming realized she was conceiving the Human Race.

Bei Ming explained to Nüwa that raising a race to rule the Primordial Wilderness could draw Saints into conflict and devastate the world. Nüwa resolved to suppress the Wu and Yao Clans and establish a new Human Race, then entered enlightenment; Bei Ming began considering how to weaken the two clans.

• Bei Ming warned Nüwa that Saints supporting rival races could turn disputes into proxy wars or Saint-level battles that would ruin the Primordial Wilderness.
• Nüwa concluded that conflict among Saints could not be avoided and proposed suppressing the Wu and Yao Clans while establishing a unified order under a prosperous race.
• Nüwa entered enlightenment and resolved to create a new Human Race to rule over all beings and bring lasting peace.
• Bei Ming reflected on the Saints’ different paths and why the Three Pure Ones and Nüwa’s support could secure the Human Race’s rise.
• Bei Ming began planning how to weaken the Wu and Yao Clans so Nüwa’s vision could be realized.

Bei Ming guarded Nüwa as her Dao comprehension neared completion, while Di Jun planned to use his Heavenly Wedding to lure the Wu Clan into attacking during the end of the truce. Baize delivered the betrothal gifts to Guanghan Palace as preparations began.

• Bei Ming sensed the Primordial Gourd Vine trembling in the Returning Ruins, a sign that the Human Race would be born after Nüwa finished comprehending the Dao.
• Di Jun rejected Baize’s advice to hold the Heavenly Wedding earlier and set it for the very end of Hongjun’s Truce Period, intending to bait the Ancestor Wizards into attacking the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun told Baize that he would explain the plan to Xihe and have her help arrange the Zhou Tian Star Array.
• Baize led the Demon Race’s wedding procession to the Taiyin Star with betrothal gifts, including Di Jun’s Sun Essence Wheel.
• Changxi received Baize at Guanghan Palace.

Xihe and Changxi discussed the Demon Race’s plans for Xihe’s wedding to Di Jun and examined the Heavenly Court’s betrothal gifts. Changxi chose to remain with her sister and help the Heavenly Court, while both sisters prepared to continue cultivating for the coming conflict with the Wu Clan.

• Changxi told Xihe that the proposed wedding date coincided with the end of the Dao Ancestor’s Truce Period and suspected Di Jun intended to use the wedding to ambush the Twelve Ancestor Wizards.
• Xihe said marrying Di Jun was her choice and warned Changxi that she could avoid joining the Heavenly Court, but Changxi insisted on helping her sister and improving their odds against the Wu Clan.
• Changxi inspected the betrothal gifts, including the Sun Essence Wheel, and said Xihe could use the treasures to reward her subordinates after becoming Heavenly Empress.
• Xihe and Changxi discussed their existing treasures, their cultivation paths, and the possibility of attaining the Dao before agreeing to continue cultivating.

After Nüwa succeeded in her cultivation, she traveled with Bei Ming to the Eastern Region to begin creating humanity. As Nüwa molded clay figures, Bei Ming developed the Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture, leaving its prototype ready for further refinement.

• Nüwa completed her cultivation and asked Bei Ming to accompany her to a place where she could begin creating a new race.
• Bei Ming and Nüwa chose a peaceful, resource-rich location in the Eastern Region with no powerful Wu Clan Tribes or Demon Race groups nearby.
• Nüwa mixed Three Lights Divine Water with Nine Heavens' Soil and used the Creation Spirit Staff to shape more than a thousand spiritual clay figures.
• Bei Ming began developing Immortal Script and a universal cultivation method for lower-level Cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Bei Ming formed the prototype of the Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture, a method for cultivating the Five Qi within the body's five organs and advancing toward the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

Bei Ming gave Nüwa the Primordial Gourd Vine, which she used to create the Human Race and attain sainthood through merit. Nüwa warned the Primordial Wilderness not to harm humans for one hundred thousand years, while Bei Ming kept the transformed Creating People Whip.

• Bei Ming perfected the Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture and gave Nüwa the Primordial Gourd Vine to help her create humans.
• Nüwa used the vine to turn mud into 129,600 humans, who awakened with cultivation and hailed her as their Saint Mother.
• Nüwa declared the Human Race’s creation, received immense merit, and attained sainthood by connecting her Primordial Spirit to the Heavenly Dao.
• Nüwa forbade cultivators from harming the Human Race for one hundred thousand years, threatening those who disobeyed with destruction by Heaven and Earth.
• Nüwa returned the Gourd Vine to Bei Ming, explaining that it had become the Creating People Whip and could restrain Human Race cultivators.

After explaining how Saints treated the Primordial Wilderness as a chessboard, Bei Ming asked Nüwa for help and established Immortal Script, earning vast Merit and becoming the Ancestor of Honghuang Script. The Xian Script Holy Book formed from part of the Merit, and Immortal Script was bound to the Mystic Gate.

• The chapter described how Saints’ power and mutual rivalries shaped the Primordial Wilderness and reviewed the outcomes of the Canonization of the Gods.
• Bei Ming asked Nüwa for a favor, and she agreed, thanking him for lending her the Gourd Vine.
• Bei Ming wrote a thousand characters in the air, then declared Immortal Script and the Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture for the Primordial Wilderness.
• Heavenly Merit descended, with most entering Bei Ming and the rest forming the top-grade acquired Merit Spirit Treasure, the Xian Script Holy Book.
• Bei Ming bound Immortal Script to the Mystic Gate, establishing its authority as the script’s Orthodox tradition.

Bei Ming used Immortal Script and the Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture to benefit the Primordial Wilderness and earned vast Merit, while Nüwa helped spread them. Nüwa left for Mount Qixi to pursue Saint cultivation, and the chapter explained how losing her Demon Race identity changed her position in the coming struggle among the Saints.

• Nüwa used her Saint power to transmit Immortal Script and the Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture to nearly all Cultivators of the Primordial Wilderness.
• Living beings praised Bei Ming as Wen Zu, and the transmission brought him immense Merit while giving lower-level Cultivators a widely useful cultivation method.
• Nüwa congratulated Bei Ming on his Merit but warned him that he had surrendered enough Merit to achieve Sainthood by Merit Dao Attainment.
• Nüwa told Bei Ming she would return to Mount Qixi to comprehend the realm of a Saint, then departed.
• The chapter described how Nüwa had once balanced Human and Demon Race luck and could command demons, but Bei Ming’s influence had cost her the Wa Emperor identity and her share of Demon Race luck.

Bei Ming advised the Human Race to borrow the momentum of powerful forces as they began developing after his departure. The humans built their ancestral land and temples, while powerful beings watched them and found nothing remarkable.

• Chen asked Bei Ming for guidance on the Human Race's future, and Bei Ming told him, "The strong create momentum; the weak borrow it."
• Bei Ming left as Chen thanked him, and he reflected that the Human Race could use its internal divisions and alliances with Saints to survive and prosper.
• The Human Race began building its ancestral land, erecting temples to Nüwa as the Saint Mother and Bei Ming as the Holy Teacher.
• Other humans ventured into the Primordial Wilderness to explore and seek opportunities, protected for now by Nüwa's warning to the powerful beings.
• Powerful beings observed the Human Race and judged its members unexceptional compared with Innate Gods.

Old Ancestor Ming He created the Asura Race in an unsuccessful attempt to imitate Nüwa’s path to enlightenment, while the Three Pure Ones decided to leave Kunlun Mountain and seek insight on their own. They departed separately, with Tongtian reflecting on Beiming’s refusal to use Merit to become a Saint.

• Old Ancestor Ming He created the Asura Race and received only a small amount of Merit because its members could not reproduce through normal Yin Yang union.
• Ming He accepted that creating a race could not replicate Nüwa’s path, left the Asura Race in the Blood Sea, and returned to seclusion.
• The Wu Clan remained wary of Nüwa’s deterrence and waited for the hundred-thousand-year warning to pass before studying the Human Race.
• Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Laozi discussed Nüwa’s sainthood and their lack of progress in Slashing the Corpse of Obsession.
• Laozi proposed that the Three Pure Ones leave Kunlun Mountain, and they agreed to travel separately in search of insight.
• Tongtian praised Beiming for twice receiving Merit without using it to become a Saint.

Laozi decided the Three Pure Ones needed to act, while Nüwa visited Fuxi after becoming a saint and warned him that the Wu and Yao Clans’ struggle had become perilous. Fuxi refused to abandon Di Jun, and Nüwa agreed to witness Di Jun and Xihe’s wedding before returning to Mount Qixi.

• Laozi told Yuanshi that it was time to create opportunities, and the Three Pure Ones scattered to travel through the Primordial Wilderness.
• Nüwa visited Fuxi in the Heavenly Court and urged him to leave the Demon Race and avoid the coming calamity.
• Fuxi refused to abandon Di Jun, citing Di Jun’s trust and kindness, and said he had confidence in his strength.
• Fuxi asked Nüwa to witness Di Jun and Xihe’s wedding with the Red Silk Ball, and she agreed because the ceremony could earn it Merit.
• Nüwa sensed visitors arriving, declined to meet them, and returned to Mount Qixi.

Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Fuxi discussed Nüwa’s sainthood and the Demon Race’s use of the Immortal Script and Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture. Di Jun decided to create the Demon God Technique to reform the Demon Race, while Fuxi urged him to consult Bei Ming first.

• Di Jun congratulated Fuxi on Nüwa becoming a saint, and Fuxi said she had agreed to officiate the Heavenly Wedding but had returned to secluded cultivation.
• Tai Yi proposed replacing the Immortal Script with Demon Script, but Fuxi warned that opposing the Mystic Gate and its saints could endanger the Demon Race.
• Di Jun chose to keep using the Immortal Script for now and saw it as a way to draw closer to the Mystic Gate while isolating the Wu Clan.
• Fuxi explained that rigid clan inheritances and unequal access to cultivation methods had driven ordinary Demon Race members to seek out the Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture.
• Di Jun proposed creating the Demon God Technique, offering resources to its cultivators, and using it to standardize the Demon Race’s legions and strengthen Heavenly Court’s control.
• Fuxi urged Di Jun to inform Bei Ming before proceeding, but Tai Yi dismissed the need to seek his approval.

Di Jun and Tai Yi traveled to Changbai Mountain to meet Bei Ming and confirm his position as the era of the Mystic Gate Saints approached. Bei Ming prepared to negotiate over the Demon Race’s adoption of Immortal Script while continuing to repair his Spirit Treasures before venturing into Hundun.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi agreed to visit Bei Ming, while Di Jun ordered Fuxi to train the Zhou Tian Star Array and prepare reserve Demon Gods.
• Bei Ming returned to Great Void Palace after completing the Creation of Writing and Propagation of Dharma, and he neared a breakthrough in the Laws of Destruction.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi arrived at Changbai Mountain, where Tai Yi objected to Wu and Demon Clans living together; Di Jun dismissed the concern and called for war against the Wu Clan.
• Di Jun announced his visit to Bei Ming at the Boundless Sea Array, and Bei Ming sent Han Chi to escort the guests into the mountain.
• Di Jun learned that Han Chi was Chiwen’s son and Zu Long’s grandson, and considered the Dragon Clan’s place within the Demon Race.

Di Jun and Tai Yi visited Bei Ming at Great Void Palace, where Di Jun sought his approval to create a cultivation technique for the Demon Race using the Immortal Script. The chapter ended with Bei Ming considering the proposal and Tai Yi reflecting on the Demon Race’s weakness against Wu soldiers.

• Di Jun invited Han Chi to join the Heavenly Court and lead the Dragon Clan, but Han Chi politely declined.
• Han Chi brought Di Jun and Tai Yi to Great Void Palace and then withdrew at Bei Ming’s request.
• Di Jun praised Bei Ming’s work and explained that the Heavenly Court needed stronger forces to resist the Wu Clan.
• Bei Ming realized Di Jun’s main purpose was to discuss replacing the Mysterious Pivot Five Qi Scripture with a Demon Race cultivation technique.
• Di Jun proposed creating and spreading the Demon God Technique in the Immortal Script to improve the Demon Race’s coordination in formations and strengthen its rank-and-file fighters.

Bei Ming and Di Jun agreed that the Demon Race would use Immortal Script and promote Di Jun’s Demon God Technique. Tai Yi challenged Bei Ming to a duel outside Changbai Mountain, where their first clash revealed Bei Ming’s Laws of Destruction and left Tai Yi wondering how he had mastered them so quickly.

• Bei Ming agreed to Di Jun’s plan to compile and spread the Demon God Technique in Immortal Script, which Di Jun would establish as the Primordial Wilderness’s orthodox script.
• Tai Yi asked Bei Ming to exchange blows, and Bei Ming accepted the challenge.
• Bei Ming, Tai Yi, and Di Jun traveled to the skies outside Changbai Mountain, where Di Jun moved aside to watch.
• Bei Ming and Tai Yi’s auras collided, revealing Tai Yi’s Quasi-Saint peak cultivation and Bei Ming’s Hunyuan Golden Immortal peak cultivation.
• Tai Yi rang the Chaos Bell and disturbed spacetime, but Bei Ming summoned the Destruction Scepter and used the Laws of Destruction to keep the bell’s power from entering his domain.
• Tai Yi remarked that Bei Ming had never shown this Dao before and questioned how he had advanced so quickly.

Bei Ming and Tai Yi fought over who stood foremost in the Primordial Wilderness, with Bei Ming using the Laws of Destruction to suppress Tai Yi’s Chaos Bell. Tai Yi launched a counterattack, but Bei Ming unleashed Final Destruction, leaving the outcome unclear as Di Jun shielded himself from the battle’s aftermath.

• Tai Yi struck Bei Ming with the Chaos Bell’s Time-Space Echo, and Bei Ming countered with the Destruction Scepter’s Eternal Tribulation Returns to Silence.
• Bei Ming intensified his assault with Weapon Calamity: Extinction and World-destroying Flood, forcing Tai Yi to endure the destructive waves beneath the Chaos Bell.
• Living beings and Quasi-Saint powers across the North felt the battle’s pressure, while Yanchenzi remarked that Bei Ming’s territory was not peaceful.
• Tai Yi manifested his Golden Crow Dharma Image and used Solar True Fire to create an opening before charging Bei Ming with the Chaos Bell.
• Bei Ming answered Tai Yi’s attack with Final Destruction, and Di Jun raised the Corroding Sun Killing Light Flag to protect himself as the surrounding laws and spiritual sense vanished.

Bei Ming decisively defeated Tai Yi with the Destruction Scepter, then prepared to pursue a breakthrough beyond the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal. In the Southern Continent, Yuanshi welcomed the transformed Longevity Immortal Peach Tree as his disciple and named him Nanji Xianweng.

• Bei Ming defeated Tai Yi, reclaimed the Chaos Bell, and used the Qiankun Cauldron to absorb Chaos Turbulence and help repair the sky.
• Di Jun caught the badly injured Tai Yi and left with him for the Heavenly Court after exchanging words with Bei Ming.
• Bei Ming disappeared into the Hundun to begin planning his breakthrough to a higher realm.
• Yuanshi watched the battle's aftermath at Peach Garden Mountain and saw the Longevity Immortal Peach Tree transform into an elderly man.
• Yuanshi accepted the old man as his disciple and bestowed the Daoist title Nanji Xianweng.

Laozi entered the mortal world to seek a new opportunity in the Red Dust, while the Wu Clan used Taiyi’s defeat to launch a Demon Hunting campaign across the Honghuang Continent and the Four Seas. The campaign began with orders to target demons at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level and above while sparing weaker demons for the Wu Clan’s future.

• Tongtian praised Bei Ming’s strength and declared his confidence in the Zhuxian Sword Formation to Jin Ling.
• Laozi concealed his identity and cultivation as he traveled through the wilderness, observing living beings and seeking a new path to the Dao.
• Di Jiang gathered the Ancestor Wizards and Great Wizards in Pangu Hall and called Taiyi’s defeat an opportunity to strike at the Demon Race.
• Di Jiang assigned Xing Tian to command the campaign, and Zhu Jiuyin explained that the Wu Clan would attack the Demon Race’s foundation and Luck.
• Di Jiang ordered the Great Wizards to hunt demons at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level and above while leaving weaker demons alive, and Xuanming warned them not to slaughter them all.
• The Great Wizards left Pangu Hall, beginning a campaign that spread across the continent and the Four Seas.

The Wu Clan’s campaign against demons in the Lower realm pushed the Heavenly Court to secretly send eight Demon Saints to reinforce them, reigniting a prolonged war of attrition. Meanwhile, Bei Ming crossed the Star Sky and entered the Inner Chaos region.

• Di Jun’s court debated the Wu Clan’s attacks, with Baize warning that the Demon Race needed to protect its people without overburdening the Heavenly Court’s resources.
• Di Jun ordered eight Demon Saints to enter the Primordial Wilderness, rescue and relocate demons, and bring promising juniors to the Heavenly Court, while Shangyang prepared the Heavenly Wedding and Baize coordinated intelligence.
• The Demon Saints’ forces eased the Wu Clan’s encirclement, but Xing Tian adjusted the Wu Clan’s deployments and led Jiu Feng, Hou Yi, and other Great Wizards into battle against them.
• The Wu and Yao Clans resumed a cruel, drawn-out war of attrition, while Disaster Qi accumulated across Heaven and Earth.
• Bei Ming crossed the boundless Star Sky and entered Hundun, reaching the Inner Chaos region.

Bei Ming reached the Honghuang Membrane, intending to venture into true Hundun and prepare for the Primordial Wilderness’s possible turmoil. Hongjun warned him of the dangers and watched over his departure, while the chapter explained how Heavenly Dao Merit offered protection within the Primordial Wilderness but little help in Hundun.

• Bei Ming traveled through Inner Chaos and reached the Honghuang Membrane separating the Primordial Wilderness from Outer Chaos.
• Hongjun warned Bei Ming through the Heavenly Dao to proceed cautiously, but Bei Ming replied that he could not retreat.
• Hongjun recognized Bei Ming’s Destruction Demon God aura and accepted his pursuit of the Dao so long as he did not threaten the Primordial Wilderness or Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun reflected that Bei Ming’s accumulated Merit made his careless death outside the Primordial Wilderness a concern for the Heavenly Dao.
• The chapter explained that Merit could protect and benefit cultivators within the Primordial Wilderness, but could not grant them blessings or mercy from beings in Hundun.