Chapter Summaries

Ancestor Yang Mei and Old Ancestor Shi Chen entered the Human Race and agreed to help Chi You by assassinating Xuanyuan, unaware that Chi You intended to deceive them. They attacked Xuanyuan in Youxiong Kingdom, where his Human Emperor Sword cut them apart and he exiled them into boundless space for hundreds of millions of years.

• Ancestor Yin Yang persuaded Ancestor Yang Mei and Old Ancestor Shi Chen to interfere in the Human Race’s struggle for power and support a Human King.
• Ancestor Yang Mei and Old Ancestor Shi Chen met Chi You, who promised to make Buddhism the Human Race’s state religion if they killed Xuanyuan.
• After the two Buddha Ancestors left, Chi You laughed at how easily he had tricked them, and Luo Hou mocked him before disappearing.
• Ancestor Yang Mei and Old Ancestor Shi Chen appeared above Youxiong Kingdom and demanded that Xuanyuan submit.
• Xuanyuan wielded the Human Emperor Sword and struck the two Buddha Ancestors, cutting each into six pieces despite their attempt to escape through time and space.
• Xuanyuan exiled Ancestor Yang Mei and Old Ancestor Shi Chen into boundless space for hundreds of millions of years.

Xuanyuan sealed Ancestor Yang Mei and Old Ancestor Shi Chen with one sword strike, warning the Primordial World not to interfere in Human Race affairs. Di Jun refused calls to destroy the Human Race and urged the Heavenly Court to treat it as a whetstone, while Hong Jun siphoned Buddhist fortune into the Immortal Gate, leaving Zhun Ti and Jie Yin furious.

• Xuanyuan sealed Ancestor Yang Mei and Old Ancestor Shi Chen, then erased the watching gods' and Human Kings' divine senses as he warned others not to interfere in Human Race affairs.
• Zhun Ti and Jie Yin celebrated the removal of the Buddhist Sect's hidden threats, but its fortune began to shake and drain away.
• Ancestor Yin Yang laughed at Yang Mei and Shi Chen's defeat, while Tai Yi admitted Xuanyuan had surpassed him.
• Bai Ze and other Heavenly Court sacred beings urged Di Jun to execute Xuanyuan and destroy the Human Race, but Di Jun called the Human Race a whetstone and gave Xuanyuan time to prepare for war.
• Ye Xuan praised Di Jun's resolve as the Heavenly Court's sacred beings renewed their reverence for him.
• Hong Jun secretly siphoned Buddhist fortune into the Immortal Gate, and Zhun Ti and Jie Yin discovered the loss and blamed the Immortal Gate.

The Buddhist Sect realized Hong Jun could drain its fortune through the Heavenly Dao Aura, while Chi You and other Human Kings launched widespread rebellions against Xuanyuan. After Luoyang was completed, Xuanyuan identified Chi You as his sole true enemy and prepared to confront him.

• Jie Yin explained that the Buddhist Sect could escape Hong Jun's control only by transferring its fortune to another strand of Heavenly Dao Aura, but Zhun Ti realized they had no way to obtain one.
• Chi You joined forces with the Witch Clan and Devil Sect, comprehended the Great Dao of War, and rallied the Nine Li Country against the Human Race.
• Fuxi used a chessboard to try to glimpse beyond Chaos, but Ye Xuan blocked his view and Fuxi suffered a backlash that alarmed Nüwa.
• The Human Race completed Luoyang, a vast thirty-six-realm capital modeled after the Heavenly Court, as rebellions erupted across the northwest, southeast, and southwest.
• Feng Hou urged Xuanyuan to use Divine Kingdom and Sui Country to suppress the rebels, but Xuanyuan declared Chi You the only enemy he needed to defeat.

Xuanyuan issued a decree stripping the rebellious Human Kings of their titles and promising their positions to whoever killed them, causing rebellions across most of the Human Race to collapse. With only Chi You’s forces in the northwest remaining, Luo Hou encouraged him to prepare to face Xuanyuan, while secretly pursuing his own plans for the Devil Sect.

• Xuanyuan decreed that rebel Human Kings would lose their titles and that anyone who killed one would become the next Human King, then had more than four hundred rebels named in the proclamation.
• The decree triggered defections and infighting among the rebel forces, and many Human Kings were killed or abandoned as their rebellions were suppressed.
• Junzi Xian defected, while Tian King Wan fled Human Race territory as Xuanyuan restored his rule over more than half the land.
• Chi You realized that Xuanyuan could now focus on the northwest and asked Luo Hou for help.
• Luo Hou reassured Chi You that Xuanyuan would not immediately summon the newly appointed Human Kings’ forces, and Chi You vowed to defeat him.

Xuanyuan prepared to lead the Human Race’s armies against Chi You and displayed his overwhelming power by destroying Innate Sacred beings who challenged him. As the invasion of the Northwest Region approached, the Three Purities and other powers considered aiding the Human Race, while Xuanyuan’s enemies plotted to support Chi You.

• Xuanyuan rallied Da Hong and the assembled officials and troops to quell the rebellion, then revealed a powerful Sword Dao and Imperial Dao aura that inspired his followers.
• The Three Purities discussed the Human Race’s looming calamity, and Taishang warned that the coming disaster would be worse than the Fierce Beasts’ calamity and the Dragon Han Calamity.
• Innate Sacred beings plotted to aid Chi You, while others went to Luoyang and accused Xuanyuan of causing turmoil before demanding his death.
• Xuanyuan ignored Da Hong’s request to fight and confronted the attackers alone, declaring that he would execute them himself.
• Xuanyuan drew the Xuanyuan Sword and unleashed a Golden Dragon of providence, whose power shattered space-time and began disintegrating the attackers.
• The Golden Dragon burned the disintegrating Chaotic Origin experts to ashes with Sun True Fire, shocking the witnesses.

After Xuanyuan wielded the Sun True Fire and the people of Luoyang hailed him as worthy of being Heavenly Emperor, the Heavenly Court mistook the praise for an open rebellion. Di Jun already knew of the events and intended to use the Human Race as a whetstone, while he explained to Tai Yi how Xuanyuan had drawn on the Great Sun’s fire.

• Xuanyuan incinerated the sacred beings with Sun True Fire, and the people of Luoyang praised him as worthy of being Heavenly Emperor.
• Wind-Following Ear heard the cries from Luoyang, and Thousand-Mile Eye saw the people kneeling before Xuanyuan; they concluded the Human Race intended to rebel.
• Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear woke Giant Spirit God and told him about the new Human Emperor and the cries in Luoyang.
• Giant Spirit God reported the supposed rebellion to Bai Ze, who brought him before Di Jun; Di Jun said he already knew and dismissed them.
• Bai Ze told Giant Spirit God that Di Jun meant to use the Human Race as a whetstone for the Heavenly Court.
• Tai Yi asked how Xuanyuan had wielded Sun True Fire, and Di Jun explained that Xuanyuan’s divine ability drew on the Great Sun through the Sword Dao and several Great Daos.

Di Jun interpreted Xuanyuan’s place in the Human Race’s rise and discussed the coming Human Emperor with Tai Yi, Xi He, and Lady Yuan Mu. Ye Xuan warned that the Heavenly Court could not defeat the Human Race alone, then vanished after explaining the nothingness beyond Chaos; meanwhile, the Ancestral Witches confirmed that a junior had wielded Sun True Fire.

• Di Jun told Tai Yi, Xi He, and Lady Yuan Mu that Xuanyuan would be a formidable opponent, but a later Human Emperor would be more dangerous to the Heavenly Court.
• Ye Xuan appeared and praised Di Jun’s skill at deduction, then revealed that Fuxi had been injured trying to peer beyond Chaos.
• Ye Xuan described the realm beyond Chaos as true nothingness and advised Di Jun to unite with other factions against the Human Race.
• Di Jun asked how countless other worlds connected to the Primordial World, and Ye Xuan explained that an unseen great terror linked them before departing.
• At Pangu Hall, Gong Gong asked Zhu Rong whether the fire they had seen was Sun True Fire, and Zhu Rong confirmed it was.

The Ancestral Witches and the Immortal Godfiend reacted to Xuanyuan’s mastery of many Great Daos, while Hong Jun weighed how the Immortal Gate could gain control over the Human Race. At the Buddhist Sect, Zhun Ti proposed helping the Human Race as a gamble to escape Hong Jun’s control, though Jie Yin warned that the plan might fail.

• Zhu Rong resolved to master the Sun True Fire after seeing Xuanyuan wield it, while Zhu Jiuyin and the other Ancestral Witches discussed Xuanyuan’s many Great Daos.
• An Ancestral Witch tried to observe Xuanyuan but suffered a backlash from his fate.
• Hong Jun suggested that the Immortal Godfiend treat the Human Race as a threat, but the Immortal Godfiend instead proposed supporting them and spreading Immortal Gate teachings among them.
• Hong Jun praised the plan to erode and control the Human Race through its disciples.
• Zhun Ti proposed helping the Human Race win the war in hopes that the Buddhist Sect could flourish and eventually free itself from Hong Jun’s control.
• Jie Yin warned that Zhun Ti’s plan was only speculation, but Zhun Ti chose to take the gamble.

Xuanyuan led tens of thousands of Hunyuan troops to Nine Li and defeated Chi You in a decisive battle, dismembering and suppressing him. He abolished Nine Li Country, renamed it Lu Country, and ordered its people to relocate, leaving them grieving over the loss of their homeland.

• Jie Yin acknowledged Zhun Ti’s sacrifices for the Buddhist Sect, and Zhun Ti said he had devoted himself to their shared cause.
• Xuanyuan marched on Nine Li with tens of thousands of Hunyuan troops, confronted Chi You, and withdrew a million li to give him three days to prepare for battle.
• After three days, Xuanyuan declared Nine Li’s capital would become his imperial palace, while Chi You denounced him and charged with his eighty-one brothers.
• Xuanyuan’s sword split Chi You into six pieces, and Xuanyuan sealed him, burying his head in Nine Li’s capital, his limbs in the Four Extremities Land, and his torso beneath Buzhou Mountain.
• Xuanyuan ordered the rebels suppressed, abolished Nine Li Country, renamed it Lu Country, and ordered its people to relocate to the southwest coast.

After defeating Chi You, Xuanyuan unified the Human Race, built Luoyang as its future Human Court, and launched mass production of weapons to prepare for conquest. Meanwhile, Luo Hou planned to free his sealed followers when the Human Race went to war, and Qingqiu Fox Country began expanding as every faction prepared for a larger conflict.

• After Nine Li Country was abolished, its people became commoners and were placed below the pure-blooded common people.
• Luo Hou and Nether River Ancestor planned to free the sealed Human Race experts during a future war against the Heavenly Sacreds and use them to attack the Human Race, while Luo Hou vowed revenge on Hong Jun and the Immortal Godfiend.
• Shi Hao Shi praised Xuanyuan's plan to establish Luoyang as a Human Court, and ancient Human Race figures pledged to fight if their people faced peril.
• After unifying the Human Race, Xuanyuan honored Chi You as Lord of Weapons and spread his forging methods, leading to mass production of Postnatal Spiritual Treasures and Ultimate Treasures.
• Xuanyuan publicized Chi You's achievements, while commoners remained socially inferior because of their Nine Li and Witch Clan ancestry.
• Qingqiu Fox Country expanded and prepared its military as the factions anticipated a future all-out war.

As the Buddhist Sect's fortune continued to falter, Zhun Ti revealed that a powerful thief was stealing it, prompting several Bhikshus and Bhikshunis to leave. The Demon Godfiend then appeared in the Great Thunderclap Temple, transformed it into a demonic land, and demanded that the Buddhist Sect's Buddha Godfiend come find him.

• Di Zang, Dragon Subduing, and other Bodhisattvas and Arhats asked Zhun Ti and Jie Yin how to stabilize the Buddhist Sect's fortune, and Zhun Ti urged them to enlighten sentient beings.
• After Dragon Subduing and others pressed for an explanation, Zhun Ti said a powerful, unnameable thief had seized the Buddhist Sect's fortune and that even he and Jie Yin could do nothing.
• Several Bhikshus and Bhikshunis asked to leave the Buddhist Sect, and Zhun Ti granted their request while Di Zang, Jin Chan, and Dragon Subduing pledged to stay.
• A mysterious presence appeared in the Great Thunderclap Temple, overwhelmed the assembly, and caused Zhun Ti to mistake it for the Darkness Godfiend before realizing it was someone else.
• The Demon Godfiend revealed his identity, flooded the temple with Demonic Qi, and told the Buddhist Sect to send its awakened Buddha Godfiend to meet him or face being beaten back into the Great Dao.

The Demon Godfiend confronted Luo Hou for twisting the Demon Great Dao into a vile path after discovering Devil Path cultivators in the Primordial World. He left Luo Hou immobilized with a burst of Dao Rhythm, and Luo Hou’s fate remained uncertain.

• Zhun Ti and Jie Yin discussed how the Demon Godfiend’s projection had suppressed their Great Dao, then the Demon Godfiend left the Buddhist Sect’s Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Pangu warned the Demon Godfiend not to destroy the Primordial World, and the Demon Godfiend agreed to leave it intact.
• The Demon Godfiend found a nine-tailed fox cultivating the Devil Path in Qingqiu Fox Country and tracked the source to Luo Hou.
• Luo Hou mistook the Demon Godfiend’s arrival for a chance to gain a powerful ally and spoke proudly of his own standing.
• The Demon Godfiend condemned Luo Hou’s version of the Demon Great Dao, then released a wave of Dao Rhythm that froze Luo Hou in place.

The Demon Godfiend arrived in the Primordial World, reprimanded Luo Hou, and confronted the Immortal Godfiend in the Purple Cloud Palace. Their battle devastated the palace and left the Immortal Godfiend badly wounded, until the Demon Godfiend launched its Demonic Black Lotus and Hong Jun threw the Creation Jade Tablet to protect it.

• The Demon Godfiend ordered Luo Hou to discipline the Devil Sect and promised to seek justice against the Immortal Godfiend for erasing him from the river of time.
• The Demon Godfiend confronted the Immortal Godfiend in the Purple Cloud Palace, while Luo Hou and Hong Jun fled from the coming fight.
• The Demon Godfiend destroyed the Purple Cloud Palace and formed a spear and Twenty-Four Grade Demonic Black Lotus from Demonic Qi, shocking Luo Hou and the Immortal Godfiend.
• Di Jun led the Heavenly Court toward Chaos to watch the battle, while Su Ming Shi broke through to the late stage of the Primordial Unity realm and headed there as well.
• The Demon Godfiend wounded the Immortal Godfiend with its spear and launched the Twenty-Four Grade Demonic Black Lotus; Hong Jun threw the Creation Jade Tablet to shield it.

The Demon Godfiend overwhelmed the Immortal Godfiend, but an unknown force erased the black lotus and the Immortal Godfiend before the Time Godfiend and Space Godfiend rescued him. The two explained their journey through time-space and hinted at worlds beyond Chaos, while the Immortal Godfiend asked about Luo Hou’s sudden increase in strength.

• The Demon Godfiend exploited the gap between the Immortal Godfiend and the Creation Jade Tablet, trapping him inside the Twenty-Four Grade Demonic Black Lotus.
• The Demon Godfiend struck at the Immortal Godfiend, but the black lotus and its Devil Path aura vanished along with him, leaving Chaos strangely still.
• Luo Hou rejoiced at the Immortal Godfiend’s apparent destruction, while the Demon Godfiend and Su Ming Shi suspected an unknown power had intervened.
• The Time Godfiend and Space Godfiend revealed that they had rescued the Immortal Godfiend and warned him not to challenge the Demon Godfiend again.
• The Time Godfiend and Space Godfiend described traveling through future time-space and discovering worlds beyond their own, and the Immortal Godfiend asked why Luo Hou had grown so powerful.

The Demon Godfiend defeated the Immortal Godfiend, while the Time Godfiend and Space Godfiend rescued the loser and revealed that the Devil Sect’s hidden power helped make Demon so strong. After meeting Su Ming Shi, the Demon Godfiend expounded the Demon Great Dao for a thousand years, then warned him to forge his own path rather than risk being assimilated.

• The Time Godfiend and Space Godfiend explained that their strength had grown because time and space permeated the Primordial World, and the Space Godfiend described the Devil Sect’s hidden forces to the Immortal Godfiend.
• The Time Godfiend sent the Immortal Godfiend away, while Ye Xuan watched from the void and noted that more Godfiends were quietly reviving.
• The Demon Godfiend warned Luo Hou to remain cautious because an unseen power had intervened to save the Immortal Godfiend, then left to find Su Ming Shi.
• The Demon Godfiend praised Su Ming Shi for following the orthodox Demon Great Dao and expounded the Dao to him for a thousand years.
• The Demon Godfiend ended the teaching and told Su Ming Shi to forge his own Devil Path, since continued instruction could cause the Great Dao to assimilate him.

Su Ming Shi returned from receiving the Demon Godfiend’s teachings with a breakthrough and warned that the Human Race’s coming trials demanded greater strength. Shi Hao Shi set out to seek his own opportunity, then was shown charging into the Devil Sect’s Ancestral Land to fight Demon Clan experts and force a breakthrough; Luo Hou sent more enemies against him.

• The Demon Godfiend explained how forging a Great Dao of one’s own could let its cultivator gain the original Great Dao’s power, while Ye Xuan reflected on the different fates of Su Ming Shi, Ancestor Yang Mei, and Old Ancestor Shi Chen.
• Su Ming Shi returned at the late stage of the Primordial Grand Golden Immortal realm, and Shi Hao Shi congratulated him on surpassing the other Human Race sages.
• Su Ming Shi urged the Human Race to prepare for its coming calamities, and Shi Hao Shi left to seek an opportunity after Su Ming Shi hinted that one awaited him.
• Ye Fan Shi, Han Li Shi, and others gathered to discuss the Dao with Su Ming Shi, while the narration explained that Shi Hao Shi needed combat to advance his battle-focused Dao.
• Shi Hao Shi fought seventeen Chaotic Origin experts from the Devil Sect’s Ancestral Land, using ten equal-strength clones created by the He Transformation Freedom Great Method and demanding more opponents.
• Demon Ancestor Luo Hou admired Shi Hao Shi and sent more than ten additional Demon Clan Chaotic Origin experts into the battle.

Shi Hao Shi sacrificed his avatars and nearly died while fighting the Devil Sect, but a mysterious power restored him and enabled him to break through to the late stage of the Primordial Grand Golden Immortal. Back in Luoyang, Xuanyuan learned of Shi Hao Shi and Su Ming Shi’s breakthroughs as the Human Race prepared to launch an all-out war against the Ten Thousand Races.

• Shi Hao Shi burned his ten avatars to empower himself, killed a Chaotic Origin Demon expert, and fought the Devil Sect’s forces until his body and divine soul dissipated.
• A supreme power crossed time and space to restore Shi Hao Shi’s true spirit, body, and soul, and he advanced to the late stage of the Primordial Grand Golden Immortal.
• Shi Hao Shi warned Luo Hou not to take offense at his breakthrough and left the Demon Territory; Luo Hou swallowed his humiliation and resolved to regain his former pinnacle.
• In Luoyang, Da Hong reported to Xuanyuan that Su Ming Shi and Shi Hao Shi had both reached the late stage of the Primordial Grand Golden Immortal.
• Xuanyuan said the day to declare war on the Ten Thousand Races was near.

Xuanyuan went to the Dragon Emperor Palace to pressure Zu Long into joining forces with the Human Race, warning that the Dragon Clan faced destruction. The negotiations turned hostile, and Xuanyuan left two True Dragons dead after they threatened him.

• Xuanyuan left Da Hong to watch over the Human Race and traveled openly to the East Sea to meet Zu Long at the Dragon Emperor Palace.
• Torch Dragon rebuked Xuanyuan, but Zu Long stopped him from attacking, fearing the consequences of provoking the Human Race.
• Xuanyuan told Zu Long that the Dragon Clan faced annihilation and confirmed that the Human Race would target it first if it refused to join forces.
• Zu Long and the Four Seas Dragon Kings surrounded Xuanyuan, while Xuanyuan warned that the Human Race would destroy the Dragon Clan if he were harmed.
• Two True Dragons threatened Xuanyuan, and he killed them with a single swordlike strike before warning the others not to threaten him again.

Human Emperor Xuanyuan demanded that the Dragon Clan submit, but Zu Long refused and prepared to resist, prompting Xuanyuan to leave intending to crush the clan swiftly. After hearing the Four Seas dragons’ vow to fight, Zu Long broke through to the late stage of the Primordial Grand Golden Immortal realm and rallied the Dragon Clan for war.

• Zu Long admitted that the Dragon Clan was weaker than the Human Race, but rejected Xuanyuan’s demand that it submit.
• Xuanyuan threatened to attack after Zu Long declared that the Dragon Clan would never submit, then departed to prepare to crush the clan.
• Zu Long told the Four Seas Dragon Kings that he had refused Xuanyuan’s demands, and they pledged their support.
• Zu Long recalled the Dragon Clan’s past decline and breakthrough, then reached the late stage of the Primordial Grand Golden Immortal realm.
• Zu Long warned the Four Seas that the Human Race would attack, and the Dragon Clan descendants vowed to fight to the death.

Xuanyuan prepared to wage war against the Dragon Clan and went to confront Luo Hou over the Devil Sect’s interference. Meanwhile, the Death Godfiend raised an undead army and proposed an alliance with the Light Godfiend, who was studying the Great Dao of Darkness.

• Zu Long revealed twelve powerful phantoms, shocking the Four Seas Dragon Kings as his aura grew stronger.
• Xuanyuan allowed the Buddhist Sect and Immortal Gate to spread their teachings but demanded that they aid the Human Race’s campaign against the Dragon Clan.
• Xuanyuan ordered his lords to gather their soldiers, then left for Chaos to seek out Luo Hou.
• The Death Godfiend reflected on the coming Great Contention Era and continued developing an army of undead.
• The Light Godfiend pursued mastery of darkness, but the Death Godfiend found It and proposed that they form an alliance.