Chapter Summaries

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian agreed to leave the Primordial World and enlighten new worlds, while Qin Xi created a teleportation route through Jianmu so they could remain connected to their disciples. The three Sages named their new realms and opened them to cultivators, prompting countless beings to plan a journey through Jianmu.

• Yuanshi agreed to travel to a new world, and Yuanshi suggested Tongtian leave a Saint Body behind if he worried about his disciples.
• Qin Xi connected with Jianmu, formed a small world within it, and created teleportation arrays linking the Primordial World to several new worlds.
• After Laozi reassured him that his disciples could visit through Jianmu, Tongtian agreed to leave with his brothers and prepared to depart Kunlun Mountain.
• Laozi brought Xuandu to his chosen world, named it the Great Red Heaven Taiqing Immortal Realm, and opened it to members of the Human Sect.
• Yuanshi named his world the Clear Subtle Heaven Yuqing Immortal Realm for the Chan Sect, and Tongtian named his the Yuyu Heaven Shangqing Immortal Realm for the Jie Sect.
• After the three Sages announced their realms, countless cultivators planned to travel through Jianmu to reach Chaos.

Qin Xi opened a route into the New World through Jianmu, arranged for living beings to climb there, and discovered the Chaos Bead. He sent Nuwa and Houtu to prepare for Fuxi’s reincarnation and expand reincarnation across the major worlds, leaving millions of beings climbing toward the new world.

• Countless living beings gathered beneath Jianmu, and Qin Xi brought Nuwa and the others into the Small World, then used Jianmu to fill it with spiritual energy.
• Qin Xi discovered a bead that had escaped his awareness, recognized it as the legendary Chaos Bead, and put it away.
• Qin Xi told living beings to climb into the Chaos World without using mana, and they accepted his decree.
• Qin Xi sent Nuwa to place Fuxi’s Spirit Soul into Reincarnation and instructed Houtu to extend the Six Paths of Reincarnation into the major worlds.
• Houtu and Nuwa left to carry out Qin Xi’s orders, while he watched beings of every cultivation level climb Jianmu for strands of Purple Qi.

Qin Xi visited the Human Race and discovered that many humans had abandoned cultivation because they relied on the Sages' protection, while tribal officials suppressed those who wanted to grow stronger. After meeting the determined youth Getian, Qin Xi withdrew his protection, appointed Suiren to serve as chief, and told Youchao to assist him until a successor appeared.

• Qin Xi and his companions arrived among the Human Race and saw that most humans were not cultivating despite the abundance of spiritual energy.
• Qin Xi questioned a young cultivator, who explained that many clansmen relied on the Sages and mocked him for wanting to become strong enough to protect them.
• The youth named himself Getian and said he would join the hunting team on his coming-of-age day, despite how the clansmen treated him.
• Qin Xi learned that more than half of the tribal officials kept cultivators under their control and stopped other humans from cultivating.
• Qin Xi recognized Getian as Fuxi's future general and praised his resolve before leaving to confront Youchao.
• Qin Xi told Youchao to assist Suiren as chief, ordered him to step down once a successor had grown up, and withdrew his protection from the Human Race.

After Qin Xi’s protection of the Human Race ended, Youchao abdicated and Suiren became clan leader as the people were urged to stand on their own. Several races then challenged the Human Race, demanding goods and threatening violence, leaving the tribe facing its first test without Qin Xi’s protection.

• Suiren questioned whether the Human Race had grown arrogant, and Youchao agreed to step down and support him as clan leader.
• Youchao announced Suiren’s succession, and Qin Xi declared that his thousand years of protection had ended.
• The Human Race argued over Qin Xi’s departure, while Youchao urged them to rely on their own strength; Qin Xi praised Haoying, Zhuxiang, and Lilu as the people’s future.
• The Five-Colored Pheasant and Great Swine Clan demanded the return of their goods, and a Five-Colored Pheasant killed an untrained human.
• The Tiger Clan threatened to slaughter the tribe unless the Human Race explained its past interference, and another figure defended the Human Race’s actions.

Suiren retaliated after the Five-Colored Pheasant Clan threatened the Human Race, while several thousand races declared war on one another. Youchao set out to destroy the Five-Colored Pheasant Clan, and Qin Xi sent Styx to guide young humans toward the Heluo Lands as he carried Di Qun Tai Yi in the same direction.

• Suiren rebuked the clans blaming humans for ending their wars, then killed a Five-Colored Pheasant Clan member after learning a Taiyi Golden Immortal of that clan had killed a human.
• The Jiao Clan and Tiger Clan refused to intervene, and several thousand races declared war on one another.
• Suiren urged the Human Race to cultivate and grow stronger, while Youchao vowed to exterminate the Five-Colored Pheasant Clan and left to attack them.
• Qin Xi ordered Styx to take Haoying, Zhuxiang, Lilu, and the other young men to the Heluo Lands to train near Fuxi’s future birthplace.
• Qin Xi carried Di Qun Tai Yi toward the Five-Colored Pheasant Clan, while considering how Fuxi could perform One Stroke Opens the Heavens as an ordinary human.

Styx told Haoying and the others that Qin Xi had instructed him, prompting them to set out and investigate. Meanwhile, Youchao attacked the Five-Colored Pheasant Clan over the death of a Human, trapping its five Great Luo Golden Immortals and declaring the clan would become livestock forbidden to cultivate.

• Styx told Haoying and the others that Qin Xi, the Holy Mother's master, had instructed him, then departed.
• Haoying proposed verifying Styx's claim in person, and the group prepared to leave.
• Youchao appeared in the Five-Colored Pheasant Territory and killed tens of thousands of Five-Colored Pheasants.
• The Five-Colored Pheasant patriarch and four other Great Luo Golden Immortals confronted Youchao, who trapped them with his Merit treasure.
• Youchao declared that the Five-Colored Pheasant Clan would become Human livestock and that its descendants would not be allowed to cultivate.

After Youchao slaughtered the Five-Colored Pheasant clan and destroyed the Spirit Roots of its young, many races began plotting attacks on Human tribes. The Wu Clan debated whether to aid the Human Race, and Zhujiuyin concluded that Qin Xi was letting each race choose whether to join the conflict.

• Youchao punished the Five-Colored Pheasant clan for killing a human, killing its cultivators and sealing away its young after destroying their Spirit Roots.
• The Jiao Clan chief ordered attacks on small Human tribes, while the Tiger Clan chief planned to target lone Jiao Clan members.
• Dijiang asked Zhujiuyin whether Qin Xi had abandoned the Human Race, and Zhujiuyin cited Baizhi as an example of a human still cultivating diligently.
• The Ancestral Witches discussed their ties to humans, including Baizhi’s interest in Jiufeng and Dayi’s love for Chang'e.
• Dijiang proposed that the Wu Clan help the Human Race, and Zhujiuyin advised sending Lesser Witches to interact with humans before deciding.
• Zhujiuyin said Qin Xi seemed to be letting the races choose whether to join the war, without being bound by the Ten Thousand Year Covenant.

The Wu Clan decided to send Lesser Witches among the Human Race, while Nuwa arranged for Fuxi to be born in the Heluo Lands. Qin Xi marked Fuxi’s birth with the Kongtong Seal and Bagua Diagram, then agreed to let Yuanshi seek a sovereign’s teaching position for his eldest disciple while Qin Xi taught the Heavenly Sovereign.

• Zhujiuyin speculated that the Human Race was approaching a transformation connected to Nuwa and Fuxi, and Dijiang ordered Lesser Witches to contact the Human Race.
• Youchao left the Five-Colored Pheasant Clan after declaring that the Great Boar Clan would soon join them, while Qin Xi watched approvingly.
• Nuwa told Qin Xi that Fuxi would be born to a woman of the innate Human Race in the Heluo Lands, and Qin Xi accepted that her survival depended on her fate.
• Qin Xi sent the Kongtong Seal and Bagua Diagram toward the newborn Fuxi, drawing Human Race luck and Merit as the Human Race’s Golden Dragon appeared.
• Yuanshi asked Qin Xi for a sovereign’s teaching position for his eldest disciple, and Qin Xi agreed while reserving the Heavenly Sovereign for himself.

Qin Xi allowed Laozi and the others to decide the Human Race’s positions among the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, while insisting they settle the matter within a few thousand years. Nuwa declined the Earth Sovereign position, and as the group prepared to leave Fuxi, Qin Xi revealed that the Pre-celestial Bagua Diagram would be his teaching for him.

• Qin Xi told Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian to arrange the positions themselves and settle the Human Race’s affairs within a few thousand years.
• Laozi proposed that Nuwa become the Earth Sovereign, he become the Human Sovereign, Styx take the first Five Emperor position, and Yuanshi and Tongtian take the others.
• Nuwa declined the position, saying she wanted to stay with Qin Xi and that Styx would be a better choice; Laozi and the others hinted to Styx that Nuwa had feelings for him.
• Styx realized what they meant and nearly blurted it out, but Tongtian covered his mouth; Nuwa went to check on Fuxi, and Qin Xi said her flushed face was nothing.
• Qin Xi announced that the group would return to Zhenyuanzi, and he explained that the Pre-celestial Bagua Diagram was what he would teach Fuxi.
• Laozi examined the Bagua Diagram and compared its depth and structure to the River Chart and Luo Script.

Qin Xi gave Fuxi the Pre-celestial Bagua Diagram and observed the suffering caused by conflict among the Human Race and other tribes. Back at The Valley, Zhenyuanzi asked Qin Xi for help breaking through Mid-Quasi-Sage and offered his Ginseng Fruit Tree, while Qin Xi considered a greater system of authority built from the Primordial World's Three Books.

• Qin Xi refused Tongtian's request for the Pre-celestial Bagua Diagram, allowing him to copy it for his formation-minded chief disciple.
• Qin Xi watched small tribes fall and humans die protecting their kin, while he reflected that the Six Paths of Reincarnation had changed his concern for the Human Race.
• At The Valley, Yangmei revealed that Zhenyuanzi and Red Cloud had been waiting anxiously for Qin Xi, prompting the others to tease them.
• Zhenyuanzi told Qin Xi he had been stuck at Mid-Quasi-Sage for a thousand years and offered the Ginseng Fruit Tree in exchange for guidance.
• Qin Xi considered combining Zhenyuanzi's Earth Book with the Heavenly Book and possibly the Life and Death Book to create a broader system of authority and advancement.

Qin Xi asked Zhenyuanzi for the Earth Book and explained how the Three Books could unify divine offices and help the Primordial World advance. Examining the book revealed the buried Chaos God-Demon corpses and the source of the baleful aura, before Laozi briefly merged with a newly opened world and Qin Xi warned him to stop.

• Qin Xi rejected the Ginseng Fruit Tree and asked Zhenyuanzi for the Earth Book, and Zhenyuanzi agreed despite its importance to him.
• Qin Xi explained that uniting the authority of the Heaven, Earth, and Human Books could advance the Primordial World and support Zhenyuanzi's path to Hunyuan.
• Qin Xi inspected the Earth Book and saw the differences between the eastern and western lands, as well as baleful aura rising from beneath the world.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Zhenyuanzi discussed how buried Chaos God-Demon remains had produced the baleful aura and affected the Wu Clan.
• Laozi briefly merged himself with a newly opened world, and Qin Xi rebuked him and warned him to pursue becoming the Heavenly Dao instead.

Laozi revealed that his brief use of Heavenly Dao-level power let him glimpse Pangu’s heart, shrouded in baleful energy. Qin Xi examined the Investiture of the Gods and discovered that the Heavenly, Earth, and Human Books had once been one artifact, split apart by Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Axe.

• Laozi apologized for unleashing a costly art that briefly gave him power comparable to the Heavenly Dao Realm, and Qin Xi confirmed that his attack had injured everyone.
• Laozi told the group he had seen Pangu’s heart inside the Ancestral Witch Hall, covered in black baleful energy.
• Qin Xi said he would collect the Earth Book and, when Fuxi grew up, begin the Primordial World’s Investiture of the Gods.
• Qin Xi asked Hongjun for the Investiture of the Gods, and Hongjun explained that the Heavenly Book shared the Heavenly Dao’s root and origin but was not its origin.
• Qin Xi examined the Investiture of the Gods and discovered that Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Axe had split the Three Books apart; united, they could determine divine offices, while each book used alone had flaws.

Qin Xi examined the Life and Death Book, sent Houtu and Di Qun and Tai Yi to prepare the Wu Clan and Monster Clan for an early war, then tried to merge the Three Books using the laws of Chaos. The Heavenly Dao asked Hongjun to request the fused object, which it identified as a remainder of its origin.

• Qin Xi accepted the Investiture of the Gods and reviewed the Life and Death Book that Houtu had brought back from the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Qin Xi praised Houtu, told her to leave a copy of the Life and Death Book in the Six Paths, and sent her to tell the Wu Clan he agreed to an early war with the Monster Clan.
• Qin Xi told Di Qun and Tai Yi to fight their battle, and they agreed to cultivate afterward so they would not fall further behind him.
• Qin Xi tried to merge the Investiture of the Gods, the Earth Membrane, and the Life and Death Book, but brought them to Chaos to draw on greater laws when they would not fuse.
• Qin Xi summoned rivers of laws that drew beings from across the worlds to observe and cultivate, while Hongjun and the others watched from a distance.
• Hongjun told Qin Xi that the Heavenly Dao wanted the Three Books because they contained a remainder of its origin, severed during Pangu's Creation.

Qin Xi kept the Three Books’ origin and learned that their fusion had created the Chaos Investiture of the Gods, a list whose offices could draw on the Fortune of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity and wield immense authority. He reassured Laozi and the others that he would manage the list and could erase its positions before holding another investiture under the Heavenly Emperor’s jurisdiction.

• Qin Xi asked Hongjun to tell the Heavenly Dao to wait for its origin to recover, and Hongjun went to negotiate.
• The Three Books’ laws receded, and beams of light spread across the Myriad Heavens and the Primordial World as the books finished merging.
• Qin Xi saw the words “Chaos Investiture of the Gods” appear on the mass of origin and learned that its offices could draw on the Fortune of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity to exercise powerful authority within their jurisdictions.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and the others warned Qin Xi not to choose officeholders carelessly, while Yuanshi urged him to select virtuous candidates from the major sects.
• Qin Xi explained that he could erase the positions and conduct a second Investiture of the Gods, with everything under the Heavenly Emperor’s jurisdiction and the Heavenly Emperor, Human Sovereign, and Yama Son of Heaven equal in rank.

Qin Xi established a cross-world Investiture of the Gods that welcomed all races and judged candidates by their conduct and contributions rather than strength or victory. The Sages and Styx returned to prepare and spread the decree, while the investiture was set to begin amid the coming wars.

• Tongtian questioned the need to become a Heavenly Dao Sage when the Investiture of the Gods already granted power over heaven and earth, and Hongjun defended the Sages' authority.
• Qin Xi ordered the Sages' sects to participate so their disciples could be tested and their sects' karma repaid.
• Laozi asked to let Taishang Laojun replace Xuandu, but Qin Xi refused and said the investiture could improve Xuandu's constitution and give him experience.
• Qin Xi invited the Wu Clan, Monster Clan, Human Race, and Ten Thousand Races to join, allowing Sages and Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals to participate and judging candidates by character, conduct, and ability.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian returned to prepare their disciples, while Hongjun vanished and Styx broadcast the Great Dao's decree across the Myriad Heavens.

Qin Xi announced a new Investiture of the Gods, offering Grandmist Violet Qi and Xiantian treasures to those who took part, while allowing others to withdraw. As the Three Teachings prepared their disciples for the competition, Duobao left to collect treasures for Tongtian.

• Qin Xi declared that Investiture of the Gods would recur every thousand years and that cultivators could earn Grandmist Violet Qi and find Xiantian treasures by striving.
• Qin Xi sent purple lights across the Primordial World, prompting many beings to enter the Chaos Investiture of the Gods while others chose to withdraw.
• Laozi prepared Xuandu with pills and Dharma treasures, then advised him to seek out Duobao for help finding treasures.
• Yuanshi equipped his twelve disciples and told them to choose camps without fighting in earnest.
• Tongtian discovered that Duobao had slipped away to retrieve Xiantian treasures, leaving a message explaining his plan.

Houtu returned to the Wu Clan and urged her brothers to join the Investiture of the Gods, explaining that service to the Earthly Dao could offer a path to Sagehood. The Wu and Yao Clans were both authorized to enter the fray, and the chapter ended with the Heavenly Court preparing to settle its war with the Wu Clan.

• Tongtian told his disciples to choose their own camps and offered to teach the Dao for the remaining five hundred years.
• Houtu returned to the Wu Clan, where Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches welcomed her.
• Houtu explained that Wu Clan members could enter the Earthly Dao and might become Sages through its divine positions.
• Zhujiuyin took Gonggong and Zhurong into a Small World after proposing that Gonggong lead a tribe to assist the Human Race and join with them.
• Houtu warned her brothers that Sages could also enter the fray and obtain divine positions, then vanished.
• Di Qun announced that the Wu and Yao Clans could participate, calling the Investiture of the Gods an opportunity to decide the war against the Wu Clan.

Di Qun prepared the Monster Clan to enter the Primordial World and later yield the Heavenly Emperor’s office to another Monster Clan member. As the races gathered strength during a fragile calm, Xuandu set out to find the source of a celestial image despite Laozi’s reservations.

• Di Qun rejected the Monster Gods’ pleas and announced that she and the Eastern Emperor would seek to break through after the battle, while the next Heavenly Emperor would come from the Monster Clan.
• Di Qun ordered the Monster Gods to support smaller races, leave the Human Race alone for now, and target the Wu Clan as the Monster Clan entered the Primordial World.
• The Monster Clan and Sage disciples entered the Primordial World as the Ten Thousand Races formed alliances and gathered strength during a period of uneasy calm.
• Xuandu gave Duobao a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir in exchange for help finding the person behind a recent celestial image.
• Duobao warned Xuandu that Nuwa was at the image’s location, but Xuandu insisted on going to help the Human Race and left with the location.
• Duobao reported Xuandu’s decision to Laozi, who let Xuandu go while worrying that slaughter and hatred could draw him away from the Path of Supreme Forgetting of Emotions.

The River of Time manifested in the Primordial World and began its Temporal Convergence, the first step in the world’s ascension. Qin Xi learned that the process could create a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, but Zhujiuyin lacked a Divine Soul and missed the opportunity.

• Laozi told Duobao to look after Xuandu, then vanished as Duobao followed Xuandu.
• Qin Xi advised Zhenyuanzi that Wu Clan members and humans could help clear Earth Fiend Qi and restore the world’s spiritual veins.
• The Dao Field shook as the River of Time fully appeared in the Primordial World, and the Heavenly Dao briefly showed excitement.
• Qin Xi learned that Temporal Convergence was making time unique and watched the River of Time begin circling the Primordial World.
• Zhujiuyin returned with Gonggong and Zhurong and received the River of Time’s guidance, but could not seize the chance to become a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal because he had no Divine Soul.
• The Dao Field told Qin Xi that figures whose names remained in the River of Time would be born ahead of their time.

The River of Time sent more than a hundred human figures into the River of Humanity Dao, including a new Laozi, prompting Laozi to send Taishang Laojun to join them. Qin Xi anticipated the Hundred Schools of Thought entering the struggle over human fortune and explained the emergence to Zhenyuanzi.

• The River of Time dissipated, and more than a hundred lights flew into the River of Humanity Dao above the human race.
• Laozi divined that Taishang Laojun would need to enter the River of Humanity Dao, and Taishang Laojun left a mark in the Investiture of the Gods as he departed.
• Laozi took Taishang Laojun's place at the Alchemy Furnace while Yuanshi watched the events with amusement and caution.
• Qin Xi considered how the Hundred Schools of Thought could shape human fortune and challenge the Three Teachings during the Investiture of the Gods.
• Zhenyuanzi asked Qin Xi about the lights, and Qin Xi explained that their early emergence was bound to happen.