Chapter Summaries

Qin Xi welcomed the newcomers and identified Duobao, then questioned Sun Wukong and learned he was trapped beneath Five Elements Mountain. He warned Duobao that the Investiture Tribulation would destroy the Jie Sect, leaving Duobao asking how such a fate could befall his sect.

• Qin Xi reassured the newcomers, posted a newcomer notice, and recognized Duobao as Tongtian's disciple.
• Duobao worried that Qin Xi might be the Dao Ancestor after Qin Xi identified him.
• Qin Xi asked Wukong which era he came from, and Wukong said he had spent 499 years beneath Five Elements Mountain.
• Yang Jian told Wukong that in his world Wukong had become the Victorious Fighting Buddha and was the master of Yang Jian's nephew.
• Duobao asked Qin Xi about the Investiture of the Gods, and Qin Xi warned that the Jie Sect would cease to exist in the coming tribulation.
• Qin Xi said Tongtian's two martial brothers would join the Two Western Sages against him and advised Duobao to ask Yang Jian about the war.

Duobao learned that his future self became Tathagata after the Jie Sect fell, and Qin Xi’s evasive reply left him convinced he had betrayed his sect. Duobao sent a luck-based red packet to the group, but the members hesitated to claim it after Wukong was struck by divine thunder.

• Duobao reacted with horror to the claim that the Jie Sect would be destroyed and he would become Duobao Tathagata, then unleashed his Great Luo Golden Immortal pressure across Golden Turtle Island.
• Qin Xi told Duobao that changing the Jie Sect’s doctrine could avert its crisis, but Duobao refused to change Tongtian’s path.
• Duobao sent Wukong an exclusive red packet, and Wukong used Shangqing Divine Thunder to strike him at Five Finger Mountain.
• Sanxiao condemned Duobao as a sect traitor, while Duobao insisted in the chat that he had never betrayed Tongtian or the Jie Sect.
• Qin Xi avoided explaining Duobao’s future, and Duobao took the answer as confirmation that he had betrayed the sect.
• Duobao sent a luck-based red packet to the group, and the members hesitated to claim it.

Qin Xi livestreamed the opening battle between the Wu and Yao Clans, as Zhurong led the Wu Clan against the Monster Clan and called for reinforcements. The battle intensified as Gonggong and Kuafu joined the fray, signaling the start of the First Battle of the Wu and Yao.

• Duobao apologized in the group chat for muting everyone and sent magical treasures in red packets, which the members quickly claimed.
• Buddha Tathagata told Sun Wukong to protect Tang Sanzang on the journey west and promised him entry into the Daluo realm if he succeeded.
• Qin Xi watched the Wu and Monster Clans clash, then started a group-chat livestream of the battle.
• Zhurong led the Wu Clan against the Monster Clan, while Baize and other Monster Gods fought him and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
• Zhurong called for Gonggong, who ordered Kuafu to lead the tribesmen into battle as Baize realized the Wu Clan intended to fight to the death.

Di Qun and Tai Yi prepared the Heavenly Court for the Ancestral Witches’ assault, with Tai Yi choosing to face the battle without relying on Qin Xi. She intervened against Zhurong and Gonggong, but Zhurong took her Sun True Fire attack, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Zhuge Liang reported that Zhurong and Gonggong had entered the battle and warned that all Twelve Ancestral Witches might join, so Di Qun ordered the Star Gods to prepare the Celestial Star Formation and summoned more troops.
• Di Qun told Tai Yi she wanted the Heavenly Court to fight independently, then assigned Tai Yi to intercept Gonggong while she oversaw the battle.
• Zhurong overwhelmed Baize, Shangyang, and the other demon gods, severely wounding them and tearing off Shangyang’s wings.
• Qin Xi watched the battle and decided not to protect Di Qun and Tai Yi from the consequences of leading the Heavenly Court.
• Tai Yi used the Eastern Emperor Bell to freeze space and time, then attacked Gonggong with her Golden Crow form and Sun True Fire.
• Zhurong shoved Gonggong aside and took the attack himself, while Gonggong protested and Zhurong warned him that Sun True Fire suppressed him.

Tai Yi fought Zhurong and Gonggong until Dijiang arrived with the rest of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, turning the battle into an all-out war between the Wu and Yao Clans. Di Qun joined Tai Yi, while allies gathered to reinforce the Heavenly Court; Qin Xi stopped Nuwa from going because Heavenly Dao Hongjun might intervene.

• Tai Yi used the Pangu Banner to wound Zhurong and Gonggong, while the Eastern Emperor Bell stabilized the battlefield around them.
• Dijiang rescued Zhurong and Gonggong, then the remaining Ancestral Witches arrived and assembled as all Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Di Qun gave Zhuge Liang the Demon-Summoning Banner and joined Tai Yi on the battlefield, where Dijiang led the Ancestral Witches into battle.
• Houtu grieved over the countless deaths, but Zhujiuyin urged her to remember that the Wu Clan would support her choices before he entered the battle.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian discussed visiting Qin Xi, while Styx and other allies prepared to reinforce the Heavenly Court.
• Nuwa asked Qin Xi to let her return to help the Heavenly Court, but Qin Xi warned that Heavenly Dao Hongjun might stop her.

Hongjun briefly emerged from his union with the Heavenly Dao, met Luo Hou, and sent Zhun Ti and Jieyin east to aid the weaker side in the Wu-Yao battle. As the Monster Clan was nearing defeat, reinforcements arrived and the fighting resumed.

• Hongjun visited Luo Hou on Mount Sumeru and explained that the Heavenly Dao had granted him one chance to emerge after Nuwa Creates Humanity.
• Hongjun told Zhun Ti and Jieyin to go east and help whichever side was weaker, promising they could become Sages after the battle.
• The Wu Clan pressed its advantage as Di Qun and Tai Yi exhausted their Dharma power, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches continued fighting despite their injuries.
• Kunpeng, Zhenyuanzi, Red Cloud, Pangu's Three Pure Ones, and Styx arrived to aid the Monster Clan, and the newcomers engaged the Ancestral Witches.
• Tongtian drew the Green Duckweed Sword and faced three opponents alone as fighting erupted again across the battlefield.
• Qin Xi praised the Wu Clan's fighting spirit, and Nuwa asked whether he liked them.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches activated the Capital Heavens Divine Retribution Array, combining their bodies with Pangu’s aura to summon his phantom. As the phantom appeared, Tai Yi and Di Qun completed the Celestial Star Formation with help from Zhuge Liang and the Lunar Star fairies.

• Qin Xi explained that the Capital Heavens Divine Retribution Array gathered baleful qi to recreate Chaos and summon Pangu’s phantom through the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Dijiang agreed to use the array after Jumang and Zhurong urged him to end the stalemate, while Laozi warned the others to withdraw.
• Tai Yi and Di Qun told Zhuge Liang to prepare the Celestial Star Formation and called allies into the Void.
• Qin Xi told Nuwa that the summoned Pangu was only the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ combined bodies infused with a wisp of Pangu’s aura, and Yangmei offered to intervene if needed.
• Dijiang ordered the Ancestral Witches to merge, and their Pangu phantom appeared across the Primordial World.
• The stars gathered into the Celestial Star Formation, and Zhuge Liang revealed that the two fairies on the Lunar Star had agreed to complete its missing section.

The Celestial Star Formation struggled to withstand the True Body of Pangu as it rampaged under the baleful aura, leaving the gathered powers facing near-certain death. Luo Hou arrived to challenge it, but after one exchange he was badly wounded, and the Three Pure Ones realized his condition was abnormal.

• The True Body of Pangu attacked the Celestial Star Formation, whose power redirected most of the force onto the Primordial Stars and spared those inside from its full impact.
• Tongtian warned that the formation could not stop Pangu's Nine Heaven-Opening Axes, while Laozi and Yuanshi recognized that baleful aura was controlling the Wu Clan and driving the True Body of Pangu to slaughter everyone.
• Tongtian proposed breaking the formation through superior strength or stalling until the baleful aura ran out, but a strike from the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe wounded everyone inside the formation.
• Qin Xi prepared to strip away the baleful aura, but Luo Hou arrived from Mount Sumeru and challenged the True Body of Pangu as the Chaos God-Demon Destruction.
• Luo Hou met the True Body of Pangu head-on, was wounded in their first exchange, and faced its third Heaven-Opening Axe strike.
• The Three Pure Ones observed that Luo Hou seemed caught between becoming a Sage and not becoming one, and appeared to be in a state of death.

Luo Hou endured Pangu’s nine axes, used the final blow to attain the Dao through his own power, and returned to life as the Demonic Path emerged. He then returned to the West and vowed to mend heaven and earth with his body.

• Luo Hou repeatedly attacked Pangu’s True Body and suffered severe injuries as it swung through the first eight Heaven-Opening Axes.
• Laozi realized Luo Hou was waiting for the ninth axe, and Pangu’s True Body unleashed a strike that united the laws into the Law of Strength.
• Luo Hou vanished beneath the ninth axe, but Qin Xi recognized that he would return, and black lotuses blossomed as Luo Hou reappeared with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Luo Hou withdrew from the battlefield, bowed toward The Valley, and returned to the West to give back the Heavenly Dao’s Merit.
• Luo Hou stood on Mount Sumeru and vowed to mend heaven and earth with his body, prompting the whole Primordial World to hear his declaration.

Luo Hou sacrificed his body to establish Heavenly Tribulations and the Heart Demon Realm, using Merit to repair the West. He departed with Shichen along the River of Time, leaving himself present wherever tribulations arose while the living complained about the new ordeals.

• Luo Hou declared that he would replace Heaven's heart and oversee the tribulations of all beings.
• Luo Hou defined calamities for cultivators at successive realms and created the Heart Demon Tribulation in the Heart Demon Realm.
• Luo Hou directed the Merit toward repairing the West as his body disintegrated.
• Luo Hou walked onto the River of Time and thanked the Valley Master before departing with Shichen.
• All beings began complaining about the tribulations Luo Hou had established.

After Heavenly Dao Hongjun halted the Wu and Yao Clans’ war, Styx visited Qin Xi and asked how he could become a Sage. Qin Xi explained that Styx’s path required a single decisive strike and revealed that his target was Houtu.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun forbade the Wu and Yao Clans from fighting for ten thousand years, and Tai Yi and Di Qun agreed to cease hostilities.
• Zhenyuanzi, Red Cloud, and Nine Heavens Kunpeng left the battlefield, while Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Styx went to visit Qin Xi.
• Zhun Ti and Jieyin took the badly injured Twelve Ancestral Witches away from the battlefield.
• Qin Xi learned that Styx had reached the middle stage of the Quasi-Sage realm after using his natal treasure to sever his second corpse.
• Qin Xi explained that Styx could pursue Sagehood by staking everything on one killing strike, then identified Houtu as his target.

Qin Xi explained how Styx could exploit a flaw in the Heavenly Dao to become a Sage by killing Houtu at the moment she ascended, though Houtu would later be revived. He then offered the Three Pure Ones guidance without asking them to abandon the Mystic Sect, and the chapter ended with Tongtian asking whether Qin Xi meant the Human Race Nuwa created.

• Qin Xi told Styx to reach Quasi-Sage Peak, wait in the Sea of Blood, and attack Houtu as she became a Sage, warning him that failure meant death and success would bring tribulation and pursuit.
• Qin Xi explained that Houtu’s Ancestral Witch body would shatter, allowing the Heavenly Dao to revive her after her true death, and Styx knelt and pledged to serve Qin Xi if he became a Sage.
• Laozi told Qin Xi that he and his brothers could not betray their Master or abandon the Mystic Sect’s duty, and Qin Xi clarified that he would guide them without asking them to do so.
• Laozi asked why he could not sense the opportunity for Sagehood, and Qin Xi said the Three Pure Ones were too proud to recognize it and wrongly believed Fuxi had enabled Nuwa’s ascension.
• Tongtian asked whether Qin Xi was referring to the Human Race created by Nuwa.

Qin Xi guided Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Styx toward their own paths, revealing that the Human Race would eventually rule after the Wu and Yao Clans. Laozi left to observe the Human Race, while Yuanshi and Tongtian set out to pursue their respective Daos, and Styx departed to create a race from the Sea of Blood.

• Qin Xi told Laozi to observe the Human Race and accept disciples only if fate brought the opportunity, then predicted that the Human Race would become the overlords after the Wu and Yao Clans.
• Qin Xi asked Tongtian whether he had taken Duobao as a disciple, advised Laozi to follow his Dao, and told him to take back the magical treasures he had given.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian argued over whether living beings should follow the Heavenly Dao or pursue its remaining hope, then realized their own paths and offered Qin Xi the rites due to a half-teacher.
• Laozi departed for the Human Race with the Tao Te Ching, while Qin Xi reminded Yuanshi and Tongtian not to forget their original intentions as they pursued their Daos.
• Qin Xi told Styx to combine his insights and allowed him to take Breath Soil and Three Lights Holy Water to create a race, warning him to exercise restraint after reaching Hunyuan.
• Qin Xi promised to accept Styx as his disciple once Styx became a saint, and Styx left delighted.

Tongtian took Duobao as his first personal disciple after opening a formation for him. In The Valley, Qin Xi learned the chat group had identified him as the Great Dao, leaving the group members stunned and the Judicial God asking him for help.

• Tongtian met Duobao, opened the formation blocking a magic treasure, and agreed to take him as a disciple.
• Duobao gave Tongtian the treasure as a gift, but Tongtian refused it and gave him the Fishing Drum instead, naming him his first personal disciple.
• Qin Xi saw the chat group reveal his identity as the Great Dao and his cultivation as Heavenly Dao within his Dao Field and Great Dao within Chaos and Hongmeng.
• Qin Xi told the group that things could remain as they were and called out My Master is Tongtian, the Judicial God, and Wukong.
• Duobao of the Investiture of the Gods World resolved to keep a low profile, while the Judicial God again asked Qin Xi for help.

Qin Xi explained that the Journey to the West had been arranged to make the Tribulations controllable, and revealed that Nuwa had created and protected Sun Wukong. Moved by learning he had a mother, Sun Wukong asked how he could meet her, then found renewed hope beneath Five Finger Mountain while Qin Xi examined his own powers.

• Yang Jian waited anxiously while Qin Xi checked whether the Chat Group had a function to help rescue his family, and Wukong asked why he had become part of the Journey to the West.
• Qin Xi explained that the Sages had arranged the Journey to the West to control Tribulations and that Nuwa's creation power had given Sun Wukong his life and strength.
• Sun Wukong learned that Nuwa had arranged for Bodhi to teach him, and he wept with joy that he had a mother.
• Sun Wukong asked how he could meet Nuwa, and Qin Xi told him he would see her incarnation, Old Mother Lishan, during the twenty-third trial.
• Sun Wukong regained hope beneath Five Finger Mountain and asked the local Earth God to notify him if a monk passed by.
• Qin Xi left the chat and began examining his abilities, realizing that his Law of Fantasy seemed better described as Law of Words.

Qin Xi examined the Chat Group’s explanation of the worlds and considered visiting the Human Race, while the Ancestral Witches confronted the aftermath of their uncontrolled attack. Jieyin and Zhun Ti went to investigate the Human Race, and Zhujiuyin proposed that Houtu stay out of future battles.

• Qin Xi read the Chat Group’s descriptions of Chaos, Hongmeng, the Primordial World, and the simulated timelines, then decided he might explore the Primordial World and visit the Human Race.
• Dijiang demanded to know why Jieyin and Zhun Ti had come to the Wu Clan, and Zhurong threatened them when they offered to help.
• The Ancestral Witches drove Jieyin and Zhun Ti from the hall, and the two decided to visit the Human Race instead.
• After the visitors left, the Ancestral Witches revealed that they had been weakened and lamented killing their own clansmen while using the Capital Heavens Divine Retribution Array.
• Houtu blamed the baleful aura beneath the earth veins and warned that the Wu Clan could no longer rely on Father God Pangu’s legacy to create new clansmen.
• Zhujiuyin proposed that the Wu Clan observe the Human Race as a possible source of warriors and that Houtu stop participating in battle.

Zhujiuyin persuaded the Ancestral Witches to let Houtu leave the clan, claiming his Law of Time showed she would become a Sage. After they used their essence blood and Pangu's blood to create a Great Witch named Jiufeng, Zhujiuyin sent Houtu to the East Sea to find Qin Xi and remain near him.

• Zhujiuyin argued that Houtu should leave the Wu Clan because she had a greater future and was different from her brothers.
• Zhujiuyin revealed that his vision showed Houtu would reach the Sage realm, persuading Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches to support her departure.
• Zhujiuyin proposed using Houtu's essence blood, the Ancestral Witches' blood, and Pangu's blood to create a Great Witch as a substitute in the Capital Heavens Divine Retribution Array.
• Houtu and the other Ancestral Witches gave their essence blood to the blood pool, where it merged with Pangu's blood and formed a Great Witch whom Houtu named Jiufeng.
• Before falling into slumber, Zhujiuyin told Houtu to visit the Human Race by the East Sea, find Qin Xi, and stay by his side.

Qin Xi traveled with Nuwa to the East Sea to visit the Human Race and met a curious youth trying to create fire for his people. He offered to help the youth, while the Human Race’s first encounter with him began.

• Qin Xi persuaded Yangmei to let him visit the Human Race and brought Nuwa along, leaving Yangmei to guard The Valley.
• Nuwa took Qin Xi to the East Sea, where they saw the Human Race living peacefully beneath Beech Trees and in caves.
• Qin Xi introduced himself as Xi Qin and explained what a name was after three humans asked who he was.
• One human told Qin Xi that a beautiful woman had taught them about friends and described his attempts to make fire so the clansmen would not fear the dark.
• Qin Xi offered to help the youth make fire, and Nuwa followed him with a smile.

Qin Xi helped the young man discover how to make fire and taught the young girl to weave clothes, earning them Heavenly Dao Merit. He named them Sui and Ziyi, then wondered whether the Human Race needed to face hardship to secure its place in the world.

• Qin Xi advised the young man to drill wood to make fire, then sensed with Nuwa that an injured woman was nearby.
• Qin Xi gave the young girl clothes and taught her to raise silkworms, process silk, and weave fabric on a loom.
• The young man succeeded in making fire, drawing Heavenly Dao Merit and attracting the attention of powerful figures across the Primordial World.
• Qin Xi questioned whether the Human Race should face hardship rather than remain protected, while the young girl finished weaving her first garment and received Merit.
• Qin Xi named the young man Sui and the young girl Ziyi, then asked their quiet companion what was troubling him.

Qin Xi and Nuwa met Youchao, whose thoughtful nature and ideas for building houses impressed Qin Xi. As Youchao began constructing a shelter, Laozi discovered how the Tao Te Ching could guide the Human Race and took the infant Xuandu as his disciple.

• Youchao recognized Qin Xi and Nuwa, and Qin Xi asked him to keep their visit secret.
• Qin Xi realized Youchao was one of the Three Ancestors and heard his plan to build homes from wood.
• Youchao explained that his tribespeople feared using Heaven and Earth's resources, and Qin Xi urged him to act while remaining mindful of Karmic Debt.
• Qin Xi created piles of wood and told Youchao to build houses to shelter the Human Race.
• Laozi saw promise in the Tao Te Ching as a cultivation method for the Human Race, named the infant Xuandu as his disciple, and began improving his physique with medicinal pills.