Chapter Summaries

Qin Xi explained to Houtu that the Wu Clan could survive only by withdrawing from the struggle for supremacy, while the Human Race was destined to bring stability to the Primordial World. Youchao’s invention of houses earned him Heavenly Dao Merit, reinforcing Qin Xi’s point.

• Qin Xi and Nuwa discussed Houtu’s arrival and the damage the Capital Heavens Divine Retribution Array had done to the Wu Clan.
• Houtu revealed that Zhujiuyin had sent her to find Qin Xi and arranged for Jiufeng to take her place in the array.
• Qin Xi told Houtu that the Wu Clan and Yao Clan must both withdraw from their future decisive battle and that the Wu Clan should manage the baleful energy in the Spiritual Veins.
• Qin Xi told Houtu that the Human Race was better suited to the Primordial World because it would bring stability, not because it was stronger.
• Youchao taught the Human Race to build houses, and Heavenly Dao Merit gathered and poured into him.

Qin Xi named Youchao and made him leader of the Human Race, charging him and Sui with guiding their people into the outside world. After Nuwa opened the Human Race to the Primordial World’s races and concealed them with Sage power, Qin Xi prepared to take Nuwa to the Sea of Blood and confronted Houtu over whether she would follow him as a Wu Clan member or on her own.

• Qin Xi named Youchao and asked whether he would lead the Human Race out of their sheltered home; Youchao chose to leave and said the Human Race would defend itself against slaughter while befriending peaceful races.
• Qin Xi appointed Youchao leader, assigned Sui and Ziyi to help him deal with outsiders, and promised to protect the Human Race for a thousand years while they observed other races.
• Qin Xi told Houtu that he was Di Qun and Tai Yi’s Father God, then challenged her to decide whether she was Houtu of the Wu Clan or represented only herself.
• Nuwa announced that the Human Race was open to the Primordial World’s races, barred Taiyi Golden Immortals from entering without important business, and named Youchao, Sui, and Ziyi as its leaders.
• Nuwa’s Sage power concealed the Human Race along the East Sea, and Qin Xi said he would take her to the Sea of Blood to warn Styx.

Qin Xi helped Styx establish the Asura Clan, earning him merit and raising him to Quasi-Sage Peak. Houtu then reported that Zhun Ti and Jieyin were tampering with humans, and Qin Xi saw an opportunity for Styx to attain enlightenment.

• Qin Xi advised Styx to use his Blood Drops as bodies and Breath Soil to shape the Asura Clan, and Styx successfully created the race.
• Styx declared the Asura Clan's establishment, received Heavenly Dao merit, and advanced to Quasi-Sage Peak.
• Houtu arrived at the Sea of Blood injured and told Qin Xi that Zhujiuyin had expelled her from the Wu Clan.
• Houtu reported seeing Zhun Ti and Jieyin among humans who seemed to have lost their spiritual awareness, and said the pair had offered to aid the Wu Clan against the Monster Clan.
• Qin Xi suspected Zhun Ti and Jieyin were trying to forge a Monster-Slaughtering Sword from humans and told Styx that the opportunity for enlightenment had arrived.

Qin Xi, Nuwa, and Styx confronted Jieyin and Zhun Ti for violating Nuwa’s ban on powerful cultivators entering the human settlements and for secretly taking human souls. Styx pursued the fleeing pair with Abi, while Laozi watched from the human tribe.

• Houtu told Qin Xi she had abandoned her identity as a Wu Clan member and asked him to help her clan avert disaster; Qin Xi agreed to act after the Wu-Yao war ten thousand years later.
• Nuwa led Qin Xi, Styx, and Houtu to confront Jieyin and Zhun Ti, who claimed they had come to recruit human disciples for the West.
• Qin Xi discovered that many human souls in the settlement had been replaced with beast souls and ordered Styx to attack the two Sages.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti fled west after using their treasures and golden bodies to escape, but Styx sent Abi after them.
• Jieyin shielded Zhun Ti from Abi, and his Eighteen-Foot Golden Body shattered on impact.
• Laozi observed the pursuit from the human settlement and privately remarked that Jieyin and Zhun Ti had brought trouble upon themselves.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti vowed to establish Buddhism and become Sages through Heavenly Dao’s Merit, while Qin Xi and Styx prepared to attack them. As their primordial spirits entered Heavenly Dao, Styx charged Zhun Ti and Qin Xi bound both brothers with a River of Laws.

• Jieyin told Zhun Ti that their only path to Sagehood was to make great vows and bind themselves to Buddhism, despite the risk of being unable to advance further.
• At Mount Sumeru, Qin Xi explained that Jieyin and Zhun Ti would entrust their primordial spirits to Heavenly Dao, and ordered Styx to wound Zhun Ti as he emerged.
• Styx prepared to attack while Nuwa watched with murderous intent and Houtu recalled the suffering of the Wu-Yao War.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti announced their Forty-Eight Great Vows to establish Buddhism, and Heavenly Dao sent Merit and Grandmist Violet Qi to them as their primordial spirits entered its River.
• Qin Xi told Styx to strike, and Styx charged Zhun Ti with Yuantu and Abi as Qin Xi bound Jieyin and Zhun Ti with a River of Laws.

Styx severely wounded Zhun Ti as he and Jieyin completed their Sage ascension, but Qin Xi froze them and confronted Heavenly Dao and Hongjun. After Heavenly Dao yielded their lives, Qin Xi gave their Primordial Spirits to Styx, who destroyed them, leaving the Primordial World mourning the Sages' deaths.

• Styx pierced Zhun Ti with Abi and Yuantu, damaging his origin, while Zhun Ti continued his Great Vows and fused his Primordial Spirit into Heavenly Dao with Jieyin.
• Qin Xi sent Nuwa and Houtu away and told Nuwa to prepare for her older brother's reincarnation as Jieyin and Zhun Ti attained sainthood despite their injuries.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti attacked Styx, but Qin Xi froze them and summoned Heavenly Dao; Hongjun asked Qin Xi to spare them and sought a way to make the Primordial World produce Grandmist Violet Qi.
• Heavenly Dao yielded Jieyin and Zhun Ti's lives, and Qin Xi retrieved their Primordial Spirits from the River of Heavenly Dao and handed them to Styx.
• Styx shattered both Primordial Spirits with Abi and Yuantu, and bloody rain fell as living beings across the Primordial World mourned the Sages' deaths.

The deaths of Jieyin and Zhun Ti shocked the Primordial World and showed that Sages could be killed, while many powerful figures reacted to Qin Xi’s strength. Qin Xi left Styx to face his final trial as the Eye of Heavenly Dao gathered lightning for his heavenly punishment.

• Quasi-Sages across the Primordial World learned that Jieyin and Zhun Ti had died, and the news shattered their belief that Sages were immortal.
• Yuanshi realized Qin Xi had killed the two Sages, while Tongtian questioned Duobao about how he would respond if his Master were killed.
• Laozi left his Human Race disciples with Xuandu, met Suiren and Youchao, and established Mount Shouyang to expound the Great Dao.
• Di Qun and Tai Yi left the Heavenly Court to return to Qin Xi, entrusting its affairs to Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu.
• Qin Xi asked Styx whether he had fulfilled his wish, then told him to overcome his final trial alone.
• The Eye of Heavenly Dao appeared as lightning gathered around Styx and began to shatter the Void.

Styx endured the Heavenly Tribulation with Qin Xi’s help and became a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal. He declared his support for the Human Race, then left with Qin Xi.

• Qin Xi restored Styx’s injuries as Zixiao Divine Thunder repeatedly struck and erased his body.
• Styx endured the final Heavenly Dao Divine Thunder, vanished from sight, and then reappeared as a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun declared that Styx had entered the Dao through Killing and that no one else in the Primordial World could do so.
• Styx credited Qin Xi for helping him enter the Dao and warned that he would oppose anyone who attacked the Human Race within a thousand years.
• Styx knelt to thank Qin Xi, then took him away to become familiar with his new Hunyuan power.

Qin Xi explained how the Primordial World could nurture Grandmist Violet Qi and demanded Primordial World Authority in exchange for helping raise the world. Hongjun consulted Heavenly Dao about the price, leaving the agreement unresolved.

• Tai Yi and Di Qun greeted Qin Xi when he returned to The Valley with Hongjun and the others.
• Qin Xi explained that corruption had tainted Pangu Heart, preventing it from producing Grandmist Violet Qi, and Hongjun described how Heavenly Dao Origin and Merit were involved in creating and using the qi.
• Qin Xi proposed that the Monster Clan use the Celestial Star Formation to absorb Chaos spiritual qi while the Wu Clan cleansed baleful qi and connected it to the earth veins.
• Qin Xi showed Hongjun a wisp of violet qi, which Hongjun examined and absorbed before asking what Qin Xi required in return.
• Qin Xi demanded Primordial World Authority and warned Hongjun not to substitute the Investiture of the Gods; Hongjun asked to consult Heavenly Dao while Styx questioned Qin Xi about the authority.

Qin Xi negotiated with Hongjun over the Primordial World's authorities and set out how the Heavenly Court, Wu Clan, Human Race, and Sages would coexist. After the others left, he told Houtu that reincarnation could address the suffering of wandering souls, leaving her to comprehend the solution herself.

• Hongjun reported the Heavenly Dao's proposal to give Qin Xi authority over the Earthly Dao, divide Humanity Dao, and place Nuwa under him, while the Heavenly Court remained under Di Qun and Tai Yi and admitted the Three Pure Ones.
• Houtu agreed to join Qin Xi's sect on the condition that he would not make things difficult for her elder brothers, and Qin Xi accepted the proposal to revise the heavenly rules and earthly laws after the Wu-Yao war.
• Qin Xi told the group that the Wu and Yao Clans must eventually return to their own domains, while the Heavenly Court guarded the stars, the Wu Clan guarded the earth veins, the Human Race became the common ruler, and the Sages opened worlds.
• Qin Xi announced that the Wu-Yao War would take place in ten thousand years and that he would suppress both clans if they reached a stalemate.
• Qin Xi asked Houtu about the wronged souls she sensed between heaven and earth, then told her that the solution was to comprehend reincarnation herself.

Qin Xi sent Houtu and Styx to the Primordial World to establish Reincarnation, then turned his attention to Laozi’s path to Sainthood. After delivering his final lecture to the Human Race, Laozi established the Human Sect and became Sage Taiqing.

• Qin Xi explained Reincarnation to Houtu and sent her with Styx to the Primordial World to help establish it beside the Sea of Blood.
• Laozi took Xuandu outside, where Youchao and Suiren gathered the Human Race for his final lecture.
• Laozi praised Youchao and Suiren, then taught the Human Race the way of the Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Laozi proclaimed the establishment of the Human Sect and its Golden Elixir Great Dao, drawing Heavenly Dao Merit upon himself, Xuandu, and the Human Race.
• Laozi became Sage Taiqing, and the Primordial World’s inhabitants greeted him.

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian established their sects and became Sages, while Qin Xi exchanged the Taiji Diagram for Laozi’s Kongtong Seal. Yuanshi and Tongtian visited The Valley with their disciples, where Duobao met Qin Xi as his Martial Grandmaster.

• Laozi left the enlightened Human Race with the newborn Xuandu and brought him to The Valley, where Qin Xi recognized him as Laozi’s disciple.
• Yuanshi established the Chan Sect with the Jade Ruyi as its sect-suppressing treasure, and Qin Xi exchanged the Taiji Diagram for Laozi’s Kongtong Seal.
• Laozi agreed to the exchange after Qin Xi explained that the Kongtong Seal was tied to the Human Race’s fortune.
• Tongtian established the Jie Sect with the Green Duckweed Sword as its sect-establishing treasure, and the three Pure Ones became Sages in one day.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian arrived at The Valley and thanked Qin Xi for his teachings.
• Tongtian introduced Duobao to Qin Xi as his disciple and told him to address Qin Xi as Martial Grandmaster.

Qin Xi explained that Styx was overseeing the coming emergence of reincarnation, while Hongjun summoned the Sages to announce the Primordial World's transformation. As Heavenly Dao entered enlightenment and Qin Xi began spreading the Three Thousand Laws, the Primordial World entered the era of the Great Dao.

• Qin Xi rewarded Duobao and Xuandu with chances to choose magic treasures after Duobao entertained everyone with his antics.
• Qin Xi told Laozi and Tongtian that Styx was overseeing the coming emergence of reincarnation, and Hongjun summoned Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Nuwa to Purple Heaven Palace.
• Hongjun explained Qin Xi's transaction with Heavenly Dao and announced that Heavenly Dao would become independent, Houtu would govern the Earthly Dao, and the Sages would take posts in the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun declared throughout the Primordial World that Heavenly Dao would comprehend the Law Origin and Qin Xi would temporarily oversee all affairs.
• Qin Xi mobilized the laws in The Valley and began shifting the Primordial World's center as the Three Thousand Laws spread through the world.

Qin Xi told the chat group he would be occupied while he considered how to reshape the Primordial World. At the Sea of Blood, Houtu completed her realization and transformed herself into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, becoming Pingxin as the Underworld and its eighteen levels of Hell took form.

• Qin Xi told the chat group he would be away for a while and reassured Wukong, Judicial God, and My Master is Tongtian that he planned to visit them and could change their circumstances.
• Qin Xi began considering how to reorganize the Primordial World, while a thousand years passed as Houtu meditated at the Sea of Blood.
• Houtu recited a scripture for the dead and declared that she would transform her body into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, leaving only Pingxin of the Earthly Dao.
• All beings across the Primordial World praised Lady Pingxin, and their power of thought gathered around Houtu.
• The Underworld and its eighteen levels of Hell opened beneath the Nine Netherworlds as Houtu's colossal body shattered to complete them.

Pingxin established the Six Paths of Reincarnation, while Zhujiuyin explained why Houtu had left the Wu Clan and how Qin Xi had changed their fate. Qin Xi then ordered the Sages and Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals to create life-bearing worlds in Chaos, setting the stage for a new phase of development.

• Pingxin established the Six Paths of Reincarnation and appointed Meng Po to guard them and offer Worry-Free Soup to souls.
• Pingxin told Styx that the Wu Clan would survive by joining with the Human Race, and that Styx’s Asura Clan was tied to the Sea of Blood and an obligation to Qin Xi.
• Zhujiuyin revealed to the Ancestral Witches that he had foreseen the Wu Clan’s destruction and sent Houtu to seek Qin Xi, whom he believed was their only way forward.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches concluded that neither the Wu Clan nor the Monster Clan would rule Heaven and Earth, and that the Human Race would rise instead.
• Qin Xi asked the gathered Sages and Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals to open life-bearing Greater Worlds in Chaos as part of the next stage of development.

Qin Xi led the Sages into Chaos to open Greater Worlds, but his newly restored Great Dao power nearly destroyed the Primordial World when his aura reached it. He repaired the world and its injured inhabitants, while Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao were left badly hurt.

• Qin Xi told the assembled Sages that opening Greater Worlds posed no risk to him and that they would need no supreme treasures.
• Styx and the other Sages agreed to follow Qin Xi, and the group set off for Chaos as living beings across the Primordial World watched their procession.
• Qin Xi's arrival in Chaos stirred the laws, and his projection appeared in the Primordial World, causing its inhabitants to kneel and leaving Laozi, Tongtian, Nuwa, and the others awestruck.
• Qin Xi's uncontrolled aura began destroying the Primordial Continent, and Hongjun appeared to shield the Primordial World but was severely injured as the Heavenly Dao also suffered damage.
• Qin Xi withdrew his pressure, used the Law of Creation to restore the Primordial World and heal its inhabitants, then apologized to Hongjun for failing to control his strength.

Qin Xi summoned the surviving Three Thousand Guests of Purple Heaven Palace to witness a world being opened and required every future Hunyuan Daluo to open a world to repay their karma to the Primordial World. Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian began opening a Greater World, but Chaos pressed in to reclaim it, leaving them supporting its boundaries while Qin Xi had yet to intervene.

• Hongjun summoned the surviving Three Thousand Guests of Purple Heaven Palace to Chaos at Qin Xi's request.
• Qin Xi told the gathered cultivators that future Hunyuan Daluo must open a world before they could leave their obligations to the Primordial World behind.
• Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to open a world, but Qin Xi judged it too small and urged him to continue deeper into Chaos.
• Yuanshi established the Four Symbols and Five Elements as Tongtian prepared to open the Greater World with the Green Duckweed Sword.
• Chaos began closing over the new world, so Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian expanded their Heaven-and-Earth Forms to hold it apart while Qin Xi remained still.

Qin Xi froze Chaos, explained his plan to use Jianmu to support a newly opened world, and claimed the World Tree connected three thousand Chaos Worlds. He evolved Jianmu into a Chaos Spiritual Root and used it to support the new world, astonishing Hongjun.

• Qin Xi froze Chaos, allowing Laozi and the other two to emerge and heal their injuries.
• Qin Xi told Hongjun and the others that Jianmu was a seed of a Chaos object and that the World Tree supported three thousand Chaos Worlds.
• Hongjun consulted Heavenly Dao, which judged Qin Xi's claim highly likely, and ordered everyone to keep the matter secret.
• Qin Xi seized Jianmu from the Primordial World and moved it to The Valley, where he commanded it to grow into Chaos and support the newly opened world.
• Hongjun recognized that Jianmu had become a Chaos Spiritual Root, and Qin Xi explained that it could reach only the realm he evolved it to possess.

Qin Xi used Jianmu to connect the New World to the Primordial World and guided Nuwa, Yuanshi, and Tongtian as they opened more worlds. After five worlds drained a fifth of the Primordial World's spiritual energy, Qin Xi realized Fuxi must reincarnate before they could settle the Wu and Yao Clans' conflict and open more worlds.

• Qin Xi explained that Jianmu could support the Three Thousand Worlds and instructed everyone to leave incarnations in the worlds they created.
• Qin Xi directed spiritual energy through Jianmu to form the New World and told Houtu to send punished souls there to replenish its living beings.
• Styx entered Chaos to create life, and Nuwa, Yuanshi, and Tongtian entered Chaos to open worlds with Jianmu's support.
• Hongjun asked whether the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao could govern the new worlds, but Qin Xi warned him not to interfere with their independence or greedily absorb them.
• Qin Xi sent spiritual energy into the newly opened worlds, but the Primordial World's reserves fell by twenty percent, so he concluded that Fuxi must reincarnate before they opened more worlds.

After returning to the Primordial World, Qin Xi hinted that the New World offered the Three Pure Ones a path to greater power. Laozi understood and decided to move there with Yuanshi and Tongtian, proposing that they replace its Heavenly Dao themselves.

• Qin Xi and the others returned to the Thirty-Three Heavens, where Qin Xi’s Great Dao law power began to fade.
• Qin Xi urged Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian to pay attention to the New World, and Laozi realized it might offer them a path forward.
• Laozi returned to Kunlun Mountain and began packing, telling Xuandu that they would move to the New World.
• Laozi told Yuanshi and Tongtian that they might surpass their Master by replacing the New World’s Heavenly Dao with themselves.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian questioned the plan’s risks and fell silent to consider it.