Chapter Summaries

Xuangui became Fuxi’s cultivation teacher while Lu Tian completed a merit spiritual treasure capable of absorbing a race’s fortune. Lu Tian set out to seek Nuwa’s approval before giving the seal to Fuxi, leaving its role in the Western Human Race unresolved.

• Lu Tian withdrew from the contest to become Imperial Tutor so he could finish refining his merit spiritual treasure, and Jieyin and Zhunti chose Xuangui to guide Fuxi.
• Xuangui traveled to the Fuxi Tribe and accepted Fuxi as a disciple without formally converting him to the Western Teachings, an arrangement Nuwa tolerated.
• Xuangui settled in the tribe and taught Fuxi cultivation and deduction, helping him deepen his understanding of the River Diagram and Luo Shu.
• Lu Tian completed a powerful merit seal forged with a severed vein of Buzhou Mountain, which could absorb the fortune of a race or teaching.
• Lu Tian decided that Fuxi should use the seal to strengthen the Western Human Race’s fortune, and he went to Nuwa’s Dao field to report his plan.

Lu Tian lent Fuxi a merit-forged imperial seal, and Fuxi used his wisdom and accomplishments to unify the Western Human Race. Seeing that his people’s faith was inseparable from the Western Teachings, Fuxi asked the sect to share authority with him, prompting its leaders to discuss how to accept while avoiding interference in human affairs.

• Lu Tian showed Nuwa the imperial seal and, with her permission, gave it to the Black Tortoise to deliver to Fuxi.
• Fuxi mastered the Eight Trigrams, unified the Western Human Race, and recognized how deeply the Western Teachings had shaped his people’s beliefs.
• Fuxi asked the Black Tortoise to invite the Buddha to legitimize his rule and to establish Western Teachings temples and shrines among the Human Race.
• The Black Tortoise returned to Spirit Mountain, where Jieyin convened the sect’s leaders and disciples to discuss Fuxi’s proposal.
• Jieyin proposed that the Western Teachings govern alongside Fuxi in name while refraining from the Human Race’s internal affairs and focusing on doctrine and faith.

The Western Teachings staged Fuxi’s enthronement as Human Emperor, drawing the tribes and the gathered Saints into a ceremony that tied the human race’s destiny to Buddhism. Lu Tian then revealed a prepared Human Dao Supreme Treasure, shocking the assembled powers as its inscription appeared.

• Jieyin arranged for Lu Tian, Zhunti, and Ancestor Minghe to elevate Fuxi’s status at his enthronement, while the other Western Teachings disciples prepared to display their strength.
• Leaders from more than ten thousand tribes bowed to Fuxi, and the Seven Sages gathered to witness the ceremony as the Western Saints and their disciples displayed their Buddhist forms.
• The Ritual Official called on the Western Saints to crown Fuxi and jointly govern the human race, alarming the other powers and prompting Dao De Tianzun to consider the Kongtong Seal.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu reflected on Lu Tian’s cultivation and education, then secretly asked Duobao to assess his chances against him.
• Lu Tian produced a seal from Fuxi’s True Spirit, revealing a Postnatal Merit Spiritual Treasure and Human Dao Supreme Treasure that stunned Dao De Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun.
• The seal’s power had grown with the human race’s fortune, and the eight characters “By the Mandate of Heaven, may it endure forever” appeared on its base.

Lu Tian invested Fuxi as the Human Emperor, and Fuxi’s merit-fueled cultivation reached the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm. Fuxi joined the Western Teachings as Namo Emperor Tathagata and helped establish Fanjing Mountain as their sacred land among humanity.

• Lu Tian used the Human Emperor Seal to invest Fuxi as the Western Human Emperor, and merit raised Fuxi to the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm while Black Tortoise entered the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Fuxi told Nuwa that his duties as Human Emperor would keep him from often visiting her, then thanked Black Tortoise for his guidance.
• Fuxi declared himself a disciple of the Western Teachings and sought a Buddha title, so Jieyin named him Namo Emperor Tathagata and granted him authority to oversee humanity’s destiny.
• Lu Tian established the Fanjing Mountain lineage among humanity, and the Western Teachings’ leaders and disciples enfeoffed the mountain as their sacred land.

The Earth Veins transformed Fanjing Mountain into a Blessed Land as the immortals celebrated the Human Emperor's coronation. When Taiyi Zhenren challenged Lu Tian, Lu Tian defeated him with a glance, while Yuanshi Tianzun discovered a lingering heart demon that urged Taiyi to join the Western Teachings.

• The Earth Veins poured energy into Fanjing Mountain, making it flourish as a new Blessed Land and producing genuine Earth-Gushing Golden Lotuses; Lu Tian received twelve Sea-Calming Divine Beads from the system.
• During the celebration, Lu Tian eyed Zhao Gongming's Sea-Calming Divine Beads and resolved to claim them during the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, while Taiyi Zhenren struggled with the humiliation of his past defeat.
• After the feast, Taiyi Zhenren challenged Lu Tian, and the two ascended to the First Heaven to fight before the watching immortals.
• Lu Tian's demonic gaze froze Taiyi Zhenren and knocked his Yin Yang Twin Swords, Wind Fire Wheels, and Golden Brick from his grasp; Lu Tian collected the treasures before returning them.
• Yuanshi Tianzun retrieved the unconscious Taiyi Zhenren and used the Scripture of Purity and Tranquility to suppress his heart demon, but Taiyi still heard a voice urging him to take refuge in the Western Teachings.

Fuxi warned Nuwa about the human race’s tribulations, but when an epidemic struck the east, Nuwa’s attempt to help was stopped by Dao De Tianzun. As Xuandu and the Western Teachings’ Pharmacist and Lu Tian set out to guide Shennong, Shennong discovered that ordinary medicinal herbs could treat illness and began learning their use.

• Fuxi told Nuwa that becoming Human Emperor in the west had spared him a prison-like tribulation and urged her to care for the human race.
• When an epidemic devastated the eastern tribes, Nuwa sent Lingzhuzi to treat the sick, but Dao De Tianzun brought him back and said the plague was a tribulation leading to the Earth Emperor.
• Dao De Tianzun sent Xuandu to teach the Earth Emperor alchemy, while Jieyin sent Pharmacist east to contend with Xuandu and Lu Tian to assist him.
• Xuandu found Shennong Shi, taught him the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir, and helped him cure the plague, but Shennong worried that alchemy was too difficult for ordinary people to learn.
• Shennong secretly watched an old man cure a poisoned child with herbs, then asked the old man to teach him how to use medicinal plants to treat illness.

Pharmacist taught Shennong the Dao of medicinal herbs, prompting Xuandu to challenge him over the Human Sovereign's merit. After Xuandu defeated Pharmacist, Lu Tian intervened and overwhelmed Xuandu with a single blade strike, leaving the human race free to choose between their teachings.

• Pharmacist revealed himself to Xuandu and passed his herbal knowledge to Shennong while Lu Tian kept Xuandu at bay.
• Xuandu and Pharmacist fought for forty-nine days, and Xuandu narrowly won with the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace and Six Ding Divine Fire.
• Pharmacist argued that the human race should choose between the Golden Pill Dao and the Dao of medicinal herbs, but Xuandu refused to yield.
• Lu Tian attacked Xuandu with the Moon Washing Blade and defeated him with one devastating strike.
• Lu Tian and Pharmacist returned to the human tribe and declared that each teaching could preach according to its abilities, leaving the choice to the human race.

After Shennong unified the eastern human race and became its Human Emperor, he traveled west to meet Fuxi and proposed reunifying humanity. The chapter ends with both emperors abdicating under Heaven’s warning, as Fuxi joined the Western Teachings and learned that the eastward spread of their faith had been blocked.

• Dao De Tianzun treated Xuandu’s wounds, reprimanded him for falling behind Lu Tian, and promised to arrange his training after the struggle for humanity’s fortune ended.
• Shennong advanced herbal medicine and other practical arts, unified the Eastern Human Race, and received enough merit to become a peak Quasi-Saint and the new Human Emperor.
• Shennong visited Fuxi in the west and proposed uniting the eastern and western human races under Fuxi, but Fuxi warned that Heaven’s course tied their merger to a future war.
• Empress Pingxin sent Witch Clan members through reincarnation to form the Jiuli tribe and contend for the final Human Emperor position.
• Fuxi and Shennong abdicated on the same day; Fuxi then joined the Western Teachings and learned that Tongtian’s Jie Teachings had thwarted their efforts to spread westward teachings in the east.

Shennong entered Fire Cloud Cave, while Fuxi avoided joining him after Jieyin and Zhunti persuaded the Dao Ancestor that Fuxi had no duty to guard the East’s fortune. With the eastern and western human races divided, Xuanyuan and Chiyou rose as rival contenders for the Human Emperor’s title, and their forces began probing across Two Realms Mountain.

• Shennong accepted Dao De Tianzun’s charge to guard Fire Cloud Cave and protect the human race’s fortune.
• Dao De Tianzun went to the Western Teachings to bring Fuxi to Fire Cloud Cave, but Fuxi argued that he owed no service to the East, and Jieyin and Zhunti backed him.
• At Purple Firmament Palace, the Dao Ancestor agreed that Fuxi did not have to guard the East’s fortune, so Fuxi returned to Spirit Mountain as the Namo Emperor Tathagata.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sent Guangchengzi to guide Xuanyuan, warning him that Xuanyuan’s rival was in the West.
• Xuanyuan united the eastern human tribes while Chiyou, after awakening his Witch Clan heritage, united the western tribes and recalled former subordinates from the Netherworld.
• Xuanyuan and Chiyou each sought to cross Two Realms Mountain and conquer the other’s territory, and their forces began clashing as they tested one another.

As the human conflict between Xuanyuan and Chiyou intensified, Lu Tian declined to intervene and prepared to establish the underworld as Yin Tianzi. Haotian rebuilt the Heavenly Court, and after eight hundred years Lu Tian won the Earthly Dao’s recognition and formally established the underworld.

• Jieyin asked the Western Teachings how to support Chiyou, and Ancestor Minghe proposed sending Asura members to reincarnate and aid him.
• Lu Tian said he would not join the struggle for the Human Emperor’s throne because he sensed the time to establish the underworld was near.
• Hongjun sent Haotian and Jade Pond to reestablish the Heavenly Court, and Haotian gathered resources and announced its formal reopening eight hundred years later.
• Lu Tian announced that he would establish the underworld on the same date, prompting Haotian to seek support from Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones and Zhenyuanzi to consider joining the west.
• After eight hundred years, Lu Tian used the Human Emperor Seal to merge with the underworld’s destiny, declare himself Yin Tianzi, and summon the Book of Life and Death.

Lu Tian became the Yin Tianzi and established the Underworld’s divine hierarchy with the Shepherd God List, drawing powerful allies and merit to his new realm. He then ordered Xing Tian and the other appointed officials to begin guiding the dead and maintaining the order of reincarnation.

• The Book of Life and Death appeared in the Netherworld, and the system granted Lu Tian the Divine Control Scroll.
• Pingxin, Minghe, Jieyin, Zhunti, Fuxi, and other powers congratulated Lu Tian, while the Witch Clan, Asura Race, and Western Teachings sent forces to serve in the Underworld.
• Lu Tian used the Shepherd God List to enfeoff the Witch Clan warriors, Asuras, and novice monks as Underworld gods, then appointed major officials, including Black Tortoise, Pharmacist, Xing Tian, and Maitreya.
• Merit descended after the appointments, and Pharmacist broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm as the Underworld’s structure was established.
• Lu Tian ordered Xing Tian to guard the Ghost Gate Pass and assigned Papiyas, Jiu Feng, Mahabrahma, and Maitreya to help govern the Underworld.
• Lu Tian summoned the Ten Yama Kings and judges to hear his command.

Lu Tian organized the underworld’s rule over the dead, while Dizang vowed to save condemned souls and Zhenyuanzi stayed to study the Earthly Dao. Haotian established the Heavenly Court and sent Nine Heavens Profound Maiden to assist Xuanyuan as war with Chiyou approached.

• Lu Tian distributed the Book of Life and Death, ordered underworld forces to collect souls, and declared that the dead would be judged and reincarnated under the underworld’s authority.
• The underworld stabilized its operations, and Zhenyuanzi agreed to reside there temporarily after gaining insight into the Earthly Dao.
• Dizang vowed to save the dead until hell was empty, and Lu Tian assigned him to guide deeply sinful ghosts out of torment.
• Haotian and Jade Pond established the Heavenly Court, but after most immortals refused to join, they chose to recruit human talent and sent Nine Heavens Profound Maiden to aid Xuanyuan.
• Chiyou’s soldiers crossed Two Realms Mountain, bringing Xuanyuan’s forces to the brink of war with the Western Human Race.
• Nine Heavens Profound Maiden offered Xuanyuan and Guangchengzi Heavenly Court support, and Yuanshi Tianzun ordered Guangchengzi to cooperate with her.

Chiyou’s Western army initially overwhelmed Xuanyuan’s forces, but Feng Hou’s new divination art helped the Eastern tribes hold their ground. Xuanyuan enlisted the Dragon Clan, whose intervention defeated Chiyou, and Lu Tian then arrived to offer Chiyou a way to deal with them.

• Chiyou rejected his brothers’ proposal to summon the Witch Clan and led the Western army toward Two Realms Mountain, where he opened the war with an assault.
• Chiyou’s tortoiseshell chart guided repeated victories until the Nine Heavens Profound Maiden gave Feng Hou a wordless jade tome, which he used to create Feng Hou Qi Men and stalemate the Western army.
• Xuanyuan sought aid from the Dragon Clan and promised to make dragons the Eastern Human Race’s totem; Ying Long agreed to send the Dragon Clan’s elite once the tribes began worshipping them.
• After Eastern tribes adopted dragon totems, a thousand dragons defeated Chiyou’s forces, driving the Western army from its occupied territory.
• Lu Tian returned to the west, brought Zhending to meet Chiyou, and offered to resolve the Dragon Clan problem without demanding payment.

Lu Tian sent Zhending to capture a true dragon and studied the fierce baleful aura afflicting Chiyou, then intervened when the Dragon Clan entered the renewed war. The chapter ended with Lu Tian and six Quasi-Saints confronting Ying Long as a Saint’s power sealed the battlefield.

• Lu Tian told Zhending to capture a dragon and explained his plan to bring the Dragon Clan into Western Teachings, while promising to rescue him if needed.
• Lu Tian examined Chiyou’s fierce baleful aura, extracted a thread to study, and left Chiyou to suppress it in the meantime.
• After the truce ended, Chiyou led his army into battle as the Dragon Clan aided the East, and Zhending captured two true dragons before the West Sea Dragon King attacked him.
• Maitreya rescued Zhending and confronted the Dragon Kings, but Ying Long arrived, sealed the area, and freed the West Sea Dragon King.
• Lu Tian arrived with six Quasi-Saints and offered Ying Long the choice of joining the West or guarding the sea eye; Ying Long refused and fought them.
• A Saint’s power sealed the battlefield, and Styx told Lu Tian to proceed while sparing some dragons for his own purposes.

Lu Tian and the underworld’s six Quasi-Saints defeated Ying Long’s advance and captured a large part of the Dragon Clan, prompting Ying Long to withdraw from the Human Race conflict and send his captured descendants to the West. Lu Tian assigned the dragons to the underworld and Western Teachings, then returned to Spirit Mountain, where the West Sea Dragon King faced the assembled powers.

• Lu Tian urged the six Quasi-Saints to fight without worrying about damaging the Western Earth Veins, and they drove Ying Long down to the Thirty-Second Heaven.
• Dao De Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun agreed to visit Golden Ao Island together, while Lu Tian captured more than a thousand dragons, including the Four Sea Dragon Kings, in his Buddha Kingdom in Palm.
• Ying Long declared the Dragon Clan’s withdrawal from the Human Race battlefield and urged the captured dragons to take refuge in the West; Lu Tian agreed to treat them well.
• Lu Tian declined Xing Tian’s offer to capture the Nine Heavens Profound Maiden, gave her a jade hairpin, and returned to the underworld with his allies.
• Lu Tian assigned half the captured dragons to guard the underworld’s seas and hells, then distributed the rest between Ancestor Minghe and the Western Teachings at Spirit Mountain.
• Lu Tian appointed his disciple to lead the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons, leaving the West Sea Dragon King trembling before the gathered powers.

The Three Pure Ones agreed to join forces against the Western Teachings, while Lu Tian created a shared dream realm that became the West’s sacred land. He then went to Chiyou’s camp at Two Realms Mountain to help advance the struggle for the Human Emperor.

• Zhunti made the West Sea Dragon King coil around a pillar as its ornament, and the Dragon King accepted Buddhist beads from him.
• Dao De Tianzun persuaded Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu to cooperate against the Western Teachings, beginning with the contest for the Human Emperor.
• Lu Tian created a controllable fragment of the Dream World where the Western Teachings could cultivate, spar, and discuss the Dao together.
• Jieyin and the others praised Lu Tian’s creation, and the Western Teachings named the realm the Lu Realm and honored it as their sacred land.
• Lu Tian traveled to Chiyou’s camp at Two Realms Mountain and transmitted a secret art into Chiyou’s sea of consciousness.

Lu Tian helped Chiyou purge the baleful aura from himself and his eighty-one brothers, then arranged for Sunlight to recruit Nu Ba into Western Teachings. As Nu Ba and the beast Hou emerged on the battlefield, Lu Tian and his allies moved to capture them, but Sunlight was shocked by Nu Ba’s immense resentment.

• Lu Tian taught Chiyou a Western Teachings technique, warned him to sever his ties with the Witch Clan, and urged him to win the Human Emperor’s throne through the people’s support.
• Chiyou and his eighty-one brothers cleansed their baleful aura and won a crucial battle, but Nu Ba stopped their advance and scorched the land around her.
• Lu Tian showed Nu Ba to Sunlight, and Jieyin and Zhunti proposed that she cultivate both a Bodhisattva Golden Body and a Zombie Ancestor Dharma Body.
• Jieyin told the disciples to subdue the Hou, and Lu Tian assembled Papiyas of the Heavenly Realm of Freedom, Mahabrahma, Kama-dhatu, and Shiva to capture the beast.
• When Hou arrived at the battlefield, Lu Tian and Sunlight went to confront it and Nu Ba; the Asura experts surrounded Hou while Sunlight blocked Nu Ba and sensed her overwhelming resentment.

Nu Ba joined Western Teachings after Sunlight Bodhisattva offered a way to restore her clarity, while Lu Tian’s forces subdued Hou and returned him to the underworld. As the eastern and western sides prepared for a decisive battle, Xuanyuan learned that the Chan and Jie Sects had joined forces, and Lu Tian began planning how to counter them.

• Sunlight Bodhisattva freed Nu Ba from her muddled state and offered her a choice between returning east as a mindless zombie or joining Western Teachings to cultivate the Great Sun True Scripture.
• Lu Tian drove Guangchengzi back, and Xuanyuan allowed Nu Ba to choose her own path; Nu Ba accepted Sunlight as her master, and Lu Tian gave her a Buddhist bead to stabilize her mind.
• The four Asura Quasi-Saints subdued Hou, and Lu Tian ordered Papiyas of the Heavenly Realm of Freedom to take him to the underworld until Lu Tian could subdue him himself.
• Xuanyuan returned to the eastern camp and found Randeng, Duobao, Zhao Gongming, and other Chan and Jie Sect figures gathered for the coming battle.
• Guangchengzi ordered the eastern army to prepare for the decisive battle, while Chiyou mobilized his forces and Lu Tian planned for the underworld to handle Randeng.

Lu Tian coordinated the final battle at Zhuolu, restrained the Witch Clan’s Xing Tian and Jiu Feng, and ensured Chiyou defeated Xuanyuan. Chiyou gained territory and the advantage in the struggle for Human Emperor, while Lu Tian deferred his coronation until the eastern and western fortunes had merged.

• Chang Er Ding Guang Xian delivered Tongtian’s decree that the Jie Teachings would support the Chan Teachings in battle and then sever ties with them.
• Chiyou’s forces pushed back Xuanyuan’s army as the main battle erupted beyond the Nine Heavens, where the teachings and their allies fought.
• Lu Tian prevented Jiu Feng from assisting Xing Tian while Xing Tian battled Haotian, then used the Human Emperor Seal to restrain Xing Tian and compel both Witch Clan warriors to obey him.
• Haotian acknowledged that Chiyou had the advantage, and he refrained from intervening as Lu Tian’s presence and the Witch Clan warriors deterred him.
• Chiyou led his eighty-one brothers to victory at Zhuolu and agreed with Xuanyuan that Zhuolu would belong to the Western Human Race while the East remained under Xuanyuan’s rule.
• Lu Tian congratulated Chiyou and promised to confer the title of Human Emperor when the two peoples’ fortunes had merged; Xing Tian then angered Chiyou by claiming him as part of the Witch Clan.

Lu Tian helped Chiyou secure the Western Human Race’s allegiance and, thousands of years later, proclaimed him Human Emperor of the West. The West celebrated its rise while Lu Tian looked toward the next struggle over the Five Emperors and the coming calamity.

• Lu Tian ended the conflict and led the Western Teachings and Netherworld forces away, while the Chan and Jie Sect experts withdrew in defeat.
• Lu Tian explained that he had restrained Xing Tian and Jiu Feng to avert Xing Tian’s destined calamity, and Empress Pingxin thanked him.
• Under Chiyou’s rule, the Western Human Race prospered, cities grew, and eastern and western peoples and trade integrated over several thousand years.
• Chiyou asked Lu Tian to judge whether he deserved the Human Emperor title, and Lu Tian used the Human Emperor Seal to proclaim him Human Emperor of the Western Human Race.
• The Saints, Empress Pingxin, and other powerful figures congratulated Chiyou and celebrated; Dao De Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun accepted the East’s defeat and discussed granting Xuanyuan a place among the Five Emperors.
• After the feast, Jieyin warned Lu Tian and the others to stay vigilant because the East would resist the West’s rise.