Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: Fuxi’s Reincarnation, Nuwa’s Favor

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang is summoned to Taiqing Heaven by Laozi to discuss the Human Clan’s future.
• The saints—Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Nuwa—recognize that the Human Clan has grown powerful enough to expand beyond the Eastern Sea Coast.
• With the Primordial World engulfed in conflict after the Demon Race’s destruction and the Wu Tribe’s withdrawal, Chen Yang proposes that the Human Clan build armies, enter the wider world, compete with other races, and seize resources and Fortune.
• The saints agree that expansion and warfare are now the proper path for the Human Clan.
• Chen Yang reveals a serious problem: the Human Clan has accumulated too much Fortune for the Kongtong Seal to suppress. As a result, Fortune has begun leaking away, threatening the clan’s future prosperity.
• Nuwa proposes a solution. She possesses a piece of Great God Pangu’s bone, along with the materials needed to use her Creation Dao to create a special Human Clan member. This individual would function as a living Fortune vessel, helping stabilize and suppress the Human Clan’s excess Fortune.
• Nuwa reveals that she wants her elder brother, Fuxi—formerly the Demon Race’s Sovereign Xi—to reincarnate as the True Spirit within this new body and become the next Human Clan Lord.
• Chen Yang firmly rejects the proposal, arguing that Fuxi’s history of slaughtering humans makes him unfit to lead the Human Clan.
• Nuwa counters by offering to return the twenty percent of Human Clan Fortune she currently controls if Chen Yang agrees.
• When Chen Yang still refuses, Nuwa appeals to the Three Pure Ones, offering to erase the favors they owe her for helping establish their sects through Human Clan Fortune. This leaves the saints and Chen Yang in a difficult silence.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates political maturity and strong loyalty to the Human Clan. Although respectful toward the saints, he refuses to sacrifice the clan’s dignity or historical memory for greater Fortune.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian shift from viewing the Human Clan as something to be guided within a limited territory to treating it as a major power capable of competing across the Primordial World.
• Nuwa reveals both her resourcefulness and her deep attachment to Fuxi. She is willing to use valuable treasures, political leverage, and old karmic debts to secure a future for her brother.
• Fuxi, though absent from the scene, becomes central to the conflict. His possible reincarnation as a human leader raises unresolved issues of guilt, identity, and reconciliation.
• Duobao acts as Chen Yang’s adviser, warning him to remain courteous while defending Human Clan interests.

Significant Themes

• Expansion through conflict: The Human Clan must now evolve from a protected, developing civilization into an active participant in the struggle among the Primordial World’s races.
• The danger of excessive Fortune: Power and prosperity create their own problems. The Human Clan’s accumulated Fortune has exceeded the Kongtong Seal’s capacity, making continued growth potentially dangerous.
• Political compromise versus moral principle: Chen Yang must choose between gaining a large amount of Fortune and preserving the Human Clan’s dignity.
• Guilt and redemption: Nuwa’s plan suggests that Fuxi might atone for his past as a member of the Demon Race by being reborn as a human, but the chapter questions whether reincarnation alone can erase past crimes.
• Karmic obligations and power politics: The favors owed by the Three Pure Ones to Nuwa demonstrate how sects, Fortune, and personal debts are intertwined in the saints’ political relationships.
• The Human Clan’s autonomy: Chen Yang’s refusal emphasizes that the Human Clan should not merely be a resource or vessel for the saints’ plans.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Duobao: Duobao praises Chen Yang’s cultivation and advises him to handle the saints diplomatically.
• Chen Yang and the Three Pure Ones: Chen Yang presents the case for Human Clan expansion and openly discusses the problem of leaking Fortune, establishing himself as a serious political voice.
• Nuwa and the other saints: Nuwa explains her plan to refine a living Fortune treasure from Pangu’s bone, gaining both skepticism and reluctant recognition from the Three Pure Ones.
• Nuwa and Chen Yang: Their confrontation forms the chapter’s central conflict. Nuwa appeals first to the Human Clan’s material interests, then to the saints’ karmic debts, but Chen Yang refuses to approve Fuxi’s reincarnation as Human Clan Lord.
• Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones: By offering to cancel their old debts, Nuwa places Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian under intense pressure and sets up the chapter’s unresolved political dilemma.

Chapter Summary: “Pingxin’s Incarnation, Chen Yang’s Terms”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After centuries of silence, Nuwa approaches the Three Pure Ones with a proposal: Fuxi should reincarnate into the Human Clan and eventually become its ruler.
• In exchange, Nuwa offers twenty percent of the Human Clan’s fortune and the fulfillment of a favor owed by the Three Teachings.
• The Three Pure Ones refuse to decide on their own, emphasizing that the Human Clan has grown powerful and cannot be treated as a puppet. They leave the final decision to Chen Yang, the Human Clan’s central figure.
• Chen Yang firmly rejects Nuwa’s proposal. He argues that:
  • The Human Clan should not be used merely to compensate Fuxi.
  • Fuxi’s past slaughter of humans has left him burdened by karmic resentment.
  • Fuxi’s blood feud with the Wu Tribe would create severe internal divisions.
  • Making Fuxi ruler would damage the Human Clan’s unity and future development.
• Chen Yang then proposes a separate transaction. He demands:
  1. The twenty percent of Human Clan fortune held by Nuwa
  2. The Pangu bones in her possession
  3. Nuwa’s Qiankun Cauldron
  4. Cancellation of the favor owed by the Three Teachings
• When Nuwa challenges his authority to bargain, Chen Yang reveals that Fuxi’s survival depends on him.
• Chen Yang explains that he severed his Dao Fruit and transformed it into the Reincarnation Divine Wheel, allowing him to communicate directly with Pingxin within the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• He summons an incarnation of Pingxin through a Reincarnation Formation Array.
• Pingxin confirms that using Pangu’s bones to reconstruct Fuxi’s body would cause the Wu Tribe to return to the Primordial World. Unless Fuxi were killed, the Wu Tribe would not withdraw.
• Pingxin also declares that the Wu Tribe still has the strength to challenge the entire Primordial World and reclaim dominance.
• Nuwa realizes that she cannot use Pangu’s bones freely and abandons the idea of making Fuxi a Human Clan ruler. Her priority becomes saving Fuxi’s life.
• Pingxin offers to dispel Zhurong’s fiery will from Fuxi and restore Fuxi’s true spirit through reincarnation, allowing him to reincarnate into any race.
• Pingxin leaves the negotiations to Chen Yang, who repeats his demands. Nuwa considers the price excessive and refuses to accept it immediately.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang: Demonstrates growing authority, political intelligence, and confidence. He openly opposes a Sage and uses his control over Fuxi’s fate as leverage. His bond with Pingxin also becomes clearer, revealing that he sacrificed his Dao Fruit to prevent her loneliness.
• Nuwa: Shows deep loyalty toward Fuxi, but her attempt to secure him a position in the Human Clan fails. She is forced to recognize both the Human Clan’s independence and Chen Yang’s influence.
• Fuxi: Though absent, he remains the center of the conflict. His past crimes and connection to the Wu Tribe make him unsuitable as Human Clan ruler, while his endangered life gives Chen Yang bargaining power.
• Pingxin/Houtu: Establishes herself as both the ruler of reincarnation and Chen Yang’s Dao companion. She displays immense authority and openly represents the Wu Tribe’s interests.
• The Three Pure Ones: Reveal their dependence on the Human Clan’s cooperation. Despite being Sages, they cannot force the Human Clan to accept Fuxi without risking the failure of their teachings.
• Duobao: Becomes increasingly anxious over Chen Yang’s boldness, especially his willingness to confront and threaten Nuwa directly.

Significant Themes

• The Human Clan’s independence: The Human Clan has evolved from a controlled faction into a powerful force capable of determining its own destiny.
• Political bargaining and power: Chen Yang turns Fuxi’s life, Human Clan fortune, and reincarnation itself into bargaining tools.
• Loyalty and familial bonds: Nuwa’s determination to save Fuxi reflects her gratitude for and devotion to her brother.
• Consequences of past violence: Fuxi’s slaughter of humans and the Wu Tribe continues to shape his political legitimacy and future possibilities.
• Reincarnation and sacrifice: Chen Yang’s severed Dao Fruit and Pingxin’s control over reincarnation demonstrate the costs and powers associated with preserving life and destiny.
• Balance between the Human and Wu Tribes: Fuxi’s potential use of Pangu’s bones threatens to reignite the ancient conflict between the two lineages.
• The limits of Sage authority: Even Sages cannot act freely when their decisions threaten the interests of powerful factions or the Heavenly Dao’s larger mission.

Character Interactions

• Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones: Nuwa seeks their support, but they insist that the Human Clan must consent.
• Chen Yang and Nuwa: Their discussion escalates from disagreement to direct negotiation, with Chen Yang rejecting her proposal and leveraging Fuxi’s life against her.
• Chen Yang and Pingxin: Their intimate Dao-companion relationship allows Chen Yang to summon Pingxin and coordinate their position.
• Pingxin and Nuwa: Pingxin warns that using Pangu’s bones would provoke the Wu Tribe’s return and forces Nuwa to abandon her original plan.
• Chen Yang and the Three Pure Ones: The Sages rely on Chen Yang’s judgment despite his junior status, showing how much influence he has gained over the Human Clan.
• Nuwa and Fuxi: Although Fuxi never appears, Nuwa’s actions throughout the chapter are driven by her determination to repay his sacrifices and preserve his life.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang negotiates with Nuwa over the terms of rescuing Fuxi. Nuwa refuses to surrender the Qiankun Cauldron but agrees to provide:
  • The favors owed by the Three Teachings
  • One and a half tenths of the Human Clan’s fortune
  • Pangu’s bones, which Chen Yang considers essential for creating a powerful body of fortune
• Chen Yang agrees to repair Fuxi’s damaged origin, burned by Zhurong’s flames, and send it into reincarnation. Nuwa retains the right to recommend Fuxi’s eventual reincarnated identity.
• Pingxin sends Fuxi’s origin into reincarnation, and Nuwa withdraws from the remaining arrangements after confirming the transaction.
• Decades later, the Three Pure Ones finalize the candidates and guardians for the Human Clan’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Hongyun is selected to reincarnate as the Human Clan’s Heavenly Emperor. His identity as a former Zixiao Guest, bearer of Primordial Purple Qi, and representative of the former Heaven Clan makes him a suitable candidate.
• Chen Yang travels to Longevity Mountain to obtain Hongyun’s origin from Immortal Zhenyuan and arrange his reincarnation.
• Zhenyuanzi warmly welcomes Chen Yang and learns that Hongyun will become the Human Clan’s Heavenly Emperor. He expresses deep gratitude, believing the position will give Hongyun a powerful body and a promising future.
• Chen Yang requests Black-Yellow Qi and part of the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s origin to improve the bodies of the Human Clan’s future rulers and strengthen their fortune formations.
• Zhenyuanzi generously offers all the Black-Yellow Qi he has collected, thirty percent of the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s origin, and additional resources for the Human Clan.
• Zhenyuanzi reveals that Hongyun’s origin has been nourished by the Ginseng Fruit Tree and has recovered enough to survive reincarnation.
• In the resource world behind Longevity Mountain, Chen Yang sees the enormous Ginseng Fruit Tree and realizes that its fruits have weakened because Zhenyuanzi sacrificed much of its origin to save Hongyun.
• Zhenyuanzi produces Hongyun’s fiery-red origin, preparing for the next stage of the reincarnation process.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates greater political and negotiating skill. He firmly insists on receiving Pangu’s bones, recognizing their value in creating a powerful body and ensuring the deal with Nuwa is worthwhile.
• Nuwa shows her concern for Fuxi while remaining cautious about her obligations. Though she refuses to give up the Qiankun Cauldron, she accepts a substantial sacrifice to secure her brother’s restoration.
• Fuxi begins the process of rebirth, moving from a damaged and endangered state toward restoration through reincarnation.
• Hongyun is given a major new destiny as the Human Clan’s Heavenly Emperor. His reincarnation will connect the former Heaven Clan with the emerging Human Clan.
• Immortal Zhenyuan is revealed to be extraordinarily devoted to Hongyun. He has sacrificed a significant portion of his Ginseng Fruit Tree’s origin and many resources to preserve Hongyun’s life and future.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and loyalty: Zhenyuanzi’s willingness to damage his treasured spiritual root emphasizes the depth of his bond with Hongyun.
• Political exchange and power: Chen Yang’s negotiations show that major supernatural achievements depend on balancing favors, fortune, resources, and strategic interests.
• Reincarnation and restoration: Both Fuxi and Hongyun are placed on paths of rebirth, suggesting that death or destruction can lead to transformation into new roles.
• The rise of the Human Clan: The chapter highlights the construction of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, demonstrating the Human Clan’s growing importance and institutional power.
• The cost of advancement: Building powerful bodies and fortune formations requires rare materials and sacrifices, including Pangu’s bones, Black-Yellow Qi, and the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s origin.
• Freedom versus responsibility: Hongyun’s new position promises immense potential but may bind him to the Human Clan’s fate and limit his former carefree existence.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Nuwa: They engage in a serious bargain over Fuxi’s restoration. Their discussion reflects mutual respect but also firm negotiation, with Chen Yang refusing to compromise on Pangu’s bones.
• Chen Yang and Pingxin: Pingxin carries out the practical act of sending Fuxi’s origin into reincarnation after Chen Yang and Nuwa conclude their agreement.
• Chen Yang and Zhenyuanzi: Their meeting shifts from friendly greetings to a discussion of Hongyun’s future and the needs of the Human Clan. Zhenyuanzi’s generosity surprises Chen Yang and reveals his deep emotional investment in Hongyun.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hongyun: Although Hongyun is not physically present during most of the exchange, Zhenyuanzi’s actions—especially sacrificing the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s origin—demonstrate an exceptionally strong relationship.

Chapter Summary: Black-Yellow Twin Qi, Chiyou the Earth Sovereign

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang examines the aura connected to reincarnation, evolves the Reincarnation Formation Array, and summons Pingxin’s incarnation.
• Pingxin takes Hongyun’s origin and sends him into reincarnation, assuring Zhenyuanzi that Hongyun’s true spirit will eventually recover.
• Pingxin informs Chen Yang that reincarnation has stabilized enough for him to visit. Chen Yang is eager to see her but remains cautious because his Dao Fruit became the Reincarnation Divine Wheel, making him partially connected to and vulnerable to being bound by reincarnation.
• Zhenyuanzi gives Chen Yang all the Black-Yellow Qi he has collected. This rare energy is formed from the union of heavenly black qi and earthly yellow qi and can stabilize and strengthen the great world within Chen Yang’s body.
• Zhenyuanzi explains that his supply came from a willow branch obtained from Yang Mei the Immortal, which naturally attracted Black-Yellow Qi. Chen Yang realizes he is unlikely to find such a source himself. He also receives a portion of the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s origin before leaving Longevity Mountain.
• After several centuries of travel, Chen Yang reaches the Land of Reincarnation and enters it using his limited control over reincarnation.
• He encounters Houyi, who survived the destruction of Buzhou Mountain and the great war by being knocked unconscious into the ocean.
• Houyi explains that nearly seventy percent of the Wu Tribe, including many Human-Wu, died in the war. The surviving Wu Tribe retains considerable strength through its Primordial High Shamans, including Houyi, Xingtian, and Jiufeng.
• Pingxin divided the surviving Wu Tribe: Xingtian led most of them and the Ancestral Witch Hall to Black Tortoise Continent, while Houyi remained in the Land of Reincarnation to establish and manage it.
• Chen Yang observes that Houyi and the Wu Tribe struggle to administer reincarnation, especially in handling souls from different races. He promises to send capable Human-Wu from the Human Clan to assist them.
• Chen Yang finally meets Pingxin in her residence, Pingxin Hall. Their reunion is warm but brief because staying too long would cause Chen Yang to merge further with reincarnation and become permanently trapped.
• Chen Yang discusses the future alliance between the Human Clan and Wu Tribe. He promises that the Wu Tribe will assist the Human Clan’s development and that one of the Human Clan’s Three Sovereigns—the Earth Sovereign—will come from the Wu Tribe.
• Pingxin identifies Chiyou, the first Human-Wu born in the Primordial World, as the likely Earth Sovereign. Chen Yang approves the arrangement, and Pingxin agrees to arrange Chiyou’s rebirth into the Human Clan.
• The Wu Tribe also offers to provide resources to support the Human Clan’s growth.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang has grown stronger and more mature during his long separation from Pingxin. His connection to reincarnation has granted him influence over it but also created the danger of being absorbed and imprisoned by it.
• Pingxin continues to oversee reincarnation and protect the Wu Tribe. She demonstrates foresight by dividing the tribe and planning its cooperation with the Human Clan.
• Zhenyuanzi acts as a generous ally, giving Chen Yang his precious Black-Yellow Qi and sharing knowledge about the Primordial World.
• Houyi is revealed to have survived the ancient catastrophe but is unsuited to administration. He remains a powerful Wu Tribe figure yet openly admits his difficulty managing the Land of Reincarnation.
• Chiyou is established as an exceptionally important Human-Wu figure and is selected to become the Human Clan’s Earth Sovereign.

Significant Themes

• Reincarnation and sacrifice: Chen Yang’s transformation of his Dao Fruit into the Reincarnation Divine Wheel gives him power but forces him to risk being bound by reincarnation.
• Survival after catastrophe: The Wu Tribe has suffered devastating losses, yet its remaining Primordial High Shamans preserve its strength and continuity.
• Alliance and cooperation: The future of the Human Clan depends on collaboration with the Wu Tribe, while the Wu Tribe requires Human-Wu assistance to manage reincarnation.
• Inheritance and transformation: Chiyou’s rebirth represents the continuation of the Wu Tribe’s legacy through the Human Clan.
• Balance of heaven and earth: Black-Yellow Qi symbolizes the union of heavenly and earthly forces and serves as a foundation for strengthening Chen Yang’s internal world.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Zhenyuanzi: They exchange mutual respect and gratitude. Zhenyuanzi supports Chen Yang by supplying Black-Yellow Qi and the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s origin.
• Chen Yang and Houyi: Their reunion is emotional, as both recall surviving the devastating war. Chen Yang offers practical aid by promising Human-Wu administrators for reincarnation.
• Chen Yang and Pingxin: Their long-awaited reunion is affectionate and intimate, but constrained by Chen Yang’s danger of being absorbed into reincarnation. They also discuss major political and spiritual plans for the Human Clan and Wu Tribe.
• Pingxin and the Wu Tribe: Pingxin acts as their protector and strategist, restructuring their settlements and arranging their future contribution to the Human Clan.
• Pingxin and Chiyou: Though Chiyou is not physically present, Pingxin assumes responsibility for arranging his rebirth and elevation as the Earth Sovereign.

Chapter Summary: “Origin People Tribe”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang and Pingxin formalize a cooperative relationship between the Human Clan and the Wu Tribe. The Human Clan will periodically provide elite Human-Wu to replenish the Wu Tribe, while ten percent of the Human Clan’s Fortune is transferred to the Wu Tribe through the Earth Sovereign.
• Chen Yang explains that the Human Clan must distribute its Fortune among various factions in exchange for support, unlike the Wu Tribe, which can command obedience through sheer strength.
• Pingxin begins creating a new race of humans using the Creation Dao, combining Nine Heavens Divine Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, and Black-Yellow Qi.
• To link the new race to existing humanity, Chen Yang contributes his own essence blood, while Pingxin contributes essence blood purified of its Killing Intent. Chen Yang had removed the Killing Intent from her blood using the Slaying Immortals Sword Formation and other formations, though this also erased its original Dao and racial imprint.
• Pingxin successfully creates more than 129,000 humans—the same number as the Wu Tribe’s original Innate Lifeforms. Chen Yang names them the Origin People Tribe, calling them the purest and most primordial humans.
• Fortune from the Kongtong Seal recognizes the Origin People as a branch of the Human Clan.
• Pingxin and Chen Yang create the Yellow Springs River Water from the Three Lights Divine Water and Nine Heavens Divine Soil. The river flows through Reincarnation, encircling the Land of Reincarnation, and becomes connected to human souls, the Human Clan, and the Yellow River.
• Chen Yang realizes that the Origin People are vastly superior to ordinary humans: they possess Innate Lifeform-level aptitude, complete bodies and Primordial Spirits, naturally existing magical power, powerful physiques, and possible bloodline-based divine abilities.
• Pingxin gains substantial Fortune rather than Merit from creating the Origin People. Chen Yang concludes that these humans are strong enough to fuse with Father God’s Divine Bone, unlike ordinary humans.
• Inspired by their creation, Chen Yang decides to reconsider his strategy for developing the Human Clan and potentially transform it through the Origin People Tribe.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates long-term strategic thinking by balancing the interests of the Human Clan and Wu Tribe. He also reveals his technical mastery by purifying Pingxin’s essence blood and recognizing the Origin People’s potential.
• He becomes increasingly ambitious about reshaping humanity, shifting from merely developing the existing Human Clan to possibly creating a stronger, transformed version of it.
• Pingxin takes on the role of creator and actively uses the Creation Dao to produce a superior branch of humanity. Her attitude toward the Human Clan becomes more accepting, and she acknowledges that humans may be better suited than the Wu Tribe for construction and organization.
• Pingxin’s relationship with Chen Yang grows warmer through their time together in Reincarnation. She trusts him to manage Human Clan affairs while remaining focused on the Wu Tribe and Reincarnation.
• The Origin People are established as a powerful new population with exceptional potential and a direct bond to both Chen Yang and Pingxin.

Significant Themes

• Cooperation and political exchange: The Human Clan and Wu Tribe strengthen one another through Fortune, resources, and population exchanges.
• Creation and inheritance: The Origin People represent a deliberate improvement upon Nuwa’s original humans, showing how materials, bloodlines, and Dao influence the quality of life created.
• The relationship between Fortune and Merit: Pingxin receives Fortune rather than Merit, and Chen Yang emphasizes that Fortune may be more valuable because it can continue accumulating and benefit the Wu Tribe through its connection to humanity.
• Transformation of humanity: The chapter suggests that the Human Clan’s future may involve engineered evolution or the replacement of ordinary humans with a stronger lineage.
• Construction versus martial power: The Wu Tribe excels in strength and conquest, while the Human Clan is portrayed as better at civilization-building, organization, and large-scale construction.
• Unity through blood and Fortune: Chen Yang’s and Pingxin’s essence blood, together with the Kongtong Seal’s Fortune, bind the Origin People to the existing Human Clan.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Pingxin negotiate the future relationship between the Human Clan and Wu Tribe, with Pingxin approving his proposed arrangements.
• They collaborate directly in creating the Origin People: Pingxin supplies the Creation Dao and materials, while Chen Yang contributes purified essence blood and links the new race to humanity.
• Pingxin expresses concern that her original essence blood’s Killing Intent would harm the new humans, while Chen Yang reassures her by revealing that he purified it.
• They jointly establish the Yellow Springs River and discuss the respective strengths of humans and the Wu Tribe.
• Pingxin defers to Chen Yang on Human Clan strategy, while Chen Yang increasingly relies on her creative power and recognizes the Origin People as the foundation of a stronger future Human Clan.

Chapter Summary: Mosquito Daoist, Crushed by an Entire World

Key Plot Points and Events

• Years after entering it, Chen Yang leaves the Land of Reincarnation, wary that his unique nature might eventually cause him to become bound to the realm.
• He returns to the Blood Sea and observes how the formation of the Black Tortoise Continent and the Land of Reincarnation has changed it. Killing intent now gathers in the Black Tortoise Continent, while souls flow into the Land of Reincarnation, leaving the Blood Sea comparatively purified.
• A violent clash eruates beneath the Blood Sea. Minghe attacks a mysterious black shadow with powerful Sword Qi, but the creature survives by biting and tearing apart the attack.
• Chen Yang recognizes the creature as a black mosquito. Minghe identifies it as an unusual Blood Sea lifeform that is extremely difficult to kill within the Blood Sea.
• Minghe invites Chen Yang to the Asura Cult to discuss the Killing Dao, particularly Chen Yang’s Four Immortal-Slaying Swords. Chen Yang declines because he must return to manage Human Clan affairs, though he promises to visit later.
• After leaving the Blood Sea, Chen Yang discovers that the mysterious creature has followed him. The black shadow reveals itself as Mosquito Daoist.
• Chen Yang learns that Mosquito Daoist and the God-Slaying Spear both originated from the roots and stem of the Chaos Green Lotus. The spear inherited slaughter and soul-destroying abilities, while Mosquito Daoist inherited the roots’ devouring power.
• Mosquito Daoist seeks to devour the God-Slaying Spear and absorb everything connected to the Chaos Green Lotus, believing this will restore him to Primordial Unity and make him supreme.
• Chen Yang refuses to surrender the spear and instead declares that he will have the God-Slaying Spear devour Mosquito Daoist.
• Mosquito Daoist attacks in his true form, the Six-Winged Black Mosquito, relying on his extraordinary speed, piercing mouth, indestructible body, and Devouring Divine Ability.
• Chen Yang counters with the God-Slaying Spear, combining Killing Intent, slaughter, destruction, and Reincarnation. His “Six Paths of Reincarnation” attack causes Mosquito Daoist severe pain.
• Chen Yang points out Mosquito Daoist’s crucial weakness: his strength is tied to the Blood Sea. Outside it, he lacks the environment that makes him nearly impossible to kill.
• Chen Yang then puts away the God-Slaying Spear and uses the Firmament Five Elements with a great halberd. The attack manifests as an entire world filled with Five Elements and spiritual-root phantoms, overwhelming Mosquito Daoist’s devouring defense.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang: Becomes more perceptive and confident, immediately recognizing the danger posed by Mosquito Daoist and correctly identifying the limits of his opponent’s power. He also demonstrates growing mastery over Killing Dao, Reincarnation, the Five Elements, and large-scale world-forming attacks.
• Minghe: Though known as ruthless and solitary, he behaves unusually courteously toward Chen Yang and expresses interest in discussing their respective Killing Daos. His failure to kill Mosquito Daoist highlights the creature’s special resistance within the Blood Sea.
• Mosquito Daoist: His origins and motives are revealed. He is not merely a Blood Sea monster but the transformed roots of the Chaos Green Lotus, corrupted by the resentment and killing intent of Chaos Demon Gods. His resentment toward his inferior status fuels his ambition to devour all related treasures and achieve supremacy.
• God-Slaying Spear: Its relationship with Mosquito Daoist becomes clear. Rather than being an unrelated treasure, it is the transformed stem of the same Chaos Green Lotus remnant, making the spear and Mosquito Daoist natural enemies and potential sources of power for one another.

Significant Themes

• Origins and corruption: The chapter explores how a sacred origin does not guarantee a noble nature. Although Mosquito Daoist came from the Chaos Green Lotus, he was corrupted by accumulated filth, resentment, and killing intent.
• Power and environmental dependence: Mosquito Daoist appears nearly invincible in the Blood Sea, but his strength is greatly reduced outside it. The chapter emphasizes that power often depends on location, conditions, and available foundations.
• Resentment and ambition: Mosquito Daoist’s desire to reclaim what he believes he lost reflects the destructive consequences of humiliation and envy.
• Reincarnation versus devouring: Chen Yang’s Reincarnation-based attacks counter Mosquito Daoist’s devouring nature, presenting order, transformation, and cosmic structure against consumption and annihilation.
• Misjudgment and experience: Mosquito Daoist underestimates Chen Yang because of his Great Luo cultivation, failing to understand the wider circumstances of the Primordial World and Chen Yang’s true combat ability.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Minghe: Their conversation is respectful but cautious. Minghe acknowledges Chen Yang’s importance and invites him to exchange insights on Killing Dao, while Chen Yang politely declines and promises a future meeting.
• Chen Yang and Mosquito Daoist: Their interaction quickly becomes confrontational. Chen Yang questions Mosquito Daoist’s origins and mocks his corrupted state, while Mosquito Daoist angrily explains his history and demands the God-Slaying Spear.
• Mosquito Daoist and the God-Slaying Spear: Their shared origin creates a direct conflict. Mosquito Daoist wants to devour the spear to recover power, while the spear reacts with intense Killing Intent and appears eager to confront him.
• Chen Yang and the wider Human Clan: Chen Yang’s refusal to remain with Minghe underscores his responsibility toward the Human Clan, whose affairs have become increasingly important amid the Primordial World’s chaos.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang defeats Mosquito Daoist in a devastating battle. He uses his mature Battle Formation to manifest countless spirit treasures, then strikes with the Sui Ancient Halberd and Slaying Immortals Sword.
• Chen Yang discovers Mosquito Daoist’s weakness: spirit treasures derived from the green lotus are restrained by him, while acquired treasures and those formed from Chaos Fiends can harm him.
• After severing Mosquito Daoist’s greatest weapon, Chen Yang destroys his soul with the Former Character Formation. Mosquito Daoist is trapped in reincarnation as successive beasts until his identity and soul completely dissipate.
• Mosquito Daoist’s corpse is sent to the Solar Star and refined with the Treasure-Splitting Rock into the God-Slaying Spear. The spear is expected to gain Mosquito Daoist’s Devouring Divine Ability and advance in quality.
• Chen Yang returns to the Human Clan and reveals the Origin People Tribe, humans created by Pingxin through the Creation Dao. Their aptitude greatly surpasses that of Nuwa’s original Human Clan.
• He proposes merging the Origin Humans with the existing Human Clan through reproduction, creating mixed-blood descendants with the strengths of both lineages. Human Clan prodigies may also reincarnate as pure Origin Humans to cultivate the Martial Dao more effectively.
• The Human Clan’s ancestors accept that the reform would greatly strengthen their people, despite concerns that it could disrupt Human Clan Fortune and affect Nuwa.
• After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, Chen Yang creates the Origin Formation Canon, a secret art that grows stronger as more formations are incorporated into it.
• He fuses every formation and formation-based divine ability he has mastered into his essence, qi, spirit, Primordial Spirit, and Three Flowers. These become Formation Dao Origin, completing his foundation in Formation Dao.
• Chen Yang reaches a new stage in which his body, mana, and Primordial Spirit can all serve as materials for formations. He can now create formations freely and instantly with a thought, gesture, or step.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates overwhelming combat power and increasingly sophisticated mastery of formations, soul techniques, divine treasures, and Dao cultivation. He moves from merely using sword formations to independently controlling all forms of formation creation.
• His strategic understanding deepens when he identifies Mosquito Daoist’s specific weakness and exploits it rather than relying only on raw power.
• Chen Yang also assumes a major leadership role in shaping the future of the Human Clan, prioritizing long-term racial potential over concerns about disrupting the existing order.
• Mosquito Daoist is exposed as powerful mainly because of his innate ability and the Blood Sea’s support. Outside that environment, his lack of cultivation leaves him vulnerable, and his arrogance proves fatal.
• The God-Slaying Spear gains the prospect of evolving by devouring Mosquito Daoist’s corpse and acquiring the Devouring Divine Ability.
• Suiren Clan, Ziyi Clan, and Youchao Clan shift from caution to acceptance of Chen Yang’s reform plan, recognizing the benefits of stronger Human Clan aptitude despite political and karmic risks.

Significant Themes

• Exploiting weaknesses over relying on strength: Chen Yang defeats Mosquito Daoist by understanding the interaction between different categories of spirit treasures.
• Transformation and evolution: Mosquito Daoist is destroyed through reincarnation, the God-Slaying Spear evolves through devouring, and the Human Clan is reshaped through bloodline integration.
• Creation and inheritance: The chapter contrasts Nuwa’s original Human Clan with Pingxin’s Origin Humans, exploring how different acts of creation produce different potential.
• Sacrificing stability for future strength: The Human Clan’s leaders accept possible damage to their fortune because improving aptitude is considered essential to long-term survival and prosperity.
• Integration as a path to power: Chen Yang’s Origin Formation Canon embodies the idea that combining many systems, formations, and abilities creates a greater whole.
• Mastery of one’s Dao: Chen Yang’s cultivation advances from using formations as techniques to embodying Formation Dao throughout his body, soul, and origins.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang taunts and explains Mosquito Daoist’s defeat, emphasizing that his arrogance exceeded his actual foundation. Their exchange highlights Chen Yang’s analytical superiority and Mosquito Daoist’s shock and desperation.
• Chen Yang consults with the Human Clan’s three ancestors. Suiren Clan expresses support while raising concerns about Human Clan Fortune; Ziyi Clan emphasizes the benefits for prodigies; Youchao Clan questions the implications of merging the two human lineages.
• Chen Yang answers their doubts by presenting the reform as necessary for the Human Clan’s future, leading the ancestors to accept his decision.
• The final scenes focus inward on Chen Yang’s relationship with Formation Dao, showing him integrating his accumulated knowledge into a self-created canon and achieving effortless control over formations.

Chapter Summary: Severing the Past Life, Severing the Present Life, Severing the Future

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang realizes that his essence, energy, spirit, thoughts, and Formation Dao have reached the point where he can perfect the Three Corpses Severing Method.
• He changes the method’s focus: instead of severing ordinary emotional attachments, his three corpses will represent his confusion and attachments concerning the past, present, and future.
• After several thousand years of preparation, Chen Yang uses a Sword of Wisdom to sever ninety-nine percent of his Primordial Spirit.
• The severed portion merges with the Innate Formation Diagram, forming a powerful incarnation who embodies Chen Yang’s future and his remaining uncertainty about Formation Dao.
• This incarnation is named Star Daoist. He inherits most of Chen Yang’s essence, energy, spirit, and thoughts, giving him immense potential.
• Star Daoist is instructed to travel to the heavens, comprehend Star Origin, and inscribe the Cosmic Star Formation into his body through the Body-Forged Formation path.
• Chen Yang gives Star Daoist the Astral Divine Tree, the Three Heavens-Earth-Human Pearls, and other resources. Star Daoist then takes charge of Chen Yang Heaven, one of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Chen Yang enters a long recovery period. After tens of thousands of years, his depleted essence, energy, spirit, and cultivation gradually return to perfection.
• His strength rises beyond the ordinary Daluo Realm, reaching a state comparable to a Quasi-Saint, though he technically remains within the Daluo Realm.
• Pingxin reveals that the Human Clan has undergone major development. The Origin People Tribe has spread throughout the Human Clan, producing many mixed-blood descendants with strong aptitude and Martial Dao potential.
• Hongyun’s True Spirit is close to complete recovery through repeated reincarnation, and Chen Yang anticipates that the Human Clan’s greater rise will soon begin.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang advances significantly in Formation Dao and gains a deeper understanding of his cultivation path. His Three Corpses Severing Method becomes an unusually powerful and specialized technique.
• Though severing ninety-nine percent of his Primordial Spirit leaves him extremely weak, Chen Yang successfully recovers and emerges stronger than before.
• Star Daoist is established as an independent but connected existence. He represents Chen Yang’s future and his remaining confusion regarding Formation Dao, while possessing enough potential to reach Half-Step Primordial Unity and perhaps even Primordial Unity.
• Pingxin demonstrates continued loyalty and care by protecting Chen Yang during his most vulnerable period. Her connection to the Kongtong Region is strengthened through the Reincarnation Formation Array.
• The Human Clan develops through the merging of Nuwa’s humans and Pingxin’s Origin People, creating a broader and potentially more powerful human bloodline.
• Hongyun is nearing the restoration of his True Spirit, setting the stage for his return and future influence.

Significant Themes

• Transformation through sacrifice: Chen Yang sacrifices most of his Primordial Spirit to create a powerful incarnation, accepting temporary weakness for long-term advancement.
• Past, present, and future: The Three Corpses represent different temporal aspects of the self, especially Chen Yang’s confusion and attachment concerning the future.
• Formation Dao as a cultivation path: Formation Dao is not merely a technique but a complete road of cultivation, capable of being integrated into the body and used to shape powerful independent incarnations.
• Unity and division: Although Star Daoist acts independently, he remains part of Chen Yang. His growth directly benefits Chen Yang, showing that separation can ultimately strengthen the whole.
• The difficulty of transcendence: The chapter explains why breaking through from Daluo to Primordial Unity is so difficult and why Three Corpses Severing offers an alternative route.
• Reincarnation and restoration: The Six Paths of Reincarnation can restore even a damaged True Spirit, emphasizing reincarnation as a source of renewal and continuity.
• Human Clan integration and evolution: The blending of the Origin People Tribe with the wider Human Clan suggests a coming qualitative transformation of humanity.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Xiao Ling’er: Xiao Ling’er questions whether Chen Yang’s Three Corpses Severing Method is complete, prompting him to explain how Formation Dao perfected it.
• Chen Yang and Star Daoist: Their conversation establishes mutual respect and their relationship as one body divided into separate existences. Chen Yang gives Star Daoist his mission and resources, while Star Daoist expresses both confidence and playful dissatisfaction at receiving no treasures initially.
• Chen Yang and Pingxin: Pingxin protects Chen Yang throughout his recovery. Their warm exchange reflects mutual trust, while Chen Yang acknowledges her efforts and asks about the Human Clan and Hongyun.
• Chen Yang and the wider Human Clan: Through Pingxin’s report, Chen Yang learns that his long-term plans for the Human Clan are succeeding and that the integration of Origin Humans is beginning to reshape humanity’s future.

Chapter Summary: Hongyun’s Growth and the Completion of Human Marriage

Key Plot Points and Events

• Several centuries after Chen Yang’s preparations, the Human Clan’s Fortune gathers around the Eastern Sea Coast, where the descendants of Sui Qing govern a tribe increasingly populated by Origin Humans.
• A special child is born: Hongyun’s True Spirit has reincarnated within him, making him both the new Hongyun and the Human Clan’s destined Heavenly Sovereign.
• Chen Yang merges a prepared Divine Bone into the infant’s body. This strengthens Hongyun, produces powerful heavenly phenomena, and causes dispersed Human Clan Fortune to gather within him.
• Chen Yang leaves Sui Qing and the Human Clan sages to protect and raise Hongyun, insisting that the child choose his own name.
• Laozi orders Xuandu to guide Hongyun. Xuandu is instructed to help develop the Origin Humans and prepare Hongyun to lead the Human Clan.
• Chen Yang visits the Three Pure Ones and is praised for severing one of his Three Corpses, making him one of the few disciples of the Three Teachings to reach that level.
• The Three Pure Ones discuss how Hongyun can make the Human Clan recognized as a new Heaven Clan. Chen Yang proposes seizing the heavenly aura of former Heaven Clans such as the Demon Race, Phoenix Clan, or certain Zixiao Guests.
• Because the Phoenix Clan is too dangerous to provoke, the Three Pure Ones agree to investigate the Demon Race and suitable Zixiao Guests instead, while warning Chen Yang not to act recklessly.
• After centuries of growth, Hongyun becomes the chieftain of his tribe. He reforms agriculture, irrigation, sericulture, customs, and governance, rapidly turning the tribe into one of the Human Clan’s strongest.
• Xuandu explains that the three cosmic marriages—Heavenly Marriage, Earthly Marriage, and Human Marriage—are nearing completion. Hongyun’s marriage to a Human Clan woman will establish the Human Clan’s marriage order and complete Human Marriage.
• Though Hongyun initially views the wedding as a personal union with the woman he loves, he accepts its broader significance. Xuandu begins organizing the wedding rites.

Character Developments

• Hongyun: Reborn without memories of his former life, but empowered by the Divine Bone and his True Spirit, he grows into an exceptional leader. His reforms demonstrate practical wisdom and a commitment to the prosperity of the Human Clan. He also begins accepting his role as the future Heavenly Sovereign.
• Chen Yang: Completes a major cultivation breakthrough by severing one of his Three Corpses. He shifts from directly managing Hongyun’s development to planning the Human Clan’s long-term rise and heavenly recognition.
• Xuandu: Becomes Hongyun’s lifelong guide and companion, growing alongside him and supporting both his political development and cultivation-related mission. He acts as an assistant rather than taking credit for Hongyun’s achievements.
• Sui Qing and the Human sages: Remain responsible for protecting Hongyun during his early life and ensuring the future Heavenly Sovereign grows safely.
• The Three Pure Ones: Recognize Chen Yang’s advancement and agree to help locate remnants of former Heaven Clans whose heavenly aura could benefit humanity.

Significant Themes

• Rebirth and destiny: Hongyun begins a new life without conscious memories, yet remains connected to his former identity and destiny through his True Spirit.
• Leadership through development: True sovereignty is presented as something earned by improving people’s lives, strengthening institutions, and guiding civilization toward prosperity.
• The rise of the Human Clan: Humanity seeks not merely survival but recognition as a Heaven Clan acknowledged by the Primordial World and Heavenly Dao.
• Cooperation and exploitation: The Human Clan’s advancement may require appropriating the remnants of older races, creating moral and political tension between development and conflict.
• Marriage as cosmic order: Hongyun’s personal marriage becomes a civilizational institution, completing the final part of the three marriages and establishing social order for the Human Clan.
• Guidance versus independence: Xuandu guides Hongyun, but Hongyun must ultimately develop his own judgment and fulfill his destiny through personal action.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Sui Qing: Chen Yang entrusts Sui Qing with protecting Hongyun and overseeing his upbringing.
• Laozi and Xuandu: Laozi commands Xuandu to guide Hongyun, emphasizing the development of Origin Humans as the key to fulfilling his mission.
• Chen Yang and the Three Pure Ones: Chen Yang seeks their help in finding former Heaven Clan remnants. They praise his cultivation progress while cautioning him against provoking dangerous forces.
• Hongyun and the former chieftain: The former chieftain formally passes leadership to Hongyun and entrusts him with the tribe’s prosperity.
• Hongyun and Xuandu: Their relationship develops from childhood companionship into one of ruler and trusted adviser. Xuandu teaches him Human Sect principles and explains the larger importance of his marriage.
• Hongyun and his future bride: Their love provides the personal motivation behind the wedding, which simultaneously fulfills a major cosmic and political purpose.

Chapter Summary: Heavenly Dao Merit, Blessings from the Sages

Key Plot Points and Events

• Hongyun and his beloved complete the three rites of Human Marriage, officiated by Xuandu:
  1. They bow to Heaven and Earth.
  2. They bow to Nuwa and Pingxin, the creators or “birth mothers” of humanity.
  3. They bow to each other, symbolizing eternal union.
• The ceremony establishes formal marriage customs for the Human Clan, strengthens the bond between husband and wife, and is expected to accelerate human reproduction.
• Heaven and Earth respond with auspicious clouds and descend merit upon Hongyun, his wife, Nuwa, Pingxin, and Xuandu. Some merit enters the couple’s jade pendants, which can unleash powerful abilities when awakened by the love of humanity.
• Nuwa and Pingxin bless the couple, though Nuwa’s hostile glare toward Chen Yang reveals continuing resentment, while Pingxin offers him a sympathetic smile.
• Numerous Sages and powerful figures send wedding gifts, demonstrating Hongyun’s extensive network of friendships and influence throughout the Primordial World.
• Immediately after the wedding, rebellion erupts within the Human Clan. Human members carrying Demon Race blood awaken their inherited bloodlines, adopt Demon cultivation methods, declare themselves part of the Demon Race, and seize several tribes.
• The rebels threaten to destroy the Human Clan and offer sacrifices to Demon Race Dijun. Hongyun orders the Human Clan to suppress them by force.
• Xuandu warns that the conflict may become a prolonged civil war because nearly forty percent of the Human Clan carries Demon blood and these people have long suffered discrimination, poverty, and difficulty cultivating the Human Martial Dao.
• Other factions initially mistake the conflict for a return of the Demon Race, but later realize it is an internal Human Clan uprising.

Character Developments

• Hongyun formally assumes the role of husband and clan leader, embracing both his marriage and his responsibility to defend the Human Clan. His anger toward the rebels shows his deep hostility toward the Demon Race and his commitment to Human Clan unity.
• Hongyun’s wife becomes his official Dao companion, with their fates and auras visibly intertwined.
• Xuandu acts as a solemn officiant and practical adviser. He supports the war effort but recognizes the deeper social causes behind the rebellion and fears the consequences of civil war.
• Nuwa grants the couple her blessing but remains openly hostile toward Chen Yang, suggesting unresolved emotional or political tension.
• Pingxin also blesses the marriage and offers Chen Yang a reassuring expression, reinforcing her supportive relationship with him.
• Chen Yang is embarrassed by Duobao’s observation that both Nuwa and Pingxin are connected to him. He is also indirectly positioned as the leader responsible for managing the Human Clan’s deeper structural problems.
• Duobao humorously points out Chen Yang’s unusual relationships and tendency to become involved in major events.
• The rebel half-human, half-demon population shifts from an oppressed underclass into an organized political and military force capable of destabilizing the entire Human Clan.

Significant Themes

• Marriage as a civilizing and spiritual institution: The ceremony establishes social order, strengthens human reproduction, and connects individual relationships to the destiny of the entire Human Clan.
• Heavenly recognition and merit: The blessings and merit demonstrate that important human customs can influence the laws of Heaven and Earth.
• Unity versus internal division: The wedding symbolizes Human Clan cohesion, but the subsequent rebellion exposes deep divisions beneath that unity.
• Discrimination and social inequality: Demon-blooded humans have been marginalized because their blood hinders cultivation and causes rejection by Human Clan Fortune. Their rebellion is portrayed as the consequence of long-standing oppression.
• Bloodline and identity: The rebels’ choice to identify as Demon Race raises questions about whether identity is determined by ancestry, culture, cultivation, or loyalty.
• Peace built on unresolved hatred: Although the Demon Race is believed to have disappeared, hatred between humans and demons remains powerful enough to create conflict within the Human Clan itself.
• Leadership and responsibility: Hongyun must defend the clan while Xuandu recognizes that military victory alone may not solve the underlying social crisis.

Important Character Interactions

• Hongyun and his wife: Their mutual affection is publicly affirmed through the final bow, and their destinies become spiritually linked.
• Hongyun and Xuandu: Xuandu guides the ceremony and later advises caution, while Hongyun insists that rebellion must be met with war.
• Nuwa and Chen Yang: Nuwa blesses the marriage but gives Chen Yang a hostile look, indicating unresolved resentment.
• Pingxin and Chen Yang: Pingxin responds with a comforting smile, contrasting sharply with Nuwa’s anger.
• Duobao and Chen Yang: Duobao teases Chen Yang about his connections to two powerful women, leaving Chen Yang awkward and uncertain how to respond.
• Hongyun and the Human Clan: As clan chief, Hongyun responds directly to the rebellion and orders the tribes to mobilize against the half-human, half-demon insurgents.
• Xuandu and the rebels’ social position: Xuandu explains that their uprising stems not only from demonic influence but also from systemic exclusion and their lack of access to cultivation and resources.

Overall Significance

The chapter begins with the successful establishment of Human Marriage and the Human Clan’s receipt of heavenly merit, but quickly shifts into a darker conflict. The marriage unifies humanity symbolically while the rebellion reveals that the clan remains deeply fractured by bloodline-based discrimination. The chapter therefore contrasts public celebration and divine blessing with the looming threat of a long, violent civil war.

Chapter Summary: Witch-Slaying Sword, Crow Demon Saint

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang and the Human Clan leaders investigate why wars have erupted throughout the entire Primordial World. The Earth Book’s artifact spirit reveals that the Demon Race orchestrated the Human Clan’s internal conflict.
• The Demon Race secretly spread cultivation methods among human-demons, including Ji Fa, enabling them to develop rapidly through demon cultivation and gain powerful resources.
• Chen Yang and the Human Clan sages condemn all who practice Demon Race techniques and resolve to destroy both the human-demons and the hidden Demon Race forces supporting them.
• Over several thousand years, warfare spreads across the Primordial World. Newly awakened creatures, empowered by cultivation methods and starlight, fight over resources, causing countless factions and races to collapse.
• The Human Clan’s internal war devastates its tribes and territories, but the conflict also strengthens the surviving Human Clan. The Origin Human Clan and pure Human Clan merge, improving the race’s aptitude and advancing its Martial Dao.
• Although the sages want to intervene directly, Chen Yang refuses. He believes the Human Clan must fight its own war so that newer generations understand the value of their dignity and the sacrifices of their ancestors.
• The external war at the Human Clan’s borders continues relentlessly. The Demon Race remains hidden, protected by a treasure that conceals heavenly secrets, forcing the Human Clan to fight the demon cultivators directly.
• A powerful demon cultivator appears, possessing Corpse Severing cultivation. He defeats or overwhelms several Human Clan sages and sect disciples, including Huanglong, Yuding, Yunxiao, and Turtle-Spirit Holy Mother.
• When the demon cultivator attempts to destroy a Human Clan border city with the Great Sun Technique, Chen Yang arrives and confronts him using a powerful formation.
• Chen Yang’s formation-hand clashes with the demon cultivator’s great sun, but the demon cultivator cuts through the formation with a sword imbued with immense killing intent.
• Chen Yang recognizes the weapon as the long-lost Witch-Slaying Sword, forged from the souls of countless humans killed during the Wu-Demon War. The chapter ends with Chen Yang confronting the demon cultivator over possessing the sword.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang becomes increasingly determined and ruthless toward the Demon Race, viewing the current wars as a deliberate continuation of the ancient Human-Demon conflict. However, he also shows strategic wisdom by refusing to rescue the Human Clan from its internal war, believing hardship is necessary to preserve its collective memory and dignity.
• Suiren Clan and Ziyi Clan respond with intense anger after learning of the Demon Race’s involvement, advocating the extermination of human-demons and all Demon Race cultivators.
• The Human Clan sages struggle between compassion for their suffering people and acceptance of Chen Yang’s reasoning that the Human Clan must mature through its own struggle.
• The demon cultivator is revealed as an extraordinarily fast-rising expert who has surpassed the Great Luo realm. His arrogance and contempt for the Human Clan display the confidence granted by his powerful cultivation and the Witch-Slaying Sword.
• The Exposition Sect and Jie Sect disciples, including Huanglong, Yuding, Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Turtle-Spirit Holy Mother, are shown to be outmatched by the new Corpse Severing-level enemy, emphasizing the growing danger of the demon cultivators.

Significant Themes

• War as both destruction and education: The wars cause immense suffering but also force the Human Clan to remember the sacrifices that created its civilization and strength.
• The danger of forgetting history: Chen Yang believes that generations who never experienced the Demon Race’s atrocities may lose their sense of dignity and become vulnerable to future destruction.
• Manipulation and hidden enemies: The Demon Race destabilizes the Primordial World indirectly by distributing cultivation methods and provoking conflicts while concealing its own members.
• The rise of the lower ranks: Once ordinary creatures gain access to cultivation, their vast numbers and competition for resources overturn the existing balance of power.
• Human-Demon hatred and vengeance: The Witch-Slaying Sword symbolizes the historical bloodshed between the Human and Demon Races, while its appearance reopens unresolved grievances from the Wu-Demon War.
• Power gained without foundations: The demon cultivator’s rapid advancement suggests that Demon Race methods can produce terrifying experts quickly, though potentially at the cost of stability and moral restraint.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang consults with Suiren Clan, Ziyi Clan, and the Earth Book’s artifact spirit about the source of the wars.
• The Human Clan sages ask Chen Yang to intervene in the internal conflict, but he rejects their request and explains why the Human Clan must defend itself.
• At the battlefield, Human Clan sages and disciples of the Exposition and Jie Sects cooperate against the powerful demon cultivator but are successively driven back.
• Yunxiao proposes summoning Duobao or Chen Yang for assistance just before Chen Yang arrives.
• Chen Yang and the demon cultivator finally confront one another directly. Their techniques clash, and Chen Yang immediately recognizes the Witch-Slaying Sword, establishing the central conflict for the next chapter.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang confronts the Crow Demon Saint, who reveals himself as a descendant of the Crow Clan and heir to the Demon Race’s legacy. He has inherited Dijun’s cultivation methods and wields the Witch-Slaying Sword.
• The Crow Demon Saint blames Chen Yang for the Demon Race’s defeat and near-extinction, seeking revenge.
• Their battle begins with the Crow Demon Saint using the Witch-Slaying Sword’s baleful power, which contains the resentment and souls of countless Human Clan victims.
• Chen Yang counters with his Formation Dao and Reincarnation Dao, creating the Reincarnation Divine Fist and using the Sui Ancient Halberd.
• As the battle intensifies, Chen Yang forms a vast Reincarnation Formation Array. By drawing on the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the souls present on the battlefield, the formation greatly amplifies his strength.
• The Crow Demon Saint summons his Three Corpses and invokes the Great Sun’s power, transforming himself into a blazing, emperor-like figure. Chen Yang battles him and his three incarnations simultaneously without being disadvantaged.
• Chen Yang employs the Six Paths, including the Human and Asura Realms, to suppress the Crow Demon Saint’s techniques. He sends one of the demon’s incarnations into the Beast Realm of Reincarnation, where it is devoured and absorbed.
• Chen Yang’s final Reincarnation Divine Fist shatters the Crow Demon Saint’s Great Sun and Sword Qi, disperses the wronged souls within the Witch-Slaying Sword, and seriously injures the demon.
• The Crow Demon Saint crashes into the earth, while Chen Yang retrieves the Witch-Slaying Sword and suppresses him with the Reincarnation Formation. The chapter ends with Chen Yang declaring that he will kill him.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates that he has surpassed his former reliance on the Slaying Immortals Sword Formation. His Formation Dao has advanced to the point where every gesture can create formations, and formations can seamlessly become divine abilities.
• His mastery of reincarnation allows him to draw power from the Six Paths and battlefield souls, making him increasingly stronger during the fight.
• The Crow Demon Saint is established as a powerful survivor and inheritor of the ancient Demon Race, but his confidence and Great Sun techniques are ultimately overwhelmed by Chen Yang’s reincarnation-based abilities.
• The observers from the Three Teachings recognize that Chen Yang has reached a level far beyond their expectations and now represents an even greater threat than when he depended on the Slaying Immortals Sword Formation.

Significant Themes

• Reincarnation versus destruction: Chen Yang does not merely destroy his opponents; he absorbs, transforms, and sends them through the cycle of reincarnation.
• Legacy and inheritance: The Crow Demon Saint’s power comes from Dijun, Taiyi, and the remnants of the ancient Demon Race, showing how the past continues to influence the present.
• Evolution of power: Chen Yang’s growth from relying on external treasures to wielding Formation Dao and Reincarnation Dao innately highlights his development into a more complete and formidable cultivator.
• Justice and vengeance: The Crow Demon Saint seeks revenge for the Demon Race, while Chen Yang treats his accusations as the bitterness of a defeated enemy.
• The burden of the Human Clan: The Witch-Slaying Sword carries the resentment and souls of Human Clan victims, giving the confrontation emotional and historical weight.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and the Crow Demon Saint exchange hostile accusations, with the demon blaming Chen Yang for the Demon Race’s downfall and Chen Yang dismissing him as a defeated enemy seeking death.
• Their combat reflects a clash between the Crow Demon Saint’s Great Sun flames and swordsmanship and Chen Yang’s formations, reincarnation, and Six Paths techniques.
• The disciples of the Three Teachings—including Turtle-Spirit Holy Mother, Guangchengzi, and Yuding—observe the battle and discuss Chen Yang’s extraordinary progress, collectively realizing that he has become one of the most dangerous powers in the Primordial World.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang defeats the Crow Demon Saint and interrogates him about the Witch-Slaying Sword, Dijun’s methods, the Demon Race’s hidden remnants, and the purpose behind the current turmoil.
• The Crow Demon Saint refuses to reveal anything. He activates an Obliteration Restriction placed in his Primordial Spirit, causing his spirit to be destroyed, his true spirit to scatter, and his body to crumble.
• Before dying, he reveals that he was an artificially cultivated Demon Saint created to test the Human Clan’s strength and claims that the Demon Race’s true foundation remains intact.
• Chen Yang returns to the Human Clan’s border city, where the Human Clan and Three Teachings celebrate his victory. However, he remains troubled by the Demon Race’s hidden plans.
• Duobao explains that the Three Teachings possess methods—such as using the Nine-Turn Great Luo Pill and the Eight Trigrams Furnace—to forcefully create a temporary Quasi-Saint. Such a being would have little future potential and weakened combat ability, but the process is extremely costly.
• The Demon Race’s widespread uprising continues. Demon Cultivation methods that encourage rapid growth through devouring others spread throughout the Primordial World, causing wars, resource seizures, and the destruction of entire races.
• The Four Seas Dragon Clan requests help from the Jie Sect because Sea Clan members have adopted Demon Race methods and begun challenging the Dragon Clan’s authority.
• Pingxin suddenly contacts Chen Yang through the Reincarnation Formation Array, revealing that the Land of Reincarnation has been infiltrated.
• The Demon Race has implanted restrictions in the true spirits of its members. When these true spirits are drawn into reincarnation, they self-destruct among the Wu Tribe, releasing a corrosive demonic aura. Others have infiltrated the Land of Reincarnation to rescue Demon Race experts.
• Chen Yang realizes that the Demon Race is exploiting reincarnation’s unavoidable attraction of true spirits. Because reincarnation protects Human Clan members’ memories and controls their rebirths, preserving it is essential to the Human Clan’s continued strength.
• As the crisis worsens and the Demon Race remains impossible to locate, several Zixiao Guests arrive at the Human Clan, including the powerful Earthshaking Daoist.

2. Character Developments

• Chen Yang: Demonstrates overwhelming strength by killing a Demon Saint alone, placing him among the foremost experts of the Primordial World. Despite his victory, he becomes increasingly cautious and strategic, recognizing that the Crow Demon Saint was only a disposable pawn. He also takes responsibility for protecting the Land of Reincarnation.
• Crow Demon Saint: Reveals his fanatic loyalty to the Demon Race. He accepts death rather than betray its secrets and views himself as a sacrificial chess piece whose mission was to assess the Human Clan.
• Duobao: Acts as Chen Yang’s primary source of information and strategic discussion. He becomes increasingly concerned about the Demon Race’s ability to destabilize the entire Primordial World.
• Pingxin: Shows the severity of the invasion by reporting that even the supposedly protected Land of Reincarnation is under attack. Her dependence on Chen Yang emphasizes his growing importance to both the Human Clan and the Wu Tribe.
• The Demon Race: Emerges as highly organized, patient, and inventive. It is no longer merely launching direct attacks but manipulating cultivation methods, true spirits, reincarnation, and large-scale social unrest.

3. Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and fanaticism: The Crow Demon Saint willingly destroys himself to protect the Demon Race’s secrets, showing the depth of its loyalty and discipline.
• Hidden warfare and manipulation: The Demon Race fights indirectly by using pawns, engineered cultivators, rapid-growth techniques, and infiltrators rather than revealing its true base.
• The cost of power: Artificially creating Quasi-Saints grants immediate strength but destroys future potential, reflecting the destructive compromises made by the Demon Cultivators.
• Reincarnation as both protection and vulnerability: Reincarnation safeguards the Human Clan’s memories and growth, but its openness to true spirits also gives the Demon Race a way to invade from within.
• Civilization-wide chaos: The spread of Demon Cultivation destabilizes numerous races, weakens established powers, and turns low-level beings into aggressive forces driven by quick success.
• The limits of strength: Even Chen Yang’s victory over a Demon Saint does not solve the larger crisis, since the Demon Race’s true leaders remain hidden and its influence continues spreading.

4. Character Interactions

• Chen Yang interrogates and battles the Crow Demon Saint, but the latter refuses cooperation and dies by his own restriction.
• Chen Yang and Duobao analyze the Demon Race’s possible methods of creating Demon Saints and debate the significance of the Crow Demon Saint’s death.
• They discuss the worsening situation among the Human Clan, the Four Seas Dragon Clan, and the wider Primordial World.
• Pingxin contacts Chen Yang through the Reincarnation Formation Array and informs him of the attack on the Land of Reincarnation, prompting Chen Yang and Duobao to recognize the seriousness of the invasion.
• The chapter ends with Duobao introducing Chen Yang to Earthshaking Daoist and other Zixiao Guests, suggesting that the escalating crisis is drawing the Primordial World’s strongest figures into the Human Clan’s affairs.

Summary: “Hundred Clans Alliance”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Earthshaking Daoist approaches Chen Yang for help saving the True Spirits of his clansmen, many of whom died fighting the Demon Cultivators. He wants Chen Yang to send their spirits into Reincarnation so they can recover and eventually be reborn into their clan.
• Chen Yang agrees without demanding payment, hoping to establish a karmic connection with the powerful Zixiao Guest. However, he warns that Reincarnation is currently unstable because the Demon Race has invaded it through souls.
• Duobao explains that the Primordial Wilderness is facing multiple crises: the Demon Race is expanding, the Demon Sect has reemerged, the Three Teachings and the newly formed Heavenly Court are fighting Outworld Demons, and Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao are confronting Luohou.
• Chen Yang gathers the various clans and Zixiao Guests on an island in the East Sea to discuss improving Reincarnation and forming an alliance against the Demon Race.
• Several clans contribute treasures needed to perfect Reincarnation:
  • The Rat Clan offers the Earth Gate, whose Ghost Gate Pass can connect distant locations and create countless incarnations.
  • Other clans provide the Naihe Bridge, which restrains and monitors souls, and Forgetfulness Water, which erases memories of past lives.
• The Earth Gate will allow Chen Yang and his allies to intercept souls wherever they fall, inspect them for Demon Race contamination, and keep danger outside the Land of Reincarnation.
• Chen Yang proposes that the clans unite and station themselves together to resist the Demon Race. Although many clans initially support the idea, they become embroiled in disputes over leadership, old grudges, resource distribution, and authority.
• After years of argument, Xingtian silences the gathering and declares that the Wu Tribe should lead the alliance. He assures the clans that the Wu Tribe will not abandon its seclusion or seek supremacy; only he, acting in the Wu Tribe’s name, will lead the alliance.
• Reassured by the Wu Tribe’s strength, fairness, and experience against the Demon Race, the clans enthusiastically accept Xingtian’s leadership.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates his growing influence and strategic foresight. He uses his connection to Reincarnation to help others, strengthen his karmic relationships, and organize a collective defense against the Demon Race.
• Earthshaking Daoist is portrayed as sincere, humble, and deeply concerned for his people. His willingness to seek Chen Yang’s help shows both his desperation and his recognition of Chen Yang’s authority.
• Duobao acts as a realistic adviser, emphasizing how difficult it is to unite the clans and outlining the broader dangers threatening the Primordial Wilderness.
• Xingtian emerges as the decisive political and military leader of the chapter. His forceful intervention ends the clans’ endless disputes, while his promise not to restore Wu Tribe supremacy makes his leadership acceptable.
• The various clans shift from self-interested and distrustful factions to a united group willing to follow the Wu Tribe because of the severity of the Demon Race threat.

Significant Themes

• Unity in the face of existential danger: The clans’ survival depends on overcoming old rivalries and cooperating against the Demon Race.
• Leadership and trust: Xingtian’s authority is accepted because of the Wu Tribe’s reputation, strength, fairness, and proven experience.
• Karmic relationships and mutual benefit: Chen Yang forgoes compensation for aiding Earthshaking Daoist, valuing the long-term benefit of a powerful ally.
• Order amid chaos: The perfection of Reincarnation and the formation of the alliance represent attempts to restore stability while the Primordial Wilderness faces simultaneous internal and external threats.
• Self-interest versus collective survival: The clans initially focus on treasure ownership, rewards, and resource distribution, but the danger eventually forces them to prioritize survival.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Earthshaking Daoist: Earthshaking asks for help preserving his clansmen’s True Spirits; Chen Yang accepts and gains Earthshaking’s gratitude.
• Chen Yang and Duobao: They discuss the instability of Reincarnation and the broader crisis, with Duobao cautioning Chen Yang about the difficulty of alliance-building.
• Chen Yang and the Rat Clan chief: The Rat Clan chief correctly understands Chen Yang’s plan for using the Earth Gate, demonstrating his intelligence and earning recognition.
• Xingtian and the clans: Xingtian confronts the arguing clans, offers the Wu Tribe’s leadership, and persuades them by promising that the Wu Tribe will not seek renewed supremacy.
• Xingtian and Chen Yang: Their exchanged glance suggests mutual understanding and cooperation in establishing the alliance.

Chapter Summary: “Jieyin and Zhunti: The Debt Collectors Have Arrived”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter explains why the Western Lands became barren. Luohou and the Demon Sect had corrupted the region’s Dragon Veins, turning their spiritual qi into destructive devil qi. After Luohou’s defeat, Dao Ancestor Hongjun sealed the devil qi within the Western Lands, using all newly generated spiritual qi to maintain the seals.
• Jieyin and Zhunti became Sages partly because they were responsible for guarding this seal. Their true bodies remain at the seal, while incarnations receive Chen Yang and Duobao at Mount Sumeru.
• Chen Yang and Duobao visit the Buddhist Sect to obtain the Human Book, the Book of Life and Death, which is important for completing the system of Reincarnation.
• Jieyin and Zhunti refuse to hand over the Human Book freely. Instead, they demand that Buddhism receive authority and a position within Reincarnation. They offer the Reincarnation Nirvana Buddha Sutra and the Ksitigarbha Sutra as justification, intending to establish Buddhist influence over the afterlife.
• Chen Yang recognizes this as opportunistic extortion. He shifts the discussion from a normal transaction to the repayment of a karmic debt owed to Hongyun.
• He argues that Jieyin and Zhunti obtained their Sage Seats because Hongyun surrendered them at Zixiao Palace. Since Hongyun is now merged with the Human Clan and Chen Yang leads the Human Clan, Chen Yang claims the right to demand repayment on Hongyun’s behalf.
• Chen Yang further reveals that Sage Status is a Heavenly Dao-granted position rather than an irreversible cultivation realm. If necessary, the Heavenly Dao can reclaim and reassign it. This shocks both Jieyin and Zhunti and gives Chen Yang leverage.
• The chapter ends with Chen Yang demanding that Jieyin and Zhunti return the two Sage Seats originally obtained through Hongyun, without even requesting interest.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates strong negotiation skills, confidence, and a willingness to confront the Buddhist Sages directly. He refuses to be pressured into granting Buddhism authority over Reincarnation and turns their attempt at exploitation against them.
• Jieyin and Zhunti are portrayed as calculating and opportunistic but also deeply concerned with preserving their Sage Status. Their claims of acting for the stability of the Primordial World reveal how they rationalize Buddhist expansion.
• Zhunti appears especially shameless and skilled at presenting an unequal bargain as a fair exchange based on subjective value.
• Jieyin is more restrained but supports Zhunti’s demands and becomes visibly uncomfortable when Chen Yang challenges the legitimacy of their Sage Seats.
• Duobao acts as Chen Yang’s companion but is unable to counter Zhunti’s rhetoric. He is also surprised by Chen Yang’s knowledge of the Heavenly Dao and admits that he never studied the Mystic Sect Canon carefully.
• Medicine Master and Maitreya serve as courteous intermediaries, welcoming Chen Yang and Duobao and escorting them to the Buddhist Sages.

Significant Themes

• Debt and karmic obligation: The chapter centers on the principle that power and opportunity must eventually be repaid. Chen Yang reframes the Human Book negotiation as repayment for the Sage Seats Jieyin and Zhunti received from Hongyun.
• Political manipulation and unequal exchange: Jieyin and Zhunti try to use the Human Book’s importance to demand disproportionate authority over Reincarnation. Chen Yang exposes the self-serving nature of their proposal.
• Authority versus true power: Sage Status is revealed to be an externally granted Heavenly Dao position, distinct from one’s actual cultivation realm. This distinction makes even the highest-ranking figures vulnerable to losing their privileges.
• The lasting danger of the Demon Dao: Though Luohou and the Demon Sect were defeated long ago, devil qi and demonized Dragon Veins continue threatening the Primordial World. The Buddhist Sect’s poverty and limited resources are also directly tied to its responsibility for maintaining the seal.
• Control of Reincarnation: The Human Book is not merely a treasure but a key to organizing ghosts, gods, and the cycle of life and death. Buddhism’s attempt to secure a place within Reincarnation reflects its long-term ambition to expand its influence.

Important Character Interactions

• Medicine Master and Maitreya formally welcome Chen Yang and Duobao to Mount Sumeru.
• Jieyin and Zhunti explain the instability of the devil qi seal and their inability to personally appear because their true bodies are guarding it.
• Chen Yang negotiates with Zhunti and Jieyin over the Human Book. Their proposed exchange—Buddhist scriptures for influence within Reincarnation—creates the chapter’s central conflict.
• Duobao sides with Chen Yang but withdraws after realizing he cannot outmaneuver Zhunti’s rhetoric.
• Chen Yang confronts Jieyin and Zhunti over their debt to Hongyun, asserting the Human Clan’s right to collect it.
• His revelation about the replaceability of Sage Status leaves both Buddhist Sages shaken and forces them to reconsider their position.

Chapter Summary: Book of Life and Death Obtained, Demon Sect Demon Dragon

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang demands the Buddhist Sect’s two Sage Statuses as compensation for the karmic debts Jieyin and Zhunti owe Hongyun and the Human Clan.
• Jieyin and Zhunti refuse to surrender their Sage Statuses, but Chen Yang threatens to bring the matter before Hongjun at Zixiao Palace. Faced with the risk of judgment, they agree to give him the Human Book—the Book of Life and Death—needed to perfect Reincarnation.
• After obtaining the Book of Life and Death, Chen Yang asks to inspect the place beneath Mount Sumeru where the demonic qi is sealed.
• Zhunti explains that Mount Sumeru is a vast special space containing numerous worlds. It functions as the core of a sealing formation that imprisons enormous amounts of demonic qi.
• Within the sealed region, Chen Yang sees countless Demon Dragons struggling against sealing runes. Jieyin reveals that these beings originated from the Western Ancestral Dragon Vein, which Luohou demonized through one of his Three Corpses.
• A colossal Demon Dragon appears and claims to be Luohou’s demonized Ancestral Dragon Vein. He argues that Hongjun did not create the Three Corpses Severing Method alone, but that it was developed collectively from an incomplete Chaos Demon God technique.
• The Demon Dragon attempts to recruit Chen Yang into the Demon Sect, promising him supreme Demon Dao methods and the path to becoming a Demon God. Chen Yang rejects him, insisting that the Demon Sect lost and that the Mystic Sect remains dominant.
• The Demon Dragon counters that the Demon Sect was only defeated through the combined forces of Hongjun’s Mystic Sect and Qian-Kun’s Rogue Cultivator Alliance, and hints that the Demon Dao still survives throughout the Primordial World.
• Before Chen Yang leaves, the Demon Dragon releases a trace of demonic qi as a “gift.” Chen Yang, Jieyin, and Zhunti immediately defend themselves, and Buddhist light destroys the escaping qi.
• The Demon Dragon leaves Chen Yang with the cryptic phrase: “First came demons, then came gods.” Chen Yang departs unsettled and continues pondering the creature’s words.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates increasing confidence, political awareness, and bargaining skill. He boldly demands impossible compensation, uses the threat of karmic judgment to pressure the Buddhist Sages, and successfully obtains the Book of Life and Death without surrendering Reincarnation authorization.
• He remains loyal to the Mystic Sect and refuses the Demon Dragon’s temptation, though the Dragon’s knowledge of the Three Pure Ones and the Immortal Dao sparks his curiosity.
• Chen Yang also recognizes his own recklessness after the demonic qi nearly escapes, realizing that he must be more cautious when investigating dangerous powers.
• Jieyin and Zhunti are forced to suppress their anger and yield to Chen Yang’s demands. Their outwardly generous attitude conceals frustration and concern, especially regarding the dangerous Demon Dragon beneath Mount Sumeru.
• Duobao, Medicine Master, and Maitreya are shocked by Chen Yang’s ruthlessness and negotiation ability. Duobao especially gains a new appreciation for how formidable and unpredictable his disciple has become.
• The Demon Dragon is portrayed as ancient, proud, manipulative, and fiercely defensive of the Demon Sect. He tries to undermine Hongjun’s reputation, glorify the Demon Sect’s past, and lure Chen Yang toward the Demon Dao.

Significant Themes

• Power and negotiation: Chen Yang’s success comes from understanding leverage. He recognizes that the Book of Life and Death is valuable to both sides and refuses to accept an unequal exchange.
• Karma and accountability: The karmic debts owed to Hongyun force the Buddhist Sect to compromise, showing that even powerful Sages cannot freely ignore cosmic consequences.
• Order versus corruption: Mount Sumeru’s Buddhist foundations are built over immense demonic corruption, suggesting that stability often depends on suppressing or exploiting dangerous forces rather than eliminating them.
• History and perspective: The dispute over whether the Mystic Sect or Demon Sect truly won reveals that historical “victory” depends on who controls the present.
• Temptation and ideological loyalty: The Demon Dragon offers Chen Yang greater power, but Chen Yang rejects the Demon Dao because of his loyalty to the Mystic Sect and his confidence in his own future.
• Hidden truths: The Demon Dragon’s claims about Hongjun, the Three Corpses Severing Method, and the meaning of the Three Pure Ones hint that the accepted history of the cultivation world may be incomplete or deliberately distorted.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Zhunti engage in a tense but ultimately successful negotiation, shifting abruptly from threats and accusations to polite conversation once the Book of Life and Death changes hands.
• Chen Yang’s confidence leaves Duobao, Medicine Master, and Maitreya bewildered, as they witness him pressure two Heavenly Dao Sages without fear.
• Zhunti leads Chen Yang into the sealed land, temporarily treating him like a favored guest while remaining alert to the danger beneath Mount Sumeru.
• Chen Yang and the Demon Dragon debate the historical legitimacy of the Mystic and Demon Sects. Chen Yang dismisses the Demon Sect as defeated, while the Dragon insists that its influence and ideals endure.
• Jieyin repeatedly attempts to end the exchange, clearly worried that the Demon Dragon may reveal dangerous secrets or corrupt Chen Yang.
• When the Demon Dragon releases demonic qi, Jieyin and Zhunti immediately protect Chen Yang, showing both their responsibility as hosts and their fear of the consequences if he were demonized.

Chapter Summary: “Treasure-Dropping Money, Creating Currency”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang questions Jieyin and Zhunti about the Demon Dragon, learning that it is one of Luohou’s Three Corpses and has merged with an extremely rare Ancestral Dragon Vein.
• Because Ancestral Dragon Veins are believed to originate from Pangu’s meridians and sustain the Primordial World’s spiritual energy, destroying the Demon Dragon would cause immense consequences and karma. Its Primordial Unity cultivation also makes it extremely difficult to eliminate.
• The whereabouts of Luohou’s other two Three Corpses are unknown. The Dao-Demon War destroyed much of the world’s history, and even the Buddhist Sages possess incomplete knowledge.
• Chen Yang and Duobao leave Spirit Mountain after successfully obtaining the Human Book: Book of Life and Death. Chen Yang had forced the Buddhist Sect to surrender it by threatening to invoke the karma left by Hongyun against their Sage Status.
• After their departure, Maitreya and Medicine Master condemn Chen Yang, but Zhunti and Jieyin admit that the Buddhist Sect had acted out of greed by trying to use the Human Book to seize authority over Reincarnation.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discuss the Demon Dragon’s possible reaction to Chen Yang, suspecting it may have sensed the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords within him. They also reveal that the Buddhist Sect has studied demonic methods through the Demon Dragon and developed Buddhist techniques specifically designed to counter demon cultivators.
• Chen Yang and Duobao return to Kunlun City. Over several centuries, the Human Clan’s wars progress well, while the Ten Thousand Races Alliance struggles increasingly against growing armies of demon cultivators.
• Chang’e eventually discovers the Supreme Spiritual Treasure known as the Treasure-Dropping Money after searching for it for thousands of years.
• Chen Yang brings Chang’e and the treasure to Duobao, explaining that the coin may be connected to Merit and could help establish a currency system for the Primordial World.
• Duobao recognizes the Treasure-Dropping Money and explains that trade currently depends on bartering resources. A standardized currency would make commerce far more efficient, but creating a reliable currency will be difficult even with the treasure’s aid.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang continues to demonstrate boldness and political cunning. He is willing to confront even Sages when necessary, using Hongyun’s karma as leverage, but he also understands the danger of probing too deeply into the Primordial World’s secrets.
• Duobao acts as Chen Yang’s cautious mentor. He worries about Chen Yang’s repeated confrontations with powerful figures and urges him to avoid reckless behavior and dangerous knowledge. Despite his concern, he supports Chen Yang’s larger projects and remains enthusiastic about artifact refinement.
• Jieyin and Zhunti reveal a more pragmatic and self-critical side. Although they acknowledge their greed and failed scheme, they remain focused on securing the Buddhist Sect’s future through control of Reincarnation and their advantage against demon cultivators.
• Chang’e gains importance as an independent contributor. Her long search successfully locates the Treasure-Dropping Money, proving her usefulness in Chen Yang’s economic and strategic plans.
• Maitreya and Medicine Master are portrayed as loyal but anxious disciples, concerned about Chen Yang’s disrespect toward the Buddhist Sages and the risks created by Hongyun’s karma.

Significant Themes

• The danger of ancient secrets: Knowledge of the Dao-Demon War, Luohou’s Three Corpses, and Ancestral Dragon Veins is incomplete and dangerous. The chapter emphasizes that greater knowledge can reveal one’s insignificance and attract greater peril.
• Power, karma, and political leverage: Chen Yang’s success comes not only from strength but from his ability to use karma and past obligations as weapons. The Buddhist Sect is forced to acknowledge that its own greed created its vulnerable position.
• Balance between destruction and preservation: The Demon Dragon cannot simply be destroyed because it is tied to the world’s spiritual foundations. Individual enemies may also be essential parts of the Primordial World’s larger structure.
• Institutional growth and adaptation: The Buddhist Sect studies its enemies and develops countermeasures, while Chen Yang works to build systems—commerce, alliances, and currency—that will reshape society.
• The evolution from barter to organized economy: The discovery of the Treasure-Dropping Money introduces the possibility of creating currency, marking a transition from resource exchange toward a more advanced and interconnected economic system.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen Yang, Jieyin, and Zhunti: Chen Yang interrogates the Sages about the Demon Dragon and successfully pressures them into handing over the Human Book. Their exchange highlights his audacity and the Buddhist Sect’s limited ability to resist his leverage.
• Jieyin and Zhunti: They privately discuss Chen Yang, the Demon Dragon, their anti-demon cultivation methods, and the Buddhist Sect’s hopes of rising when demon cultivators emerge more openly.
• Chen Yang and Duobao: Duobao reprimands Chen Yang for confronting powerful figures, while Chen Yang defends his actions as necessary responses to Buddhist greed. Their relationship combines mentorship, affection, frustration, and mutual trust.
• Chen Yang and Chang’e: Chen Yang relies on Chang’e to locate the Treasure-Dropping Money and presents her discovery as the foundation for a potentially transformative economic project.
• Chen Yang and Duobao at the end of the chapter: Chen Yang introduces the idea of currency, while Duobao provides the practical and economic perspective that turning the treasure into a functioning monetary system will be challenging.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang explains his plan to create a currency recognized throughout the entire Primordial World, rather than merely a currency accepted by the Human Clan.
• Duobao points out that currency requires universal recognition, while Chen Yang proposes solving this by making the currency itself a valuable cultivation resource.
• Chen Yang intends to use the Treasure-Gathering Basin to create coins capable of:
  • Absorbing and refining spiritual energy for cultivation.
  • Replacing materials needed for artifact refinement.
  • Substituting for medicinal ingredients in pill refinement.
  • Providing different resources depending on the spiritual energies absorbed.
• Duobao recognizes the ambition of the idea but warns that reproducing the Treasure-Gathering Basin’s divine ability within tiny coins will be extremely difficult.
• After Duobao’s initial experiments fail, Yun Zhongzi is invited to help study the treasure’s abilities.
• The Three Pure Ones learn of Chen Yang’s project. They discuss his previous schemes involving Kunlun City, the Human Clan, the Three Teachings, and various races, acknowledging that he has repeatedly balanced competing interests while suffering little loss himself.
• Laozi and Yuanshi decide to send their good corpses—Taishang Laojun and the Jade Void Daoist—to assist with the currency’s refinement. Their combined expertise in artifact and pill refinement allows the Treasure-Gathering Basin’s abilities to be gradually integrated into the coins, though the process remains incomplete.
• Meanwhile, Chen Yang discusses the Land of Reincarnation with Pingxin. Its systems—including the Ghost Gate Pass, Water of Forgetfulness, Bridge of Helplessness, Yellow Springs, and Human Book—have made reincarnation safer and more orderly.
• Chen Yang reveals that the Eighteen Levels of Hell have been incorporated into reincarnation. Demon Race souls can be imprisoned, interrogated, punished, and prevented from reincarnating with strong talents.
• Chen Yang intends to use reincarnation and the imprisoned Demon Race true spirits to investigate the Demon Race’s hidden objectives, especially in light of the growing presence of Demon Cultivators.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates increasing ambition and strategic creativity. He seeks to turn currency into a universal resource, ensuring acceptance through practical value rather than political force alone.
• He is also shown to be highly pragmatic and vindictive toward enemies, using reincarnation not only for orderly rebirth but also as a tool for intelligence gathering and weakening the Demon Race’s future.
• Duobao shifts from skepticism to active cooperation, recognizing the technical validity of Chen Yang’s proposal even while emphasizing its immense difficulty.
• Laozi and Yuanshi acknowledge Chen Yang’s political and economic skill. Though he previously damaged the Three Teachings’ interests, his later arrangements and profits from Kunlun City have compensated them, leading them to support his work.
• Taishang Laojun and the Jade Void Daoist are established as exceptionally capable refiners because each inherited a combination of Laozi’s and Yuanshi’s specialized arts.
• Pingxin appears satisfied with the improvements to reincarnation and recognizes Chen Yang’s relentless policy of punishing those who harm him or the allied races.

Significant Themes

• Recognition and value: A currency becomes meaningful only when others accept it. Chen Yang seeks to create universal acceptance by making the currency inherently useful.
• Innovation through synthesis: The project combines treasure refinement, spiritual energy, cultivation, artifact-making, and alchemy into a single system.
• Political and economic balance: Chen Yang repeatedly works between the Human Clan, the Three Teachings, and other races so that all sides gain resources while he strengthens his own influence.
• Reincarnation as governance and warfare: The afterlife is portrayed as an organized institution that can protect the living, judge souls, punish enemies, and gather intelligence.
• Hidden threats: The simultaneous rise of Demon Cultivators and renewed Outworld Demon attacks suggests a larger conspiracy or impending crisis.
• Retribution and pragmatism: Chen Yang’s “repay every grudge” philosophy is both personal and strategic; punishment serves as revenge, deterrence, and a method of weakening future enemies.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Duobao engage in a technical debate over the requirements for universal currency and the difficulties of replicating the Treasure-Gathering Basin’s power.
• Duobao’s failed experiments lead to the inclusion of Yun Zhongzi, expanding the collaborative effort.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian discuss Chen Yang’s behavior and achievements, mixing amusement, approval, and concern over his growing influence.
• Laozi and Yuanshi offer direct assistance through their incarnations, showing that the Three Teachings ultimately support Chen Yang’s project despite earlier conflicts.
• Chen Yang and Pingxin discuss the success of reincarnation and the use of Hell against the Demon Race. Pingxin lightly criticizes his vengeful nature, while Chen Yang justifies it as necessary protection and intelligence gathering.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang and Pingxin discuss the Demon Race’s secrecy. Despite interrogating countless Demon Cultivators after their deaths, they have uncovered many cultivation techniques and hidden treasures but almost no information about the Demon Race’s larger plans.
• Chen Yang plans to locate the supreme-grade spirit treasure Three Lives Stone, hoping it will reveal the past and present lives of Demon Race true spirits and expose their secrets.
• Pingxin assigns Houyi and others to continue interrogating souls who practiced Demon Race methods, though success remains uncertain.
• Chen Yang learns that the Land of Reincarnation has been fully developed into the Underworld, populated largely by the Wu Tribe, Human-Wu, and members of the Human Clan. Many have been appointed as ghost gods, officials, judges, and the Ten Kings of Hell.
• Chen Yang and several experts complete the refinement of a new currency using the principles of the Treasure-Gathering Basin and a newly created Treasure-Gathering Formation.
• The finished currency resembles a copper coin and can:
  • Absorb and purify innate spiritual energy.
  • Store spiritual energy for cultivation.
  • Transform into many ordinary innate materials needed for artifact or pill refinement.
  • Be mass-produced through Formation-Based Artifact Refining.
• The currency has limitations: it cannot transform into chaos-attributed or exceptionally rare materials, has a limited transformation quantity, and comes in different grades.
• Chen Yang summons the patriarchs of the various races to Kunlun City, with Xingtian present to exert authority.
• He proposes that the new currency circulate throughout the Primordial World.
• The patriarchs examine the currency and acknowledge its extraordinary value, but question how its worth, grades, exchange rates, and market prices will be determined.
• Chen Yang establishes a valuation system:
  • A piece of currency is worth ten times the quantity of material it can transform into, accounting for refining costs.
  • Currency grades have tenfold exchange ratios: one supreme-grade coin equals ten high-grade, one hundred middle-grade, or one thousand low-grade coins.
  • Owners may set the prices of rare treasures that have value but no established market.
• Chen Yang announces plans to establish a bank in Kunlun City, where valuable resources can be exchanged for currency.
• The various races become hesitant, worrying that surrendering their resources for currency may leave them unable to reclaim equivalent resources later.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang becomes increasingly cautious about the hidden threat of the Demon Race, recognizing that their lack of exposed intelligence is itself evidence of their formidable organization and concealment.
• He also demonstrates growing ambition and confidence as an economic and political leader. Rather than merely creating a treasure, he seeks to reshape trade across the entire Primordial World.
• Pingxin continues to act as Chen Yang’s supportive partner and political ally, helping manage the Underworld and coordinating investigations into the Demon Race.
• Taishang Laojun, Yun Zhongzi, Duobao, and Jade Void Daoist contribute their expertise to refining and evaluating the currency, representing the cooperation of powerful figures from the Three Teachings.
• The various race patriarchs shift from skepticism to fascination after testing the currency, though they remain wary of its broader economic consequences.

Significant Themes

• Secrecy and hidden threats: The Demon Race’s ability to preserve information even after death creates an atmosphere of uncertainty and foreshadows a potentially vast conspiracy.
• Power through systems: Chen Yang’s influence extends beyond personal cultivation or military force. By creating currency and a banking system, he attempts to gain influence over resources, trade, and the development of every race.
• Value and trust: The chapter explores how an object becomes money. The currency has real utility, but its effectiveness depends on collective recognition and trust.
• Transformation and versatility: The currency’s ability to become different materials symbolizes adaptability and abundance, while its limitations emphasize that even seemingly universal power must obey rules.
• Political cooperation and control: Chen Yang relies on alliances, prestige, and Xingtian’s deterrence to persuade the races, showing how economic reform requires both negotiation and authority.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Pingxin exchange information about the Demon Race, the Underworld, and the progress of their respective responsibilities, reinforcing their partnership.
• The group of expert refiners debates the currency’s nature and limitations, with Taishang Laojun confirming its completion and the others praising or qualifying its abilities.
• Xingtian formally convenes the meeting and reinforces Chen Yang’s authority before Chen Yang presents his proposal.
• The race patriarchs question Chen Yang about currency valuation, rare resources, grades, and exchange procedures.
• Chen Yang answers their concerns confidently, outlining a standardized economic structure while leaving the pricing of unique treasures to their owners.
• The chapter ends with the races intrigued by the currency’s benefits but distrustful of exchanging their own resources for it, leaving the success of Chen Yang’s monetary system unresolved.

Chapter Summary: The Final Reckoning, Powerful Reinforcements

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang introduces a revolutionary currency system backed by twenty percent of the Human Clan’s Fortune. Currency holders can benefit from this fortune, though the blessing disappears when the currency is spent. Higher-quality or larger quantities of currency provide greater benefits.
• The clan leaders are initially shocked but quickly recognize the advantages. They agree to accept Chen Yang’s currency for trade, surrendering their right to issue currency themselves. Their recognition strengthens the currency’s aura and causes Treasure-Dropping Money to evolve further.
• Over the following centuries, the currency greatly improves trade, allows clans to access resources more conveniently, and accelerates cultivation through Human Clan Fortune. The clans’ desire for more currency and resources contributes to renewed wars against Demon Cultivators.
• Chen Yang eventually returns to the Human Clan, which has been devastated by thousands of years of civil war between Hongyun’s forces and the Human-Demon Hybrids.
• Although Hongyun’s forces suffered early defeats due to internal divisions among the tribes, Hongyun gradually united the various human factions. His counteroffensive pushed the Human-Demon Hybrids back, though support from Demon Cultivators and the Demon Race kept them alive.
• Chen Yang decides that the civil war must end and that the Human-Demon Hybrids should be completely destroyed, allowing Hongyun to fulfill his destiny as Heavenly Sovereign.
• Rather than personally entering the battlefield, Chen Yang, Suiren Clan, and Ziyi Clan remain at Kong to observe the conflict and guard against the hidden force behind the rebellion.
• At the Human Clan’s main camp, Hongyun, Xuandu, and their generals acknowledge that they lack the strength to annihilate the Human-Demon Hybrids quickly. Xuandu proposes seeking reinforcements from the Heavenly Court and the Wu Tribe.
• Xuandu travels to the Heavenly Court, where Haotian reveals that Chen Yang has already arranged the aid. The Heavenly Court has received armies from the various clans through Kunlun City, allowing it to defend against the Outworld Demons while sending elite forces to the Human Clan.
• The chapter ends with the revelation that Chen Yang has secretly prepared reinforcements for every major faction, making the coming final battle a carefully orchestrated campaign to eradicate the Human-Demon Hybrids.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates exceptional strategic and political creativity by binding Human Clan Fortune to currency. This preserves the Human Clan’s fortune while allowing other clans to benefit from it without being able to damage it through their actions.
• He also emerges as the hidden architect of the coming war, arranging military support in advance while deliberately remaining outside the battlefield.
• Hongyun grows from a leader struggling to manage divided tribes into the recognized unifier of the Human Clan. Years of warfare strengthen his authority and bring the various human groups closer together.
• Xuandu becomes an effective military and political strategist. Though his true identity remains concealed, he takes responsibility for securing crucial alliances and reinforcements.
• Haotian cooperates readily with Chen Yang’s plan and confirms the Heavenly Court’s readiness to participate in the decisive battle.
• The clan leaders shift from skepticism about currency to enthusiastic acceptance after realizing that it grants both economic value and access to Human Clan Fortune.

Significant Themes

• Fortune as a strategic resource: Chen Yang transforms fortune from a fragile blessing into a stable, circulating economic asset.
• Economic power and political control: By controlling the only recognized currency, Chen Yang gains influence over trade and the resources of every participating clan.
• Unity through conflict: Although war devastates the Human Clan, it gradually forces formerly divided tribes to unite under Hongyun.
• Hidden preparation and long-term strategy: Chen Yang’s influence operates largely behind the scenes. He allows others to believe they are acting independently while arranging the overall outcome.
• The tension between individual and collective fortune: Currency holders can benefit from Human Clan Fortune, but they cannot permanently possess it unless they accumulate vast wealth. At the same time, the Human Clan’s collective fortune remains protected from their personal misconduct.
• Approaching reckoning: The chapter builds toward a final confrontation in which the Human-Demon Hybrids, their Demon Cultivator allies, and their secret backers will face a coordinated coalition.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen Yang persuades the clan leaders by addressing their fear that currency might lose its purchasing power. His explanation of fortune-backed currency turns uncertainty into widespread support.
• The clan leaders formally recognize the currency, including the Ox Clan, Earthshaking Daoist’s clan, the Wu Tribe through Xingtian, and finally the Human Clan through Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang discusses the Human Clan’s progress with Suiren Clan and Ziyi Clan, explaining why they will observe rather than intervene directly.
• Hongyun and Xuandu debate the difficulty of destroying the Human-Demon Hybrids. Xuandu’s proposal to seek help from the Heavenly Court and Wu Tribe provides the immediate military solution.
• Xuandu and Haotian confirm that the alliance is already part of Chen Yang’s broader plan, emphasizing Chen Yang’s control over the coming final battle.