Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “A Natural-Born Seedling of Battle”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang and Yanhuang Daoist discuss the hidden relationship between Merit, Fortune, Pangu, and the Heavenly Dao. They conclude that many mysteries remain unresolved but identify four likely truths:
  1. Pangu may still be alive.
  2. Some Chaos Demon Gods survived or possess resurrection methods.
  3. Killing Chaos Demon Gods grants special rewards.
  4. A terrifying expert besides the Heavenly Dao may be hidden within the Primordial World, possibly Pangu.
• Chen Yang strengthens his brush, ink, paper, and inkstone with Merit and begins processing the insights he gained.
• A divine-material embryo formed from the remaining origin of the Four Chaos Monkeys is nearing birth. The original Demon Ape’s origin had been mostly destroyed, while the surviving remnant was refined with special materials and the forces of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water.
• Chen Yang and Yanhuang Daoist discuss how this new monkey affects the legendary Sun Wukong and the future of Journey to the West. They conclude that, given the Jie Sect’s overwhelming strength, neither the Investiture of Gods War nor Journey to the West is likely to occur.
• After several years of nurturing, the embryo explodes and produces a gray-furred monkey radiating powerful battle intent.
• Chen Yang uses Merit to disperse the monkey’s Thunder Tribulation. He then employs the Pure World White Lotus, Three Lights Divine Water, and Creation Divine Water to cleanse the monkey’s acquired aura, grant him intelligence, and perfect his physical body.
• Chen Yang accepts the monkey as his disciple and names him Zhanxin, meaning a transformation or mastery of the “heart ape” through the Great Path of War.
• Chen Yang plans to teach Zhanxin the Jie Sect’s techniques, the Nine-Turn Profound Art, body-tempering methods, and battle-oriented divine abilities.
• Several years later, Zhanxin makes rapid progress under Chen Yang’s instruction. However, Chen Yang senses trouble involving the Human Clan and leaves Flower-Fruit Mountain to handle it, entrusting Zhanxin’s continued instruction to Yanhuang Daoist.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang: Becomes more aware of the vast mysteries surrounding the Primordial World but chooses not to pursue them further because the truth is uncertain and potentially offers little practical benefit. He also takes on a stronger mentor role by accepting Zhanxin as a disciple and carefully designing a cultivation path suited to the monkey’s unique nature.
• Yanhuang Daoist: Continues serving as Chen Yang’s intellectual companion and adviser. He recognizes Zhanxin’s extraordinary potential and agrees to oversee his training while Chen Yang deals with the Human Clan.
• Zhanxin: Is born from the remnants of the Four Chaos Monkeys but emerges as an entirely new being rather than a direct continuation of the former Demon Ape. After being purified and granted wisdom, he becomes Chen Yang’s second disciple and a fourth-generation direct disciple of the Jie Sect. His natural affinity for battle makes him a prodigy of the Great Path of War.

Significant Themes

• Uncertainty and the limits of knowledge: Even powerful cultivators cannot easily distinguish truth from speculation when dealing with Pangu, the Heavenly Dao, Merit, Fortune, and the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Rebirth and transformation: Zhanxin’s birth represents a new existence created from the remnants of several powerful origins. His past is largely erased, allowing him to develop a new identity and destiny.
• Innate talent versus cultivation: Zhanxin is naturally gifted, but Chen Yang emphasizes that proper instruction, resources, and techniques will determine how fully that potential is realized.
• Power reshaping fate: The strength of the Jie Sect has altered the expected course of history, making events such as the Investiture of Gods War and Journey to the West unlikely.
• Mentorship and legacy: Chen Yang’s acceptance of Zhanxin reflects his growing responsibility for guiding the next generation and preserving the Jie Sect’s influence.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Yanhuang Daoist jointly analyze the mysteries of Merit, Fortune, Pangu, and the Heavenly Dao.
• They observe and discuss the embryo’s transformation, debating the future identity and potential of the new monkey.
• Chen Yang and Yanhuang Daoist recognize Zhanxin’s extraordinary aptitude and battle instinct.
• Chen Yang purifies, names, and accepts Zhanxin as his disciple, while Zhanxin responds with gratitude and promises to cultivate diligently.
• Before departing, Chen Yang entrusts Zhanxin to Yanhuang Daoist, establishing a temporary teacher-student arrangement between them while Chen Yang returns to address problems within the Human Clan.

Chapter Summary: “Unspeakable Secrets”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang returns to the Kongtong Region after sensing that the Human Clan’s Fortune has developed a deathly stillness, indicating a grave internal crisis.
• The Suiren Clan informs him that numerous Human Clan Martial Dao experts have vanished over several centuries. The missing individuals are eventually found transformed into monstrous beings capable of assimilating other humans.
• Human Emperor Xuanyuan’s daughter is revealed to have become one of these monsters. She is restrained within Kongtong by chains and arrays, but her transformation cannot be reversed.
• Chen Yang identifies the creatures as Zombies, an apparently new race in the Primordial World. They possess crimson or corpse-like bodies, immense bloodlust, death aura, and the ability to spread their condition through bites or assimilation.
• Pingxin is summoned to investigate. She confirms that Zombies cultivate only their physical bodies, resemble concentrations of worldly negativity, appear immortal while the Primordial World’s filth remains, and are not subject to Reincarnation.
• Neither Chen Yang nor Pingxin can restore the transformed humans. At best, Chen Yang may recover a victim’s consciousness, but the victim’s origin has been permanently altered.
• The Zombie population rapidly expands, reaching tens of millions throughout the Human Clan. Chen Yang orders all Human Clan members to kill Zombies on sight and requests aid from the Jie Sect and Kunlun City.
• A large-scale extermination begins, while Chen Yang and the Human Clan leaders search for the unknown cause behind the Zombies’ birth.

2. Character Developments

• Chen Yang shifts from cautious concern to intense anger and determination. He recognizes that the outbreak is not a natural disaster and suspects a hidden force or secret behind the Zombie Clan’s emergence.
• Human Emperor Xuanyuan is shown as grief-stricken and helpless after discovering that his daughter has become a Zombie. His personal loss emphasizes the seriousness of the threat to the entire Human Clan.
• Suiren Clan and Youchao Clan move from confusion to urgent leadership, helping organize investigations and mobilize forces against the outbreak.
• Pingxin, despite her vast knowledge of Reincarnation, is unable to explain or control the Zombies. Her uncertainty establishes that they represent something unprecedented in the Primordial World.
• Xuanyuan’s daughter becomes a tragic example of the transformation’s permanence: although her consciousness might potentially be preserved, her original human nature and origin are gone.

3. Significant Themes

• The threat of an unknown evil: The Zombie Clan’s sudden birth suggests a hidden conspiracy or cosmic cause rather than an ordinary mutation.
• Loss of identity and humanity: Transformed humans no longer recognize their families and become driven by bloodlust, making the outbreak both a physical and emotional catastrophe.
• The limits of knowledge and power: Even figures as powerful and knowledgeable as Chen Yang and Pingxin cannot explain or reverse the transformation.
• Death and corrupted life: Zombies exist through death aura yet contain a trace of life, placing them between life and death and outside normal Reincarnation.
• Collective survival versus personal grief: Xuanyuan mourns his daughter, but Chen Yang must prioritize stopping the infection from consuming the entire Human Clan.
• The emergence of a new race: The Zombies are not merely monsters but the first members of a newly born race, raising questions about how races originate and whether their creation was intentional.

4. Character Interactions

• The Suiren Clan urgently briefs Chen Yang on the disappearances and transformations, establishing the crisis.
• Xuanyuan appeals to Chen Yang and Pingxin to save his daughter, exposing his grief and their inability to provide a cure.
• Chen Yang questions Xuanyuan about the circumstances surrounding his daughter’s transformation, searching for clues to the outbreak’s origin.
• Chen Yang consults Pingxin about the Zombies’ nature and whether Reincarnation can affect them. Her response confirms their abnormality and apparent immunity to ordinary cosmic laws.
• Chen Yang, Suiren, and Youchao coordinate the defensive response, while the Jie Sect and Kunlun City are called upon to assist in the mass eradication.
• The chapter ends with the Human Clan and allied cultivators beginning a widespread slaughter of Zombies, even as the deeper secret behind their creation remains unresolved.

Chapter Summary: Primordial World Sages

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang commands the forces of Kunlun City, the Human Clan, the Jie Sect, and many allied races to mobilize against the rapidly spreading Zombie Clan. His authority now allows him to influence at least sixty percent of the eastern Primordial World.
• The Zombie Clan continues expanding because its victims transform after being bitten. Zombies possess powerful bodies and deadly corpse poison, making them difficult to kill.
• Chen Yang spends several centuries searching the Eastern Sea Coast and the location where the zombies first appeared, but discovers no source or controlling force.
• Xuanyuan, driven by grief and determination, leads the Human Clan and Jie Sect disciples in exterminating zombies within Human Clan territory. Although their numbers decrease there, zombies outside the territory multiply and repeatedly invade, causing an ongoing war.
• The Saints and Heavenly Dao cannot intervene because Luohou is gathering power and preparing to break his seal. The Saints and Dao Ancestor Hongjun must concentrate on suppressing him.
• Sensing that a major crisis is approaching, Chen Yang returns to the Dragon Gate and consults Ancestral Dragon’s residual soul.
• Ancestral Dragon suggests that the Zombie Clan may be the opening move in a hidden enemy’s attack against Chen Yang, who is likely approaching the tribulation of a “Son of Destiny.”
• He explains that strange races in the ancient Myriad Tribes Era often originated from Chaos Demon God blood, bones, or other remnants. Such remnants could revive, develop life, and evolve into entirely new races.
• Ancestral Dragon theorizes that the Zombie Clan may have originated from the remains of a Chaos Demon God.
• He introduces the concept of the Primordial World as a prison created through Pangu’s transformation and mentions mysterious “Primordial World Sages,” prompting Chen Yang to ask for an explanation.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang is shown to possess enormous influence and organizational power, but his confidence is tempered by unease. He is willing to confront any enemy directly, yet recognizes that an unseen opponent and the unexplained origin of the zombies pose a greater danger than open warfare.
• Xuanyuan becomes a determined military leader, channeling his grief into a sustained campaign to protect the Human Clan and eradicate the zombies.
• Ancestral Dragon serves as a source of ancient knowledge and strategic warning. He recognizes Chen Yang’s rapid advancement into the Half-Step Primordial Unity realm and warns him to remain vigilant against enemies hidden close to him.
• Luohou remains an off-screen but increasingly dangerous threat, capable of forcing the Saints and Hongjun to abandon other affairs in order to maintain his seal.

Significant Themes

• Hidden threats and uncertainty: The greatest danger is not merely the zombies but the unknown force behind them and the possibility that the invasion is part of a larger plan.
• Destiny and great tribulation: Chen Yang’s rise as a Son of Destiny attracts powerful enemies and suggests that his success will inevitably provoke a major crisis.
• Ancient remnants shaping the present: The chapter connects current events to the legacy of the Chaos Demon Gods, showing how fragments of ancient beings can generate new races and disasters.
• Power and responsibility: Chen Yang’s immense authority enables him to mobilize vast forces, but it also places the burden of protecting the Primordial World on him while the Saints are unavailable.
• The Primordial World as a prison: The revelation that Pangu’s world may contain trapped remnants of Chaos Demon Gods expands the setting’s mythology and suggests that many unknown dangers remain buried within it.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang coordinates with the Human Clan, Jie Sect, Kunlun City, and allied races through his command.
• Xuanyuan and the Jie Sect cooperate in military campaigns against the zombies.
• Chen Yang seeks assistance from the Saints but learns that they are occupied with Luohou’s attempted escape.
• In the Dragon Gate, Chen Yang openly discusses his fears with Ancestral Dragon. Their conversation shifts from the immediate zombie crisis to the deeper history of ancient races, Chaos Demon Gods, and the Primordial World.
• Ancestral Dragon warns Chen Yang that his enemies may be concealed nearby, while Chen Yang rejects fear and insists on understanding the enemy’s origin and methods.

Chapter Summary: “Methods of Restraining Zombies”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Ancestral Dragon explains that the Primordial World Sages were ancient cultivators who devoted themselves to uncovering the world’s secrets. Through their investigations, they concluded that the Primordial World was likely a prison designed to confine the Chaos Demon Gods.
• This theory was based on the extraordinary resilience of the Chaos Demon Gods. Even fragments of bone or drops of essence blood could enable them to resurrect, yet the resurrected Demon Gods did not escape into Chaos, suggesting that the Primordial World restricted their movements.
• The Ancestral Dragon recounts several theories concerning the disappearance of the ancient Demon God Era. The Demon Gods may have slaughtered and devoured one another, or Pangu may have survived and destroyed them. However, no theory has been proven.
• Chen Yang asks about the origin of the Zombie Clan. The Ancestral Dragon speculates that the zombies may have evolved from the remnants of several Chaos Demon Gods, possibly through artificial creation.
• The Zombie Clan displays traits associated with several Demon Gods: bloodthirst from the Blood Demon God, annihilation from the Annihilation Demon God, rigid bodies from the Bone Demon God, and an overall connection to the Death Dao.
• The Ancestral Dragon concludes that the zombies may be descendants of the Death Demon God or a race created by fusing multiple branches of death.
• This knowledge gives Chen Yang a potential way to restrain the zombies rather than relying solely on brute force. It may also help him trace the being responsible for creating or controlling them, since that individual would possess a connection to the Death Dao.
• Chen Yang spends several years consulting with the Ancestral Dragon before leaving the Dragon Gate.
• Upon his return, he learns that the war within Human Clan territory has dramatically changed. Human Emperor Xuanyuan, supported by the Jie Sect, defeated the zombies and forced them beyond Human Clan territory.
• Outside the territory, however, the Demon Cultivators aided the defeated Zombie Clan. Many Demon Cultivators were transformed into zombies, and the two groups joined forces to invade the Human Clan. The resulting conflict caused major fluctuations in Human Clan fortune and drew nearly all Demon Cultivators of the Primordial World into action.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang gains a deeper understanding of the Primordial World, the Chaos Demon Gods, and the origins of the Zombie Clan. He moves from viewing the zombies as simply a destructive enemy to recognizing that their nature may reveal both their weakness and their creator.
• He resolves to develop a specialized method for restraining zombies and to investigate the source behind their creation.
• The Ancestral Dragon serves as an adviser and historian, providing theories about the Primordial World’s past and practical guidance for dealing with Demon God descendants.
• Human Emperor Xuanyuan demonstrates effective leadership by coordinating the Human Clan army and Jie Sect disciples to defeat and expel the Zombie Clan.
• The Zombie Clan becomes more dangerous by securing outside support and expanding through the conversion of Demon Cultivators.

Significant Themes

• The Primordial World as a prison: The chapter expands the mystery of the world’s origins and its possible role in confining the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Resurrection and indestructibility: The unusual vitality of the Demon Gods explains why their remnants could produce new races and why ordinary methods may be insufficient to destroy them.
• Knowledge as power: Understanding the zombies’ lineage and connection to the Death Dao may be more valuable than overwhelming strength.
• Creation and manipulation: The Zombie Clan may not have arisen naturally; it could have been deliberately engineered from the remains of multiple Demon Gods.
• Escalating conflict and alliances: The zombies’ alliance with the Demon Cultivators transforms a contained threat into a broader war affecting the entire Human Clan.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and the Ancestral Dragon engage in an extended discussion about the Primordial World’s history, the Demon God Era, and the nature of the Zombie Clan.
• Chen Yang questions the Ancestral Dragon about how Demon God remnants could evolve into an entire race, while the Ancestral Dragon offers several possibilities, including divine creation, sacrifice, natural evolution, or deliberate control.
• Their conversation leads Chen Yang to recognize that the Death Dao may provide both a method for restraining the zombies and a path toward locating their creator.
• After Chen Yang leaves the Dragon Gate, Human Clan sages brief him on the changing war and the Demon Cultivators’ intervention, prompting concern about the enemy’s motives and confidence.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Primordial World is filled with widespread Demon Cultivator activity. Although many factions have become quiet and accumulated strength, their growing numbers suggest that a major war is approaching.
• The Zombie Clan unexpectedly launches a large-scale assault on the Human Clan, aided by Demon Cultivators. Their army includes Zombies created from both humans and Demon Cultivators.
• Human Clan martial artists struggle against the Zombies because:
  • Zombies recover by absorbing death qi and battlefield blood baleful aura.
  • Their powerful bodies are difficult to destroy.
  • Human blood and qi, normally a major weapon, can instead nourish high-level Zombies.
  • Corpse poison threatens anyone who gets too close.
• Lightning and Literary Dao techniques are more effective against Zombies, but there are too few cultivators using these systems to defend the Human Clan’s vast territories.
• Chen Yang intervenes with the Slaying Immortals Sword, killing countless Zombies and temporarily relieving pressure on the battlefield.
• The Human Clan leaders explain that all twelve territories are under attack, making it impossible for the limited Jie Sect disciples and high-level experts to protect every border.
• Youguo Clan suggests abandoning some territories to shorten the defensive line. Chen Yang rejects this absolutely, declaring that every inch of Human Clan land must be defended.
• His declaration is amplified by Human Clan Fortune and echoed throughout the territory, inspiring the soldiers to fight with renewed determination.
• Duobao and other Jie Sect experts arrive to assist. They acknowledge that the Jie Sect has a responsibility to protect the Human Sovereign and the Human Clan, but their several million disciples are insufficient to cover the enormous borders.
• The chapter ends with the Human Clan facing severe losses as attacks come from every direction, while the alliance between the Zombies and Demon Cultivators threatens to overwhelm its defenses.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates both overwhelming combat power and firm leadership. He personally destroys large numbers of Zombies but realizes that the conflict cannot be solved by individual strength alone.
• His refusal to abandon any territory reveals his determination to preserve the Human Clan’s sacrifices and maintain its dignity, even at great cost.
• Youchao Clan recognizes that his proposal to retreat was defeatist and expresses shame, promising to seal himself away and cultivate.
• Suiren Clan, Ziyi Clan, and Youguo Clan show concern over the Human Clan’s strategic difficulties and the limitations of their current systems.
• Duobao and Wudang Holy Mother reinforce the Jie Sect’s commitment to the Human Clan while admitting that their forces and powerful experts are too few to defend every border.

Significant Themes

• Defense of homeland and sacrifice: The Human Clan’s territories were won through the deaths of countless ancestors, making retreat emotionally and politically unacceptable.
• Unity and morale: Chen Yang’s declaration, carried by Human Clan Fortune, transforms military strategy into a rallying cry that strengthens the entire race.
• The costs of expansion: The Human Clan’s twelve territories provide greater resources and Fortune but create an enormous, vulnerable border that enemies can attack from every direction.
• Strategic imbalance: The Martial Dao System dominates the Human Clan, yet its reliance on blood and qi is poorly suited to fighting Zombies. The chapter highlights the danger of relying too heavily on one cultivation path.
• The coming great war: The cooperation between Demon Cultivators and the Zombie Clan suggests that the long-awaited Primordial World conflict may already be beginning.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang consults with the Human Clan leaders after rescuing the battlefield, asking about conditions across the other borders.
• The leaders explain the weaknesses of the Human Clan’s martial forces and the scarcity of Literary Dao and Jie Sect cultivators.
• Youguo Clan proposes retreat, but Chen Yang firmly rejects him and issues the order to defend every inch of territory.
• Youchao Clan accepts Chen Yang’s judgment and admits his own mistake.
• Duobao and Wudang Holy Mother discuss the Jie Sect’s obligations, the shortage of disciples, and the difficulty of protecting such a vast territory.
• The group ultimately agrees that retreat is not an option and that the Human Clan must continue fighting despite the overwhelming odds.

Chapter Summary: The Foolish Dragon

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang concludes that the Human Clan faces two urgent problems: creating a rapid transportation system across its territories and finding a way to counter the nearly weakness-free Zombie Clan.
• Because the Saints are occupied helping Patriarch Hongjun seal Luohou, Chen Yang realizes he cannot rely on them and decides that the Human Clan must confront the crisis directly.
• He issues orders mobilizing the Jie Sect immortals, Kunlun City, the Human Sect, the Exposition Sect, and numerous races and factions across the Primordial World.
• Powerful forces—including the Dragon Clan and Sea Clan, Xingtian and part of the Wu Tribe, the Heavenly Court, the Asura Tribe, and the Qilin Clan—join the campaign against the Demon Cultivators and in support of the Human Clan.
• Their involvement shocks the experts of the Primordial World, especially the unexpected participation of the Asura and Qilin Clans.
• Chen Yang visits Qilin Cliff and negotiates with the Qilin Clan. He offers to recognize the clan as an auspicious beast of the Human Clan, granting it a share of Human Clan Fortune in exchange for its aid.
• He reveals that this offer is only an initial gift and requests a meeting with the Qilin Ancestor to discuss a more important transaction.
• The Qilin Ancestor agrees to meet him. Chen Yang then asks for the Qilin Clan’s immense stores of mineral resources, which were accumulated through its ability to sense deposits formed from Pangu’s bones.
• The chapter ends as the Qilin Clan asks what Chen Yang can offer in exchange for these resources.

2. Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates strategic leadership and decisiveness. Though aware that mobilizing so many factions may cost him heavily, he is willing to sacrifice benefits to protect the Human Clan.
• He also shows increasing caution, recognizing that the Zombie Clan may only be a vanguard for a larger threat involving the Demon Cultivators.
• Chen Yang’s political influence becomes clear: a single order from him is capable of drawing major powers throughout the Primordial World into war.
• Duobao, Wudang Holy Mother, and Golden-Spirit Holy Mother understand the seriousness of the crisis but admit that neither rapid spatial transfer nor a method of fighting zombies will be easy to achieve.
• The Qilin Clan Chief is cautious and transactional, insisting that every benefit must be matched by an appropriate price.
• The Qilin Ancestor appears perceptive and cynical, referring to Ancestral Dragon as the “foolish Dragon” while recognizing his hidden cleverness. He is intrigued by Chen Yang’s composure and willingness to deal with dangerous powers.
• Ancestral Dragon’s influence remains important even though he does not appear directly; his earlier investment in Chen Yang continues to shape the Qilin Ancestor’s judgment.

3. Significant Themes

• Coalition-building through power and negotiation: Chen Yang unites otherwise independent factions by combining military orders, political influence, and carefully designed bargains.
• The cost of leadership: Protecting the Human Clan requires Chen Yang to spend resources and offer valuable benefits, even when doing so may weaken his future position.
• Hidden threats and uncertainty: The Zombie Clan’s attack is increasingly revealed as part of a larger scheme, with the Demon Cultivators—and possibly the mysterious Devil Race—suspected of being the true force behind the crisis.
• Mutual exploitation and strategic alliances: Nearly every relationship is treated as a transaction. Chen Yang, the Qilin Clan, and Ancestral Dragon all cooperate while remaining alert to one another’s motives.
• Reputation and Fortune: Granting the Qilin Clan the title of auspicious beast shows how Human Clan Fortune can be used as a political and spiritual resource.
• The importance of hidden strength: The Qilin Clan’s secluded status masks its enormous mineral wealth and potential strategic value.

4. Character Interactions

• Chen Yang debates strategy with Duobao, Wudang Holy Mother, and Golden-Spirit Holy Mother, rejecting the idea of seeking help from the Saints because they are occupied elsewhere.
• He commands the various sects and forces to intervene, prompting a massive military response across the Primordial World.
• He negotiates first with the Qilin Clan Chief, offering status and Fortune in return for continued support, then pushes for a deeper alliance by requesting an audience with the Qilin Ancestor.
• During their meeting, Chen Yang and the Qilin Ancestor discuss Ancestral Dragon’s motives, the dangers surrounding Chen Yang, and the terms of future cooperation.
• The Qilin Clan’s final demand for compensation establishes the next conflict: Chen Yang must determine what valuable reward can justify obtaining the clan’s vast mineral reserves.

Chapter Summary: “Another Transaction”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang negotiates with the Qilin Ancestor and the current Qilin Clan Chief over several exchanges.
• First, he offers Qilin Clan members the opportunity to join the Jie Sect as core or personal disciples. He will personally select one Qilin descendant as his disciple, granting that individual the benefits of his successor and the right to inherit the Jie Sect.
• The Qilin Clan accepts this arrangement, while Chen Yang clarifies that he also wants Qilin Clan bones or the Pangu bones preserved by the clan.
• The Qilin Clan explains that very few Qilin bones remain. Many were fused into the Qilin Seal, while others became part of the Primordial Wilderness after the clan merged with its mountains, rivers, and earth veins.
• Chen Yang reveals his larger plan: he wants to build a massive formation across the Human Clan’s twelve territories, possibly extending farther. The formation would be integrated into the earth and protected by mountain gods and earth spirits appointed through the Earth Book.
• Qilin bones are especially valuable because they can merge with the Primordial Wilderness, but the Qilin Clan does not possess enough. The Qilin Ancestor therefore offers fragments of Pangu’s Divine Bone and materials left by Chaos Demon God descendants.
• In exchange, Chen Yang offers the Qilin Clan the right to mint currency. They negotiate whether the Qilin Clan will join Chen Yang’s existing currency system or create an independent Qilin Currency.
• Chen Yang refuses to make Qilin Currency replace Human Currency, but agrees that the two currencies may be exchanged and that Qilin Currency may be used within Human Clan territory.
• The Qilin Ancestor accepts this compromise and agrees to hand over the clan’s Pangu bones and Chaos Demon God materials.
• Chen Yang then proposes a third transaction: a mutual-defense contract. If Demon Cultivators attack, the Qilin Clan will assist the Human Clan, and the Human Clan will likewise aid the Qilin Clan in times of crisis.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang is shown as ambitious, strategic, and highly practical. His plan to transform the Human Clan’s territories into a vast defensive formation demonstrates his long-term vision and concern for the clan’s security.
• He also proves flexible but firm in negotiation. Although he offers valuable benefits—including discipleship, succession rights, and currency privileges—he refuses to surrender control over the Human Clan’s monetary system.
• The Qilin Ancestor is cautious and shrewd. He recognizes the value of the Qilin Clan’s remaining treasures and repeatedly presses Chen Yang for greater compensation.
• The current Qilin Clan Chief provides historical and practical information about the scarcity of Qilin bones and participates in evaluating the proposed deals.
• The Qilin Clan gradually moves from suspicion and resistance to cooperation after Chen Yang offers benefits that can restore the clan’s influence and secure its future.

Significant Themes

• Strategic alliance and mutual benefit: Both sides treat relationships as carefully negotiated transactions, balancing immediate rewards against long-term survival.
• Preservation and revival of declining clans: The Qilin Clan’s dwindling bones and resources symbolize its decline, while access to discipleship and currency authority offers a path toward renewed influence.
• Defense and collective security: Chen Yang’s formation and the proposed mutual-defense pact reflect the growing threat posed by Demon Cultivators.
• Power through institutions: Currency, discipleship, succession, formations, and territorial control are presented as major sources of authority.
• Trust versus self-interest: Cooperation is possible, but only when both parties believe the exchange is fair and their interests are protected.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and the Qilin Ancestor engage in a tense but respectful bargaining process.
• The Qilin Ancestor questions Chen Yang’s motives for seeking Qilin bones, eventually deducing that they are intended for a territorial formation.
• Chen Yang explains his formation plan, while the Qilin Ancestor evaluates its feasibility and suggests using Pangu bones and inherited materials to make it possible.
• Their currency negotiation becomes the central point of conflict: the Qilin Ancestor seeks recognition of Qilin Currency across the Human Clan’s sphere, while Chen Yang protects the dominance of Human Currency.
• The chapter ends with Chen Yang expanding the relationship beyond material exchange, proposing a formal alliance in which both the Human and Qilin Clans pledge to defend one another.

Chapter Summary: “Trump Card”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang negotiates an alliance with the Qilin Clan to strengthen the Human Clan against the rapidly gathering Demon Cultivators.
• The Qilin Ancestor initially considers the proposed compensation inadequate, fearing that helping the Human Clan could endanger the weakened Qilin Clan.
• Chen Yang offers the Qilin Clan:
  • Half a portion of the Human Clan’s Fortune
  • Access to Human Clan faith and material subsidies
  • Perfect Reincarnation treatment
  • Permission for Qilin members to reincarnate as humans and inherit the Literary Dao lineage
• The Qilin Ancestor accepts, provided reincarnated qilins must rely on their own efforts to master the Literary Dao. A formal contract is signed before the Heavenly Dao.
• The contract binds the Qilin Clan to serve as the Human Clan’s auspicious beasts, answer its summons, and help resolve its crises. In return, the Qilin Clan shares in the Human Clan’s Fortune and gains opportunities for reincarnation and advancement.
• Several years later, Qilin resources and experts arrive in Human Clan territory. The Human Clan, Qilin Clan, Dragon Clan, Jie Sect, Wu Tribe, and other forces fight together against Demon Cultivators and zombies.
• The Human Clan initially gains the upper hand, but Demon Cultivators from across the Primordial World continue mobilizing toward Human territory. Chen Yang recognizes that the current battles are only the beginning of a much larger conflict.
• Duobao offers to persuade other powerful factions to provide assistance, but Chen Yang instead asks him to help prepare a mysterious “trump card.”
• During a battle, a Jie Sect Daoist using talismans appears. His techniques have a powerful natural effect against zombies, causing them to flee in fear, though the talismans are less effective against Demon Cultivators.
• Chen Yang rescues the Daoist when Demon Cultivators attempt to surround him and learns that the Daoist’s true body is the Human Talisman: Peace Talisman.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates strategic foresight and political skill. Rather than relying solely on military strength, he secures the Qilin Clan through an attractive long-term alliance and begins planning a hidden trump card for the larger war.
• The Qilin Ancestor is cautious and protective of his declining clan, refusing to sacrifice his people without sufficient guarantees. He ultimately becomes a committed ally of the Human Clan.
• Duobao shows loyalty and initiative by offering to recruit additional allies, but Chen Yang assigns him a more important and secretive task.
• The yellow-robed Daoist is revealed as a former Jie Sect outer disciple whose talisman inheritance comes from his transformed true body. His unexplained ability to counter zombies marks him as potentially important to the war.
• Turtle-Spirit Holy Mother and Golden-Spirit Holy Mother provide battlefield intelligence, emphasizing that the Demon Cultivators are abandoning secrecy and concentrating their forces against humanity.

Significant Themes

• Alliance through mutual benefit: Chen Yang unites the Human and Qilin Clans through a carefully negotiated exchange of Fortune, protection, faith, and future opportunities.
• Preparation against overwhelming danger: The chapter stresses that the current victories are temporary and that the true Demon Cultivator offensive has not yet begun.
• Strategic foresight and hidden power: Chen Yang’s request for a “trump card” suggests that defeating the Demon Cultivators will require more than conventional armies and alliances.
• Reincarnation and transformation: The Qilin Clan’s possible rebirth as humans and the Daoist’s transformation from a talisman into a human both highlight the importance of changing forms while preserving or developing inherited power.
• Natural enemies and specialized abilities: The talismans’ unusual effectiveness against zombies introduces the idea that certain powers may possess inherent advantages against specific threats.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and the Qilin Ancestor engage in a tense but respectful negotiation, ultimately establishing a binding partnership.
• The Qilin Ancestor reassures Chen Yang that his consciousness remains intact, distinguishing himself from the Dragon Ancestor whose Primordial Spirit was destroyed.
• Chen Yang, Duobao, and the Holy Mothers assess the worsening battlefield situation and the scale of the Demon Cultivators’ mobilization.
• Duobao offers broader diplomatic assistance, while Chen Yang redirects him toward preparing a secret weapon.
• Chen Yang intervenes personally to save the talisman-using Daoist, then questions him about his origins and unusual zombie-suppressing abilities.

Chapter Summary: Maoshan and the Jiangshi in Complete Confrontation

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang discovers that the mysterious Daoist is the human-form incarnation of the Human Talisman, an Innate Spiritual Treasure of low-grade quality.
• The Daoist explains that he was born in a blessed land called Maoshan Dao Ling, leading him to name himself Dao Ling.
• His Human Talisman ability, the Talisman-Breeding Divine Art, allows him to create new talismans based on his understanding of people, objects, natural phenomena, and divine abilities.
• After fighting many jiangshi and sensing their deathly qi, Dao Ling develops the Jiangshi-Sealing Talisman, which proves highly effective against the Zombie Clan.
• Chen Yang and Duobao recognize that Dao Ling’s talisman system has enormous potential and can be taught to others. Talisman-making becomes comparable to artifact forging and other major auxiliary cultivation paths.
• Chen Yang accepts Dao Ling as his disciple and renames him Zhang Daoling, giving him the Daoist title Maoshan Daoist.
• Chen Yang instructs Zhang Daoling to spread talisman arts among the Human Clan so they can fight the jiangshi.
• Over several hundred years, humans learn to create talismans using qi, blood, spiritual energy, cinnabar, and demon-beast blood. These talismans can seal jiangshi, heal injuries, restore strength, and establish formations.
• The talismans dramatically weaken the jiangshi army and allow Human Clan warriors to turn the tide against the Demon Cultivators. Zhang Daoling earns the title “Jiangshi Bane,” establishing the complete opposition between Maoshan and the jiangshi.
• Zhang Daoling later proposes combining talisman arts with Chen Yang’s Body-Forged Formation, inscribing talismans directly onto his own body. Chen Yang names this proposed technique the Body-to-Talisman Art.
• As Zhang Daoling enters seclusion to cultivate, Duobao questions whether Chen Yang intends for him to inherit the Formation Dao. Chen Yang explains that his other disciples are suited to different paths, while Zhang Daoling’s talisman nature makes him uniquely qualified to carry on Chen Yang’s formation legacy.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang recognizes the strategic and developmental value of talisman arts. He shifts from merely investigating Dao Ling’s abilities to deliberately cultivating him as a successor to the Formation Dao.
• Zhang Daoling evolves from a weak, uncertain spiritual-treasure incarnation into a committed disciple and major teacher of the Human Clan. His understanding of talismans expands through Chen Yang’s support and teachings.
• Duobao moves from surprise and curiosity about the talismans to acknowledging their importance and Zhang Daoling’s suitability as Chen Yang’s successor.
• Chen Yang’s broader succession plans become clearer: each disciple follows a path suited to their nature, while Zhang Daoling is selected to inherit the Formation Dao.

Significant Themes

• Inheritance and succession: Chen Yang seeks someone capable of continuing his teachings, especially the Formation Dao.
• Adaptation and innovation: Zhang Daoling creates talismans by combining observation, comprehension, and experience, turning knowledge into practical supernatural tools.
• The empowerment of the Human Clan: Talisman arts give ordinary humans a means to resist powerful jiangshi and Demon Cultivators.
• The fusion of disciplines: The chapter links talisman creation with artifact forging, formation crafting, and body cultivation.
• Destiny and cultural symbolism: Zhang Daoling’s origin at Maoshan and his anti-jiangshi abilities echo the Maoshan Daoist tradition from Chen Yang’s past-life memories.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen Yang questions Dao Ling about his origin, name, and ability to restrain jiangshi.
• Dao Ling demonstrates the Talisman-Breeding Divine Art for Chen Yang and Duobao, proving that others can reproduce his talismans.
• Chen Yang offers to take Dao Ling as his disciple, then formally renames him Zhang Daoling and gives him the title Maoshan Daoist.
• Chen Yang charges Zhang Daoling with teaching talisman arts to humanity, while Zhang Daoling vows to fulfill the task.
• Chen Yang and Zhang Daoling discuss advancing talisman arts by inscribing formations onto the body.
• Duobao and Chen Yang later discuss Zhang Daoling’s role as the inheritor of Chen Yang’s Formation Dao and the difficulty of finding suitable successors.

Chapter Summary: Not You Dead, Then Me Gone

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang explains his plan to his master, Duobao, to protect the Human Clan from the Demon Race and from the hidden forces targeting him.
• His first major project is the Human Clan Great Wall, a massive grand artifact connecting all the Human Clan’s border cities across its twelve regions.
• The Great Wall will be built using:
  • Demon bones and corpses as its foundation
  • Human bones, flesh, and blood
  • Dragon Veins
  • Pangu Bones, with possible Dragon Clan remains
• The structure is intended to become more than a wall: it will function as an enormous Dragon Vein, possibly even an Ancestral Dragon Vein, capable of transforming demonic qi into Innate Spiritual Qi and suppressing the Demon Race’s fortune forever.
• Duobao initially points out the enormous difficulties involved, including gathering materials, controlling demonic qi, and defending the construction from enemy attacks. However, once he learns Chen Yang has enough Pangu Bones from the Qilin Clan, he enthusiastically agrees to help refine the artifact.
• Billions of Human Clan members begin gathering and processing materials. Demon remains are supplied by Xingtian’s clan, Kunlun City, and battlefields, while Human remains are also incorporated into the Great Wall.
• Because Demon Race materials are needed, Chen Yang orders the Human Clan to launch a large-scale war against Demon Cultivators. The Demon Race retaliates, mobilizing forces from across the Primordial World and attacking the Human Clan.
• Other major powers observe the conflict, suspecting that the Demon Cultivators are being manipulated by a hidden force targeting either Chen Yang or the Human Clan.
• While Duobao oversees the Great Wall’s construction, Chen Yang travels throughout the Human Realm to establish a second defensive system: a formation encompassing all twelve Human Clan regions.
• Chen Yang and Xiao Ling’er discuss combining the Qilin, Dragon Clan, and Phoenix formations. Their goal is to reproduce the structure of Pangu himself—representing his bones, meridians, and wisdom—and potentially create a formation equivalent to a miniature Primordial World.
• Xiao Ling’er continues deducing the formation, while Chen Yang appoints mountain gods and land gods throughout the Human Realm.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates increasing determination and willingness to make extreme sacrifices for the Human Clan’s survival. He accepts that his destiny has placed him at the center of powerful enemies and resolves to grow stronger through continual conflict.
• He also reveals himself as a visionary strategist, planning not merely a defensive wall but a civilization-wide system that combines artifact refining, formations, fortune suppression, and the Human Clan’s collective remains.
• Duobao shifts from concern and skepticism to wholehearted support. His love of artifact refining is awakened by the unprecedented scale of the Great Wall, and he willingly embraces the dangerous project.
• Xiao Ling’er acts as Chen Yang’s formation assistant and intellectual collaborator. Although she recognizes the difficulty of his ideas, she accepts the task of slowly deducing the required formation.
• The Human Clan becomes increasingly unified and militarized, with its people, generals, resources, and dead all contributing to the struggle for survival.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice for collective survival: Human and Demon remains are transformed into the foundation of the Human Clan’s future, blurring the line between death and continued service to one’s people.
• Creation through destruction: The Human Clan’s war against the Demon Race supplies the materials needed to construct its ultimate defense.
• Civilization as a weapon: Chen Yang seeks to turn the entire Human Realm into a unified artifact and formation rather than relying on individual heroes or isolated cities.
• Destiny and resistance: Chen Yang understands that he is a Son of Destiny facing enemies influenced by a mysterious higher will. His only path is to accumulate strength and resist fate through preparation.
• Pangu as the model of order: The planned fusion of Qilin, Dragon, and Phoenix formations reflects an attempt to recreate Pangu’s cosmic structure and build a complete world-like defensive system.
• Unity and identity: The Great Wall embodies the Human Clan’s shared blood, bones, fortune, and history, becoming both a physical defense and a symbol of collective existence.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Duobao have a master-disciple relationship built on trust, though Duobao challenges Chen Yang about the feasibility and danger of his plans.
• Duobao’s doubts lead Chen Yang to clarify the Great Wall’s true purpose and the materials required for it.
• Chen Yang and Xiao Ling’er collaborate closely on the twelve-region formation. Xiao Ling’er proposes using the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods Fiend Formation, but Chen Yang explains why its material cost and effects would be unsuitable.
• Their discussion develops the larger concept of fusing the three clan formations to manifest a structure resembling Pangu and the Primordial World.
• Chen Yang’s commands bring the Human Clan’s generals and billions of civilians into the war and construction effort, transforming his personal plan into a civilization-wide undertaking.

Chapter Summary: Primordial World Formation

Key Plot Points and Events

• As reincarnation allows many Human Clan heroic spirits to be reborn, fewer souls remain available to become mountain gods and earth gods. Chen Yang therefore gathers the souls of countless Human Clan warriors who died in battle and enfeoffs them as land deities.
• He travels across the Human Clan Territory, filling it with mountain gods and earth gods while rearranging unsuitable mountains, rivers, and Dragon Veins.
• After years of preparation, Xiao Ling’er announces that the formation has achieved partial success. The Qilin Formation and Dragon Clan Formation have fused, while the Phoenix Formation remains too difficult to integrate.
• The fusion represents the combination of Pangu’s bones and meridians, theoretically creating both a Pangu-like body and a Perfect Human Clan member who has perfected the Heaven-Mending Scripture.
• Chen Yang names the new formation the Primordial World Formation and decides to integrate it into the earth of the Human Clan Territory.
• Using the Earth Book, Chen Yang orders the mountain gods and earth gods to relocate mountains, rivers, and Dragon Veins according to the formation’s design.
• Because the territory is enormous and the Demon Cultivators’ invasion is approaching, the work must be accelerated. Chen Yang summons the Qilin Clan and Jie Sect disciples to assist the land deities.
• The Qilin Clan’s assistance reduces the estimated completion time from several hundred years to roughly one hundred years.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates strategic foresight and urgency. He adapts his plans when the Phoenix Formation proves impossible to integrate and chooses a practical, partially completed formation rather than waiting for perfection.
• He takes on the role of organizer and protector of the Human Clan, personally managing geography, divine appointments, and defensive preparations against the coming invasion.
• Xiao Ling’er acts as the formation’s analyst and developer. She explains the theoretical significance of the fused formations and continues researching how to incorporate the Phoenix Formation, which symbolizes wisdom.
• Qilin Son is introduced as Chen Yang’s disciple and a possible future heir to the Jie Sect leadership. As a gifted direct descendant of the Qilin Clan, he possesses exceptional aptitude, cultivation, and inherited techniques, leaving Chen Yang uncertain how best to instruct him.
• The former Human Clan warriors gain new purpose as mountain gods and earth gods, using abilities such as earth escape, moving mountains, and relocating Dragon Veins.

Significant Themes

• Preparation against impending catastrophe: The chapter emphasizes the race to strengthen the Human Clan before the Demon Cultivators invade.
• Unity and synthesis: The Primordial World Formation combines the strengths and symbolic meanings of different clans, particularly Pangu’s bones and meridians.
• Transformation and perfection: The Human Clan’s cultivation of the Heaven-Mending Scripture allows it to evolve toward a “Perfect Human Clan” modeled more closely on Pangu.
• Sacrifice and service: Human warriors continue serving their people after death as land deities, while the mountain gods are willing to exhaust themselves for the Human Clan’s survival.
• Practical compromise: Chen Yang accepts a semi-finished formation because time is more valuable than waiting for a flawless result.
• Order imposed upon nature: Mountains, rivers, and Dragon Veins are deliberately rearranged to turn the entire Human Clan Territory into part of a vast defensive and evolutionary formation.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Xiao Ling’er: They discuss the formation’s success and limitations. Xiao Ling’er gives the technical explanation, while Chen Yang decides how to apply the incomplete formation and names it.
• Chen Yang and the mountain gods/earth gods: Chen Yang commands them to reshape the territory. They report the immense time required, and he urges them to work faster while promising additional assistance.
• Chen Yang and the Qilin disciple: Chen Yang relies on Qilin Son to mobilize the Qilin Clan, but also reflects on the young disciple’s exceptional talent and his own uncertainty about teaching him.
• Chen Yang and the Qilin Clan: Their earlier exchange of resources resulted in Qilin Son becoming Chen Yang’s direct disciple and a potential successor to the Jie Sect, strengthening cooperation between the two groups.

Chapter Summary: “Faith System”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang decides to properly instruct Qilin Son, who has spent much of his time under Chen Yang’s tutelage without receiving systematic teaching.
• Although Qilin Son belongs to the Qilin Clan’s direct bloodline and can inherit its own cultivation methods, Chen Yang teaches him Formation Dao, explaining that all his disciples should at least understand formations.
• While Qilin Son studies the Formation Dao inheritance, Chen Yang observes the Human Clan’s territory. Its mountains, rivers, and streams are gradually forming a massive formation, aided by the Qilin Clan.
• Realizing that maintaining the formation will be as important as creating it, Chen Yang begins refining special pseudo-divine halls known as the Halls of Heroes.
• The halls are intended to shelter the Human Clan’s heroic spirits—souls of fallen heroes who refuse reincarnation because they remain devoted to protecting humanity. Without a place to cultivate, these spirits gradually dissipate.
• Chen Yang reveals that he plans to teach these heroic spirits a new cultivation method: the Faith System, also called the Divine Dao System.
• He explains that the Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man contain traces of the Faith Dao. These treasures originated from the remains of Genesis, the Chaos Spiritual Treasure belonging to the Faith Demon God.
• By studying the Human Book and Earth Book, Chen Yang created his own version of the Faith System, combining their inherited Faith Dao with methods derived from the Buddhist Sect and the Divine Dao System of his former life.
• Chen Yang passes the Faith System to Qilin Son. The system requires practitioners to gather believers, refine their faith, use it to perform Divine Arts, establish a Divine Kingdom, and condense and strengthen a Godhead.
• Chen Yang acknowledges the system’s serious weaknesses: practitioners depend heavily on the number of believers, lose strength when faith declines, and risk soul contamination if the faith they gather is impure.
• Despite these flaws, Chen Yang believes the system is ideal for Human Clan heroic spirits. Humanity’s large population can provide abundant faith, allowing the spirits to become divine cultivators while helping maintain the great formation protecting the Human Clan.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang takes on a more active role as Qilin Son’s teacher, demonstrating both his mastery of Formation Dao and his willingness to share his deepest discoveries.
• He is shown to be compassionate and practical: rather than allowing heroic spirits to fade away, he creates a cultivation path suited to their condition and purpose.
• Chen Yang also reveals more of his origins and intellectual foundations, including his study of the Three Books, Buddhist faith techniques, and the Divine Dao System from his previous life.
• Qilin Son displays respect, curiosity, and strong comprehension. He quickly understands the advantages and limitations of the Faith System and recognizes that certain aspects, such as the Faith Avatar, may be useful even to him.

Significant Themes

• Preserving sacrifice and loyalty: The Halls of Heroes honor those who gave their lives for humanity and continue protecting it after death.
• Faith as power: Strength in the Faith System depends directly on belief and the number of followers, linking cultivation to social influence and collective devotion.
• The limits of created systems: Chen Yang’s invention is powerful but incomplete, emphasizing that even great wisdom cannot fully overcome the flaws of an imperfect Dao inheritance.
• Inheritance and adaptation: Chen Yang combines ancient treasures, Buddhist methods, and knowledge from his previous life to create a new system suited to the Human Clan’s unique circumstances.
• Formation and civilization: The Human Clan’s territory is being transformed into a vast formation, suggesting that cultivation, defense, and the organization of society are becoming closely connected.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang speaks to Qilin Son as both a strict master and a trusted mentor, offering him advanced teachings while allowing him to decide how deeply he wishes to pursue Formation Dao.
• Qilin Son respectfully accepts the instruction and repeatedly questions Chen Yang to understand the purpose and origins of the Halls of Heroes and the Faith System.
• Their exchange allows Chen Yang to disclose major secrets about the Three Books, the Faith Demon God, and the origins of his cultivation system.
• Chen Yang encourages Qilin Son to focus on understanding formations rather than becoming distracted by the Faith System, while Qilin Son remains attentive and eager to learn.

Chapter Summary: “Sacrificing for the Human Clan Cause”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang refines numerous Halls of Heroes using immense amounts of faith power. These halls are designed to house the souls of deceased Human Clan warriors and martial artists who refuse reincarnation.
• He gathers countless Human Clan Heroic Spirits into the halls and teaches them the Faith System, enabling them to cultivate through faith rather than reincarnating.
• The Faith System progresses through the stages of Divine Kingdom, Godhead, Lesser God, Intermediate God, Greater God, and Supreme God, reaching an equivalent of the Quasi-Saint realm in the Immortal Dao System, though it is weaker because it depends on external faith.
• Chen Yang promises to improve the system if he obtains the Heaven Book, also known as the Investiture List. He orders the Heroic Spirits to protect the Human Clan and the Human Dao formation.
• Over several decades, Chen Yang places Halls of Heroes throughout the Human Clan Territory. The Human Clan begins worshipping the Heroic Spirits, allowing many of them to rapidly strengthen and condense Godheads.
• The mountain gods and earth gods eventually complete the arrangement of every mountain, river, earth vein, and Dragon Vein according to Chen Yang’s formation design.
• Chen Yang begins the final stage of constructing the Primordial World Formation, embedding fragments of Pangu’s Divine Bones into the formation’s eyes. This activates the formation and links the entire Human Clan Territory together.
• The formation creates a self-contained defensive world that only members of the Human Clan can easily enter. Outsiders cannot fly or burrow into it, making the territory extremely secure.
• Chen Yang formally divides and names the Human Clan’s territories as provinces, including Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Dongzhou, and Bingzhou. The chapter ends as he reaches the central region of the Human Clan Territory to complete the remaining core arrangements.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates his increasing mastery over artifact refinement, faith cultivation, and large-scale formations. He acts as both protector and organizer of the Human Clan.
• He becomes more attentive to the fate of the deceased, creating an alternative to reincarnation for those who wish to continue serving the Human Clan.
• The Heroic Spirits transition from disembodied souls into a new cultivation path. Their devotion to the Human Sovereign deepens, and many begin advancing rapidly through the Faith System.
• The mountain gods and earth gods are portrayed as loyal former Human Clan souls who willingly endure exhaustion and sacrifice their efforts to secure the Human Clan’s future.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice for the collective: The Heroic Spirits, mountain gods, and earth gods willingly give up ordinary reincarnation or personal comfort to protect the Human Clan.
• Faith as power and responsibility: The Human Clan’s worship becomes a resource that sustains both the Heroic Spirits and the wider defensive system.
• Creating security through unity: The Primordial World Formation physically and spiritually unifies the Human Clan’s territory, turning it into a protected world of its own.
• Honoring the dead: The Halls of Heroes preserve the contributions of fallen warriors and allow them to continue serving the living.
• Order and civilization: Naming and dividing the provinces marks the Human Clan’s territory as an organized, stable civilization rather than a loose collection of regions.

Character Interactions

• The Heroic Spirits respectfully acknowledge Chen Yang as the Human Sovereign and accept his command to cultivate and guard the Human Clan.
• Chen Yang encourages them to work diligently but also recognizes that the Faith System remains imperfect and may need further development.
• The mountain gods and earth gods report the successful completion of the territorial formation to Chen Yang. He praises their efforts and grants them permission to cultivate through the Faith System while receiving Human Clan worship.
• Their exchange emphasizes mutual loyalty: Chen Yang values their contributions, while they insist that their sacrifices are simply their duty to the Human Clan.

Chapter Summary: “Special Effects”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang completes the Primordial World Formation by fusing the largest Divine Bone into the Human Clan Territory and naming the central region Central State.
• The twelve Human Clan states merge into a vast formation modeled after the structure of the Perfect Human Clan—its bones, meridians, acupoints, and Dragon Veins. Divine Bones form the core, while minerals and the remains of Chaos Demon Gods substitute for missing materials.
• Once activated, the formation covers the entire Human Clan Territory and transforms it into a powerful defensive barrier.
• The formation immediately changes the border battles:
  • Human Clan martial artists are strengthened.
  • Zombies and Demon Cultivators are weakened and suppressed.
  • Human forces rapidly counterattack and slaughter many enemies who can neither escape nor resist.
• Duobao and Yun Zhongzi recognize the formation’s success and decide to accelerate their own projects: artifact refinement and the Great Wall Project.
• Powerful figures throughout the Primordial World are shocked by the formation’s immense scale and debate whether it can truly be maintained.
• The formation unexpectedly develops intelligence, creating a Formation Spirit.
• Chen Yang names the spirit Human Dao and assigns it responsibility for maintaining the formation and protecting the Human Clan.
• Human Dao explains the formation’s main abilities:
  1. Repelling foreign races.
  2. Suppressing outsiders within Human Clan territory.
  3. Strengthening Human Clan members.
  4. Gathering and protecting Human Clan Fortune.
  5. Creating a self-contained world with its own rules of time and space.
• Human Dao warns that the formation’s formation eyes are vulnerable. Chen Yang plans to have the Hall of Heroes and Human Clan Heroic Spirits guard them.
• The chapter ends when Chen Yang questions Human Dao’s claim that Human Clan Fortune is difficult for outsiders to steal.

2. Character Developments

• Chen Yang reaches a major milestone as a Formation Dao cultivator, successfully creating an enormous formation integrated into an entire territory rather than merely constructing a conventional formation.
• He demonstrates both pride in his achievement and practical caution, immediately investigating the formation’s durability, weaknesses, and special abilities.
• Chen Yang also takes on a more explicitly protective, almost foundational role toward the Human Clan by naming Human Dao and organizing defenses for the formation eyes.
• Human Dao is born as an intelligent entity formed from the completed formation, Human Clan faith, and mysterious Willpower. Though not yet capable of taking human form, it possesses awareness, loyalty, and confidence in its ability to serve the Human Clan.
• Duobao and Yun Zhongzi are motivated by Chen Yang’s success to speed up their own large-scale projects.
• The Human Clan martial artists gain confidence and morale after experiencing the formation’s enhancement, while Demon Cultivators are suddenly placed at a severe disadvantage.

3. Significant Themes

• The fusion of cultivation and civilization: The formation is not merely a weapon but an integrated structure built into the Human Clan’s land, fortune, energy, and history.
• Collective power: The formation’s completion depends on Chen Yang’s design, Xiao Ling’er’s refinement, Divine Bones, Dragon Veins, Human Clan Fortune, and the support and faith of countless Human Clan members.
• Creation and consciousness: Human Dao’s birth suggests that sufficiently advanced formations can develop intelligence, especially when empowered by faith and Willpower.
• Protection of identity and territory: The formation establishes the Human Realm as a distinct world, shielding the Human Clan from external races and outside laws.
• Strength through unity: The Human Clan becomes stronger by acting as one interconnected body, reflected in the formation’s skeletal and meridian-like design.
• Power and vulnerability: Despite its overwhelming abilities, the formation depends on vulnerable formation eyes, emphasizing that even seemingly absolute defenses have weaknesses.
• Unexplained forces: Faith, Willpower, Fortune, and the ability to redefine space and time remain mysterious, hinting at deeper metaphysical developments.

4. Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Human Dao: Chen Yang questions Human Dao about its origin, maintenance, weaknesses, and abilities. He treats it as both his creation and a valuable new subject of Formation Dao research, while Human Dao responds with complete loyalty and calls him “Master.”
• Chen Yang and Duobao/Yun Zhongzi: Their brief exchange shows that Chen Yang’s achievement affects the wider strategic situation. Duobao realizes he must work faster, and Yun Zhongzi agrees that the Great Wall must be completed sooner.
• Human Clan martial artists and Demon Cultivators: The formation reverses the balance of power. Human fighters mock and overwhelm the weakened Demon Cultivators, turning previous stalemates into decisive victories.
• Chen Yang and the Human Clan: Though they do not interact directly in extended dialogue, the Human Clan’s faith contributes to Human Dao’s birth, while Chen Yang’s formation protects and empowers them in return.
• Human Dao and the Human Clan: Human Dao views itself as the Human Clan’s guardian and “Dao resonance,” linking the people’s collective faith and fortune to the formation’s continued existence.

Chapter Summary: The Mysterious Figure

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Formation Spirit explains the nature of Fortune to Chen Yang. While some types of Fortune—such as that belonging to the Buddhist Sect—can be partially seized, the Human Clan’s Fortune cannot be removed because it is intrinsically tied to the Human Realm.
• By gathering and protecting the Human Clan’s scattered Fortune, the Formation Spirit prevents powerful outsiders from plundering it and ensures that it continues circulating within the Human Realm.
• The Formation Spirit reveals that, within its domain, it can:
  • Teleport members of the Human Clan anywhere in the Human Realm.
  • Control or alter the passage of time.
  • Divide regions and restrict communication.
  • Block outside interference.
  • Regulate climate, sunlight, and other environmental conditions.
• Chen Yang realizes that the evolved Primordial World Formation has made the Formation Spirit nearly equivalent to the Heavenly Dao within the Human Realm. He recognizes that its abilities will allow him to implement plans that were previously impossible.
• Chen Yang establishes the Hall of Heroes at the formation’s key nodes and supplies them with immense faith power, emphasizing the formation’s vital importance to the Human Clan.
• Returning to the borderlands, Chen Yang observes that the formation has greatly weakened the Demon Cultivators’ offensive. The Talisman System has restrained the Zombie Clan, while his disciple Zhang Daoling—now known as the Jiangshi Bane—has become renowned.
• Believing the Human Clan to be temporarily secure but expecting future schemes against him, Chen Yang begins secluded cultivation to increase his strength.
• Meanwhile, vast numbers of Demon Cultivators continue entering the Primordial Eastern Wilderness, overwhelming local factions and forcing many of them to join Kunlun City in resisting the invasion.
• A mysterious black-cloaked figure gathers the leaders of the Demon Cultivators and condemns them for failing to conquer the Human Clan. He orders them to suspend their scattered attacks, assemble at the Human Clan’s borders, and await his command for a coordinated assault.
• The Demon Cultivators question why they are being forced to fight the Human Clan, especially since the campaign has produced heavy losses and little profit. They also suggest that killing Chen Yang would be more efficient.
• The mysterious figure refuses to explain his motives and threatens to revoke the powers he granted the Demon Cultivators. When one cultivator resists, a black shadow consumes and kills him instantly.
• Terrified, the remaining Demon Cultivators submit and leave to carry out his orders.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang becomes more aware of the Formation Spirit’s immense strategic value. Rather than treating it merely as a defensive formation, he begins viewing it as a tool capable of reshaping the Human Realm and supporting broader plans. He also adopts a cautious attitude, recognizing that his growing influence will make him the focus of enemy schemes.
• The Formation Spirit demonstrates expanded authority and intelligence. It is no longer simply a magical formation but functions almost like the governing will of the Human Realm, protecting Human Clan Fortune and controlling space, time, and natural conditions.
• Zhang Daoling gains prominence as the “Jiangshi Bane,” showing how the Human Clan’s systems and defenders are becoming increasingly effective against the Zombie Clan.
• The mysterious figure is revealed as an extremely powerful and authoritarian mastermind. He controls the Demon Cultivators through fear, grants them power, and can destroy them when they disobey.
• The Demon Cultivator leaders shift from confident aggressors to frightened subordinates. Their doubts about the war remain, but fear forces them to obey.

Significant Themes

• Protection of collective destiny: The Human Clan’s Fortune represents a shared racial foundation that cannot be privately seized, emphasizing the importance of preserving collective power.
• Order versus exploitation: The Formation Spirit safeguards the Human Clan’s resources, while the mysterious figure manipulates the Demon Cultivators for an undisclosed purpose.
• The rise of institutional power: The formation, the Talisman System, Kunlun City, and the Jie Sect show the Human Clan becoming stronger through organization, technology, alliances, and systems rather than relying solely on individual experts.
• Fear-based control: The Demon Cultivators are not united by a common goal; they are controlled by the mysterious figure’s threats and superior power.
• Preparation before the decisive conflict: Chen Yang cultivates while the Demon Cultivators regroup, creating tension as both sides prepare for a larger confrontation.
• Hidden motives and manipulation: The true reason for targeting the Human Clan remains concealed, suggesting that the war serves a deeper purpose beyond revenge or material gain.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and the Formation Spirit discuss Fortune and the Formation’s abilities, with Chen Yang recognizing and encouraging its potential.
• Chen Yang protects the formation’s nodes by placing the Hall of Heroes there and reinforcing them with faith power.
• The Demon Cultivator leaders confront the mysterious figure about their losses and the unexplained purpose of the war.
• The mysterious figure responds with intimidation rather than explanation, killing one challenger to force the others into submission.
• The chapter ends with the Demon Cultivators obeying the mysterious figure, despite their continuing confusion and resentment.

Chapter Summary: “A Special Origin”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Two mysterious black-robed Demon Cultivators discuss their plan to accelerate the slaughter of the Human Clan. They intend to use Demon Cultivators as expendable forces and exploit methods of control implanted in them when they were first nurtured.
• They acknowledge that Chen Yang is the Human Clan’s greatest obstacle. His powerful body, rumored to have reached the Physical Half-Step Primordial Unity realm, and his possession of the Slaying Immortals Sword Formation make killing him extremely difficult.
• Unable to secure help from the Devil Race, the Demon Cultivators decide to send another powerful figure to intercept and assassinate Chen Yang.
• The Demon Cultivators halt their immediate offensive and begin establishing camps, gathering forces for a massive, coordinated assault.
• Human leaders—including Suiren Clan, Youchao Clan, Ziyi Clan, and Human Emperor Xuanyuan—recognize the danger but hesitate to attack because the Human Clan’s defensive formation would not strengthen them outside its territory.
• Since Chen Yang is in secluded cultivation, the Human Dao Formation Spirit relays his instructions: the Human Clan should also remain defensive, accumulate strength, and prepare for the coming war.
• The Formation Spirit explains that the Human Clan’s grand formation is linked through the Divine Bone to the entire fused Human Realm. Its limit is extraordinarily high; destroying it would require a force capable of shattering the twelve regions of the Human Realm.
• A thousand years pass in relative calm. Demon Cultivators gather throughout the Primordial World, with about sixty percent of their general-level forces concentrated in the east and forty percent surrounding the Human Clan.
• The remaining Demon Cultivators remain locked in a standoff with Kunlun City. Their mobilization frightens many eastern factions, forcing some to submit, relocate, or seal their territories.
• The Human Clan similarly mobilizes armies, supplies, and resources. Xuanyuan, Chiyou, and Hongyun cooperate to manage affairs and prepare for the inevitable conflict.
• Chen Yang ultimately breaks through in secluded cultivation. By comprehending the Formation Dao through the Human Dao Formation Spirit, he completes the Formation Dao and condenses a profound origin imbued with the aura of Primordial Unity.
• His breakthrough causes the Human Clan’s Fortune and the Jie Sect’s Fortune to surge, signaling a major improvement in the Human Clan’s power and status.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang grows substantially stronger. His mastery of the Formation Dao reaches completion, and his essence, qi, and spirit merge into a Primordial Unity-level origin.
• Human Dao Formation Spirit demonstrates both loyalty and usefulness, acting as Chen Yang’s messenger and cultivation assistant. It also reveals the immense durability of the Human Clan’s defensive formation.
• Human Emperor Xuanyuan becomes a central wartime leader, coordinating the Human Clan while recognizing the need for unity and preparation.
• Chiyou and Hongyun leave Firecloud Cave to assist Xuanyuan, showing their commitment to protecting the Human Clan.
• Suiren Clan, Youchao Clan, and Ziyi Clan confront the strategic difficulty of defending against a vastly larger enemy force.
• The Demon Cultivator leaders reveal greater urgency and desperation, recognizing that their campaign depends heavily on eliminating Chen Yang.

Significant Themes

• Preparation versus reckless action: Both sides avoid an immediate clash and accumulate forces, emphasizing the importance of strategy and timing.
• Unity in crisis: The Human Clan’s survival depends on cooperation among its leaders, armies, formations, and allied figures.
• The importance of a central protector: Chen Yang’s strength has become closely tied to the Human Clan’s survival; even the Demon Cultivators admit that his death would remove the clan’s greatest trump card.
• Formation Dao and collective power: Chen Yang’s breakthrough is connected to the entire Human Realm’s formation, showing how individual cultivation and the strength of a civilization can reinforce one another.
• Imminent large-scale war: The enormous Demon Cultivator mobilization creates an atmosphere of unavoidable conflict that will affect the entire Primordial World.

Character Interactions

• The black-robed Demon Cultivators debate how to overcome Chen Yang and whether to involve the Devil Race, revealing their fear of his power.
• Human leaders discuss whether to attack the Demon Cultivator camps, but the limitations of fighting outside their formation force them to remain cautious.
• The Human Dao Formation Spirit communicates Chen Yang’s orders to the Human leadership and later explains the formation’s limits directly to Chen Yang.
• Xuanyuan thanks Chiyou and Hongyun for their assistance; both emphasize that they are acting for the sake of the entire Human Clan.
• The Human leaders celebrate when Chen Yang’s breakthrough is reflected in the movement of Human Clan Fortune, recognizing it as a sign that the clan has gained a powerful new foundation.

Chapter Summary: “The Core Ground Was Duobao”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang’s breakthrough is recognized within the Heavenly Court. His mastery of the Formation Dao allows him to fuse his essence, qi, and spirit, condensing an exceptionally powerful Grand Dao Source and reaching the peak of the Half-Step Primordial Unity Realm.
• Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian praise Chen Yang’s talent and rapid progress, while Hongjun reminds them not to neglect the seal suppressing the Demon Dao.
• Chen Yang realizes that his path to the Primordial Unity Realm is now comparatively clear. By continuing the Three Corpses Severing Method and eventually merging his Past-Life, Present-Life, and Future-Life incarnations, he believes he can overcome the normally terrifying bottleneck.
• The Formation Spirit explains that Chen Yang can use it to cultivate formations without physically carving every formation pattern into his body. However, Chen Yang concludes that his most important formations—the Heavenly Capital Divine Baleful Formation, Cosmic Star Formation, and expanded Primordial World Formation—cannot easily develop intelligent Formation Spirits and must instead be constructed manually.
• Chen Yang returns to the Human Clan’s border, where vast numbers of Demon Cultivators are gathering. He meets Suiren Clan, Youchao Clan, and Ziyi Clan, who congratulate him but acknowledge that the Demon Cultivators possess too many hidden experts to be defeated by one person.
• The Human Clan and allied clans continue preparing for an inevitable final war. Chen Yang asks whether the planned blood sacrifice is ready. Suiren Clan objects to its cruelty, but Chen Yang insists that sacrifices are necessary to establish the Human Clan’s foundation.
• Several years later, Chen Yang visits a massive artifact-refining site on the border. Human Clan members and allied craftsmen are processing divine materials under the direction of Duobao.
• Duobao is refining a unique artifact from fragments of the broken Buzhou Mountain. Yun Zhongzi urges Chen Yang to assist, and Chen Yang agrees to personally temper the Buzhou Mountain fragments with his newly enhanced power.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang reaches the peak of Half-Step Primordial Unity and gains confidence that Primordial Unity is attainable through continued cultivation and corpse severing. Despite his strength, he remains aware that he is not yet invincible.
• The Formation Spirit becomes increasingly important as both Chen Yang’s companion and a manifestation of the Formation Dao. It clarifies the advantages and limits of intelligent formations.
• Suiren Clan, Youchao Clan, and Ziyi Clan are shown as committed leaders preparing the Human Clan for war, though Suiren Clan retains moral reservations about the blood sacrifice.
• Duobao is characterized as a master artifact refiner whose skill and enthusiasm make him central to creating the Human Clan’s strategic weapon.
• Yun Zhongzi acts as a practical overseer, reminding Chen Yang that his assistance can greatly accelerate the artifact’s completion.

Significant Themes

• Accumulation and breakthrough: Chen Yang’s advancement results from immense prior preparation, showing that major breakthroughs depend on accumulated foundations as much as sudden insight.
• Alternative paths to power: Chen Yang reaches Half-Step Primordial Unity without fully relying on the Three Corpses Severing Method, demonstrating the possibility of advancing through independent comprehension of the Formation Dao.
• The cost of survival: The planned blood sacrifice highlights the brutal necessities of war and the moral compromises required to preserve and strengthen the Human Clan.
• Creation through cooperation: The Human Clan, allied clans, formation experts, and artifact refiners work together, emphasizing that survival against the Demon Cultivators requires collective effort.
• Transformation of inherited resources: Fragments of the destroyed Buzhou Mountain are repurposed into a new artifact, symbolizing how remnants of the past can become tools for future battles.

Character Interactions

• The Heavenly Court saints discuss Chen Yang’s breakthrough with admiration, while Hongjun redirects their attention to the still-dangerous Demon Dao Seal.
• Chen Yang and the Formation Spirit discuss the relationship between formation intelligence, cultivation, and the limitations of creating Formation Spirits.
• Chen Yang consults the Human Clan leaders about the coming war and the controversial blood sacrifice, receiving reluctant obedience from Suiren Clan.
• Chen Yang reunites with Duobao at the artifact-refining site. Their respectful master-disciple exchange shows mutual pride and affection, while Yun Zhongzi interrupts to focus them on completing the artifact.
• The chapter ends with Chen Yang joining Duobao’s work and beginning to temper the Buzhou Mountain fragments himself.

Chapter Summary: “Storming the Heavenly Court”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After more than ten years spent forging artifacts, Chen Yang experiences an ominous premonition. Although he investigates the fluctuations of Fortune and finds no clear danger, he remains uneasy.
• A wounded Human-Demon Clan messenger arrives with the Suiren Clan, reporting that Demon Cultivators have secretly invaded the Heavenly Court.
• The invaders used hidden star routes left by the ancient Demon Court to bypass the main passage and launch a surprise attack. The Heavenly Court’s defenses were weakened because many soldiers and generals had been transferred to the Star Battlefield against the Outworld Demons.
• Demon Cultivators have already reached the Sixth Heaven, while others have entered the Star Battlefield and attacked the Heavenly troops there, allowing the Outworld Demons to advance.
• Haotian and Yaochi are trapped inside Yaochi after powerful Demon Cultivators sealed it with special treasures. Taiqing Heaven is also sealed, preventing the Three Teachings from responding quickly.
• Duobao and Chen Yang agree that the Heavenly Court must be rescued. Its fall would endanger the Mystic Sect, allow the Outworld Demons to spread into the Primordial World, and potentially weaken the seal on Luohou, enabling the Demon Sect to rise again.
• Chen Yang suspects the invasion is a trap intended to lure him away from the Human Realm. He decides to lead the rescue personally while ordering Duobao and the disciples of the Three Teachings to remain behind and protect the Human Clan.
• Zhang Daoling, Qilin Son, and Chiyou each volunteer to accompany him, but Chen Yang refuses, assigning them to defend the Human Realm and its territory against a possible counterattack.
• Chen Yang explains that many powerful outsiders may deliberately allow the crisis to worsen because they resent the Mystic Sect’s control over resources and hope to see Luohou and the Demon Sect return.
• Gathering tens of billions of Human Clan troops and many Jie Sect outer disciples, Chen Yang marches toward the Heavenly Court. Despite the Demon Cultivators becoming alert at his approach, he continues directly toward the heavens.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang becomes more decisive and confident. Although he recognizes the danger and suspects a conspiracy, he willingly enters the trap, believing his strength and many trump cards will allow him to survive.
• Duobao demonstrates strategic judgment by recognizing the Heavenly Court’s importance and agreeing to remain behind to safeguard the Human Realm.
• Zhang Daoling and Qilin Son show loyalty and concern for their master, warning him that the Heavenly Court may contain an ambush and that the Demon Sect could become involved.
• Chiyou proves his devotion by volunteering to join Chen Yang, but accepts the responsibility of defending the Human Clan when ordered to stay.
• The wounded Human-Demon messenger serves as the bearer of the crisis, revealing the scale and urgency of the invasion.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and responsibility: Chen Yang knowingly places himself in danger to defend the Heavenly Court and the broader Mystic Sect.
• Strategic vigilance: The invasion may be a diversion, emphasizing the importance of anticipating an enemy’s true objective rather than reacting only to visible threats.
• Factional conflict: The struggle between the Mystic Sect, Demon Sect, Demon Cultivators, and Outworld Demons reflects the larger balance between the Dao and the Demon Dao.
• Political opportunism: Hidden powers may exploit the crisis to weaken the Mystic Sect and seize its resources.
• Leadership and trust: Chen Yang’s followers want to protect him, but he assigns them separate duties, showing that effective leadership sometimes requires separation and personal risk.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Duobao debate whether the Heavenly Court should be reinforced and whether Chen Yang should personally lead the operation.
• Chen Yang reassures Duobao that he can survive the danger, while Duobao reluctantly agrees to protect the Human Realm.
• Zhang Daoling and Qilin Son challenge Chen Yang’s decision to go alone, emphasizing the possibility of an ambush and the Demon Sect’s involvement.
• Chen Yang responds with confidence, asserting his status as a powerful Mystic Sect heir and promising to demonstrate the Mystic Sect’s authority.
• Chiyou offers to accompany Chen Yang, but Chen Yang instead entrusts him with defending the Human Clan.
• The chapter ends with Chen Yang leading the Human Clan army toward the Heavenly Court, initiating the rescue campaign.

Chapter Summary: “Your Enemy Is Not Me”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Primordial World’s powerful cultivators recognize that Chen Yang is leading a massive Human Clan army toward the Heavenly Court. Many suspect the invasion is connected to the Outworld Demons and the possible resurrection of Luohou, the Demon Sect’s founder.
• Several factions secretly hope the Mystic Sect and Demon Sect will clash. Since Hongjun and the Mystic Sect control most of the Primordial World’s resources, these cultivators view Luohou’s possible return as an opportunity to weaken Hongjun and profit from the conflict.
• Chen Yang attempts to contact the Three Pure Ones for assistance, but they remain silent while concentrating on maintaining the seal imprisoning Luohou. Chen Yang is therefore forced to rely on himself.
• Using the Heavenly Dipper Passage, Chen Yang enters the Heavenly Court through the Southern Heavenly Gate. Demon Cultivators immediately attack the Human Clan reinforcements.
• Chen Yang deploys a powerful killing formation, slaughtering the attacking Demon Cultivators. He then uses Reincarnation and the Reincarnation Formation to secure the Southern Heavenly Gate and protect the Human Clan army as it emerges.
• A mysterious black-robed Demon Cultivator reveals that the invasion was deliberately designed to lure Chen Yang out of the Human Realm. Although the Demon Cultivators’ broader goal is to exploit and destroy the Human Clan, Chen Yang is their immediate target because he has repeatedly obstructed their plans.
• The black-robed figure explains that the Human Clan is considered an extraordinary “treasure” because of its unique origin and potential. This makes the Human Clan a valuable target for the Demon Cultivators.
• The true weapon against Chen Yang then appears: Yinggou, an immensely powerful Zombie created from the body and Martial Dao foundation of the first Origin Human, combined with Shebi Shi’s blood essence and a fragment of the Death Demon God’s origin.
• Yinggou has reached the Half-Step Primordial Unity Realm, matching Chen Yang’s cultivation and physical strength. Chen Yang attacks with the Slaying Immortals Sword Formation, but Yinggou counters with overwhelming death qi and a devastating punch.
• Their clash tears through the starry river, causing stars to explode and celestial rivers to collapse. The chapter ends as Chen Yang gathers the power of countless stars into a vast formation and prepares a powerful counterattack.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang: Demonstrates his authority as leader of the Human Clan and his mastery of Formation Dao, Killing Dao, Reincarnation, and stellar power. He remains calm and decisive despite realizing that the Heavenly Court invasion is a trap. However, the revelation that the Demon Cultivators have desecrated and transformed an Origin Human into Yinggou provokes intense fury.
• The black-robed powerhouse: Reveals himself as a manipulative strategist. Rather than confronting Chen Yang directly, he arranged the Heavenly Court crisis to force Chen Yang into the open and use Yinggou as the true killing weapon.
• Yinggou: Is introduced as a tragic and terrifying enemy. Once the first Origin Human and a talented Martial Dao cultivator, he has been transformed into a Zombie through the fusion of demonic and deathly powers. His former Human identity makes him especially significant to Chen Yang.
• The Three Pure Ones: Though absent, their silence establishes that they are fully occupied maintaining Luohou’s seal and cannot intervene in the crisis.

Significant Themes

• Political and sectarian struggle: Many powerful cultivators seek to exploit a conflict between Hongjun’s Mystic Sect and Luohou’s Demon Sect to gain resources and influence.
• Greed for resources and the Grand Dao: The chapter emphasizes that powerful cultivators ultimately compete for limited resources in pursuit of higher evolution and the status of Chaos Demon Gods.
• The value and vulnerability of the Human Clan: The Human Clan is portrayed as uniquely valuable, making it both powerful and highly coveted by hostile forces.
• Corruption and desecration: Yinggou’s creation represents the violation of Human potential, as an exceptional Origin Human is twisted into a weapon through Zombie transformation and Demon God power.
• Deception and hidden enemies: The apparent invasion is revealed to be a carefully constructed trap. The title’s implication is reinforced when the black-robed figure claims that Chen Yang’s true enemy is not himself, but another being created from the Human Clan.
• Dao against Dao: Chen Yang’s Killing Dao and Yinggou’s Death Dao collide directly, turning their personal battle into a confrontation between opposing paths of cultivation.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang’s interaction with the black-robed powerhouse is a tense exchange of accusations and probing questions. The black-robed figure attempts to provoke and intimidate him while explaining the Demon Cultivators’ motives.
• Chen Yang rejects the threat confidently and prepares to fight, but the black-robed figure deliberately withdraws and reveals that Yinggou—not himself—is the real opponent.
• Chen Yang’s fury at Yinggou’s transformation adds emotional weight to the battle. The fight is not merely a contest between two Half-Step Primordial Unity cultivators; it is also a confrontation between Chen Yang and the forces that have corrupted one of his own kind.

Chapter Summary: “Deploy the Formation and Slay the Enemy”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Yang and Yinggou engage in a devastating battle across the starry sky. Chen Yang uses his Formation Dao to transform formations into powerful techniques, including the Reincarnation Divine Fist, Thirty-Three Heavens Divine Fist, and Primordial World Hand Seal.
• Yinggou counters with his own annihilation-based abilities, using death qi, savage claws, bone wings, and a divine blade derived from a fragment of the Death Demon God’s treasure.
• Their attacks destroy countless galaxies and starfields, though the damage is largely limited to ordinary stars rather than the Primordial World’s three hundred and sixty-five core stars.
• Chen Yang draws the God-Slaying Spear and clashes directly with Yinggou’s death blade. The collision shakes even the Primordial World, but neither combatant gains a decisive advantage.
• Observers conclude that both fighters are exceptionally powerful Half-Step Primordial Unity experts, possessing not only Half-Step Primordial Unity Grand Daos but also powerful physical bodies.
• Duobao explains that Chen Yang may hold the advantage because Yinggou appears to lack full intelligence and fights mainly through instinct. He also suggests that Yinggou’s origins as a creation of Houtu and a member of the Human Clan may affect his battle with Chen Yang.
• While the duel continues without a clear outcome, the Demon Cultivators launch a massive assault on the Human Clan’s borders.
• The Human Clan realizes that the earlier conflict involving the Heavenly Court may have been a diversion designed to draw their strongest forces away. Suiren Clan, Youchao Clan, and Ziyi Clan rally the people and order them to deploy their formations and resist the invasion.

Character Developments

• Chen Yang demonstrates the terrifying scope of his Formation Dao, seamlessly evolving formations into offensive divine abilities. His use of the God-Slaying Spear further emphasizes his preparedness and combat mastery.
• Yinggou displays overwhelming destructive power through his death qi and annihilation techniques, but his lack of intelligence and reliance on instinct reveal a weakness.
• Duobao shows humility and clear judgment by admitting that both Chen Yang and Yinggou surpass him in strength. His analysis identifies Chen Yang’s potential advantages despite the battle’s uncertainty.
• Suiren Clan, Youchao Clan, and Ziyi Clan take decisive leadership roles, transforming the Human Clan’s fear and anger into organized resistance.
• The Human Clan shifts from observing the greater conflict to actively defending its borders against the Demon Cultivators.

Significant Themes

• The immense power of Half-Step Primordial Unity: The battle illustrates how beings at this level can destroy galaxies and shake the Primordial World.
• Formation Dao as creative evolution: Chen Yang does not merely use fixed techniques; he continually transforms formations into fists, seals, and spear-based killing formations.
• Instinct versus intelligence: Yinggou possesses extraordinary physical and destructive strength, but his limited reasoning may leave him vulnerable against Chen Yang’s controlled and strategic combat style.
• Manipulation and strategic deception: The Demon Cultivators’ assault suggests that the Heavenly Court conflict was part of a larger plan to weaken or distract the Human Clan.
• Unity and resistance: Faced with invasion, the Human Clan’s leaders call upon their people to fight collectively through coordinated formations.

Character Interactions

• Chen Yang and Yinggou’s exchange is the chapter’s central interaction, with each answering the other’s killing techniques through increasingly powerful Dao-based attacks.
• Duobao discusses the battle with Qilin Son, explaining why its outcome is difficult to predict and why Chen Yang may eventually prevail.
• The Human Clan’s leaders address their people directly, commanding them to deploy formations and repel the Demon Cultivators.
• The broader cultivation world watches the duel in awe, recognizing both fighters as extraordinary figures while remaining unable to intervene or predict the result.