Recaps

Feng Xu oversaw the Human Race’s development across the Great Wilderness while refining plans for an advanced ship. After learning the fleet would reach the Southern Wilderness in two months, he decided to stay at the shipyard overnight.

• Feng Xu practiced Tai Chi and worked on plans for a steam-powered ship and a flying Dharma Artifact.
• Sifu interrupted Feng Xu’s work, and Feng Yuqi explained that Iron Pillar and Xi Feng were busy while she watched the child.
• Feng Yuqi reported that the Human Race’s population had surpassed five million and that childcare centers and Yushan Academy were expanding.
• Feng Xu inspected workshops and discussed the new ship’s construction and defensive arrays with Old Man Jiang at Jiang City Shipyard.
• A messenger told Feng Xu that the fleet was expected to reach the Southern Wilderness docks in two months, so Feng Xu agreed to stay at the shipyard.

Feng Xu welcomed Qu Shan, Lin Feng, and Jiang Ming after their fleet returned from the Eastern Sea with nearly all its crew safe, new resources, and thousands of displaced people. After learning about the voyage and arranging for the newcomers to settle at the Southern Wilderness docks, Feng Xu and the others agreed to consider continuing the fleet’s southern voyages.

• Feng Xu heard from the Giant Golden Carp about powerful demons along the river route and spotted the returning fleet at noon.
• Qu Shan reported that two of the fleet’s three thousand people had died, while more than two hundred were injured, and Jiang Ming and Lin Feng reunited with Feng Xu.
• Feng Xu inspected the fleet’s cargo and learned that its crews had taught overseas Human Race communities to fish, farm, build houses, and make pottery and baskets.
• Qu Shan asked how to settle several thousand people rescued from places where they could not survive, and Feng Xu assigned them to docks across the Southern Wilderness without restricting their freedom to leave.
• Qu Shan, Lin Feng, and Jiang Ming agreed they were willing to continue sailing south, and the group returned to the docks to finish organizing the cargo before heading to the Central Wilderness.

After the Great Wilderness leaders planned to expand human settlement through voyages, agriculture, and dharma artifacts, the fleet sailed again with greater capacity. Three years later, Yunfeng summoned the commanders after learning that the southern demons planned to unite and hunt every human.

• Wang Qi played with Iron Pillar and Sifu, asking to be called Sifu's father and getting chased by Iron Pillar.
• Qu Shan reported on the first voyage, and Feng Xu outlined plans to unite human settlements, expand voyages, spread writing, and develop dharma artifacts.
• Iron Pillar urged the leaders to expand livestock breeding, protect plow oxen, clear land, and store grain.
• A year later, Qu Shan led a larger fleet south to establish supply stations and support future expansion.
• Three years later, Yunfeng told Feng Xu that the southern demons were joining forces to hunt down every human.

Feng Xu and the commanders debated how to save hundreds of thousands of humans threatened by a Demon Race alliance, and Yunfeng ordered a rescue despite the danger. Feng Xu failed to obtain the Blood Sabers, while Iron Pillar departed with the fleet and left Xi Feng with a final message that stunned Feng Xu.

• Fuxi accepted the Demon Emperor's invitation and left a Fuxi Qin behind to protect the Human Race from powerful attackers.
• Iron Pillar and Feng Xu argued over rescuing the humans in the Southern Plains and Nearshore, and the commanders voted against a rescue.
• Yunfeng overruled the vote and ordered half the commanders to join a rescue fleet departing in one month.
• Feng Xu asked the Mountain God for the Blood Sabers, but the Mountain God refused to release the Fiendish Weapon.
• Iron Pillar sailed south with Yunfeng and six commanders, while Xi Feng told Feng Xu that Iron Pillar had called him an immortal with an unshakable will.

After binding the Human Dao System, Feng Xu learned that Iron Pillar had spent Human Dao Destiny to support him and the Human Race, then left for the south after finding Iron Pillar missing. Ten days earlier, Iron Pillar had helped Yunfeng and the fleet flee the Southern Plains while Chen, Qu Shan, and the other defenders fought the pursuing Demon Race, leaving the retreat’s fate uncertain.

• Feng Xu discovered that the Human Dao System linked Human Dao Destiny to the Human Race’s strength and development, and realized Iron Pillar had used it to grant him Merit and support the Dharma Artifact Factory.
• Feng Ling found Feng Xu gone from his study and read his note saying he had gone south and that life in the Great Wilderness should continue as usual.
• Ten days earlier, Yunfeng’s fleet fled the Southern Plains while Iron Pillar took the injured lord aboard and Chen, Qu Shan, and thirteen other Human Race experts stayed behind to cover the retreat.
• Chen trapped and helped defeat twenty Demon Race True Immortals with the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web, but the Sun-Swallowing Demon King and three Mysterious Immortal demons then joined the battle.
• As the fifteen defenders were overwhelmed, the seven remaining humans charged into the Demon Race army and self-destructed, while a rat demon seized the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web.

Iron Pillar stayed behind to hold off the demon army, unleashing the Primordial Baleful True Form and fighting until the Sun-Swallowing Demon King defeated him and took his treasures. As the fleet faced another demon, Feng Xu arrived and killed it before continuing south.

• Iron Pillar left the fleet to confront the pursuing demons, and Wang Qi realized he had gone to sacrifice himself to protect the retreat.
• Iron Pillar raised his cultivation to Peak True Immortal and fought the demon generals, then transformed into the Primordial Baleful True Form and devastated their army.
• Iron Pillar lost his reason as the Blood Saber's Baleful Qi consumed him and fought for more than ten days before the Sun-Swallowing Demon King struck him down and took the Blood Saber and the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web.
• An Early Mysterious Immortal great demon pursued the fleet, but Feng Xu arrived, killed it, and continued south.

Feng Xu returned to the fleet with Iron Pillar’s body, then struggled with his inheritance of the Human Dao System and chose to go south to rescue the humans trapped by the Demon Race. He infiltrated the Demon Race camp in disguise and approached the Sun-Swallowing Demon King, who mistook him for Demon King Zhufeng.

• Feng Xu brought Iron Pillar’s body back to the fleet, and Yunfeng explained how Iron Pillar had held off the Demon Race army before dying from exhaustion.
• Yunfeng asked Feng Xu to save the humans trapped along the Nearshore, but Feng Xu refused and wrestled with his role as heir to the Human Dao System.
• Feng Xu tossed a wooden token to seek the Great Dao’s guidance, then resolved to head south and refused Yunfeng’s offer to accompany him.
• Feng Xu traveled south, entered the Demon Race camp in wolf-demon form, and convinced a guard that he was Demon King Zhufeng.
• The Sun-Swallowing Demon King put away the Seventy-Two Blood Sabers and left his Cave Abode to greet the demon he believed was Zhufeng.

Feng Xu manipulated the Sun-Swallowing Demon King into cultivating baleful qi, then spread rumors that he planned to use it to dominate the plains and Nearshore. The rumors alarmed demons on both fronts, leaving Sun-Swallowing's ambitions under growing scrutiny.

• Feng Xu taught Sun-Swallowing a modified Nine-Turn Origin Art in exchange for the surviving humans, and warned him that living beings could provide an inexhaustible supply of baleful qi.
• Feng Xu escorted about fifty thousand humans north, then continued south toward the Sea Estuary after learning that hundreds of thousands more were trapped there.
• Dashan and two others met the northbound humans, while Feng Xu entered the Sea Estuary disguised as a half-human, half-bird demon and saw the horrors inflicted on its human captives.
• Feng Xu spread rumors that Sun-Swallowing was secretly cultivating baleful qi to break through to Golden Immortal and make the plains and Nearshore his sources of power.
• Feng Xu planted Zhufeng's baleful-qi-corrupted corpse near the Sea Estuary, prompting the Three-Headed Evil Flood Dragon to send the Silver-Armored Demon King to investigate Sun-Swallowing.
• The Silver-Armored Demon King confirmed that Sun-Swallowing had acquired Fiendish Weapons, and demons on the plains and in the Nearshore grew alarmed and began searching for the Baleful Corpse.

Feng Xu weakened the formation trapping the humans, freed them, and killed Silver Fang. At Jadewater Lake, Yunfeng prepared to risk a breakthrough despite his injuries, believing the Human Race needed a Mysterious Immortal.

• The Sun-Swallowing Demon King infected Silver Armor with baleful qi, and the Three-Headed Flood Dragon ordered the Nearshore demons to attack him.
• Feng Xu secretly planted baleful qi in the formation while disguised among the demons, gradually weakening it as Silver Fang searched for the cause.
• Silver Fang attacked the trapped humans, forcing Feng Xu to reveal himself and fight him.
• Feng Xu struck the weakened formation, and the humans inside shattered it and joined the battle against Silver Fang.
• Feng Xu trapped and devoured Silver Fang's primordial spirit as the freed humans prepared to leave.
• Feng Ling warned Yunfeng not to fight or attempt a breakthrough while injured, but Yunfeng sent her away and resolved to risk it for the Human Race.

The Sun-Swallowing Demon King fought the allied demon army while Feng Xu returned to cripple him before he could reach Golden Immortal. The black cocoon formed by Sun-Swallowing’s attempted breakthrough shattered, but an enormous maw emerged from the mist and swallowed Red Armor.

• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon led an allied army against Sun-Swallowing, accusing him of cultivating baleful qi and slaughtering demons.
• Sun-Swallowing fought the greater demons with the Blood Saber, released his baleful qi, and was badly wounded despite killing several opponents.
• Feng Xu met Dashan, A-Fei, and the rescued humans, then headed east toward Sun-Swallowing’s territory to turn the demon king’s baleful qi against him.
• Sun-Swallowing absorbed baleful qi from nearby demons and formed a black cocoon as he tried to break through to Golden Immortal.
• The allied demons shattered the cocoon, but an enormous maw emerged from the black mist and dragged Red Armor inside.

Feng Xu escaped Sun-Swallowing Demon King’s grasp after Yunfeng broke through to the Mysterious Immortal realm, then awakened Heaven and Earth Manifestation and used the Measuring Heaven Ruler to destroy the demon forces. Three years later, Feng Xu returned to the Great Wilderness and sealed the Fiendish Weapons, while the task of settling hundreds of thousands of newcomers remained.

• Sun-Swallowing Demon King swallowed the Three-Headed Evil Flood Dragon and other great demons, then captured Feng Xu, who tried to frighten him by claiming the Three Pure Ones of Kunlun Mountain were his masters.
• Yunfeng overdrew his bloodline essence to break through to the Mysterious Immortal realm, and Feng Xu learned of his breakthrough through the Human Dao System.
• Feng Xu’s cultivation rose to the Mysterious Immortal realm, and he summoned Heaven and Earth Manifestation and transformed the Heaven-Hanging Ruler into the Measuring Heaven Ruler.
• Feng Xu struck down Sun-Swallowing Demon King and swept away the demon forces across the plains and coastal waters, while Wang Qi witnessed the spectacle and set out on a different path.
• Feng Xu returned to the Great Wilderness three years later, gave the Seventy-Two Blood Sabers to the Mountain God to seal, and went to wash away the blood and filth from his body.

After returning from the war, Feng Xu accepted Yunfeng’s request to shoulder the Human Race’s future and proposed major education reforms. At a gathering of more than three million people, Yunfeng announced that they would choose a Human Ancestor, leaving Feng Xu stunned by the unexpected change in plans.

• Yunfeng told Feng Xu that his breakthrough had cost him most of his origin essence and asked him to take responsibility for the Human Race’s future, and Feng Xu agreed.
• Feng Xu presented Feng Yuqi with education reforms that included new teaching materials, an Investigation Group, stricter examinations, new subjects, and illustrated books.
• Feng Xu told Feng Yuqi she should be with someone else, but she rejected his concern and sent him away after he offered her more work.
• After the autumn harvest, more than three million Human Race members gathered in the Central Wilderness.
• Yunfeng called for the Human Race to choose an ancestor to lead and unite them, surprising Feng Xu, who had expected Yunfeng to hand over the position of Lord.

Feng Xu established a ritual order and governing institutions for the Human Race, then found the Chaos Bead after a falling star landed in the Central Wilderness. Ten years later, grieving Yunfeng’s death, he took Sifu and Yun Tian as disciples and met Fang Daoyun, who became his new Go companion.

• Yunfeng proposed Feng Xu as Human Ancestor, and the crowd acclaimed him.
• Feng Xu established a hierarchy, divided the human territory into fifteen districts, and founded the Ritual Bureau and Security Bureau to implement the ritual order.
• Feng Xu investigated a fallen star and discovered that it had left behind the Primordial Treasure, the Chaos Bead.
• Ten years later, after Yunfeng’s death, Feng Xu agreed to teach Sifu divine powers and Yun Tian how to improve people’s lives.
• Fang Daoyun visited Feng Xu, beat him at Go, and carved a giant board so they could play a more challenging game together.

Yuntian discovered newly arrived Witch tribes after they attacked the Human Race’s hunting team, and called for a commanders’ assembly. At Mistveil Peak, Feng Xu discussed the dangers of the Human Race’s prosperity and internal divisions before Lin Feng announced that the Witches had attacked.

• Yuntian demonstrated a Document Reprinting Machine to Yun Fei and Dashan.
• A guard reported that two powerful strangers had stolen the hunting team’s prey and badly injured A-Da.
• Yuntian found five Witch tribes north of the Human Race’s territory and ordered Yun Fei to summon every commander to the Central Wilderness within seven days.
• Feng Xu told Fang Daoyun that internal disorder and powerful clans posed the Human Race’s greatest crisis.
• Lin Feng rushed to Mistveil Peak and told Feng Xu that the Witches had attacked.

Feng Xu discussed the newly appeared Witch Tribes with Fang Daoyun, then taught artifact refining and organized two research groups to investigate the microscopic world and object manipulation. The lecture was interrupted by a thunderous explosion nearby.

• Lin Feng and Jiang Ming told Feng Xu that Witch Tribes had appeared in the Northern Wilderness and injured members of several hunting teams.
• Feng Xu decided to let Yun Tian handle the matter and said the Witches’ arrival might ease the Human Race’s internal troubles.
• Fang Daoyun described the Witches and Demon Race as Feng Xu and he played Go.
• Yun Tian returned to the Academy with Sifu and Bai Hao, and Sifu teased him about his rapid breakthrough to Mysterious Immortal.
• Feng Xu formed two artifact-refining research groups to study the Saha World and methods of manipulating objects.
• A thunderous explosion sounded as the researchers began discussing their work.

Feng Xu discussed using the Witches' threat to reform human society with Yun Tian, then prepared for an assembly of tribal commanders. As the commanders gathered, Yun Tian defended Qing Xuan's hands-off leadership, while Hong Tao grew resentful of Qing Xuan's success.

• Feng Xu explained the destructive-power experiments to Yun Tian and considered Yun Tian's proposal to move clans out of the Great Wilderness to enable reforms.
• Feng Yuqi scolded Feng Xu over the noisy experiments and ordered the laboratory moved within a hundred days.
• Feng Xu, Yun Tian, and the others began discussing arrangements for the assembly.
• Two days later, Hong Tao arrived at the Central Wilderness Tribe, and Yun Tian reminded him of the raised literacy requirement for commanders.
• Hong Tao complained that Qing Xuan neglected his duties, but Yun Tian defended Qing Xuan's results and advised Hong Tao to delegate more.
• At the temporary camp, Hong Tao saw Qing Xuan meditating at peak Mysterious Immortal and sat down angrily.

Yun Tian secured the commanders’ agreement to begin a gradual migration away from the Witches, offering tribes greater independence in exchange for spreading across the Great Wilderness. As Qing Xuan read the Dao De Jing, he became the Human Race’s first Golden Immortal, drawing the attention of a white-bearded elder at Kunlun Mountain.

• Yun Tian rejected calls to attack the Witches and proposed sending half the Human Race east, west, and south in a permanent, gradual migration.
• Yun Tian offered migrating tribes independent households, limited tribute, and the chance to become Lords, winning the commanders’ approval.
• Yun Tian divided the commanders’ migration plans, distributed printed books, and led a hunting party to seek friendly relations with the Witches.
• Qing Xuan received the Dao De Jing from the youth leading the ox and became absorbed in reading it.
• Qing Xuan broke through to become the Human Race’s first Golden Immortal, and a white-bearded elder at Kunlun Mountain declared that he shared a bond of fate with him.

Feng Xu went to the Witch Tribe to make peace and defeated the War Shaman, then persuaded the Witches to agree to cooperate with the humans. He also explained how cooking meat could preserve its nourishment while removing harmful baleful energy.

• Feng Xu arrived at the Witch Tribe with seven companions and a giant deer, proposing peace to the War Shaman.
• Feng Xu defeated the War Shaman in hand-to-hand combat by disrupting the circulation of his cultivation art.
• Witch warriors attacked, but Sifu survived a powerful punch and returned unharmed, earning the Witches' respect.
• Feng Xu and the War Shaman negotiated an agreement for humans and Witches to build settlements, hunt, and work together.
• Feng Xu cooked a meal and explained that cooking meat removed baleful energy while preserving nourishment, and that the humans could help make blood medicine.

Yun Tian discussed the unfinished migration and his plans for spreading writing with Fang Daoyun, while Feng Xu inspected the first human-Witch settlement and wrote the Book of Changes. The chapter ended with a bloodied man in the Northern Wilderness standing over two corpses and accusing them of adultery.

• Yun Tian told Fang Daoyun that the migration and alliance with the Witches were not yet secure, and explained why he had begun spreading writing among humans.
• Feng Xu inspected the first tribe where humans and Witches lived together, saw seven newly built houses, and stayed through the snowfall with Yun Fei.
• The battle witch proposed that Feng Xu marry his younger sister, but Feng Xu refused and changed the subject to body tempering.
• Feng Xu wrote the Book of Changes during three days of snow while Yun Fei recorded the visit and the book's creation.
• A bloodied man in a Northern Wilderness tribe stood over the corpses of a man and a woman and shouted that they were adulterers.

Feng Xu and Yun Tian confronted growing social problems in the Northern Wilderness when Bu Xing killed his wife and her lover after catching them in adultery. With the Human Race’s first murder case raising difficult questions about punishment, Feng Xu planned a public hearing and called for establishing the rule of law.

• Yun Tian and Feng Xu discussed tribal disputes, idleness, and the need to strengthen the Human Race against a possible war between the shaman and demon races.
• A messenger summoned Yun Tian and Feng Xu after Bu Xing killed his wife and her lover.
• Feng Xu heard the officials argue over Bu Xing’s punishment, then announced that he would handle the case publicly the next day.
• Dashan explained that Bu Xing had killed the pair after finding them committing adultery, and Feng Xu confined Bu Xing under guard.
• Yun Fei argued for leniency while A-Da demanded severe punishment, and Feng Xu postponed the decision until the hearing.
• Feng Xu and Yun Tian concluded that the case exposed the need to establish the rule of law before more people resorted to killing.

Yun Tian judged Bu Xing for killing two adulterers and used a supposed appeal to Empress Nuwa to establish his sentence and advance institutional reforms. The trial ended with Bu Xing spared from death, while Feng Xu realized that an unseen power had controlled the wooden tokens.

• Yun Tian charged Bu Xing with defying the Ritual Bureau, murdering his kin, and acting unfilially, then explained why the killings threatened the Human Race.
• Bu Xing's mother begged to take his punishment, and Yun Tian blamed incomplete institutions before proposing that Empress Nuwa decide the case.
• Feng Xu tried to secretly manipulate the wooden tokens, but all three casts landed one faceup and one facedown, sparing Bu Xing from execution and requiring him to serve ten years of penal labor.
• Feng Xu concluded that Empress Nuwa had controlled the tokens and promised to renovate the Divine Temple, while Yun Tian announced reforms and ordered the people to observe the rites.
• After the crowd dispersed, Feng Xu and Yun Tian went to discuss reforms, while A-Da and Yun Fei approached A-Tu and competed to escort her home.

Yun Tian drafted reforms to reorganize the Great Wilderness’s land, government, labor, and military systems, then worked with Feng Xu to restore a temple to Nüwa. Feng Xu also began training Yun Tian to control seventy-two stone swords and urged him to understand the essence of the Sword Dao.

• Yun Tian rejected Yun Fei and A-Da’s requests for leave, summarized their conclusions, and presented a plan for restructuring the tribe.
• Yun Tian assigned temporary ministry posts and set priorities for revising criminal laws, appointing local chiefs, building offices and prisons, and registering the population and farmland.
• Yun Tian and Feng Xu found the ruined temple to Nüwa, rebuilt it, and discussed Feng Xu’s inability to control the wooden tablet during the earlier judgment.
• Feng Xu proposed a winter Spring Festival for the new year and sacrifices to Nüwa and the Ancestors.
• Feng Xu brought Yun Tian to a valley and instructed him to temper his foundation by controlling seventy-two stone swords without refining them.
• Feng Xu demonstrated the sword formation and explained that Yun Tian needed to understand a sword’s essence rather than follow a conventional sequence of Sword Dao stages.

Feng Xu lectured the Northern Wilderness on the Book of Changes, then discussed the Dao with Qing Xuan and Fang Daoyun. The chapter ended with A-Tu asking Feng Xu for guidance as he prepared to take new books to Wenxuan Pavilion.

• Feng Xu spent eight days explaining the sixty-four hexagrams and their philosophies to the Northern Wilderness crowd.
• Qing Xuan asked Feng Xu about the Dao De Jing, and Qing Xuan revealed that he had reached the Golden Immortal realm thanks to Feng Xu's writings.
• Qing Xuan let the boy Qing Feng stay with Feng Xu, who gave him the Book of Changes and the Dao De Jing to study.
• Fang Daoyun discussed the Primordial Bagua with Feng Xu, who recorded their discussion in the Record of the Great Wilderness.
• A-Tu asked Feng Xu to answer her questions, and he invited her to accompany him to Wenxuan Pavilion.

Feng Xu donated eleven books to Wenxuan Pavilion, advised A-Tu about the difficulties of humans and Witches living together, and arranged for her to work at the pavilion. Meanwhile, a Witch giant learned that the Northern Wilderness tribe was teaching Witches to roast meat and gathered his subordinates to march to the Great Wilderness.

• Feng Xu delivered eleven newly compiled books to Wenxuan Pavilion and answered A-Tu's questions about the Book of Changes.
• Feng Xu explained that lasting peace between humans and Witches would be difficult unless the Human Race grew strong enough to stand as their equal.
• Feng Xu offered A-Tu work at Wenxuan Pavilion, and A-Da and Yun Fei agreed to handle arrangements for her move.
• Feng Xu warned A-Da and Yun Fei to compete fairly for A-Tu and not neglect their duties.
• A small yellow snake reported to a Witch giant that humans and Witches were living together and roasting meat over fire.
• The giant condemned the Northern Wilderness Witches for losing their fighting spirit, gathered his subordinates, and ordered them to go to the Great Wilderness.

Feng Xu finished establishing the Great Vehicle Dharma Sutra’s teachings, prepared the Great Wilderness for a new era, and traveled through the Southern Wilderness to oversee reforms. After he returned to the Central Wilderness, Yun Tian warned him that a violent group of Witches had arrived in the Northern Wilderness.

• Feng Xu explained the Great Vehicle Dharma Sutra and its six paths to A-Tu and other listeners, and Qing Feng recorded his teachings.
• Feng Xu told Yun Tian the New Policies had been implemented in their initial form and instructed him to prepare for the Elders' Conference.
• Feng Xu traveled to the Southern Wilderness, where he and Jiang Ze discussed the census, local administration, and fishing.
• Feng Xu stayed in the Southern Wilderness for over thirty days as officials were replaced and local tyrants were sentenced to forced labor.
• Feng Xu learned that the Mountain God had given the Seventy-Two Blood Sabers to Sifu, then promised the Mountain God he would protect the Great Wilderness from baleful qi.
• After Feng Xu returned to the Central Wilderness, Yun Tian reported that a group of Witches was destroying houses and attacking residents in the Northern Wilderness.