Recaps

Feng Xu gained the World-Destroying Millstone and learned he had karmic debts to settle with the Sages. Before leaving the Human Race, he reorganized education and government, then appointed Yun Tian as Human King to govern in his absence.

• Feng Xu named his new Dharma Treasure the World-Destroying Millstone and learned it and the Record of the Great Wilderness could help him contend for the authorities of world destruction and Creation.
• Nüwa told Feng Xu to settle his karmic debts with the Sages, though she did not explain why she herself owed him a debt.
• Feng Xu returned to the Great Wilderness, expanded education and research programs, and reorganized the Six Ministries into eight departments.
• Feng Xu warned Yun Tian that Jinghua's concentrated power could cause future turmoil and left him to find a solution.
• Feng Xu appointed Yun Tian as Human King over the Lords and authorized him to adapt the rules while Feng Xu was away.
• Feng Xu told the assembly that Yun Tian would keep the position if he governed well, and that the Human Race's interests and the people's judgment should guide their rulers.

Feng Xu hosted the Five Saints and accepted Yuanshi Tianzun’s trial to settle his karmic debt, while Qing Xuan became Laozi’s disciple, Xuandu. When Feng Xu sincerely declared the Human Race’s purpose, Heaven and Earth recognized his words as a great vow and bestowed merit upon the entire Human Race.

• Feng Xu toured Central Wilderness City with Yun Tian, Sifu, Qing Xuan, and the Five Saints, who praised his Dao scriptures and invited him to visit their sects.
• Feng Xu adopted the name Li Yuanchu and asked Yuanshi Tianzun to accept him; Yuanshi agreed to test him on Yuqing Mountain before he could join Jade Void Peak.
• Laozi accepted Qing Xuan as his disciple, renamed him Xuandu, and Qing Xuan entrusted his territory to Yun Tian while promising to aid the Human Race in a future calamity.
• Laozi asked Feng Xu what the Human Race ultimately sought, and Feng Xu declared his wish to establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, a destiny for the people, carry on the Sages’ teachings, and bring peace to all ages.
• Heaven and Earth recognized Feng Xu’s words as a great vow, sent merit throughout the Human Race, and raised Feng Xu’s cultivation to the peak of Golden Immortal.

Feng Xu visited Feng Sui’s roadside tea stall, said he was leaving the Human Race, and reforged Feng Sui’s axe before returning to Mistveil Peak. After discussing calendars and the Primordial World’s passage of time with Fuxi, Feng Xu watched him depart for the Heavenly Court and vowed that the Human Race would one day rule heaven and earth.

• Feng Xu visited Feng Sui’s humble tea stall, shared tea and coolmelon with him, and learned that Feng Sui had left village affairs to farm, fish, and serve travelers.
• Feng Xu told Feng Sui he was leaving the Human Race for a while and warned him not to get involved in outside affairs.
• Feng Xu revealed that he had reforged Feng Sui’s Mountain-Cleaving Axe, which Feng Sui could no longer lift, then left five Grain Yuan coins and departed.
• Feng Xu returned to Mistveil Peak and shared food and wine with Fuxi, who praised Feng Xu’s calendar and explained how time was measured in the heavens.
• Fuxi announced he was leaving for the Heavenly Court, and Feng Xu played his zither as Fuxi departed.
• Feng Xu gazed toward the horizon and vowed that the Human Race would become the true master of heaven and earth.

Li Yuanchu entered Yuanshi’s Mountain Gate Trial at Kunlun and overcame its tests of obsession, innate nature, understanding of the Dao, and Dao Heart. After spending countless years climbing the trial’s staircase and reaching early Grand Unity Immortal, he passed and arrived at Yuqing Peak’s plaza.

• Jieyin and Zhunti brought their disciples to Kunlun, where Duobao and the others discussed the Dao with them.
• Li Yuanchu arrived at Kunlun in the form of a white-robed boy and began Yuanshi’s Mountain Gate Trial.
• Li Yuanchu faced visions of the Human Race’s suffering, then calmed his heart by reciting the Qingjing Jing and passed the trial’s first stage.
• Li Yuanchu remained unmoved by the second stage’s temptations and setbacks and answered the third stage’s questions about the Dao.
• Li Yuanchu climbed the final staircase for countless years within the Small World, reached early Grand Unity Immortal, and passed the trial.
• Li Yuanchu arrived at Yuqing Peak’s plaza, bowed to those watching, and walked toward the main hall.

At Kunlun, Li Yuanchu challenged Medicine Master's Western Teachings by arguing that he preached about living beings' suffering without having experienced it himself. After Medicine Master conceded, Li Yuanchu turned to Ksitigarbha and asked what Dao he held in his heart.

• Yuanshi asked Li Yuanchu to guide the disciples debating the Dao, and Li Yuanchu took a seat among them.
• Medicine Master explained the Western Teachings' doctrines of cessation, dependent origination, and emptiness, arguing that cultivators should relinquish attachment and seek liberation.
• Ksitigarbha said that worldly prosperity and strength were attachments, and urged living beings to abandon worldly ties for the Western Pure Land.
• When Medicine Master asked for Li Yuanchu's view, Li Yuanchu praised the doctrine but questioned whether it was truly Medicine Master's own Dao.
• Li Yuanchu argued that Medicine Master had not personally witnessed living beings' suffering and therefore could not judge their perseverance; Medicine Master bowed and accepted the lesson.
• Li Yuanchu turned to Ksitigarbha and asked what the Dao was in his heart.

Li Yuanchu defended the origins of Shangqing Peak’s cultivators, then accepted Ksitigarbha’s challenge to a sparring match. He defeated Ksitigarbha with a creation-based divine ability and used the experience to show him that understanding suffering required experiencing it.

• Li Yuanchu answered Medicine Master’s question by arguing that Yuanshi Tianzun had criticized unruly behavior, not the origins of those who heard the Dao Ancestor’s teachings.
• Duobao led the disciples away from the elders’ discussion, and Shangqing Peak’s cultivators and the Western disciples fought a series of matches with mixed results.
• Ksitigarbha asked to spar with Li Yuanchu, and Li Yuanchu entered the field despite Jin Ling’s concern about their difference in cultivation.
• Li Yuanchu and Ksitigarbha fought for days, with Ksitigarbha’s Dharma Aspect resisting Li Yuanchu’s attacks until Li Yuanchu created a Sea of Annihilation that left Ksitigarbha unconscious.
• Ksitigarbha conceded defeat, and Li Yuanchu told him that experiencing suffering was necessary to understand the Western Dao; Ksitigarbha bowed and said he had learned something.

After Daoist Duobao and Medicine Master fought to a draw, Li Yuanchu organized the itinerant cultivators on Kunlun and built a Scripture Pavilion. Xuandu emerged from seclusion, met Li Yuanchu, and joined him in discussing the Dao before Laojun gave Li Yuanchu several Enlightenment Tea Trees to tend.

• Daoist Duobao and Medicine Master fought for over ten days until the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti stopped them and declared a draw.
• Li Yuanchu settled on Yuqing Peak, recruited itinerant cultivators to maintain Kunlun, and built a Scripture Pavilion to share teachings.
• New itinerant cultivators crowded Shangqing Peak and caused disorder while Li Yuanchu consulted Laojun about alchemy.
• Xuandu emerged from seclusion as a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, and Li Yuanchu greeted him and discussed the Dao.
• Laojun let Li Yuanchu choose several Enlightenment Tea Trees to tend, and Li Yuanchu went with Xuandu to see the Tea Mountain.

Li Yuanchu and Xuandu developed terraced fields on Tea Mountain, planting tea trees and spirit plants before returning to Kunlun. After learning that new independent cultivators were causing trouble on Shangqing Peak, Li Yuanchu enlisted Daoist Duobao to announce rules and place them under his supervision.

• Li Yuanchu and Xuandu spent more than fifty days reclaiming Tea Mountain, planting tea trees and spirit plants, and building a wooden house with water channels.
• After paying their respects to the Three Pure Ones, Li Yuanchu discussed formation arts with Tongtian and asked about the demonic qi on nearby peaks.
• Tongtian told Li Yuanchu that independent cultivators had been allowed to settle nearby, and Li Yuanchu learned that the newcomers were fighting over resources and disturbing the others.
• Li Yuanchu sought Daoist Duobao's help, arguing that Duobao should establish authority over Shangqing Peak's affairs before formally joining the sect.
• Li Yuanchu and Duobao summoned the independent cultivators, laid down rules for the Kunlun Daoist Grounds, and warned them to obey Li Yuanchu's supervision or leave.

Li Yuanchu restored order on Shangqing Peak, cultivated for a hundred thousand years, and helped the Three Pure Ones attain sagehood by directing Human Dao merit to them. As powerful visitors gathered at Kunlun, he told Duobao and the others that he planned to leave Kunlun for good.

• Li Yuanchu established rules for Shangqing Peak, put Wuyun Xian in charge of wandering cultivators, and returned to cultivating in the Spiritual Fields.
• After a hundred thousand years, Li Yuanchu reached Late Taiyi, while Randeng returned to Yuqing Peak and began secluded cultivation.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian each established a sect and attained sagehood, with Li Yuanchu contributing Human Dao merit and receiving a share of the merit and sect fortune.
• The Three Pure Ones left to open the Three Pure Heavens, and the Queen Mother of the West and other powerful beings began arriving at Kunlun to visit them.
• While playing cards with Duobao, Jin Ling, Wudang, and Gui Ling, Li Yuanchu revealed that he had dug up the Medicinal Garden's Spirit Plants because he intended to leave Kunlun and stop being its disciple.

Li Yuanchu prepared to leave Kunlun after a long stay, then accepted Jieyin and Zhunti’s invitation to visit the West. He arrived at Mount Sumeru and saw that the West was more fertile than its reputation suggested, though its spiritual energy remained inferior to Kunlun’s.

• The Queen Mother of the West visited Li Yuanchu to seek guidance on the Way of Lunar Geng Metal, and he gave her scriptures in exchange for a Purple-Patterned Flat Peach.
• Li Yuanchu ate the peach and cultivated until his power reached late-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal perfection.
• After the Three Pure Ones returned, Yuanshi accepted Li Yuanchu’s decision to leave, and Li Yuanchu said goodbye to Xuandu and departed Kunlun.
• Jieyin and Zhunti met Li Yuanchu at the mountain gate and invited him to visit the West, assuring him he could return to the Human Race.
• Li Yuanchu traveled with Jieyin and Zhunti to the West and reached Mount Sumeru, where he found fertile lands but weaker spiritual energy than Kunlun.

Li Yuanchu discovered how the West’s Dream Dao eased suffering and then found the God-Slaying Spear beneath the western lands. Working with Jieyin and Zhunti, he cleared Baleful Qi and restored the West’s damaged earth veins, though its vitality would take much longer to return.

• Li Yuanchu discussed the West’s methods with Jieyin and Zhunti, learning that their Dream Dao helped living beings resolve obsessions and reduced entropy.
• After returning to his cave to cultivate Dream Dao, Li Yuanchu dreamed of the God-Slaying Spear and sensed it beneath the western earth veins.
• Li Yuanchu found the spear, suppressed it with the World-Destroying Millstone, and absorbed the surrounding Baleful Qi.
• Li Yuanchu told Jieyin and Zhunti he could absorb the Baleful Qi, and the three set out to map and repair the damaged earth veins.
• Over ten thousand years, Li Yuanchu cleared the Baleful Qi while Jieyin and Zhunti restored the earth veins; the West’s vitality still needed time to recover.

After helping Jieyin and Zhunti become Sages, Li Yuanchu refused the Heavenly Dao’s invitation and was sent into a dream of a Human Race assault on the Heavenly Court. The chapter ended as Di Jun destroyed Li Yuanchu’s black hole attack and confronted him.

• Jieyin and Zhunti founded the Western Teachings, made forty-eight great vows, and attained Sagehood with merit from Li Yuanchu’s Record of the Great Wilderness.
• Zhunti offered Li Yuanchu another chance to follow the Heavenly Dao and become a Sage, but Li Yuanchu refused, so Jieyin sent him into a dream.
• In the dream, Li Yuanchu led a Human Race fleet against the Demon Race in Changrong Heaven and destroyed their defensive formation with the World-Destroying Energy-Gathering Cannon.
• Li Yuanchu’s forces captured and killed Xihe and Changxi, prompting Di Jun to summon the Demon Race armies back to the Heavenly Court.
• Li Yuanchu attacked the Heavenly Court with a black hole, but Di Jun shattered it and roared at him.

Li Yuanchu’s forces defeated Di Jun’s demons after breaking the Zhou Tian Star-Dou Great Array, then turned against the Witches at Buzhou Mountain. Houtu escaped captivity and freed the other Ancestral Witches, who formed the Pangu True Body as the Human Kings prepared to contain it.

• Li Yuanchu revealed eight hundred peak Daluo Golden Immortals among the Divine Martial Guards and ordered them to attack the demons surrounding him and Ying Long.
• The Divine Martial Guards weakened the Zhou Tian Star-Dou Great Array while Li Yuanchu and Ying Long destroyed its hubs; Li Yuanchu then defeated the Eastern Emperor, and Di Jun died in the assault.
• Li Yuanchu learned that the Human Race’s forces had encircled Buzhou Mountain and ordered them to spare two Ancestral Witches, if possible sparing Houtu as well.
• Yun Tian and the Twelve Human Kings confronted the Ancestral Witches, using formations and world-destroying Dharma Artifacts to overwhelm them.
• Sifu hesitated while restraining Houtu, allowing her to escape and rescue Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Pangu True Body, and the Human Kings scattered and deployed the Spirit-Sealing Absolute Formation.

Li Yuanchu witnessed a possible future in which the Human Race defeated the Witches but Buzhou Mountain’s destruction unleashed deadly Baleful Qi across the world. After the Sages explained the vision, he resolved to return to the Great Wilderness and face whatever suffering awaited the Human Race.

• The Human Race used the Spirit-Sealing Absolute Formation and fighter aircraft to wear down the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ Pangu True Body, while Sifu pursued fleeing Witch soldiers.
• After a hundred days, the Human Kings cornered the exhausted Ancestral Witches and urged them to surrender, but the Pangu True Body charged into Buzhou Mountain.
• Buzhou Mountain fell and released vast Baleful Qi, which overwhelmed defensive formations as Li Yuanchu struggled to absorb it and people across the land panicked.
• Li Yuanchu awoke before Jieyin and Zhunti as their Sagehood phenomena faded, and they explained that he had witnessed a possible future and that the Sages had sealed the Baleful Qi in the Demon Realm.
• Li Yuanchu rejected Zhunti’s warning that the Human Race’s future suffering was destined, then left Mount Sumeru for the Great Wilderness.
• Jieyin asked Zhunti why he had not told Li Yuanchu about the upheaval among the Human Race, and Zhunti said Li Yuanchu would not turn back before experiencing utter desperation.