Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian led the Innate Human Race to Shouyang Mountain and taught them a cultivation art, disrupting Taiqing Laozi’s plan to gain their fortune by preaching the Golden Core Great Dao. Lin Changsheng revealed that he had prepared for the Human Race’s rise and summoned Enlightenment as the story turned toward further preparations.

• Lin Tian led the Innate Human Race to Shouyang Mountain, where they settled and cultivated using the Spiritual Qi Great Dao Art.
• Taiqing Laozi recognized the Human Race as his opportunity to become a Saint and preached the Golden Core Great Dao to them.
• Xuanyuan Shi and Shennong Shi noticed flaws in Taiqing Laozi’s cultivation art, while Lin Tian dismissed it as a means for Taiqing Laozi to gain fortune.
• Hongjun discovered that Lin Tian had gathered much of the Human Race’s fortune and decided against attacking him.
• Nuwa objected to Taiqing Laozi taking the Human Race’s fortune, and Lin Changsheng reassured her that he had made arrangements for the Human Race’s future.
• Lin Changsheng considered the need to prepare for the Primordial Wilderness’s changing course and summoned Enlightenment.

Enlightenment delivered the Five Elements Sword Formation to Lin Tian, while Taiqing Laozi became a Saint and chose Xuandu as the Human Religion’s Chief Disciple. Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti also became Saints, ushering the Primordial Wilderness into the age of Saints as hidden tensions began to build.

• Lin Changsheng sent Enlightenment to deliver the Five Elements Sword Formation and the Five Elements Sword Diagram to Lin Tian, who accepted them on behalf of the Innate Human Race.
• After decades of preaching, Taiqing Laozi became a Saint and established the Eight Views Palace at Shouyang Mountain.
• Taiqing Laozi selected Xuandu as the Human Religion’s Chief Disciple and instructed him to cultivate and later spread its teachings.
• Yuanshi became a Saint and established the Chan School at Kunlun Mountain.
• Tongtian became a Saint and established the Jie Sect, entrusting a primordial spirit forged from Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to the Heavenly Dao.
• Jieyin and Zhunti became Saints after establishing the Western Teaching and making forty-eight great vows, completing the rise of the Heaven-Appointed Six Saints.

Taiqing Laozi sought Hongjun’s approval to use the Demon Race against the Innate Human Race, hoping to weaken its fortune, test Nuwa and Tongtian, and forge a weapon against the Witch Race. Hongjun agreed to intervene if Changsheng Heaven responded, and Taiqing left to begin making arrangements.

• Taiqing Laozi learned that Xuandu’s efforts to spread the Human Religion had made little headway because Lin Tian and several tribes opposed it.
• Taiqing Laozi went to Zixiao Palace and warned Hongjun that Changsheng Immortal Sect could eventually surpass the Mystic Gate.
• Taiqing Laozi proposed that the Demon Race attack the Innate Human Race and use its blood, souls, and bones to forge the Witch Slaying Sword.
• Hongjun agreed that the Innate Human Race’s fortune should not be gathered too early and promised to act if Changsheng Heaven intervened.
• Taiqing Laozi told Hongjun he would begin making arrangements at once.

Taiqing Laozi sought the Mystic Gate's help in plotting against the Innate Human Race, but Taiyi refused to involve the Demon Race. After Taiyi withdrew, Taiqing decided to use Demon Master Kunpeng to mobilize the demons and push the plan forward.

• Taiqing Laozi summoned Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Taiyi to discuss a plan against the Innate Human Race and persuaded the Western brothers by offering them a chance to recruit human disciples.
• Taiyi refused to help, fearing that attacking the Human Race would provoke Nuwa and Lin Changsheng, and returned to the Demon Court to enter seclusion.
• Taiqing Laozi reassured Yuanshi that the Demon Race would act soon, despite Taiyi's refusal.
• Taiqing Laozi identified Demon Master Kunpeng as someone who could mobilize most of the Demon Race and proposed tempting him with the prospect of becoming a Saint.
• Yuanshi agreed to prepare for Nuwa and the Changsheng Immortal Sect to intervene, and Taiqing Laozi decided to wait for the Demon Race to act.

Kunpeng convinced five of the Ten Great Demon Gods to help forge the Witch Slaying Sword from the Innate Human Race, claiming Heaven had revealed a way to defeat the Witch Race and that the Saints would not interfere. He mobilized nearly a billion demons toward Shouyang Mountain while Lin Tian remained in seclusion.

• Kunpeng foresaw that slaughtering the Innate Human Race and forging the Witch Slaying Sword would let the Demon Race defeat the Witch Race and earn him sainthood.
• Kunpeng summoned the Ten Great Demon Gods and explained that Innate Human blood, souls, and bones could be used to forge a sword that pierced the Witch Race’s defenses.
• Bai Ze warned that Saint Nuwa might intervene, but Saint Taiqing sent a voice transmission promising that the Saints would not interfere.
• Bai Ze and the other dissenting Demon Gods refused to mobilize the army without the Demon Emperor’s approval, while Fei Lian, Shang Yang, Qin Yuan, Chi Tie, and Gui Che sided with Kunpeng.
• Kunpeng sent nearly a billion demons toward Shouyang Mountain, and the Innate Humans along the way feared an attack as news reached the mountain where Lin Tian was in seclusion.

Kunpeng’s Demon Race massacred the Innate Human Race near Shouyang Mountain while the Saints and Fuxi fought over whether to intervene. The slaughter continued as the Innate Humans, facing overwhelming odds, called on their clansmen to self-destruct and take demons with them.

• Kunpeng’s Demon Race attacked the Innate Human Race near Shouyang Mountain and began a one-sided massacre.
• Taiqing Laozi sent Xuandu to preach the Human Religion and promise protection to those who joined it, while Hongjun watched and the Western Saints prepared to act.
• Nuwa tried to reach the battlefield, but the Heavenly Dao Will blocked her, and Taiqing, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti confronted her.
• Tongtian joined Nuwa, Fuxi came to her aid, and the Saints and Fuxi fought in the void, with Fuxi suppressing Jieyin and Zhunti.
• The Demon Race continued slaughtering the Innate Humans, who urged their clansmen to self-destruct and drag the demons down with them.

Lin Tian deployed the Five Elements Sword Formation to turn back the Demon Race’s attack and rally the Innate Human Race around its own destiny. With Kunpeng and the other demon gods trapped inside, Bai Ze ordered Ji Meng to stop Lin Tian from outside the formation.

• Xuandu declared that members who joined the Human Religion would be spared, and some Innate Human Race members urged their clansmen to join while others continued resisting.
• Lin Tian, Shennong Shi, and Xuanyuan Shi confronted Xuandu, and Lin Tian declared that the Human Race’s fate had to remain in its own hands.
• Lin Tian used the Five Elements Sword Diagram and the Human Race’s destiny to trap the Demon Race and unleash the Five Elements Sword Formation, killing millions of demons.
• The surviving Innate Human Race members rallied behind Lin Tian as their destiny strengthened them, while the Human Religion’s share of that destiny plummeted and Taiqing was injured.
• Bai Ze concluded that the formation could only be broken from outside and ordered Ji Meng to stop Lin Tian.

Lin Tian used the Five Elements Sword Formation to trap Kunpeng and the Demon Race, then wielded the Kongtong Seal to repel Ji Meng and reveal the Human Race’s fortune treasure. When Hongjun tried to intervene from Zixiao Palace, Lin Changsheng confronted him and swallowed his Heavenly Dao attack with a multicolored vortex.

• Lin Tian trapped Kunpeng, the five Demon Gods, and the Demon Race within the Five Elements Sword Formation, while Xuandu urged him to stop.
• Ji Meng attacked Lin Tian with his Sea-Ravaging Steel Fork, and members of the Innate Human Race formed a human shield before their Clan Leader.
• Lin Tian used the Kongtong Seal to shatter Ji Meng’s spiritual treasure and severely injure him, forcing him to flee to the Demon Court.
• Bai Ze warned the Demon Gods that the Kongtong Seal could gather and suppress the Human Race’s fortune as they debated whether to intervene.
• Hongjun prepared to save Kunpeng, but Lin Changsheng appeared outside Zixiao Palace and challenged him not to interfere in the Human Race’s affairs.
• Hongjun struck Lin Changsheng with a palm of Heavenly Dao laws, but Lin Changsheng swallowed it with a multicolored vortex, shocking Hongjun.

Lin Changsheng fought Dao Ancestor Hongjun in Zixiao Palace to secure compensation for the Demon Race’s slaughter of the Human Race. Hongjun disappeared after their clash, and Lin Changsheng returned to Changsheng Heaven with hundreds of thousands of spiritual treasures to send to Lin Tian.

• Lin Changsheng demanded spiritual treasures from Hongjun as compensation and warned that he could draw on the power of a world.
• Hongjun invoked the Heavenly Dao, raised his cultivation to the eighth level of the Heavenly Dao Saint realm, and attacked Lin Changsheng with a lightning dragon and a millstone of Heavenly Dao laws.
• Lin Changsheng revealed his true body, drew on the fortune of the Changsheng Immortal Sect and the power of Changsheng Heaven, and shattered Hongjun’s attacks.
• Taiqing, Laozi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and the others stopped fighting as the clash’s fluctuations shook the surrounding void, and the battle between the Six Saints and Fuxi temporarily ended.
• Lin Changsheng collected several hundred thousand spiritual treasures after Hongjun vanished and returned to Changsheng Heaven.
• Lin Changsheng gave Enlightenment the spiritual treasures for Lin Tian and said the Demon Race would no longer dare covet the Human Race.

The Innate Human Race defeated the Demon Race’s attempt to slaughter them and forge the Witch Slaying Sword, though Lin Tian warned that greater threats remained. After several thousand years passed, Di Jun emerged from seclusion, prompting Taiyi and the Demon Court’s leaders to gather.

• Enlightenment delivered hundreds of thousands of spiritual treasures from Lin Changsheng, and Lin Tian spared the surviving Demon Race after withdrawing the Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Bai Ze and the five Demon Gods stopped Kunpeng from attacking Lin Tian and led the survivors back to the Demon Court, while Xuandu returned to Eight Views Palace.
• The Innate Human Race celebrated its victory, but Lin Tian rejected Shennong Shi’s suggestion to formally establish the Human Race, saying the time had not yet come.
• Lin Tian distributed the spiritual treasures, and the Innate Human Race intensified its cultivation after surviving the calamity.
• Lin Changsheng resumed seclusion in Changsheng Heaven, and several thousand years later Di Jun emerged, prompting Taiyi, the Ten Great Demon Gods, and Kunpeng to gather in the Demon Court.

Di Jun emerged from seclusion as a Sub-Saint, disciplined Kunpeng for acting recklessly, and prepared the Demon Race for the coming Wu-Demon battle. After Di Jun and Xihe’s Ten Golden Crow Princes were born, Zhen Yuanzi visited Changsheng Heaven and was led to meet Lin Changsheng.

• Di Jun revealed that refining the Primordial Violet Qi had made him a Sub-Saint but had not shown him a path to sainthood.
• Bai Ze recounted Kunpeng’s unauthorized attack on the Innate Human Race, and Taiyi and Di Jun reprimanded Kunpeng before Di Jun ordered him into seclusion.
• Di Jun announced plans to forge a Celestial Marriage and strengthen the Demon Race through the Dream World of the Thirty-Three Heavens, while the Demon Race trained its forces.
• Di Jun and Xihe forged their Celestial Marriage and had the Ten Golden Crow Princes, whose birth intensified the Demon Race’s fortune.
• Zhen Yuanzi explored Changsheng Heaven, received a message from Lin Changsheng, and followed Enlightenment to meet the Dao Venerable.

Zhen Yuanzi visited Changsheng Heaven seeking a path to sainthood, and Lin Changsheng guided him toward establishing the Earth Immortal Realm without stealing the Primordial Wilderness’s destiny. Lin Changsheng revealed that Hong Yun had survived as a crimson cloud and sent Zhen Yuanzi on his way with new teachings and an invitation for the West Queen Mother.

• Zhen Yuanzi told Lin Changsheng that he sought sainthood through destiny after finding no opportunity to attain it through Merit.
• Lin Changsheng explained the dangers of contending for destiny and argued that the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos should eventually share authority over the Primordial Wilderness.
• Lin Changsheng revealed Hong Yun as a crimson cloud in Changsheng Heaven, and Zhen Yuanzi recognized his old friend’s presence.
• Lin Changsheng told Zhen Yuanzi to establish the Earth Immortal Realm without absorbing the destiny of the Primordial Wilderness’s living beings, then taught him the Three Corpses Reversal Method.
• Lin Changsheng urged Zhen Yuanzi to visit the West Queen Mother and invite her to join Changsheng Heaven.

Zhen Yuanzi brought West Queen Mother to Changsheng Heaven to pursue the Great Dao, while Fuxi began opening the Earth Immortal Realm. After the Ten Golden Crows escaped Yanggu and devastated the Primordial Wilderness, Houyi shot them down as Lin Changsheng prepared to protect the scarce Innate Human Race.

• Zhen Yuanzi told West Queen Mother that Lin Changsheng had invited her to Changsheng Heaven, and she immediately set out to pursue the Great Dao.
• Fuxi began opening the Earth Immortal Realm with the Earth Book and prepared for events Lin Changsheng had warned him about.
• The Ten Golden Crows escaped their confinement in Yanggu and scorched the Primordial Wilderness, causing widespread destruction and deaths.
• Kuafu attacked the Ten Golden Crows, chased them toward the East Sea, and urged Houyi to stop them.
• Houyi shot three Golden Crows down, then continued firing at the others as Kuafu celebrated.
• Hongjun foresaw that the Witch-Demon Tribulation was nearing its end, while Lin Changsheng summoned Enlightenment to arrange protection for the Innate Human Race.

As the ten Golden Crows ravaged the Primordial Wilderness and the Witch-Demon calamity approached, Lin Changsheng sent Enlightenment to protect and guide the Innate Human Race. After Houyi shot down nine Golden Crows, the last one escaped to the Demon Court, where the Demon Race began calling for war against the Witches.

• Lin Changsheng gave Enlightenment the Taiji Diagram and sent her to protect the Innate Human Race from the Golden Crows’ destruction.
• Enlightenment met Lin Tian at Shouyang Mountain, learned that Shennong Shi, Xuanyuan Shi, and Suiren Shi were known as the Three Sovereigns, and warned him to prepare for future tribulations.
• Enlightenment taught the Spiritual Qi Great Dao Art at Shouyang Mountain, helping many Innate Humans break through while Lin Tian considered how Acquired Humans might cultivate.
• Houyi shot down nine of the ten Golden Crow Princes, and the last, Lu Ya, fled to the Demon Court.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi stopped an arrow aimed at Lu Ya, and Lu Ya told Di Jun and the Demon Gods what had happened.
• The Demon Gods demanded that Di Jun send troops against the Witch Race.

Di Jun led the Demon Race into an all-out war against the Witch Race, while Hongjun watched for Lin Changsheng’s response. Following Lin Changsheng’s instruction, Minghe sealed the Sea of Blood and faced a growing Quasi-Saint resentful spirit, leaving him close to being forced to break the seal.

• Di Jun ordered Bai Ze to assemble the Demon Race and declared that they would destroy the Witch Race.
• Dijiang led the Witch Race into battle, and the two armies fought across the Primordial Wilderness as Di Jun faced Dijiang and two other Ancestral Witches.
• Hongjun watched the battle and reasoned that Lin Changsheng’s remaining plan might depend on Houtu opening the Earthly Dao.
• Minghe sealed the Sea of Blood on Lin Changsheng’s instruction, preventing the dead from being absorbed and risking his own immortality.
• The Heavenly Dao fostered a resentful spirit that absorbed wronged souls until it reached Quasi-Saint Perfection and attacked Minghe.
• Minghe fought with the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, Yuan Tu, and A Bi, but the spirit overwhelmed him and he feared he would have to unseal the Sea of Blood.

Lin Changsheng’s preparations to open an Earthly Dao advanced as Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to draw the wronged souls into the Earth Immortal Realm and reveal a Great Earth Main Vein. Meanwhile, the Witch Race’s Twelve Divine Generals Formation failed to absorb Calamity Qi or spiritual energy, leaving the Demon Race poised to strike.

• Hongjun realized Minghe was gathering wronged souls in the Sea of Blood to support Houtu’s opening of Underworld Reincarnation, but expected the souls’ Calamity Qi to threaten the plan.
• Lin Changsheng explained that he sought a complete Earthly Dao independent of Heavenly Dao control and said the next stage depended on Zhen Yuanzi.
• Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to draw dead spirits and wronged souls into the Earth Immortal Realm, where the Calamity Qi was purified and a Great Earth Main Vein appeared.
• Hongjun recognized Zhen Yuanzi and the preserved Main Vein as Lin Changsheng’s hidden preparations, though he believed the Heavenly Dao’s strength would still prevail.
• At Shouyang Mountain, Dijiang ordered the eleven ancestral witches to form the Twelve Divine Generals Formation, but their Pangu True Body could not absorb Calamity Qi or spiritual energy.
• The Demon Race celebrated the formation’s weakness, and its leader ordered its warriors to form the Grand Formation of the Stars.

Houtu transformed herself and the Witch Race into Netherworld Reincarnation, beginning to establish the Earthly Dao and saving the witches from the battle’s destruction. Zhen Yuanzi merged the Earth Immortal Realm into the Netherworld, while Hongjun sensed the nascent Earthly Dao and feared the Heavenly Dao would destroy it.

• The Heavenly Dao suppressed the eleven ancestral witches’ formation, leaving the Pangu True Body unable to absorb baleful qi and at a disadvantage against the Demon Race’s Grand Formation of the Stars.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to form the Grand Formation of the Stars and attack the Witch Race.
• Houtu appeared above the Netherworld Blood Sea, declared her intention to transform into reincarnation, and gathered the prayers of countless vengeful souls.
• Dijiang and the Witch Race offered themselves to reincarnation, helping the Netherworld expand and form the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Zhen Yuanzi merged the Earth Immortal Realm into the Netherworld, and the laws of the Great Earth’s Main Veins helped the Earthly Dao begin to take shape.
• Hongjun sensed the nascent Earthly Dao and warned that the Heavenly Dao would strike if it refused to submit.

As Houtu and the Witch Race opened the Netherworld, the Earthly Dao awakened and faced the Heavenly Dao’s attempt to destroy it. Lin Changsheng sacrificed a thread of Changsheng Heaven’s world power, allowing the Earthly Dao to stabilize as the Heavenly Dao withdrew, leaving Changsheng Heaven poised to benefit from its growth.

• Houtu and the Witch Race opened Netherworld Reincarnation, awakening the weak Earthly Dao, and Minghe led the Asura Clan into it to strengthen it.
• The Heavenly Dao manifested its Divine Wheel and Eye of Divine Punishment, threatening the Earthly Dao and pressuring Houtu to submit.
• Lin Changsheng sent Changsheng Heaven’s merit into the Earthly Dao, then offered a thread of its world power to help it grow.
• The Heavenly Dao struck at the offered world power, but the Great Dao’s gaze annihilated the lightning and damaged the Heavenly Dao Divine Wheel.
• The Earthly Dao stabilized and manifested its own Divine Wheel, while the Heavenly Dao withdrew and Hongjun recognized Lin Changsheng’s plan.

After the Great Dao weakened the Heavenly Dao, the Witch Race defeated the Demon Race, and the Primordial Continent survived as the Earthly Dao opened. Lin Changsheng claimed the Chaos Bell and prepared to restore it before the altered Investiture Tribulation, while the Earthly Dao continued to transform.

• Hongjun entered seclusion to seize greater authority over the weakened Heavenly Dao so he could contend with Lin Changsheng.
• Lin Changsheng explained that the Earthly Dao's growth would eventually nourish Changsheng Heaven and looked toward the final Witch-Demon battle.
• The Pangu True Body unleashed its final axe strike, destroying the Grand Formation of the Stars and wiping out Di Jun and most of the Demon Race.
• The Witch Race survived by transforming into reincarnation within the Earthly Dao, while the Primordial Continent remained intact and the tribulation's Calamity Qi vanished.
• Lin Changsheng seized the Chaos Bell and decided to restore it rather than give it to Tongtian, then prepared for seclusion before the altered Investiture Tribulation.

After the Underworld opened, the Chan School and Jie Sect grew rapidly, but their disciples began clashing as Yuanshi and Tongtian disagreed over how to handle them. The chapter left Taiqing Laozi worried that the Human Religion could not gather enough fortune to support his cultivation, so he summoned Xuandu to assess the Human Race.

• Houtu became an Earthly Dao Saint after opening the Underworld, while Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, and the Witch Race began cultivating there.
• Yuanshi told Randeng to kill Jie Sect disciples who clashed with the Chan School and promised to support him.
• Tongtian urged Duobao and the other Direct Disciples to restrain the Jie Sect, but explained that he kept accepting disciples to gather fortune and suppress tribulation.
• Zhunti and Jieyin lamented the Western Lands’ poverty and decided to seek help from the Dao Ancestor after his seclusion ended.
• Taiqing Laozi worried that the Human Religion received too little fortune from the Innate and Acquired Human Races, then summoned Xuandu to learn how the Innate Human Race had developed.