Recaps

Li Yi used the Chaos Gourd to seize the Heavenly Dao Merit meant for Nuwa, planning to erase its Heavenly Dao Will and turn it into Human Dao Merit. The Heavenly Dao empowered Hongjun to become a Sage through Three Corpses Severing, and he appeared before Li Yi to challenge him and threaten to kill him.

• Li Yi swallowed the Heavenly Dao Merit Golden Light with the Chaos Gourd while Yuanshi, Laozi, and the other onlookers watched in envy and shock.
• Li Yi reasoned that he could use Human Dao Power to remove the Heavenly Dao Will from the Merit and eventually appoint a Human Dao Sage.
• The Heavenly Dao sent power into Hongjun, allowing him to merge his Three Corpses and become a Sage.
• Hongjun appeared before Li Yi, declared that he would uphold the Heavenly Dao's will, and accused him of disrupting the Human Race's fate and stealing Nuwa's Merit.
• Hongjun challenged Li Yi to a fight and vowed to rid the Primordial World of him, believing the Heavenly Dao would help him return even if the Great Dao expelled him.

Hongjun revealed that Li Yi was a Chaos Demon God, but Li Yi turned Hongjun’s accusation against him, calling him the Primordial World’s last unregistered resident. They entered the Hundun to fight, where Hongjun opened with the Pangu Banner’s devastating attack and Li Yi met it with a White Lotus.

• Hongjun identified Li Yi as a Chaos Demon God, shocking the assembled Great Supernatural Beings.
• Li Yi said the Great Dao had appointed him Human Dao Sovereign and mocked Hongjun as the Primordial World’s only unregistered resident.
• Hongjun challenged Li Yi to battle in the Hundun, and Li Yi accepted before the spectators followed them there.
• The spectators discussed the rivals’ Chaos Demon God physiques and debated whether Hongjun’s Three Corpses cultivation would prevail.
• Hongjun summoned the Pangu Banner, confined Li Yi in the Hundun space, and unleashed its killing move.
• Li Yi summoned a White Lotus to shield himself as the attack shattered the Hundun space, leaving the spectators stunned by its power.

Li Yi withstood Hongjun’s Pangu Banner and overwhelmed him with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, revealing the advantage of his Great Dao Merit Sage power. The chapter ended with Li Yi striking Hongjun with the true forms of the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and destroying his body and exposed Primordial Spirit.

• Hongjun unleashed the Pangu Banner’s full power, but Li Yi’s Pure World White Lotus protected him without damage.
• Hongjun attacked again, while Li Yi countered with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and wounded him with its Sword Qi.
• Hongjun’s Magic Power dwindled as Li Yi maintained his attacks, and spectators recognized that Li Yi was a Great Dao Merit Sage.
• Hongjun asked to stop the fight, but Li Yi refused and continued battling for several hours.
• Li Yi activated the true forms of the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, which pierced Hongjun’s skull, annihilated his exposed Primordial Spirit, and destroyed his body.

Li Yi defeated Hongjun, established the human race, and sent his Yin-Yang Avatar to become its leader while avoiding Heavenly Dao’s scrutiny. Hongjun revived under Heavenly Dao’s control and set Laozi on the same path, preparing a struggle over the human race’s fortune.

• Li Yi killed Hongjun in the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, but Heavenly Dao pulled away the Pangu Banner and later restored Hongjun at a cost.
• Li Yi left the chaos with Tongtian and Nuwa, then settled the newly born human race near Buzhou Mountain and let it grow without direct protection.
• Li Yi returned to his immortal island and revealed that he had refined the Yin-Yang Daoist’s Chaos Demon God body into an External Incarnation.
• Li Yi sent the Yin-Yang Avatar into Hundun to conceal its origins before it went to civilize the human race and claim the position of Human Race Cult Leader.
• Hongjun revived in Purple Cloud Palace as a fusion with Heavenly Dao and sent Laozi to seek leadership of the human race and its fortune.

After surviving Li Yi’s attack by merging with the Heavenly Dao, Heavenly Dao Hongjun guided Laozi toward attaining sanctification through teaching the Human Race. Laozi agreed to wait until the humans had endured several eras of hardship, while Hongjun planned to use the scheme to take the Human Dao’s Fortune from the Heaven-Earth Daoist.

• Laozi worried that Li Yi had killed Hongjun, then hurried to the Purple Cloud Palace after Hongjun summoned him.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun claimed he had used Li Yi’s attack to sever his former self’s Karma and merge with the Heavenly Dao, then explained that he could not freely act against the Heaven-Earth Daoist.
• Hongjun hinted that Laozi’s path to sanctification lay in teaching the newly created Human Race, and Laozi realized he could build Karma by guiding them.
• Laozi worried that the Heaven-Earth Daoist would interfere, but Hongjun said the Human Dao would protect actions that benefited the Human Race.
• Hongjun told Laozi to wait until the Human Race had endured several eras of hardship before teaching them, and Laozi agreed before leaving.
• Hongjun watched Laozi depart and resolved to take the Human Dao’s Fortune from the Heaven-Earth Daoist.

Laozi disguised himself as the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal Li Er and entered a Human tribe, intending to teach its people. He was astonished by their clothing, homes, farming, animal husbandry, wedding customs, and written script, and ended by asking Cang who had created their writing.

• Laozi lowered his aura, changed his appearance, and traveled to a Human tribe as Li Er.
• Cang welcomed Laozi and showed him the tribe’s bamboo house, where Laozi realized the Humans had already developed clothing, architecture, farming, and animal husbandry.
• Cang invited Laozi to the tribe’s shared wedding celebration, where he witnessed elaborate marriage rituals and learned about Human Script.
• Laozi asked Cang who had created the Human Script, inwardly furious that someone had already enlightened the Humans so extensively.

Laozi discovered that Huang had secretly advanced the Human Race and fled to Hongjun for help. After examining Huang’s deeds, Hongjun recognized the threat to Laozi’s claim to lead the Human Sect and told him he could still surpass Huang by completing one crucial task.

• Cang told Laozi that Huang had created writing and rites and taught the Human Race farming and animal husbandry.
• Laozi failed to divine Huang’s past or future, feared he might be an incarnation of the Heaven-Earth Daoist, and fled to the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Li Yi watched Laozi flee and prepared to establish the Human Sect by providing the Human Race with a cultivation method.
• Laozi told Hongjun that Huang was competing with him for the Human Race’s merit and asked his master for help.
• Hongjun divined Huang’s contributions to humanity, judged that his achievements made him difficult to punish, and told Laozi he could still supplant Huang by completing the most important task.

Laozi followed Hongjun’s advice, created the Golden Core Dao, and began teaching it to human tribes, while Li Yi sought a path that could include every human, regardless of cultivation talent. Li Yi then established the Immortal Human Dynasty, surprising Laozi, Hongjun, and powerful beings across the Primordial World.

• Hongjun told Laozi that passing on a cultivation path suited to humans could secure his fate as leader of the Human Sect.
• Laozi completed the Golden Core Dao and taught it to gifted members of a Human Race tribe.
• Li Yi watched Laozi teach and resolved to create a Dao that let every human, including those without cultivation talent, attain it.
• Laozi traveled among human tribes teaching the Golden Core Dao, while expecting the Human Race to repay him with Fortune.
• Huang proclaimed the establishment of the Immortal Human Dynasty with ten tribal leaders, declaring that it would protect the people and let those who served them share in the Human Race’s Fortune.
• Laozi, Hongjun, and powerful beings across the Primordial World reacted with surprise to Huang’s proclamation.

Li Yi and the ten tribes swore to establish a Divine Dynasty, drawing a powerful response from the Human Dao Will. Laozi then vowed to establish the Human Sect with the Heavenly Dao’s approval, despite the Human Race’s rejection.

• Li Yi and the ten tribal leaders led the Human Race in swearing loyalty to the Divine Dynasty and Huang.
• Nuwa asked Li Yi whether to stop Huang, and Li Yi told her to let things take their course.
• The Human Race’s vows strengthened the Human Dao Will and sent a tide of Fortune skyward.
• Laozi decided to establish the Human Sect before Huang founded the Divine Dynasty and swore his oath to the Heavenly Dao.
• The Human Race and cultivators questioned Laozi’s claim to found a sect, and the Human Dao Will showed faint rejection, but Laozi relied on the Heavenly Dao’s recognition.

Li Yi’s avatar received Great Dao Merit, became a Great Dao Merit Sage, and was recognized as ruler of the Divine Dynasty and Human Emperor. As Laozi prepared to accept Heavenly Dao Merit for founding the Human Sect, Li Yi forbade the sect by imperial decree.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun recognized Laozi’s oath to found the Human Sect despite the Human Dao Will’s resistance, spending great power to do so.
• The Great Dao sent its Merit Violet Light to Li Yi’s Yin-Yang Avatar, making him a Great Dao Merit Sage and Human Emperor.
• The Human Race’s Fortune gathered around Li Yi, and the Demon Court and other powerful beings feared the Human Race’s rising strength.
• Laozi took comfort in the Heavenly Dao’s recognition and planned to use the Human Sect to claim the Human Race’s Fortune.
• Li Yi declared that Taiqing had done nothing for the Human Race and proclaimed that the Divine Dynasty would stand while the Human Sect would not.

Li Yi declared that he would abolish the Human Sect, drawing scorn from the Primordial World’s powerful factions and angering Laozi and Hongjun. As Laozi’s founding merit descended, Li Yi intercepted it and condemned the Golden Core Dao as trash.

• Di Jun, Taiyi, an Ancestor Witch, and other Great Supernatural Beings mocked Li Yi’s challenge to the Heavenly Dao, while Houtu worried for the Human Race.
• Laozi and Heavenly Dao Hongjun grew furious when Li Yi declared that the Human Sect no longer existed and accused Laozi of contributing nothing to the Human Race.
• The Golden Merit Light continued descending toward Laozi, who flew up to receive the merit that would let him become a Sage.
• Li Yi appeared beside Laozi and seized the Heavenly Dao Merit before it could reach him.
• Laozi angrily defended the Golden Core Dao he had taught the Human Race, and Li Yi answered that the Dao was trash.

Li Yi dismissed Laozi’s Golden Core Dao and, despite the Heavenly Dao’s displeasure, swore an oath to create three cultivation methods for the Human Race. He passed down methods for prodigies, contributors to the Human Race, and warriors, leaving Laozi to recognize how far his own method fell short.

• Laozi angrily challenged Li Yi for calling his Golden Core Dao trash, while Li Yi dismissed his objections.
• The Heavenly Dao Eye formed above Li Yi, who faced it without alarm and swore before the Great Dao to create three methods exclusively for the Human Race.
• Li Yi taught the Human Race Supreme Method, a path for prodigies that could lead to Peak Quasi-Saint, and Laozi saw that it surpassed his own method.
• Li Yi taught the Human Race Fortune Art, rewarding service to the people and Divine Dynasty so even ordinary humans could gain a path to immortality.
• Li Yi passed down the Human Race Blood Battle Scripture for warriors, then declared that the three methods would strengthen the Human Race and surpass Taiqing’s creation.

Li Yi’s three cultivation methods won the Great Dao’s recognition over Laozi’s Golden Core Dao, strengthening Li Yi and ending the threat of Heavenly Dao punishment. Laozi’s claim to establish the Human Sect was rejected, and Li Yi departed to govern the newly founded Divine Dynasty.

• Yuanshi, Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Ancestor Witches doubted that Li Yi’s methods could surpass Laozi’s Golden Core Dao.
• The Great Dao bestowed merit violet light on Li Yi for teaching his methods, confirming their superiority and stunning the watching tribes.
• The Human Dao Will absorbed the merit, increasing human Dao fortune and raising Li Yi’s strength.
• The Heavenly Dao Tribulation Clouds dispersed rather than attack Li Yi, accepting the Great Dao’s judgment against Laozi’s claim to the Human Sect.
• Li Yi left to attend to the Divine Dynasty’s affairs, while Laozi vanished from the Tao Platform in despair.

Guto Xuanling learned that Li Yi had encountered Tongtian in the Primordial Realm and approved a plan to use Li Yi to summon and capture Tongtian. In the Primordial Realm, Heavenly Dao Hongjun urged Zhunti and Jieyin to recruit the Human Race, promising to help them become Sages.

• Guto Xuefeng told Guto Xuanling that Li Yi had survived in Blue Star’s Trial and encountered Tongtian, a Peak Great Firmament Golden Immortal.
• Guto Xuefeng proposed recalling Li Yi and using him to summon Tongtian so the Guto Tribe could capture him and devour the Primordial Realm.
• Guto Xuanling approved the plan and ordered Guto Xuefeng to take control of Li Yi himself.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun summoned Zhunti and Jieyin after deciding they could infiltrate the Human Dao by drawing Human Race Geniuses into their sect.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun promised to borrow Merit to help Zhunti and Jieyin become Sages if they brought the Human Race into their fold.

Jieyin and Zhunti became Heavenly Dao Merit Saints by vowing to convert thirty percent of the Human Race to the Western Teachings within three assemblies. After one assembly passed, Li Yi learned that the Mahayana Teachings had begun preaching among tribes at the edge of his divine dynasty.

• Hongjun offered Jieyin and Zhunti advance merit for converting the Human Race, and they accepted the conditions and swore binding vows before the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao granted merit to Jieyin and Zhunti, making them saints, and Hongjun warned them to fulfill their vows within three assemblies.
• Jieyin and Zhunti disguised themselves as wandering monks, renamed the Western Teachings the Mahayana Teachings, and began preaching to a peripheral tribe.
• Li Yi developed the divine dynasty, established the War Department, and strengthened the Human Race as its fortune and his own realm grew.
• After one assembly passed, an attendant reported to Li Yi that the Mahayana Teachings were preaching among tribes on the dynasty's outskirts and asked whether to capture them.

Li Yi discovered Zhunti and Jieyin were trying to preach the Mahayana Teachings and convert people in the Human Emperor Divine Dynasty. After confronting them and warning them away, he left the two Sages fearing they could not fulfill their grand vow, and Zhunti proposed defecting to the Human Emperor.

• Li Yi deduced that Zhunti and Jieyin were behind the Mahayana Teachings and decided to personally stop them from converting his subjects.
• Zhunti and Jieyin complained that the Witch and Demon Tribes had retreated and the Human Race's Fortune Art made their grand vow impossible to fulfill.
• Li Yi appeared before the two Sages as they fled into Hundun, and Jieyin claimed they had only come to take a few disciples.
• Li Yi let Zhunti and Jieyin go but warned them not to plot against the Human Race or establish a sect in his Divine Dynasty.
• Zhunti suggested to Jieyin that they rebel against the Heavenly Dao and surrender to the Human Emperor, and Jieyin considered the possibility.

Zhunti and Jieyin sought refuge with Li Yi after realizing they could not fulfill their vows to Hongjun, and they joined the Human Dao by entrusting it with fragments of their primordial spirits. Li Yi kept their allegiance secret and ordered them to continue converting the Human Race to the Western Teachings as covert agents against the Heavenly Dao.

• Zhunti persuaded Jieyin that joining the Human Dao was their only chance to escape the consequences of their vows to Hongjun.
• Zhunti went to the Human Emperor Palace, and Jieyin followed after pretending he still had doubts.
• Zhunti and Jieyin prostrated themselves before Li Yi and offered to join the Human Dao, explaining their conflict with Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yi required Zhunti and Jieyin to entrust fragments of their primordial spirits to the Human Dao, placing their lives under his control.
• Li Yi told Zhunti and Jieyin to stay hidden and continue converting the Human Race to the Western Teachings as agents within the Heavenly Dao.

Li Yi ordered Zhunti and Jieyin to recruit Human Race members into the Western Teachings as part of a plan to steal Heavenly Dao Fortune. After the Heavenly Dao granted fortune to the converted frontier tribes, Hongjun believed the operation was proceeding as intended, unaware that Li Yi had planted seals to siphon the fortune for himself.

• Li Yi told Zhunti and Jieyin to secretly convert Human Race members on the frontier, then ordered the Human Emperor Hall's 1.456 billion members sent to the Heavenly Flame Tribe in the West.
• Li Yi secretly planted Human Emperor Seals in the exiled elites and arranged for them to believe they had been treated unjustly, while Zhunti and Jieyin gradually recruited them into the Western Teachings.
• The Western Teachings gained twenty percent of Human Dao Fortune, and Hongjun summoned Zhunti and Jieyin after divining their success.
• Zhunti urged Hongjun to bestow Heavenly Dao Fortune on the converted Human Race members, and Hongjun traveled with them to the frontier.
• Hongjun granted the frontier tribes a tenth of Heavenly Dao Fortune, noticed Buddhist Swastika Dao Seals inside them, and accepted Zhunti's explanation that the marks came from conversion.

Li Yi absorbed the heavenly dao fortune Hongjun had secretly directed into the human dao and broke through to mid-stage Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal. The breakthrough shook the Primordial World, while Hongjun remained convinced that he could reclaim the fortune and ruin Li Yi.

• Li Yi’s Human Emperor Seals filtered and absorbed the heavenly dao fortune bestowed on over a hundred million humans who had joined the Western Teachings.
• Hongjun praised Zhunti and Jieyin, ordered them to recruit more Human Race elites, and expected to reclaim the fortune after it permeated the human dao.
• Li Yi absorbed the fortune in the Human Emperor Hall and broke through to mid-stage Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, sending a terrifying Dao resonance across the Primordial World.
• Di Jun and countless other cultivators sensed the breakthrough and were shaken by the Human Emperor’s rapid rise.
• Hongjun believed Li Yi’s breakthrough was fueled by his heavenly dao fortune and anticipated that reclaiming it would make Li Yi fall from sagehood.

Tongtian visited Li Yi after grasping his Sage Dao and asked whether he could entrust his vow to the Human Dao. With Li Yi's support, Tongtian established the Interception Sect to teach immortal cultivation to all beings, setting up a likely clash with the Heavenly Dao.

• Nuwa sensed the Human Emperor's powerful breakthrough and resolved to catch up with her Master.
• Tongtian saw the Human Emperor's rising aura, decided to pursue Human Dao Sainthood, and went to seek Li Yi's guidance.
• Li Yi revealed that he and his Human Emperor Dao avatar had reached the mid-stage Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm, then welcomed Tongtian into Penglai Immortal Island.
• Tongtian told Li Yi he wanted to establish a sect for all beings and entrust his great vow to the Human Dao, and Li Yi promised to hold back the Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian proclaimed the establishment of the Interception Sect and vowed to teach immortal cultivation to all who sincerely sought the Dao.
• The Human Dao echoed Tongtian's vow across the Primordial World, inspiring its beings while Great Supernatural Beings warned that the Heavenly Dao would oppose him.

Yuanshi concluded that his sage path was to uphold the Heavenly Dao, then grew furious when Tongtian vowed to establish the Interception Sect under the Human Dao. He went to the Purple Cloud Palace expecting Hongjun to punish Tongtian, but Hongjun surprised him by saying he would not.

• Yuanshi watched humble cultivators struggle and decided they should follow the Heavenly Dao's order rather than seek immortality.
• Tongtian vowed before the Human Dao to establish the Interception Sect and give all beings a chance to cultivate the Great Dao.
• Yuanshi condemned Tongtian's vow as an attack on the Heavenly Dao and hurried to the Purple Cloud Palace to stop him.
• Hongjun chose not to interfere because he wanted to keep secretly devouring Human Dao fortune.
• Yuanshi offered to arrest Tongtian, but Hongjun asked who had said he planned to punish him.

Yuanshi questioned Heavenly Dao Hongjun about why he would allow Tongtian to establish the Interception Sect under Human Dao, but Hongjun insisted Heavenly Dao did not care about the authority involved and kept Yuanshi in the Purple Cloud Palace to watch. As Tongtian made his great vow to Human Dao, merit descended and enveloped him without Heavenly Dao intervening, leaving the watching powers stunned.

• Yuanshi asked Hongjun to punish Tongtian for placing the Interception Sect under Human Dao, but Hongjun claimed Heavenly Dao had no interest in teaching authority.
• Hongjun told Yuanshi to stay and watch Tongtian attain sagehood, then showed him Tongtian making his vow.
• Di Jun and Taiyi doubted Tongtian could attain the Dao, while Zhurong and Gonggong expected Heavenly Dao to suppress Human Dao.
• Tongtian's vow gathered the wishes of beings seeking the Dao, and his aura surged toward the Daluo golden immortal realm.
• Human Dao tribulation clouds formed above Tongtian and sent merit down to envelop him, while Heavenly Dao did not intervene.

Tongtian attained Sagehood through the Human Dao, met with Li Yi, and established the Interception Sect on an island in the East Sea. As Yuanshi began establishing the Elucidation Sect, Demon Court cultivators started leaving to seek instruction from Tongtian.

• The Human Dao's merit enveloped Tongtian, breaking his cultivation shackles and allowing him to attain Sagehood without interference from the Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian went to the Human Emperor Hall and asked Li Yi for a place in the East Sea to establish the Interception Sect; Li Yi offered him an immortal island left by the Demon Tribe.
• Yuanshi received Hongjun's permission to establish a sect and attain Sagehood, then began making a vow on Kunlun Mountain to establish the Elucidation Sect.
• Tongtian accepted Li Yi's offer, traveled to the island, and established the Interception Sect's Dao lineage.
• Demonic creatures, spirit beasts, and cultivators across the Primordial World were drawn to the Interception Sect's open access to cultivation methods.
• Golden Immortals from the Demon Court began leaving to seek Tongtian as their master.

Di Jun tried to stop demons from defecting to Tongtian’s Interception Sect, while the Human Race and the sect continued to prosper. Seeing their rising fortune, Heavenly Dao Hongjun activated his hidden contingency to openly erode the Human Dao and seize its fortune.

• Di Jun learned that many Golden Immortals and Primordial Unity Golden Immortals had left the Demon Court to join Tongtian’s Interception Sect, and he considered punishing them.
• Bai Ze warned Di Jun against placing a squad near Tongtian’s East Sea territory, so Di Jun approved a plan to enslave the defectors’ clansmen and descendants instead.
• Tongtian’s Interception Sect gained more disciples, while Yuanshi worried that his strict standards would leave the Elucidation Sect with too few powerful disciples.
• The Human Race built cities, developed its civilization, and produced dozens of Daluo Golden Immortals, bringing its fortune closer to the Demon Tribe’s.
• Hongjun activated the contingency hidden in the heavenly Dao fortune he had invested, beginning to erode the Human Dao and draw out its fortune.

Li Yi reached the late stage of Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal by cultivating with the Human Dao fortune, then turned Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s hidden siphon against him by disguising the Human Dao’s karmic retribution and sinful energy as fortune. Heavenly Dao Hongjun absorbed the tainted energy into the Heavenly Dao, believing his plan to seize Human Dao fortune had succeeded.

• Li Yi used the Human Dao fortune, strengthened by thirty percent of heavenly dao fortune, to break through to late-stage Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Li Yi detected Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s hidden contingency trying to siphon fortune from the Human Dao.
• Li Yi disguised the Human Dao’s karmic retribution and sinful energy as human dao fortune and sent it into the siphon.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun received the black mass, mistook it for dense human dao fortune, and merged it into the heavenly dao fortune.