Chapter Summaries

Fuxi eased humanity’s food shortage and became its common ruler, then created the Innate Eight Trigrams, writing, marriage rules, and musical instruments. Meanwhile, the Yeyou Clan expanded through brutal planetary conquests as Qingyun forged an eternal vessel for his Martial Way.

• Qingyun named the four children Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and Chiyou, and their mothers thanked him.
• The Yeyou Great World recovered over a thousand years, and the Netherworld Emperor led the Yeyou Clan in conquering the Ōtsutsuki Planet and other worlds.
• Qingyun used exchange points, rare materials, and Youchao’s first Wooden House to forge an indestructible palace as a vessel for his Martial Way.
• Fuxi discovered that nets could catch aquatic Fierce Beasts, taught the method to humanity, and helped relieve the food shortage.
• Humanity recognized Fuxi as its common ruler, and he created the Innate Eight Trigrams, writing, rules against close-relative unions and multiple husbands, and musical instruments.

Shennong discovered the Five Grains, became humanity’s common ruler, and later compiled a Medical Classic while tasting herbs. Meanwhile, Xuanyuan and Chiyou’s opposing approaches to tribal disputes split humanity and sparked civil war, with Shennong returning to support Xuanyuan.

• Qingyun guided Shennong to Rice, and Shennong spent a year finding Rice, Millet, Foxtail Millet, Wheat, and Legumes.
• Fuxi passed the position of common ruler to Shennong, who later entrusted humanity’s affairs to Xuanyuan and Chiyou while he traveled to taste herbs; Qingyun sent Tsunade to protect him.
• Xuanyuan urged tribes to settle disputes peacefully, while Chiyou favored fighting and forged Bronze weapons that intensified the conflicts.
• Chiyou left the ancestral grounds with his followers and allied tribes, and Suiren, the other two, and Fuxi sought Qingyun’s counsel; Qingyun told them humanity had to endure its tribulation.
• Shennong compiled his medicinal findings into a Medical Classic, learned that humanity had split apart, and rushed back to support Xuanyuan, beginning a civil war.

Xuanyuan and Shennong fought Chiyou for control of humanity, and Xuanyuan defeated Chiyou’s forces at Zhuolu with an ambush and the South-Pointing Chariot. As Xuanyuan and Shennong moved to kill the weakened Chiyou, Qingyun stopped them and asked Chiyou to answer their accusations.

• Chiyou’s bronze-armed army repeatedly defeated Xuanyuan and Shennong, while rebellions and martial recluses strengthened Xuanyuan’s forces.
• Xuanyuan trained his army, forged weapons, and invented the South-Pointing Chariot before meeting Chiyou again at Zhuolu.
• Xuanyuan lured Chiyou’s troops into a gorge, where hidden soldiers ambushed them and restored his army’s confidence.
• Xuanyuan used the South-Pointing Chariot to guide his forces through thick fog and rout Chiyou’s army the next morning.
• Chiyou charged Xuanyuan and Shennong, but an arrow struck his vulnerable point and weakened him.
• Qingyun stopped Xuanyuan and Shennong from killing Chiyou, then asked whether he disputed their accusations; Chiyou admitted they were true.

Qingyun explained why humanity needed to preserve its fighting spirit, then completed the God of War Hall as a repository of martial arts. In Konoha, Boruto discovered that an outside race had begun possessing people and warned Naruto that the Fifth Shinobi World War was imminent.

• Qingyun heard Chiyou defend humanity’s need for conflict, and Xuanyuan agreed while Shennong remained unconvinced.
• Qingyun told Shennong, Xuanyuan, and Chiyou that humanity must keep growing stronger, ordered them not to interfere with its development, and permitted Xuanyuan to peacefully bring the Jiuli Tribe under his rule.
• Qingyun completed the palace, filled it with statues embodying martial arts, and named it the God of War Hall.
• Boruto Uzumaki’s Jōgan revealed that a person in Konoha had two souls, and he used his Space-Time Dojutsu and mental power to destroy the invading soul.
• Boruto Uzumaki told Naruto Uzumaki that members of the invading race had possessed people across the Shinobi World and that the Fifth Shinobi World War was about to begin.

Qingyun left the Yeyou World after entrusting the human race with the God of War Hall and returned to reality, where ancient gods and ferocious beasts had plunged Earth into disaster. Reunited with Qibai and remembered as Xiaoran, he began a new journey by rescuing the people of Linchuan City and declaring his intent to rise to the top of this world and the Primordial.

• Qingyun summoned Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, Fuxi, Shennong, Chiyou, and Xuanyuan, entrusted them with the God of War Hall, gave them God Tree Fruits, and warned them about humans from other planets.
• Qingyun left the Yeyou World with Tsunade and the others, traveled through a portal, and used a Body Transformation Pill to restore their physical forms.
• Qingyun arrived in a modern city during a disaster and destroyed a gigantic foot that had been about to crush him.
• Qibai recognized Qingyun as Xiaoran and explained that ancient gods had awakened three months earlier, Earth had suffered widespread devastation, and ferocious beasts now threatened humanity.
• Qingyun attacked the beasts in Linchuan City, killed a colossal fire-breathing beast with the Heaven-Extinguishing Earth-Destroying Sword Twenty-Three, and cleared the city as the survivors hailed him as the Sword God.