Chapter Summaries

Qin Mu arranged for Mysterious Turtle to reincarnate as the Human Race's third Human Emperor, promising that the accumulated Merit would help him reach the Peak Quasi-Saint realm and perhaps glimpse Sainthood. After Mysterious Turtle entered reincarnation with his memories sealed, Qin Mu considered how the arrangement would affect Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Clarify Teachings.

• Qin Mu explained that Mysterious Turtle's past Merit and future Human Emperor destiny would bring him great cultivation opportunities, and Mysterious Turtle accepted the arrangement.
• Qin Mu brought Mysterious Turtle to Pingxin Hall, where Empress Pingxin opened a special Reincarnation passage.
• Empress Pingxin sealed Mysterious Turtle's memories into an origin imprint so he could integrate into the Human Race and avoid discovery before attaining the Dao.
• Empress Pingxin sent Mysterious Turtle's soul into reincarnation, then disappeared after Qin Mu thanked her.
• Qin Mu returned to Fengdu City and reflected that Primordial Heavenly Venerate, appointed Imperial Tutor to the third Human Emperor, would be affected by his plan.

Chi You was revived through a blood sacrifice by the hidden Wu Clan, then learned that the Human Race ruled the Primordial Wilderness. He ordered the Wu Clan to return and reclaim its territory, triggering attacks on human tribes as the great powers reacted with alarm.

• The Wu Clan sacrificed Fierce Beasts before Chi You’s statue, restoring Chi You to life.
• Chi You learned that the Wu Clan and Demon Race had declined after their war and that Fuxi, Shennong, and the Human Race had risen to power.
• Chi You declared that the Wu Clan would regain its former glory and ordered its hidden tribes to reclaim their lands.
• Wu Clan members emerged across the Primordial Wilderness and seized territory, causing heavy losses among the Human Race.
• Primordial Great Powers were shocked by the Wu Clan’s return, though those who remembered its former strength took the threat seriously.

The Wu Clan returned and attacked Human Race tribes, threatening Clarify Teachings’ plans for the third Human Emperor. Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Guangchengzi to suppress the Wu Clan and gave him the Fan Tian Seal, leaving Guangchengzi ready to lead the Twelve Golden Immortals down the mountain.

• Guangchengzi and the Twelve Golden Immortals learned that the Wu Clan had returned and was attacking the Human Race.
• Guangchengzi led the Twelve Golden Immortals to Yuxu Palace and asked Primordial Heavenly Venerate whether they should intervene.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate explained that the Wu Clan was disrupting Clarify Teachings’ plan to guide the third Human Emperor and ordered Guangchengzi to quell the rebellion.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate warned Guangchengzi not to underestimate the Wu Clan and bestowed the Fan Tian Seal upon him.
• Guangchengzi accepted the Fan Tian Seal and vowed to suppress the Wu rebellion, while True Person Huanglong watched with envy.

Guangchengzi led the Clarify Teachings in suppressing the Wu Clan’s attacks on the Human Race, prompting the Saints and Human leaders to consider why the unrest had erupted. Huang Tian and Qin Mu suspected that someone was backing the Wu Clan, and the chapter left the identity of that supporter unresolved.

• Guangchengzi led Chijingzi and the other Clarify Teachings disciples to attack the Wu Clan and defeat many of its rampaging members.
• Taishang, Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, Tongtian, and Nuwa observed the intervention and considered its implications for the Human Race and the Three Sovereigns’ merit.
• Huang Tian told the Human leaders that Yuanshi had acted to protect the Clarify Teachings’ Imperial Tutor position and warned that the Wu Clan’s actions seemed suspicious.
• Ming He wondered why Qin Mu had not competed for an Imperial Tutor position, while Qin Mu and Yin Tianzi watched the unrest from Fengdu City.
• Qin Mu told Yin Tianzi that the Wu Clan must have a powerful supporter behind it.

Shennong worried that the Wu Clan’s return would threaten the Human Race, but Clarify Teachings disciples began suppressing the chaos. After defeating several Wu Clan forces, Guangchengzi warned his companions that the enemy’s true elite had not yet appeared.

• Shennong recognized Clarify Teachings’ intervention and suspected it was meant to protect the Human Race’s future Third Emperor.
• Guangchengzi and the Clarify Teachings disciples confronted Wu Clan warriors on a plain and broke their blood-and-qi formation with their Dharma treasures.
• The Wu Clan warriors charged despite their losses, and Guangchengzi and the others killed them with a barrage of attacks.
• Guangchengzi led the disciples in clearing several Wu Clan strongholds over the following days.
• Chijingzi and the others dismissed the Wu Clan’s strength, but Guangchengzi cautioned that they might have faced only miscellaneous troops and that the true elite had yet to appear.

Guangchengzi and the Clarify Teachings disciples pursued the Wu Clan into a strange valley, where they encountered the resurrected Ancestral Witch Chi You. The chapter revealed that Houtu had left behind a drop of Ancestor Witch Essence Blood, which Chi You refined to become a new Ancestral Wu.

• Chi You learned that Guangchengzi and the Clarify Teachings had attacked the Wu Clan, then decided to confront them himself.
• Guangchengzi led Chijingzi and the other disciples into a valley where divine sense could not penetrate.
• A blood-colored pillar of light and powerful baleful energy erupted from the valley, alarming the Clarify Teachings disciples.
• Chi You appeared and threatened the disciples, while Guangchengzi and the others recognized him as an Ancestral Witch thought to have died in the Wu-Demon War.
• The chapter revealed that Houtu had left a drop of Ancestor Witch Essence Blood for Di Jiang, and Chi You had refined it to become the Wu Clan's new Ancestral Wu.

Chi You was resurrected and appeared amid the Wu Clan’s attack on the Human Race, alarming the Saints and threatening the Clarify Teachings’ plans for the third Human Sovereign. Qin Mu recognized Chi You but suspected his body was not that of a Wu, leaving the mystery of his return unresolved.

• Yuanshi saw Chi You in a luminous mirror, failed to divine how he had returned, and feared Guangchengzi and the others could not face him.
• Taishang learned Chi You was behind the Wu Clan’s attack and chose to leave the matter to Yuanshi, trusting the Human Race to defend itself.
• Tongtian, Nuwa, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti reacted to Chi You’s resurrection, with the Western Saints welcoming the turmoil it brought to the East.
• In the Human Emperor Realm, Zhen Yuanzi questioned whether the other Ancestral Witches might return, while Huang Tian urged everyone to wait and watch.
• Qin Mu told Xi He and Chang Xi that Chi You’s body did not seem to be a Wu body and wondered whether Empress Pingxin was pleased by his return.

Pingxin sensed Chi You’s resurrection through the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ banners as Chi You overwhelmed Guangchengzi and the Clarify Teachings disciples. Just as Chi You prepared to kill them with a third axe strike, an unseen voice called for mercy and stopped the blow.

• Pingxin saw the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ phantoms react to Chi You’s resurrection and realized he had revived outside her hall.
• Chi You confronted Guangchengzi and the Clarify Teachings disciples for slaughtering Wu Clan Warriors and dismissed Guangchengzi’s claim that he was defying Heaven.
• Guangchengzi used the Fan Tian Seal and the disciples’ combined mana to block Chi You’s first axe strike, but it severely injured them all.
• Chi You’s second axe strike shattered the disciples’ defensive formation and left them barely able to fight.
• Chi You gathered power for a third strike, but an unseen voice called, “Fellow Daoist Chi You, show mercy!” and halted his axe in midair.

Randeng arrived with his green lamp and stopped Chi You from killing Guangchengzi and the other Clarify Teachings disciples. He offered Chi You a chance to withdraw and live, but Chi You rejected his authority and the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Randeng appeared in the valley, and his lamp dispelled Chi You’s Blood Fiend aura, repaired the shattered space, and began healing the Clarify Teachings disciples.
• Qin Mu recognized Randeng’s strength, while Jie Yin and Zhun Ti worried that his intervention would suppress the Wu uprising.
• Randeng told Chi You that he had come at Yuanshi’s request to protect the disciples and asked him to stop fighting.
• Guangchengzi and the other disciples urged Randeng to suppress Chi You, while Randeng privately resented their demands and their lack of respect for him.
• Randeng offered to spare Chi You if he withdrew his forces and swore not to invade the Human Race again, but Chi You mocked him and challenged his authority.

Chi You summoned the Tiger Soul Fierce Weapon and fought Old Ancestor Randeng, but Randeng trapped him with the Qian Kun Ruler and engulfed him in Glazed Pure Fire. Chi You screamed as the onlookers judged that he was close to being suppressed.

• Chi You summoned a Gold-Devouring Saber-toothed Tiger Weapon Soul, which merged with his axe and transformed it into the Tiger Soul Fierce Weapon.
• Chi You attacked Old Ancestor Randeng with a powerful strike, and Randeng blocked it with the Qian Kun Ruler.
• Randeng and Chi You fought fiercely as Guangchengzi and the other Clarify Teachings Disciples defended themselves from the clash.
• Randeng used the Qian Kun Ruler to freeze the space-time around Chi You, then unleashed the Glazed Pure Fire from his lamp.
• The Glazed Pure Fire swallowed Chi You, who screamed as the onlookers expected Randeng to suppress him.

Empress Pingxin intervened just as Randeng was about to kill Chi You, shattered his restraints, and enabled Chi You to escape. The Saints recognized Pingxin’s hand in the rescue, leaving Yuanshi and Zhun Ti wary of her renewed involvement.

• Randeng suppressed Chi You with the Glazed Lamp and struck at him with the Qian Kun Ruler, but a gray beam broke both attacks.
• Chi You escaped through a Void Rift, and Randeng stopped Guangchengzi and the other Clarify Teachings disciples from pursuing him.
• Randeng told the disciples to return to the mountain, then disappeared, while the watching great powers wondered who had rescued Chi You.
• The Saints recognized Empress Pingxin as the one who intervened, and Yuanshi worried that she had openly interfered in Primordial Wilderness affairs.
• Zhun Ti also recognized Pingxin and recalled fearing her after she had suppressed him during the struggle for Underworld Authority.

After Pingxin rescued Chi You from Randeng, Chi You withdrew with the Wu Clan and resolved to rebuild its strength, giving the Human Race time for its Third Emperor to be born. Qin Mu revealed that the Third Emperor’s spirit was the Sky-Propping Mysterious Turtle’s True Spirit, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate summoned his disciples to prepare to assist the new emperor.

• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti discussed Pingxin’s intervention and worried that the West would have no opportunity if the East remained peaceful.
• Nuwa, Zhen Yuanzi, Huang Tian, Fuxi, and Shennong recognized that Pingxin’s rescue of Chi You had ended the Wu uprising for now.
• Pingxin told Chi You to live and lead the Wu Clan onward, and Chi You bowed toward the Underworld before deciding to lie low and gather strength.
• A Human Race infant was born amid auspicious signs and gathered Human Dao Fortune, revealing the arrival of the Third Emperor.
• Qin Mu told Xi He that this Third Emperor’s spirit was the Sky-Propping Mysterious Turtle’s True Spirit and hinted that events would differ from the previous emperors.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate summoned Randeng, Nanji, Guangchengzi, and the other Twelve Golden Immortals to discuss assisting the Third Emperor.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate asked the Clarify Teachings disciples to volunteer to teach the Human Race's third emperor, despite having previously indicated that Guangchengzi would take the role. Guangchengzi and Immortal Official Nanji both sought the assignment, and the chapter left the disciples arguing over which was more suitable.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate told the gathered Clarify Teachings disciples that the Human Race's third emperor had been born and asked who would teach him.
• Immortal Official Nanji volunteered for the assignment, citing his seniority and service to the sect.
• Guangchengzi stepped forward and argued that his experience, cultivation, and Fan Tian Seal made him suited to protect and teach the emperor.
• Chijingzi and the other Twelve Golden Immortals supported Guangchengzi, while True Person Huanglong spoke in favor of Immortal Official Nanji.
• The disciples divided into opposing sides and argued until Primordial Heavenly Venerate ordered them to stop.

Yuanshi appointed Guangchengzi to teach the third Human Emperor, and Guangchengzi hurried to the Human Race. In a secret realm, Qin Mu appeared before injured Chi You and offered him eighty-one drops of Great Witch Essence Blood.

• Yuanshi chose Guangchengzi to assist the third Human Emperor and teach him Yuqing's Dao methods.
• Guangchengzi accepted the assignment, received congratulations from the other disciples, and set off for the Human Race.
• Chi You recovered in a Blood Pool and lamented that he lacked the strength to defeat Randeng.
• Qin Mu arrived in Chi You's secret realm, and Chi You respectfully greeted him as the Lord of the Underworld.
• Qin Mu produced eighty-one drops of Great Witch Essence Blood and offered them to Chi You as a fortuitous opportunity.

Qin Mu gave Chi You eighty-one drops of Great Witch Essence Blood to strengthen the Wu Clan, and Chi You resolved to use it to create a new kind of warrior. Meanwhile, Guangchengzi found the newborn Xuanyuan and accepted him as his disciple, declaring that he would lead the Human Race.

• Qin Mu gave Chi You eighty-one drops of Great Witch Essence Blood, and Chi You wondered why Qin Mu was helping him.
• Chi You decided to use the essence blood to transform powerful beings into warriors who would serve the Wu Clan’s revival.
• Guangchengzi traveled from Kunlun Mountain to a Human Race tribe where an auspicious omen surrounded a newborn.
• Guangchengzi told the tribe that the child bore Heaven’s mandate and that he had come to accept him as a disciple.
• Guangchengzi named the child Xuanyuan, and the tribe celebrated his promising future.

Chi You transformed eighty-one captured beings with Great Witch Essence Blood and made them his Eighty-One Brothers, then defeated an Iron Eater Beast and claimed it as his mount. Meanwhile, Di Zun finished restoring the Heavenly Realm.

• Chi You gathered eighty-one powerful beings and offered them a chance to gain strength if they joined the Wu Clan and swore loyalty.
• The eighty-one beings agreed, and Chi You transformed them with Great Witch Essence Blood into powerful Wu Clan warriors.
• Chi You named them his Eighty-One Brothers and rallied them to rebuild the Wu Clan's glory.
• Chi You subdued an Iron Eater Beast, spared it, and took it as his mount.
• Di Zun surveyed the restored Heavenly Realm and reflected that his years of work were finally complete.

Di Zun discovered a hidden Small World in the Heavenly Court and confronted the Sub-Saint cultivating there, the Lord of Stars. Their rival claims over the Celestial Stars brought them to the brink of conflict.

• Di Zun sensed a faint spatial fluctuation in the Heavenly Court and found a concealed spatial anchor in its desolate western region.
• Di Zun activated the anchor, entered the Small World, and discovered a Sub-Saint meditating at its center.
• The Lord of Stars told Di Zun to leave and explained that he had come from Chaos and was refining Stellar Origin in his own domain.
• Di Zun asserted the Heavenly Court's authority over the stars and accused the Lord of Stars of undermining its foundations.
• Di Zun's aura erupted as he stepped toward the Lord of Stars, shaking the Small World.

Lord of Stars rejected Di Zun’s offer to submit and attacked him, sparking a Sub-Saint battle that spilled into the Heavenly Realm. The Saints watched the clash and speculated about Lord of Stars’s identity and Qin Mu’s troubles.

• Di Zun demanded that Lord of Stars submit to the Heavenly Court or die, but Lord of Stars refused and attacked with his Star Prison technique.
• Di Zun and Lord of Stars fought inside the Small World until its barriers began to fail, then continued their battle in the Heavenly Realm.
• Their clash shook the Heavenly Realm and drew the attention of powerful figures throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Saint Taishang recognized Di Zun and wondered who his Sub-Saint opponent was, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate privately welcomed the trouble for Qin Mu.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti wondered about Lord of Stars’s origins and hoped he would defeat Di Zun, while Nuwa questioned whether he sought the Heavenly Emperor’s position.

Qin Mu and the Human Race leaders learned that Di Zun was fighting the hidden Chaos creature known as the Lord of Stars in the Heavenly Realm. Though Di Zun used the Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler and Heavenly Court Fortune to resist, the Lord of Stars overwhelmed him and prepared to seize his Fortune and refine his soul.

• Zhen Yuanzi questioned Huang Tian about the unknown Sub-Saint fighting Di Zun, but Huang Tian said he did not know its identity.
• Old Ancestor Ming He wondered whether Qin Mu knew about the sudden appearance of the Sub-Saint creature.
• Qin Mu recognized the enemy as the Lord of Stars, a Chaos creature who sought Hunyuan by refining Stellar Origin, and watched the battle through space and time.
• Di Zun used the Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler to deflect the Lord of Stars' phantom star and drew upon the Heavenly Court's Fortune to attack.
• The Lord of Stars commanded the stars of the Heavenly Realm to suppress Di Zun, gradually forcing him onto the defensive.
• Seeing Di Zun near exhaustion, the Lord of Stars declared that he would take Di Zun's Fortune and refine his divine soul to perfect his Stellar Great Dao.

Qin Mu saved Di Zun from the Lord of Stars’ lethal attack, revealing that Di Zun was his avatar. The Lord of Stars recognized Qin Mu as a Hunyuan expert and stared at him in fear as the confrontation shifted.

• The Lord of Stars transformed his star phantoms into a destructive blade that overwhelmed Di Zun’s attack and left him facing death.
• Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, Yuanshi, and the watching great powers expected Di Zun to fall, unaware that he was Qin Mu’s avatar.
• Qin Mu reached through a Void Rift and erased the blade with a single touch, saving Di Zun.
• Qin Mu emerged from the rift, and the Lord of Stars recognized him as a Hunyuan existence.
• Zhun Ti, Jie Yin, and Yuanshi reacted angrily to Qin Mu’s intervention, while the Lord of Stars stared at Qin Mu in fear.