Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian realized he could evolve the world inside the Chaos Pearl into a Great Dao of his own and began accelerating its growth. Two hundred years after six centuries of recovery in the Earth Immortal Realm, the Human Race’s fortune surged, drawing the attention and concern of the Saints.

• Lin Tian resolved to become the Heavenly Dao of the world inside the Chaos Pearl and create his own path to the Dao Ancestor Realm rather than unite with Hongjun’s Dao.
• Lin Tian used his Saint Fifth Heaven cultivation to draw in Chaos Energy and accelerate the world’s evolution.
• Six hundred years after the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, the Earth Immortal Realm settled into peace as spiritual energy declined, while the Human Race flourished under Lin Tian’s protection.
• Two hundred years later, the Human Race’s fortune and merit reached a peak as the Zhou Dynasty declined and rival kings rose.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue and the other Saints sensed the change in the Human Race’s fortune.
• Lady Nuwa worried that the Human Race’s growing prominence would attract trouble and concluded she could only wait because she could not locate Lin Tian.

Primordial Heavenly Venerable plotted to exploit Lin Tian’s absence and send Immortal Elder Antarctic back to seize control of the Human Race. The Two Western Saints sought Heavenly Venerable Virtue’s support for Buddhism’s eastward spread in exchange for help claiming Human fortune and Hu-conversion merit, while Amitabha Buddha ordered the Buddhist Sect not to act against the Human Race yet, hinting at a larger plan to take it all.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerable decided that Immortal Elder Antarctic should return and use his Primordial Human identity to take control of the Human Race.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti asked Heavenly Venerable Virtue to support Buddhism’s spread east and offered to help him gain the Human Race’s fortune and merit from converting the Hu.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue fell silent to consider the Two Western Saints’ proposal.
• Buddha Tathagata began discussing the Human Race’s fortune, but Amitabha Buddha interrupted and ordered the Buddhist Sect not to plot against the Human Race.
• Amitabha Buddha told the assembled Buddhas to leave the Human Race alone for now and privately declared that he wanted the entire Human Race.

As the Zhou Dynasty neared collapse, Laozi secretly gathered Human Race Fortune while preparing to convert the Hu. After mastering the Chaos Weight Great Dao, Lin Tian received Nuwa’s warning about Laozi’s plans and wondered how Laozi had evaded the Underworld.

• Laozi, who was one of the Heavenly Venerable Virtue’s Three Corpses, entered the Human Race and gathered its Fortune while preparing to convert the Hu.
• Lin Tian left the Chaos Pearl after spending more than eight hundred years developing its inner world and mastered the Chaos Weight Great Dao.
• Nuwa visited Lin Tian and told him that the Heavenly Venerable Virtue had entered the Human Race.
• Lin Tian recognized Laozi’s plan to gain Merit by converting the Hu and dismissed the threat to Human Race Fortune.
• Lin Tian wondered how Laozi had entered Reincarnation without Great Emperor Fengdu noticing.

Lin Tian suspected Jiejiao and the Buddhist Sect of conspiring against the Human Race, then sent two jade talismans to put his plans in motion. In the Netherworld, Kong Xuan met the Great Emperor Fengdu and explained why he had chosen to serve the Human Race rather than the Demon Race.

• Lin Tian told Lady Nuwa that Jiejiao and the Buddhist Sect might be involved in Laozi's reincarnation and assured her their schemes would strengthen the Human Race.
• Lin Tian sent two jade talismans from the Immortal Island into the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Kong Xuan arrived at Fengdu City, where King Qin'guang challenged him before recognizing his Quasi-Saint strength.
• The Great Emperor Fengdu welcomed Kong Xuan and thanked him for fighting the Chan Sect's disciples during the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Kong Xuan told the Great Emperor Fengdu that he had never served Di Jun or harmed the Human Race, despite his ties to the Demon Race.

Great Emperor Fengdu brought Kong Xuan into the Human Race through reincarnation and sent the Purple Gold Divine Dragon to seek his own opportunity. Meanwhile, auspicious signs marked the birth of Kong Qiu in the State of Lu, and the story left him newly born beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens in the Chaos Void.

• Great Emperor Fengdu invited Kong Xuan to enter reincarnation and join the Human Race, and Kong Xuan agreed to abandon his peacock body and cultivation.
• Great Emperor Fengdu opened the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Kong Xuan entered to be reborn as a Human Race Saint.
• The Purple Gold Divine Dragon asked for an opportunity, and Great Emperor Fengdu sent him through reincarnation to sweep across the six directions and unite the Eight Wastelands.
• A pregnant woman climbed Mount Niqiu in the State of Lu to pray for her child, and golden lotuses and crimson light appeared across the mountain and sky.
• The woman named her newborn son Kong Qiu, with the courtesy name Zhongni, as auspicious signs accompanied his birth.

Lin Tian watched Kong Xuan reincarnate as Kong Qiu, who became the renowned Confucius and drew much of the Human Race’s fortune to the State of Lu. As Confucius traveled the feudal states spreading his teachings despite hostility, Laozi set out from Haojing toward Hangu Pass, and Confucius grew surer of his path.

• Lin Tian observed newborn Kong Qiu and viewed the turmoil among the Human Race’s feudal states as an opportunity to unify the race.
• Yan Zheng raised Kong Qiu, who became a prodigy, studied under Lu’s grand preceptor, and earned the title Confucius.
• Confucius’s fame attracted disciples and gathered much of the Human Race’s fortune in the State of Lu, angering the Primordial Myriad Races and prompting states to suppress Lu.
• Laozi sensed that Confucius was drawing fortune away from him, failed to divine Confucius’s origins, and left Haojing for Hangu Pass.
• Confucius traveled among the feudal states with his disciples, faced hostility and expulsion, and continued preaching benevolence and the Confucian Dao.

Laozi enlightened the Hu People, received Heavenly Dao merit, and declared that he would take command of the Human Race’s fortune. Two Quasi-Saints challenged him, and Laozi dismissed them as ants.

• Confucius attracted disciples and began drawing the Human Race’s fortune, alarming those who coveted it.
• Laozi proclaimed that he would enlighten the Hu People and establish Daoism, revealing the manifestation of Heavenly Venerable Virtue.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed a vast amount of merit on Laozi for enlightening the Hu People.
• Laozi declared that Daoism would spread among the Human Race and that he would command its fortune.
• Laozi revealed Quasi-Saint cultivation, and the Thunderwing Race’s ancestor and the Ink Flood Dragon Race’s patriarch appeared to challenge his claim.
• Laozi mocked the two challengers as insignificant ants.

Laozi killed two Quasi-Saints and used the Taiji Diagram to draw the Human Race’s Fortune toward Daoism. As the Fortune gathered, Kong Qiu rose to establish the Confucian Dao and reached the quasi-saint peak, confronting Laozi.

• Laozi formed the character for Dao and killed two Quasi-Saints with a single strike, frightening the Primordial Myriad Races into silence.
• Laozi declared that Daoism would spread across the Human Lands and activated the Taiji Diagram to gather the Human Race’s Fortune.
• The Two Western Saints and Lady Nuwa worried that Laozi’s move would let the Heavenly Venerable Virtue control the Human Race’s Fortune and leave Buddhism with nothing.
• Yan Hui asked Kong Qiu about the strange phenomenon, but Kong Qiu rose and flew into the sky as literary energy and golden light gathered around him.
• Kong Qiu vowed to establish the Literary Dao and Confucian Sage Method, then reached the quasi-saint peak before turning to face Laozi.

Kong Qiu confronted Laozi’s Three Corpses incarnation to defend the Human Race’s fortune, revealing that he had once been Kong Xuan. Laozi began draining the fortune with the Taiji Diagram, while Heavenly Venerable Virtue appeared outside Haozhou Immortal Island.

• Kong Qiu resisted Laozi’s attack with Confucian benevolence and declared that the Human Race’s fortune protected him.
• Laozi recognized Kong Qiu as Kong Xuan, and Kong Qiu confirmed that only the human Kong Qiu remained.
• Buddha Tathagata reacted with jealousy to Kong Qiu’s identity, but Amitabha Buddha warned him to leave his past behind.
• Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to pull the Human Race’s fortune toward himself, and Kong Qiu could not wield Lin Tian’s Hongmeng Emperor Cauldron to stop it.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue sat outside Haozhou Immortal Island in the Chaos Void beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Kong Qiu received the Confucian Spring and Autumn Brush and used it to reclaim the Human Race’s fortune, strip Laozi of his human identity, and return his conversion merit to the Human Race. In the Chaos Void, the Heavenly Venerable Virtue confronted Lin Tian over the reversal, but Lin Tian’s overwhelming aura left him fearful.

• Lin Tian reminded the Heavenly Venerable Virtue that Kong Qiu’s founding merit had yet to descend, prompting the Heavenly Venerable Virtue to look toward the Earth Immortal Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed the Confucian Spring and Autumn Brush on Kong Qiu, who used it to suppress the realm and reclaim the Human Race’s fortune from Laozi.
• Kong Qiu cut Laozi’s connection to the Human Race, causing Laozi’s conversion merit to dissipate and merge into the Human Race.
• The Heavenly Venerable Virtue accused Lin Tian of taking the merit he had spent a century accumulating, and Lin Tian challenged him over his schemes against the Human Race.
• Lin Tian unleashed a terrifying aura in the Chaos Void, shocking the Heavenly Venerable Virtue and making him fear Lin Tian’s power.

Lin Tian forced Heavenly Venerable Virtue to concede, while Kong Qiu and the Human Race’s Spirit Vine Sect army drove Laozi from Human Race lands. Confucianism spread across the Human Race, and the chapter left Kong Qiu pausing during a lesson at Little Sage Manor with a complicated expression.

• Lin Tian challenged Heavenly Venerable Virtue to fight in Chaos, and Heavenly Venerable Virtue conceded and left.
• Laozi attacked Kong Qiu with the Taiji Diagram after losing his Human Race identity and his merit of converting the Hu.
• The Three Ancestors, Xuandu, Fuxi, and hundreds of thousands of Spirit Vine Sect soldiers arrived to defend Kong Qiu and intimidate Laozi.
• Kong Qiu attacked Laozi with the Human Race’s fortune, and the Human Race’s Quasi-Saints forced Laozi to flee.
• The myriad races withdrew their schemes against the Human Race as Confucianism flourished and Kong Qiu’s Seventy-Two Confucian Worthies gathered around him.
• Kong Qiu paused while teaching three thousand disciples at Little Sage Manor, sensing something and showing a complicated expression.

Kong Qiu attempted to attain primordial unity with the support of the Human Race’s fortune and Confucian literary qi, but the Heavenly Dao overwhelmed him. He abandoned the attempt and emerged at the Supreme Saint level, just short of true sainthood.

• Kong Qiu declared that he would establish his primordial unity fruit position, drawing the Human Race’s fortune and literary qi as his cultivation surged beyond the quasi-saint peak.
• Amitabha Buddha, Patriarch Bodhi, Buddha Tathagata, Laozi, Daoist Zhunti, Daoist Jieyin, and Lady Nuwa watched in shock as Kong Qiu neared sainthood.
• Lin Tian recognized that Kong Qiu’s two lifetimes of accumulated foundations had brought him to this opportunity, though attaining primordial unity remained uncertain.
• Kong Qiu called for literary fortune to flourish and used the Human Race’s fortune to resist the Heavenly Dao’s crushing pressure.
• The Heavenly Dao blasted Kong Qiu hundreds of thousands of miles away, and Kong Qiu abandoned his attempt to attain a Saint position.
• Kong Qiu’s cultivation was revealed to have surpassed the quasi-saint realm, reaching the false saint peak known as a Supreme Saint.

Kong Qiu attained the realm of a Supreme Saint and became the Human Race’s protector, while Primordial Heavenly Venerable sent Immortal Elder Antarctic to build influence among the humans. The chapter ended with Kong Qiu unable to stop the Feudal States’ wars and retreating into seclusion.

• Kong Qiu reached the Supreme Saint realm, shocking the myriad races and alarming Amitabha Buddha and Patriarch Bodhi.
• Kong Qiu bowed toward Lin Tian, who recognized the gesture as thanks for helping him attain the Dao; Xihe welcomed the Human Race’s new protector, but Lin Tian warned that Kong Qiu might not restrain the Saints.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable ordered Immortal Elder Antarctic to return to the Human Race and cultivate a faction, promising him a chance to attain the Dao.
• Immortal Elder Antarctic accepted Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s command and a mysterious object, then set off for the Earth Immortal Realm.
• As the Feudal States’ wars intensified, Kong Qiu recognized that he could not intervene in the Human Race’s internal struggles and went into seclusion.

Immortal Elder Antarctic helped King Nan of Zhou rebuild the Zhou Dynasty’s power, while Ying Zheng rose to the throne of Qin as the Zhou army conquered most of the Human Race. With only seven Feudal States remaining, Ying Zheng strengthened Qin’s military and prepared for the looming struggle.

• Immortal Elder Antarctic appeared before King Nan of Zhou and offered to help restore the Zhou Dynasty, gaining appointment as state preceptor.
• The Zhou Dynasty Army defeated its rivals, reclaimed territory, and destroyed twenty Feudal States as Immortal Elder Antarctic secretly absorbed the dynasty’s fortune.
• Ying Zheng was born in the Zhao State to the son of the king of Qin, who had been sent there as a hostage.
• Ying Zheng returned to Qin with his family, displayed exceptional political and cultivation talent, and became ruler after the king of Qin abdicated.
• With only seven Feudal States left, Ying Zheng built up Qin’s army until it had grown dozens of times stronger.

Ying Zheng led Qin’s army to Haojing for the final battle against the Zhou Dynasty, while Xuandu warned Immortal Elder Antarctic not to threaten the Human Race’s fortune. The armies clashed outside the city as the myriad races watched, hoping the civil war would weaken humanity.

• Ying Zheng ordered Qin’s army to march on Haojing and declared that he would lead the campaign himself.
• Lin Tian recognized that the Chan Sect was manipulating events around the Zhou Dynasty and suspected the Primordial Heavenly Venerable had a larger plan.
• Xuandu warned Immortal Elder Antarctic that the Spirit Vine Sect would oppose him if he harmed the Human Race’s fortune.
• Qin’s army surrounded Haojing after driving the Zhou Dynasty Army back across the Nine Provinces.
• King Nan of Zhou ordered his hundred thousand soldiers to charge, and the decisive battle between Qin and Zhou began.

During the Qin-Zhou battle, Immortal Elder Antarctic attacked Ying Zheng, only for Ying Zheng to awaken his previous-life cultivation and reveal himself as the Dragon Clan’s sacred ancestor. Ying Zheng shattered the Nine-Dragon Scepter’s dragon phantoms and faced Immortal Elder Antarctic’s enraged attack.

• Patriarch Bodhi warned Amitabha Buddha that Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s move against the Human Race might conceal a deeper plan, while Grand Supreme Elder Lord allowed Laozi to act as he saw fit.
• As the Qin State’s army gained the upper hand, Immortal Elder Antarctic struck at Ying Zheng with Quasi-Saint pressure, but purple light protected Ying Zheng.
• Immortal Elder Antarctic attacked Ying Zheng with the Nine-Dragon Scepter, and Ying Zheng’s cultivation broke through from Golden Immortal to Quasi-Saint.
• Ying Zheng declared himself the true dragon and unleashed draconic might that shattered the scepter’s nine dragon phantoms.
• Immortal Elder Antarctic recognized Ying Zheng as Vine Dao Venerable’s mount, and Ying Zheng mocked the Chan Sect before Immortal Elder Antarctic attacked in fury.

Ying Zheng defeated Immortal Elder Antarctic in a fierce battle, but Antarctic then revealed the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin bestowed by Primordial Heavenly Venerable. The coffin’s appearance threatened to destroy the Human Race, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Ying Zheng fought Immortal Elder Antarctic and forced him back with the Dao of Emperors.
• Ying Zheng and Immortal Elder Antarctic battled among the Nine Heavens until Ying Zheng defeated him and sent him crashing into the mountains.
• Immortal Elder Antarctic rose and revealed a mysterious object bestowed by Primordial Heavenly Venerable.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable watched as the object transformed into the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, a terrifying baleful treasure.
• Beings across the Earth Immortal Realm recognized the coffin and feared it would bring about the Human Race’s destruction.

Primordial Heavenly Venerable unleashed the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin to seal the Human Race and force Lin Tian to bargain for them. As Lady Nuwa confronted him, Lin Tian arrived, and Primordial Heavenly Venerable demanded that the Human Race be exchanged for his Chan Sect disciples.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerable used Immortal Elder Antarctic as bait to unleash the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, sealing heaven and earth and suppressing the Human Race's fortune.
• Kong Qiu tried and failed to stop the coffin as its power spread across the Nine Provinces.
• Lady Nuwa confronted Primordial Heavenly Venerable outside the Jade Void Palace and demanded that he retrieve the coffin.
• Lin Tian emerged from Yingzhou Island and joined Lady Nuwa, reassuring her that the coffin did not warrant such fury.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable declared that only a Saint could subdue the coffin and proposed trading the entire Human Race for his Chan Sect disciples.

Lin Tian’s Human Race summoned the Hongmeng Emperor Cauldron to resist Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, and the cauldron broke through to become a Chaos Supreme Treasure. It crushed the coffin and ended the blockade of the Nine Provinces, while Lin Tian turned his attention to Immortal Elder Antarctic.

• Lin Tian told Primordial Heavenly Venerable that the Chan Sect disciples in the Heavenly Court no longer belonged to his sect and warned him not to underestimate the Human Race.
• The Three Ancestors of the Human Race and dozens of Quasi-Saints summoned the Hongmeng Emperor Cauldron, which clashed with the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin.
• The cauldron revealed itself as a Chaos Supreme Treasure, having advanced after being tempered by the coffin and nourished by Human Race fortune and merit.
• The awakened Hongmeng Emperor Cauldron shattered the blockade and pinned the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin to the ground, leaving the Nine Provinces unharmed.
• Lin Tian condemned Immortal Elder Antarctic for trying to sever the Human Race’s fortune and declared that he would purge the traitor from their ranks.

After Kong Qiu killed Immortal Elder Antarctic, Lin Tian confronted Primordial Heavenly Venerable over his schemes against the Human Race. Their battle began in the chaos, where Lin Tian’s first punch badly injured Primordial Heavenly Venerable and cracked the Pangu Banner.

• Kong Qiu killed Immortal Elder Antarctic, annihilating his body and soul in the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable raged over his disciple’s death and demanded an explanation from Lin Tian, who accused him of scheming against the Human Race.
• Nuwa mocked Primordial Heavenly Venerable, and Lin Tian attacked him without waiting for further discussion.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable revealed that he had reached the fourth heaven of the Saint realm and raised the Pangu Banner to block Lin Tian’s punch.
• Lin Tian’s punch injured Primordial Heavenly Venerable and cracked the Pangu Banner, shocking Nuwa and the Two Western Saints watching from Mount Sumeru.