Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Nuwa’s imagination runs wild when Tongtian offers to take her as a disciple. He corrects her, making clear that he has no romantic intentions and wants her to focus on cultivation.
• Tongtian explains that he has given Nuwa a complete cultivation technique, while the version circulating through the Primordial World has been repeatedly weakened. It can still lead to Sainthood, but he withholds higher-level techniques to keep the world’s inhabitants from learning about the realms beyond it and trying to escape.
• He gives Nuwa a Primordial Chaos cultivation art, distinct from the Heavenly Demon Art. After decades of study, she recognizes its power.
• Tongtian tells Nuwa she must reach the Primordial Origin Realm before returning home. Nuwa objects to remaining in the desolate void for so long, but quickly relents when he becomes stern.
• Tongtian creates a palace for her beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens. Inside, Nuwa discovers a lively miniature world rather than an empty palace.

Character developments

• Nuwa is shown as youthful, playful, and eager for freedom. Though she appreciates Tongtian’s gift, she is reluctant to endure prolonged seclusion and quickly becomes compliant when reprimanded.
• Tongtian is protective but strict. He gives Nuwa valuable instruction and a comfortable place to cultivate, while carefully controlling what knowledge and power he reveals to the wider world.

Significant themes

• Knowledge as a source of danger: Tongtian limits access to advanced techniques so the Primordial World’s inhabitants do not discover how much lies beyond their current limits.
• Cultivation through hardship: He expects future conflict to push the world’s strongest beings to develop their potential and create new techniques.
• Freedom versus discipline: Nuwa’s wish to return home conflicts with Tongtian’s insistence that she cultivate until she reaches a milestone.
• Mentorship and protection: Tongtian’s strict demands are framed as care for his disciple’s growth and safety.

Character interactions

• Nuwa’s teasing misunderstanding prompts Tongtian to knock her on the head and correct her assumptions.
• She praises the cultivation art, then pleads to return home; Tongtian refuses, and she withdraws her request.
• Tongtian softens the harshness of her confinement by creating a beautiful, self-contained world within her palace.

Plot points

• Nuwa discovers that Tongtian has created a stable small world for her secluded cultivation. Yuanfeng compares this unusually generous treatment with her own lack of a palace, but decides not to question Tongtian’s choices.
• Yuanfeng resumes training Feng Jiu, who has emerged from seclusion ready to attempt becoming a Sage. Yuanfeng claims Feng Jiu’s foundation needs testing and gives her a punishing fight—partly to vent her resentment, but also to clear Feng Jiu’s meridians and strengthen her physique.
• Yuanfeng supplies spiritual energy and soul-strengthening treasures from the Phoenix Clan’s inheritance. Feng Jiu begins her breakthrough, having already brought her understanding of the Great Dao to the Sage standard.
• Ancestral Dragon and the Qilin Clan Chief sense Feng Jiu’s breakthrough and fear being left behind. They abandon their plans to prepare longer and begin their own breakthroughs, while both clans withdraw to their ancestral lands and ready their members for advancement.
• The Dragonfolk and Qilin Clan’s sudden restraint makes the Primordial World unusually peaceful. Yuanfeng worries that their leaders are rushing, but knows they are unlikely to take advice from her.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni chooses to focus on strengthening himself rather than guiding the two clan leaders. Yuanfeng understands his reasoning, though she is more mindful of fulfilling Tongtian’s plans.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng is both loyal to Tongtian and privately aware of his favoritism toward Nuwa. Her treatment of Feng Jiu mixes stern preparation with personal frustration, while her concern for the other clan leaders is tempered by political reality.
• Feng Jiu moves from the long consolidation of her Quasi-Saint cultivation into a Sage breakthrough. Though resentful of Yuanfeng’s beating, she recognizes its practical role and concentrates on advancing.
• Ancestral Dragon and the Qilin Clan Chief become anxious and competitive after sensing Feng Jiu’s progress, prompting them to risk premature breakthroughs.
• Shen Ni remains self-reliant and prioritizes his own cultivation over mentoring others.

Significant themes

• Favoritism and unequal treatment: Tongtian’s special small world for Nuwa stands out to Yuanfeng.
• Ambition versus patience: Feng Jiu’s carefully prepared breakthrough contrasts with the two clan leaders’ hurried attempts.
• Preparation through hardship: Yuanfeng’s harsh training helps Feng Jiu physically prepare for ascension.
• Approaching danger and cooperation: Tongtian’s efforts to strengthen powerful figures suggest future threats, while the Three Clans’ preparations temporarily bring peace to the world.

Key plot points and events

• Yuanfeng believes Tongtian wants powerful beings to rise, but, true to his outsider’s principles, he will not personally guide Ancestral Dragon or the Qilin Clan Chief through their breakthroughs.
• Yuanfeng focuses instead on helping Feng Jiu. The Beast Emperor Palace conceals Feng Jiu’s breakthrough from the Heavenly Dao, while Yuanfeng and Shen Ni protect her.
• Ancestral Dragon and the Qilin Clan Chief begin breaking through at roughly the same time as Feng Jiu. Their immense auras spread across the Primordial World, overwhelming weaker beings and drawing the attention of powerful observers.
• The two clan chiefs had prepared for this, but Feng Jiu’s progress—despite their having underestimated her—spurs them to act. Ancestral Dragon, especially, fears failing again and falling behind, even though his past failures have taught him how to avoid earlier mistakes.

Character developments

• Yuanfeng is pragmatic: she prioritizes Feng Jiu and will help the clan chiefs only if they accept her assistance, rather than waste effort on the stubborn.
• Ancestral Dragon is experienced but insecure. His repeated failures have given him insight, yet the possibility of being surpassed weighs heavily on him.
• The Qilin Clan Chief joins Ancestral Dragon’s attempt, driven in part by the sudden prospect of Feng Jiu reaching Sagehood before them.
• The Heavenly Dao is portrayed as increasingly unable to control events as powerful beings gather beyond its reach.

Significant themes

• Strength over status: In the Primordial World, ancestry, title, and seniority mean little without power.
• Ambition and rivalry: Feng Jiu’s breakthrough prompts the clan chiefs to act rather than risk being left behind.
• The limits of authority: Even the Heavenly Dao must yield to beings who can challenge it, while Tongtian stands above the existing order.
• Failure as preparation: Ancestral Dragon’s past setbacks may improve his chances, though they cannot guarantee success.

Character interactions

• Yuanfeng respects Tongtian’s refusal to interfere in others’ cultivation and chooses to help Feng Jiu herself.
• Yuanfeng and Shen Ni jointly safeguard Feng Jiu’s breakthrough from the Heavenly Dao.
• Feng Jiu’s progress indirectly pressures Ancestral Dragon and the Qilin Clan Chief to begin their own attempts, tying their fortunes to the same pivotal moment.

Summary

• Ancestral Dragon and the Qilin Clan Chief each stake their clans’ scarce resources on a single attempt to reach the Primordial Origin Realm. Failure would leave them and their clans unable to try again for a long time. The Phoenix Clan is under less pressure because it already has a Primordial Origin Realm expert, though some members question why the Patriarch chose Feng Jiu to attempt a breakthrough.
• As Ancestral Dragon and the Qilin chief begin breaking through, their auras turn into a contest. Yuanfeng realizes their rivalry is endangering both breakthroughs and decides to intervene for the sake of Tongtian’s efforts to strengthen the Primordial World.
• Yuanfeng releases her full Sage aura. Its overwhelming force suppresses both clan chiefs, showing the vast gap between Peak Quasi-Saints and a true Sage. She warns them that their competition could make them fail.
• The warning brings the two leaders to their senses: the Heavenly Dao has been subtly stirring their anger and pushing them toward conflict. They calm themselves, focus on their Dao foundations, and resume their breakthroughs without interfering with each other. Yuanfeng allows them to continue, curious about the Heavenly Dao’s weakening influence over Peak Quasi-Saints.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng acts decisively despite initially hesitating to interfere. Her authority and power are made unmistakable, and she takes responsibility for preventing the clan leaders from sabotaging their own chances.
• Ancestral Dragon and the Qilin Clan Chief shift from hostile rivalry to disciplined competition. They recognize the danger and regain control of their focus.
• The Heavenly Dao emerges as a hidden instigator, exploiting the leaders’ open minds during their breakthroughs to provoke conflict.

Significant themes

• Ambition and risk: The leaders’ desire to reach Sagehood is tied to enormous personal and collective stakes.
• Self-control over rivalry: Competition can motivate, but uncontrolled pride can ruin even a vital undertaking.
• Hidden manipulation: The Heavenly Dao can influence events subtly, making characters act against their own interests.
• Power and responsibility: Yuanfeng’s superior strength is shown not merely as dominance, but as a means to protect others’ chances of success.

Key plot points

• Yuanfeng realizes the Heavenly Dao’s grip on the Three Clans has weakened because she became a Sage and drew on its power—not because the clans’ restraints were lifted. Each new Primordial Origin Realm cultivator further drains the Heavenly Dao.
• The Primordial World can support several dozen Primordial Origin cultivators, but reaching higher realms requires the world itself to grow stronger. Tongtian is nurturing it, though raising its rank remains a distant goal.
• With Yuanfeng’s intervention, the conflict among the Three Clans is temporarily contained. She has concealed Feng Jiu’s aura so the other clan chiefs won’t be discouraged during their own breakthroughs.
• Feng Jiu successfully breaks through to the Primordial Origin Realm. Yuanfeng and Shen Ni contain her newly surging aura within the Beast Emperor Palace, and Shen Ni congratulates her.
• Feng Jiu begins consolidating her cultivation and finds that teachings about the Primordial Origin Realm, once incomprehensible, now make sense. Yuanfeng leaves her undisturbed and turns her attention to the Qilin Clan Chief and Ancestral Dragon, whose breakthroughs could still be disrupted by the Heavenly Dao.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng shows growing insight into the Heavenly Dao’s motives and takes responsibility for protecting the breakthroughs. Though capable and composed, she shares Shen Ni’s desire to return to the far richer cultivation environment beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Feng Jiu advances from near the Primordial Origin Realm to entering it, marking a major increase in strength and understanding.
• Shen Ni helps contain Feng Jiu’s breakthrough aura, then volunteers to watch over the remaining clan leaders. His eagerness reflects his impatience to resume cultivating in a better environment.
• Yuanfeng and Shen Ni cooperate to protect Feng Jiu and support Tongtian’s task of producing three Primordial Origin cultivators. So far, they have completed one.

Significant themes

• Power has a cost: Cultivators’ breakthroughs draw on the Heavenly Dao and weaken it.
• World-building through cultivation: A world’s rank depends on its origin and the strength of its inhabitants; stronger cultivators may eventually help expand it by claiming other worlds’ origins.
• Ambition versus immediate reality: The chapter imagines the Primordial World becoming a Sacred Land or even a God Realm, but emphasizes how distant such goals are while Tongtian himself remains far from the required realm.
• The Heavenly Dao’s self-preservation: It may resist further breakthroughs, preferring to keep cultivators constrained until a looming enemy forces it to change course.

Key plot points and events

• Beast Emperor Shen Ni enters the Ancestral Dragon’s territory to watch his breakthrough; the Dragonfolk dare not stop him. Yuanfeng likewise goes to the Qilin domain, where she observes the Qilin Clan Chief’s attempt.
• Yuanfeng believes the Ancestral Dragon has a strong chance of succeeding, but doubts the Qilin Clan Chief will manage it. She also questions the suspicious death of the Ancestral Kirin, suspecting internal rivalry rather than Shen Ni, who had orders never to kill members of the Three Clans.
• Yuanfeng hopes all three clans will produce Sages, restoring their balance and helping them resist the Heavenly Dao’s manipulation.
• Feng Jiu’s primordial-origin tribulation appears at the Beast Emperor Palace. Its power is wildly disproportionate to her talent, and the clouds move toward the Qilin Ancestral Land, threatening to interrupt the Qilin Clan Chief’s breakthrough.
• Yuanfeng cannot safely interfere, since doing so would make the tribulation stronger and target her too. She realizes only her Master, Tongtian, might stop it.
• Tongtian observes the crisis and reflects that earlier Sages—including Hongjun—gained Sagehood through Heavenly Dao merit, making them dependent on the Dao and effectively its puppets. He has therefore not taught this method as a path to Sagehood, though merit itself remains valuable.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng shifts from watching the breakthroughs to worrying that the Heavenly Dao is deliberately sabotaging them. Her concern is especially acute because she is alone guarding the Qilin Clan Chief.
• Shen Ni remains a powerful but restrained observer; his presence intimidates the Dragonfolk, but he does not interfere.
• The Phoenix Patriarch and Qilin Clan remain hostile, yet the clan accepts her presence because it cannot oppose her. She watches rather than acts.
• Tongtian appears as the only plausible intervention, while his understanding of the Heavenly Dao’s control shapes the broader stakes.

Significant themes

• The Heavenly Dao’s manipulation: the abnormal tribulation suggests it is willing to undermine breakthroughs and destroy potential resistance.
• Power and dependence: merit-based Sagehood grants strength but binds its recipients to the Heavenly Dao.
• Balance and survival: Yuanfeng wants the Three Clans to regain parity and avoid the heavy losses caused by their rivalries.
• Suspicion and hidden history: the Ancestral Kirin’s death may have stemmed from internal conflict rather than the explanation previously accepted.

Summary

Tongtian realizes that after Feng Jiu and Beast Emperor Shen Ni’s sermon, the Heavenly Dao withheld the merit normally awarded for preaching. Seeing it interfere with the Primordial World’s inhabitants, he decides to step in and warns Nuwa to remain in the Small World. Nuwa uses the opportunity to experiment with her Great Way of Creation by making new life.
When Tongtian enters the Primordial World, the Heavenly Dao’s tribulation clouds immediately disperse: they are too weak to threaten someone of his power. Feng Jiu completes her tribulation and reaches the Primordial Origin Realm. The Heavenly Dao then reluctantly lends her a small portion of its authority, which cultivators at this level borrow and eventually return as they advance—though the Heavenly Dao fears granting too much. Tongtian soon departs, and the Heavenly Dao decides not to provoke him again.
Ancestral Dragon and the Qilin Clan Chief also advance successfully to the Primordial Origin Realm, with Shen Ni guarding Ancestral Dragon. Yuanfeng remains suspicious about Ancestral Kirin’s death, but holds back from pursuing the matter when she sees the Qilin Clan Chief’s successful breakthrough. She and Shen Ni return to the Beast Emperor Palace, intending to bring the new experts to cultivate beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian moves from observing the Heavenly Dao’s conduct to directly protecting the cultivators’ breakthroughs. His overwhelming strength forces the Heavenly Dao to back down without a fight.
• Nuwa follows Tongtian’s instructions and discovers the pleasure of creating life while testing her progress.
• Feng Jiu becomes a Primordial Origin Realm expert and gains limited Heavenly Dao authority. She stays quiet around the more experienced figures, though she privately thinks she has no heart demon either.
• Shen Ni insists he neither killed nor seriously injured Ancestral Kirin. He says he has no heart demon, a claim Yuanfeng accepts.
• Yuanfeng reveals that her own heart demon was the Three Clans and that it vanished after her breakthrough. Her suspicion about Ancestral Kirin’s death remains, but she chooses not to press it yet.
• The Qilin Clan Chief unexpectedly becomes the focus of attention when his breakthrough leads into a heart demon tribulation. Unlike Ancestral Dragon, Shen Ni, and Yuanfeng, he appears to have one.

Significant themes

The chapter explores the Heavenly Dao’s limits and self-interest: it can withhold rewards and lend authority, but must weigh those actions against the risk of becoming weaker. It also contrasts innate power with inner struggle, as several powerful figures lack heart demons while the Qilin Clan Chief faces one.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• The Qilin Clan Chief undergoes a Heavenly Tribulation expected to carry him into the Primordial Origin Realm. The trial reveals the truth behind Ancestral Kirin’s death: the Chief had killed and devoured him, then concealed what happened.
• Ancestral Kirin’s dying curse becomes the Chief’s heart demon. During the tribulation, Ancestral Kirin’s soul breaks free, causing the Chief’s power to collapse from the Primordial Origin Realm to the early Quasi-Saint stage.
• Ancestral Kirin’s soul departs after looking toward his old companions, Ancestral Dragon and Yuanfeng. The weakened Qilin Clan Chief is then destroyed by the tribulation.
• Yuanfeng notes that the Qilin Clan will need to choose another candidate for the breakthrough, disrupting plans to bring three Primordial Origin cultivators to Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni takes Ancestral Dragon and Feng Jiu to meet their master, leaving Yuanfeng to handle the Qilin Clan.
• The Qilin Clan is left in disgrace and disarray: its chief is dead, its resources are depleted, and its reputation has collapsed. Its Grand Elder apologizes to Yuanfeng, who says she has not come to mock them.

Character developments and interactions

• The Qilin Clan Chief is exposed as a traitor consumed by hatred and ambition. His crime against Ancestral Kirin ultimately destroys him.
• Ancestral Kirin shows no hatred toward his killer, regarding him with pity instead. His departure marks his final separation from the Qilin Clan.
• Yuanfeng feels compassion for Ancestral Kirin and sympathy for the Qilin Clan’s suffering, despite its shameful actions.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni remains detached from the political fallout and prioritizes cultivation, using the upheaval as an opportunity to leave with Ancestral Dragon and Feng Jiu.
• Feng Jiu recognizes that the Chief devoured Ancestral Kirin and wants to object to Shen Ni’s plan, but holds back out of deference.
• The Qilin Clan’s Grand Elder acknowledges the clan’s disgrace and addresses Yuanfeng with bitter humility.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and consequences: The Chief’s murder of his own leader brings about his downfall.
• Guilt and retribution: Ancestral Kirin’s curse manifests through the heart demon and Heavenly Tribulation.
• Compassion amid justice: Ancestral Kirin pities his killer even as the killer faces deserved punishment.
• Collective fallout: The Chief’s choices damage the entire Qilin Clan, costing it power, resources, and respect.

Key plot points and events

• After the Qilin Clan’s leader died during his tribulation, the clan’s resources were badly depleted. The Grand Elder says they cannot afford another breakthrough, though the clan still possesses far more wealth than most creatures in the Primordial World.
• Yuanfeng offers another route: she can take willing Qilin to a dangerous Seal where they may break through to the Primordial Origin Realm, though survival is uncertain.
• The clan chooses two candidates—a venerable ancestral qilin with little prospect of further advancement, and a gifted young quasi-saint at the peak of his realm. The young qilin is confident; the elder expects he may die.
• Yuanfeng accepts their choice and leads them to the Seal, despite doubting the candidates’ suitability. She views this as an exceptional measure for a clan in crisis, not a path she wants creatures to pursue generally.

Character developments and interactions

• The Qilin Clan’s Grand Elder moves from hope at Yuanfeng’s offer to grim acceptance of the clan’s limited options.
• The young qilin is ambitious and self-assured, having advanced without difficulty; the narrative foreshadows that the breakthrough will test that confidence.
• The old qilin acts from duty and desperation, willing to risk his life to help preserve his clan.
• Yuanfeng offers aid but remains cautious. She respects the clan’s decision while making clear that the Seal is perilous and should not become a common shortcut.
• The Qilin Clan’s choice reflects a collective calculation: it needs a Sage-level expert to preserve its status, but must also protect the Quasi-Saints who form the clan’s foundation.

Significant themes

• Survival versus sacrifice: The clan must risk lives to avoid losing its standing among the Three Clans.
• The danger of ambition and reckless choices: The former leader’s death is presented as the consequence of taking an evil path and wasting the clan’s resources.
• Power and vulnerability: The Qilin Clan’s prestige and remaining wealth make it a target; without sufficient strength, its members may be exploited.
• Risk versus steady cultivation: Yuanfeng sees the Seal as a dangerous exception, preferring ordinary cultivation over a shortcut that could kill many and destabilize the world.
• A limited recovery: Even a successful breakthrough would likely only secure the Qilin Clan’s place, not restore its former strength.

Key events

• The seal is a lethal illusion formation: injuries inside appear in reality, and those who believe its illusions can die there.
• An elderly qilin enters the seal and gradually loses his strength. Before dying, he looks back at the young qilin—not to urge him forward, but to warn him away. He hopes the younger generation will survive and eventually secure a future for the Qilin Clan.
• The young qilin struggles between fear and the expectations placed on him, then resolves to enter. Tongtian intervenes and sends him back before he can cross the threshold.
• Tongtian summons Yuanfeng back and rebukes her for treating the seal as a training ground for quasi-saints. He stresses that it is designed for peak primordial-origin experts; even they would face near-certain death without his help.
• Yuanfeng returns to Heaven Beyond Heaven, where Beast Emperor Shen Ni and two other primordial-origin experts are present. Nuwa, her youngest junior sister, sits beside Tongtian and watches curiously.

Character developments and interactions

• The elderly qilin accepts death in the hope of giving his clan’s younger members a chance. His warning reveals his protectiveness and willingness to sacrifice himself.
• The young qilin is torn between ambition, clan duty, and terror, but ultimately shows courage by choosing to enter—only to be rescued by Tongtian.
• Yuanfeng believes the seal can cultivate future Sages and feels proud when the young qilin steps forward. Tongtian’s intervention and reprimand make clear that she has badly underestimated the danger.
• Tongtian watches over the seal and steps in to prevent needless deaths. His stern criticism contrasts with Yuanfeng’s reckless confidence.
• The Qilin Clan is portrayed as desperate to secure resources and nurture its promising young, even at the cost of its reputation.

Significant themes

• Courage versus caution: resolve matters, but cannot overcome every danger.
• Sacrifice and responsibility: the old qilin gives his life to protect the next generation.
• The limits of ambition: Yuanfeng’s goal of producing more powerful cultivators is undermined by the lethal reality of the seal.
• Aging and stagnation: even beings with eternal lifespans can lose vitality after ages trapped at the same level.

Key plot points and events

• Tongtian reprimands Yuanfeng for treating the deadly Seal around the Primordial World like a training ground. Yuanfeng admits her mistake, while Beast Emperor Shen Ni warns Ancestral Dragon and Feng Jiu that entering the Seal would kill even him.
• Tongtian tells Ancestral Dragon and Feng Jiu that reaching the Primordial Origin Realm is only a beginning. He gives them cultivation techniques, but no resources, and urges them to cultivate independently rather than focus on producing more powerful cultivators.
• Tongtian dismisses everyone except Nuwa. He asks about the creatures she has been making in her Small World.
• Nuwa shows him her creations. Most are instinct-driven life with little intelligence or cultivation, though she says she can create a few beings with souls and intelligence. Tongtian recognizes her natural gift for the Great Way of Creation and sees her potential to develop further through mastery of Creation and the Soul.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng feels hurt by the criticism but accepts responsibility and obeys Tongtian.
• Shen Ni demonstrates caution and respect for the Seal’s danger, informing the others of its lethal power.
• Ancestral Dragon and Feng Jiu are astonished by the Seal’s threat and accept Tongtian’s guidance to cultivate.
• Tongtian shows a practical, hands-off approach to cultivation, while making a special exception for Nuwa. He encourages her rather than criticizing her imperfect creations.
• Nuwa is still innocent and inexperienced, but perceptive about the limits of her work. Her creativity and potential are already emerging.

Significant themes

• Power has limits: Even mighty cultivators must respect forces beyond their strength.
• Independent cultivation: Progress should come through personal effort, not simply through producing or training more cultivators.
• Potential and patience: Nuwa’s early creations are incomplete, but Tongtian values her talent and trusts that it will mature.
• Preparation for future conflict: Tongtian regards Nuwa’s creative abilities as potentially important in future wars.

Key plot points and events

• Tongtian explains that Nuwa’s mastery of the Great Ways of Creation and the Soul could eventually let her combine them into the supreme Great Way of Life, giving her the potential to reach the Supreme Realm.
• He encourages her to master Creation first, then pursue the Soul, while carefully guiding her without hindering her independent growth. Nuwa continues practicing creation in Tongtian’s small world.
• After tens of thousands of years, many cultivators leave to return to the Primordial World. Nuwa goes with Feng Jiu and Ancestral Dragon because she needs fresh inspiration and wants to learn more about life and souls.
• Nuwa hopes to study wandering souls and create bodies for them, helping them live again. She does not realize this could conflict with the Heavenly Dao, though she assumes Tongtian’s protection will keep her safe.
• Yuanfeng and Beast Emperor Shen Ni, reluctant to interrupt their seclusion, entrust Nuwa’s protection to Feng Jiu and Ancestral Dragon. Both take the assignment extremely seriously, and their clans send powerful cultivators to guard and care for her.

Character developments

• Nuwa recognizes the limits of her experience and understands that mastering Creation and the Soul requires studying life more broadly. She remains compassionate, unwilling to kill beings for research, and seeks a careful way to learn from wandering souls.
• Tongtian reveals his high hopes for Nuwa and takes a protective, hands-on role in her cultivation, while still allowing her room to grow.
• Feng Jiu and Ancestral Dragon accept responsibility for Nuwa’s safety, treating her as an exceptionally important ancestor of their respective peoples.

Significant themes

• Potential and cultivation: Nuwa’s extraordinary future depends on mastering and combining two great ways.
• Learning through experience: Nuwa needs to engage with the living world rather than rely only on secluded practice.
• Compassion and ethical limits: She seeks knowledge without harming others, though her plans may have wider consequences.
• Protection and hierarchy: Nuwa’s connection to Tongtian places her under the fierce protection of the Phoenix Clan and the Dragonfolk.

Character interactions

• Tongtian advises and encourages Nuwa, then steps back so she can continue developing.
• Nuwa explains why she wants to return to the Primordial World, and Feng Jiu and Ancestral Dragon accompany her.
• Yuanfeng and Shen Ni direct Feng Jiu and Ancestral Dragon to protect Nuwa; both interpret her status as making her an honored ancestor of their clans.

Key plot points

• To protect Nuwa, the Dragonfolk and Phoenix Clan assign attentive female Quasi-Saints to accompany her. Feng Jiu and Ancestral Dragon stress that her safety is their absolute priority.
• The Qilin Clan is in crisis: an elder died seeking a breakthrough, while the surviving young qilin returns unharmed but terrified of the seal that expelled him. He believes its power exceeded anything a Primordial Origin Realm cultivator should wield and refuses to enter again.
• The Qilin Clan considers trying the seal again, hoping to produce its own Primordial Origin Realm expert. A Phoenix Clan envoy arrives with an apology and compensation from Yuanfeng, warning that Quasi-Saints who enter the seal face almost certain death; Yuanfeng’s breakthrough succeeded only with her Master’s help.
• After the envoy leaves, the Qilin Clan abandons the seal as too dangerous. Its new chief instead calls for plundering resources to cultivate experts by other means.

Character developments and interactions

• Nuwa is treated as a treasured “little ancestor,” with both allied clans mobilizing protection for her.
• The young qilin is deeply shaken by the seal’s precise, overwhelming power and by the old qilin’s death. His fear conflicts with the clan’s desperation for a breakthrough.
• The Qilin Clan’s new chief responds to the setback with a ruthless strategy: seize resources to secure the clan’s future.
• Yuanfeng takes responsibility for the danger she led the qilins into, offers compensation, and cautions them against repeating the attempt. The Qilin Clan accepts that it cannot fairly blame her, though the loss leaves it bitter and anxious.

Significant themes

• Protection and responsibility: Nuwa’s allies place her safety above all else; Yuanfeng acknowledges responsibility for the qilins’ loss.
• The cost of ambition: The Qilin Clan’s pursuit of a shortcut to power has already cost a life and left another member traumatized.
• Fear versus desperation: Even after learning the seal is nearly fatal, the Qilin Clan remains driven by its need to match the other clans.
• Power and uncertainty: The force that expelled the young qilin challenges his assumptions about the limits of the Primordial Origin Realm.

Key plot points and events

• Facing a growing power gap with the Dragonfolk and Phoenix Clan—both of which have Primordial Origin Realm experts—the Qilin Clan decides to seize resources rather than protect its reputation.
• The clan first searches for naturally available resources and tries to trade its stored spirit treasures, but these supplies and efforts prove inadequate. With other beings unwilling to trade while pursuing their own breakthroughs, the qilin resort to robbery.
• Working together, the Qilin Clan plunders nearly the entire Primordial World, targeting cultivation resources and sparing most spirit treasures. Their raids bring them great wealth but make them widely hated.
• They avoid the Dragonfolk, Phoenix Clan, and Beast Emperor Palace. They also leave the poor, newly emerged Witch Clan alone and abandon plans to rob Nuwa when they see that Dragonfolk and Phoenix Clan members are protecting her.
• While traveling with her protector, Ao Xiang, Nuwa asks why the Qilin Clan has become so reckless. Ao Xiang explains that the clan is desperate: it has no Primordial Origin Realm expert, the Ancestral Kirin is dead, and its chief failed to break through.

Character developments and interactions

• The Qilin Clan abandons its former restraint and good reputation, choosing survival and strength over public approval. Its behavior is ruthless but not entirely indiscriminate: it still avoids targets powerful enough to invite retaliation.
• Nuwa remains innocent and puzzled by the turmoil around her, understanding Ao Xiang’s explanation only partly.
• Ao Xiang, a quasi-saint-level Dragonfolk assigned to guard Nuwa, explains the Qilin Clan’s desperation and underscores the protection Nuwa receives from both major clans.

Significant themes

• Survival versus reputation: The Qilin Clan believes a respectable name is worthless without the power to defend itself.
• Power and security: The rise of the Dragonfolk and Phoenix Clan leaves the Qilin Clan feeling exposed and drives its increasingly extreme choices.
• Competition breeds conflict: In a world where beings constantly seek treasures and breakthroughs, resource struggles lead naturally to resentment and revenge.
• Selective aggression: Even in its “madness,” the Qilin Clan weighs the risks and avoids provoking the strongest powers.

Key plot points and events

• Nuwa asks whether reaching the Primordial Origin Realm is truly difficult. Feng Qi explains that it is almost impossible for most Primordial World Creatures, though Nuwa’s unusual talent makes it seem easy.
• After a thousand years alongside Nuwa, Feng Qi has seen her grow through studying souls and creating bodies for wandering spirits—not through conventional cultivation. Nuwa’s work has also deepened her understanding of life and strengthened her.
• Tongtian believes Nuwa may soon become the Primordial World’s fifth Primordial Origin Realm expert. Her progress, he says, comes from her own talent and interests rather than special guidance.
• The Primordial World’s balance has shifted: the Dragonfolk and Phoenix Clan have suffered few losses and are backed by Primordial Origin experts, while the Qilin Clan has grown powerful and is rapidly claiming resources. The Heavenly Dao is losing control and is reluctant to provoke a calamity it may not survive.

Character developments

• Nuwa is increasingly absorbed in the soul and creation paths. She finds creation more rewarding than routine cultivation and continues to grow stronger through it.
• Feng Qi admires Nuwa and hopes their friendship might bring her closer to the Primordial Origin Realm, but refuses to sacrifice her freedom or expose her soul to gain favor.
• Ao Xiang sees closeness to Nuwa as a chance to gain the protection and favor of Nuwa’s powerful Master.
• Tongtian recognizes Nuwa’s exceptional, self-developed talent and expects her advancement to continue rapidly.

Character interactions

• Nuwa’s question prompts Feng Qi to explain how rare the Primordial Origin Realm is, while Ao Xiang and Feng Qi privately weigh the advantages of befriending her.
• Feng Qi considers offering her soul for Nuwa’s research, but decides that preserving her privacy and freedom matters more than advancing.
• Tongtian reflects on Nuwa’s achievements and maintains that he has treated her no differently from others; her progress is her own.

Significant themes

• Exceptional talent versus ordinary cultivation: Nuwa’s path makes a seemingly arduous breakthrough appear effortless.
• Creation, curiosity, and self-directed growth: Nuwa advances by following her interest in souls and life.
• Power, opportunity, and freedom: Association with a powerful figure may offer advancement and protection, but Feng Qi questions the cost.
• The consequences of intervention: The disrupted balance among the clans has weakened the Heavenly Dao’s control over the Primordial World.

Key plot points and events

• After a thousand years of raiding, the Qilin Clan withdraws to its ancestral lands to pursue a breakthrough. The world waits to see whether it will produce a primordial-origin cultivator; success would secure its dominance, while failure could lead to a wider war over resources.
• Nuwa, already a Quasi-Saint, is sheltered from combat by the Dragonfolk and Phoenix Clan, who regard her as their treasured ancestor. Feng Qi and Ao Xiang become her bodyguards, despite Tongtian’s confidence in her.
• The Witch Clan and Demon Race rise to prominence. Together with the human race, they form a new three-way balance of power. Conflict begins between humans and demons.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Di Jun establish the Demon Heavenly Court, gathering loose cultivators and appointing figures such as Kunpeng and Bai Ze. Despite its organization, the Court is viewed as limited because it has no primordial-origin cultivator.

Character developments and interactions

• Nuwa is powerful but inexperienced in battle, having been protected since joining Tongtian as a disciple. Her status and beauty make her a potential target for unscrupulous cultivators, even though she owns few conventional treasures.
• Tongtian trusts that Nuwa must eventually experience combat; the Dragonfolk and Phoenix Clan sharply disagree and insist on protecting her.
• Taiyi and Di Jun prove politically adept, building an orderly court and recruiting broadly, while postponing confrontation with the ancient Three Clans.

Significant themes

• Strength and vulnerability: In the Primordial World, the weak are prey, while powerful backing offers protection. Even a Quasi-Saint’s rank does not eliminate every danger.
• Power, alliances, and consequences: Survival depends not only on strength but also on relationships and strategy. The Qilin Clan’s past plundering has created a karmic debt that may eventually be repaid.
• A changing world order: The rise of the human, demon, and witch factions signals a new political balance, while the Qilin Clan’s impending breakthrough could destabilize it.

Plot and events

• The Beast Emperor Palace, backed by Shen Ni and Yuanfeng, remains the Primordial World’s most influential and aloof power. The Phoenix Clan and Dragonfolk also have primordial origin realm backing, while no other faction does.
• The Demon Race and Witch Clan continue their hostility, with clashes growing from skirmishes into battles involving Daluo Golden Immortals. The small Human Race has no influence in their conflict. The Phoenix Clan and Dragonfolk stay out of it, while the Qilin Clan focuses on cultivation rather than risking a contest with the Demon Heavenly Court.
• Millions of years pass. Great Luo experts and quasi-saints become more numerous: the Witch Clan’s Twelve Ancestral Witches reach quasi-saint level, while Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi approach the primordial origin realm.
• The Primordial World itself grows stronger. Its terrain can now withstand battles that would once have damaged it, and even some locations endure quasi-saint combat.
• The Heavenly Dao recognizes Tongtian as the source of these improvements and lifts its restrictions on breakthroughs to the primordial origin realm. It judges the world strong enough to withstand such experts and senses a coming crisis that makes allowing them necessary.

Character and faction developments

• Di Jun and Taiyi reach the peak of quasi-saint cultivation, needing only the right opportunity to advance.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches also reach quasi-saint level, strengthening the Witch Clan.
• The Qilin Clan remains cautious, unwilling to submit to the Demon Race’s claim that it belongs under its rule.
• The Heavenly Dao shifts from suppressing primordial-origin breakthroughs to permitting them.

Themes and interactions

• Power determines standing: factions without primordial origin realm support are dismissed as minor forces, and quasi-saints are portrayed as essential to a race’s strength.
• Rival claims and prejudice: the Demon Race and Witch Clan dehumanize one another, while the Demon Race and Qilin Clan disagree over who has authority to define and rule the “Demon Race.”
• A world evolving: the Primordial World’s growth raises its capacity to support stronger beings.
• Conflict beyond the visible feuds: the Heavenly Dao’s decision is driven not only by the world’s new strength but also by an approaching, unexplained crisis.

Key plot points and events

• A mysterious aura erupts from an unknown wilderness, signaling that someone outside the familiar clans is attempting to enter the Primordial Origin Realm.
• The Qilin Clan, which has been preparing for a major resurgence, begins two breakthroughs at once, hoping to produce two new Primordial Origin experts.
• Before anyone can investigate, Beast Emperor Shen Ni appears. Acting on a command from his master, Tongtian, he has come to guard his junior sister, Nuwa.
• The unfamiliar breakthrough is revealed to be Nuwa’s. She begins it shortly after creating living beings, seemingly without the long preparation others expected.
• Shen Ni’s presence discourages potential interference, including possible sabotage by the Qilin Clan. Feng Qi and Ao Xiang watch in disbelief as Nuwa surpasses them.

Character developments

• Nuwa is revealed to be on the verge of becoming the Primordial World’s fifth Primordial Origin expert. Her rapid progress is especially remarkable given her youth and apparently effortless approach to the breakthrough.
• Shen Ni returns from seclusion at Tongtian’s request. Though already a middle-stage Primordial Origin expert, he is astonished by Nuwa’s advancement and takes his role as her protector seriously.
• Feng Qi and Ao Xiang recognize that Nuwa has overtaken them despite their long experience alongside her.
• The Qilin Clan moves aggressively to restore its influence, but Shen Ni’s arrival forces it to abandon any plan to disrupt Nuwa.

Significant themes

• Power and political balance: Nuwa’s breakthrough and the Qilin Clan’s simultaneous attempts could reshape the hierarchy among the Three Clans.
• Exceptional talent and rapid advancement: Nuwa’s progress defies expectations and highlights her extraordinary potential.
• Loyalty and protection: Shen Ni obeys Tongtian’s order and supports his junior sister.
• The Heavenly Dao’s limits: It follows fixed rules and avoids challenging Tongtian, whose power it recognizes as beyond its own.

Character interactions

• Tongtian directs Shen Ni to protect Nuwa, linking the two through their shared master.
• Shen Ni’s arrival beside Nuwa signals his support and deters hostile observers.
• Feng Qi and Ao Xiang react with astonishment to Nuwa’s advancement, while the Qilin Clan watches its ambitions constrained by Shen Ni’s presence.

Key plot points and events

• Nuwa begins a breakthrough from the Quasi-Saint stage to the primordial origin realm without gathering resources, unsettling Ao Xiang and Feng Qi, who feel their own breakthroughs remain far away.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni arrives and orders the two not to disturb his junior sister. His presence makes clear how dominant the Beast Emperor Palace is: it already has three primordial origin cultivators, with Nuwa potentially becoming the fourth.
• Nuwa stops holding back her aura and commits fully to the breakthrough. Though she has reached the threshold naturally and possesses exceptional talent, success is not guaranteed.
• Two Quasi-Saints from the Qilin Clan probe Nuwa with hostile intent. Shen Ni responds with a powerful aura, forcing them to retreat. The Qilin Clan apologizes, wary of provoking the Beast Emperor Palace.
• The Qilin Clan accepts that Nuwa may claim the fifth place among primordial origin cultivators and turns its attention to the sixth and seventh. It has prepared several candidates, but keeps them guarded in case rivals—especially the Demon Heavenly Court—interfere.
• The chapter closes as three powerful auras rise together, framing the simultaneous breakthroughs as a rare and momentous spectacle.

Character developments and interactions

• Nuwa displays confidence and commitment, beginning her breakthrough without preparation and then fully embracing the risk once Shen Ni arrives.
• Shen Ni acts as both formidable protector and loyal senior brother. He shields Nuwa from interference, but leaves open the possibility that she can decide the Qilin Clan’s fate herself.
• Ao Xiang and Feng Qi are humbled by the gap between their own slow progress and Nuwa’s rapid advancement, and immediately obey Shen Ni.
• The Qilin Clan is shown as ambitious and proud, yet cautious when faced with overwhelming power. Its members back down rather than risk provoking Shen Ni.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: The Beast Emperor Palace’s strength makes it effectively untouchable, even to forces that might otherwise challenge one another.
• Ambition versus caution: The Qilin Clan wants to advance its standing but keeps safeguards in place against disruption.
• Talent and uncertainty: Great ability and preparation can bring someone to the threshold, but a major breakthrough still carries real risk.
• Loyalty and protection: Shen Ni’s defense of Nuwa reflects both their fellow-disciple bond and his responsibility as her senior brother.

Plot points and events

• The Primordial World watches to see whether three cultivators can break through to the Primordial Origin realm, which would confirm that the world can support such beings and encourage future breakthroughs.
• Nuwa’s breakthrough proceeds steadily under Beast Emperor Shen Ni’s watch. She draws on years of effort and study, motivated in part by her desire to prove herself worthy of her master’s trust.
• Shen Ni recognizes that Nuwa is comprehending two Great Daos—the Great Way of the Soul and the Great Way of Creation. He expects her to succeed and believes her unusual talent could let her advance rapidly.
• At the Qilin ancestral grounds, two qilins’ simultaneous breakthroughs begin to interfere with one another. Their auras fluctuate, and the clan, whose strongest members are only at the quasi-saint peak, cannot safely intervene.
• The worried Qilin Clan Leader sends for Feng Qi and the Ancestral Dragon, hoping experienced Primordial Origin cultivators can help.

Character development and interactions

• Nuwa reveals both strong ambition and discipline: though outwardly unconcerned with status, she is determined to validate her master’s confidence in her. Her dual-Dao comprehension sets her apart.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni acts as Nuwa’s protector and evaluates her progress with pride and some envy. He remains confident in his own combat superiority, since he follows the formidable Great Way of Power.
• The Qilin Clan Leader is forced to confront the clan’s lack of knowledge and preparedness. His clan’s ambition to regain its standing has left it vulnerable to an unforeseen complication.
• The Qilin Clan turns to Feng Qi and the Ancestral Dragon, showing that despite limited contact among the Three Clans, they may still rely on one another in a crisis.

Significant themes

• Talent and effort: Nuwa’s success is presented as the product of exceptional ability combined with sustained hard work.
• The difficulty of cultivation: Great Daos shape both a cultivator’s potential and their limitations; multiple paths can be powerful but difficult to master.
• Preparation and humility: The Qilin Clan’s focus on making a spectacle of its breakthrough leaves it unready for the practical dangers.
• A changing world: Successful breakthroughs could establish a new era in which Primordial Origin cultivators become increasingly common.