Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Yuanfeng of the Beast Emperor Palace stops the war between the Human Race and the Loose Cultivator Alliance, which had begun over Human territory.
• She orders the Alliance to recognize Bai Ming as its sole Alliance Leader, demoting the others to powerless Vice Alliance Leaders. Bai Ming is also made an Outer Disciple of the Beast Emperor Palace and promised a chance to advance to the Primordial Origin Realm.
• The Alliance must give the Human Race one-tenth of its stored resources and avoid future disputes with them.
• When a newly appointed Alliance Leader protests, Yuanfeng kills him instantly. The remaining Quasi-Saints accept the ruling without objection.
• After Yuanfeng leaves, both sides clear the battlefield. The Human Race keeps its fallen people’s bodies from the demons and eventually burns the remaining corpses.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng asserts the Beast Emperor Palace’s authority decisively, protecting the Human Race and disciplining the Alliance. Her intervention also serves as a warning to the Demon Heavenly Court.
• Bai Ming gains control of the Loose Cultivator Alliance and a path to greater power. The others suspect she is already aligned with the Human Race.
• The Alliance’s Quasi-Saints are forced to accept their loss of authority, particularly after seeing Yuanfeng kill the dissenter.
• The Human Race recognizes Yuanfeng’s intervention as lifesaving and is careful not to challenge a settlement that strongly favors them.

Significant themes

• Power and obedience: Yuanfeng’s overwhelming strength makes the Beast Emperor Palace’s orders effectively unquestionable.
• War and its cost: The ceasefire ends the fighting, but the months-long cleanup and burned battlefield underline the scale of the deaths.
• Political control through intervention: The Beast Emperor Palace protects the Human Race while reshaping the Alliance’s leadership and limiting its future actions.
• Memory and respect for the dead: The Human Race insists on keeping and honoring its fallen rather than surrendering their bodies.

Key events

• The human race and the Loose Cultivator Alliance begin recovering after a devastating battle. The humans lost hundreds of thousands of acquired humans and tens of thousands of irreplaceable innate humans. The alliance suffered heavy casualties and lost a Quasi-Saint to Yuanfeng; no one dares challenge the justification for that death.
• Bai Ming becomes the Loose Cultivator Alliance’s sole leader. Rather than immediately seek an alliance with the humans, she prioritizes consolidating her authority and rebuilding the alliance’s strength.
• The human race also gains from the conflict: many talented acquired humans advance to Heavenly Immortal, and some reach Primordial Unity Golden Immortal. The strongest new cultivators are taken under the innate humans’ care.
• Fuxi enters seclusion to deepen his understanding of arrays. His experience controlling the battle formation has also stirred a vague awareness of his connection to Nuwa and the brotherhood he might have had.
• The Beast Emperor Palace’s protection of the human race deters other powers from targeting it. The Demon Heavenly Court therefore turns its attention toward the weakened Loose Cultivator Alliance. Di Jun decides to attack, with Taiyi and the Twelve Demon Saints in agreement.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Ming shows political restraint: though she has the authority and backing to force the alliance toward the humans, she avoids alienating its deputy leaders. She wants a strong, unified alliance before pursuing an alliance with the human race.
• Fuxi grows as an array strategist and begins sensing his deeper bond with Nuwa.
• Di Jun, supported by Taiyi and the Twelve Demon Saints, sees the alliance’s vulnerability as an opportunity to consolidate the Demon Heavenly Court’s power.
• The deputy leaders obey Bai Ming but remain personally unconvinced, leaving her authority fragile beneath the surface.

Significant themes

• Power and protection: The Beast Emperor Palace’s backing makes the human race effectively untouchable.
• Leadership and consolidation: Bai Ming values lasting unity over immediate political gains.
• Loss and renewal: The human race suffers severe, irreversible losses while nurturing a new generation of talent.
• Opportunity amid weakness: The Demon Heavenly Court plans to exploit the alliance’s postwar vulnerability to expand its influence.

Key plot points

• As the Demon Heavenly Court considers attacking the Loose Cultivator Alliance, news spreads that Ancestral Witch Houtu has openly founded the Human Sect and pledged to guide the Human Race’s cultivation and destiny.
• The Heavenly Dao responds with a vast shower of merit, rapidly boosting Houtu’s cultivation. She stops herself just short of becoming a Heavenly Dao Sage, unwilling to trade away her future and independence for that status.
• Rather than leave after establishing the sect, Houtu stays with the humans for a thousand years. She teaches them, provides resources, and trains selected disciples, giving the vulnerable race time to develop under her protection.
• The Human Race makes progress but remains weak. In that thousand years, only Fuxi reaches the Quasi-Saint level. The other innate human leaders give him the resources so he can improve his array formations, which they hope will help defend their people.

Character developments and interactions

• Houtu proves both powerful and devoted: she resists the Heavenly Dao’s pressure to advance further, then treats her human students with the care she would give personal disciples. Her training also helps Fuxi become more confident in his ability to control arrays.
• Fuxi continues to bear responsibility for an earlier battle in which his use of arrays nearly brought about the Human Race’s destruction. Suiren Shi and the other leaders do not blame him; they recognize that he acted for the race’s survival and had faced terrible risks from the start.
• Suiren Shi and the other human leaders put collective survival ahead of individual advancement by giving Fuxi the resources needed to break through.
• Houtu’s connection to Tongtian and the Beast Emperor Palace shapes her refusal to become a Heavenly Dao Sage. The Heavenly Dao, meanwhile, supports her sect’s founding with merit, but its influence is a danger she consciously resists.

Significant themes

• Independence versus power: A seemingly great breakthrough can come at the cost of autonomy; Houtu rejects becoming the Heavenly Dao’s servant.
• Collective sacrifice and trust: The human leaders defer their own opportunities to strengthen Fuxi, and they forgive his past mistake because he acted for their people.
• Protection and gradual growth: Houtu’s intervention creates a temporary refuge, but the Human Race still needs time and strength to survive in a world driven by conflict and profit.
• Mentorship and preparation: Houtu’s teaching—and Fuxi’s work on arrays—aims not just at immediate progress but at giving the Human Race tools for future wars.

Key plot points and events

• Houtu’s deep understanding of the Great Dao of Reincarnation allows her to grasp array formations quickly. Her insights give Fuxi crucial ideas that help him break through to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• The human race’s limited resources remain a major obstacle. It relies on resources left by Nuwa and Houtu, what it has gathered itself, and modest spoils taken from demons during territorial expansion.
• After a thousand years of recovery, the human race has grown powerful: all innate humans have reached the peak of Great Luo, Fuxi is a Quasi-Saint, and acquired humans increasingly include Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Population growth has made the human race’s original lands insufficient, so expansion is unavoidable. Moving into the sea is impractical and risks conflict with the Dragonfolk, leaving expansion toward the Loose Cultivator Alliance as the likely path.
• Human travelers remain vulnerable to demon clans, which usually act collectively and often have Great Luo protectors. The human race lacks enough spiritual treasures to offset this danger.
• Houtu’s former presence and status within the Beast Emperor Palace had helped deter attacks. With her no longer there, the human race’s security is more precarious.

Character developments

• Fuxi advances to Quasi-Saint, aided by Houtu’s original insights into formations.
• Houtu is portrayed as exceptionally perceptive: mastery of one Dao lets her rapidly understand another field and contribute creatively.
• Bai Ming, leader of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, is positioned as a key figure in the human race’s territorial dilemma, though she cannot control every alliance member.

Character interactions

• Houtu supports Fuxi’s breakthrough by applying reincarnation-law insights to array formations.
• The human race’s expansion may bring it into conflict with Bai Ming’s Loose Cultivator Alliance, despite her leadership.
• The human race and Dragonfolk currently coexist peacefully under the Beast Emperor Palace, making conflict with them undesirable.
• Humans face danger from demon clans, whose members are likely to retaliate collectively if one of their own is attacked.

Significant themes

• Growth constrained by resources: The human race’s rising strength and population are checked by shortages of land, cultivation materials, and treasures.
• The consequences of expansion: Survival and prosperity compel the humans to seek territory, even when doing so risks conflict.
• Power and protection: Strength alone is not enough; alliances, clan backing, and powerful patrons determine who can travel safely and defend territory.
• Knowledge crossing disciplines: Houtu’s command of one Dao enables her to contribute meaningfully to a different field.

Plot points and events

• With Houtu gone, the Human Race has lost the Beast Emperor Palace’s direct protection. Other Primordial World factions recognize the opening, but fear the Palace’s powerful experts and wait for a major crisis before acting.
• Meanwhile, many visitors come to the Human Race seeking peaceful ties, since its potential and powerful backing make friendship worthwhile.
• Zhen Yuanzi visits Fuxi openly. Fuxi senses that the visitor is a formidable Quasi-Saint, though Zhen Yuanzi shows no hostility.
• Zhen Yuanzi explains that he has established a Daoist temple and needs two clever, obedient young attendants. Fuxi understands this as an opportunity for the Human Race: serving Zhen Yuanzi could bring the chosen attendants valuable guidance and experience.
• Fuxi considers how to select two suitable candidates without wasting Zhen Yuanzi’s time.

Character developments and interactions

• Fuxi is cautious but confident in the Human Race’s growing strength, especially its defensive formations. He greets Zhen Yuanzi respectfully and tries to understand the purpose of his visit.
• Zhen Yuanzi is revealed to be a little-known but powerful Quasi-Saint whose true form is the earth fetal membrane. He feels a natural affinity for the Human Race and offers it an indirect boon by taking two attendants.
• Their meeting is courteous and diplomatic: Zhen Yuanzi presents his request modestly, while Fuxi recognizes the opportunity and weighs how best to respond.

Significant themes

• Vulnerability and protection: Houtu’s departure leaves the Human Race exposed, even though the Beast Emperor Palace’s broader support remains a deterrent.
• Diplomacy and strategic patience: Potential enemies hold back, while others pursue safer, long-term relationships with the Human Race.
• Opportunity through patronage: Zhen Yuanzi’s offer could benefit the Human Race through proximity to a powerful cultivator.
• Strength and restraint: The Human Race has grown capable of defending itself against limited threats, but avoids provoking major powers it cannot yet withstand.

Key plot points and events

• Fuxi asks Zhen Yuanzi how he plans to choose two human Daoist attendants. Since the innate humans already have established paths, the candidates must come from the acquired human race.
• Zhen Yuanzi decides to personally explore the human settlements with Fuxi, relying on affinity and karma rather than testing talent.
• The two Quasi-Saints conceal their auras and travel from tribe to tribe. They see the humans’ primitive way of life—scattered settlements, animal-skin clothing, and a society still far from widespread cloth-making.
• Although they have not yet found suitable candidates, witnessing ordinary humans living and multiplying deeply affects Zhen Yuanzi and seems to loosen the limits on his understanding of the Dao.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhen Yuanzi shows curiosity and humility as he encounters ordinary life for the first time. His reflections connect his Earth-related Dao with the creation and flourishing of living beings, while reinforcing that he values personal freedom and is not yet ready to join the Beast Emperor Palace.
• Fuxi acts as his cooperative guide, accompanying him through human territory and leaving the choice of selection method to him.
• Their journey prompts Zhen Yuanzi to think about the costs of reaching the Primordial Origin Realm: its greater power comes with strict oversight and diminished freedom under the Beast Emperor Palace.

Significant themes

• Affinity over talent: Zhen Yuanzi intends to choose attendants through personal connection and karma rather than ability.
• Dao shaped by experience: Directly observing human life broadens Zhen Yuanzi’s understanding of his own path.
• Power versus freedom: Advancement to the Primordial Origin Realm brings strength but also control by the Beast Emperor Palace.
• The diversity of the Dao: Even cultivators following similar paths develop distinct interpretations, leading their Daos in different directions.

Character interactions

• Fuxi and Zhen Yuanzi discuss the selection, then travel together among the human tribes.
• The chapter contrasts their extraordinary status as Quasi-Saints with the ordinary lives of the humans they observe.
• Zhen Yuanzi’s reflections also invoke the Beast Emperor Shen Ni, Yuanfeng, and Yingzhao as examples of the overwhelming power and authority associated with the Primordial Origin Realm.

Plot points

• Fuxi and Zhen Yuanzi finish touring the Human Race’s many tribes. The Human Race occupies only a small part of the vast, single-continent Primordial World, but its large population means people live closely together.
• Zhen Yuanzi asks to choose people to accompany him. He brings roughly seventy or eighty Humans before Fuxi, explaining that they share a karmic affinity with him.
• Fuxi offers them the choice to become Zhen Yuanzi’s Dao attendants, making clear they may refuse. Nearly thirty choose to remain with their families; the rest agree to go.
• Zhen Yuanzi sends the volunteers home to say farewell, warning that they may be gone for a very long time. Four hours later, all forty-one return, and Zhen Yuanzi prepares to depart with them.

Character developments and interactions

• Fuxi is respectful of Zhen Yuanzi’s wishes and ensures the Humans can decide freely. He accepts both those who decline and those who leave.
• Zhen Yuanzi shows consideration for the group’s autonomy and family ties. He admires those who refuse without being blinded by opportunity, as well as those who agree only after thinking carefully.
• The chosen Humans demonstrate varied priorities: some value staying with their parents, while others are willing to leave after taking time to say goodbye. Their parents are disappointed but respect their decisions.
• Fuxi and Zhen Yuanzi interact as trusted equals, exchanging courtesies before Zhen Yuanzi takes responsibility for the forty-one volunteers.

Significant themes

• Choice and autonomy: The opportunity to follow a powerful cultivator is presented without coercion.
• Family duty and personal aspiration: Staying with loved ones is treated as a valid choice, while leaving for cultivation is also respected.
• Clear judgment: The chapter praises people who weigh an opportunity carefully rather than accepting it impulsively.
• Scale and population: The immense Human Race provides the backdrop for the small number selected to accompany Zhen Yuanzi.

Key plot points and events

• Zhen Yuanzi leaves Fuxi a large gift of resources as thanks for taking talented humans, signaling that he wants friendly relations with the Human Race. Fuxi accepts the gesture.
• The Primordial World’s loose cultivators begin joining Tongtian’s Beast Emperor Palace. The Sanxiao sisters and Zhao Gongming are recruited as outer disciples, receiving support and guidance they would lack on their own.
• The Beast Emperor Palace announces that its third sermon will take place in ten thousand years. It is open to all, especially the many quasi-saints seeking help with their next breakthrough.
• Tongtian takes Changxi and Xihe, innate beings of the Taiyin Star, as disciples. This prevents the heavenly marriage that Di Jun had expected, though he does not realize why the opportunity has disappeared.
• The Witch Clan returns to prominence after learning to cultivate with the Primordial World’s abundant spiritual energy. Its strength rises enough to rival the Demon Heavenly Court.
• Houtu, the Beast Emperor Palace’s fourth disciple, finally breaks through into the Primordial Origin Realm. In doing so, she establishes the Six Paths of Reincarnation, pursuing the Earthly Dao and earning the attention—and envy—of other cultivators.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhen Yuanzi and Fuxi: Zhen Yuanzi’s gifts establish goodwill between him and the Human Race; Fuxi recognizes their diplomatic meaning and accepts them.
• Tongtian: He expands the Beast Emperor Palace through recruitment and offers former Interception Sect disciples a second chance, motivated partly by guilt over their past deaths. He also personally takes Changxi and Xihe as disciples.
• Houtu: After years of patient cultivation, she fulfills her potential and takes a major step toward mastery of the Earthly Dao.
• Di Jun: He senses that something is wrong with his plans but remains unaware that Tongtian’s intervention has changed his prospects for a heavenly marriage.
• Ancestor Minghe: He realizes that he could have pursued merit by dealing with the Primordial World’s wandering souls, but regrets failing to act before Houtu established reincarnation.

Significant themes

• Goodwill and alliance-building: Gifts, recruitment, and access to teachings create bonds among powerful figures and groups.
• Second chances and loyalty: Tongtian welcomes former disciples into the Beast Emperor Palace, seeking to repay old debts.
• Cultivation through opportunity: The Beast Emperor Palace’s sermons and guidance attract beings who hope to advance beyond the quasi-saint realm.
• Missed opportunities and regret: Houtu’s creation of reincarnation highlights the cost of hesitation, especially for Minghe and other cultivators who recognized the possibility but never acted.
• Distinct paths to the Dao: The chapter emphasizes the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos as foundational paths, with Houtu following the Earthly Dao just as Nuwa pursues the Human Dao.

Key events

• Ancestor Minghe realizes Houtu’s creation of the Six Paths of Reincarnation is an enormous opportunity he has missed. He regrets not helping her, since its merit might have helped him pursue Dao by Force without becoming a Heavenly Dao Sage.
• Remembering that his earlier creation of the Asura earned too little merit—and nearly forced him into becoming a Heavenly Dao Sage—Minghe wonders whether he should join the Beast Emperor Palace to gain proper guidance.
• Houtu arrives in Minghe’s territory, the place with the greatest concentration of wandering souls. After one glance from her makes Minghe feel his life is in danger, she begins manifesting reincarnation laws and shaping them into the Six Paths.
• Minghe watches in astonishment as Houtu demonstrates power far beyond his own, despite neither of them having reached the primordial origin realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Minghe shifts from confidence in his status as one of the strongest quasi-saints to bitter self-doubt. He recognizes that years of solitary cultivation have left him without a clear path, and that Houtu’s strength reflects not only resources but superior instruction. He hides his envy and fear, forcing a polite smile when she notices him.
• Houtu is prepared and determined, though she feels some nerves about undertaking a once-in-a-lifetime breakthrough and creating a system that will serve all life in the Primordial World. She does not focus on Minghe or his ambitions.
• Their interaction is brief but revealing: Houtu’s glance intimidates Minghe, while her indifference underscores the gulf between them.

Significant themes

• Regret and missed opportunities: Minghe recognizes the value of an opportunity only after Houtu has taken it.
• The limits of solitary cultivation: Talent and personal effort can carry someone far, but sound instruction and a complete cultivation system may matter more.
• The burden of great achievement: Houtu’s undertaking could give the dead a destination and shape the fate of the Primordial World.
• Access and belonging: Minghe hopes to join the Beast Emperor Palace, but membership is selective and comes with obligations; wanting its guidance does not guarantee acceptance.

Key plot points and events

• Houtu announces that she will attain the Dao by establishing the Netherworld, creating the Six Paths of Reincarnation so the dead can be reborn and the Primordial World can gain a more complete order.
• The Heavenly Dao helps broadcast her declaration, despite sensing that the Earthly Dao created by reincarnation will stand as its equal and potential rival.
• The Heavenly Dao nevertheless grants Houtu immense merit, since the Netherworld benefits the world and fulfills its laws. Houtu uses the merit to break through beyond the Quasi-Saint realm into the Primordial Origin Realm.
• The Netherworld takes shape but remains empty. No outsiders come forward to claim its positions, expecting them to go to the Beast Emperor Palace and recognizing that such roles carry significant obligations as well as rewards.
• The chapter explains that Houtu’s breakthrough is exceptional: as an incomplete-born Ancestral Witch, she could not easily advance through ordinary cultivation. Establishing the Earthly Dao offers her a rare, unrepeatable path.
• Other powerful figures had noticed the problem of wandering souls, but the chapter ends by beginning to contrast their circumstances: Di Jun and Taiyi lacked suitable standing to manage the dead, while Zhen Yuanzi’s connection to the earth may make his perspective different.

Character developments and interactions

• Houtu moves from Quasi-Saint toward Primordial Origin Realm, establishing herself as the founder of the Netherworld and a major power within the Beast Emperor Palace. She acts for the good of the world, though she also takes advantage of the merit to achieve her own breakthrough.
• The Heavenly Dao is uneasy about the rise of the Earthly Dao, but it cannot justifiably oppose Houtu’s beneficial act—and is deterred from attacking her by Tongtian’s protection.
• Tongtian and the Beast Emperor Palace are presented as influential through their extensive training and resources. Houtu’s affiliation also discourages others from seeking Netherworld positions.
• The wider population honors Houtu, recognizing that reincarnation gives the dead a safe destination and a chance to return to life. Ancestor Minghe, meanwhile, envies the resources and instruction available to the Palace’s disciples.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi recognize the need for order among the dead, but their status as Golden Crows and rulers of Heaven does not give them the right role. Zhen Yuanzi is introduced as another figure who noticed the issue, with his connection to the earth noted.

Significant themes

• Order and compassion: Houtu’s creation of reincarnation improves the world’s structure and offers the dead protection and renewal.
• Power and cosmic balance: The Earthly Dao emerges as a counterweight to the Heavenly Dao, reshaping the world’s hierarchy.
• Opportunity and merit: Houtu succeeds through insight and initiative; others may have seen the same problem but lacked either the right nature, position, or path.
• Privilege and resources: The Beast Emperor Palace’s support helps explain its disciples’ strength and influence.

Key events

• Houtu is preparing to break through to the primordial origin realm. Her breakthrough is expected to be unusually momentous, drawing attention from across the Primordial World.
• The Witch Clan has withdrawn from the struggle for dominance, much like the Three Clans before it. This reduces large-scale conflict but leaves the expanding Demon Race without a strong rival.
• A fragile balance holds between the Demon Heavenly Court, the Human Race, and the weakened Loose Cultivator Alliance. The Beast Emperor Palace’s power discourages any side from starting a war.
• The Witch Clan emerges from seclusion to witness Houtu’s breakthrough. Houtu has told the other Ancestral Witches to restrain their cultivation until she succeeds.
• Houtu wonders why so few experts among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans have reached the primordial origin realm. Shen Ni cannot explain and advises her to ask their Master, Tongtian, if she gets the chance.
• Houtu follows Tongtian’s instructions despite never having met him. The chapter ends with her wondering how she could reach him.

Character developments and interactions

• Houtu shows obedience to her Master’s orders and concern for the Witch Clan’s progress, putting the other Ancestral Witches’ breakthroughs on hold until she has tested the path herself.
• Shen Ni admits his ignorance rather than pretending to understand the limits on advancement. His rules from Tongtian are limited: he must not leave the Primordial World without permission or act recklessly within it.
• Zhen Yuanzi is described as talented enough to pursue the Earthly Dao someday, though he currently lacks the necessary resources.
• Bai Ming leads the Loose Cultivator Alliance, while former Quasi-Saint leaders quietly remain associated with it for mutual benefit, despite resenting her authority.

Significant themes

• Power and political balance: The Beast Emperor Palace’s oversight keeps rival powers from open war, while the Witch Clan’s withdrawal leaves the Demon Race ascendant.
• The value of time and opportunity: The Human Race prioritizes growth, and many Quasi-Saints look to Houtu’s breakthrough for confidence and guidance.
• Obedience amid uncertainty: Houtu follows Tongtian’s wishes even without knowing their purpose or having met him.
• Unequal access to advancement: Talent alone is insufficient for paths such as the Earthly Dao, while the rarity of primordial origin experts raises questions about what enables a breakthrough.

Key plot points and events

• Houtu begins breaking through to the Primordial Origin Realm. Because she is Tongtian’s disciple and represents the human race, the breakthrough is considered important, but nobody informs Tongtian; Shen Ni is trusted to oversee it.
• Shen Ni immediately leaves seclusion to guard Houtu, treating her safety as his top priority.
• Ancestor Minghe, who has been watching the breakthrough, is warned by Shen Ni not to try to seize Houtu’s opportunity. Minghe is terrified and denies no threat directly.
• The chapter reinforces the Beast Emperor Palace’s overwhelming power and reputation: it has intervened in major conflicts, punished opponents, and made the wider Primordial World wary of provoking even its lesser members.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Ni is portrayed as fiercely protective of his fellow disciples and intimidatingly overbearing toward anyone he suspects might threaten them. Despite having recently restrained his temper while overseeing the world, he remains willing to kill without hesitation.
• Houtu is established as a valued disciple and representative of the human race, with the Witch Clan’s lack of a Primordial Origin Realm powerhouse making her breakthrough especially significant.
• Minghe is shown to be cautious and self-interested: he considers taking advantage of Houtu’s breakthrough, but Shen Ni’s sudden appearance and warning frighten him into reconsidering.
• Shen Ni’s relationship with Tongtian is described as complicated: Tongtian favors his female disciples, while Shen Ni was accepted largely because of his exceptional talent and destiny.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and protection: Shen Ni’s overriding concern is safeguarding his junior sister.
• Power and deterrence: The Beast Emperor Palace’s might shapes the rules of the world; others stay silent or comply because resistance would be futile.
• The gulf between realms: Primordial Origin Realm beings are depicted as vastly superior to Quasi-Saints, particularly the Palace’s strongest figures.
• Favoritism and authority: The Palace’s interventions are acknowledged as biased, but its power prevents others from challenging them.

Key plot points and events

• The Human Race remains safe because Nuwa’s creation of them has made others wary of provoking her or the Beast Emperor Palace. Even Kunpeng, who covets human flesh, refuses to risk harming them.
• The Beast Emperor Palace’s powerful members may be demons by origin, but they do not automatically support the Demon Race. They disapprove of its aggressive pursuit of resources, which has earned resentment from other Primordial World beings.
• Ancestor Minghe is confronted with how far he falls short of the Beast Emperor Palace’s power. Once confident that no quasi-saint could defeat him—thanks to the life-giving River of the Dead—he now fears Houtu might kill him with ease.
• Minghe avoids advancing to the primordial origin realm, believing it would put him directly under the Beast Emperor Palace’s scrutiny. When Shen Ni arrives while Houtu is breaking through, Minghe abandons his attempt to observe the breakthrough and asks permission to leave. Shen Ni allows him to go, and Minghe promptly disappears into the nether river.

Character developments and interactions

• Ancestor Minghe is revealed as arrogant toward ordinary Primordial World beings but deferential and fearful around the Beast Emperor Palace. His former confidence in his quasi-saint strength has been shaken by Houtu’s power.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni is protective of his junior sister and keeps watch to prevent any disturbance during her breakthrough. His presence alone makes Minghe cautious.
• Houtu is not directly active in the scene, but her imminent breakthrough and demonstrated strength dominate Minghe’s thinking.
• Nuwa is portrayed as powerful but still less advanced than her senior siblings; her good nature and status as humanity’s creator help keep humans safe.
• Minghe and Shen Ni interact briefly: Minghe cautiously seeks leave, while Shen Ni’s curt permission sends him away relieved.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Strength determines who can act with impunity and who must submit.
• Fear and self-preservation: Even a formidable, effectively immortal quasi-saint avoids risks when faced with overwhelming power.
• Political consequences: The Demon Race’s pursuit of power has alienated others, while the Beast Emperor Palace’s influence restrains potential threats.
• Reading meaning into power: The chapter notes how the words and gestures of great figures are treated as significant, even when their intent may be unclear.

Plot points and events

• As Houtu undergoes a crucial breakthrough, Beast Emperor Shen Ni guards her and regards even the Nether River as no obstacle to his power.
• Ancestor Minghe initially retreats to the depths of the river and enters seclusion, avoiding any appearance of interfering. He also orders the Asura Clan to stay out of sight.
• Shen Ni nevertheless orders Minghe to cultivate elsewhere, claiming his presence could disturb Houtu’s breakthrough. Minghe is furious but recognizes that resisting would be pointless.
• Minghe leaves the Nether River with the Asura Clan and his treasures, telling himself the move is temporary and that he can return after Houtu finishes.
• Other powerful figures observe the incident but remain silent. They see Minghe’s retreat as a realistic response to the vast gap between his strength and Shen Ni’s.

Character developments and interactions

• Minghe is cautious and self-aware: he understands that his reputation as a formidable Quasi-Saint means little against Shen Ni and the Beast Emperor Palace. Though resentful at being driven from his own home, he chooses survival over a futile confrontation and takes responsibility for the Asura Clan.
• Shen Ni is openly domineering and wholly focused on protecting Houtu’s breakthrough. He gives no consideration to the disruption or indignity caused to Minghe.
• The Asura Clan follows Minghe’s order to withdraw, avoiding the danger of being mistaken for a threat to Houtu.
• The watching experts sympathize with Minghe but do not intervene; they understand that Shen Ni’s overwhelming power leaves them no meaningful choice.

Significant themes

• Strength determines status and freedom: in this world, power decides who may stay, speak, or resist.
• Pragmatism over pride: Minghe’s retreat is framed not as cowardice but as sensible recognition of an unbeatable opponent.
• Protection and collateral cost: Shen Ni’s determination to secure Houtu’s breakthrough overrides Minghe’s rights and convenience.

Key plot points and events

• Ancestor Minghe leaves with the Asura Clan, and the area around the Nether River is cleared. Beast Emperor Shen Ni remains to watch Houtu’s breakthrough.
• Houtu’s power shapes the Netherworld, including the Eighteen Levels of Hell, the River of Forgetfulness, the Hall of Yama, and a central palace for herself. The Beast Emperor Palace and Witch Clan are expected to receive important roles once the realm is fully established.
• Wandering souls begin making their way into the completed Netherworld. The Heavenly Dao responds with an immense wave of merit—far greater than that granted for Nuwa’s creation of the Human Race or Houtu’s establishment of the Human Sect.
• The Book of Life and Death and the Judge’s Brush appear in Houtu’s hands. She stores them, judging their potential usefulness to Netherworld administration but considering them too limited to benefit her personally.
• Houtu reaches the threshold of the Primordial Origin Realm. Tribulation clouds gather, but Shen Ni is confident she can withstand the breakthrough.

Character developments and interactions

• Houtu is revealed as a supreme Quasi-Saint whose strength and talent place her among the very strongest in the Primordial World. She declines to use the abundant merit for another immediate breakthrough, recognizing that her understanding of the Great Dao must develop alongside her power.
• Shen Ni watches over Houtu and reflects that his former self would have been no match for her or Nuwa at their Quasi-Saint peaks. He remains calm and confident in her success.
• The Witch Clan is shown to possess substantial knowledge of cultivation despite lacking primordial spirits and being unable to cultivate themselves. Its members have long wanted the chance to grow stronger.

Significant themes

• Death, reincarnation, and hope: The Netherworld gives souls somewhere to go and the possibility of rebirth, making death less final and offering every living being a future.
• Power balanced by understanding: Houtu chooses not to rush her advancement; cultivation requires insight as well as strength.
• Merit and its limits: Vast heavenly merit can aid cultivation and support institutions, but it cannot replace Dao comprehension, and merit-based treasures have practical ceilings.
• Opportunity and exclusion: The Witch Clan’s accumulated knowledge contrasts with its inability to cultivate, underscoring how much potential can be held back by circumstance.

Key plot points

• The Witch Clan has grown stronger through the acquisition of primordial spirits, but has remained inactive since Houtu entered the Beast Emperor Palace. As a result, outsiders underestimate its power.
• The Three Clans are similarly misjudged: observers assume they have few Primordial Origin Realm cultivators, though their true strength is being concealed.
• Houtu’s breakthrough reaches its final stage. She withstands the Heavenly Tribulation without even resisting, and the Heavenly Dao is powerless to stop her.
• Her success will complete the Six Paths of Reincarnation and establish the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos as a balanced system.
• Tongtian watches from beyond the Primordial World and prepares to raise its level once Houtu’s breakthrough is complete. He believes the world must strengthen before an eventual invasion from the wider cosmos.

Character developments and interactions

• Houtu emerges as the Witch Clan’s most gifted member. Her exceptional talent, deep foundations, and cultivation under the Beast Emperor Palace have set her apart from the other Ancestral Witches.
• Tongtian remains a distant guardian, deliberately allowing the Primordial World to develop on its own. He has restrained its powerful cultivators from venturing out, both to protect them and to prepare the world for future threats.
• The Heavenly Dao is forced to accept Houtu’s breakthrough: the Earthly and Human Daos are already established, so the emergence of the three Daos side by side cannot be undone.
• The Beast Emperor Palace’s leaders—including Shen Ni, Yuanfeng, and Tongtian—are presented as having such profound understanding of cultivation that even Quasi-Saint and Primordial Origin realms hold few secrets for them.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and misjudgment: Outsiders mistake the Three Clans’ and Witch Clan’s restraint for weakness.
• Growth through patience: Tongtian has let the Primordial World and its cultivators mature before intervening.
• Balance and inevitability: Houtu’s breakthrough confirms the coexistence of the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos, leaving the Heavenly Dao unable to preserve its dominance.
• Preparation for danger: The Primordial World’s advancement is necessary because its distinctive qualities—and Pangu’s legacy—may attract hostile attention from beyond its borders.

Plot points and events

• Houtu completes her breakthrough to the primordial origin realm. The Heavenly Dao leaves her tribulation untouched, unwilling to provoke Tongtian and unable to make her fail.
• Her advancement means the Witch Clan now has a primordial origin expert, strengthening its position against the Demon Race—though the Beast Emperor Palace’s authority currently keeps the Demon Heavenly Court in check.
• Houtu and Shen Ni discuss how to administer the newly established Netherworld. It needs a Netherworld Sovereign and Ten Hall Yama Kings. They consider appointing suitable figures from the Beast Emperor Palace and other groups, including the Demon and Human Races, but defer the decision.
• Tongtian announces that he will elevate the Primordial World and orders the powerful beings to protect its inhabitants. The Beast Emperor Palace’s primordial origin experts take positions throughout the world, with Shen Ni, Houtu, Nuwa, and Yuanfeng guarding its central regions.
• The world shakes, dark clouds gather, and spiritual energy boils as the Primordial World undergoes a hundred-year transformation. Heaven and earth collapse and reform as the world expands and grows sturdier. When the upheaval ends, its inhabitants feel the pressure lessen and old restraints disappear.

Character developments and interactions

• Houtu gains confidence after surviving her first tribulation, but recognizes how far she remains beneath Shen Ni’s strength. She seeks his guidance and takes responsibility for planning the Netherworld’s leadership.
• Shen Ni congratulates Houtu and discusses the Netherworld’s administration with her, but avoids making the appointment decisions himself, leaving them to Houtu and Nuwa.
• Tongtian exerts his influence indirectly: his warning prevents interference with Houtu’s tribulation, and his command initiates the world’s ascension.
• The primordial origin experts cooperate by protecting the world during its transformation. Their calm reassures the frightened inhabitants.

Significant themes

• Power and political balance: Houtu’s breakthrough strengthens the Witch Clan, while the Beast Emperor Palace’s influence restrains the Demon Race.
• Shared governance: The Netherworld is intended to serve all living beings, so its leadership should represent more than one faction.
• Collective responsibility and cosmic change: The experts protect the world as it transforms, while the ascension makes the Primordial World fit to contain increasingly powerful beings.
• Growth and liberation: The expanded, strengthened world eases pressure on its inhabitants and removes long-standing constraints.

Plot and events

• The Primordial World’s ascension removes the restrictions that had prevented powerful Quasi-Saints from advancing to the Primordial Origin Realm. Dozens attempt the breakthrough, revealing that many ancient experts had survived in seclusion; nearly a hundred potential breakthroughs surprise the wider world.
• The Beast Emperor Palace already knew these hidden cultivators existed and helps keep their breakthroughs separate so they do not disrupt one another. Nearly ten fail, suffering serious injuries but surviving to try again.
• Once the attempts are over, Yuanfeng summons all Primordial Origin Realm experts to the Beast Emperor Palace. Shen Ni’s overwhelming aura makes clear that even newly advanced experts are no match for him.
• Yuanfeng announces the Palace’s rules: new Primordial Origin Realm experts must report within a hundred years, and any who attack others before reporting—or otherwise provoke the Palace—will be severely punished.

Character developments and interactions

• The newly advanced experts go from believing they are powerful to recognizing how insignificant they are beside Shen Ni. Their obedience reflects the Beast Emperor Palace’s firm control over the Primordial World.
• Yuanfeng acts as the Palace’s authoritative messenger, setting out its expectations. The Palace does not recruit the newcomers, but insists on overseeing them.
• The passage contrasts the newcomers’ immense age and accumulated cultivation with Houtu’s extraordinary talent: despite cultivating for only tens of thousands of years, her understanding surpasses theirs.

Significant themes

• Ascension and transformation: The world’s growth opens a new stage of cultivation for its inhabitants.
• Hidden strength and accumulated time: Long-secluded experts emerge, showing how much power can accumulate unseen.
• Talent versus longevity: Great age brings strength, but cannot necessarily overcome exceptional talent.
• Power, order, and limits: The Beast Emperor Palace permits advancement while requiring new experts to register and obey its authority. Primordial Origin Realm status is significant locally, yet these cultivators would still be mere cannon fodder in a war across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.

Key plot points and events

• Tongtian reflects on how the Primordial World’s cultivators would fare in wars across the myriad heavens. Deities decide the outcome; dao-unification and primordial-chaos cultivators form the backbone, while primordial-origin cultivators and Quasi-Saints are mostly expendable troops.
• Tongtian established the Beast Emperor Palace partly to train these lower-level fighters, but recognizes that the Primordial World must nurture genuine powerhouses if it is to matter in a conflict against countless worlds.
• The Primordial World has continued to grow stronger. Quasi-Saints are now common, especially among Nuwa’s exceptionally gifted innate humans, though the human race has not yet produced primordial-origin cultivators.
• The human race is nevertheless secure: it has many Quasi-Saints, strong potential, and friendly factions with primordial-origin powerhouses. The Beast Emperor Palace and Witch Clan are aligned with it, while the Demon Race is focused on strengthening itself.
• Bai Ming and Zhen Yuanzi have both reached the primordial origin realm, giving the human race powerful allies. After his breakthrough, Zhen Yuanzi reports to the Beast Emperor Palace, as newly advanced cultivators are expected to do.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian is concerned that the Primordial World’s survival should not depend entirely on him and his master. He also does not want the God-Slaying Heavenly Venerable, who has no obligation to the Primordial World, to risk everything for it.
• The God-Slaying Heavenly Venerable remains involved because of his bond with Tongtian and his opposition to the Two God Kings.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Bai Ming become primordial-origin allies of the human race, partly thanks to their ties and benefits gained through it.
• Nuwa’s innate humans continue to demonstrate exceptional cultivation talent, rapidly becoming a formidable Quasi-Saint force.

Significant themes

• Power and military hierarchy: The chapter distinguishes between fighters who can influence a war and those who serve mainly as expendable forces.
• Cultivation and collective strength: The Primordial World’s progress is impressive, but growth in numbers alone is insufficient; it needs powerful cultivators.
• Loyalty and obligation: Tongtian’s concern for his master highlights the difference between fighting for one’s homeland and helping out of personal bonds.
• Political security through alliances: The human race is protected not only by its own strength but also by its relationships and the deterrent power of allied factions.

Key plot points and events

• The Primordial World’s ascension made it vastly larger: even Daluo Golden Immortals now needed at least a century to cross it. The expanded territory eased pressure on the Human Race, which had once fought the Demon Race over scarce land.
• The Beast Emperor Palace gave Primordial Origin Realm cultivators a hundred years to report in, supplied them with cultivation methods, and restricted—but did not completely forbid—their intervention in worldly affairs.
• Ten thousand years after the ascension, Fuxi became the Human Race’s first Primordial Origin Realm cultivator, followed soon by Suiren Shi. The Human Race had received guidance that made future breakthroughs seem increasingly attainable.
• The Beast Emperor Palace announced its third and final Dao lecture, ordering all living beings to attend. Because the world had grown so large, weaker creatures worried they could not reach the palace within a hundred years.
• The chapter ends as countless Primordial Origin Realm beings fly out from the Beast Emperor Palace, leaving those already gathered astonished. Their purpose is not yet revealed.

Character development

• Fuxi reaches a historic milestone for humanity, drawing on exceptional talent, mastery of formations, and experience in the war against the Loose Cultivator Alliance.
• Suiren Shi follows him into the Primordial Origin Realm, with Fuxi’s breakthrough helping make the path clearer.
• The broader Human Race is increasingly confident: its future strength rests on its ability to understand cultivation and its unmatched capacity to reproduce.

Significant themes

• Growth and expanded horizons: The world’s enlargement changes travel, settlement, and the balance among races.
• Cultivation as a turning point: The Human Race’s first breakthroughs signal its entry into a new era.
• Power and obligation: The Beast Emperor Palace combines incentives with authority, now demanding universal attendance at its lecture.
• Population versus concentrated strength: The chapter contrasts humanity’s reproductive advantage with small, powerful created races such as the Asura Clan.

Character interactions

• The Beast Emperor Palace manages Primordial Origin Realm cultivators through restrictions and cultivation benefits, expecting their cooperation in return.
• Fuxi’s advancement indirectly aids Suiren Shi, while instruction spreads knowledge of the new realm among other humans.
• The Palace’s unprecedented order affects every race: the powerful can bring their families, while weaker beings face the practical problem of crossing the enlarged world.