Chapter Summaries

Randeng’s attainment of sagehood shook the Primordial World and drew powerful figures toward the Profound Gate. In Biyou Palace, Tongtian explained that Hongjun had used Randeng’s ascension as bait, leaving the Interception Sect’s disciples troubled, while Gu Changqing dismissed the scheme as nothing special.

• Randeng’s attainment of sagehood spread across the Primordial World, prompting many powerful figures to consider joining the Profound Gate.
• Zhao Gongming and the other Interception Sect disciples celebrated Gu Changqing’s humiliation of Randeng, but Tongtian remained grave.
• Tongtian told his disciples that Randeng’s humiliation mattered less than the example his ascension set for living beings throughout the world.
• Duobao and the others realized Hongjun had traded Randeng’s dignity for the promise of sagehood, threatening the Interception Sect’s appeal.
• Gu Changqing broke the silence with a drunken question about what plans Tongtian meant, then brushed them off as nothing much.

Gu Changqing drunkenly dismissed the Profound Gate’s schemes, leaving the Interception Sect disciples embarrassed when they realized he had not understood their questions. Back in his cave, his eyes cleared and he admitted that the Profound Gate’s Sainthood Creation would be tricky to deal with.

• Gu Changqing’s casual remark renewed the Interception Sect disciples’ hopes that he had a plan against the Profound Gate.
• Duobao, Zhao Gongming, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao asked Gu Changqing how he would curb the Profound Gate’s growing power.
• Gu Changqing revealed that he had not been following their discussion and had meant only that the scheming was troublesome.
• Gu Changqing left Biyou Palace to drink, while Tongtian suspected he would not let the Profound Gate expand unchecked.
• Gu Changqing returned to his cave, sobered somewhat, and acknowledged that the Profound Gate’s Sainthood Creation was difficult to handle.

After recognizing that Hongjun’s Heavenly Dao Sages gave the Profound Gate an overwhelming advantage, Gu Changqing conceived a plan to raise the Primordial World’s level and expand the paths to sainthood. He drank himself unconscious and entered Zen Meditation While Drunk, while Laozi and Yuanshi celebrated at Kunlun Mountain.

• Gu Changqing realized that the Interception Sect could not match the Profound Gate by producing Sage-level disciples under the world’s current rules.
• Gu Changqing decided to make the Primordial World ascend, hoping its expanded laws and origin energy would enable more beings to become Sages through new paths.
• Gu Changqing drank the rest of his wine, laughed at the prospect of overturning Hongjun’s scheme, then collapsed and fell asleep in his cave abode.
• Gu Changqing’s body glowed with laws and Dao resonance patterns as he entered the innate divine ability Zen Meditation While Drunk.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Laozi and Yuanshi sat together in the Jade Void Palace, visibly delighted as the mountain flourished.

After Daoist Randeng became a Sage, countless beings flocked to Kunlun Mountain hoping to join the Chan Sect and gain the same opportunity. Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi declared that all who entered the Profound Gate and served the Heavenly Dao could become named disciples, leaving the gathered multitude kneeling before the Jade Void Palace.

• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi celebrated Daoist Randeng’s ascension and the surge of hopeful recruits gathering on Kunlun Mountain.
• Laozi and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi surveyed the countless cultivators and Mighty Experts seeking to join the Chan Sect.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi boasted that the Chan Sect’s popularity eclipsed the Interception Sect and mocked Tongtian and Gu Changqing.
• Guangchengzi and the Twelve Golden Immortals addressed the crowd, saying the Chan Sect did not accept everyone who came.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi announced that all who entered the Profound Gate and served the Heavenly Dao could become named disciples of the Chan Sect.

Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi accepted billions of beings as named disciples to bolster the Chan Sect and compete with the Interception Sect. As Yuanshi celebrated the crowd's support, Laozi recognized that his brother had been driven to this strategy and grieved over the Human Sect's decline.

• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi declared that all applicants could become named disciples of the Chan Sect, and the crowd eagerly accepted the offer.
• The beings' prayers and fortune gathered above Kunlun Mountain as Yuanshi boasted to Laozi about the Chan Sect's growing grandeur.
• Laozi questioned Yuanshi's decision to accept billions of disciples, noting that it contradicted his former standards.
• Yuanshi explained that the measureless calamity made it necessary to strengthen the Chan Sect, weaken the Interception Sect, and find talents for the Heavenly Dao.
• Laozi realized Yuanshi had been pressured by Tongtian and Gu Changqing, then reflected sorrowfully on the Human Sect's fading influence.

Yuanshi proposed secretly using the Human Sect Stele to draw humanity’s fortune and restore Laozi’s declining Human Sect. After struggling with the immorality and risks, Laozi agreed to try his scheme.

• Yuanshi noticed Laozi’s grief and recalled the Human Sect Stele bestowed by the Dao Ancestor.
• Yuanshi proposed using the stele to draw fortune from the Human World Realm and blamed Nuwa and Gu Changqing for taking what belonged to Laozi.
• Laozi hesitated over secretly stealing humanity’s fortune, but Yuanshi urged him to act before the Human Sect vanished.
• Laozi, tempted by the chance to restore his sect, agreed to try Yuanshi’s plan.

Laozi and Yuanshi tried to use the Human Sect Stele to reach the Human World Realm’s fortune, but the Human Dao repelled them. As Laozi despaired, a faint wisp of mysterious yellow qi entered the stele, and he sensed it.

• Laozi resolved to restore the Human Sect’s glory and summoned the Human Sect Stele in the Jade Void Palace.
• Laozi and Yuanshi poured their Sage power into the stele and used its karmic link to reach toward the Human World Realm.
• The Human Dao’s power rebuffed Laozi’s divine sense, leaving both Sages stunned by humanity’s self-contained strength.
• The stele’s radiance faded, and Laozi sank into despair over their failure.
• A nearly imperceptible wisp of mysterious yellow qi appeared above the stele and merged into it, making Laozi go rigid.

Laozi sensed a trace of Human fortune entering the Human Sect Stele and realized his attempt could succeed. With Yuanshi’s aid, he awakened the stele’s dormant power and carefully drew wisps of fortune through a tiny crack in the Human Dao barrier.

• Laozi sensed Human fortune merge into the Human Sect Stele, though Yuanshi detected nothing unusual.
• Laozi explained what he had sensed, and Yuanshi agreed to help him seize more Human fortune.
• Laozi offered another drop of sage blood to the stele, and Yuanshi poured his saint power into it.
• Laozi and Yuanshi channeled their combined power into the stele, awakening its dormant origin and karmic connection to humanity.
• Laozi used the stele as a bridge to make a tiny crack in the Human Dao barrier and draw wisps of mysterious yellow qi into it.

Laozi and Yuanshi secretly siphoned humanity's fortune into the Human Sect Stele, believing they could revive the Human Sect, but Nuwa detected the theft and confronted them at Jade Void Palace. The chapter ended with Nuwa displaying the stolen fortune as proof.

• Laozi and Yuanshi poured their sage power into the Human Sect Stele and stole streams of humanity's fortune.
• Nuwa sensed the theft from Wa Huang Heaven and hurried to Kunlun Mountain in anger.
• Nuwa called out Taiqing and accused Laozi of stealing the Humans' Fortune.
• Yuanshi claimed the matter concerned the Profound Gate, but Nuwa answered that she was the Holy Mother of the Human Race and its fortune was hers.
• Laozi argued that the Humans' Fortune belonged to Heaven and Earth and that the Human Sect was entitled to draw from it.
• Nuwa revealed a strand of Mysterious Yellow Qi that had been forcibly stripped from the Human Sect Stele.

Nuwa exposed Laozi and Yuanshi for stealing human fortune from the Human Sect Stele, humiliating them before the Primordial World. Laozi claimed his position as Human Sect leader entitled him to control human fortune, and Nuwa challenged him to ask the humans.

• Nuwa pulled the stolen human fortune from the Human Sect Stele, revealing Laozi and Yuanshi's scheme.
• Observers across the Primordial World condemned Laozi and Yuanshi and marveled at Nuwa's power.
• Yuanshi grew furious at the public humiliation, while Laozi eventually told Nuwa, "So what?"
• Laozi claimed that, as leader of the Human Sect, he had the right to control human fortune, and Yuanshi backed him.
• Nuwa mocked Laozi's claim and asked whether he had asked the humans.

Laozi refused to justify the Human Sect’s actions and called humanity ants, provoking widespread fury across the Human Territory. As Yuanshi tried to silence the humans, Nuwa stopped him, and Ji Ren arrived at Kunlun Mountain to confront Laozi.

• Laozi dismissed the need to seek humanity’s approval and declared that people were ants beneath the Sages.
• Humans across the Primordial World erupted in anger and called for the Human Sect to be destroyed.
• Yuanshi unleashed his sagely might toward the Human Territory, but Nuwa blocked it and challenged him.
• Ji Ren appeared from the direction of Mount Shu and demanded to know whether Laozi still thought humans were easy to bully.
• The onlookers recognized Ji Ren, the sect master of the Mount Shu Sword Sect and Gu Changqing’s first disciple.

Ji Ren arrived at Jade Void Palace and declared that the Human race would sever its karmic ties with Laozi’s Human Sect. He attacked the Human Sect’s fortune and left Laozi and Yuanshi furious as Heaven and Earth witnessed his proclamation to abolish the sect.

• Ji Ren appeared before Jade Void Palace, and cultivators across Heaven and Earth recognized his immense sword intent, which neared the realm of a Sage.
• Laozi demanded to know why Ji Ren dared interfere in the affairs of Sages, but Ji Ren rejected his authority over the Human race.
• Ji Ren declared that the Human race would sever all karmic bonds with the Human Sect, enraging Laozi and Yuanshi.
• Ji Ren released a sword light toward the Human Sect’s fortune in the Mysterious Void and proclaimed the sect abolished before all living beings.
• Nuwa and the beings across Heaven and Earth reacted with surprise and disbelief as Ji Ren’s proclamation rang out.

Ji Ren publicly abolished the Human Sect and severed its karma, enraging Taiqing Laozi, who attacked him with a world-destroying palm. Ji Ren shattered the Sage’s strike with a single sword light, leaving the Primordial World stunned.

• Ji Ren declared the Human Sect abolished, and the Fortune Golden Dragon connecting the Humans to the Human Sect began to crumble.
• Nuwa approved of Ji Ren’s decision, while Taiqing Laozi flew into a rage over the loss of the Human Sect and its share of human fortune.
• Laozi struck Ji Ren with a palm containing the power to destroy a Great Thousand World.
• Ji Ren met Laozi’s palm with a thin blue sword light and shattered it without being harmed.
• The onlookers erupted in disbelief as they realized Ji Ren had taken a Sage’s furious strike head-on.

Ji Ren mocked Laozi after withstanding his strike, prompting Laozi and Yuanshi to prepare a joint attack as Nuwa stood ready to defend him. Gu Changqing arrived on the Heavenly Sword, drinking from his Wine God Gourd, just as a battle between the Sages seemed imminent.

• Ji Ren taunted Laozi and threatened to destroy the Human Sect.
• Laozi unleashed his full killing intent, and Yuanshi joined him, causing the Primordial World to buckle under their combined Sage auras.
• Onlookers fled in terror, while Nuwa prepared to protect Ji Ren with the Rivers and Mountains, Lands and Millet Diagram and the Red Embroidered Ball.
• Gu Changqing arrived on the Heavenly Sword, lazily drinking from the Wine God Gourd.

Gu Changqing appeared at Kunlun Mountain to support his disciple Ji Ren as he accused Laozi and Yuanshi of exploiting the human race and seizing their sects. When Laozi defended his authority by citing the Human Sect Stele, Gu Changqing proposed smashing it.

• Gu Changqing appeared before Kunlun Mountain, and Ji Ren greeted him as his master.
• Ji Ren denounced Laozi and Yuanshi for taking the human race’s fortune, seizing the Human Sect and Chan Sect, and joining forces against him.
• Laozi claimed that the Dao Ancestor and Heavenly Dao had authorized him to lead the Human Sect and that the Human Sect Stele gave him control of its fortune.
• Gu Changqing focused on the Human Sect Stele and suggested smashing it to settle the dispute.

Gu Changqing answered Laozi and Yuanshi’s fury by unleashing a torrent of sword light that shattered the Human Sect Stele. Laozi finally came out of his shock and threatened Gu Changqing with death.

• Laozi and Yuanshi erupted in anger after Gu Changqing said he would shatter the Human Sect Stele.
• Gu Changqing dismissed the Sages’ protests and waved his hand, summoning hundreds of millions of sword rays.
• Gu Changqing’s sword light struck the Human Sect Stele instead of Laozi or Yuanshi and destroyed it.
• Nuwa, Ji Ren, and the beings watching across the Primordial World were left stunned as fragments of the stele and humanity’s fortune scattered.
• Laozi recovered from his shock and furiously declared that Gu Changqing was courting death.

Gu Changqing destroyed the Human Sect Stele, annihilating the foundation of Laozi's sect, then mocked Laozi and Yuanshi by claiming he had settled their dispute. Laozi and Yuanshi attacked him together, but Gu Changqing vanished before their strike landed, leaving the two Sages stunned.

• Laozi realized the Human Sect Stele's destruction had annihilated his sect's laws, Dao essence, and foundation, while Yuanshi seethed over the humiliation at Kunlun Mountain.
• Gu Changqing calmly drank wine and claimed that destroying the stele had settled the dispute between Laozi and Ji Ren.
• Nuwa laughed at Gu Changqing's brazen explanation as Laozi and Yuanshi grew even more furious and vowed to kill him.
• Laozi and Yuanshi joined forces to unleash a world-destroying attack at Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing vanished without any visible use of magic, and the Sages' joint strike annihilated empty space, leaving them bewildered.

After Gu Changqing vanished beneath the combined strike of Laozi and Yuanshi, the onlookers concluded that he had used a powerful doppelgänger, leaving the two Sages furious and humiliated. Gu Changqing then contacted Ji Ren and urged him to gather the Humans' fortune, revealing why he had appeared.

• Laozi and Yuanshi searched the chaotic battlefield but could find no trace of Gu Changqing.
• A watching Mighty Expert proposed that the Wine Sword Immortal who shattered the Human Sect Stele had been a doppelgänger, and the crowd accepted the explanation with awe.
• Laozi and Yuanshi realized Gu Changqing had tricked them into wasting their strongest attack on a disappearing doppelgänger, and both seethed with humiliation.
• Ji Ren took pride in his Master's apparent power to toy with the Sages.
• Gu Changqing sent Ji Ren a divine sense transmission telling him to gather the Humans' fortune, and Ji Ren understood why his Master had appeared.

After Gu Changqing’s strike destroyed the Human Sect Stele, Ji Ren realized his master had cleared the way for him to claim authority over Human fortune. Ji Ren gathered that fortune into himself, leaving Taiqing Laozi enraged and vomiting Sage blood.

• Gu Changqing told Ji Ren to gather the Humans’ fortune, and Ji Ren recognized the destruction of the stele as the severing of Laozi’s control over it.
• Ji Ren bowed toward the Void and invoked the Human inheritance seal to command the Humans’ fortune to gather.
• Golden streams of fortune flowed from Human settlements across the Primordial World toward Ji Ren, alarming the watching Mighty Experts.
• Taiqing Laozi realized Gu Changqing’s actions had been a trap to take the Human Sect’s foundation and spat out golden Sage blood.
• The gathered Human fortune formed a waterfall and poured into Ji Ren’s body.

Ji Ren absorbed humanity’s fortune as his cultivation surged toward sagehood, while Taiqing Laozi realized Gu Changqing had used the Human Sect’s Dao lineage to nurture a rival human sage. Laozi attacked the gathered fortune to stop Ji Ren from attaining the Dao.

• Humanity’s fortune poured into Ji Ren, producing heaven-shaking phenomena as his aura transformed toward sagehood.
• The spectators realized Ji Ren was about to attain the Dao and become a sage.
• Taiqing Laozi recognized that Gu Changqing had used the Human Sect’s fortune to advance Ji Ren and destroy Laozi’s standing.
• Laozi roared and struck at the golden ocean of human fortune to prevent Ji Ren from attaining the Dao.