Recaps

Jiang Yang led the Divine Clan into deep space to begin forging a planet that would guard the Solar System’s frontier. The construction got underway around Sky City as the Gods assembled materials and coordinated the work.

• The Gods aboard High Heaven City looked out at the Solar System’s planets and discussed how earlier civilizations had forged worlds to protect Earth.
• Jiang Yang acknowledged the watching civilizations of past Epochs and declared that the Divine Clan would forge its own planet.
• Jiang Yang drew vast quantities of planet-forging materials from the Flame World and supplied them to the Divine Clan.
• The Divine Clan members sorted materials, checked construction data, and used blue light lines from Sky City to outline the planet’s framework.
• The Gods positioned materials along the framework while craft carried supplies between the depots, Sky City, and the construction site.

The Divine Clan built a planetary fortress at the edge of the Solar System while Jiang Yang explored the system’s boundary and cultivated. On Earth, supernatural energy declined as new humans developed from small cave-dwelling groups into larger tribes; five thousand years passed, and the fortress neared completion.

• The Divine Clan planned the planetary fortress with six refuges assigned to its planet and satellites, while the seventh remained a fallback measure on Earth.
• Jiang Yang visited Mayi with Odin and Zeus, then cultivated at the edge of the Solar System after sensing he could not venture beyond it.
• Divine Clan members broke through to the Fourth Step and joined the construction of the planet and its five satellites, speeding up the work.
• Jiang Yang instructed the little divine beasts to gather emerging supernatural creatures and keep them from harming the new humans.
• The new humans learned to make stone blades and wooden spears, forming larger tribes as they survived among dangerous beasts.
• Another five thousand years passed, and the new humans spread onto the plains while the planetary fortress neared completion.

The Divine Clan completed Forged Star and placed it in orbit as a refuge and frontier defense, entrusting the planet to the artificial intelligence Ming. Jiang Yang addressed the remaining Divine Clan, recalling their catastrophic losses and declaring that their civilization would ultimately become great.

• The gods settled Forged Star into its designated orbit in the Solar System, with a floating city resting on its surface.
• Jiang Yang and the God Kings stood before the Divine Clan as Ming was introduced as the planet’s guardian and keeper of their civilization’s hopes.
• Jiang Yang announced that the Divine Clan had completed its ten-thousand-year effort to forge a world.
• Jiang Yang recounted how the Divine Clan had emerged from doomsday weakened, lost most of its people, and endured repeated wars and disasters.
• Jiang Yang declared that the Divine Clan had projected its power into space and would rise from ruin to greatness.

Jiang Yang and the gods celebrated the completion of their planetary fortress and named it Pluto in honor of Ming, who would oversee its defenses. With safeguards in place, Jiang Yang declared that the Divine Clan would become the Solar System’s new frontier.

• Jiang Yang rallied the gods to keep striving, exploring, and advancing their civilization, and they proclaimed their devotion to the Divine Clan and humanity.
• The gods debated names for their new planet until Aulisel proposed Pluto, honoring Ming and her five secondary artificial intelligences.
• Jiang Yang agreed to the name and used divine power to engrave Pluto’s name into the planet.
• Jiang Yang entrusted Ming with guarding Pluto and arranged for a divine flame and the imprints of future fifth-step Divine Clan members to allow them to respond to a crisis.
• Jiang Yang pointed toward Neptune and declared that the Divine Clan’s star would now guard the Solar System’s frontier.

After fifteen thousand years of the Prehistoric Era, Jiang Yang found a path beyond the Fifth Step by studying the stars at the edge of the Solar System. He became a true sun and broke through to the Sixth Step.

• The gods returned to their own lives while Aulisel, Li Xiaowa, and the other Divine Clan scientists prepared the Nightfall Plan to assist Sixth Epoch Human Civilization without affecting its creation or spiritual core.
• Jiang Yang spent five thousand years in the Kuiper Belt observing the stars and realized he could explore the universe by first becoming part of it.
• The Flame Law Sea answered Jiang Yang as he became a sun and briefly perceived the River of Space-Time, leaving a golden flame as his space-time anchor point.
• Jiang Yang's Great Sun became a true sun and part of his essence, giving his divine power an almost inexhaustible source.
• Jiang Yang's Golden Crow mental will hurled the Great Sun into the illusory shackles of his realm and shattered them, bringing him to the Sixth Step.

Jiang Yang completed the Planetary Fortress Plan by linking Pluto’s Space-Time Thread to the Mayi World, then returned to Earth. He reflected on the risks of his new Sixth Step powers and saw Heimdall, the Divine Clan’s long-serving satellite, as he considered Aulisel’s plan to take it to Mayi.

• Jiang Yang saw the Space-Time Threads more clearly after reaching the Sixth Step, while Earth’s restraints on him and the Divine Clan grew stronger.
• Jiang Yang traveled to Pluto and joined its Space-Time Thread to the one connected to Mayi’s Sky Divine Throne, anchoring the link with his mark on the Space-Time River.
• Jiang Yang declared the Planetary Fortress Plan complete and teleported back to Earth, while a blue-haired figure appeared on Pluto and said she was also a member of the Divine Clan.
• Jiang Yang considered the dangers of using Space-Time powers in battle and why Mogandi and Kaerisha had not used them against him.
• Jiang Yang saw Heimdall orbiting Earth and remembered Aulisel’s wish to take the satellite to the Mayi World when the Divine Clan left Earth.

Jiang Yang returned to Earth after breaking through and brought the Heimdall satellite to the Far North Shelter, where the Divine Clan had gathered. He reunited with Poseidon, Hades, Artemis, and the others, who had also advanced to the Fourth Step.

• Jiang Yang took Heimdall out of Earth's orbit and flew north with it, inspiring New Humans below to carve the sight into stone walls.
• Jiang Yang arrived at the Far North Shelter, the Divine Clan refuge left on Earth for members who had chosen to remain frozen there.
• Divine Clan researchers and warriors gathered at the snowy mountain camp to make final preparations and guard the shelter.
• Jiang Yang set Heimdall on the camp's platform and greeted the Divine Clan warriors who welcomed him back.
• Poseidon asked whether Jiang Yang had broken through, and Jiang Yang confirmed that he had.
• Jiang Yang sensed that nearly all the Divine Clan members around him had reached the Emperor-Rank Fourth Step.

Jiang Yang visited the Divine Clan and learned that its gods had grown stronger, while Feng Luobin and Feng Ruo were cultivating on Earth to restore their essence. After hearing about the mysterious first Sixth Epoch being to reach the Fourth Step, Jiang Yang realized the figure's path resembled his own and suspected he was someone from the future.

• Jiang Yang learned that the Divine Clan's gods had reached the Fourth Step and that Ra, Brahma, Isa, Odin, and Zeus had reached the Emperor-Rank Fifth Step.
• Baldr told Jiang Yang that Odin had brought Feng Luobin and Feng Ruo from another world, and Filiya said they were cultivating in the Luo River and North Sea to restore their essence.
• Filiya told Jiang Yang that she had awakened the civilization trait called 'miracle' by inscribing the trait chosen by the first Sixth Epoch being to reach the Fourth Step.
• Filiya explained that the mysterious king who took Aniya had appeared in the Far North amid brilliant northern lights before disappearing without a trace.
• Jiang Yang recognized that the mysterious king's abrupt appearances and disappearances resembled his own past and suspected the figure came from the future.

Jiang Yang asked Filiya about the Sixth Epoch civilization trait, Miracle, and learned that it could make the impossible possible by revealing a chance to overcome desperate situations. He reflected on the trait’s mysterious future and wondered what dire circumstances would make a civilization depend on miracles.

• Artemis and Filiya led Jiang Yang through the camp after the Divine Clan members dispersed.
• Jiang Yang asked Filiya what the Sixth Epoch civilization trait, Miracle, did.
• Filiya explained that Miracle could create possibilities where none existed and gave its wielder hope and courage to defeat an enemy, even in dire circumstances.
• Filiya admitted she had only recently awakened Miracle and needed more experience to understand it, then wondered how powerful the mysterious king of the future was.
• Jiang Yang compared the trait to Hymn of Glory and reflected that the first person to reach a new epoch’s Fourth Step could wield its civilization trait far beyond later users.
• Jiang Yang wondered how terrible the future must become for its civilization to need a miracle to save it.

Jiang Yang visited the Divine Clan’s Far North Shelter, where he met Yao, a super AI modeled after him, and reunited with Aulisel. He learned that the Divine Clan planned to upgrade Heimdall on Mayi World for use in conquering the myriad worlds.

• Jiang Yang arrived at the eggshell-shaped tower and was welcomed by Yao, who verified the visitors’ identities.
• Jiang Yang learned that Yao was a super AI modeled on him and chatted with him before Filiya reminded them that Aulisel and the others were waiting.
• Jiang Yang entered the hall with Artemis and Filiya and greeted Aulisel.
• Jiang Yang asked about the Divine Clan’s plans for Heimdall, and Aulisel said they would upgrade it on Mayi World with teleportation deployment technology.

Jiang Yang returned to the Central Research Hall, where Li Xiaowa was working on a gate design and told him that the Maya People had been relocated to a new continent. The researchers agreed to let them shape their own future while preventing them from influencing the new humans, and Jiang Yang offered to help with the work ahead.

• Jiang Yang found Li Xiaowa and the researchers studying a design for a gate, which Li Xiaowa described as a bridge.
• Li Xiaowa told Jiang Yang that Odin had brought the remaining Maya People from the Mayi World and that Qing Fengxi had taken them to settle on a wilderness continent.
• Jiang Yang recalled Li Xiaowa's promise to give the Maya People a new home after the forces of light won, and Li Xiaowa said the surviving group was nearly all that remained of their race.
• Li Xiaowa explained that the Maya People had sworn not to use supernatural powers to influence the new humans, and Jiang Yang said Divine Clan observers would ensure they kept that oath.
• Aulisel suggested exchanging scholarly knowledge with the Maya People, but Li Xiaowa dismissed their reputation and turned back to the researchers' work.
• Jiang Yang offered to help Li Xiaowa with future tasks, and she told him there would be plenty to do.

Jiang Yang and the others planned the Divine Clan’s withdrawal from Earth, choosing Filiya to oversee those who remained. Filiya chose Kunlun as her base, and the chapter ended with Jiang Yang remembering teaching her there as a child.

• The group chose Filiya to stay on Earth and coordinate the Divine Clan’s arrangements after its withdrawal.
• Filiya agreed, explaining that she could remain on Earth and planned to reach the Fifth Step and join the others in Mayi World.
• Jiang Yang warned Filiya to watch Feng Luobin closely and put the Divine Clan and herself first if Feng Luobin changed.
• Filiya chose Kunlun as her base, recalling how Jiang Yang taught her to read in West Kunlun.
• Jiang Yang and Filiya reminisced about her childhood beneath a pine tree in West Kunlun.

Jiang Yang reunited with Feng Luobin at her underwater palace in the Luo River and encouraged her to explore the world beyond cultivation. As they walked by the river, Yi arrived to see Feng Luobin and mistook Jiang Yang for a rival before recognizing him.

• Jiang Yang visited Feng Luobin at her underwater palace, and she welcomed him after more than ten thousand years apart.
• Feng Luobin told Jiang Yang she had chosen to watch over Earth and felt that her essence had become complete there.
• Jiang Yang encouraged Feng Luobin to walk on land and appreciate the world's scenery, and she promised to follow his advice.
• Feng Luobin later became known among mortals as the Luo River Goddess, famed for her beauty.
• Yi arrived and jealously asked who Jiang Yang was, but Jiang Yang turned around and greeted him by name.

Jiang Yang encountered Yi pursuing Feng Luobin by the Luo River and learned that the male gods had been taking turns visiting her. He made Yi promise to stop them from disturbing her cultivation, then invited them to enjoy Earth's scenery with him.

• Yi greeted Jiang Yang while staring at Feng Luobin and admitted he wanted to become her husband.
• Jiang Yang teased Yi for his persistence and asked whether he had been disturbing Feng Luobin's cultivation.
• Yi explained that he and his friends took turns visiting Feng Luobin, following advice from Zeus's handbook.
• Feng Luobin told Jiang Yang she only wanted to cultivate, so Jiang Yang ordered Yi to tell the others to stop visiting her at the Luo River.
• Jiang Yang invited Feng Luobin and Yi to walk with him and enjoy Earth's sunsets, rivers, and seas.

Jiang Yang visited Asgard after reaching the sixth step and learned from Odin that Mayi World had developed hundreds of powerful Arcanist Floating Cities for the Divine Clan’s planned conquest of the Great Thousand World. Aulisel then summoned Jiang Yang and Odin to begin the next stage of her plan.

• Feng Luobin watched Jiang Yang leave before returning to the underwater palace, while Jiang Yang traveled to Asgard.
• Odin celebrated Jiang Yang’s sixth-step breakthrough and pressed him to explain it, sharing wine with him as they talked.
• Odin told Jiang Yang that Augustus had founded the Arcanist profession and that Mayi World now had hundreds of Floating Cities, each led by a third-step Arcanist.
• Odin explained that Lorin Stant had reached the fourth step and built an alchemical Floating City, which had inspired Augustus’s fortresses.
• Jiang Yang declared that the Divine Clan would begin conquering the Great Thousand World once it gathered in Mayi World, and Thor volunteered to lead the vanguard.
• Aulisel contacted Jiang Yang and Odin, summoning them to start the next stage of her plan.

Aulisel presented the God Blood into Mortal World Plan, which would let Divine Clan members live mortal lives in the Sixth Epoch and recover their experiences afterward. After Li Xiaowa warned them not to interfere with the civilization’s development, the Gods agreed to leave their God Blood for the plan.

• Aulisel explained that God Blood Avatars would live mortal lives in different periods of the Sixth Epoch and return their experiences to their original selves after death.
• Aulisel set the number of God Blood drops each Divine Clan member could leave according to their strength.
• Li Xiaowa told the Gods to let the Sixth Epoch’s civilization develop by its own will and not to interfere with its course.
• Jiang Yang considered that experiencing a mortal life might help his cultivation at the Sixth Step.
• Aulisel invited the Gods to follow her and leave their God Blood for the future.

Aulisel and Li Xiaowa brought the gods to see the God Blood Creation Device, which Qing Fengxi demonstrated by placing Ice Phoenix God Blood into a Snow Vulture egg. The gods began contributing their own blood so the device could send it into the future, with Jiang Yang volunteering first.

• Aulisel and Li Xiaowa led the gods from the Research Hall to the enormous God Blood Creation Device.
• Qing Fengxi activated the device and showed the gods a golden ray striking a Snow Vulture egg.
• An Ice Phoenix hatched from the egg, then became an ordinary Snow Vulture with unusually intelligent eyes.
• Qing Fengxi explained how the device placed God Blood into mortal embryos and warned that its births could produce strange phenomena.
• Qing Fengxi invited the gods to give their blood, and Jiang Yang stepped forward first and offered nine drops, each containing a sliver of dormant consciousness.

The gods completed the God-Blood Genesis Plan by contributing their blood essence before preparing to leave the world. Jiang Yang proposed moving the Mount Tai divine beasts to Kunlun, where Filiya would serve as their Guardian and the Divine Clan’s refuge would be established.

• Jiang Yang noticed Zeus’s God Blood was missing, and Qing Fengxi explained that releasing it would greatly affect the world; Artemis joked that Zeus’s bloodline would eventually dominate it.
• Qing Fengxi stored the gods’ God Blood in the God Blood Creation Device, with her own blood planned as the first to be released into the mortal world.
• Aulisel announced that the Divine Clan would soon leave the world, and Li Xiaowa told the gods to remove all traces of their technology before departing.
• Li Xiaowa asked Jiang Yang to arrange the Mount Tai Divine Court’s divine beasts, and Jiang Yang proposed moving them to Kunlun under Filiya’s protection, with Yao as their Overseer.

A thousand years later, the Gods prepared to leave Earth for Mayi World, and Jiang Yang chose Filiya to rule Kunlun and protect the world in his absence. The Gods departed with Filiya crowned Queen Mother of the West, while she promised to join them once she reached the fifth step.

• The Gods gathered at the Divine Clan's camp in the Far North before setting out for Mayi World.
• Jiang Yang approached Filiya, who would remain on Earth, and entrusted the planet to her.
• Jiang Yang crowned Filiya Kunlun's God King and ordered the Divine Clan members staying behind to support her.
• Jiang Yang gave Filiya the Queen Mother of the West's Crown, which protected her from arts below the sixth step.
• Filiya accepted the crown and promised to go to Mayi World once she cultivated to the fifth step.

Jiang Yang gave Feng Luobin a magic mirror before leading the Divine Clan away from Earth into another space-time. As the gods departed, observers across distant realms reacted to the cycle of epochs and the coming tribulation.

• Jiang Yang asked Feng Luobin to support Filiya and gave her a magic mirror to protect herself.
• Jiang Yang looked across Earth and addressed the gods, promising they would return when great calamity threatened Earth in the Sixth Epoch.
• The Divine Clan departed Earth in seven pillars of light, and a young man in blue named the moment the Twilight of the Gods.
• A white-eyed figure on a Radiant Holy Mountain said their arrangements should proceed according to plan after the Divine Clan left.
• An old Daoist remarked that the Fifth Epoch had also departed and mentioned the immeasurable tribulation, while a woman in red said she looked forward to what was coming.

A thousand years after the gods departed, Filiya approved the first God-Blood Genesis to guide humanity, and Yao sent Qing Fengxi and Li Xiaowa to the Mortal Realm. Their lights entered a Huaxu girl at Thunder Marsh, leaving her with a strange feeling in her belly.

• Suiren discovered how to drill Sui Wood to make fire, helping human tribes improve their lives.
• Yao asked Filiya to approve the first God-Blood Genesis because human tribes faced danger, isolation, and declining populations.
• Filiya approved Qing Fengxi’s Genesis and agreed that Li Xiaowa should be introduced with him.
• Yao activated the God Blood Creation Device, sending two streaks of light toward the Mortal Realm.
• A Huaxu girl fell into a giant footprint-shaped pit at Thunder Marsh, where the two lights entered her belly and two serpent-bodied figures briefly appeared in the sky.

Feng Fuxi united the tribes of the Great River Basin, created the dragon totem, and regained his memories at twenty-eight, revealing his identity as Qing Fengxi to Feng Nüxi, who called herself Nuwa. They established humanity’s marriage customs, and nine generations of Fuxi led the tribe in peace until the Shennong Tribe rose a thousand years later.

• Huaxu gave birth to twins, naming the boy Feng Fuxi and the girl Feng Nüxi, while Yao arranged for Feng Fuxi’s memories to awaken at twenty-eight.
• Feng Fuxi invented fishing nets, helping the Huaxu Clan feed its growing population, while Feng Nüxi quietly supported him.
• After becoming chief, Feng Fuxi welcomed other tribes, formed the Fuxi Clan, created the dragon totem, and united many tribes under his alliance.
• When Feng Fuxi turned twenty-eight, his memories returned and he identified himself as Qing Fengxi; Feng Nüxi revealed that she was Nuwa.
• Feng Fuxi and Feng Nüxi married, established marriage customs, and had no children, while later leaders inherited the name Fuxi.
• Nine generations of Fuxi ruled in peace until the Shennong Tribe rose a thousand years later.

A thousand years after Fuxi and Nuwa’s deaths, Jiang Yang was born as Jiang in the declining Fuxi Tribe, carrying a fragment of Jiang Yang’s consciousness in a mortal body. He grew into a strong, gifted child, and the chapter ended with the tribe panicking after a Nine-Headed Monster appeared in its western hunting grounds.

• A heavenly sign heralded Jiang’s birth, and Eighth-Generation Fuxi became his father.
• Jiang Yang observed the primitive tribe and chose to live his mortal life without changing its course.
• At six, Jiang Yang made a small bow and arrows from beast sinew and a thousand-year-old tree, then quickly mastered archery.
• When Jiang was seven, only five of the Fuxi Tribe’s twenty hunters returned from an expedition and reported a nine-headed beast.
• The tribe learned that the Nine-Headed Monster had appeared west of its territory, and panic kept people out of the Great Wilderness Forest.

The Fuxi Tribe decided to seek help from the Luo River Goddess against a huge nine-headed beast that threatened the tribe. After Great Shaman Zhu prayed at the river, the goddess answered and appeared before them.

• Great Shaman Zhu warned Eighth-Generation Fuxi that fighting the enormous nine-headed beast could cause heavy casualties, so the tribe decided to seek divine help.
• Eighth-Generation Fuxi and Great Shaman Zhu led the Fuxi Tribe to the Luo River at dawn, with seven-year-old Jiang following his mother.
• Great Shaman Zhu invoked the Luo River Goddess and asked her to drive out the invading beast.
• The goddess Feng Luobin heard the prayer in her Water Palace and decided to visit the tribe after a thousand years.
• Feng Luobin emerged from the Luo River, and Great Shaman Zhu bowed to greet her as the tribespeople stared in amazement.

The Luo River Goddess, Feng Luobin, offered the Fuxi Tribe a way to face the Nine-Headed Fierce Beast by presenting an awakened divine artifact. She chose Jiang Yang to wield the Sword in the Stone, leaving him to answer her question about his name before the assembled tribe.

• The Luo River Goddess told Eighth-Generation Fuxi that she could help only after confirming the Nine-Headed Fierce Beast possessed supernatural power.
• Feng Luobin recognized Jiang Yang as her divine master reincarnated, and he signaled her not to reveal his identity.
• Feng Luobin told the Fuxi Tribe that a divine artifact had awakened and that its chosen wielder was among them.
• Feng Luobin summoned the Sword in the Stone and walked through the crowd to Jiang Yang.
• Feng Luobin asked Jiang Yang his name, and he answered, "Jiang!"