Recaps

Feng Luobin gave Jiang Yang the Stone Sword and forged him ten divine arrows to prepare him to lead the Fuxi Tribe against the Nine-Headed Fierce Beast. The tribe rallied behind him after the Luo River Goddess departed, and Jiang Yang called them to slay the beast.

• Feng Luobin presented Jiang Yang with the Stone Sword, and he accepted it before the Fuxi Tribe.
• Feng Luobin made ten divine arrows and a quiver from a Jianmu branch and gave them to Jiang Yang.
• Eighth-Generation Fuxi felt proud and briefly jealous as he watched his son receive the goddess's gifts.
• After Feng Luobin left, the great shaman-priest urged the tribe to follow Jiang Yang against the Nine-Headed Fierce Beast.
• Jiang Yang raised the Stone Sword and shouted for the tribe to slay the beast, and the people joined his cry.

After receiving the Divine Sword and Divine Arrow, Jiang Yang refused the High Shaman’s offer and chose to lead people away to found a new tribe. On the return journey, the Fuxi clanspeople discovered their home was burning under attack by the Nine-Headed Fierce Beast, and Eighth-Generation Fuxi urged them onward, counting on Jiang Yang to help defeat it.

• The High Shaman offered Jiang Yang a place among the tribe’s shamans, but Jiang Yang refused and said he wanted to lead clanspeople to establish a new tribe.
• The High Shaman accepted Jiang Yang’s choice, and the clanspeople began their journey home from the Luo River.
• The returning clanspeople saw flames and smoke rising from the Fuxi Tribe, where a terrifying creature was rampaging.
• A warrior told Eighth-Generation Fuxi that the Nine-Headed Fierce Beast had attacked the tribe and could breathe fire.
• Eighth-Generation Fuxi ordered everyone to hurry back and declared that Jiang Yang could help them slay the beast.

Jiang Yang confronted the nine-headed serpent after it attacked the Fuxi Tribe, slaying it with arrows and the Sword in the Stone. At the river where the serpent fell, he decided he might establish a new tribe and named the river Jiang Water.

• Feng Luobin secretly saved tribespeople from the serpent’s flames while leaving Jiang Yang to fight it.
• Eighth-Generation Fuxi arrived with the warriors and led them in a charge against the nine-headed serpent.
• Jiang Yang shot out four of the serpent’s heads, then cut off three more with the Sword in the Stone as it attacked him.
• The wounded serpent fled, and Jiang Yang pursued it for several hundred li to a river.
• Jiang Yang cut off the serpent’s final two heads, then named the river Jiang Water and considered founding a tribe there.

After killing a Nine-Headed Serpent, Jiang Yang learned it was likely descended from Xiangliu and ordered Feng Luobin to warn Yao and punish Xiangliu. As his clanspeople approached, Feng Luobin departed for Kunlun Mountain.

• Jiang Yang called Feng Luobin out of hiding and pinched her cheeks for attacking him earlier.
• Jiang Yang asked Feng Luobin about the Nine-Headed Serpent, and she guessed it was descended from Xiangliu on Kunlun Mountain.
• Jiang Yang ordered Feng Luobin to tell Yao to control the creatures and have Xiangliu locked in a ravine for five hundred years.
• Feng Luobin took blood and scales as proof, then sat with Jiang Yang by the river and told him about Fuxi and Nuwa.
• Feng Luobin noticed Jiang Yang's clanspeople approaching and left for Kunlun Mountain.

Jiang Yang returned to the Fuxi Tribe after killing the Nine-Headed Serpent and received a hero’s welcome. From the mountains, Kuafu and the Kuafu Tribe watched the Fuxi clan and planned to attack once Jiang Yang left.

• Eighth-Generation Fuxi found Jiang Yang unharmed beside the Nine-Headed Serpent’s corpse and praised his victory.
• Eighth-Generation Fuxi arranged for the tribe to carry the serpent back and promised Jiang Yang a bowstring made from its tendons.
• Jiang Yang returned to the Fuxi Tribe, where the people celebrated him and the great shaman lamented that he could not become chief.
• The story of Jiang Yang killing the serpent spread through the Great Wilderness, drawing visitors and making other tribes wary of the Fuxi Clan.
• Kuafu watched the Fuxi Tribe from Chengdu Zaitian Mountain and decided to wait until Jiang Yang left before attacking.

Ten years later, Jiang Yang returned from a successful hunt and learned that Eighth-Generation Fuxi had chosen Yellow Bear as the next chief and planned for Jiang Yang to establish a new tribe. Several young warriors asked to go with him, and he was summoned to see Eighth-Generation Fuxi.

• Jiang Yang killed a black bear with an arrow and led the young warriors back from their hunt.
• Jiang Yang told the warriors that he would leave the Fuxi Tribe to establish a new tribe because his father had chosen the next Fuxi.
• Jiang Yang explained that Yellow Bear had been chosen, while the warriors protested and asked to follow him.
• Jiang Yang agreed to let the warriors accompany him, and the group returned to the tribe before dark.
• Eighth-Generation Fuxi sent for Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang left the Fuxi Tribe to establish his own settlement beside Jiang Water, where his population grew to more than two thousand. The story left him learning that the Kuafu Tribe had attacked the Fuxi Tribe and that his father had died in the fighting.

• Eighth-Generation Fuxi and the Great Shaman Zhu chose Yellow Bear Clan as the next Fuxi and told Jiang Yang to leave and establish a new tribe.
• Jiang Yang led several hundred people away from the Fuxi Tribe toward Jiang Water, while a giant watched them depart from a nearby forest.
• Jiang Yang chose a settlement site beside Jiang Water and said his tribe's children could take Jiang as their surname.
• Over the next year, Jiang Yang's settlement grew as small tribes joined, eventually reaching more than two thousand people before he stopped accepting newcomers.
• A young man told Jiang Yang that the Kuafu Tribe had attacked the Fuxi Tribe and that many people, including his father, had died.

Jiang Yang learned how the Kuafu Tribe attacked the Fuxi Tribe, killing Eighth-Generation Fuxi and prompting Ninth Generation Fuxi to take over. As he prepared to attend the new leader’s accession, Jiang Yang reflected on grief, mortality, and the emotions he had regained in this lifetime.

• Jiang Yang learned that Kuafu’s giants had attacked the Fuxi Tribe and that Eighth-Generation Fuxi had died defending it.
• Ninth Generation Fuxi succeeded him with Great Shaman Zhu’s support, and the Fuxi Tribe invited the river-basin tribes to witness his accession and discuss a punitive expedition.
• Jiang Yang arranged for the envoy’s lodging and ordered his warriors to prepare to travel to the Fuxi Tribe the next day.
• Feng Luobin told Jiang Yang she had witnessed the battle but could not intervene because the giants were human.
• Jiang Yang reflected that his father’s death had brought him sorrow and asked Feng Luobin what his father had been like before he died.
• Feng Luobin said that Jiang Yang’s father had been brave, and Jiang Yang accepted the answer.

Xuanming agreed to send her infant son Shennong to Earth in three years so he could complete his foundations and gain a chance to grow stronger. The chapter ended with a golden-eyed god sensing something and Jiang Yang leading warriors toward the Fuxi Tribe.

• On Luofu Immortal Mountain, Xuanming hesitated to send her baby to Earth, but the Dao Ancestor’s attendant explained the journey’s purpose and left the choice to her.
• Xuanming agreed to send Shennong to Earth, and the middle-aged Daoist said the Dao Ancestor would take him there in three years.
• That night, Xuanming told Gou Daoren that she named her son Shennong because he was the child of a god and a dragon maiden.
• On the Sky Divine Throne in Mayi World, the golden-haired, golden-eyed god felt a sudden jolt, smiled, and closed his eyes again.
• On Earth, Jiang Yang led several dozen of the strongest warriors from the Jiang-surnamed tribe toward the Fuxi Tribe.

Jiang Yang reached the ruined Fuxi Tribe, learned where his father was buried, and joined the Great River Basin alliance preparing to attack the Kuafu giants. After two days of marching past the remains of tribes the giants had slaughtered, the alliance arrived at the Kuafu settlement beneath a peach-covered hill.

• Jiang Yang arrived at the Fuxi Tribe and promised to avenge his father and bring his mother home.
• The Ninth Generation Fuxi told Jiang Yang that his father had been buried beside the Luo River, and Jiang Yang went to pay his respects.
• The Great River Basin tribes gathered at the Fuxi settlement, where Fuxi announced they would march against the Kuafu giants the next day.
• The Ninth Generation Fuxi led the alliance past slaughtered tribes and ordered the warriors to bury the human remains they found.
• After two days of marching, Jiang Yang and the alliance spotted the Kuafu Tribe at the foot of a hill covered in peach trees.

The Ninth Generation Fuxi led the Fuxi Tribe Alliance into battle against Kuafu and his forces, while Jiang Yang confronted the giant leader. Their duel escalated when Jiang Yang and Kuafu unleashed supernatural power, leaving their clash unresolved.

• The Ninth Generation Fuxi and Kuafu prepared their forces before leading them onto the plain to face each other.
• The Ninth Generation Fuxi approached Kuafu with Jiang Yang beside him, and Kuafu attacked with his Stone Club.
• Jiang Yang blocked Kuafu’s blow, allowing the Ninth Generation Fuxi to order the warriors into battle.
• Jiang Yang revealed that he was the son of the Fuxi leader Kuafu had killed, and the two began a fierce duel.
• Kuafu urged Jiang Yang to submit, but Jiang Yang rejected him and invoked supernatural power through his Stone Sword.
• Jiang Yang and Kuafu unleashed flames and fierce winds as their weapons collided.

Jiang Yang defeated Kuafu as the Fuxi Clan alliance turned the battle against the giants and cannibal tribes. Kuafu died beneath a peach tree, and the surviving giants fled, with one group settling in the south.

• Jiang Yang fought Kuafu while the Fuxi Clan alliance battled the giants and cannibal tribes, and the alliance gained the advantage as the cannibals fled.
• Kuafu attacked nearby tribal warriors, but Jiang Yang taunted him as fleeing, raising the alliance’s morale and prompting more giants to retreat.
• One group of giants escaped south and settled in the southernmost reaches.
• Jiang Yang wore Kuafu down until the giant collapsed beneath a peach tree and admitted he could never reach the Sun.
• Jiang Yang declared that Kuafu had died chasing the Sun and struck off his head.

Three-year-old Shennong left the Immortal Realm to find his father on Earth after parting tearfully from Xuanming. He arrived by the Jiang Water and asked Mu where his father was.

• Xuanming tearfully told Shennong to find his father and ask whether he remembered her and the little Kangna shop.
• An immortal took Shennong away from Xuanming and carried him toward a mysterious place in the Immortal Realm.
• Chief Jiang's Jiang Tribe grew stronger over three years as people from other tribes joined it.
• Mu spotted a horned boy walking across the river's surface and wondered if he was a little River God.
• Shennong asked Mu where his father was.

Shennong crossed the Jiang Water and was reunited with his father, Jiang Yang, chief of the Jiang Tribe. Jiang Yang welcomed him and promised to raise him, and Shennong began his life in the tribe as a gifted child.

• Mu realized the boy had come to find his father and offered to take him to the Jiang Tribe chief.
• Shennong told Jiang Yang that his mother was Xuanming and that he had come from Luofu Immortal Mountain.
• Jiang Yang recognized Shennong as his son and recalled his memories with Xuanming.
• Shennong passed on his mother's message, and Jiang Yang promised to fulfill his duty as a father.
• Shennong grew up in the Jiang Tribe, known for his talent, bravery, and Dragon Horns.

Jiang Yang raised Jiang Shennong in the Jiang Tribe, teaching him how to think and act while the boy grew into a powerful, kindhearted figure. At ten, Jiang Shennong visited West Kunlun with his father, gained the Queen Mother of the West’s support, and returned with a young qilin.

• Jiang Yang devoted himself to educating Jiang Shennong and taught him the qualities of a worthy king.
• When Jiang Shennong was five, Jiang Yang took him to meet Feng Luobin, who often played with him in the river.
• As the Jiang Tribe grew and food became scarce, Jiang Shennong helped neighboring tribes fight wild beasts and resolved to find a way to provide food and clothing.
• When Jiang Shennong was ten, Jiang Yang took him to Kunlun Mountain, where the Queen Mother of the West welcomed them and offered to help him.
• After spending several months in West Kunlun, Jiang Shennong descended the mountain with a tiny qilin, the Fire Qilin’s child.

After years of teaching Jiang Shennong and showing him the world, Jiang Yang decided his fifteen-year-old son was ready to begin cultivation. He revealed that Shennong would train under Guang Chengzi on Mount Kongtong.

• Filiya accompanied Jiang Yang and Jiang Shennong back to the Jiang Tribe, where she disguised herself as a tribal woman and was mistaken for Chief Jiang’s beautiful younger sister.
• Jiang Yang taught Jiang Shennong while Filiya took him flying to see places across the world, giving him knowledge and shaping his desire to improve people's lives.
• Over several years, Jiang Shennong witnessed nature, savage beasts, and the hardships of tribal people, and he resolved to find a way to help them himself.
• When Jiang Shennong turned fifteen, Jiang Yang told him he was ready to cultivate and made him promise to use power to protect people and things he believed in.
• Jiang Yang revealed that he had chosen a cultivation guide for Shennong, then named the wise Qi Refining Adept Guang Chengzi of Mount Kongtong.

Yuhua, unsettled by a premonition, reflected on his past and his wish to visit the Immortal Realm. Filiya arrived at Mount Kongtong with two men, and Yuhua recognized the young man on the right, though he could not finish speaking.

• Yuhua recalled how he and Filiya had both reached the Fourth Step and how little news traveled between distant tribes.
• Yuhua remembered a peaceful scene from tens of thousands of years earlier, when he had seen Kangna and Jiang Yan together in a small shop.
• Yuhua decided that he wanted to visit the Immortal Realm and make Luofu Immortal Mountain his first stop.
• Filiya arrived on Mount Kongtong with a middle-aged man and a handsome youth.
• Yuhua recognized the youth and began to ask who he was.

Jiang Yang brought his son Jiang Shennong to Mount Kongtong so Yuhua could guide him in cultivation. Yuhua recognized the family resemblance and accepted Jiang Shennong as his student, though the revelation left him with complicated feelings.

• Yuhua welcomed Filiya, Jiang Yang, and Jiang Shennong to Mount Kongtong and recognized Jiang Yang’s God-Blood Incarnation.
• Jiang Yang and Yuhua reunited warmly, shared tea, and recalled their bond as teacher and friend.
• Jiang Yang introduced Jiang Shennong as his son with Kangna and asked Yuhua to guide him in cultivation.
• Yuhua agreed to teach Jiang Shennong and promised to treat him as Jiang Yang had once treated him.
• Jiang Shennong bowed to Yuhua and vowed to cultivate diligently.

Jiang Shennong stayed on Mount Kongtong to learn Yuhua’s Qi-refinement method, driven by his hope of returning to the Immortal Realm and finding his mother. Meanwhile, Jiang Yang returned to the Jiang Tribe, whose strength grew as the Fuxi Tribe continued to decline.

• Jiang Yang left Jiang Shennong with Yuhua on Mount Kongtong and descended the mountain with Filiya.
• Jiang Shennong told Yuhua about the Immortal Realm and Luofu Heaven and Earth, while privately resolving to find his mother and ask why she had left him.
• Jiang Shennong asked Yuhua to begin teaching him, and Yuhua introduced Spiritual Qi and the basics of Qi refinement.
• Jiang Shennong settled on Mount Kongtong, practicing Qi refinement, martial arts, and willpower as time passed.
• Jiang Yang returned to the Jiang Tribe and led its warriors on hunts, helping the tribe expand its influence across the Great River Basin.
• The Fuxi Tribe weakened after its losses to Kuafu’s Giant race and the death of its Great Shaman Zhu.

After ten years of cultivation on Mount Kongtong, Jiang Shennong reached Foundation Establishment and left the mountain to find a new food source for his growing tribe. In the Jiang Tribe, Filiya told Jiang Yang that Nong'er had descended, and Jiang Yang wondered whether he should give up being chief.

• Jiang Shennong completed ten years of practice and reached Foundation Establishment.
• Yuhua praised Jiang Shennong and told him to leave Mount Kongtong, recognizing his wish to find food for his people.
• Jiang Shennong explained that hunting, gathering, and fishing could no longer feed the growing tribe, and he wanted to discover a new food source.
• After ten more days, Jiang Shennong bowed toward Mount Kongtong and headed east with a Qilin following him.
• Filiya told Jiang Yang that Nong'er had come down the mountain, and Jiang Yang asked whether he should step down as tribal chief.

Jiang Shennong returned to the Jiang Tribe and reunited with his aging father, Jiang Yang, who explained that he cherished experiencing mortal life and would be reborn through God Blood. Jiang Yang then announced that he would pass the position of chief to Jiang Shennong.

• Jiang Shennong rode the Fire Qilin home after ten years away, and the tribe welcomed him with celebration.
• Jiang Shennong saw that Jiang Yang had grown old and worried that his father would someday leave him.
• Jiang Yang walked with Jiang Shennong beside the Jiang Water and said he treasured the mortal experience of birth, aging, illness, and death.
• Jiang Yang told Jiang Shennong that he had left nine drops of God Blood in Kunlun, allowing him to enter the womb nine times.
• Jiang Yang announced that he had decided to pass the position of chief of the Jiang Tribe to Jiang Shennong.

Jiang Yang encouraged Jiang Shennong to use the Jiang Tribe’s collective strength to find a plant people could eat, then publicly passed leadership to him. The tribe accepted Jiang Shennong as its new leader.

• Jiang Shennong told Jiang Yang about his search for a plant that could feed the people, though he had not yet found it.
• Jiang Yang urged Jiang Shennong to become leader so he could mobilize the tribe to search, and Jiang Shennong agreed.
• Jiang Yang arranged a sacrificial ceremony led by Great Shaman Zhu, during which the Jiang Tribe honored its ancestors.
• Jiang Yang praised Jiang Shennong’s courage and announced that he was passing leadership of the Jiang Tribe to his son.
• The tribespeople pledged to honor Jiang Shennong as their leader.

Jiang Shennong searched for useful plants and spent years testing them, enduring serious poisoning with Filiya’s help. He discovered a plant that could feed more people, named it wheat, and left the Jiang Tribe ready to cultivate it.

• Jiang Shennong became chief of the Jiang Tribe and encouraged people to gather plants by rewarding them with beast meat.
• Jiang Yang suggested that plants Jiang Shennong did not want might have other uses, so Jiang Shennong began testing them himself.
• Jiang Shennong was poisoned by a supernatural herb, and Filiya saved him with divine medicine.
• After ten years of research, Jiang Shennong discovered an edible plant that could be cultivated to feed more people.
• Jiang Shennong told Jiang Yang about his discovery, named the plant wheat, and the Jiang Tribe spread the news.

Jiang Shennong developed wheat cultivation and tried to spread it through the Great River Basin, but the Fuxi Tribe and other leaders rejected his efforts. After Jiang Yang explained that they feared losing their power, Shennong resolved to make them accept cultivation and considered founding his own imperial lineage.

• Jiang Shennong spent ten years developing wheat cultivation, which greatly increased the Jiang Tribe’s food reserves and population.
• Jiang Shennong sent messengers with wheat seeds and cultivation methods to other tribes, but most refused to adopt them.
• Ninth Generation Fuxi expelled Jiang Shennong’s messengers and ordered Fuxi-descended tribes to reject cultivation; the Fuxi messenger then insulted the Jiang Tribe.
• Jiang Shennong told Jiang Yang about the opposition, and Jiang Yang said the chiefs feared losing their leadership rather than caring about their people.
• Jiang Yang urged Jiang Shennong to make the chiefs accept cultivation, and Shennong began considering whether his clan could establish its own imperial lineage.

Jiang Yang reached the end of his first God-Blood life after guiding Jiang Shennong and helping the Jiang Water tribes prosper. As the sun set, he gave his son final instructions and prepared for his soul to return to his true self.

• Jiang Shennong became the alliance leader of the Jiang Water Tribal Confederation as the tribes grew stronger through cultivation.
• Jiang Yang fell gravely ill and remained bedridden for months while Filiya and Feng Luobin cared for him.
• Jiang Yang regained his strength briefly, declared that his allotted time had come, and asked Filiya to take him to the river and Feng Luobin to summon Jiang Shennong.
• Jiang Yang told Jiang Shennong he could act freely after his death, but warned him not to use his supernatural power against ordinary mortals.
• Jiang Yang asked Jiang Shennong to stay with him until the sun had fully set, and Jiang Shennong agreed.