Recaps

Yin Jiuer explained the difference between Supremes and Quasi-Supremes and outlined the limits of advancing through past timelines. Jiang Yang chose to travel to the Third Epoch and walk the path of the Demon Emperor against the Dao Ancestor.

• Jiang Yang asked Yin Jiuer whether changing the past would affect the present, and she explained that a new timeline would branch off and later fade or merge.
• Yin Jiuer explained that Supremes ruled civilizations, while Quasi-Supremes led Legacy Great Teachings, and that only the current timeline could allow Jiang Yang to become a Supreme.
• Yin Jiuer gave Jiang Yang further guidance on his cultivation path, and he listened and memorized her advice.
• Jiang Yang weighed traveling to the Second Epoch, where Yin Jiuer had lived, against the Third Epoch, where the Dao Ancestor had held power.
• Jiang Yang chose the Third Epoch and resolved to walk the path of the Demon Emperor against the Dao Ancestor.

Jiang Yang chose the Demon Emperor Path, and Yin Jiuer prepared to send him there. The chapter ended with her accepting his choice after he praised her warmly.

• Yin Jiuer reflected on how the Human Emperor had returned Satan's Supreme Position to the Fifth Epoch and chosen Jiang Yang to become the Divine Clan Supreme.
• Jiang Yang raised his head and told Yin Jiuer that he wished to take the Demon Emperor Path.
• Yin Jiuer asked why Jiang Yang had not chosen the Underworld Emperor Path.
• Jiang Yang praised Yin Jiuer and said he would not want to be her enemy even in illusory space-time.
• Yin Jiuer called Jiang Yang an honest man and offered to send him to the Demon Emperor Path.

Yin Jiuer used the Other Shore Bridge of No Return to send Jiang Yang bodily across the River of Time toward the Third Epoch. As he crossed, warriors appeared on both sides of the bridge and cried out, “Guard the Supreme's path!”

• Yin Jiuer offered Jiang Yang the chance to bid farewell to his loved ones, but he declined and prepared to enter the Third Epoch.
• Yin Jiuer opened a path across the River of Time with the Other Shore Bridge of No Return and warned Jiang Yang to stay close because the bodily crossing was dangerous.
• Jiang Yang recognized the River of Time and saw his family and friends below before turning toward the past and walking onward.
• When Jiang Yang reached the halfway point, ranks of bloodstained warriors appeared beside the bridge and shouted, “Guard the Supreme's path!”

Jiang Yang crossed the Other Shore Bridge of No Return and arrived in the Third Epoch, where he awakened in the body of a wounded Three-Legged Golden Crow. After healing the body, he announced his return with a cry that convinced the creatures on the mountain their king had come back to life.

• Jiang Yang heard a future female Supreme urge him not to let the warriors of Apocalypse down, then continued upstream and reached the Azure Ring at the bridge’s end.
• Yin Jiuer told Jiang Yang that one more step would take him to the Third Epoch, and he entered the ripples of space-time despite its punishment and the compression of his power.
• Jiang Yang awoke on a stone throne in a vast ancient world, inhabiting a dying Three-Legged Golden Crow whose cultivation was at Seven Steps.
• Jiang Yang discovered that his original body and cultivation had been compressed into his heart, leaving him able to use only one-tenth of his former power.
• Jiang Yang used his divine power to heal the Golden Crow’s chest wound and restore its golden plumage and flames.
• Jiang Yang cried out across the mountain, and its inhabitants cheered that their king had returned to life.

Jiang Yang recalled the Third Epoch’s origins and the Golden Crow’s rise to power, then learned how a rejected white ape found an ancient Ghost Clan laboratory and transformed himself. The white ape named his new form human, marking the beginning of humanity.

• The Ghost Clan Civilization withdrew to the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens, leaving ruins, biological laboratories, and formations behind on Earth.
• Ghost Clan genetic material and ancient formations shaped the Third Epoch, whose powerful intelligent creatures fought to establish their territories.
• The Golden Crow ate the Enlightenment Tree’s fruit, changed beyond an ordinary Fire Crow, and destroyed the tree to protect his advantage.
• The Golden Crow subdued avian clans and conquered Qilin King, Peng, and Violent Whale King as he expanded his dominion.
• A rejected, hairless white ape entered a well-preserved Ghost Clan biological laboratory and learned the meaning of evolution and a cultivation method.
• After evolving over thousands of years, the white ape called himself human.

In the Third Epoch, Tai Shang developed an Evolution Method that transformed apes into humans and established a growing human tribe. He refined the method into Transformation and set out to spread it among the myriad races as the Golden Crows conquered the Eastern Wasteland.

• Human cultivated for ten thousand years in the evolution laboratory, then went out to spread his Evolution Method, but powerful races rejected it and weaker races struggled to practice it.
• Human sheltered a defeated East Sea ape tribe in exchange for its members practicing his method, and ten thousand years later nearly all of them had evolved into humans.
• After realizing that the new humans formed a distinct race, Human named himself Tai Shang, and more ape tribes joined as the human population grew.
• Tai Shang moved the human tribe to a resource-rich river valley and later refined his method to let other creatures transform into humans while preserving their original forms.
• Tai Shang began visiting the myriad races to promote the human body as the Dao Physique while the Golden Crows conquered the eastern Great Wilderness.

Tai Shang spread the Transformation Art across the Northern Wasteland, requiring races that wanted its deeper cultivation method to share the art and refrain from harming the Human Race. After thousands of years, he traveled to the Central Lands, where he met a young Water Qilin.

• Tai Shang persuaded or forced the Northern Wasteland's intelligent races to practice the Transformation Art, which made cultivation faster in human form.
• Races seeking the more complete cultivation method agreed to spread the Transformation Art and not initiate harm against the Human Race.
• Under Tai Shang's protection, the Human Race grew rapidly, and some powerful, sparsely populated races joined it and had offspring with humans.
• Tai Shang spent several thousand years spreading the art through the Northern Wasteland, then left for the Central Lands.
• Tai Shang continued teaching the art in the Central Lands and encountered a young, beautiful Water Qilin.

Tai Shang recalled how he met the water Qilin princess Linglong, loved her, and lost her in the Golden Crow’s conquest of the Eastern Wasteland. After failing to avenge her, he developed the immensely costly combat art Tai Shang Forgets Emotion.

• The water Qilin princess Linglong met Tai Shang while dancing in a river, and they became friends as he traveled the Great Wilderness spreading the Dao.
• Linglong stayed with Tai Shang for ten thousand years, but returned to the Eastern Wasteland when her father summoned her to fight the Golden Crow.
• Before Linglong departed, Tai Shang gave her Water Linglong, a treasure he had crafted for her, and they said farewell beside the river.
• After the water Qilin tribes were defeated, Tai Shang found Linglong’s shattered treasure and learned she had sacrificed her chance to escape to save a young water Qilin before being slain.
• Tai Shang attempted to assassinate the Golden Crow but escaped after realizing he lacked the strength to win.
• Tai Shang spent a thousand years seeking power and developed the costly combat art Tai Shang Forgets Emotion.

Tai Shang emerged after five thousand years of secluded cultivation, having embraced the path of the Immortals, while Golden Crow united the Eastern Wasteland’s intelligent tribes as the Demon Race and prepared to attack the Northern Wasteland. Tai Shang headed east, determined to kill Golden Crow.

• Tai Shang used the Tai Shang Forgets Emotion Method to turn his feelings for Water Linglong into power and discovered the path of the Immortals.
• Golden Crow recovered, consolidated his rule over the Eastern Wasteland, and convened representatives of its many races to address their conflicts.
• Golden Crow united the intelligent tribes under the name Demon Race and ordered them to swear allegiance beneath the starry sky.
• Golden Crow learned that Tai Shang had come from the Human Race in the Northern Wasteland and decided to march against them.
• Tai Shang emerged from seclusion and strode toward the Eastern Wasteland, intent on killing Golden Crow.

Tai Shang attacked the Demon Race’s Royal Court on Zhou Mountain and killed the Golden Crow after defeating him in battle. The Golden Crow’s followers dispersed or left with Peng and the Violent Whale King, and Jiang Yang took the throne a year later.

• Tai Shang arrived at Zhou Mountain as the Demon Race gathered to pledge allegiance to the Golden Crow.
• Tai Shang struck down the Demon Race troops blocking his way and confronted the Golden Crow at the summit.
• The Golden Crow offered to share the world with Tai Shang, but Tai Shang demanded vengeance for Linglong and the two fought.
• Tai Shang defeated and killed the Golden Crow while Peng and the Violent Whale King watched without helping.
• After Tai Shang left, the Demon Race dispersed, and Jiang Yang took the Golden Crow’s place a year later.

Jiang Yang returned to life as the Golden Crow, learned how the Demon Race had splintered, and renamed himself Taiyi as he began rebuilding his rule. Tai Shang then visited the Earth Qilin Clan and proposed an eternal covenant with the Human Race.

• Jiang Yang returned to the Golden Crow's Throne, where Dangkang and the other loyal demons wept with joy.
• Dangkang told Jiang Yang that King Peng and King Violent Whale had taken followers away to establish their own palaces, while many other demons had returned to their ancestral lands.
• Jiang Yang ordered the demons who remained to announce his return across the Eastern Wasteland and declared them his personal guard.
• Jiang Yang took the name Taiyi and considered secretly learning Tai Shang's Transformation Art to teach the demons.
• Tai Shang visited the Earth Qilin Clan, took the shattered Water Linglong from the young Water Qilin, and proposed an eternal covenant between the Human Race and the Qilin Clan.

Tai Shang made a pact between the Qilin race and the Human Race, then returned to his tribes and planned a new Immortal cultivation system. At Zhou Mountain, Jiang Yang mastered the Transformation Art and revealed his Golden Crow form, eager to meet Tai Shang’s younger self.

• The Earth Qilin patriarch accepted Tai Shang’s offer and pledged friendship between the Qilin race and the Human Race.
• Tai Shang returned to the Northern Wasteland, saw the Human Race tribes growing stronger, and instructed their powerhouses.
• Tai Shang entered the Evolution Laboratory at Purple Sky Mountain and resolved to create the Immortal Arts as the foundation for a new cultivation system and Immortal Clan.
• Jiang Yang cultivated the Transformation Art for several days and took on a majestic human form on the Golden Crow’s throne.
• Jiang Yang gazed north and said he had long yearned to meet Tai Shang’s younger self.

Jiang Yang revealed himself as the living Golden Crow, subdued Peng, and rebuilt the Demon Race’s Royal Court on Zhou Mountain. As news spread, the Northern Wasteland’s human chief prepared for the Demon Race’s return and sought to alert Tai Shang.

• Peng investigated reports that the Golden Crow had returned and found Jiang Yang standing on Zhou Mountain.
• Jiang Yang confronted Peng over abandoning the Demon Race, then sent him flying with a single punch and left him alive to serve.
• Jiang Yang rebuilt the Demon Race’s Royal Court with Peng’s help and killed the Violent Whale King at the Whale Palace.
• News of the Golden Crow’s survival and the Royal Court’s revival spread across the Great Wilderness.
• The Northern Wasteland’s human chief tried to reach Tai Shang at Purple Sky Mountain, then prepared defenses and formed alliances against the Demon Race.

Jiang Yang rebuilt the Demon Race, imposed laws, and began shaping its shared identity through Tai Shang’s Transformation Art and a cultivation method of his own. A thousand years later, Tai Shang emerged from seclusion in the Northern Wasteland, setting the stage for their conflict over the Third Epoch.

• Peng traveled across the Eastern Wasteland and East Sea, punishing tribes that defied the Demon Race and rewarding those that had served it.
• Jiang Yang restored the Demon Race and remained at Zhou Mountain, expecting Tai Shang to come challenge him.
• Jiang Yang established Demon Race laws, appointed Peng as the highest judge, and ordered Zhou Mountain Yao to spread a spirit of defiance.
• Jiang Yang required the tribes to learn Tai Shang’s Transformation Art and planned a Demon Race cultivation art that would foster a shared disposition.
• A thousand years later, Tai Shang emerged from seclusion in the Northern Wasteland.

After a thousand years of seclusion, Tai Shang emerged with his new Immortal Arts and learned that Golden Crow had returned and united the Demon Race in the Eastern Wasteland. At Zhou Mountain, he confronted a young sovereign who identified himself as Taiyi and explained that Golden Crow was not Taiyi.

• Tai Shang emerged from seclusion on Purple Sky Mountain, having created Immortal Arts and resolved to teach them to all living beings.
• A young Human Race cultivator reported that Golden Crow had revived two years after Tai Shang killed him and had unified the Eastern Wasteland.
• Tai Shang gave the young cultivator a Yin-Yang Linked Jade for emergencies and flew to the Eastern Wasteland.
• At Zhou Mountain, Tai Shang saw a sovereign seated on Golden Crow's Throne and declared that he was not Golden Crow.
• The sovereign introduced himself as Taiyi and said, “Taiyi is Golden Crow, but Golden Crow is not Taiyi!”

Jiang Yang offered Tai Shang a scroll of Yao Arts instead of fighting, and Tai Shang studied it atop Zhou Mountain. The chapter ended with Tai Shang recognizing that its three thousand words fully explained the transformations of the Yao.

• Tai Shang realized that Taiyi had ferried the Golden Crow across and felt much of his hatred toward Jiang Yang fade.
• Jiang Yang praised Tai Shang’s intelligence as the two faced one another atop Zhou Mountain, while the Yao guards feared a battle.
• Peng arrived above the mountain but hesitated to approach, fearing the consequences whichever way the confrontation went.
• Jiang Yang invited Tai Shang to discuss an art for the Demon Race before they fought, and Tai Shang agreed to read it first.
• Jiang Yang summoned a golden scroll titled “Yao Arts,” and Tai Shang read it with growing shock.

Jiang Yang and Tai Shang exchanged their Yao Arts and Immortal Arts, then spent three days discussing the Dao on Zhou Mountain. Though they gained much from the debate, they remained enemies and ascended to outer space to fight.

• Tai Shang praised Jiang Yang’s Yao Arts and revealed his own three-thousand-word Immortal Arts scripture.
• Jiang Yang studied the Immortal Arts and recognized Tai Shang as an ideal teacher and friend in cultivating the Great Dao.
• Jiang Yang and Tai Shang discussed their methods on Zhou Mountain for three days and nights while the Yao watched.
• Jiang Yang and Tai Shang acknowledged that they remained enemies and ascended into the heavens to fight.

Tai Shang and Jiang Yang fought a two-day battle in the heavens, shaking Earth and alarming its inhabitants. The fight ended with Tai Shang returning to his human tribe looking pale, and its chief asked whether he had defeated the Golden Crow.

• Jiang Yang transformed into his Golden Crow form and challenged Tai Shang in the heavens.
• The two fought with immense power, and their battle damaged Earth despite their efforts to contain its aftershocks.
• Tai Shang fought with all his strength, but Jiang Yang’s combat skill gradually tipped the battle in his favor.
• After two days and two nights, both fighters descended from the heavens, with Tai Shang landing at his human tribe in the Northern Wasteland.
• Tai Shang’s chief saw his pallor and asked whether he had won against the Golden Crow.

After Tai Shang and Jiang Yang fought to a draw, both leaders organized their peoples around rival cultivation systems. Tai Shang began forming the Immortal Clan in the Northern Wasteland, while Jiang Yang ordered the Eastern Wasteland's Yao to learn Yao Arts and prepared to establish the Demon Race's hierarchy.

• Tai Shang told the Northern Wasteland leaders that he and Taiyi had fought to a draw, then ordered the tribes to adopt Immortal Arts and unite as the Immortal Clan.
• Jiang Yang took his seat on the Throne at Zhou Mountain, and the Yao accepted him as a mighty king after his battle with Tai Shang.
• Jiang Yang told the Yao that neither he nor Tai Shang would fight again for at least ten thousand years, then rallied them by declaring that their king was invincible and immortal.
• Jiang Yang ordered every member of the Eastern Wasteland's Demon Race to cultivate Yao Arts within three hundred years, appointing Peng as Inspector and threatening laggards with a trip to the Ice Eye.
• Jiang Yang declared that the Immortal Clan and Demon Race would compete over the next ten thousand years, and announced plans to establish the Demon Race's institutions and hierarchy in three thousand years.

Three thousand years later, the human tribes of the Northern Wasteland had spread widely and cultivated the Immortal Arts. When demons attacked the Mu Tribe, Bai chose to seek help from the patrol delegation, while Zi stayed behind to lure the demons away.

• Bai and four young tribesmen left the Mu Tribe to hunt deer for an inspecting envoy from the central human tribe.
• A blast sent them rushing back, where they saw demons slaughtering their people and setting the tribe ablaze.
• Qingsong confronted the bear demon Black Wind and drew him away from the tribe.
• Bai stopped his companions from charging into battle and urged them to report the attack to the patrol delegation.
• Zi volunteered to lure the approaching demons away, and Bai led the others toward the delegation.

A wounded survivor from the Mu Tribe reached Xun Mountain and reported that a demon army had destroyed his tribe and likely killed Inspection Envoy Qingsong. Commander Heavenly Wolf promised retaliation and agreed to send the youth to the Human Race’s great central tribe, where he chose the name Li.

• A youth from the Mu Tribe climbed Xun Mountain despite his wounds and told the mountain guard that demons had destroyed his tribe and might have killed Qingsong.
• The mountain guard brought the youth to Commander Heavenly Wolf, who questioned him about how he had survived.
• The youth explained that he had been away hunting with companions when Black Wind attacked the tribe and that his companions died drawing the demons away.
• Heavenly Wolf promised to seek revenge and ordered the mountain guard to arrange an interception of the demons.
• Heavenly Wolf offered to send the orphan to the Human Race’s central tribe or a nearby tribe, and the youth chose the central tribe.
• The youth told Heavenly Wolf that he had been called Bai but would now be called Li to remember that he was the Mu Tribe’s last child.

Jiang Yang heard Black Wind’s account of his raid into the Northern Wasteland and considered rewarding him with a Demon King’s seat. As Black Wind remained at the Zhou Mountain Royal Court until Jiang Yang’s coronation, the Forest Tiger Clan prepared to attack across the river to win recognition of its own.

• The Forest Tiger Clan and allied Yao fought the humans and their allies across the river until nightfall, then withdrew.
• Hu Dali and the other clan chiefs blamed Black Wind’s raid into the Northern Wasteland for provoking a fiercer Immortal Clan attack and causing many Yao deaths.
• After discussing the coming assembly of the Demon Race, Hu Dali ordered his clan to muster and attack the opposite bank the next day to earn merit.
• At the Zhou Mountain Royal Court, Jiang Yang praised Black Wind for killing an Immortal Clan inspecting envoy and asked what reward he wanted.
• Black Wind claimed Jiang Yang’s recognition was reward enough, and Jiang Yang told him to stay at the Royal Court until the coronation.

Jiang Yang considered how to address the border demons’ reluctance to suffer losses in frontier conflicts without driving them toward the Immortal Clan. Little Phoenix proposed forming border demon legions, earned a divine spear as a reward, and was then assigned to plan the policy’s implementation.

• Jiang Yang reflected on the border demons’ careful defense of their clans and why he could not force them to fight harder.
• Little Phoenix proposed that the border clans leave their ancestral lands and form legions to defend the frontier, easing resentment between border demons and those in the Eastern Wasteland’s interior.
• Jiang Yang praised Little Phoenix’s idea and gave her the crimson divine spear she requested, despite having intended it for the Fire Crow clan leader.
• Jiang Yang ordered Little Phoenix to prepare a detailed implementation plan with Baize and coordinate it with the confirmation of the three hundred and sixty-five Demon Kings and demon kingdoms.
• Little Phoenix realized the reward came with a major workload and protested.

Jiang Yang summoned Kong Xuan to discuss persuading the major Demon Race tribes near the border to relocate after the Demon Race Army was established. Kong Xuan agreed to undertake the mission, and Jiang Yang sent him to go.

• Jiang Yang watched the cosmic starry sky with Kong Xuan and comforted him when he could not share Jiang Yang’s feelings about it.
• Jiang Yang recalled Kong Xuan’s talent and how he had mastered the Yao Arts among the demons.
• Jiang Yang told Kong Xuan to persuade the major border tribes to relocate without defecting to the Immortal Clan.
• Kong Xuan agreed to go, and Jiang Yang sent him on the mission.

The Dao Ancestor sent immortal abodes across the Immortal Realm to begin the Immortal Clan’s plans for the new epoch, while one young man worried about the influence he would have on the Sixth Epoch. In the Zhou Kingdom’s reign of King Mu, the king traveled west to meet the Queen Mother of the West, just as Filiya emerged from seclusion on West Kunlun.

• The Dao Ancestor awakened in his temple, declared that the time had come for the Immortal Clan to leave something for the Mortal Realm, and sent immortal lights to establish abodes throughout the Immortal Realm.
• A young man in the rainbow palace received the Dao Ancestor’s decree and worried that his assigned role would influence the Sixth Epoch too greatly.
• King Mu led his royal tour west from Luoyi, crossing the Yellow River and Taihang Mountains before reaching West Kunlun.
• Filiya emerged from seclusion atop West Kunlun, her divine radiance contained and her movements carrying the truths of heaven and earth.