Chapter Summaries

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.

After Jiang Yang died, Jiang Shennong buried him and resolved that the Shennong Clan would succeed Fuxi. He rallied the Jiang Water tribes to march east and defeat the Fuxi Tribe, beginning his campaign to spread cultivation.

• Jiang Yang died of old age, and Filiya returned to West Kunlun while Feng Luobin went back to the Luo River.
• Jiang Shennong buried Jiang Yang, then vowed that the Shennong Clan would succeed Fuxi.
• Ten days later, Jiang Shennong summoned the tribes of the Jiang Water and declared that he would spread cultivation even to people who resisted it.
• Jiang Shennong announced that the Jiang Water tribes would first attack the Fuxi Tribe and force them to advance beyond fishing and hunting.
• Jiang Shennong struck a great drum made from a kui ox's hide and a flood dragon's bones, and the tribes roared their support for the march east.

Jiang Shennong marched against the Fuxi Tribe to replace its imperial lineage, arguing that Ninth Generation Fuxi had obstructed progress and the people’s ability to live better. The chapter ended with Shennong’s army and the Fuxi warriors clashing on the Blue-Yellow Plain.

• Ninth Generation Fuxi, also called Emperor Yellow Ox, recalled his jealousy of Jiang Yang and took comfort in being Fuxi while Jiang Yang had been only a tribal chief.
• Emperor Yellow Ox had rejected Jiang Shennong’s cultivation method because he feared Shennong would gain the influence to supplant the Fuxi Clan.
• Jiang Shennong led nearly two thousand warriors of the Jiang Water Alliance to the Fuxi Tribe, announcing that the Shennong Clan would succeed the Fuxi Clan’s imperial lineage.
• Emperor Yellow Ox rallied the Fuxi warriors, and both armies charged into battle across the Blue-Yellow Plain.

Jiang Shennong defeated Ninth Generation Fuxi and took control of the Fuxi Tribe, allowing Fuxi’s successor to leave with three hundred people and the dragon totem. Shennong spread farming across the Great River Basin and became Emperor Shennong, beginning the Flame Emperor Lineage’s rule.

• Jiang Shennong defeated the Fuxi forces and captured Ninth Generation Fuxi and his successor alive.
• Jiang Shennong replaced the Fuxi dragon totem with the Jiang Tribe’s flame totem, then agreed to let Fuxi’s successor take the dragon carving and leave with three hundred people.
• Fuxi’s successor led the three hundred east to Sea Corner, while Ninth Generation Fuxi stayed behind to guard the land of the successive generations of Fuxi.
• Jiang Shennong made the former Fuxi people learn farming, then conquered tribes throughout the Great River Basin and spread farming across the world.
• The tribes honored Jiang Shennong as Emperor Shennong and recognized the Shennong Clan as successor to the Fuxi imperial line.

A mortal life’s memories helped the golden-haired god clarify his path toward the seventh step, and he prepared to launch an expedition into the Star Realm and open the Myriad Heavens. Meanwhile, Mayi World had flourished under the Divine Clan, with Sky Cities and Cloudbeasts transforming its skies.

• The golden-haired god absorbed a mortal life and learned that he had a son named Shennong.
• He thanked Kangna, said the mortal experiences had clarified his cultivation toward the seventh step, and turned his attention to preparations for an expedition into the Star Realm.
• Mayi World’s races and civilizations flourished, and Sky Cities rose above its many realms as airships and spacecraft traveled between them.
• Skyship Adventurers captured Cloudbeasts for their useful materials, unaware that the creatures had spread from experimental seeds accidentally released by a Divine Clan scientist.

The gods announced an expedition into the Endless Star Realm and ordered every king-rank supernatural being in Mayi to report to the nearest Sky City within a month. Adventurers across the world heard the decree and prepared for the coming war of expansion.

• Divine officials entered a tavern in an eastern Sky City and announced that all king-rank supernatural beings had to report to the nearest Sky City within a month.
• The officials declared that the gods would lead an expedition into the Endless Star Realm and that those who distinguished themselves could join the Divine Court.
• Evan, his party, and the other adventurers reacted with excitement and uncertainty about the expedition.
• The gods' oracle spread throughout the nations and cities of the Mayi World.