Chapter Summaries

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.

After emerging from seclusion, Filiya gathered the Demigods and Divine Beasts at West Kunlun and learned about the Zhou Dynasty and the Heavenly Court. She announced that she planned to ascend to the Divine Realm and offered to take them with her, and most wanted to go.

• Filiya found that the Demigods and Divine Beasts had made little progress in cultivation while she was secluded.
• An Azure Luan told Filiya that the Zhou Dynasty’s Son of Heaven had arrived at the foot of West Kunlun to request an audience, and Filiya allowed him to come up.
• Filiya learned that Jiang Yang’s Heavenly Court followers were on Mount Kongtong and that Yuhua and Shennong had ascended to the Immortal Realm.
• Filiya announced that she intended to leave Earth for the Divine Realm and offered to take any Demigods and Divine Beasts who wished to follow.
• Most of the gathered Demigods and Divine Beasts expressed their desire to accompany Filiya to the Divine Realm.

Filiya welcomed King Mu of Zhou to Kunlun, granted him treasures, and later arranged for Luo Bin to take over as God King if she wished to remain on Earth. Filiya then ascended to the Divine Realm with many divine beasts and demigods, only to learn Jiang Yang had traveled to an ancient era and would be away for a while.

• Azure Luan led King Mu of Zhou and his officials up Kunlun Mountain to meet Filiya.
• King Mu asked Filiya for eternal life, but she said his poor cultivation aptitude and the world's insufficient supernatural energy made it impossible, so she gave him treasures instead.
• After returning to his capital, King Mu had his westward journey recorded and kept the claim that the Heavenly Emperor belonged to the Jiang clan within the royal family.
• Filiya visited the Luo River and told a subordinate god to have Luo Bin take on the duties of God King if she chose to remain on Earth after leaving seclusion.
• Filiya ascended from West Kunlun to the Divine Realm with divine beasts and demigods, where Artemis told her Jiang Yang had gone to an ancient era and would not return soon.

After the Divine Clan’s departure, new ideas spread through the flourishing Mortal Realm, and Confucianism emerged in the East. In Qin State, Ying Yang discovered that his God Blood true spirit could not return to its original body and set out to Kunlun Mountain to renew himself and arrange safeguards for his immortality.

• Dao Ancestor and other powerful figures entered the eastern vassal states, while the Heavenly Lord and the Angel Clan brought new ideas to the West.
• Kong Xuan, who identified himself as Kong Qiu, sought guidance from an old Daoist, and Confucianism later flourished in the East.
• Jiang Yang’s God Blood was born as Ying Yang, who became a famed Qin general and visited Laozi and Confucius before returning to Qin State in old age.
• Ying Yang found that his true spirit could not return to his original self and concluded that his original body no longer existed at this Time Node.
• Ying Yang decided to go to Kunlun Mountain for another drop of God Blood and planned safeguards to preserve his memories if his body died.

Kong Xuan arrived at the border tribes as the Royal Court’s envoy and persuaded Hu Dali and the other chiefs to surrender their ancestral lands for the planned Border Demon Race Army. Hu Dali accepted in hopes of moving closer to the king and improving his chances of becoming a Demon King, while Kong Xuan endured the chief’s attempt to entertain him with his daughter.

• After three costly battles against the forces across the great river, Hu Dali regretted his campaign and resented Black Wind’s promised title as a Demon King.
• Kong Xuan introduced himself to Hu Dali as an ordinary Royal Court guard and spoke of the king’s loneliness.
• Kong Xuan announced that the king would gather demons from across the Eastern Wasteland into a Border Demon Race Army to defend the frontier.
• Kong Xuan asked Hu Dali and the border tribes to surrender their lands and move inland, promising them a chance to return after the army advanced into the Northern Wasteland.
• Kong Xuan offered the prospect of living near Zhou Mountain and competing to become one of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Demon Kings, persuading Hu Dali to obey.
• Hu Dali introduced his daughter to entertain Kong Xuan, who awkwardly tried to accept her company.

Kong Xuan returned from his diplomatic mission after securing the allegiance of the border clans, and Jiang Yang praised his abilities. Jiang Yang selected 365 Demon Kings and announced that the Demon Race would hold a grand ceremony to establish its system and name him Demon Emperor.

• Kong Xuan visited more than a dozen border clans, securing their agreement to the Royal Court's demands except for the Green Ox Clan, which later pledged allegiance to the Immortal Clan.
• Kong Xuan returned to the Royal Court, where Jiang Yang praised him as an exceptional talent among the younger generation of the Demon Race.
• Baize reported that the Demon Court's future system had been settled and presented 3,000 candidates for the 365 Demon King positions.
• Jiang Yang reviewed the candidates with Baize over several days and chose 365 Demon Kings.
• Jiang Yang ordered a grand ceremony in three months to unite the Demon Race, invest the Demon Kings, and establish the Demon Court, and declared that he would take the title of Demon Emperor.