Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao transported flood victims from the Nine Provinces of the Central Plains to the Savage Wilderness, frustrating the Three Pure Ones’ Dao lineages’ plans to gain Human Race Fortune and merit. After the flood was temporarily contained, Wang Hao and Emperor Dayu set up an altar to petition the Dao Ancestor and Heavenly Dao, where Wang Hao presented bizarre statues that left Dayu questioning their authenticity.

• Wang Hao brought relief supplies and arranged to transport flood victims, especially orphans, to the Savage Wilderness to increase its Human Race Fortune.
• True Person Taiyi objected, but Wang Hao challenged the Chan Sect to take responsibility for the victims, and its Golden Immortals backed down.
• Emperor Dayu supported Wang Hao’s resettlement effort and urged the Three Pure Ones’ Dao lineages to control the flood, prompting them to intervene early.
• The Three Pure Ones’ Dao lineages contained the flood within a thousand years, but Wang Hao and Emperor Dayu recognized that its source remained and it would return.
• Wang Hao proposed that he and Emperor Dayu worship the Dao Ancestor and Heavenly Dao, then brought out provocative, bizarre statues that made Dayu doubt they were genuine.

Wang Hao used the Heavenly Dao’s favor to present a profound formation that could protect the Human Clan and repair the Primordial Wilderness, then decided to recruit wealthy immortals to fund it. He took Emperor Dayu to visit Zhenyuanzi, who sensed that disaster awaited him.

• Wang Hao persuaded Emperor Dayu to perform sacrifices before statues of Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao imbued its statue with Divine Charm.
• Wang Hao revealed the Primordial Wilderness Grand Formation, and Emperor Dayu and the six Sages were astonished by its power and complexity.
• Wang Hao told Emperor Dayu to seek outside investors for the costly formation and arranged a business trip to recruit powerful beings.
• Wang Hao and Emperor Dayu arrived at Five Villages Abbey to visit Zhenyuanzi, who calculated that great calamity awaited him.

Wang Hao persuaded Zhenyuanzi to support a grand formation meant to protect and strengthen the Primordial Wilderness, invoking the Heavenly Dao’s favor to secure his agreement. Zhenyuanzi then led Wang Hao and Dayu to the Northern Dark to recruit Kunpeng, whose palace escape failed when they sealed the surrounding space.

• Zhenyuanzi tried to flee Five Villages Abbey, but Wang Hao redirected his spatial passage and trapped him beside Wang Hao and Dayu.
• Wang Hao showed Zhenyuanzi the Primordial Wilderness Formation Diagram and claimed the Dao Ancestor, Heavenly Dao, and six Sages supported the project; Zhenyuanzi agreed to help.
• Zhenyuanzi named Patriarch Minghe and Patriarch Kunpeng as potential recruits, hoping to use the undertaking to drain his old enemies’ resources.
• Zhenyuanzi opened a passage to the Northern Dark and brought Wang Hao and Dayu there after three days, intending to reach Kunpeng before he could hide.
• Kunpeng sensed mortal danger through the River Map and Luo Writing and tried to teleport the Northern Dark Palace, but the sealed space prevented it.
• Kunpeng confronted Zhenyuanzi and assessed Wang Hao and Dayu, then concluded that he could still escape from his home ground if necessary.

Wang Hao recruited Kunpeng and Patriarch Minghe to help establish formation foundations across their territories, using the Heavenly Dao statue to secure their cooperation and treasures. He then entered the Underworld, received the Heart of Houtu from Lady Pingxin, and began transforming the realm while preparing a place for the Wu Race.

• Zhenyuanzi and Emperor Dayu restrained Kunpeng, and Wang Hao persuaded him to join the undertaking and surrender the River Map and Luo Writing.
• Wang Hao assigned Kunpeng the Northern Dark formation foundations, prompting Kunpeng to consider using the Black Tortoise's remains as materials.
• Zhenyuanzi introduced Patriarch Minghe as another helper, and Minghe lent Wang Hao the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and the Mystic Origin Water Control Flag.
• Wang Hao contracted the Blood Sea region's formation work to Patriarch Minghe and went to the Underworld to meet Lady Pingxin.
• Lady Pingxin gave Wang Hao the Heart of Houtu, and he began altering the Underworld and drawing in turbid Qi to stabilize it and support the Wu Race.

Wang Hao gathered the Five Directions Flags and assigned the holy beasts and their clans to establish the Primordial Wilderness Grand Formation. He secured Holy Venerable White Tiger’s help by promising to restore the extinct White Tiger Clan, then returned to the Savage Wilderness with White Tiger’s Essence Blood to begin cloning embryos.

• Wang Hao coerced Zhulong into arranging the eastern formation foundations, while Holy Venerable Azure Dragon warned Zhulong to keep the Dragon Clan from stirring up trouble.
• Sage Zhunti handed over the Azure Lotus Precious Color Flag, and the Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue relinquished the Southern Off-Ground Flame Light Flag.
• Wang Hao worked with the Phoenix Clan and Holy Venerable Vermilion Bird to arrange the southern foundations, then entrusted the northern foundations to Holy Venerable Xuanwu and the Xuanwu Clan.
• Wang Hao gave Holy Venerable Qilin the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Flag and promised to reduce the Qilin Clan’s Cause and Effect in return for its contribution.
• Wang Hao promised to help Holy Venerable White Tiger revive the extinct White Tiger Clan, and White Tiger gave him Essence Blood in exchange for the Western Plain Cloud Realm Flag.
• Wang Hao returned to the Savage Wilderness with the Essence Blood and began preparing cloned White Tiger embryos for Nüwa to restore to an Innate state.

Wang Hao won the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial Wilderness’s support and planned to strengthen the Primordial Wilderness Grand Formation by restoring shattered Innate Spirit Treasures. He went to Nüwa Sovereign Heaven to borrow Nüwa’s Cauldron of Creation, intending to use it to craft vessels for the treasures.

• Nüwa examined Wang Hao and the White Tiger Clan embryos, then took the incubation chamber to Nüwa Sovereign Heaven to nurture the clan in Chaos Qi.
• Holy Venerable White Tiger thanked Wang Hao and left to oversee the western formation foundations.
• Wang Hao asked the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial Wilderness for a list of Innate Spirit Treasures and learned that many had been shattered or destroyed.
• Wang Hao asked the Heavenly Dao to send him the reclaimed Primordial Qi from the shattered treasures so he could recreate them.
• Wang Hao traveled to Nüwa Sovereign Heaven and asked Nüwa to lend him the Cauldron of Creation to refine spirit treasures.

Wang Hao used the Heavenly Dao and the Heaven and Earth Cauldron to prepare Innate Spirit Treasure foundations for a grand formation, while introducing a new cultivation method that challenged Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s Three Corpses system. Hongjun countered with an upgraded method, and Wang Hao resolved to improve his own in response.

• Wang Hao ran out of materials for his imitation spirit treasure embryos, so the five Sages sent him their collections of Innate divine materials.
• Wang Hao used the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, Chaos Qi, and the Heavenly Dao’s power to nurture the embryos toward the Innate while he and Nüwa studied the Heavenly Dao’s manifestation of the Great Dao of Creation.
• The Heavenly Dao directed the Primordial Wilderness’s mighty figures to build a grand formation requiring all 129,600 Innate Spirit Treasures, but Dao Ancestor Hongjun opposed the plan.
• Wang Hao and the Heavenly Dao introduced a new cultivation method, prompting many mighty figures to destroy their severed corpses, reclaim their treasures, and pursue the Primordial Unity Realm through the new system.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun secretly ordered the six Sages to obstruct Wang Hao and created a stronger Three Corpses method that began drawing followers away from Wang Hao’s system.
• After studying Hongjun’s upgraded method, Wang Hao decided to improve his own cultivation system.

Wang Hao exposed the fatal flaw in Dao Ancestor Hongjun's Severing the Three Corpses Dao Attainment Method and countered its renewed popularity with many alternative methods. With Hongjun's scheme weakened and the six great Sages changing their foundations, the Heavenly Dao resumed directing the Primordial Wilderness's experts to complete the Primordial Wilderness Grand Formation.

• Wang Hao revealed that the Severing the Three Corpses Dao Attainment Method required three same-origin Innate Spirit Treasures to fuse the corpses, leaving most cultivators unable to attain the Dao through it.
• Wang Hao released version 2.0 of his own method, and many mighty figures of the Primordial Wilderness began switching to it.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun repaired the flaw and republished his method, but Wang Hao answered with countless alternative Dao attainment methods suited to different cultivators.
• The six great Sages searched Wang Hao's methods for replacements for their own foundations while Dao Ancestor Hongjun chose not to interfere.
• The Heavenly Dao resumed its suppression and directed the mighty figures to continue building the Primordial Wilderness Grand Formation, and they contributed Innate Spirit Treasures as formation foundations.

Wang Hao learned that the Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation had begun and arranged for Nüwa to fill the list with more than one hundred million Great Firmament Realm cultivators from the Savage Wilderness Human Clan. Nüwa secured the desirable Godhood positions for them, then sent Wang Hao flying after he jokingly offered himself as thanks.

• Emperor Dayu completed his reign and joined the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors at Fire Cloud Cave, while Wang Hao resented the Sages for taking the Human Clan's Fortune.
• The great powers secluded themselves to change their Dao foundations, and the Human Clan migrated beyond the Nine Provinces and spread through the Primordial Wilderness.
• After hearing that the Flat Peach Banquet had ended badly, Wang Hao recognized that the Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation was near.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Sages and ordered them to sign the Investiture of the Gods, but Nüwa filled it with more than one hundred million Human Clan cultivators chosen by Wang Hao.
• Nüwa claimed the desirable Godhood positions for the Human Clan cultivators, leaving the five great Sages to confront the remaining vacancies.
• Wang Hao joked that he could offer himself to Nüwa as thanks, and she struck him out of Nüwa Sovereign Heaven with her tail.

Wang Hao visited the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors at Fire Cloud Cave to warn them about the coming Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation and propose reclaiming the Human Clan’s Fortune from the Three Pure Ones. He left them alarmed by the possibility that the Sages would intervene personally.

• Haotian realized that the newly appointed Heavenly Court Orthodox Gods came from the Savage Wilderness Human Clan and regretted appealing to Hongjun.
• After Nüwa blasted him into the Chaos Sea, Wang Hao recovered and decided to visit the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors at Fire Cloud Cave.
• Wang Hao insisted that Fuxi was his brother-in-law because Nüwa was Fuxi’s twin sister, and he caught and dispelled Nüwa’s Red Brocade Ball attack.
• Wang Hao warned the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors that the Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation was coming and that the Three Pure Ones’ lineages were its main targets.
• Wang Hao revealed that he planned to use the tribulation to reclaim the Human Clan’s Fortune and the Kongtong Seal from the Sages.
• Fuxi and the others realized that Wang Hao’s plan might lead the Sages to intervene and call upon the Power of the Heavenly Dao.

Wang Hao found Yang Jian and Yang Chan after Zhunti took their eldest brother, then told Yang Jian that the Chan Sect planned to use him in the Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation. Yang Jian chose to infiltrate the Chan Sect, while Wang Hao brought Yang Chan to Nüwa, who accepted her as a disciple and was startled when Wang Hao appeared inside her protected domain.

• Wang Hao found Yuan Hong attempting to take the Jade Slip containing the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art and agreed to let him follow, naming him Yuan Hong.
• Wang Hao told Yang Jian that Yang Tianyou was a Western Sect clone, Yang Jiao had been taken by a Sage, and the Chan Sect intended to use Yang Jian as a scapegoat.
• Yang Jian chose to join the Chan Sect and asked Wang Hao to protect Yang Chan, Yang Jiao, and their mother.
• Wang Hao took the sleeping Yang Chan to Nüwa, who accepted her as a disciple and told Wang Hao to leave.
• Nüwa saw Wang Hao standing inside her domain despite the formation still operating and asked how he had entered.

Wang Hao entered Nüwa Sovereign Heaven, persuaded Nüwa to entrust Lingzhuzi’s reincarnation to him, and used dual cultivation as an excuse to pursue her, provoking her fury. Fleeing to Pangu Hall, he reunited with Houtu and hinted that he had returned to help her grow stronger, reappear in the Primordial Wilderness, and revive the Wu Race.

• Wang Hao used Yang Chan to learn the secrets of Nüwa’s formations and slipped into Nüwa Sovereign Heaven, where Nüwa questioned how he had obtained Fuxi’s origin power.
• Wang Hao persuaded Nüwa that Lingzhuzi should reincarnate ahead of the coming Immeasurable Tribulation, and Nüwa entrusted the child’s care to him.
• Wang Hao proposed dual cultivation to help Nüwa understand his Dao Fruit, and Nüwa agreed to study the Heavenly Dao Realm with him.
• After a year of dual cultivation, Nüwa discovered Wang Hao embracing her and struck at him with her two cauldrons, chasing him out into the Chaos Sea.
• Wang Hao escaped to Pangu Hall, where Houtu confronted him about staying away; he claimed he had been protecting her secrecy and said he had a plan to help her and revive the Wu Race.

Wang Hao visited Li Jing at Chentang Pass, learned that Nezha had narrowly escaped a scheme against his birth, and met the unexpectedly hulking reincarnation of Lingzhuzi. After True Person Taiyi arrived to take Nezha as his disciple, Wang Hao went to Zhaoge to investigate who had manipulated King Zhou into insulting Nüwa.

• Wang Hao visited Li Jing and learned that Taiyi had tried to make Li Jing cut open Nezha’s placenta before Nezha was born.
• Wang Hao revealed that Nezha was Lingzhuzi reborn and told Li Jing to protect his Dao; Li Jing vowed to defend his son.
• Nezha entered the hall, and Wang Hao was stunned by his delicate face and enormous, muscular body, which Li Jing blamed on Nezha swallowing a drop of a Great Wu’s Essence Blood.
• Wang Hao reassured Li Jing that Nüwa had betrothed Nezha to Jin Ning, left Nezha a wisp of life-preserving spiritual light, and departed before True Person Taiyi arrived.
• True Person Taiyi came to take Nezha to cultivate but was dumbfounded by his appearance, while Wang Hao traveled to Zhaoge to investigate the hand behind King Zhou’s poem at Nüwa’s temple.

After King Zhou of Shang wrote a poem that exposed the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Devil’s scheme, Wang Hao and Nüwa confronted the hidden plotters, and the Human Clan and Cult Master Tongtian turned against the Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue and the Heavenly Venerable of Primordial Beginning. The battle ended with the two Sages defeated, and Wang Hao suddenly made his move.

• King Zhou of Shang wrote a poem in Nüwa's temple that named Wang Hao as the Holy King, prompting Wang Hao and Nüwa to reveal and confront the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Devil.
• Sage Zhunti identified the figure as the Heavenly Venerable of Primordial Beginning’s God-and-Devil clone, while Cult Master Tongtian learned that the Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue had helped the scheme and broke with the Three Pure Ones.
• Fuxi, the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, and the Human Clan’s three great progenitors stripped the Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue of the Kongtong Seal and declared the Human Clan’s rejection of both Sages; Nüwa expelled their Dao lineages.
• Nüwa and the Human Clan leaders attacked the two Sages, while Wang Hao used the Primordial Wilderness Grand Formation to contain the battle and prevented Sage Zhunti and Sage Jieyin from intervening by discussing the Dao with them.
• The Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue and the Heavenly Venerable of Primordial Beginning were defeated, and Wang Hao suddenly made his move.

Wang Hao took the Taiyi Fly Whisk and Three Treasures Jade Ruyi from the retreating Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue and Heavenly Venerable of Primordial Beginning, then visited Cult Master Tongtian at Golden Turtle Island. He handed Tongtian the treasures to study in exchange for the Green Duckweed Sword, while saying he needed to hurry back to Nüwa.

• The Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue and the Heavenly Venerable of Primordial Beginning withdrew after Wang Hao and Nüwa claimed their supreme treasures, and Nüwa returned to Nüwa Sovereign Heaven.
• Wang Hao shouted that Nüwa should prepare for his betrothal gifts, then left Fuxi to deal with King Zhou of Shang and the high priest.
• Wang Hao arrived at Golden Turtle Island, took a chunk of Kui Ox's flesh to remove accumulated medicinal origin, and told him to cook it for a meal with Cult Master Tongtian.
• The Three Xiaos served Wang Hao and Cult Master Tongtian wine and beef before Tongtian sent them away to discuss business.
• Tongtian asked to study the Taiyi Fly Whisk and Three Treasures Jade Ruyi in exchange for the Green Duckweed Sword, and Wang Hao handed him both sealed treasures.

Wang Hao enlisted Cult Master Tongtian to help resurrect the Twelve Ancestral Wu and gathered the Three Pure Ones’ treasures to restore the Twelfth-Grade Creation Azure Lotus for Nüwa. The lotus reformed without its stem, so Wang Hao placed the Godslaying Spear in the Cauldron of Creation as a possible replacement, leaving its restoration uncertain.

• Wang Hao gave Cult Master Tongtian the Taiyi Fly Whisk and Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, then asked him for Pangu’s Primordial Spirit to help resurrect the Twelve Ancestral Wu.
• Cult Master Tongtian severed half of his Primordial Spirit for Wang Hao and extracted the Dao Fruits from the treasures of the Three Pure Ones.
• Wang Hao entered Nüwa Sovereign Heaven and used Nüwa’s Cauldron of Creation to refine the Three Pure Ones’ treasures while they combined their Great Daos of Creation.
• Wang Hao and Nüwa restored the treasures into the Twelfth-Grade Creation Azure Lotus’s flower, leaf, and root, but could not find its stem.
• Wang Hao revealed that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had destroyed the original stem and put the Godslaying Spear into the Cauldron of Creation to replace it.

Wang Hao restored the Godslaying Spear into the Chaos Azure Lotus stem and used it to complete the Creation Azure Lotus, then returned to the Primordial Wilderness. The Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue and the Heavenly Venerable of Primordial Beginning decided to recruit the two Sages of the West against Tongtian, while Wang Hao began investigating events in Great Shang.

• Wang Hao spent three hundred million years in Nüwa Sovereign Heaven extracting the Heaven-Opening baleful Qi from the Godslaying Spear and restoring its spirituality with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus's source.
• Wang Hao restored the Godslaying Spear into the Chaos Azure Lotus stem, and the Creation Azure Lotus's three components joined with it to form a stronger lotus.
• Nüwa learned that Wang Hao had also won over Houtu, then stayed behind to nurture the completed Creation Azure Lotus as Wang Hao left her realm.
• The Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue and the Heavenly Venerable of Primordial Beginning mistook Wang Hao's gloomy expression for failure and resolved to invite the two Sages of the West to help deal with Tongtian.
• Wang Hao returned to the Primordial Wilderness and began investigating what had changed during his absence, especially in Great Shang.

King Zhou forged the Emperor's Hatred Demon Saber from the remains and treasures of Great Shang's emperors and launched an early attack on the Western Zhou. After the battle turned against Great Shang, Wen Zhong revealed that the retreat was meant to draw hidden enemies of the Human Clan into the open, leaving King Zhou to consider Great Shang's final service to the clan.

• Wang Hao visited King Zhou, learned he had become a devil to resist Great Shang's fate, and left after hearing that King Zhou's sons had joined the Chan Sect.
• King Zhou forged the Emperor's Hatred Demon Saber from the remains and treasures of twenty-nine deceased emperors, adding his own resentment to its power.
• Wen Zhong led Great Shang's army against the Western Zhou with Jie Sect support, while Nezha and Li Jing fought True Person Taiyi and the Chan Sect struggled against its opponents.
• Guangchengzi told the Chan Sect Golden Immortals that Western Sect reinforcements and other experts would arrive, prompting Daoist Randeng to resolve to betray them.
• King Zhou wielded the completed saber on the battlefield as Jie Sect disciples killed Chijingzi and True Lord Qingxu of Dao and Virtue, before the Chan Sect's reinforcements pushed Great Shang back to its second line.
• Wen Zhong explained to King Zhou that the apparent retreat was a stratagem to expose hidden threats to the Human Clan, and said Great Shang was making this its final service to the clan.

Wang Hao’s plan to expose those hostile to the Human Clan unfolded as Cult Master Tongtian activated the Zhu Xian Sword Formation and confronted the four Sages. While the Sages entered the formation and their forces battled outside, Great Shang destroyed Western Zhou and joined the fight against the Chan Sect, leaving the battle turning against the four Sages’ side.

• Wang Hao watched the conflict from afar, having secretly instructed Wen Zhong to expose factions hostile to the Human Clan.
• Cult Master Tongtian activated the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, forcing the four Sages to descend on Western Zhou and abandon their plan to shift the tribulation’s consequences onto the Human Clan.
• Holy Mother Wudang, Holy Mother Guiling, Holy Mother Jinling, and Holy Mother Yunxiao took positions at the formation’s four swords as Cult Master Tongtian completed the formation; the four Sages split up to try to break it.
• Daoist Duobao led the Jie Sect’s Ten Thousand Immortals Formation against the Chan Sect and its allies while the Great Shang legions defeated Western Zhou’s armies.
• King Zhou of Shang killed Ji Chang and Ji Fa with the Emperor’s Hatred Demon Saber, then led his surviving soldiers into the heavenly battlefield against the Chan Sect.
• With Great Shang joining the fight, the Chan Sect and its allies struggled to hold their ground and hoped the four Sages would break the Zhu Xian Sword Formation.

Cult Master Tongtian’s four Zhu Xian Sword Formations were broken by the Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue’s Three Pure Ones clones, but Tongtian and King Zhou of Shang inflicted heavy losses and reclaimed Supreme Clarity origin power. After four Sages were manipulated into launching a world-destroying attack, Wang Hao and his allies stopped it, and Wang Hao seized their supreme treasures.

• The Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue unleashed One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, broke through his Zhu Xian Sword Formation, and helped the other Sages break another formation.
• King Zhou of Shang used the Heavenly Devil Disintegration Great Method with Cult Master Tongtian’s help to consume the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Devil into the Emperor's Hatred Demon Saber, while Tongtian reclaimed a Supreme Clarity clone and its origin power.
• The Chan Sect and Western Sect forces below were nearly wiped out, and the Heavenly Venerable of Primordial Beginning, the Heavenly Venerable of Dao and Virtue, Sage Jieyin, and Sage Zhunti launched a world-destroying attack after their primordial purple qi magnified their evil thoughts.
• Wang Hao, Cult Master Tongtian, and Nüwa reinforced the Primordial Wilderness Grand Formation and neutralized the four Sages’ attack.
• Wang Hao declared the four Sages punished and seized the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, Twelfth-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit, and Jiangmo Vajra from them.