Chapter Summaries

Hongxuan returned to Golden Ao Island just before Lord Tongtian’s lecture on the Dao of formations began. He promised to take Ao Ling'er to Mount Wuyi after the lecture and resolved to teach her properly.

• Hongxuan left for Golden Ao Island, where Lord Tongtian was preparing to lecture on formations.
• The Three Xiao Sisters discussed Hongxuan’s long absence and the opportunities that had helped him grow stronger.
• Hongxuan arrived at Golden Ao Island and greeted the Three Xiao Sisters, while Ao Ling'er greeted him as her master.
• Hongxuan told Ao Ling'er to follow him to Mount Wuyi after the lecture and said she would cultivate there.
• At the sound of the bell, the Jie Sect disciples entered Biyou Palace or took seats outside to await Lord Tongtian’s lecture.

After Lord Tongtian’s sermon greatly advanced Hongxuan’s Formation Dao, he assigned Jie Sect disciples to teach three of the Human Emperors. Hongxuan accepted the Earth Sovereign’s tutelage, having sensed a major opportunity awaiting him, while remaining wary of wicked fellow disciples.

• Hongxuan listened to Lord Tongtian’s five-hundred-year sermon and made a major breakthrough in the Formation Dao.
• Lord Tongtian announced that the Human Race’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors would bring great merit and offered the Jie Sect’s three teaching positions.
• Duobao accepted the task of teaching the first of the Five Emperors, Yunxiao accepted the final one, and Hongxuan agreed to teach the Earth Sovereign.
• Lord Tongtian told Jinling, Wudang, and Guiling that they had no fate with the eight Human Emperors, but could seek other opportunities for merit.
• Hongxuan sensed ill will from some disciples and resolved that he would not protect wicked Jie Sect members in the future Investiture of the Gods War.

Lord Tongtian discovered that corrupt Jie Sect disciples were harming the sect’s fortune and resolved to consider its future. At Three Xiao Island, Hongxuan examined the treasures and inheritance from the Land of Opportunity, named its ship-shaped treasure the Eternal Sky Ark, and continued to pursue the Law of Destiny rather than advance through the Law of Karma.

• After refining the Chaos Bell, Lord Tongtian saw that some Jie Sect disciples were abusing their status and damaging the sect’s fortune, so he decided he could no longer ignore the problem.
• While waiting for the Human Race’s Earth Emperor to be born, Hongxuan reviewed the Land of Opportunity and considered the identity, strength, and intentions of the person who had left its treasures and inheritances.
• Although Hongxuan had comprehended fifty percent of the Law of Karma, he chose not to advance to the Quasi-Sage Realm through it because he wanted to follow the Law of Destiny.
• Hongxuan refined the ship-shaped treasure and learned that the Innate Supreme Treasure could travel through chaos, defend itself, and contain several cave-heaven worlds.
• Hongxuan named the treasure the Eternal Sky Ark and recognized that it might grow in grade and prove important in the future.

Hongxuan advanced his Grand Destiny Art and other abilities while preparing to teach Shennong, then accepted Jiang Lieshan as his disciple after the boy passed a test. He began Shennong’s lessons near the Lieshan Tribe, where the future Earth Emperor’s training would depend on how many tests he completed.

• Hongxuan sensed that Fuxi had become Human Emperor and anticipated Shennong’s birth, then devised a plan for teaching him.
• Through heaven-defying comprehension, Hongxuan advanced the Grand Destiny Art and Grand Deduction Art, created the Martial Scripture, and improved his other skills.
• Under Fuxi’s leadership, the Human Race prospered, grew more cohesive, and used the Innate Eight Trigrams to avert dangers.
• Jiang Lieshan climbed a dangerous mountain alone and asked the immortal elder in the grass hut to accept him as a disciple.
• Hongxuan revealed himself, accepted Jiang Lieshan after he passed the test, and began his first lesson.

Hongxuan taught Jiang Lieshan cultivation, governance, and medicine over ten years, helping him grow into a Celestial Immortal and a capable leader whose tribe prospered. The chapter left Jiang Lieshan developing the Human Race as chieftain, armed with Hongxuan’s Human Martial Scripture and new knowledge.

• Hongxuan began teaching the young Jiang Lieshan, who mastered the lessons and learned to travel safely down the mountain on his own.
• Jiang Lieshan returned every day, and over ten years he advanced to the Celestial Immortal realm while learning to govern and strengthen the Human Race.
• Jiang Lieshan applied Hongxuan’s guidance to the Lieshan Tribe, growing it into a renowned large tribe and attracting Fuxi’s attention.
• Hongxuan gave Jiang Lieshan the Human Martial Scripture, which could help ordinary people develop a spirit body and gain the qualifications to cultivate.
• Jiang Lieshan established trade between tribes, became chieftain of the Lieshan Tribe at eighteen, and used his medical knowledge to benefit his tribe and the Human Race.

After years of instruction, Hongxuan sent Jiang Lieshan to lead the Human Race with three Innate Spiritual Treasures. He then directed Ao Ling'er to assist Lieshan and earn merit to lessen her karmic sin, while revealing he was ready to break through to the Quasi-Sage realm.

• Jiang Lieshan advanced to the Golden Immortal realm, and Hongxuan ended their lessons and entrusted him with leading the Human Race.
• Hongxuan left Jiang Lieshan three Innate Spiritual Treasures: a vegetation-energy whip, a medicinal cauldron, and a spirit jade treasure.
• At Three Immortals Island, Hongxuan learned that Fuxi had attained the Heavenly Emperor’s Dao and passed the Human Race leadership to Lieshan.
• Hongxuan sent Ao Ling'er to serve under Lieshan so she could earn merit and reduce the Dragon Race karmic sin hindering her cultivation.
• When Yunxiao asked about his breakthrough, Hongxuan said he was prepared to enter the Quasi-Sage realm at any time.

Hongxuan carefully prepared for his breakthrough and advanced from the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm to the early Quasi-Sage realm. He created and severed a Great Dao path of his own, manifesting Destiny as a figure within the Eternal Dao Tome.

• Hongxuan asked the Three Xiao Sisters to look after Lieshan while he secluded himself, and they agreed.
• Hongxuan studied the Yellow Court Scripture and strengthened his foundation, Dao Heart, and mastery of the Law of Destiny.
• After resolving the hidden problems he found, Hongxuan began his breakthrough and endured ten thousand years of turmoil.
• Hongxuan shattered the bottleneck and reached the early Quasi-Sage realm.
• The Destiny Compass emerged from the Eternal Dao Tome, and Hongxuan manifested Destiny through his original Great Dao method of corpse severance.

Hongxuan broke through to the Quasi-Sage realm after severing a law Dao body from the Destiny Compass. His breakthrough shook the Primordial Wilderness, and the chapter ended with Lord Tongtian celebrating the Jie Sect’s future while Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning considered how the Chan Sect could catch up.

• Hongxuan used his extraordinary comprehension, foundations, and the Destiny Compass to create a law Dao body and become a Quasi-Sage.
• A vast heavenly phenomenon appeared over Three Immortals Island, and the Three Xiao Sisters celebrated Hongxuan’s breakthrough and reflected on how he had helped them grow.
• Sages and Quasi-Sage experts across the Primordial Wilderness sensed that Hongxuan, the Jie Sect disciple and Emperor Ziwei, had advanced.
• Lord Tongtian was astonished by Hongxuan’s rapid progress and looked forward to him becoming a powerful pillar of the Jie Sect.
• Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning worried that Lord Tongtian would boast about Hongxuan and decided the Chan Sect needed a Quasi-Sage figurehead, noting that Immortal Elder of the South Pole and Randeng were nearing the breakthrough.

After Hongxuan advanced to Quasi-Sage, he remained in seclusion to break through the ninth revolution of the Hongxuan Body Refinement Art and transform his foundation. His breakthrough began with the formation of an illusory Heavenly Pillar of Great Dao laws, but an invisible trial threatened to destroy his body and Great Dao if he failed.

• Yuanshi chose Immortal Elder of the South Pole for advancement and assigned Guang Chengzi to become the Human Emperor's master.
• Laozi learned of Hongxuan's advancement but remained confident that Xuandu would surpass him in the future.
• Zhunti urged Jieyin to nurture a Western Sect Quasi-Sage, but Jieyin said they should wait for conflict among the Three Purities.
• Houtu resolved to grow strong enough to protect Hongxuan from future tribulations, even aiming to reach the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• Hongxuan stayed in seclusion after advancing to Quasi-Sage and began breaking through to the ninth revolution of his body refinement art.
• Hongxuan formed an illusory Heavenly Pillar of Great Dao laws in his Purple Palace, triggering an invisible trial that could collapse his body and Great Dao.

Hongxuan risked his life to transform his Foundation by condensing and integrating the Destiny Law Heavenly Pillar into his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven. After Shennong’s ascension to Earth Emperor gave him providence and merit that helped him endure the trial, Hongxuan completed his Ninth Revolution and emerged with a transformed Foundation.

• Hongxuan began condensing the Destiny Law Heavenly Pillar, determined to risk the dangerous Foundation transformation rather than give up his chance at greater potential.
• As Hongxuan merged the illusory pillar into his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, a mysterious trial attacked his will and nearly overwhelmed him.
• Shennong attained the position of Earth Emperor of the Human Race, and the resulting providence and merit helped Hongxuan survive the trial.
• Hongxuan completed the fusion and endured until the mysterious trial disappeared.
• Hongxuan transformed the Destiny Law Heavenly Pillar from illusion into reality, completed his Ninth Revolution, and underwent another Foundation evolution.

Hongxuan completed the ninth transformation of the Hongxuan Body Refinement Art and achieved a Top-Tier Innate God Foundation, then visited the Human Race to see how Shennong had developed it. Seeing the Human Race thriving, Hongxuan let go of his lingering concern for its future and resolved to stop interfering.

• Hongxuan examined his transformed body and primordial spirit, recognized the dangers of the breakthrough, and resolved not to risk another transformation without absolute confidence.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Hongxuan left seclusion and realized the Three Xiao Sisters were away during the era of Human Emperor Xuanyuan.
• Hongxuan traveled through Human tribes and saw that Shennong had expanded on his teachings, invented useful tools, and established beneficial policies.
• Hongxuan learned that Shennong's Herbal Classic advanced medicine and that his Nine Cauldrons Martial Dao gave people a path toward immortality.
• Seeing the Human Race's progress, Hongxuan decided his work was done, released his concern for its future, and resolved to stop overstepping his role.

Hongxuan discovered that Cangjie was destined to become his disciple and secretly guided him in the Dao of Writing. Ten years later, Cangjie reached the mountain summit and found that Hongxuan had left him three treasures and instructions for his next trial.

• Hongxuan calculated that a Human Race child in the Xuanyuan Tribe was destined to become his disciple and went to find him.
• Hongxuan met Cangjie, learned of his wish to create writing for the Human Race, and challenged him to reach the tallest peak in the Youxiong Mountains within twelve hours.
• Cangjie accepted the challenge and spent ten years receiving guidance from Hongxuan.
• Cangjie reached the summit and found his master gone, with a brush, a book, and the Cosmos Fan left on a stone table.
• Cangjie mourned his separation from Hongxuan and was expected to fulfill his destiny before following his master's instructions to travel to Mount Wuyi.

Cangjie accepted Hongxuan’s treasures and continued refining them as he pursued his role as the Ancestor of Human Civilization. Hongxuan returned to Mount Wuyi, rewarded Liufeng and Ziyun, and began gathering and training its inhabitants, leaving them to listen to his hundred-year lecture on the Dao.

• Cangjie thanked Hongxuan for the three treasures and sat down to refine them.
• Hongxuan observed Cangjie’s progress, checked on Xuanyuan in the Youxiong Tribe, and then departed.
• Hongxuan returned to Mount Wuyi and rewarded Liufeng and Ziyun with Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for managing the mountain.
• Hongxuan ordered Liufeng and Ziyun to summon the mountain’s inhabitants for a lecture and said he would select assistants and cultivate Dao soldiers.
• Three days later, Hongxuan addressed the gathered inhabitants, announced a hundred-year lecture on the Dao, and forbade them from killing one another.

Hongxuan finished his sermon, organized Mount Wuyi, and received Golden Fortune Daoist, who had recovered to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm. Bound by their contract, Golden Fortune Daoist joined him as a fellow Daoist rather than a subordinate.

• Hongxuan ended his hundred-year sermon and told the listeners the next one would take place a thousand years later.
• Hongxuan ordered Liufeng and Ziyun to choose Dao soldiers and attendants, and said he would establish a library where they could exchange merit points for its contents.
• Hongxuan used materials and golden flames to create palaces around his cave abode.
• Hongxuan learned that Golden Fortune Daoist had come to see him and was surprised that he had recovered to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Golden Fortune Daoist said their contract required him to fulfill its terms or face the Great Dao's backlash.
• Hongxuan agreed to let Golden Fortune Daoist stay by his side as a fellow Daoist, without a master-servant relationship.

Hongxuan learned that Golden Fortune Daoist cultivated the Commerce Dao and enlisted him to establish a merchant association, giving it ties to Mount Heng, the Human Race, and the Heavenly Court. After sending Golden Fortune Daoist to begin the venture, Hongxuan left Mount Wuyi once his three Dao lectures were complete.

• Golden Fortune Daoist explained that the Commerce Dao granted him improvements through transactions and said a curse had once crippled his cultivation.
• Hongxuan proposed a merchant association for trading treasures, pills, and spiritual materials, and Golden Fortune Daoist eagerly agreed to establish it.
• Hongxuan told Golden Fortune Daoist that he was Emperor Ziwei and planned to build influence in the Heavenly Court while keeping ties to the Human Race and the Netherworld Underworld.
• Hongxuan and Golden Fortune Daoist discussed the association as Hongxuan lectured the beings of Mount Wuyi, developed the mountain, and trained its Dao soldiers.
• Hongxuan chose Mount Heng as the association's headquarters and sent Golden Fortune Daoist there to begin building its customer base and influence.
• After Golden Fortune Daoist departed, Hongxuan left Mount Wuyi, having completed his three Dao lectures.

Hongxuan continued building a carefully vetted force for the Heavenly Court while traveling the Primordial Wilderness. He summoned Ao Ling'er to the East Sea after revealing that the Jingwei Bird was Shennong's daughter Nüwa, whose death might be tied to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace.

• Hongxuan spent thirty thousand years traveling the Primordial Wilderness, testing and recruiting promising, loyal talents for his future forces.
• Ao Ling'er continued earning merit among the Human Race, and the karmic burden tied to her race faded under the Three Xiao Sisters' care.
• Hongxuan told Ao Ling'er that the Jingwei Bird was Nüwa, Shennong's daughter, who had drowned in the East Sea and spent tens of thousands of years trying to fill it with pebbles.
• Hongxuan summoned Ao Ling'er to the East Sea, prompting her to suspect that her family or the Dragon Palace had caused Nüwa's death.
• Ao Guang welcomed Hongxuan with great respect and thanked him for protecting Ao Ling'er, while Hongxuan explained that he had guarded his first disciple.

Hongxuan warned Ao Guang that the Dragon Race’s karmic burden had put Ao Guang’s third son in a death calamity and advised him to appease the Jingwei Bird. He then sent Ao Guang to consult Candle Dragon, who urged the Dragon Race to maintain ties with Hongxuan and comply with his wishes while keeping its own hopes beyond the Heavenly Court.

• Hongxuan told Ao Guang that his third son’s role in Nüwa’s death had entangled him in a death calamity amid the Dragon Race’s karmic burden.
• Hongxuan advised Ao Guang to appease Jingwei with an apology and lavish gifts, and said resolving the Dragon Race’s burden was the key to saving his son.
• Hongxuan told Ao Guang to seek guidance from Candle Dragon, and Ao Guang hurried to Dragon Abyss.
• Ao Guang recounted Hongxuan’s warning to Candle Dragon, who acknowledged Hongxuan’s growing strength and their past investment in him.
• Candle Dragon instructed Ao Guang to maintain ties with Hongxuan and agree if he wanted the Dragon Race to submit to the Heavenly Court, while not relying on it entirely.

Candle Dragon arranged for the Dragon Race to submit to the Heavenly Court under Hongxuan’s protection, while Ao Guang settled the Dragon Race’s karma with Jingwei. Hongxuan transformed Jingwei back into a girl, gave her a spiritual treasure, and let her remain by his side, but warned Ao Guang that Ao Bing still faced a deadly future tribulation.

• Candle Dragon told Ao Guang to submit the Dragon Race to the Heavenly Court through Hongxuan and sent a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure to settle the karma with Jingwei.
• Ao Guang pledged the Four Seas Dragon Palaces to the Heavenly Court under Emperor Ziwei, and Hongxuan granted the Dragon Race the privilege of obeying orders without answering summons.
• Ao Guang offered the Luo Heaven Umbrella to settle Jingwei’s karma, and Hongxuan warned him that Ao Bing faced a fatal tribulation involving a future Chan Sect disciple.
• Hongxuan restored Jingwei to human form, and she recognized him as her Grandmaster and asked to stay by his side.
• Hongxuan gave Jingwei the Luo Heaven Umbrella and declared that her karma with the Dragon Race had been completely settled.

Hongxuan renamed Nüwa as Jingwei and reunited her survival with Shennong, who learned that his daughter had been saved. On Mount Wuyi, Hongxuan used his merit to erase Ao Ling’er’s karmic sin, freeing her cultivation from its obstruction.

• Hongxuan renamed Nüwa as Jingwei, introduced her to Ao Ling’er, and told Jingwei to seek Ao Ling’er’s help when he was away.
• Shennong calculated that Hongxuan had saved his daughter and felt relieved, while Fuxi congratulated him and considered Hongxuan’s strength and character.
• Hongxuan welcomed Ao Ling’er and Jingwei to Mount Wuyi, announced that he would lecture on the Great Dao in ten days, and planned for them to visit the Three Xiao Sisters.
• Hongxuan sent a vast mass of merit into Ao Ling’er, causing her karmic sin to disappear and her cultivation bottleneck to loosen.
• Ao Ling’er felt her body and primordial spirit become pure and complete, and she looked at Hongxuan with deep gratitude.

Hongxuan lectured Ao Ling'er and Jingwei on the Dao, then began building the Heavenly Court’s forces by appointing a thousand promising subordinates. He gave them a thousand years to prepare for an assessment that would determine the first Ten Commanders.

• Ao Ling'er felt grateful to Hongxuan for removing the karmic force that had blocked her cultivation and given her a chance to reach the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ten days later, Hongxuan lectured the living beings of Mount Wuyi for five hundred years, helping Ao Ling'er stabilize her cultivation and guiding Jingwei to rebuild her foundation.
• Hongxuan gathered a thousand carefully selected figures at the Heavenly Court’s Emperor Ziwei Palace and told them to serve diligently, promising rewards for merit and punishment for serious mistakes.
• Hongxuan gave the thousand subordinates a thousand years to prepare for an assessment, after which the strongest ten would become Ten Commanders and lead his strongest Heavenly Armies.