Chapter Summaries

Chu Feng and his disciples arrived on the Hongyuan Continent and founded the Dao-Seeking Sect, where they hoped to gain the Heavenly Dao’s providence. After they finished building the sect, Cao Youqian asked Chu Feng to name their mountain.

• Old Man Meng advised Chu Feng to establish a sect that followed his Great Dao, and Chu Feng said he followed the Dao itself.
• Seven days later, Divine King Zhen opened a teleportation formation that sent Chu Feng, Xiao Chen, and Cao Youqian to the Hongyuan Continent.
• Chu Feng chose the title Dao Ancestor, resisted the heavenly might that descended, and received a ray of golden light that increased his Dao Resonance.
• Chu Feng formed a sect on the mountain, named it the Dao-Seeking Sect, and inscribed “Teach all without distinction” beside its entrance.
• Chu Feng and his disciples built the sect in less than three days, and Cao Youqian asked what to name the mountain.

Chu Feng explained that Slanting Moon Mountain’s formation would draw in Children of Destiny, and Cao Youqian later rescued the young Ji Jiuwu from a saber-toothed tiger demon. Ji Jiuwu accepted Cao Youqian’s invitation to eat on the mountain, beginning his connection with the Dao-Seeking Sect.

• Chu Feng named Slanting Moon Mountain and told Cao Youqian and Xiao Chen that its formation would attract fortunate cultivators seeking a master.
• Nine days later, Ji Jiuwu fled a saber-toothed tiger demon and entered Slanting Moon Mountain, where the formation knocked the demon unconscious.
• Cao Youqian found Ji Jiuwu, gave him spiritual spring water, and recognized him as a talented young body cultivator.
• Cao Youqian invited Ji Jiuwu to eat the tiger demon and stay until morning, and Ji Jiuwu introduced himself by name.

Chu Feng met Ji Jiuwu, a young cultivator from a tribe under the Water God Gonggong, and learned about the human cultivation system. Ji Jiuwu asked to stay at the Dao-Seeking Sect, and Cao Youqian brought him back to await Chu Feng’s decision.

• Cao Youqian brought Ji Jiuwu before Chu Feng, who learned that the youth was his grandfather’s ninety-fifth grandson.
• Cao Youqian knocked out the saber-toothed tiger after it begged for mercy, and Xiao Chen joined him to prepare the tiger as food.
• Chu Feng spoke with Ji Jiuwu about his tribe and the cultivation realms before inviting him to share the roasted tiger meat.
• The next morning, Cao Youqian began escorting Ji Jiuwu away, but Ji Jiuwu asked to stay and become his disciple.
• Cao Youqian told Ji Jiuwu he could stay if he passed a test, then returned him to the hall to wait for Chu Feng.

Ji Jiuwu spent eighty-one days at the Dao-Seeking Sect seeking a purpose worthy of becoming Chu Feng’s disciple. After deciding to pursue the Sword Dao so he could become Human Emperor and bring peace to the Human Race, he completed the tea ceremony and was accepted as Chu Feng’s personal disciple, just as a strange phenomenon appeared in the sky.

• Chu Feng told Ji Jiuwu to carry water and chop firewood while seeking his own Dao before he could become a disciple.
• Over eighty-one days, Ji Jiuwu watched Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian cultivate, listened to Chu Feng preach, and revised his ambition from becoming a Celestial Person to becoming a Shaman God.
• When Chu Feng examined the three, Ji Jiuwu said he wanted to become a supreme Shaman God, but Chu Feng urged him to look beyond that and consider what he would do with such power.
• Ji Jiuwu resolved to become Human Emperor and establish a kingdom where the Human Race could live in peace, then chose the Sword Dao as his path.
• Chu Feng agreed to teach Ji Jiuwu basic sword moves and give him a heavenly book to comprehend his own Sword Dao.
• Ji Jiuwu offered tea to Chu Feng and was formally accepted as his personal disciple; a strange phenomenon appeared in the sky.

A heavenly omen drew living beings from across the region to Slanting Moon Mountain as Ji Jiuwu began cultivating under Chu Feng and learned about the path to immortality. Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian left the sect to temper themselves, then watched the crowds approach the mountain, where a few were finally making their way through its mist.

• Purple Qi gathered over the Dao-Seeking Sect, and Chu Feng received a reward after accepting Ji Jiuwu as his disciple.
• Chu Feng imparted the Nature Scripture to Ji Jiuwu, and all three disciples cultivated beneath the heavenly omen for three days.
• Ji Jiuwu asked about the energy gathering in his lower abdomen, and Chu Feng explained that he had begun immortal cultivation and could cultivate both law and body.
• Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian asked to leave the sect to temper themselves, and Chu Feng permitted them to go down the mountain.
• Xiao Chen stopped Cao Youqian from attacking the approaching human, Demon Race, and ghost beings, reminding him of the sect's principle to teach all without discrimination.
• Seven days later, two living beings reached the stone steps through the mist, while several others emerged and headed toward Cao Youqian.

Cao Youqian subdued the Thunder Qilin and forced him to become his mount, eager to test the backlash of heaven and earth against the Qilin Clan. A bolt of heavenly lightning struck Cao Youqian after the contract was formed, and the Thunder Qilin’s confidence suddenly faltered.

• Cao Youqian stopped the approaching Thunder Qilin and offered him an opportunity, but the Qilin mocked him and attacked with lightning.
• Cao Youqian endured the Thunder Qilin’s attacks unharmed, then knocked him down with a single punch.
• Cao Youqian demanded that the Thunder Qilin serve as his mount, and the Qilin refused, warning that a contract would provoke the Qilin Clan’s heavenly backlash.
• Cao Youqian beat the Thunder Qilin until he agreed, and they completed the spirit beast contract.
• Winds and thunderclouds gathered, and heavenly lightning struck Cao Youqian as the Thunder Qilin watched with an excited smile that soon froze.

Cao Youqian subdued the Thunder Qilin and set off to travel the four seas, while Jiang Yan reached the Dao-Seeking Sect seeking the heavenly sign he had witnessed. Chu Feng told Jiang Yan the light of providence had already dissipated and began to explain the only way he could see it again.

• Cao Youqian endured the Thunder Qilin’s heavenly lightning, revealed himself as the Ancestor of Body Cultivation, and accepted the Qilin as his mount.
• Cao Youqian told the Thunder Qilin they would travel the four seas before returning to the place where the light of providence had appeared.
• Jiang Yan climbed Slanting Moon Mountain to investigate the auspicious sign and met Ji Jiuwu, who welcomed him to the Dao-Seeking Sect.
• Ji Jiuwu brought Jiang Yan to the palace, where he met Chu Feng and learned the light of providence had dissipated.
• Chu Feng told Jiang Yan there was only one way to see the light of providence again.

Jiang Yan agreed to take Chu Feng's test to join the Dao-Seeking Sect, and a white deer also sought to become Chu Feng's disciple. The chapter left Jiang Yan collapsed after eating an unfamiliar flower, as Ji Jiuwu rushed to alert Chu Feng.

• Jiang Yan told Chu Feng he wanted to learn healing, accepted the sect's test, and was assigned to Ji Jiuwu's guidance.
• Ji Jiuwu and Jiang Yan met a snow-white deer on the mountain steps and brought it before Chu Feng.
• Chu Feng allowed the deer to study with Ji Jiuwu and attend his scripture lectures until it took human form.
• Chu Feng told Ji Jiuwu that he would accept Jiang Yan as a disciple soon, and Ji Jiuwu went to share the news.
• Jiang Yan collapsed after tasting an unfamiliar flower, and Ji Jiuwu rushed to Chu Feng's courtyard to report the emergency.

After Chu Feng saved Jiang Yan from poisoning, he gave him the Shennong Classic to study before becoming his disciple. Three months later, impressed by Jiang Yan’s mastery of the scripture, Chu Feng accepted him as a disciple and asked why he had come to the Dao-Seeking Sect.

• Chu Feng cured Jiang Yan after he accidentally ate a poisonous flower while searching the mountains for useful plants.
• Chu Feng gave Jiang Yan the Shennong Classic and told him to study it before coming back to learn his arts as a disciple.
• Jiang Yan studied the scripture while continuing his daily chores with Ji Jiuwu, and three months passed.
• After testing Jiang Yan on the Shennong Classic, Chu Feng praised his knowledge and decided to accept him as a disciple.
• Jiang Yan completed the disciple-taking ceremony, and Chu Feng asked him why he had come to the Dao-Seeking Sect.

Chu Feng summoned the heavenly phenomenon again, and his disciples gained new insights and powers from its light of fortune. Ji Jiuwu awakened the Human Emperor Physique and learned how to conceal its radiance, while Chu Feng asked Jiang Yan and the white deer what they wanted to learn.

• Chu Feng activated the sect formation and summoned the heavenly phenomenon, prompting Ji Jiuwu, Jiang Yan, and the white deer to cultivate in its light.
• Cao Youqian and Xiao Chen received the light of fortune while pursuing their own goals, and nearby people revered them as divine figures.
• After the light lasted a day and night, the system rewarded Chu Feng for Xiao Chen's and Cao Youqian's Dao insights and Ji Jiuwu's awakened Human Emperor Physique.
• Ji Jiuwu discovered that his body was glowing and asked Chu Feng how to stop attracting attention.
• Chu Feng gave Ji Jiuwu a method to conceal his presence, then offered Jiang Yan the Nature Scripture for cultivating immortality alongside medicine.
• Chu Feng asked the white deer whether it had gained anything from the light of fortune.

Xiao Chen confronted the Wolf Fang Tribe’s Wolf God and proved his strength by destroying its divine punishment and killing it with Sword Qi. The tribe’s people were left stunned, and the high priest wondered whether Xiao Chen was the true god of humanity.

• Chu Feng praised the white deer’s progress toward cultivating a human form and encouraged him to keep training so he could become his disciple.
• Xiao Chen told the Wolf Fang Tribe that he was an immortal’s disciple spreading the Sword Dao, and the high priest questioned him about his claim that immortals surpassed gods.
• The high priest reasoned that Xiao Chen’s master must be stronger than the Wolf God because the Wolf God had not punished Xiao Chen for blasphemy.
• The Moon-Inviting Wolf Emperor appeared and demanded that Xiao Chen bow, but Xiao Chen challenged it and offered to spare its life if it submitted.
• The wolf Yao attacked Xiao Chen with moonlight, but Xiao Chen shattered its moon with Sword Qi and demonstrated the True Essence of the Great Dao.
• The wolf Yao tried to flee, but Xiao Chen struck it with Sword Qi and decapitated it.

Xiao Chen killed the Wolf God and offered the human tribes under its rule a new inheritance through immortal cultivation. He established the Famous Sword Holy Land at the Wolf Fang Tribe and prepared to receive disciples, while news of the Wolf God’s death spread and a beast tide approached.

• Xiao Chen removed the Wolf God’s demon core and flesh, then told the frightened Wolf Fang Tribe that he had not come to kill them.
• Xiao Chen promised to teach immortal cultivation and invited any twelve-year-old child from the tribes under the Wolf God’s rule to receive his inheritance.
• Xiao Chen named the Wolf Fang Tribe’s territory the Famous Sword Holy Land and created a giant stone sword on the tribe’s highest peak.
• The high priest ordered the tribes within ten thousand li to send their young people to the Wolf Fang Tribe within seven days, while the Wolf God’s descendants fled and other Demon Kings headed there.
• The next morning, someone warned the Wolf Fang Tribe that a beast tide was coming.

Xiao Chen used the stone sword’s reputation and his claim of powerful backing to deter three Demon Kings from challenging his takeover of the territory. News of his power drew people from nearly a hundred human tribes, and he planned to assess their younger generation the following day.

• The Wolf Fang Tribe chief and chief priest warned Xiao Chen that a beast tide was approaching, and he told them to bring its strongest visitors to Sword Peak.
• The Golden Leopard King, Giant Elephant King, and Mountain Boar King arrived to pay respects to the one who defeated the Wolf Emperor.
• The Giant Elephant King asked whether Xiao Chen could withstand the Demon God behind the Moon-Inviting Wolf Emperor, and Xiao Chen implied he had powerful backing.
• The three Demon Kings agreed to leave the territory, prompting their tribes to migrate and attracting human tribes seeking Xiao Chen’s protection.
• After nearly a hundred tribes arrived, Xiao Chen told the chief priest to bring their chiefs and priests to him and said he would examine the younger generation’s constitutions and bloodlines the next day.

Xiao Chen established the Famous Sword Holy Land, set rules for Human Race disciples, and began testing young people for talent. The testing revealed that the slave Er Gouzi possessed an extraordinary constitution, as his blood produced a dazzling nine-foot purple light.

• Xiao Chen renamed the Wolf Fang Tribe the Famous Sword Holy Land, opened it to Human Race youths, and forbade his disciples from killing one another or sacrificing people to demons.
• Xiao Chen told the tribal leaders that talented youths could study under his master and potentially cultivate toward becoming Saints or Shaman Gods.
• The leaders gathered about a thousand young people, including slaves, and Xiao Chen instructed the high priest to test them with a spiritual orb.
• Lang Xiao produced a seven-foot golden beam, revealing a metal-attribute constitution and talent sufficient for the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Er Gouzi, a slave who had never cultivated, dropped his blood onto the orb and produced a dazzling nine-foot purple beam, stunning the crowd.

Xiao Chen welcomed the youths who passed the test to Sword Peak and promised to teach them cultivation methods. He named the Famous Sword Holy Land’s people Jian and began training the youths, setting assessments for those who hoped to become his disciples.

• Er Gouzi’s nine feet of lightning earned him a place in the Famous Sword Holy Land and hunting-warrior status for his family.
• After testing the youths for a full day, the high priest led everyone whose orb had shone up Sword Peak to meet Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen told the youths they would stay overnight and receive cultivation methods from him the next morning.
• At the high priest’s request, Xiao Chen bestowed the surname Jian on the people of the Famous Sword Holy Land and carved the character into a giant sword.
• Xiao Chen set six-month and three-year requirements for youths seeking to become registered or personal disciples.
• Xiao Chen sent cultivation methods and sword techniques into the youths’ minds and told them to memorize everything within three days.

On Sword Peak, Xiao Chen named Er Gouzi Jian Yi and began teaching him cultivation. Meanwhile, Cao Youqian slaughtered the Demon Kings who attacked him and suppressed the fleeing devil dragon beneath a giant palm.

• Xiao Chen named Er Gouzi Jian Yi after he was the first to absorb the knowledge, then offered to teach him cultivation.
• Cao Youqian woke among greedy demonic beasts as the Thunder Qilin recognized the devil dragon that had once beaten him.
• The devil dragon ordered the Demon Kings to capture Cao Youqian, but Cao Youqian swiftly killed them all.
• Cao Youqian confronted the devil dragon, who tried to flee, and sealed his demonic power with a giant palm before suppressing him.

Cao Youqian and the Thunder Qilin shared roasted demonic dragon meat and saint wine before traveling to the dragon’s lair to loot it. Along the way, the Thunder Qilin told Cao Youqian that the dragon, phoenix, and qilin ancestors surpassed the Shaman Gods and demon gods, and they arrived at Five Elements Mountain.

• Cao Youqian roasted demonic dragon meat, shared it and saint wine with the Thunder Qilin, and watched him get drunk and fall asleep.
• The Thunder Qilin woke with a hangover, and Cao Youqian asked him to lead the way to the demonic dragon’s lair.
• Cao Youqian dismissed the demonic dragon’s claim of being the Dragon Ancestor’s direct grandson and joked that the dragon had no standing in its clan.
• The Thunder Qilin asked whether Cao Youqian feared the Three Ancestors, and explained that the dragon, phoenix, and qilin ancestors surpassed the Shaman Gods and demon gods.
• The Thunder Qilin led Cao Youqian to Five Elements Mountain, the demonic dragon’s lair.

Cao Youqian claimed Five Elements Mountain as a cultivation ground and entered its black lake to investigate the Death Qi and Devil Qi sealed beneath it. At the lakebed, he found a colossal chained hand that awakened and addressed him.

• Cao Youqian and Thunder Qilin agreed to bet on whether Cao Youqian would become the Shaman God within thirty years, with Thunder Qilin promising to protect his sect if he succeeded.
• Cao Youqian claimed Five Elements Mountain for the Tyrant Fist Holy Land and went with Thunder Qilin to search the Devil Dragon's lair for treasures.
• Cao Youqian discovered a dead lake where the five holy-grade spiritual veins converged, then ignored Thunder Qilin's warning and descended into it.
• Cao Youqian used his Immortal Physique to withstand the Divine King-level Devil Qi and found nine iron chains binding a colossal hand.
• Eyes opened across the hand as Devil God might engulfed Cao Youqian, and a voice asked who had disturbed its slumber.

Cao Youqian let the Devil God’s hand bathe him in Devil Qi to temper his body, then used his resilience to escape before it could turn him into a devil puppet. After confirming he had recovered overnight, he assigned the Thunder Qilin to screen potential disciples for the Dao-Seeking Sect and returned to the Devil Lake.

• The giant hand attacked Cao Youqian with devil light, but he welcomed the pain and used it to temper his body.
• The giant hand claimed Cao Youqian would become its devil puppet, but Cao Youqian dismissed the threat and fled the Devil Lake.
• The Thunder Qilin mistook the charred, Devil Qi-covered Cao Youqian for a Devil Creature, and Cao Youqian told it to stand guard while he recovered.
• The next morning, Cao Youqian emerged unharmed and explained that heavenly lightning could dispel Devil Qi if the body was strong enough.
• Cao Youqian gave the Thunder Qilin a testing orb and instructions for screening human and other-race disciples for the Dao-Seeking Sect.
• Cao Youqian returned to the Devil Lake and greeted the giant hand again.

Cao Youqian continued cultivating by drawing on the giant hand’s Devil Qi, while the Thunder Qilin brought Xia Kang to meet him after the youth’s blood test shone nine feet. Cao Youqian agreed to accept Xia Kang’s tribe’s submission on the condition that Xia Kang become his disciple, but the youth fell silent.

• Cao Youqian endured the giant hand’s Devil Qi and left it furious after thanking it for helping his cultivation.
• The Thunder Qilin guarded Five Elements Mountain as Demon Race members and humans arrived to pay respects to its new master.
• The Thunder Qilin tested Xia Kang’s blood, saw nine feet of light, and carried him away before testing the others.
• Cao Youqian told the Thunder Qilin to test the waiting visitors and bring them all the next morning.
• Xia Kang offered his tribe’s submission, and Cao Youqian said he would accept it if Xia Kang became his disciple; Xia Kang lowered his head and fell silent.