Chapter Summaries

Ye Xuan, reborn as Human Emperor Di Xin, defied Nuwa’s divine presence after his poem in her temple and awakened the Hongmeng Corpse Driver System. Nuwa uncovered Zhunti’s scheme, withdrew her manifestations, and invited Di Xin to travel west with her.

• Ye Xuan realized he had become Di Xin after writing a poem that insulted Nuwa in her temple.
• As Nuwa’s presence descended, Ye Xuan drew the Human Emperor Supreme Sword and challenged the heavens, rousing the Human Emperor’s fortune.
• The Hongmeng Corpse Driver System awakened, gave Ye Xuan a beginner’s package, and tasked him with freeing the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse at Great Mount Sumeru.
• Nuwa heard Ye Xuan’s thoughts, discovered Zhunti had concealed the heavenly secrets to frame her, and withdrew her auspicious manifestations.
• Nuwa revealed herself and asked Human Emperor Di Xin to accompany her on a trip to the west.

Nuwa took Ye Xuan west to confront Zhunti, accusing him of owing her an explanation while he denied wrongdoing and blamed her. With the Saints facing off on Great Mount Sumeru, Nuwa turned to Ye Xuan for help, and he began insulting Zhunti.

• Nuwa invited Ye Xuan to travel west with her, and he accepted so he could pursue his corpse-driving task.
• Nuwa sent the Red Embroidered Ball toward the West and called on Zhunti to explain himself.
• Zhunti blocked the Red Embroidered Ball with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree as Nuwa and Ye Xuan arrived at Great Mount Sumeru.
• Zhunti accused Nuwa of attacking the Western lands, while Nuwa demanded he settle their karma.
• Nuwa looked to Ye Xuan to speak for her, and he mocked Zhunti for twisting the truth.

Ye Xuan publicly denounced Saint Zhunti for old debts, secretly stealing merit, and causing him to desecrate Nuwa, while Zhunti denied the accusations. Ye Xuan rallied the eastern powerhouses to Nuwa’s side, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate as he hoped the chaos would let him search beneath Great Mount Sumeru.

• Ye Xuan called Saint Zhunti a swindler for cheating Ancestor Hong Yun and Old Ancestor Kunpeng out of their chances to become saints.
• Ye Xuan accused Zhunti of secretly taking merit from Nuwa’s work mending the heavens, and Nuwa confirmed the theft by calculating the secrets of heaven.
• Ye Xuan accused Zhunti of clouding his mind and causing him to desecrate Nuwa, while Zhunti denied both charges and Saint Jieyin calmed his fury.
• Ye Xuan condemned Zhunti’s unfulfilled vows and failure to protect the East’s living beings, then warned Jieyin not to join Zhunti against Nuwa.
• Ye Xuan bowed toward the East, prompting its mighty figures to answer and support Nuwa as Ye Xuan hoped the turmoil would let him search beneath Great Mount Sumeru.

Nuwa and Saint Zhunti began the first clash between Sages while Ye Xuan escaped to a cavern beneath Great Mount Sumeru. There, he received corpse-driving treasures and attempted to raise the dragon corpse, awakening something deep underground.

• Nuwa attacked Saint Zhunti with the Red Embroidered Ball after he denied her accusations, and the two Sages began fighting.
• Ye Xuan fled while the Sages fought and followed the system's directions to an ancient well beneath Great Mount Sumeru.
• Ye Xuan opened the newbie gift pack and received the Yin-Yang Corpse-Driving Art and four supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Ye Xuan donned the Hongmeng Mystic Daoist Robe and Prajna Asura Tribulation, then studied the corpse-driving art.
• Ye Xuan rang the Qiankun Purple Gold Bell and chanted while channeling yin and yang power into the ground, but nothing rose at first.
• A strange sound came from deep underground, suggesting Ye Xuan had awakened something.

Ye Xuan raised the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse with the Chaos Creation Brush and then surfaced to witness Saint Nuwa battling Saint Zhunti. The saints’ fight remained underway as Zhunti, struck by Nuwa’s Human Creation Whip, retaliated with a supreme divine ability.

• Ye Xuan watched the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse burst from underground and used the Chaos Creation Brush to inscribe a Tongtian Talisman on its head, bringing the dragon under his control.
• Ye Xuan decided to observe the battle between Saint Nuwa and Saint Zhunti before sending the dragon east.
• Ye Xuan saw Nuwa’s Heaven and Earth Manifestation overpower Zhunti’s golden dharma body with her magical treasures.
• Nuwa’s Human Creation Whip struck Zhunti and staggered him, so Zhunti unleashed a supreme divine ability against her.
• An immense force suddenly came westward from the ends of heaven and earth as the battle continued.

Yuanshi Tianzun intervened to stop Empress Nuwa and Saint Zhunti from fighting and ruled that Zhunti should compensate Nuwa for the West’s wrongdoing. Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin offered powerful treasures, leaving Nuwa to decide whether to accept them.

• Yuanshi Tianzun sent the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi between Nuwa and Zhunti and asked them to end their fight before provoking the Heavenly Dao.
• Nuwa demanded that Yuanshi Tianzun resolve the stolen merit and rejected Zhunti’s claim that the matter was a misunderstanding.
• Yuanshi Tianzun ruled that Zhunti was at fault and should provide Nuwa with a way to step down.
• Saint Zhunti offered the Six Roots Pure Bamboo and more than a dozen bodhi seeds as compensation.
• When Nuwa showed no reaction, Saint Jieyin offered her the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Banner, and the watching mighty figures waited for her answer.

Ye Xuan used the Purple Gold Bell to free the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse from beneath Great Mount Sumeru, causing the Western holy mountain to collapse. Nuwa and Yuanshi Tianzun blocked Zhunti and Jieyin from intervening, leaving the Ancestral Dragon’s fate and the confrontation unresolved.

• Nuwa accepted two supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and bodhi seeds from Zhunti and Jieyin to settle the karmic debt owed to her.
• Ye Xuan secretly used the Purple Gold Bell and an incantation to rouse the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse beneath Great Mount Sumeru.
• The Ancestral Dragon’s corpse burst through Great Mount Sumeru, destroying the mountain and shocking Nuwa, the Western sages, and the watching mighty figures.
• Nuwa stopped Zhunti from approaching the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse, declaring that the Ancestral Dragon belonged to the East.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sent the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi to block Jieyin as he prepared to act.

After Ancestral Dragon escaped and the Two Sages of the West withdrew, Saint Jieyin rebuilt Great Mount Sumeru as Spirit Mountain. As Nuwa traveled with Di Xin, she overheard his thoughts about the coming Investiture of the Gods and wondered whether he could see the future.

• Yuanshi Tianzun and Nuwa blocked the Two Sages of the West, allowing Ancestral Dragon to escape east.
• Saint Jieyin manifested his Buddha Dharma form and left with Saint Zhunti, warning that the West would remember the humiliation.
• Saint Jieyin restored Great Mount Sumeru as Spirit Mountain and ordered the Western Teachings' disciples to remember what had happened.
• Nuwa traveled with Di Xin but could not sense Ancestral Dragon, who was hidden in Ye Xuan's system space.
• Nuwa overheard Di Xin thinking about the coming Investiture of the Gods and wondered how he knew about it.

Nuwa decided to cooperate with Ye Xuan to influence the Investiture of the Gods and reclaim human fortune, but sent him back to Chaoge after he flirted with her. Ye Xuan then completed the system’s beginner mission by promising to protect the Dragon Clan and began absorbing Ancestral Dragon’s bloodline.

• Nuwa considered working with Ye Xuan to alter the great tribulation and recover some of the human race’s fortune.
• Ye Xuan invited Nuwa to visit him at Changle Palace, and she angrily sent him tumbling back to Chaoge.
• Ye Xuan checked the Hongmeng Corpse-Driving System and learned that he had to promise to protect and revive the Dragon Clan to complete the mission.
• Ye Xuan vowed to protect the Dragon Clan, completing the beginner mission and receiving Ancestral Dragon’s bloodline and control of Ancestral Dragon’s corpse.
• Ye Xuan used the bloodline and endured intense pain before noticing that his body had changed.

After gaining the Ancestral Dragon Bloodline, Ye Xuan returned to Changle Palace and planned how to survive the Investiture of the Gods. He resolved to strengthen Great Shang and himself, cultivate loyal followers, and ally with Nuwa and Tongtian.

• Ye Xuan discovered that the Ancestral Dragon Bloodline had cleansed and strengthened his body, and he sensed immense power within his bones and spine.
• Ye Xuan returned to Changle Palace unharmed, surprising the officials who had worried after he left with Empress Nuwa.
• Unable to sleep, Ye Xuan considered his knowledge of the Investiture of the Gods and decided to lie low while strengthening Great Shang’s national fortune.
• Ye Xuan planned to use the Hongmeng Corpse-Driving System to gather corpses and build his own strength, which he estimated was around the Daluo Golden Immortal level.
• Ye Xuan resolved to cultivate loyal subordinates and bring Tongtian and Nuwa into an alliance against the other Saints.

Ye Xuan attended his first court session and learned from Shang Rong and Yang Ren that disasters had pushed Great Shang’s people toward starvation. He blamed Haotian Shangdi and led the ministers outside to begin setting Qiankun in order.

• Ye Xuan dressed for the early court session and received the civil and military officials in the Nine-Chamber Hall.
• Shang Rong reported that floods, droughts, locusts, and plagues had devastated Great Shang for three years, while Yang Ren noted that Marquis Ji Chang’s western territory had fared better.
• Ye Xuan concluded that the Four Seas Dragon Kings were causing the disasters on Haotian Shangdi’s orders and resolved to challenge him.
• Ye Xuan declared that he would set Qiankun in order, led the ministers into the square, and solemnly bowed toward the distant sky.

Ye Xuan used Words Followed by Law to restore balance to the weather, ending droughts and floods across Great Shang, then ordered his ministers to govern and prepare relief for the people. He left the court to plan reforms and sent Bi Gan to distribute the treasury’s remaining funds, while promising to resolve the Dragon Clan and harvest crises.

• Ye Xuan invoked Words Followed by Law, clearing the skies, bringing rain to drought-stricken Chaoge and the north, and ending prolonged rains and flooding in the south.
• Ye Xuan told the officials that disasters would soon end, announced plans to subdue the Four Seas Dragon Clan, and warned them to fulfill their duties.
• Ye Xuan summoned Shang Rong, Bi Gan, and Huang Feihu to his study and spoke of restoring Great Shang amid looming dangers.
• Ye Xuan ordered Bi Gan to use the remaining treasury funds to provide food relief, despite the costs of Wen Zhong’s northern campaign.
• Ye Xuan said the restored weather and a future harvest would help Great Shang recover after he found a way to subdue the Four Seas Dragon Clan.

Ye Xuan assigned Shang Rong to search for new food crops and learned that Huang Feihu had organized a powerful secret force of war elephant cavalry. He showed Huang Feihu designs for saddles and stirrups, then left him puzzling over several other inventions.

• Ye Xuan gave Shang Rong drawings of more than a hundred unfamiliar food plants and ordered him to lead knowledgeable men into the world to find them.
• Shang Rong swore to complete the search, while Huang Feihu and Bi Gan examined the crop drawings in amazement.
• Ye Xuan asked Huang Feihu about the secret force, and Huang Feihu reported that it had around ten thousand men and more than twenty thousand war elephants in reserve.
• Ye Xuan explained how saddles and stirrups would steady riders, and Huang Feihu said they could greatly increase cavalry strength.
• Huang Feihu pointed to Ye Xuan's other strange designs and asked what they were.

Ye Xuan assigned Bi Gan, Shang Rong, and Huang Feihu to strengthen Chaoge through relief, food supplies, and a military campaign against threats and rebellious lords. In Wa Huang Palace, Empress Nuwa summoned the demons of the world with the Demon-Summoning Banner, leaving them gathered outside as they awaited her decree.

• Ye Xuan explained his crossbows and ordered Huang Feihu to oversee their production, equip war-elephant cavalry, and lead an army through the lords’ territories to crush threats and recruit talent.
• Huang Feihu swore to carry out Ye Xuan’s orders, and the ministers departed to handle their assigned tasks.
• Empress Nuwa sensed that Yin Shang’s destiny had strengthened, failed to divine the secrets surrounding Ye Xuan, and considered helping him enter the Investiture of the Gods tribulation.
• Nuwa took out the Demon-Summoning Banner and summoned the demons throughout the world.
• Maiden Caiyun saw the great demons gathered outside Wa Huang Palace and prepared to address them.

Empress Nuwa sent the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb to the palace to protect Di Xin, secretly attaching her will to the Nine-Tailed Fox so she could hear the Human Emperor’s thoughts. Meanwhile, Ye Xuan set out in disguise, and Dragon King Ao Guang learned that Di Xin had caused rain without the Dragon Clan’s help.

• Empress Nuwa ordered the Thousand-Year Nine-Tailed Fox, the Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit, and the Nine-Stringed Jade Pipa Spirit to enter Di Xin’s palace, protect him, and earn merit.
• Empress Nuwa secretly attached a wisp of her will to the Nine-Tailed Fox so she could use her to get close to the Human Emperor and hear his inner voice.
• Ye Xuan put on the Hongmeng Mystic Daoist Robe and Prajna Asura Tribulation, then left Chaoge in disguise.
• A Shrimp Soldier reported to Dragon King Ao Guang that rain had fallen across the land without any rain-controlling dragon gods leaving the East Sea.
• The lord of the Huai River told Ao Guang that Di Xin had bowed to heaven and earth, bringing rain to drought-stricken places and clearing areas plagued by constant rain.
• Ao Guang recalled Haotian Shangdi’s order to help hasten Yin Shang’s decline and realized that Di Xin had bypassed the Dragon Clan’s control of the rain.

Ye Xuan arrived at the East Sea as the Human Emperor’s envoy and intimidated Dragon King Ao Guang with his Daluo Golden Immortal presence. At the Crystal Palace banquet, he asked Ao Guang’s daughter Wushuang to dance and became captivated by her performance.

• Ao Guang heard that Wuming, the Human Emperor’s envoy, had arrived and hurried to receive him.
• Ye Xuan revealed his formidable presence, and Ao Guang welcomed him into the Crystal Palace with a banquet.
• Ye Xuan took the seat of honor and drank with Ao Guang, who hoped to see beneath his mask.
• Ye Xuan asked Ao Guang to have Wushuang perform a dance, and Ao Guang reluctantly ordered her to do so.
• Wushuang danced gracefully for Ye Xuan, who watched in admiration and grew a little drunk.

Ye Xuan, posing as Wuming, pressured Dragon King Ao Guang to explain why the Dragon Clan obeyed Haotian Shangdi instead of the Human Emperor. He offered the Dragon Clan a chance to submit and receive help, then hinted at the earth-shaking events surrounding the Human Emperor, Nuwa, Zhunti, and the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse.

• Ye Xuan ordered Wushuang to pour him wine, and she complied despite her disgust while Ao Guang swallowed his anger.
• Ye Xuan threatened Ao Guang with the Human Emperor’s judgment and demanded to know why the Dragon Clan had defied the Human Emperor’s edict.
• Ao Guang said Haotian Shangdi had forced the Dragon Clan to obey by slaughtering its members and serving them at feasts.
• Ye Xuan mocked Ao Guang’s submission, then said the Human Emperor would help the Dragon Clan if it bowed its head and submitted.
• Ye Xuan asked whether Ao Guang had heard about the previous day’s events, and Ao Guang recalled the Human Emperor’s confrontation with Zhunti and the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse reappearing.

Ye Xuan revealed the Ancestral Dragon’s body to Dragon King Ao Guang and warned him that the Human Emperor could destroy the Dragon Clan for its crimes. Ao Guang accepted the Human Emperor’s offer and pledged the Dragon Clan’s loyalty, leaving Ye Xuan with the clan subdued.

• Ye Xuan summoned a black coffin bearing the Great Dao inscriptions “Ancestral Dragon” from beneath the Crystal Palace.
• Ao Guang and the others saw the young man inside the coffin, whose killing aura and Yin Qi swept across the East Sea.
• The coffin vanished, and Ye Xuan told Ao Guang that the Ancestral Dragon had entrusted the Human Emperor with protecting the Dragon Clan.
• Ye Xuan condemned Ao Guang for following Haotian’s orders and warned that the Dragon Clan could be wiped out if it refused to submit.
• Ao Guang admitted his guilt, pledged the entire Dragon Clan’s loyalty to the Human Emperor, and kowtowed alongside the others.

Ye Xuan secured Ao Guang and the Four Seas Dragon Clan’s loyalty to the Human Emperor, then gave Ao Guang his essence blood to help him become a True Dragon. Ao Guang transformed into an Eight-Clawed Golden Dragon, reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and pledged lifelong service.

• Ye Xuan warned Ao Guang that the Four Seas Dragon Clan had to serve the Human Emperor completely, and Ao Guang swore an oath on behalf of the clan.
• Ye Xuan gave Ao Guang a drop of his essence blood, which Ao Guang mistook for Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood.
• Ao Guang endured a painful transformation as he grew into an Eight-Clawed Golden Dragon and regained a True Dragon’s bloodline.
• Ao Guang’s strength rose to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and he reveled in his newfound potential and freedom in the East Sea.
• Ao Guang returned to human form, thanked Ye Xuan, and vowed to serve the Sacred Emperor without disloyalty.

Ye Xuan persuaded Dragon King Ao Guang to submit to the Human Emperor and bring the Four Seas’ divine irons to Chaoge. After Ao Guang prepared to make the journey, Ye Xuan returned to Chaoge, where officials were carrying out grain relief and distributing his edict of self-reproach.

• Ye Xuan told Ao Guang to report to the Sacred Emperor in Chaoge and bring the divine irons from all Four Seas.
• Ao Guang agreed to return the irons, bid Ye Xuan farewell, and resolved to gamble on the Dragon Clan’s future by serving the human race.
• Ao Guang ordered the Turtle Prime Minister to prepare a grand gift for his trip to Chaoge and rejected further allegiance to Haotian Shangdi.
• Ye Xuan leisurely toured the Primordial World before returning to Chaoge after more than ten days away.
• Shang Rong went into the wilderness to search for grains, while Bi Gan distributed grain from the state granaries across Yin Shang.
• Bi Gan carried Ye Xuan’s edict of self-reproach, in which Di Xin confessed his neglect of governing and pledged to acknowledge his faults to all living beings.