Chapter Summaries

Yuanshi and Tongtian argued over their disciples, prompting Laozi to decide that the Three Purities’ sects should part ways. Tongtian led the Jie Sect east to seek a new Dao ground and set off to visit Ao Changsheng, while Duobao learned how often the Jie and Chan Sects had clashed.

• Yuanshi rebuked Tongtian for accepting disciples with poor origins and aptitude, and Tongtian defended his disciples and challenged Yuanshi’s criticism.
• Laozi stopped their argument and declared that the Three Purities should separate because their different teachings made it difficult for their sects to coexist.
• Tongtian left Mount Kunlun with the Jie Sect disciples, while Yuanshi remained behind and reluctantly accepted their departure.
• Jieyin wondered whether Laozi had begun making preparations, while Nüwa’s incarnation continued watching over him at Mount Sumeru.
• Tongtian sensed that his destined Dao ground lay somewhere in the East Sea and flew ahead to visit Ao Changsheng, leaving his disciples waiting on the shore.
• Holy Mother Wudang told Duobao that the Jie and Chan Sects had clashed tens of thousands of times, and Duobao concluded that leaving Mount Kunlun might be for the best.

Tongtian discovered Golden Turtle Island in the East Sea, made Jinling his third personal disciple, and claimed the island as his cultivation ground. After seeing Zhunti sealed in the void above the island, he visited Ao Changsheng, whose warning about Zhunti left Tongtian on edge.

• Tongtian found Golden Turtle Island and met Jinling, who had taken form there but could not control its protective formation.
• Tongtian offered to take Jinling as his disciple, refined the island’s formation, and gave her the token controlling it.
• Tongtian sent word to his other disciples, then discovered Zhunti suppressed in the void above Golden Turtle Island and was shaken by the sight.
• Ao Changsheng realized the place where Zhunti had been sealed corresponded to Golden Turtle Island and imagined Zhunti would later blame the Jie Sect.
• Tongtian visited Ao Changsheng and invited him to attend his future Dao lecture on Golden Turtle Island.
• Ao Changsheng asked whether Tongtian had seen Zhunti sealed above the island, and Tongtian reacted as if Ao Changsheng were threatening him.

Tongtian rushed back to Golden Turtle Island after Ao Changsheng warned him that his disciples might see Zhunti’s disgrace, then learned that Zhunti had already been seen by another visitor. On the mainland, Huaxu gave birth to Fuxi amid auspicious signs, and Ao Changsheng recognized that his own power had become part of Fuxi’s reincarnation.

• Ao Changsheng warned Tongtian that his disciples were approaching Zhunti’s prison, so Tongtian hurried to Golden Turtle Island and stopped them from entering.
• Tongtian spoke with Zhunti, who agreed to Tongtian’s plan to seal off the prison, but Ao Changsheng revealed that someone had visited Zhunti soon after Hongjun summoned the Sages.
• Huaxu, who had carried a child for twelve years after being expelled from her tribe, went into labor as her parents came to help her.
• Huaxu gave birth to Fuxi beneath auspicious clouds, and the gathered Human Race cultivators recognized him as a sacred child rather than a monster.
• Ao Changsheng realized that the purple qi entering Fuxi was Hongyun’s Primordial purple qi, mingled with traces of Ao Changsheng’s own attack, and inferred that Nüwa had arranged Fuxi’s reincarnation.

Ao Changsheng taught the young Fuxi cultivation and profound truths in a dream, inspiring him to improve the Human Race and seek a path beyond Golden Immortal. After becoming the Human Race’s leader and reaching a cultivation standstill, Fuxi sensed a momentous opportunity and set out toward it.

• Ao Changsheng entered Fuxi’s dream, revealed his dragon form, and taught him cultivation and the mysteries of heaven and earth.
• Fuxi became chief of the Huaxu Tribe and created inventions, customs, and pictographic characters that helped unite and advance the Human Race.
• Fuxi reached Golden Immortal within a hundred years, then spent more than twenty-eight thousand years unable to break through to Taiyi.
• Fuxi studied a tortoise shell and developed the Innate Eight Trigrams while seeking to cultivate a Principle of his own.
• Fuxi sensed an important opportunity, entrusted the Human Race’s affairs to its elders, and headed toward its source.

Fuxi completed the Innate Eight Trigrams, helped the Human Race flourish, and reclaimed his former Dao Fruit at his Fengshan ceremony on Mount Tai. He became a Sage sworn to protect the Human Race, then answered Nüwa’s summons as the people proclaimed their determination to prosper.

• Fuxi received the River Diagram and Luo Book from a Dragon Horse and a giant turtle, completed the Innate Eight Trigrams, and advanced to Perfection Taiyi before holding back his breakthrough.
• Fuxi taught the Human Race the Innate Eight Trigrams, enabling human cultivators to overcome the effects of chaotic heavenly secrets as the race spread across the Primordial World.
• At the Fengshan ceremony on Mount Tai, Fuxi declared himself Human Emperor and reclaimed the Daluo Dao Fruit from his previous life, recovering his memories and reaching Two-Corpse-Severing Quasi-Sage.
• Fuxi vowed to protect the Human Race, severed his third corpse, and attained Sagehood as auspicious clouds spread across the Primordial World.
• Nüwa appeared and invited Fuxi to go with her; Fuxi encouraged the Human Race to make its way freely through the Primordial World and urged it to prosper forever.

Fuxi arrived at Fire Cloud Cave to establish his Dao site, where Zhenyuanzi confronted him before learning that Hongyun had reincarnated. Fuxi asked Zhenyuanzi to protect the Human Race and explained the distinction between Dao-Merging Sages and Heavenly Dao Sages, leaving Zhenyuanzi pondering the mysterious figure in the East Sea.

• Fuxi came to Fire Cloud Cave, and Zhenyuanzi arrived to question his intention to cultivate there.
• Fuxi explained that he had used Hongyun's Primordial purple qi and that Fire Cloud Cave was therefore his ordained Dao site.
• Zhenyuanzi prepared to attack, but Fuxi told him that Hongyun had reincarnated; Zhenyuanzi then used his Divine Ability, Instant Blossoming, to restore the land around the cave.
• Zhenyuanzi thanked Fuxi for the news, and Fuxi asked him to help look after the Human Race while Fuxi remained confined to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Fuxi explained that he was a Dao-Merging Sage rather than a Heavenly Dao Sage, and Zhenyuanzi considered what that meant for his own path to the Dao.
• Fuxi pointed to the mysterious mighty figure in the East Sea as evidence, and Zhenyuanzi recalled the Dao Ancestor's old friend.

Fuxi explained to Zhenyuanzi why Dao-Merging Sages were not yet meant to appear, then returned to Fire Cloud Cave after secretly intervening to save the Human Race from Jiuying. As demon and witch survivors wrestled with their losses and resentment toward Fuxi, he remained unconcerned, believing the Human Race’s rise had begun.

• Fuxi told Zhenyuanzi that the Primordial World was not ready for Dao-Merging Sages and asked him to protect the Human Race while Fuxi remained in Fire Cloud Cave.
• Fuxi burst through his formation to strike down Jiuying, who had attacked the Human Race, then returned to the cave and restored the formation.
• Zhenyuanzi learned that Fuxi had saved the Human Race from Jiuying, while Bai Ze urged the demon marshals to set aside their resentment and preserve their people.
• Xiangliu raged at Fuxi for surviving the Witch-Demon war, but Xingtian stopped him and reminded him that the remaining Witches had to survive.
• Fuxi remained unaware of the witch and demon survivors’ discussions and considered the Human Race’s rise inevitable.

Shennong-shi became the Human Race’s second Human Emperor while Ao Changsheng watched Tongtian’s disciple Daoist Duobao study a formation imprisoning Sage Zhunti. Duobao accidentally broke the formation, and Zhunti overheard Tongtian encourage Duobao to pursue Sagehood before departing with a smile that left Tongtian uneasy.

• Shennong-shi advanced the Human Race through agriculture and medicine, then became its second common sovereign and Human Emperor after reaching Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Ao Changsheng watched Daoist Duobao study Tongtian’s formation around the imprisoned Zhunti and secretly aided his comprehension with the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree.
• Daoist Duobao understood the formation’s mysteries and shattered it, revealing Zhunti, while Tongtian told Duobao to keep the discovery secret.
• Tongtian praised Duobao’s potential and urged him to seek Sagehood, but Zhunti revealed he had overheard them and left with a smile.
• Daoist Duobao asked Tongtian whether he would live long enough to attain the Dao, while Ao Changsheng silently pitied Tongtian.

After a million years, Zhunti returned to Mount Sumeru still tormented by his imprisonment and his lost chance to restore the West’s Spirit Veins. Meanwhile, Haotian and Yaochi reestablished the Heavenly Court, whose new power suppressed the Primordial World’s Great Daos and cut off the path to merging with the Dao, leaving Fuxi wary of Hongjun’s purpose.

• Zhunti returned to Mount Sumeru, regretted attacking Nüwa for the Qiankun Cauldron, and struggled to calm his heart while Jieyin watched over him.
• The Human Race expanded across the Primordial World, driving out many other races while Quasi-Sages refrained from harming Human cultivators because of Fuxi’s deterrence.
• Haotian and Yaochi brought the Thirty-Six Heavens under their control and proclaimed themselves Heavenly Emperor and Queen Mother as they reestablished the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Court’s manifestation shook the Primordial World, and its divine power placed faint shackles on Daluo experts and Quasi-Sages.
• Fuxi recognized that the Heavenly Court had cut off the path to merging with the Dao, wondered what Hongjun intended, and chose to return to secluded cultivation.

Haotian and Yaochi took up the divided Heavenly Emperor’s exalted position, while the Sages and Pingxin considered what the Heavenly Court’s establishment meant. Shennong sensed an unseen shackle and an ominous threat, but after failing to divine its source, he chose to enter seclusion and cultivate.

• Zhunti and Jieyin recognized Hongjun’s role in concealing the Heavenly Emperor’s karma, while the Sages watched the phenomenon and some felt relief from Fuxi’s pressure.
• Pingxin rejoiced that the Heavenly Court’s regulation of the Primordial World could ease her burden of maintaining reincarnation.
• Haotian and Yaochi discovered that sharing the Heavenly Emperor’s exalted position let them wield its power without losing themselves to the divine role.
• The immortals in the Hall of Numinous Treasure greeted Haotian and Yaochi as ruler and Queen Mother, and Haotian embraced his authority with growing ambition.
• Shennong used Fuxi’s Tortoise Shell and the Innate Eight Trigrams to investigate a shackle he sensed upon living beings, but could not discover its source.
• Shennong recalled Fuxi’s warning about the Primordial World’s dangers and decided to enter seclusion and cultivate.

Ao Changsheng learned that Hongjun’s Divine Chains of Order suppressed the paths to becoming a Sage and a Hunyuan Daluo, while Hongjun brought him two Chaos Demon God corpses to study. Hundreds of yuanhui later, Shennong became a Quasi-Sage and discovered that a calamity was striking to prevent the Human Race from advancing; he prepared to confront heaven’s will.

• Ao Changsheng recognized that Hongjun’s Divine Chains of Order could obstruct Hunyuan Daluo cultivation, and Hongjun confirmed the chains were meant to suppress that path temporarily.
• Hongjun gave Ao Changsheng two Chaos Demon God corpses and the Primordial World’s incomplete Great Dao of the Stars, asking him to use them to cultivate a complete Dao Fruit.
• After hundreds of yuanhui, Shennong broke through to Quasi-Sage without severing the three corpses and began considering how the Human Race could expand.
• Dark clouds and violent lightning gathered over Shennong’s seclusion, and he realized heaven’s will was preventing the Human Race from becoming Quasi-Sages.
• Shennong swung his Medicine King Hoe and erased part of the Primordial World to disperse the first lightning strike, but even more dangerous clouds gathered overhead.
• Facing the gathering purple lightning, Shennong resolved to attack heaven’s will and discover what it was.

Shennong survived his tribulation with the Sacred Dragon’s protection, and Fuxi’s decree absorbed the remaining lightning before sending him to Fire Cloud Cave. Fuxi then left Fire Cloud Cave’s affairs to his Good Corpse and traveled toward the East Sea to visit his teacher, where a spirit turtle gave him an idea for a gift.

• Shennong charged into the black clouds and told the Human Race’s Daluo that Daluo was their limit in this era, urging them to seek Fuxi at Fire Cloud Cave if they reached Perfection Daluo.
• The Sacred Dragon shielded Shennong from the lightning, and Fuxi’s decree used the Innate Eight Trigrams to absorb the tribulation.
• Fuxi’s voice declared Shennong’s merit complete and ordered him to stand eternal guard over the Human Race at Fire Cloud Cave; Shennong boarded the nine-Phoenix carriage and departed.
• At Fire Cloud Cave, Fuxi realized that cultivators using the Fuxi Eight Trigrams had unknowingly cultivated the path of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, which the one at the very top rejected.
• Fuxi headed toward the East Sea to visit his teacher and accepted a ride from the spirit turtle Linggui, who told him about the sea and its inhabitants.
• As Linggui described the East Sea’s best-tasting fish and shrimp, Fuxi decided he had found a first-meeting gift for his teacher.

Fuxi brought Linggui to Ao Changsheng’s cultivation ground after boosting her speed across the East Sea, where she discovered the place was cut off from the Heavenly Dao and filled with abundant Innate Spiritual Qi. After Fuxi introduced Linggui as a potential attendant, Ao Changsheng instead declared that she would become his first disciple.

• Fuxi made Linggui speed across the sea with his Law Power, then redirected her after she passed Golden Turtle Island.
• Ao Changsheng watched Fuxi arrive at his cultivation ground riding Linggui and wondered how his disciple had turned her into a living vehicle.
• Fuxi and Linggui entered the cultivation ground, where Fuxi could no longer sense the Heavenly Dao and Linggui began absorbing the Innate Spiritual Qi.
• Fuxi greeted Ao Changsheng and introduced Linggui as a suitable attendant, while Ao Changsheng teased them about her shell and her role as a mount.
• Ao Changsheng decided to make Linggui his first disciple.

Ao Changsheng took Guiling as his disciple and revealed that her spirit treasures came from the Black Tortoise's body in her previous life. He then examined Fuxi's stalled cultivation, and Fuxi's Innate Great Dao of the Eight Trigrams shattered when it collided with the three thousand Great Daos.

• Ao Changsheng made Guiling his eldest disciple, and Fuxi formally acknowledged Ao Changsheng as his master as well.
• Ao Changsheng gave Guiling a cultivation method and explained that three spirit treasures were made from her previous life's body; he fused them into her and asked Fuxi to retrieve the four remaining treasures from Nüwa.
• Ao Changsheng sent Guiling to cultivate and asked Fuxi about his progress, learning that the Heavenly Court's ordering of the Great Daos had blocked Fuxi's cultivation.
• Ao Changsheng led Fuxi outside the cultivation ground to demonstrate his method, and Fuxi's Innate Great Dao of the Eight Trigrams shattered against the three thousand Great Daos.

Ao Changsheng discovered that Fuxi’s crude method of refining his Great Dao had left him unable to cultivate normally, so he trapped Fuxi’s good corpse in a world where he had to develop his Dao before challenging the Primordial World’s Great Daos again. Meanwhile, Tongtian learned that Linggui had gone to Ao Changsheng and proceeded with his lecture on Golden Turtle Island.

• Fuxi explained that the Primordial World’s linked Great Daos now shattered his Great Dao whenever he collided with them, preventing him from continuing his cultivation.
• Ao Changsheng told Fuxi to observe the world again, then struck him for claiming his Innate Eight Trigrams contained all the world’s mysteries.
• Ao Changsheng confined Fuxi’s good corpse in an illusory world where Law Power could not be used and required him to break out with the Great Dao of the Eight Trigrams.
• Ao Changsheng returned to his cultivation grounds and continued cultivating after judging that Fuxi had relied too much on crude collisions with the Great Daos.
• Tongtian calculated that Linggui had traveled with Fuxi to Ao Changsheng’s cultivation grounds, accepted that she might become Ao Changsheng’s disciple, and began his lecture.

After thousands of years of uneasy peace, the Demon Race invaded Human Race territory, and the war revealed that many humans had been corrupted into traitors by devil Qi. Laozi intervened and exposed Devil Ancestor Luohou, whose return was answered by an unseen voice that dispelled his shadow over the Primordial World.

• Rumors that humans could not reach the Quasi-Sage realm halted their expansion, while the Huashe rallied displaced races against them.
• Guiche imprisoned Bai Ze and allied with devil Qi despite Bai Ze's warning that the alliance would ruin the Demon Race.
• The Demon Race invaded Human Race territory, and on the first day of battle, nearly half the human army—including more than three thousand Daluo Golden Immortals—turned against their own side.
• Laozi arrived on a golden bridge and used sacred light to calm the humans and draw black Qi from the demons and traitors.
• The black Qi formed Luohou's devil shadow, which Laozi attacked with a heavenly scroll as Luohou announced his return and spread devil Qi across the Primordial World.
• An unknown voice drowned out Luohou and instantly dispelled the shadow over the Primordial World.

Fuxi intervened when Luohou’s devil shadow attacked the Human Race, using the Innate Eight Trigrams to uncover and gather Luohou’s hidden devil Qi across the Primordial World for Laozi’s Taiji Diagram to destroy. Luohou’s true Devil Realm remained beyond Fuxi’s reach, while the other Sages reacted to Fuxi’s power and Luohou’s return.

• Fuxi appeared beside Laozi and confronted Luohou, condemning him for the devastation his devil Qi had caused among the Human Race.
• Fuxi revealed Luohou’s hidden devil Qi with the Innate Eight Trigrams and drew strands from living beings and inanimate things throughout the Primordial World.
• Fuxi sent the gathered devil Qi into Laozi’s Taiji Diagram, which ground it away along with Luohou’s shadow.
• Fuxi realized Luohou’s true self remained in a Devil Realm beyond the Primordial World and beyond his reach.
• Yuanshi grew wary of Fuxi’s divination, Tongtian sensed a reaction from his Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and Nüwa took comfort in Fuxi’s progress before turning to her own plans.

After Fuxi eradicated Luohou’s devil Qi across the Primordial World, he asked Ao Changsheng to help him attack Luohou’s true body. Ao Changsheng took him to the Devil Realm and explained that Luohou had become a mindless mass of devil Qi, leaving Fuxi unsure whether he still wanted revenge.

• Jieyin and Zhunti rejoiced as Luohou’s scattered devil Qi was wiped out, while cultivators across the Primordial World learned of Luohou’s return and sought protection by joining the three sects.
• Haotian resented Luohou after devil Qi emerged from members of the Heavenly Court, but he had no way to retaliate.
• Ao Changsheng praised Fuxi for eliminating Luohou’s forces, and Fuxi asked him to take action against Luohou’s true body.
• Ao Changsheng opened a rift and led Fuxi into a space under the Heavenly Dao’s jurisdiction, explaining how it differed from the Heavenly Dao Space.
• Fuxi saw that Luohou had transformed into the Devil Realm, a vast mass of devil Qi without will, and learned that he could only be confronted in the Primordial World.

Fuxi abandoned his plan to summon all of Luohou’s Devil Qi after Ao Changsheng warned that it would revive Luohou as a Dao-Merging Sage. In the Primordial World, Guiche revealed that he had used Luohou and the Demon Race’s sacrifices to attack the Human Race, and Bai Ze suspected he meant to make the two races rival powers.

• Ao Changsheng warned Fuxi that summoning all of Luohou’s devil thoughts would revive him and could put the Devil Dao at risk of destruction.
• Ao Changsheng suggested that a Quasi-Sage Great Perfection devil could restrain Luohou, but Fuxi rejected the idea because it would cause slaughter and sin.
• Ao Changsheng took Fuxi back to cultivate, telling him to focus on perfecting his Great Dao of the Eight Trigrams.
• Guiche told Bai Ze that he had used Luohou’s power and the deaths of hundreds of millions of demons to reunite the Demon Race and strike at the Human Race.
• Guiche declared that he wanted the Human Race to pay for replacing the Demon Race as the Primordial World’s overlord, and Bai Ze guessed he intended to make the Demon Race the Human Race’s rival.

Guiche revealed his plan to make the Demon Race devour humans and use their karmic fortune, while Bai Ze realized Guiche had fallen to the devil path. Bai Ze destroyed his own Quasi-Sage body to escape the formation and was reborn as a Daluo, then set out to counter Guiche’s scheme.

• Guiche told Bai Ze that he had created a Human-Devouring Yao Art and arranged for it to be recorded in the Demon Race’s inherited memories, with Luohou’s help.
• Bai Ze recognized that Guiche’s plan would turn the Demon Race into Yaomo and saw Luohou’s Devil Qi in Guiche’s eyes.
• Guiche used the devil formation to suppress Bai Ze and left him trapped, declaring that he would lead the Demon Race back to its peak.
• Bai Ze detected Guiche’s own Devil Qi and decided to stop him, even if it meant abandoning his Quasi-Sage cultivation.
• Bai Ze shattered his Primordial Spirit and died, then was reborn through his kind’s bloodline and regained his Daluo Dao Fruit.
• Bai Ze grieved the loss of his Quasi-Sage cultivation and resolved to recover his strength and undo Guiche’s schemes.