Chapter Summaries

Ji Xuanyuan rose from a young warrior to the Taiyi Golden Immortal chief of the Youxiong Clan, driven by a vow to end the Yaomo calamities that had taken his mother. When a Daluo demon god named Bai Ze gave him a chart describing demons and how to defeat them, Xuanyuan accepted it and set out to verify its knowledge.

• As a youth, Ji Xuanyuan led the Youxiong Clan cultivators in killing a Heavenly Immortal great demon without losing anyone, then made offerings at his mother's grave and vowed to end demon calamities.
• After many years, Ji Xuanyuan had become the Youxiong Clan's Taiyi Golden Immortal chief, but reports of recurring Yaomo attacks continued to trouble him.
• A report of a supposed Taiyi Golden Immortal great demon on the East Sea coast brought Ji Xuanyuan and his army to the shore, where he discovered a Daluo demon god instead.
• Bai Ze told Ji Xuanyuan that corrupted members of the Demon Race had helped create the Yaomo and offered him a chart detailing their kinds, origins, and weaknesses.
• Ji Xuanyuan recognized an entry about a privy spirit as matching a painful event from his past, accepted Bai Ze's Yaomo Chart, and resolved to verify it.

Fuxi studied Bai Ze’s Yaomo Chart and continued preparing to counter Luohou’s hidden schemes by researching Devil Qi in the Devil-Subduing Cave. He also considered Ji Xuanyuan’s potential to unify the Human Race and become its next common ruler.

• Fuxi examined Bai Ze’s Yaomo Chart and reflected on how Luohou had created the Yaomo from the remnants of the Demon Race and Human Race armies.
• Fuxi entered the Devil-Subduing Cave, where his clones tested methods against Devil Qi and a formation prevented its information from reaching Luohou’s Devil Realm.
• A newly arrived Devil Qi received the cave’s accumulated memories, shut off its consciousness, and was taken by Fuxi for further experiments.
• Fuxi’s clones complained about the original exploiting them, then passed their complaint to him; he erased the outspoken clone, which reappeared as Number 7259.
• Fuxi weighed Ji Xuanyuan’s aptitude and leadership of the Youxiong Clan, hoping he could become the Human Race’s next common ruler and unite its strength.

Ao Changsheng watched the Battle of Zhuolu, where Chiyou’s alliance with the Witch Race led to his defeat by Xuanyuan’s forces and the Heavenly Court. Chiyou surrendered, Xuanyuan was acclaimed Human Emperor, and Ao Changsheng turned his attention to a new story beginning in the Heavenly Court.

• The Bai Ze Chart spread through the Human Race, boosting Ji Xuanyuan’s reputation until many tribes supported him as their common ruler.
• Chiyou, leader of the Jiuli Tribe, opposed Xuanyuan and began a war after the two sides agreed not to draw on more Human Race forces.
• Chiyou brought in the Great Witches Fengbo and Yushi and used the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Devils Great Formation to summon Gonggong’s true body.
• The Heavenly Court’s Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens captured Chiyou, Fengbo, Yushi, and Gonggong’s true body.
• Chiyou asked Xuanyuan to treat the Jiuli people well, and Xuanyuan declared himself Human Emperor; Chiyou then ordered the Jiuli to surrender.
• The Battle of Zhuolu ended, and Ao Changsheng shifted his gaze to the Heavenly Court as another mythic story approached.

Xingtian attacked the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens to free Fengbo, Yushi, and Chiyou, but survived her powerful formation by using the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe. As he swung the axe at her, an unknown figure appeared and caught it barehanded.

• Xingtian demanded that the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens release Fengbo, Yushi, and Chiyou, then broke through her Convergent Light Treasure Pearl with Ganqi.
• The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens formed a battle formation with her hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and trapped Xingtian in a space filled with heavenly fire and black wind.
• Xingtian defended himself with Ganqi and battered the formation with axe-light, but the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens condensed the formation into a devastating bolt of black lightning.
• Xingtian used the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe to split the black lightning and survive its blast, while the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens and her soldiers were left weakened.
• Xingtian acknowledged the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens's strength, then swung his divine axe at her; an unknown figure caught the axe with a bare hand.

Heavenly Emperor Haotian defeated and beheaded Xingtian, then changed the punishments of the captured Witch Race leaders and Chiyou. Afterward, Lady Pingxin revealed little about her plans but sent her Houtu avatar to join the Heavenly Court, leaving Haotian with another powerful deity to accommodate.

• Heavenly Emperor Haotian seized the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe from Xingtian and beheaded him, then suppressed Xingtian's head beneath a divine mountain.
• Xingtian grew eyes and a mouth on his chest, but Heavenly Emperor Haotian bound him with divine chains and rendered him unable to move.
• Heavenly Emperor Haotian restored the Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens and the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, then confined them to the Heavenly Realm for ten thousand years.
• Heavenly Emperor Haotian increased Fengbo and Yushi's punishment to one Immeasurable Tribulation of managing the weather, and had Chiyou dismembered and sent to different parts of the Primordial World for suppression.
• Heavenly Emperor Haotian asked Lady Pingxin why she had wanted him to scheme against Xingtian and the other Witch Race members, but she refused to explain.
• Lady Pingxin sent her Houtu avatar to join the Heavenly Court, where Houtu greeted Heavenly Emperor Haotian as Sovereign Earth Houtu, Who Upholds Heaven and Follows Its Laws.

Xuanyuan Huangdi and the Human Race's Daluo settled the Jiuli's future and discussed a plan to create an Immortal-Prohibiting Barrier. Youchaoshi revealed that the Human Race's cultivation method drew the Heavenly Dao's punishment when practitioners advanced to Quasi-Sages, leaving them dependent on Fire Cloud Cave for safe breakthroughs.

• Xuanyuan Huangdi arranged homes for the Jiuli who refused to integrate with the other tribes and left them free to await Chiyou's return.
• Xuanyuan Huangdi told Suiren that the Heavenly Emperor had agreed to the Human Race's plan for an Immortal-Prohibiting Barrier.
• A Daluo objected that the barrier would suppress the Human Race along with other beings, and Youchaoshi revealed that the Human Race had kept the reason for Shennong's departure from office secret.
• Youchaoshi explained that the Primordial World forced Shennong to step down because the Human Race's cultivation method attracted heavenly punishment at the Quasi-Sage breakthrough.
• Youchaoshi said human cultivators could safely become Quasi-Sages under the Holy Emperor's protection in Fire Cloud Cave, but would then have to live there in seclusion.

Xuanyuan Huangdi secured unanimous support from the Human Race’s Daluo to build the Immortal-Prohibiting Barrier as many prepared to depart for Fire Cloud Cave. The Human Race began secretly reshaping its territory with Heavenly Emperor Haotian’s cooperation, while Ao Changsheng watched the plan unfold and discussed it with Fuxi.

• Youchaoshi warned the Human Race’s Daluo that their numbers would dwindle and the remaining people would be vulnerable when the myriad races regained their strength.
• Xuanyuan Huangdi called a vote, and every assembled Daluo supported building the Immortal-Prohibiting Barrier.
• Xuanyuan Huangdi began raising temples and steles across Human Race territory as a public effort to suppress the demon calamity, while Daluo secretly altered the land and waterways.
• Heavenly Emperor Haotian concealed the Human Race’s work after agreeing to place mountain gods, river gods, and Land Gods across its territory under the Heavenly Court.
• Ao Changsheng discussed Haotian’s arrangement with Fuxi and watched the Human Race’s plans unfold like an epic.

As the Great Dao began to recover, the myriad races prepared to reclaim ancestral lands occupied by the Human Race. In the Human Race’s ancestral land, Xuanyuan mined copper to cast a bronze cauldron, while an elder established Mount Shouyang and the Eight Sceneries Palace.

• Ao Changsheng and other mighty figures sensed that the Primordial World’s Great Dao was becoming clear again.
• A Quasi-Sage resolved to reclaim his race’s ancestral lands and anticipated that the myriad races would challenge the Human Race’s control of its territory.
• Human Emperor Xuanyuan mined copper ore in the Human Race’s ancestral land, as other humans carried it away to cast a cauldron.
• An elder watched Xuanyuan’s work and recognized that the completed bronze cauldron would gather the Human Race’s providence and protect it.
• The elder declared the mountain his Daoist sanctuary, named it Mount Shouyang, and created the Eight Sceneries Palace there.

Eleven Quasi-Sages formed an alliance to claim a share of the Primordial World Central Continent’s fortune, believing they could take five percent without provoking Holy Emperor Fuxi. Their meeting was interrupted by a powerful presence from the Human Race that briefly halted their Law Power, and they flew toward its source.

• The leading Quasi-Sage persuaded the gathered figures that fortune from the central lands could accelerate their cultivation, citing the ancient Qilin, Phoenix, and Dragon Races.
• An elderly Quasi-Sage recounted how fortune had strengthened the Three Races and helped their leaders reach the Quasi-Sage realm.
• The leading Quasi-Sage proposed that their eleven factions claim five percent of the continent’s fortune, a share he believed Holy Emperor Fuxi would tolerate, and the others agreed.
• The Quasi-Sages discussed avoiding direct attacks on Human Race territory while taking lands elsewhere in the central continent.
• A powerful presence from the Human Race swept over the meeting and briefly stalled every Quasi-Sage’s Law Power.
• The Quasi-Sages recognized the presence as coming from the Human Race and flew toward its source.

Xuanyuan Huangdi forged the Human Race’s Nine Cauldrons using its Karmic Luck, then united them with the Human Emperor’s dragon to form a Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune. The dragon carried Xuanyuan and the Human Race Daluo across their territory as the first cauldron anchored the new barrier, leaving Xuanyuan confident that the Human Race would be secure.

• Xuanyuan Huangdi used Great Dao Li fire, gathered materials, and the Human Race’s Karmic Luck to forge the Nine Cauldrons over nine months.
• The completed cauldrons initially acted independently, but Xuanyuan’s white dragon appeared and made them resonate and unite.
• The Nine Cauldrons connected through the Human Race’s Karmic Luck, which formed a golden divine dragon that invited Xuanyuan and the Daluo aboard.
• The Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune carried them across the Human Race’s territory and lowered a cauldron into the land, reassuring the humans below.
• Xuanyuan Huangdi looked across the Human Race’s lands and declared that his people would be free of worry for all eternity.

The Human Race established the Nine Provinces Barrier, suppressing cultivators across its territory and ending Quasi-Sages’ hopes of seizing the central continent. Fuxi explained the barrier’s purpose and boundaries to Ao Changsheng, leaving the Nine Provinces secure so long as the Human Race survived and powerful Sages did not join forces against it.

• The Quasi-Sages watched the Nine Cauldrons create a barrier over the Human Race’s territory and realized it could suppress even them.
• Several Quasi-Sages tested the invisible barrier, found their Law Power suppressed and Great Dao obscured, and abandoned plans to seize the Human Race’s territory.
• At Ao Changsheng’s cultivation ground, Fuxi thanked his master, and Ao Changsheng denied having helped Xuanyuan Huangdi use Primordial purple Qi.
• Fuxi named the barrier the Nine Provinces Barrier and explained how the Nine Cauldrons divided the Human Race’s land into nine provinces.
• Ao Changsheng assessed the barrier’s effects, and Fuxi’s explanation showed that it was designed to protect mortals and weak cultivators from battles between powerful beings.

Ao Changsheng examined Fuxi’s Nine Provinces Barrier, identified weaknesses in its suppression and defenses against attacks from outside, and advised him to address them. The chapter then showed Haotian reassuring Yaochi that he viewed the Heavenly Court as a place for their cultivation, not an end in itself.

• Ao Changsheng questioned Fuxi about the barrier’s weak suppression of Innate Spirit Treasures, and Fuxi explained that he had limited their destructive power to preserve their use for travel.
• Ao Changsheng and Fuxi discussed how formations and external treasures could function within the barrier, while Fuxi explained that suppressing formations would also suppress the power of heaven and earth.
• Ao Changsheng warned Fuxi that the barrier offered little protection from external threats such as falling stars or floods, and Fuxi thanked him for pointing out its weaknesses.
• Ao Changsheng wondered whether a great flood and the legend of Dayu controlling the waters would still occur among the Human Race.
• Queen Mother Yaochi questioned why the Heavenly Court had allowed the Human Race to fill its mountain god and earth god positions, and Haotian explained that Fuxi’s Sage status made opposition futile.
• Haotian reassured Yaochi that he was not troubled by the Heavenly Court’s limited authority and said its duties, power, and glory were only a place of cultivation for them.

The Dao Severance Era ended, restoring cultivators’ access to the Great Dao as the Dragon and Phoenix Races emerged in force. The Qilin Race also tried to return, but the Human Race’s Nine Provinces Barrier blocked their way, and the Qilin patriarch launched an attack on it.

• The end of the Dao Severance Era let countless beings across the Primordial World transform into cultivators and sense the Great Dao clearly again.
• The Phoenix Clan emerged from the Undying Volcanoes, and the Dragon Race poured out of the East Sea, revealing thousands of Daluo cultivators and many Quasi-Sages among them.
• Mighty beings realized the Qilin Race’s exit lay beneath Liang Province, inside the Human Race’s Nine Provinces Barrier.
• The Qilin patriarch and his people formed the Qilin Grand Array and struck the barrier from below, but the attack failed to shake it.
• The Qilin patriarch crossed the barrier and brought the array outside, where he ordered the Qilin Race to attack it directly.

The Qilin Race attacked the Human Race’s Nine Provinces Barrier, but the barrier suppressed their grand array and the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune toyed with them before driving them out. The Qilin patriarch’s attacks failed to breach the barrier, and the Primordial World’s mighty figures recognized the Human Race’s new defensive power.

• Heavenly Emperor Haotian and mighty figures throughout the Primordial World watched as the Qilin Race formed its grand array and charged the Nine Provinces Barrier.
• The barrier suppressed the Qilin cultivators’ Law Power and Great Dao, weakening their array until it began to fall toward the ground.
• The Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune appeared and repeatedly batted the giant qilin around before swatting it out of the barrier.
• The Qilin patriarch blamed the Dragon Race and attacked the barrier from outside, but his Divine Abilities could not harm it.
• The Primordial World’s mighty figures realized that the Nine Provinces Barrier could not be broken unless a Sage intervened or the Human Race itself fell.

Fuxi ended the Qilin Race’s attack on the Human Race’s Nine Provinces Barrier by capturing the qilin and sealing them back into their secluded world. The Dragon and Phoenix Races learned how powerful the current Primordial World had become and resolved to keep a low profile, but a report that Ao Wan had seen the Dragon Race’s Holy Dragon Ancestor startled the Dragon Race patriarch.

• Fuxi used a giant hand to capture the Qilin Race and throw them into their secluded world, then sealed the entrance with restrictions.
• The Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune watched the Qilin Race disappear with apparent resentment before fading away, and Fuxi smiled at its reaction.
• The Qilin Race’s defeat showed the Primordial World’s mighty figures that the Human Race’s barrier was formidable and that a Sage stood behind the Human Race.
• The Dragon and Phoenix Races withdrew from public view and gathered information about the Primordial World, learning that many Sages had emerged during their seclusion.
• The Dragon Race patriarch decided his people should remain in the Primordial World but keep a low profile, despite the Sages near the East Sea.
• A Dragon Race elder brought Ao Wan before the patriarch and announced that he had seen the Dragon Race’s Holy Dragon Ancestor, leaving the patriarch stunned.

Ao Yang and Ao Wan visited Ao Changsheng to deliver Azure Dragon’s invitation, and Ao Changsheng agreed to meet the sacred beast. He gave the dragons Yellow Center Plums and reflected on how his old promise to protect the Dragon Race had come true.

• Ao Changsheng received Dragon Race patriarch Ao Yang and newly advanced Daluo true dragon Ao Wan, who paid respects to him as their ancestor.
• Ao Yang explained that Azure Dragon had sent a sacred decree asking Ao Changsheng to visit him.
• Ao Wan described how he had accidentally entered the River of Space and Time and encountered Azure Dragon, one of the Four Sacred Beasts who suppressed it.
• Ao Changsheng agreed to meet Azure Dragon and gave Ao Yang and Ao Wan several Yellow Center Plums to take back to the Dragon Race.
• After the two dragons departed, Ao Changsheng reflected that his promise to become a great power who could stand behind the Dragon Race’s descendants had come true.

Ao Changsheng transformed the world within his body from a Middle Thousand World into a Great Thousand World, completing a breakthrough that gave him power on the level of a Sage. After considering the change in his realm and his past encounter with Zhunti, he sent a thread of thought into the River of Space and Time.

• Ao Changsheng stopped contemplating the Great Dao of the Stars and gathered the world origin stored in the World Tree of the Divine Land Universe.
• Ao Changsheng absorbed the world origin into his inner world, which exploded and then reformed as a Great Thousand World within his dragon body.
• Ao Changsheng completed his breakthrough and found that his dragon body and inner world had merged, placing his realm on the level of a Sage.
• Ao Changsheng reflected on his new strength, distinguishing his Sub-Sage realm from the Half-Sage status of Zhunti, Yuanshi, and Tongtian.
• Ao Changsheng considered whether he could now suppress a true Heavenly Dao Sage, then sent a thread of thought through the Primordial World into the River of Space and Time.

Ao Changsheng followed the River of Space and Time to the Four Sacred Beasts’ hidden realm and learned that it was a sliver of the Primordial World’s past, created when Pangu’s world-forming axe extended the river upstream. Azure Dragon then asked Ao Changsheng to lend his aid to the Primordial World.

• Ao Changsheng ventured beneath the River of Space and Time and arrived at the Four Sacred Beasts’ secluded realm.
• The Four Sacred Beasts were shocked that Ao Changsheng had found and entered their realm without their guidance.
• Ao Changsheng examined the surrounding Chaos and realized it was the Primordial World’s past, not true Chaos from before the world existed.
• White Tiger explained that the Four Sacred Beasts had reached the realm while traveling upstream to suppress the Primordial World’s space and time.
• Azure Dragon told Ao Changsheng that the Dragon Race had invited him because the Four Sacred Beasts wanted his help for the Primordial World.

The Four Sacred Beasts explained to Ao Changsheng how an ancient age of Great Dao Sages nearly harmed the Primordial World and how they buried that era. They invited him to help Hongjun complete the Great Daos and guide the Primordial World's evolution, but Ao Changsheng learned that Hongjun could no longer personally contact him because he had merged with the Heavenly Dao.

• Azure Dragon told Ao Changsheng that Hongjun and the Four Sacred Beasts had planned to make the Primordial World more complete.
• Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger revealed that nineteen Great Dao Sages and more than two hundred Sub-Sages once arose in an early age, when the Great Daos were manifest and demon-god remains enabled rapid cultivation.
• White Tiger recounted how the Great Dao Sages tried to seize or remove the Great Daos, so the Four Sacred Beasts attained the Dao, exterminated the era's demon gods, and buried that age.
• Azure Dragon explained that their battle damaged the three thousand Great Daos, and that Hongjun later merged with the Heavenly Dao to complete the Primordial World.
• Azure Dragon invited Ao Changsheng to help Hongjun and the Four Sacred Beasts complete the Great Daos and plan the Primordial World's evolution.
• Black Tortoise told Ao Changsheng that Hongjun's consciousness had become one with the Heavenly Dao, leaving Ao Changsheng to wonder whether the Hongjun he had encountered since then had been a fake.

Ao Changsheng secretly followed the Four Sacred Beasts’ discussion and discovered that they had moved a buried Primordial World era outside the River of Space and Time. He entered that world and continued deeper, following its flow of world power toward the secret he had sensed in the Chaos space.

• Ao Changsheng told the Four Sacred Beasts he would consider their request and would not interfere with their plan, then dispersed his visible figure.
• After he departed, the Four Sacred Beasts discussed whether to trust him and agreed they might have to suppress him if he interfered.
• Ao Changsheng secretly kept his divine sense inside the Chaos space, merged it with the Chaos currents, and drifted beyond the Four Sacred Beasts’ notice.
• His consciousness entered a silent Primordial World that existed outside history, where he realized the Four Sacred Beasts had moved their buried era out of the River of Space and Time.
• Ao Changsheng saw the Four Sacred Beasts’ true bodies sustaining and suppressing the era, then followed the world power deeper into the Primordial World instead of comprehending its Great Daos.