Chapter Summaries

Ao Changsheng used Fuxi’s karmic golden dragon and the Human Race’s power to suppress Xiangliu forever, though everyone believed Fuxi had acted. The aftermath left Fuxi amused, Ao Changsheng quietly resentful of Guiling, and Jiufeng grieving the Witch Race’s loss as Pingxin watched from the Underworld.

• Ao Changsheng, acting through the Savage Wilderness Giant and Fuxi’s golden dragon, declared Xiangliu’s eternal suppression and struck him with the Nine Provinces’ power.
• Guiling thanked Senior Brother Fuxi, while Jinling and the Human Race cultivators realized they had experienced the battle as their own deed and Yu received a cultivation method.
• Fuxi celebrated Guiling’s thanks in Fire Cloud Cave and reduced the number of his clones working in the Devil-Subduing Cave by a hundred.
• Ao Changsheng recorded Guiling’s mistaken identification and lack of cultivation progress, then resolved that she should no longer roam freely.
• Jiufeng learned Xiangliu had been suppressed forever, blamed Fuxi, and questioned whether Houtu still belonged to the Witch Race.
• Pingxin watched Jiufeng from the Underworld and mourned that she could not become Houtu again to protect the Witches.

Guiling revealed to Jinling that Fuxi was her senior brother, leaving Jinling and the Human Race Daluo astonished by Guiling’s lineage. After the group thanked them for defeating Xiangliu, Guiling asked Yu for a map of the Variant Human Race’s territories so she and Jinling could pursue their opportunity for her breakthrough.

• Guiling confirmed that the Human Race’s Sacred Emperor Fuxi was her senior brother, and Jinling realized Guiling had a powerful Sage lineage.
• Jinling introduced herself as a personal disciple of Sage Tongtian, while the five Human Race Daluo learned Guiling was Fuxi’s junior sister.
• Yu and the other Human Race Daluo thanked Guiling and Jinling for saving them and foiling Xiangliu’s scheme, then offered to take them back to the Human Race to recover.
• Guiling declined the offer and asked Yu for a map of the Variant Human Race, especially the Giant Race, along the Nine Provinces frontier.
• Yu agreed to fetch the map, noting that the Human Race’s records were more than a thousand years old, and departed with the other Daluo.

Jinling discovered that the giants had hidden Acupoints along their meridians, while Guiling could see them only inside her own world and suspected a powerful concealment. Nüwa revealed that the Acupoints were a treasure she had reserved for the Human Race, and watched the two women as the time to act approached.

• Jinling noticed Acupoints in the giants’ meridians and wondered whether they were the fortuitous opportunity that could help her reach the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Guiling examined the giants and confirmed that she could not see the Acupoints in the Primordial World, then used her Small Thousand World to reveal them.
• Guiling concluded that a great power had concealed the Acupoints and suspected they themselves, rather than her perception, were being targeted.
• Nüwa watched Jinling and Guiling from Empress Wa Palace and recognized their identities and their qualifications to represent the Human Race.
• Nüwa explained that she had concealed the Human Race’s Acupoints because the right time had not yet come, and that they were among the greatest treasures she had left for humanity.

Jinling awakened her identity as the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace, restored her foundation by opening every acupoint in correspondence with the stars, and reached Quasi-Sage through a second self. She left with her attention fixed on the Heavenly Court’s influence over the starry sky.

• Jinling realized that her acupoints corresponded to the stars, opened all 365 Manifest Acupoints and 84,000 Hidden Acupoints, and restored her foundation as an Innate Divine Being.
• Guiling guarded Jinling as the starry-sky phenomenon shook the Primordial World, while powerful cultivators failed to determine its cause.
• Cult Master Tongtian recognized that Jinling had remembered her identity as the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace, whose unfinished gestation had led her to reincarnate as Jinling.
• Jinling understood that she was the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace and resolved to face the Heavenly Court’s control over the starry sky.
• Jinling told Guiling she had not yet broken through, then a second Jinling in golden Daoist robes emerged and both Jinlings declared that she had.

After Jinling explained her breakthrough and new identity to Guiling, she revealed that the Human Race’s Acupoint Diagram had helped her become an Innate Divine Being and reach the Quasi-Sage realm. Jinling planned to repay the Human Race by unsealing its acupoints and linking them to the ancient stars, with Guiling’s help.

• Jinling told Guiling that she had become the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace and head of the star mansions, while Guiling wondered about acquiring an impressive Daoist title.
• Guiling offered to avenge Jinling against Dijun, but Jinling said she was alive and Dijun was dead, so there was no need to dwell on the past.
• Guiling asked whether Jinling would leave the Nine Provinces after reaching the Quasi-Sage realm, and Jinling said she still had a task among the Human Race that required Guiling’s help.
• Jinling explained that the Human Race’s Acupoint Diagram had completed her Innate Divine Being body and helped her break through, creating a great karmic debt to the Human Race.
• Guiling realized Sage Nüwa had concealed the Human Race’s acupoints because the Demon Race controlled the ancient stars when the Human Race was created.
• Jinling said she would unseal the Human Race’s acupoints and connect them to the three hundred and sixty-five ancient stars, benefiting both the Human Race and the stars.

Heavenly Emperor Haotian investigated the starry-sky phenomenon while Laozi sent Grand Mage Xuandu to spread the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir among the Human Race. Ao Changsheng concluded that Jinling’s awakening had completed the Great Dao of the Stars, created a Great Thousand World to test his theories, and opened a passage to meet Pingxin.

• Heavenly Emperor Haotian asked his officials to explain the starry-sky phenomenon, then learned that the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation had grown stronger and increased the Heavenly Realm’s Spiritual Qi conversion.
• Laozi told Grand Mage Xuandu to take the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir to the Human Race, and Xuandu left Mount Shouyang on foot because the ancestral land barred immortals.
• Ao Changsheng connected Jinling’s return as the Dipper Mother of the Kan Palace to the completion of the Great Dao of the Stars.
• Ao Changsheng created a Great Thousand World, accelerated its time to test his ideas about Innate Divine Beings, and placed it in his abode to evolve.
• Ao Changsheng opened a passage to the Netherworld, where Pingxin was waiting.

Ao Changsheng confronted Pingxin over Xiangliu’s suppression and negotiated for access to the Authority of Reincarnation. Pingxin gave Fuxi the Authority of the Judge of the Underworld as an apology, then agreed to exchange Authority of Reincarnation with Ao Changsheng if he paid more.

• Ao Changsheng claimed Fuxi had suppressed Xiangliu and pressed Pingxin for a reward, while hinting that he suspected her plans for the Witch Race and reincarnation.
• Pingxin gave Ao Changsheng the Authority of the Judge of the Underworld for Fuxi as an apology.
• Ao Changsheng revealed that his own Authority of Reincarnation could not be transferred, so he wanted to exchange it for proper authority to give his disciple.
• Pingxin rejected Ao Changsheng’s offers to purchase her Authority of Reincarnation and asked whether he was still accepting disciples, mentioning Jiufeng.
• Pingxin agreed to exchange Authority of Reincarnation with Ao Changsheng but told him he would have to pay more.

Ao Changsheng exchanged his reincarnation authority with Pingxin, legitimized his claim as a lord of reincarnation, and divided part of it for Guiling. As he and Pingxin discussed Jiufeng and the Witch Race, a white-clad Daoist crossed the Netherworld Blood Sea and entered Ghost Gate Pass, provoking Pingxin’s anger.

• Ao Changsheng traded his ten percent of reincarnation authority to Pingxin for two hundred clusters of world origin and divided some authority for Guiling.
• Pingxin asked Ao Changsheng to take Jiufeng as a disciple, but he said she could not cultivate his method.
• Pingxin described her arrangements for the surviving great witches, while Ao Changsheng noted that Chiyou and Xingtian were being kept from advancing during the Immeasurable Tribulation.
• A white-clad Daoist walked across the Netherworld Blood Sea on a bridge of white lotuses and entered Ghost Gate Pass.
• Pingxin sensed the Daoist entering Ghost Gate Pass and angrily exclaimed, "How dare you!"

Pingxin and Ao Changsheng watched Dizang enter the Netherworld through Ghost Gate Pass using Zhunti’s protection, which soon shattered. As Dizang pressed onward along the Yellow Springs Road, he faced the Underworld’s yaksha ghost gods, and the story left him confronting dozens of powerful reinforcements.

• Pingxin showed Ao Changsheng a mirror image of Dizang crossing into the Netherworld, and Ao Changsheng recognized Zhunti’s Divine Ability.
• Dizang recalled Zhunti’s warning that his protection would fail in the Underworld, then continued along the Yellow Springs Road as ghosts and ghost messengers watched.
• Four Taiyi yakshas attacked Dizang, but he blocked their strikes, seized their forks, and overpowered them without stopping.
• The yakshas called for help, summoning dozens of Taiyi yaksha ghost gods, and Dizang grew grave as they approached.

Dizang advanced toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation while defending himself from the Underworld’s Taiyi ghost gods and yakshas. Pingxin altered the Yellow Springs Road, bringing Hell into view, and Dizang learned why the dead must suffer for their sins before reincarnation.

• Dizang blocked the ghost gods’ attacks with golden radiance and continued along the Yellow Springs Road without striking back.
• Ao Changsheng and Pingxin observed Dizang’s conduct, and Pingxin chose not to send a Daluo to capture him.
• Pingxin subtly changed the Yellow Springs Road, allowing Dizang to see the Hells beside it.
• Dizang stopped to watch countless souls endure punishments and asked a ghost god why they were suffering.
• The ghost god explained that souls had to wash away their sins before reincarnation, because those sins could not be passed to a new life or borne by the Six Paths.
• Dizang accepted that each being had to repay their own sins before receiving a new life.

Dizang turned from the Six Paths of Reincarnation to Hell, vowed to deliver its suffering beings, and began guiding genuinely repentant ghosts toward reincarnation while bearing their remaining sins. Pingxin and Ao Changsheng discussed his work for the Underworld, and Ao Changsheng returned to cultivation as Zhunti received word from Dizang.

• Dizang questioned Hell’s punishments, and Pingxin challenged him to try repentance and atonement.
• Dizang recited stories from his life, then vowed not to become a Buddha until Hell was empty; his cultivation reached Daluo, and Diting appeared to discern which ghosts sincerely repented.
• Dizang offered to bear the sins of repentant beings, and Diting guided the few sincere ghosts onto the Yellow Springs Road while their remaining sins passed to Dizang.
• Pingxin told Ao Changsheng that Dizang was working for the Underworld, and Ao Changsheng warned her to be cautious of the Western Sect.
• Ao Changsheng returned to his cultivation ground and resumed secluded cultivation, while Zhunti received word from Dizang in the Netherworld.

Jieyin reassured Zhunti that Dizang could still attain Buddhahood despite his vow to remain in Hell, and confirmed that the Western Sect had gained a foothold in reincarnation through him. In the Nine Provinces, Xuandu arrived to spread the Golden Elixir Dao while Jinling and Guiling continued unsealing human acupoints, with Guiling warning that their method was too slow.

• Jieyin explained that Dizang could perfect his heart and become a Buddha without fulfilling his great vow, while Zhunti accepted that Dizang’s path depended on his own understanding.
• Jieyin told Zhunti that Dizang’s White Lotus Bridge and position in Hell had already connected the Western Sect to reincarnation, easing Zhunti’s concern about the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Grand Mage Xuandu entered the Nine Provinces, found that the people in the city below had not had their acupoints unsealed, and set off to find a place where he could spread the Dao.
• Jinling drew on the ancient stars to unseal the acupoints of the people in Danshan City and several other cities while Guiling accompanied her.
• Guiling told Jinling that unsealing the entire Human Race city by city would take hundreds of thousands of years and that repeating the same spells was dull.

Jinling and Guiling devised a way to unseal the Acupoints of humans across hundreds of thousands of cities at once, greatly speeding up their work. The sudden change alarmed Zhuanxu and the human Daluo, who began investigating its source.

• Guiling suggested that humans with unsealed Acupoints could pass them on to their descendants, but Jinling noted that traveling between cities took more time than unsealing each one.
• Jinling and Guiling spent a thousand years refining a method that used Round Light Mirrors to channel star power into hundreds of thousands of human cities at once.
• Jinling and Guiling unsealed the Acupoints of more than eighty percent of the humans in the cities reached by their method.
• Zhuanxu summoned the human Daluo after Acupoints appeared throughout the Human Race and ordered them to investigate who had caused the change.

Xuandu discovered that the Human Race’s acupoints had been opened across the Nine Provinces and prepared to spread Laozi’s Great Dao of the Golden Elixir. Meanwhile, Jinling and Guiling arrived at Fire Cloud Cave to open the acupoints of the humans there, where two Perfection Daluos awaited them.

• Xuandu found that the acupoints of humans across the Nine Provinces had been opened within ten years and wondered how Jinling had accomplished it.
• Xuandu recalled that his own acupoints had opened six months earlier without his noticing anyone nearby, then gave up searching for Jinling and Guiling.
• Xuandu took out the item Laozi had given him and considered how to pass down the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir.
• Jinling and Guiling left the Nine Provinces to reach the humans outside the barrier, especially those living at Fire Cloud Cave.
• Jinling explained that Fire Cloud Cave was the Human Race’s sacred land and that Fuxi lived there.
• Jirong-shi and Qingsang-shi welcomed Jinling and Guiling outside Fire Cloud Cave and addressed them respectfully as Ladies.

Jinling and Guiling arrived at Fire Cloud Cave, where Fuxi and the Human Race’s elders welcomed them to discuss the unsealed acupoints and the Human Race’s future. The chapter ended with Fuxi recognizing Guiling’s insight into Fire Cloud Cave and telling Jinling that the Human Race would support her.

• Jirong-shi and Qingsang-shi led Jinling and Guiling toward Fire Cloud Cave, explaining that Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and the Human Race’s elders were waiting for them.
• Jinling and Guiling entered Fire Cloud Cave and greeted Fuxi and the gathered elders, and Fuxi thanked Jinling for unsealing the Human Race’s acupoints.
• Fuxi explained that the acupoints would let traits gained by variant humans become Human Race bloodlines and Divine Abilities, returning fortune to the Human Race.
• Guiling recognized that Fire Cloud Cave was a Great Thousand World opened by their Master because it had the same smell as the worlds he created.
• Fuxi told Jinling to proceed with her plans and promised that he and the Human Race would support her.

Jinling and Fuxi settled an alliance between the Human Race and the stars, and Jinling helped activate the elders’ Acupoints before she and Guiling left Fire Cloud Cave. The two set out north to seek Guiling’s prepared opportunity, but realized their first destination would be the Human Race’s Nine Provinces, whose barrier troubled Jinling.

• Jinling and Fuxi agreed on an alliance and mutual assistance between the Human Race and the stars.
• Jinling activated the Acupoints of the Human Race’s elders and Perfection Daluo cultivators, earning the elders’ approval.
• After several days of hospitality, Jinling and Guiling left Fire Cloud Cave, where Jinling had gained substantial Law Power and Guiling had enjoyed her master’s spirit fruit.
• Jinling chose to travel north with Guiling to search for the opportunity Guiling’s master had prepared for her.
• Guiling realized they would first have to cross the Nine Provinces Barrier, and Jinling reluctantly accepted that their journey would begin in the Human Race’s Nine Provinces.

Ao Changsheng surveyed the Primordial World's major powers, recognizing the Human Race's rapid rise and the Heavenly Court's overwhelming strength. His inspection of the Western lands overturned his belief that they were truly poor, revealing their immense mineral wealth.

• Ao Changsheng harvested the fruit from his Innate Spirit Roots after learning that Guiling planned to empty his herb garden, then recorded the occasion in the void.
• Ao Changsheng examined the Human Race's Great Dao of the Golden Elixir and judged that its cultivation path could lead talented practitioners toward Quasi-Sagehood.
• Ao Changsheng surveyed the Heavenly Court, noting its strength and sensing that Haotian had advanced beyond Yaochi on a path that could lead to Sagehood.
• Ao Changsheng observed the Dao lineages of Nüwa and Laozi, then turned his attention to the Western Sect and its lands.
• Ao Changsheng discovered vast deposits of precious spirit-material ores beneath the Western lands and realized that, despite damaged Spirit Veins and sparse vegetation, the region was rich rather than poor.

After ten billion years of seclusion, Ao Changsheng chose another hundred billion years and used his power to investigate the Seclusion System. He traced its arrival to the River of Space and Time, received the dangerous Great Dao Battle Physique method, and summoned his Great Dao of Thunder Dao body to help cultivate it.

• The Seclusion System offered Ao Changsheng a choice between ending his seclusion and continuing for one hundred billion years, and he chose to continue.
• Ao Changsheng used the Great Thousand World within his body to examine the seclusion ground and prepare to investigate the Seclusion System itself.
• As the system delivered his reward, Ao Changsheng detected its fluctuation, forced open its passage, and discovered that it led to the Primordial World's River of Space and Time.
• Ao Changsheng received the Great Dao Battle Physique method, which could strengthen a Dao body but was so difficult and dangerous that failure could cost him dearly.
• Ao Changsheng summoned his Great Dao of Thunder Dao body, who complained about being used before transforming into lightning and fleeing.

Guiling returned to Ao Changsheng after nearly three hundred million years, bringing Holy Mother Jinling and the Three Xiaos to visit his cultivation ground. Ao Changsheng sent Guiling and her companions directly to Hell to claim her prepared fortuitous opportunity, leaving them screaming in the passage as he closed it.

• Ao Changsheng wondered whether the Dao Body Sacred Method was flawed and considered having his Dao bodies cultivate the Great Dao Battle Physique together.
• Guiling arrived with Jinling, Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao, struck an invisible barrier, and entered the cultivation ground after bumping her head.
• Jinling and the Three Xiaos entered and were stunned by the cultivation ground's abundant Innate Spiritual Qi, Spirit Roots, and treasures.
• Guiling pleaded with Ao Changsheng to remove her bump and proudly told him she had reached the Middle Thousand World realm, but he urged her to aim for a Great Thousand World.
• Ao Changsheng told Guiling he would personally send her to her fortuitous opportunity, then pushed her into a passage leading to Hell and sent Jinling and the Three Xiaos after her.
• Ao Changsheng closed the passage as the five women screamed, then returned to picking spirit fruits in his orchard.

Guiling, Holy Mother Jinling, and the Three Xiaos gained a major cultivation boost in a purgatorial passage before emerging deep beneath the Netherworld Blood Sea. Guiling recognized a vast mire of soul remnants below them, and the group spotted a bridge made of hundreds of millions of white lotuses.

• Guiling stopped screaming and urged the Three Xiaos to sense the fortuitous opportunity around them.
• Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao followed the mysterious sensation and rapidly advanced their cultivation, while Guiling and Holy Mother Jinling also made progress.
• The group emerged from the passage with their powers restored, and Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao thanked Guiling for the opportunity.
• Holy Mother Jinling recognized their location as deep within the Netherworld Blood Sea and explained the place to Bixiao.
• Guiling investigated the black mire beneath them and sensed remnants of countless souls.
• Holy Mother Jinling pointed out a bridge formed from hundreds of millions of white lotuses.