Chapter Summaries

Di Jun and Taiyi activated the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, convinced the eleven Ancestral Witches could not answer it with their incomplete formation. The Witches revealed that their leader had devised a new way to form the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Great Array, and the chapter ended as they began assembling it.

• Di Jun summoned the star officials and Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, then entered the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array with Taiyi.
• The array covered the battlefield in starlight and halted the fighting, alarming the Human Race, Hong Yun, and Zhen Yuanzi.
• Di Jun taunted the eleven Ancestral Witches for being unable to complete their formation and demanded that they kneel.
• Zhurong rejected Di Jun's demand, and the Ancestral Witches remained defiant despite the array's power.
• The Ancestral Witches revealed that their big brother had devised a new formation, then called out for the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Great Array to form.

The Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu's Phantom with the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Great Array, and he clashed with Di Jun and Taiyi's Zhou Tian Stars Great Array. Their repeated collisions devastated the Primordial World, and both sides appeared close to their limits, but the battle continued.

• The Ancestral Witches formed the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Great Array and summoned Pangu's Phantom, prompting the Witch Clan to bow to him.
• Pangu's Phantom struck at the Zhou Tian Stars Great Array, and his axe collided with the starlight's enormous palms, unleashing destructive aftershocks.
• Nuwa's safeguard on the statues of Saint Nuwa and Great God Fuxi protected the Human Race, while Houtu told Ancestor Minghe that the Witches and Demons were destined to withdraw from the Primordial World.
• Di Jun and Taiyi suffered serious injuries but continued fighting Pangu's Phantom as the two arrays' collisions battered the Primordial World and killed countless beings.
• The aftershocks drove demon soldiers and the old Dragon King of the Dragon Clan to flee, while the battle-weary Pangu's Phantom raised his axe and struck at the stars again.

The Witch Clan and Demon Race destroyed each other in their final battle, leaving the Primordial World devastated and both factions without their leaders. Houtu guided the ten Ancestral Witches into the Netherworld, where they became the Ten Kings of Hell, while Bai Ze was left to wonder what would become of the scattered Demon Race.

• Di Jun and Taiyi unleashed the Zhou Tian Stars Great Array's final attack, but the Pangu Phantom broke apart and the ten Ancestral Witches' true spirits remained.
• A withered-handed figure tried to seize the Ancestral Witches' true spirits, but Houtu drove the figure away and led the spirits into the Netherworld.
• Houtu guided the ten Ancestral Witches along the Yellow Springs Road, where they recovered their memories and accepted their fate.
• Houtu appointed the ten Ancestral Witches as the Ten Kings of Hell, and the Netherworld responded by completing their new roles.
• The Zhou Tian Stars Great Array collapsed, Di Jun and Taiyi died, and Bai Ze wondered what the Demon Race should do as Kunpeng watched a certain place.

Kunpeng seized the River Diagram and Luo Book from the collapsing Demon Clan Heavenly Court, while the Sages failed to capture the Chaos Bell carrying Primordial Violet Qi. After the battle devastated the Primordial World, Gonggong woke among the dead and found no sign of his siblings.

• Kunpeng took the River Diagram and Luo Book from Bai Ze and fled to the North Sea, leaving the remaining Demon Gods to scatter.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi discussed Kunpeng's betrayal as the Sages turned their attention to the Chaos Bell and its Primordial Violet Qi.
• Laozi tried to trap the Chaos Bell with the Taiji Diagram, but it shattered the formation and continued into the Chaos.
• Jieyin's Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree nearly swept up the Chaos Bell, but it vanished before either Sage could claim it.
• The battle's aftermath left the Primordial World strewn with corpses, and survivors of the Witch Clan gathered their fallen brothers' bones.
• Gonggong woke amid the devastation, called for his siblings without receiving an answer, and walked among the dead.

Gonggong, manipulated by Jieyin and Zhunti, broke Buzhou Mountain before dying, unleashing the Heavenly River across the Primordial World. Fuxi claimed the fallen half of the mountain and sent Yuanshi away, while the survivors prayed for help as the sky began to tilt.

• Gonggong cursed the Heavenly Dao and, driven by the schemes of Jieyin and Zhunti, crashed into Buzhou Mountain, breaking it and dying.
• Houtu brought Gonggong back and vowed to repay Jieyin and Zhunti for their repeated meddling with the Witch Clan.
• Fuxi took the fallen half of Buzhou Mountain before Yuanshi arrived, then waved Yuanshi away when he demanded it back.
• The collapse of Buzhou Mountain tore a hole in the sky, and the Heavenly River flooded the Primordial World, sweeping away countless living beings.
• Suiren Shi and the Human Race knelt before the statue of Nuwa and pleaded with Nuwa and Fuxi to stop the flood as the sky began to tilt.

Nuwa found a Five-Colored Stone to mend the heavens and learned that the North Sea Black Tortoise’s four limbs could serve as pillars to hold them up. When the Black Tortoise resisted, Hongjun arrived and urged him to sacrifice himself for the suffering beings, promising that Merit would let him return through reincarnation.

• Nuwa heard the pleas of living beings and resolved to mend the heavens, while Fuxi affirmed her decision.
• Nuwa found a Five-Colored Stone capable of mending the heavens but realized she also needed pillars to stop them from tilting.
• Nuwa divined that the North Sea Black Tortoise’s four limbs could hold up the heavens, then traveled to the North Sea and killed a black dragon stirring up the floodwaters.
• The Black Tortoise emerged and protested when Nuwa told him she needed his limbs, insisting he had harmed no one and wanted to keep pursuing Hunyuan.
• Hongjun appeared, declared the Black Tortoise’s sacrifice was his fate, and urged him to give up his limbs in exchange for great Merit and reincarnation; the Black Tortoise began to feel tempted.

Fuxi warned Black Tortoise that reincarnation would not let him attain the Hunyuan Fruit Position and offered him a better way to fulfill his destiny. Nuwa sealed the hole in the sky, and Black Tortoise merged with the Primordial World to repair it, leaving Hongjun furious.

• Fuxi appeared and warned Black Tortoise that reincarnation would make him start over rather than grant him the Hunyuan Fruit Position.
• Fuxi told Black Tortoise to merge his body with the Primordial World and become its Spirit, so he could use the Merit to give his primordial spirit physical form.
• Nuwa refined the Five-Colored Stone and sealed the great hole in the sky, stopping the Heavenly River from pouring through it.
• Black Tortoise vowed to merge with heaven and earth, then scattered his body across the Primordial World to prop up the heavens and restore the land.
• The floodwaters receded, the land recovered, and the Primordial World's living beings rejoiced as Hongjun burned with rage inside Zixiao Palace.

The Black Tortoise merged with heaven and earth, earning Merit alongside Nuwa and Fuxi and obstructing Hongjun’s plan to control the Heavenly Dao. Fuxi then prepared to send the remaining witches through his Myriad Worlds Passage, and the Witch-Demon Tribulation ended once the Witch Clan left the Primordial World and the Demon Clan went into hiding.

• The Black Tortoise merged his body with heaven and earth, thwarting Hongjun’s plan to merge with the Heavenly Dao and drawing his hatred toward Fuxi.
• Merit descended, restoring the Black Tortoise to an Innate Dao Body, empowering Nuwa, and flowing partly into Fuxi’s Fuxi Qin.
• Fuxi gained insight into Refining Spirit, Returning to Emptiness and realized the Witch-Demon Tribulation had not ended because the surviving witches remained in the Primordial World and the dead had joined the Earthly Dao.
• Hongjun recognized that the Witch Clan’s place in the Earthly Dao had weakened the Heavenly Dao and further blamed Fuxi for obstructing his plans.
• Fuxi prepared to send the remaining witches through his Myriad Worlds Passage, and the Witch-Demon Tribulation ended after the Witch Clan left the Primordial World and the Demon Clan went into hiding.

After the Witch-Demon War, the Three Teachings recruited disciples and spread their teachings as the Human Race rose. Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to govern the newly renamed Heavenly Court, then announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao, prompting Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi to anticipate further upheavals.

• Fuxi foresaw the Human Race's rise and viewed the coming Investiture of the Gods as an opportunity to challenge Hongjun's control.
• At Hongjun's order, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Laozi, Zhunti, and Jieyin began recruiting disciples and spreading their teachings across the Primordial World.
• A hundred years later, the Three Teachings had gained influence, with Yuanshi teaching at Jade Void Palace, Tongtian welcoming all listeners to Jin'ao Island, and Xuandu spreading Taiji Sect teachings.
• Hongjun summoned Haotian and Yaochi, restored the ruined Demon Court, renamed it the Heavenly Court, and appointed them its masters.
• Hongjun announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao, while Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi discussed the upheavals that might follow.

Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao and declared that the Human Race would become the protagonists of heaven and earth, alarming the Sages because Fuxi and Nuwa controlled the Human Path. He proposed targeting the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, while the Dragon Clan turned toward joining Haotian’s Heavenly Court.

• Haotian lamented that a thousand years of recruitment had left the Heavenly Court with only a few hundred members.
• Ao Tian resisted his brothers’ suggestion to seek a Sage’s protection, insisting that the Dragon Clan’s dignity could not be discarded.
• Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao, and Ao Tian decided to lead his brothers to the Heavenly Court as other powerful figures headed there too.
• Hongjun summoned the Sages and announced that the Human Race would become the protagonists of heaven and earth; Laozi attributed its rise to Fuxi’s cultivation art.
• The Sages worried that Fuxi and Nuwa controlled the Human Race’s Fortune, so Hongjun told them to target the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

Laozi and Yuanshi discovered that the Heavenly Dao was obscured, preventing them from identifying the Human Race’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. At Hongjun’s instruction, they sought Tongtian’s help, and he reluctantly agreed to go to Zixiao Palace.

• Laozi explained to Yuanshi that the Heavenly Court could oversee the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and Yuanshi tried to identify the candidates.
• Yuanshi and Laozi joined forces to peer into the Heavenly Dao but found its course shrouded in Chaos.
• Hongjun confirmed that he also could not see the Heavenly Dao’s course and told Laozi to seek Tongtian’s help.
• Laozi persuaded Yuanshi to accompany him to Jin'ao Island, where Tongtian rebuffed them before listening to Laozi’s appeal to their brotherhood and Hongjun’s command.
• Tongtian agreed to go to Zixiao Palace after attending to matters on Jin'ao Island.

Fuxi was revealed as the first Human Emperor, ending the sages’ plans to weaken the Human Race through the Three Human Emperors and Five Emperors. Yuanshi proposed expanding the Heavenly Court to take control of the Human Path, but the discussion ended in conflict over which disciples should be sent there.

• The sages in Zixiao Palace learned that Fuxi would become the first Human Emperor, and Hongjun said Heaven’s decree could not be changed.
• Yuanshi proposed strengthening the Heavenly Court so its influence over the Human Path could rival Fuxi’s Human Race.
• Jieyin suggested that the Three Pure Ones send some of their disciples to fill the Heavenly Court’s ranks.
• Tongtian refused to send Interception Sect disciples and argued that Yuanshi should send Chan Sect disciples instead.
• Yuanshi and the Western Sages criticized Tongtian’s refusal and accused him of selfishness.

Hongjun announced that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation was imminent and gave Haotian control of the Investiture, which would fill the Heavenly Court’s three hundred and sixty-five divine offices. Tongtian refused to let the Interception Sect submit, while Hongjun revealed his plan to seize control of the Human Path through the tribulation.

• Hongjun dismissed the Sages before their dispute over supplying disciples to the Heavenly Court could turn into a fight, and Jieyin concluded that the Interception Sect was the only suitable source of recruits.
• Yuanshi and Laozi confronted Tongtian about the Interception Sect, but Tongtian refused to send his disciples and nearly fought Yuanshi before Laozi stopped them.
• Hongjun summoned Laozi and Yuanshi back to Zixiao Palace, where he announced the coming Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and appointed Haotian to oversee the Investiture.
• Hongjun said that disciples who joined the Heavenly Court voluntarily could retain their freedom, but those killed by the Human Race or Interception Sect would enter the Investiture.
• Laozi reassured Yuanshi that they did not need to act against Tongtian themselves, while Hongjun privately declared that the tribulation would let him seize the Human Path despite Fuxi.

Zhao Gongming led the Interception Sect disciples against the Chan Sect after Huang Long captured Tiger Demon, while Que Zhen reported the Chan Sect’s abuses to Tongtian. Tongtian arrived during the battle and confronted Yuanshi, who dismissed the deaths of the Interception Sect disciples.

• Zhao Gongming learned that Huang Long had captured Tiger Demon and led the Interception Sect disciples to attack the Chan Sect.
• Huang Long brought the wounded Tiger Demon to Guangchengzi, and the Chan Sect disciples discussed claiming him as a mount and capturing more Interception Sect disciples.
• Zhao Gongming attacked Huang Long with the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls, and the two sects began a battle that reached a stalemate.
• Que Zhen told Tongtian that the Chan Sect had captured Tiger Demon and Mountain Bird and fatally wounded Jiujiu.
• Tongtian arrived at the battle, and Yuanshi challenged him before dismissing the deaths of the Interception Sect disciples as unimportant.

Tongtian clashed with Primordial Heavenly Venerable over the Chan Sect’s attacks on Interception Sect disciples, and the battle threatened the Heavenly Court. Hongjun arrived and accused Tongtian of interfering in a dispute between disciples, leaving Tongtian’s punishment unresolved.

• Tongtian attacked Primordial Heavenly Venerable and the Chan Sect disciples, prompting Primordial Heavenly Venerable to fight him with the Pangu Banner until Laozi stopped them.
• Tongtian accused Primordial Heavenly Venerable of allowing his disciples to kill and capture Interception Sect disciples, then ordered his own disciples to attack the Chan Sect.
• Zhao Gongming used the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls to overwhelm Guangchengzi, while Tongtian and Primordial Heavenly Venerable resumed their battle.
• Laozi struck Tongtian with the Coiled Dragon Crutch while claiming to stop the fight, and Tongtian challenged both brothers to fight him together.
• Hongjun arrived at the Heavenly Court and demanded to know Tongtian’s crime; Tongtian blamed Primordial Heavenly Venerable, but Hongjun rebuked Tongtian for intervening in a dispute between disciples.

Fuxi intervened when Hongjun pressured Tongtian to admit guilt and offered him the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram. Tongtian accepted the treasures and severed his bond with Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable, ending the Three Pure Ones.

• Tongtian refused Laozi's demand that he apologize to Primordial Heavenly Venerable and compensate him with spiritual treasures.
• Hongjun used his pressure to demand that Tongtian admit guilt, but Fuxi arrived and dispelled it with his presence.
• Fuxi offered Tongtian the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram, and Tongtian accepted them.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable warned that Tongtian joining Fuxi would end the Three Pure Ones, and Tongtian agreed by cutting a corner from his robe with the Qingping Sword.
• Fuxi praised Tongtian as the Three Pure Ones' bond was severed, leaving Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Venerable, and Hongjun stunned.

Tongtian severed ties with Hongjun and left the Heavenly Court with Fuxi, whose cultivation matched Hongjun’s. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Court began recruiting forces and Bai Ze agreed to join, while Fuxi founded Huaxia and united the Human Race’s territories under its rule.

• Hongjun attacked Tongtian for siding with Fuxi, but Fuxi stopped him in a clash that revealed their power was evenly matched, then left the Heavenly Court with Tongtian.
• Hongjun told the Heavenly Court not to confront the Human Race for now and ordered it to recruit powerful experts and prepare Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Laozi ordered the expulsion of Jie Sect Disciples and a campaign to damage the Human Race’s reputation, while Haotian instructed Taibai Jinxing to recruit forces and stir up hostility toward the Human Race.
• Taibai Jinxing visited Bai Ze, who agreed to bring the Demon Race’s great demons into the Heavenly Court in exchange for Emperor’s Nectar being sent down every hundred years.
• Fuxi founded Huaxia instead of following the future described in the secrets of heaven, and within a hundred years it united the Human Race’s territories and gathered their providence into a powerful divine dragon.

Shennong and Xuanyuan guided Huaxia through population and resource crises, while Cangjie’s creation of writing and the succession of the Five Emperors strengthened the Human Race. As Hongjun summoned his disciples to Zixiao Palace, the sages argued over how to respond to the Human Race’s growing power and Fortune.

• Shennong sought Nuwa’s advice, then found five-colored rice and wrote “Shennong's Hundred Herbs Classic” before abdicating to Xuanyuan.
• Xuanyuan returned from Kunlun Mountain and ordered livestock raised on a large scale, while Cangjie created writing for the Human Race.
• Zhuanxu, Yao, Shun, Yu, and then Tang succeeded to Huaxia’s throne as the Human Race’s Merit and Fortune grew.
• Hongjun summoned Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti to Zixiao Palace after Tang took the throne.
• Laozi warned that the Human Race’s power could cause another great calamity, Yuanshi proposed changing the Heavenly Mandate, and Jieyin and Zhunti proposed reclaiming the Human Race’s Fortune from Fuxi and Nuwa.

Hongjun redirected his disciples’ attention from the Human Race toward the Netherworld, but Fuxi and Pingxin joined forces, strengthening the Earthly Dao and Human Path against the Heavenly Dao. Hongjun ordered the Heavenly Court’s preparations for war to continue, leaving the conflict unavoidable.

• Hongjun warned Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti against fixating on the Human Race and urged them to consider the Netherworld, where they began planning to probe its Fortune.
• Houtu, the Ten Yama Kings, and Gonggong thanked Fuxi for arranging to send the Witch Clan into the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and Houtu agreed to have Netherworld Constables gather information among the myriad races.
• Fuxi and Houtu agreed to cooperate against the Heavenly Court’s preparations, further strengthening the Earthly Dao and Human Path and weakening the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun sensed Fuxi and Pingxin’s alliance and told his disciples that the Heavenly Court must continue preparing for war because a great conflict could no longer be avoided.
• Zhunti proposed making Daluo Golden Immortal advancement harder, and Jieyin suggested attacking the Netherworld first, but Hongjun rejected both plans as too risky or ineffective.

Hongjun ordered the Heavenly Court and its allies to attack the Huaxia Imperial Dynasty in an effort to seize the Human Path and break the Human Race’s heavenly destiny. In Nanping Province, Miaomang repelled an attack by Changhai of the Mermen Clan, while Cangjie revealed that the invasion had spread across the empire.

• Hongjun decided to wage war against the Human Race and ordered Haotian to mobilize the Heavenly Court’s forces, with Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti agreeing to support the campaign.
• Haotian returned to the Heavenly Court, which sent orders to its forces, the Four Seas Dragon Clan, and the myriad races to attack the Human Race.
• Miaomang emerged from seclusion when Changhai of the Mermen Clan attacked Nanping Province under the Heavenly Court’s command.
• Miaomang used his Sea of Bitter phenomenon, Sea-Summoning Conch, and Nanping Province’s formations to defeat Changhai.
• Cangjie arrived, searched Changhai’s soul, and told Miaomang that the myriad races had received the Heavenly Court’s orders and that other Huaxia territories were already under attack.