Chapter Summaries

Xiang Dong persuaded Yangmei and the three patriarchs to establish a teaching and gather Heavenly Dao Merit and fate rather than let Hongjun monopolize the Primordial World. Yangmei agreed to help, and Xiang Dong offered to send him two talented disciples.

• Xiang Dong urged Yangmei to take disciples and establish a teaching, explaining that it would earn Heavenly Dao Merit and gather fate from those who came to hear him preach.
• Xiang Dong warned Yangmei that Hongjun planned to use the Mystic Gate and his teaching to command the Primordial World and speed up his union with the Dao.
• Five Elements, Yin-Yang, and Heaven and Earth urged Yangmei to oppose Hongjun, and Yangmei agreed to their plan.
• Xiang Dong advised the three patriarchs to join forces and found one sect because they were vulnerable alone and had lost their companion spirit treasures.
• Xiang Dong offered to send Yangmei two exceptionally gifted disciples, and Yangmei hesitated over whether to accept.

Taichu returned to Pangu Hall injured after clashing with the Three Pure Ones and the Three-legged Golden Crows, prompting the Twelve Ancestral Witches to prepare for revenge. He revealed that he had seized three Top-grade Innate Spirit Treasures and persuaded them not to fall out with the Three Pure Ones unless they provoked another fight.

• Taichu returned to Pangu Hall with a wound, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches erupted in anger at the Three Pure Ones and the Three-legged Golden Crows.
• Houtu healed Taichu while the other Ancestral Witches demanded to settle the score for him.
• Taichu healed himself and showed the Twelve Ancestral Witches the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, the Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner, and the Off-Ground Flame Light Banner he had seized.
• Taichu urged the Ancestral Witches not to fight the Three Pure Ones because both groups were orthodox descendants of Pangu.
• Di Jiang agreed not to provoke the Three Pure Ones, but warned that they would retaliate if provoked and might claim the Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures for Taichu.

Taichu shared Pangu’s more complete inheritance, the Hunyuan Nine-Turn Profound Origin Art, with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, giving them a cultivation path that united their fleshly bodies, Primordial Spirits, Principles, and Law Power. The Ancestral Witches began receiving and studying the method before leaving Pangu Hall to explore the Primordial World.

• Di Jiang proposed that the recovered Twelve Ancestral Witches leave Pangu Hall and explore the Primordial World, while Zhurong urged them to hunt beasts for blood food.
• Taichu stopped the Ancestral Witches from departing and told them he had Father God Pangu’s true core inheritance to share.
• Taichu explained how the Ancestral Witches’ incomplete inheritance and former lack of Primordial Spirits had limited their cultivation.
• Taichu shared the Hunyuan Nine-Turn Profound Origin Art with the Twelve Ancestral Witches through their seas of consciousness.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches closed their eyes to receive the method and grew even more reverent toward Father God Pangu.

After Taichu shared Pangu’s Hunyuan Nine-Turn Profound Origin Art with the Ancestral Witches, he tried to make them recognize him as their eldest brother. They agreed to decide the matter through strength, and Taichu was defeated by each of the Twelve Ancestral Witches in turn.

• The Ancestral Witches praised Taichu for comprehending Pangu’s complete cultivation inheritance and celebrated its potential to help them prove their Dao to Hunyuan.
• Taichu declared that, as the first light created by Pangu, he should be the eldest and that the others were his younger siblings.
• Di Jiang and the others tried to humor Taichu by calling him their thirteenth eldest brother, but Taichu insisted that they take his claim seriously.
• Houtu persuaded the Ancestral Witches to settle the matter by strength, and Zhu Jiuyin challenged Taichu to defeat them to earn their wholehearted submission.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches took turns attacking Taichu, knocking him down nearly every time.
• Taichu concluded that his physical body and Principles were weaker than theirs because he had not absorbed much Sha Qi and his Principles were not yet at their peak.

After learning of Taichu’s defeat, Xiang Dong and Yangmei intercepted Jie Yin and Zhun Ti as they fled west and considered finding them a teacher. Yangmei refused to take them as disciples, leaving Xiang Dong wondering which other powerful figures might suit them.

• Xiang Dong learned of Taichu’s crushing defeat at Pangu Hall and quickly recovered from his bad mood.
• Yangmei caught up with Jie Yin and Zhun Ti and blocked their path as they tried to return to the West.
• Xiang Dong introduced Yangmei as a powerful cultivator who could take Jie Yin and Zhun Ti as disciples, making the two eager to accept.
• Yangmei doubted Xiang Dong’s claims about their talent but acknowledged their promise and refused because he cultivated the Space Great Dao and had no master-disciple affinity with them.
• Xiang Dong considered whether Samsara or Yellow Springs might be suitable teachers for Jie Yin and Zhun Ti.

Xiang Dong proposed turning Jie Yin and Zhun Ti into disciples of Ancestors Samsara and Yellow Springs, hoping to prepare the Earthly Dao and frustrate Hongjun’s plans. Yangmei brought them to meet the two ancestors, whose unexpected relationship astonished Xiang Dong, and Samsara and Yellow Springs discovered a slight master-disciple affinity with the Western beings.

• Xiang Dong asked Yangmei whether he had saved Samsara and Yellow Springs, then suggested they take Jie Yin and Zhun Ti as disciples to help the Earthly Dao.
• Yangmei agreed to bring Xiang Dong, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti to meet the two ancestors after Xiang Dong explained that Hongjun planned to take the Western Sages as Registered Disciples.
• Hongjun sensed that something connected to the future fortune of heaven and earth had been severed, but suppressed his anger and returned to cultivation.
• Ancestors Samsara and Yellow Springs welcomed Yangmei and met Xiang Dong, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti at their cultivation ground.
• Xiang Dong was shocked to see Samsara and Yellow Springs holding hands, while Yangmei laughed at his reaction.
• After hearing Xiang Dong’s proposal, Samsara and Yellow Springs sensed a slight master-disciple affinity with Jie Yin and Zhun Ti.

Samsara and Yellow Springs accepted Jie Yin and Zhun Ti as disciples, though they could not pass down their Great Dao lineages, and their fortunes rose as a result. They rewarded Xiang Dong with two spirit treasures and promised to exchange one for the Twelfth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus if they seized it from Hongjun.

• Samsara and Yellow Springs decided Jie Yin and Zhun Ti could become their disciples but were unsuited to inherit their Great Dao lineages.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti bowed to Samsara and Yellow Springs, and the new master-disciple bond eased the Heavenly Dao’s suppression of the two patriarchs and clarified their paths toward the Hunyuan Dao Fruit.
• Samsara gave Jie Yin insights into the Great Dao of Mingyun, while Yellow Springs gave Zhun Ti insights into the Great Dao of Karma.
• Samsara gave Xiang Dong the Twelfth-Grade Samsara Purple Lotus, and Yellow Springs gave him the Biluo Yellow Springs Dingyuan Bell.
• Samsara and Yellow Springs promised to exchange the bell for the Twelfth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus if they later seized it from Hongjun, and Xiang Dong agreed.

After giving Jie Yin and Zhun Ti gifts as their martial uncle, Xiang Dong discussed finding a disciple for Yangmei. Yangmei rejected Di Jiang as too risky and Xiang Dong as unsuitable, then left to inform the others before the Dao-spreading gathering.

• Xiang Dong called Jie Yin and Zhun Ti his nephews, then gave each a Six-Grade White Lotus and ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water.
• Yangmei reminded Xiang Dong that he had promised to find him a disciple and asked for a suitable candidate.
• Xiang Dong recommended the Ancestral Witch Di Jiang, but Yangmei balked at taking a being born from Pangu Essence Blood as his disciple.
• Xiang Dong offered himself as Yangmei's final disciple, but Yangmei refused because Xiang Dong had not properly studied his space Great Dao and had too many mixed Principles.
• Yangmei took Xiang Dong to the foot of Buzhou Mountain, then left to inform the others ahead of the day they would spread the Dao.

Xiang Dong returned to Buzhou Mountain with a new sense of home, but a surprise attacker killed him and stole two spirit treasures just before he arrived. Taichu learned of the attack, and Zhu Jiuyin used time reversal with the phone to reveal what happened.

• Xiang Dong returned to Buzhou Mountain, reflected on his new ties, and considered which treasures he might give Nuwa.
• Xiang Dong was distracted by thoughts of the Innate Five Flags when an unseen attacker struck him from behind and killed him.
• The attacker took Xiang Dong's Twelfth-Grade Samsara Purple Lotus and Biluo Yellow Springs Dingyuan Bell before his Primordial Spirit departed.
• Taichu received Xiang Dong's memories of the death and told Houtu that someone had clubbed his other Primordial Spirit to death.
• Zhu Jiuyin traced the connection between Taichu and Xiang Dong through time, and Taichu used the phone to view a replay of the attack.

Taichu used Zhu Jiuyin’s time reversal to expose the Six-Eared Macaque’s ambush on Xiang Dong and theft of his spirit treasures. The Twelve Ancestral Witches pursued the monkey, surrounding him as Taichu confronted him.

• Taichu traced Xiang Dong’s attack to the Six-Eared Macaque, who had struck him from behind, tried to destroy his Primordial Spirit, and fled with his spirit treasures.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches became enraged when they learned the monkey had stolen the Twelfth-Grade Samsara Purple Lotus intended for Houtu.
• Xuanming noticed the Six-Eared Macaque had tangled timelines, and Taichu explained that he had been formed from a quarter of a Chaos Demon God’s origin.
• Di Jiang led the Twelve Ancestral Witches out of Pangu Hall to hunt the monkey, marking their first appearance in the Primordial World.
• Nuwa and Fuxi sensed the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ emergence and wondered what powerful being they were pursuing.
• The Six-Eared Macaque was surrounded by the Twelve Ancestral Witches while celebrating his stolen treasures, and Taichu greeted him with Xiang Dong’s face.

Taichu and the Twelve Ancestral Witches subdued the Six-Eared Macaque, who fought back with the Chaos Demon Ape's Battle Principle despite knowing he would lose. Taichu spared him from death and eating, but decided to reform his temperament.

• Taichu reclaimed the Six-Eared Macaque's spirit treasures and teased him while Zhurong urged him to kill and eat the monkey.
• Taichu described how to prepare monkey brains, making the hungry Ancestral Witches view the Six-Eared Macaque as food.
• The Six-Eared Macaque rose against the Twelve Ancestral Witches' suppression and struck at Taichu with his staff, willing to die fighting.
• Taichu used the Principles of Light, Creation, and Space to seal the Six-Eared Macaque's Law Power and Primordial Spirit.
• Taichu told the subdued Six-Eared Macaque he would not kill or eat him, but would punish him by tempering his temperament and making him civilized.

Taichu visited Nuwa and Fuxi with the Six-Eared Macaque as a gift, explaining his connection to Xiang Dong and easing their fears about the Ancestral Witches. Nuwa accepted the macaque, and Taichu revealed the Twenty-Four-Rank Creation Green Lotus to help her cultivate the Power of Creation Principle.

• Fuxi and Nuwa worried that the newly emerged Ancestral Witches would make Buzhou Mountain dangerous, but Taichu arrived and kept the Twelve Ancestral Witches a thousand miles from their abode.
• Nuwa and Fuxi recognized Taichu’s resemblance to Xiang Dong, and Taichu explained that he was both Xiang Dong and Taichu, sharing the same memories.
• Taichu assured Fuxi that Xuehuang and the others were safe, then offered Nuwa the bound Six-Eared Macaque as a gift.
• Nuwa sensed a faint karmic affinity with the Six-Eared Macaque and accepted him as a possible disciple or mountain-guarding spirit beast.
• Taichu revealed an illusory Twenty-Four-Rank Creation Green Lotus, which resonated with Nuwa’s Power of Creation Principle and helped it grow.

Taichu offered Nuwa the Creation Green Lotus to help her comprehend the True Intention of Creation, and Nuwa accepted while giving him her Five-Colored Stone in return. After Xiang Dong inspired a dangerously bold plan, Taichu took a piece of the stone containing the Chaos Demon Ape's origin and warned Nuwa to keep the rest safe.

• Taichu explained that he could not give Nuwa the Creation Green Lotus outright, but he let her use it to comprehend the True Intention of Creation.
• Fuxi thanked Taichu, and Nuwa accepted his offer while worrying about the karmic debt she owed him.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches secretly speculated that Taichu wanted Nuwa as a dao companion and hoped she could nourish his weak constitution.
• Nuwa offered Taichu her Five-Colored Stone to repay his kindness, and the Six-Eared Macaque sensed that it shared his origin.
• Taichu changed his mind after considering Xiang Dong's crazy plan, cut a piece containing the Chaos Demon Ape's origin from the Five-Colored Stone, and told Nuwa not to give the rest away.

Taichu challenged Xiang Dong’s plan to combine Pangu Essence Blood, the Chaos Demon Ape’s origin, and the Creation Green Lotus’s Creation Qi to create a new Ancestral Witch. After Xiang Dong argued that the experiment might avert the Witch Clan’s conflict with other beings, Taichu silently considered whether to tell the Twelve Ancestral Witches or proceed in secret.

• Taichu confronted the Peashooter in Nuwa’s spiritual field, then charged Xiang Dong with sunlight so he could speak with him.
• Taichu showed Xiang Dong the five-colored stone fragment containing the Chaos Demon Ape’s origin and warned that using Father God’s Essence Blood this way might offend the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Xiang Dong defended the experiment, saying the Witch Clan’s dependence on flesh and blood could lead to conflict and that the fragment might help change that outcome.
• Taichu explained that the Pangu Essence Blood in Pangu Hall might be insufficient to create an Ancestral Witch, while Xiang Dong proposed adding the Creation Green Lotus’s Creation Qi.
• Taichu considered whether to reveal the plan to the Twelve Ancestral Witches or keep it secret until the Battle Ancestral Witch was born.

Xiang Dong and Taichu weighed how farming could reshape the Witch Clan, while worrying about the Human Race’s rise and the Primordial World’s limited resources. Taichu set out to teach the Twelve Ancestral Witches to grow sunflowers, and Xiang Dong asked him to search for two Innate Spirit Roots.

• Xiang Dong proposed that the Witch Clan grow Spirit Plants and raise beasts, but Taichu questioned how a prosperous Witch Clan would leave room for the Human Race to rise.
• Taichu warned that the Primordial World might not sustain its many future Sages and Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, and Xiang Dong lamented the chain of events that had made him the thirteenth Ancestral Witch.
• Taichu revealed sunflower seeds touched by Father God's presence and planted one in the spirit field before planning to teach the Twelve Ancestral Witches how to farm.
• Xiang Dong asked Taichu to find and guard the Innate Gourd Vine and Innate Banana Tree, whose treasures were fated for the Three Pure Ones.

Nuwa entered secluded cultivation while Xiang Dong stayed at the grounds and began cultivating himself. Taichu returned to Pangu Hall with the Twelve Ancestral Witches and proposed using the Five-Colored Stone and Pangu Essence Blood to investigate whether future evolved members of the Witch Clan could have Primordial Spirits.

• Nuwa entrusted Fuxi with the spiritual fields and the Six-Eared Macaque before beginning secluded cultivation, while Xiang Dong stayed to maintain the connection to Nuwa and cultivate.
• Taichu left the cultivation grounds, told Zhurong that the promised oranges were not ripe, and led the Twelve Ancestral Witches back to Pangu Hall for an important matter.
• Di Jiang recognized that the Five-Colored Stone contained part of the Chaos Demon Ape's origin and stopped Taichu as he prepared to use three drops of Pangu Essence Blood.
• Taichu explained that he wanted to test whether another Ancestral Witch could be nurtured and, more importantly, whether future evolved Witch Clan members would have Primordial Spirits.

Taichu proposed nurturing a new Ancestral Witch with Pangu Essence Blood and preparing food for the future Witch Clan by farming. The others resisted farming until Taichu revealed sunflower seeds carrying Father God's presence, and Zhurong eagerly volunteered to plant them.

• Houtu explained that Taichu’s purification of the blood pool had preserved the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ Primordial Spirits, and Taichu worried Innate Sha Qi could make future Witch Clan members incomplete.
• Zhu Jiuyin agreed they could try nurturing a new Ancestral Witch, provided the process was kept separate, and Taichu used three drops of Essence Blood to begin forming a flesh cocoon around the five-colored stone.
• When Zhurong asked to catch ferocious beasts, Taichu suggested farming to prepare food for the growing Witch Clan, but Zhurong, Gonggong, and Rushou objected.
• Taichu showed the Ancestral Witches sunflower seeds bearing a trace of Pangu’s presence and said he planned to plant them himself.
• Zhurong changed his mind and insisted they must plant the seeds, then argued with Gonggong over who would do the work.

Taichu organized the Twelve Ancestral Witches to carefully plant sunflower seeds touched by Pangu’s presence, then rewarded their cooperation by preparing a feast. After the witches returned with a huge haul of fierce beasts, Taichu began cooking and asked Zhurong to help control the fire.

• Taichu stopped Zhurong from clearing the planting site with fire and set strict rules for cultivating the sunflower seeds.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches planted the seeds outside Pangu Hall and assigned two witches to guard them.
• Taichu offered to cook a meal, and Zhurong, Gonggong, Qiangliang, and Di Jiang raced to catch fierce beasts.
• Di Jiang and the others returned with nearly a hundred fierce beasts, which the witches butchered and sorted while some sampled the meat raw.
• Taichu called Zhurong over to start a fire, intending to control its heat for cooking.