Chapter Summaries

Li Xinghe revealed that Pangu Temple was formed from Pangu’s heart and could help revive Pangu, but the process also required restoring the Chaos Green Lotus. He explained that he had collected most of its fragments and left the Twelve Ancestral Witches facing the problem of supplying the energy needed to revive it.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches returned to the underworld, while three Great Witches remained in the Primordial World and the Witch-Human merger was considered a way to unite the races.
• Li Xinghe gathered the Twelve Ancestral Witches at Pangu Temple and revealed that it had formed from Pangu’s heart, while they had formed from his heartblood.
• Li Xinghe explained that reviving Pangu required immense energy and the Chaos Green Lotus that had nurtured him.
• Li Xinghe displayed the Five Innate Banners, treasures of the Three Pure Ones, the Four Divine Lotuses, and the God Slaying Spear as fragments connected to the Chaos Green Lotus.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches learned that the Chaos Green Lotus could repair itself but needed terrifying amounts of energy, and they wondered how to revive it.

Li Xinghe used time reversal to restore the artifacts made from the Chaos Green Lotus’s fragments, hoping to nurture Pangu’s heart and eventually revive him. He succeeded in reassembling the Chaos Green Lotus, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches stood guard and prepared to pursue sainthood.

• Li Xinghe shrank Pangu Temple into Pangu’s lifeless heart and gathered the treasures formed from the Chaos Green Lotus’s fragments.
• Li Xinghe and the Twelve Ancestral Witches nourished the heart with their essence blood until he ordered most of them to stop, explaining that their Quasi-Saint blood was too weak to help.
• Li Xinghe told the Twelve Ancestral Witches he would restore the treasures and establish a Time Formation to nurture Pangu’s heart.
• Li Xinghe set up the formation in the Six Paths of Reincarnation and used Time Reversal while the Twelve Ancestral Witches guarded the area.
• Li Xinghe emerged weary but successful, having returned the fragments to their origins so the Chaos Green Lotus could reassemble itself.

Li Xinghe arranged for Pangu's heart to nurture the Chaos Green Lotus in the underworld, then discussed his plan with Tongtian to wrest control of the Heavenly Dao from Hongjun. He proposed weakening the Heavenly Dao by killing its Saints or cutting off the heavenly court's offerings, but the chapter left the plan unresolved.

• Li Xinghe had Houtu place Pangu's heart on the Chaos Green Lotus and instructed the Twelve Ancestral Witches to nourish it with Three Lights Divine Water, spiritual roots, and blood essence.
• Li Xinghe returned to Chaos and established a Time Acceleration Array to recover while the lotus developed in the underworld.
• The Jie Sect prospered after the Investiture of the Gods, with Wenzhong reaching Quasi-Saint and Tongtian advancing to the ninth level of the Saint realm.
• Li Xinghe told Tongtian that he intended to seize control of the Heavenly Dao before Pangu returned to life.
• Li Xinghe outlined ways to weaken the Heavenly Dao, including killing its Saints and cutting off the heavenly court's offerings, while noting that Hongjun controlled the Saints' revival.

Li Xinghe and his allies prepared to seize the Heavenly Court and defy the Heavenly Dao after Laozi and Yuanshi moved Kunlun Mountain into the Heavenly Realm. As the Human Dao and Earthly Dao gathered their forces and formed the Heaven-Slaying Sect, Hongjun anticipated the coming war.

• Li Xinghe proposed taking the Heavenly Court and killing any Saints who interfered, hoping to return its fortune to the Human Dao and Earthly Dao.
• Laozi and Yuanshi moved Kunlun Mountain and its inhabitants into the Heavenly Realm, while Jieyin and Zhunti transferred Mount Sumeru and nearby Buddhist kingdoms there as well.
• Tongtian planned to lecture on the Dao and strengthen his Jie Sect disciples, while Li Xinghe urged Hongyun to train disciples for the coming campaign.
• Fuxi had Xuandu establish the Heaven-Slaying Sect and recruit Human Race geniuses, with the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors supporting it.
• Hongjun recognized that the Human Dao and Earthly Dao were preparing to attack and blamed Yang Mei's retreat for failing his plans.

After the Heavenly Dao’s defeat, Hongjun summoned the Heavenly Dao Sages and ordered them to strengthen their forces as the Human Dao and Earth Dao prepared to challenge the Heavenly Realm. The meeting ended with Hongjun agreeing to teach at Kunlun Mountain and promising to visit Mount Sumeru after Jieyin and Zhunti recruited more disciples.

• Ancestor Yang Mei fled beyond Chaos because he feared Li Xinghe would find him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti begged Hongjun to restore their cultivation, but he restricted their access to Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Hongjun warned the Sages that the Human Dao and Earth Dao might next counterattack the Heavenly Realm, and Yuanshi urged Nuwa to support the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun ordered the Sages to raise their disciples’ cultivation and agreed to teach at Kunlun Mountain at Yuanshi’s request.
• Jieyin and Zhunti asked Hongjun to teach at Mount Sumeru, and he agreed to do so once they recruited talented disciples.
• Laozi and Yuanshi suspected Jieyin and Zhunti intended to recruit Kunlun Mountain’s Lone Cultivators.

Hongjun approved Jieyin and Zhunti’s plan to spread Western Teachings among the Human Race, while ordering Haotian to regain control of the Heavenly Court. Haotian failed to enlist Yuanshi’s help and encountered Long Aotian on his way back.

• Jieyin and Zhunti proposed gradually spreading Western Teachings among the Human Race, and Hongjun approved their plan.
• Hongjun rebuked Haotian for losing control of the Heavenly Court and ordered him to bring its divine posts under his command.
• Haotian explained that Jiang Ziya controlled the Investiture of the Gods, but Hongjun demanded that he handle the matter himself.
• Haotian went to Kunlun to seek Yuanshi’s cooperation, but Yuanshi remained in seclusion, so Haotian returned without his help.
• Long Aotian called out to Haotian, who greeted him respectfully as Senior Brother and wondered why he had appeared in the Heavenly Realm.

Li Xinghe tried to draw Haotian away from Hongjun by challenging his loyalty and promising a path to sainthood. Haotian asked Li Xinghe to teach him, and Li Xinghe began explaining why the Primordial World's fixed number of Saints did not apply beyond its current boundaries.

• Haotian hesitated to meet Li Xinghe because they served opposing sides, but Li Xinghe appealed to his ambition and need for recognition.
• Li Xinghe argued that the Three Daos were different approaches to guiding the Primordial World and warned Haotian against suppressing the mortal realm and underworld.
• Haotian insisted that he could not betray Hongjun, but Li Xinghe claimed Hongjun used him as a puppet and had favored Jieyin and Zhunti over him.
• Haotian asked Li Xinghe to teach him how to become a Saint, and Li Xinghe said the number of Saints was fixed only for the current Primordial Wilderness.
• Li Xinghe asked Haotian why Chaos had once accommodated three thousand powerful Demon Gods of laws.

Li Xinghe won Haotian’s support by revealing Hongjun’s humble origins and promising that Haotian would be among the first to become a Saint. He then gathered cultivators on Golden Tortoise Island to teach a corrected path to proving the Dao, leaving the assembly ready to hear teachings on realms beyond Hunyuan Golden Immortals.

• Li Xinghe told Haotian that Hongjun had been a weak Chaos Demon God whose true form was an earthworm, and Haotian was stunned.
• Li Xinghe promised Haotian a chance to prove the Dao and support from Jie Sect, and Haotian pledged his support in return.
• Li Xinghe returned to Golden Tortoise Island and announced a Dao exposition for Quasi-Saints and above across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Ten thousand immortals gathered on Golden Tortoise Island, where Tongtian yielded the seat of honor to Li Xinghe.
• Li Xinghe expounded the Law Proving Dao method, correcting Hongjun’s flawed teaching on cultivation and offering a path beyond the limits of Heavenly Dao Sages.
• Fuxi and the other Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors arrived as Li Xinghe prepared to teach about Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Hunyuan Taiji Grand Unity Golden Immortals.

Li Xinghe explained the Path of Laws and Hongjun’s motives to the Saints and Quasi-Saints, then urged the Saints to choose their own Dao and pursue the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. After nearly a thousand years passed, he summoned the Six-Eared Macaque and told him to take on the Cause and Effect of the coming Journey to the West Calamity.

• Li Xinghe taught the gathered cultivators that Slaying Three Corpses was a dead end and that the Path of Laws offered a way to advance.
• Li Xinghe revealed that Hongjun had obstructed the Primordial Wilderness’s development because he feared the Heavenly Dao would reject him and Pangu would return.
• Li Xinghe told Tongtian and the other Saints they could retain their Saint status while cultivating toward the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Tongtian chose the Sword Dao.
• Nearly a thousand years passed as Di Xin abdicated, the Great Shang Dynasty fell, and the Two Sages of the West failed to gain influence.
• Li Xinghe summoned the Six-Eared Macaque and told him to take on the Cause and Effect of the Spiritual Stone Monkey in the coming Journey to the West Calamity.

Li Xinghe sent Six-Eared Macaque to provoke trouble in Heaven as part of a plan against the Western Teachings. At the East Sea, Six-Eared Macaque disguised himself as a fisherman and confronted Guangchengzi and Immortal Weng of the South Pole, setting up a fight.

• Li Xinghe told Six-Eared Macaque that the Two Sages of the West wanted to convert him and instructed him to cause a carefully planned commotion in Heaven.
• Guangchengzi visited Immortal Weng of the South Pole, and the two former allies lamented their low-ranking positions after the Investiture of the Gods.
• Guangchengzi cursed a nearby fisherman to catch no fish, and the fisherman spent the day coming up empty-handed.
• Guangchengzi noticed the fisherman had no hook and accused him of blaming the Broom Star unfairly.
• The fisherman revealed himself as Six-Eared Macaque and accused Guangchengzi and Immortal Weng of the South Pole of ruining his fishing.

Six-Eared Macaque accused Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Guangchengzi of ruining his fishing and took them to the Heavenly Court to demand an explanation. After the guards insulted the two deities, Six-Eared Macaque attacked, destroyed the South Heaven Gate, and left them blamed for the devastation.

• Six-Eared Macaque confronted Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Guangchengzi over the empty East Sea and threatened them until they agreed to apologize.
• Six-Eared Macaque seized Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Guangchengzi and brought them to the South Heaven Gate to seek an explanation from the Jade Emperor.
• Chijingzi and Julius Sun refused to help and insulted Guangchengzi and Immortal Weng of the South Pole.
• Six-Eared Macaque freed the two deities and urged them to retaliate against the guards.
• Six-Eared Macaque swung the Pillar of Chaos, killed the Four Heavenly Kings, and destroyed the South Heaven Gate.
• Six-Eared Macaque told Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Guangchengzi that the blame for the attack would fall on them.

Six-Eared Macaque stormed the Heavenly Court over an insult from Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Guangchengzi, then defeated Zhunti’s incarnation. Zhunti’s true body attacked next, and Six-Eared Macaque charged forward to test himself against a Saint.

• Six-Eared Macaque carried Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Guangchengzi into Lingxiao Palace and demanded compensation from the Jade Emperor for their insult.
• Zhunti’s incarnation arrived, rebuked Six-Eared Macaque, and attacked after Six-Eared Macaque threatened him.
• Six-Eared Macaque used the Pillar of Chaos to kill Zhunti’s incarnation with a single strike, while the other Saints’ incarnations watched without intervening.
• Zhunti’s true body attacked Six-Eared Macaque, who advanced eagerly to face him alone.

The Six-Eared Macaque fought Zhunti until Haotian intervened and proposed making him assist in the Journey to the West Calamity. Li Xinghe confronted the Saints and, while his true body met Hongjun, proposed a wager about the calamity and the Human Race’s Fortune.

• Zhunti repeatedly battered the Six-Eared Macaque and resolved to convert him into the Western Teachings.
• Haotian arrived and suggested that the Six-Eared Macaque assist in the Journey to the West Calamity, and Jieyin, Laozi, and Yuanshi agreed to seal and suppress him.
• Li Xinghe’s Second Incarnation appeared in Lingxiao Palace and challenged the Saints for plotting against his disciple.
• Li Xinghe’s true body revealed that he had gathered all thirty-six fragments of the Jade Plate of Creation, leaving Hongjun unable to stop him.
• Li Xinghe told Hongjun that he knew about the planned Journey to the West Calamity and its threat to the Human Race’s Fortune, then proposed a wager.

Li Xinghe forced Hongjun to agree to a Great Dao wager that turned the Journey to the West Calamity into a contest over Fortune between the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao. After the agreement was announced to the Saints, Li Xinghe took responsibility for punishing the Six-Eared Macaque, sentencing him to five hundred years of reflection on Golden Tortoise Island.

• Li Xinghe confronted Hongjun and offered a wager over Fortune, threatening a direct war between the Human Dao and Heavenly Dao if Hongjun refused.
• Hongjun accepted the wager, and the two swore a Great Dao Oath to make the Heavenly Dao defend the scriptures while Li Xinghe arranged for people to steal them.
• Li Xinghe told the Heavenly Dao Saints that he had already reached an agreement with Hongjun, and Hongjun confirmed that the calamity would be jointly led by the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao.
• Yuanshi and Zhunti demanded that the Six-Eared Macaque be punished for his actions, and Li Xinghe sentenced his disciple to face the wall for five hundred years.

Li Xinghe used the Six-Eared Macaque incident to restore Haotian’s control of the Heavenly Court and set the Journey to the West Calamity in motion. Back at Golden Tortoise Island, he urged Six-Eared Macaque to cultivate during the next five hundred years and asked Xuandu whether he wished to attain the Dao.

• Li Xinghe imposed five hundred years of cultivation on Six-Eared Macaque, while Zhunti warned the macaque that they would meet again on the journey west.
• After Li Xinghe and Six-Eared Macaque left, Zhunti and Jieyin beat Guangchengzi and blamed him for ruining their plans for the Journey to the West.
• Immortal Weng of the South Pole asked Yuanshi Tianzun to let him participate in the coming calamity, and Yuanshi agreed after Laozi supported the request.
• Haotian offered the Heavenly Court’s help with the Journey to the West Calamity, and the Saints dismissed the Jade Emperor and returned control of the court to Haotian.
• Li Xinghe told Six-Eared Macaque to use the next five hundred years to awaken his potential, then summoned Fuxi and Xuandu to Golden Tortoise Island.
• Li Xinghe asked Xuandu whether he wanted to attain the Dao, and Xuandu knelt and asked Li Xinghe to guide him.

Li Xinghe revealed his wager with Hongjun and organized the Journey to the West Scripture Snatching Plan, naming Xuandu, Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, and Six-Eared Macaque as the core team. As both sides prepared for the coming conflict, Jieyin and Zhunti planned to use it to spread Western Teachings in the mortal world.

• Li Xinghe told Xuandu that Ye Chen was his fated nemesis and assigned him a task tied to the coming tribulation.
• Li Xinghe explained his wager with Hongjun, which made the Journey to the West Scripture Retrieval Calamity into a scripture-snatching contest between the Human Race and Heavenly Dao.
• Li Xinghe named Six-Eared Macaque, Xuandu, Kong Xuan, and Zhao Gongming as the Scripture Snatching F4, and Fuxi gave Xuandu the Kongtong Seal.
• Li Xinghe set up a hundredfold Time Acceleration Grand Array on Golden Tortoise Island and ordered the Jie Sect to prepare for the later War to Conquer Heaven.
• Jieyin and Zhunti prepared Great Thunder Sound Temple on Spirit Mountain and planned to convert demons and monsters to spread their teachings in the mortal world.

The White Tiger Clan Leader asked Li Xinghe to intervene after three powerful demons threatened the clan’s lands, and Li Xinghe revealed that the Western Sages had used Heavenly Dao fortune to raise them. He told White Tiger to evacuate his clan ahead of a major tribulation, while Tongtian turned his concern toward Laozi and Yuanshi.

• The White Tiger Clan Leader sought Li Xinghe’s help because three newly powerful demons had begun threatening the White Tiger Clan’s territory.
• Li Xinghe explained that Jieyin and Zhunti had used scriptures containing Heavenly Dao fortune to cultivate the Green Lion Spirit, the White Elephant Spirit, and the Golden Winged Great Peng King.
• Li Xinghe identified the Green Lion and White Elephant as former mounts of Manjushri and Samantabhadra, and said all three demons had reached Late Quasi-Saint strength.
• The White Tiger Clan Leader reported that the Green Lion and White Elephant now rode Manjushri and Samantabhadra, and Li Xinghe urged him to lead the White Tiger Clan away before a major tribulation.
• Tongtian said the Western Sages were not his main concern and warned that Laozi and Yuanshi remained a greater threat.

Laozi and Yuanshi chose Yang Jian to lead the Chan Sect’s efforts against the Journey to the West pilgrims, and Hongjun gave him the Precious Lotus Lamp, boosting his cultivation. Meanwhile, Li Xinghe learned Kong Xuan had a destined marriage, but Kong Xuan rejected the idea.

• Laozi and Yuanshi agreed to put Yang Jian in charge until Ye Chen left seclusion, and they strengthened him with pills and a reforged halberd.
• Hongjun gave Yang Jian the Precious Lotus Lamp, which recognized him as its master and helped him advance to the Late Quasi-Saint stage.
• Li Xinghe sensed the new supreme treasure, divined Yang Jian’s future, and decided to find a wife for his eldest son.
• Kong Xuan, the Six-Eared Macaque, Zhao Gongming, and another participant trained on Golden Tortoise Island using a Time Acceleration Array.
• Li Xinghe told Kong Xuan that he had a destined marriage, but Kong Xuan said marriage would only slow his swordsmanship.

Kong Xuan resisted his father Li Xinghe’s demand that he pursue Yang Chan, but Yuan Feng’s intervention made him agree, and Li Xinghe gave him blond hair to suit her tastes. Meanwhile, Hongjun prepared to recruit Chaos creatures for the Journey to the West Calamity while Li Xinghe focused on studying the Jade Plate of Creation.

• Li Xinghe sent Kong Xuan to the underworld, where Yuan Feng threatened him with Yuantu and Abi until he agreed to date.
• Li Xinghe told Kong Xuan to pursue Yang Jian’s younger sister, Yang Chan, and Kong Xuan agreed after deciding it could help him attain the Dao.
• Li Xinghe dressed Kong Xuan in blond hair because Yang Chan supposedly liked that type, and Kong Xuan left Golden Tortoise Island in disbelief.
• Hongjun decided to send an avatar into Chaos to find powerful exotic beasts for the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Li Xinghe continued studying and attempting to repair the Jade Plate of Creation, unaware of Hongjun’s search.

Zhurong and Gong Gong achieved Body Becoming a Saint after cultivating near the Chaos Green Lotus, while Li Xinghe investigated Pangu’s Heart and discovered a faint karmic connection to the Primordial Wilderness. The chapter left Li Xinghe determined to find that connection as he continued to nurture the heart and consider how Pangu might be resurrected.

• Zhurong and Gong Gong achieved Body Becoming a Saint after drawing strength from the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Li Xinghe cast the Law of Karma over Pangu’s Heart and briefly detected a faint karmic thread leading to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Li Xinghe summoned Zhurong and Gong Gong to nourish Pangu’s Heart with their essence blood, stopping them before they depleted themselves.
• Pangu’s Heart grew brighter after the Ancestral Witches offered their essence blood, and Li Xinghe resolved to search for the source of its karmic connection.
• Li Xinghe’s true body had reached the Ninth Heaven of the Hunyuan Taiji Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Fuxi had also reached that realm and achieved Body Becoming a Saint.