Chapter Summaries

Pangu explained that Hou Tu could preserve herself while bringing reincarnation into being by separating her Primal Spirit at the instant merit descended, but the process would cause immense pain and leave the separated spirit to cultivate from the beginning. Hou Tu chose to learn the method, and Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches prepared to protect her; afterward, Hou Tu invited Qin Xuan home, leaving him uneasy.

• Pangu told the Ancestral Witches that Hou Tu needed to practice separating her Primal Spirit so she could retain herself when reincarnation appeared.
• Pangu warned Hou Tu that the separation would be excruciating, could happen only as merit descended, and would cost the separated spirit its cultivation.
• Hou Tu chose to cultivate the method for the sake of Qin Xuan and her brothers and sisters, and Pangu imparted it to her.
• Pangu ordered Qin Xuan to take Hou Tu's separated Primal Spirit into the world within his body and instructed the Ancestral Witches to guard against interference with their formation.
• The Ancestral Witches departed after offering their support, and Hou Tu invited Qin Xuan to go home with her, making him feel foreboding.

Hou Tu began practicing how to separate her Primordial Spirit so she could establish reincarnation, enduring overwhelming pain as Qin Xuan guarded her seclusion. After Suiren prayed for help, Qin Xuan learned that the conflict between humans and demons had worsened, while Dijun’s search for the perpetrators of a human massacre reached a dead end.

• Qin Xuan and Hou Tu returned to Hou Tu Shrine, where they joked before Hou Tu told him to seal the hall while she cultivated.
• Hou Tu separated her Primordial Spirit from its mark for the first time, then reunited them and began repeating the painful practice.
• Suiren sent an urgent prayer to Qin Xuan, informing him of the conflict between the human and demon races.
• Dijun struggled to answer the human race’s demands because countless demons had eaten humans and handing them all over could destabilize the Demon Court.
• Several large human tribes were slaughtered, and Dijun, Taiyi, the nine Demon Saints, and Kunpeng searched for the killers but found no useful clues.

After Suiren confronted Dijun over the slaughter of human tribes, Guiche and Taiyi persuaded Dijun to avenge the Demon Court’s supposed humiliation by attacking the human race. Dijun led the demon army to the human ancestral lands and ordered the humans killed, while Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao watched their plan unfold.

• Suiren left the High Heaven Palace after Dijun failed to identify who had slaughtered the human tribes, and Guiche urged Dijun to defend the Demon Court’s dignity.
• Taiyi and the demon sages called for an attack on the human race, and Dijun resolved to lead the demon army against them.
• Hongjun revealed that Guiche had slaughtered the tribes under his secret orders and that he had concealed the truth to set the human race’s calamity in motion.
• Dijun led the demon army toward the human ancestral lands, prompting Duke Dong to prepare the Immortal Court’s defenses.
• Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi confronted Dijun, who mocked the human race and ordered the demons to kill everyone.

The Demon Court attacked the human race, but the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans and Jie Sect disciples arrived to defend them, citing their debt to Qin Xuan and Tongtian. Dijun refused to back down, leaving the armies poised for battle.

• Dijun sent the Demon Court army to slaughter the human race, whose people prepared to resist, fled, or prayed for help.
• Zhu Long led the Dragon Clan out of the human tribe and warned the demons not to act recklessly.
• The Phoenix and Qilin Clans arrived, followed by Duobao Daoist and Jie Sect disciples carrying Tongtian's Qingping Sword.
• Duobao told Dijun to question Tongtian on Golden Turtle Island, while Zhu Long explained that the three races had received Qin Xuan's grace and would defend the humans.
• Dijun weighed the gathered reinforcements against the Demon Court's reputation, steeled himself, and let killing intent surge within him.

Dijun ordered the Demon Court to exterminate the human race, but Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun protected them with the Earth Book, and Duke Dong arrived with the Immortal Court to turn the battle against the demons. The Demon Court was left pinned between powerful allies of the human race as its army suffered heavy losses.

• Dijun ordered Taiyi to slaughter the human race while he and the Demon Sages and Demon Gods fought the Three Primordial Races.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun raised an Earth Book barrier around human territory, killing demons whose attacks struck it.
• Duke Dong arrived with the Immortal Court and declared that he had come to aid the human race.
• Duke Dong attacked Taiyi, and the Immortal Court joined the Three Primordial Races in pinning down the Demon Court.
• The Queen Mother of the West led Quasi-Sage experts in cutting down the demon army, while Suiren wondered whether the demons could all be eaten.

Yuanshi Tianzun arrived by Hongjun’s decree to stop the battle between the Immortal Court, Demon Court, and Three Primordial Races. Nüwa and Tongtian attacked him, leaving him wounded and humiliated as he confronted them in fury.

• Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao agreed to intervene before the Demon Court suffered losses that endangered the greater trend.
• Dijun threatened Zhu Long, but Zhu Long refused to back down and warned that the Dragon Clan could join a future battle against the Demon Court.
• Yuanshi Tianzun announced Hongjun’s decree and used Sage pressure to freeze the battlefield, prompting Dijun to obey and Zhu Long and Duke Dong to restrain themselves.
• Nüwa launched the Red Bridal Ball at Yuanshi Tianzun while Tongtian struck him from behind with sword aura.
• Yuanshi Tianzun blocked Nüwa’s attack but was hit in the rear by Tongtian’s sword aura and bled Sage Blood.
• Yuanshi Tianzun angrily accused Nüwa of defying Hongjun’s decree and Tongtian of betraying their brotherhood.

Yuanshi Tianzun failed to force a ceasefire as Tongtian and Nüwa turned his accusations against him. Hongjun descended to intervene, but Qin Xuan appeared beside Nüwa and the battlefield greeted him instead.

• Tongtian denied betraying Yuanshi Tianzun and claimed he had only been trying to protect him, enraging Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Nüwa challenged Hongjun's failure to stop the demon race's attacks and accused him of favoring the demon race, leaving Yuanshi Tianzun unable to reply.
• Nüwa warned Yuanshi Tianzun that Qin Xuan might punish him for pointing at her, and Yuanshi Tianzun quickly withdrew his hand.
• Hongjun argued with the Heavenly Dao about Nüwa's accusations, then decided to descend while the Immortal Court's attack devastated the demon army.
• Hongjun began reciting his poetic title, but Qin Xuan appeared beside Nüwa and the battlefield's cries of welcome drowned him out.

Qin Xuan summoned the Pangu True Body and challenged Hongjun to fight in Primordial Chaos. Before leaving, he killed Yuanshi Tianzun, shocking the saints and mighty figures across the Primordial World.

• Qin Xuan reassured Nüwa and thanked Zhu Long, Zhen Yuanzi, Hongyun, and the others for helping him.
• Qin Xuan summoned the twelve Ancestral Witches, who formed the Thirteen Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation and manifested the Pangu True Body.
• Qin Xuan challenged Hongjun to fight in Primordial Chaos, then turned the Pangu True Body's gaze upon Dijun and Yuanshi Tianzun.
• The Pangu True Body seized Yuanshi Tianzun and crushed him despite Hongjun's pleas to talk.
• Grand Supreme Laozi, Tongtian, the other saints, and the gathered mighty figures reacted with shock, while Jieyin and Zhunti felt relieved they had pledged allegiance to Qin Xuan.

After Qin Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches killed Yuanshi Tianzun, Hongjun challenged them in the Primordial Chaos, where their battle began with the Pangu True Body’s first Heaven-Opening Form. Hongjun stood unharmed after the clash, and Qin Xuan answered by unleashing the second and third forms.

• Hongjun sent the surviving demons away and challenged Qin Xuan to fight in the Primordial Chaos.
• The battle’s end left billions of demon corpses across human lands and taught the Primordial World that the human race could not be humiliated.
• Qin Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches faced Hongjun in the Primordial Chaos, where the Pangu True Body reached its limit at the twelfth level of the Sage realm.
• Hongjun summoned his Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and Self Corpse, while Qin Xuan struck with the Pangu True Body’s first Heaven-Opening Form.
• Hongjun remained unharmed after the collision and mocked Qin Xuan, who followed with the second and third Heaven-Opening Forms.

Qin Xuan’s Pangu True Body struck Hongjun with two Heaven-Opening axe blows, forcing Hongjun to summon the Creation Jade Plate. Qin Xuan then called out the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Styles, but turned his back on Hongjun instead of attacking, leaving all six Hongjuns bewildered.

• Qin Xuan unleashed two Heaven-Opening axe blows that erased a vast stretch of the Primordial Chaos and shook the Primordial World.
• Hongjun used the Creation Jade Plate to withstand the attack, while sages and beings across the Primordial World watched anxiously.
• Nüwa, Changxi, and Fuxi worried about Qin Xuan as the battle’s energy storm subsided.
• Hongjun dismissed the lingering axe lights and questioned how long Qin Xuan could maintain the Pangu True Body.
• Qin Xuan announced the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Styles of Heaven-Opening, prompting Hongjun to use One Qi Transforms Hongjun and summon two more figures.
• After building up his power, Qin Xuan turned the Pangu True Body’s back toward the six Hongjuns without attacking.

Qin Xuan tricked Hongjun into destroying Zixiao Palace while escaping with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, leaving Hongjun to wonder if Pangu had taught his descendants to be so cunning. Qin Xuan then arrived at the Netherworld Blood Sea and told Nether River he planned to move his home.

• Qin Xuan used the Pangu True Body's axe strike to lure Hongjun's avatars into colliding with it before Zixiao Palace, destroying the palace while he escaped.
• Hongjun realized Qin Xuan had targeted Zixiao Palace all along and regretted revealing One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao speculated that Pangu had secretly taught his descendants to be cunning and shameless.
• Qin Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches returned to the Primordial World and headed for the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Nether River greeted Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches enthusiastically, and Qin Xuan said he had come to move Nether River's home.

Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches moved the Netherworld Blood Sea to Buzhou Mountain so Hou Tu could begin her transformation into reincarnation. As Hou Tu started her oath, she addressed the Great Dao and Pangu Father God, disappointing the Heavenly Dao, and left the rest of her proclamation unfinished.

• Nether River agreed to let Qin Xuan move the Netherworld Blood Sea after Qin Xuan promised him a great opportunity and immense fortune.
• Qin Xuan had the Ancestral Witches form their array, and their Pangu True Body lifted the Netherworld Blood Sea and carried it across the Primordial Continent.
• Qin Xuan anchored the Netherworld Blood Sea in a semi-void near Buzhou Mountain, and the other Ancestral Witches urged Hou Tu to wait before transforming.
• Hou Tu reassured her siblings that she was prepared, then walked toward the relocated blood sea as the Heavenly Dao eagerly awaited her oath.
• Hou Tu began her proclamation with “Great Dao above!” and “Pangu Father God above!”, leaving the Heavenly Dao stunned.

Hou Tu transformed herself into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, consuming the Netherworld Blood Sea and creating a gateway as merit descended. Her Primal Spirit drifted toward the gateway, and Qin Xuan called for her to act.

• Hou Tu vowed before the Great Dao to transform her body into reincarnation and give the souls of the dead a path to rebirth.
• The Great Dao granted Hou Tu's request, and she declared the six paths of reincarnation.
• Hou Tu's body collapsed into six black holes that began devouring everything around them.
• Qin Xuan hurled Patriarch Nether River into the Path of Asuras, where he was swallowed along with the Blood Sea.
• The devouring stopped, a gateway appeared, and merit descended as Hou Tu's Primal Spirit drifted toward it.
• Qin Xuan called to Hou Tu to act as her Primal Spirit approached the gateway.

Hou Tu separated her Primordial Spirit and vanished after creating the Six Paths of Reincarnation, while Qin Xuan secretly kept her safe inside his Myriad Laws Realm. The grand Dao rewarded the Pangu True Body with further merit, and the Primordial World expanded and became more complete as the six portals began opening again.

• Hou Tu detached her Primordial Spirit, and Qin Xuan secretly transferred it into his Pangu True Body as her remaining mark vanished into the reincarnation portal.
• The grand Dao bestowed vast merit for Hou Tu's sacrifice, leaving the Ancestral Witches grief-stricken and mighty figures such as Yuanshi Tianzun and Hongjun envious.
• A second pillar of grand Dao Merit descended into the Pangu True Body and flowed into Qin Xuan's Myriad Laws Realm, nourishing Hou Tu's safe Primordial Spirit.
• The reincarnation portals closed, the Primordial World trembled and expanded, and its space, laws, and vitality became more complete.
• The six portals at the land of reincarnation slowly opened again.

Hou Tu emerged as Pingxin, established the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and invited fellow Daoists to help govern the Underworld. Qin Xuan discovered that Hou Tu’s Primordial Spirit was safe, then joined the Ancestral Witches in pledging to help Pingxin build the Underworld’s order.

• Hou Tu appeared from the portal as Pingxin and announced that the dead would pass through the Six Paths of Reincarnation according to their karma.
• Pingxin invited fellow Daoists to help maintain the newly established Underworld, stirring greed among powerful figures across the Primordial World.
• Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches realized Pingxin had secretly signaled them, and Qin Xuan found Hou Tu’s stable Primordial Spirit within his Myriad Laws Realm.
• Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches pledged to help Pingxin perfect the Underworld and establish reincarnation’s order.
• Pingxin enveloped Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches in mysterious light and transported them away.

Qin Xuan explained Father God's vision for the Underworld, and Pingxin Niangniang used her proclamations to create its key structures and laws. As the Underworld took shape and vast merit gathered, the Heavenly Dao again lamented that Pingxin had appealed directly to the Great Dao.

• Pingxin Niangniang asked Qin Xuan and the others for advice on how to organize the empty Underworld.
• Qin Xuan described the Underworld's passage for the dead, judgment, punishments, and reincarnation, claiming Father God had envisioned them.
• Pingxin Niangniang summoned Ghost Gate Pass and Yellow Springs Road, then created the River of Forgetfulness, the Bridge of Helplessness, and the process involving Meng Po's Soup.
• Pingxin Niangniang brought forth the Ten Halls of Yama and the Eighteen Levels of Hell, completing more of the Underworld's order as merit gathered.
• The great powers of the Primordial World lamented the Great Dao's repeated expenditure of merit, while the Heavenly Dao complained that Pingxin kept bypassing it.

After the Underworld was completed, Pingxin announced the birth of the Earthly Dao, causing the Primordial World to ascend and transform. As the world’s spiritual aura increased and its space grew far more stable, earth-source aura flowed into Pingxin through the Gate of Reincarnation.

• Pingxin established Fengdu City, completing the Underworld, and Great Dao merit flowed to its buildings, Pingxin, and Qin Xuan.
• Pingxin declared that reincarnation had been established, the Underworld was complete, and the Earthly Dao would appear.
• The Earthly Dao merged with the Primordial World, increasing its spiritual aura and renewing its vitality, including the western continent’s damaged earth veins.
• Jieyin and Zhunti found a newly born Innate Spiritual Root in the western continent and bowed to Pingxin in genuine gratitude.
• Cultivators discovered that the Primordial World’s space had become much harder to tear, while earth-source aura gathered from across the world and entered Pingxin through the Gate of Reincarnation.

Pingxin awakened the Earthly Dao and became its master, prompting Hongjun to doubt whether he could still control the Primordial World's course. In the newly formed Underworld, Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches celebrated Pingxin's achievement and began planning how to staff the empty realm.

• Pingxin's Dao aura transformed after she awakened the Earthly Dao, and Hongjun sensed that she had become a power equal to him through a different path.
• Hongjun recalled the long struggles and schemes that had led him to become the Dao Ancestor, then worried that Qin Xuan and Pingxin were disrupting his control of events.
• Pingxin thanked Qin Xuan and the Ancestral Witches for protecting her as she created reincarnation and awakened the Earthly Dao.
• Zhurong asked whether the Ancestral Witches should call her Pingxin or Hou Tu, and Qin Xuan reminded them that Hou Tu's Primal Spirit still remained and her body was being rebuilt slowly.
• Qin Xuan warned Pingxin that the Underworld lacked officials and even someone to brew Meng Po's Soup, so Pingxin asked him and the Ancestral Witches to help recruit its people.
• The Ancestral Witches eagerly agreed to help, while Qin Xuan wondered why Pingxin seemed less eager to manage the Underworld than Hou Tu would have been.

Qin Xuan agreed to Dijiang’s long-held wish to found the Witch Clan, and the Ancestral Witches entered Pangu Temple to create clansmen. As they waited in the Underworld, Nüwa and the other Saints arrived, and Nüwa told Qin Xuan they had come at Jieyin’s urging to fight for authority.

• Dijiang asked Qin Xuan to help the Ancestral Witches found the Witch Clan and raise clansmen to manage the Underworld.
• Qin Xuan considered the risks and benefits, then agreed to found the Witch Clan.
• Zhurong celebrated the decision, asked Gonggong to hit him, and was sent flying by Gonggong’s slap before returning overjoyed.
• Pingxin urged everyone to begin, and Qin Xuan brought out Pangu Temple as the Ancestral Witches rushed inside to create clansmen.
• Nüwa, Taishang, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti arrived in the Underworld, and Nüwa told Qin Xuan that Jieyin had summoned them to fight for authority.

The saints asked Qin Xuan and Pingxin for positions in the newly established Underworld, while Jieyin admitted that the Western Sect hoped to place disciples in minor offices. Qin Xuan decided to keep the Underworld’s core authority with the Ancestral Witches, then cautioned the saints that their disciples lacked the experience for high positions.

• Pingxin asked the gathered saints whether they had come seeking Underworld authority, and Tongtian and Grand Supreme Laozi denied wanting to compete for it.
• Jieyin admitted that he and Zhunti wanted minor Underworld positions for Western Sect disciples to earn merit.
• Pingxin left the matter to Qin Xuan, and the saints turned to him with hopes of securing posts for their disciples.
• Qin Xuan planned for Dijiang to become Great Emperor Fengdu and for ten other Ancestral Witches to take the Ten Halls of Yama, while leaving five Six Paths positions open for later appointments.
• Qin Xuan told the saints that their disciples lacked the cultivation and experience needed for high Underworld offices, disappointing them.