Chapter Summaries

Qin Xuan offered the Saints’ disciples places in the Underworld and arranged for Grand Supreme Laozi’s Good Corpse to oversee alchemy there. Grand Supreme Laozi accepted the post and entered Doushuai Palace, while Qin Xuan privately resolved that he would receive no special treatment.

• Qin Xuan invited the Saints to send promising disciples to the Underworld to assist the Ancestral Witches and learn its procedures.
• Qin Xuan proposed that Grand Supreme Laozi’s Good Corpse manage the Underworld’s alchemy, naming him Grand Supreme Laozi and establishing Doushuai Palace for him.
• Grand Supreme Laozi agreed, manifested his Good Corpse, and had him take the bestowed name.
• Pingxin raised Doushuai Palace in Fengdu City, and Grand Supreme Laozi sent his Good Corpse there with instructions to follow Pingxin’s wishes.
• Grand Supreme Laozi thanked Qin Xuan and asked Pingxin to look after his Good Corpse, while Qin Xuan privately intended to keep him working without special treatment.

After the Saints left the Underworld, Qin Xuan discovered that Nether River was safe and discussed filling the five vacant positions among the six masters of reincarnation. He proposed several candidates and told Nüwa that Fuxi could choose between becoming an Earth Dao Saint and reincarnating as a human emperor, leaving the decision to Fuxi.

• The Saints returned to their sacred grounds, leaving Qin Xuan, Pingxin, and Nüwa in the Underworld.
• Qin Xuan remembered that he had sent Nether River into reincarnation and asked Pingxin where he had gone.
• Pingxin discovered that Nether River was cultivating in reincarnation and said he might emerge as a Saint.
• Qin Xuan explained that five reincarnation positions remained, and Pingxin told him to choose the candidates himself.
• Qin Xuan considered Changxi, Xihe, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hongyun for the positions, then raised Fuxi as the final candidate.
• Qin Xuan told Nüwa that Fuxi faced a fatal calamity but could either reincarnate as a human emperor or become an Earth Dao Saint.

Nüwa chose to have Fuxi reincarnated as a human, and she and Pingxin agreed to arrange his death together after Qin Xuan proposed splitting the task. Meanwhile, the Ancestral Witches created more than a hundred million Witch Clan members, then received help recovering from their exhaustion.

• Nüwa chose human reincarnation for Fuxi, who sensed danger while cultivating on Buzhou Mountain but failed to divine its source.
• Nüwa and Pingxin eagerly volunteered to arrange Fuxi's death, and Qin Xuan suggested they split the task between them.
• Fuxi was jolted awake by a sudden sense of impending danger and decided to remain on Buzhou Mountain for safety.
• The Ancestral Witches and their followers rapidly expanded the Witch Clan, creating more than a hundred million members over several dozen years.
• Dijiang carried the exhausted Zhurong and Gonggong out of Pangu Temple as the other Ancestral Witches followed with their vast army.
• Pingxin, Qin Xuan, and Nüwa restored the Ancestral Witches' vitality, and the witches fell quiet under their scrutinizing gazes.

Qin Xuan and Pingxin assigned the Underworld’s eleven principal offices among the Ancestral Witches, with Xuan Ming taking the role of Meng Po. Pingxin used Dijiang’s essence blood to create and appoint the Great Emperor Fengdu, who appeared bearing the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Qin Xuan proposed that the Ancestral Witches help govern Pingxin’s newly established Underworld by filling its eleven core offices.
• Xuan Ming volunteered to become Meng Po, and Qin Xuan assigned Dijiang as Great Emperor Fengdu and his ten brothers as the Ten Halls of Yama.
• Dijiang urged Qin Xuan to take the position of Great Emperor Fengdu, but Qin Xuan insisted that Dijiang should hold it.
• Pingxin asked Dijiang for a drop of his origin essence blood and used the Earthly Dao to create an avatar.
• Pingxin appointed the avatar Great Emperor Fengdu, and the Earthly Dao bestowed its authority upon him.
• The Great Emperor Fengdu appeared in a Daoist robe depicting the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Pingxin created the Underworld’s divine offices, including Meng Po and the Ten Halls of Yama, completing its order and strengthening the Earthly Dao. Qin Xuan then reminded Nether River of his promised chance to become a saint, and Nether River vowed to merge the Asura race into the Asura Path and guard it.

• Dijiang recognized his Dao body as Great Emperor Fengdu, and Pingxin created Dao bodies for him, Qin Xuan, and the other Ancestral Witches from their essence blood.
• Pingxin created Xuan Ming’s Dao body as a young, graceful Meng Po, surprising Qin Xuan, then empowered the Ten Halls of Yama with the Book of Life and Death and the Judge’s Brush.
• Great Emperor Fengdu, the Ten Halls of Yama, and Meng Po returned to their posts, completing the Underworld’s divine offices and causing Earthly Dao power to surge.
• Pingxin summoned Patriarch Nether River from the Asura Path, and Qin Xuan reminded him of the promised opportunity to become a saint.
• Nether River vowed to merge the Asura race into the Asura Path, become its master, and guard the stability of reincarnation.

Nether River became an Earth Dao Sage after establishing the Asura Path, alarming the powers of the Primordial World and making Hongjun question his alliance with the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao began considering secretly contacting Qin Xuan, while Hongjun noticed its strange gaze.

• Nether River received Merit Golden Light and fortune for contributing the Netherworld Blood Sea and placing the Asura race within reincarnation, then ascended to Earth Dao Sagehood.
• Dijun and Taiyi regretted antagonizing Qin Xuan and raged that Duke Dong and the Immortal Court must be destroyed.
• Duke Dong saw Nether River’s ascension as a chance to become a master of one of the Six Paths and quietly left Penglai for Buzhou Mountain.
• Hongjun wondered how Pingxin had raised an Earth Dao Sage so quickly and resented the Earth Dao’s growing power.
• The Heavenly Dao questioned whether choosing Hongjun had been a mistake and considered secretly approaching Qin Xuan, prompting Hongjun to ask what it was thinking.

Hongjun stopped Duke Dong from approaching Buzhou Mountain and warned him against offering the Immortal Court to Earthly Dao. Meanwhile, Nether River pledged loyalty to Qin Xuan and Pingxin after becoming an Earthly Dao Saint, and Qin Xuan assigned him to help govern the Underworld.

• Heaven's Dao questioned how Pingxin had helped Nether River attain sainthood so quickly, and Hongjun warned him to abandon thoughts of reclaiming authority.
• Hongjun intercepted Duke Dong on his way to Buzhou Mountain and challenged him to consider whether the Immortal Court would agree to join Earthly Dao.
• Duke Dong realized Hongjun was monitoring him and abandoned his attempt to seek the position of Lord of the Six Paths.
• Nether River thanked Qin Xuan and Pingxin, pledging to protect the Underworld and guard the Asura Path.
• Qin Xuan told Nether River to assist Pingxin in managing the Underworld, and Nether River agreed.

Qin Xuan advised the Witch Clan to help Pingxin run the newly established Underworld until the Immortal-Demon conflict passed. With the clan members assigned their duties, the Ghost Gate Pass opened and the Underworld began processing the dead; Qin Xuan then urged the Ancestral Witches to focus on cultivation.

• Nether River left for the Asura Path to consolidate his newly attained sainthood, leaving Qin Xuan, Pingxin, Nüwa, and the Ancestral Witches together.
• Zhurong introduced Qin Xuan, Pingxin, and Nüwa to the Witch Clan, and the Great Witches and billions of clansmen knelt to pay their respects.
• Qin Xuan proposed that the Witch Clan work in Pingxin's Underworld until the Immortal-Demon conflict ended, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches agreed.
• Pingxin sent the Witch Clan members instructions for their duties, and they spread through the Underworld to take up their posts.
• Pingxin opened the Ghost Gate Pass, and the dead began flowing into the Underworld for judgment and reincarnation.
• Qin Xuan told the Ancestral Witches to cultivate so they could attain the Great Dao of Primordial Unity.

Qin Xuan borrowed the Book of Life and Death from Pingxin and discovered it recorded the lives of nearly everyone in the Three Realms, though not the great powers. The treasure entered his sea of consciousness and refused to leave, and Pingxin let him keep it as he departed for Buzhou Mountain.

• The Ancestral Witches and Nüwa left the Underworld, leaving Qin Xuan alone with Pingxin.
• Qin Xuan asked Pingxin to lend him the Book of Life and Death, and she casually handed over its true body.
• Qin Xuan opened the book and found records of countless humans and other beings, while his own name and those of many powerful figures were absent.
• The Book of Life and Death transformed into a streak of light and lodged itself in Qin Xuan's sea of consciousness, where he could not move it.
• Qin Xuan told Pingxin what had happened, and she reassured him that the Underworld could manage with its copies.
• Pingxin sent Qin Xuan back to Buzhou Mountain and told him to notify her when he arranged Fuxi's affairs.

Nüwa told Fuxi that Pangu had foretold his death and that Pingxin had agreed to let him choose how to die, leaving him terrified by the prospect of waiting for the unknown moment. Meanwhile, Qin Xuan enjoyed Changxi’s company on Buzhou Mountain, and she invited him to return with her to Taiyin Star to visit Xihe.

• Qin Xuan left Pingxin to carry out Fuxi’s reincarnation, while Pingxin returned to her private space and fell asleep.
• Nüwa visited Fuxi on Buzhou Mountain and told him that he was destined to die, citing a heavenly secret revealed by Pangu.
• Nüwa said she had secured Fuxi the chance to choose how he would die, and Fuxi accepted the news with gratitude and despair.
• Fuxi learned that he did not know when his death would come and collapsed in distress as Nüwa promised to stay with him.
• Qin Xuan enjoyed Changxi’s company, and Changxi asked him to return with her to Taiyin Star to see Xihe.

Qin Xuan and Changxi found the North Sea Black Tortoise and discovered that Heavenly Dao power was preventing him from transforming. Qin Xuan brought him into the Myriad Laws World, where its supreme will erased the power, alerting Hongjun that events had deviated again.

• Qin Xuan took Changxi to the North Sea and located the island that was actually the North Sea Black Tortoise.
• Changxi mistook the Black Tortoise for an unclaimed island and urged Qin Xuan to bring him back to Buzhou Mountain.
• The Black Tortoise told Qin Xuan and Changxi that an unknown force had prevented him from transforming.
• Qin Xuan discovered Heavenly Dao power suppressing the Black Tortoise and invited him to follow him.
• Qin Xuan moved the Black Tortoise into the Myriad Laws World, where its supreme will erased the Heavenly Dao power.
• Hongjun opened his eyes in Zixiao Palace after sensing that the great course of events had deviated again.

Hongjun summoned Jieyin and Zhunti to confront them over their unpaid Heavenly Dao merit, but the two pleaded that the west was too poor to repay their debt. Hongjun set aside the argument to enlist them in his plans, promising that a future calamity would bring greatness to the western lands.

• Hongjun failed to deduce the shifting heavenly secrets and regretted agreeing to a ten-thousand-year truce, then decided to use Jieyin and Zhunti to bring about the Ten Suns disaster.
• Jieyin and Zhunti plundered Immortal Court treasures near Three Immortal Island while traveling through the eastern lands.
• Hongjun appeared before Jieyin and Zhunti and demanded to know why they had not repaid the merit they owed the Heavenly Dao.
• Jieyin and Zhunti clung to Hongjun's legs and tearfully blamed the west's poverty for their inability to repay their debt.
• Hongjun restrained his anger and told Jieyin and Zhunti that a future calamity would allow the western lands to rise to greatness.

Hongjun told Jieyin and Zhunti that the Heavenly Dao had decreed the West would rise, then directed them to use Dijun’s sons to reignite the war between the Demon Court and Immortal Court. After returning the North Sea Black Tortoise to Buzhou Mountain, Qin Xuan and Changxi reached the Taiyin Star, where Qin Xuan resolved to take the initiative with Xihe.

• Hongjun declared that the Heavenly Dao had promised the West would rise, convincing Jieyin and Zhunti after they initially suspected a trick.
• Hongjun explained that the Immortal-Demon Tribulation would end with both courts perishing and urged them to use the Ten Golden Crows to provoke the conflict.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to visit Dijun’s sons on the Sun Star once the truce expired.
• Qin Xuan sent the newly transformed North Sea Black Tortoise back to Buzhou Mountain, then crossed the starry river with Changxi to the Taiyin Star.
• Changxi warned Qin Xuan to take the initiative with Xihe, and Qin Xuan resolved to get ahead of her.

Qin Xuan awkwardly greeted Xihe on the Taiyin Star after Changxi misled him about her feelings, then followed Changxi into the Cold Moon Palace. More than three thousand years later, Changxi emerged as Xihe demanded to know what she was eating.

• Qin Xuan grabbed Xihe's hands, but she angrily ordered him to let go, and he realized Changxi had set him up.
• Qin Xuan apologized to Xihe before retreating into the Cold Moon Palace, leaving her alone beneath the Moon Laurel Tree.
• Qin Xuan confronted Changxi in a side hall, but she teased him instead of explaining, so he raised a barrier and carried her away.
• Xihe waited outside the sealed Cold Moon Palace for more than three thousand years, growing furious and suspicious.
• Changxi emerged from the palace covering her mouth, and Xihe asked what she was eating.

Qin Xuan persuaded Xihe to accept the chance to become an Earthly Dao Saint, and Changxi urged her sister to become Qin Xuan’s Dao companion. After guiding the sisters in cultivation on the Taiyin Star for several thousand years, the story shifted to ten restless Golden Crows as two elderly strangers appeared in the Valley of Tang.

• Xihe questioned Changxi about secretly eating Ginseng Fruit, but Qin Xuan redirected them by raising the matter of Earthly Dao Saints.
• Qin Xuan explained that five Saint positions remained, and Xihe hesitated over accepting his offer until Changxi pleaded with her to join Qin Xuan as a Dao companion.
• Xihe agreed, and Qin Xuan began expounding the Great Dao to guide both sisters’ cultivation.
• Qin Xuan stayed on the Taiyin Star for several thousand years as the great tribulation’s calamity qi grew and the Immortal Court and Demon Court temporarily stopped fighting.
• The ten young Golden Crows grew restless in the Valley of Tang, and two kind-faced elderly men appeared in the void outside it.

Jieyin and Zhunti secretly released the Ten Golden Crows from the Valley of Tang, intending to set the conflict between the Demon Court and the Immortal Court in motion. After escaping the Sun Star, the brothers argued over where to go, and one proposed sneaking into Immortal Court territory to start fires.

• Jieyin watched the Ten Golden Crows and decided to remove the Valley of Tang’s restrictions, believing their deaths were ordained by the Heavenly Dao.
• Jieyin pretended to present a command from Dijun and opened a passage through the valley’s restrictions.
• The Ten Golden Crows flew out of the valley and past the demon guards without interference, leaving the Sun Star.
• The eldest Golden Crow urged his brothers to return to the Heavenly Court, but the younger nine wanted to explore the Primordial World.
• One young Golden Crow proposed visiting Immortal Court territory and setting fires to cause trouble and win their father’s approval.

The Ten Golden Crows descended on the Primordial World and devastated the Immortal Court's territory, drawing Queen Mother of the West into a fight. Her attacks inexplicably missed, and when she tried to pursue the fleeing Golden Crows, she could only jump straight up and crash back down.

• The Ten Golden Crows left the Heavenly Court, followed secretly by Jieyin and Zhunti, and used the lack of demonic aura to locate the Immortal Court's territory.
• The Ten Golden Crows unleashed their Solar True Fire, scorching the land and killing countless creatures while the powerful cultivators and Demon Emperor Dijun did nothing.
• Queen Mother of the West divined an opportunity, went alone to the Immortal Court's territory, and attacked the Golden Crows with the Kunlun Mirror.
• Queen Mother of the West's first two volleys missed the Golden Crows, who fled in different directions after she threatened them.
• Queen Mother of the West tried to pursue the Golden Crows but leaped straight upward and fell back down, prompting one Golden Crow to call her stupid.

Queen Mother of the West chased the Ten Golden Crows for ten years while Qin Xuan secretly protected the people and Hongjun maneuvered to bring down the Immortal Court and Demon Court. As the exhausted Golden Crows tried to escape, an invisible force stopped Queen Mother of the West from catching them.

• The Ten Golden Crows taunted Queen Mother of the West and lured her into chasing and attacking them while an unseen force diverted her attacks.
• Qin Xuan secretly moved the innocent living beings out of danger and suspected Hongjun was interfering, while Hongjun decided Queen Mother of the West had to die to make the Immortal Court and Demon Court suffer together.
• Queen Mother of the West chased the Golden Crows for ten years without tiring, but their Solar True Fire and magical power were steadily depleted.
• The exhausted Golden Crows decided to return to the Heavenly Court and seek their Imperial Father, then mocked Queen Mother of the West as they prepared to leave.
• Queen Mother of the West tried to leap up and seize them, but an invisible shackle forced her back to the ground as the Golden Crows laughed.

Queen Mother of the West died after the ten little Golden Crows burned her with Solar True Fire, and Hongjun intervened to stop Duke Dong from killing them. Duke Dong then struck back by annihilating the eldest Golden Crow, whose body fell from the sky.

• Queen Mother of the West gave up resisting the Golden Crows' Solar True Fire and dispersed completely.
• Hongjun withdrew his power from Penglai Immortal Island, allowing Duke Dong to learn how Queen Mother of the West had died.
• Duke Dong appeared before the departing Golden Crows, but Hongjun's force slammed him back to the ground.
• The eldest Golden Crow urged his brothers to surround Duke Dong, believing he could not attack them from the ground.
• Duke Dong fired immortal light through the eldest Golden Crow's skull, destroying his body and soul.

Duke Dong killed nine of the ten Lesser Golden Crows, but Dijun arrived in time to save Lu Ya. After comforting his surviving son, Dijun attacked Duke Dong, who prepared to fight back with the Dragon Head Cane.

• Duke Dong killed the fleeing Golden Crow brothers, while their corpses vanished before reaching the ground.
• Dijun sensed the deaths of his sons, and Taiyi joined him in rushing to save the Lesser Golden Crows.
• Duke Dong prepared to kill the last Golden Crow, Lu Ya, but Dijun's He Tu Luo Shu blocked the attack.
• Dijun gathered Lu Ya into the He Tu Luo Shu and vowed to avenge his brothers.
• Dijun struck at Duke Dong, who defended his actions and brought forth the Dragon Head Cane.