Chapter Summaries

At Di Jun’s Heavenly Court banquet celebrating his sainthood, Dijiang began proving the Dao at Buzhou Mountain, transforming the balance between the Demon Clan and the Wu Clan. Di Jun left the ceremony furious and resolved to march against the Wu Clan once it ended.

• Di Jun hosted a grand banquet and prepared to recruit powerful cultivators into the Demon Clan before attacking the Wu Clan.
• A terrifying aura and violet qi appeared over Buzhou Mountain, and Di Jun realized that Dijiang might be about to become a Saint.
• Xuan Ming and the other Ancestor Witches rejoiced as Dijiang announced his breakthrough and attained the Saintly Dao Fruit.
• Dijiang manifested before the Primordial Wilderness as a Saint, bringing the Wu Clan and Demon Clan to an apparent balance of power.
• Di Jun regretted delaying his attack and resolved to lead the Demon Army against the Wu Clan after the banquet.

Niu Ben used the Saint Crystal granted by Hongjun to help Niu Ba prove Dao and become a Saint, bringing a second Saint to the Ox Clan. The great powers reacted to the Ox Clan’s rise, while Jieyin and Zhunti bitterly lamented missing out on the reward.

• A new Saint aura appeared, and the great powers first suspected Niu Ben had given Hongjun’s Saint Crystal to a disciple of the Three Teachings.
• A colossal ox phantom appeared, revealing that an Ox Clan member was proving Dao and becoming a Saint.
• Niu Ba announced that he had attained the Saint Dao Fruit through his son’s help and Hongjun’s favor, and the Ox Clan celebrated having two Saints.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed the Ox Clan’s rise, and Tongtian teased Taishang about praising his own disciple, Niu Ben.
• Jieyin and Zhunti recognized Niu Ba and complained that Niu Ben had wasted the Saint Crystal on him.

After Niu Ba became a Saint, the Demon Clan considered an alliance with the Ox Clan to tip the balance against the Wu Clan. Di Jun personally went to visit the Ox Clan, where Niu Ba prepared to receive him.

• Jieyin, Zhunti, Nuwa, and the Human Race leaders realized that Niu Ben had given Niu Ba the Saint Crystal, and Huang Tian reaffirmed his belief that a Human Saint would emerge in the future.
• Di Jun ended the Demon Clan’s recruitment ceremony after Dijiang and Niu Ba’s ascensions overshadowed it.
• Fuxi proposed that the Demon Clan win over the Ox Clan to help defeat the Wu Clan, and Di Jun decided to visit the Ox Clan personally.
• The Ox Clan celebrated Niu Ba’s ascension, and its allied clans abandoned any thoughts of turning against it.
• After Niu Ba learned that Di Jun had arrived, he went to welcome the Demon Emperor.

Di Jun visited Niu Ba after Niu Ba became a saint and offered to make the Ox Clan an equal ally of the Demon Clan, but Niu Ba refused to join the conflict with the Wu Clan. As Di Jun grew angry, the Primordial Wilderness’s great powers and the Ancestor Witches worried over whether the Ox Clan might side with the Demon Clan.

• Di Jun entered the Ox Clan’s territory and asked Niu Ba to form an alliance, offering him a Demon Clan imperial throne and equal status.
• Niu Ba refused, saying the Ox Clan wanted to avoid conflict and settle in peace.
• Di Jun urged Niu Ba to name his conditions, but Niu Ba held firm, leaving Di Jun grave and angry.
• The great powers of the Primordial Wilderness discussed Di Jun’s visit and debated whether Niu Ba would accept the alliance.
• At Pangu Temple, Qiang Liang warned Dijiang and the other Ancestor Witches that Di Jun was trying to win over the Ox Clan, alarming them.

Di Jun failed to persuade Niu Ba to ally the Ox Clan with the Demon Clan and returned to the Heavenly Court without a plan. Tushan Blood Fox confronted him about whether he had forgotten the blood debt of their ten sons, leaving him stunned by grief.

• Di Jun offered Niu Ba lavish rewards and an equal place among the Demon Clan's emperors, but Niu Ba refused to ally with the Demon Clan.
• Niu Ba recalled the Demon Clan's past pressure on the Ox Clan and said an alliance would also disregard Niu Ben.
• Di Jiang warned the Ancestor Witches to remain vigilant because Di Jun had become a saint and the Demon Clan might attack again.
• Di Jun told Emperor Taiyi and the Demon Clan higher-ups that Niu Ba had rejected his offer, leaving them to debate what to do next.
• Tushan Blood Fox arrived in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and asked Di Jun whether he had forgotten the blood debt of their ten sons, leaving him overcome with grief.

Di Jun declared war on the Wu Clan to avenge his sons and answer the ancient blood feud. The Demon and Wu armies met near Buzhou Mountain, and their battle began.

• Tushan Blood Fox urged Di Jun not to abandon war, and Emperor Taiyi and the Demon Gods called for an attack on the Wu Clan.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Heavenly Court to mobilize, and he and Emperor Taiyi led the Demon Army toward the Wu Clan.
• Dijiang gathered the Wu Clan forces at the Ancestral Hall and led the Ancestor Witches to confront Di Jun.
• Di Jun demanded that Dijiang submit, but Dijiang rejected him and mocked the Demon Emperor.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Army to attack, and Dijiang commanded the Wu Clan to fight back.
• The two armies collided near Buzhou Mountain, beginning a fierce battle.

The Witch and Yao Races fought fiercely around Buzhou Mountain as Di Jun and Dijiang took their battle into the heavens. After their opening exchange ended in a stalemate, Di Jun trapped Dijiang with the Great Sun Burning Heaven Array and launched a powerful attack.

• The Wu Clan’s Great Witches and the Demon Clan’s Demon Gods clashed around Buzhou Mountain using their battle bodies and Slaying Witch Weapons.
• Di Jun challenged Dijiang to fight above the heavens, and Dijiang accepted.
• Di Jun and Dijiang’s saintly pressure collided evenly as Di Jun summoned stellar power and Dijiang wielded space law.
• Di Jun demanded that the Wu Clan submit and withdraw, but Dijiang refused and mocked him.
• Di Jun attacked with three hundred and sixty-five pillars of stellar power, but Dijiang deflected them through folded space.
• Di Jun summoned the River Diagram and Luo Script, activated the Great Sun Burning Heaven Array, and trapped Dijiang before unleashing a pillar of fire.

Di Jun sealed space-time with the Great Sun Burning Heaven Array, but Dijiang countered with his Ancestor Witch power and fought him to a draw. While the two saints recovered, the armies of the Wu and Yao Races continued their devastating battle at Buzhou Mountain.

• Di Jun's blazing pillar of flame advanced on Dijiang, who revealed his Ancestor Witch True Body and erased the space before him, stopping the attack and halting the array.
• Dijiang crossed the void and struck at Di Jun, who blocked with the River Diagram and Luo Script before countering with a punch strengthened by True Sun Fire and Imperial Law.
• The collision tore open a rift above Buzhou Mountain, and Di Jun and Dijiang were both blasted backward after fighting to a draw.
• The Demon Clan's Great Formation of the Stars of the Heavens and the Wu Clan's Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Array slaughtered warriors across the battlefield.
• The armies' losses filled Buzhou Mountain with corpses and blood as onlooking creatures feared the Wu and Yao Races would destroy each other.

As the Witch and Yao Races fought at Buzhou Mountain, Hongjun and the Saints saw the war as a fate-driven purge that would end the old order. Nuwa wondered whether Niu Ben might intervene and change events, while Jieyin, Zhunti, and Kunpeng hoped to benefit from the conflict; the chapter left the war raging and Niu Ben’s response uncertain.

• Hongjun observed the battle and concluded that the Heavenly Dao had guided the Witch and Yao Races toward an unavoidable war to release Calamity Qi and make way for new forces.
• Tongtian and Primordial Heavenly Lord discussed the war’s brutality, while Taishang wondered whether Heaven’s decree could truly be changed and denied that he planned to interfere.
• Nuwa regretted the slaughter but believed she could not act under the Heavenly Dao’s constraints, then considered whether Niu Ben could change the course of events.
• Jieyin and Zhunti welcomed the possibility that the Witch and Yao Races would decline, seeing it as a chance for Western Teachings to rise.
• Kunpeng wished for Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi to die and recalled leaving the Demon Clan after they forced him to surrender the Merit he had gained from creating Demon Script.

Niu Ben realized that the Heavenly Dao had ensured the Witch and Yao Races went to war again despite his earlier intervention. Niu Ba arrived in the Underworld and urged Niu Ben to join the conflict so the Ox Clan could seize supremacy.

• Niu Ben reflected on how the Heavenly Dao had influenced events and made the renewed Witch-Yao war seem inevitable.
• Niu Ba entered the Underworld, where Niu Xiaomei, Xi He, and Chang Xi told him that Niu Ben was in seclusion.
• Niu Ba insisted on meeting Niu Ben about an urgent matter, and Niu Ben emerged from his cave to speak with him.
• Niu Ba proposed that the Ox Clan exploit the Witch-Demon War, wait until both sides were weakened, and take control of the Primordial Wilderness.

After Niu Ba proposed that the Ox Clan enter the Witch-Demon War and seize control of the Primordial Wilderness, Niu Ben chose to stop him, earning an independent Innate Blessed Land from the system. Niu Ben warned his father that Saints were not invincible and that the war’s leaders were pawns of the Heavenly Dao.

• Niu Ba told Niu Ben that he had refused Di Jun’s alliance offer and wanted the Ox Clan to join the Witch-Demon War and rule the Primordial Wilderness.
• The system offered Niu Ben a choice between stopping Niu Ba for an independent Innate Blessed Land or allowing him to fight for an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Niu Ben chose to stop his father, valuing the blessed land as a safe haven for the Ox Clan and protection from the Tribulation.
• Niu Ba confidently argued that their two Saints could defeat the Witch and Yao Races, but Niu Ben told him the Ox Clan should stay out of the war.
• Niu Ben warned that Saints were not invincible and said Di Jun and Dijiang were still pawns on the Heavenly Dao’s chessboard.

Niu Ben explained that the Heavenly Dao was driving the Witch-Demon War and warned Niu Ba that the Ox Clan could not challenge its will. Niu Ba gave up his ambitions and returned to the Ox Clan, while Niu Ben claimed an independent Innate Blessed Land from the system.

• Niu Ben told Niu Ba that the Witch-Demon War was a Heavenly Dao Tribulation and that even Saints were powerless against Heavenly Dao Level beings.
• Niu Ba realized that intervening in the war could bring the Ox Clan to ruin and admitted that his newfound Saint power had gone to his head.
• Niu Ben urged the Ox Clan to develop steadily and stay out of Tribulations, and Niu Ba agreed to abandon his plans for supremacy.
• Niu Ba left the cave abode and told Xi He, Chang Xi, and Niu Xiaomei that he was returning to the Ox Clan.
• The system announced Niu Ben's reward for completing the choice mission, and he claimed an independent Innate Blessed Land.

Niu Ben discovered a Small World inside a scroll and considered making it a refuge for the Ox Clan before resuming his cultivation. Meanwhile, Di Jun and Dijiang’s battle caused Buzhou Mountain to collapse, turning the Witch-Yao conflict into a calamity threatening all of Primordial Heaven and Earth; Niu Ben sensed the disaster from the Netherworld.

• Niu Ben entered the scroll’s Small World, sensed his absolute control over it, and planned to discuss moving the Ox Clan there with his father.
• Niu Ben returned to his Seclusion Cave Mansion, stored the scroll, and continued refining the Chaos Demon God Essence Blood.
• Di Jun and Dijiang clashed above Buzhou Mountain, and the shockwave from their attacks split the Heavenly Pillar.
• Buzhou Mountain collapsed, releasing Chaos qi and Heavenly River Water as the heavens and earth began to break apart.
• Tongtian, Taishang, Primordial Heavenly Lord, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa reacted to the disaster, while Nuwa felt she should act.
• Niu Ben sensed Buzhou Mountain’s collapse while cultivating in the Netherworld Underworld.

After the collapse of Buzhou Mountain triggered a God-tier Choice Mission, Niu Ben chose to stop the Witch-Demon War for the chance to gain two affiliated Small Worlds. He appeared on the battlefield and halted Di Jun and Dijiang, drawing the attention of Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao Incarnation, and the Three Pure Ones.

• Niu Ben chose the mission to intervene in the Witch-Demon War, valuing the Small Worlds’ potential to help him reach the Heavenly Dao Realm over an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• As the heavenly pillar collapsed and Heavenly River Water flooded the Primordial Wilderness, Di Jun, Dijiang, and the Witch and Yao Races continued fighting.
• Niu Ben appeared above Buzhou Mountain, used his aura to separate Di Jun and Dijiang, and stopped the combatants with his shout.
• Hongjun worried that Niu Ben’s interference would anger the Heavenly Dao, while the Heavenly Dao Incarnation watched him with suspicion.
• The Three Pure Ones were shocked to see their disciple Niu Ben intervene in a war ordained by the Heavenly Dao.

Niu Ben appeared at the devastated Buzhou Mountain battlefield and condemned Di Jun and Dijiang for continuing the Witch-Demon War after their fighting destroyed the Heavenly Pillar and unleashed the Heavenly River. Di Jun rejected Niu Ben’s intervention and attacked him, leaving Niu Ben poised to retaliate.

• The Saints reacted with shock to Niu Ben’s arrival, while Jieyin and Zhunti hoped the Heavenly Dao would punish him for intervening.
• Niu Ben addressed the Witch and Yao forces, blaming their vendetta for Buzhou Mountain’s destruction and the calamity threatening the Primordial Wilderness.
• The watching beings praised Niu Ben for stepping forward to protect the living creatures of the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun, enraged by his old grudges against Niu Ben, ordered him to leave and attacked him with a golden claw formed from stellar power and True Sun Origin Power.
• Niu Ben faced the descending claw, called Di Jun reckless, and stepped forward into the void.

At Buzhou Mountain, Niu Ben effortlessly shattered Di Jun’s attack and River Diagram and Luo Script Formation before striking Di Jun with a devastating punch. The chapter left Di Jun’s Saintly Dao body exploding under the blow.

• Niu Ben shattered Di Jun’s golden claw with his aura, shocking the watching beings and Saints.
• Taishang, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa worried that Niu Ben’s attempt to stop the Witch-Demon War would provoke the Heavenly Dao.
• Di Jun summoned the River Diagram and Luo Script and trapped Niu Ben in their formation.
• Niu Ben broke the formation with one punch, dimming and sending the two Innate treasures flying.
• Niu Ben struck Di Jun with a Chaos-powered punch that destroyed his imperial robes, True Sun Fire, and Saintly Dao body.

Niu Ben killed the newly ascended Saint Di Jun with one punch, terrifying the Primordial Wilderness and leaving the Demon Clan without its Saint. The other Saints recognized Niu Ben as overwhelmingly powerful, while Jieyin and Zhunti began considering how to deal with him cautiously.

• Niu Ben shattered Di Jun’s body, Primordial Spirit, and Saint Position Dao Fruit with one punch, and blood rain marked the Saint’s fall.
• The Wu Clan celebrated Di Jun’s death, while Emperor Taiyi restrained himself from attacking Niu Ben and silently vowed revenge.
• Tongtian, Primordial Heavenly Lord, and Saint Taishang acknowledged Niu Ben’s strength, with Taishang saying his disciple had surpassed him.
• Zhunti feared that even he and Jieyin together could not defeat Niu Ben, and Jieyin regretted not killing him earlier.
• Jieyin warned that Niu Ben could obstruct the rise of the West and said they would have to deal with him gradually.

Niu Ben’s punch annihilated Di Jun, but the newly ascended Saint reconstructed his body, spirit, and Dao Fruit and returned to life. Niu Ben concluded that Saints could not truly die while the Heavenly Dao remained intact, and wondered whether destroying it was necessary to kill one permanently.

• Nuwa and Hongjun watched Niu Ben kill Di Jun with one punch, and Hongjun reaffirmed his belief that Niu Ben could help him escape the Heavenly Dao’s shackles.
• After the bloody rain ended, flesh, blood, and fragments of Dao Fruit gathered where Di Jun had been destroyed.
• Di Jun reappeared, astonishing the Wu Clan, delighting the Demon Clan, and prompting Taiyi to call out to his brother.
• Niu Ben recognized Di Jun’s resurrection as proof that Saints could not die while the Heavenly Dao endured, and wondered if he had to destroy it to kill a Saint for good.

Niu Ben forced Di Jun and Dijiang to agree to end the Witch-Demon War, then revealed two affiliated Small Worlds called the Yao Realm and the Witch Realm. He offered the clans a chance to survive outside the Primordial Main World, burdened as they were by karma and the damage to Buzhou Mountain.

• Di Jun revived after Niu Ben killed him, but his cultivation fell to the Sub-Saint Level and he became afraid of Niu Ben.
• Niu Ben asked Dijiang whether the Wu Clan would agree to peace, and Dijiang submitted rather than risk being killed.
• Niu Ben ordered the Wu Clan and Demon Clan to withdraw their forces and cease fighting, and neither Di Jun nor Dijiang objected.
• Niu Ben claimed his reward of two affiliated Small Worlds and revealed them to the gathered beings.
• Niu Ben named the Small Worlds the Yao Realm and the Witch Realm, explaining that the clans' karma and destruction of Buzhou Mountain made remaining in the main world dangerous.

Niu Ben ordered the Demon Clan and Wu Clan to withdraw into the Yao Realm and Witch Realm, but Di Jun and Dijiang refused to leave the Primordial Main World. The other races welcomed the proposal, while Niu Ba wondered if it would let the Ox Clan rise to rule the Primordial Wilderness.

• Niu Ben offered the Demon Clan and Wu Clan separate realms to inhabit and threatened to destroy anyone who returned to the Primordial Main World without permission.
• Di Jun and Dijiang rejected Niu Ben's order, insisting their clans would not abandon their homeland.
• Niu Ben's aura turned terrifying as he prepared to make the two clans witness his strength.
• Huang Tian and Cangjie celebrated the chance for the Human Race to rise, but Huang Tian warned against pursuing sole dominance.
• Niu Ba speculated that Niu Ben's plan could help the Ox Clan become the greatest clan in Primordial Heaven and Earth.