Chapter Summaries

As the Twelve Ancestral Witches planned to establish their clan and claim territory in the Western Land, Houtu and Xuanming visited Li Fan at Grand Unity Palace to seek his permission. Li Fan agreed without conditions, and the two left recognizing that he had likely seen through their intentions.

• Li Fan suspected Tongtian Jianmu’s transformation into a Chaos Spirit Root might offer a way to break the deadlock, while clashes between the Demon Clan and Immortal Court intensified.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches discussed establishing the Witch Clan, claiming the Blood Sea, and preparing for possible conflict in the Western Land.
• Dijiang sent Houtu and Xuanming to negotiate with Li Fan at Grand Unity Palace after Tianwu declined to go.
• Li Fan welcomed Houtu and Xuanming over a meal, and Houtu asked permission for the Twelve Ancestral Witches to settle in the Western Land.
• Li Fan granted the request without demands, and Houtu promised the Ancestral Witches would help him if needed.
• After spending the day at Grand Unity Palace, Xuanming and Houtu returned to Buzhou Mountain, where Xuanming remarked that Li Fan had understood their intentions.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches established the Witch Clan on Buzhou Mountain, prompting Li Fan to foresee an unavoidable conflict with the Demon Clan. The chapter ended with the Demon Clan preparing for war as the Witch Clan entered the Prehistoric Universe’s stage.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches used Pangu’s Heart to evolve the Witch Clan, creating Great Witches, Lesser Witches, and Witch Priests before stopping to conserve its depleted origin essence.
• The Witch Clan expanded across Buzhou Mountain, where its members hunted demons, while Li Fan concluded that demons could replenish the witches’ blood vitality and make conflict between the clans inevitable.
• After ten thousand years, the Twelve Ancestral Witches decided to establish the Witch Clan, proclaiming that they honored only Pangu and claiming Buzhou Mountain as their territory.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches offered their essence blood to Pangu, awakening a vast divine will that announced the Witch Clan’s establishment across the Primordial World.
• Fuxi regretted listening to Nuwa, while Taiyi welcomed the challenge and Di Jun ordered Bai Ze to prepare the Demon Clan for war.
• Donghua feared the three clans’ conflicts might repeat, and Li Fan watched the situation begin to unfold.

The Witch Clan expanded into the north, prompting Taiyi and Di Jun to gather the Demon Clan’s forces and prepare for war. Leize joined them, but Li Fan watched the conflict unfold, knowing the two clans’ collision could not be prevented.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches divided their forces between the west and north, and the northern Witch Clan cleared baleful qi and Turbid Qi while taking over the region’s abundant prey.
• Taiyi summoned the Demon Clan’s leaders as Fuxi and Leize arrived, and Bai Ze reported that six Ancestral Witches led the northern invasion.
• Leize suggested Taiyi mobilize the Hall of Myriad Gods, but Taiyi explained that he lacked authority to command it, while Fuxi said Nuwa would not intervene unless her clan faced extermination.
• Taiyi ordered the Demon Clan to strike quickly before Hongjun’s second sermon, and Leize revealed that he had reached the Late stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
• Taiyi and Di Jun prepared the demon troops to fight the northern Ancestral Witches as Gonggong and Zhurong celebrated, while Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin sensed unusual movements.
• Li Fan observed the clans’ preparations and reflected on the inevitable conflict as Goddess Wangshu spoke of war’s cost, and the calamity began.

Taiyi and the Demon Clan attacked the Witch Clan, and Di Jun used the Hun Yuan River Luo Grand Formation to split and trap six Ancestral Witches. With the battle still unresolved, Li Fan revealed the fighting inside the formation, where Leize’s lightning left the Ancestral Witches howling.

• Taiyi struck the northern Witch Clan with the Chaos Bell, then fought Dijiang, Rushou, Shebishi, Gonggong, and Zhurong, eventually falling into a disadvantage.
• Di Jun, Fuxi, Leize, and the Demon Clan arrived and raised the Hun Yuan River Luo Grand Formation, separating the six Ancestral Witches into different formation-gate spaces.
• Houtu, Xuanming, and the other Ancestral Witches hurried toward the battlefield while Xuanming complained about Gonggong and Zhurong’s decision to confront the Demon Clan.
• Donghua sensed that the Heavenly Dao Power in the Myriad Immortals Diagram had reached its limit, while Li Fan showed Nuwa, Xihe, and the others what was happening inside the formation.
• Taiyi, Di Jun, and Fuxi wore down the Ancestral Witches, and Leize’s lightning numbed them until Gonggong and Zhurong howled in pain, making Nuwa laugh.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches helped break the Hun Yuan River Luo Grand Formation, and Houtu challenged Taiyi after seeing the Witch Clan’s heavy losses. Protected from the Chaos Bell by the Twelve-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus, Houtu endured Taiyi’s attacks and emerged as the apparent victor, leaving her name poised to spread throughout the Primordial World.

• Houtu and the other Ancestral Witches attacked the Hun Yuan River Luo Grand Formation until Di Jun and Fuxi gave up maintaining it and called the Demon Clan to fight on its own.
• Leize’s torment left Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches battered, while Ancestor Dragon rebuked him for interfering in Wu-Demon affairs.
• Houtu saw the Witch Clan’s dead and wounded and challenged Taiyi, then revealed the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and struck him with the Six Paths Samsara Fist.
• Taiyi answered with his Heavenly Emperor Fist, and the two fought evenly until Houtu’s stronger physical body injured Taiyi.
• Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell at full power, forcing the Witch Clan and Demon Clan to flee the battlefield, but Houtu remained unharmed because the Twelve-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus protected her True Spirit.
• The Grand Unity Experts watched Houtu stand beneath the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and recognized her as the victor over the Heavenly Emperor’s successor.

Houtu resisted Leize’s Heavenly Punishment with the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and her laws, leaving the witch-demon battle at a stalemate. Li Fan arrived, suppressed six Ancestral Witches for one million years, and had Nuwa heal the wounded before the first Witch-Demon War ended.

• Houtu used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and the Laws of Reincarnation and Earth to withstand Leize’s Purple Xiao Divine Thunder, and the two sides reached a stalemate.
• Li Fan left Grand Unity Palace with Nuwa and arrived at the battlefield as Taiyi, Di Jun, Leize, and Houtu acknowledged him.
• Li Fan suppressed Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Gonggong, Zhurong, Rushou, and Shebishi deep in the Earth Veins for one million years.
• Nuwa used the Creation Green Lotus to heal the wounded members of the Witch and Demon Clans.
• Li Fan and Nuwa departed, and the first Witch-Demon War came to an end.

After the Ancestral Witches were suppressed, Houtu and Xuanming agreed to attend Hongjun’s second sermon and joined Nuwa’s group on the journey to Purple Heaven Palace. As the guests gathered and took their seats, Li Fan stayed behind while Empress Ziguang entered seclusion to prepare for a breakthrough.

• Xuanming shaved the heads of Dijiang and five other Ancestral Witches, while Houtu laughed and the Witches accepted that they had been unable to oppose the Heavenly Emperor.
• Houtu and Xuanming agreed to represent the Witch Clan at Hongjun’s sermon, and Li Fan told them to travel with Nuwa and the others.
• A hundred years later, Nuwa, Changxi, Nüyi, Houtu, Xuanming, and the others departed for Purple Heaven Palace, while Empress Ziguang began secluded cultivation to pursue Hunyuan Grand Unity.
• At Purple Heaven Palace, Nuwa teased Haotian, Di Jun stopped Taiyi from confronting her, and Leize and Minghe glared at one another.
• Haotian and Yaochi opened the gates, and the Three Thousand Purple Heaven Guests took their seats to await Hongjun.

Hongjun began his second sermon in Purple Heaven Palace while Goddess Taiyuan’s attempt to restore the Buzhou Mountain formation threatened to destroy it. The Heavenly Dao granted Taiyuan a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi to make the Investiture of the Gods the formation’s vessel, and the formation sealed the ancient prisoners within once more.

• Hongjun began preaching the path of the Quasi-Saint to the Three Thousand Purple Heaven Guests.
• Goddess Taiyuan attacked the failing Zhou Mountain Divine Prohibition Grand Formation with her Divine Prohibition Light, while Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu came to Buzhou Mountain to see what was happening.
• Ancient mighty figures trapped in the formation begged Taiyuan to spare them, and Gonggong feared that her attack was aimed at him.
• Li Fan explained that the Heavenly Dao could preserve the formation by making the Investiture of the Gods its vessel, and Hongjun returned from Purple Heaven Palace with a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Taiyuan took the Hongmeng Purple Qi, and the restored formation sealed the ancient mighty figures inside Buzhou Mountain again.

Goddess Taiyuan used Buzhou Mountain, the Four Symbols Origin, and the Divine Prohibition Grand Formation to transform the Investiture of the Gods into an Innate Supreme Treasure. After the formation left Buzhou Mountain, Li Fan ordered the ancient mighty experts to leave, while Hongjun resumed his interrupted preaching at Purple Heaven Palace.

• Goddess Taiyuan merged the Hongmeng Purple Qi, Buzhou Mountain's power, and the Divine Prohibition Grand Formation into the Investiture of the Gods, completing its transformation into an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• The Divine Prohibition Grand Formation separated from Buzhou Mountain, whose depleted origin left a crack at its base as flowers and plants began growing across it.
• The Jade Plate of Creation resonated with the Heavenly Book and showed its advancement at Purple Heaven Palace, interrupting Hongjun's preaching and startling the gathered cultivators.
• Li Fan warned the ancient mighty experts to leave Buzhou Mountain, and they withdrew before he, Taiyuan, and Wangshu walked across its summit.
• Hongjun returned to Purple Heaven Palace, silenced the noisy cultivators, and resumed the preaching.

Hongjun ended his sermon on the Quasi-Saint path and explained that Innate Spiritual Treasures were best for Severing Three Corpses, stirring greed among the cultivators. On Buzhou Mountain, Li Fan, Wangshu, and Taiyuan carefully opened the formation around the Innate Gourd Vine, and Li Fan began restoring its damaged origin.

• Hongjun's Dao Sound damaged the Six-Eared Macaque's divine ability after he eavesdropped on the sermon again.
• Li Fan, Wangshu, and Taiyuan found the Innate Gourd Vine on Buzhou Mountain and worked together to open its formation without damaging it.
• Hongjun taught that Quasi-Saints advanced by severing good thoughts, evil thoughts, and obsessions, and that Innate Spiritual Treasures were the best tools for the process.
• The cultivators left Purple Heaven Palace wary of one another, while Kunpeng fixed his attention on a cultivator carrying an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Li Fan, Wangshu, and Taiyuan broke the formation around the Gourd Vine, and Li Fan used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl to restore its origin.

Li Fan claimed the Innate Gourd Vine after it acknowledged him, then distributed six of its mature gourds among the goddesses. He preserved the vine and its final purple gourd, explained that harvesting it would destroy the vine, and led the remaining goddesses to search Buzhou Mountain for the Banana Tree.

• The Innate Gourd Vine detached from Buzhou Mountain and wrapped around Li Fan’s wrist, acknowledging him as its master.
• Nuwa, Changxi, and the others arrived with the Three Pure Ones and other cultivators, but Taishang recognized that the vine belonged to Li Fan and the visitors departed without claiming gourds.
• Li Fan gave the yin, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth gourds to Changxi, Xihua, Nüyi, Baili, Xihe, and Nuwa, and instructed them to plan how to refine the treasures.
• Li Fan collected the vine, its final purple gourd, and the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil into the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, explaining that picking the final gourd would ruin the vine.
• Li Fan invited Houtu, Xuanming, Nine Heavens Xuan Nü, and Su Nü to search Buzhou Mountain for the Four Symbols Spiritual Root, the Banana Tree.

Nuwa failed to find the Innate Banana Tree before Li Fan sensed a Chaos Pearl Fragment on Buzhou Mountain and led the goddesses to it. They found the tree inside the Innate Four Symbols Grand Formation, and Li Fan and Houtu began using water and earth power to mature its remaining leaves.

• Nuwa returned from searching Buzhou Mountain without finding the Innate Banana Tree, while Li Fan told her about the Four Symbols Divine Beasts.
• Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise agreed to become the Four Spirits of Heaven in one hundred thousand years, and Ancestor Dragon and Candle Dragon advised Azure Dragon to seek Li Fan's guidance.
• Li Fan sensed the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl reacting to a Chaos Pearl Fragment and followed it west with Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Nuwa.
• Li Fan's group saw three thousand Medium Worlds rising around the Path to Heaven, and Xihe summoned the other goddesses to join them.
• Nuwa revealed the Innate Four Symbols Grand Formation, and Li Fan used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl to open a gap and find the fruitless Banana Tree inside.
• Li Fan used water-origin power to mature the tree's water-attributed leaf, and Houtu began nourishing its earth-attributed leaf with Earth Vein power.

After the Innate Banana Tree matured, Li Fan distributed its four leaves to Houtu, Xuanming, Xuan Nü, and Su Nü, then discovered the Four Symbols Pearl beneath its roots. The Four Symbols Pearl resonated with the Five Spirit Pearls and transformed the Thirty-Six Heavens, prompting Li Fan to begin advancing the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into an Innate Supreme Treasure.

• The four Innate Banana leaves matured, and the Four Symbols Great Dao Diagram appeared above Buzhou Mountain, drawing the attention of Lingbao Tianzun and the other experts.
• Li Fan gave the earth, wind, fire, and water leaves to Houtu, Xuanming, Xuan Nü, and Su Nü, respectively.
• Li Fan saved the withering Banana Tree with Three Lights Divine Water and moved it into the Thirty-Six Heavens, where it took root and began sprouting again.
• Li Fan dug beneath the Banana Tree and unearthed four origin pearls that combined into the Four Symbols Pearl.
• The Four Symbols Pearl resonated with the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and the Five Spirit Pearls, transforming the Thirty-Six Heavens and perfecting the Hongmeng Purple Qi within the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Li Fan declared that the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls should advance into an Innate Supreme Treasure.

Li Fan advanced the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into an Innate Supreme Treasure by guiding them through the River of Fate and creating a world within each pearl. After the pearls completed their transformation and merged into his primordial spirit, Li Fan surveyed the Primordial World.

• Li Fan summoned the River of Fate and used his Supreme Heavenly Emperor Incarnation to shield the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls as they ascended against its current.
• Yuanshi urged Taishang to accept Saint Hongjun's offer to join the Profound Sect in exchange for treasures, and Taishang agreed to treat it as a transaction.
• Lingbao Tianzun broke an Innate Formation on Buzhou Mountain and claimed the Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Fishing Drum.
• Li Fan used the Five Elements Pearl, Four Symbols Pearl, and Hongmeng Purple Qi to create a miniature Prototype Chaos and open a Source-grade Great Thousand World within each of the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• The Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls emerged from the River of Fate as completed Innate Supreme Treasures, and Li Fan merged them into his primordial spirit.

Nuwa, Xihua, Xihe, Nüyi, and Baili used the Qiankun Cauldron to forge five Innate Divine Swords inside the Five Elements gourds and successfully created the Innate Five Elements Gourd Sword Formation. Its appearance awed cultivators across the Primordial World, while Ancestor Dragon lamented the formation’s connection to the Five Directional Banners.

• The five goddesses’ first attempts to forge compatible swords for the Five Elements gourds failed, ruining sword embryos and exhausting Taiyuan’s Creation Cauldron.
• Taiyuan lent Nuwa and the others the Qiankun Cauldron and offered to activate its Qiankun Fire so the swords and gourds could be refined together.
• Nuwa, Xihua, Xihe, Nüyi, and Baili forged five Innate Divine Sword embryos and tempered them inside their corresponding gourds.
• The five goddesses formed the Innate Five Elements Gourd Sword Formation, which spread across hundreds of millions of miles above Grand Unity Heaven.
• Ancestor Dragon sensed the formation from the East Sea, looked at the Xuan Yuan Water Control Banner, and lamented what he saw as a missed opportunity.

As Grand Unity Golden Immortals fought over Innate Spiritual Treasures to sever their corpses, Calamity Energy gathered and the Primordial World began to react. The Four Spirits asked Li Fan for help guarding the four directions, and he gave them Four Symbols Origin to establish a world that would lessen the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions.

• Di Jun, Taiyi, Taishang, Zhunti, Jieyin, and other powerful figures pursued different methods of severing corpses, while Zhen Yuanzi used the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Innate Spiritual Treasures cried out as their spirituality was worn away, and Calamity Energy gathered as the Primordial World responded.
• Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise asked Li Fan to help them guard the four directions without losing their freedom of will.
• Li Fan gave each of the Four Spirits a strand of Four Symbols Origin so they could open the Four Symbols Great Thousand World and avoid some Heavenly Dao restrictions.
• After the Four Spirits departed, Li Fan said their establishment could weaken the Karmic Shackles on Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng, while Wangshu criticized East King Duke’s actions.

Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise opened four Great Thousand Worlds and swore to guard the Primordial World, completing the Four Extremes Sacred Beast Grand Formation. Li Fan received the greatest share of merit and issued edicts naming the four beasts divine lords as the Four Symbols Origin was fused into heaven and earth.

• Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise gained support from Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng and spent ten thousand years preparing to open worlds at the four poles.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, Tiger Ancestor, and Black Turtle helped the four beasts open Great Thousand Worlds, alarming Grand Unity Experts across the Primordial World.
• Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise swore to guard the four directions, offered up portions of their origins, and completed the Four Extremes Sacred Beast Grand Formation.
• Heavenly Dao and Humanity Dao bestowed merit, and the largest share went to Li Fan, who sent the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to gather it.
• Nuwa urged Li Fan to issue edicts, and he created four divine seals with the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl and his Heavenly Emperor authority.
• Azure Dragon became Divine Lord Mengzhang, Vermillion Bird became Divine Lord Lingguang, White Tiger became Jianbing Divine Lord, and Black Tortoise became Divine Lord Zhiming as they received their seals and proclaimed their authority over the four regions.

As tensions between the Immortal Court and the Demon Clan escalated, Li Fan authorized Huang Tian to respond to Taiyi’s actions in the Southern Heavenly Realm. After a hundred thousand years of seclusion, Empress Ziguang challenged the Hunyuan Grand Unity tribulation and passed its physical trial, as the River of Fate appeared overhead.

• The Four Spirit Divine Lords’ alliance with the Heavenly Realm increased pressure on Di Jun, Taiyi, and East King Duke, while the Immortal Court and Demon Clan began probing each other’s borders.
• Huang Tian told Li Fan that Taiyi was spreading demon ideology in the Southern Yan Tian Domain, and Li Fan permitted him to act without going too far.
• After a hundred thousand years of cultivation, Empress Ziguang emerged from seclusion and summoned the Hunyuan Grand Unity tribulation above Grand Unity Heaven.
• Empress Ziguang endured nine Violet Firmament Divine Thunders and passed her Hunyuan physical body tribulation, reaching the Perfection of Hunyuan Golden Immortal.
• The River of Fate appeared across the firmament as the decisive moment of Empress Ziguang’s tribulation arrived.

Empress Ziguang transcended the River of Fate and attained Hunyuan, becoming Doumu Yuanjun and bringing a new Hunyuan expert to the Primordial World. Afterward, she discussed the dangers of her breakthrough and learned how Goddess Taiyuan’s Heavenly Book had become an Innate Supreme Treasure.

• Empress Ziguang used three Innate Spiritual Treasures and her Dao Fruit to transcend the River of Fate, attaining Hunyuan as Doumu Yuanjun.
• The Ziwei Emperor Star and the stars across the heavens shone in response, while beings throughout the Prehistoric Universe congratulated Doumu Yuanjun.
• Randeng lamented that he had missed both sermons on the Hun Yuan Great Dao, while the awakened goddesses and others congratulated Ziguang at the Grand Unity Palace.
• Ziguang told Li Fan and Wangshu that she had nearly lost herself in the River of Fate without an Innate Supreme Treasure, and Taiyuan revealed that her Heavenly Book had become one.
• Ziguang learned how the Heavenly Book had advanced, then discussed the Dao with the goddesses; Nuwa, Changxi, and the others gained an initial grasp of Star Law and entered seclusion.

Taiyi went to the Yantian Realm to demand the Demon Clan hostages from Huang Tian, while the Demon Clan faced attacks on its northern border. Taiyi severed the Chaos Bell into his Evil Corpse, renaming the treasure the Eastern Emperor Bell as black snow descended across the Primordial World.

• Di Jun, Taiyi, Fuxi, and Bai Ze discussed the detained demons, and Fuxi advised reconciling with Great Emperor Longevity of the South Pole.
• Taiyi rejected compromise and flew alone to the Yantian Realm; Fuxi went to Grand Unity Palace to consult Nuwa.
• Minghe hoped the conflict would draw Great Emperor Longevity into a fight with Leize, while East King Duke ordered Chi Chen, Zhu Yan, Qing Yuan, and others to invade the northern lands.
• Taiyi demanded the hostages from Huang Tian, who claimed the captured demons had become food for the Taiping Divine Kingdom.
• Taiyi severed his Evil Corpse and imprinted his Dao on the Chaos Bell, splitting his origin and Dao Fruit in the process.
• Black snow fell across the Primordial World, and the Chaos Bell was renamed the Eastern Emperor Bell.