Chapter Summaries

Fuxi persuaded Di Jun to accept a Heavenly Marriage, and Nuwa used the Red Embroidered Ball and Marriage Book to bind him to Shang Yang and Qin Yuan. With the two Demon Sages agreeing, the Demon Clan began preparing the ceremony and inviting guests.

• Bai Ze agreed to find Empress candidates while Fuxi went to sound out Di Jun and Taiyi about Heavenly Marriage.
• Fuxi persuaded Di Jun to accept the marriage for the Demon Clan's sake, then left to inform Nuwa.
• Nuwa activated the Red Embroidered Ball, and the Heavenly Dao sent down the Marriage Book as red threads bound Di Jun to Shang Yang and Qin Yuan.
• Bai Ze persuaded Shang Yang and Qin Yuan to accept their roles as Di Jun's Empresses after Nuwa's marriage thread eased their concerns.
• Fuxi oversaw the wedding preparations, while the Demon Sages and Demon Immortals began inviting powerful beings and Grand Unity Golden Immortals.

Bai Ze invited the Heavenly Emperor and other great powers to Di Jun’s Heavenly Marriage with Shang Yang and Qin Yuan, and the ceremony was held in the Xuantian Realm. Nuwa witnessed the marriage, which earned merit for her, the newlyweds, and the assembled guests; Shang Yang and Qin Yuan advanced into the Quasi-Saint realm.

• Bai Ze delivered invitations for Di Jun, Shang Yang, and Qin Yuan’s wedding and asked the Heavenly Emperor to pass invitations to several goddesses.
• Li Fan summoned Houtu, Changxi, and Baili, and Qiongxiao and Bixiao opened Nuwa’s invitation after she offered it to them.
• After one hundred thousand years passed, Li Fan and his companions traveled to the Xuantian Realm, where the Three Pure Ones, the Five Divine Beasts, Zhunti, Jieyin, and other powers gathered for the wedding.
• Di Jun arrived with Shang Yang and Qin Yuan, and Nuwa took her place as the marriage witness while the assembled guests welcomed them.
• Di Jun, Shang Yang, and Qin Yuan established the Heavenly Marriage before the Heavenly Dao, and Nuwa received thirty percent of the merit as the Red Embroidered Ball gained two Innate Restrictions.
• Di Jun severed another corpse with the Luo Shu, Shang Yang and Qin Yuan advanced into the Quasi-Saint realm, and the guests received shares of merit.

At Di Jun’s wedding feast, Taiyi learned that his damaged Hongmeng Purple Qi might not prevent sainthood, but that his path depended on compatibility with the Heavenly Dao and his ideals. Li Fan left as Di Jun, Shang Yang, and Qin Yuan went to the bridal chamber, while he worried about the coming transition to the Houtian Era.

• Ancestor Dragon probed Yuanfeng about attaining Hunyuan Grand Unity, but Yuanfeng kept her plans uncertain because of her Lingbao and the Phoenix Clan’s karmic burden.
• Lingbao described his Saintly Dao to the guests, while Taiyi examined the damaged Hongmeng Purple Qi in his primordial spirit and worried about his chances of becoming a Saint.
• Fuxi arranged for Bai Ze to lead the guests to a side hall, then Taiyi asked Nuwa whether damaged Hongmeng Purple Qi could still allow someone to become a Saint.
• Nuwa and Goddess Taiyuan explained that the Heavenly Dao Saint Fruit Position mattered more than the Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Goddess Wangshu told Taiyi that his ideals were bound to the Demon Clan.
• Di Jun considered whether to pursue the Demon Clan’s Imperial Dao or the Way of the Sun as Li Fan reflected on the Primordial World’s future transition to the Houtian Era.
• Li Fan’s group departed, and Di Jun, Shang Yang, and Qin Yuan headed to the bridal chamber.

Houtu transformed herself into Reincarnation and opened the Nine Paths, with the Earthly Dao helping her attain Hunyuan and establish an immense reincarnation system. The Great Dao and the three Daos bestowed vast merit, advancing Houtu and several others while Li Fan crossed the threshold of mastering the Chaos Law.

• Li Fan watched Houtu prepare to transform herself into Reincarnation, while the Earthly Dao planned to use the moment to help her attain the Dao.
• Houtu merged with the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, transformed away her Turbid Qi and essence blood, and formed a Primordial Dao Fruit with the Earthly Dao's help.
• Houtu used the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to manifest Reincarnation Imprints and opened the Supreme Hongmeng Dao, followed by the Heavenly Human Dao, Humanity Dao, and the remaining paths of Reincarnation.
• The Great Dao and the Heavenly, Earthly, and Humanity Daos acknowledged the Nine Paths and sent down vast merit, which Houtu, Li Fan, Wangshu, Taiyuan, Ziguang, and Nuwa received.
• Houtu's authority over Reincarnation grew beyond that of ordinary Hunyuan, while Li Fan's World Origin Dao Fruit crossed the threshold of mastering the Chaos Law.

Li Fan and Houtu received supreme Great Emperor positions and the Human Book, then established laws governing life, death, and the Underworld. As other experts rushed toward the emerging Underworld, Houtu entered the River of Fate to certify her Primordial Grand Unity Dao Fruit.

• Li Fan asked the Great Dao to grant Houtu a supreme Great Emperor position, and the Earthly Dao recast the Position of Great Emperor Fengdu around Li Fan’s Mount Tai position.
• The Great Dao named Li Fan the Fengdu Great Emperor and Houtu the Imperial Earth Deity, completing the Six Imperial Ministers of the Primordial World.
• Li Fan and Houtu summoned the Human Book: Houtu received the Book of Life and Death, while Li Fan received the Judge’s Brush.
• Li Fan declared that beings below Golden Immortal would have fixed life and death and that the Underworld would enforce the laws of earth, while Houtu established orderly reincarnation and retribution.
• Ancestor Dragon, the First Qilin, Huang Tian, and other experts hurried toward the emerging Underworld as the Great Dao and the other origins withdrew.
• Houtu stepped into the River of Fate to begin certifying her Primordial Grand Unity Dao Fruit.

Houtu crossed the River of Fate, attained the Dao, and became an Earthly Dao Saint, then returned to Pangu Hall and urged the Witch Clan to maintain the status quo with the Demon Clan. The chapter ended with the Witches congratulating her while questions about the clan’s future remained unresolved.

• Houtu crossed the River of Fate, guided broken True Spirits into reincarnation, and merged her Hunyuan Dao Fruit with the Earthly Dao Saint Fruit.
• Houtu proclaimed that she had become a Saint and invited all those fated to hear her expound the Dao of Reincarnation three Eons later.
• Li Fan and his companions discussed the Underworld’s future and went to Mount Tai to enter the Nine Netherworlds and help Houtu establish reincarnation’s order.
• Houtu met the Ancestral Witches at Pangu Hall and told them to maintain the status quo rather than attack the Demon Clan.
• Hou Yi, Kuafu, Xing Tian, Jiu Feng, and other Witches arrived to congratulate Houtu, easing the tension among the clan.

Li Fan and his allies completed the three thousand Reincarnation Great Thousand Worlds and began heading toward the Underworld World. In Pangu Hall, Houtu knocked out and bound the Ancestral Witches who opposed her, then had them carried toward the Blood Sea.

• Li Fan and the goddesses used their treasures and laws to form and stabilize three thousand Reincarnation Great Thousand Worlds, while other experts contributed their powers.
• After ten million years, the worlds became a complete, self-sustaining cluster, and the Earth Dao granted fortune to Li Fan and the other All Grand Unity Experts.
• Houtu asked Xuanming whether she would go to the Underworld, and Xuanming advised her to use force against the Ancestral Witches.
• Houtu knocked out Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches as they entered Pangu Hall, while Xuanming bound them and recorded the scene.
• Kuafu and Hou Yi carried the unconscious Ancestral Witches toward the Blood Sea, and witnesses spread the news throughout the Prehistoric Universe.

Li Fan and Houtu opened the Underworld, establishing its place between the Netherworld and the Nine Netherworlds and beginning the Netherworld’s order. The group entered the Hall of Embracing Nether, where the awakened Ancestral Witches awkwardly rejoined Houtu.

• Li Fan announced his intention to complete the Five Ghost Emperors’ positions and told the assembled experts that divine authority would be allocated after the Underworld emerged.
• As Houtu approached, the Underworld barrier began to crack and reveal the vast city within; Li Fan and Houtu combined their powers to stabilize it and open gateways on both sides.
• Li Fan declared that the Underworld had emerged and that the order of the Netherworld began, then entered with Houtu and the other experts.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches woke, learned from Hou Yi that they were in the Netherworld Underworld, and followed the group into the Hall of Embracing Nether.
• Houtu greeted her elder brothers as they entered the hall, leaving Dijiang and the others awkwardly nodding before everyone took their seats.

Li Fan and Houtu divided the Underworld’s divine offices, assigning several positions while leaving the Six Case Officials vacant and appointing the Demon Clan to guide souls during Reincarnation’s trial operation. Li Fan announced that the offices would be formally conferred in a thousand years at the Six Heavens of Luofeng.

• Li Fan and Houtu divided the Underworld’s authority, with Houtu overseeing Reincarnation and Li Fan governing the Underworld Department.
• Candle Dragon, Xihe, and Huang Ancestor accepted the Northern, Central, and Western Ghost Emperor positions, while the Six Case Official positions remained vacant.
• Houtu appointed the Demon Clan’s Ten Great Demon Sages as Ten Great Yin Commanders after deciding the Witch Clan could not properly guide souls.
• Li Fan appointed Yu Xiang and Cangwu as Four Great Judges and warned that no one, including future Saints, could interfere with Reincarnation.
• Li Fan gave Fuxi’s Demon Clan a thousand years to conduct a trial operation guiding souls safely to the Underworld, then named the Six Heavens of Luofeng as the site of the formal conferral.

Li Fan and the goddesses made a foul-tasting soup to erase memories of past lives, and Fuxi helped establish it as part of the reincarnation process. Reincarnation became more efficient across the three thousand worlds, while the soup gained the name Meng Po's Soup.

• Li Fan created a Spirit Vat, and the goddesses added yin water, Manjusaka flowers, a spirit chicken, and other ingredients before Baili brewed the soup for a hundred years.
• Fuxi and Bai Ze organized soul-capturing clans and uniformed Demon Clan escorts, establishing the Black and White Impermanence as reincarnation began running smoothly.
• Nuwa made Fuxi drink the soup, and he forced down a bowl while pretending it tasted good.
• Fuxi promoted reincarnation and distributed the soup to living beings, who were sent into the three thousand Reincarnation Worlds through the Nine Paths of Reincarnation.
• The goddesses named the terrible soup Meng Po's Soup, and Candle Dragon, Phoenix Ancestor, Jade Auspicious Qilin Lord, Dijiang, Bai Ze, and others further improved the reincarnation system.

Li Fan and Houtu began enfeoffing the gods of the Netherworld after explaining the danger posed by the Primordial World's water imbalance and the Heavenly River. The Earthly Dao recognized the new officials, and the ceremony established the Netherworld's governing order.

• Li Fan explained that the Heavenly River's swelling waters threatened the Primordial World and warned that a future imbalance of the fire element could unleash Hun Yuan Fire.
• Li Fan brought his party to the Six Heavens of Luofeng, where he assigned Baili and Changxi to build an Earthly Dao altar with materials he provided.
• After a thousand years, Li Fan and Houtu led the enfeoffment ceremony as Candle Dragon, Dijiang, Phoenix Ancestor, and other candidates gathered on the altar.
• The Earthly Dao enfeoffed Xihe, Candle Dragon, and Phoenix Ancestor as the Five Ghost Emperors took their places.
• Houtu enfeoffed Dijiang and others as the Ten Palace Yama Kings and Bai Ze and others as the Ten Great Yin Commanders.
• Li Fan enfeoffed Qilin Lord Yu Xiang as Law Judge and Immortal Venerable Cangwu as Investigating Judge, then granted them Judge's Brush phantoms as the ceremony ended.

Houtu expounded the Earthly Dao to gathered gods and immortals, then revealed the Earth Dao Saint Positions and granted Hongmeng Purple Qi to Changxi, Baili, and Minghe. After the exposition, she set out with them for Taisha Heavenly Palace to find the Heavenly Emperor.

• After two eras of work, the Underworld stabilized, and gods and immortals gathered at the Hall of Embracing Nether for Houtu's exposition.
• Minghe seized the last Purple-Gold Cushion, angering the other Grand Unity Experts, before Houtu appeared and began expounding the Earthly Dao.
• As Houtu spoke, Changxi, Baili, Minghe, and the other listeners absorbed the Earthly Dao and gained new insights into their own paths.
• After thirty thousand years, Houtu declared that the Earthly Dao had six Saint Positions, with Luohu holding the fifth and the sixth awaiting the Immeasurable Kalpa.
• Houtu named Changxi, Baili, and Minghe as fated with the Earthly Dao and gave each of them Hongmeng Purple Qi, while one Saint's Fruit Position remained for a future candidate.
• Houtu dismissed the gathering, then left with Changxi, Baili, and the others for Taisha Heavenly Palace to find the Heavenly Emperor.

Li Fan ordered the creation of an eighteen-level Lingbao to punish souls burdened with grave karmic debts. After the goddesses forged it, he sent most of it into the Return to Ruins as a safeguard, leaving seventeen levels in the Underworld.

• Houtu asked Li Fan how to punish Living Souls with exceptionally grave karmic debts, and he proposed keeping them in an Eighteen Layers of Hell Lingbao instead of reincarnating them.
• Li Fan assigned Taiyuan to oversee the forging and summoned Nuwa, while Ziguang, Houtu, and the other goddesses joined the work.
• Houtu shaped the spiral framework with the power of the Earthly Dao, and Nuwa embedded the principles of Humanity Dao so sinful souls would remember their deeds and victims.
• Ziguang, Changxi, and Xihe added imprisonment, punitive malice, and netherfire, while Taiyuan tempered the structure in the Qiankun Cauldron and Wangshu linked its dimensions with moonlight.
• Li Fan completed the Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with a final point that gave it the power to judge evil karma.
• Li Fan sent the Lingbao into the Return to Ruins beneath the Underworld as a safeguard, leaving seventeen layers exposed in the Underworld.

Taishang visited Grand Unity Palace to ask Nuwa to allow the Three Pure Ones to spread their teachings among the human race. Nuwa agreed, while Li Fan warned Taishang that the Three Pure Ones could no longer contain their internal conflict, and Nuwa resolved to act before the Witch and Demon Clans threatened the human race.

• After the Eighteen Layers of Hell had operated for a century, Dijiang and the other Yama Kings continued arresting sinners, while Houtu entered seclusion and Xihe oversaw the Underworld.
• Taishang and Yuanshi discussed supporting the human race, and Taishang decided to seek Nuwa's permission to preach among them.
• At Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan and Nuwa discussed the Three Pure Ones' teachings and the human race's development as Taishang arrived.
• Taishang asked Nuwa to let the Three Pure Ones spread their teachings among the human race, and Li Fan warned him that Yuanshi and Lingbao's conflict could no longer be suppressed.
• After Taishang left, Nuwa considered the benefits of allowing the Three Pure Ones to preach, and Goddess Taiyuan warned that Buzhou Mountain's origin was weakening.
• Nuwa resolved to strike first as conflict between the human race and the Witch and Demon Clans became unavoidable.

Taishang established Human Teaching and became the second Heavenly Saint, while Nuwa rallied the Dragon and Phoenix Clans and declared the Human Race’s attack on Heaven. The chapter ended with Nuwa proclaiming herself Human Emperor and directing the Human Race toward Northern Xuan Tian Domain.

• Taishang taught the Human Race, recognized a child who understood his teachings, and began devising a cultivation method for Acquired Humans.
• Nuwa inherited the legacy of Human Emperor Jiutou Clan, awakened the Hongmeng Sacred Sword, and decided the War of Felling Heaven would begin with her.
• Nuwa secured the support of Yuanfeng and Ancestor Dragon, prompting the Dragon and Phoenix Clans to pressure the Demon Clan’s territories.
• Bai Ze alerted Taiyi and Di Jun to the crisis, while Fuxi struggled to explain that the Human Race was behind the upheaval.
• Taishang proclaimed Human Teaching, passed down the Golden Core Great Dao, and attained the Saint Fruit Position.
• Nuwa declared herself Human Emperor and announced that the Human Race would attack Heaven in Northern Xuan Tian Domain.

Nuwa rallied the human race, gods, and immortals to march on the Northern Heavenly Domain, while the Demon Clan prepared to resist. After Taishang finished preaching and named Xuandu his chief disciple, Nuwa declared the War of Felling Heaven begun at Buzhou Mountain.

• Nuwa ordered the human race to gather a hundred thousand Golden Immortals and march on Buzhou Mountain to strike the Northern Xuan Tian Domain.
• Xuxu Clan recruited the Five-Colored Human Race, ancient priests, and other powerful allies to support Nuwa, while Dragon Lady Yun Hua took command of the gathered forces.
• Xihua issued a decree calling the Immortal Dao to aid Nuwa, and Lingxiao, Qingming, Chi Chen, and others mobilized their followers against the Demon Clan.
• Taiyi and Di Jun rejected activating the Ten Thousand Immortals Array and resolved to fight Nuwa using the Northern Xuan Tian Domain, while Fuxi followed them in confusion.
• After five hundred years of preaching, Taishang named Xuandu the chief disciple of the Human Sect, and Nuwa reached Buzhou Mountain with her gathered forces and declared the war begun.

Nuwa secured the Demon Clan’s surrender without battle, while Fuxi negotiated to preserve its soldiers and Taiyi agreed to yield the Gouchen position in one hundred thousand years. The leaders recognized that a greater struggle over the Prehistoric Universe’s new order still lay ahead.

• The Demon Clan’s heavenly soldiers surrendered, and Bai Ze proposed sending Fuxi to negotiate peace with Nuwa.
• Li Fan and the goddesses warned that the rising Ghost Path and the appearance of monsters could bring the next era’s calamity.
• Nuwa told Fuxi that the Demon Clan could retreat this time, but warned that it would have no way out in the next conflict.
• Fuxi returned to Gouchen Heavenly Palace and relayed Nuwa’s words, prompting Taiyi and Di Jun to recognize that the struggle over the new order extended beyond the battlefield.
• Nuwa arrived at Gouchen Heavenly Palace, where Taiyi agreed to hand her the Gouchen position in one hundred thousand years and place the Demon Clan’s heavenly soldiers under her protection.

After a hundred thousand years of preparations, Taiyi passed the Position of Emperor Gouchen to Nuwa at a grand ceremony in Supreme Grand Unity Heaven. Nuwa was crowned Heaven, Earth, and Human Emperor, while Taiyi and Li Fan reflected on the change and Ancestor Dragon stayed behind with something to tell the Heavenly Emperor.

• Li Fan and Nuwa bantered in Grand Unity Palace before leaving Nüyi to arrange the succession ceremony and Imperial Conferment Platform.
• A hundred thousand years later, Taiyi climbed the Imperial Conferment Platform and passed the Emperor Gouchen Seal to Nuwa.
• Nuwa accepted the seal, declared herself the Heaven, Earth, and Human Emperor, and was crowned by the Human Dao and the Heavenly Emperor.
• Humanity celebrated Nuwa’s ascension as golden Humanity Dao Fortune spread across the Primordial World, while Taiyi silently reflected on his failed path as emperor.
• Xuxu Clan vanished into the crowd, and Li Fan remembered his promise to Human Emperor Jiutou Clan.
• The Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Yuanfeng, and other great powers departed after greeting Nuwa and Li Fan, while Ancestor Dragon remained behind, looking grave.

Li Fan learned that mutated Sinister Mist from the Return to Ruins was seeping into the Primordial World and could awaken countless buried corpses as monsters. He rallied the Grand Unity Experts and ordered the world to dig up and burn corpses, while warning that greater chaos was still to come.

• Nuwa assigned the Human Golden Immortals territory in the Xuantian Realm and raised the Eternal World Mountain as a barrier between realms.
• Ancestor Dragon warned Li Fan that Sinister Mist had mutated and was spreading into the Primordial World, prompting Li Fan to identify the threat as ghosts and monsters.
• Li Fan, Empress Ziguang, and Goddess Wangshu shifted the Three Great Supreme Stars to extend daylight and suppress mutations beneath the earth.
• Li Fan summoned the Grand Unity Experts, warned that buried corpses might revive, and ordered them to burn the corpses before they could awaken.
• Yuanshi asked Lingbao to devise a way to deal with the corpses, Ancestor Dragon returned to protect the Dragon Tomb, and Li Fan ordered the Heavenly Realm to dig and burn.
• As Taiyang Star stayed high for three days, living beings across the Primordial World began excavating and burning corpses, while Li Fan anticipated further calamities.

As the Corpse Calamity’s ferocious corpses converged on the Blood Sea, Minghe and the Asura Clan fought to defend it, only to face an overwhelming horde of Witch Clan corpses. The Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus arrived to suppress and purify the horde, and Minghe withdrew to defend the gates of the Underworld as the leading ancient corpse entered the Blood Sea.

• Lingbao gave his ghost-ferrying scripture to Yuanshi and Taishang, who objected to its methods, while copies of the scripture and a corpse-refinement technique spread among cultivators.
• Li Fan observed that hordes of ferocious corpses were marching toward the Blood Sea and said Minghe would have to hold its gates.
• Minghe led hundreds of millions of Asura warriors into battle against the corpse tide, where an ancient Witch Clan corpse killed an Asura war general.
• Li Fan sent the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus to the Blood Sea and blamed Dijiang for failing to clear away the Witch Clan’s corpses.
• Xuanming left Pangu Hall in anger, while Dijiang and the Witch Clan reacted to the disaster at the Blood Sea.
• The Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus suppressed the corpses and purified the Blood Sea, but a pitch-black ancient Witch Clan corpse reached its depths, and Minghe retreated to defend the Underworld’s gates.