Recaps

Li Fan and his companions reached the Blood Sea, where an ancient Witch Clan corpse transformed into the Zombie Progenitor, Jiang Chen. Li Fan subdued Jiang Chen and assigned him to command the corpse fiends within a boundary, bringing the Corpse Calamity to an end.

• Li Fan used the World Purification divine light to clear a path through the corpse fiends and reveal the ancient Witch Clan corpse beneath the Blood Sea.
• Jiang Chen emerged as the Zombie Progenitor and tried to seize the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus, but Li Fan severed his arms and head.
• Goddess Taiyuan kicked Jiang Chen’s head toward Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches, while Wangshu taunted them about facing him.
• Li Fan ordered Jiang Chen to command the corpse fiends within a marked territory, and Jiang Chen’s aura calmed and organized the horde.
• Li Fan declared the Corpse Calamity quelled and warned the Prehistoric Universe against exploiting the crisis to cause chaos.

Yuanshi and Lingbao established the Chan and Interception sects and became Saints, followed by Jieyin and Zhunti, who borrowed merit through great vows to establish the Western Teachings and attain sainthood. The arrival of four Saints in one day ushered in the era of Saints, while the Heavenly Emperor anticipated a future struggle over the Investiture of the Gods.

• Yuanshi founded the Chan Teachings and became a Saint as Primordial Lord of Heaven.
• Lingbao founded the Interception Sect and became a Saint as Sect Leader Tongtian.
• Li Fan predicted that Jieyin and Zhunti would become Saints that day, and Nüyi realized they could borrow merit through the Heavenly Realm bank.
• Jieyin and Zhunti established the Western Teachings, made great vows, and attained sainthood with the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit and Zhunti's completed Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.
• The great powers reacted with shock as four Saints took their positions in one day, marking the beginning of the era of Saints.

The Ancestral Witches struggled to find a path to Dao attainment as the Six Saints gathered in Purple Heaven Palace. Li Fan restored rain to the Primordial World and explained that bodily Dao attainment was possible but perilous, leaving the Witches’ hopes dependent on seeking the Great Dao beyond the Primordial World.

• Gonggong, Dijiang, and the other Ancestral Witches argued over how to respond to the Saints, but Zhu Jiuyin rejected Tianwu’s suggestion to target the Heavenly River.
• Qiangliang reminded the Witches that Dao attainment mattered more than clan conflict, and Rushou and Zhu Jiuyin admitted they saw no clear path beyond gradually pursuing law cultivation.
• Li Fan used his Great Sun Authority with Empress Ziguang and Goddess Wangshu to shift the stars and summon rain over the drought-stricken Primordial World.
• Li Fan warned that the drought was a minor tribulation before a future Ghost Dao calamity, while Xihua asked whether bodily cultivation could lead to Dao attainment.
• Li Fan explained that bodily Dao attainment required immense strength, mastery of laws, and the risk of severe tribulations, and said the Ancestral Witches would need to seek the Great Dao in the Outer Chaos.

The Three Pure Ones opened Kunlun Mountain to recruit disciples, with Yuanshi imposing three trials and Tongtian accepting anyone who passed one. Yuanshi named Randeng Vice Leader and appointed the Twelve Golden Immortals, while Duobao led about a thousand new outer disciples into the Interception Sect.

• Immortal Official of the South Pole announced Yuanshi’s three trials, while Duobao said candidates for Tongtian needed to pass only one.
• Guang Chengzi passed the formation and was admitted to the Chan Teachings, and Duobao selected other candidates who passed a trial for the Interception Sect.
• Li Fan and the goddesses discussed the Three Pure Ones’ recruitment and the risks of accepting disciples who had attended Purple Heaven Palace.
• Randeng asked to join Yuanshi’s tradition and was appointed Vice Leader of the Chan Teachings.
• Yuanshi named Guang Chengzi the Senior Disciple Brother and designated twelve disciples as the Twelve Golden Immortals.
• Duobao led roughly a thousand outer disciples into the Interception Sect, and Tongtian affirmed his broad approach to accepting disciples.

As conflict between the Human Race and Demon Clan worsened, Nuwa traveled among humans and accepted Chang'e as her disciple. Back at Grand Unity Palace, the goddesses welcomed Chang'e and received several spiritual treasures from Nuwa and Wangshu, while Li Fan considered how Nuwa’s disciples compared with other sects.

• Human and Demon cultivators began cooperating in regular harvests, while internal struggles grew among the Human Race and Suiren Shi waited at the Holy Mother Temple for guidance.
• Nuwa found Chang'e playing in a stream, revealed herself, and took Chang'e as her disciple before bringing her to Grand Unity Palace.
• The Jade Rabbit immediately warmed to Chang'e, and Wangshu welcomed the new disciple by giving Chang'e the Creation Glazed Pagoda and Yunxiao the Hunyuan Golden Dipper.
• Nuwa gave Qiongxiao the Heaven Earth Man Three Dazzling Rings, then worked with Taiyuan to refine the bodies of two Innate Flood Dragons into the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors for Bixiao.
• Li Fan watched the treasure gifts and reflected on Nuwa’s disciples’ prospects compared with the Chan Teachings and Interception Sect.

Li Fan and Nuwa ordered Suiren Shi and Bai Ze to identify two hundred million human and Demon Clan Evil Cultivators, then unleashed a purge that forged their remains into a Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword. After Tongtian blocked the attack to protect his disciples, Li Fan flew toward Kunlun Mountain with Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Ziguang following.

• Li Fan proposed that Nuwa forge a Human Dao Heroic Spirit Sword from Evil Cultivators and Demon Immortals, and ordered Suiren Shi and Bai Ze to compile lists of targets.
• Nuwa summoned Suiren Shi and Bai Ze to Grand Unity Palace, where Li Fan demanded lists of one hundred million Golden Immortals or higher from each, to be completed within three days.
• Suiren Shi and Bai Ze completed their lists, while Li Fan and Nuwa secretly tracked every named target across the Prehistoric Universe.
• Li Fan and Nuwa struck the listed Evil Cultivators with giant Creation Palms, refining their bodies and souls into blood-patterned immortal swords that began merging in the sky.
• Nuwa connected the swords with Creation Power to forge the Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword, while Tongtian blocked the palms to save several hundred outer disciples.
• Li Fan saw Tongtian's intervention and flew toward Kunlun Mountain with Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Ziguang following.

Li Fan and his allies confronted Tongtian at Kunlun Mountain over the Interception Sect disciples named as Evil Cultivators, and the dispute escalated into a battle against the Three Pure Ones. Heavenly Dao Hongjun intervened, but Wangshu froze its power while Ziguang dealt with Tongtian’s outer-sect disciples, leaving the confrontation at a stalemate.

• Li Fan demanded that Tongtian surrender the Interception Sect disciples on the Evil Cultivator list, but Tongtian refused and Yuanshi offered to hand over only half.
• Taiyuan activated the Divine Prohibition Grand Formation around Kunlun Mountain, and Tongtian attacked her with the Intercepting Heaven Sword; her spear strike shattered its tip and injured his Saint Body Dao Principles.
• Li Fan attacked Tongtian with the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, prompting Taishang and Yuanshi to protect him as the Three Pure Ones clashed with the Heavenly Emperor and shattered the formation.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun descended, but Wangshu used the Taiyin Jade Forbidden Pearl to freeze the void and temporarily restrain Heavenly Dao’s will.
• Ziguang refined Tongtian’s outer-sect disciples into immortal swords and sent them to Nuwa for the Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword, while the opposing sides reached a stalemate.

Li Fan and his allies secured Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s agreement that the Saint Daoist traditions must abide by the laws of heaven and earth, forcing Tongtian to end the confrontation. They completed the Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword, named it the Heavenly Emperor Human Emperor Sword, and returned to the Grand Unity Palace, where Bai Ze recognized something startling about it.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun declared that the Saint Daoist traditions would abide by the rules, and Li Fan and Wangshu warned Tongtian to stop interfering.
• Tongtian withdrew to the Interception Sect, ending the confrontation as Heavenly Dao Hongjun and Three Corpses Hongjun vanished.
• Nuwa added Creation Qi to the Human Emperor Heroic Spirit Sword, and Li Fan and Nuwa infused it with Heavenly Emperor Qi and Human Emperor Qi to complete it.
• Li Fan named the finished weapon the Heavenly Emperor Human Emperor Sword, and Nuwa explained that Fuxi was its intended owner and that it contained the souls of evil cultivators.
• Li Fan and the others returned to the Grand Unity Palace, where Bai Ze sensed the sword’s Blood Fiend Qi and Humanity Dao power and wondered what it was.

The Ancestral Witches debated whether to separate the growing Witch-Human population, but Xuanming warned that Nuwa and the Heavenly Saints had already shaped the human race’s future. Li Fan examined the Martial Path as Nuwa began deducing the Martial Immortal Path, a human cultivation route joining martial and immortal practice.

• The Ten Golden Crows were born, while humans and Witches mingled along their border and formed the expanding Witch-Human Race.
• Dijiang called a council to discuss whether the Witch Clan should stop the fusion, and Zhurong and Gonggong demanded separation.
• Xuanming argued that the Witch Clan should let its people choose and warned that Nuwa had prepared the human race’s path while the Heavenly Saints had seen through the Witches’ plans.
• Li Fan assessed the Martial Path’s heavy resource demands and concluded that it was unlikely to become a practical route for most humans.
• Nuwa devised a method of cultivating immortality through vital energy and blood, then gradually deduced the Martial Immortal Path as a fusion of martial and immortal cultivation.

As the Human Race seized half of the eastern lands and the Witch Clan debated how to respond, Houtu completed her merger with the Earthly Dao while preserving her True Self. She emerged as a free Earth Dao Spokesperson, equal in standing to Hongjun, and exchanged a knowing look with the Heavenly Emperor.

• Nuwa sent word to the Three Ancestors of the Human Race, whose army drove the Demon Clan from its eastern territories and expanded Human Race lands to half the eastern landmass.
• The Ancestral Witches debated the Demon Clan’s retreat, then voted to separate the growing Witch-Human Race from the Human Race lineage.
• Houtu used the Twenty-four-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus to anchor her True Spirit as she merged with the Earthly Dao.
• The Six Paths Reincarnation Disk stopped, marking Houtu’s success as she became the Earth Dao Spokesperson without losing her freedom.
• Houtu met the Heavenly Emperor’s gaze across the Primordial World, while Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones considered the consequences of her new power.

Li Fan cultivated Chaos Law and opened the path of Hunyuan Grand Unity Great Change, shaking the Prehistoric Universe and surpassing the established understanding of Hunyuan Grand Unity. As powerful figures sensed his breakthrough, the chapter ended with his existence declaring that the Heavenly Dao was not supreme and that a path lay beyond Hunyuan Grand Unity.

• Di Jun sensed a growing dissonance around his ten children and suspected that an outsider had hidden within the Essence of Innate Li Fire.
• Lu Shi revealed that he was Lu Ya, a former Chaos Demon God whose True Spirit had merged with the Li Fire essence and become inseparable from the Golden Crow Prince.
• Li Fan entered secluded cultivation, fused Chaos Power with his World Origin Dao Fruit, and began the path of Hunyuan Grand Unity Great Change.
• Li Fan's breakthrough transformed his Dao body and raised his physical strength to the Sub-Saint realm as a Chaos Pillar of Light engulfed the Prehistoric Universe.
• Wangshu, Taiyuan, Nuwa, and other figures witnessed the phenomenon, while Hongjun, the Three Pure Ones, the Two Sages of the West, and other powers reacted to Li Fan's breakthrough.
• Li Fan rose from seclusion without making a proclamation, while his existence announced that the Heavenly Dao was not supreme and that a path remained beyond Hunyuan Grand Unity.

After emerging from seclusion, Li Fan warned the goddesses about the dangers of pursuing several Hunyuan paths, while Taiyi prepared to establish the Spiritual Teaching and seek sainthood apart from the Demon Clan. The chapter ended with Taiyi leaving Demon Emperor Hall alone to pursue his own path.

• Li Fan discussed the difficulties of the Hunyuan paths with Wangshu, Taiyuan, Ziguang, and Nuwa, who considered different laws and possible routes to Hunyuan.
• Taiyi told Di Jun that he planned to establish the Spiritual Teaching and admitted he had only a thirty percent chance of succeeding.
• Di Jun forcibly removed the River Diagram and Luo Book from his good and evil corpse incarnations and gave the treasures to Taiyi to suppress the Spiritual Teaching's fortune.
• Taiyi spent years refining the River Diagram and Luo Book and transferring most of the Demon Clan's fortune from them without harming ordinary demons.
• Taiyi left Demon Emperor Hall without telling anyone and entered the northern wilderness to pursue sainthood independently of the Demon Clan.

As Grand Unity Heaven rose and the Heavenly Dao pushed the Primordial World toward the Houtian Era, Hongjun asked Li Fan to support Tai Yi’s bid for sainthood and to restrict travel between the Heavenly Realm and the Primordial World. Li Fan refused the request concerning Tai Yi but agreed to gradually close the teleportation routes, leaving Ancestor Dragon to recognize that a major change was coming.

• Grand Unity Heaven stopped rising as the Heavenly Dao accelerated the transition to the Houtian Era, suppressing the Witch Clan’s bloodline and making cross-domain travel difficult.
• Hongjun visited Li Fan and the goddesses, raised Tai Yi’s bid to become the seventh Heavenly Dao Saint, and asked to close the teleportation arrays between the Heavenly Realm and the Primordial World.
• Li Fan rejected Hongjun’s request to make Tai Yi a Saint but agreed to gradually reduce teleportation passes and close the Giant Teleportation Arrays after one hundred thousand years.
• Li Fan ordered the Heavenly Realm to scale back teleportation, banking, and cross-domain transport, and its officials began enforcing the restrictions at Penglai Five Immortals Island.
• The East Sea Dragon Clan reported the restrictions to Ancestor Dragon, who realized that the heavens of the Primordial World were changing and a storm was coming.

Li Fan sealed the Five Directions Heavenly Domains and established a perpetual circulation of Innate Spiritual Qi, raising Grand Unity Heaven to a Sub-Source Grade Great Thousand World and beginning the postnatal era. The Primordial World's beings felt their spiritual qi fading, and Dijiang condemned the change as an attack on the Witch Clan.

• Taiyi encountered the Vine Ancestor, threatened him over his turn to the Ghost Dao, and burned his ghostly vines with Solar True Fire, forcing him to flee.
• Li Fan watched the Witch Clan's failed attempt to merge with humanity and prepared the Heavenly Realm for its transformation.
• Li Fan used the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to gather and circulate Innate Spiritual Qi through the Five Directions Heavenly Domains as the Heavenly Dao sealed the boundaries.
• Goddess Taiyuan used a method planted in the Heavenly Dao Grand Altar to collect Heavenly Dao Power into the Heavenly Book.
• The Heavenly Dao Seal linked the Five Directions Heavenly Domains, and Grand Unity Heaven advanced to a Sub-Source Grade Great Thousand World.
• Dijiang blamed the Heavenly Dao's seal for cutting off the Witch Clan's foundation, and the Heaven-Human Divide began.

After returning to the newly ascended Grand Unity Heaven, Li Fan and the goddesses discussed the Heavenly Realm’s gates and Xihua’s future role. Meanwhile, Taiyi established the Spiritual Teaching, drawing the Heavenly Dao’s recognition and leaving Saints and other powers wondering whether he would finally become a Saint.

• Changxi, Xihe, and Baili returned to Grand Unity Heaven after completing the Underworld’s reincarnation cycle, and Li Fan praised their work.
• Nüyi explained that entrances to the Five Directions Heavenly Domains were restricted to four gates each, and Qiao Tianjun reported that their renovations were complete.
• Nuwa defended the crude Xuantian Realm gate and admitted she had saved materials while serving as Emperor Gouchen; Li Fan said the matter would be discussed when Xihua took over.
• Empress Ziguang explained that Xihua’s future role as Emperor Gouchen would involve the Heavenly Dao’s lightning authority, while Li Fan anticipated a future Heavenly Tribulation system.
• Taiyi clarified his Saintly philosophy of Spirit and established the Spiritual Teaching, causing the Heavenly Dao to respond and drawing the spiritual essence of all beings toward him.
• The Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Di Jun reacted to Taiyi’s new teaching, while Taiyi formed a mysterious Spirit Seed and Grand Unity Experts watched to see whether he would become a Saint.

Taiyi used the River Diagram and Luo Script to become the Heavenly Dao’s seventh Saint, though he received no Heavenly Dao Authority and owed the Dao merit. His ascension altered the balance of the coming Witch-Demon War, and the chapter ended with both clans and the Human Clan sensing that the battle over the world’s protagonist was near.

• Taiyi awakened the River Diagram and Luo Script, and the Heavenly Dao bestowed a Saint Fruit Position upon him.
• Taiyi fused with the Saint Fruit Position, purified his Demonic Energy, and transformed his Demon Emperor Dharma Form into the Spirit Emperor Sacred Form.
• Taiyi declared his Dao complete and formally became a Heavenly Dao Saint, prompting reactions from Ancestor Dragon, Yuan Feng, Fuxi, and the Ancestral Witches.
• Zhu Jiuyin warned that the Demon Clan’s ties to the Human Clan and the Heavenly Dao’s judgment of righteousness made the coming war dangerous even for its victors.
• The Three Pure Ones dismissed Taiyi’s sainthood as limited without Heavenly Dao Authority, while Zhen Yuanzi lamented Hong Yun’s misfortune.
• Undercurrents stirred among the Witch Clan, Demon Clan, and Human Clan as the battle to determine heaven and earth’s protagonist approached.

Humanity Dao introduced the Position of Protagonist of Heaven and Earth, forcing the Witch Clan, Demon Clan, and Human Race to choose sides instead of remaining deadlocked. As Fuxi sought Nuwa’s help and Zhu Jiuyin welcomed the contest as a chance for the Witch Clan, Xuanming recognized it as an open scheme and watched the first snow fall.

• Taiyi withdrew to Northern Darkness and decided to avoid intervening in the conflict, while Li Fan watched the Witch and Demon Clans encircle the Human Race.
• Nuwa told Li Fan that Humanity Dao had introduced the Position of Protagonist of Heaven and Earth, which would be determined by each race’s fortune and force the three races into conflict.
• Wangshu warned that the Three Pure Ones would not be allowed to wait for the races to destroy one another, while Taishang anticipated that the growing dispute between their disciples would soon split them apart.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin chose not to intervene, while Ancestor Dragon lamented that his clan’s low birth rate made the new position dangerous for the dragons.
• Fuxi left the Demon Clan’s palace to seek Nuwa’s help, hoping to find a way to avert disaster for the Demon Clan.
• Zhu Jiuyin told Xuanming that the new position offered the Witch Clan a chance to end the calamity, but Xuanming called it an open scheme as the first snow fell.

Chi You became an Ancestral Witch, allowing the Witch Clan to form the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiend Formation, while the Demon Clan and Human Race prepared for war. When the Witch and Demon formations clashed and threatened to destroy everything, Nuwa intervened and froze them both.

• Chi You broke through to become an Ancestral Witch, and the Witch Clan prepared to rehearse the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiend Formation.
• Fuxi returned to the Demon Emperor Hall, where Di Jun and Kunpeng rallied the Demon Clan, while the Human Race elders discussed how to survive the coming battle.
• After five hundred years of mounting tension, Dijiang led the Witch Clan in summoning Pangu True Body, and Di Jun activated the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
• Pangu True Body's punch collided with the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, unleashing a destructive shockwave that threatened the Human Race and other living beings.
• Nuwa arrived and froze both Hunyuan Grand Formations, declaring that the Witch and Demon Clans had crossed the line.

Nuwa summoned the Hongmeng Sacred Sword and used two strikes to destroy the Demon Clan’s Ten Thousand Immortals Array and the Wu Clan’s Pangu True Body. She declared that the Wu and Demon Clans must retreat and that the Human Clan would rise, leaving the defeated armies to withdraw from the Eastern Primordial Earth.

• Nuwa fought the Wu and Demon Clans’ two formations with her Creation Heavenly Blade, but their combined assault gradually pressed her into a disadvantage.
• Nuwa summoned the Hongmeng Sacred Sword, drawing on Humanity Dao Fortune and halting the formations’ pressure.
• Nuwa’s first sword shattered the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, and Di Jun spat blood as the formation collapsed.
• Nuwa’s second sword broke apart the Pangu True Body and gravely injured the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Nuwa ordered the Wu and Demon Clans to retreat and declared that the Human Clan would rise, while Taiyi watched from the Arctic lands and accepted that he could not change the outcome.

After Nuwa’s victory secured the eastern lands for humanity, the Witch and Demon Clans began retreating from the struggle for supremacy. As Di Jun prepared to gamble on a breakthrough, Gonggong secretly weakened Buzhou Mountain, and Li Fan sensed an approaching danger.

• At Jade Void Palace, Taishang regretted losing the initiative over humanity, while Tongtian warned that the Witch and Demon Clans might resist their retreat.
• At Pangu Hall, Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches debated shifting the clan’s focus to the Underworld, though Gonggong and others remained unwilling to give up their lands.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Clan to relocate to the northern lands and sealed the Demon Emperor Hall before entering seclusion to pursue the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Gonggong secretly shook the connection between Pangu Hall and Buzhou Mountain’s origin, intending to make the mountain collapse, but Zhurong interrupted him.
• Li Fan sensed an unexplained danger around Buzhou Mountain despite detecting no disturbance in its Earth Veins.

Nuwa received the Hongmeng Sacred Sword, and Li Fan and the goddesses discussed its power and the Heavenly Emperor’s authority. They learned that the Dragon Clan possessed a wondrous treasure from Return to Ruins, while Luohu tightened his grip on the imprisoned great powers of the hundred clans in the Demon Realm.

• Nuwa admired the Hongmeng Sacred Sword as Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Ziguang explained its unusual nature and immense power.
• Nuwa, Wangshu, Ziguang, and Taiyuan teased Li Fan about supervising his rule, and Li Fan promised to consult them on major matters.
• Baili hinted that she wanted a better spiritual treasure, and Taiyuan warned that forging a Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure required great fate or special materials.
• Taiyuan revealed that the Dragon Clan had obtained a supreme wondrous object from the Innate Origin released when Return to Ruins erupted after the Longhan Era calamity.
• Wangshu and Xihe recalled how the great powers of the hundred clans intercepted Innate Origins, including Yunxiao’s, before Luohu lured those powers into the Demon Realm.
• The imprisoned clan leaders taunted Luohu about his defeat and seal, so Luohu tightened the chains around their Dao Fruits and silenced them with their screams.

As the Interception Sect’s growing influence sharpened its conflict with the Chan Teachings, Taishang decided the Three Pure Ones could no longer remain together. Tongtian led his disciples away from Kunlun Mountain, leaving Yuanshi alone as Li Fan watched the brothers separate.

• Yuanshi condemned Tongtian’s outer disciples and their preaching among the Human Race, while Tongtian defended the Interception Sect’s principle that all beings could seek the Dao.
• Taishang announced that he would leave Kunlun Mountain, and Tongtian agreed that the brothers’ incompatible ideals made separation necessary.
• Taishang divided Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Imprint between Yuanshi and Tongtian, and the brothers exchanged copies of their imprints before Taishang departed.
• Tongtian ordered all Interception Sect disciples to follow him away from Kunlun Mountain and establish a new Daoist grounds elsewhere.
• Yuanshi remained alone at Jade Void Palace as the Three Pure Ones’ separation shocked the Grand Unity Experts, and Li Fan watched from Grand Unity Palace.

Tongtian sought to establish the Interception Sect’s dao ground in the East Sea, but Ancestor Dragon blocked him and sent him to seek the Heavenly Emperor’s approval. Li Fan forbade the East Sea and ordered Tongtian to choose the South Sea or West Sea instead, leaving Tongtian to accept the ruling unwillingly.

• Tongtian declared his intention to settle the Interception Sect in the East Sea, and Ancestor Dragon barred his disciples from entering because the region guarded the Return to Ruins.
• Tongtian and Ancestor Dragon nearly fought, but Jin Ling stopped Duobao from escalating the conflict and warned of the consequences.
• Tongtian left his disciples at the East Sea Shore and went to Grand Unity Palace to ask Li Fan for permission to establish the sect there.
• Nuwa, Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Ziguang questioned Tongtian’s reasons for choosing the East Sea and criticized his approach to spreading the Dao.
• Li Fan rejected the East Sea as too risky for the Return to Ruins and ordered Tongtian to choose the South Sea or West Sea; Tongtian agreed reluctantly.

Tongtian established the Interception Sect’s ancestral court in the South Sea, while Xihua held the Kunlun Immortal Gathering to restore her standing as Head of Female Immortals. The gathering ended with her title, Queen Mother of the West, resounding throughout the Prehistoric Universe, as she anticipated the dangers of her coming role as Gouchen Shanggong Heavenly Emperor.

• Tongtian made the golden ao Gui Ling a direct disciple and established the Interception Sect’s sacred ground in the South Sea.
• The Blood-Winged Black Mosquito was born in the Blood Sea and began feeding on corpses, evading Jiang Chen with its ability to become billions of forms.
• Xihua invited female immortals to West Kunlun for the first Female Immortal Convention, and Changxi, Xihe, Nine Heavens Xuan Nü, Su Nü, Nüyi, Yaochi, and many others attended.
• Xihua welcomed the guests, offered Kunlun peaches, and gave young female cultivators advice on cultivation.
• The gathering renewed Xihua’s prestige as Head of Female Immortals, and she reflected on the dangers awaiting her as Gouchen Shanggong Heavenly Emperor.

Di Jun endured the Hunyuan body tribulation and entered the River of Fate to pursue his Dao, while Taiyi guarded him and the Ancestral Witches argued over how to stop him. The chapter left Di Jun charging deeper into the river as the Witches remained divided.

• Li Fan and the others sensed Taiyang Star's growing turmoil, while Wangshu and the Purple Light Empress feared Di Jun's attempt would destabilize the stars.
• Di Jun summoned the Hunyuan tribulation and survived its nine Purple Firmament Divine Thunders with the Eastern Emperor Bell, though he was left gravely weakened.
• Di Jun entered the River of Fate, where karmic threads linked his Dao path to Taiyi, the Heavenly Emperor, Xihe, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Li Fan altered a karmic thread toward Xihe, while Taiyi stood guard beneath the River of Fate and warned off anyone who might obstruct Di Jun.
• Di Jun felt some karmic entanglements disappear and charged deeper into the River of Fate, while the Ancestral Witches argued over whether and how to interfere.
• Gonggong left Pangu Hall after the Ancestral Witches failed to agree on a plan.