Recaps

Lu Jun saved his brothers through Nirvana, then cultivated while the Demon and Witch races prepared for war and the Saints journeyed to the beginning of Creation. The Three Pure Ones sought Pangu’s acknowledgment, and Houtu arrived too late to change what had happened to them.

• Lu Jun used the Star Evolution System to save his eight dying brothers, evolved into an Innate Divine Being, and defeated Da Yi’s Witch Race warriors before Tai Yi carried the brothers’ eggs to the Sun Star.
• Tai Yi and Di Jun concluded that Golden Crow Nirvana could grant another life, while Lu Jun warned them that the process could also end in true death.
• Lu Jun cultivated on the Sun Star as Jieyin and Zhunti plotted to provoke war between the Witch and Demon races and drew the Saints toward the beginning of Creation.
• The Six Saints entered the River of Time to seek Pangu’s acknowledgment, while Lu Jun learned from Tai Yi about Pangu’s creation and the old path to Great Luo.
• Pangu slew the Chaos Demon Ape, then destroyed Jieyin and Zhunti when they approached him, leaving their ashes imprinted in the future Mount Sumeru.
• Laozi led the Three Pure Ones toward Pangu, who recognized them as his true lineage and struck them into three streams of pure qi to imprint them into the Great Desolation World.
• Houtu charged upstream through the River of Time, but Laozi told her she had arrived too late.

Lu Jun discovered a way to grow stars as vessels for incarnations, while Houtu confronted the Witch Race’s responsibility for the devastation of the Great Desolation. Houtu returned to Pangu Hall determined to pursue reincarnation and challenge her clan to change, leaving the Ancestral Witches facing Zhen Yuanzi’s warning of their destruction.

• Houtu and Nuwa entered Pangu’s axe light, while Lu Jun began considering a path of manifesting countless incarnations.
• Tai Yi brought Minghe and Zhen Yuanzi together, and Minghe returned Hong Yun’s Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd to Zhen Yuanzi to ease their feud.
• Minghe explained his Blood God Son method, and Lu Jun used his system and Sun Divine Fire to nurture a Star Embryo into a star that bore his origin.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized he could use Ginseng Fruits as incarnations and agreed to set aside his grievance with Minghe, while Hongjun noticed Lu Jun’s growing stars could earn him a place in the Department of Dou.
• After Zhen Yuanzi warned Houtu that the Witch Race faced destruction, Houtu witnessed its devastation and resolved to establish reincarnation for the dead.
• Houtu met Lu Jun among the newborn stars, and he revealed that her reincarnation plan would succeed yet fail before demanding that she seek a lasting ceasefire from the Witch Race.
• Houtu returned to Pangu Hall and rebuked the Ancestral Witches for focusing on war instead of protecting the world, then warned them that Nuwa and the strengthened Di Jun and Tai Yi could destroy their race.

Houtu halted the Witch-Demon war, negotiated a truce, and led the Witch Race toward restoring the Western Lands. Guided by Lu Jun, she began to see the Witches’ role in governing the Earthly Dao, while the Demon Race considered Lu Jun’s warning about Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Di Jiang called off the Witch-Demon war after Houtu persuaded the Ancestral Witches that continuing would doom their people, and Houtu proposed taking and restoring the Western Lands.
• The Witch Race marched west, while Di Jun kept the Demon Race from intervening and met Houtu to negotiate a truce.
• Houtu told the Demon Race that Jieyin and Zhunti had plotted against both races and destroyed Nuwa, and Tai Yi confirmed that the River of Time held no trace of the Six Saints.
• Houtu revealed that her truce with Di Jun arose from a transaction with Lu Jun, who had developed a method for nurturing independent Star Eggs and pursuing his path.
• Lu Jun guided Houtu to recognize that completing reincarnation required the Witch Race to govern the earth, and Houtu realized her siblings might need to sacrifice their True Bodies and freedom.
• Houtu returned to Pangu Hall and persuaded the Ancestral Witches that restoring the land was their role, then sent them west to begin the work.
• Tai Yi returned to the Heavenly Court to discuss Lu Jun’s idea for You Wen, while Di Jun and Tai Yi studied Nirvana and Lu Jun herded the Stars of All Heavens.

Di Jun developed a Wish Incarnation Method to protect the Demon Race, while Lu Jun guided Fuxi toward becoming the Human Emperor and building a cooperative Human Race. Fuxi began teaching the humans and then approached the Ancestral Witches about the Western Lands’ lingering deathly qi.

• The Witches restored the Western Lands, while Houtu sensed Saintly Might near Mount Sumeru and Di Jiang prepared the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array in case the Saints attacked.
• Hongjun sent Jieyin and Zhunti’s True Spirit imprints farther down the River of Time, and Lu Jun learned that the Two Sages of the West had been delayed from awakening.
• Lu Jun described a future western sect that gathered followers through promises of blessings, leading Di Jun and Tai Yi to deduce that its Vow Power sustained its avatars.
• Di Jun used the Demon Race’s voluntary wishes to create an incarnation through Red Feather Golden Eye Eagle, then developed a method to channel Sun Divine Fire to protect demons who prayed to him.
• Di Jun announced his seclusion and entrusted the Demon Court to Tai Yi, Fuxi, Kun Peng, and Bai Ze, while Kun Peng urged the Demon Gods to protect weaker tribes and share in Wish Power.
• Lu Jun and Fuxi found the Human Race following the Demon Race’s strong-devour-weak customs, and Lu Jun explained that humanity’s blank bloodlines gave it freedom to learn and develop through cooperation.
• Lu Jun persuaded Fuxi to become the Human Emperor, and Fuxi set Human Race experts to teach struggling clansmen practical skills and cultivation, earning Heavenly Dao Merit as their efforts improved lives.
• Human Race fortune helped Fuxi break through his cultivation bottleneck, and he went to meet Houtu, Di Jiang, and the other Ancestral Witches to discuss the Western Lands’ lingering deathly qi.