Recaps

Houtu led the Ancestral Witches in completing Reincarnation, transforming them into Earthly Dao Saints and moving the Witch Race into the Underworld. When a confrontation with the Three Pure Ones erupted, Hongjun moved the Saints to Chaos, where the Witches’ array unexpectedly brought forth a new Heaven and Earth.

• Fuxi persuaded Houtu and the Ancestral Witches to help the Human Race restore the Western Lands, and Houtu later revealed that she had glimpsed the path to Sainthood.
• Houtu led the Ancestral Witches into the Netherworld and began sacrificing herself and their origins to establish Reincarnation, with Hongjun and Zhen Yuanzi supporting the undertaking.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches were reborn as Earthly Dao Saints, while Zhen Yuanzi attained Sainthood by giving the Book of the Earth to Reincarnation.
• Kun Peng attacked the leaderless Witch Race, but Di Jiang used the Book of Life and Death to sentence him for his crimes, and Houtu led the surviving Witches into the Underworld to serve its laws.
• Di Jun became the Sun God as the Witch-Demon War ended, while Houtu entered the River of Time with Nuwa to seek Pangu’s recognition for the Witch Race.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian insulted Houtu and the Witch Race, prompting the Ancestral Witches to confront the Three Pure Ones before Hongjun transported all sixteen Saints to Chaos.
• The Ancestral Witches overwhelmed the Three Pure Ones in Chaos, but their Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array failed to summon Pangu’s True Body.
• The array stirred the Three Pure Ones’ Heaven-Opening Merit, which formed a Golden Body that split Chaos and created a small Heaven and Earth that merged into the Great Desolation World.

Houtu and the Ancestral Witches recognized Lu Jun’s role in their survival and repaid him with treasures that accelerated his Stellar Avatars. As Lu Jun organized a star-forging system, Ran Deng’s concealed origins surfaced, and Houtu proposed that he might be destined to become the Saint of Reincarnation.

• Houtu persuaded the Ancestral Witches that Pangu’s legacy was creation and expansion, then the Witches resolved to repay Lu Jun for guiding them toward Reincarnation and the Earthly Dao.
• Houtu, Nuwa, Zhen Yuanzi, and Tai Yi brought Lu Jun Innate Spiritual Treasures, which he placed in Star Eggs and which his system used to accelerate the stars and their primordial spirits.
• Houtu concluded that Pangu had left treasures as seeds for expanding the Prehistoric World, while Nuwa began helping Lu Jun make more Star Cores and teach him artifact forging.
• Lu Jun and the others devised a stellar assembly line for forging treasures, and Tai Yi brought Ran Deng to the starry sky to request his Human Lantern and Heaven and Earth Ruler.
• Ran Deng considered leaving the Chan Sect for a place under Houtu’s protection, but Lu Jun exposed that Ran Deng’s true body was an Innate Spirit Coffin rather than the Spirit Coffin Lamp.
• Ran Deng admitted he had used the lamp’s light and Dao Rhythm to conceal his true form, and Houtu said his coffin and lamp might make him suited to become the Saint of Reincarnation.

Lu Jun’s expanding star domain drew the Three Pure Ones to learn from him, while his entry into the Severing Sect led him to warn them that opening a New Heaven near Buzhou Mountain could destroy the world. The Saints and Ancestral Witches joined forces to create Three Mountains Supporting the Heavens, beginning with a Heavenly Road to Kunlun.

• Houtu appointed Ran Deng as the Netherworld’s Heavenly Venerate of Guidance, and Ran Deng gave Lu Jun the Heaven and Earth Ruler and Spirit Coffin Lamp for his artifact arrays.
• Lu Jun used the Seven Innate Gourds to complete the Haotian Gourd and expand his star domain, prompting Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones to take notice of his method.
• Tongtian taught Lu Jun the Myriad Immortals Array and accepted him into the Severing Sect, while Laozi taught him artifact forging.
• At Biyou Palace, Tongtian announced that the Three Pure Ones planned to open a New Heaven, and Lu Jun warned that doing so above Buzhou Mountain could provoke the Witch Race.
• Lu Jun accompanied the Three Pure Ones to consult the Ancestral Witches, where he warned that accumulated fortune and Karma could break Buzhou Mountain and destroy the world.
• The Saints and Ancestral Witches discussed reinforcing Buzhou Mountain, and Zhen Yuanzi proposed raising Kunlun and restoring Mount Sumeru as additional pillars.
• The seventeen Saints agreed to establish Three Mountains Supporting the Heavens and gathered at Kunlun to open the Kunlun Heavenly Road.
• The Saints summoned Pangu’s Merit True Body, which raised the Merit Sky-Opening Axe and struck the barrier between Kunlun Peak and the Thirty-three Heavens, as Hongjun watched from Zixiao Palace.

Hongjun stabilized the Prehistoric World and appointed Lu Jun to oversee the Investiture of the Gods and direct the Spiritual Treasure Calamity. Lu Jun received the list and new authority as the Saints prepared their disciples to contribute to the world’s development.

• Hongjun freed Nuwa from her Heavenly Dao position, and she became a Human Dao Saint as the Saints solidified the Heavenly Gate.
• The Saints and Ancestral Witches raised Kunlun Mountain and Mount Sumeru into pillars, while Lu Jun returned to his Star Domain.
• Demon Race cultivators and Severing Sect disciples clashed in Lu Jun’s Star Domain, where Changer Dingguang Xian challenged Lu Jun and lost his body to one punch.
• Changer Dingguang Xian resisted the Underworld’s messengers, but the Investiture of the Gods seized his soul, and Hongjun revealed he had arranged the fatal blow.
• Hongjun gathered the Saints at Mount Sumeru, claimed Lu Jun as his grand-disciple, and explained how their efforts had repaired and expanded the Prehistoric World.
• Hongjun condemned Changer Dingguang Xian and ordered the Saints to use their Spiritual Treasures to develop the world, while the Three Pure Ones agreed to use their Three Corpses to expand Heaven.
• Hongjun appointed Lu Jun holder of the Investiture of the Gods and gave him the God-Beating Whip and Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner.
• Houtu warned the Ancestral Witches about the coming Spiritual Treasure Calamity, while Yuanshi instructed the Chan Sect to contribute and Immortal Weng proposed sending disciples to Lu Jun’s Star Domain.