Chapter Summaries

Fuxi persuaded the Witch Race to let the Human Race settle in the Western Lands and help restore them, revealing that Lu Jun had advised him. After countless years of cooperation and growing ties between the races, Houtu looked over the revived lands and decided the time had come.

• Fuxi proposed that the Human Race migrate to the Western Lands and help restore them with their Life Opportunity, but Di Jiang mocked the idea because humans were weak.
• Fuxi explained that the Witch Race could reshape the land while humans populated it and helped dispel its deathly qi; Houtu questioned why he had chosen humans over other Demon Race groups.
• Fuxi revealed that Lu Jun had advised him, and Houtu agreed to the proposal, persuading Di Jiang to accept as well.
• Human Race tribes migrated from the Fengqi Mountain range, building villages and farms as their Life Opportunity helped revive the Western Lands.
• The Human Race and Witch Race developed mutual respect and formed marriage alliances, producing mixed-blood descendants who were accepted by both races.
• After countless years, the Western Lands regained abundant vitality, and Houtu declared that the time had come.

Houtu gathered the Ancestral Witches after the initial restoration of the Western Lands and secured their absolute trust and obedience. She revealed that Father God's Guidance had shown her the Opportunity for Sainthood, leaving the next step undisclosed.

• The Ancestral Witches celebrated the merit and satisfaction they had gained by repairing the Western Lands, while Zhu Jiuyin explained that its spiritual essence would recover only with time.
• Houtu asked whether the Ancestral Witches still trusted her, and they all affirmed that they did.
• Di Jiang declared that the Witch Race must support Houtu in everything, and Zhu Jiuyin said her words should be their highest decree, even if she ordered them to die.
• The Ancestral Witches enthusiastically promised to obey Houtu, and she privately resolved to act on their complete trust.
• Houtu announced that she had glimpsed the Opportunity for Sainthood through Father God's Guidance.

Houtu brought the eleven Ancestral Witches to the Netherworld and revealed her plan to create reincarnation by sacrificing herself and combining their Dao powers. As she began dissolving into the Dao, she told her brothers to trust her and join her in completing the Earthly Dao.

• Houtu led the eleven Ancestral Witches through the earth to the desolate Netherworld, where countless Yin Souls wandered without rest or rebirth.
• Houtu declared that she would sacrifice herself to complete the Earthly Dao and establish reincarnation with her eleven elder brothers.
• Houtu assigned each Ancestral Witch a role in creating the structures and laws of reincarnation using their respective Dao powers.
• Houtu began burning her origin and merging into the Netherworld, horrifying the Ancestral Witches as they realized she was undergoing Dao Dissolution.
• Houtu told her brothers that joining her would preserve their True Spirits and eventually bring the Witch Race an opportunity for sainthood, but said they could return if they did not believe her.

Houtu began sacrificing her Ancestral Witch origin to create Reincarnation and complete the Earthly Dao, leaving the other Ancestral Witches divided over whether her act would destroy her or make her a Saint. The world’s foundations shook as powerful beings across the Prehistoric World sensed the new Reincarnation Law taking shape.

• Houtu’s declaration stunned the eleven Ancestral Witches, while Gong Gong, Zhu Rong, and others rejected Dao Dissolution as a path to sainthood.
• Di Jiang connected Houtu’s sacrifice to their earlier efforts to restore the Western Lands, while Zhu Jiuyin sensed that her act would transform the structure of the Prehistoric World.
• The Prehistoric World shook as its Great Dao shifted, and Di Jun and Tai Yi found they could not stabilize the stars or understand the source of the upheaval.
• Ancestor Minghe sensed Reincarnation gathering in the Netherworld and considered intervening, but Houtu’s power and the gathered Ancestral Witches made him hesitate.
• Zhen Yuanzi’s Book of the Earth resonated with the emerging Earthly Dao, and he considered offering it to help stabilize Reincarnation.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun realized that Houtu was using her Ancestral Witch origin to complete Reincarnation and perfect the Earthly Dao.

Hongjun recognized Houtu’s plan to use the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ Great Dao origins to establish Reincarnation and, with Heavenly Dao’s approval, sent merit to help unite them. The witches dissolved into Reincarnation, and the chapter ends with Di Jun and Tai Yi learning that Houtu had once secretly spoken with Lu Jun at the Edge of Chaos.

• Hongjun realized Houtu planned to combine the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ origins to create Reincarnation, then sent Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao merit to support her.
• The merit and Heavenly Dao’s praise dispelled the other Ancestral Witches’ doubts, and Zhu Jiuyin dissolved into the Reincarnation Great Disk to form the Stone of Three Lives.
• Di Jiang, Gong Gong, Zhu Rong, Xuanming, and the remaining Ancestral Witches contributed their powers and dissolved into Reincarnation, shaping the Netherworld and its landmarks.
• Reincarnation drew ghostly souls into an orderly cycle, eased the world’s accumulated karmic burden, and caused merit to surge across the Prehistoric World.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi discovered that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had initiated the upheaval and were dissolving themselves to complete the Earthly Dao.
• Tai Yi reminded Di Jun that Houtu had once gone to the Edge of Chaos to speak secretly with Lu Jun.

As Houtu completed Reincarnation through the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ Dao Dissolution, the Book of the Earth joined the Underworld and strengthened the Earthly Dao. With the Witch Race’s leaders gone, Kun Peng moved to destroy its remnants before Di Jun could claim victory and its fortune.

• Tai Yi and Di Jun realized Lu Jun might have influenced Houtu’s decision to become Reincarnation, and Tai Yi went to seek answers from Lu Jun.
• Ancestor Minghe watched Reincarnation absorb the Netherworld Blood Sea’s souls, then released his Four Hundred and Eighty Million Blood God Sons in fury.
• Zhen Yuanzi freed the Book of the Earth to join Reincarnation, where it helped form Underworld treasures, and Houtu thanked him as merit descended upon Mount Longevity.
• Fuxi worried that the Human Race was left to guard the Western Lands without the Ancestral Witches and set out to consult Lu Jun.
• Kun Peng decided to destroy the Witch Race before Di Jun could claim its fortune, and ordered his forces to march on Buzhou Mountain.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches sacrificed themselves to complete Reincarnation, transforming the Netherworld and strengthening the Earthly Dao. Lu Jun realized the change had reshaped the Witch-Demon conflict, then learned Kun Peng was moving against the surviving Witch Race and predicted his purge would fail.

• The Witch Race felt the Ancestral Witches’ auras vanish and fell into panic and grief.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches dissolved into the laws of the Great Desolation World as Reincarnation expanded and purified its accumulated resentment and Karmic Force.
• Di Jun sensed that the Ancestral Witches’ sacrifice might not be the end and concluded that Lu Jun had helped complete the Prehistoric World.
• Tai Yi questioned Lu Jun about Houtu leading the Ancestral Witches into Reincarnation, and Lu Jun explained its importance to the Earthly Dao.
• Tai Yi discovered that Kun Peng was mobilizing troops to eliminate the remaining Witch Race but hesitated to stop him for fear of splitting the Demon Race.
• Lu Jun told Tai Yi that Kun Peng would likely achieve nothing.

As Houtu’s Reincarnation took shape, Zhen Yuanzi entered the Underworld and received its accumulated merit and Earthly Dao power. He became a Saint, defeating Minghe’s attack and leaving the Blood Sea in stunned silence.

• Tai Yi realized that the merit above the Reincarnation Land would eventually benefit the Witch Race, while Lu Jun let Kun Peng continue toward their territory.
• Minghe celebrated the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ transformation and claimed the Underworld for himself.
• Zhen Yuanzi warned Minghe to accept Reincarnation’s changes and surrender his claim to the Netherworld Blood Sea, but Minghe refused.
• Minghe sent a colossal blood hand at Zhen Yuanzi, who protected himself with the Book of the Earth as he entered the Underworld.
• The Underworld’s merit and Earthly Dao power surged into Zhen Yuanzi, making him a Saint and purifying Minghe’s attack.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked Minghe how he planned to be rude to a Saint, while the weakened Minghe fell silent.

Zhen Yuanzi became an Earthly Dao Saint by surrendering the Book of the Earth to help establish Reincarnation, while Minghe realized his hesitation had cost him a chance to join the Earthly Dao. Minghe begged to relinquish the Blood Sea, but a sudden change interrupted him.

• Zhen Yuanzi used Saintly power to merge Minghe’s avatars back into the Blood Sea and advised him to make Blood God Sons instead.
• Minghe demanded to know how Zhen Yuanzi had attained Sainthood, and Zhen Yuanzi explained that he returned the Book of the Earth to its origin to support Reincarnation.
• Zhen Yuanzi credited Minghe’s Blood God Son Path and Tai Yi’s Nirvana Method for inspiring his Ginseng Fruit Incarnation technique, which made him willing to give up the Book of the Earth.
• Minghe realized he could have offered the Blood Sea to the Earthly Dao, regretted his earlier hesitation, and begged for another chance to relinquish it.
• Minghe tried to sever his connection to the Blood Sea, but a sudden change occurred.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches were reborn as Saints through merit and the Reincarnation Earthly Dao after dissolving themselves into the Dao. They realized their new powers and primordial spirits, then thanked Houtu for guiding them toward this path.

• Twelve pillars of merit struck the Reincarnation Great Disk and remade the Twelve Ancestral Witches into flawless Innate Dao Bodies.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Ju Mang, and Tian Wu discovered their transformed powers and more complete Great Daos.
• Ru Shou and the other Ancestral Witches realized they now possessed clear primordial spirits and consciousness.
• Gong Gong praised Houtu for leading them to this rebirth, and Di Jiang bowed to her in gratitude.
• Zhu Jiuyin affirmed that their path had only just begun, and the Ancestral Witches thanked Houtu.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches became Earthly Dao Saints, completing Reincarnation alongside Houtu and Zhen Yuanzi, while Minghe lost his chance to join them. Di Jiang sensed Witch Race warriors dying in a battle and sent a Ghost Gate Pass to the battlefield, where Kun Peng’s Demon Race forces were attacking the leaderless tribes.

• The Ancestral Witches thanked Houtu and Zhen Yuanzi after attaining Earthly Dao Saint Positions, bringing the number of Earthly Dao Saints to thirteen.
• Minghe pleaded with Houtu to let him abandon the Blood Sea and join the Earthly Dao, but she told him the opportunity had passed because he had refused to let go earlier.
• Minghe roared in despair as he realized he had lost the Saint Position and would remain bound to the Blood Sea.
• Di Jiang sensed Witch Race souls dying in a distant battle and sent an ancient Ghost Gate Pass through space to the battlefield.
• Kun Peng led hundreds of millions of Demon Race troops in a planned assault on the leaderless Witch Race tribes, whose warriors were being driven back.

As Kun Peng led the Demon Race’s assault on the Witch Race, his followers urged him to break from Di Jun and Tai Yi and claim imperial power for himself. The Twelve Ancestral Witches revived as Saints, shattering Kun Peng’s ambitions and turning the battle toward his desperate flight and the gathering of the dead.

• Demon Generals praised Kun Peng and urged him to establish an independent branch of the Demon Race after defeating the Witches.
• Kun Peng imagined claiming the merit of victory, surpassing Di Jun and Tai Yi, and attaining Saintly Status.
• Twelve Mysterious Yellow Merit Pillars appeared in the Netherworld Underworld, reconstructing the Twelve Ancestral Witches as Saints.
• Kun Peng ordered a retreat and transformed into his Kun Peng true form to flee as the Demon Race panicked.
• A Ghost Gate Pass descended and drew the battlefield’s dead into it, while Di Jiang appeared above the battlefield.

Di Jiang descended as the Lord of Reincarnation and summoned the other Earthly Dao Saints to confront Kun Peng, but Reincarnation’s influence restrained his personal vengeance. As Di Jiang considered how to punish Kun Peng, Zhen Yuanzi recognized the constraints shaping his actions, while Fuxi wondered whether Lu Jun had planned the Witch Race’s sudden rise.

• Di Jiang arrived at the battlefield, received the fallen souls of both races into Ghost Gate Pass, and became more deeply bound to Reincarnation.
• The surviving Great Witches recognized Di Jiang but feared that his transformed nature might leave the Witch Race unsaved.
• Thirteen Earthly Dao Saints sealed Kun Peng in and prevented his escape, prompting him to beg for mercy and offer compensation.
• Di Jiang accused Kun Peng of slaughtering many beings and disrupting Yin and Yang, but paused to consider his punishment.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized that Reincarnation had assimilated Di Jiang’s priorities and restricted his use of force to actions consistent with its laws.
• Fuxi arrived, marveled at the thirteen Earthly Dao Saints, and asked Lu Jun whether the upheaval had been part of his plan.

Lu Jun, Tai Yi, and Fuxi realized that the thirteen Earthly Dao Saints were bound by Reincarnation’s rules and no longer acted purely as members of the Witch Race. Di Jiang used the Book of Life and Death to examine Kun Peng’s crimes and seek a punishment permitted by those rules.

• Lu Jun said the Earthly Dao Saints likely faced severe limits on interfering in the living world, and Tai Yi and Fuxi agreed after noting Di Jiang’s restrained behavior.
• Tai Yi and Fuxi concluded that the Ancestral Witches’ transformation had made them more like incarnations of laws than members of the Witch Race.
• Di Jiang decided Kun Peng’s slaughter of his clansmen required punishment, but he could not directly strike a living being without a legitimate reason under Reincarnation’s rules.
• Di Jiang connected to the Book of Life and Death and used its restored power to examine Kun Peng’s record.
• The Book of Life and Death recorded Kun Peng’s war and slaughter as grave sins that disrupted Yin and Yang and obstructed Reincarnation.

Di Jiang sentenced Kun Peng under the laws of Reincarnation, destroying his body and sending his True Spirit to Reincarnation Hell. As the Witch Race struggled with the loss of their former protector, Houtu pointed them toward a choice at Ghost Gate Pass.

• Di Jiang used the Book of Life and Death to establish Kun Peng’s crimes and sentenced him to have his flesh become tribulation and his True Spirit suffer in Reincarnation Hell.
• Kun Peng resisted with the Demon Master Palace, but Di Jiang’s Reincarnation Divine Light destroyed his body and dragged his True Spirit into the hell of Karma Fire.
• The surviving Witch Race members recognized that Di Jiang had become a cold enforcer rather than the Ancestral Witch who once fought for them.
• Da Yi asked Di Jiang and the Saints what the Witch Race should do, and Houtu interrupted him to address the survivors.
• Houtu pointed to Ghost Gate Pass and told the Witch Race that a choice lay before them.

Houtu led the surviving Witch Race into the Netherworld, assigning them roles as Yin Soldiers and Underworld officials to maintain Reincarnation. Watching the Witch-Demon conflict end, Di Jun received the world’s gratitude for not pursuing war, and his Good Corpse transformed into a Merit Incarnation.

• Houtu explained that the Underworld needed the Witch Race as an army to enforce its laws and guide departed souls.
• Jiu Feng and the other Great Witches pledged to follow Houtu, and the Witch Race agreed to relocate to the Netherworld.
• Houtu assigned Underworld duties to the Great Witches, including commanding Yin Soldiers, reaping souls, overseeing punishments, and regulating the Netherworld’s elements.
• The surviving Witch Race passed through Ghost Gate Passes and migrated to the Underworld, ending the Witch-Demon War.
• Di Jun watched the migration and realized that the Witch Race had left the living world’s main stage, removing his duty to fight them.
• The living world’s gratitude for Di Jun’s restraint flowed to him, causing his Good Corpse to separate and become a Merit Incarnation.

Di Jun became the Sun God after the Witch Race’s choices clarified his path, while Tai Yi chose to pursue Nirvana and transcendence instead of sharing the Sun’s authority. In the Netherworld, Houtu began organizing the Witch Race’s new duties as the Twelve Saints of Reincarnation oversaw their arrival.

• Di Jun realized that abandoning his Demon Emperor title would free him to protect all beings beneath the sun, declared himself the Sun God, and reshaped his Three Corpses as he advanced toward Primordial Saint.
• Tai Yi heard Di Jun’s proclamation and chose not to compete for the Sun’s authority, deciding instead to follow the Nirvana Method and seek transcendence.
• Lu Jun reflected on Kun Peng’s death, Fuxi’s survival, and the Witch Race’s potential to make the Underworld a powerful and impartial realm.
• After long epochs, the Twelve Saints of Reincarnation watched Witch Race clansmen arrive in the Netherworld and take positions as Yin Soldiers, Ghost Generals, and Netherworld Marshals.
• Houtu asked her Elder Brothers to organize the Witch Race and Underworld institutions, clear the accumulated souls, and move Pangu Hall beneath Buzhou Mountain into the Underworld if possible.

Houtu arranged the Underworld’s duties and protections before entering the River of Time to investigate the disappearance of the Heavenly Dao Saints. The chapter ended with her sensing dormant traces of Saints within the river.

• Houtu and the Saints agreed to protect the Western Human Race in repayment for its aid in restoring the earth veins.
• Houtu predicted that the Demon Race would divide and collapse after the Witch Race left the world, ushering in the era of Myriad Races Hegemony.
• Zhen Yuanzi said she would return to Mount Longevity to cultivate the Earthly Dao and search for her friend Hong Yun’s whereabouts.
• Houtu decided to enter the River of Time to investigate why the other Heavenly Dao Saints had disappeared, while Zhu Jiuyin stayed behind to oversee the Underworld’s souls and affairs.
• Houtu entered the River of Time and sensed traces of Saints lying dormant within it.

Houtu burned her Saint's Origin to follow the Six Saints' timeline and witnessed the Three Pure Ones endure Pangu's axe light to earn his recognition as True Lineage. Inspired by them, Houtu and Nuwa charged into the lingering axe intent, where they were engulfed as Houtu hinted that the Human Race would bring Nuwa a surprise.

• Houtu burned her Saint's Origin and entered the timeline opened by the Six Saints.
• Houtu saw the Three Pure Ones endure Pangu's axe light and receive his recognition as his True Lineage.
• Houtu realized the Three Pure Ones had claimed an advantage that later Saints could not take from them and decided to seek Pangu's recognition for the Witch Race.
• Nuwa discovered that Houtu had become a Saint, and Houtu urged her to face Pangu's axe as well.
• Houtu and Nuwa charged into the lingering axe intent, and Houtu told Nuwa the Human Race would bring her a surprise.

Hongjun allowed the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa to return from the River of Time, while observing the Earthly Dao’s growth and Di Jun’s pursuit of the Sun God Dao. After Yuanshi insulted Houtu and the Witch Race, Houtu called her brothers to her aid, and the eleven Ancestral Witch Saints confronted the Three Pure Ones.

• Hongjun saw that Houtu’s Reincarnation had helped complete the Netherworld and decided not to interfere with the Saints’ return.
• Hongjun observed Di Jun transforming on the Sun Star and held the unclaimed Primordial Violet Qi in reserve.
• The Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and Houtu returned from the River of Time, with Houtu weakened from spending her Saintly origin.
• Yuanshi claimed the Three Pure Ones were Pangu’s True Lineage and belittled Houtu, prompting her to call to her brothers in the Netherworld.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian threatened and dismissed Houtu and the Ancestral Witches.
• The eleven Ancestral Witch Saints emerged from the Netherworld and faced the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and Houtu beneath the starry sky.