Chapter Summaries

Hongjun held his second sermon at Zixiao Palace, teaching the Heavenly Dao and the path of Severing the Three Corpses as cultivators advanced toward Quasi-Saint. After a thousand years, he ended the sermon and prepared to appoint officials.

• The Witch Clan grew to one billion members and divided into twelve tribes, while the Witch and Demon Clans increasingly divided the Primordial world between them.
• Three thousand years later, cultivators gathered at Zixiao Palace for Hongjun’s second sermon, while Lu Shiping stayed away at Zhou Jun’s instruction and Houtu did not attend.
• Hongjun taught the Heavenly Dao and explained the path of Severing the Three Corpses in detail.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin broke through to Quasi-Saint, followed by dozens of other cultivators.
• After a thousand years, Hongjun stopped preaching and declared the sermon over.

Hongjun appointed East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West to lead the immortals, provoking envy and resentment among the powerful figures of the Primordial World. Di Jun and Taiyi decided to wait and see, planning for the demon race to ignore the new leaders and use any clash as grounds to punish them.

• Hongjun answered the cultivators’ questions, then appointed East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West to govern the immortals.
• Hongjun gave East King Duke a Dragon-Head Cane and Queen Mother of the West a Pure Water Bowl, warning them not to disturb the Primordial World.
• Di Jun and Taiyi considered Hongjun’s warning as they watched East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West accept their appointments.
• After Hongjun ended the preaching, powerful figures returned to the Primordial World and began plotting or acting independently amid resentment toward the new leaders.
• At the Demon Emperor Palace, Di Jun told Taiyi to have the demon race ignore East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West, leaving them leaders in name unless they provoked the demons.

East King Duke used Hongjun’s decree to subdue independent cultivators, then provoked the demon race and was attacked by Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng. His Purple Mansion forces were wiped out, and the badly wounded East King Duke faced their final assault.

• Queen Mother of the West established the Jade Pool Grand Meeting, while East King Duke created the Purple Mansion and demanded that male immortals register.
• East King Duke forcibly subdued independent cultivators and killed those who resisted, while Queen Mother of the West kept her distance from his plans.
• Di Jun directed the demon race to oppose East King Duke and waited until his actions brought heavy Karma and heavenly warnings.
• Di Jun and Taiyi led demons and aggrieved cultivators to burn the Purple Mansion’s main gate and demand an explanation from East King Duke.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng attacked East King Duke as the demon army overwhelmed his forces, leaving him badly wounded and facing their final strike.

After East King Duke died in his self-destruction, the demon race grew increasingly domineering, and repeated clashes with the Witch Clan escalated into the Witch-Demon Great War. A failed agreement deepened the two races’ hatred, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches gathered as another Great Witch fell.

• East King Duke detonated himself, destroying the Purple Mansion and dying despite Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng surviving the blast behind the Twelve-Rank Merit Golden Lotus.
• Queen Mother of the West withdrew to Western Kunlun, while Di Jun and Taiyi left her alone and the demon race became more arrogant.
• Clashes between the Witch Clan and demon race escalated from minor disputes to deaths among powerful cultivators, forcing both sides’ leaders to negotiate.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches agreed that the demon race would withdraw from Witch Clan territory and that the Witches would stop deliberately killing intelligent demon beasts.
• The agreement unraveled as the Witch Clan expanded and hunted unintelligent demon beasts, worsening resentment until both sides prepared for open conflict.
• Gonggong told the gathered Twelve Ancestral Witches that another Great Witch had fallen and angrily condemned the demon race.

The Witch and Demon Clans fought their long-awaited decisive battle beneath Buzhou Mountain, but the Twelve Ancestral Witches turned the tide by forming Pangu True Body. As Pangu True Body unleashed a Saint-level strike against the Demon leaders, the chapter ended with them facing apparent defeat.

• A hundred years after agreeing to a decisive battle, the Witch and Demon Clans met beneath Buzhou Mountain and began fighting.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, Fuxi, and Kunpeng fought the Twelve Ancestral Witches while the clans’ forces battled below.
• Kunpeng held back Dijiang without fighting at full strength, and the clashes across the battlefield became deadlocked.
• Dijiang called on the other eleven Ancestral Witches to form the Twelve Celestial Gods and Demons Formation, summoning Pangu True Body.
• Pangu True Body attacked Di Jun, Taiyi, and the others with a strike said to rival a Saint’s full-force blow, leaving the Demon leaders despairing.

Hongjun intervened in the Witch-Demon war, forcing both clans into a ten-thousand-year truce. On Penglai Island, Zhou Jun decided to enter seclusion to pursue the Heavenly Dao Realm and summoned Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon to give them instructions.

• Hongjun shattered the Pangu True Body with a palm strike, injuring the Twelve Ancestral Witches and saving Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Demon Clan.
• Hongjun decreed that the Demon Clan would rule the heavens and the Witch Clan would govern the earth, and that neither side could wage war for ten thousand years.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches withdrew to Pangu Hall, while Di Jun and Taiyi gathered the Demon Clan to clear the battlefield.
• The Witch and Demon Clans observed an uneasy peace, exchanging insults and cold stares without fighting.
• Zhou Jun judged that Hongjun was nearing the Peak Saint realm and resolved to enter seclusion to reach the Heavenly Dao Realm before the coming war between the two worlds.
• Zhou Jun summoned Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon and began explaining what they should do while he was in seclusion.

Zhou Jun instructed Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon about future opportunities, disciples, and merits before entering seclusion to pursue the Heavenly Dao Realm. Meanwhile, Di Jun and Taiyi discovered the Heavenly Court, claimed it for the demon race, and prepared a celebration as they secretly planned to use its Great Zhou Heavenly Star Formation against the Witch Clan.

• Zhou Jun told Lu Shiping to follow Hong Yun after Hongjun's third Preaching of the Dao and seize the Primordial Violet Qi if Hong Yun self-destructed, while Candle Dragon was to assist only if Hongjun intervened.
• Zhou Jun named Kong Xuan, Duobao, Lu Ya, and Xuandu as possible second-generation disciples and advised Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon to seek merit from Nuwa, Houtu, and the repair of Buzhou Mountain.
• Zhou Jun told Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon to strengthen the Space-Time Realm before he vanished into closed-door cultivation to pursue a breakthrough to the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• After Hongjun divided the demon race's and Witch Clan's domains, demon soldiers found a fading Formation on Buzhou Mountain and discovered the Heavenly Court behind it.
• Di Jun and Taiyi explored the Heavenly Court, found its thirty-three heavens and the Great Zhou Heavenly Star Formation, and secretly resolved to use the Formation against the Witch Clan.
• The demon race moved into the Heavenly Court, while Fuxi, Nuwa, and Kunpeng arranged a celebration and Di Jun and Taiyi personally invited the Primordial World's great experts.

Di Jun and Tai Yi established the Heavenly Court and gained enough merit to become Two-Corpse Quasi-Saints. At Hongjun’s final Preaching of the Dao, he began assigning Saint Seats, naming the Three Pure Ones and then Nuwa as disciples.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi offered sacrifices to Heaven and Earth and swore an oath to establish the Heavenly Court, receiving merit that let them become Two-Corpse Quasi-Saints.
• Nuwa, Fuxi, Kunpeng, and the demons received the remaining merit, and the gathered great powers later departed from the celebration.
• Lu Shiping and the other cultivators gathered at Zixiao Palace for Hongjun’s third and final Preaching of the Dao.
• Hongjun preached the path of Saints for a thousand years, which most of the audience struggled to understand.
• Hongjun announced that six Saints would arise beneath him and bestowed Primordial Violet Qi upon Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian after accepting them as disciples.
• Hongjun asked Nuwa whether she was willing to become his disciple.

Hongjun assigned the remaining Saint positions, transferred the West’s karmic burden to Zhunti and Jieyin, and distributed treasures to his disciples. He left Zhunti and Jieyin waiting for gifts, having run short of powerful treasures because Zhou Jun had claimed so many.

• Hongjun accepted Zhunti and Jieyin as registered disciples, granted them Primordial Violet Qi, and transferred the West’s immense karmic burden to them.
• Hongjun tossed the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi into the sky, and it entered Hong Yun’s primordial spirit as Kunpeng glared at him with hatred.
• Hongjun gave Laozi the Precious Lotus Lantern, Yuanshi the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, and Tongtian the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and their formation diagram.
• Tongtian celebrated the formation’s power while Laozi and Yuanshi grew wary and jealous, and Hongjun was pleased to see discord among the Three Pure Ones.
• Hongjun gave Nuwa the Red Embroidered Ball but had no Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures left for Zhunti and Jieyin, who began hinting that they needed protection.

Hongjun distributed treasures to his disciples and the Zixiao Palace guests, then announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao. After Hongjun disappeared into the Dao, Hong Yun’s self-destruction had not yet occurred.

• Hongjun gave Zhunti and Jieyin the Blessing Vajra Pestle and the Glazed Pagoda, while the Three Thousand Guests of Zixiao asked him for treasures.
• Hongjun sent the cultivators to divide the treasures on the Treasure Distribution Rock, and Lu Shiping collected hundreds of treasures before taking the rock itself.
• The Three Thousand Guests of Zixiao and the leading powers divided the remaining treasures and returned to Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun announced that he would integrate with the Dao because the Heavenly Dao was incomplete, and said he would no longer appear except during a great calamity.
• Hongjun merged with the Wheels of Heavenly Dao, and Zixiao Palace vanished into the chaos.

After Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao, Kunpeng, Di Jun, and Taiyi ambushed Hong Yun to seize his Primordial Violet Qi. Hong Yun destroyed his body to escape, but Minghe intercepted his fleeing spirit and claimed the violet qi.

• Zhen Yuanzi returned to Wuzhuang Temple while Hong Yun left to travel through the Primordial World, unaware that Di Jun and Taiyi were following him.
• Kunpeng confronted Hong Yun and demanded his Primordial Violet Qi, then attacked when Hong Yun refused.
• Di Jun and Taiyi joined Kunpeng, trapping Hong Yun and blocking his escape with the River Diagram Luo Shu and Twelve-Rank Merit Golden Lotus.
• Hong Yun fought back with his Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd, then detonated his physical body when he realized he could not escape.
• Hong Yun's spirit fled in the gourd toward Wuzhuang Temple, but Minghe stopped it with karma fire and declared the Primordial Violet Qi his.

After Hong Yun destroyed himself, Lu Shiping obtained the Primordial Violet Qi and became a Saint. Nuwa set out for Penglai to seek her opportunity and arrived at its three islands.

• Minghe tried to claim the Primordial Violet Qi, but Hong Yun self-destructed his primordial spirit, destroying the gourd and making the qi disappear from the battlefield.
• Lu Shiping seized the passing Primordial Violet Qi, returned to Penglai, and became a Saint after Candle Dragon concealed the heavenly secrets.
• Hongjun sensed Lu Shiping's ascension and accepted that the violet qi had gone to him.
• Zhen Yuanzi mourned Hong Yun and vowed enmity toward Di Jun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, and Minghe, while Zhunti and Jieyin rejoiced that Hong Yun's karmic debt was gone.
• Nuwa decided to leave Buzhou Mountain, travel the Primordial World, and visit Penglai; she arrived at its three islands.

Nuwa visited Penglai to thank Zhou Jun for helping her awaken her spiritual intelligence, but learned that he was in seclusion. After Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon agreed to pass along her gratitude, Nuwa asked Lu Shiping for another favor.

• Nuwa called out to Penglai after failing to find a way through its protective formation.
• Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon welcomed Nuwa and revealed their Saint-level auras, shocking her.
• Nuwa explained that she had come to repay the expert who had once preached the Dao on Buzhou Mountain.
• Lu Shiping told Nuwa that the expert was their master, Dao Venerable Zhou Jun, who was in seclusion.
• Candle Dragon coldly urged Nuwa to leave, while Lu Shiping reassured her that they would convey her message to Zhou Jun.
• Nuwa thanked Lu Shiping and began to ask him for another favor.

Nuwa learned that her Heaven-ordained merit lay in creation, and Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon lent her the Nine Heavens Breath Soil and Gourd Vine before the Heavenly Dao stopped them from revealing more. After creating the human race on Buzhou Mountain, Nuwa gained enough merit to become a Saint and announced her new title and Dao Field.

• Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon told Nuwa her merit lay in creation, then lent her the Nine Heavens Breath Soil and Gourd Vine before the Heavenly Dao warned them to stop.
• Nuwa wandered the Primordial land for thousands of years and realized the human race was needed after witnessing the Witch Clan and demon race slaughtering one another.
• Nuwa used the Nine Heavens Breath Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, her blood, and the Gourd Vine to create millions of humans.
• Nuwa declared the creation of the human race, and the Heavenly Dao bestowed merit on her, the Gourd Vine, Candle Dragon, and Lu Shiping.
• Nuwa absorbed the merit, became a Saint, proclaimed herself Empress Nuwa, and announced that she would establish Empress Wa's Palace in the chaos.

After Nuwa became a Saint, powers from across the primordial world went to congratulate her while Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon taught the struggling human race. They recruited Duobao and Xuandu as disciples and returned to Penglai, where their lineage began teaching as other major events unfolded.

• Nuwa established Empress Wa's Palace in the chaos, and the Three Pure Ones, Zhunti and Jieyin, Di Jun and Taiyi, and Zhen Yuanzi went to congratulate her.
• Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon taught the humans survival skills, and the Heavenly Dao rewarded them with merit.
• Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon found Duobao, whose true form was a Treasure Basin, and he became Candle Dragon's disciple.
• Lu Shiping, Candle Dragon, and Duobao found the determined Xuandu, who chose Lu Shiping as his master.
• The group returned to Penglai, where Kong Xuan joined them and Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon began teaching their disciples.

Laozi discovered the human race’s lasting fortune and became a Saint by establishing the Human Teachings, followed by Yuanshi and Tongtian founding their own sects and becoming Saints. Zhunti and Jieyin then established the Western Teachings, but their merit was insufficient to make them Saints.

• Laozi lived among the humans, recognized their enduring fate, and concluded that his chance to become a Saint lay with them.
• Laozi established the Human Teachings and became a Saint after receiving Heavenly Dao merit.
• Yuanshi established the Chan Teachings and Tongtian established the Interception Sect, and both became Saints.
• Zhunti and Jieyin established the Western Teachings, but their merit did not bring them to Sainthood.
• Zhunti and Jieyin wondered what they should do after failing to become Saints.

Zhunti and Jieyin became Saints by making forty-eight great vows, while Minghe failed to attain Sainthood despite creating the Asura Race and establishing the Asura Teachings. The Saints then began founding their sects and accepting disciples, and Kunlun Mountain drew crowds as the Three Pure Ones took different approaches to choosing followers.

• Zhunti and Jieyin broke away from the Mystic Gate and made forty-eight vows to the Heavenly Dao, gaining enough merit to become Saints.
• Minghe created the Asura Race and established the Asura Teachings, but the merit he received could not help him break through to Hunyuan.
• Laozi accepted one human disciple, True Person Changmei, and declared that he would take no more disciples.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable carefully selected eleven disciples for the Chan Teachings, alongside his earlier disciples Yunzhongzi and Antarctic Immortal Elder.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable made the Quasi-Saint Daoist Randeng the Chan Teachings' nominal Vice Sect Leader.
• Tongtian preached daily and accepted those who came to listen as disciples or Registered Disciples.

Tongtian broke with Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable after they objected to his disciples filling Kunlun Mountain, and the Three Pure Ones established separate Dao Fields. As the Witch Clan and demon race prepared to resume their war, Zhou Jun continued approaching the Heavenly Dao Realm in seclusion on Penglai.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Laozi criticized Tongtian for accepting too many disciples, and Tongtian declared that the Three Pure Ones were no longer one before leaving with his followers.
• Tongtian established Golden Turtle Island as his Dao Field, Laozi settled on Shouyang Mountain, and Primordial Heavenly Venerable remained alone on Kunlun Mountain.
• Zhunti and Jieyin celebrated the Three Pure Ones' division and planned to exploit Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Tongtian's weaknesses.
• Candle Dragon and Lu Shiping sensed Zhou Jun's growing power on Penglai and trained in anticipation of the coming war between the Space-Time Realm and the Primordial World.
• As the Witch Clan and demon race's ten-thousand-year truce neared its end, both sides strengthened their forces for a final battle.

Di Jun and Xi He married in a grand Heavenly Court ceremony after Di Jun’s attempt to drug Chang Xi went wrong and left him bound to Xi He. The marriage strengthened the Demon Clan’s standing, while Di Jun and Taiyi turned their attention to preparing for the next Witch-Demon war.

• Di Jun tried to drug Chang Xi so he could force her into marriage, but Chang Xi was away and Xi He was drugged instead, leaving Di Jun at her mercy.
• Di Jun and Xi He accepted their accidental union, invited Nuwa to officiate, and summoned the Primordial world’s great powers to their wedding.
• Nuwa officiated as Di Jun and Xi He bowed to Heaven and Earth, and merit descended upon the couple and the Red Embroidered Ball.
• Xi He spoke of bearing Di Jun many children, and Di Jun nervously changed the subject by urging Taiyi to find a goddess.
• Di Jun and Taiyi resolved to cultivate diligently and prepare to defeat the Witch Clan in the next war, while the Witch Clan began making moves.

Houtu transformed her body into the Six Paths of Reincarnation so the souls in the Sea of Blood could be reborn, leaving the Witch Clan without one of its Twelve Ancestral Witches. Her remaining True Spirit became Pingxin, and the beings of the Primordial World honored her sacrifice.

• Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon met Houtu at the Sea of Blood and helped her recognize that the struggling souls needed reincarnation.
• Houtu resolved to complete the world created by Father God, despite knowing that her departure would weaken the Witch Clan.
• Houtu addressed the Heavenly Dao, transformed into six vortices, and created the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Merit descended from the heavens, with two portions going to Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon and the rest entering the reincarnation and Houtu's True Spirit.
• Houtu's True Spirit became Pingxin, who greeted Lu Shiping and Candle Dragon as the beings of the Primordial World bowed in respect.