Chapter Summaries

Taiyi recognized the Ten Golden Crows’ immense karmic debt as backlash from draining the Solar Star Origin, while Dong Wang Gong, Queen Mother of the West, and Zhen Yuanzi prepared for an approaching great calamity. The chapter left the Ten Golden Crows’ disaster looming as allies mobilized to protect the Primordial Land and its inhabitants.

• Taiyi sensed the Solar Star’s changes, saw the Ten Golden Crows’ karmic debt, and returned his attention to stabilizing the grand array.
• Dong Wang Gong captured an image of the blackened Ten Golden Crows and ordered the Immortal Court’s immortals and gods to help the Ten Thousand Races resist the coming disaster.
• Taixuan’s words reassured Dong Wang Gong, who anticipated Haotian refining Yingzhou Immortal Island and caring for the Immortal Court’s remnants.
• Queen Mother of the West gave Xuan Nü and Su Nü four Purple Veined Xiang Kernel Immortal Peaches and sent them with the West Kunlun Female Immortals to the Primordial Land.
• Zhen Yuanzi told the Nine-Colored Deer that he could protect Longevity Mountain but could not personally intervene in the tribulation, and the Nine-Colored Deer sent out messages.

Yuanshi, Minghe, Tongtian, Laozi, and Nuwa prepared to guard or aid the Primordial Wilderness as ten Golden Crows scorched the land. Kuafu drove the Golden Crows away from Zhou Mountain and toward the East Sea.

• Yuanshi left the Underworld Nether in the care of his Order Incarnation, while Minghe entrusted the Blood Sea to Black Minghe and discussed the Asura Sect's purpose with Pāpīyas.
• Yuanshi visited Tongtian on Golden Ao Island, gave Spiritual Treasures to Tongtian's disciples, and took Tongtian back to Kunlun as Daoist Qingping guarded the island.
• Laozi left Xuan Du Mountain for Kunlun, entrusting its protection to Li Dan, who continued preaching behind a Yin-Yang barrier.
• Nuwa sent Golden Phoenix and elites from several clans to help the Human Race face the coming crisis.
• Ten Golden Crows raised the temperature across the Primordial Land, drying rivers and scorching the earth with Solar True Fire.
• Kuafu used his Innate Peach Wood to steer the Golden Crows away from Zhou Mountain and drive them toward the East Sea.

After Kuafu died pursuing the ten Golden Crows, Hou Yi obtained a Profound Ice Bow and arrows and began shooting them down. He had killed three Golden Crows by the time the surviving princes formed an array and Hou Yi fired two more arrows.

• Kuafu used peach wood infused with Innate Ren Water Qi to resist the Golden Crows, but their Solar True Fire scorched the land and killed him near the East Sea.
• Kuafu's body became a mountain and his peach wood became a Peach Forest, while a wisp of Innate Ren Water Qi sheltered his weak Primordial Spirit and True Spirit within the tree.
• Hou Yi sensed Kuafu's death and set out for the East Sea, where a Profound Ice Bow and ten arrows appeared before him.
• Hou Yi shot down the eighth Golden Crow, and the Golden Crow princes formed the Nine Palaces array as groups across the Primordial Land worked to protect life and fight the fires.
• Xuan Yuan learned that the ten suns had killed many humans and flew from the ancestral land as Hou Yi shot down two more Golden Crows.

Hou Yi and Xuan Yuan fought the Golden Crows after nine of them fell, and Hou Yi killed the Sixth Golden Crow as well. Xihe learned that her children were dead and rushed to confront Hou Yi, appearing beside him and Xuan Yuan despite their attempt to escape.

• Taiyi sensed the Golden Crows’ deaths on the Solar Star and chose not to intervene.
• The Sixth Golden Crow seized his brothers’ Original Sources to advance to the Quasi-Saint Realm, but Hou Yi’s arrows killed the remaining Golden Crows except him.
• Xuan Yuan confronted the Sixth Golden Crow, whose attacks failed against Xuan Yuan’s Human Immortal Martial Dao, while Hou Yi entered the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal Realm.
• Hou Yi’s arrows pierced the Sixth Golden Crow’s Solar True Fire and killed him, and Xuan Yuan collected the Golden Crow bodies.
• Di Jun and Xihe discovered that all ten Golden Crows had fallen, and Di Jun blamed Hou Yi and the Witch Clan.
• Xihe rushed out of the Heavenly Court to kill Hou Yi, but she appeared beside him and Xuan Yuan before they could flee.

Xihe attacked Hou Yi and Xuan Yuan over the deaths of her sons, but the Demon Race's fortunes collapsed as her contempt for other living beings spread through the Void Realm. After Dijiang killed Xihe, he opened a passage that Hou Yi believed led to the Taiyin Star.

• Xihe tried to seize Hou Yi and Xuan Yuan, but Dijiang and Fuxi appeared and defended them while Fuxi condemned the Ten Golden Crows' crimes.
• Zhujiuyin confronted Bai Ze, whose intervention had awakened the Ten Golden Crows and whose attempt to help the Six Golden Crows escape had been stopped.
• Bai Ze saw the Demon Race's fortune plunge and karmic debt gather around it; Di Jun suffered a backlash that dropped his cultivation from Quasi-Saint Perfection to the late stage.
• Xihe lunged at Hou Yi, but Dijiang and Fuxi intervened, and the Heavenly Dao struck her with Divine Thunder.
• Dijiang tore Xihe's Primordial Spirit True Spirit from her body and annihilated it with the Space Laws.
• Dijiang opened a space passage, and Hou Yi said it likely led to the Taiyin Star.

Di Jun attacked Dijiang and his allies with the Primordial River Luo Great Formation, but Dijiang broke through it with the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler. Dong Wang Gong joined the fight and taunted Di Jun, leaving Di Jun furious and vowing to kill him.

• Dijiang confronted Di Jun, who arrived with the Demon Race army and ordered them to form the Primordial River Luo Great Formation.
• Dijiang accused Di Jun of plotting to use the Ten Golden Crows to seize rule of the Primordial Wilderness, while several Demon Race Quasi-Saints hesitated but stayed in formation.
• Dong Wang Gong appeared with the Myriad Gods Chart, and Di Jun's formation enveloped him, Dijiang, Fuxi, and their companions.
• Dijiang shattered the formation's space with the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler, injured Di Jun, and slew many Demon Race soldiers.
• As the Demon Race army launched another attack, Dong Wang Gong proposed retreating and revealed an image to mock Di Jun about the Ten Golden Crows and Xihe.
• Di Jun erupted with fury and vowed to kill Dong Wang Gong.

Di Jun attacked Dijiang after Fuxi entered enlightenment, but Fuxi’s Earth Dao Sacred Sword broke through the Primordial River Luo Great Formation and saved him. Haotian returned to Purple Mansion Continent with Leize’s survivors and shared the Immortal Island’s spoils, while the Ancestral Witches found Dijiang’s location and encountered a grand array.

• Dong Wang Gong taunted Di Jun over Xihe and the Ten Black Crows, then escaped with the Myriad Gods Chart as Di Jun turned his rage on Dijiang and the others.
• Dijiang and Fuxi fought the Primordial River Luo Great Formation while Hou Yi and Xuan Yuan battled the Demon Race; Fuxi entered enlightenment and comprehended a Method of Human Dao Awakening through the Earth Dao Sacred Sword.
• Di Jun used the formation to strike at Dijiang, but Fuxi’s Earth Dao Sacred Sword summoned a phantom of the Primordial Land that shattered the formation’s attack.
• Haotian appeared beside Leize, and Leize withdrew the surviving Immortal Court forces; Haotian transported them to Purple Mansion Continent and gave them healing treasures and other spoils from the Immortal Island.
• Gou Mang and the other Ancestral Witches found Dijiang’s aura behind a grand array, then Gou Mang restrained Gonggong when he tried to smash through it.

Gou Mang and the Ancestral Witches confronted Di Jun after Fuxi entered an epiphany, exposing the Demon Race’s crimes and demanding that it leave the Heavenly Court. Dijiang announced that the Ten Thousand Races would attack together in ten thousand years, while Li Dan sent Kong Xuan and Xuan Du to the Human Race with a Great Dao method.

• Dong Wang Gong revealed the grand array’s weak points, but Earthly Dao Power shattered it before the Ancestral Witches could attack, revealing Dijiang guarding Fuxi as he entered an epiphany.
• Gou Mang demanded that Di Jun withdraw from the Heavenly Court and answer for the Golden Crows’ destruction, while Dong Wang Gong spread claims that they were Black Crows and that Di Jun had stolen the Sun Origin.
• Jiu Ying and Ghost Chariot arrived with other Demon Gods, but Dijiang killed the two Demon Sages with the Heaven Measuring Ruler and announced that the Ten Thousand Races would attack the Demon Race in ten thousand years unless it withdrew and made amends.
• Dijiang departed with Hou Yi, Xuan Yuan, and the newly awakened Fuxi, while Di Jun ordered the remaining Demon Race forces back to the Heavenly Court and killed a subordinate who questioned the retreat.
• Li Dan summoned Kong Xuan and Xuan Du, gave each a Great Dao method and protective treasure, then sent them together into the Human Race.

As the Ten Thousand Races prepared to attack the Demon Race, Taixuan visited Luohou to ask him to take in the Fierce Beast Kings Qiongqi and Hundun. Taixuan proposed that Luohou help the Primordial Wilderness ascend by conquering new territory, offering the possibility of attaining Dao as a Sage.

• Pāpīyas ordered the Asura army to avoid killing those with little Karmic Debt during the coming attack on the Demon Race.
• Yuanshi sent Nanji and his fellow disciples to join the Ten Thousand Races, while Daoist Qingping armed his disciples with Spiritual Treasures and warned them not to kill recklessly.
• Zhunti and Jieyin agreed that the Western Sect should save members of the Demon Race and guide them toward goodness.
• Taixuan sensed Qiongqi and Hundun at the edge of the Primordial Starry Sky and went to the Demon Realm to find Luohou.
• Taixuan showed Luohou the two Fierce Beast Kings and asked him to take them in, then urged Luohou to conquer new territory for the Primordial Wilderness.

Taiyi helped Wangshu stabilize the growing Taiyin Star and collected Imperial Flow Liquid, while Taixuan brought Luohou to the Edge of Chaos to subdue Qiongqi and Chaos. Taixuan erased the two Fierce Beast Kings’ wills with the Purification Law.

• Taiyi discovered that the Solar Star’s growth had stimulated the Taiyin Star and flew there to check on Wangshu.
• Wangshu used the Lunar Moon Wheel to gather Taiyin Origin, and Taiyi restrained his Solar True Fire so he would not disrupt her work.
• Taiyin moonlight condensed into Imperial Flow Liquid, which Wangshu urged Taiyi to collect for the future Demon Race.
• Taixuan brought Luohou to the Edge of Chaos, where Luohou prepared to fight the Ferocious Beast Army and its kings, Qiongqi and Chaos.
• Taixuan unleashed the Purification Law and rapidly erased Qiongqi and Chaos’s wills.

Taixuan subdued Qiongqi and Chaos, then left them for Luohou to bind with his Primordial Spirit Black Lotus. Luohou sent the two Fierce Beast Kings into Chaos to find scattered worlds, and afterward visited the Primordial Starry Sky with Doumu Yuanjun, Ziwei, and Chang Geng.

• Taixuan purified Qiongqi and Chaos until they became docile, then handed them to Luohou to subdue.
• Luohou used his Primordial Spirit Black Lotus to parasitize Qiongqi and Chaos, who gained intelligence and pledged allegiance to him.
• Luohou learned that Qiongqi and Chaos could still control the Ferocious Beast Army and ordered them to search Chaos for scattered worlds.
• Qiongqi and Chaos led the Ferocious Beast Army out of the Primordial World and into Chaos.
• Taixuan returned to the Heavenly Dao Space, while Doumu Yuanjun, Ziwei, and Chang Geng invited Luohou to visit the Primordial Starry Sky.
• Luohou recognized the Chaos Star Array associated with Xingchen in the Primordial Starry Sky.

Luohou toured the restored Primordial Starry Sky, then sensed Yangmei’s rise to Half-step Hunyuan Taiji Daluo Golden Immortal and regretted his own past choices. Yangmei shared his Dao of Worlds insights with Qiyuan and formed the Space-Time Realm, while Taixuan noticed a time-imbued Great Thousand World approaching the Primordial World.

• Luohou inspected Doumu Yuanjun’s Chaos Star Array and was shocked that it included more than three hundred Primordial Origin Golden Immortals.
• Doumu Yuanjun guided Luohou through the Primordial Starry Sky, whose stars and Star Origins had recovered and strengthened since the Ferocious Beast tribulation.
• After returning to the Demon Realm, Luohou sensed a Half-step Hunyuan Taiji Daluo Golden Immortal aura and suspected it belonged to Yangmei, then regretted being bound to the Primordial World.
• Yangmei praised Qiyuan’s cultivation of the Dao of Worlds, accepted him as a martial nephew, and gave him insights into the Dao of Worlds and the Law of Space.
• Yangmei cultivated the Space-Time Law through his Great Thousand World, the Space-Time Realm, and reached the threshold of perfecting it.
• Taixuan observed Yangmei’s progress and noticed a time-imbued Great Thousand World advancing toward the Primordial World.

Zhen Yuanzi declined to join the Ten Thousand Races’ planned attack on the Demon Race, while Yang Mei explained his path toward Hunyuan and urged Red Cloud to aid the Human Race. At the Human Ancestral Land, allied clans pledged to fight alongside the Human Race, and Xuan Nü and Su Nü arrived at the Immortal Court with Queen Mother of the West’s forces.

• Zhen Yuanzi told Red Cloud that he would not join the campaign against the Demon Race because his Earth Book opportunity required him to avoid karmic ties with them.
• Yang Mei appeared at Wuzhuang Temple, praised Zhen Yuanzi’s progress, and said perfecting the Earth Book opportunity could lead him to Hunyuan.
• At the Human Ancestral Land, Bai Xi, Xuanwu, the Wa Clan Patriarch, and other clan leaders told Fuxi they were willing to join the Human Race in attacking the Demon Race.
• Fuxi warned the allied clans that he could not guarantee their interests, and they accepted his terms after seeing the Human Race’s formidable cultivation foundation.
• Xuan Nü and Su Nü brought living beings from West Kunlun to the Immortal Court and told Dong Wang Gong that Queen Mother of the West would come later.

The Ten Thousand Races gathered their forces to campaign against the Demon Race as Di Jun prepared a mysterious weapon and Taiyi rallied former Demon Race clans to his side. At the Heavenly Court, Dong Wang Gong was pressed into leading the attack, while Red Cloud arrived with the Ancestor Court of Earth Immortals.

• Ao Guang ordered the Dragon Clan to assemble its elite forces, while the Qilin and Phoenix Clans also prepared to campaign against the Demon Race.
• Huo Wu agreed to join the campaign, and Jieyin and Zhunti sent Ksitigarbha, Mahasthamaprapta, and other Western Sect disciples east.
• Di Jun guarded the Heavenly Court and infused a special object with Demon Race blood essence as he prepared a feast for the Ten Thousand Races.
• Taiyi told former Demon Race clans that Di Jun had allied with the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, then led several thousand elites toward the Heavenly Court.
• Dijiang, Zhujiuyin, Fuxi, the Four Ancestors of the Human Race, and their forces arrived, and Dijiang said Dong Wang Gong must lead the campaign.
• Red Cloud arrived with the elites of the Ancestor Court of Earth Immortals and apologized for their late arrival.

Dong Wang Gong led the gathered races and Three Daos forces in an assault on the Heavenly Court, where Di Jun unleashed the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. As the battle began, Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian fought concealed invaders on Kunlun Mountain and prepared to face one remaining enemy together.

• Dong Wang Gong ordered the Immortal Court to form its Myriad Immortals Array and attack through the Heavenly Gate.
• Taiyi refused to help the Demon Race, accused Di Jun of summoning Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, and appeared ready to oppose his elder brother.
• Di Jun waved a purple-green banner that turned the Demon Race against the Ten Thousand Races, then the allied forces attacked him and the Demon Sages.
• Outer Realm Heavenly Demons appeared and resisted Dijiang's attack, while Taixuan watched from the Heavenly Dao Space and let the battle continue.
• Laozi detected concealed invaders on Kunlun Mountain, joined Yuanshi and Tongtian in battle, and discovered that destroying the enemies' cores could kill them.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian slew several invaders and prepared to use the Primordial Three Talents Great Array against the last powerful enemy.

The Three Pure Ones summoned Pangu's Primordial Spirit to defeat the final enemy, while battles across the Heavenly Court grew more desperate. As Di Jun unleashed mass self-destruction among his forces, Mosquito Daoist stole the River Diagram and Luo Shu and prepared to flee.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian summoned Pangu's Primordial Spirit, which crushed the final enemy before the Three Pure Ones and their incarnations weakened.
• Zhujiuyin and Qing Yun discovered that the Outer Realm Demons weakened when killed and that a gray mist creature wielded the Devouring Law; Qing Yun warned the allied forces.
• Qing Yun and Qing Ze joined Dong Wang Gong's battle against Di Jun, while Haotian fought alongside the Immortal Court.
• Dong Wang Gong accused Di Jun of driving other powers into conflict, and Di Jun retaliated by ordering Demon Gods to self-detonate, killing many Immortal Court forces.
• Qing Yun used the Creation Green Lotus to shield the Immortal Court's unburdened immortals and gods as the explosions devastated both armies.
• Mosquito Daoist swept away the River Diagram and Luo Shu and tried to escape, while Dong Wang Gong engaged Di Jun and Leize's forces broke through the destabilized Primordial River Luo Great Formation.

Xuan Yuan fought Mosquito Daoist and depleted his life-saving rebirth ability before Eastern Emperor Taiyi killed him with Solar True Fire. Taiyi gave the River Diagram and Luo Shu to Fuxi, who accepted the treasure and joined Taiyi and Xuan Yuan against the Outer Realm Demons, while Di Jun discovered his Nascent Soul Mark with the treasures had been severed.

• Xuan Yuan confronted Mosquito Daoist over his past crimes against the Human Race and repeatedly killed him, wearing down his Original Source despite his Blood-Drop Rebirth.
• Mosquito Daoist offered the River Diagram and Luo Shu to save his life, but Xuan Yuan refused to spare him.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi burned Mosquito Daoist and his True Spirit with Solar True Fire, then offered the River Diagram and Luo Shu to Fuxi.
• Fuxi accepted the treasure after discovering it was connected to his opportunity for Dao Attainment, and Taiyi welcomed his offer to meet again.
• Taiyi, Fuxi, and Xuan Yuan set off together to fight the Outer Realm Demons, and Di Jun discovered that his Nascent Soul Mark with the River Diagram and Luo Shu had been severed.

As the Immortal Court and Demon Race armies suffered heavy losses, Di Jun self-destructed to take Dong Wang Gong and Dijiang with him, while Laozi secretly preserved Dong Wang Gong’s remains. The ensuing chain of self-destructions devastated both factions, and tens of thousands of years later only a few survivors remained.

• Spiritual Wood Daoist was killed by several Demon Sages, and the Ice Wind Demon Saint self-destructed while embracing Leize; Yao Chi collected Leize’s True Spirit and a wisp of his Original Source with the Galaxy Gold Hairpin.
• Di Jun lured Dong Wang Gong close to Dijiang, then self-destructed, severely wounding Dong Wang Gong and nearly injuring Dijiang.
• Laozi retrieved a purple Flowing Light and Golden-Red Origin from the aftermath and placed them in the Jade Pure Bottle to nurture them.
• Queen Mother of the West used the Kunlun Mirror to collect Dong Wang Gong’s Pure Yang Origin and escape the spreading explosions with several Immortal Gods.
• Demon Race and Immortal Court members continued self-destructing, and tens of thousands of years later both factions had been reduced to a pitiful few survivors.

After Di Jun fell, Taiyi took charge of the surviving Demon Race while the Ancestral Witches and other allies cleared the Heavenly Court of Outer Realm Demon Gods. Nearly an Eon later, Taiyi formally became Demon Race chief, and the Primordial Wilderness began recovering from the war.

• Dijiang recovered from Di Jun’s self-detonation, learned his brothers had also been targeted, and stopped Gonggong from attacking the weakened Demon Race.
• Dijiang led the Ancestral Witches into the Heavenly Court to annihilate the remaining Outer Realm Demon Gods, while Haotian, Yao Chi, and the Queen Mother of the West took in the surviving Immortal Court forces.
• Taiyi gathered the pure-spirited Demon Race members under his command, while other demons fled north or sought refuge with Kunpeng.
• Qing Yun and Qing Ze met Huo Wu, and Qing Yun gave her a defensive Lotus Throne before leading her and their companions into the Heavenly Court to help clear out the Outer Realm Demon Gods.
• After nearly an Eon of fighting, the allied forces finished eliminating the Outer Realm Demon Gods, and the various races returned to their territories to recover.
• Taiyi declared himself chief of the Demon Race before the Three Daos, received their approval, and accepted congratulations from powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness.

Qing Yun, Qing Ze, Huo Wu, and Bai Xuan received Taixuan’s permission and his Dao teaching before traveling to the Taichu Realm. Back in the Primordial Wilderness, Fuxi met with the Human Race’s leaders, who sought his counsel as their people rapidly grew in strength.

• Qing Yun led Qing Ze, Huo Wu, and Bai Xuan into the Dao Realm, where Taixuan granted them permission to travel to the Taichu Realm and preached the Dao to them for ten thousand years.
• Taixuan praised Qing Ze’s cultivation and Sword Dao before sending the four disciples through a portal to the Taichu Realm.
• Qing Yun showed Huo Wu and Bai Xuan the Taichu Realm’s treasures, including its Medicine Garden, Chaos Spirit Pond, and Chaos Spirit Roots, then returned with them to the Primordial Wilderness.
• As the Human Race grew under the Witch Clan’s support, Fuxi pondered the River Diagram and Luo Shu until Xuan Yuan brought him to meet the Three Ancestors of Suiren.
• Fuxi examined the Human Race’s strength and told the Three Ancestors that its many Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Taiyi Golden Immortals had made it one of the great races of the Primordial Wilderness.