Chapter Summaries

Taichu watched Yangmei defeat Luohou in the Demon Realm, then demonstrated the imbalance in Yangmei’s attempt to cultivate the Space-Time Dao. Yangmei and Luohou asked Taichu for help, but he remained reluctant to let either achieve their goals easily.

• Taichu strengthened the Demon Realm’s barriers so Yangmei and Luohou could fight without destroying it.
• Yangmei overwhelmed Luohou, disarmed him, and immobilized him despite Luohou drawing on the Demon Realm’s power.
• Luohou asked Taichu where he came from and why he opposed Hongjun, and Taichu said he came from beyond the realm and could not stand Hongjun.
• Yangmei asked Taichu whether he could cultivate the Space-Time Dao, and Taichu showed that Yangmei’s Power of Space dominated his Power of Time.
• Taichu urged Yangmei to remember that all things had a thread of hope, prompting Yangmei to ask for a solution while Luohou’s Heavenly Dao restraints remained unresolved.

Taichu explained how his Origin Dao could help Yangmei and Luohou overcome their limitations and resolve their problems. Yangmei and Luohou learned the paths he proposed, though they did not yet understand his broader view of Dao attainment.

• Hongjun discovered that his attempt to merge with the Heavenly Dao had failed and roared in anger at Zixiao Palace.
• Taichu told Yangmei and Luohou that they would need to contribute to the Primordial Wilderness to resolve their problems.
• Taichu explained that Luohou’s destruction of the Western Earth Veins had brought him immense Karma and left him shackled.
• Taichu proposed that Yangmei open a special world with the Time and Space Great Daos, then use it to advance toward the Space-Time Law.
• Taichu told Luohou to draw on the Chaos Origin to open a world and replenish the Western Land, which could earn the Heavenly Dao’s forgiveness.
• Taichu said that Dao-attainment methods were only catalysts and that each cultivator ultimately had to walk their own path.

Taichu gave Yangmei and Luohou the Origin Dao and tasked them with creating worlds for the Primordial World. Their worlds strengthened the Primordial foundation and helped restore the Western Land, giving Jieyin and Zhunti a path toward becoming Sages while leaving Di Jun alarmed and jealous.

• Taichu gave Yangmei and Luohou the optimized Origin Dao method and told Yangmei to create a Space-Time World while Luohou waited for his shackles to disappear.
• Yangmei opened two Space-Time Great Thousand Worlds, while Luohou used the Demon Realm and his followers to open five Great Thousand Worlds.
• After a thousand years, Yangmei and Luohou connected their worlds to the Primordial World, strengthening its foundation and forming an Innate Five Elements Grand Array in the Western Land.
• The array drew out the Western Land’s fiendish and turbid forces, allowing Jieyin and Zhunti to restore the damaged land and receive Merit.
• Hongjun grew grim at the Primordial World’s increased strength, while Di Jun became jealous and feared that the Witch Clan might also attain the Dao and become Sages.

Di Jun’s court debated whether the Witch Clan could overcome its lack of Primordial Spirit cultivation, while Bai Ze urged caution about their hidden methods and Zhen Yuanzi. The Demon leaders kept their concerns secret and returned to their cultivation and studies, as Nuwa reflected on her karmic ties and the Witch Clan’s changing destiny.

• Taiyi angrily prepared to use the Chaos Bell after a Demon Sage questioned whether anyone could attain Dao Attainment without Primordial Violet Qi, but Di Jun stopped him and Taiyi apologized.
• Fuxi told Di Jun that the River Diagram and Luo Shu had helped him uncover patterns in the stars and that he needed another thousand years to decipher the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array.
• Bai Ze warned Di Jun that the Witch Clan might possess unknown methods, and Di Jun agreed that they needed to stay alert despite the Clan’s lack of Primordial Spirit cultivation.
• A Demon Sage reminded Di Jun and Taiyi that Zhen Yuanzi also possessed Primordial Violet Qi, prompting them to consider the risk posed by his ties to the Witch Clan.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Sages to keep the discussion secret, then he and Taiyi went to the Solar Palace to cultivate while Fuxi returned to the Primordial Starry Sky to study the array.
• Nuwa regretted taking the Demon Race’s Fortune and realized her karma had grown heavier because Fuxi served the Demon Court; she also sensed that Houtu’s connection with the Earthly Dao had deepened since the Witch Clan entered the Western Lands.

Nuwa recognized Hongjun’s schemes and sent Jinfeng to warn Fuxi while Taichu searched the Primordial Starry Sky for surviving Star Gods. Taichu revived Wangshu, who attained Hunyuan immediately, drawing the attention of Hongjun and Yangmei.

• Nuwa realized the Human Race had Heaven and Earth’s recognition and worried that Fuxi was caught in a Karma vortex near the Blood Sea.
• Nuwa sealed information in Jinfeng’s Primordial Spirit and sent her to find Fuxi in the Primordial Starry Sky.
• Taichu searched the starry sky, found Fuxi and Wangshu’s remnant soul on Taiyin Star, and used his Great Dao Power to restore her.
• Wangshu revived with an Innate Divine Body and attained Hunyuan, while Taichu dismissed the significance of her breakthrough.
• Hongjun and Yangmei sensed Wangshu’s Dao Attainment, and Yangmei recognized her aura and recalled that Hongjun had killed her.

After Wangshu attained Hunyuan, Taichu revealed the Small Star God Realm Doumu had created before her fall and entered it with Wangshu. They encountered the surviving star gods, who demanded to know why they had come.

• Hongjun learned that Wangshu had attained Hunyuan but stayed in Zixiao Palace rather than confront her.
• Wangshu thanked Taichu for resurrecting her and helping her attain Hunyuan, then followed him to a hidden star.
• Taichu revealed that the star held Doumu’s Small Star God Realm and explained that Doumu’s True Spirit could eventually return.
• The Small Star God Realm drew in Star Power, alarming Fuxi and angering Di Jun and Taiyi as they realized their authority over the stars had diminished.
• Taichu and Wangshu entered the realm and met Ancient Venus, Ziwei Star Lord, and Gouchen Star Lord, who asked why they had come.

Taichu warned Ziwei and the Primordial Star Gods that the Witch-Demon War could expose their hidden realm, then restored their strength and foundations. Meanwhile, Golden Phoenix found Fuxi in the Primordial Starry Sky and revealed that Lady Nuwa had come to meet him, leaving Fuxi silent after she questioned their estrangement.

• Wangshu explained that the Witch-Demon War and the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array could destroy the Starry Sky and expose the Small Star God Realm.
• Taichu told Ziwei and the others that Doumu Yuanjun might reincarnate, then used his powers to replenish the Star Gods’ origins and repair their Dao bodies.
• Golden Phoenix appeared beside Fuxi as he studied the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array and told him she had come at Her Ladyship’s command.
• Golden Phoenix sealed off the surrounding Starry Sky with the Power of Human Dao, and Lady Nuwa emerged from her.
• Fuxi greeted Lady Nuwa, who angrily asked whether her big brother had grown distant from his little sister, and Fuxi fell silent.

Nuwa urged Fuxi to leave the Demon Race and asked him to protect the Human Race in a future calamity, but Fuxi remained committed to the Demon Race. After Fuxi mastered the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array, Nuwa explained that his involvement in the coming tribulation could not be avoided.

• Nuwa reminded Fuxi of the Demon Race’s destruction of other clans and revealed that her destiny as a Human Dao Saint tied her to the Myriad Spirits.
• Nuwa showed Fuxi an image of being asked to choose between the Demon Race and the Human Race, but Fuxi still believed she sought both races’ Fortune.
• Nuwa asked Fuxi to promise that he would help the Human Race if it faced a calamity, then left with Golden Phoenix.
• Fuxi failed to deduce what calamity threatened the Human Race and returned to studying the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array.
• After mastering the array, Fuxi returned to the Demon Race’s Heavenly Court and gave it to Di Jun to prepare and train.
• Golden Phoenix asked why Nuwa had not explained the danger to Fuxi, and Nuwa said he had to experience the tribulation.

Minghe refused Hongjun’s offer to become a Heavenly Dao Saint, so Hongjun attacked him in the Blood Sea. As the Blood Sea burned, a towering Pangu’s Shadow appeared, leaving Minghe and the Twelve Ancestral Witches questioning its connection to him.

• Minghe cultivated in the Blood Nether Palace and used the Blood Sea’s Karmic Debt to strengthen the Karma Fire Red Lotus.
• Hongjun visited Minghe and offered him the chance to become a Heavenly Dao Saint, but Minghe declined and tried to return to the palace.
• Hongjun attacked Minghe, who blocked the blow with the Karma Fire Red Lotus and merged with the Blood Sea.
• Hongjun summoned Violet Firmament Divine Fire, burning the Blood Sea and reducing its waters by nearly five percent as observers anticipated Minghe’s defeat.
• A towering Pangu’s Shadow appeared in the Blood Sea, surprising Hongjun and Minghe.
• Zhurong wondered whether Minghe shared Father God’s bloodline, and Dijiang struck him with Dutian Divine Thunder for failing to recognize the difference in aura.

Pangu's Shadow appeared in the Blood Sea, extinguished Hongjun's divine fire, and battered him before disappearing. Minghe survived and began rebuilding his forces, while Di Jun and Taiyi reconsidered the Primordial Violet Qi and the Demon Race's prospects against the Witch Clan.

• Pangu's Shadow sent Xuan Ming Heavy Water into the Blood Sea, extinguishing Hongjun's Violet Firmament Divine Fire and strengthening Minghe.
• Pangu's Shadow pursued and repeatedly struck Hongjun with axe light until it dissipated, leaving him battered and humiliated.
• Minghe emerged after Hongjun left, lamented the loss of more than half his Blood God Sons, and began restoring them and the Asura Race.
• Di Jun and Taiyi discussed the dangers or limited value of the Primordial Violet Qi and observed the growing power of the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Di Jun and Taiyi went Beyond the Heavens with uneasy feelings and returned joyful.

Kunpeng accepted Hongjun’s Heavenly Dao Law Origin and began cultivating in secret, unaware that Hongjun planned to use him against the Ancestral Witches. After several Eons, the Human Race grew stronger and World Merit descended for the restoration of the Western Lands, leaving the Twelve Ancestral Witches with a hidden share of the reward.

• Kunpeng obtained the Heavenly Dao Law Origin from Hongjun in exchange for killing Red Cloud and sending Red Cloud’s Primordial Violet Qi to the Human Race, then absorbed it in the Northern Darkness Sea.
• Hongjun secretly intended to use Kunpeng to kill the Ancestral Witches during the Witch-Demon War and weaken Pangu.
• Over several Eons, the Human Race prospered, its Three Ancestors reached the Quasi-Saint Realm, and Di Jun and Taiyi pursued sainthood while the Witch and Demon Races remained at peace.
• World Merit descended after Zhen Yuanzi, Jieyin, and Zhunti helped restore the Western Lands; Zhen Yuanzi received the largest share, while the two Western men gained enough Merit to become Heavenly Dao Sages.
• The remaining World Merit entered the Primordial Spirits of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, unbeknownst to the Demon Race and most other powers.

The Witch Clan completed its work repairing the Western Land and received immense Merit, the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler, and a breakthrough opportunity. Dijiang led the Ancestral Witches back to Zhou Mountain to cultivate, while Zhen Yuanzi departed to continue enfeoffing the gods, with Houtu sensing that his imminent attainment of the Dao was connected to her.

• Mysterious Yellow Merit entered Taiyi and the Demon Sages and Gods, while the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler appeared over the Western Land and went to Dijiang along with Great Dao Merit for the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• On Kunlun Mountain, Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian reflected on their path after seeing the Ancestral Witches receive the ruler and Merit.
• Di Jun coveted Dijiang's treasure and wondered whether Taiyi had found the final Solar True Fire, unaware that Taiyi had already found two flowers and begun secluded cultivation.
• Dijiang declared that the Ancestral Witches would return to Zhou Mountain and strive to break through into the Hunyuan Realm, and they agreed.
• Zhen Yuanzi left the Western Land to continue enfeoffing deities across the Primordial World, and Houtu sensed that his imminent attainment of the Dao was closely connected to her.

The Three Pure Ones attained Hunyuan Dao on Kunlun Mountain, with Laozi reaching it first and guiding Yuanshi and Tongtian to follow. They remained on Kunlun Mountain to consolidate their breakthroughs, and Laozi proposed that they enlighten the living beings of the Primordial World and fulfill their responsibilities as Pangu’s descendants.

• Houtu and the other Ancestral Witches entered seclusion in Pangu Hall after returning from the Western Lands.
• Laozi merged his Three Corpses, refined the Primordial Violet Qi, and attained Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal without becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint.
• Taichu sensed Laozi’s breakthrough from the Small Star God Realm and recognized that the Primordial World held mysteries beyond what he had expected.
• Laozi urged Yuanshi and Tongtian to attain Dao, and they merged their Three Corpses and used their Dao Fruits to reach Hunyuan.
• The Three Pure Ones exchanged insights on Kunlun Mountain, bringing fortune to its living beings, while Laozi proposed they enlighten the Primordial World as Pangu’s descendants.
• Yuanshi accepted Laozi’s intention and considered what he could do to honor his identity as Pangu’s true descendant.

Laozi reached the Human Race, established the Human Teachings, and became a Heaven-Earth Saint after creating a cultivation path for humanity. His attainment prompted Yuanshi to establish the Chan Teachings and become a Saint, while Tongtian and Yuanshi had prepared Kunlun Mountain to test prospective disciples.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian set up varied trial arrays across Kunlun Mountain, and Tongtian outlined his selective approach to accepting disciples into Jiejiao.
• Laozi traveled to the Human Race, chose a few disciples, and devised cultivation methods suited to people of different aptitudes.
• Laozi established the Human Teachings with the Taiji Diagram and Heaven and Earth Black Yellow Exquisite Pagoda suppressing its Fortune, then attained Heaven-Earth Sainthood.
• The Primordial Wilderness bowed to Laozi, while Hongjun grew furious that the Three Pure Ones had escaped his control and Laozi had reached the Fifth Heaven of Sainthood.
• Laozi called on his brothers to attain the Dao, and Yuanshi established the Chan Teachings, became a Heaven-Earth Saint, and announced that Kunlun Mountain would open its gates to qualified candidates in a thousand years.

Tongtian established Jiejiao with the Pure Green Lotus as its Fortune-suppressing treasure, while the Heavenly Dao exposed Hongjun’s scheme against the Creation Green Lotus. Houtu arrived at the Blood Sea after attaining Hunyuan Fourth Heaven and recognized that a hidden world there was tied to her mission.

• Tongtian declared that all upright beings without Karmic Debt could join his tutelage, and the Will of heaven and earth formed a twenty-four-petal Pure Green Lotus for him.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that Hongjun had used the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder to divide the Creation Green Lotus and interfere with the Three Pure Ones’ Dao Proving Treasures, damaging Hongjun’s reputation among the Primordial World’s mighty figures.
• Tongtian established Jiejiao, named the Pure Green Lotus to suppress its Fortune, and announced that he would open his mountain gate in a thousand years; his cultivation rose to the peak of the Fourth Heaven of Sagehood.
• Houtu attained the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and Hunyuan Fourth Heaven through the Reincarnation Dao, then left Pangu Hall without informing Dijiang or the other Ancestral Witches.
• Houtu arrived at the Blood Sea, where Minghe greeted her and offered his help after sensing an opportunity connected to her.
• Houtu sensed a nascent world within the Blood Sea that was compatible with the Reincarnation Dao and carried Pangu’s aura, and she realized it was connected to her mission.

Houtu opened the Six Paths of Reincarnation in the Blood Sea by transforming her body into the Reincarnation Disk, and the Great Dao rewarded the creation with immense merit. Taichu and the recovered Ziwei Star Lord arrived as the Great Dao appeared, and Taichu greeted it.

• Houtu realized that her Reincarnation Dao and bloodline could open the Netherworld Realm beneath the Blood Sea, then asked Minghe to lend her a corner of it.
• Houtu proclaimed that she would create the Six Paths of Reincarnation and transform her body to give the dead a place to go.
• Houtu's body became the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk as the Netherworld Realm emerged beneath the Blood Sea.
• The Great Dao manifested, and its Divine Eye bestowed most of its Mysterious Yellow Merit on the Reincarnation Disk while also cleansing the Blood Sea and rewarding Minghe.
• Taichu arrived with the recovered Ziwei Star Lord, greeted the Great Dao, and saw it respond with a brief trace of gentleness.

Taichu helped Houtu return after transforming into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Houtu became an Earth Dao Saint and established the Underworld. The chapter ended with the Three Daos departing and Nuwa sealing Wa Huang Palace to enter seclusion.

• Taichu infused the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk with his golden blood essence, helping Houtu reconstruct her Ancestral Witch Body.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches sensed Houtu’s revived aura and watched as she emerged from the disk and formed the Underworld space within the Blood Sea.
• Houtu declared herself the Lord of the Earth Dao, and the Great Dao imprinted the Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Daos, leaving Hongjun unable to merge with the Dao.
• Houtu established the Six Paths of Reincarnation and sent souls into their appropriate paths, while Ziwei Star Lord recognized his mother Doumu Yuanjun’s True Spirit among the souls.
• Houtu created Fengdu City, the Ten Halls of Yama, and the other institutions of the Underworld, including the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• After the Great Dao and the Three Daos departed, Nuwa learned that Di Jun and the others had received Primordial Violet Qi, then sealed Wa Huang Palace and entered seclusion.

Houtu appointed Minghe Dao Lord of the Asura Path, while Jieyin and Zhunti established the Western Sect and attained the Dao as Heavenly Dao Saints. At Wuzhuang Temple, Zhen Yuanzi began refining the Earth Dao Origin and accumulated Merit, and his rising aura swept across the Primordial World.

• Houtu conferred Minghe the position of Dao Lord of the Asura Path, granting him a chance to become an Earth Dao Saint, and Minghe pledged the Asura Race to the Underworld.
• Zhen Yuanzi returned to Wuzhuang Temple after appointing divine officials across the Primordial World's mountains and rivers, but paused his breakthrough when he sensed activity at Mount Sumeru.
• Jieyin and Zhunti established the Western Sect at Mount Sumeru and used the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus and Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Banner to suppress its Fortune.
• Jieyin and Zhunti refined their Merit, entrusted their Primordial Spirits to the Heavenly Dao, and attained the Dao as Sages, prompting beings across the Primordial World to pay respects.
• Minghe began refining the Earth Dao Origin Houtu had granted him, while Zhen Yuanzi refined the Earth Dao Origin and Merit at Wuzhuang Temple, sending a heavy aura across the Primordial World.

Zhen Yuanzi attained Earth Dao Sagehood, established the Ancestor Court of Earth Immortals, and announced a future Dao lecture. Minghe also became an Earth Dao Saint, while Di Jun and Taiyi remained unable to attain Sagehood and grew resentful of the powerful beings they had to worship.

• Zhen Yuanzi refined the Earth Dao Origin, attained Hunyuan and Earth Dao Sagehood, and concealed his Hunyuan cultivation.
• Zhen Yuanzi proclaimed the establishment of the Earth Immortal Lineage and Ancestor Court of Earth Immortals, with the Earth Book suppressing its fortune.
• The Queen Mother of the West resolved to travel across the Primordial Land and seek a chance to befriend Zhen Yuanzi.
• Zhen Yuanzi announced that he would preach at Wuzhuang Temple in a thousand years and formed the Earth Book Array around the temple.
• Minghe refined the Earth Dao Origin, attained Sagehood as the Dao Lord of the Asura Path, and declared that he would safeguard the Blood Sea Underworld.
• Di Jun and Taiyi failed to entrust their Primordial Spirits to the Heavenly Dao or unite their Three Corpses, and they resented having to kneel before the Sages.

Houtu appointed Ziwei Star Lord as Great Emperor Fengdu to govern the newly established Underworld, while Minghe agreed to support the arrangement. Ziwei received Merit, Underworld Fortune, and Earth Dao Origin, leaving him poised to pursue greater power.

• Minghe brought the Asura princess and warriors to help Houtu manage the Underworld, and Houtu asked him to continue supporting it.
• Houtu proposed that Ziwei Star Lord take charge of the Underworld, and Minghe conceded that Ziwei was better suited to management.
• Ziwei accepted Houtu's appointment as Northern Pole Great Emperor Fengdu and Lord of the Netherworld Underworld.
• Houtu entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation, while an old woman appeared beside the River of Forgetfulness on the Bridge of Helplessness.
• Ziwei received Merit, Underworld Fortune, and Earth Dao Origin, which gave him a chance to become an Earth Dao Saint as he pursued Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortalhood.