Chapter Summaries

Hongyun broke through to become an Ancestral Witch in the Chaos and began returning to the Primordial World, but Yang Mei’s avatars ambushed him. Hongyun destroyed one avatar, then was surrounded by dozens of others and fought to hold them off.

• Yang Mei learned from Di Jun that the Seven Sages were searching the Chaos for Hongyun, whom Di Jun suspected was Pangu, and sent avatars to find him.
• Hongyun emerged from a Chaos Egg as an Ancestral Witch, strengthened his cultivation, and set out for the Primordial World.
• Hongyun sensed the Primordial World more than seventy billion light-years away and traveled toward it, avoiding a Chaos Storm along the way.
• Yang Mei’s avatar tried to bind Hongyun with a Willow Branch, but Hongyun evaded the attack and destroyed the avatar with All-Heavenly Divine Lightning and his innate ability.
• Dozens of Yang Mei’s avatars surrounded Hongyun; his supreme Samadhi True Fire charred their Willow Branches, and he brought out an Innate Spiritual Treasure as they closed in.

Yang Mei trapped Hongyun in the Chaos Void and nearly killed him with his Chaos Bead, which advanced into an Innate Supreme Treasure by absorbing Hongyun’s vital essence. Hunwu intervened to seize the bead, and Hongyun escaped through a Chaos Vortex awakened by his Pangu Bloodline, while Hunwu and Yang Mei parted without resolving their conflict.

• Yang Mei sealed the Chaos Void around Hongyun, suppressed him with his aura, and attacked him because he believed Hongyun’s Pangu Bloodline made him deserving of death.
• Yang Mei’s Chaos Bead drained Hongyun’s vital essence and advanced into an Innate Supreme Treasure, leaving Hongyun gravely wounded and close to death.
• Hunwu attacked Yang Mei to claim the Chaos Bead, interrupting the killing blow and fighting Yang Mei while Hongyun tried to flee.
• Yang Mei used the Void Great Capture against Hongyun, but power awakened within Hongyun’s Pangu Bloodline, collapsed the void, and opened a Chaos Vortex that carried him away unconscious.
• Yang Mei left after he could not defeat Hunwu, who departed in his Chaos Golden Crow form and considered Hongyun’s fate set in motion.

Hongyun discovered the Way of Creation in his Pangu Bloodline and began proving the Dao by force in Chaos, creating Middle Thousand Worlds while unknowingly producing Chaos Golden Crow avatars for Lu Yang. Meanwhile, Zhenyuanzi searched beyond the heavens for Hongyun but could not reach him, leaving the Saints still unable to locate him.

• Hongyun found the Way of Creation in his bloodline, chose to pursue proving the Dao by force, and used the Heaven-Opening Axe to create a Middle Thousand World.
• Hongyun continued creating universes to strengthen himself, failed when he tried to open two Middle Thousand Worlds at once, and refined the Primordial Violet Qi within him.
• Lu Yang judged Hongyun's progress too slow because no Chaos Golden Crow avatar had yet been born.
• Zhenyuanzi checked Hongyun's life lamp, then went beyond the heavens to search for him as Nuwa, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti watched.
• Zhenyuanzi could not contact Hongyun in Chaos and returned to the Primordial World, while Tongtian wondered where Hongyun had gone.

Tongtian freed Candle Dragon from Hongjun’s Heavenly Dao Seal, then clashed with Jieyin over recruiting him. While Candle Dragon considered Jieyin’s offer, Tongtian continued searching for a way to break the Innate Lotus Great Array.

• Tongtian used the Green Ping Sword to break the Heavenly Dao Seal and free Candle Dragon from the Eastern Sea sea eye.
• Jieyin arrived and tried to recruit Candle Dragon into the Western Teachings, but Tongtian challenged him to a battle over Candle Dragon.
• Jieyin trapped Tongtian inside the Innate Lotus Great Array, while an incarnation tried to persuade Candle Dragon to join the Western Teachings.
• Hongjun, Nuwa, Taishang, Yuanshi, and Zhunti sent divine senses toward the Eastern Sea, and Taishang prepared to intervene if Tongtian needed help.
• Candle Dragon considered Jieyin’s offer as Tongtian destroyed the array’s lotus flowers and unleashed Shangqing Divine Lightning, causing Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind to grow increasingly violent.

Tongtian failed to break Jieyin’s Innate Lotus Great Array, but he persuaded Candle Dragon to join Jie Sect as its Second Sect Master. After welcoming Candle Dragon to Golden Ao Island, Tongtian asked him to help develop the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, and Candle Dragon agreed.

• Tongtian empowered the Qiankun Cauldron with his Shangqing Immortal Talisman, struck Jieyin, then left the array when he could not defeat him quickly.
• Tongtian invited Candle Dragon to join Jie Sect, and Candle Dragon chose Jie Sect after the Saints gathered at the Eastern Sea.
• Tongtian brought Candle Dragon to Golden Ao Island and announced him as Jie Sect’s Second Sect Master, astonishing the disciples.
• Candle Dragon studied the Shangqing Immortal Method but decided not to change his cultivation, since it did not suit him.
• Tongtian asked Candle Dragon to help develop the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation using the Absolute Immortal Sword, and Candle Dragon agreed.

Tongtian and Candle Dragon successfully transformed the Absolute Immortal Sword into the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, greatly increasing the Fortune of Jie Sect. The other Sages learned of Tongtian’s achievement and recognized that his formation could not be broken without four Saints.

• Lu Yang learned through Candle Dragon that Tongtian planned to manifest the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and realized Lu Yang’s own swords made the feat possible.
• Tongtian and Candle Dragon manifested the three sword phantoms in Biyou Palace, then reversed cause and effect until all four swords became real.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother was blocked from entering Biyou Palace while the dangerous manifestation was underway, and she left without disturbing Tongtian.
• Tongtian tested the completed formation with Candle Dragon, whose Chaos Sword Qi displayed its terrifying power, before dismissing the formation and thanking Candle Dragon.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Mohe, and Hongjun learned that Tongtian had succeeded, while the rise in Jie Sect’s Fortune alarmed the Western Teachings.

The Three Pure Ones secretly altered the Sun Origin so that anyone who absorbed Sun Power would suffer a tenfold backlash after one Cosmic Epoch, intending to destroy Great Sun Tathagata. Lu Yang let their scheme proceed, and Jieyin and Zhunti eventually discovered it and confronted the Three Pure Ones on the Sun Star.

• Wangshu told the Demon Clan experts that the Jie Sect's fortune had surged, but Di Jun could not uncover the reason because Saints had concealed the Heavenly Secrets.
• The Three Pure Ones strengthened Great Sun Tathagata's connection to the Sun Star, then used an array to implant three thousand Heavenly Dao Divine Talismans into the Sun Origin.
• Lu Yang allowed the talismans to merge, knowing they would cause a tenfold Sun Power backlash after one Cosmic Epoch and that Great Sun Tathagata was his avatar.
• The Three Pure Ones waited on the Sun Star as Great Sun Tathagata absorbed Sun Power for more than a hundred thousand years, while Jieyin and Zhunti believed his growing power was good fortune.
• Jieyin and Zhunti sensed Great Sun Tathagata's power fluctuate, uncovered the concealed Heavenly Secrets, and realized the Three Pure Ones had engineered the danger.
• Zhunti found the Three Pure Ones with his Buddha eyes, and the two Western Sages confronted them, declaring they would not rest until one side was dead.

The Three Pure Ones tried to use the Sun Star to destroy Great Sun Tathagata, but their scheme instead caused the star to grant him immense Sun Power. After the Saints withdrew, Mahā explained Great Sun Tathagata’s scripture on Mount Sumeru, while Hongjun studied it and continued planning to merge with the Dao.

• Taiqing activated the Heavenly Dao Divine Talismans in the Sun Origin while Yuqing and Shangqing held off Jieyin and Zhunti.
• The Sun Star sent vast Sun Power to Mount Sumeru instead of devouring Great Sun Tathagata, leaving the Three Pure Ones stunned and their scheme in failure.
• Zhunti summoned Great Sun Tathagata’s power and fought Shangqing until Taiqing protected Shangqing with the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• Jieyin and Zhunti returned to Mount Sumeru, where Mahā explained the True Scripture of Great Sun Tathagata to them and the other Buddhist figures.
• Hongjun’s avatar listened to Mahā’s sermon and cultivated the scripture, while Hongjun continued his deductions and resolved to await the Witch-Demon Calamity before pursuing his merger with the Dao.

Yuanshi established the Chan School’s Twelve Golden Immortals, but singled Yellow Dragon out for poor treatment and little guidance. Meanwhile, Lord of the Clouds returned to Hongyun’s Huoyun Mountain, cleared out its unruly inhabitants, and discovered Zhenyuanzi had left a message there.

• Yuanshi named Guang Chengzi, Chi Jingzi, Yellow Dragon, Juliusun, Taiyi, Lingbao, Manjushri, Samantabhadra, Cihang, Yuding, Daoxing, and Qingxu as the Chan School’s Twelve Golden Immortals, while South Pole Immortal remained outside their number.
• Yuanshi bestowed Dharma treasures on his disciples but skipped Yellow Dragon, explaining that the dragon’s strong body meant he should temper himself without them.
• Guang Chengzi gave Yellow Dragon a jade slip of the Yuqing Immortal Method, but Yellow Dragon could not understand or begin cultivating it, and Yuanshi lost hope in his comprehension.
• Lu Yang observed the Chan School’s rising Fortune and judged that Yellow Dragon might have fared better in the Jie School before turning his attention to Huoyun Mountain.
• Lord of the Clouds arrived at Huoyun Mountain, activated its formations, and killed or suppressed the unruly beings gathered there.
• Lord of the Clouds entered Huoyun Palace and found a wisp of Zhenyuanzi’s divine consciousness, while Lu Yang noted that Lord of the Clouds was fated to become Yun Zhongzi if he reincarnated and cultivated anew.

Hunwu’s Golden Crow Heavenly Dao evolved Innate Undying Spiritual Light, which Candle Dragon sensed and summoned from another world with Tongtian’s help. Candle Dragon forged it into the Coiled Dragon Halberd, and Tongtian began tempering the weapon with the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s power to raise its grade.

• Hunwu sensed the Golden Crow Heavenly Dao evolve a cluster of Innate Undying Spiritual Light, and Lu Yang learned of it through their connection.
• Candle Dragon sensed the otherworldly spiritual light on Golden Ao Island and failed to summon it on his first attempt, exhausting his magic power.
• Tongtian offered his help and Qiankun Cauldron, allowing Candle Dragon to summon the spiritual light successfully.
• Candle Dragon and Tongtian forged the spiritual light and Innate Divine Materials into a High-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure, the Coiled Dragon Halberd, over forty-nine days.
• Tongtian used the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s power to temper the halberd, while Candle Dragon watched to see whether it would become a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Fuxi sent a divided soul through reincarnation to be born as Huaxu’s child among the Human Race, while Nuwa watched warily as Panhu showed interest in humanity. After Huaxu endured years of suspicion and hardship, she gave birth amid auspicious signs, and the child appeared fully human.

• Tongtian tempered Candle Dragon’s Coiled Dragon Halberd with the Power of Heavenly Dao, but stopped when it failed to advance and risked damaging its origin.
• After Ziyi Shi became the Human Race Co-lord, Fuxi decided to reincarnate a divided soul among humans, and Nuwa agreed to support him.
• Fuxi’s divided soul entered reincarnation under the Human Path Master’s rules and was sent to be born to Huaxu of the Fengyan Tribe.
• Huaxu became pregnant after encountering a giant footprint, and Nuwa and Fuxi noticed Panhu watching the Human Race.
• The Fengyan Tribe expelled Huaxu after years of unexplained pregnancy, but auspicious creatures protected her and the tribe eventually provided her with a house and food.
• After ten years of pregnancy, Huaxu gave birth amid auspicious phenomena, and her child had a human body with hands and feet.

Taishang confronted Panhu over the Witch Clan’s possible interference in human affairs, and their clash strengthened the Sages’ belief that Panhu was Pangu. After the Sages agreed to wait for the Witch-Demon Calamity before acting, Taishang wondered what Panhu’s final axe strike had revealed, while Hongjun watched from outside the Primordial World.

• Fuxi was born to Huaxu among the Fengyan Tribe and quickly grew into a gifted child who helped the tribe develop.
• Taishang confronted Panhu and asked him not to let the Witch Clan interfere in human affairs, but Panhu challenged him to a fight.
• Panhu’s Law of Strength-enhanced axe strike failed to break through Taishang’s Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, and Panhu agreed to stop interfering for now.
• The Sages concluded that Panhu was Pangu and gathered at Shouyang Mountain, where they decided to wait until the Witch-Demon Calamity before confronting him or supporting Hongjun’s attempt to unite with the Dao.
• After the other Sages left, Taishang wondered what Panhu’s final axe strike had revealed, while Hongjun arrived near the Primordial Era without entering the Primordial World.

Chiyang, Lu Yang's incarnation, joined the Jie Sect as its Deputy Sect Leader after demonstrating his mastery of sword formations, and Tongtian upgraded one of his four swords into a Supreme Merit Treasure. News of Chiyang's appointment spread across the Primordial World, prompting Kunpeng to travel to the Eastern Sea to ask his close friend why he had joined the Jie Sect.

• Chiyang visited Golden Ao Island and asked Tongtian for guidance in formations and the Sword Dao.
• Tongtian recognized Chiyang's talent and his affinity with the Jie Sect, then invited him to join as Deputy Sect Leader; Chiyang accepted.
• Tongtian used the Power of Heavenly Dao and Merit to temper Chiyang's four swords, upgrading the Water Sword but damaging the other three.
• News of Chiyang's appointment spread, while East King Duke considered the Jie Sect's growing influence and Haotian calmly acknowledged the news.
• Kunpeng learned that his close friend Chiyang had joined the Jie Sect, then flew from Northern Darkness toward the Eastern Sea to seek an explanation.

Xuandu guided Fuxi toward sacrificing to Heaven so he could borrow the River Diagram and Luo Book, while Fuxi’s true body hoped to use the treasures to complete his Innate Taiji Eight Trigrams. As the Fengyan Tribe prepared its offerings, Fuxi rescued his grandfather and the tribe’s warriors from a deadly Toad Dragon.

• Xuandu visited the Fengyan Tribe, advised Fuxi on the laws of Heaven and Earth, and refused to become his master.
• In the chaos, Fuxi failed to open a Great Thousand World, and Nuwa suggested that the River Diagram and Luo Book could help him complete his Dao.
• At Nuwa’s request, Xuandu encouraged the human Fuxi to sacrifice to the Heavenly Emperor and borrow the River Diagram and Luo Book; Fuxi and the Fengyan chieftain agreed to hold a sacrifice.
• Taishang supplied Xuandu with golden elixirs and Innate Spiritual Fruits to serve as offerings for the sacrifice to Heaven.
• The Fengyan chieftain led warriors into the marsh to hunt a Toad Dragon, but it killed and injured several people before Fuxi arrived and killed it with his bare hands.

Fuxi borrowed the River Diagram and Luo Book through a sacrifice to Heaven, mastered the Innate Eight Trigrams, and ventured toward a distant land of perilous mountains and waters. Meanwhile, the Human Emperor sent for Fuxi, and Chiyang met with Tongtian to learn the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

• Fuxi returned to the Fengyan Tribe with the Toad Dragon, and Xuandu helped the tribesmen build an altar for a sacrifice to Heaven.
• Di Jun sent the River Diagram and Luo Book to the altar, and Fuxi borrowed them as the Fengyan Tribe witnessed their arrival.
• Xuandu departed, while Fuxi’s true body studied the River Diagram and Luo Book, comprehended the Primordial River-Luo Great Formation, and began developing an Innate Taiji Eight Trigrams.
• Fuxi became chief of the Fengyan Tribe, comprehended the Innate Eight Trigrams, and traveled toward a distant region of barren mountains and treacherous waters, defeating strange birds and wolf beasts along the way.
• The Human Emperor sent an envoy to invite Fuxi to the Human Race Holy Land, but Fuxi was away from the tribe and did not receive the message.
• Chiyang saw Kunpeng off at Golden Ao Island, then went to Biyou Palace, where Tongtian decided to teach him the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

Chiyang demonstrated a great formation combining the Ten Absolute Arrays, guiding Duobao, Yunxiao, and other Jie Sect disciples through its trials. He then entered the chaos to practice the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and let his four Merit swords digest their Merit, prompting Tongtian to cry out against his choice.

• Chiyang formed a Primordial Great Array from his four swords and invited Duobao and the other disciples to enter and study its formations.
• The disciples struggled in the Ten Absolute Arrays for several days; Duobao gained insights, while Immortal Dingguang was beaten back into a long-eared rabbit.
• Chiyang withdrew the formation, and the disciples thanked him before returning to their cave abodes; Yunxiao went into seclusion to study formations.
• Chiyang flew beyond the Primordial World into the chaos and used his four swords to practice the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and absorb Chaos Qi to digest their Merit.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian sensed Chiyang's actions, and Tongtian called out to stop him from sacrificing the Merit that helped suppress the Jie Sect's Fortune.

Chiyang consumed the merit in his four swords, turned them into Postnatal Supreme Treasures, and used them to form an imperfect Immortal Slaying Sword Formation before finding a treasure embryo in the chaos. Panhu began shaping the embryo into an All-Heavenly Divine Fiend Great Array Diagram, while Lu Yang considered how the Pangu True Body could aid his plans; the chapter ended as terrifying demonic qi raced toward Ksitigarbha in the Netherworld.

• Chiyang consumed the merit in his four swords, making them Postnatal Supreme Treasures and destabilizing the Jie Sect's Fortune; Tongtian accepted his decision.
• Chiyang formed an imperfect Immortal Slaying Sword Formation in the chaos, stunning the Three Pure Ones with his mastery of the formation.
• Chiyang found an Innate Spiritual Treasure Embryo in a Chaos Vortex and decided to turn it into an All-Heavenly Divine Fiend Diagram.
• Panhu inscribed the All-Heavenly Divine Fiend Great Array on the embryo and left it to absorb Pangu Blood Qi in his Ancestral Witch Temple.
• Lu Yang considered the value of Panhu attaining the Pangu True Body and how it could help him explore the Primordial World's secrets.
• Ksitigarbha sensed terrifying demonic qi approaching him at high speed in the Netherworld.

Moluo attacked Ksitigarbha in the Netherworld, and Minghe joined the battle in hopes of claiming Moluo’s Innate Demonic Qi. Jieyin and Zhunti learned that Heavenly Mandate forbade them from intervening, and Moluo escaped Minghe’s pursuit, leaving their feud unresolved.

• Moluo confronted Ksitigarbha above Yin Mountain, and they fought with demonic qi and Buddha light.
• Ksitigarbha crushed a Bodhi Seed to alert Zhunti, but Jieyin and Zhunti watched from Mount Sumeru instead of intervening.
• Minghe attacked Moluo from behind with Yuantu Abi, then joined forces with Ksitigarbha against him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discovered that Heavenly Mandate prevented them from killing Moluo, whose fortune and fate were tied to larger events.
• Moluo fled on the World-Destroying Black Lotus, and Minghe pursued him on the Karma Red Lotus but lost track of him.

Panhu refined the All-Heavenly Divine Fiend Great Array Diagram into his body, opened Chaos Channels, and absorbed Chaos Qi to cultivate the Pangu True Body. With the Twelve Ancestral Witches helping him open a second channel, Panhu broke through into a realm beyond the Ancestral Witches.

• Panhu took the All-Heavenly Divine Fiend Great Array Diagram and refined it into a Natal Dao Artifact, leaving its Array Markings on his back.
• Panhu used the Ancestral Witch Axe and the Law of Strength to open a stable Chaos Channel and absorbed the Chaos Qi flowing into the Witch Realm.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches arrived, saw Panhu's Array Markings, and realized he was cultivating toward the Pangu True Body.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned their true bodies and formed the All-Heavenly Divine Fiend Great Array to open a second Chaos Channel for Panhu.
• Panhu absorbed Chaos Qi from both channels, broke through, and reached a realm above the Ancestral Witches: the Pangu True Body.

Panhu's cultivation of the Pangu True Body changed the Heavenly Dao, and Hongjun and the other Sages mistakenly attributed the change to Pangu. Jieyin abandoned his plan to seal Moluo after Moluo created the Rakshasa Race and earned Heavenly Merit, while Ksitigarbha fought Moluo and Lu Yang recognized Hongjun's scheme.

• Panhu completed cultivation of the Pangu True Body in the Witch World, gaining a body he believed could withstand Chaos Supreme Treasures.
• Hongjun and the six Heavenly Dao Sages noticed changes in the Heavenly Dao but could not calculate their cause, so they suspected Pangu.
• Jieyin entered hell with Ksitigarbha to seal Moluo, but stopped when he saw Moluo create the Rakshasa Race and receive Merit, then teleported away.
• Ksitigarbha converted millions of ghosts in hell, encountered the Rakshasas, and fled when Moluo appeared; he then battled Moluo at Yin Mountain using an array.
• Lu Yang discovered the Rakshasa Race and realized Hongjun had arranged events to prevent Jieyin from suppressing Moluo.