Chapter Summaries

The Three Pure Ones and the other Saints feared that Pangu would make Heavenly Dao devour them, so they considered helping Hongjun unify with the Dao during a calamity. They began plotting to provoke the Witch-Demon Calamity, while Lu Yang learned of their suspicions and prepared to respond.

• Taishang told Yuanshi and Tongtian that Pangu might be planning for Heavenly Dao to devour the Saints and advance the Primordial World.
• Tongtian warned Fuxi and Nuwa, and Fuxi suggested helping Hongjun unify with the Dao; Nuwa considered bringing the Witch-Demon Calamity forward.
• Yuanshi told Jieyin and Zhunti Taishang's conjecture, and Maha joined them in discussing how to support Hongjun and trigger the calamity.
• The Saints began plotting to provoke a Witch-Monster war, while Lu Yang realized they had misunderstood Panhou's newly cultivated Pangu True Body and decided he could respond calmly.
• Tongtian returned to Golden Ao Island and sought out Candle Dragon, leaving Chiyang displeased that he had not been consulted.

Zhao Gongming infiltrated Tang Valley in disguise to provoke the ten Golden Crows into attacking the Witch Clan, as the Saints plotted to ignite the Witch-Monster Calamity and Hongjun pursued unifying with the Dao. The Golden Crows were teleported near Kuafu’s tribe, while Lu Yang saw through the scheme.

• Chiyang inferred that the Saints intended to hasten the Witch-Monster Calamity after Panhu revealed his Pangu True Body.
• Tongtian sent Zhao Gongming to Tang Valley, where Zhao used a disguise and a tale of Witch Clan atrocities to anger the ten Golden Crows.
• Hongjun watched Zhao enter Tang Valley and strengthened his resolve to unify with the Dao, believing Pangu was plotting against the Saints.
• Zhunti arranged to teleport the Golden Crows near a Great Witch tribe, while Guang Chengzi infiltrated that tribe and other Saints concealed the Heavenly Mandate.
• The Golden Crows left Tang Valley and were transported near the Kuafu Tribe, then flew toward it.

Kuafu chased the Ten Golden Crows after they scorched his tribe, but Sage interference and the Crows’ sudden breakthrough derailed the scheme to ignite a war between the Witch and Monster races. After Donghuang Taiyi exposed Tongtian’s role, Panhu and the Twelve Ancestral Witches decided to retaliate by flattening Golden Ao Island.

• The Ten Golden Crows released Sun True Fire over the Kuafu Tribe, and Kuafu flew into a rage and pursued them.
• Taishang distorted space to keep Kuafu trapped in pursuit, but the Ten Golden Crows broke through to Grand Unity and stopped emitting enough heat to burn him.
• Tongtian wounded the Ten Golden Crows with the Green Ping Sword so Kuafu could kill them, but Donghuang Taiyi arrived and froze Kuafu with the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Donghuang Taiyi confronted Tongtian, then told Jumang what had happened after Tongtian returned to Golden Ao Island.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches gathered at Panhu’s tribe, and Panhu agreed with their plan to flatten Golden Ao Island.

Hongjun, Taishang, and Yuanshi suspected Pangu was disrupting the Saints’ schemes after Tongtian’s attack on the Golden Crows failed. Panhu led the Witch Clan toward Golden Ao Island to destroy the Intercept Sect, while Tongtian and his allies prepared for the coming conflict.

• Hongjun returned to the Primordial World and wondered whether Pangu had interfered with the failed scheme against the Golden Crows.
• Taishang considered the threat of Hongjun merging with the Dao and began planning for his own path.
• Panhu and the Twelve Ancestral Witches led several hundred Great Witches toward Golden Ao Island, declaring war on the Intercept Sect.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao discussed the Witch Clan’s threat as Tongtian and the Intercept Sect’s disciples prepared for an attack.
• East King Duke decided he would help the Intercept Sect, while the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan hesitated over whether to intervene.
• Haotian tried to stop the Witches, but Panhu broke his hold over Gonggong with the Haotian Pagoda and Haotian withdrew; Tongtian then stepped out of Biyou Palace to face the approaching forces.

The Witch Clan invaded Golden Ao Island, and Xiang Liu battled Jie Sect disciples while the Twelve Ancestral Witches broke through the island’s defenses. Candle Dragon challenged Di Jiang to wager on a Primordial Great Array, but Panhu stepped forward to enter it.

• Xiang Liu entered Immortal Chang'er Dingguang's formation, weakened it with foul water, and forced Dingguang to flee after the immortal’s Shangqing Divine Lightning injured him.
• Xiang Liu broke the formation and attacked another barrier, where Immortal Bixiao blinded one of his eyes with the Eye-Slaying Bead before it began to regenerate.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches advanced toward Biyou Palace, destroying formations as Tongtian stayed hidden and Panhu followed behind them.
• Candle Dragon confronted the Ancestral Witches outside a Primordial Great Array and wagered that they would leave if they could not break it.
• Di Jiang hesitated to enter the formation, so Panhu volunteered, causing Candle Dragon to shudder.

Panhu broke Candle Dragon’s Guixu Great Array and sealed him beneath Golden Ao Island, prompting Chiyang to challenge the Witch Clan. Chiyang’s sword formation drew in seven Ancestral Witches, leaving him struggling against their combined force.

• Panhu entered Candle Dragon’s Guixu Great Array, shattered its attack, defeated Candle Dragon, and sealed him beneath Golden Ao Island for one hundred thousand years.
• Chiyang challenged the Ancestral Witches to avenge Candle Dragon, and Gonggong met him in battle with an ocean of Weak Water.
• Chiyang’s four swords broke through Gonggong’s Weak Water and wounded him, while Gonggong’s battle strength continued to rise.
• Dijiang formed a resolve to kill Chiyang, but Panhu remained focused on Lu Yang’s plans as East King Duke watched from afar and then fled after Panhu spotted him.
• Chiyang formed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation with his four swords, and Gonggong, Dijiang, and five other Ancestral Witches entered it.
• Chiyang fought seven Ancestral Witches from within the formation but struggled to hold them off.

Chiyang lost to the Seven Ancestral Witches, and Panhu and Tongtian went to the Outer Chaos to fight or negotiate. In the Northern Sea, the Giant Turtle learned that Heavenly Dao would not allow her to assume human form, but she refused to give up and headed for Kunpeng’s territory to seek another way.

• Chiyang’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation broke after he fought the Seven Ancestral Witches, and he fled with the four swords.
• Panhu challenged Tongtian, who took him beyond the Primordial World Barrier into the Outer Chaos.
• Nuwa found the Giant Turtle in the Northern Sea and told her that Heavenly Dao would not allow her to assume human form.
• Lu Yang considered the Giant Turtle’s predicament and thought she could change her foundation or leave the Primordial World to pursue the Chaos Demon God path.
• The Giant Turtle failed to assume human form, then headed toward the Northern Sea to seek another chance.
• Kunpeng returned to the Northern Sea, saw the Giant Turtle approaching, and warned himself that he would not tolerate trouble in his territory.

Lu Yang sent Hun Wu No. 2 to attack Hongyun, who escaped and resumed opening worlds while unknowingly helping nurture more Chaos Golden Crows. In the Primordial World, Tongtian closed the Interception Sect for ten Cosmic Epochs, and the Heavenly Court cut off Golden Ao Island’s access to star power as Tongtian waited for the Witch-Monster Calamity.

• Lu Yang sensed that Hongyun had nurtured Hun Wu No. 2, then sent the Chaos Golden Crow to reinforce his control over Hongyun.
• Hun Wu No. 2 attacked Hongyun and overwhelmed him, but let him flee after demonstrating the gap in their strength.
• Hongyun wondered why the Chaos Golden Crow had spared him, then resumed opening Middle Thousand Worlds; his efforts continued nurturing more Chaos Golden Crows.
• Tongtian returned to Golden Ao Island and announced that the Interception Sect would close for ten Cosmic Epochs after reaching an agreement with Panhu.
• Di Jun used the Cosmic Stars Great Array to divert the Sun and Moon Essence and Star Power away from Golden Ao Island, worsening the Interception Sect’s hardships.
• Tongtian restrained himself from confronting the Witch and Monster Clans and calculated that their war would erupt before long.

Chiyang strengthened Duobao’s treasure tribulation, then praised and guided him in artifact refining. Inspired to forge an imitation of a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure, Duobao chose Yunxiao’s Hunyuan Golden Dou and went to borrow it.

• Chiyang used the Heavenly Tribulation Method to upgrade the tribulation of Duobao’s imitation treasure from a Four-Nine to a Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Duobao’s imitation survived the tribulation and proved usable twice, matching its Innate counterpart in power.
• Chiyang praised Duobao’s work and gave him pointers that cleared up several questions about artifact refining and Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Chiyang encouraged Duobao to attempt an imitation of a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure, offering to guide him.
• Duobao decided to imitate Yunxiao’s Hunyuan Golden Dou and went to the Three Xiao Sisters’ cave abode to borrow it.

Duobao borrowed Yunxiao’s Hunyuan Golden Dou and, with Chiyang’s guidance, forged a counterfeit using materials gathered from his fellow disciples and the East Sea Dragon Palace. When Duobao and Yunxiao tested the two treasures, their divine lights collided and struck Bixiao, stripping away ten thousand years of her Cultivation and Dao Cultivation.

• Yunxiao lent Duobao the Hunyuan Golden Dou, and Duobao asked Chiyang to help analyze and replicate it.
• Chiyang identified the materials and explained the treasure’s mysteries, while Duobao gathered the supplies he lacked from fellow disciples and the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Chiyang and Duobao forged a counterfeit Hunyuan Golden Dou at an undersea volcano over forty-nine days.
• Duobao returned the genuine treasure to Yunxiao and showed the Three Xiaos the counterfeit he had made with Chiyang’s help.
• Yunxiao and Duobao activated the genuine and counterfeit treasures to compare their divine lights, which collided and struck Bixiao, stripping away ten thousand years of her Cultivation and Dao Cultivation.

Panhu discovered that Hongjun was weakening the bond between the Witch World and Buzhou Mountain to provoke their destruction and trigger a calamity. He entered the Witch World and began refining it, restoring its connection to Buzhou Mountain as Hongjun realized his scheme had failed.

• Panhu sensed something wrong at Buzhou Mountain, traveled there, and found that its connection to the Witch World was weakening.
• Lu Yang drew on the Power of Heavenly Dao, uncovered the hidden plot, and identified Hongjun as the one targeting the Witch Clan.
• Panhu entered the Witch World, warned the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and began refining the world with a Blood Qi Furnace.
• Panhu's refinement strengthened the Witch World's connection to Buzhou Mountain, while the Ancestral Witch avatars collapsed and the Lesser Witches fled.
• Hongjun learned that his scheme had failed and resolved to make his next plot more thorough.

Hongyun sensed the Primordial World from the chaos and returned, then met Tongtian and Zhenyuanzi. He learned about events during his absence while feasting on Ginseng Fruits at Wuzhuang Temple.

• While opening a world in the Outer Chaos, Hongyun sensed the Primordial World’s coordinates and hurried back.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Zhunti sensed Hongyun’s return and wondered what it meant for the Saints and Pangu’s plans.
• Tongtian invited Hongyun to Biyou Palace and warned him that the Witch Clan should not produce a Saint, angering Hongyun.
• Hongyun avoided the Heavenly Court and traveled to Wanshou Mountain, where Zhenyuanzi welcomed him and offered him several hundred Ginseng Fruits.
• As Zhenyuanzi recounted events from Hongyun’s absence, Hongyun also communicated with Lord of the Clouds to learn what had happened.

Hongyun sparred with Zhenyuanzi, then learned from Taishang that Panhou was Pangu and that Pangu was pursuing a hidden plan. After returning to the Witch World, Hongyun set out with Panhou into the Outer Chaos to study how to cultivate primordial spirits for the Ancestral Witches.

• Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi sparred in the Mountains and Seas Realm, then Hongyun sampled a foul-tasting strange beast before leaving Wuzhuang Temple.
• Taishang trapped Hongyun in the Taiji Diagram and told him that Panhou was Pangu, who had schemes tied to the coming of the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Taishang borrowed the Eastern Emperor Bell from Donghuang Taiyi, then met Yuanshi at Jade Void Palace with the Three Creation Treasures assembled.
• Hongyun returned to the Witch World and told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that he had found a way for Ancestral Witches to cultivate primordial spirits.
• Hongyun and Panhou departed from Buzhou Mountain into the Outer Chaos to investigate the path of Witch Dao primordial spirits.

Hongyun lured Panhu into the Outer Chaos after believing Taiqing’s claim that Panhu was Pangu and threatened the Primordial World. The Three Pure Ones confronted Panhu, and as their battle escalated, Taishang and Yuanshi revealed the Three Creation Treasures, gathering all three at once.

• Panhu accused Hongyun of betraying him, and Hongyun declared that he believed Panhu was Pangu and wanted him left in the chaos.
• Taiqing, Yuqing, and Tongtian emerged and surrounded Panhu, then attacked him with their treasures and the Supreme Divine Lightning of the Mystical Sect.
• Panhu blocked the Three Pure Ones’ first assault with his body, but their combined lightning overpowered his All-Heavenly Divine Lightning.
• Hongjun, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti watched the battle; Nuwa considered trapping Panhu in the Shanhe Sheji Diagram.
• Yuanshi revealed the Pangu Banner, while Taishang brought out the Taiji Diagram and Eastern Emperor Bell, bringing all three Creation Treasures together.

Panhou seized the Three Pure Ones’ fused Pangu Axe and used it to defeat them, leaving them badly injured despite Hongjun’s intervention. After the battle, the Three Pure Ones returned to the Primordial World, each reflecting on the defeat and considering how it could affect the Witch and Monster races.

• Hongyun fled several light-years from the battle, recovered from his injuries, and watched as the Three Pure Ones formed an array with the Three Creation Treasures.
• The Three Pure Ones fused the Pangu Banner, Taiji Diagram, and Eastern Emperor Bell into a Chaos Axe and swung it at Panhou.
• Panhou took control of the Pangu Axe and turned its attack on the Three Pure Ones, seriously injuring them after Hongjun weakened the strike with an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Yuanshi returned to Jade Void Palace and resolved that the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, rather than the Pangu Banner, was his true magical treasure.
• Taishang returned the Eastern Emperor Bell to Donghuang Taiyi, then considered using Hongyun’s possible death to stir conflict within the Witch Clan.
• Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace and recovered from his injuries inside the Primordial World.

Panhu punished Hongyun by separating his primordial spirit from his body and banishing it beneath the Nine Netherworlds, while the Ancestral Witches grew uneasy over his fate. Candle Dragon agreed to lead the Six Sages to his Low-level Hunyuan World, unaware that Lu Yang planned to stop them, and Hongjun secretly followed their journey through the chaos.

• Panhu sealed Hongyun's body in the Chaos Void and cast his primordial spirit beneath the Nine Netherworlds, where Hongyun noticed the Primordial Violet Qi remained within him.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches learned what Panhu had done to Hongyun and worried that he opposed Ancestral Witches cultivating primordial spirits.
• The Six Sages rescued Candle Dragon from beneath Golden Ao Island and persuaded him to lead them to his Low-level Hunyuan World, promising to help him become the Primordial World's eighth Saint.
• Lu Yang learned that Candle Dragon was guiding the Sages toward Hunwu, his Obsession Corpse's Inner World, and decided to interfere.
• Hongjun secretly followed Candle Dragon and the Six Sages into the chaos as they traveled toward the otherworld, with Candle Dragon reporting that they had covered only one thousandth of the distance.

Candle Dragon and the Sages entered a Primordial Domain made from Primordial Divine Light, where they were ambushed by Hun Wu and Hun Wu No. 2. As the battle continued, Hun Wu No. 2 redirected attacks from Daoist Jieyin and Zhunti, leaving the Sages puzzled and Candle Dragon badly injured.

• Candle Dragon led the Sages through a Chaos Storm, and they reached a sphere of Primordial Divine Light that trapped them in a domain.
• Yuanshi approached the Primordial Divine Light, whose sudden eruption revealed the hidden Hongjun and caught everyone in its purple net.
• Hun Wu and Hun Wu No. 2 entered the domain, and the Sages assigned Daoist Jieyin and Candle Dragon to fight Hun Wu No. 2 while six Sages attacked Hun Wu.
• Hun Wu No. 2 redirected Daoist Jieyin's Prayer Beads into Candle Dragon, badly injuring him, then continued shifting Daoist Jieyin's attacks away from himself.
• Hun Wu shifted Zhunti's Seven-Colored Divine Light into Yuanshi, and Hongjun deduced that the Chaos Golden Crows could redirect attacks from the heterodox path but not those of the orthodox school.

Hun Wu’s scheme trapped Hongjun inside the collapsing Primordial Domain, while the Saints escaped and watched. Hongjun survived the domain’s devastating strike, though he lost more than half his body, and Hunwu waited to learn the result.

• Tongtian replaced Jieyin and drove Hun Wu No. 2 away with his sword, while Jieyin and Zhunti joined forces against Hun Wu.
• Hun Wu withdrew from the Primordial Domain, and the Three Pure Ones attacked it with their treasures but failed to break it immediately.
• As Hongjun studied the Primordial Domain, it collapsed around him; the other Saints escaped, leaving him to bear its full force.
• Hongjun’s defensive treasure failed, and the Primordial Domain’s power blasted away more than half his body, though he survived.
• Hunwu watched the domain collapse and judged that he had underestimated Hongjun, while Taishang and the others saw the surrounding Chaos Void vanish and refill.

After recovering from his catastrophic injuries, Hongjun and the other Primordial Sages followed Candle Dragon to a hidden Low-level Hunyuan World, but only Yuanshi could enter. Yuanshi tried to claim part of its Heavenly Dao Origin for an avatar and suppressed Candle Dragon when he refused, leaving the others alarmed and unable to intervene.

• Hongjun reappeared with most of his body missing, accepted Taishang’s Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir, and regenerated much of his body by absorbing Chaos Qi.
• Candle Dragon located the hidden otherworld and brought Yuanshi inside after failing to bring Hongjun and Taishang; attempts to bring Tongtian, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti also failed.
• Yuanshi explored the Golden Crow Universe, considered using part of its Heavenly Dao Origin to Forge an avatar, and asked Candle Dragon to help him.
• Candle Dragon refused to let Yuanshi take the world’s Heavenly Dao Origin, so Yuanshi attacked him with the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi and immobilized him.
• Candle Dragon sent word to Hongjun and the others, who learned Yuanshi had suppressed him; Taishang declined to summon Yuanshi out, while the others worried they could not stop him.

Yuqing seized 1% of the Golden Crow Heavenly Dao’s origin, forged it into an avatar, and used the world’s authority to break through to the Mid-stage Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal. He refused Hongjun and the other Primordial Sages’ demand to merge the otherworld into the Primordial World, insisting that it should first grow into a Mid-level Hunyuan World.

• Yuqing suppressed Candle Dragon and promised him a Sage Position in the Primordial World if the otherworld eventually merged with it.
• Yuqing fought the Golden Crow Heavenly Dao’s Eye of the Firmament with the Pangu Banner, transformed the banner into a Heaven-Opening Axe, and cleaved a crack in the world’s rules.
• Yuqing stripped away 1% of the Golden Crow Heavenly Dao’s origin, forged it into an avatar with equal authority to Candle Dragon, and broke through to the Mid-stage Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Hunwu observed that Yuqing’s new connection to the Golden Crow Universe would lead him to try to develop it rather than merge it into the Primordial World.
• Yuqing returned to the chaos, where Hongjun and the others recognized his increased strength and urged him to merge the otherworld into the Primordial World.
• Yuqing refused to merge the otherworld until it became a Mid-level Hunyuan World, leaving Hongjun and the other Sages concerned about how much stronger he might become.