Chapter Summaries

Hongjun taught the beings of Purple Cloud Palace how to sever the Three Corpses while concealing the method’s dangers, then appointed Dong Wang Gong Head of Male Immortals to provoke Di Jun and Tai Yi. After sending the listeners into the Primordial Wilderness to seek Spiritual Treasures, the story left the Twelve Ancestral Witches and other powerful figures converging on Buzhou Mountain as Hongjun anticipated raising the Demon Race.

• Hongjun explained that Innate Spiritual Treasures were needed to sever the Three Corpses, while hiding that incompatible treasures could prevent their union or kill their wielders.
• Bodhi and Mituo begged Hongjun for Spiritual Treasures, but he told them to wait until after his third lecture.
• Hongjun appointed Dong Wang Gong Head of Male Immortals and gave him the Dragon-Headed Staff, inflaming his ambition and drawing hostile looks from Di Jun and Tai Yi.
• Hongjun sent the Purple Cloud Palace listeners into the Primordial Wilderness, placing Di Jun and Tai Yi on the Central Continent near Buzhou Mountain.
• Fuxi, Nuwa, Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, and Xuanqing traveled to Buzhou Mountain, where they encountered the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who had gathered to seize Tai Yi's gourd.
• Hongjun sensed the Twelve Ancestral Witches heading toward Buzhou Mountain and resolved to let them roam until he raised the Demon Race.

Hongjun avoided confronting the Twelve Ancestral Witches and secretly sent Di Jun and Tai Yi to Buzhou Mountain, where Xuanqing chose to wait for them while the others hurried toward a fortuitous opportunity. Di Jun and Tai Yi met Xuanqing and discovered that they could not discern his realm.

• Hongjun stopped watching the Twelve Ancestral Witches and, suspecting their gathering was tied to the Innate Gourd Vine, secretly sent Di Jun and Tai Yi to the foot of Buzhou Mountain.
• Tai Yi told Di Jun he sensed a fortuitous opportunity destined for him, and the brothers hurried toward the mountain.
• Xuanqing decided not to kill Di Jun and Tai Yi, reasoning that keeping Hongjun's chosen figures around would make their plans easier to anticipate.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches, Fuxi, Nuwa, Hong Yun, and Zhen Yuanzi continued up the mountain, while Xuanqing stayed behind and told Fuxi and Nuwa to go ahead.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi greeted Xuanqing, and Tai Yi privately worried that they might not be able to recruit him after realizing they could not discern his realm.

Xuanqing joined Di Jun and Tai Yi on Buzhou Mountain after pretending to share their sensed opportunity, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches and their companions reached the Innate Gourd Vine first. Hong Yun and Nuwa claimed their destined gourds, and Zhu Rong secretly asked the vine for the Immortal Slaying Gourd.

• Tai Yi and Di Jun worried that Xuanqing's higher realm might keep him from joining their camp, while Tai Yi said they would sever their corpses after the journey.
• Xuanqing pretended to have sensed the same opportunity as Di Jun and Tai Yi, and the three agreed to travel together up Buzhou Mountain.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches, Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, Fuxi, and Nuwa found the Innate Gourd Vine and agreed to let each person claim a mature gourd by fate.
• Hong Yun bowed to the vine and received the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd, then Nuwa bowed and received the Demon Summoning Gourd.
• After Fuxi and Zhen Yuanzi declined to choose, Zhu Rong bowed to the vine and secretly asked it to give him the Immortal Slaying Gourd.

Zhu Rong obtained the Immortal Slaying Gourd after Tai Yi lost his connection to the opportunity, and Xuanqing arrived with Di Jun and Tai Yi too late to stop him. Xuanqing then bowed to the Innate Gourd Vine, which turned green again, and realized that its seventh gourd could develop if it received more Three Lights Divine Water and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.

• After Zhu Rong sent a voice transmission, Tai Yi sensed that his opportunity had vanished, and Di Jun asked Xuanqing to take them to its location.
• Zhu Rong plucked the Immortal Slaying Gourd from the Innate Gourd Vine and celebrated obtaining the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Tai Yi confronted Zhu Rong, who pressed him with his Hunyuan Golden Immortal aura until Xuanqing intervened and identified Zhu Rong as an Ancestral Witch.
• Zhu Rong let the matter go for Xuanqing's sake and invited him to choose a Lingbao from the Innate Gourd Vine.
• Xuanqing bowed three times to the Innate Gourd Vine, which turned green again, and he concluded that its seventh gourd needed more Three Lights Divine Water and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to develop.

Xuanqing obtained three Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures from the Innate Gourd Vine, and Hongjun tried to calculate his origins. Ancestor Reincarnation retaliated by appearing outside Violet Firmament Palace and blocking its gates, demanding an explanation from Hongjun.

• Xuanqing summoned the first three gourds from the Innate Gourd Vine and took them as his own.
• Fuxi, Nuwa, Di Jun, Tai Yi, Hong Yun, and Zhen Yuanzi congratulated Xuanqing on obtaining three Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Hongjun used the Jade of Creation to calculate Xuanqing's origins, prompting Ancestor Reincarnation to attack him and cause him to spit blood.
• Ancestor Reincarnation appeared outside Violet Firmament Palace and challenged Hongjun to face him, but neither entered the other's domain.
• Ancestor Reincarnation vowed to block the palace gates until Hongjun gave him an explanation, threatening to disrupt Hongjun's final lecture.
• Hongjun protested that he had apologized and called Xuanqing an ant, while Ancestor Reincarnation refused to back down.

Ancestor Reincarnation confronted Hongjun in Purple Firmament Palace and forced him to provide compensation, while the threat of their battle reminded Sanqing that the Primordial Wilderness could not withstand a clash between powerful cultivators. At Buzhou Mountain, Dijiang claimed the remaining Innate Gourd Vine and its accompanying treasures for the Witch Race, leaving Nuwa without them for now.

• Ancestor Reincarnation attacked Purple Firmament Palace, but he and Hongjun avoided a full battle to prevent destroying the Primordial Wilderness; Hongjun secretly gave Reincarnation two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures in exchange for his silence.
• Taichu and Taiqing worried that a battle between Hunyuan Celestial Venerables and Saints could devastate the Primordial Wilderness, and Taiqing concluded that it needed stronger protections.
• Hongjun sent Di Jun and Tai Yi back to the Sun Star and urged them to cultivate, sever their corpses, and attain the Dao; the brothers entered seclusion with renewed confidence.
• Hong Yun agreed that Dijiang’s Twelve Ancestral Witches could take the immature gourd and Innate Gourd Vine, despite Nuwa sensing that the vine and its root treasures were connected to her.
• Dijiang collected the Innate Gourd Vine, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, and its supporting tree for the Witch Race, then invited the gathered cultivators to Pangu Hall.

Queen Mother of the West, Xi He, and Chang Xi arrived at Buzhou Mountain to meet the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Styx soon followed with the same intention. Dijiang invited them all to Pangu Hall to discuss the Dao, leaving Styx waiting to see how the Witches would react to his Blood Sea origins.

• Queen Mother of the West, Xi He, and Chang Xi traveled to Buzhou Mountain after Yin-Yang Ancestor brought them near the mountain.
• Xi He introduced the three sisters to Dijiang and asked to visit the Twelve Ancestral Witches, while Queen Mother of the West recognized Xuanqing from their encounter at the Eastern Sea.
• Dijiang welcomed the sisters, introduced the gathered Hunyuan Golden Immortals and their masters, and invited them to Pangu Hall to discuss the Dao.
• Styx arrived, introduced himself as a disciple of the Slaughter Celestial Venerable, and said he had come to meet the Twelve Ancestral Witches because he was born from the Blood Sea.
• Styx emphasized his Blood Sea origin and watched for the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ reaction, hoping to form a connection with them.

Styx gained the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ recognition as their cousin and joined them on their return to Pangu Hall, increasing his Destiny. Meanwhile, Hongjun’s saint blood helped Dong Wang Gong, Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the Ten Great Demon Sages become quasi-saints, ushering the Primordial Wilderness into a new era.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches discussed Styx and decided he was worth drawing into their camp.
• Dijiang welcomed Styx as their cousin and invited him to Pangu Hall to discuss the Dao.
• Styx gratefully accepted the Twelve Ancestral Witches as senior brothers and sisters, and his Destiny rose after they acknowledged him.
• Hongjun watched the gathering at Buzhou Mountain and dismissed Styx while his chosen allies refined his saint blood.
• Dong Wang Gong used Hongjun’s saint blood and the Dragon-Headed Staff to sever a corpse and become the first quasi-saint beneath Hongjun.
• Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the Ten Great Demon Sages also severed corpses with Hongjun’s saint blood and attained quasi-sainthood.

Mituo and Bodhi used treasures lent by Hongjun to attain the Quasi-Saint Dao, only to discover that their rushed advancement had left them unusually weak. At Kunlun, Taiqing concluded that Hongjun had secretly boosted their cultivation, while the Sanqing chose not to risk exposing their hidden methods on the brothers.

• Hongjun lent Mituo and Bodhi the Kneeling Staff and Eastern Green Lotus Precious Color Banner, making them indebted to him while planning to shift the Western Continent's Causality onto them.
• With Hongjun's saint blood and the borrowed treasures, Mituo and Bodhi quickly severed their corpses and attained the Quasi-Saint Dao.
• Bodhi lamented that they had become subpar Quasi-Saints, and Mituo urged him to hope that Hongjun would grant them Hongmeng Purple Qi so they could become Saints.
• Taiqing, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Lingbao observed the brothers' advancement from Kunlun, and Taiqing reasoned that Hongjun must have secretly supported them.
• The Sanqing decided not to activate their hidden methods on Mituo and Bodhi while Hongjun was guarding his foundation.

Sanqing discussed the concealed Thirty-Six Heavens while Hongjun and Heavenly Dao prepared to reveal them, and Di Jun and Tai Yi rushed to claim the opportunity. Xuanqing also headed there, and the chapter ended as he greeted the wary brothers outside the heavens.

• Taiqing explained Sanqing's plans for the Thirty-Six Heavens and Great Luo Heaven, where they intended to enshrine memorial tablets for the Great Dao and Pangu.
• Hongjun used the Jade of Creation as Heavenly Dao's rules revealed a gap in the clouds concealing the Thirty-Six Heavens above Buzhou Mountain.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi sensed the opportunity from the Sun Star and set out with the Ten Great Demon Sages, fearing the Twelve Ancestral Witches might take it.
• Xuanqing left Pangu Hall for the skies above Buzhou Mountain, while Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun headed toward the Eastern Continent.
• Di Jun, Tai Yi, and their twelve Quasi-Saint companions prepared to attack the approaching figure, but Xuanqing greeted them as Daoist friends.

Xuanqing joined Di Jun, Tai Yi, and their companions as they discovered the Heavenly Court and learned about its Thirty-Six Heavens. Di Jun recognized that the Heavenly Court’s authority and destiny could fulfill his imperial Dao, and the group reached the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where he saw the Heavenly Emperor Seal.

• Xuanqing greeted Di Jun and Tai Yi, who revealed that Saint Hongjun’s blood had helped them attain the Quasi-Saint Dao.
• Di Jun asked why Xuanqing had come, and Xuanqing said he had sensed an opportunity connected to them.
• The South Heaven Gate appeared before Di Jun could propose becoming sworn brothers with Xuanqing, and Xuanqing urged the group to enter.
• Di Jun and the others passed through the Thirty-Six Heavens and learned that the Heavenly Court governed the heavens and the boundless starry sky.
• The group reached the Lingxiao Treasure Hall in Pingyu Jiayi Heaven, where Di Jun saw the Heavenly Emperor Seal and trembled with excitement.

Di Jun seized the Heavenly Emperor Seal and declared his ambition to establish a race through the Heavenly Court, while Xuanqing secretly altered the other Emperor Seals with a method Hongjun could not detect. Xuanqing appeared to accept Di Jun’s invitation, leaving Hongjun plotting to use him against Ancestor Reincarnation.

• Di Jun took the Heavenly Emperor Seal, and Xuanqing inspected the other Emperor Seals before secretly casting a hidden method on them.
• Hongjun searched the four seals but found nothing, then refrained from probing Xuanqing’s memories because he feared Ancestor Reincarnation’s intervention.
• Xuanqing recalled that he had used three strands of Merit of World Creation, obtained from Sanqing, to conceal his method from Hongjun.
• Influenced by Hongjun, Di Jun invited Xuanqing to join him in founding a race and ruling the Primordial Wilderness, while Tai Yi warned him to seek the Saint’s approval.
• Xuanqing asked Di Jun what race he intended to establish, leading Hongjun to believe Xuanqing had volunteered and to consider using him as bait against Ancestor Reincarnation.

Dijiang established the Witch Race by appealing to the Great Dao and Pangu Father God, pledging that it would protect and regulate the Primordial Wilderness. The Great Dao approved the oath, legitimizing the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus and transferring major authorities from Heavenly Dao to the Witch Race and Sanqing, weakening Hongjun.

• Di Jun declared his ambition to use Heavenly Court to unite the Myriad Races and rule the Primordial Wilderness.
• Dijiang used fifteen strands of Merit of World Creation to report the Witch Race’s establishment to the Great Dao and Pangu Father God, drawing the Great Dao’s attention.
• Dijiang pledged that the Witch Race would clear Innate Fiendish Energy, help resolve the Innate Spiritual Qi problem, and regulate the Primordial Wilderness, with the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus suppressing its destiny.
• The Great Dao approved Dijiang’s oath and inscribed its terms into the rules of the Great Desolation World, recognizing the Witch Race and the Green Lotus.
• The Great Dao transferred authority over the seasons, weather, Yin Yang, Five Elements, and other matters to the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Sanqing, weakening Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.

After the Twelve Ancestral Witches gained authority from the Great Dao, their actions inspired the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables and other beings to seek authority and merit of their own. Di Jun, angered that the Witch Race claimed the founding merit first, decided to establish the Demon Race and contend with the Witches.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches received authority over Yin Yang, the Five Elements, seasons, and weather, while Taiqing and the other Sanqing declined their shares.
• The seventeen Hunyuan Celestial Venerables considered following the Witches’ example and seeking the Great Dao’s recognition, while Hongjun suspected Taichu had guided them.
• Heavenly Dao merit descended above Buzhou Mountain for the establishment of the Witch Race, prompting other beings to consider founding races.
• Di Jun saw the Witch Race’s merit and lamented that it had taken the opportunity he had intended for himself.
• Bai Ze urged Di Jun to establish a race, and Di Jun declared that the Heavenly Court would form the Demon Race to unite the Primordial Wilderness’s many peoples and oppose the Witch Race.

Di Jun established the Demon Race through the Heavenly Court and invited Xuanqing to help govern, but Xuanqing refused to join the Demon Race and accepted an imperial position instead. As the Demon Race’s Destiny pressed upon the Primordial Wilderness, Ancestral Dragon and Yuanfeng intervened to protect their clans and related races.

• Di Jun invited Xuanqing to co-found the Demon Race, but Xuanqing declined and agreed only to join the Heavenly Court, citing his master, the Reincarnation Celestial Venerable.
• Di Jun offered Xuanqing one of the Heavenly Court’s three imperial seats, and Xuanqing took the seal of the Great Emperor Ziwei of the Central Pole; Tai Yi received the other two seals.
• Di Jun reported to the Heavenly Dao and established the Demon Race with Tai Yi, Xuanqing, and the Ten Great Demon Sages, declaring that it would govern the Primordial Wilderness and claim its many races.
• The Demon Race’s Destiny overwhelmed some weaker races, while stronger races resisted its pressure.
• Ancestral Dragon used the Ancestral Dragon Pearl to suppress the Dragon Clan’s Destiny and prevent the Dragon Clan and scaled races from being absorbed into the Demon Race.
• Yuanfeng used the Phoenix Staff to suppress the Phoenix Clan’s Destiny, protecting the Phoenix Clan and the avian races from absorption.

Di Jun established the Demon Race after excluding the ancient Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, then received more Heavenly Dao merit than the Witch Race had. Dong Wang Gong decided to establish the Immortal Court and sought allies, while Hongjun watched his plans unfold.

• Beginning Qilin rejected Di Jun’s attempt to absorb the Qilin Clan into the Demon Race and suppressed the clan’s Destiny with the Qilin Seal.
• Dong Wang Gong envied Di Jun’s position, gloated over the ancient clans’ rejection, and planned to report Di Jun to Hongjun.
• Di Jun revised his oath to exclude the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, and the Heavenly Dao granted him greater merit than it had granted the Witch Race.
• Zhu Rong cursed the Heavenly Dao’s unequal treatment, while Fuxi, Nuwa, Queen Mother of the West, Xi He, and Chang Xi grew wary of it and Hongjun.
• Dong Wang Gong decided to establish the Immortal Court and considered inviting Lei Ze and Queen Mother of the West to join him.
• A voice behind Dong Wang Gong called, “Daoist Friend, Please Stay!”

Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi brought five Quasi-Saints to Dong Wang Gong and persuaded him to establish an Immortal Court at Penglai. After welcoming them, Dong Wang Gong was stumped when Hong Yun asked how he planned to organize it, leaving the Immortal Court’s future uncertain.

• Hong Yun stopped Dong Wang Gong with a strange greeting and introduced Zhen Yuanzi and five Quasi-Saints as companions ready to help build a great undertaking.
• Dong Wang Gong welcomed the group and invited them to join him in establishing an Immortal Court at Penglai.
• Hongjun noticed the gathering, failed to deduce its cause, and concluded that their alliance could strengthen the Immortal Court before its clash with Di Jun and Tai Yi’s Heavenly Court.
• Dong Wang Gong brought Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, and the five Quasi-Saints into Penglai, where he discovered Lei Ze and Queen Mother of the West were absent.
• Hong Yun praised Penglai, then asked Dong Wang Gong to explain how he would establish and organize the Immortal Court, leaving Dong Wang Gong unable to answer.

Hong Yun rescued Dong Wang Gong from his inability to plan the Immortal Court by proposing that he establish the Immortal Clan to oppose the Demon Race. The five quasi-Saints agreed to join, and Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi secured equal positions as Immortal Emperors, leaving the group ready to establish the Immortal Clan and Immortal Court.

• Dong Wang Gong failed to answer the five quasi-Saints' questions about how to establish the Immortal Court.
• Hong Yun suggested that Dong Wang Gong create the Immortal Clan as a rival to Di Jun's Demon Race, and Dong Wang Gong claimed the plan as his own.
• Dong Wang Gong invited the five quasi-Saints to establish the Immortal Clan with him, and they agreed after he mentioned Heavenly Dao merit.
• Hong Yun explained that he and Zhen Yuanzi could not join the Immortal Clan but could join the Immortal Court.
• Dong Wang Gong named himself, Hong Yun, and Zhen Yuanzi Immortal Emperors, and the five quasi-Saints accepted the arrangement.

Dong Wang Gong established the Immortal Clan with Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi taking limited roles, provoking Di Jun and drawing Hongjun’s ridicule. Lei Ze regretted being named a founder, while Taiqing secretly protected him from the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables’ calculations.

• Hong Yun agreed to recruit members for the Immortal Court, while Zhen Yuanzi agreed to train its core members and left other decisions to Dong Wang Gong.
• Dong Wang Gong reported the Immortal Clan’s founding to the Heavenly Dao, naming Lei Ze among its founders and opening membership to many kinds of cultivators and beings.
• Di Jun blamed Dong Wang Gong for poaching from the Demon Race, sensed its Destiny/Luck decline, and prepared to attack Penglai Immortal Island.
• The Hunyuan Celestial Venerables mocked Hongjun, who could not stop the founding vow after Dong Wang Gong had made it.
• Lei Ze regretted his alliance with Dong Wang Gong, while the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables and Hongjun failed to calculate information about him.
• The Pangu True Body used the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus to disrupt Lei Ze’s Tian Ji under Taiqing’s direction, protecting him for Taiqing’s plans.

Lei Ze fled to Penglai Immortal Island after escaping the Heavenly Dao’s notice, while Dong Wang Gong established the Immortal Clan and Immortal Court. In Pangu Hall, Taiqing explained that Lei Ze’s control of lightning could help the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches weaken the Heavenly Dao’s authority.

• Lei Ze returned to Penglai Immortal Island, deciding to hide there and avoid drawing the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables’ and Saint Hongjun’s attention.
• Dong Wang Gong established the Immortal Clan and Immortal Court with Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi as co-rulers, and the Heavenly Dao granted them merit.
• The Demon Race and Immortal Clan began recruiting races across the Primordial Wilderness, while the Witch Race stayed apart and Saint Hongjun watched their rivalry.
• The Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches used their concealed Teleportation Array to gather in Pangu Hall and asked Taiqing why they had helped hide Lei Ze.
• Taiqing explained that Lei Ze had reached Hunyuan Golden Immortal by mastering lightning laws and could help them strip more lightning authority from the Heavenly Dao.