Chapter Summaries

Taiqing explained that Lei Ze followed the Path of Prudence, which made him confident Lei Ze would survive the Immortal-Demon Calamity. He defended Lei Ze’s cautious methods to the bewildered Two Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches, especially Qiang Liang, and urged them to recognize the dangers of the Primordial Wilderness.

• Houtu worried that Lei Ze would be pulled into the Immortal-Demon Calamity because Dong Wang Gong had drawn him into the Immortal Court.
• Taiqing assured the Two Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches that Lei Ze would remain safe through the calamity.
• Taiqing explained that the Path of Prudence meant concealing one’s abilities, preparing escape routes, avoiding needless risks, and acting only with confidence.
• Qiang Liang objected that Lei Ze’s cautious conduct disgraced the Great Dao of Lightning’s laws, while the others also struggled to accept it.
• Taiqing argued that even powerful cultivators could perish when surrounded by stronger opponents, so Lei Ze was right to be cautious.

Taiqing persuaded the Two Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches to learn the Path of Prudence from Lei Ze and Styx. He admitted that he had a plan involving Styx and Houtu, tied to establishing the Underworld in the Blood Sea.

• Taiqing argued that Lei Ze’s cautious conduct had helped him survive the Primordial Wilderness’s schemes and urged his kin to plan carefully and protect themselves.
• The Two Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches reflected on Taiqing’s past schemes and began to accept the value of the Path of Prudence.
• Dijiang observed that Styx’s countless Blood God Clones made him another practitioner of the Path of Prudence.
• Taiqing called Styx Cousin Styx and advised his kin to learn from him and Lei Ze.
• Houtu asked whether Taiqing had a plan involving Styx, and Taiqing admitted that it concerned her and the establishment of the Underworld in the Blood Sea.

Taiqing explained that Styx was destined to become an Earthly Dao Saint and told Houtu that the Underworld Reincarnation would be established beside the Blood Sea. After Pangu Father God's memorial tablet struck Taiqing for repeatedly blaming him, Taiqing began describing how the Underworld and Reincarnation worked.

• Taiqing said Styx was connected to the Earthly Dao and should be brought closer to the Pangu descendants.
• Houtu asked why she could sense the Earthly Dao connection in Zhen Yuanzi but not in Styx, and Taiqing said the time had not yet come and that the Underworld Reincarnation would be built beside the Blood Sea.
• Taiqing explained that Houtu could safely learn about the Underworld Reincarnation because she could now faintly sense the Earthly Dao, and the others found the warning in Pangu's inheritance.
• Pangu Father God's memorial tablet flew from the altar and struck Taiqing after he blamed Pangu for revealing the Underworld Reincarnation.
• Taiqing told the others that the Underworld prepared souls for Reincarnation and included Ghost Gate Pass, the Bridge of Helplessness, Fengdu City, the Ten Courts, the Eighteen Levels of Hell, and the City of Wrongful Deaths before leading to the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Taiqing warned Houtu that Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao would try to make her sacrifice herself to create the Underworld Reincarnation, so the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches began building the Underworld in advance. As the Witch Race’s work drew Hongjun’s attention, the Immortal Court grew strong enough to rival the Demon Race Heavenly Court, and Tai Yi proposed destroying it to seize its Destiny.

• Taiqing explained the Underworld Reincarnation and its organization, deepening Houtu’s understanding of the Law of Reincarnation.
• Taiqing forbade Houtu from going out alone and proposed that the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches build the Underworld before she established its Reincarnation Core.
• The Witch Race refined the Primordial Wilderness’s Innate Fiendish Energy and gathered materials for the Underworld, prompting Hongjun to hope that their actions would help him destroy the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Di Jun’s Demon Race Heavenly Court conquered races by force, while Dong Wang Gong’s Immortal Court gained support by allowing races to remain independent in exchange for resources.
• Hong Yun recruited ten quasi-saints for the Immortal Court, bringing its Destiny close to the Demon Race Heavenly Court’s.
• After hearing Bai Ze report on the Immortal Court’s strength, Tai Yi urged Di Jun to destroy it and seize its Destiny.

Di Jun decided to attack Dong Wang Gong’s Immortal Court, and Xuanqing agreed while taking charge of refining pills for the campaign. As the Heavenly Court mobilized, Dong Wang Gong ordered the Immortal Court to prepare for an attack, while Zhen Yuanzi privately offered him important intelligence.

• Di Jun asked Xuanqing whether the Heavenly Court should attack the Immortal Court, and Xuanqing supported the war.
• Di Jun ordered Bai Ze to organize the troops, Tai Yi to command them, and Xuanqing to refine pills using the Heavenly Court treasury.
• Xuanqing accepted the assignment and looked forward to using the pill-refining work to advance his Dao.
• Dong Wang Gong learned of the Heavenly Court’s troop movements and ordered the Immortal Court to arm itself and remain vigilant.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Dong Wang Gong that he had important intelligence, and Dong Wang Gong dismissed the others so they could speak privately.

Zhen Yuanzi warned Dong Wang Gong that Di Jun’s Heavenly Court was preparing to attack the Immortal Court and presented the Myriad Immortals Great Formation as a means of defense. Dong Wang Gong ordered his trusted Quasi-Saints to begin training in the formation, though the Immortal Court could currently support only one.

• Zhen Yuanzi told Dong Wang Gong that the Heavenly Court was mobilizing to attack the Immortal Court and urged him to prepare.
• Dong Wang Gong acknowledged the Immortal Court’s disadvantage in Quasi-Saint strength and asked Zhen Yuanzi for advice.
• Zhen Yuanzi explained that the Myriad Immortals Great Formation could let five Early Stage Quasi-Saints command hundreds of millions of soldiers with the power of a Mid Stage Quasi-Saint.
• Zhen Yuanzi said the formation was inspired by Luohu’s Myriad Demons Great Formation, while privately recalling that the Sanqing had created it and Taiqing had given him its initial version.
• Dong Wang Gong praised the formation, promised to help perfect it, and summoned five trusted Quasi-Saints to begin training in it.
• Dong Wang Gong learned that the Immortal Court had enough resources to support only one Myriad Immortals Great Formation.

Zhen Yuanzi sought more Quasi-Saints to strengthen the Immortal Court, while Fuxi and Nuwa set out for Penglai Immortal Island to join it. On the way, they easily defeated two Quasi-Saints who tried to steal their treasure, and Nuwa proposed presenting them to the Immortal Court.

• Zhen Yuanzi contacted Hong Yun and urged him to recruit more Quasi-Saints for the Immortal Court.
• Nuwa suggested that she and Fuxi travel to Penglai Immortal Island and join the Immortal Court, and Fuxi agreed.
• Fuxi and Nuwa encountered two Quasi-Saints who attacked them to seize Shanhe Sheji Tu.
• Fuxi trapped the attackers with Heaven and Earth Grasping Palm, searched them, and prepared to crush them.
• Nuwa stopped Fuxi and suggested giving the two defeated Quasi-Saints to the Immortal Court as gifts.

Fuxi and Nuwa recruited two Quasi-Saints into the Immortal Court, while Hong Yun persuaded another pair to join. After hearing that an opportunity was emerging nearby, Hong Yun set off with them, hoping to recruit more cultivators along the way.

• Fuxi and Nuwa spared two Quasi-Saints who had ambushed them after the pair agreed to join the Immortal Court and follow the siblings’ account of what happened.
• Hong Yun arrived too late to find the two Quasi-Saints, failed to trace Fuxi and Nuwa, and moved on to search for stronger recruits.
• Hong Yun found two Quasi-Saints who had severed their corpses with Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and persuaded them to join the Immortal Court.
• The two new recruits told Hong Yun that an opportunity was emerging nearby, and he agreed to go with them, hoping to recruit other cultivators there.

Hong Yun reached the Fire Element Sword, a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure bestowed by his master, Old Ancestor Wuxing, and claimed it as it emerged from the mountain. He fought three Quasi-Saints alone, while his new Immortal Court allies realized he was in control.

• Hong Yun followed two Quasi-Saints to a sword-shaped immortal mountain and sensed an opportunity calling to him.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing revealed that the mountain was the Fire Element Sword and told Hong Yun about four other swords that could be combined into a powerful formation.
• Hong Yun awakened the Fire Element Sword with his Fire Laws, and it flew to him as the three Quasi-Saints attacked.
• Hong Yun refused help from his two companions, took up the sword, and shattered the attackers' combined strikes with one slash.
• Hong Yun charged into the three Quasi-Saints' encirclement, while one companion worried and the other said Hong Yun was merely toying with them.

Hong Yun subdued three quasi-Saints and invited them to join the Immortal Court. At Penglai Immortal Island, Fuxi and Nuwa also joined, leaving Dong Wang Gong unsure what positions to grant them, so he summoned Hong Yun to discuss it.

• Hong Yun used the Fire Element Sword to defeat three quasi-Saints and persuaded them to join the Immortal Court.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Dong Wang Gong sent Hong Yun messages asking him to return for an important discussion.
• Fuxi and Nuwa arrived at the Immortal Court with two quasi-Saints subdued by Fuxi and offered them as a gift when they joined.
• Dong Wang Gong welcomed Fuxi and Nuwa and agreed to their request to join the Immortal Court.
• Dong Wang Gong struggled to decide what authority to grant Fuxi and Nuwa, so he asked Hong Yun to return and discuss their positions.

Hong Yun returned to Penglai Immortal Island with five Quasi-Saints and learned that the Heavenly Court was preparing to attack the Immortal Court. Dong Wang Gong sought Hong Yun’s advice on positions for Fuxi and Nuwa, and Hong Yun recommended making them Immortal Emperors.

• Hong Yun brought five Quasi-Saints back to Penglai Immortal Island, where Dong Wang Gong welcomed them and arranged their registration.
• Dong Wang Gong told Hong Yun that Di Jun’s Heavenly Court planned to attack, and Zhen Yuanzi said his Myriad Immortals Great Formation could help defend the Immortal Court.
• Hong Yun concealed his satisfaction at the coming attack and considered how it fit Taiqing’s plans for the Witch-Demon Calamity.
• Dong Wang Gong explained that he had summoned Hong Yun to discuss positions for Fuxi and Nuwa, who had come to join the Immortal Court.
• Hong Yun praised the decision and recommended granting Fuxi and Nuwa positions as Immortal Emperors.

Hong Yun persuaded Dong Wang Gong to appoint Fuxi and Nuwa as Immortal Emperors, and the Immortal Court announced that it would be governed by five emperors. Lei Ze appeared at their induction ceremony, seeking ties with the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables’ disciples, while Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi recognized that he had been hiding on Penglai Immortal Island.

• Hong Yun explained that Fuxi and Nuwa were powerful, influential, and uninterested in authority, and that Fuxi could help perfect the Myriad Immortals Great Formation.
• After hearing that Fuxi and Nuwa were nearing the Mid-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm, Dong Wang Gong appointed them Immortal Emperors and announced that five emperors would jointly govern the Immortal Court.
• The Immortal Court’s announcement drew attention as beings across the Primordial Wilderness reacted to rising tensions and Di Jun’s troop mobilization.
• Lei Ze appeared at the ceremony, and Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, Fuxi, and Nuwa realized they could not discern his cultivation realm.
• Lei Ze greeted the four Immortal Emperors, hoping to befriend the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables’ disciples and gain their protection from the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun Saint.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi exchanged a glance and nodded, recalling that they had secretly searched Penglai Immortal Island for Lei Ze after the Immortal Clan was established.

After learning that Lei Ze had already reached Mid-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal, the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches advanced to that stage or higher. Taiqing then sensed the Innate Banana Tree on Buzhou Mountain and sent the Ancestral Witches to retrieve it, while Styx also headed there.

• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi reported Lei Ze's Mid-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal cultivation to Taiqing, shocking the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• The Ancestral Witches who had not yet advanced entered seclusion and all reached Mid-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal within ten thousand years; Taiqing remained at Late-stage.
• Taiqing sensed the Innate Banana Tree on Buzhou Mountain and resolved to claim the tree and all four of its leaves.
• Styx sensed an opportunity on Buzhou Mountain and sent a Blood God Clone to retrieve it.
• Taiqing told the Twelve Ancestral Witches to retrieve the Innate Banana Tree and all its leaves, noting that Styx was fated to one of them.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches retrieved the Innate Banana Tree and its four leaves before Styx arrived, while Hongjun watched but refrained from intervening. After noticing Styx’s Life-saving Hair, Dijiang invited him to Pangu Hall.

• Taiqing told the Twelve Ancestral Witches where the Innate Banana Tree grew and asked them to bring back Styx if they encountered him.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches set out for the tree, and Styx arrived at Buzhou Mountain with the help of Ancestor Slaughter.
• Hongjun watched the site and saw the Twelve Ancestral Witches enter the Innate Great Formation, bow to the tree, take its four banana leaves, and dig it up intact.
• Styx entered the formation after the tree had been taken, and Hongjun considered stirring up a conflict before spotting the Witches’ Merit of World Creation and Styx’s three strands of Life-saving Hair.
• Hongjun withdrew his gaze, and Dijiang invited Styx to Pangu Hall after the Life-saving Hair stopped glowing.

Styx was welcomed by the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches as a descendant of Pangu and formally joined their group after paying respects to Pangu’s memorial tablet. Taiqing prepared to reveal their secrets once Styx made a Great Dao Vow, while Styx remained shaken by Pangu’s brief appearance.

• Taiqing introduced Styx to Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao and offered him a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure in exchange for the water banana leaf.
• Styx refused the exchange, saying he would leave the banana leaf and Lingbao with the descendants of Pangu.
• Taiqing led Styx and the others to Pangu’s memorial tablet, where Styx kowtowed three times and was acknowledged by Pangu’s will.
• Pangu’s will vanished when the extreme realm shattered, leaving Taiqing and several others in tears.
• Taiqing told Styx that joining their group made him an official descendant of Pangu and asked him to make a Great Dao Vow before learning their secrets.
• Styx asked whether Pangu had survived, then agreed to make the vow after Taiqing explained that it would protect their circumstances from discovery.

After Taiqing revealed the Heavenly Dao’s schemes, Styx joined the descendants of Pangu Father God and agreed to help build the Underworld. His Blood God Clones would construct it in the Blood Sea, and he was promised an Earthly Dao Saint Position.

• Styx made a Great Dao Vow to keep everything he learned in Pangu Hall from being detected or leaked.
• Taiqing explained the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Daos, Hongjun’s schemes, and the plans of the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Taiqing asked Styx to provide part of the Blood Sea and support the construction of the Underworld and Reincarnation.
• Styx agreed to help and offered his countless Blood God Clones to build the Underworld.
• The Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches thanked Styx and promised him an Earthly Dao Saint Position.

Styx accepted the position of Earthly Dao Saint after Taiqing explained that it would not prevent him from pursuing Hunyuan Celestial Venerable. Though the Primordial Wilderness mocked his plans to establish a faction in the Blood Sea, Styx gained Ancestor Slaughter’s support by promising a far greater increase in Destiny.

• Taiqing explained to Styx that becoming an Earthly Dao Saint would grant immortality and would not block his pursuit of Hunyuan Celestial Venerable, so Styx accepted the position.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches divided their duties, while the Sanqing returned to Kunlun Mountain and recruited disciples to help gather materials for the Underworld.
• Styx returned to the Blood Sea and announced plans to establish a faction, but the Great Dao and Heavenly Dao ignored him, and many beings mocked him.
• Hongjun dismissed Styx’s plans as foolish, while Styx resolved to endure the ridicule and detected Hongjun’s probing through his Life-saving Hair.
• Ancestor Slaughter questioned Styx’s plans to build a palace, and Styx promised that supporting him would bring at least ten times the earlier increase in Destiny.

Styx secured Ancestor Slaughter’s support for building the Underworld, though Taiqing worried that stronger Chaos Demon Gods might threaten the Primordial Wilderness. Meanwhile, the Demon Race’s army set out to attack the Immortal Court, and Xuanqing became interested in the Heavenly Court’s Mobilization Platform.

• Ancestor Slaughter eagerly agreed to support Styx’s Underworld project after learning it could increase his Destiny.
• Taiqing voiced concerns that Ancestor Slaughter might grow powerful and develop ambitions toward the Primordial Wilderness, but decided to accept his help.
• The Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches began cultivating and building the Underworld with Ancestor Slaughter’s support.
• Di Jun rallied hundreds of millions of Demon Race soldiers, and Tai Yi led the army toward the Immortal Court on Penglai Immortal Island.
• The Mobilization Platform sped up the army’s journey, prompting Xuanqing to consider developing similar Lingbao or formations.
• A companion asked Xuanqing whether he had taken an interest in the Mobilization Platform.

Xuanqing proposed that the Demon Race Heavenly Court develop a rapid-travel Lingbao or grand formation, intending to make them do the work while the Witch Race claimed the results. Hongjun seized control of the project by decree, but Ancestor Reincarnation intervened to demand a share of the merit.

• Xuanqing pitched developing a rapid-travel Lingbao or grand formation as a way to benefit the Primordial Wilderness and earn Great Merit.
• Di Jun and Hongjun grew eager to pursue the idea, while Xuanqing secretly intended for the Witch Race to obtain the eventual research results.
• Hongjun issued a Saint's decree ordering Di Jun to lead the Demon Race Heavenly Court in developing the path alongside Xuanqing.
• Di Jun submitted to the decree, and Ancestor Reincarnation's divine will emerged from Xuanqing's Life-saving Hairs to challenge Hongjun's claim to the opportunity and merit.
• Hongjun refused to yield control of the project but offered Ancestor Reincarnation a portion of the merit, warning that otherwise neither side would benefit.

Ancestor Reincarnation negotiated a forty-percent share of the Great Merit for himself and Xuanqing, leaving Heavenly Court to carry out the plan under Hongjun’s decree. A hundred years later, Tai Yi’s Demon Race army arrived at Penglai Immortal Island and challenged Dong Wang Gong, while the Immortal Court prepared to defend itself.

• Ancestor Reincarnation rejected an equal split and secured forty percent of the Great Merit for himself and Xuanqing, with Hongjun and Heavenly Court taking sixty percent.
• Hongjun ordered Di Jun to have Heavenly Court cooperate fully, and Ancestor Reincarnation promised Xuanqing his support.
• Xuanqing’s scheme drew the attention of powerful figures, while Hongjun began using the Jade of Creation to investigate the Lingbao or formation Xuanqing had mentioned.
• The Immortal Court prepared the Myriad Immortals Great Formation, which Fuxi and Nuwa had been working to improve.
• Tai Yi led the Demon Race army to Penglai Immortal Island and called on Dong Wang Gong to come out and fight.