Chapter Summaries

Ao Hai sought Mu Yang’s permission to return to the East Sea Dragon Palace, and Mu Yang urged him to abandon his difficult attempt to prove Dao through Laws and enter the Quasi-Sage Realm by Slaying Three Corpses. Ao Hai remained determined to try the Law path once more and flew toward the Dragon Palace to meet Candle Dragon.

• Ao Hai asked Mu Yang for leave to answer Candle Dragon’s summons to the East Sea Dragon Palace, and Mu Yang granted it.
• Mu Yang reminded Ao Hai that he had promised Candle Dragon to help him enter the Quasi-Sage Realm and urged him to consider Slaying Three Corpses.
• Mu Yang warned Ao Hai that proving Dao through Laws was exceptionally difficult in the current age and that Dragon Clan karma further hindered his cultivation.
• Ao Hai admitted he understood the risks but insisted on trying to comprehend the laws once more so he could gain the strength to protect the Dragon Clan.
• Mu Yang advised Ao Hai to discuss the matter with Candle Dragon, and Ao Hai left Penglai Immortal Island for the East Sea Dragon Palace.

Candle Dragon revealed that the Dragon Clan's elders had died buying time for Ao Hai, forcing him to abandon his Law path and pursue Slaying Three Corpses. Ao Hai left to cultivate with the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, while Candle Dragon planned to tell East King Duke that Ao Hai would leave the Immortal Court after becoming a Quasi-Sage.

• Ao Hai returned to the East Sea Dragon Palace, and Candle Dragon confronted him about remaining at the peak of Grand Unity Golden Immortal while pursuing the Dao through Law.
• Candle Dragon told Ao Hai that the veteran Dragon Clan elders had all died after exhausting their origins in the Immortal-Demon War, leaving Candle Dragon as the only surviving elder from the Dragon-Phoenix-Kirin Tribulation.
• Candle Dragon warned that the Dragon Clan could not wait any longer and persuaded Ao Hai to pursue Slaying Three Corpses to reach the Quasi-Sage Realm.
• Candle Dragon gave Ao Hai the Ancestral Dragon Pearl and ordered him to use it to Slay the Three Corpses.
• Candle Dragon told Ao Hai to remain in the Eastern Sea, cultivate until he became a Quasi-Sage, and then leave the Immortal Court to guard the Dragon Clan.
• Ao Hai accepted the order and headed to the Dragon Clan's forbidden seclusion grounds with the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.

Candle Dragon visited East King Duke at Penglai Immortal Island to settle the Dragon Clan’s future as his life neared its end. East King Duke promised to let Ao Hai rule the Dragon Clan if he reached the Quasi-Sage Realm and to protect the clan after Candle Dragon’s death.

• East King Duke sensed Candle Dragon approaching and welcomed him into the Immortal Court’s main hall.
• Candle Dragon told East King Duke that his origins had been depleted in the Immortal-Demon War and that he had little time left.
• Candle Dragon explained that Ao Hai was secluded in the East Sea Dragon Palace to break through to the Quasi-Sage Realm and would remain with the Dragon Clan if he succeeded.
• East King Duke promised not to interfere with Ao Hai’s rule and vowed that the Immortal Court would protect the Dragon Clan.
• Candle Dragon thanked East King Duke, asked him to attend his final departure, and returned to the Eastern Sea.

Taiyi took the Sixth Golden Crow sightseeing, warned him to stay away from Buzhou Mountain and the Wu Clan, then returned to find Di Jun furious that the princes were not cultivating. Di Jun ended Taiyi’s role in supervising them and decided to send all ten Golden Crows to Tanggu Valley until they could control their True Sun Fire.

• Taiyi took the Sixth Golden Crow exploring the Primordial Land and stopped him from approaching Buzhou Mountain, warning him that the Wu Clan was powerful and must not be provoked.
• Di Jun found the other nine Little Golden Crows playing instead of cultivating and learned from Great Golden Crow that Taiyi had taken Sixth Golden Crow out.
• Di Jun waited at the palace gates and confronted Taiyi and Sixth Golden Crow when they returned.
• Taiyi explained that he had rewarded Sixth Golden Crow for making progress, but Di Jun said Taiyi’s indulgence harmed the princes and relieved him of supervising them.
• Di Jun decided to send all ten Golden Crows to Tanggu Valley, where they would remain until they could freely control the True Sun Fire within them.

Zhunti exploited the Ten Little Golden Crows’ confinement to trick them into believing Di Jun had ordered them to leave Tanggu Valley. He secretly opened the formation and followed them toward the Primordial Continent, having concealed all traces of his actions.

• Di Jun sealed Tanggu Valley and ordered the Ten Little Golden Crows to remain there until they mastered their True Sun Fire.
• Zhunti watched Di Jun and Taiyi’s visits, then waited another thousand years before secretly entering Tanggu Valley.
• Zhunti claimed Di Jun had authorized all ten princes to leave together, and his Sage aura persuaded most of them to believe him.
• The Great Golden Crow questioned Zhunti’s story but accepted it after Zhunti said Di Jun had changed the rules as a reward for their cultivation.
• The Ten Little Golden Crows rushed out through Zhunti’s breach, and Zhunti restored the formation, erased his traces, muddled the Heavenly Secrets, and followed them.

The ten Little Golden Crows wreaked havoc across the Primordial Land and the East Sea as Daoist Zhunti secretly steered them away from Buzhou Mountain and toward the Eastern Sea. East King Duke ordered the Immortal Court to drive them out without fighting, while Candle Dragon told the aquatic clans to retreat and leave the matter to the Immortal Court.

• The ten Little Golden Crows scorched the Primordial Land as they played, and Daoist Zhunti watched, pleased with the destruction and the Karma accumulating against the Demon Race.
• When the Golden Crows spotted Buzhou Mountain and decided to visit, Zhunti used his magic power to change their minds and convince them to head for the Eastern Sea instead.
• The Golden Crows boiled the Eastern Sea and killed aquatic creatures as they flew over Immortal Court islands, whose cultivators reported the disaster to East King Duke.
• East King Duke ordered the Immortal Court to escort the Golden Crows out of its territory without harming them or provoking a clash.
• Candle Dragon refused to intervene, ordering the East Sea aquatic clans to retreat into the deep sea while Ao Hai pursued his breakthrough.

The Ten Little Golden Crows attacked Immortal Court cultivators in the Eastern Sea, whose restraint let the Crow princes devastate the waters. After hearing of their failure, East King Duke confronted the Crows himself and prepared to discipline them.

• The Ten Little Golden Crows ignored the Immortal Court officials’ orders to leave the Eastern Sea and attacked them.
• Zhunti secretly strengthened the Crows’ True Sun Fire, allowing their flames to overwhelm the officials and set immortal islands ablaze.
• The Immortal Court officials retreated to Penglai, where East King Duke berated them for failing to stop the Crows.
• East King Duke went to the Eastern Sea and ordered the Ten Little Golden Crows to leave.
• The Crows defied East King Duke, who declared he would discipline them in Di Jun’s place.

East King Duke defeated and wounded the ten Little Golden Crows, then sent his Evil Corpse to escort them out of the Eastern Sea. When the Evil Corpse killed Great Golden Crow after he provoked him, the other nine turned back to attack in grief and rage.

• East King Duke's empowered strike wounded Third Golden Crow, and his next attack overwhelmed all ten Little Golden Crows and sent them crashing into the sea.
• The injured Little Golden Crows fled toward the Heavenly Court, while East King Duke sent his Evil Corpse after them to ensure they left Eastern Sea territory.
• The Evil Corpse caught up with the Little Golden Crows and said he had come by Mu Yang's order to escort them out of the Eastern Sea.
• Great Golden Crow stayed behind to protect his brothers, but he provoked the Evil Corpse and was killed by a palm strike through his chest.
• The nine remaining Little Golden Crows saw Great Golden Crow die, cried out in grief, and charged the Evil Corpse to avenge him.

After the Evil Corpse killed nine of Di Jun and Xi He's Ten Golden Crows, Di Jun vowed revenge on East King Duke, the Immortal Court, and the Dragon Clan. He took the lone surviving son away from the Heavenly Court to keep him safe.

• Di Jun rushed to the Eastern Sea, rescued his youngest son from the Evil Corpse, and watched the attacker escape after he struck it with the River Diagram and Luo Shu.
• Di Jun ordered Taiyi and the others to search for the missing ninth son, and Fuxi returned with the boy's corpse from Dragon Clan territory.
• Di Jun recognized Dragon Clan aura on the fatal wound and declared that the Demon Race would destroy the Immortal Court and slaughter the Dragon Clan.
• Xi He returned to the Heavenly Court, grieved over her nine dead sons, and demanded that their killers be buried with them.
• Di Jun comforted Xi He, then took his surviving son beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens to protect him.

After nine of Di Jun’s sons died, Nuwa agreed to help the Demon Race destroy the Immortal Court and Dragon Clan, despite suspecting a Sage’s scheme. East King and Candle Dragon recognized they had been manipulated and prepared to face the Demon Race together.

• Di Jun entrusted the Little Golden Crow to Nuwa and declared he would avenge his sons by destroying the Immortal Court and Dragon Clan.
• Nuwa agreed to help Di Jun wage war against the Immortal Court and Dragon Clan.
• East King learned his Evil Corpse had killed eight of Di Jun’s sons and that the ninth had died in Dragon Clan territory, revealing that both sides had been drawn into a scheme.
• East King concluded Di Jun would not listen to explanations and went to meet Candle Dragon.
• Candle Dragon agreed to join forces with East King and risk his life to help kill Di Jun or Taiyi.

East King agreed to Candle Dragon’s terms and prepared the Immortal Court for war, while Di Jun ordered Taiyi to slaughter the Human Clan for materials to make a weapon against the Immortal Court. Zhou Ming saw the Demon Race’s attacks as a chance to spur Wu and the other Human Clan leaders toward martial arts, and sent Hou Yi to awaken Wu.

• Candle Dragon demanded that the Dragon Clan members in the Immortal Court return to the Eastern Sea, and promised to help kill Di Jun or Taiyi; East King agreed.
• Candle Dragon ordered the Dragon Clan to withdraw to the Sea Eye, while East King returned to Penglai Immortal Island and ordered the Immortal Court forces to prepare for battle.
• Taiyi told Di Jun that Human Clan Essence Blood and souls could be used to make a Treasure that countered the Immortal Protective Light, and Di Jun ordered him to gather them without provoking the Wu Clan.
• Zhou Ming watched the Demon Race attack Human Clan tribes and saw that Wu, Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu remained stuck at the final step of martial arts cultivation.
• Zhou Ming sent his Divine Sense to Hou Yi and ordered him to wake Wu and tell him that the Demon Race was slaughtering humans.

Zhou Ming told Hong Yun to protect the human race and directed Nuwa to let the Three Pure Ones block her publicly. The Three Pure Ones confronted Nuwa at Empress Wa's Palace, where she pretended to accept the Heavenly Dao's decree and challenged them over stopping her.

• Zhou Ming urged Hong Yun to protect the human race, and Hong Yun set out for the Primordial Land.
• Zhou Ming warned Nuwa that the Three Pure Ones would prevent her from saving the human race and advised her to expose their actions.
• Tongtian questioned whether the Three Pure Ones should stop Nuwa, but Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun persuaded him to go with them.
• The Three Pure Ones arrived at Empress Wa's Palace and blocked Nuwa as she appeared to rush out.
• Nuwa deduced the Heavenly Secrets, feigned shock at the human race's destined tribulation, and accused the Three Pure Ones of deliberately stopping her.

Nuwa defied the Three Pure Ones and fought them in Chaos after publicly accusing them of preventing her from saving the Human Clan. As Di Jun continued the slaughter, Wu and the Human Clan leaders prepared to resist, then Zhou Ming transported the gathered Human Clan fighters to the battlefield.

• Nuwa warned Di Jun to stop the Demon Race’s slaughter, then announced across the Primordial Wilderness that Taiqing, Primordial Lord Tianzun, and Tongtian had blocked her from saving the Human Clan.
• Nuwa attacked the Three Pure Ones with the Creation Cauldron and Diagram of Mountains and Rivers, while Tongtian’s sword strikes repeatedly missed and the battle reached a stalemate.
• Di Jun heard Nuwa’s warning but chose to continue the slaughter, intending to apologize to her afterward.
• After Zhou Ming alerted him, Hou Yi told Wu that the Demon Race was slaughtering the Human Clan to refine magical treasures, and Wu ordered Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu to gather reinforcements.
• Hou Yi refused Wu’s request for the Wu Clan to fight the strongest demons, but Zhou Ming agreed to transport the Human Clan fighters, and the Golden Immortal-level and stronger clansmen vanished from Wu Clan territory.

Zhou Ming gathered the human and demon armies for a decisive battle, then ordered Di Jun to send reinforcements against the Human Clan in exchange for a chance to reincarnate his dead sons. The chapter left Di Jun eager to obey, while the opposing armies prepared to face each other.

• Zhou Ming transported the fighting humans and demons to a wilderness, where Martial Ancestor and the tribe leaders rallied the human forces opposite five Demon Gods.
• Martial Ancestor learned that weaker clansmen had fled toward Wu Clan territory, and Zhou Ming told him someone would ensure their safety.
• The Demon Gods recognized that the humans had five Grand Unity Golden Immortals and decided to seek Di Jun's instructions.
• Zhou Ming commanded Di Jun to send an Early Quasi-Saint Demon Saint and five mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal Demon Gods to fight the Human Clan, promising his dead sons a chance at Reincarnation if the demons won.
• Di Jun questioned whether his sons could return after their true spirits were extinguished, and Zhou Ming assured him they could reincarnate if their corpses were preserved.
• Di Jun eagerly agreed to Zhou Ming's command and thanked the Sage.

Di Jun learned that the Human Clan had five Grand Unity Golden Immortals and that Zhou Ming required an honorable battle led by a Quasi-Saint. He gathered Guiche and five Demon Gods, lending Guiche the River Diagram and Luo Shu, while Wu ordered the Human Clan to retreat and stayed behind with four others to cover them.

• Di Jun ordered Taiyi to find one Early Quasi-Saint Demon Saint and five mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal Demon Gods, then learned the Human Clan had five Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Army not to act rashly and summoned Guiche and five Demon Gods to lead the battle against the Human Clan.
• Di Jun told Guiche that Zhou Ming demanded an open battle and promised to let Di Jun’s dead children enter Reincarnation if the demon race won.
• Di Jun lent Guiche the River Diagram and Luo Shu, then traveled with Taiyi, Guiche, and the five Demon Gods toward the battlefield.
• Wu judged the Demon Army too strong to face directly and ordered the Human Clan to retreat while he, Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu covered them.
• The Demon Gods ordered their troops to pursue the retreating humans, and Wu declared that the five leaders would hold them back.

Wu held off five demon gods while Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu tried to protect the retreating Human Clan from the Demon Army. When Di Jun arrived, Wu and the others escaped, and Di Jun ordered the pursuit to continue.

• Wu told Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu to stop the Demon Army while he faced the five demon gods alone.
• Wu revealed his peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal strength and severely wounded the Azure Armor Demon God, forcing the five demon gods to attack him together from a distance.
• Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu formed a defensive line, but many demons bypassed them and pursued the retreating Human Clan.
• When powerful auras announced Di Jun's arrival, Wu blasted the five demon gods back, and the five Human Clan leaders broke through the Demon Army and fled together.
• Di Jun, accompanied by Taiyi, Guiche, and five other Grand Unity Demon Gods, reached the battlefield and ordered his forces to pursue the Human Clan.

Di Jun’s demon army caught up with Wu and the retreating Human Clan, while Zhou Ming ordered the demons to use the battle to train their opponents. Wu and the Human Clan were overwhelmed, and Guiche severely wounded Wu as the battle continued.

• Di Jun and his forces caught up with the retreating Human Clan, and Zhou Ming ordered Guiche and the demon gods to engage their strongest fighters while the army attacked the rest.
• Guiche confronted Wu with the River Diagram and Luo Shu, while ten demon gods surrounded Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu.
• Wu and the four Grand Unity Golden Immortals struggled against their opponents as the Demon Army slaughtered Human Clan warriors.
• Seeing his clansmen fall, Wu fought recklessly to break through Guiche’s defenses, exposing himself to attack.
• Guiche used the River Diagram and Luo Shu to strike Wu with a devastating blow, sending him flying and leaving him badly wounded.
• Di Jun watched Wu’s defeat and considered stopping the attack once the Human Clan had lost.

While fighting Guiche, Wu fused the Law of Strength into his Martial Dao and advanced to the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm, but an intervention ended the battle. Di Jun accepted the Human Race’s victory, withdrew the Demon Army, and learned from Zhou Ming that his sons could enter Reincarnation.

• As Guiche battered him, Wu tempered the Law of Strength into his Martial Dao True Intent and advanced to the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.
• An irresistible power halted the fighting, and a voice declared that the Human Race Great Tribulation had passed and ordered both races to cease hostilities.
• Di Jun nearly collapsed at the war’s end, and Guiche knelt to apologize for failing him; Di Jun said Guiche had done his best.
• Zhou Ming told Di Jun that he was satisfied with the battle and would grant his sons a chance at Reincarnation.
• Di Jun apologized to the Human Race, promised compensation, and ordered the Demon Army to withdraw.
• Zhou Ming decreed that the fallen Human Race members could enter Reincarnation and return, and Wu thanked the Sage on behalf of his people.

After the Human Race Great Tribulation ended, Wu led the survivors back to the Ancestral Land while Zhou Ming suspected Heavenly Dao was plotting against the Wu Clan and resolved to rely on Father God. Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones ended their battle, but their conflict—and a bitter disagreement between Yuanshi and Tongtian—remained unresolved.

• Wu gathered the surviving human clansmen and led them, with Suiren, Youchao, Ziyi, and Xuandu, toward the Ancestral Land.
• Zhou Ming wondered why Heavenly Dao had forced the Human Race Great Tribulation to happen and suspected it had a hidden scheme, so he decided the Wu Clan needed more preparations and called upon Father God for protection.
• Tongtian sensed that the Heavenly Secrets showed the Human Race Great Tribulation had passed and urged Nuwa, Taiqing, and Primordial Lord to stop fighting.
• Nuwa agreed to a truce but warned the Three Pure Ones that she would settle the matter of their blocking her palace gates, while Yuanshi argued that they had acted under Heavenly Dao's orders.
• On the way to Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi accused Tongtian of holding back against Nuwa, and Tongtian said he had not wanted to escalate the conflict.
• Taiqing ended their argument by ordering Yuanshi and Tongtian not to mention the matter again.

Di Jun visited Nuwa to beg forgiveness and learned that the human race was destined to become the protagonist of Heaven and Earth, while the Demon Race had become trapped in the Immortal-Demon Tribulation. He refused to withdraw from the conflict and asked Nuwa to preserve a remnant of the Demon Race if it fell.

• Di Jun apologized to Nuwa for defying her decree against the human race, and Nuwa said Zhou Ming had prevented an irreparable catastrophe.
• Di Jun asked why Nuwa and Zhou Ming valued the human race, and Nuwa revealed that it was destined to rise and become the protagonist of Heaven and Earth with the Wu Clan's consent.
• Nuwa explained that the Witch-Demon Tribulation had evolved into the Immortal-Demon Tribulation and that the Demon Race and the Immortal Court were likely to decline.
• Nuwa urged Di Jun to withdraw and conserve the Demon Race's strength, but he said it was too late and chose to fight the Immortal Court.
• Di Jun asked Nuwa to preserve a remnant of the Demon Race if it was defeated, and Nuwa promised she would not let it be utterly exterminated.