Chapter Summaries

Di Jun told Xi He that Sage Zhou Ming could reincarnate their nine dead sons and warned that the Demon Race was trapped in the Immortal-Demon Tribulation. Xi He refused to flee to the Taiyin Star, choosing to fight beside Di Jun while entrusting their sons’ bodies to her younger sister.

• Di Jun told Xi He that Sage Zhou Ming had promised to let their nine dead sons enter Reincarnation, and instructed her to take their bodies to the Taiyin Star.
• Di Jun explained that the Demon Race was caught in the Immortal-Demon Tribulation and that Heavenly Court might become unsafe.
• Xi He rejected Di Jun’s plan for her to hide on the Taiyin Star, saying she would join the battle and entrust their sons’ bodies to her younger sister.
• Xi He promised to stay with Di Jun through the coming hardship, and Di Jun agreed they would face it together.
• Xi He asked whether Emperor Xi would join the battle, and Di Jun said he expected him to take part.

Ao Hai emerged from seclusion as a Quasi-Saint and learned that the Dragon Clan and the Immortal Court were heading into war with the Demon Race. Candle Dragon sent him to lead the Dragon Clan into hiding at the Eastern Sea Eye while he went to Penglai Immortal Island to fulfill his promise to East King Duke and face the coming battle.

• Candle Dragon told Ao Hai that Di Jun's sons had been killed in the Eastern Sea, making war between the Dragon Clan, the Immortal Court, and the Demon Race unavoidable.
• Ao Hai offered to fight alongside Candle Dragon, but Candle Dragon ordered him to protect the Dragon Clan by leading its members to the Eastern Sea Eye.
• Candle Dragon explained that he would fight to repay the Dragon Clan's debt to the Immortal Court and to prevent a greater calamity from befalling the clan.
• Ao Hai led the Dragon Clan to the Eastern Sea Eye in secret, and Candle Dragon flew alone to Penglai Immortal Island.
• East King Duke welcomed Candle Dragon, who confirmed Ao Hai's breakthrough and prepared with him to await the Demon Race's arrival.

Di Jun led the Demon Army toward the Eastern Sea to begin the Immortal-Demon War, while Nuwa set out to aid the Demon Clan. Jieyin and Zhunti intercepted her in Chaos, and Nuwa attacked them, starting a battle between Sages.

• Di Jun confirmed that Fuxi would fight alongside the Demon Clan, then ordered the assembled Demon Army to depart for the Eastern Sea.
• Zhunti and Jieyin agreed to stop Nuwa from aiding the Demon Clan so the Immortal and Demon Clans could be driven from the Primordial Land.
• Nuwa left Empress Wa's Palace to lend the Demon Clan one final hand.
• Jieyin and Zhunti intercepted Nuwa in Chaos and claimed they had come to discuss the Dao.
• Nuwa saw through their excuse and attacked, sending the Creation Cauldron against Zhunti and using the Diagram of Mountains and Rivers to suppress Jieyin.

Nuwa fought Jieyin and Zhunti in Chaos, then escaped toward the Primordial Wilderness to aid the Demon Race. The Three Pure Ones appeared in her path and blocked her return.

• Nuwa overwhelmed Jieyin and Zhunti with the Diagram of Mountains and Rivers and the Creation Cauldron, then forced them back and sped toward the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Army to form the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, but East King and Candle Dragon led the Immortal Court in a first strike.
• Candle Dragon fought Taiyi while East King held Di Jun back, and the Demon Army clashed with the Immortal Court across the Eastern Sea.
• Nuwa knocked Zhunti's Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree away, wounded him, and sent Jieyin tumbling back before fleeing toward the Primordial Wilderness.
• Jieyin and Zhunti pursued Nuwa, but the Three Pure Ones appeared in the Chaos ahead and barred her way.

Nuwa tried to reach the Eastern Sea to save the Demon Race, but the Three Pure Ones joined Jieyin and Zhunti to block her in Chaos. Outnumbered by five Sages, she gave up trying to break through and vowed to settle accounts with them later, leaving the Demon Race to its own fate.

• Primordial Lord Tianzun mocked Jieyin and Zhunti for failing to stop Nuwa, and Zhunti praised the Three Pure Ones to shift Nuwa’s resentment toward them.
• Jieyin echoed Zhunti’s flattery, prompting Primordial Lord Tianzun to accuse them of sowing discord before Taiqing ended the argument.
• Nuwa confronted the five Sages and accused them of invoking the Heavenly Dao to clear the way for their own lineages.
• The five Sages surrounded Nuwa and refused to let her leave until the tribulation ended.
• Nuwa accepted that she could not overcome all five Sages, vowed to settle the score, and left the Demon Race’s fate to its own Zaohua.

Candle Dragon sacrificed himself to annihilate Taiyi, leaving Di Jun and East King to lead their forces into a brutal final clash between the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array and the Myriad Immortals Array. Both arrays ultimately shattered, and the battle’s outcome remained undecided.

• Candle Dragon judged that his aging body had reached its limit and chose to trade his life for Taiyi to preserve the Dragon Clan.
• Candle Dragon detonated his cultivation, Laws, and divine soul, killing Taiyi and wiping out tens of thousands of nearby fighters.
• Grief-stricken Di Jun ordered the Demon Army to form the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, while East King commanded the Immortal Court to form the Myriad Immortals Array.
• Di Jun and East King drove their arrays into repeated, devastating collisions as fighters on both sides fell.
• After another violent clash, both great arrays became unstable and shattered.

As the Immortal-Demon battle reached its final, brutal stage, East King Duke chose to die in a way that would punish both the Demon Race and the Sages who had manipulated the war. He detonated himself beside Fuxi, leaving Di Jun and the battlefield stunned by Fuxi’s apparent death.

• The shattered formations left the surviving Immortal and Demon forces fighting without coordination, while Di Jun and East King Duke resumed their duel.
• Di Jun overwhelmed East King Duke, who decided to make his death count and gathered his power into his Dragon Head Cane.
• East King Duke struck Di Jun aside, then raced toward Fuxi instead of pursuing his opponent.
• East King Duke declared that Fuxi’s death would draw Nuwa and the Sages into the conflict, then detonated himself beside him.
• The blast swallowed Fuxi and East King Duke, and Di Jun cried out as the battlefield fell silent.

Nuwa discovered that Fuxi had died in East King’s self-destruction and rushed to the Eastern Sea, where she found no trace of his remnant soul. Her hatred toward the five Sages hardened into a fight to the death, leaving them fearing for their disciples and lineages.

• Nuwa sensed Fuxi’s death and rushed toward the Primordial Wilderness as the five Sages realized East King had taken him with him.
• Di Jun led the Demon Race in a furious assault on the fleeing Immortal Court, whose cultivators began self-destructing rather than be captured.
• Nuwa arrived and halted the battlefield, then searched the place where Fuxi had vanished but found no remnant soul.
• The five Sages appeared before Nuwa, whose hatred made them realize they had become locked in a deadly conflict with her.

Zhou Ming stopped Nuwa from slaughtering the surviving Immortal Court cultivators and revealed that he had preserved a strand of Fuxi’s Primordial Spirit. Nuwa accepted it and spared the cultivators, while her grudge against the five Sages remained unresolved.

• Nuwa tried to kill the surviving Immortal Court cultivators, but Zhou Ming appeared and erased her attack.
• Zhou Ming urged Nuwa to stop fighting and said the five Sages were the true culprits behind Fuxi’s death.
• Nuwa refused to forgive the five Sages but agreed to spare the Immortal Court cultivators if Zhou Ming protected them.
• Zhou Ming revealed that he had preserved a strand of Fuxi’s Primordial Spirit and gave it to Nuwa.
• Nuwa thanked Zhou Ming, accepted that she owed him a favor, and let the Immortal Court cultivators live.

Nuwa prepared to entrust Fuxi’s primordial spirit to Zhou Ming so she could fight the Five Sages without restraint, but Di Jun intervened and privately asked Zhou Ming who had freed his sons from Tanggu Valley. Zhou Ming asked why Di Jun thought he knew, and Di Jun replied that nothing in the Primordial Wilderness could escape his notice.

• Nuwa told Di Jun to lead the battered Demon Race back to the Heavenly Court, but Zhunti, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Jieyin demanded that Di Jun be punished for the tribulation.
• Nuwa turned to Zhou Ming and prepared to entrust him with Fuxi’s primordial spirit, prompting the Five Sages to panic and urge her not to act rashly.
• Di Jun bowed to Nuwa, then asked Zhou Ming to speak with him privately, and Zhou Ming raised a barrier that blocked the Five Sages’ attempts to listen in.
• Di Jun asked Zhou Ming which Sage had released his sons from Tanggu Valley, and Zhou Ming questioned why he believed he would know.
• Di Jun told Zhou Ming that, given his strength, nothing in the Primordial Wilderness could escape his notice.

Di Jun offered Zhou Ming the River Diagram, Luo Shu, and the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array in exchange for help holding off Jieyin and Zhunti while he destroyed Mount Sumeru. Zhou Ming accepted Nuwa’s involvement and saw Di Jun’s plan as a chance to open the sealed Demon Realm entrance and interfere in the Western Teachings’ rise.

• Di Jun named Zhunti as the one behind his suspicion and offered Zhou Ming three Demon Race treasures in exchange for help.
• Di Jun revealed that he intended to self-destruct and destroy Mount Sumeru as revenge against Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Di Jun refused to involve Nuwa, saying she needed to focus on nurturing Fuxi’s fragile Primordial Spirit for reincarnation.
• Zhou Ming agreed that Nuwa would help protect Di Jun, then considered how Mount Sumeru’s destruction could breach the sealed Demon Realm entrance.
• Zhou Ming reasoned that the resulting devastation could give Nuwa a legitimate reason to mend the breach and let him meddle in the Western Teachings’ future rise.

Di Jun gave Zhou Ming the River Diagram, Luo Shu, and the surviving Star Banners, then entrusted the Monster Summoning Banner to Nuwa before flying toward the West to destroy Mount Sumeru with his self-detonation. Zhou Ming and Nuwa blocked Jieyin and Zhunti from returning, leaving Di Jun’s plan underway and the Western Sages held back.

• Zhou Ming gave Di Jun an attack to break Mount Sumeru’s defenses and told him to self-destruct deep beneath the mountain.
• Di Jun handed Zhou Ming the River Diagram, Luo Shu, and the surviving Star Banners, then entrusted Nuwa with the Monster Summoning Banner.
• Di Jun flew toward the West, and Zhou Ming stopped Primordial Lord Tianzun and Zhunti from pursuing him.
• Zhou Ming told Nuwa that Di Jun planned to destroy Mount Sumeru through his self-detonation, and she reluctantly accepted his choice.
• Jieyin and Zhunti tried to return to Mount Sumeru, but Zhou Ming and Nuwa blocked their way.

Di Jun burned and ravaged Mount Sumeru while Zhou Ming and Nuwa kept Jieyin and Zhunti from returning. After discovering the Sages’ hidden sanctuary beneath the mountain, Di Jun headed underground, and Zhou Ming revealed that he knew what lay there.

• Di Jun used energy from Zhou Ming to break Mount Sumeru’s defenses and slaughter the Western Teachings’ disciples.
• Jieyin and Zhunti begged Zhou Ming, Nuwa, and the Three Pure Ones to let them return, but the Three Pure Ones refused to intervene and Zhou Ming held them back.
• Jieyin and Zhunti realized their hidden small world beneath Mount Sumeru still held their treasures and chosen disciples, and Di Jun searched the mountain for its entrance.
• Unable to find the hidden sanctuary, Di Jun went underground to fulfill his promise to Zhou Ming.
• Jieyin and Zhunti panicked and demanded that Zhou Ming release them to stop Di Jun, but Zhou Ming said he knew what lay beneath Mount Sumeru and kept them there.

Jieyin and Zhunti revealed that the suppressed entrance to the Demon Realm lay beneath Mount Sumeru, but Zhou Ming refused to let them leave and stop Di Jun. After Di Jun self-detonated in the west, Zhou Ming allowed the two Western Teachings Sages to return.

• Jieyin revealed to Taiqing and the others that the Demon Realm entrance was suppressed beneath Mount Sumeru.
• The Three Pure Ones urged Zhou Ming to release Jieyin and Zhunti so they could stop Di Jun, but Zhou Ming refused and suppressed their attempt to challenge him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti gave up trying to persuade Zhou Ming and waited, believing he would bear responsibility if the Demon Realm entrance opened.
• A tremendous explosion sounded from the west as Di Jun self-detonated, leaving Nuwa grieving his death.
• Zhou Ming told Jieyin and Zhunti they could leave.

After Mount Sumeru was destroyed and the Demon Realm passage opened, Zhou Ming led the Ancestral Wu in forming the Thirteen Capital Heavenly God Evil Array to guard the breach. Nuwa sealed the passage but left a crack at Zhou Ming’s suggestion, forcing Jieyin and Zhunti to keep suppressing the Demonic Qi.

• Di Jiang delivered Zhou Ming the item he had requested, while Zhou Ming said he had summoned the Ancestral Wu in advance.
• Zhou Ming asked Nuwa to repair the passage and the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti to seal the area and purify the Demonic Qi.
• Zhou Ming and the twelve Ancestral Wu formed the Thirteen Capital Heavenly God Evil Array, and the Pangu True Body blocked the passage as Demon Realm creatures charged toward it.
• Pangu’s axe erased the first Demon Realm creatures to emerge, frightening the rest into retreating.
• Nuwa sealed the breach with Five-Colored Divine Stones, but Zhou Ming persuaded her to leave a crack so Jieyin and Zhunti would have to suppress the escaping Demonic Qi.

After Nuwa sealed the breach to the Demon Realm, Zhou Ming took the two Five-Colored Divine Stones and sent his Treasure Distribution Rock to Flower-Fruit Mountain to shape the future Journey to the West Tribulation. He departed with the Twelve Ancestral Witches after warning the other Sages not to exploit the weakened Demon Race and Immortal Court, leaving Nuwa grateful for his support.

• Nuwa sealed the breach to the Demon Realm, and the Heavenly Dao granted Merit to her and the other Sages, Zhou Ming, and the twelve Ancestral Wu.
• Nuwa gave Zhou Ming the two Five-Colored Divine Stones, and he decided to use his Treasure Distribution Rock to nurture the future Enlightened Stone Monkey at Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The other Sages grew wary when Laozi failed to calculate Zhou Ming's intentions, while Jieyin and Zhunti suspected he was plotting against the West.
• Zhou Ming declined Nuwa's invitation to help arrange the Demon Race and Immortal Court, saying the matter was trivial and leaving with the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Before departing, Zhou Ming warned the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti not to go too far in dealing with the weakened factions, and Nuwa thanked him.

After the Immortal-Demon War, the Three Pure Ones’ dispute over their disciples and teachings ended with Taiqing and Tongtian leaving Kunlun Mountain. Primordial Lord remained behind alone, sealing Taiqing Palace and Shangqing Palace.

• After the Demon Race and Immortal Court fell, their survivors scattered among the Jie Sect, the North Sea, and the Western Teachings.
• Primordial Lord Tianzun and Tongtian argued in Taiqing Palace over Tongtian’s Jie Sect disciples and their different approaches to teaching.
• Taiqing announced he would leave Kunlun Mountain for Shouyang Mountain, and Tongtian decided to leave as well rather than let their conflict worsen.
• Taiqing gave Primordial Lord and Tongtian copies of the Sky-Opening Imprint, and the brothers exchanged copies of their own imprints.
• Taiqing departed for Shouyang Mountain, while Tongtian led the Jie Sect disciples away to establish another Dao Field.
• Primordial Lord stayed alone on Kunlun Mountain and sealed Taiqing Palace and Shangqing Palace, leaving only Yuqing Palace open.

Hongjun summoned the six Sages to discuss choosing a new ruler for the Heavenly Court, and the Sages argued over whether the position should go to the East or the West. Hongjun ended the dispute by appointing his attendants Haotian and Yaochi to govern jointly, leaving the Sages to accept his decision.

• Hongjun summoned the six Sages to Purple Firmament Palace and announced that the vacant position of Heavenly Emperor needed to be filled.
• Zhunti recommended Yaoshi, but the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa opposed giving the position to a Western Teaching disciple.
• Primordial Lord Tianzun nominated Guangchengzi, and Tongtian Sect Master nominated Duobao, prompting further arguments between the Eastern and Western Sages.
• Hongjun silenced the Sages and appointed Haotian and Yaochi to jointly govern the Heavenly Court.
• The Sages accepted Hongjun's decision, though Primordial Lord Tianzun, Jieyin, and Zhunti were dissatisfied.

Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to rule the Heavenly Court, gave them treasures, and ordered the six Sages to support them. He sent the newly appointed rulers and Sages to Buzhou Mountain to meet Zhou Ming and discuss the Human Clan’s rise.

• Zhunti questioned whether Hongjun had considered Zhou Ming’s opinion, prompting the Sages to wonder how Zhou Ming would react to Haotian and Yaochi’s appointment.
• Hongjun named Haotian the Jade Emperor and Yaochi the Queen Mother, then transformed them from attendants into a young man and a noble woman.
• Hongjun bestowed the Haotian Sword and Haotian Mirror on Haotian, and the Cloud-Gold Hairpin and Peach Tree on Yaochi.
• Hongjun told the six Sages to support Haotian and Yaochi, and instructed them to visit Zhou Ming to discuss the Heavenly Court and the Human Clan’s rise.
• After Hongjun departed, Taiqing led the six Sages, Haotian, and Yaochi out of Purple Sky Palace toward Buzhou Mountain.

The Six Sages brought Haotian and Yaochi to Buzhou Mountain to tell Zhou Ming that Hongjun had appointed them to rule the Heavenly Court. Zhou Ming agreed, but said he would personally visit the court to discuss the Wu Clan’s share, then asked Taiqing to explain the second matter.

• Di Jiang welcomed the Six Sages, Haotian, and Yaochi into Pangu Hall to meet Zhou Ming.
• Taiqing told Zhou Ming that Hongjun had appointed Haotian as Heavenly Emperor and Yaochi as Queen Mother, and asked for his opinion.
• Zhou Ming agreed to their appointments, surprising the Sages who had expected him to object.
• Zhou Ming said he would visit the Heavenly Court to discuss details with Haotian and Yaochi, who reluctantly accepted.
• Zhou Ming asked Taiqing to explain the second matter.