Chapter Summaries

Yuanshi and Tongtian became Saints, but Tongtian’s Jie Sect doctrine and willingness to accept disciples of any background angered Yuanshi. Their clash left Yuanshi returning to Kunlun Mountain while Tongtian remained behind, and the other great powers began considering how they might become Saints.

• Yuanshi became a Saint, and Laozi and Tongtian congratulated him above Kunlun Mountain.
• Tongtian established the Jie Sect, entrusted his Primordial Spirit to the Heavenly Dao, and became a Late Stage of First Layer Saint.
• Tongtian unleashed the Jietian Sword Art, cleaving the firmament, and announced that his sect would accept anyone who sought the Dao.
• Yuanshi rebuked Tongtian for accepting disciples regardless of their innate endowment, then returned to Kunlun Mountain with Laozi.
• Dijiang praised Tongtian’s sword, while Di Jun and Tai Yi resolved that the Demon Clan could also produce a Saint.
• Minghe considered creating living beings or establishing a sect to become a Saint, while Jieyin and Zhunti wondered whether they could imitate the Three Pure Ones.

Jieyin and Zhunti established the Western Sect and made great vows to borrow enough Merit from the Heavenly Dao to become Saints. Jieyin began refining the Merit while Zhunti vowed to become a Buddha, leaving their path to sainthood underway.

• Jieyin worried that the West lacked the Merit needed for him and Zhunti to become Saints, but Zhunti argued that they risked losing their Primordial Violet Qi if they delayed.
• Zhunti proposed making great grand vows to borrow Merit from the Heavenly Dao, and Jieyin agreed to proceed despite the debt they would have to repay.
• Jieyin and Zhunti vowed to establish the Western Sect to enlighten living beings and revive the West, using the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit to suppress its Qi Luck.
• Kunpeng watched from the Northern Darkness Sea with jealousy, Minghe paused his work in the Sea of Blood, and Di Jun and Tai Yi silently lamented their missed opportunity.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi discussed the Western Sect from Wuzhuang Temple, where Hong Yun offered Zhen Yuanzi his Primordial Violet Qi and Zhen Yuanzi declined to take it.
• Merit descended upon Mount Sumeru, and Zhunti directed it to Jieyin before making a series of vows about the land he would create as a Buddha.

Jieyin became a Saint, but Zhunti’s forty-eight grand vows brought down Merit in diminishing strands and left him stuck between Quasi-Saint Perfection and Saint Early Stage. After the Heavenly Dao’s clouds dispersed and Zhunti nearly cursed it, a quiet Voice of Heavenly Dao explained why he had received so little Merit.

• Jieyin refined Heavenly Dao Merit and became a Saint, while the Primordial Beings congratulated him and waited for Zhunti to follow.
• Zhunti made forty-eight grand vows, and Jieyin praised his sacrifice for the West as the Heavenly Dao began sending Merit down in small streams.
• Zhunti refined twenty-six strands of Merit and reached Quasi-Saint Great Perfection, but the twenty-seventh strand was much smaller than the others.
• After three days, the Heavenly Dao sent Zhunti a tiny final strand, leaving him in a Sub-Saint realm between Quasi-Saint Perfection and Saint Early Stage.
• Laozi pretended to understand Zhunti’s predicament when Yuanshi and Tongtian questioned him, while Hong Yun guessed it was connected to the Human Race.
• Zhunti began cursing the Heavenly Dao, but Jieyin covered his mouth; after the Merit clouds dispersed, a quiet Voice of Heavenly Dao explained the shortage to the brothers.

Heavenly Dao rebuked Hongjun for favoring the Human Race with Merit, while Hongjun defended his actions. After ninety thousand years, Minghe created the Asura Clan in hopes of becoming a Saint, and the chapter ended as Merit gathered above the Sea of Blood, alarming Zhunti.

• Heavenly Dao confronted Hongjun over the Merit he had bestowed on the Human Race, but Hongjun defended the rewards as justified by their achievements.
• Heavenly Dao warned Hongjun to be more cautious, then blamed Hong Yun for Hongjun's favoritism.
• Jieyin told Zhunti that he would have to wait at least another one hundred thousand years to gather enough Merit to become a Saint.
• Ninety thousand years later, Minghe created the Asura Clan and hoped to follow Nuwa's path to sainthood.
• Hong Yun predicted Minghe would not become a Saint, while Jieyin realized that Minghe could still gain a great deal of Heavenly Dao Merit.
• Auspicious Clouds gathered above the Sea of Blood, and Zhunti cried out in alarm as he understood what the Merit could mean.

After the Asura Clan earned Minghe too little Merit to make him a Saint, he established the Asura Sect and declared the Dao of Slaughter. The Heavenly Dao granted no Merit for the sect, leaving Minghe furious and the Primordial Beings convinced it had become a deadbeat.

• Minghe refined the Merit from creating the Asura Clan, advanced to Quasi-Saint Peak, and appointed Lord of Desire, Great Brahma, Heaven of Desire, and Shiva as the clan’s four Asura Kings.
• Minghe complained that the Merit was far less than Nuwa had received for creating the Human Race, while other Great Powers mocked him and Zhunti laughed at his misfortune.
• Minghe established the Asura Sect, declared that he would pass down the Dao of Slaughter, and named the Twelve-grade Karma Red Lotus to suppress the sect’s Qi Luck.
• Auspicious Clouds gathered over the Primordial Wilderness, but the Heavenly Dao sent no Merit for Minghe’s sect, and the clouds eventually dispersed.
• Minghe roared in anger as the Primordial Beings concluded that the Heavenly Dao had become a deadbeat.

After demons began slaughtering humans, the Wu Clan retaliated, and the conflict spiraled toward war. Di Jun committed the Demon Clan to a campaign against the Wu Clan, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches prepared to contact Hong Yun.

• Low-level demons hunted and raised humans for food, and the Wu Clan joined the Human Race in fighting them after Hong Yun sought aid.
• The demons discovered that human blood could strengthen weapons against the Wu Clan, prompting the Wu Clan to send Great Witches after the perpetrators.
• Ji Meng and the other Demon Gods demanded war, and Di Jun decided to lead the Demon Clan against the Wu Clan after receiving a mysterious influence.
• The Demon Clan army set out, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches agreed to send word to Hong Yun as they prepared for the conflict.

As the Wu and Yao Clans’ war endangered the Human Race, Hong Yun arranged for allied tribes and powerful friends to rescue and protect his people. With Laozi not responding, Hong Yun suspected that something had prevented him from acting, while aid from across the Primordial Wilderness continued to arrive.

• A Human Race expert reported that Demon Soldiers had intercepted people fleeing toward the East Sea, and Hong Yun treated his Demonic Poison and assured him that help was arranged.
• True Dragons, Qilin, Phoenixes, and other allied tribes rescued Human Race survivors from the Demon Soldiers.
• Hong Yun asked Xuandu whether Laozi had replied, and Xuandu said his Master had not answered his message.
• Zhen Yuanzi, the Western Queen Mother, the Taiyin Goddesses, and Minghe attacked Demon Soldiers and helped the Human Race reach safety.
• The Three Thousand Mortal Guests and Zhunti’s Western cultivators also joined the effort to protect the Human Race.

As the Demon Clan attacked the Human Race, Dijiang accepted Tai Yi’s challenge to decide whether the Wu Clan would intervene. Dijiang’s space technique swallowed Tai Yi’s fiery attack, and he vanished into the void to ambush Tai Yi.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi faced the Ancestor Witches while other great powers attacked the Demon Clan for its slaughter of the Human Race.
• Tai Yi proposed that a duel with Dijiang decide whether the Wu Clan would interfere in the Human Race’s fate.
• After taunting each other, Tai Yi attacked with a sun of Solar True Fire, and Dijiang swallowed it with a speck of compressed spatial power.
• Tai Yi claimed he had used only eight or nine tenths of his mana, but Dijiang disappeared and struck at his eye from the void.

Yao Master Kunpeng and Ji Meng led an elite Yao force in a surprise attack on the Human Race’s Ancestral Land, but Hong Yun had anticipated them and prepared an ambush. After the formation was broken, Kunpeng faced Hong Yun, whose true strength remained unclear to him.

• Kunpeng and Ji Meng approached the Human Race’s Ancestral Land with over a thousand Yao Soldiers, hoping to capture the Human Race while the Wu Clan was away.
• Hong Yun revealed that he had reached the Myriad Manifestations Realm and learned from Suiren Shi that the Human Race had evacuated and prepared a formation.
• Kunpeng dismissed Ji Meng’s misgivings and ordered the Yao Soldiers to hurry forward and capture the Human Race alive.
• Ji Meng’s demonic wind triggered Samadhi True Fire inside the formation, killing several hundred Yao Soldiers before Kunpeng extinguished the flames and destroyed the formation.
• Hong Yun and the Human Race experts appeared, and Kunpeng could not determine Hong Yun’s cultivation realm as Ji Meng glared at his old enemy.

Kunpeng led the Demon Clan against the Human Race, but Hong Yun and the Three Ancestors revealed the overwhelming power of the Human Race’s Martial Dao. The chapter left Kunpeng battered by Hong Yun’s dragon-shaped attacks while Ji Meng struggled against the Three Ancestors.

• Hong Yun respectfully refused Kunpeng’s demand for the Human Race to surrender, and Kunpeng ordered the Demon Clan to attack.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi joined forces against Ji Meng and smashed apart his saber attack.
• The Human Race’s experts pushed back the Demon Soldiers, and Hong Yun intercepted Kunpeng’s attempt to strike the battlefield.
• Hong Yun attacked Kunpeng with successive dragon-shaped Divine Abilities, culminating in one hundred and eight True Dragons that relentlessly pursued him.
• Kunpeng paused at Ji Meng’s plea for help and was struck by Hong Yun’s True Dragons while Ji Meng continued fighting the Three Ancestors.

Hong Yun defeated Kunpeng’s attempt to suppress him, forcing the Demon Master to retreat from the East Sea. Abandoned by Kunpeng, Ji Meng surrendered to Hong Yun, while new developments began on the Witch-Demon Battlefield.

• Kunpeng summoned the Demon Master Palace and tried to crush Hong Yun, while Ji Meng burned one-third of his essence blood to overpower the Three Ancestors of the Human Race.
• Hong Yun brought out the Kongtong Seal, and its clash with the Demon Master Palace cracked Kunpeng’s treasure after several hundred exchanges.
• Kunpeng admitted he could not defeat Hong Yun, praised the Human Race, and fled toward the Northern Darkness Sea.
• Ji Meng was distracted by Kunpeng’s retreat, and the Three Ancestors of the Human Race struck him with heavy blows.
• Hong Yun returned and demanded that Ji Meng surrender or face his fists, so Ji Meng raised his hands and surrendered.
• New developments appeared on the Witch-Demon Battlefield.

Dijiang battled Taiyi and revealed that he could wield Red Cloud’s Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler with powerful magical energy, shocking the demon forces and distant Saints. The chapter ended with everyone wondering where Dijiang had obtained a primordial spirit.

• Dijiang overpowered Taiyi in close combat, forcing Taiyi to use the Chaos Bell.
• Taiyi’s Chaos Bell struck Dijiang back and injured his right hand, while the demon troops cheered.
• Zhulong reassured the Ancestral Witches that Dijiang had visited the Floating Island before the battle and had another move ready.
• Dijiang produced the Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler and channeled immense magical power into it.
• Taiyi, the demon forces, and the watching Saints were stunned because Dijiang appeared to possess a primordial spirit.

Emperor Jiang defeated Tai Yi after a battle lasting more than a century, winning the Demon Clan’s agreement not to attack the Human Race. Di Jun then revealed that Kunpeng had already ambushed the Human Race, but Kunpeng returned looking guilty and began to explain.

• The Three Pure Ones discussed Emperor Jiang’s Primordial Spirit, and Yuanshi argued with Tongtian while Laozi tried to calm them.
• Tai Yi challenged Emperor Jiang again, and they fought with the Chaos Bell and Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler across the heavens and starry sky.
• After 130 years, Emperor Jiang used Hong Yun’s World Law and World Power to exhaust Tai Yi and defeat him.
• Emperor Jiang reminded Tai Yi of their agreement, and Tai Yi acknowledged that the Demon Clan would not attack the Human Race.
• Di Jun revealed that Kunpeng had ambushed the Human Race’s Ancestral Land before the duel ended, claiming its leaders were prisoners.
• Kunpeng arrived as Di Jun welcomed him, but Kunpeng looked awkward and guilty as he began to speak.

Kunpeng reported that the Demon Clan’s surprise attack on the Human Race had failed, and Di Jun revealed the Zhou Tian Star Formation to confront the Wu Clan. The formation surrounded both armies, and Dijiang refused to retreat, leaving the clans poised for battle.

• Kunpeng told Di Jun that the Human Race had wiped out the surprise-attack force, captured Ji Meng, and nearly destroyed the Demon Master Palace.
• Kunpeng explained that Hong Yun had reached the Quasi-Saint Realm and defeated him with the Martial Dao he created.
• Kunpeng questioned why Tai Yi looked pale and weak, prompting Tai Yi to cough blood as the Wu Clan mocked him.
• Dijiang accused the Demon Clan of launching the war and attacking the Human Race, while Di Jun rejected the accusation and called up the Zhou Tian Star Formation.
• The Demon Clan used the River Diagram, Luo Shu, and one hundred thousand Zhou Tian Star Banners to envelop both armies in a lethal starry formation.
• Zhu Jiu Yin suggested that the Wu Clan avoid the formation, but Dijiang refused to retreat.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches revealed their Primordial Spirits and unleashed the fully developed Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Spirit Formation against Di Jun and Tai Yi’s Chaos Bell-reinforced Zhou Tian Star Formation. The chapter ended as Dijiang combined the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler with the formation’s killing intent to strike at the star phantoms.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches exposed their Primordial Spirits, shocking the Three Pure Ones and prompting Heavenly Dao Hongjun to question Hongjun about the changed Heavenly Dao Trend.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches shattered falling Primordial Star phantoms and absorbed their Star Power, while hidden nearby, Hong Yun praised Houtu and received Pangu Blood Essence from his system.
• Tai Yi used the Chaos Bell to reinforce the Zhou Tian Star Formation, increasing the star phantoms’ power, and Dijiang called on the Wu Clan to form their own formation.
• The Wu Clan formed the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Spirit Formation, whose baleful-aura spears pierced the Zhou Tian Star Formation and wounded Di Jun, Tai Yi, Fuxi, Kunpeng, and Shang Yang.
• Di Jun forced the reluctant Kunpeng to keep supporting the formation by threatening him with the True Spirit in his possession.
• Dijiang gathered the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ killing intent into the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler, forming a vast purple-black hand that reached for the star phantoms.

The Wu-Yao battle ended with Heavenly Dao Hongjun intervening to stop the Wu Clan from killing the Demon Clan, but the Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu’s True Body and exposed his Primordial Spirit. As Heavenly Dao Hongjun tried to destroy it, Hong Yun appeared to confront him.

• The Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Spirit Formation broke the Zhou Tian Star Formation, and the Ancestral Witches prepared to kill the Demon Clan’s leaders.
• Di Jun called for the Heavenly Dao, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun appeared, revealed that the Wu-Yao Tribulation had begun, and ordered both clans to stop fighting for a million years.
• Dijiang refused to retreat, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun attacked the Twelve Ancestral Witches with an arrow of Heavenly Dao Power.
• The Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu’s True Body, briefly merging their Primordial Spirits into it and stirring the Primordial Spirits of Laozi and his brothers.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun tried to destroy Pangu’s Primordial Spirit, but Hong Yun appeared and thrust his spear at the Heavenly Dao’s attack.

Hong Yun confronted Heavenly Dao Hongjun over the fate of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, then publicly accused the Heavenly Dao of orchestrating the Witch-Demon War. As resentment and doubt spread through the Primordial Wilderness, Pangu’s True Body began merging with the Ancestor Witches’ assembled Primordial Spirits.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun agreed to spare the Twelve Ancestral Witches but demanded that Pangu’s Primordial Spirit within them be destroyed.
• When Hongjun refused to negotiate, Hong Yun broadcast an accusation that the Heavenly Dao had secretly caused the Witch-Demon War and its casualties.
• Hong Yun’s reputation led many Primordial beings to believe him, and their resentment reached the Heavenly Dao Origin, slowing the Heavenly Dao.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun denied the accusation, but Hong Yun challenged it over Di Jun’s ability to summon it and its intervention in the war.
• In the Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun laughed at Hong Yun’s audacity while Pangu’s True Body and the Ancestor Witches’ gathered Primordial Spirits began to merge.

Hong Yun challenged Heavenly Dao Hongjun, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches manifested Pangu’s True Body to stand with him. After Hong Yun moved the confrontation into the Outer Chaos and sealed the Demon Clan leaders, he appeared ready to unleash his full power—but instead called for his master to save him.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun condemned the Twelve Ancestral Witches and demanded that their Primordial Spirits be abolished, prompting them to form Pangu’s True Body under Dijiang’s control.
• Hong Yun challenged Heavenly Dao Hongjun, and Dijiang advanced with Pangu’s True Body and the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler.
• On Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi struggled to suppress his Primordial Spirit and the Pangu Banner while Laozi and Tongtian warned him to stay focused.
• Hong Yun rebuked Heavenly Dao Hongjun for risking harm to living beings, drawing support from across the Primordial Wilderness and increasing the resentment within Heavenly Dao.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun moved the fight to the Outer Chaos, and Hong Yun sealed the Demon Clan leaders’ cultivation before following him with Pangu’s True Body.
• As Heavenly Dao Hongjun waited for Hong Yun to attack, Hong Yun gathered Mana in his mouth and shouted, “Master, save me!”

Hong Yun, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Hongjun fought the Heavenly Dao’s incarnation and main body in a desperate battle. Hong Yun used the Earth Book linked to the Primordial Wilderness’s Earth Veins to halt the incarnation’s attack, then dared the Heavenly Dao to strike even if the world sank.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed Pangu’s True Body and shattered Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s sword, while Hong Yun wounded him with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Hongjun fought the Heavenly Dao’s main body in Purple Cloud Palace to protect Hong Yun, drawing away much of its power.
• Hong Yun and Pangu’s True Body attacked the weakened incarnation, but the Heavenly Dao used its Origin to heal and strengthen itself.
• The Heavenly Dao’s giant palm overwhelmed Hong Yun and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, injuring them and breaking up Pangu’s True Body.
• The Earth Book emerged from Hong Yun’s sea of consciousness and stopped the Heavenly Dao’s palm because it was linked to the Primordial Wilderness’s Earth Veins.
• Hong Yun taunted the Heavenly Dao to attack with all its strength, threatening that the Primordial Wilderness might sink.

Hong Yun drove off Heavenly Dao Hongjun and reassured the Wu Clan that he had a plan to avert a future reckoning, one that depended on Houtu. Three hundred thousand years later, Houtu arrived with Hong Yun at the sea of blood, where her compassion for the suffering dead accompanied a quiet rise in her cultivation to Quasi-Saint Great Perfection.

• Hong Yun used the Earth Book to shield the Twelve Ancestral Witches, refused Heavenly Dao Hongjun's demand to surrender them, and watched it retreat to Chaos.
• Hong Yun told the Ancestor Witches that he had a plan against the Heavenly Dao and said it would rely on Houtu.
• Hongjun learned that Hong Yun was unharmed after the Heavenly Dao returned, then concealed his thoughts and resumed cultivation.
• Over three hundred thousand years, tales of Hong Yun's defiance spread through the Primordial Wilderness, while the Wu Clan and Human Race's victory left the Demon Clan withdrawn in the Heavenly Court.
• Hong Yun and Houtu arrived at the sea of blood, where Houtu wondered where the resentful souls should go and her cultivation quietly reached Quasi-Saint Great Perfection.