Chapter Summaries

Hongjun intervened to stop the Witch Clan from destroying the Demon Court, then awarded the Thirty-three Heavens to the Demon Court. After the battle ended, the wounded Witch Clan withdrew and resolved to grow stronger before confronting the Demon Court again.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches attacked Hongjun, but he destroyed their Pangu phantom and left them severely injured.
• Nuwa invoked Dao Venerable Lin Tian to stop Hongjun from punishing the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Hongjun spared them.
• Hongjun declared that the Thirty-three Heavens belonged to the Demon Court, then departed after glancing toward the Three Pure Ones, who chose to leave.
• Di Jun declined Taiyi's proposal to kill the weakened Ancestral Witches, and Di Jiang led the Witch Clan out of the space.
• Di Jiang thanked Fuxi and Nuwa, while Houtu kept wondering why she alone had seen what she had seen.

Dong Wang Gong failed to win Queen Mother of the West’s support and learned that the Demon Court had recruited Xuan Cang and defeated the Witch Clan for the Thirty-three Heavens. His faith in the Dao Ancestor faltered, and he decided to return and hasten preparations for his own trump card.

• Queen Mother of the West rejected Dong Wang Gong’s marriage proposal, and Xuan Nü stopped him from confronting her as Xiao Qing watched.
• Queen Mother of the West ordered Xuan Nü to forbid female immortals from leaving Kunlun Mountain for a hundred thousand years and explained that Dong Wang Gong had really come to recruit her against the Demon Court.
• Old Ancestor Kummu reported that Xuan Cang had joined the Demon Court as a Demon Marshal, and Dong Wang Gong’s outburst leveled nearby mountain peaks and injured his followers.
• Old Ancestor Kummu told Dong Wang Gong that the Demon Court had won the Thirty-three Heavens after the Dao Ancestor intervened in its battle with the Witch Clan.
• Dong Wang Gong questioned why the Dao Ancestor protected the Demon Court, then resolved to return and speed up his own preparations.

After ten Yuan Epochs, Lin Tian found the Six-eared Macaque and Ao Jia roasting a Heart-Devouring Tiger and joined their meal. He praised Ao Jia’s cultivation, gave him five Primordial Spirit Roots to prepare for breaking through to Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and left the two companions together.

• The Six-eared Macaque brought a Heart-Devouring Tiger to Ao Jia, and the two roasted and ate it together.
• Lin Tian appeared, accepted a roasted leg, and joined their meal before scolding the Six-eared Macaque for drinking his Spiritual Wine.
• The Six-eared Macaque accused Ao Jia of sharing the stolen wine, and Lin Tian stopped their argument.
• Lin Tian praised Ao Jia’s solid foundation and said he was ready to attain the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Dao.
• Lin Tian gave Ao Jia five Primordial Spirit Roots, then left as the Six-eared Macaque challenged Ao Jia to another fight.

After ten thousand years on the Three Immortal Islands, Ao Jia overcame a powerful tribulation and reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm. He vowed to restore the dragon race’s former glory.

• Lin Tian advised Little Deer to focus on one law and promised to create a supernatural power suited to her Nine-Colored Deer form.
• Ao Jia began his breakthrough, and his lightning tribulation unexpectedly intensified into a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ao Jia used the Myriad Dragon Armor and Tidal Dragon Breath Halberd to withstand the lightning, then overcame the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Ao Jia’s three flowers first stopped at eighth grade, but he gathered the island’s spiritual qi and made them bloom at ninth grade.
• Ao Jia thanked Lin Tian for his guidance, and Lin Tian offered wine and roasted meat to celebrate his breakthrough.
• Ao Jia looked into the distance and vowed to restore the dragon race’s former glory.

Ao Jia decided to return to the Dragon Clan and asked Lin Tian to help save it from its karmic debt and disunity. Lin Tian agreed and sent Ao Jia and Six-Eared to seek Minghe’s lotus seeds, protecting them with a jade pendant as they set out.

• Ao Jia told Lin Tian he was returning to the Dragon Clan after reaching the mid-stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Six-Eared lamented that he would be alone again.
• Ao Jia knelt and pleaded with Lin Tian to save the weakened Dragon Clan, whose members were burdened by karmic debt and lacked strong leadership.
• Lin Tian agreed to help, explaining that the Dragon Clan could use lotus seeds from Minghe’s Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus to remove its karmic fire and that Ao Jia needed to unite the clan.
• Lin Tian told Ao Jia to invoke his name when asking Minghe for lotus seeds, and agreed to let Six-Eared accompany him.
• Lin Tian gave Ao Jia a protective jade pendant, then Ao Jia and Six-Eared departed for the Blood Sea while Little Deer worried about their journey.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches debated how to respond to the Demon Court and Houtu concealed the strange vision that had unsettled her. At a feast celebrating Xuan Cang’s breakthrough, Bai Ze proposed that the Demon Court annex the Immortal Court, leaving Di Jun and the assembled leaders stunned.

• Qiangliang and Shebishi urged Di Jiang to attack the Demon Court, but he refused, citing the danger of provoking Hongjun and the Witch Clan’s small population.
• Di Jiang questioned Houtu about her momentary disconnection during the last battle, and she concealed her vision while deciding to seek answers from Lin Tian.
• Gong Gong joked that Lin Tian might have forgotten them, so the other Ancestral Witches beat him before Di Jiang urged the clan to grow stronger on its own.
• Di Jun hosted a feast in the Thirty-three Heavens to celebrate Xuan Cang becoming the Demon Court’s eleventh Divine Lord.
• Di Jun rejected Jiuying’s claim that the Demon Court would soon unify the Primordial Wilderness and privately resolved to pursue sainthood through destiny.
• Bai Ze proposed annexing the Immortal Court, shocking the Demon Court’s leaders.

Di Jun decided that the Demon Court would attack the Immortal Court in one thousand years, while Ao Jia and Six-Eared continued their journey to the Netherworld Blood Sea. They defeated two road robbers along the way and finally arrived at the Blood Sea, where a mosquito emerged from the bloody water.

• Bai Ze persuaded Di Jun that the Dao Ancestor would not retaliate if the Demon Court conquered the Immortal Court, and Di Jun ordered an attack in one thousand years.
• Xuan Cang worried that his friend Old Ancestor Kummu was in the Immortal Court and resolved to find him.
• Ao Jia and Six-Eared flew north for thousands of years, then encountered Mu Ling and Zi Hu, who tried to rob them.
• Ao Jia killed Mu Ling as he fled, and Six-Eared blasted Zi Hu into a cloud of blood mist when he attacked.
• After another thousand years, Ao Jia and Six-Eared reached the Blood Sea, where a mosquito flew out of the bloody water toward them.

Mosquito Daoist attacked Six-Eared and Ao Jia in the Blood Sea, but Minghe saved them and confronted them after learning they sought Karmic Fire Red Lotus seeds for the Dragon Clan. When Minghe attacked them for demanding the seeds, Dao Venerable Lin Tian’s phantom emerged from Ao Jia.

• Mosquito Daoist tried to drain Six-Eared and Ao Jia’s blood essence, then trapped their primordial spirits with the Blood Weeping Soul Snatching Banner.
• Minghe struck Mosquito Daoist with his swords, forcing him to flee, and freed Six-Eared and Ao Jia.
• Ao Jia asked Minghe for Karmic Fire Red Lotus seeds to save the Dragon Clan and said Dao Venerable Lin Tian had sent them.
• Minghe demanded proof and an exchange, then attacked Six-Eared and Ao Jia when they could not offer one.
• A purple light deflected Minghe’s sword, and Dao Venerable Lin Tian’s phantom emerged from Ao Jia.

Lin Tian’s projection rescued Ao Jia and Six-Eared from Minghe, reclaimed the lotus seeds, and killed Mosquito Daoist. He explained his cultivation path to Minghe, who was left weighing Lin Tian’s demand that he abandon the Three Corpses method.

• Lin Tian reprimanded Ao Jia and Six-Eared for being controlled by Mosquito Daoist, ordered them to enter seclusion for fifty thousand years, and accepted Minghe’s six lotus seeds on their behalf.
• Lin Tian seized Mosquito Daoist from the Blood Sea and crushed him into blood mist after declaring that Dao Venerable Lin Tian was killing him.
• Minghe asked how Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals differed from Saints, and Lin Tian explained that they stood beyond the Heavenly Dao while Saints remained beneath it.
• Lin Tian told Minghe to abolish his Three Corpses method before he would teach him, then ordered Ao Jia and Six-Eared to head to the East Sea.
• Minghe apologized to Ao Jia and Six-Eared and gave them two mid-grade innate spirit roots; after they left, he wondered whether to abolish the Three Corpses method.

Ao Jia returned to the East Sea Dragon Palace with Six-Eared after receiving guidance from Dao Venerable Lin Tian, delighting Ao Guang and stunning the other Dragon Kings. Ao Guang sent the three visiting kings away, while Ao Jia and Six-Eared remained as honored guests.

• Six-Eared accompanied Ao Jia to the East Sea and peppered him with questions along the way.
• Ao Run and the other Dragon Kings questioned Ao Guang about the spiritual roots he had gathered and suspected him of favoring Ao Jia.
• Ao Jia and Six-Eared arrived at the Dragon Palace, where Ao Guang joyfully reunited with his son.
• Ao Jia told Ao Guang that Dao Venerable Lin Tian had taught him abilities and introduced Six-Eared as a fellow student.
• Ao Guang honored Six-Eared and ordered Ao Run, Ao Qin, and Ao Shun to leave; when Ao Shun protested, Ao Guang sent all three flying out of the palace.

Ao Jia told Ao Guang that lotus seeds from the Blood Sea could resolve the Dragon Clan’s karmic debt, and Ao Guang brought him to meet the hidden Candle Dragon. As Candle Dragon ordered the Dragon Kings to distribute the seeds, Ao Chen attacked the Dragon Palace to seize leadership and launched an assault on Ao Jia.

• Ao Jia showed Ao Guang six lotus seeds, and Ao Guang took him to a secret cave deep in the Dragon Palace.
• Candle Dragon heard how Ao Jia had received the seeds and guidance from Dao Venerable Lin Tian, then celebrated the Dragon Clan’s chance to recover.
• Candle Dragon praised Ao Jia’s cultivation and ordered Ao Guang to give the other three Dragon Kings a lotus seed and occasionally reveal Candle Dragon’s presence.
• Ao Chen stormed the Dragon Palace, claimed he was Candle Dragon’s son, and demanded to become the Dragon Clan’s ruler.
• Ao Guang and Ao Jia arrived to stop Ao Chen, who attacked Ao Jia with the Azure Wave Blade.

Ao Chen confronted Candle Dragon over his rejection and demanded the Dragon Clan patriarch position, but Candle Dragon named Ao Jia Dragon Emperor instead. Ao Chen renounced the Dragon Clan, became the demonic Luo Chen, and flew toward the Primordial Wilderness to seek revenge.

• Ao Jia fought Ao Chen, and Six-Ears joined the battle to defend his junior brother.
• Candle Dragon arrived and injured Ao Chen, who accused him of rejecting him and his mother.
• Ao Chen revealed his mother's devotion to Candle Dragon and demanded the Dragon Clan patriarch position.
• Candle Dragon declared Ao Jia the Dragon Emperor, prompting Ao Chen to renounce his clan and become Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen fell to demonic cultivation, broke through to mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and departed for the Primordial Wilderness.

Six Ears left the East Sea Dragon Palace after encouraging Ao Jia to serve as Dragon Emperor, while Xuan Cang persuaded Withered Wood to abandon the Immortal Court before the Demon Court’s attack. Di Jun led the Demon Court toward Zifu Prefecture, and the Ancestral Witches learned that the Immortal Court was the target, leaving Houtu troubled about the Witch Clan’s fate.

• Six Ears refused Candle Dragon’s offered treasures, urged Ao Jia to think carefully as Dragon Emperor, and flew toward the Three Immortal Islands.
• Xuan Cang warned Withered Wood that the Demon Court would attack the Immortal Court and offered to recommend him to the Demon Court; Withered Wood accepted and destroyed the island before returning to Zifu Prefecture.
• Withered Wood concealed his defection from Dong Wang Gong, who praised the Immortal Court’s nearly completed grand formation and vowed to prove Dao Ancestor Hongjun right.
• Di Jun and Taiyi led the assembled Demon Court forces toward Zifu Prefecture to attack the Immortal Court.
• Di Jiang sent Qiangliang to follow the Demon Court, then confronted Houtu for using her primordial spirit to learn their target; Houtu wondered about the Witch Clan’s fate.

Dong Wang Gong launched the Myriad Immortals Formation against Di Jun and Taiyi, briefly turning the battle in his favor. Old Ancestor Kummu then betrayed him at the formation core, allowing Di Jun to destroy the formation and leave Dong Wang Gong defeated.

• Dong Wang Gong gathered the Immortal Court and prepared to strike the Demon Court, but Di Jun and Taiyi arrived at Zifu Prefecture with their army and declared they would destroy it.
• Dong Wang Gong fought Di Jun while Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to disrupt the Immortal Court, forcing Dong Wang Gong to deploy the Myriad Immortals Formation.
• The Myriad Immortals Formation overwhelmed the Primordial Luo River Formation, badly injuring Di Jun and Taiyi and killing or wounding many Demon Court members.
• Old Ancestor Kummu struck Dong Wang Gong from behind at the formation core, creating an opening that let Di Jun shatter the Myriad Immortals Formation.
• Dong Wang Gong fell from the clouds, wounded and disbelieving, and asked Old Ancestor Kummu why he had betrayed him.

Dong Wang Gong died in a self-destruction after the Demon Court defeated the Immortal Court, and Di Jun absorbed the surviving immortals into his forces. As the Demon Court returned to the Thirty-three Heavens, the Three Pure Ones secretly looted the ruins and Qiangliang hurried back to warn the Witch Clan.

• Dong Wang Gong accused Hongjun of abandoning him, then self-destructed, destroying the remaining buildings at Zifu Prefecture and vanishing into a wisp of pure yang energy.
• Di Jun demanded the surviving immortals submit to the Demon Court, and they knelt; he then ordered the occupation of Zifu Prefecture and sent subordinates to search Dong Wang Gong's treasury.
• Di Jun welcomed Old Ancestor Kummu for helping defeat the Immortal Court, but later told Taiyi that Kummu was too dangerous to keep in the Demon Court.
• Taishang and Yuanshi secretly searched the Immortal Court for treasures, while Tongtian found and took a stone slab inscribed with Great Dao Runes about formations.
• Qiangliang watched the Demon Court's victory and hurried back to inform Big Brother that the Witch Clan needed to make plans.

After Dong Wang Gong's fall, Jieyin and Zhunti planned to restore the West while the Three Purities argued over cultivation and the path to sainthood. The Ancestral Witches chose not to attack the Demon Court for now, and Houtu set out in secret to seek Dao Venerable Lin Tian.

• Jieyin warned Zhunti to keep their hidden supernatural powers from Hongjun, then agreed to take their disciples to repair the West's spiritual veins.
• Tongtian argued with Yuanshi and Taishang, questioned the path of sainthood, and left Eastern Kunlun Mountain after Taishang rebuked him.
• Di Jiang asked the Ancestral Witches whether they should attack the weakened Demon Court, and Houtu and Zhu Jiuyin advised against it.
• Di Jiang ordered Ju Mang and Ru Shou to harass the Demon Court while the Witch Clan trained.
• Houtu asked Di Jiang to conceal her departure, then set out to find Dao Venerable Lin Tian.

Lin Tian received Houtu on the Three Immortal Islands, where she asked whether visions of the Witch Clan’s destruction could be changed. As Lin Tian began to explain that the future could take different paths, Lingguang arrived in the surrounding Chaos on a mission to find two supreme treasures.

• Lin Tian trained Liu Er by making him carry a gravity-laden stone slab, then left Little Deer to supervise him.
• Houtu found Lin Tian, and he brought her to the Three Immortal Islands and introduced her to Little Deer and Liu Er.
• Houtu told Lin Tian about the Witch Clan’s recent history and the future fragments she had witnessed, including the Witch Clan’s destruction alongside the Demon Court.
• Lin Tian told Houtu that her vision was not necessarily fixed and that the future depended on the choices they made.
• Lingguang reached the Chaos realm, had his cultivation restricted to the peak Heavenly Dao Realm, and set off to search for the two supreme treasures.

Lingguang, a powerful outsider searching for a supreme treasure, overwhelmed Hongjun and traced the treasure’s aura to Penglai Island. He confronted Lin Tian and demanded that he hand it over, leaving Lin Tian facing an unknown enemy far stronger than anyone in the Primordial Wilderness.

• Lingguang appeared before Hongjun in Chaos, dismissed him as a weakling, and shattered his Purple Heavens Divine Thunder with a casual wave.
• The Heavenly Dao shielded Hongjun from Lingguang’s attack, and Lingguang departed for the Primordial World to search for a supreme treasure.
• Hongjun learned from the Heavenly Dao that Lingguang was an outsider he could not defeat, and suspected that Lin Tian might be the intruder’s target.
• Lingguang searched the Eastern Sea with a secret art, found the treasure’s concealed aura near the Three Immortal Islands, and entered Penglai Island.
• Lin Tian sensed Lingguang’s hostile aura while speaking with Houtu, told her to stay inside, and went out to confront him.
• Lingguang demanded that Lin Tian hand over the supreme treasure, while Lin Tian denied having it and asked who Lingguang was and where he came from.

Lingguang attacked Lin Tian to seize his treasures, forcing Lin Tian to flee into Chaos and fight alongside Cang Ling. As Lingguang overwhelmed them, Yang Mei arrived to help, and the battle stood poised to become a three-on-one fight.

• Lingguang demanded Lin Tian’s treasures and effortlessly nullified Lin Tian’s attack, so Lin Tian lured him away from the Three Immortal Islands and into Chaos.
• Houtu stopped Little Deer and Six-Eared from joining the fight, while Lin Tian summoned Cang Ling, who had reached the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• Lingguang defeated their combined attacks, wounded Cang Ling, and tried to seize Lin Tian’s Primordial Chaos Supreme Cauldron and Primordial Chaos Purple Lotus.
• Yang Mei emerged through a Space Rift and disrupted Lingguang’s attempt to take the treasures.
• Lingguang released his full power and threatened to defeat Lin Tian, Cang Ling, and Yang Mei together.

Lin Tian, Cang Ling, and Great Immortal Yang Mei fought Lingguang but were overwhelmed when he broke his seal and reached half a step into the Chaos Realm. As Lingguang prepared to kill them, Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared from the Primordial Wilderness and raised a powerful barrier to protect them.

• Lin Tian, Cang Ling, and Great Immortal Yang Mei joined forces and wounded Lingguang, holding off his peak Heavenly Dao Realm assault.
• Lingguang broke part of the Great Dao Laws' seal and restored his cultivation to half a step into the Chaos Realm.
• Lingguang's sword strike shattered their defenses, grievously injuring Lin Tian and Cang Ling and knocking Great Immortal Yang Mei unconscious.
• Lingguang cut through the Great Dao's attempt to seal him and prepared to kill the three survivors.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared behind a curtain of Heavenly Dao light from the Primordial Wilderness and shielded Lin Tian, Cang Ling, and Great Immortal Yang Mei.