Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian, aided by Hongjun, Cang Ling, and Yang Mei, used the Primordial Chaos Supreme Cauldron to trap and refine Lingguang. Pangu’s power and the Chaos Pearl helped them secure victory, though Lingguang’s fate was only inferred from the silence inside the cauldron.

• Hongjun attacked Lingguang to stop him from seizing Lin Tian’s treasures, but Lingguang overpowered him and targeted the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Lin Tian shielded himself, Cang Ling, and Hongjun with the Primordial Chaos Purple Lotus, then used the Primordial Chaos Supreme Cauldron and gathered their mana to pull Lingguang inside.
• Yang Mei supplied his mana, and a force bearing Pangu’s aura surged from the Primordial Wilderness into Lin Tian, strengthening the cauldron and drawing Lingguang in.
• Lin Tian and the others struggled to hold Lingguang as he fought to escape the cauldron’s refining flames.
• The Chaos Pearl emerged from Cang Ling, suppressed Lingguang’s power with gray light, and helped the cauldron refine him until the sounds of his struggle ceased.

After defeating Lingguang, Lin Tian discovered a hidden restriction deep within the Chaos Pearl and learned from Lingguang’s memories that Saint Lord Cangwu had sent him to find the Chaos Pearl and the Primordial Chaos Supreme Cauldron. Lin Tian and Yang Mei returned toward the Primordial Wilderness, while Saint Lord Cangwu reported to the injured Venerable Saint that the search had found nothing.

• Lin Tian offered Hongjun a Huiyuan Pill for his injuries, and Hongjun accepted it before returning to Purple Sky Palace.
• Cang Ling told Lin Tian she had sensed a hidden barrier inside the Chaos Pearl, and they found a profound Great Dao restriction they could not break.
• Lingguang’s blue origin merged into Lin Tian and revealed that Lingguang had slain the Great Dao of the Tulan Great World and served Saint Lord Cangwu in searching for two Primordial Chaos Supreme Treasures.
• Lin Tian told Yang Mei and Cang Ling what he had learned, then returned Cang Ling to the Chaos Pearl to recover and set off with Yang Mei for the Primordial Wilderness.
• In the Star Sea Realm, Saint Lord Cangwu told the Venerable Saint that his search had produced no news, and the Venerable Saint ordered him to proceed without alerting the two targets.

Di Jun realized that the Demon Court’s cultivation bottleneck came from the karma of destroying the Heavenly Dao-recognized Immortal Court, so he proposed uniting all sentient cultivators as the Demon Race. The Heavenly Dao approved the establishment and bestowed merit, empowering the Demon Court, while Bai Ze suspected that Cang Xuan and Withered Wood’s deaths concealed more than the demon gods understood.

• Di Jun questioned Taiyi about his stalled cultivation and concluded that the Demon Court’s destruction of the Immortal Court had caused the bottleneck.
• Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Script to devise a plan to define all beings who awakened intelligence and cultivated spiritual qi as demons, and Taiyi supported him.
• Di Jun and Taiyi proclaimed the establishment of the Demon Race, and the Heavenly Dao manifested and approved their vow.
• Merit descended, advancing Di Jun to the late Quasi-Saint stage, Taiyi to the Quasi-Saint Peak realm, and the Ten Great Demon Gods by one minor realm as many beings joined the Demon Race.
• Di Jun appointed the Ten Great Demon Gods and assigned ranks to the Demon Court’s forces, while Fei Lian called for vengeance against the Witch Clan over Cang Xuan and Withered Wood’s deaths.
• Bai Ze doubted that Cang Xuan and Withered Wood had died in a simple ambush and looked toward Di Jun and Taiyi.

The Ancestral Witches decided to establish the Witch Clan to rival the Demon Race and gathered their people for a founding ritual. Pangu manifested during the ceremony, empowered the clan, and left them much stronger as Di Jun chose not to attack.

• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches agreed to establish the Witch Clan after debating the Demon Race’s growing power.
• A thousand years later, Di Jiang declared the Witch Clan founded and called all descendants of Pangu’s blood to join it.
• Pangu’s phantom appeared on its own above Pangu Hall, startling the gathered witches and observers across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun considered attacking the Witch Clan, but thought of Dao Venerable Lin Tian and returned to the Thirty-three Heavens.
• Pangu sent blood-red energy into every member of the Witch Clan, causing them all to break through and advancing the Ancestral Witches’ cultivation.

After ten epochs of seclusion, Lin Tian emerged having broken through to the Heavenly Dao Realm, though he considered his strength inadequate for the dangers ahead. He agreed to accompany Houtu back to the Witch Clan, bringing Six-Eared along and leaving Little Deer to manage the Three Immortal Islands.

• Houtu worried about Lin Tian's long seclusion and resolved to change the Witch Clan's fate, while Six-Eared asked her to fight and she suggested he visit the Witch Clan instead.
• Lin Tian emerged from seclusion, revealing that he had reached the Heavenly Dao Realm, and discovered that Yang Mei remained in a critical stage of cultivation.
• Houtu asked Lin Tian to accompany her to check on the Witch Clan, and Lin Tian agreed.
• Six-Eared asked to join them, and Lin Tian agreed that his Law of Battle might benefit from the Witch Clan's fighting culture.
• Lin Tian entrusted Little Deer with the Three Immortal Islands and took Houtu and Six-Eared toward the Witch Clan's settlement at the foot of Buzhou Mountain.

Di Jun and Taiyi launched a surprise attack on the Witch Clan, hoping to destroy them and seize the Primordial Wilderness’s fate. With Houtu absent and the Demon Race’s formation turning the battle against the eleven Ancestral Witches, Lin Tian appeared just as Di Jiang prepared to sacrifice himself.

• Di Jun persuaded Taiyi to attack the Witch Clan, claiming Houtu was away and the Demon Race could strike before Lin Tian intervened.
• Di Jun and Taiyi led the Ten Great Demon Gods and their forces in a nighttime assault on the Witch Clan.
• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell against Di Jiang, while Jiu Feng and the other Great Witches fought the Demon Gods.
• Di Jun activated the Primordial Luo River Formation, and his forces blocked Xuan Ming from seeking help from Fuxi and Nuwa.
• The Demon Race overwhelmed the Ancestral Witches, and Di Jiang began preparing to self-destruct as Di Jun and Taiyi struck at them.
• Lin Tian appeared, knocked back Di Jun and Taiyi’s attacks, and challenged Di Jun.

Lin Tian arrived as the Demon Race attacked the Witch Clan, drove the attackers into submission, and punished Di Jun and Taiyi by lowering their cultivation. At Pangu Hall, Di Jiang revealed that Pangu’s heart had sent a golden light into Chaos decades earlier and had stopped producing blood, leaving Lin Tian to wonder if it was connected to his past battle there.

• The Witch Clan welcomed Lin Tian and Houtu as Di Jun admitted fault, but Lin Tian rebuked the Demon Race and used his aura to force them to their knees.
• Lin Tian lowered Di Jun’s and Taiyi’s cultivation by one minor realm, warned Di Jun not to be used by others, and sent the Demon Race retreating after Hongjun departed.
• Fuxi and Nuwa arrived too late to help, and Lin Tian introduced Six-eared Macaque to the Witch Clan before Di Jiang led everyone into Pangu Hall.
• Di Jiang told Lin Tian that Pangu’s heart had released a golden light into Chaos several dozen yuanhui earlier and had stopped producing fresh blood afterward.
• Lin Tian connected the timing of the golden light to his battle in Chaos with Yang Mei, Cang Ling, and Hongjun.

Lin Tian used the Primordial Chaos Supreme Cauldron to revive Pangu's Heart, restoring hope that the Witch Clan could produce new clansmen. In Chaos, Hongjun learned that Lin Tian had reached the Heavenly Dao Realm, and the Heavenly Dao began laying out its next plan.

• Lin Tian went with Di Jiang, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Six-Eared to see Pangu's lifeless heart, and the Witch Clan begged him to revive it.
• Lin Tian activated the Primordial Chaos Supreme Cauldron and sent its energy into Pangu's Heart, which initially showed no response.
• Houtu spotted a red glow as Pangu's Heart regained its vitality, began beating, and dripped fresh blood.
• The Witch Clan thanked Lin Tian, while Six-Eared's growling stomach prompted laughter from the group.
• In Purple Sky Palace, Hongjun asked the Heavenly Dao whether Lin Tian had reached the Heavenly Dao Realm, and the Heavenly Dao confirmed it.
• The Heavenly Dao reassured Hongjun that it could grow powerful enough to rival the Great Dao and began telling him what to do next.

Lin Tian persuaded the ancestral witches to avoid war with the Demon Race by providing the Cang Ling Realm as a source of blood food and a technique for earning merit. The Witch Clan began following his plan, setting out on a new path that might free them from the calamity’s fate.

• Lin Tian showed the ancestral witches a portal to the Cang Ling Realm, where Cang Ling revealed that its vast population of powerful beasts could supply the Witch Clan’s blood food.
• Lin Tian urged the Witch Clan to avoid large-scale conflicts with the Demon Race and taught the ancestral witches the Earth Vein Sorting Technique to temper their bodies and earn merit.
• Di Jiang ordered the Witch Clan to withdraw its forces, hunt only in the Cang Ling Realm, and have every member cultivate the Earth Vein Sorting Technique.
• The ancestral witches gave Lin Tian a drop of their essence blood before returning to their tribes to spread the orders.
• Witch Clan warriors began hunting in the Cang Ling Realm and sorting earth veins, and their doubts turned to enthusiasm as they gained blood food and merit.

Di Jun and Taiyi accepted Hongjun’s proposal to pursue a Heavenly Marriage with the Moon Star’s divine maidens, while Lin Tian gave the Witch Clan banners that could summon a minor Pangu phantom. The chapter left Zhu Rong and the Six-eared Macaque wondering why everyone had suddenly left.

• Di Jun despaired over his defeat by Lin Tian and vowed to become a Saint, while Taiyi thought of Hong Yun as a possible opportunity for the Demon Race.
• Hongjun arrived and offered to help Di Jun and Taiyi regain strength through Heavenly Marriage with the Moon Star’s divine maidens.
• Di Jun agreed to Hongjun’s plan and asked how a Heavenly Marriage could be achieved, and Hongjun produced the Red Embroidered Ball as its medium.
• At Buzhou Mountain, Zhu Rong sparred with the Six-eared Macaque while Gong Gong cheered for the macaque and teased Zhu Rong.
• Lin Tian presented the Witch Clan with Minor All-Heavenly God-Demon Banners that could summon a minor Pangu phantom, and the Ancestral Witches and Great Witches rushed to claim them.
• Lin Tian and the others left, and Zhu Rong and the Six-eared Macaque wondered where everyone had gone and what treasure Lin Tian had given them.

Di Jun and Taiyi traveled to the Moon Star to pursue a Heavenly Marriage with Xi He and Chang Xi, but the sisters rejected them and relied on Lin Tian’s protective formation. After Taiyi’s first attack failed, Di Jun and Taiyi launched a combined assault that cracked the barrier.

• Di Jun and Taiyi agreed to follow Hongjun’s guidance and flew to the Moon Star to seek a Heavenly Marriage with Xi He and Chang Xi.
• Xi He and Chang Xi refused to receive Di Jun and Taiyi, then rejected Di Jun’s proposal through their protective formation.
• Chang Xi insulted Di Jun and Taiyi, while Xi He firmly told them that the sisters wished to cultivate alone.
• Taiyi struck the barrier with the Chaos Bell, but the formation held; Chang Xi revealed that Lin Tian had created it.
• Enraged by Lin Tian’s involvement, Di Jun joined Taiyi in attacking the barrier with the Chaos Bell, River Diagram, and Luo Script, and their assault opened a brief crack.

Di Jun threatened to force Xi He and Chang Xi into a Heavenly Marriage after Xi He rejected his claim of fate, so Chang Xi secretly left to seek Lin Tian's help. After a Witch Clan group rescued her from Poison Toad, Chang Xi learned that Lin Tian was visiting their clan at Buzhou Mountain and went with them.

• Di Jun claimed the Sun God Wheel and Moon God Wheel proved he and Xi He were fated, but Chang Xi praised Lin Tian and rejected him on Xi He's behalf.
• Enraged, Di Jun gave Xi He and Chang Xi ten thousand years before threatening to forcibly marry them into the Heavenly Court.
• Xi He stayed behind to cultivate, while Chang Xi secretly left the Moon Star to find Lin Tian on the Three Immortal Islands.
• Poison Toad attacked Chang Xi, but Mu Li and eleven other Witch Clan warriors used the Lesser Capital Heavenly God-Demon Array to kill him.
• Chang Xi learned that Lin Tian was visiting the Witch Clan at Buzhou Mountain and followed Mu Li and the warriors there.

Chang Xi went to the Witch Clan seeking Lin Tian’s help after the Demon Race threatened her and Xi He, and Lin Tian emerged from seclusion to accompany her to the Moon Star. As Chang Xi ran to find her sister, Xi He mistook Lin Tian for her sister’s kidnapper and attacked him with the Moon God Wheel.

• Mu Li escorted Chang Xi through the Witch Clan, where she met Yu Xun, tried the clan’s roasted meat, and learned that its members cultivated their bodies and baleful qi.
• Chang Xi approached Pangu Hall but was stopped by Qiangliang and Tian Wu, who explained that Lin Tian was cultivating in seclusion.
• Houtu learned that the Demon Race had given Chang Xi and Xi He ten thousand years to consider its demand, with three thousand years already gone.
• Lin Tian emerged from Pangu Hall, reassured Chang Xi, and went with her to the Moon Star to confront Di Jun and the Demon Race.
• Chang Xi opened the formation and ran to Goddess Palace to find Xi He, while Xi He sent the Moon God Wheel at Lin Tian, accusing him of kidnapping her sister.

Lin Tian stayed on the Moon Star and helped Xi He and Chang Xi improve their cultivation. When Di Jun and Taiyi arrived to enforce the Heavenly Marriage, Lin Tian defied Hongjun and forced him to set the matter aside, leaving Di Jun furious.

• Lin Tian reunited with Xi He and Chang Xi, then settled on the Moon Star to protect them from Di Jun’s marriage demand.
• Lin Tian taught the sisters about the Great Dao, and Chang Xi advanced to the Early Stage Primordial Golden Immortal Realm.
• Di Jun and Taiyi arrived to claim Xi He and Chang Xi as the ten-thousand-year deadline expired.
• Lin Tian rejected Di Jun’s demand, and Hongjun appeared to declare the Heavenly Marriage part of fate and the Heavenly Dao’s plan.
• Lin Tian challenged Hongjun and withstood the Heavenly Dao’s pressure, prompting Hongjun to set the marriage aside and leave.
• Di Jun withdrew with the demon gods in anger, while Chang Xi and Xi He thanked Lin Tian.

After Lin Tian disrupted Di Jun’s plans for a Heavenly Marriage with Xi He and Chang Xi, Di Jun raged in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and learned that the Witch Clan had been earning merit by repairing earth veins. He blamed Lin Tian and swore revenge, but a message about finding another Dao Companion revived his hope.

• Di Jun destroyed the Lingxiao Treasure Hall in fury over Lin Tian’s interference, while Taiyi urged him not to confront Lin Tian directly.
• Bai Ze and Fei Lian silenced rumors about Di Jun’s outburst among the Demon Race.
• Bi Fang reported that the Witch Clan had been repairing earth veins for several hundred thousand years, earning Heavenly Dao merit and reducing their Fierce Fiend Qi.
• Di Jun realized the Witch Clan’s changes had begun after Lin Tian visited them, then coughed up golden blood and vowed revenge.
• Taiyi received a golden scroll saying Di Jun could find another Dao Companion, and Di Jun declared that an opportunity had come.

Hu Yue tried to become the Demon Queen to regain her standing against Hu Mei, but her low cultivation left her vulnerable to Demon God Nine Infants. After Hu Yue revealed that Hu Mei was backed by Dao Venerable Lin Tian, Nine Infants panicked and ultimately killed Hu Yue and Li Zhu to protect himself.

• News that Di Jun was choosing a Demon Queen spread, and Hu Yue decided to apply despite having only Early Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation.
• At the Demon Realm gate, Li Yu rejected Hu Yue, but Nine Infants took her and Li Zhu to his cave abode.
• Nine Infants coerced Hu Yue and Li Zhu into staying with him, and Hu Yue endured the arrangement in hopes of advancing her ambitions.
• Hu Yue asked Nine Infants to destroy the Qingqiu Fox Clan, then named Dao Venerable Lin Tian as Hu Mei's backing.
• Terrified of angering Dao Venerable Lin Tian, Nine Infants struck Hu Yue, drove both women away, and took back his gifts.
• Nine Infants later fabricated charges against Hu Yue and Li Zhu, captured them, and destroyed their bodies and souls.

Di Jun chose Qin Yuan as his Dao Companion and arranged a Heavenly Marriage after other candidates rejected him or proved unsuitable. After Di Jun deliberately excluded Lin Tian from the invitations, Taiyi secretly sent Bai Ze to invite him, and Lin Tian accepted while hinting that he understood the situation.

• Di Jun rejected Taiyi's proposed candidates, considered Queen Mother of the West and Yuanfeng, and learned they were unavailable or beyond his reach.
• Di Jun and Taiyi chose Qin Yuan as Di Jun's Dao Companion, announced their Heavenly Marriage for ten yuanhui later, and sent invitations across the Primordial Wilderness while omitting Lin Tian.
• The ancestral witches condemned Di Jun for slighting Lin Tian, but Di Jiang and Houtu urged them not to interfere with the Heavenly Marriage.
• Lin Tian explained to Nuwa and Fuxi that Di Jun blamed him for ruining his plans with Xi He and Chang Xi.
• Taiyi secretly instructed Bai Ze to invite Lin Tian, and Bai Ze delivered the invitation and apologized on Di Jun's behalf.
• Lin Tian accepted Bai Ze's message and said he knew what to do, then watched Bai Ze leave with a faint smile.

After ten yuan epochs, Di Jun and Qin Yuan held their Heavenly Marriage ceremony in the Thirty-three Heavens, attended by powerful figures from across the Primordial Wilderness. Dao Ancestor Hongjun began to witness their marriage, but Lin Tian arrived with the Witch Clan, Nuwa, and Fuxi, leaving the ceremony tense as Di Jun confronted Taiyi for inviting him.

• Di Jun and Qin Yuan prepared for their wedding as guests, including the Three Pure Ones, Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, Kunpeng, Jieyin, and Zhunti, arrived and presented gifts.
• Bai Ze announced the start of the ceremony, and Hongjun appeared to witness the marriage and declare that it was ordained by the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun stopped his declaration when he sensed the arrival of Lin Tian and the Witch Clan.
• Lin Tian entered with Di Jiang, Houtu, other ancestral witches, Nuwa, and Fuxi, while Di Jun angrily asked why they had come.
• Taiyi admitted that he had asked Bai Ze to invite Lin Tian, and Lin Tian said he had come for wedding wine and to offer a congratulatory gift.

Lin Tian attended Di Jun and Qin Yuan’s Heavenly Marriage with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, then used the gathering to announce that the Witch Clan would withdraw from factional disputes and focus on protecting Buzhou Mountain and repairing the earth veins. His declaration stunned the assembled powers and disrupted the Demon Race’s plans as he departed with the Witches, Nuwa, and Fuxi.

• Lin Tian and the Twelve Ancestral Witches arrived at Di Jun’s wedding uninvited, and Di Jun ordered Bai Ze to seat them.
• Lin Tian gave two top-grade innate Spiritual Treasures as wedding gifts, then urged Hongjun to proceed with the ceremony.
• Hongjun established the Heavenly Marriage between Di Jun and Qin Yuan, and the resulting merit advanced Di Jun, Qin Yuan, Taiyi, and other members of the Demon Race.
• After the ceremony, Hongjun asked Lin Tian why he had come, and Lin Tian prompted Di Jiang to announce the Witch Clan’s withdrawal from factional disputes.
• Di Jun and Taiyi were stunned by the announcement, and Lin Tian left the hall with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Nuwa, and Fuxi.

Lin Tian spoke with Yang Mei about Zhen Yuanzi before Di Jun learned that the Witch Clan was keeping the peace and traveled to the Northern Sea to recruit Kunpeng. Kunpeng agreed to join the Demon Race if Di Jun and Taiyi helped him kill Hong Yun, and Di Jun accepted after hearing Hong Yun possessed Primordial Chaos Purple Qi.

• Yang Mei told Lin Tian that Zhen Yuanzi had refused his offer of discipleship, so he had given him a Willow Branch to summon help if needed.
• Di Jun heard Bai Ze and Gui Che report that the Witch Clan had withdrawn from conflict and ordered the Demon Race to continue expanding.
• Bai Ze reported that Kunpeng had refused three invitations to join the Demon Race unless Di Jun personally visited him.
• Di Jun and Taiyi traveled to the Northern Sea, where Di Jun offered Kunpeng the position of Demon Master and a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Kunpeng demanded that Di Jun and Taiyi help him kill Hong Yun, revealing that Hong Yun possessed Primordial Chaos Purple Qi.
• Di Jun agreed to Kunpeng's demand, hoping to obtain the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi.