Chapter Summaries

Hong Yun decided to trade away his Primordial Violet Qi at the Golden Crow Prince’s coming-of-age ceremony, while Tai Cang prepared his human disciples for their tribulations and equipped them before heading to the demon court. Tongtian urgently summoned Tai Cang to a grand gathering, leaving its purpose unclear.

• Hong Yun told Tai Cang and Zhen Yuanzi that he planned to exchange his Primordial Violet Qi for treasures at the Golden Crow Prince’s coming-of-age ceremony, and Tai Cang declined to compete for it.
• Tai Cang arrived at Martial God Mountain, gave Shi Hao, Shi Yi, Qing Tan'er, and Qing Yang Ginseng Fruits, and helped Qing Yang stabilize his cultivation when the fruit’s power threatened to force a breakthrough.
• Tai Cang learned that Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Qing Yang would face their tribulations in a hundred years, while Qing Tan'er’s tribulation was three hundred years away, so he chose to take her to the demon court.
• Tai Cang forged forty-four spiritual treasures for his disciples and taught them improved arts of alchemy and artifact forging for the benefit of the human race.
• Tongtian urgently called Tai Cang to the demon court for a grand gathering, and Tai Cang departed with Qing Tan'er.

Tai Cang brought Qing Tan'er to the Demon Court, where Hou Yi asked to trade for Bloodline Pills but could not offer a suitable price. There, Tai Cang reunited with the Twelve Golden Immortals and met Randeng, whose insult provoked Kunpeng; the chapter left the gathering tense as Randeng faced the group’s disdain.

• Tai Cang told Shi Hao and the others to focus on cultivation and halt the human race’s expansion for now, then traveled with Qing Tan'er toward the Demon Court and showed her Buzhou Mountain.
• Hou Yi met Tai Cang and Qing Tan'er after killing a Grand Unity Golden Immortal demon beast, gave Qing Tan'er an innate Lingbao, and asked Tai Cang to trade him Bloodline Pills.
• Tai Cang told Hou Yi that only top-grade innate Lingbao, one of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots, or other inaccessible treasures would interest him, then left Hou Yi determined to seek the Ancestral Witch realm.
• At the Demon Court, Tai Cang reunited with Guangchengzi and the Twelve Golden Immortals, learned that the Three Pure Ones were negotiating contest rules with the Ancestral Witches, and met Chan Sect Vice Sect Master Randeng.
• Randeng mocked Tai Cang’s comments about quasi-sages, and Kunpeng rebuked Randeng for his cultivation and his joining Yuan Shi’s sect, drawing the Twelve Golden Immortals’ disapproval.

Kunpeng and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi drove Randeng from the Demon Court after he tried to claim authority and threaten war with the Saints. At the Demon Race banquet, Tai Cang reunited with the Ten Golden Crows, concealed the reason for Qing Tan’er’s unusual cultivation, and was approached by Old Ancestor Minghe.

• Kunpeng rejected Randeng’s claim to the Vice Sect Master position, ordered him expelled, and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi struck him down with the Chaos Bell.
• Tai Cang and the Twelve Golden Immortals entered the Heavenly Emperor Palace, where Di Jun had arranged Tai Cang a seat among the honored guests.
• The Ten Golden Crows greeted Tai Cang, questioned Qing Tan’er’s rapid cultivation, and accepted his explanation that Chaos qi had given her an unusual constitution.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, Minghe, Queen Mother of the West, and other great powers arrived, and Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, and Xi He welcomed them.
• Old Ancestor Minghe approached Tai Cang with a wine cup and asked to speak with him.

Tai Cang learned that the Three Pure Ones needed ten third-generation disciples for a contest against the Witch Clan, while the system tasked him with winning, recruiting disciples, and stealing the Fruit of Calamity. Laozi took Tai Cang’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree branch to remove Zhunti’s divine consciousness, provoking a confrontation with Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Minghe asked Tai Cang about the Fruit of Calamity, then left without explaining it after Tai Cang admitted he knew nothing about it.
• Laozi summoned Tai Cang and explained that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had changed the contest to a third-generation battle four thousand years later.
• Tai Cang agreed to seek potential disciples but warned that he could not guarantee they would reach Grand Unity Golden Immortal strength in time, and the Three Pure Ones planned to arm their chosen fighters with treasures.
• Tai Cang revealed that Qing Tan’er’s Chaos Sacred Body might awaken with the branch of the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, and Laozi took the branch to erase Zhunti’s divine consciousness.
• Zhunti demanded the branch back, but Laozi refused, and Yuanshi and Tongtian threatened to fight if Jieyin and Zhunti continued to press the matter.

Tai Cang learned that Fruits of Calamity granted periods of enlightenment while the Demon Race negotiated for its share, then attended the Ten Golden Crows’ coming-of-age ceremony. The ceremony sent the princes’ souls into the River of Destiny, where their auras surged.

• Laozi refused Jieyin and Zhunti’s demand for the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, and Tongtian warned Zhunti against retaliating against Tai Cang.
• Di Jun declared the Demon Race’s desired share of the Fruits of Calamity, sparking a dispute among the gathered powers.
• Tai Cang learned from Di Er and Lu Ya that the fruits granted enlightenment, that each person could use only one, and that the Supreme Calamity Fruit had once aided Hongjun.
• Tai Cang joined the Ten Golden Crow Princes in the rear hall before returning with them to the main hall for their coming-of-age ceremony.
• Di Jun assigned the Ten Golden Crows to guard Tanggu Valley and illuminate the world, and Heavenly Dao merit raised their cultivation to peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• The Ten Golden Crows’ souls entered the River of Destiny, and Tai Cang recognized the legendary river as their auras surged.

At the Ten Golden Crows’ coming-of-age ceremony, Di Jun revealed the Demon Realm, a world beyond the Heavenly Dao’s oversight where powerful beings could leave bloodlines and prepare a refuge. Tai Cang gained insight into the cycle of worlds and the need to transcend them, while Qing Tan’er awakened her Chaos Sacred Body and entered enlightenment.

• Tai Cang explained that perfected Grand Unity Golden Immortals could entrust their true spirits to the River of Destiny, and the Ten Golden Crows returned to their bodies after completing the ritual.
• Di Jun activated the Star Array of the Heavens and revealed the transformed Demon Realm, which great powers entered to explore and cultivate.
• Di Yi told Tai Cang that the Demon Realm lay beyond the Heavenly Dao’s oversight, as powerful beings created demon beasts from their bloodlines.
• Nuwa created a female race from her essence blood and assured Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi that bloodline restrictions would prevent them from challenging the Golden Crow clan.
• Tai Cang reflected that worlds and civilizations rose and fell in cycles, and concluded that only transcending everything could bring true immortality.
• Qing Tan’er realized that humanity needed its own realm, awakened her Chaos Sacred Body, and drew praise from the Three Pure Ones for her talent.

Qing Tan'er awakened her physique while Tai Cang considered seeking Pangu's inheritance from the Witch Clan. At the Demon Realm gathering, Hong Yun exchanged the Primordial Violet Qi with Minghe, who concealed it in the River of Destiny before the Three Pure Ones and Tai Cang departed to prepare successors for the coming battle.

• Qing Tan'er awakened her physique, and Tai Cang warned her not to become complacent.
• The creation of races brought merit to the gathered experts, and Hong Yun announced he would trade his Primordial Violet Qi to the highest bidder.
• Tai Cang rejected the Primordial Violet Qi, saying it was useless to him and would make its holder a target.
• Hong Yun chose Minghe's Cang Yuan Water Control Banner and Blood God Sword over Di Jun's Sun Moon Essence Wheels, then gave Minghe the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Minghe hid the Primordial Violet Qi in the River of Destiny, and the experts began leaving the Demon Realm.
• Laozi, Yuan Shi, Tongtian, Tai Cang, and Qing Tan'er departed to find successors before the final battle with the Witch Clan.

Tai Cang refused Xing Tian’s request to visit the Witch Clan until he had completed the Three Pure Ones’ mission to recruit human disciples. At Martial God Mountain, he and the others witnessed Shi Yi and Shi Hao overcome their tribulations, then saw Qing Yang begin his own tribulation as they recognized the Supreme Pure Heaven-Connecting Art.

• Laozi and Yuan Shi sent Cang Du and the Twelve Golden Immortals with Tai Cang to recruit human disciples for the coming contest between third-generation disciples.
• Tai Cang told the group that the Ancestral Witches had changed the contest, leaving only five thousand years for them to prepare their disciples.
• Xing Tian invited Tai Cang to meet Dijiang, but Tai Cang refused until he had completed the Saints’ task, and Xing Tian agreed to wait.
• Tai Cang led Cang Du and the Twelve Golden Immortals to Martial God Mountain, where Shi Yi and Shi Hao broke through their tribulations and reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm with all three flowers at the ninth grade.
• Qing Yang began the Three Calamities Tribulation, and Cang Du and the Twelve Golden Immortals recognized the Supreme Pure Heaven-Connecting Art surging from him.

Qing Yang passed the three calamities and advanced to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Shi Hao and Shi Yi broke through to the early True Grand Unity Immortal realm. Tai Cang revealed his plan for them to pursue Primordial Grand Unity, shared the method with the Chan Sect immortals, and agreed to help select their disciples before they began searching humanity.

• Qing Yang destroyed the Fire, Water, and Wind Calamities, merged with his Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, and advanced to Great Perfection in the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Tai Cang advised Shi Hao and Shi Yi to stabilize their cultivation and strengthen their bodies, then told Cang Du and the Twelve Golden Immortals that he intended his disciples to pursue Primordial Grand Unity rather than slay their corpses.
• Tai Cang declared that Hong Yun had neared the Primordial Grand Unity threshold and promised to prove the Dao himself to blaze the path for his disciples, then imparted the method to the immortals and his four disciples.
• Shi Hao revealed that he had grasped a law, and Tai Cang examined his Law of Reincarnation and urged him to cultivate it diligently.
• Tai Cang agreed to help choose disciples after Cang Du and the Twelve Golden Immortals searched humanity for candidates, and Cang Du proposed meeting the Three Ancestors of Humanity first.

Tai Cang perfected the Laws of Destruction and Ruin and repeatedly tried to fuse the Laws of Time and Space before the hundred-year disciple selection began. He chose direct disciples for Cang Du and the Twelve Golden Immortals, then prepared to judge the prodigies gathered by Shi Hao.

• Tai Cang instructed Shi Hao to arrange a selection for six new direct disciples and to watch for infants born with heavenly signs.
• Tai Cang used the system to perfect the Laws of Destruction and Ruin, then unsuccessfully attempted to fuse the Laws of Time and Space.
• Qing Tan'er told Tai Cang that Cang Du and the Twelve Golden Immortals had arrived and that the hundred-year period was over.
• Tai Cang identified Cang Ji as a special-physique talent, and Cang Du accepted him as his direct disciple.
• Tai Cang helped the Twelve Golden Immortals choose their leading disciples, then asked Qing Tan'er whether Shi Hao had finished preparing the gathered candidates.

Tai Cang selected six new disciples from the gathered Human Race candidates, completing his plan to have ten disciples for the upcoming contest among the three teachings. He left the new disciples with their assigned ranks and cultivation techniques.

• Tai Cang told Guangchengzi and the Twelve Golden Immortals that he planned to take six more disciples for the coming contest, prompting them to accept additional disciples of their own.
• Tai Cang used the system to select Wang Hao, Shao Hao, and Xiao Zhan for their exceptional potential.
• Tai Cang agreed to accept Wang Xian'er after Wang Hao asked him to take in his older sister.
• Tai Cang chose Ba Duo and Nannan from the remaining candidates, citing their Nine Netherworld Body and Devouring Body.
• Tai Cang named Wang Hao, Shao Hao, Xiao Zhan, Wang Xian'er, Ba Duo, and Nannan as his fifth through tenth disciples and imparted cultivation techniques to them.

Tai Cang traveled to Buzhou Mountain and joined the Twelve Ancestral Witches to open the Pangu inheritance beneath the Pangu Blood Pool. After learning why the Three Pure Ones had agreed to their wager, he broke the entrance barrier and began undoing the inheritance site’s restrictions.

• Tai Cang left Shi Hao and the others to guide the human cultivators and flew to Buzhou Mountain to meet the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Tai Cang asked for the Ancestral Witch Body-Tempering Art, and Dijiang gave him the complete technique, which Tai Cang memorized.
• Tai Cang pressed the Twelve Ancestral Witches to explain the wager with the Three Pure Ones, and Dijiang revealed that they had offered three drops of pure Pangu blood.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches opened the Pangu Blood Pool and revealed a hidden passage, but Tai Cang was injured when his divine sense touched its barrier.
• Tai Cang used his Pangu essence blood to shatter the barrier, then entered the passage with the Twelve Ancestral Witches and began breaking its first restriction with the hand seals from Dijiang’s jade talisman.

Tai Cang and the Twelve Ancestral Witches broke through the final restriction and entered Pangu’s inheritance grounds, where Tai Cang feared Pangu’s remnant soul was watching them. He subdued the Spirit of Heaven Opening, gained the complete Pangu’s Nine Forms of Heaven Opening, and transformed the Innate Yin Yang Sword into an innate supreme treasure before the chapter ended.

• Tai Cang used the energy of his twenty-four minor worlds to break the restriction, then led the Twelve Ancestral Witches through the passage to its final barrier.
• The barrier shattered and swept Tai Cang and the Twelve Ancestral Witches into a vast wilderness, where they found a towering statue of Pangu and the witches worshipped it.
• Blood-red vortices appeared beneath the statue, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches entered them to seek Pangu’s inheritance while Tai Cang received missions to subdue the Spirit of Heaven Opening and eliminate Pangu’s remnant soul.
• Tai Cang entered the thirteenth vortex, resisted the music that clouded his mind, and used his max-level Chaos Heavenly Eye to find and capture the Spirit of Heaven Opening.
• The Spirit of Heaven Opening consumed Tai Cang’s essence blood, acknowledged him as its master, and passed on the remaining six forms of Pangu’s Nine Forms of Heaven Opening.
• The Spirit of Heaven Opening entered the Innate Yin Yang Sword, raising it to an innate supreme treasure and giving Tai Cang a unique Heaven Opening sword intent.

Tai Cang escaped Pangu Hall with the Spirit of Heaven Opening, which he refined into the innate supreme treasure Sky-Opening Sword, and warned Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning that Pangu's remnant soul was attacking the Ancestral Witches. He presented the sword to the Three Purities as proof, leaving them shocked by its appearance.

• Tai Cang named his transformed sword the Sky-Opening Sword, completed his mission, and escaped the blood-red vortex with the True Martial Black Eagle Banner.
• Houtu emerged injured and told Tai Cang that an attacker had interrupted her inheritance; Tai Cang concealed what he had taken and persuaded her to escort him out of Pangu Hall.
• After Tai Cang left, Zhurong revealed that he had taken the Nine Sky-Opening Forms inheritance and the Spirit of Heaven Opening, and the Ancestral Witches agreed to wait until they grew stronger before confronting him.
• Tai Cang traveled to the Kunlun Mountains and told Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning that Pangu's remnant soul remained in Pangu Hall and had attacked the Ancestral Witches.
• Laozi and Tongtian joined Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning, and Tai Cang summoned the Sky-Opening Sword as proof, shocking all three.

Tai Cang told the Three Pure Ones that Pangu’s remnant soul threatened them, and they decided to weaken the Witch Clan by working with the Demon Race. He delivered Laozi’s proposal to Di Jun, who questioned whether the Sage truly intended to help the demons.

• Laozi recognized Tai Cang’s Sky-Opening Sword as an evolved Innate Yin Yang Sword, and Tai Cang revealed that the Spirit of Heaven Opening had enabled its evolution.
• The Three Pure Ones learned that Pangu’s remnant soul could grow stronger through the Witch Clan and abandoned their plan to attack it directly after Tai Cang urged them to curb the witches’ power.
• Laozi sent Tai Cang to recruit the Demon Race, offering the method of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal in exchange for its cooperation against the Ancestral Witches.
• Tongtian empowered Tai Cang’s Four Swords of Zhu Xian with the power of a Saint’s strike, while the Three Pure Ones concealed Tai Cang’s tracks.
• Tai Cang reached the Demon Court and gave Laozi’s jade talisman to Di Jun, who asked whether the Grand Clarity Sage was truly willing to aid the Demon Race.

Tai Cang negotiated with Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, offering the method of becoming Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals in exchange for the Demon Race’s help against the ancestral witches. After Hong Yun’s breakthrough confirmed the method worked, the Demon Race leaders swore Heavenly Dao oaths and accepted the bargain, while Tai Cang prepared to address their concern that the ancestral witches could use the method too.

• Tai Cang told Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi that the Three Pure Ones would support the Demon Race against the ancestral witches and offered further compensation in exchange for their cooperation.
• Tai Cang explained that Hong Yun’s success with the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method proved it was real, and Kunpeng and Bai Ze arrived with news that Hong Yun had invited the gods to Wuzhuang Temple.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi agreed to Tai Cang’s condition, swore not to spread the method without his permission, and received its teachings.
• Kunpeng and Bai Ze learned that they could obtain the method only by agreeing to participate in Tai Cang’s plan, while Di Jun ordered them to summon Fuxi, Shang Yang, and the other demons.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi asked whether the ancestral witches’ mastery of laws made them likely to attain the same realm, and Tai Cang replied that there was no need to worry.

Di Jun gathered the Demon Race’s leaders and revealed that the Three Pure Ones promised to protect their territory if they destroyed the Witch Clan before the Primordial World expanded. The leaders agreed to strike first and received Tai Cang’s Primordial Grand Unity method, while Kunpeng secured a pledge of loyalty by asking to take Lu Ya as his disciple.

• Tai Cang assured Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi that the ancestral witches were unlikely to master the Primordial Grand Unity method, but urged them to act before circumstances changed.
• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi used the Chaos Bell to conceal the Heavenly Emperor Palace as Di Jun gathered Fuxi, Kunpeng, and the Ten Great Demon Marshals and explained the conditions for sharing Tai Cang’s cultivation method.
• Di Jun revealed that Laozi had promised to protect the Demon Race’s territory after the worlds merged if the Demon Race eliminated the Witch Clan, and Fuxi confirmed that Nuwa had warned of the coming upheaval.
• Fuxi, Kunpeng, and the Ten Great Demon Marshals agreed to attack first and proposed killing several ancestral witches to break the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array.
• Tai Cang approved sharing the method and identified Kunpeng as the Demon Race leader closest to Primordial Grand Unity; Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi then taught it to the gathered leaders.
• Kunpeng asked to take Lu Ya as his disciple, and Di Jun accepted, understanding the request as Kunpeng’s pledge of loyalty to the Demon Race.

Di Jun and the Demon Race leaders finalized plans for their princes’ apprenticeship ceremony before visiting Hong Yun at Wuzhuang Temple, where he demonstrated his new Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal power and explained the dangers of reaching that realm. Tai Cang defended his right to charge for the cultivation method, and Hong Yun ended by proposing an Earth Immortal Lineage centered on Wuzhuang Temple.

• Fuxi offered to take Di Jiu as his disciple, and the Ten Great Demon Marshals volunteered to teach other princes as Di Jun arranged an apprenticeship ceremony.
• Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, Tai Cang, and their companions traveled to Wuzhuang Temple, where Hong Yun welcomed the assembled cultivators.
• At Di Jun’s request, Hong Yun released his Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal pressure, demonstrating his strength and pledging to protect Tai Cang.
• Hong Yun warned that advancing to the realm required surviving a deadly tribulation and advised cultivators to prepare defensive treasures and mana-restoring fruits.
• Tai Cang refused to give away the cultivation method without payment and a Heavenly Dao oath, then rebuked a cultivator who called him selfish.
• Hong Yun proposed establishing an Earth Immortal Lineage with Wuzhuang Temple as its center and asked the gathered cultivators for their views.

Hong Yun won the gathered cultivators’ conditional approval for establishing the Earth Immortal Lineage and preached his cultivation insights at Wuzhuang Temple. During the sermon, Tai Cang broke through to the Great Perfection of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and entered the main body of the River of Destiny, unleashing a pressure that drove the others away.

• Hong Yun secured the great mighty cultivators’ agreement to his Earth Immortal Lineage, subject to gaining the Six Saints’ approval, and Di Jun agreed as long as it stayed out of the Nine Heavens.
• Hong Yun preached for five hundred years, and Tai Cang broke through to the Great Perfection of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• The River of Destiny appeared above Wuzhuang Temple, and Hong Yun, Di Jun, and the others were injured when their divine senses were destroyed.
• Tai Cang sent his divine soul through a tributary toward the main river, using the Laws of Space, Life, Time, Destruction, and Ruin to withstand its erosion.
• Tai Cang’s divine soul entered the main River of Destiny, and the resulting pressure killed a Quasi-Saint cultivator and forced the gathered cultivators to flee.

Tai Cang was expelled from the River of Destiny after connecting with its true body, then left Wuzhuang Temple to seek answers from the Three Pure Ones. Nearly a hundred quasi-saints ambushed him for his method of becoming a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, but the confrontation shifted into a clash between Demon Realm cultivators and forces from the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin realms.

• Tai Cang returned to Wuzhuang Temple after the River of Destiny forcibly expelled him, and Laozi warned him not to reveal what he had seen.
• Tai Cang credited Hong Yun and Di Jun for his breakthrough, then left for the Kunlun Mountains while the assembled mighty figures pursued him for his cultivation method.
• Several quasi-saints ambushed Tai Cang, demanding the method of becoming a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, but he fought them off with the Sky-Opening Sword.
• A Demon Realm cultivator used a demonic artifact to obscure the heavenly secrets and urged the gathered cultivators to kill Tai Cang.
• Three other groups revealed themselves and turned against the Demon Realm cultivators, identifying themselves as Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clan forces from other realms.