Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi found Luohu’s hidden world and proposed joining forces to break Hongjun’s great dao shackles and avoid becoming a puppet through flawed primordial violet qi. Luohu demanded that Gu Xi prove his strength in a fight in the depths of chaos, and both departed to battle.

• Gu Xi confronted Luohu in his hidden world and revealed that he had tracked the missing souls there through the Great Karma Art.
• Gu Xi explained that Hongjun had tampered with the primordial violet qi and used it as bait to make would-be saints submit to his control.
• Gu Xi asked Luohu to cooperate in breaking the great dao shackles because neither could attain the Dao freely while they remained in place.
• Luohu realized that seizing the primordial violet qi could have made him Hongjun’s puppet, then challenged Gu Xi to fight in the depths of chaos.
• Gu Xi accepted the challenge, and he and Luohu left the hidden world as its inhabitants resumed their work.

Gu Xi and Luohu fought in the depths of the Chaos World, trading devastating blows with the World-Destroying Millstone and the God-Slaying Spear. Gu Xi struck Luohu with the power of several Dao Fruits, and Luohu was blasted away and realized he had lost.

• Luohu warned Gu Xi that he never held back, then attacked with the God-Slaying Spear as Gu Xi summoned the World-Destroying Millstone.
• Gu Xi blocked Luohu’s spear, and the two exchanged billions of blows that devastated the Chaos World.
• Luohu revealed his Great Demon True Body and attacked Gu Xi with demonic and slaughter laws.
• Gu Xi met Luohu’s palm with the Six Paths of Reincarnation and then launched a powerful strike with the World-Destroying Millstone.
• Luohu blocked the strike with the God-Slaying Spear but was blasted trillions of miles away, tasted blood, and wondered if he had lost.

Gu Xi and Luohu agreed to cooperate after independently deciding to establish the Heavenly Demon Realm. Luohu revealed his plan to use it to gain strength and break the Great Dao Shackles, leaving both men wary of what the other might do.

• Gu Xi told Luohu they were qualified to cooperate, and Luohu acknowledged Gu Xi as a formidable talent.
• Gu Xi and Luohu simultaneously named the Heavenly Demon Realm as their shared plan.
• Luohu explained that he had discovered the Great Dao Shackles and planned to create Outer Realm Heavenly Demons to test cultivators’ hearts and gain fortune and power.
• Luohu revealed that if he still could not break the shackles, he would sacrifice the Heavenly Demon Realm and its entire race to destroy them.
• Gu Xi became more cautious of Luohu, while Luohu regarded Gu Xi as terrifying for guessing his secret plan.

Gu Xi and Luohu opened the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm and established the Inner Demon Tribulation, earning recognition and Merit from the Primordial Heavenly Dao. The Primordial Gods reacted with alarm and anger as the new tribulation became part of cultivation across Hong Huang.

• Gu Xi studied the demonic laws of the dim world and condensed a Heavenly Demon Dao Fruit after a hundred years, while Luohu grew wary but kept him as a collaborator.
• Gu Xi guided heavily karmic ghosts from the Eighteen Levels of Hell to help process Fierce Beasts, and the dim world’s pools of bone and blood reached 129,600.
• Luohu declared himself the Primordial Heavenly Demon Lord, and Gu Xi took the title Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King before they began opening the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm.
• The World-Destroying Black Lotus appeared over western Hong Huang, alarming the Demon Race, the Witch Race, and the Primordial Gods, who wondered whether Luohu had survived.
• The Primordial Heavenly Demon Lord and Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King announced the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm and the Inner Demon Tribulation, and the Primordial Heavenly Dao acknowledged their creation and bestowed Merit.
• Baleful and dark qi flowed into the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm, completing Hong Huang’s laws, while many Gods and Demons angrily repeated the two rulers’ titles.

Gu Xi and Luohu established the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm and Inner Demon Tribulation, raising Luohu to Saint-level power within the realm and unleashing Heavenly Demons that caused widespread deviation across Hong Huang. As powerful beings gathered to confront them, Hongjun ordered his six disciples to seal the Primordial Heavenly Demon Lord, and the Six Sages suspected he was Luohu.

• Gu Xi and Luohu absorbed Merit and divine thrones, becoming masters of the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm and gaining Saint-level strength there.
• Heavenly Demons emerged from the realm and tempted beings across Hong Huang, causing many to suffer deviation and lose their Dao Practice and Magic Power.
• Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi grew angry after thousands of Demon Gods suffered deviation, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches set out for the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm after Witch warriors went mad and died.
• Many other Great Supernatural Beings also headed to the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm to restrain Gu Xi and the Primordial Heavenly Demon Lord.
• Hongjun awoke, judged that the Primordial Heavenly Demon Lord could not be killed because the realm had become part of Hong Huang's order, and sent Divine Sense to his six disciples to have them seal him.
• Saint Taiqing, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Sect Master Tongtian, Daoist Jieyin, Daoist Zhunti, and Nuwa received Hongjun's decree and suspected the Primordial Heavenly Demon Lord was Luohu.

Di Jun and the other Quasi-Saint Giants attacked Luohu and Gu Xi in the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm, but a Sage’s power drove them away. The six Sages then sealed Luohu’s avatar while Gu Xi escaped with his true body, and the chapter ended with Luohu asking how they had evaded Hongjun’s deductions.

• Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and other Quasi-Saint Giants gathered to attack Luohu and Gu Xi, but an irresistible force threw them out of the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm.
• The six Sages arrived under Hongjun’s decree and confronted Luohu, who used the realm’s origin power to manifest a True Demon Saint Body.
• The six Sages suppressed and sealed Luohu in the deepest part of the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm.
• Gu Xi dispersed the demonic qi avatar he had left behind, while his true body escaped with Luohu.
• Gu Xi and Luohu reunited in the Palace of Reincarnation, where Luohu asked how Gu Xi had evaded Hongjun and the six Sages’ deductions.

Gu Xi brought Luohu to the Netherworld Underworld, where Luohu met several ancient survivors and learned that reincarnation was restoring their damaged souls. Gu Xi reviewed his progress and found that his own and his avatars’ Dao practice had advanced substantially, though most of his merit had been spent.

• Luohu asked how Gu Xi had evaded Hongjun and the Six Sages, and Gu Xi kept the Heavenly Dao’s concealment of his whereabouts secret.
• Gu Xi told Luohu to remain in the Netherworld Underworld while their traces faded, then summoned Beast Emperor Shen Ni, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and Ancestor Phoenix to meet him.
• Luohu recognized the three ancient figures and realized the Six Paths of Reincarnation was restoring their damaged souls and true spirits.
• Ancestor Phoenix recalled Luohu’s role in the Ancient Three Clans’ war, while Yin-Yang Ancestor and Luohu reflected on their past conflict and possible future cooperation.
• Gu Xi entered the depths of the Palace of Reincarnation and reviewed his goals, finding that his Innate Merit Dao Fruit had reached Sub-Saint and several other Dao Fruits had advanced.
• Gu Xi checked his information panel and saw that his merit had fallen to 3 trillion after extensive Dao comprehension, despite the merit gained from establishing the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm and Inner Demon Tribulation.

Gu Xi planned to exploit the coming Witch-Demon War to strengthen the Human Race and prepare the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors to replace Buzhou Mountain’s broken pillar. He then designed a Human Race Ascension System and resolved to save Merit to acquire the Chaos Bead and create an independent world beyond the Six Sages’ reach.

• Gu Xi decided to collect the blood and corpses left by the Witch-Demon War, using them to build Nirvana Pools and strengthen human bodies and the Human Race’s foundation.
• Gu Xi contacted the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors and ordered them to gather Five Elements source power so they could form replacement heavenly pillars if Buzhou Mountain fell.
• Gu Xi sent more than a hundred Divine Sense incarnations to the Human Race’s Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands to have Nirvana Pools constructed in preparation for the war’s casualties.
• Gu Xi planned an Ascension System in which mortals could remain in Hong Huang while humans who became immortals could ascend to the Grotto-Heaven Worlds and undergo further cultivation.
• Gu Xi concluded that the Human Race needed an independent world beyond the Primordial Heavenly Dao, noticed the Chaos Bead cost 100 trillion Merit, and decided to save Merit to obtain it.

Zhen Yuanzi led the Earth God System in clearing the battlefield at Kunwu Mountain and restoring its damaged terrain, following the Ancestral God's orders to collect blood and corpses. Across Hong Huang, the mysterious “corpse thieves” continued their work, and Ancestor Minghe’s failed attempt to stop them left the other Great Supernatural Beings wary.

• Zhen Yuanzi arrived at the ruined Kunwu Mountain Range and mourned the dead Kunwu Ancient God, who had been killed by Shang Yang.
• Zhen Yuanzi ordered the gods to collect the blood and corpses and restore the damaged Earth Veins and Earth Spirit Apertures, warning them not to pry into the Ancestral God's plans.
• The gods gathered blood and corpses, purified baleful energy, and repaired the land as similar groups worked across battlefields throughout Hong Huang.
• The Witch and Demon Races tolerated the “corpse thieves” while their war approached its decisive battle, and other Great Supernatural Beings avoided provoking them because of their suspected connection to the Netherworld Underworld.
• Ancestor Minghe sent Yuantu and Abi to attack the “corpse thieves,” but a vast force knocked the swords back, discouraging other Great Supernatural Beings from intervening.

Hidden forces arranged for Di Jun’s ten Golden Crow sons to escape Tang Valley and burn Witch Tribes across Hong Huang, escalating the Witch-Demon conflict. After Kuafu was killed, Hou Yi arrived in rage and shot an arrow through the eldest Golden Crow as the princes tried to flee.

• A mysterious shadow freed the ten Little Golden Crows from Tang Valley while hidden forces incapacitated their guards and concealed their escape.
• The ten Little Golden Crows scattered Solar True Fire across Hong Huang, killing countless creatures and burning dozens of Witch Tribes to ash.
• Kuafu confronted the princes, but an unseen force immobilized him and used their Solar True Fire to form an arrow that pierced his heart.
• The ten Little Golden Crows realized Kuafu had died, and Hou Yi arrived to find his charred body.
• As the princes fled from Hou Yi, his arrow pierced the Great Golden Crow Crown Prince.

Hou Yi killed nine of the Ten Great Golden Crow Princes, but Donghuang Taiyi arrived in time to save the last one and confronted him in a fury. As the two prepared to fight, Gu Xi and the others watched from the Netherworld Underworld and began preparing to profit from the coming Witch-Demon War.

• Hou Yi shot down the Great Golden Crow Crown Prince and eight more Golden Crow Princes as they tried to flee.
• Donghuang Taiyi shattered Hou Yi's final arrow and appeared beside the surviving Tenth Golden Crow Prince.
• The Tenth Golden Crow Prince told Donghuang Taiyi that Hou Yi had killed his nine brothers.
• Donghuang Taiyi erupted in rage and accused Hou Yi of deserving death, while Hou Yi stood his ground and drew another arrow.
• Gu Xi, Luohu, and the others watched the confrontation through a mystic light mirror, and Gu Xi ordered preparations to seize the coming war's opportunities.

Hou Yi fought Donghuang Taiyi with a devastating arrow but was crushed beneath Taiyi’s flaming attack. The Twelve Ancestral Witches retaliated, and Di Jun intervened, ending the confrontation with both sides declaring all-out war.

• Hou Yi’s arrow repeatedly shattered Donghuang Taiyi’s flaming pillar, but the pillar regenerated, swallowed the arrow, and struck Hou Yi into the earth.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches attacked Donghuang Taiyi, who escaped into the Chaos Bell with the Tenth Golden Crow Prince.
• The Ancestral Witches struck the Chaos Bell into the Primordial Starry Sky and tried to crush it, but Di Jun’s stellar formation destroyed their giant hands.
• Di Jun accused the Witch Race of killing his sons and threatening Donghuang Taiyi and his last son, while Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin condemned Donghuang Taiyi for killing Hou Yi.
• Di Jun and the Twelve Ancestral Witches declared war, as the Great Supernatural Beings watched the conflict begin.

Di Jun and Tai Yi mobilized the Demon Race for an all-out war against the Witch Race, while the Witch Race mustered its own vast army in response. As the Primordial Gods watched both forces gather, Luohu warned that accumulated conflicts could eventually bring even the Saints into a catastrophic Immeasurable Calamity.

• The Chaos Bell rang nine times, and the White Tiger Demon Sage announced Di Jun and Tai Yi’s decree ordering the Demon Race to gather at Buzhou Mountain and annihilate the Witch Race.
• Countless demons assembled, shocking the Primordial Gods and prompting Supreme Purity Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and Sect Master Tongtian to travel to Wa Huang Heaven to visit Nuwa.
• The Witch Race sounded its war horn, and its warriors mustered to level the Demon Race Heavenly Court.
• Gu Xi and the others watched the two armies gather as Luohu explained how rival factions replace vested interests and warned that unresolved conflicts could eventually cause an Immeasurable Calamity and shatter Hong Huang.

Di Jun led the Demon Race army to Buzhou Mountain, confident that his increased strength would help them defeat the Witch Race. Gu Xi watched from afar with his disciples as the two armies collided in a devastating opening clash.

• Di Jun revealed power beyond Quasi-Saint Great Perfection, lifting the Demon Race's morale before declaring that they would destroy the Witch Race and unify Hong Huang.
• Di Jun led the hundreds of billions of troops from the Thirty-Three Heavens through spatial gateways to join the Demon Race forces at Buzhou Mountain.
• Di Jiang Ancestral Witch opened a massive spatial gateway, and waves of Witch Race legions poured out to face the Demon army.
• Gu Xi brought Chang'e, Kong Xuan, and Golden-Winged Great Peng to watch the battle from ten million miles away, where they saw the armies charge and collide.
• The first collision shook the earth and Buzhou Mountain, sending countless Witch and Demon warriors flying to their deaths.

As the Witch-Demon war raged, hidden Dao patterns drew blood and corpses from the battlefield into the Human Race’s Nirvana Pools. Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi organized humans to refine and study them, leaving the Human Race with new insights, stronger bodies, and an unprecedented chance to advance.

• Hidden Dao patterns beneath the battlefield drew in the blood and corpses of fallen Witch and Demon Races, then sent them through spacetime to the Human Race’s Nirvana Pools.
• Suiren Shi ordered human experts at the Earth Immortal level and above to gather at the pools and study the traces of great Dao laws in the blood and corpses.
• Youchao Shi and Ziyi Shi urged the Human Race to create its own methods and paths rather than depend solely on the Holy Father.
• Human gods and demons refined the essence blood, collected the corpses, and recorded the insights, Dao arts, and supernatural abilities they discovered.
• Many human cultivators comprehended Dao laws and broke through their realms, while the essence blood strengthened physiques and offered martial Dao cultivators a path beyond Shattering the Void.

The Thirty-Three Heavens Legion and Witch Race’s core legion joined the battlefield, drawing the Ten Great Demon Saints and the top Great Witches into a brutal battle. As Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches faced off, Gu Xi decided to seize their essence blood and origins to try to transform his Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Undying Body into a Pangu Sacred Body.

• White Tiger Demon Sage ordered the Thirty-Three Heavens Legion to attack, and a True Hou called down a rain of stars that killed more than a million Witch Race warriors.
• Xiang Liu and the Witch Race’s core legion counterattacked, clashing with the Thirty-Three Heavens Legion.
• The Ten Great Demon Saints joined the battle, and Xing Tian killed more than fifty million Demon Race members before White Tiger Demon Sage and four other Demon Saints attacked him.
• Gu Xi strengthened the underground Dao pattern vortices with divine power from the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors, sending battlefield blood and corpses to the Human Race’s Grotto-Heaven Worlds and Blessed Lands.
• Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches appeared and confronted each other across the battlefield.
• Gu Xi resolved to obtain the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ essence blood and Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi’s origins to attempt a Pangu Sacred Body transformation.

Di Jun revealed that he had touched upon Sub-Saint power, shocking the great figures across Hong Huang. Gu Xi explained why Di Jun had reached this level and warned that his role in the Witch-Demon calamity and Hongjun’s attention made recruiting him too dangerous.

• Di Jun unleashed the fire laws and a faint ring of Primordial Saint Radiance, raising his power beyond Quasi-Saint Great Perfection without fully becoming a Sub-Saint.
• Ancestor Minghe and other powerful beings recognized that Di Jun had touched upon Sub-Saint power, and Minghe hoped to learn from him.
• Gu Xi realized that his own advance had helped Di Jun glimpse the Sub-Saint realm and noted that the complete Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation could change the Witch Race’s fate.
• Gu Xi reassured Beast Emperor Shen Ni and the others that Di Jun’s fortune, status, and talent explained his progress.
• Luohu regretted that Di Jun could not join their side, but Gu Xi said Di Jun’s role in the calamity and Hongjun’s likely scrutiny made recruiting him unwise.

The Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and the Western Saints reacted to Di Jun reaching Sub-Saint power as the Witch-Demon battle erupted. After the Twelve Ancestral Witches unleashed their formation and nearly killed Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi summoned the Grand Array of the Myriad Stars, and Gu Xi moved to harvest the combatants’ power.

• The Three Pure Ones recognized Di Jun’s new power and resolved to kill him, but Nuwa sealed Wa Huang Heaven to stop them from intervening.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti also decided that Di Jun should die, while Donghuang Taiyi and the Demon Saints celebrated his breakthrough and the Twelve Ancestral Witches grew alarmed.
• Di Jun attacked the Twelve Ancestral Witches with a world of flames, but they activated the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation and shattered it with their baleful energy.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches charged Di Jun, knocked the River Diagram and Luo Script into the Primordial Starry Sky, and wounded him as he escaped their space-time lock.
• Donghuang Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to hold off the Twelve Ancestral Witches and summoned the Grand Array of the Myriad Stars around himself and Di Jun.
• Gu Xi vanished to prepare to collect the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ essence blood and the origins of Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi.

Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi unleashed the Grand Array of the Myriad Stars against the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and both armies were nearly wiped out. As the Witch Race faced defeat, the Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned a terrifying Pangu phantom, which Gu Xi recognized as having no soul.

• The Demon Race revealed that it had refined three hundred and sixty-five Primordial Stars into the foundations of the Grand Array of the Myriad Stars.
• Di Jun warned Donghuang Taiyi to flee with the Tenth Prince if the Demon Race lost, then ordered the Demon Gods to activate the array.
• The Grand Array of the Myriad Stars and the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation slaughtered billions of soldiers as their collisions devastated the battlefield.
• Seeing the Witch Race reduced to less than one percent of its strength, the Twelve Ancestral Witches poured everything into their formation and summoned a colossal Pangu phantom.
• The Three Pure Ones, Daoist Jieyin, Daoist Zhunti, and Nuwa were shocked by the phantom, while Gu Xi sensed that it had no soul and suspected it was formed from Pangu imprints in the Ancestral Witches' blood.

Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi sacrificed themselves to devastate the Witch and Demon armies, leaving only Gong Gong alive among the Ancestral Witches. Gong Gong broke Buzhou Mountain, but the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors raised pillars to stabilize the sky, and the Saints suspected Gu Xi had arranged it in advance.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches used the Pangu phantom to shatter the Grand Array of the Myriad Stars, killing many Demon Gods and severely wounding Fuxi, while Kunpeng escaped.
• Di Jun sent Donghuang Taiyi and the surviving Demon Gods away, then detonated himself, the ancient stars, and the Demon Race's fortune, killing eight Ancestral Witches and destroying the Witch-Demon battlefield.
• Donghuang Taiyi charged the four surviving Ancestral Witches and self-destructed, killing Zhu Jiuyin, Ju Mang, and Houtu while Gong Gong escaped.
• Gong Gong condemned the powers he believed had engineered the war and smashed Buzhou Mountain, causing the sky to crack and threatening to unleash the Heavenly River and bring down the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• The Five Directions Heavenly Emperors established the Five Elements Heavenly Pillars, stabilized the sky, and received vast Merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• The Saints suspected Gu Xi had foreseen Buzhou Mountain's fall and prepared the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors, making them more wary of him.