Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng imprisoned the nine Golden Crows for attempting to murder people and declared that his laws applied to all beings. Daoist Zhunti arrived to demand their release, but Wenren Sheng refused, leaving Zhunti warning that his uncompromising Dao could bring about his downfall.

• Wenren Sheng rejected the Golden Crows’ arguments and explained that his planned laws would forbid intelligent beings from hunting one another.
• Wenren Sheng sentenced the nine Golden Crows to life imprisonment as protected animals and used vines to cage them, while a spell caused them to begin laying eggs.
• Daoist Zhunti arrived on a seven-colored Auspicious Cloud and asked Wenren Sheng to release the Golden Crows before their time to be trapped.
• Wenren Sheng told Zhunti that the Golden Crows had violated his laws and that he would not make exceptions for personal feelings.
• Zhunti recognized that Wenren Sheng would not compromise and warned that his powerful Dao could become the cause of his downfall.

Wenren Sheng explained why Zhunti could not attack him: Heaven and Earth owed him a debt, and killing him would deepen Zhunti’s own debt to the Heavenly Dao. Zhunti left, while the Crows questioned Wenren Sheng, who reflected that his knowledge as a Transmigrator had benefited the Primordial World.

• Wenren Sheng told Zhunti that Heaven and Earth owed him a debt and that Zhunti could not defy Heaven and Earth by attacking him.
• Zhunti realized that killing Wenren Sheng would make his debt to the Heavenly Dao impossible to repay, so he mounted an Auspicious Cloud and left.
• The Crows were stunned that a Saint had retreated, and Third Brother asked Wenren Sheng who he was and what debt Heaven and Earth owed him.
• Wenren Sheng stayed silent and thought that his knowledge from beyond the world had helped the Heavenly Dao reduce entropy and supported the growth of humanity.
• The Crows concluded that their father and uncle had likely understood the situation and continued accumulating strength while remaining suppressed.

Wenren Sheng suppressed the nine Golden Crows and turned their power into hot springs that helped Da Qian prosper, while the human race expanded toward Witch territory. A dwarf's attempt to profit from a Witch's interest in marriage exposed the danger of their growing contact, and Wenren Sheng recognized that the Witch Race was expanding despite its declining strength and potential.

• Wenren Sheng imprisoned the nine Golden Crows beneath the mountain, bound them with the Mysterious Tree's roots, and created nine hot springs that benefited nearby farmers.
• Rumors spread that Wenren Sheng had forced back Saint Zhunti, while he used the hot springs and the divine tree's laws to support Da Qian's growing population and territory.
• A Witch Race member mistook a dwarf guarding the Great Wall for his long-lost brother, gave him five hundred jin of top-grade Spirit Grass, and entered Da Qian with him.
• The Witch Race member knocked a woman unconscious to take her as his wife, but the dwarf stopped him and explained human marriage customs.
• The dwarf proposed arranging the Witch's marriage to profit from the betrothal gifts and dowry, while Wenren Sheng watched and understood that human expansion would bring more clashes with the Witch Race.
• Wenren Sheng recognized that the Witch Race was expanding on a large scale, even as its members' power and potential weakened through generations of bloodline descent.

The Great Witch and the dwarf negotiated a marriage with the woman, who accepted the Great Witch as her husband only when he transformed into a handsome man. They set off to find a Human Race alchemist to make his appearance permanent, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed that an important event had affected their race’s fate.

• The dwarf urged the Great Witch to prepare costly betrothal gifts, but the woman woke and said she was already his wife.
• The woman rejected the Great Witch’s original appearance, so he transformed to resemble Di Jun, and she agreed to marry him while he looked handsome.
• The Great Witch promised to find a Face-Fixing Pill from Tai Shang, then agreed with the woman and dwarf to seek a Human Race alchemist instead.
• The dwarf realized the Great Witch had pretended to be foolish to win the woman’s trust and enter the Human Race’s protected Great Wall.
• Di Jiang and Hou Tu sensed that something important had happened to the Witch Race’s fate.

Houtu visited Da Qian and became fascinated by its food, shopping, and orderly commerce. After discovering that a new life of food and drink might reconcile Zhurong and Gonggong, she returned with a plan to change the Witch Race.

• Houtu entered Da Qian in an ordinary woman's form and tried Roasted Sky Cicada after a peddler offered a sample in exchange for a positive review.
• Houtu bought a mobile jade device with a drop of blood, but a cultivator arrested the seller for exploiting her and directed her to a fair shop to sell her blood.
• Houtu exchanged a drop of blood for enormous wealth, then spent the day eating and shopping as vendors flocked to serve her.
• Houtu realized that food, drink, and entertainment might temper the Witch Race's violence and prevent Zhurong and Gonggong from fighting.
• Wenren Sheng saw a possible future in which Zhurong became a master of grilled meat and Gonggong a master brewer, and Houtu bought the city's newest clothing and houses.

Houtu explored human entertainment and came to see the value of ordinary lives, then sought to establish trade between the Witch Race and humans. Wenren Sheng helped her create rules for fair trade, and the two sides gradually formed a stable trading relationship despite early swindlers.

• Houtu spent ten years exploring human cities, food, and games, and began considering how to bring a peaceful, comfortable life to her Tribe.
• After playing reincarnation games, Houtu reflected on the loss of souls after death and became interested in the possibility of reincarnation.
• Houtu met Wenren Sheng and proposed friendly relations and trade between the Witch Race and humans.
• Wenren Sheng gave Houtu a trade document and explained how market prices and fair trading rules would work; Houtu agreed and announced trade at Giant Stone Land.
• Human swindlers repeatedly cheated the great witches, but the Witch Race accepted their punishments and the two sides gradually established stable trade.

Wenren Sheng established a vast, rule-bound market for the Witch Race, where labor coupons and enormous demand for food drove a primordial Industrial Revolution. As production consumed spiritual energy and capitalists began competing for Spirit Veins, the chapter left the Witch Race and Demon Clan on the path toward conflict.

• Wenren Sheng organized the market into outer, buffer, and core zones, enforcing trading rules and punishing dishonest buyers and sellers.
• Witchmen earned labor coupons through dispatched work and spent them on food, prompting merchants to build factories, farms, and dining halls.
• The Witch Race’s immense demand encouraged assembly lines and Spirit Power Engines, rapidly increasing production, cultivation, and the creation of Acquired Spirit Treasures.
• Wenren Sheng realized that industrial growth would consume spiritual energy and drive merchants to seize Spirit Veins, setting the Witch Race and Demon Clan against each other over economic interests.
• Merchants sought new products that could improve cultivation, turning Spirit Power Engines into automated Pill Furnaces powered by Artifact Spirits made from the souls of dead demons.

Hou Tu discussed the Hunyuan Dao Fruit and the Law Path with Wenren Sheng, learning how consciousness could endure by imprinting itself and how fair laws could be defended through openness and collective strength. She left with a growing interest in the Law Path, while Wenren Sheng planned to use the river of time and space to preserve worthy figures and leave selfish servants behind.

• Hou Tu emerged from seclusion, saw the thriving trade and construction in the human-witch lands, and went to Giant Mountain to meet Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng explained how consciousness could be preserved through spirit treasures and how Pangu had endured by becoming the Primordial World.
• Hou Tu heard a voice claim to be Pangu, but Wenren Sheng called it a fraud and continued explaining how beings could endure by giving up power and interference.
• Wenren Sheng taught Hou Tu that the Law Path depended on fairness, justice, openness, and formations that let people uphold laws together.
• Wenren Sheng said he would root the mysterious tree in the river of time and space to recover useful figures such as Yu Qian and Wang Anshi while leaving selfish servants behind.

Wenren Sheng persuaded Hou Tu to establish a Law Path that would bind the strong and ensure good and evil received their due, and she vowed to transform herself into reincarnation. The new Heavenly Secret unsettled the Saints, while Tong Tian challenged Yuanshi over whether they should accept Heaven’s Will or resist the world without Saints.

• Hou Tu questioned Wenren Sheng about how his Dao could withstand Saints and rulers who abused their power, and he answered that laws and the Heavenly Dao would restrain them.
• Wenren Sheng showed Hou Tu a vision of people hoping for a world where no one bullied anyone and everyone could reason, and she resolved to bring justice to the Primordial World.
• Hou Tu vowed to transform her body into reincarnation and imprint the Law Path and the Law of Good and Evil upon it, prompting a reaction from the Heavenly Dao and shaking the Saints.
• Hou Tu entered seclusion in the Pangu Divine Palace, while the Saints refrained from attacking because the new Heavenly Secret had made reincarnation and law part of Heavenly Fate.
• Nüwa remained confident that her merit from creating humanity would preserve her status, while Tai Shang, Yuan Ying, and Tong Tian discussed the possible future without Saints.
• Tong Tian accused Yuanshi of contradicting his own teaching to follow Heaven’s Will, and Yuanshi fell silent rather than continue their dispute.

The Saints debated how to respond to the Heavenly Secret that divine beings, immortals, and Buddhas would disappear, with Laozi advocating non-action and Jie Yin proposing stillness and extinction. Zhunti abandoned a direct attack on Wenren Sheng and Hou Tu but secretly passed information to powerful forces, while the eleven ancestral shamans panicked over their inability to complete the Twelve Divine Heavens Great Astral Array without Hou Tu.

• Yuanshi conceded that Tong Tian's Dao might reveal a way to survive the Heavenly Secret, but Laozi proposed that Saints follow his Way of Purity and Non-Action instead.
• Tong Tian rejected Laozi's advice and sensed that Saints could preserve their place by using their wisdom to help the Primordial World prosper beyond a world without divine beings, immortals, and Buddhas.
• Yuanshi agreed that the Saints should spread this new Dao, while Laozi maintained that acting would invite backlash and that Saints should remain passive symbols of the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhunti proposed destroying Hou Tu, Tree Daoist, and the three Great Heavenly Lords of the east, but Jie Yin warned that resisting the Heavenly Dao could bring disaster and proposed entering stillness and extinction when the calamity came.
• Zhunti gave up acting against Wenren Sheng and Hou Tu himself, then secretly passed information to certain major forces.
• The eleven ancestral shamans panicked because Hou Tu's absence made it impossible to cultivate the Twelve Divine Heavens Great Astral Array.

Hou Tu paused her work on the Ancestral Witch Array to pursue reincarnation, but her brothers challenged whether a cycle that erased memories could truly offer life rather than death. After Hou Tu recognized that her Dao remained incomplete, Wenren Sheng proposed preserving memories while abolishing family and hierarchical ties.

• Hou Tu remained in seclusion to comprehend reincarnation, leaving the Eleven Ancestral Witches unable to perfect their array without her.
• Di Jiang and Zhurong urged Hou Tu to help the Witch Race defeat the Demon Clan, but Hou Tu argued that reincarnation could let living beings avoid slaughter over resources.
• Xuan Ming warned that losing memories through reincarnation would feel like death, and Di Jiang argued that ambitious cultivators would continue fighting for immortality.
• Hou Tu accepted Xuan Ming's criticism and left seclusion to reconsider her incomplete Great Dao.
• Hou Tu asked Wenren Sheng how reincarnation could preserve identity without confusing family relationships, and Wenren Sheng suggested giving everyone fixed names, retaining memories and friendships, and eliminating familial roles.

Wenren Sheng proposed changing family relationships to siblings so people could retain their memories through reincarnation, and Hou Tu shared the solution with the ancestral witches. With Hou Tu absent and the Witch and Demon Clans both preparing for a future conflict, the chapter ended by explaining how Wenren Sheng’s law-based rule was becoming the foundation of order for both races and the Human Race.

• Wenren Sheng told Hou Tu that people could preserve their memories through reincarnation by replacing parent-child and other hierarchical family ties with sibling relationships.
• Hou Tu explained the solution to the ancestral witches, but Di Jiang objected that their immortality would depend on reincarnation; the siblings then worried about the Demon Clan and considered seeking protection within human territory.
• The ancestral witches rejected killing the Daoist who had taught Hou Tu, and they postponed deciding how to respond to the danger posed by Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Di Jun and Taiyi chose to keep refining the Chaos Bell and building the Great Array of Stars of the Heavens rather than attack the incomplete Witch Clan before their preparations were ready.
• The chapter explained that the Heavenly Dao’s favor limited when Saints could act, while Wenren Sheng’s laws protected all who obeyed them regardless of race or bloodline.
• The five Saints recognized that Wenren Sheng’s law-based Dao could coexist with their teachings and serve as the foundation of Human Race order.

Jie Yin arrived in Da Qian and recognized that its peaceful, law-abiding people were receptive to the Western Sect’s teachings. After city cleaners stopped his unregistered street sermon, he accepted Da Qian’s rules and resolved to protect Divine Tree Daoist and the Law Path.

• Jie Yin observed that Da Qian’s laws had left it populated by gentle, rule-following beings and saw potential for the Western Sect to prosper there.
• Jie Yin recalled that Divine Tree Daoist’s resistance to Zhunti had preserved Da Qian and the opportunity it offered the Western Sect.
• Jie Yin recited a verse in the street and explained that people could seek awakening and attain the Dao by cultivating inwardly.
• Da Qian’s First Team of City Cleaners stopped Jie Yin for preaching without a permit and told him to register and have his doctrines approved.
• Jie Yin accepted the rules, decided to support the Law Path, and planned to ask Zhunti to compensate Divine Tree Daoist.

Jie Yin registered the Western Sect to preach in Da Qian and opened a sect, while Laozi declined to register and left without preaching. Laozi then sent Great Mage Xuandu to establish the Taiqing Sect, whose teachings passed review but whose elixirs still required drug-law approval.

• Jie Yin registered his teachings, pledged an innate White Lotus petal as collateral, and accepted Da Qian’s rules for preaching and sect inspections.
• Jie Yin opened his doors to disciples and taught that all beings were equal and that followers could be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Laozi arrived in another city on Azure Ox, obeyed the gate guards’ rules, and declined to complete the registration required to preach.
• Laozi’s claim to possess the Golden Elixir Great Dao drew a listener seeking instruction, but an official stopped the exchange because the teaching was uncertified.
• Laozi left the city and sent Great Mage Xuandu to establish the Taiqing Sect, whose teachings passed verification while its elixirs required approval under the Thirty-One Drug Law Management.

Primordial Heavenly Lord sent Guang Chengzi, Taiyi Zhenren, and Daode Zhenjun to Da Qian to spread the teachings, expecting Guang Chengzi to become Imperial Tutor. Their arrival violated Da Qian’s laws, and Taiyi Zhenren was arrested and hung from the city gate after attacking two guards.

• Primordial Heavenly Lord ordered Guang Chengzi to go to Da Qian and hinted that he was destined to become Imperial Tutor.
• Guang Chengzi brought Taiyi Zhenren and Daode Zhenjun to Da Qian, where city guards reprimanded them for flying without registering and explained the local laws.
• Taiyi Zhenren and Daoist Celestial Venerable challenged the guards’ authority and invoked their status as disciples of Saints.
• Taiyi Zhenren drew his sword and attacked the guards, but vines bound him and hung him from the city gate.
• Guang Chengzi urged the guards to stop, while Daoist Celestial Venerable protested that they had mistreated Jade Purity Palace disciples.

Wenren Sheng rejected the Jade Void disciples’ attempt to rescue Taiyi Zhenren and reflected on merit, the Heavenly Dao, and the human path. Guang Chengzi and Daoist Celestial Venerable recruited Xihe and other immortals to confront him, but Wenren Sheng refused to release her nine sons.

• Wenren Sheng condemned the Jade Void disciples’ arrogance and considered how merit and collective authority shaped survival under the Heavenly Dao and the human path.
• Guang Chengzi and Daoist Celestial Venerable decided to seek Xihe’s help in freeing the nine Crows rather than disturb their master.
• Xihe agreed to join them, while Guang Chengzi and Daoist Celestial Venerable gathered Jade Void and Interception Sect immortals and other allies.
• Guang Chengzi led the large party to Da Qian and accused its people of offending a Saint and the Heavenly Dao.
• Wenren Sheng told Xihe that her sons had broken the law and refused to release them, saying they had not yet atoned for scorching the world.

Wenren Sheng refused to release Xi He’s sons, and she attacked him with the sun. His Mysterious Tree overwhelmed her by absorbing her standing in the Heavenly Dao, leaving the other Demon Gods unable to intervene.

• Wenren Sheng rejected Xi He’s demands to free her sons and warned that she would learn how long they would remain suppressed when the time came.
• Xi He accused Wenren Sheng of violating the bonds between mother and son and threatened him with the sun, while Guang Chengzi and the other Golden Immortals feared his warning about the great tribulation.
• Xi He summoned her Sun Avatar and sent golden rays at Wenren Sheng, nearly burning Guang Chengzi and the others to ash.
• Wenren Sheng’s Mysterious Tree blocked the rays, wrapped Xi He’s Sun Avatar in roots, and began stripping away her cultivation and existence in the River of Fate.
• The Demon Gods attacked to rescue Xi He, but Wenren Sheng trapped them in a Mirror Flower, Water Moon while the Seed of Mystery devoured her sense of existence and Mystery Points.
• Xi He cried out that Wenren Sheng’s methods were heretical, while he claimed he was following the will of Heaven and continued absorbing her foundation.

Wenren Sheng resisted the bell summoned to protect the Sun God, stripped her and her nine children of their divine status, and imprisoned them alongside the Demon Gods who had aided them. Primordial Heavenly Lord followed Heavenly Fate’s warning and abandoned his disciples, while Guang Chengzi’s preaching ceremony ended in failure and the onlookers learned not to challenge Da Qian.

• A bell rang across heaven and earth as someone demanded that Wenren Sheng release the Sun God, but Wenren Sheng refused and declared that she had lost her status.
• The bell’s attack failed to harm Wenren Sheng, who sent the Sun God and her nine children to live as mortals in a prison city.
• Wenren Sheng stripped the Demon Gods of their cultivation and imprisoned them, then cast Guang Chengzi and the others into the abyss.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord sensed that Heavenly Fate forbade him from intervening, so he abandoned his disciples rather than risk his sainthood.
• Guang Chengzi’s preaching ceremony ended in failure, and those present resolved to obey Da Qian’s rules.

After learning that the Heavenly Dao owed Wenren Sheng a debt, Di Jun and Taiyi tried to find a way to make heaven and earth owe them one in return. Their scheme led them to target Gonggong, but their first attempt failed when he immediately exposed and killed their disguised spy.

• Yuanshi told Di Jun and Taiyi that the Heavenly Dao had suppressed Wenren Sheng’s enemies because it owed him a debt, and warned them not to attack until that debt was repaid.
• Taiyi and Di Jun decided to make heaven and earth owe them a debt, but Kunpeng offered only a plan for earning merit, which did not meet their goal.
• A Demon God dreamed of an old immortal repairing his pagoda in exchange for a favor, then woke and shared the idea with Taiyi and Di Jun.
• Taiyi sent a Demon God disguised as a Wu tribesman to infiltrate Gonggong’s ranks, but Gonggong exposed and killed him with one palm strike.
• Taiyi concluded that he would have to take the field personally.

Taiyi tried to turn Gonggong and Zhurong against each other, but Da Qian’s comforts and laws thwarted his schemes. After he tampered with their pools, he was exposed and sentenced to prison, while the Ancestral Witches mocked him.

• Taiyi disguised himself as a Witch Priest and found Gonggong enjoying a pool maintained by Da Qian, then discovered Zhurong was likewise being entertained in a lava pool.
• Taiyi realized Gonggong and Zhurong were cooperating, with Zhurong heating Gonggong’s pool and Gonggong helping cover Zhurong’s bill, and saw that the Ancestral Witches were gaining merit through useful work.
• Taiyi decided to keep pursuing his plan to make heaven and earth incur a debt, despite being unable to provoke Gonggong and Zhurong into fighting.
• Taiyi altered the temperatures in Gonggong’s pool, but Da Qian’s staff investigated and identified him as the culprit.
• Da Qian sentenced Taiyi to two hundred years in prison for disrupting business operations, while Gonggong and Zhurong watched and mocked him.