Chapter Summaries

The Witch and Demon Clans expanded their power by conquering and recruiting the smaller clans, while Dijun considered provoking a decisive war to test the Witch Clan. As the calamity spread, Zhenyuanzi warned Hong Yun to stay cautious, and the Three Pure Ones advised Queen Mother of the West on how to protect West Kunlun.

• Dijiang dismissed Houtu’s concerns about karma and sent her and Xuanming to prepare the Land of Reincarnation as the Witch Clan launched its campaign.
• Qiangliang attacked the Fire Crow Clan, while Nuwa and Fuxi persuaded the Spirit Deer Clan to join the Demon Clan.
• Kunpeng forced the Flood Dragon clan to surrender, while Zhurong and Tianwu destroyed the Spirit Ape Clan despite its leader’s plea to submit.
• Dijun told Taiyi that the Demon Clan should control the calamity’s pace and use a confrontation to learn what defenses the Witch Clan possessed.
• Zhenyuanzi warned Hong Yun that his Hongmeng Purple Qi put him at risk, and Hong Yun agreed to remain at Wuzhuang Temple.
• The Three Pure Ones advised Queen Mother of the West to help resolve the issue preventing the Witch and Demon Clans from attacking the Immortal Court, and she pledged West Kunlun’s allegiance to them.

As refugees fled the Witch and Demon Clans’ conflict, the Western Teachings expanded its settlements and defenses, and accepted Burning Lamp into the sect. The chapter ended with the Eastern Emperor Bell summoning the Demon Clan’s forces, apparently to target East King Duke and the Immortal Court.

• Qingsongzi and thirty-five disciples arrived at Lingtai City seeking refuge, and a Western Teachings disciple directed them to Jieyin Hall for settlement.
• Kong Xuan reported that millions of cultivators had fled west over three thousand years, so Jiang Yun ordered stronger border defenses and Law Enforcement Hall branches in three cities.
• Burning Lamp arrived at Mount Sumeru after the Witch Clan destroyed his cave and asked to join the Western Teachings.
• Jieyin and Zhunti accepted Burning Lamp, and Jiang Yun assigned him to help manage refugees.
• Jiang Yun and Burning Lamp created the Mount Sumeru Heart Sutra to reform newcomers and guard against infiltrators.
• The Eastern Emperor Bell rang, and Jiang Yun and Burning Lamp suspected the Witch and Demon Clans were preparing to eliminate the Immortal Court and target East King Duke.

The Witch and Demon Clans attacked Penglai Island to seize the collapsing Immortal Court’s fortune, while East King Duke used the Myriad Immortals Formation to defend the island. Dijiang discovered the formation redirected attacks into Penglai’s Spirit Vein, triggering Heavenly Dao backlash and forcing both armies to stop.

• Dijiang and the Witch Ancestors arrived outside Penglai Island with their army, then Taiyi and Kunpeng arrived with the Demon forces to claim the Immortal Court’s fortune.
• East King Duke activated the Myriad Immortals Formation, linking it to Penglai’s Spirit Vein as the Witch and Demon Clans broke their alliance and began attacking.
• East King Duke told Chi Songzi that the remaining loyalists would defend Penglai to the end, despite most of the Immortal Court’s cultivators having fled.
• Dijiang and Kunpeng noticed the formation was channeling the attackers’ energy underground, and Dijiang realized their strikes were damaging Penglai’s Spirit Vein.
• Blood-colored lightning killed several Demon generals, confirming the Heavenly Dao backlash, so Taiyi and Dijiang ordered their forces to stop attacking.
• Dijiang and Taiyi left their armies to Rushou, Gonggong, and Kunpeng while the two clans gathered to discuss how to proceed.

Taiyi and Dijiang joined forces to destroy the Myriad Immortals Formation and overrun Penglai, while East King Duke prepared to make a final stand. Chi Songzi betrayed him to prevent the destruction of Penglai’s ley lines, and East King Duke died, leaving the Immortal Court’s fortune divided between the Witch and Demon Clans.

• Taiyi and Dijiang coordinated their forces and broke the Myriad Immortals Formation, damaging Penglai’s ley lines and splitting the island apart.
• The Witch and Demon Clans stormed Penglai, forcing East King Duke and the surviving Immortal Court cultivators to retreat toward the central hall.
• Surrounded by Taiyi and Dijiang, East King Duke summoned Chi Songzi to carry out his final plan, but Chi Songzi appeared with the extinguished Myriad Immortals Formation Diagram.
• Chi Songzi revealed that Queen Mother of the West had persuaded him to stop East King Duke from detonating Penglai’s ley lines and killing countless living beings.
• East King Duke dispersed his fortune and cultivation, died, and left the Immortal Court cultivators’ survival to Chi Songzi and Queen Mother of the West.
• The Immortal Court’s fortune became a golden dragon, which Taiyi and Dijiang split between the Demon Clan and the Witch Clan.

After the Immortal Court fell, the Witch and Demon Clans expanded their power while the Three Pure Ones worried about their inability to become Saints. Houtu told Jiang Yun that the Witch-Demon War was driven by Heaven and Earth’s need for a great calamity, leaving him to accept that its course could not be changed.

• The Witch and Demon Clans divided the Immortal Court’s fortune, spared its surviving cultivators under their agreement with Queen Mother of the West, and withdrew from Penglai Island.
• Laozi, Venerable Yuanshi, and Sect Master Tongtian concluded that they needed to comprehend the Hongmeng Purple Qi and become Saints to stand against the Witch and Demon Clans.
• Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan discussed the Western Teachings’ growing danger as the Witch and Demon Clans accepted submissions and expanded their forces.
• Houtu and Xuanming visited the Western Teachings, and Houtu revealed that the Witch Clan sought to become the sole protagonist of Heaven and Earth by gathering fortune.
• Houtu explained that the Witch-Demon War was necessary to restore balance and clear accumulated karma, and Jiang Yun realized that the greater course of the calamity could not be defied.

Jiang Yun argued that the shaman-demon war and other great tribulations resulted from the Primordial Desolation World exhausting its limited resources, and proposed replenishing the world with Chaos Qi. Houtu, Xuanming, and Kong Xuan agreed to study the Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane formation in the Nine Netherworlds World as a possible way to transform Chaos Qi into spiritual energy.

• Jiang Yun questioned whether the shaman-demon war was an unchangeable trend, and Houtu and Xuanming challenged his ability to reverse it.
• Jiang Yun explained that great tribulations harvested cultivators to restore balance as the Primordial Desolation World's energy and capacity declined.
• Kong Xuan reasoned that declining energy would prevent more cultivators from reaching Golden Immortal Realm and reduce the severity of future tribulations.
• Jiang Yun said that repairing the Western Land had only shifted resources within the world and proposed drawing in energy from beyond it.
• Jiang Yun revealed that his Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane could transform Chaos Qi into spiritual energy and increase a world's origin.
• Houtu, Xuanming, and Kong Xuan agreed to visit the Nine Netherworlds World and study its fetal membrane formation.

Jiang Yun took Houtu and Xuanming through the Nine Netherworlds to inspect the Fetal Membrane Formation and the Western Teachings’ bases. After seeing the membrane’s progress and the Ox-Head and Horse-Face clans, they agreed the clans could help guide souls when reincarnation was established.

• Jiang Yun took Houtu and Xuanming through the Star Gate to Daiyu Immortal Island, where Pure World Venerable greeted them.
• Jiang Yun led the two Ancestral Shamans to the Fetal Membrane Formation and explained that Ziwei Star Lord and Ancestor Hong Yun’s three corpses guarded it as it repaired the Nine Netherworlds.
• Houtu asked whether repairing the membrane would return the Nine Netherworlds to the Primordial Desolation Heavenly Dao, and Jiang Yun explained that the outer barrier would still take time to remove.
• Jiang Yun and Pure World Venerable showed Houtu and Xuanming the Western Teachings’ bases and the native Ox-Head and Horse-Face clans.
• Pure World Venerable proposed that the clans guide departed souls and maintain the Reincarnation Order, and Houtu and Xuanming approved the plan.

Jiang Yun proposed spreading the Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane Array to ease the Witch and Demon Clans’ conflict, but Jieyin and Zhunti convinced him that the costs and political risks made the plan premature. The Western Teachings decided to wait until they gained greater power, while Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan wondered whether the plan could be implemented after the great calamity.

• After returning from the Nine Netherworlds World, Houtu and Xuanming agreed to discuss the Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane with their clans, while Jiang Yun warned them that the array required immense resources.
• Jiang Yun told Jieyin and Zhunti he wanted to promote the array to divert attention from the Witch and Demon Clans’ conflict and protect the Primordial Desolation World.
• Jieyin and Zhunti explained that the array required vast quantities of rare materials and powerful guardians, and said the Western Teachings should wait until they attained the Dao.
• Jiang Yun realized he had been trying to influence events without enough authority, and Jieyin advised using the Nine Netherworlds array to gather experience until the time was right.
• On the mountain at night, Kong Xuan told Jiang Yun that the great calamity’s outcome could not be changed by one person or sect, and they wondered who would survive to implement the plan afterward.

Jiang Yun followed a stirring of opportunity to Buzhou Mountain, where he witnessed and aided Nuwa as she created humanity. Nuwa received the greatest share of the resulting merit, while Jiang Yun and the human race also gained merit.

• After hearing that the Wu Tribe had little interest in the Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane plan, Jiang Yun sensed an opportunity and traveled to Buzhou Mountain.
• Jiang Yun found Nuwa preparing to create life and watched over her as she experimented with clay figures.
• When Nuwa’s figures lacked souls and their bodies broke apart, Jiang Yun gave her Soil of Breath, Three Lights Divine Water, and a drop of his blood essence.
• Nuwa shaped male and female humans in the form of Innate Dao Bodies, then used a refined vine to create countless more and drew true spirits into them with the Reincarnation Law.
• The newly awakened humans called Nuwa their Holy Mother and Jiang Yun their Holy Father as Heavenly Dao merit gathered.
• Nuwa declared that she had created the human race, received about eighty percent of the merit, and merged her Three Corpses and Hongmeng Purple Qi.

After Empress Nuwa attained sainthood, Jiang Yun helped move the newborn human race to the Eastern Sea and advanced to the level of severing all three corpses. A thousand years later, Empress Nuwa opened her palace in the Chaos and preached on sainthood, then warned Di Jun and Taiyi that she could not intervene in the Witch-Demon war.

• Jinfeng arrived to serve Empress Nuwa, who entrusted Jiang Yun with caring for the frail human race for a thousand years.
• Jiang Yun cut a figure from himself into his Inner World, completing the human race's place in its cycle of reincarnation and advancing his cultivation.
• Empress Nuwa sent the humans to the Eastern Sea with Jiang Yun, announced a future sermon, and flew away with Jinfeng.
• The Three Pure Ones, the Western Saints, the Demon Clan, and the Witch Clan reacted to Empress Nuwa's sainthood and its possible impact on their fortunes.
• A thousand years later, Empress Nuwa opened Empress Nuwa's Palace in the Chaos and preached on sainthood and the methods of proving the Dao.
• After the sermon, Empress Nuwa told Di Jun and Taiyi that she could not interfere in the Witch-Demon calamity and urged them to make use of the opportunity behind her attainment of sainthood.

Jiang Yun guided the newly born Human Race through survival and created the first stages of the Martial Dao so they could defend themselves. After the tribes flourished and began developing the Martial Dao on their own, Jiang Yun announced that he would leave and promised to watch over them from afar.

• Jiang Yun taught Huang, Wa, and the Human Race to cover themselves, gather fruit, and preserve fire while protecting them during their early years.
• When a ferocious beast threatened the tribe, Jiang Yun created a Martial Dao cultivation method and taught its first three realms: Body Tempering, Meridian Opening, and Aura Condensation.
• Huang used his Martial Dao training to kill the beast, and the Human Race began hunting and spreading across the region.
• The Human Race developed Martial Skills, recorded their discoveries in the Martial Canon, and grew to several million people under Huang and Wa's leadership.
• Jiang Yun told Huang and Wa that he would leave after the thousand-year period, urged the Human Race to continue its own path, and revealed his name and position in the Western Teachings of Mount Sumeru.

After returning to Mount Sumeru, Jiang Yun planned to investigate the Demon Abyss with Kong Xuan and urged the Western Teachings to prepare to spread their Dao among humanity. Jieyin approved both plans and lent them protective treasures before they set out.

• Jiang Yun asked Ao Guang to protect humanity and restrain the Eastern Sea tribes, then returned to Mount Sumeru.
• Jiang Yun told Kong Xuan he wanted to investigate the Demon Abyss, and Kong Xuan agreed to accompany him.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and Ziwei Star Lord returned to Mount Sumeru, where Jiang Yun explained how Nuwa created humanity and proposed that the Western Teachings establish a Dao lineage among humans.
• Jieyin assigned Jiang Yun responsibility for making arrangements to spread the Dao among humanity when the time was right.
• Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan asked to enter the Demon Abyss, and Jieyin agreed after questioning them about the danger.
• Jieyin lent Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan the Pure World White Lotus and Reincarnation Purple Lotus, while Ziwei Star Lord gave Jiang Yun a protective talisman.

Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan explored the Demon Abyss and discovered that its demonic energy leaked from something sealed beneath an ancient stele. Luohou’s remnant will attacked them but was dispersed by the power within Jiang Yun, and they set out to continue their search before the seal could break.

• Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan entered the Demon Abyss, where Kong Xuan destroyed a swarm of low-level demonic creatures.
• The two found demonized dragons, phoenixes, and qilins devouring one another and growing stronger, then bypassed their battle.
• Jiang Yun recognized the runes on a stele at the abyss’s deepest point as a seal concealing the source of the demonic energy.
• The seal cracked, and Luohou’s remnant will pursued Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan after piercing Kong Xuan’s divine-light defense.
• The human path’s power within Jiang Yun dispersed Luohou’s will, and Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan decided to continue deeper into the Demon Abyss.

Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan tried to reinforce Luohou's weakening seal, but Jiang Yun's Hunyuan power accidentally shattered it and freed the remnant soul. Luohou invaded Jiang Yun's body to seize his world, but Jiang Yun used the Dao Derivation Disk to suppress and destroy him, leaving only pure soul energy.

• Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan approached the cracking stone stele as Luohou's demonic will struck them back.
• Jiang Yun fused his Three Ways incarnations and attacked the seal with World Law, causing the stele to break and releasing Luohou's remnant soul.
• Luohou pierced Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light and invaded Jiang Yun's body, seeking to take his physical form and Inner World.
• Jiang Yun's Dao Derivation Disk reclaimed the eroded origin power and suppressed Luohou's Demonic Path laws.
• Jiang Yun struck Luohou with Hunyuan power, dissolving the remnant soul and leaving behind pure soul energy.

Jiang Yun destroyed Luohou’s remnant soul and refined a nine-story Locking Demon Pagoda to contain and purify the demonic creatures in the Demon Abyss. The pagoda was completed and began receiving creatures captured by the Guardian Hall and Enforcement Hall.

• Jiang Yun told Kong Xuan that Luohou’s remnant soul was gone, but the Demonic Path could eventually revive as long as demonic thoughts remained.
• Jiang Yun proposed using the surviving demonic creatures as opponents in a training ground, and Kong Xuan agreed to help capture them.
• Jiang Yun began refining a nine-story Locking Demon Pagoda with purification formations and a mechanism to teleport disciples out of danger.
• Seven years later, Jiang Yun learned that Kong Xuan and the sect’s halls had nearly finished clearing the Demon Abyss and that the sect planned to build a blessed land there.
• Jiang Yun instructed the Guardian Hall and Enforcement Hall to deliver captured demonic creatures to the completed pagoda, where they were imprisoned and began to be purified.

Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan discovered the origins of Yin-Yang Ancestor and Qiankun Ancestor, along with Luohou's Black Lotus Seed, in the Demon Abyss. After they returned to Mount Sumeru, Jieyin and Zhunti approved their plans to study the relics and search for more demon god remains.

• Jiang Yun left the Demon Locking Pagoda and gave its Jade Tokens to the disciples guarding it before Kong Xuan called him to the southeast of the Demon Abyss.
• Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan found the origins of Yin-Yang and Heaven and Earth, as well as Luohou's Black Lotus Seed, and divided the treasures according to their cultivation needs.
• Jiang Yun sensed Luohou's lingering obsession inside the Black Lotus Seed and sealed it with the power of his Inner World.
• Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan suspected that other demon god relics remained in the Demon Abyss and agreed to search for them during future construction work.
• Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan returned to Mount Sumeru and reported their findings to Jieyin and Zhunti, who advised Jiang Yun about the lotus seeds and encouraged Kong Xuan to study the origin of Yin-Yang.

Jiang Yun studied the Heaven and Earth Origin, refined away Luohou’s remnant consciousness, and helped his Inner World evolve. After the Demon Abyss was cleared, merit descended upon Mount Sumeru, and Zhunti and Jieyin sensed their opportunity to attain enlightenment.

• Jiang Yun used the Heaven and Earth Origin to deepen his understanding of space and began shaping his Inner World into Heavenly, Earthly, and Netherworld realms.
• Jiang Yun refined the Black Lotus Seed with World Power until Luohou’s remnant consciousness dissipated, leaving him secrets about the Chaos Demon Gods and the Great Dao of Primordial Chaos.
• Jiang Yun placed the Black Lotus Seed beside the Purple Lotus Seed, and both began growing in the Three Lights Divine Water Pool.
• Jiang Yun saw merit clouds gather after the Demon Abyss cleanup, and merit descended upon him, the Guardian Hall, and the participants.
• Zhunti praised the Heavenly Dao’s reward, while he and Jieyin realized that the Western Teachings’ prosperity had brought them close to attaining enlightenment.

Jieyin and Zhunti fulfilled their vow to restore the Western Land, attained Sainthood, and merged their Three Corpses into their Dao Fruits. Inspired by their success, Laozi traveled in search of a foundation for the Three Pure Ones’ teaching and found promise in the Human Race, whose ties to Jiang Yun could complicate his plans.

• Jieyin and Zhunti resonated with the Western Land’s accumulated merit, fulfilled their vow, and became Saints as great powers across the Primordial Desolation sensed their pressure.
• Jieyin and Zhunti merged their Three Corpses into their respective Dharma Forms, while Jiang Yun and Kong Xuan celebrated their success at Mount Sumeru.
• Laozi realized that establishing a teaching through enlightenment could help the Three Pure Ones attain the Dao, then left Kunlun Mountain to seek a suitable race.
• Laozi found that the Witch and Demon Clans and the Innate Beings already had cultivation inheritances, so he continued searching.
• Laozi discovered a Human Race tribe by the Eastern Sea, met its leader Huang, and learned how Jiang Yun’s martial arts had shaped the Human Race’s development.
• Laozi recognized Jiang Yun’s revered status among humans and realized that establishing a teaching through the Human Race might bring him into conflict with the Western Teachings.

Laozi traveled among the Human Race, studied their martial arts, and created a Golden Core cultivation method to help them comprehend the Dao and extend their lifespans. After teaching the method in a tribe and guiding its first practitioners, he continued spreading and refining it among the tribes.

• Laozi observed Human Race tribes for nearly a hundred years and concluded that martial arts strengthened their bodies but offered little path to immortality.
• Laozi studied the Human Race's physiques and devised a Golden Core method, using martial arts foundations to protect their fragile meridians from spiritual energy.
• Laozi returned to a tribe and announced that he would teach the Golden Core Great Dao, a nine-stage path from Foundation Establishment to the Nine Revolutions Golden Immortal.
• Laozi taught the tribe to nourish their meridians with qi and blood before drawing in spiritual energy, patiently correcting those whose attempts caused injury.
• A gifted young martial artist became the first to condense Core Qi, and more Human Race members began cultivating the Golden Core Method as Laozi continued teaching among the tribes.

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian established their teachings and became Saints, ushering in the Age of Saints. As Hong Yun struggled to understand his Hongmeng Purple Qi, Zhenyuanzi urged him to seek guidance and merit, while Kunpeng and Minghe watched for a chance to take the Qi.

• After a thousand years of spreading the Golden Core Great Dao among humans, Laozi established the Human Sect and attained Sainthood.
• Yuanshi established the Chan Teachings and Tongtian established the Interception Sect, and both became Saints.
• The six recipients of Hongjun's Hongmeng Purple Qi had become Saints, and Laozi's Golden Core Great Dao remained a foundation of Human Race cultivation.
• Hong Yun worried that his Hongmeng Purple Qi would bring him death, while Zhenyuanzi advised him to travel and seek guidance from Jieyin and Zhunti at Mount Sumeru.
• Kunpeng and Minghe focused their attention on Hong Yun, each intent on taking his Hongmeng Purple Qi.