Chapter Summaries

Houtu rewarded Jiang Yun, Zhenyuanzi, and Xuanming with Earth Spirit Origin Qi as the newly established Way of Earth took shape. Jiang Yun accepted his gift while refusing to commit to becoming an Earth Dao Saint, and the Netherworld gained new guardians and officials.

• Houtu offered Jiang Yun Earth Spirit Origin Qi and told him it could help him attain an Earth Dao Saint position, but Jiang Yun said he would not promise to pursue Sainthood and vowed to maintain the Way of Earth.
• Houtu sealed Jiang Yun’s Earth Spirit Origin Qi in his Purple Mansion, then gave the other streams to Zhenyuanzi and Xuanming to support their roles in the Netherworld.
• The Ziwei Star Lord asked to leave his Western Teachings post and guard the Netherworld through his stellar Dao, and Houtu appointed him Star Emperor of Youming.
• Jieyin assigned Maitreya, Ksitigarbha, Sunlight, Moonlight, and others to duties within reincarnation under the Ziwei Star Lord’s leadership.
• Houtu incorporated the Giant Turtle Clan into the Youming Water Mansion Army and ordered them to guard the River of Forgetfulness and Yellow Springs and investigate traces of the Guixu.

After Houtu established the Reincarnation, Hongjun warned her not to interfere with the Heavenly Dao’s course, and she argued that the Primordial Desolation required balance among Heaven, Earth, and Man. Back at Mount Sumeru, Jiang Yun resolved to pursue his Dao of All Beings and leave for Chaos to seek Hunyuan, entrusting the Western Teachings and Kong Xuan to watch over the human race while he was gone.

• Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao Saints visited the Nine Netherworlds, where Hongjun congratulated Houtu but warned her not to disrupt the Heavenly Dao’s established course.
• Houtu replied that the Primordial Desolation’s great trend belonged to Heaven, Earth, and Man, and Hongjun left with the Saints and Nuwa.
• At Mount Sumeru, Jiang Yun told Jieyin and Zhunti that witnessing Houtu’s Reincarnation had clarified his Dao of All Beings and brought his Inner World close to transformation.
• Jiang Yun decided to seek the Depths of Chaos to unite his Three Corpses and pursue Hunyuan, and Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to watch over the human race during his absence.
• Jiang Yun asked Kong Xuan to protect the human race, and Kong Xuan promised to help.
• Jiang Yun told Medicine Master, Maitreya, the Three Xiao Sisters, and other junior disciples that he would make a distant journey, urging them to cultivate and keep an eye on the human race.

Jiang Yun entered the Depths of Chaos and merged his Three Corpses to break through the Primordial Unity barrier, attaining the Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm through his own Dao. He declared his Dao of All Beings, which sought to awaken every being’s potential, and Chaos answered by forming a phantom Chaos Green Lotus.

• Jiang Yun traveled beyond the reach of the Primordial Desolation Heavenly Dao and prepared to break through in the Depths of Chaos.
• Jiang Yun reunited the Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and Self Corpse with his true body, shattering the Primordial Unity barrier.
• Jiang Yun comprehended the primordial Great Dao as his Inner World and three thousand Seeds of Laws transformed.
• Jiang Yun attained the Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, becoming independent of Heaven and Earth.
• Jiang Yun declared that his Dao of All Beings would help all spirits awaken and seek their own paths to growth and freedom.
• Chaos responded to Jiang Yun’s vow by forming the phantom of a thirty-six-petaled Chaos Green Lotus.

After transforming his Inner World, Jiang Yun explored the Chaos to strengthen himself and study the Dao of All Beings. A Chaos Space Storm swept him into a Space-time Rift, where he endured the destructive turbulence and began forcing his way free.

• Jiang Yun used the Dao Derivation Disk to find a path through the Chaos and set off to explore rather than return to the Primordial World.
• Jiang Yun traveled through the Chaos while refining his understanding of the Dao of All Beings.
• A Chaos Space Storm formed around Jiang Yun and dragged him toward its collapsing core.
• Jiang Yun protected his true self with his Primordial Chaos Dao Body as the storm tore open a Space-time Rift and hurled him inside.
• Jiang Yun endured the Space-time Turbulence until its force weakened, then erupted with Primordial Chaos Power and broke free.

Jiang Yun explored the ruins of a world destroyed by chaos and discovered a dangerous Time Origin left behind by a dead being. After using the Dao Derivation Disk and his own laws to pacify it, he collected the origin and began suppressing its power within his Purple Mansion.

• Jiang Yun recovered from the chaos storm and found himself in the lifeless remains of a destroyed world.
• Jiang Yun used the Dao Derivation Disk to search for a route back to the primordial wilderness while avoiding hostile Chaos species.
• Jiang Yun sensed a powerful Time Origin and traced it to the center of a region of distorted Spatial Folds.
• Jiang Yun's divine sense was severed when he tested the Time Origin, so he studied its laws and gradually pacified it with his Dao and the Dao Derivation Disk.
• Jiang Yun sealed the tranquil silver-gray pearl and drew it into his Purple Mansion, where his three corpses began suppressing and transforming its power.

Jiang Yun searched the Chaos Ruins after collecting the Time Origin, then encountered the ancient Yang Mei, who recognized his Primordial Desolation origins and recent breakthrough. Yang Mei explained that the ruins were a graveyard where Chaos gathered the remains of dead worlds.

• Jiang Yun stored the Time Origin in his Inner World, where the Three Ways of Heaven, Earth, and Man worked to transform it.
• Jiang Yun searched the Chaos Ruins and found only fragments of spiritual treasures and a nearly lifeless Innate Spiritual Root.
• Jiang Yun followed the Dao Derivation Disk deeper into Chaos, passing through ruined worlds that offered him no useful gains.
• Jiang Yun sensed an orderly spatial vortex and met an old man who emerged from its center.
• The old man introduced himself as Old Ancestor Yang Mei and recognized Jiang Yun's Primordial Desolation aura and recent Primordial Chaos breakthrough.
• Yang Mei told Jiang Yun that the Chaos Ruins gathered the rejected remains of worlds that had reached their end.

Jiang Yun asked Yang Mei about the Primordial Desolation's past, and Yang Mei revealed how Luohou engineered the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity before Hongjun used the conflict to eliminate rivals and attain sainthood. Yang Mei then described Hongjun's later Dao lectures as both instruction and a calculated scheme.

• Jiang Yun told Yang Mei that he had found a mass of violent Time Origin in the World Ruins and asked why Yang Mei had left the Primordial Desolation and what had happened in Hongjun's era.
• Yang Mei explained that Luohou secretly provoked the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races to fight, hoping to gather their killing intent and fortune to prove the Dao through destruction.
• Yang Mei revealed that Hongjun had used Luohou's schemes to eliminate former Chaos Demon Gods, including Qiankun Ancestor and Yin-Yang Ancestor.
• Hongjun joined Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, Ancestor Qilin, Yang Mei, and other powers to defeat Luohou at Western Mount Sumeru, where Luohou detonated the Western Ancestral Vein and wounded the survivors.
• Hongjun used the battle's merit and fortune, along with the Jade Disk of Creation, to become the first Saint after the Primordial Desolation was created.
• Yang Mei said Hongjun later expounded the Dao at Purple Heavens Palace and used the incomplete Three Corpses Proving Dao Method as bait and shackles.

Old Ancestor Yang Mei explained how Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao while he chose to sever his ties to the Primordial Desolation World and seek freedom in the Chaos. After sharing his own Dao of All Beings, Jiang Yun received a Spatial Jade Key and set off to return to the World Ruins, more resolved to follow his path.

• Old Ancestor Yang Mei explained that Hongjun used merit and fortune to merge with the Heavenly Dao, while Yang Mei escaped the Primordial Desolation World by reshaping his body with the Chaos Origin.
• Jiang Yun described his Dao of All Beings, which aimed to help living beings awaken and find their own other shore, and Yang Mei praised the ambition while warning of its difficulty.
• Old Ancestor Yang Mei gave Jiang Yun a Spatial Jade Key before vanishing into the Depths of Chaos.
• Jiang Yun refined the Spatial Jade Key, discovered it contained the World Ruins' spatial coordinates, and used the Dao Derivation Disk to deduce a route back.
• Jiang Yun set off through the Chaos toward the World Ruins as the Time Origin he had stored began transforming within his Inner World.

As humanity outgrew the Eastern Sea Ancestral Land, Huang and Wa led a migration into new territories, where the humans cautiously established peaceful relations and trade with the Witch Tribe. The chapter leaves the two peoples growing closer, with a romance between Yan and Sang marking a new stage in their relationship.

• Huang and Wa called a tribal assembly and resolved to expand beyond the overcrowded Ancestral Land while avoiding conflict with the Witch Tribe.
• Human groups migrated west and north, establishing villages across the Primordial Desolation under the protection of martial artists.
• Lie invoked Jiang Yun’s ties to Houtu and Xuanming when Pan Shi stopped the human migrants in Kuafu Tribe hunting grounds, and the two sides agreed to coexist.
• Humans and the Witch Tribe began trading crafted goods and farming skills for meat, bones, and hides.
• Yan, a Witch Tribe warrior, and Sang, a human weaver, fell in love while living and working near a human village.

Yan and Sang’s union led to the birth of Qi, prompting the Witch and Human leaders to encourage intermarriage and strengthen their alliance. Meanwhile, a fatal encounter between a Human hunter and the demon Yu Xiao shattered the fragile peace between Humans and demons.

• Yan asked Sang to return to the Witch tribe with him, but Sang proposed that they explain their union to both sides’ elders.
• Sang gave birth to Qi, whose Witch bloodline and keen spiritual sense impressed the Witch priest.
• Houtu, Xuanming, and the other Ancestral Witches approved Human-Witch unions, and Dijiang ordered the tribes not to obstruct willing couples.
• Human-Witch marriages spread, and the two races formed a closer alliance through shared bloodlines and trade.
• Demon God Bi Fang had previously warned Humans to respect the boundary, while some minor demons traded with them peacefully.
• Young hunter A Tu fled into Yu Xiao’s territory, where the hungry demon killed him.

After discovering that human flesh strengthened him, Yu Xiao spread the secret among demons, triggering massacres and the discovery that human souls could empower weapons against the Witch Race. The news reached the Demon Court, where Di Jun ordered an investigation and punishment for unjustified attacks on humans.

• Yu Xiao found that eating human flesh increased his demonic power, then hunted and devoured more people before fleeing the Hundred Herbs Tribe’s warriors and spreading the news among demons.
• The rumor drove demons to attack vulnerable human settlements, and a roaming group of Pig Demons and Snake Demons massacred the She Mountain tribe.
• Gray Claw discovered that human souls and resentment empowered his Bone Crushing Rod, refined it into a Human Soul Rod, and carried the secret to other regions.
• Demon Master Kunpeng reported the massacres and the demons’ discoveries to Demon Emperor Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi silenced Kunpeng, and Di Jun ordered an investigation and severe punishment for demons who massacred humans without cause.

Di Jun investigated the Saints’ positions on the demons’ continued persecution of humans and learned that Nuwa would not interfere, while the Three Pure Ones required the human Dao tradition to survive. He returned to the Heavenly Court and ordered the demons to prevent large-scale slaughter while tacitly tolerating limited human predation and soul-weapon research against the Witch Clan.

• Kunpeng reported that demons continued abducting and raising humans despite the ban, provoking human resistance and Witch Clan raids.
• Di Jun ordered the southern tribes to stop captivity and large-scale massacres, while leaving minor incidents unpursued.
• Di Jun and Kunpeng visited Nuwa, who said human and demon fortunes were governed by the Heavenly Mandate and declined to intervene.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Xuan Du Shi told Di Jun that the Three Pure Ones required the human race to survive as long as its fortune remained.
• Di Jun ordered strict bans on large-scale slaughter and captivity, but allowed minor clandestine predation and expanded research into Human Soul Weapons if they drew no attention from the Saints.

After demons continued secretly preying on humans, the Blazing Sun Tribe discovered that demon flesh, blood, and cores could greatly strengthen Martial Artists. The tribe turned its grief into a campaign of hunting and consuming man-eating demons, leaving the Human Race actively pursuing revenge and power.

• Black Tooth’s demons abducted humans for food and forged weapons, while wolf demons stole infants, and the demon race’s leaders largely ignored the crimes.
• Yang Yan heard a wounded warrior recount how wolf demons had killed Iron Mountain and boasted that humans were food bestowed by Empress Nuwa.
• Medicine Stone discovered that demon core mixed with demon blood rapidly healed his wound, prompting the tribe to test and refine demon materials into potent medicines.
• The tribe elder urged the warriors to kill demons and use their flesh and cores to strengthen the Martial Dao.
• Blazing Sun Tribe hunting squads raided demon lairs, collected demon materials, and helped the tribe’s Martial Dao strength rise, including Yang Yan’s.
• Human Race tribes began tracking and encircling man-eating demons, shifting from fear and defense to active pursuit.

The Witch Clan debated whether to ally with humanity, balancing their shared hatred of demons against the danger of Human Soul Weapons that could pierce Witch defenses. They sent elite Great Witches to support human tribes, and the chapter ended as a demon king unleashed a weapon against a charging Stonewall Great Witch at Broken Spine Gorge.

• Houtu reported to the Twelve Ancestral Witches that humanity had developed demon alchemy while demons were refining Human Soul Weapons.
• Jumang urged an alliance with humanity, arguing that human potential, numbers, and shared enemies could strengthen the Witch Clan.
• Zhujiuyin, Zhurong, and Qiangliang warned that Human Soul Weapons could exploit human resentment to pierce the Witch Clan's defenses, and Dijiang ordered caution alongside cooperation.
• Dijiang sent Jumang and Gonggong to form alliances with human tribes, teach them basic Witch battle arts, and help them resist demon incursions.
• At Broken Spine Gorge, a Witch Clan force led by a Great Witch gained the upper hand against the Soul Devouring Ancestor and his Demon Army.
• The Soul Devouring Ancestor unleashed the Myriad Sins Witch-Piercing Thorn, sending it toward a charging Stonewall Great Witch.

The Demon Clan’s Myriad Sins Witch-Piercing Thorn breached Rocksplitter the Great Witch’s body, prompting Di Jun and Taiyi to order an assault on the Human Race to gather materials for a Witch Slaying Sword. At Pangu Hall, the Ancestral Witches debated the threat, and Houtu warned that exterminating humanity would provoke the Saints.

• Soul Devouring Ancestor used the Myriad Sins Witch-Piercing Thorn to pierce Rocksplitter’s fiendish energy and badly corrode his arm, forcing him to retreat.
• The Demon Clan routed the Witch Clan, and news of the weapon’s success reached Di Jun and the Heavenly Court.
• Kunpeng explained that the weapon had been made from human flesh, blood, souls, and vital essences, and suggested that more could threaten the Ancestral Witches.
• Taiyi urged the Demon Clan to use human tribes as weapon materials, and Di Jun ordered an all-out attack to gather resources for the Witch Slaying Sword.
• At Pangu Hall, several Ancestral Witches proposed exterminating humanity, but Houtu warned that doing so would provoke the Saints and doom the Witch Clan.

The Ancestral Witches agreed to let the Demon race massacre humanity before striking at the materials for its weapon, while human settlements suffered devastating attacks and appeals to the gods went unanswered. The chapter ended with the Three Pure Ones choosing not to intervene, hoping the slaughter would weaken Jiang Yun’s influence and entangle the Witch and Demon races in karma.

• Hou Tu, Jumang, Zhujiuyin, and Dijiang agreed to let the Demon race kill humans and gather resentment, then destroy the collected materials and weapons when the demons began refining them.
• Di Jun ordered a war of extermination, and Demon armies led by Shang Yang, Qin Yuan, Ci Tie, and others attacked human settlements.
• Human warriors, including Shanyue, fought the Demon armies, but villages were destroyed and countless humans were killed for their souls and resentment.
• Elders of the Blazing Sun Tribe prayed to Nüwa and Jiang Yun for help, but Nüwa’s Palace gave no response and Jiang Yun was unreachable while proving his Dao in the Depths of Chaos.
• The elders pleaded with the Three Pure Ones, but Venerable Yuanshi and the others declined to intervene, viewing the slaughter as a way to weaken Jiang Yun and entangle the Witch and Demon races in karma.

After the Witch Clan refused to protect humanity, survivors pleaded with Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones, but received no answer. Their cries reached Kong Xuan at Mount Sumeru, and he gathered his fellow disciples to rescue the humans under Jiang Yun’s protection, with Jieyin and Zhunti’s permission.

• The Witch Clan told humanity that its forces were occupied and advised the survivors to rely on themselves or seek shelter at Western Mount Sumeru.
• Human survivors prayed to Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones for help, but neither answered.
• The survivors remembered Jiang Yun and called for him and the Martial Ancestor to protect humanity.
• Kong Xuan heard the humans’ pleas and recalled Jiang Yun’s entrustment to keep their vitality from being destroyed.
• Kong Xuan summoned Medicine Master, Maitreya, the Three Xiao, Zhao Gongming, and others, who agreed to accompany him to save humanity.
• Jieyin and Zhunti permitted the rescue, warning the group not to interfere in the Witch-Demon conflict and promising to support them if danger arose.

Kong Xuan and the Western Teachings’ disciples set out to rescue the Human Race, gaining aid and refuge from Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun at Wuzhuang Temple. They reached a devastated tribe, drove back the demons, and began evacuating and healing survivors, leaving Kong Xuan identifying himself as Jiang Yun’s ally and protector.

• Kong Xuan led Medicine Master, Maitreya, the Three Sky Maidens, and the other disciples toward the eastern Human Race gathering places, diverting to Wuzhuang Temple to use its Star Gate.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun agreed to help the rescue, and Zhenyuanzi offered the land around Longevity Mountain as a refuge protected by his Earth Scroll.
• Zhenyuanzi sent Kong Xuan and the others through the Star Gate to the eastern Human Race’s central region.
• Kong Xuan and the others arrived at a ruined tribe and attacked the demons while rescuing survivors; Bixiao, Yunxiao, and Qiongxiao fought the Demon Race as Medicine Master healed the wounded and Maitreya protected refugees and guided the dead toward rebirth.
• The Human Race survivors recognized Kong Xuan as a rescuer sent by the Holy Father, and Kong Xuan announced that he had come at Jiang Yun’s request to protect them.

Kong Xuan organized the surviving Human Race to retreat toward Longevity Mountain under the protection of Zhenyuanzi and the Western Disciples. Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to blockade the routes into the Western World, leaving the refugees approaching Longevity Mountain while Kong Xuan watched for pursuers.

• Kong Xuan told the survivors to migrate west, and Medicine Master and Maitreya led them out with the Three Xiao Sisters and other protectors.
• Kong Xuan repelled approaching Demon Race forces as the Human Race procession traveled west, and news of his intervention reached Di Jun.
• Bai Ze explained that Kong Xuan was acting on a personal promise to Jiang Yun, while Kunpeng warned that a large migration into the Western World could upset the balance.
• Di Jun ordered Demon forces to establish the Nine Heavens Gale Spatial Severing Formation and block large groups from reaching Mount Sumeru, while allowing the refugees to remain within the Earth Scroll's protection.
• The Human Race procession approached Longevity Mountain and saw the demon blockade beyond it as Western Disciples healed and protected the refugees.
• Kong Xuan stayed at the rear of the procession, watching the road for the Demon Army he expected to pursue them.

Kong Xuan held off Demon Sages Ying Zhao, Fei Lian, and Shang Yang while protecting the humans fleeing west, defeating their combined attacks with his Five-Colored Divine Light. As the three Demon Sages were forced to retreat, demon convoys carrying human remains, souls, and grievance materials continued toward the Heavenly Court to support the Witch Slaying Sword project.

• Ying Zhao, Fei Lian, and Shang Yang confronted Kong Xuan and attacked him together, but his Five-Colored Divine Light dispelled their powers.
• The three Demon Sages formed the Three Fiends Shattering God Formation, and Kong Xuan broke it with Five Elements Rotation, Nirvana Returns to the Void, injuring them and driving them back.
• Kong Xuan warned the Demon Sages not to advance, holding the eastern front and keeping the route open for humans fleeing west.
• Behind the front line, demon convoys escorted Grievance Gathering Cauldrons filled with human flesh, souls, and Grievance and Malice Origin toward the Heavenly Court.
• Demon generals including the Soul Devouring Ancestor guarded the shipment, which was intended for refining the Witch Slaying Sword.