Chapter Summaries

After Empress Houtu’s lecture clarified how to attain an Earth Dao Saint Position, the Dao Listeners returned to the Primordial Desolation and began a vast effort to restore the Northern lands. The Western Teachings organized their development efficiently, while Ancestor Minghe devised a separate plan to channel the world’s filth into the Blood Sea and claim the Saint Position.

• The Dao Listeners concluded that, following Zhenyuanzi’s example, restoring earth veins and accumulating merit could earn an Earth Dao Saint Position.
• The Dao Listeners returned to the Northern Primordial Desolation, where demons, witches, dragons, phoenixes, and other cultivators began competing to repair the land.
• Ziwei Star Lord, Kong Xuan, Daoist Randeng, and other Western Teachings leaders coordinated their forces and established spiritual-land nodes in the north.
• The Western Teachings’ orderly methods impressed other cultivators, who adjusted their efforts and began coordinating around the new nodes.
• Ancestor Minghe rejected the crowded restoration effort and decided to extend the Blood Sea through a network that would gather the Primordial Desolation’s filth.
• Ancestor Minghe began laying the first step of his plan, believing its merit would make the Earth Dao Saint Position his.

Taiyi and Kunpeng persuaded Emperor Jun to restart the Chaos Fetal Membrane plan as an elite expedition into the Chaos. Meanwhile, Minghe created the Asura race in the Blood Sea to help him build a Filth Source Network, ending with the birth of its leaders and Uma’s arrival.

• Taiyi and Kunpeng agreed to abandon the Earth Dao Saint opportunity and revive the Chaos Fetal Membrane plan for the Demon Clan.
• Emperor Jun appointed Taiyi to command the project, assigned Kunpeng to assist, and authorized elite Demon forces and resources for it.
• Minghe resolved to guide the Primordial Wilderness’s filth through the Blood Sea and create a race to establish and maintain the Filth Source Network.
• Minghe used the Blood Sea’s essence and the Reincarnation Law to create the Asura race, bringing forth four Demon Kings, four Demon Generals, Uma, and the Seventy-Two Asura Princesses.

Minghe established the Asura Clan and began building the Filth Source Network in cooperation with Zhenyuanzi and the Western Teachings, while reconstruction transformed the Northern Primordial Desolation over thirty thousand years. Empress Houtu opened her second Netherworld lecture and explained the principles of reincarnation, karmic judgment, and the Six Paths.

• Minghe created the Asura Clan, appointed its leaders, and ordered them to build the Filth Source Network using Filth Source Seals.
• Pāpakāra's forces clashed with Earth Immortals over formation sites, so Zhenyuanzi and Minghe agreed on placements that avoided healthy Earth Vein nodes.
• Pāpakāra negotiated with Bodhisattva Sunlight, and the Asura Clan, Zhenyuanzi's Earth Immortals, and the Western Teachings cooperated to expand the network.
• The Northern Primordial Desolation flourished after more than thirty thousand years of restoration by the participating powers.
• Empress Houtu summoned three thousand Dao Light Shadows to the Hall of Reincarnation and began her second lecture on life, death, karma, and the Six Paths.

During Houtu’s lecture on the Six Paths, Styx learned that the Asura Clan was central to the Asura Path and expanded his plans to build its strength. Meanwhile, the factions advanced their projects across the Primordial Desolation, while Jieyin and Zhunti grew concerned that the apparent prosperity was concealing a gathering calamity.

• Houtu explained that the Asura Clan formed the main force of the Asura Path, and Styx realized its growth could strengthen his standing and path to sainthood.
• After the lecture, Emperor Jun directed the construction of three vast Chaos Fetal Membrane formations, while Styx ordered Wutian, Great Brahma, and Umo to expand the Filth Network, improve Blood Sea conversion, and recruit battle souls.
• The Rogue Immortal Alliance restored Penglai Island, earned Merit Golden Cloud, and made the island its headquarters.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed the Three Purities’ unexplained silence and sensed that the Way of Earth’s apparent prosperity concealed a growing calamity.

Spirit Gourd Daoist discovered that Calamity Qi was accumulating and that the Heavenly Dao and Way of Earth had sealed the Primordial Desolation to isolate Jiang Yun's true self. After Yuanshi tried to suppress him, Spirit Gourd was placed under house arrest at Spirit Bamboo Mountain, while Houtu began her third lecture on the Saint Dao.

• Spirit Gourd Daoist sensed the world's stagnant energy and accumulating Calamity Qi, then tried to warn Jiang Yun but found his message absorbed by a barrier woven from the Heavenly Dao and the Way of Earth.
• Spirit Gourd Daoist went to Mount Sumeru to ask Receiving and Zhunti for help, but they said their Saint positions prevented them from defying the Heavenly Dao.
• Yuanshi attacked Spirit Gourd Daoist at Mount Sumeru, and Zhenyuanzi, Receiving, and Zhunti joined forces to block him.
• Laozi proposed sealing Spirit Gourd Daoist in his Dao Field, and Yuanshi placed Spirit Bamboo Mountain under house arrest with Saint power and Houtu's barrier.
• News of Spirit Gourd Daoist's imprisonment spread through the Primordial Desolation and angered the Western Teachings' disciples.
• Empress Houtu began her third Reincarnation lecture, teaching the destined listeners about the Saint Dao.

Houtu explained the foundations and responsibilities of sainthood before granting the four Earth Spirit Origin Qi streams to Minghe, Mount Tai Prefecture Lord, Ziwei Star Lord, and Fengdu. Later, Daoist Zhunti explained that Spirit Gourd Daoist had been imprisoned because his interventions obstructed the Heavenly Dao’s great calamity, leaving the Western Teachings to confront the scale of the crisis.

• Houtu taught that sainthood required a firm foundation, a binding grand vow, and the willingness to uphold the Way of Earth’s responsibilities.
• Houtu awarded Earth Spirit Origin Qi to Minghe, Mount Tai Prefecture Lord, Ziwei Star Lord, and Fengdu for their merits in maintaining the order of the Blood Sea, the underworld, and reincarnation.
• Ziwei vowed to guide lost souls with the Netherworld stars and entered secluded cultivation in the Nine Netherworlds, while Dijun seethed over his rival’s opportunity.
• At Mount Sumeru, Medicine Master, Zhao Gongming, and other disciples asked Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti why Yuqing Yuanshi had imprisoned Spirit Gourd Daoist.
• Daoist Zhunti explained that Spirit Gourd Daoist’s repeated efforts to prevent bloodshed had obstructed the Heavenly Dao’s great calamity and made him a dangerous variable in its operation.

Jieyin and Zhunti restrained the Western Teachings from intervening in Jiang Yun’s conflict with Heaven and Earth, while Dijun forged a Monster Summoning Gourd to preserve the demons’ bloodline. Fifty thousand years later, Taiyi and the demon elites entered Chaos, leaving the demon race weakened just as the Three Clarities began a concealed plan involving the Golden Crows.

• Jieyin and Zhunti explained that Jiang Yun’s actions challenged the laws of Heaven and Earth, and ordered the Western Teachings to lie low and strengthen themselves.
• Dijun used Taiyi’s innate gourd, True Sun Fire, and the demons’ bloodline origins to create the Monster Summoning Gourd, which Taiyi took into his care.
• After fifty thousand years of work, Kunpeng, the seven demon saints, and other demon elites completed three Chaos Fetal Membrane arrays at the Heavenly Realm’s edge.
• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell with the arrays to open a gap through the Heavenly Dao Barrier and led the demon elites into Chaos, while Dijun and Fuxi remained behind.
• Venerable Yuanshi, Laozi, and Sect Master Tongtian obscured heavenly secrets and triggered their plan as the imprisoned Golden Crows grew increasingly restless.

Venerable Yuanshi secretly freed the ten Golden Crows from Tanggu, and they ravaged the Primordial Desolation Earth with their scorching fire. Great Witch Kuafu pursued them for seven days and seven nights before dying of exhaustion and heat, leaving a Peach Forest where his staff fell.

• Venerable Yuanshi destroyed Tanggu's Guardian Formation and sent a flaming sparrow inside, prompting the ten Golden Crows to believe their confinement had ended and escape.
• The ten Golden Crows descended upon the Primordial Desolation Earth, scorching settlements, killing countless beings, and weakening the demon race's fortune.
• Dijun discovered that the Sun Star's heavenly secrets were obscured and ordered troops mobilized, but the Golden Crows had already begun their rampage.
• Great Witch Kuafu watched his tribe's settlements burn and chased the Golden Crows, striking them with his Peachwood Staff and injuring the Fourth and Fifth Golden Crows.
• Kuafu pursued the Golden Crows for seven days and seven nights, drinking rivers and marshes as he endured their True Sun Fire, until he collapsed and died.
• Kuafu's body became a crimson hill, and his Peachwood Staff grew into a vast Peach Forest as his death ignited the witch race's desire for revenge.

Da Yi shot down nine of the ten Golden Crow princes in revenge for Kuafu and the Witch Clan, but Di Jun arrived in time to kill Da Yi and save the last prince. Dijiang and Di Jun nearly began a war before Fuxi reminded them of the Dao Ancestor’s prohibition, and both clans withdrew while vowing to settle the score later.

• Da Yi used his Soul-Chasing arrows to kill nine Golden Crow princes, while Di Jun halted the tenth arrow and incinerated Da Yi.
• Dijiang arrived, condemned Di Jun for his sons’ rampage and Da Yi’s death, and attacked him as Di Jun shielded the surviving Sixth Golden Crow Prince.
• Changxi, Fuxi, the Demon Saints, and the Ancestral Witches arrived as Dijiang and Di Jun fought, and Fuxi urged them to stop before violating the Dao Ancestor’s prohibition.
• Dijiang and Di Jun halted their battle and vowed that their clans would settle their grievances in the future.
• Dijiang led the Witch Clan forces back toward Buzhou Mountain, while Di Jun gathered his sons’ corpses and returned to the Heavenly Court with Changxi and the surviving prince.

After the Ten Golden Crows’ rampage, Di Jun and the Witch Clan leaders concluded that saints had sabotaged Tanggu to ignite a war between their peoples. Di Jun arranged for his family to flee to a hidden refuge in Chaos, while the Ancestral Witches prepared for the coming conflict.

• Di Jun questioned the surviving Little Golden Crow and learned that Tanggu’s formation had failed and no guards had stopped the princes from leaving.
• Fuxi inspected Tanggu and found its formation core erased, the guards’ perceptions concealed, and the heavenly secrets impossible to read; Di Jun blamed the saints and sent Fuxi to seek Empress Nuwa.
• Di Jun told Xihe and Changxi that the Demon Clan faced a planned calamity, gave Changxi nine portions of Golden Crow origin, and instructed them to escape with their descendants through a hidden Moon Star teleportation formation.
• Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches discussed Kuafu’s and Da Yi’s deaths, suspected the saints had engineered the disaster, and resolved to prepare for the coming struggle.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi and the demon race established a protected Lesser Thousand World in the Chaos as a fallback base, then prepared it to sustain and shelter their people. Taiyi left Kunpeng in charge of the world and continued deeper into the Chaos with three Demon Saints to explore the World Ruins and seek the Dao.

• Taiyi, Kunpeng, and seven Demon Saints joined forces to open a Lesser Thousand World in a relatively stable region of the Chaos.
• Taiyi and the demon race built six Chaos Fetal Membrane Arrays around the world to shield it from Chaos and convert some of its aura into pure Innate Spiritual Qi.
• Taiyi oversaw a spatial formation that linked the new world to the ancient formation in the Moon Star core, creating a fallback route for the demon race.
• Taiyi planted a Void Green Wutong Tree in the world, where it helped stabilize the earth veins and nourish the world's vitality.
• Taiyi entrusted Kunpeng with guarding the world and studying the Fetal Membrane Array, while Fei Dan, Shang Yang, Qin Yuan, and Bai Ze were assigned to collect resources.
• Taiyi departed with Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, and Ci Tie to explore deeper into the Chaos, while Kunpeng organized the remaining demon race members' defenses and work.

Taiyi and the three Demon Saints reached the World Ruins, reforged the Sun Wheel Shuttle, and began exploring its depths. In seclusion, Jiang Yun learned of upheaval in the Primordial Desolation and realized Spirit Gourd Daoist had inexplicably stopped reporting, but he remained occupied with integrating the Hollow Willow world into his spiritual bamboo true body.

• Taiyi led Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, and Ci Tie through Chaos storms, gathered precious materials, and reached the World Ruins.
• Taiyi and the Demon Saints reforged the Sun Wheel Shuttle with Chaos materials, then set out to explore deeper into the ruins.
• Jiang Yun reviewed Spirit Gourd Daoist's reports about Zhenyuanzi's attainment of the Dao, Houtu's Six Earth Dao Saint Positions, and efforts to inflame the Witch and Demon conflict.
• Jiang Yun noticed that Spirit Gourd Daoist had sent no reports for more than ten thousand years and suspected his avatar was trapped or in grave danger.
• Jiang Yun continued carefully merging the Hollow Willow world into his spiritual bamboo true body to create a connected system of worlds for living beings to ascend through.

Jiang Yun continued fusing the two worlds despite sensing danger in the Primordial Desolation, while Dijun sought to save the Demon Clan by provoking strife among the Witches. Nuwa agreed to let the plan proceed, and the Three Clarities secretly intensified the discord between Zhurong and Gonggong.

• Jiang Yun suppressed his concern for Linghu and poured his power into merging the Hollow Willow World with his spiritual bamboo.
• Fuxi warned Dijun that the Witches were preparing for war, and Dijun proposed exploiting the feud between Gonggong and Zhurong.
• Dijun sent Fuxi to ask Empress Nuwa to turn a blind eye and pass his plan to the Three Clarities.
• Empress Nuwa agreed not to stop the Demon Clan's covert actions but refused to intervene directly, then relayed the message to Venerable Yuanshi.
• Venerable Yuanshi informed Laozi and Sect Master Tongtian, and the Three Clarities secretly inflamed Zhurong and Gonggong's anger while obscuring the Witches' perception.

Gonggong and Zhurong were driven into a murderous battle by hidden interference from the Saints, and their fight damaged Buzhou Mountain. Gonggong then struck the heavenly pillar in desperation, shattering it and unleashing catastrophic destruction across the Primordial Desolation.

• Demon Clan spies spread rumors that inflamed conflict between the Gonggong and Zhurong tribes, while Saintly power secretly intensified the Ancestral Witches' anger.
• Gonggong and Zhurong fought fiercely, and their battle drifted toward Buzhou Mountain despite warnings from their brothers in Pangu Hall.
• The Three Pure Ones watched as the Ancestral Witches' clashes cracked Buzhou Mountain and hoped the fight would destroy the pillar.
• After their final attacks left both Ancestral Witches badly injured, Gonggong charged into Buzhou Heavenly Pillar in desperation.
• Buzhou Mountain shattered, its upper half toppled, and the resulting upheaval triggered collapsing earth veins, volcanic eruptions, and overturning seas across the Primordial Desolation.

The collapse of the Buzhou Heavenly Pillar unleashed Nine Heavens' Weak Water and destabilized the Primordial Desolation World. The sages and Way of Earth forces began containing the disaster and preparing to mend the sky and erect a new pillar.

• Dijiang and the other Ancestor Wu reacted to the Heavenly Pillar's collapse, while Dijun realized his scheme had helped trigger the catastrophe and Houtu suspected Hongjun had broken their agreement.
• The Celestial Court and Primordial Desolation Earth suffered widespread destruction as Weak Water poured through the hole in the sky and flooded the land.
• Taiqing Laozi, Venerable Yuanshi, Sect Master Tongtian, Empress Nuwa, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti used their treasures and powers to support the sky and block the worst of the flood.
• Zhenyuanzi activated the Earth Scroll to divert Weak Water and stabilize earth veins, while Ancestor Minghe, Ziwei, Mount Tai Prefecture Lord, and Great Emperor Fengdu organized flood relief and guided souls.
• The sages agreed that Nuwa would mend the sky and that a new pillar must be found; Nuwa began refining Five-Colored Divine Stones in the Qiankun Cauldron as Tongtian headed to the Northern Deep Sea to seek a support for the sky.

Empress Nuwa repaired the breach in the firmament, but the fallen Buzhou Mountain left Heaven and Earth without a supporting pillar. Senior Mysterious Turtle accepted the Heavenly Mandate and began transforming his body into a new pillar to support the heavens.

• Empress Nuwa refined the Five-Colored Divine Stones and, with the Four Saints supporting the firmament, sealed the enormous breach.
• Laozi warned that the Saints' treasures could not support Heaven and Earth for long, and Sect Master Tongtian identified Senior Mysterious Turtle as a suitable replacement pillar.
• Senior Mysterious Turtle sensed the Heavenly Mandate, gathered the Giant Turtle Clan, and entrusted Ao Gan and Ao Kun with leading them.
• Senior Mysterious Turtle asked the Western Teachings' disciples to protect his clan, and Medicine Master, Yunxiao, and the others promised to care for them.
• Senior Mysterious Turtle arrived at the ruins of Buzhou Mountain, vowed to become the pillar of the new heavens, and was enveloped by the origin energy of Heaven and Earth.

The Saints refined four heavenly pillars from the Black Tortoise’s remains and World Origin, then installed them at the four extremes to stabilize the Primordial Desolation. After the Four Sacred Beasts became the pillars’ guardian spirits and Heaven and Earth rewarded those who helped, the Black Tortoise’s True Spirit entered reincarnation to begin anew.

• Empress Nuwa gathered spiritual materials while the six Saints refined the Black Tortoise’s remains into four heavenly pillar prototypes in the Qiankun Cauldron.
• The Primordial Desolation World infused the pillars with its Origin, strengthening them and completing their formation.
• Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti carried the pillars to the eastern, southern, western, and northern extremes and anchored them to stabilize the firmament.
• The Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu vowed to merge with the pillars and became their guardian spirits.
• Heaven and Earth bestowed merit on Nuwa, the five Saints, the Black Tortoise’s True Spirit, and the other contributors to the calamity’s resolution.
• The Black Tortoise’s True Spirit joyfully departed for reincarnation, while the Primordial Desolation entered a new era with Heaven and Earth stabilized.

After Buzhou Mountain fell, Houtu confronted Hongjun over Gonggong and Zhurong’s deaths, then learned he had preserved their true spirits and purified their Law Origins so they could be reborn free of their Pangu bloodline shackles. Houtu accepted the plan and revealed the preserved spirits and origins to the surviving Ancestral Witches, leaving them astonished.

• Dijun assessed the damage from the calamity and argued that the Demon Clan could still challenge the Witch Clan with the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation.
• Houtu confronted Hongjun, accusing him of concealing the calamity that killed Gonggong and Zhurong and brought down Buzhou Mountain.
• Hongjun revealed that he had saved Gonggong and Zhurong’s complete true spirits and purified their water and fire Law Origins, explaining that reincarnation could free them from their Pangu bloodline shackles.
• Houtu accepted Hongjun’s plan to nurture the spirits and origins in the Six Paths Reincarnation, and warned that Yuanshi and Laozi must be punished for their part in the calamity.
• Houtu summoned the surviving Ancestral Witches to the Hall of Reincarnation and showed them Gonggong and Zhurong’s preserved true spirits and Law Origins.

The six Saints of the Dao of Earth took their places, reshaping the powers of the Primordial Desolation as Ancestor Minghe established the Asura Cult and the Ghost Dao and Youming Star God lineage grew. As the million-year ceasefire deadline approached, the Witch and Demon Clans intensified their preparations for a decisive war.

• Empress Houtu told the Ancestral Witches that Gonggong and Zhurong could return because their true spirits and origins remained intact.
• Ancestor Minghe, Mount Tai Prefecture Lord, Great Emperor Fengdu, Xuanming Ancestral Witch, and Ziwei Star Lord successively attained Sainthood through the Dao of Earth, completing its six Saints.
• Mount Tai Prefecture Lord and Great Emperor Fengdu established the Ghost Dao and its Ghost Capitals, while Ziwei Star Lord placed the Netherworld Star Gods under the Dao of Earth and separated them from the Western Teachings.
• Dijiang warned that Xuanming could no longer fight for the Witch Clan as an Ancestral Witch, so the clan needed a fourth successor for its divine fiend formation; Xiangliu trained alongside Xing Tian, Chiyou, and Jiu Feng.
• Ancestor Minghe established the Asura Cult, named Mara its Guardian Great Demon King, and appointed Uma Holy Cult Heavenly Consort.
• Di Jun strengthened the Demon Clan's armies and formations as the Witch Clan accelerated its own drills and successor training before the ceasefire deadline.

Di Jun prepared an escape route on Moon Star to preserve the Demon Clan’s descendants and chosen youths, while the Witch Clan selected four Great Witches to replace missing Ancestral Witches in the Twelve Capital Gods and Fiends Great Array. Their first full practice failed under the array’s pressure, leaving Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches to plan adjustments.

• Di Jun told Fuxi that the Demon Clan’s goal had shifted from proving the Dao to preserving a spark of its future.
• Di Jun entrusted Changxi and Xihe with a Moon Star escape array, treasure, and cultivation records to protect Lu Ya and tens of thousands of young demons.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches chose Xiangliu, Jiu Feng, Xing Tian, and Chiyou to fill the four missing positions in their great array.
• The four Great Witches trained with Ancestral Witch blood essence until they could begin practicing the complete array.
• During the first full practice, the Pangu Phantom dispersed after Xiangliu, Xing Tian, and Chiyou buckled under its pressure, and the four suffered backlash injuries.
• Dijiang agreed to have the eight remaining Ancestral Witches adjust the array to reduce the pressure on the replacements.