Chapter Summaries

As the Witch-Demon war approached, the Witch and Demon Clans joined forces to purge other powerful groups, making humanity their foremost target. Humanity resisted and preserved many ordinary lives, but its restored elite was devastated, and Chief Huang fell.

• The Ancestral Witches trained Jiu Feng, Xing Tian, Chiyou, and Xiangliu until they could briefly summon the Pangu Phantom, while the Witch and Demon Clans prepared to eliminate rival forces before their decisive battle.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches agreed to sweep away humanity and other nearby powers, and Di Jun issued the same order to the Demon Clan, naming humanity its foremost target.
• After Feng Sun reported attacks on human tribes, Huang, Wa, Xuan Qiong, and Qing Xuzi organized a retreat, gathered their people, and sought aid from Longevity Mountain and Mount Sumeru.
• Humanity's armies fought the Demon Clan and its Witch-Human forces; at Valley of Windbreath, Xuan Qiong's troops repelled an attack at the cost of two Immortal Realm experts and half their Return to Truth combatants.
• The purge ended after the Witch and Demon Clans had weakened humanity, but four of its eight Grand Luo-level experts had fallen, two were severely wounded, and Chief Huang was among the dead.

Fuxi asked Nuwa to protect the Demon Clan descendants hidden in Moon Palace if the Demon Court fell, and she agreed. The Witch and Demon Clans swore to destroy one another, then deployed their forces at the four heavenly gates as the final battle approached.

• Fuxi visited Nuwa and confirmed that the Saints would prevent outside interference in the coming war.
• Fuxi asked Nuwa to safeguard Lu Ya, the twelve Jade Rabbits, and other Demon Clan descendants hidden in Moon Palace, and Nuwa agreed.
• Dijiang rallied the Witch Clan at Buzhou Mountain, declaring war on the Demon Clan and naming their past blood debts.
• Di Jun rallied the Demon Clan at the Southern Heavenly Gate, calling for the Witch Clan's destruction and ordering the Heavenly Cycle Stars Formation deployed.
• Both armies assembled near the four great heavenly gates, where the opposing forces prepared for battle.

As the Witch-Demon War approached, Spirit Gourd remained imprisoned while the Saints and their followers prepared to witness the world-ending battle. Nuwa planned to take control of the Demon race after the war, while Fuxi sought to preserve its inheritance.

• Spirit Gourd reviewed how the conflict between the Witches and Demons had escalated and concluded that Jiang Yun’s return was needed to act on his plans.
• Laozi and Yuanshi gathered the Three Pure Ones’ disciples and explained the strengths and weaknesses of the Witch and Demon battle formations.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun ate Ginseng Fruits while discussing the coming war, and Zhenyuanzi predicted Spirit Gourd might escape after the calamity ended.
• Jiang Yun’s disciples at Western Mount Sumeru grew resentful over Spirit Gourd’s imprisonment, while Ksitigarbha and other disciples focused on their work in reincarnation.
• Nuwa secretly protected Fuxi and the Moon Star’s teleportation formation, then planned to create the Monster Summoning Banner and bring the surviving Demon race under her control.

As the Witch and Demon armies prepared for their final battle, Dijun revealed the Witch Slaying Sword and wounded Dijiang, exposing a weapon capable of piercing Ancestral Witch bodies. Dijun then activated the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation, and the Witch Clan summoned the Father God Dharma Form to face its attack.

• Earth Dao Saints, Ancestor Minghe, Great Emperor Fengdu, Mount Tai Prefecture Lord, Ziwei, and Xuanming prepared their forces and territories for the coming battle and its aftermath.
• Dijiang and Dijun met before their armies, and Dijun used the Witch Slaying Sword to pierce Dijiang's body and draw his blood.
• Qiangliang and Tianwu intervened to save Dijiang from Dijun's finishing attack, and Dijiang warned the Witch warriors that the sword could kill them with a single strike.
• Dijun merged the River Diagram and Luo Shu into the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation and unleashed its stellar power against the Witch army.
• Dijiang, the other Ancestral Witches, and the four quasi-Ancestral Witch Great Witches gathered fiend qi and summoned a weaker Father God Dharma Form within the Star Domain Battlefield.

The Witch Clan’s Twelve Capital Gods and Fiends Great Array began to falter under the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation. Xuanming then returned to the battlefield in a separate Ancestral Witch body, declaring that the Cold Nether Saint Venerable would remain in reincarnation while she fought for the Witch Clan.

• Dijiang led the Witch Clan’s charge, but Dijun activated the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation and trapped the advancing Ancestral Witches and Great Witches.
• Zhujiuyin summoned the Twelve Capital Gods and Fiends Great Array, and the Pangu Phantom fought the star formation’s Four Symbols Chaos Torrent.
• Dijun ordered the Demon Clan to wear down the Pangu Phantom, while Xing Tian, Jiu Feng, Xiangliu, and Chiyou struggled to sustain the formation.
• The Saints and mighty figures watched as the Pangu Phantom weakened, and Empress Houtu remained silent in the Netherworld.
• Xuanming entered the battlefield, and the Saints discovered that she was not an Earth Dao Saint but a powerful Ancestral Witch body.
• Xuanming explained that she had severed her Witch Clan bloodline from her Saint self, then joined the Pangu Phantom and told Dijiang she had returned.

Xuanming joined the Witch formation and helped it condense the Pangu Axe, while the Demon race activated a blood sacrifice to strengthen its Star Dou Great Formation. Both sides prepared their strongest attacks, bringing the battle outside the Southern Heavenly Gate to the brink of a decisive clash.

• Xuanming entered the Twelve Capital Gods and Fiends Great Array, took over Xiangliu’s position, and eased the pressure on Jiu Feng, Xing Tian, and Chiyou.
• Dijiang ordered the Witches to condense the Pangu Axe, while Laozi and Venerable Yuanshi suppressed their treasures’ faint reaction to its appearance and discussed Pangu’s waning influence.
• Dijun recognized Xuanming as a major threat and, with Fuxi, chose the Demon race’s prepared blood sacrifice technique.
• Dijun and the Demon star gods offered their essence blood to the stars, awakening the origins of the Primordial Stars and vastly strengthening the Star Dou Great Formation.
• The fortified stellar chains and Four Symbols Chaos Star Torrent faced the Witches’ Pangu Axe as both sides prepared to strike.

Dijiun’s Blood Sacrifice empowered the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation to unleash Primordial Beginning Power against the Witch clan’s World Creation Strike, and the two formations met in a devastating clash. After three exchanges exhausted both sides, the Witch clan’s final axe failed to break through the demon clan’s battered star barrier, leaving Dijiun badly wounded and the Heavenly Cycle Stars formation on the verge of collapse.

• Dijiun guided the Blood Sacrifice as the stars fused into Congenital Primordial Qi, while the Witch clan formed the Pangu Axe and launched a World Creation Strike.
• The Primordial Beginning Power torrent and the Witch clan’s axe collided, devastating both formations and injuring their fighters.
• Dijiang ordered a second axe strike, and Dijiun answered with another torrent of Primordial Beginning Power as the formations suffered further losses.
• Dijiang ordered a third strike after Tianwu noticed the demon formation wavering, but the Blood Sacrifice power had run out and Dijiun could only assemble a defensive barrier.
• The Witch clan’s third axe carved a deep crater into the barrier but failed to shatter it, while Dijiun coughed golden blood and showed signs of a damaged origin.

With the Heaven Cycle Stars Great Formation close to collapse, Di Jun ordered the Star Sacrifice technique, offering the demon race’s soldiers and star lords to restore its power. Their sacrifices strengthened the formation, and Di Jun began condensing the Dharma Form of the Heaven Cycle Stars against the Witch Clan.

• Dijiang taunted Di Jun, while both the Witch Clan and the demon race were left exhausted by their clashes.
• Di Jun decided to use the Star Sacrifice technique despite Fuxi’s warning that it could damage the demon race’s foundations.
• Di Jun told the Star Lords that their true-spirit imprints were preserved in the Monster Summoning Gourd, giving them hope of returning after their sacrifice.
• Billions of demon soldiers and minor officers sacrificed themselves, channeling their star power into the Heaven Cycle Stars Great Formation.
• More than a hundred Golden Immortal and Great Unity-level Demon Gods sacrificed themselves, further amplifying the formation.
• Di Jun invoked the Dharma Form of the Heaven Cycle Stars as the strengthened formation reached its full radiance.

The Demon race’s sacrifices awakened the stars and formed a Pangu Dharma Form, which launched a devastating attack against the exhausted Witch race. Dijiang and the remaining Witches answered by burning their bloodlines to revive their own Pangu Phantom, which raised a Giant Axe Phantom just before the starry strike landed.

• The sacrifices of countless Demon star gods awakened star wills across the Primordial Desolation and formed a powerful Pangu Dharma Form within the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation.
• The Three Pure Ones Saints and Spirit Gourd Daoist watched the battle, while Spirit Gourd Daoist distinguished the formation’s external Dharma Form from Jiang Yun’s self-nature Star Dharma Form.
• Di Jun ordered the Pangu Dharma Form to unleash a destructive strike against the weakened Witch formation.
• Shebishi, Jumang, and Xizi urged Dijiang and the Witch warriors to fight to the death, and Dijiang rallied them to stand firm.
• The remaining Ancestral Witches and Great Witches burned their bloodlines to restore the Pangu Phantom, which opened its eyes and formed a Giant Axe Phantom.
• Just before the starry giant’s attack struck, the Pangu Phantom moved.

Dijiang’s Ancestral Witches used the World Creation axe to sever the Star Dharma Form’s arm, but Dijun restored it by sacrificing the formation’s stars. As both formations neared their limits, Dijun ordered a final sacrifice to empower the Star Dharma Form for its next assault.

• Dijiang ordered Pangu Phantom to strike the Star Dharma Form’s palm, but the formation’s star power repaired the wound.
• Dijiang directed Pangu Phantom to attack the palm and arm joints, and three axe strikes severed the Dharma Form’s hand and arm while its counterblow weakened the Ancestral Witches.
• The axe strikes killed hundreds or nearly a thousand Star Lords and disrupted the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation, but Dijun and Taiyi used the main stars to restore its order and regrow the arm.
• Zhujiuyin recognized that regrowing the arm had weakened the Star Dharma Form, while Dijiang prepared to attack again despite the Ancestral Witches’ exhaustion.
• Dijun ordered the Star Lords to sacrifice themselves, and thousands of stars erupted as their power made the Star Dharma Form more solid and formidable.
• Dijun declared the formation’s star power had reached its peak and began forming seals for its final attack.

The Witch Clan and Demon Clan fought a decisive clash between the Twelve Capital Gods and Fiends Great Array and the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation. After five Ancestral Witches sacrificed themselves to strengthen the Pangu Phantom, its axe struck Dijun’s Star Dharma Form, and both sides suffered devastating backlash.

• As the Demon Clan’s Star Dharma Form crushed the Pangu Phantom, Qiangliang invoked the Myriad Fiends Fall Together Curse and burned his life to empower the Witch Clan’s array.
• Tianwu, Shebishi, Yanzi, and Xuanming sacrificed themselves in turn, pouring their origins, laws, and gathered fiendish energy into the formation.
• Dijiang ordered Jiu Feng, Xing Tian, and Chiyou to preserve their strength and protect the Witch Clan’s future instead of sacrificing themselves.
• The strengthened Pangu Phantom broke through the Star Dharma Form’s closing palms, and Dijiang and the other surviving controllers swung its empowered axe at Dijun’s giant fist.
• The axe cleaved deep into the Star Giant Fist as the fist’s stellar force struck the Pangu Phantom, severely injuring the commanders and formation controllers on both sides.

The Witch-Demon battlefield was devastated by an uncontrolled spiritual-power explosion, and both clans sacrificed leaders and warriors to shield their survivors. After the wounded forces were ordered to retreat, Di Jun charged the last two Ancestral Witches, Dijiang and Zhujiuyin, in a final fight to the death.

• The explosion tore through both armies, and Rushou and Jumang sacrificed themselves to protect the Witch Clan’s survivors.
• Fei Lian and the Star Lords gave their lives to shield Di Jun and Fuxi, while Fuxi used a Bagua formation to withstand the remaining shock wave; Nuwa rescued his fading primordial spirit.
• Di Jun ordered Ghost Car to lead the surviving Demon Clan forces and children to the Moon Star, while Dijiang ordered Jiu Feng to take the surviving Witches to Pangu Hall.
• The sages watched the battle’s aftermath, and Daoist Zhunti ordered Western Teachings disciples below the Grand Luo realm to enter seclusion for ten thousand years.
• Di Jun took up the Witch Slaying Sword and charged Dijiang and Zhujiuyin, and the three began a brutal close-quarters fight.

Di Jun killed Zhujiuyin before Dijiang and Di Jun killed each other in a final explosion, ending the leaders’ struggle and the calamity. Nuwa secured the River Diagram and Luo Shu, while Changxi and Xihe led the surviving Demon Clan into Chaos and Jiu Feng brought the remaining Witch Clan into Pangu Hall to recover.

• Di Jun stabbed the wounded Zhujiuyin with the Witch Slaying Sword, and Zhujiuyin held him in place as he urged Dijiang to kill him.
• Dijiang seized Di Jun’s heart, and Di Jun detonated his Nascent Soul, killing himself and Dijiang in an explosion that also consumed Zhujiuyin.
• Laozi claimed the Witch Slaying Sword with the Taiji Diagram, while Nuwa took the River Diagram and Luo Shu for safekeeping.
• Changxi and Xihe activated the Moon Star’s chaotic teleportation formation, and the surviving Demon Clan, including Lu Ya and Ghost Car, escaped into Chaos after Nuwa prevented the Three Pure Ones from stopping them.
• Jiu Feng led the surviving Witch Clan back to Pangu Hall, where she sealed the doors and activated the Ancestral Witches’ protective restrictions.

After the Witch-Demon Tribulation ended, Spirit Bamboo Mountain reopened while the sages’ disciples seized former Witch and Demon territories and the Primordial Desolation’s star order deteriorated. Hongjun summoned the Six Sages and announced a new Heavenly Court, appointing Haotian and Yaochi to restore Heaven and Earth’s balance.

• Spirit Gourd Daoist recognized that the Witch-Demon Tribulation had ended, lifted Spirit Bamboo Mountain’s closure, and ordered Ling Xi and Gao Shou to prepare the mountain for reopening.
• Guang Chengzi, Chi Jingzi, Duobao, Wuyun Xian, and other sage disciples claimed former Witch and Demon lands and resources for their sects.
• The loss of the Demon Court’s Star Lords threw the Heavenly Cycle Stars into disorder, weakened spiritual lands and Spirit Veins, and ended the spread of Imperial Flowing Sap.
• Laozi and Xuandu observed worsening celestial disorder, prompting Hongjun to summon the Six Sages to Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun proposed rebuilding the Heavenly Court, rejected the sages’ nominations of their own disciples, and summoned Haotian and Yaochi to receive his appointments.

Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to rule the Heavenly Court and charged the Six Saints with helping them restore it. After the Saints rebuilt the Thirty-Three Layered Heavens, Haotian asked them to provide personnel, and several Saints offered limited support.

• Hongjun made Haotian the Heavenly Emperor and Yaochi the Heavenly Empress, giving them treasures and instructing the Six Saints to assist them.
• The Six Saints repaired and purified the ruined Heavenly Realm, restoring its formations, spiritual energy, gardens, and order.
• Haotian asked the Saints to send capable people to staff the Heavenly Court, and Nuwa offered to summon suitable demon-race talents in her name.
• Laozi declined to send Xuandu but created his Taishang Laojun incarnation to establish Doushuai Palace and oversee alchemy in the Heavenly Realm.
• Yuanshi declined to send his disciples to serve directly but offered incarnations of the South Pole Immortal Weng and Grand Unity True Person to hold nominal Heavenly Court offices.

Haotian and Yaochi built up the Heavenly Court with help from the Saints, rogue cultivators, and Queen Mother of the West. Meanwhile, humanity recovered from the Witch-Demon War as Youchao, Suiren, and Ziyi introduced homes, fire, and clothing.

• Yuanshi placed avatars of Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Grand Unity True Person in nominal Heavenly Court positions, while Tongtian and the Western Sages offered disciples and star officials to serve Haotian.
• Over tens of thousands of years, Haotian and Yaochi developed the Heavenly Court, but struggled to find enough personnel to expand its authority.
• Yaochi used the Mother Peach Tree to grow three thousand six hundred Peach Immortal Trees, and the Peach Banquets attracted rogue cultivators, including the Barefoot Immortal, to join the Heavenly Court.
• Haotian and Yaochi persuaded Queen Mother of the West to move to the Heavenly Court, prompting many female immortals to join its ranks.
• After the Witch-Demon War, humanity gained land and fortune, and Youchao, Suiren, and Ziyi taught people to build homes, make fire, and weave clothing.

The Three Ancestors of Humanity reached the Grand Luo realm, strengthening human civilization and beginning a cooperative relationship with the Heavenly Court. In Chaos, Jiang Yun learned that the Witch-Demon calamity had followed its original course and lamented how Zhunti and Jieyin had changed after becoming Saints.

• Youchao, Suiren, and Ziyi received merit for their inventions, ascended to the Grand Luo realm, and saw their tools become fortune spirit treasures.
• Grand White Gold Star delivered Haotian's goodwill edict and weather-control aid to the human tribes, and Suiren later formed an understanding with Haotian and Golden Mother at Lingxiao Palace.
• Jiang Yun continued fusing his natal world with the Hollow Willow world and neared a breakthrough beyond the Saint Realm.
• The Spirit Gourd Daoist sent Jiang Yun news that the Witch-Demon calamity had unfolded, the clans had suffered catastrophic losses, and the Heavenly Court and Six Saints of the Earthly Dao had taken their positions.
• Jiang Yun learned that the human race had revived under Suiren, Ziyi, and Youchao, then reflected on Zhunti and Jieyin's growing detachment from Western Teachings and their former bonds.

Jiang Yun decided to establish an independent Spirit Bamboo Mountain lineage within the Western Teachings and began gathering allies while planning to support the Demon Clan and humanity. The chapter left Spirit Gourd preparing to help Wa reach the Martial Dao Quasi-Saint realm as Jiang Yun laid plans for his growing network of forces.

• Jiang Yun instructed Spirit Gourd to establish the Spirit Bamboo Mountain lineage, separate from Mount Sumeru, and the Two Sages allowed disciples to join it.
• The Three Cloud Maidens, Kong Xuan, and Zhao Gongming joined Spirit Bamboo Mountain, while other Western Teaching figures chose neutrality or remained loyal to Mount Sumeru.
• Jiang Yun identified Taiyi, Kunpeng, Changxi, Xihe, and the surviving Demon Clan as potential allies who could benefit from his stable worlds in Chaos.
• Jiang Yun told Spirit Gourd to support humanity's development and cultivate its strongest members without interfering with its independent civilization.
• Spirit Gourd selected Wa for support and began completing the martial arts cultivation path beyond its existing realms.

Nuwa sought Houtu’s help to reincarnate Fuxi as the Human Race’s Heavenly Emperor, then gathered the Saints to divide the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors’ teacher positions. The meeting granted the final emperor-teacher position to Jiang Yun’s incarnation, Spiritual Gourd.

• Nuwa asked Houtu and Xuanming to let Fuxi’s remnant soul reincarnate as a Human Race emperor, promising the Witch Clan a share of the Human Race’s fortune.
• Houtu agreed and formed a contract with Nuwa guaranteeing Fuxi’s reincarnation and Heavenly Emperor destiny.
• Nuwa visited Laozi, who supported Fuxi’s candidacy and proposed gathering the Saints to allocate the emperor-teacher positions.
• Nuwa convened the Saints, announced Fuxi’s claim to the Heavenly Emperor position, and opened discussion of the remaining teacher positions.
• Zhenyuanzi, the Three Pure Ones, the Two Sages of the West, and Ziwei received emperor-teacher positions, while the final position went to Jiang Yun’s incarnation, Spiritual Gourd.

Nuwa sent Fuxi’s remnant soul to reincarnate as a human, and Fuxi grew into a wise leader who united the tribes and established customs and practical skills for the Human Race. After his memories of his former life returned, he embraced his human identity, fulfilled his Heavenly Emperor mandate, and passed the Co-Lord position to Shennong.

• Nuwa brought Fuxi’s remnant soul to Houtu, who sent it through the human path of reincarnation and protected it with the Reincarnation Law.
• Huaxu gave birth to Fuxi amid auspicious signs, and Xuandu became his teacher, guiding his study of nature and the Dao.
• Nuwa sent the River Diagram and Luo Shu to Fuxi, who used them to create the Innate Bagua and received merit from Heaven and Earth.
• Fuxi established marriage rites, introduced fishing nets and animal husbandry, and united many tribes as their Co-Lord.
• Fuxi recovered his memories as Xi Huang but affirmed his identity as a human and received merit as his Heavenly Emperor Dao fruit reached perfection.
• Fuxi selected Shennong as his successor and transferred the Human Race Co-Lord position to him.