Chapter Summaries

At the Heavenly Court banquet, Xi used Gong Gong's support to publicize the Human Race's achievements and win over neutral observers. Di Jun claimed the Heavenly Court had funded the Human Race through Nuwa, forcing Xi to concede that point while Di Jun urged everyone to keep watching the Human Race.

• Di Jun accepted the Human Race's Straw Dog and declared that the Heavenly Court would preserve it as a reminder of its ideals.
• Gong Gong invited Xi to explain the Human Race's contributions, and Xi turned the banquet into a speech promoting Human civilization.
• Xi's speech earned the Human Race greater attention from neutral Grand Luo and some wavering Demon Gods, though it did not secure their support outright.
• Gong Gong praised the Human Race while mocking the Heavenly Court, but Di Jun claimed the court had invested in the Human Race under Nuwa's authority.
• Nuwa realized Di Jun had used her status to claim credit for the Human Race's development, while Xi backed down to avoid making matters difficult for her.
• Di Jun acknowledged the Human Race's achievements but said its civilization should be observed longer, then directed Xi back to his seat.

At the Heavenly Court banquet, Great Sage Kui Niu proposed demonstrating the court’s military strength and then used the performance to launch a sudden attack on Xi. The Heavenly Court’s formation trapped the hall, leaving Xi alone to face Kui Niu as the attack began.

• Di Jun ended Xi’s debate and warned him to watch out for demons, while Xi vowed that the Human Race’s achievements would bring them together again under different circumstances.
• Great Sage Kui Niu urged Di Jun to display military strength, then received permission to demonstrate his divine abilities before the banquet guests.
• Kui Niu revealed his powerful bull-shaped Dharma idol and performed with a thunder divine saber, while disguised Great Witches watched and questioned Di Jun’s purpose.
• As Kui Niu raised his saber, the Heavenly Court’s Great Heavenly Stellar Array activated, and the Demon Marshals restrained Gong Gong to prevent anyone from intervening.
• Xi realized Kui Niu’s performance had been a setup for an assassination attempt and vowed to kill him, recording the grudge in his Little Notebook of grudges.

Feng Xi faced execution by Great Sage Kui Niu while the Heavenly Court arranged to blame Rahu and use his death for political gain. As Feng Xi prepared to reveal his true strength, Eastern Hua Dijun intervened with a sword whose single hum halted time and stilled the surrounding world.

• Feng Xi recorded Kui Niu in his Little Notebook and resolved to avenge the attack, while recognizing that the Heavenly Court was using Rahu as a scapegoat.
• Di Jun planned to let Kui Niu kill Feng Xi, then condemn the Demonic Sect and target Ancestor Minghe while protecting Kui Niu as a tainted witness.
• Feng Xi decided to reveal his Five Virtues and Destiny Master authority after Kui Niu broke through his Spiritual Treasures and brought down a deadly saber strike.
• Eastern Hua Dijun shouted that Rahu remnants could be slain and drew a mysterious longsword, interrupting Kui Niu and delaying Feng Xi's counterattack.
• The Great Heavenly Stellar Array froze Eastern Hua Dijun in space and time, but his sword hum silenced the world and stopped time throughout the hall.

Eastern Hua Dijun used a world-stilling sword to disrupt the Great Heavenly Stellar Array and strike Great Sage Kui Niu, while Heaven's Court's rulers and the Witch Clan's hidden allies struggled to respond. Kui Niu survived the attack only by repeatedly reassembling himself, but his body and Primordial Spirit were shattered again and again.

• Eastern Hua Dijun halted the Great Heavenly Stellar Array for a breath and severed its connection to the Zhou Tian Star Lords, reducing its flexibility.
• Nuwa restrained the Chaos Bell as the Demon Emperors, Demon Marshals, and hidden Witch Clan allies checked one another's moves.
• Eastern Hua Dijun unleashed his formless sword and publicly declared that he would punish even Heaven's Court's own divine beings for falling into demonic ways.
• Ying Zhao Demon Marshal and the other Demon Marshals switched to defending Great Sage Kui Niu after sensing the sword's lethal threat.
• Great Sage Kui Niu unleashed devastating wind, rain, thunder, sunlight, and moonlight, but Eastern Hua Dijun's twilight sword subdued the forces and harmed him.
• Eastern Hua Dijun cut through Kui Niu's saber and split him from brow to body; Kui Niu repeatedly reassembled, only to be torn apart by the lingering shockwaves.

Eastern Hua Dijun fought the demon marshals while insisting that his brutal assault on Kui Niu was medical treatment and demanding a thorough investigation into the demon god’s fall into demonic ways. His challenge to the Heavenly Court’s laws and leadership provoked the Eastern Emperor to activate the Great Heavenly Stellar Array, while Nuwa prepared to intervene.

• Eastern Hua Dijun wounded Kui Niu and beat back Ying Zhao, Jimeng, Jiu Ying, and Gui Che as they tried to protect him.
• Bai Ze accused Eastern Hua Dijun of betraying the Heavenly Court, but Dong Hua defended his attack as treatment for Kui Niu’s spiritual illness.
• Kui Niu claimed he had recovered, but Eastern Hua Dijun refused to accept it without an examination and threatened to investigate whether he had feigned demonic possession to kill the Human Race envoy.
• Eastern Hua Dijun challenged the Heavenly Court’s leadership to apply its laws fairly, arguing that even Great Luo demon gods and the Demon Emperor were not above accountability.
• The Eastern Emperor activated the Great Heavenly Stellar Array and confronted Eastern Hua Dijun, prompting Nuwa to prepare to attack the Eastern Emperor for turning away from their confrontation.

Nuwa attacked Eastern Emperor and Di Jun to support Eastern Hua Dijun, but Fuxi restrained her and persuaded her to consider the Human Dao’s wider interests. Nuwa then called for the conflict to end and promised a fair review of the Kui Ox matter, while warning that she would settle accounts later.

• Nuwa used her creation lotus to suppress Eastern Emperor’s chaos as the Witch and Demon factions secretly interfered in the battle.
• Di Jun sent a voice transmission to a divine being, and Fuxi stopped Nuwa by holding her hand and flicking her between the brows.
• Fuxi advised Nuwa to avoid escalating the conflict and to protect Eastern Hua Dijun’s reforms through later deliberation instead.
• Nuwa agreed that the matter required careful discussion and called on everyone to end the fight.
• Nuwa told Eastern Hua Dijun to apologize to the two sovereigns and promised a fair outcome for the Kui Ox matter, then warned Fuxi that she would settle accounts with him later.

Nuwa set aside her feud with Fuxi long enough to command the Heavenly Court and Witch Clan forces to break up the battle between Eastern Hua Dijun and the Demon Emperors. Trapped in the Great Heavenly Stellar Array, Dijun struggled against their combined power, while Di Jun revealed that someone was secretly backing him and protecting him.

• Nuwa resented Fuxi for flicking her forehead, while Fuxi calmly provoked her ambition and pretended to yield.
• Nuwa rallied the Heavenly Court's demon gods and brought the Great Witches and Ancestral Witch incarnations into the open to stop sabotaging and separate Eastern Hua Dijun from the two Demon Emperors.
• Eastern Emperor and Di Jun used the Great Heavenly Stellar Array to counter Dijun's attempts to erase the laws and definitions of existence.
• Dijun admitted that he lacked the strength to overcome the accumulated burdens of the old era, while the Demon Emperors mocked his self-presentation as a champion of justice.
• Tai Yi questioned how Dijun had reached such strength, and Di Jun confirmed that an unseen backer was investing in him and that an interference had arrived.

Di Jun, Eastern Hua Dijun, and Tai Yi clashed over the Heavenly Court’s rule and ideals while Nuwa intervened to stop their battle. Nuwa framed the conflict as a dispute over the Dao and ideals, leaving the dispute unresolved as the Human Race’s growing importance shaped her judgment.

• Di Jun and Eastern Hua Dijun continued their staged battle until Nuwa broke through the Great Heavenly Stellar Array and halted them.
• Nuwa reversed time with Creation Mystic Light, restoring Demon Clan members killed in the battle and earning their worship.
• Eastern Hua Dijun argued that the Heavenly Court’s laws were unjust and demanded reform, while Tai Yi defended leniency for powerful leaders and rejected his accusations.
• Eastern Hua Dijun challenged Tai Yi’s authority to dismiss him and insisted that all living beings should decide who held office; Tai Yi stayed silent.
• Gong Gong offered the Witch Clan as a possible alternative to the Heavenly Court, and Di Jun traded barbed remarks with him.
• Nuwa declared that both the emperors and Eastern Hua Dijun had reason on their sides, calling the conflict a dispute over the Dao and ideals.

Nuwa mediated the conflict between Di Jun, Eastern Hua Dijun, and the Witch Clan by proposing a public opinion survey and a public investigation into Kui Niu’s claim that demonic influence drove his attack. Nine powerful figures confirmed that Kui Niu had genuinely been affected by demonic energy, tracing it to Niu Kui Demon Monarch.

• Nuwa argued that the factions should settle their ideological dispute through reason and proposed measuring the support of living beings for their respective positions.
• Di Jun and Eastern Hua Dijun set aside their visible hostility, while Eastern Emperor privately resolved to identify and crush those who manipulated public opinion against the Heavenly Court.
• Eastern Hua Dijun demanded a public inquiry into whether Kui Niu had truly fallen into demonic ways, and Nuwa agreed to appoint representatives to investigate.
• Kui Niu swore that demonic influence had caused him to attack the Human Race envoy, and Lingbao Tianzun led eight other mighty figures in examining his claim.
• The investigators confirmed that Kui Niu’s demonic energy was genuine and traced it to Niu Kui Demon Monarch, a Great Luo of the demonic path.

After the investigation confirmed Kui Niu Demon God had fallen into demonic ways, Eastern Hua Dijun accepted the finding but accused Niu Kui Demon Monarch of conspiring to sow chaos and ordered his arrest. Gong Gong caught Niu Kui, who confessed to serving Rahu Mo Ancestor and died in a self-destruction, leaving Xi Sovereign moved by his loyalty and Nuwa inspecting a millstone.

• Xi felt disgusted by the shameless investigation and resolved to someday pull Rahu from the demonic path as a tainted witness.
• The nine mighty figures confirmed Kui Niu Demon God's psychosis and blamed Niu Kui Demon Monarch for influencing him to attack the Human Race's envoy.
• Eastern Hua Dijun accepted the diagnosis but argued that Niu Kui had to be captured, and Nuwa ordered the Heavenly Court to search for him.
• Gong Gong punched through the River of Time and forced the badly wounded Niu Kui Demon Monarch into the open.
• Niu Kui confessed that Rahu Mo Ancestor had ordered him to sow discord, then destroyed himself while declaring his loyalty.
• Xi Sovereign expressed amazement at Rahu's loyal follower, while Nuwa tried to awaken the spirit inside her millstone.

Nuwa questioned the World-Destroying Millstone about Niu Kui, then silenced it when its complaints turned into criticism of the gods. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Court declared Niu Kui dead and blamed him for the incident, while Eastern Hua Dijun secured compensation and pushed to have Kui Niu removed from his post and sent to serve under the Eastern Emperor.

• Nuwa asked the World-Destroying Millstone to comment on Niu Kui, and it lamented Rahu’s misery before criticizing the gods’ treatment of the dead.
• Nuwa struck the millstone silent, leaving cracks in the tool.
• Bai Ze Demon Marshal and Jimeng Demon Marshal declared that Niu Kui Demon Monarch was dead and that the evidence proved he had acted on Rahu’s orders.
• Eastern Hua Dijun accepted Kui Niu Demon God’s compensation demands, then proposed strengthening Heavenly Court officials’ resistance to demonic corruption and removing Kui Niu from his current post until his training was complete.
• Di Jun ordered Kui Niu to serve as an ordinary soldier under the Eastern Emperor, and Kui Niu accepted while threatening Xi with his gaze.

After the Heavenly Court closed the Human Race envoy’s assassination case, Xi considered taking revenge on Jieyin for proposing his death, while Di Jun turned the investigation toward the demonic path. The chapter left Ancestor Minghe Mo implicated by forged evidence that accused his forces of being infiltrated by Rahu remnants.

• Xi hid his anger at Kui Niu’s punishment while privately gathering killing intent for a future reckoning.
• The Heavenly Court declared the assassination case closed, and Jieyin Ancient Buddha described how the Human Race could have used Xi’s death as a pretext to rebel.
• Nuwa considered Jieyin’s proposal but spared Xi, while Xi resolved to remember Jieyin’s advice and Di Jun dismissed concerns about the Human Race’s eventual rebellion.
• Di Jun ordered Bai Ze to investigate Niu Kui Demon Monarch and the Rahu remnants, and Bai Ze presented supposed relics and records implicating the demonic path.
• Di Jun denounced the alleged Rahu plot to restore its rule, while Ancestor Minghe Mo realized that he had been framed.

Di Jun used the alleged return of Rahu’s remnants to rally the Demon and Witch Clans against an unnamed force matching Minghe’s Asura army. He proposed a treaty to restrict organized war legions under their joint supervision, leaving Minghe furious and openly denouncing the two leaders.

• Minghe feared the Heavenly Court was targeting the Asura Clan, the army and doctrine he had painstakingly created, and prepared to defend it with Yuantu and Abi.
• Di Jun invoked Rahu’s past destruction to justify vigilance, and Gong Gong agreed that the supposed remnants had to be investigated and eliminated.
• Bai Ze described a hidden, large army skilled in slaughter, with details that pointed toward the Asura Clan without naming it.
• Di Jun proposed a treaty banning factions from transferring or developing organized war legions and requiring existing forces to be downsized and jointly supervised by the Heavenly Court and Witch Clan.
• Gong Gong endorsed the proposal, and Ming He overturned his table and called Di Jun and Gong Gong scoundrels.

Ancestor Minghe Mo faced a coalition of six powerful figures from the Demon Clan, Witch Clan, and Heavenly Court, who pressured him over their sanction treaty. Realizing the odds were overwhelming, Minghe sheathed his swords and sat down as if willing to let the matter pass.

• Ancestor Minghe Mo drew his sword and protested the treaty, but the Demon and Witch leaders answered by displaying their powerful spiritual treasures.
• Eastern Emperor, Di Jun, Nuwa, and Gong Gong brought out their weapons and forces to show they stood together against Minghe.
• Eastern Hua Dijun sided with the coalition, explaining that his position as the Heavenly Court's Grand Official of Fate limited his impartiality.
• Nuwa caught Fuxi secretly stealing food, and he joined the coalition after she gave him a dangerous smile; he created the Reason Divine Axe and set it on the table.
• With six mighty beings arrayed against him, Minghe sheathed Yuantu and Abi, righted the table, and sat down as though nothing had happened.

The Witch and Demon leaders forced Minghe to endorse their proposed pact to restrict organized forces and suppress Rahu’s remnants. Minghe outwardly submitted while secretly planning to exploit future conflict between the two sides and establish influence through reincarnation; he ended by proposing exceptions to the pact’s restrictions.

• The six Witch and Demon powerhouses intimidated Minghe into sitting down, while Human envoy Xi envied their overwhelming power and wished the Human Race could assemble its own group of top leaders.
• Di Jun asked Minghe to publicly assess the Witch-Demon pact against Rahu’s remnants, and Minghe sarcastically praised the two factions while agreeing to support their actions.
• Di Jun ordered Bai Ze to record Minghe’s praise and Shang Yang to embroider it on a banner, leaving Minghe speechless at the Heavenly Court’s shamelessness.
• Minghe privately expected the Witch-Demon alliance to fracture and considered using the conflict to gain influence in reincarnation through the Asura path.
• Minghe feigned helpless fury, then suggested that the pact should allow necessary processions and the cultivation of successors among divine beings.

Di Jun and the other rulers negotiated restrictions on the Dao lineages and ordered Jieyin Ancient Buddha to search the Blood Sea for Rahu remnants and reform the Asura Clan. After the factions settled their military agreement, Di Jun’s court discussed female representation and praised Nuwa as its female emperor.

• The five Saints supported Minghe’s request for closed cultivation programs, and Di Jun approved them while requiring inspections and methods for suppressing demons.
• Di Jun ordered the Dao lineages to search the Blood Sea for Rahu remnants and guide the Asura Clan away from warfare, appointing Jieyin Ancient Buddha over Lingbao Tianzun.
• Minghe protested the intrusion into his territory as Great Luo from both clans sought concessions and Xi considered whether the Human Race could benefit from their divisions.
• Gong Gong and Di Jun privately agreed that troublesome subordinates might fall in battle, while Emperor Xi and Fuxi teased Nuwa about her political maneuvering.
• After the factions signed the Organized Military Corps Non-Proliferation Agreement, Demon Marshal Jimeng argued that the Heavenly Court needed female representation, and Di Jun praised Nuwa as its female emperor.

The Heavenly Court’s rulers and officials traded praise before addressing concerns that Nuwa was the only female emperor. Lingbao Tianzun proposed promoting female cultivators through education, but Bai Ze urged adding two women to the highest ranks, drawing Ying Zhao’s objection.

• Nuwa, Fuxi, Di Jun, and Tai Yi praised one another’s strengths, while Gong Gong muttered that they were shameless.
• Jimeng warned Di Jun that Nuwa’s status as the only female emperor could fuel resentment and debate about women’s standing.
• Grand Official of Fate proposed laws, and Lingbao Tianzun pledged to promote female cultivators through the Interception Sect’s education system.
• Doumu Yuanjun praised Lingbao and offered to support his disciples seeking positions in the starry sky, while Nuwa and Fuxi recognized the benefits to the sect.
• Bai Ze suggested changing the Heavenly Court’s highest ranks from three men and one woman to three men and three women, and Ying Zhao objected that appointments required proven merit.

Bai Ze proposed marriage as a way to raise female cultivators’ status without granting them substantial authority, prompting criticism and debate among the goddesses. When Tai Yi refused to marry, Di Jun volunteered to marry two goddesses, then suggested they could be sisters as the court reacted in disbelief.

• Bai Ze proposed that the Heavenly Court’s emperors marry goddesses, giving them honored status while keeping their authority tied to merit and ability.
• Nuwa secretly encouraged goddesses to organize and challenge the Heavenly Court’s treatment of women as mascots and Tool Persons.
• Tai Yi refused to marry, saying he would wait until the Human Dao flourished and the Demon Clan’s dream was fulfilled.
• Bai Ze dramatically threatened to kill himself over Tai Yi’s refusal, and Di Jun stopped him and offered to marry two goddesses.
• Nuwa objected to Di Jun’s proposal, while Fuxi questioned whether he could treat both wives and their children equally.
• Di Jun suggested that marrying a pair of sisters would avoid problems, leaving the gods speechless.

At the gods’ assembly, Di Jun argued that marrying a pair of sisters could promote female cultivators’ status while supporting reproduction, but Nuwa countered by creating the Mother-Child River, whose water allowed anyone to conceive. After Fuxi proposed that Di Jun could proceed only if the sisters willingly chose him, Nuwa agreed to support the match and privately revealed that Xi would receive the honorary title Lord of the Clouds.

• Di Jun proposed marrying two goddess sisters, and Fuxi praised the plan as a way to avoid rivalry between unrelated wives.
• Nuwa objected and offered to marry two goddesses herself, arguing that her creation powers could address reproduction without making women mere birth-givers.
• Nuwa created the Mother-Child River, whose water let anyone conceive, and Fuxi warned that it should remain an option rather than become the orthodox family structure.
• Fuxi said Di Jun could pursue the sisters only if they willingly agreed, and Nuwa then offered to bless their marriage and act as matchmaker.
• Nuwa told Xi that he would be nominally assigned to Tai Yi as Lord of the Clouds, an honored post with little authority.
• Xi privately connected Di Jun’s situation to Shun, Ehuang, Nuying, and Lord Xiang and Lady Xiang.

Di Jun proposed to Xihe and Changxi with the stars and his sincerity as betrothal gifts, and promised to respect their freedom if their paths ever diverged. The sisters accepted, and Di Jun announced a grand wedding, though the other Great Luo planned to keep mocking and slandering him afterward.

• Xi privately suspected that the Lord of the Clouds might be tied to hidden secrets, but resolved to observe rather than reveal his guesses.
• Nuwa stopped obstructing Di Jun after Tai Yi intervened, but insisted that Xihe and Changxi must consent freely.
• Di Jun proposed to Xihe and Changxi, promising not to control them or prevent them from leaving if their ideals conflicted.
• Xihe accepted Di Jun's proposal, expressing hope that their affection would last forever, and Changxi agreed alongside her sister.
• Di Jun promised a grand wedding and asked the gathered Great Luo to witness their union.
• The Great Luo publicly offered wedding blessings but privately planned to publish mocking articles about Di Jun, while Gong Gong was buried under thrown dishes after praising Azure Dragon.