Bai Qi led a group of remaining Witch descendants quietly across the Nine Provinces, gathering every kind of the world's hardest metals—mysterious iron, geng metal, starfall essence, and more. After repeated forging and tempering, he finally refined twelve jet-black banner flags. The faces of the twelve Demon Gods were embossed upon the banners in wrathful visages, while ancient Witch Script slithered across them like living snakes. Their Sha Qi condensed without dispersing, rolling in billowing waves—these were the long-lost Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Array, reforged at last! He swore to have this world-destroying fiendish array shatter the peace of the Three Realms once more!
The moment this array emerged, the Three Realms trembled. During the Witch-Demon War of old, this array had collided with the Demon Race's Myriad Stars Great Array, collapsing the ridge of Buzhou Mountain and tearing apart the primordial continent, creating the present layout of the Earthly Immortal Realm. How could the immortals and Buddhas stand idly by now? At once, they activated the vast righteous qi of heaven and earth as a catalyst, sending down eighty-one Zixiao Divine Thunders in succession. Wrapped in mighty righteousness, the lightning came solely to destroy this array.
Bai Qi had long laid out his scheme: he used the million wronged souls of Changping as the catalyst, sealing their sky-reaching resentment and feeding it back into the array's eye; above, he connected to the Northern Dipper Seven Luminaries and the Southern Dipper Six Offices, while below, he linked the Netherworld Blood Sea and the ghostly veins of Yin Mountain, drawing the yin Sha and ghost qi of both realms into the formation—this was a declaration to the Three Realms: this array had to be completed!
That day, the heavenly vault underwent a violent change. Thunderclouds churned as if boiling, and