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Zhou Ming awakened as the first Ancestral Witch in Pangu Hall, learning that Pangu had placed a refined System Core and insight into the Law of Strength within him. When Heaven-Opening Fiendish Energy began eroding his embryonic Primordial Spirit, Zhou Ming resolved to refine it and protect his ability to change the Witch Clan’s fate.

• Zhou Ming awakened inside a blood cocoon and remembered his death, transmigration, and origins as an Ancestral Witch.
• Zhou Ming learned that Pangu had refined his system, placed its core in his True Spirit, and sent him to gestate in Pangu Hall with a drop of heart blood and insight into the Law of Strength.
• Zhou Ming feared the Witch Clan’s future destruction and resolved to become strong enough to change its fate.
• Heaven-Opening Fiendish Energy attacked Zhou Ming’s embryonic Primordial Spirit, threatening to erode his reason and turn him into a creature ruled by slaughter.
• Zhou Ming used the System Core to shield himself and the Law of Strength as a means to refine the fiendish energy.

Zhou Ming refined the Heaven-Opening Fiendish Energy and realized he had awakened during the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Calamity. He resolved to grow stronger and find a way to help the Twelve Ancestor Witches refine the fiendish energy and preserve the Witch Clan’s future.

• Zhou Ming used the System Core and his insight into the Law of Strength to refine the fiendish energy attacking his Primordial Spirit.
• After refining the energy, Zhou Ming sensed the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans’ slaughter and recognized the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Calamity.
• Zhou Ming assessed his advantages and weaknesses and worried that the other Ancestor Witches might be unable to form Primordial Spirits.
• Zhou Ming planned to complete his transformation, develop a method to help the other Ancestor Witches, and remain hidden in Pangu Hall.
• Zhou Ming sensed the twelve sleeping blood cocoons and vowed to fight for a different future for the Witch Clan.

Zhou Ming continued refining Heaven-Opening Fiendish Energy and strengthening his Primordial Spirit inside Pangu Hall while the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans plunged the Primordial Wilderness into war. As the calamity intensified, he resolved to cultivate faster and prepare to protect himself and the future Witch Clan.

• Zhou Ming used the Dao Origin Divine Pearl and the Law of Strength to refine fiendish energy and strengthen his Primordial Spirit.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and the First Qilin led their clans to conquer territory, gather Destiny, and advance to Primordial Golden Immortal.
• The three clans’ conflicts escalated into all-out warfare, devastating the Primordial Wilderness and spreading Tribulation Fiendish Energy.
• Zhou Ming sensed the slaughter outside Pangu Hall and recognized that the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Calamity had reached its most intense stage.
• Zhou Ming decided to accelerate his cultivation and prepare for the future emergence of the Witch Clan before returning his attention to training.

After cultivating for countless years in Pangu Hall, Zhou Ming completed his form transformation and emerged as an Early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal with an Ancestral Witch Body. He found that the Dao Origin Divine Pearl could purify fiendish energy too slowly to help his Twelve Younger Siblings, and began considering a cultivation method that would let them refine it themselves.

• Zhou Ming cultivated in the blood cocoon until his Primordial Spirit and understanding of the Law of Strength reached the point needed for form transformation.
• Zhou Ming shattered the blood cocoon and emerged with an Ancestral Witch Body and the cultivation of an Early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.
• Zhou Ming resolved to help his Twelve Younger Siblings avoid their tragic future and began refining the Dao Origin Divine Pearl.
• Zhou Ming refined eighteen of the pearl's forty-nine Innate Restraining Spells, then tested its ability to absorb and purify fiendish energy from a blood cocoon.
• Zhou Ming realized the pearl refined fiendish energy too slowly and considered creating a cultivation method that would let his siblings refine it themselves.

Zhou Ming created the Nine Revolutions Sha Quenching Art to help the Twelve Ancestor Witches refine the fiendish energy eroding them, then imprinted it into all twelve blood cocoons. When Dijiang’s consciousness awakened and the fiendish energy threatened to overwhelm it, Zhou Ming guided him through the art and stabilized him.

• Zhou Ming spent ten thousand years combining Pangu’s bloodline, the Law of Strength, and the Dao Origin Divine Pearl to devise the Nine Revolutions Sha Quenching Art.
• Zhou Ming used the Dao Origin Divine Pearl and their shared bloodline to imprint the cultivation art into all twelve blood cocoons.
• The art began slowly refining fiendish energy, and over the next ten thousand years the cocoons’ life force grew stronger as their surface fiendish energy thinned.
• Dijiang’s consciousness awakened, but the accelerated fiendish energy threatened to tear apart his fragile mind.
• Zhou Ming shielded Dijiang with the Dao Origin Divine Pearl and guided him to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Sha Quenching Art, easing his pain and nourishing his consciousness.

Zhou Ming reached the mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal while guiding the future Ancestral Witches, as the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans fought a devastating war. After the three leaders sacrificed themselves to suppress the damage, the calamity ended, and Zhou Ming resolved to strengthen the Witch Clan before the next great conflicts.

• Zhou Ming repeatedly guided the awakening Ancestral Witches in stabilizing their consciousness and cultivating the Nine Revolutions Sha Quenching Art.
• Zhou Ming broke through to the mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal and vowed to grow stronger to protect the Witch Clan.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and First Qilin led their clans into a final battle that devastated the Primordial World and left all three clans gravely weakened.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and First Qilin each swore an oath to suppress part of the world, sacrificing themselves to contain the damage and their clans' sins.
• The Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Calamity ended, and Zhou Ming recognized that the Dao-Devil War and the Witch-Demon conflict were approaching, so he returned to cultivation.

Zhou Ming collected and refined baleful energy to nourish the Twelve Ancestor Witches, gaining merit as they grew stronger. After Luohu’s self-detonation ended the Dao-Demon War and brought a brief peace, Zhou Ming stayed focused on preparing for the coming era and changing the Witch Clan’s fate.

• Zhou Ming left Pangu Hall to gather baleful energy near Buzhou Mountain and fed the refined energy to the Twelve Ancestor Witches.
• As he repeatedly collected baleful energy, the Ancestor Witches grew stronger, Zhou Ming deepened his cultivation, and merit entered his Primordial Spirit and Dao Origin Divine Pearl.
• When the Dao-Demon War began, Zhou Ming avoided the fighting and continued cultivating inside Pangu Hall.
• Luohu vowed to establish the Demonic Path, then self-detonated in the West, destroying nine-tenths of its spirit vein and ending the war with Hongjun’s victory.
• Hongjun suppressed the demonic energy and withdrew to Yujing Mountain, while the Primordial World entered a brief period of peace.
• Zhou Ming resolved to grow stronger so he could change the Witch Clan’s fate as the Twelve Ancestor Witches neared their transformation.

Nearly a kalpa after the Dao-Devil War, Zhou Ming prepared the Witch Clan to leave Pangu Hall and gather strength for the coming age of great contention. He sent two groups on missions and planned to take four Ancestral Witches to Buzhou Mountain to seek gifts from Father God's will by crying pitifully.

• Zhou Ming reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and refined thirty Innate restrictions in the Dao Origin Divine Pearl.
• Zhou Ming assigned Dijiang, Qiangliang, Tianwu, and Xizi to gather treasures across the Primordial Wilderness while avoiding conflict.
• Zhou Ming sent Zhujiuyin, Gou Mang, Rushou, and Yanzi west with the Dao Origin Divine Pearl to repair earth veins and refine baleful aura.
• Zhou Ming took Zhurong, Gonggong, Xuanming, and Houtu to Buzhou Mountain to pay respects to Father God's legacy and seek benefits from his will.
• Zhou Ming told Xuanming and Houtu to cry as miserably as possible, and the four Ancestral Witches agreed to follow his plan.

Zhou Ming led Zhurong, Gonggong, Xuanming, and Houtu up Buzhou Mountain and staged a tearful plea to Pangu’s Will for treasures to protect the Witch Clan. Pangu revealed the location of a Jade Tablet of Creation fragment and the Pure World White Lotus, then directed the Ancestral Witches to awaken the inheritance he had left in their bloodlines; Zhou Ming set off to retrieve the fragment.

• Zhou Ming brought Zhurong, Gonggong, Xuanming, and Houtu up Buzhou Mountain and urged them to cry to Pangu’s Will for the Witch Clan’s sake.
• Zhou Ming lamented the siblings’ future, prompting Houtu, Xuanming, Zhurong, and Gonggong to join his plea for treasures.
• Zhou Ming asked Pangu’s Will for the Green Lotus of Creation, but it said the lotus had to return to the Three Pure Ones.
• Zhou Ming named other legendary treasures, and Pangu’s Will revealed that a Jade Tablet of Creation fragment lay ten thousand zhang above them and the Pure World White Lotus was on Fangzhang or Yingzhou, locatable with the Earth Book.
• Pangu’s Will told the Ancestral Witches to awaken the inheritance imprint in their bloodlines, and Zhou Ming led the group toward the Jade Tablet fragment.

Zhou Ming led four Ancestral Witches up Buzhou Mountain, where they found the Fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation and secured it in Pangu Hall. Ten thousand years later, the other Ancestral Witches returned with treasures and merit, and Zhou Ming organized the clan’s next period of cultivation.

• Zhou Ming guided Zhurong, Gonggong, Xuanming, and Houtu up Buzhou Mountain and helped them find the Fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation beneath a bluestone.
• Zhou Ming concealed the fragment’s aura and placed it in the deepest part of Pangu Hall before sending the four Ancestral Witches to cultivate.
• After ten thousand years, Dijiang and Zhujiuyin returned to Pangu Hall with the other Ancestral Witches, bringing treasures and the Dao Origin Divine Pearl filled with merit.
• Zhou Ming praised their gains, outlined the Witch Clan’s need to strengthen itself and awaken its bloodline inheritance, and began arranging the returned treasures.

As Innate Great Gods emerged across the Primordial Wilderness, the Ancestral Witches followed Zhou Ming’s advice to avoid needless conflicts and gather resources. Zhou Ming proved Dao by Law and broke through to the early Primordial Golden Immortal realm, leaving him better prepared to face the coming age.

• The Three Pure Ones, Di Jun and Taiyi, Nuwa and Fuxi, Jieyin and Zhunti, Zhen Yuanzi, Ancestor Minghe, and other Innate Great Gods emerged as the Primordial Wilderness entered an age of great contention.
• The Ancestral Witches traveled the Primordial Wilderness, avoided powerful Great Gods, and focused on gathering resources rather than starting conflicts.
• Xuanming and Houtu agreed that the Ancestral Witches should build their strength and open the inheritance left by Father God.
• Zhou Ming used the Dao Origin Divine Pearl and the Fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation to comprehend the laws and prove Dao by Law.
• Zhou Ming broke through to the early Primordial Golden Immortal realm, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed his new power.
• Zhou Ming reflected that his breakthrough gave him a stronger foundation and more time before Hongjun proved Dao.

After emerging from seclusion, Zhou Ming helped the Twelve Ancestor Witches create new Witch Clan members, then led them into another long period of cultivation while his Avatar traveled the Primordial Wilderness. The story left the world reacting to Hongjun’s announcement that he had attained Sainthood and would preach at Zixiao Palace in three thousand years.

• Zhou Ming agreed to help the Twelve Ancestor Witches create more clan members, on the condition that they cultivate in seclusion until Hongjun attained Sainthood.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches added their Essence Blood to the Blood Pool, while Zhou Ming used the Dao Origin Divine Pearl to aid the blood cocoons’ growth; the newborn Witches had powerful bodies but no Primordial Spirits.
• Zhou Ming split off parts of his Primordial Spirit, created an Avatar, and sent it out under the name Wu Ming to manage Witch Clan affairs and form connections, especially with Zhen Yuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple.
• Zhou Ming’s true body and the Twelve Ancestor Witches entered deep seclusion to study Pangu’s inheritance, while Wu Ming traveled and befriended Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun.
• Hongjun announced that he had attained Sainthood and would preach the Dao at Zixiao Palace in three thousand years.

After Hongjun became a Sage and announced a sermon at Zixiao Palace, Wu Ming persuaded the Twelve Ancestor Witches to attend so they could learn from and assess the Dao. Wu Ming led them through the Chaos, and they arrived at the palace alongside other powerful figures.

• Wu Ming suggested that Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun attend Hongjun's sermon at Zixiao Palace, and they agreed to meet there in three thousand years.
• Wu Ming informed Zhou Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches that Hongjun had attained Sagehood and would preach at Zixiao Palace.
• Zhou Ming agreed that the Twelve Ancestor Witches should attend, and Wu Ming accepted the Dao Origin Divine Pearl to conceal their Heavenly Secrets.
• Wu Ming led the Twelve Ancestor Witches through the Chaos, where they spotted other figures heading toward the sermon, including Laozi and two beings from the Sun Star.
• Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches reached Zixiao Palace and prepared to approach it.

Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches arrived at Zixiao Palace to await Hongjun’s lecture, drawing the Sage’s attention because all thirteen possessed Primordial Spirits. When the palace opened, six powerful figures claimed the front Cushions while Wu Ming and the Witches settled behind Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun to await the lecture.

• Wu Ming led the Twelve Ancestor Witches to Zixiao Palace, where they waited among the gathered Innate Great Gods and greeted Zhen Yuanzi and Daoist Hongyun.
• Hongjun observed the arrivals and was astonished that Wu Ming and all twelve Ancestor Witches possessed Primordial Spirits, but he could not discern how the change had occurred.
• At Hongjun’s command, Haotian and Yaochi opened the palace gates, and the assembled great gods rushed inside to claim the six front Cushions.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, Shangqing Tongtian, Nuwa, Kunpeng, and Daoist Hongyun secured the Cushions, with Zhen Yuanzi helping Hongyun fend off Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Wu Ming led the Twelve Ancestor Witches to seats behind Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun, and they waited quietly for Hongjun to begin his lecture.

Wu Ming warned Hong Yun not to give up his seat, but Jieyin and Zhunti arrived at the Zixiao Palace and used feigned grief to persuade Hong Yun to surrender it. Jieyin and Zhunti took the seats, leaving Hong Yun regretful and Wu Ming convinced fate had prevailed.

• Wu Ming warned Hong Yun not to casually give away his Cushion, and Hong Yun thanked him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived at the Zixiao Palace, saw the occupied Cushions, and lamented their long journey and lack of seats.
• Zhunti and Jieyin's performance upset the gathered Great Beings, while Wu Ming watched to see what Hong Yun would do.
• Hong Yun gave his Cushion to Jieyin and Zhunti despite remembering Wu Ming's warning.
• Zhunti and Jieyin quickly sat on the vacated Cushion and the adjacent spot, while Hong Yun silently regretted the loss.

Zhunti and Jieyin forced Kunpeng to surrender his Cushion after Yuanshi insulted him and the other beings born from beasts, moisture, and eggs. When Hongjun began his lecture, he declared that everyone must keep the seat they occupied, leaving Kunpeng furious and Hong Yun regretful while the brothers celebrated their gain.

• Zhunti and Jieyin tried to persuade Kunpeng to give up his Cushion, but Kunpeng refused and told them to get lost.
• Yuanshi insulted Kunpeng and other beings over their origins, while the Three Pure Ones and Jieyin and Zhunti’s pressure left Kunpeng isolated.
• Kunpeng abandoned the Cushion and moved to a corner; Jieyin took the vacated seat and thanked Yuanshi.
• Wu Ming warned the Twelve Ancestor Witches that the weak could not protect their position in the Primordial Wilderness.
• After three thousand years, Haotian and Yaochi closed the palace gates, and Hongjun appeared to begin the lecture.
• Hongjun declared that everyone would listen according to their current seats, making Kunpeng furious, Hong Yun regretful, and Zhunti and Jieyin delighted.

Hongjun delivered the first of his three sermons, explaining the cultivation realms and teaching the Heavenly Immortal path. After the sermon, Wu Ming invited Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun to visit Pangu Hall, while Hong Yun remained distressed over losing the opportunity connected to the Cushion.

• Hongjun divided his sermons into three sessions and described the realms of Da Luo, Quasi-Saint, and Sage, declaring that all beneath a Sage were ants.
• Hongjun expounded the Heavenly Immortal realm for ten thousand years, and Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches compared his teachings with their own understanding of the laws.
• Hongjun ended the sermon and announced that he would preach the Quasi-Saint Path after thirty thousand years.
• Wu Ming invited Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun to visit Pangu Hall and discuss their insights, and both agreed to come after retreating to cultivate.
• Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches departed for Buzhou Mountain, while Zhen Yuanzi comforted Hong Yun and invited him to cultivate in seclusion at Wuzhuang Temple.

After returning from Zixiao Palace, Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches cultivated for ten thousand years, then hosted Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun for a discussion of the Dao. Wu Ming asked Hong Yun why he had surrendered his Cushion, and Hong Yun revealed that compassion and a terrible premonition had driven his choice.

• Wu Ming shared what he had learned in Zixiao Palace, and Zhou Ming led the Twelve Ancestor Witches into seclusion to study Hongjun’s immortal path alongside the Law of Strength.
• Ten thousand years later, Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches emerged with stronger cultivation, while other mighty figures across the Primordial Wilderness also left seclusion.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun visited Wu Ming at Buzhou Mountain, where they and the Twelve Ancestor Witches spent a thousand years discussing the Dao.
• Wu Ming asked Hong Yun why he had given his Cushion to Zhunti despite being warned of its importance.
• Hong Yun said Jieyin and Zhunti’s pleas stirred his compassion, but he also felt that keeping the seat would bring a Heaven-shaking catastrophe upon him.

Wu Ming explained that the six Cushions in Zixiao Palace had been set aside for future Sages, and that Hong Yun had been unable to keep his seat because of the Heavenly Dao’s arrangements. He warned that Kunpeng would blame Hong Yun for losing his own chance, then promised a way to resolve their grudge after the Third Preaching if Hong Yun accepted the price.

• Hong Yun told Wu Ming that an intense Sense of Crisis had driven him to give up his seat, leaving him with deep regret.
• Wu Ming revealed to Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi that the six Cushions had been prepared for the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti, who were destined to become Sages.
• Wu Ming explained that Kunpeng would blame Hong Yun for losing the fifth Cushion and would not believe that the positions had been predetermined.
• Wu Ming said he could offer a way to settle Hong Yun’s Karma with Kunpeng after the Third Preaching, and Hong Yun vowed to pay any price.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun thanked Wu Ming, said farewell, and left Buzhou Mountain.

While the Twelve Ancestor Witches and other powerful figures traveled and deepened their understanding of the Dao, the Three Pure Ones found the Green Lotus of Creation and claimed its three transformed treasures. As Hongjun’s second lecture approached, Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches departed for Zixiao Palace.

• Wu Ming allowed the Twelve Ancestor Witches time to visit their tribes or travel before returning for the second lecture, and they inspected the orderly Witch Clan settlement beneath Buzhou Mountain.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches and Wu Ming traveled separately through the Primordial Wilderness to study its laws, while the Three Pure Ones also left Kunlun Mountain to pursue their understanding of the Dao.
• At Buzhou Mountain, the Three Pure Ones found the Twenty-Fourth Grade Green Lotus of Creation; its red flower became Laozi’s Coiled Dragon Cudgel, its white lotus root became Yuanshi’s Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and its green leaf became Tongtian’s Qingping Sword.
• As Hongjun’s second lecture drew near, Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, Fuxi, Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, and Kunpeng set out for Zixiao Palace.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches returned to Pangu Hall with stronger command of their laws, and Wu Ming led them toward Zixiao Palace.

Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches attended Hongjun’s second sermon at Zixiao Palace and studied his teachings on the Quasi-Saint Path. Hongjun explained the Three Corpses method and answered questions about using Innate Spiritual Treasures, leaving Di Jun’s question about other paths to Sainthood unanswered.

• Wu Ming greeted Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun at Zixiao Palace before the gathered cultivators took their seats.
• Hongjun began a ten-thousand-year sermon on the Quasi-Saint Path, which Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestor Witches compared with their understanding of laws.
• Hongjun explained the Good, Evil, and Self Corpses and described how severing them could lead toward the Hunyuan Dao Fruit and Sainthood.
• Taiqing asked how to sever the Three Corpses, and Hongjun said an Innate Spiritual Treasure could carry each thought.
• Yuanshi asked whether a spiritual treasure was consumed when severing a corpse, and Hongjun said it remained usable after merging with the corpse.
• Di Jun asked whether severing the Three Corpses was the only path to Sainthood.

Hongjun explained the three paths to Sainthood, and Wu Ming concluded that the Witch Clan needed to pursue Proving Dao by Law. Before leaving, Hongjun appointed East Prince Gong and West Queen Mother as leaders of the male and female immortals, then announced another lecture in thirty thousand years.

• Hongjun described Proving Dao by Force, Severing Three Corpses, and Merit, while Wu Ming considered which paths suited the Witch Clan and Houtu.
• Hongjun named East Prince Gong the leader of the male immortals and gave him the Dragon Head Staff.
• Hongjun named West Queen Mother the leader of the female immortals and gave her the Western Plain Colored Cloud Banner.
• East Prince Gong praised Hongjun as the Dao Ancestor, drawing mixed reactions from the gathered figures.
• Hongjun announced he would lecture on the Hunyuan Dao Fruit in thirty thousand years, then vanished as Zixiao Palace's gates opened.

Nearly ten thousand years after Hongjun’s lecture, Wu Ming proposed formally establishing the Witch Clan to earn Heaven and Earth’s recognition and gather merit and clan fortune, enabling them to pursue Proving Dao by Law. The Ancestor Witches agreed, and they planned to establish the clan at Buzhou Mountain in a hundred years.

• After the second lecture on the Dao, the Three Pure Ones, Di Jun and Taiyi, Nuwa and Fuxi, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hong Yun departed, leaving Wu Ming with the Twelve Ancestor Witches.
• Ten thousand years later, Wu Ming summoned the Ancestor Witches and warned that rising conflict over Innate Spiritual Treasures was increasing baleful energy throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Wu Ming explained that establishing the Witch Clan and vowing to clear baleful energy, regulate earth veins, and aid the Primordial World would win recognition, merit, and clan fortune.
• Houtu, Zhujiuyin, and Dijiang supported Wu Ming’s proposal, and the other Ancestor Witches also agreed.
• Wu Ming set the formal establishment of the Witch Clan before Pangu Hall at Buzhou Mountain for a hundred years later.

Wu Ming and the Twelve Ancestral Witches formally established the Witch Clan with an oath to cleanse fiendish energy, regulate the earth veins, and protect the Primordial Wilderness, earning vast merit. As other powers reacted to the Witch Clan’s rise, Di Jun and Taiyi began planning the Demon Clan’s establishment and sought to recruit Nuwa and Fuxi; Wu Ming ordered the Witch Clan to begin its work.

• Wu Ming led the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Witch Clan warriors in an oath establishing the clan and pledging to protect the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Great Dao, Pangu’s remnant will, and the Heavenly Dao responded, and golden merit strengthened Wu Ming, the Ancestral Witches, and the gathered warriors.
• Hongjun noticed the Witch Clan’s vow and merit, recognized Wu Ming as a variable, and decided it did not yet threaten the greater trend.
• Mighty figures across the Primordial Wilderness reacted to the Witch Clan’s rise, while Di Jun and Taiyi decided to recruit Nuwa and Fuxi before establishing the Demon Clan.
• Wu Ming ordered the Witch Clan warriors to leave Buzhou Mountain, refine fiendish energy, and regulate the earth veins.

Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun visited Wu Ming, who explained the Witch Clan’s purpose and its path to proving the Dao by Law. Wu Ming asked Hong Yun to notify him when a foretold opportunity appeared near Buzhou Mountain, and the three ended their meeting by discussing the Dao.

• The Witch Clan spread across the Primordial Wilderness to refine baleful aura, repair earth veins, and harmonize the Five Elements.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun visited Wu Ming and discussed the Witch Clan’s vow and the Demon Clan’s ambitions.
• Wu Ming said the Witch Clan sought merit and a path to survival, not supremacy, and planned to prove the Dao by Law.
• Wu Ming advised Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun to keep cultivating their understanding of the laws, whatever path they chose.
• Wu Ming told Hong Yun that a major opportunity would appear near Buzhou Mountain and asked him to notify the Witch Clan when he sensed it; Hong Yun agreed.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, and Wu Ming sat together in Pangu Hall and began discussing the Dao.