Chapter Summaries

Taiyi warned Di Xin that Western Buddhism was disrupting Great Shang and then traveled to Flower Fruit Mountain to meet Sun Wukong. He reached the mountain and forced a wary Great Elder monkey to lead him to the Great King.

• Taiyi told Di Xin that a new calamity had begun and urged him to prepare for Western Buddhism’s interference in Great Shang.
• Di Xin resolved to deal with any descendants who betrayed Great Shang, then summoned his officials to the Hall of Heavenly Mandate.
• Taiyi traveled to Flower Fruit Mountain in Aolai Country, where a boatman warned him about the dangerous monkeys.
• Monkeys attacked Taiyi with rotten peaches, but his invisible barrier stopped them, and their Great Elder sent a messenger to alert the Great King.
• Taiyi immobilized the messenger and compelled the Great Elder to take him to the Great King.

Taiyi took the Handsome Monkey King to the Sun Star, accepted him as his disciple, and transformed him into Sun Wukong with Creation’s profound essence. He left Sun Wukong in a world of his own creation to train through ninety-nine tribulations, where Sun Wukong found himself surrounded by ominous eyes.

• The Handsome Monkey King challenged Taiyi’s claim to be the Supreme of the Sun Star and refused to accept him as a master.
• Taiyi seized the Handsome Monkey King and brought him to the Sun Star, where the frightened monkey pleaded to be sent home.
• Taiyi offered the Handsome Monkey King the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill and Creation’s profound essence, then named him Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong.
• Sun Wukong accepted Taiyi as his master, absorbed the essence, and awoke with a vastly strengthened body and divine power.
• Taiyi took Sun Wukong to the Little Chaos Pearl Heavenly Dao World and said he must reach the sixth revolution and Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm before they met again.
• Taiyi dropped Sun Wukong into a gloomy region as a ninety-nine-tribulation training ground, and Sun Wukong cursed his master as eerie eyes watched him.

Taiyi’s actions derailed the Heavenly Dao’s original Journey to the West plan, prompting it to create a replacement Stone Monkey on Flower-Fruit Mountain. As Taiyi continued studying the Great Dao of Emptiness, the system offered him a choice when Zhurong’s scattered true-spirit fragments finally returned, and he chose to keep cultivating.

• Taiyi took Sun Wukong as his disciple, disrupting the Heavenly Dao’s Journey to the West plan.
• The Heavenly Dao created a new Nine-Aperture Immortal Stone, which gave birth to a Stone Monkey and two fairies, Zixia Fairy and the Flower Fairy.
• Taiyi continued comprehending the Great Dao of Emptiness and considered how mastering it could let him travel between worlds.
• The system notified Taiyi that Zhurong’s remaining true-spirit fragments had returned and offered him Fire Dao Source for reviving Zhurong or Alchemy Dao Source for ignoring the matter.
• Taiyi chose to ignore Zhurong’s revival and continue cultivating in the Land of Return to Emptiness.

Taiyi completed his thirty-thousand-year seclusion after comprehending the Grand Dao of Pills. He learned that Chiyou’s remnant soul had reincarnated as Bai Qi and was facing a massive Heavenly Court force after burying four hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers alive.

• Taiyi swallowed the Source of the Grand Dao of Pills and spent thirty thousand years refining and comprehending it.
• The Heavenly Dao Stone Monkey left Subhuti’s tutelage, took treasures from Ao Guang, and proclaimed himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
• The Lingming Stone Monkey reached the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm but remained in seclusion to pursue quasi-sainthood.
• Goddess Houtu revived Zhurong, Shebishi, and Qiangliang.
• Taiyi finished comprehending the pill Dao and received a system prompt offering rewards for choosing how to respond to Chiyou’s reincarnation.
• Taiyi learned that Bai Qi had buried four hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers alive, prompting Haotian to send a million troops and powerful generals to capture him.

Taiyi concluded that Bai Qi, Chiyou’s reincarnation, was central to the Journey to the West Calamity and chose to protect him. He ordered King Di Xin to bring Bai Qi into Great Shang, while Taiyi prepared to handle the Heavenly Court’s pursuit.

• After reviewing his avatar’s report, Taiyi chose to protect Chiyou and disrupt the calamity’s course.
• Taiyi’s heart-demon avatar saw calamity aura linking Southern Jambudvipa to Flower-Fruit Mountain and suspected the Heavenly Dao was using the stone monkey’s rampages to stoke conflict.
• Taiyi decided his avatar would act to help Bai Qi, since it could not withstand the Heavenly Court’s elite forces alone.
• Taiyi contacted King Di Xin through his Imperial Preceptor avatar and told him the calamity had begun and Bai Qi was its protagonist.
• King Di Xin agreed to receive Bai Qi into Great Shang, and Taiyi said he would handle the rest as Bai Qi fought the Heavenly Court’s pursuers.

Chiyou, reincarnated as Bai Qi, fought off the Heavenly Court’s forces until his depleted strength began to fail. Huang Feihu arrived with a Human Race army under King Di Xin’s orders, forcing Li Jing to end the capture attempt and leave Chiyou under Great Shang’s protection.

• Bai Qi killed two Heavenly Generals and taunted the million Heavenly Soldiers and Generals surrounding him.
• Li Jing ordered the Heavenly forces to attack Chiyou, who began to falter after his mana dwindled and he faced a Bear Demon Heavenly General’s siege.
• Huang Feihu arrived with a powerful Human Race army, and a white-robed general killed a Heavenly Soldier who attacked him.
• Huang Feihu rebuked Li Jing for entering Great Shang territory without permission and warned that the trespass could provoke a war between Heaven and Man.
• Chiyou thanked Huang Feihu, who said King Di Xin deserved the thanks, and the Heavenly Court abandoned its attempt to capture Chiyou.
• Haotian flew into a rage but avoided violating Human Race territory, while Taiyi’s incarnation on the Sun Star smiled as his mission ended.

Goddess Houtu visited Chaoge Imperial City, became fascinated by its modern inventions and entertainment, and forgot her planned meeting with Human King Di Xin. Taiyi found her at a movie screening and reminded her of the visit, which she had missed.

• After hearing of Bai Qi, Goddess Houtu sent a clone to Chaoge Imperial City to see Human King Di Xin.
• Goddess Houtu disguised herself as a Human Race maiden and toured the city, marveling at its vehicles, buildings, lamps, popsicles, and wired telephones.
• Human King Di Xin waited anxiously for Goddess Houtu, while Taiyi went to find out why she had not arrived.
• Taiyi found Goddess Houtu watching films at an open-air Film Studio and heard her lamenting the characters' unhappy love stories.
• Taiyi invited Goddess Houtu out, and she realized she had forgotten her planned visit to Human King Di Xin and apologized.

Goddess Houtu visited Bai Qi, the reincarnation of Chiyou, and offered him a choice between returning to the Witch Clan or remaining with the Human Race. Bai Qi chose the Human Race, and King Di Xin appointed him the forefather of military strategy for Great Shang.

• Goddess Houtu watched the Human Race's cannon exercise with Taiyi and acknowledged its potential, while Taiyi noted that its weapons still could not kill even a weak Earth Immortal.
• Goddess Houtu met Bai Qi and offered to restore his Great Witch body or support his cultivation as a Human.
• Bai Qi chose to remain with the Human Race, and Goddess Houtu gave him an Earth Elemental Divine Crystal to strengthen his body.
• Bai Qi told King Di Xin that he wanted to explore the Human Race's cultivation path and was astonished by its martial arts and Di Xin's long reign.
• King Di Xin appointed Bai Qi the forefather of military strategy for Great Shang, and Bai Qi accepted.

Taiyi chose cultivation over helping Houtu revive the Ancestral Witches, gaining the Taishi and Great Dao of Evil Sources. He mastered the Great Dao of Evil without being consumed by it, adding it to the Dao Fruits under his command.

• Taiyi refined the Great Dao of Carnage Source and continued comprehending the Great Dao of Ruin in the Land of Return to Emptiness.
• After the system offered him a choice when Gonggong and Tianwu’s true spirit remnants were recalled, Taiyi chose to ignore the matter and received the Taishi Great Dao Source.
• Taiyi swallowed and refined the Taishi Great Dao Source, then entered seclusion to comprehend the Taishi Great Dao.
• When Houtu recalled Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin’s true spirit remnants, Taiyi chose cultivation over helping her and received the Great Dao of Evil Source.
• Taiyi swallowed the Great Dao of Evil Source and used Pangu’s primordial spirit to suppress its attempt to consume him, mastering the Great Dao of Evil.

After comprehending the Great Dao of Emptiness, Taiyi left the Land of Return to Emptiness in thought and received the Heavenly Dao Starry Sky Great Formation through the system. As the Heavenly Dao used its formation to convert Chaos Energy and nourish the Primordial World, Taiyi realized it was preparing to escape the world’s confines.

• Taiyi learned that Rushou and Jumang had returned, refused the system’s selection missions, and gained the Sources of the Great Dao of Sound and Witch.
• Taiyi comprehended the Great Dao of Emptiness and realized Sun Wukong had been suppressed beneath Red Cloud Buddha’s Five Finger Mountain.
• Taiyi chose to let Hongjun deduce the Heavenly Dao Starry Sky Great Formation and received its inheritance.
• The Heavenly Dao formed an independent chaotic formation around Purple Cloud Palace, devouring Chaos Energy and sending Primordial Spiritual Energy into the Primordial World.
• The Nine Sages and other powerful beings noticed the formation’s effects but could not determine the Heavenly Dao’s purpose.
• Taiyi fused the Heavenly Dao’s formation with his own and concluded that the Heavenly Dao was trying to sever its ties to the Primordial World and escape its restrictions.

Taiyi observed the Heavenly Dao’s new Starry Sky Great Formation drawing Chaos Qi into the Primordial World, restoring its spiritual energy and delaying the Journey to the West Calamity. The Sages recognized the change, Haotian worried about his position, and the devas benefited from the influx of spiritual energy.

• Taiyi watched the Heavenly Dao assemble the Primordial Starry Sky into a vast formation that converted Chaos Qi into Primordial Spiritual Energy.
• Taiyi sensed that the restored spiritual energy would renew the Primordial World and ease the calamity aura, delaying the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Nüwa, Houtu, Buddha Zhunti, Amitabha Buddha, Zhen Yuanzi, Zhu Long, and Master Tongtian discovered the Heavenly Dao’s intervention, while Buddha Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha feared it would obstruct Buddhism’s rise.
• Haotian realized that the Heavenly Dao had replaced Hongjun and worried whether he should resign or act as if he knew nothing.
• The devas received the first influx of Primordial Spiritual Energy and broke through cultivation bottlenecks.

Taiyi chose a Wind and Cloud Great Dao Source rather than help revive Xizi and Xuanming, then went to the Netherworld to advise Houtu. When the Heavenly Dao summoned Houtu, Taiyi told her to ignore it and focus on reviving the Ancestral Witches, and she agreed.

• The Heavenly Dao summoned the Nine Sages to the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace, while Taiyi received a system choice concerning the revival of Xizi and Xuanming.
• Taiyi chose the Wind and Cloud Great Dao Source, reasoning that Houtu’s revived Twelve Ancestral Witches could become a threat to the Heavenly Dao if they proved Dao and reunited.
• Taiyi refined the Wind and Cloud Great Dao Source as he headed toward the Netherworld to meet Houtu.
• Houtu hesitated over the Heavenly Dao’s summons but decided to go to the Purple Cloud Palace before Taiyi appeared and asked where she was going.
• Taiyi told Houtu to return and prioritize reviving the Ancestral Witches, and she brought him back to the Netherworld.

Taiyi visited the underworld with Houtu and toured the Pangu Shrine, where he learned that the Heart of Pangu lay hidden deep within it. He gave Xingtian and Hou Yi law sources to help their cultivation, then relaxed as Houtu entertained him with Witch Clan cuisine.

• Taiyi and Houtu traveled through the underworld before arriving at the Pangu Shrine.
• Houtu explained that the recovered spirits of the eleven Ancestral Witches were sealed in statues until she could safely resurrect them.
• Taiyi gave Xingtian and Hou Yi the War Law Source and Archery Law Source, encouraging them to become Ancestral Witches.
• Inside the shrine, Taiyi sensed the Heart of Pangu but showed no interest in taking it, easing Houtu's concerns.
• Houtu served Taiyi a feast of Witch Clan meat dishes while they postponed discussing the Ancestral Witches' resurrection.

Taiyi learned that the Witch Clan had refused to use the Heart of Pangu because doing so would sacrifice their hope of reviving their creator and end the clan’s ability to produce new members. Moved by the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ devotion, Taiyi said that once they all became Sages, he might be able to restore Pangu’s soul, leaving Houtu stunned.

• Taiyi connected the Witch Dao’s origin to the Heart of Pangu and considered whether Pangu might be revived.
• Taiyi asked Houtu why the Ancestral Witches had not used the Heart of Pangu to save themselves, and Houtu explained that doing so would destroy their chance to revive Pangu and cut off the Witch Clan’s future.
• Taiyi realized that the Witch Clan’s struggles and sacrifices had been devoted to reviving Pangu, and he bowed to honor the Ancestral Witches’ resolve.
• Taiyi told Houtu that he might be able to restore Pangu’s soul after all Twelve Ancestral Witches became Sages, and Houtu reacted with shock.

Taiyi agreed to help Houtu revive the eleven fallen Ancestral Witches, though he could not guarantee whether a revived Pangu would be the same person. Houtu successfully restored her brothers and sister with Taiyi’s aid, but Taiyi concluded that something was still lacking.

• Houtu excitedly asked Taiyi whether he could revive Pangu, and offered the Witch Clan’s allegiance if he could.
• Taiyi said he would attempt to revive Pangu if his sister could help the Twelve Ancestral Witches attain sainthood, while warning that the revived Pangu might not be the same.
• Houtu used Pangu Blood Essence, Nine Heavens Breath Soil, and Three Lights Divine Water to mold the eleven fallen Ancestral Witches, while Taiyi supplied their Laws and strengthened their bodies.
• Houtu and Taiyi revived Dijiang first, then restored the other ten Ancestral Witches to Great Perfection of the Golden Immortal of Hunyuan cultivation.
• The eleven Ancestral Witches reconciled with Houtu, and Taiyi examined their new bodies before saying they were still not enough.

Taiyi revived Great Witch Kua Fu and began merging the eleven Ancestral Witches with their statues to restore them more fully. As the process began, a powerful sacred aura suddenly erupted from Taiyi, shocking Goddess Houtu.

• Taiyi explained that Nine Heavens Breath Soil and Three Lights Divine Water were insufficient for the Ancestral Witches to prepare for attaining the Dao.
• Great Witch Hou Yi begged Taiyi to revive Kua Fu and offered a drop of his own origin Blood Essence.
• Taiyi used Hou Yi's Blood Essence to retrieve Kua Fu's spirit and soul from the River of Time and fully revive him.
• Taiyi summoned the eleven Ancestral Witches and merged each one into its corresponding statue while the Witch Clan watched.
• A sacred aura burst from Taiyi as the eleven Ancestral Witches finished merging, leaving Goddess Houtu stunned.

Taiyi used the Dao of Faith to reshape the Ancestral Witch Statues, drawing down Black Heaven Demon Lightning that he effortlessly devoured. He restored Dijiang as a pure, sacred Ancestral Witch, while the other statues remained to be transformed.

• Taiyi gathered the Witch Clan’s faith and directed it into the eleven Ancestral Witch Statues, turning them into condensed Power of Faith.
• The Heavenly Dao sent Black Heaven Demon Lightning to stop Taiyi, but he commanded it to leave and his Lightning Dragon devoured both the bolt and the tribulation cloud.
• Taiyi began restoring Dijiang’s statue into a flesh-and-blood Ancestral Witch True Body, free of earthly baleful aura.
• Dijiang emerged with a pure, sacred presence, and Taiyi considered the beauty and mind-influencing effects that the Dao of Faith had given the Ancestral Witches.

Taiyi used the Law of Faith to restore the Ancestral Witches, giving them purified Pangu bloodlines and primordial spirits while concealing their return from the Sages. The Heavenly Dao sensed traces of what had happened, and Laozi suspected Houtu was making a move.

• Taiyi resurrected Dijiang with a sacred Pangu bloodline and an Ancestral Witch primordial spirit, then restored the other ten Ancestral Witches to their true bodies.
• The Witch Clan celebrated as its bloodlines rallied around the restored Ancestral Witches, while surviving Great Witches declared that their clan would rise again.
• Taiyi concealed the eleven Ancestral Witches’ auras with the Chaos Pearl, but warned that their strength was still insufficient to challenge the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao sensed traces of the Ancestral Witches’ return, while the Sages failed to find the Pangu Shrine through Taiyi’s concealment.
• Goddess Nüwa and Tongtian Jiaozhu suspected the truth but stayed silent, while Laozi wondered whether Sage Houtu was behind the Witch Clan’s excitement.

Heavenly Dao revealed that Taiyi had resurrected the Ancestral Witches with primordial spirits, alarming the Sages who feared the changes and old grudges their return could bring. Taiyi restored Houtu's Ancestral Witch True Body, then brought her into his Little Chaos Pearl Heavenly Dao World, where they united.

• Heavenly Dao traced Taiyi's hidden plans and told the Sages that Taiyi had resurrected the Ancestral Witches with primordial spirits.
• Buddha-Mother Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha feared the Ancestral Witches might become Sages and seek revenge, but Heavenly Dao ordered them to wait for a new decree.
• After half a year of celebration among the Witch Clan, Taiyi used his blood essence and the Law of Earth's origin to restore Houtu's Ancestral Witch True Body.
• Houtu appeared before the Witch Clan and announced her return, prompting the clan and its Great Witches to erupt in celebration.
• Houtu thanked Taiyi in Pangu Shrine, and Taiyi brought her into his Little Chaos Pearl Heavenly Dao World.
• Taiyi and Houtu united on a cloud bed in the newly opened world.

Taiyi ignored the Heavenly Dao’s invitation to attend a sermon and received the final source needed to complete the Innate Five Tai Great Daos. While the Heavenly Dao gathered the Sages and their disciples at the Purple Cloud Palace, Taiyi cultivated in seclusion and emerged with the Five Tai perfected, ready to attempt fusing them into one.

• Taiyi rejected the system’s offer to attend the Heavenly Dao’s sermon and received the Innate Taiyi Great Dao Source.
• Taiyi absorbed and comprehended the source, considering whether the completed Innate Five Tai Great Daos could return to the Limitless Great Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao instructed Laozi and the other Sages to gather their disciples for its sermon at the Purple Cloud Palace.
• The Heavenly Dao’s sermon stirred the Primordial World and further postponed the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Taiyi ignored the commotion and cultivated on the Sun Star until the Innate Five Tai Great Daos reached completion.