Chapter Summaries

Taiyi captured Black Robe Ancestor and Red-Robed Ancestor, searched their memories for the Demon Clan’s strongholds, and tracked one to a hidden valley. There he confronted a powerful Demon God who had evaded the Heavenly Dao’s scrutiny, and the Demon God attacked him.

• Taiyi sealed Black Robe Ancestor and Red-Robed Ancestor inside a two-dimensional plane and searched their memories after they refused to reveal the Demon Clan’s secrets.
• Taiyi warned the hidden Primordial powerhouses watching him, then left the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the others to guard the Heavenly Court.
• Taiyi followed the information he had obtained to a valley and discovered a dense source of Demonic Qi and a concealed Demon God.
• The Demon God explained that the Demon Clan had used Eastern King Duke’s Purple Palace Immortal Court to disguise itself and evade the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiyi declared that he would eliminate the Demon God on behalf of the Heavenly Dao, and the Demon God attacked him with a giant hand.

Taiyi traveled through the River of Time to regress Heaven-Shielding Demon God to childhood and devour his demonic source, earning Heavenly Dao Merit. A mysterious Demon God named Thanos attacked him across time, but Taiyi unleashed the Chaos Bell and repelled the strike before Thanos swore to return.

• Taiyi entered the River of Time under the protection of the Chaos Bell and found the wave marking Heaven-Shielding Demon God's life.
• Taiyi regressed Heaven-Shielding Demon God to childhood, killed him, and devoured his demonic source, gaining the ability to take an Extraterrestrial Demon form.
• Taiyi received a hundred thousand portions of Heavenly Dao Merit for destroying the Heavenly Demon Clan's stronghold, but complained that Hongjun had withheld most of it.
• Thanos appeared in the River of Time and sent a massive strike at Taiyi, shattering tributaries and minor worlds along its path.
• Taiyi exhausted his Heavenly Dao Merit to unleash the Chaos Bell, froze the River of Time, and shattered Thanos's attack.
• Thanos vanished into the River of Time after threatening to return to the Primordial World and kill Taiyi.

Taiyi reflected on the mysterious Demon God Thanos and returned Thanos’s corpse to the Primordial Heavenly Court. He ordered an Execution Platform built outside the South Heaven Gate, establishing a public warning for anyone who violated the Heavenly Rules.

• Taiyi considered whether Thanos had come from another Chaos Sea universe and decided he wanted to obtain the Infinity Gauntlet and six Infinity Stones to study the Grand Destiny Art.
• Taiyi brought the dead Thanos back to the South Heaven Gate, where Black Robe Ancestor and Red-Robed Ancestor watched in shock as the Twelve Ancestral Witches examined the demon body.
• Taiyi explained that Thanos had gained his powerful body by fusing with the remains of an ancient Demon God, and the Ancestral Witches concluded that the Demon Clan’s greatest strength lay in its primordial spirits and ability to possess others.
• Taiyi ordered the Twelve Ancestral Witches to build an Execution Platform on the Ascension Platform outside the South Heaven Gate and execute anyone who violated the Heavenly Rules.
• Houtu objected that the platform might provoke Primordial Powerhouses, but Taiyi insisted, and the Ancestral Witches built it as a warning to all who approached the Heavenly Court.

Taiyi gave the newly built Execution Platform the Godslaying Spear as its suppressing treasure, and Zhurong used it to execute Black Robe Ancestor and Red-Robed Ancestor before the Primordial Wilderness. Limitless Ancestor failed to rally the other powerhouses against the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court, leaving him alone and furious.

• Taiyi planted the Godslaying Spear atop the Execution Platform, declaring that anyone who violated the Heavenly Rules and Earthly Laws would face certain death.
• Zhurong brought Black Robe Ancestor and Red-Robed Ancestor to the Execution Platform, publicly proclaimed their judgment, and killed them with the Godslaying Spear, which devoured their remains.
• The execution horrified the watching powerhouses, and Limitless Ancestor urged them to unite, join Eastern King Duke's Purple Palace Immortal Court, and attack the South Heaven Gate.
• A powerhouse warned that Taiyi had slain peak quasi-saints and apparently obtained the Godslaying Spear from Demon Ancestor Rahu, then left the gathering.
• The other powerhouses departed one by one, leaving Limitless Ancestor alone as he overturned the banquet table and roared in rage.

Taiyi explained how the Heavenly Rules and Earthly Laws won the support of countless lesser beings and strengthened the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court's destiny. Duke of the East resolved to resist its growing influence, while Taiyi prepared the Ancestral Witches for a coming conflict and a chance to earn Heavenly Dao Merit.

• Taiyi saw the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court's destiny surge as lesser beings registered their property and gained protection under its laws.
• After learning that the Black Robe Ancestor and others had been executed, Duke of the East feared his Purple Palace Immortal Court would lose its influence and sought a way to break the Heavenly Court's dominance.
• Taiyi ordered the Ancestral Witches to lead troops against those defying the Heavenly Rules and Earthly Laws, both to protect the oppressed and to prepare for war with the Immortal Court.
• Taiyi explained that enforcing the laws would earn Heavenly Dao Merit, improve cultivation, and strengthen loyalty to the Heavenly Court.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches praised Taiyi's strategy and celebrated with him in Pangu Shrine.

After awakening from a three-thousand-year sleep, Taiyi saw the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court flourish under its laws while the Purple Palace Immortal Court remained its rival. Another three thousand years later, the Godslaying Spear triggered a Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation as it began advancing toward a Heavenly Dao baleful treasure.

• Taiyi observed that the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court had gained power and merit by enforcing laws, while the Purple Palace Immortal Court had become a refuge for old gods and ancient immortals.
• Taiyi studied the currents of Primordial destiny and concluded that the Heavenly Court and Immortal Court would eventually fight once the destinies of the myriad races had found their masters.
• Three thousand years later, a Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation appeared above the Heavenly Court, alarming its inhabitants and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Houtu identified the Godslaying Spear at the Execution Platform as the target of the tribulation and said it was about to return to the ranks of Heavenly Dao baleful treasures.

The Godslaying Spear underwent the Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation as it advanced toward an Innate Supreme Treasure, while the Ancestral Witches watched. Taiyi appeared and ordered the spear to move its battle to the Extraterritorial Chaos, and it flew beyond the Heavenly Realm.

• Zhurong and Gong Gong discussed the Godslaying Spear's power and compared it with the Four Swords of Zhuxian, while Dijiang warned them not to offend the Three Pure Ones.
• The Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation struck the Godslaying Spear, which swept aside the first blood-red lightning bolt.
• Houtu told Dijiang that they should let the tribulation run its course as the lightning battered and tempered the spear.
• Taiyi sensed the upheaval, realized the Godslaying Spear was transforming, and appeared in the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Taiyi ordered the Godslaying Spear to take its tribulation to the Extraterritorial Chaos, and the spear tore through the heavens and flew away.

Taiyi realized that Heavenly Dao Hongjun might interfere with the Godslaying Spear’s attempt to regain its status as a Heavenly Dao fiendish treasure, so he went to the Chaos to watch over its tribulation. As the spear endured the Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation, Hongjun prepared to act and the gathered Primordial Powerhouses watched in awe.

• The system gave Taiyi a hidden mission to help the Godslaying Spear return to the ranks of Heavenly Dao fiendish treasures and promised an Innate Spiritual Treasure Upgrade Card.
• Taiyi sensed that Heavenly Dao Hongjun might disrupt the spear’s transformation and traveled into the Extraterritorial Chaos to wait near its tribulation.
• Primordial Powerhouses followed Taiyi into the Chaos, hoping the Godslaying Spear would be destroyed by the Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun watched Taiyi and the spear from the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace and considered intervening.
• The Primordial Powerhouses witnessed the spear withstand the blood-colored lightning without weakening and praised Taiyi’s ability to restore its power.

Taiyi’s Godslaying Spear faced the final stage of the Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation as Primordial Powerhouses watched, many hoping to steal it after it advanced into an Innate Supreme Treasure. The tribulation lightning suddenly turned purple, revealing Hongjun Daozu’s Purple Firmament Divine Lightning and leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Yuanshi brought Laozi and Tongtian into the Extraterritorial Chaos to observe the Godslaying Spear’s tribulation and learn how an Innate Spiritual Treasure might advance.
• Primordial Powerhouses coveted the Godslaying Spear and secretly planned to seize it once it became an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Taiyi sensed their intentions and dismissed the watchers as future cannon fodder, while deciding to let them try their luck.
• The Godslaying Spear’s Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation entered its final stage, and crimson lightning surged through the chaos.
• Purple lightning spread through the crimson tribulation, and the Primordial Powerhouses recognized it as Hongjun Daozu’s Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.

Taiyi used the Chaos Bell and the Grand Annihilation Art to destroy the tribulation targeting the Godslaying Spear, then strengthened the spear with the remaining tribulation power. He flew to Purple Mansion Continent and challenged Duke of the East, who ordered the Immortal Court to form the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.

• Taiyi unleashed the Chaos Bell and the Grand Annihilation Art, shattering the Nine-Nine Blood Demon Tribulation and Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• The Three Pure Ones and other Primordial Powerhouses were driven back by the bell’s aftermath and marveled at its power.
• After Heavenly Dao Hongjun withdrew, Taiyi let the Godslaying Spear absorb the remaining tribulation power, giving it the ability to draw on Heaven’s punishment lightning.
• Taiyi threatened the will in the Purple Cloud Palace and then flew to Purple Mansion Continent, demanding that Duke of the East come out and die.
• Duke of the East confronted Taiyi with the Nine Dragon Golden Staff and ordered the Immortal Court to form the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.

Taiyi attacked the Purple Palace Immortal Court and faced the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, which he repelled without being harmed. As the Three Pure Ones and other Primordial powerhouses gathered to oppose him, Taiyi refused to back down.

• Eastern King Duke activated the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, and Taiyi's Chaos Bell attack killed weaker immortals and wounded others.
• Eastern King Duke unleashed the formation's combined strike, but Taiyi remained unharmed beneath the Chaos Bell.
• Taiyi declared that the Immortal Court would perish, but the Three Pure Ones stepped forward and urged him to stop.
• Taiyi said that no number of Primordial powerhouses could make him retreat, then dismissed Nether River Ancestor and Haotian as insufficient opposition.
• Zhunti and Jieyin appeared and urged Taiyi to leave room for future reconciliation.

Taiyi rejected the Primordial Powerhouses’ demand to spare the Purple Palace Immortal Court and challenged them to fight. He battled the Three Pure Ones in the Extraterritorial Chaos, where Nether River Ancestor, Kunpeng Ancestor, and other powerhouses joined the attack.

• Taiyi confronted the Primordial Powerhouses after they sided with the Purple Palace Immortal Court, and Taiqing Laozi defended its claim to Heaven’s mandate.
• Taiyi declared that the matter would be settled by battle and attacked Taiqing Laozi with the Godslaying Spear.
• Taiqing Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to resist, but Taiyi’s superior cultivation forced him onto the defensive.
• Yuqing Yuanshi and Tongtian joined the fight with the Pangu Banner and the Four Swords of Zhuxian, and Taiyi moved the battle into the Extraterritorial Chaos.
• Nether River Ancestor, Kunpeng Ancestor, and other Primordial Powerhouses charged in to fight Taiyi alongside the Three Pure Ones.

Taiyi used the Great Clone Technique to overwhelm the Primordial Powerhouses, unleashing clones empowered by the Nine Secrets of Daoism. As the battered fighters considered retreating, Haotian invoked Dao Ancestor's decree and was immediately attacked again.

• The Three Pure Ones, Nether River Ancestor, Kunpeng Ancestor, Duke of the East, Haotian, and other powers joined forces to attack Taiyi with their treasures and abilities.
• Taiyi created hundreds upon thousands of peak Quasi-Saint clones, surrounding the Primordial Powerhouses and matching their full strength.
• Taiyi's clones used the Nine Secrets of Daoism to gain immense combat power, versatile abilities, and rapid recovery, making them difficult for the gathered powers to defeat.
• The Primordial Powerhouses began considering retreating, and Haotian shouted Dao Ancestor's order for everyone to cease fighting.
• A Taiyi clone struck Haotian into pulp; after Haotian recovered and demanded that Taiyi obey Dao Ancestor's decree, another clone charged at him.

Taiyi defied Hongjun’s decree barring him from the conflict between the Purple Palace Immortal Court and the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court. Hongjun manifested through an avatar and accused Taiyi of resisting Heaven’s mandate, but Taiyi turned the accusation back on him, leaving Hongjun enraged.

• Taiyi blasted Haotian into blood mist again, and Haotian read Hongjun’s decree forbidding Taiyi from joining the conflict.
• Taiyi openly dismissed Hongjun’s authority and accepted a system mission to confront him and win.
• Taiyi threatened Haotian with the Godslaying Spear, and Haotian called on Hongjun to appear.
• Hongjun manifested as an avatar of Primordial Violet Qi and rebuked Taiyi for defying Heaven’s mandate.
• Taiyi claimed Heaven’s mandate favored him and accused Hongjun of obstructing it, enraging Hongjun.

Taiyi used his merit to turn Hongjun’s Purple Firmament Divine Lightning away from himself, devastating the gathered powerhouses instead. Hongjun then suspected that Taiyi came from another world, but Taiyi denied the accusation as the confrontation continued.

• Taiyi accused Hongjun of seizing Heaven’s Heart and secretly plotting the Witch and Demon Cataclysm, calling him the Primordial Wilderness’s greatest sinner.
• Hongjun attacked Taiyi with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, but Taiyi’s Golden Merit Cloud and Great Dao Merit halted the lightning and redirected it toward the surrounding powerhouses.
• Hongjun weakened the redirected lightning, but it still scorched the powerhouses and killed those with weaker cultivation.
• The powerhouses realized Taiyi’s merit could protect him from heavenly judgment, while Hongjun wondered how Taiyi had obtained both kinds of merit.
• Taiyi challenged Hongjun to bring out more tricks and threatened to destroy the Purple Palace Immortal Court.
• Hongjun asked whether Taiyi came from another world, and Taiyi denied it while inviting Hongjun to accuse him of being an Extraterrestrial Demon.

Hongjun warned Taiyi not to interfere with the Witch and Demon Cataclysm, but Taiyi demanded a condition before agreeing to stay out of the Heavenly Court and Immortal Court conflict. After Taiyi wounded Eastern King Duke, Hongjun silenced him and let Taiyi state his terms.

• Hongjun declared that the Witch and Demon Cataclysm followed the Heavenly Dao's will and threatened to drive Taiyi from the Primordial World if he obstructed it.
• Taiyi told Hongjun he would stay out of the conflict if Hongjun agreed to one condition.
• Eastern King Duke insulted Taiyi, so Taiyi froze time with the Chaos Bell and pierced him through the chest with the Godslaying Spear.
• Hongjun accepted Taiyi's demand to hear his condition and froze Eastern King Duke when he tried to interrupt again.

Taiyi secured Hongjun’s promise not to favor the Purple Palace Immortal Court, then promised in turn not to interfere in the courts’ disputes. After Hongjun departed, Taiyi returned the Godslaying Spear to the Heavenly Court’s Execution Platform, provoking Eastern King Duke and Taishang Laozi, but Taiyi argued that the move did not violate his agreement.

• Taiyi asked Hongjun not to favor the Purple Palace Immortal Court, and Hongjun promised not to target anyone unless the greater trend of the Heavenly Dao required it.
• Taiyi promised not to interfere in the disputes between the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court and the Purple Palace Immortal Court, and Hongjun left for Chaos.
• Taiyi sent the Godslaying Spear back to the Execution Platform, where its baleful aura frightened the imprisoned criminal immortals and heavenly demons.
• Eastern King Duke accused Taiyi of violating his agreement, and Taiyi slapped him across Chaos.
• Taishang Laozi questioned Taiyi about giving the Godslaying Spear to the Heavenly Court, but Taiyi argued that it had already belonged to the Execution Platform before his agreement with Hongjun.
• The Primordial Powerhouses recognized that Taiyi could negotiate with Hongjun as an equal and looked upon him with envy, jealousy, and resentment.

After several thousand years of uneasy peace, Houtu established the Primordial Merit Golden List to expose the merits and crimes of all beings under the Heavenly Dao. The list rewarded the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court with merit, while the Purple Palace Immortal Court’s leaders discovered that most of their own merit was negative.

• Hongjun urged the Three Pure Ones to hasten a decisive battle so he could repay his karmic debt to the Heavenly Dao and escape its control.
• Houtu swore that the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court would govern the Primordial Wilderness and create the Primordial Merit Golden List to reward merit and punish wrongdoing.
• The Merit Golden List descended beside the Execution Platform outside the South Heaven Gate and displayed every being’s merit, including the negative scores of most Purple Palace Immortal Court powerhouses.
• The Heavenly Dao sent merit to the list, Houtu, Taiyi, and the members of the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court.
• Houtu smiled when the Heavenly Dao accepted the list, and she recognized that Taiyi’s plan had worked.

Houtu used the Primordial Merit Golden List and the Immortal Execution Order to turn the Purple Palace Immortal Court against itself, then sent the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court to attack it. As the Witch and Demon War began, Duke of the East prepared to defend the court while the Three Pure Ones considered withdrawing to Kunlun Mountain.

• Hongjun could not veto the Primordial Merit Golden List after Houtu swore her oath to the Great Dao and the Heavenly Dao acknowledged the list.
• Houtu declared the Purple Palace Immortal Court corrupt and authorized the killing of its officials, triggering a deadly scramble for Heavenly Dao Merit within the court.
• The Three Pure Ones and other powerhouses restored order after following Hongjun's instruction, but Houtu then ordered the Witch and Demon armies to arrest or kill sinful immortals.
• Taiyi watched a million Witch troops and ten million Demon troops march on Purple Mansion Continent, recognizing that the Witch and Demon War had begun.
• Duke of the East urged the gathered powerhouses to unite against the invasion, while Taishang Laozi told Yuqing Yuanshi that the Three Pure Ones would retreat to Kunlun Mountain if defeat became inevitable.

The Witch and Demon Heavenly Court attacked the Purple Palace Immortal Court under the pretext of enforcing Heaven’s laws. As the battle began, Calamity Qi obscured the heavenly secrets and revealed that the epochal calamity had started, leaving the Three Pure Ones and other powerhouses shaken by the Heavenly Court’s apparent foreknowledge.

• Dijiang, Ancestral Witch, and Dijun accused Duke of the East’s Purple Palace Immortal Court of crimes and demanded his surrender.
• Duke of the East rejected their accusations, and the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court’s forces attacked the Purple Palace Immortal Court.
• The attackers broke the mountain-protecting formation, and soldiers on both sides fought while their leaders and other powerhouses watched.
• Calamity Qi covered the sky, disrupted divination, and convinced the Primordial Powerhouses that an epochal calamity had begun.
• Dijiang, Ancestral Witch, celebrated that the Witch and Demon Heavenly Court had anticipated the calamity, while the Three Pure Ones struggled to accept that their opponents seemed better prepared than they were.