Chapter Summaries

Three thousand years after Hongjun’s first lecture, Taiyi chose to stay in the Sun Palace rather than attend Purple Cloud Palace’s second lecture and received the Central Earth Yellow Apricot Banner. As he refined the treasure, he considered how its Central Earth Law might deepen his mastery of the Innate Five Elements Laws and support his future Dao.

• Three thousand years after Hongjun’s first lecture, Duke of the East’s Immortal Court fell to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Hongjun gave the Dragon-Head Golden Staff to Laozi.
• As Purple Cloud Palace’s second lecture approached, Taiyi received three choices from the Homebody Choice System and selected staying home in the Sun Palace.
• The system awarded Taiyi the Central Earth Yellow Apricot Banner, a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure containing the power of the Central Earth Law.
• Taiyi began refining the banner and considered merging the Innate Five Elements Laws into his Great Dao of Sun Law.
• Taiyi estimated that he would need no more than three thousand years to completely refine and master the banner.

Taiyi completed his refinement of the Central Earth Yellow Apricot Banner while the Three Pure Ones set out for Buzhou Mountain after sensing a mysterious opportunity. The Homebody Choice System then alerted Taiyi that the 36th Grade Creation Green Lotus was about to appear on Buzhou Mountain.

• Hongjun Daozu lectured on the path of the Quasi-Sage, then worried that Taiyi and Dijun were staying in the Sun Palace and obstructing the Witch and Demon Cataclysm.
• Taiyi refined the Twenty-Four Sea Stabilizing Divine Pearls and continued refining the Central Earth Yellow Apricot Banner, deepening his understanding of the Earth Law.
• The Three Pure Ones sensed an opportunity connected to them and traveled toward Buzhou Mountain.
• Taiyi finished refining the Central Earth Yellow Apricot Banner and raised his control over the Earth Law domain to around thirty percent.
• The Homebody Choice System alerted Taiyi that the 36th Grade Creation Green Lotus was about to appear on Buzhou Mountain.

Taiyi chose to cultivate in seclusion and received the Twelfth-Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus, which healed and nourished his primordial spirit and contained the Laws of life, death, and reincarnation. Meanwhile, the Three Purities Daoist found the Thirty-Sixth Grade Creation Green Lotus on Buzhou Mountain and opened the formation protecting it.

• Taiyi chose the system's second option and received the Twelfth-Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus.
• Taiyi sat on the lotus platform and discovered that it restored his primordial spirit and helped him comprehend the Laws of life, death, and reincarnation.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian followed a stirring in their hearts to a valley on Buzhou Mountain, where they found the Thirty-Sixth Grade Creation Green Lotus in a pool of Three Lights Divine Water.
• Laozi failed to break the Primordial Grand Formation surrounding the lotus on his own.
• The Three Purities Daoist joined forces, causing the formation to release its restrictions, and Laozi led Yuanshi and Tongtian toward the green lotus.

The Three Pure Ones claimed the treasures formed from the Thirty-Sixth Grade Creation Green Lotus, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches established the Witch Court and received Heavenly Dao merit. Taiyi chose to remain on the Sun Star, gaining the Northern Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag.

• The Thirty-Sixth Grade Creation Green Lotus split into three treasures, which Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian each claimed.
• Hongjun Daozu watched the Three Pure Ones receive their sect-founding treasures and reflected on his efforts to escape the Heavenly Dao’s karmic shackles.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches expanded the Witch Clan’s reach, defeated those who tried to stop them, and declared their intent to govern the Primordial Wilderness.
• Dijiang, Rushou, and the other Ancestral Witches established the Witch Court in Pangu’s name, and the Heavenly Dao bestowed a Golden Merit Cloud.
• Taiyi rejected the options to join the Witch Court or establish the Demon Court and chose to remain secluded on the Sun Star.
• Taiyi received the Northern Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag from the Homebody Choice System.

Taiyi refined the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag and advanced his comprehension of the Law of Water while the Witch Clan seized control of nearly the entire Primordial Continent. At the Witch Court’s grand ceremony, Kunpeng Ancestor and Nether River Ancestor lured the Twelve Ancestral Witches into an ambush as Demon Clan powerhouses surrounded them.

• Taiyi spent two thousand years refining the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, raising his comprehension of the Law of Water to twenty-eight percent.
• The Witch Clan occupied nearly all of the Primordial Continent, angering many Primordial Powerhouses and prompting the Twelve Ancestral Witches to invite them to the Witch Court’s grand ceremony at Buzhou Mountain.
• Laozi agreed to attend with Yuanshi and the Three Pure Ones, while Fuxi and Nüwa also accepted their invitations.
• A Great Peng disrupted the ceremony’s banquet, then led the Twelve Ancestral Witches to the North Sea, where it transformed into Kunpeng Ancestor.
• Nether River Ancestor and Demon Clan powerhouses emerged from hiding, revealing the ambush Kunpeng Ancestor and Nether River Ancestor had prepared against the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

As the first Witch and Demon War erupted at the North Sea, Taiyi chose to remain on the Sun Star and received the Solar Divine Body, then returned to cultivation. The battle ended inconclusively, but the Ancestral Witches’ bodies stunned the watching powers with their ability to withstand attacks from powerful spiritual treasures.

• Kunpeng Ancestor revealed his ambush of more than a hundred late-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortals and two quasi-sages, intending to eliminate the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Taiyi chose the system’s third option and received the Solar Divine Body, which could eventually let him take control of the Primordial Sun Law Dao.
• Taiyi decided to cultivate the Solar Divine Body gradually and instead began trying to fuse the laws of earth, water, and fire.
• Nether River Ancestor and Kunpeng Ancestor attacked the Twelve Ancestral Witches, but their weapons and abilities barely harmed the witches’ powerful bodies.
• Both sides withdrew from the battle without a decisive victory, while the distant Three Pure Ones, Nüwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, and other powers witnessed the Ancestral Witches’ strength.

Taiyi chose to remain secluded on the Sun Star and received the Southern Off-Earth Flame Light Banner while the Twelve Ancestral Witches marched to Kunlun Mountain to confront the Three Pure Ones over who represented Pangu orthodoxy. The chapter ended with Zhurong striking Kunlun Mountain’s defensive barrier and demanding that the Three Pure Ones come out.

• The Three Pure Ones broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm and gained renown as Pangu orthodox successors, angering the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches gathered their forces and headed to Kunlun Mountain to challenge the Three Pure Ones.
• Taiyi rejected the choices to join either side and chose to remain secluded on the Sun Star, earning the Southern Off-Earth Flame Light Banner.
• Taiyi began refining the banner and prepared to cultivate the Solar Divine Body by absorbing the Sun Star’s law origin.
• Zhurong struck Kunlun Mountain’s defensive barrier and called for the Three Pure Ones to come out.

The Three Pure Ones battled the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Laozi defeated them alone before the third lecture at Purple Cloud Palace forced both sides to withdraw. The Demon Court failed to recruit the Three Pure Ones, while Taiyi faced another difficult choice as the lecture began.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches challenged the Three Pure Ones at Kunlun Mountain over who deserved to be called Pangu orthodox successors.
• Laozi fought all twelve with the Coiled Dragon Crutch and used the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Pagoda to block their divine abilities.
• Laozi declared that only the Three Pure Ones could claim Pangu's name, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches prepared to continue fighting until the third lecture's bell sounded.
• The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches ended their battle and departed, while the Purple Cloud Guests witnessed Laozi's strength.
• The Demon Court's attempts to recruit the Three Pure Ones failed, and Taiyi faced a difficult choice on the Sun Star as the third lecture approached.

Taiyi received both the Godslaying Spear and the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus from the Homebody Choice System and began refining them while remaining on the Sun Star. At the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun began his lecture and dismissed Taiyi and Dijun as weak for missing the opportunities offered by the coming calamity.

• Taiyi debated whether to choose the Godslaying Spear or the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, then learned the system allowed multiple choices.
• Taiyi selected Choices Two and Three and received both treasures.
• Taiyi began refining the Godslaying Spear and the World-Destroying Black Lotus while seated on the Twelfth-Grade Reincarnation Purple Jade Lotus Platform.
• Hongjun began lecturing the Three Thousand Purple Cloud Guests and judged that Taiyi and Dijun had fallen behind by staying hidden on the Sun Star.
• Hongjun dismissed the two Golden Crow brothers as ants and focused on teaching the Dao of Sages.

After finishing his three thousand years of preaching, Hongjun Daozu answered questions about the Dao, the Three Corpses, and Sages before taking the Three Pure Ones as disciples and granting them Primordial Violet Qi and powerful treasures. The other Purple Cloud Guests watched with envy as Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian received their rewards.

• Hongjun Daozu ended his preaching and invited the Purple Cloud Guests to ask questions.
• Laozi asked what the Dao was, Yuanshi asked how to sever the Three Corpses, and Tongtian asked about Sages and Primal Chaos; Hongjun Daozu answered them.
• Hongjun Daozu stopped Nüwa from asking a question and declared that beneath Sages, all were ants.
• Hongjun Daozu took the Three Pure Ones as his disciples and gave each a strand of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hongjun Daozu bestowed the Taiji Diagram on Laozi, the Pangu Banner on Yuanshi, and the Four Swords of Zhuxian and Zhuxian Formation Diagram on Tongtian.

Hongjun Daozu changed Nüwa’s promised treasures after discovering the Rivers and Mountains Map was missing, then accepted Jieyin and Zhunti as nominal disciples and distributed another Primordial Violet Qi. The final strand chose Red Cloud Hermit, provoking Kunpeng Ancestor and alarming Zhen Yuanzi.

• Hongjun Daozu discovered that his Rivers and Mountains Map was gone, so he claimed the heavenly secrets had changed and gave Nüwa the Red Embroidered Ball and Cosmos Cauldron instead.
• Jieyin and Zhunti begged Hongjun Daozu to accept them, and he made them nominal disciples and bestowed treasures and Primordial Violet Qi on them.
• Hongjun Daozu declared that the six sage positions were predestined and released one remaining strand of Primordial Violet Qi for the Purple Cloud Guests.
• Kunpeng Ancestor watched the final strand pass him and enter Red Cloud Hermit's body, then glared at Red Cloud Hermit with murderous intent.
• Red Cloud Hermit grinned after receiving the Primordial Violet Qi, and Zhen Yuanzi urged him to stop showing off.

Hongjun announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao in a thousand years, then sent the Purple Cloud Guests to Treasure Distribution Cliff to claim his treasures. The six Mystic Sect disciples received vastly unequal hauls, with Tongtian gaining an especially extravagant collection, while Jieyin and Zhunti ended up with mostly lesser treasures.

• Hongjun told the Purple Cloud Guests that he would merge with the Dao in a thousand years and would no longer appear.
• Hongjun sent the gathered guests to Treasure Distribution Cliff to seek treasures after his merger.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Nüwa each claimed numerous spiritual treasures, with Tongtian receiving the largest haul by far.
• Yuanshi remarked that Hongjun seemed to favor Tongtian, and the other guests envied the disciples' gains.
• Jieyin and Zhunti claimed mostly low-grade innate and acquired treasures, then took comfort in the treasures they had received earlier and in the smaller hauls of the other guests.

After the Purple Cloud Palace lectures, Taiyi quietly refined the Sun Star until he gained part of the Sun Law’s authority. The system then alerted him that Kunpeng Ancestor and Nether River Ancestor were about to deduce the Starry Sky Great Formation, and Taiyi suspected Hongjun Daozu was secretly aiding them.

• Hongjun Daozu summoned the Three Pure Ones back to Purple Cloud Palace for private instruction while Kunpeng Ancestor, Nether River Ancestor, and others secretly followed Red Cloud Hermit to covet his Primordial Violet Qi.
• Taiyi spent three thousand years refining the Godslaying Spear, the Twelfth Grade Extinction Black Lotus, and one-third of the Sun Law’s origin imprints.
• The Homebody Choice System told Taiyi that Kunpeng Ancestor and Nether River Ancestor were about to deduce the Starry Sky Great Formation and offered him three choices.
• Taiyi reasoned that Hongjun Daozu had secretly granted the two cultivators an opportunity to help the Demon Court oppose the Witch Clan.
• Taiyi remained in Sun Palace and complained that Hongjun Daozu had acted shamelessly.

Taiyi obtained a Jade Creation Shard and used it to improve his cultivation before the system announced that the second Witch-Demon War was near. He rejected the dangerous choices and chose to remain in the Sun Palace, claiming the reward of another Jade Creation Shard.

• Taiyi chose the reward of a Jade Creation Shard, but found it was blank and could only aid cultivation and comprehension of laws.
• Taiyi stored the shard and continued cultivating, finding that his comprehension and refinement of the Sun Law advanced faster.
• The system announced that Kunpeng and Nether River Ancestor had created the Stellar Zhou Tian Formation and that the second Witch-Demon War was about to erupt.
• Taiyi rejected choices that required him to lead the demons, aid the witches, or raid the Ancestral Witch Temple.
• Taiyi chose to stay in the Sun Palace and take the system's Jade Creation Shard reward.

Taiyi received a second Jade Creation Shard and continued cultivating as the second Witch and Demon War erupted across the Primordial Wilderness. While Kunpeng Ancestor, Nether River Ancestor, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches battled in the North Sea, Taiyi watched with Dijun from the Sun Palace and warned him against joining the fight.

• Taiyi received a second Jade Creation Shard, put it away with the first, and resumed cultivating.
• The second Witch and Demon War broke out, and the Witch Court attacked the North Sea Demon Court.
• Kunpeng Ancestor and Nether River Ancestor joined the battle, devouring and crushing Great Witches until the Twelve Ancestral Witches entered the fray.
• Taiyi felt the battle's energy disrupt his refinement of the Source of the Sun Law and reasoned that Hongjun Daozu wanted to control the Primordial World through merging with the Dao.
• Dijun asked whether they could win if they joined the war, and Taiyi listed both sides' formidable forces and advised him not to fight.

The Demon Court activated the Starry Sky Great Formation, covering the Primordial Wilderness in starlight and threatening to annihilate the Witch Clan. Watching from the Sun Palace, Dijun learned that the formation surpassed even his River Luo Formation, while Taiyi considered creating his own version.

• Nether River Ancestor grew stronger by absorbing blood through the Twelfth-Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus, but the Twelve Ancestral Witches severed his connection to the Blood Sea and forced him to flee.
• Kunpeng Ancestor urged Nether River Ancestor to raise the Starry Sky Great Formation, and Nether River Ancestor agreed to destroy the Witch Clan.
• Kunpeng Ancestor ordered the Three hundred and sixty-five Road Demon Generals to take their positions and raise the formation.
• The three hundred and sixty-five Ancient Stars and fourteen thousand eight hundred great stars formed a vast array that covered the Primordial Wilderness in starlight and filled its inhabitants with despair.
• Kunpeng Ancestor declared that the Witch Clan would perish as Star Banners moved the Starry Supreme Sun Star along complex celestial paths.
• Dijun asked Taiyi about the formation, and Taiyi identified it as the Innate First Great Formation and considered creating his own version.

The Demon Clan unleashed the Starry Sky Great Formation, slaughtering the Witch Clan and bombarding the Twelve Ancestral Witches. The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Pangu True Body, which shattered an Ancient Star and left the formation close to collapse.

• Kunpeng Ancestor and the Demon Clan activated the Starry Sky Great Formation, using stellar power to kill Witch Clan fighters across the battlefield.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches charged toward the formation’s controllers, but the Demon Clan’s Star Banners drove them back and concentrated their attacks on the witches.
• The Demon Clan combined the Star Banners’ power in an attempt to kill the Twelve Ancestral Witches, while Great Witches who tried to shield them were melted by the starlight.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Pangu True Body, which rose from underground and smashed an Ancient Star with one punch.
• Kunpeng Ancestor saw the giant’s strike sweep away Demon Clan banner holders, weakening the Starry Sky Great Formation by more than ten percent and bringing it close to collapse.

Pangu True Body destroyed the Starry Sky Great Formation with a single punch, devastating the Demon Court forces. After Taiyi's attempt to analyze the punch caused his body to explode and regenerate, he concluded that Pangu had fused the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws into an ultimate force to prove the Great Dao.

• Kunpeng Ancestor restored the Starry Sky Great Formation, but Pangu True Body shattered its attack and then broke the formation with another punch, wiping out most of the Demon Court's forces.
• Taiyi tried to comprehend the Great Dao behind Pangu True Body's punch and went blind, then healed himself and continued watching the battle.
• Taiyi replayed the punch to study its first instant, and the Law of Force caused his body to explode into pieces.
• Taiyi regenerated while Dijun panicked and scolded him for his reckless experiment.
• Taiyi told Dijun that he had glimpsed the true intent of force and theorized that Pangu fused the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws into one ultimate force to prove the Great Dao.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches nearly destroyed the Primordial Continent as their Pangu True Body attacked the defeated Demon Court, but Hongjun Daozu intervened and ended the assault. He declared that demons would rule the Heavens and witches the earth, imposing a ten-thousand-year truce before both sides withdrew to recover.

• The Pangu True Body unleashed a third punch that shattered the Primordial Continent and threatened to return the world to chaos.
• Hongjun Daozu appeared, halted the punch, and dissolved the Pangu True Body, exposing the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches charged Hongjun Daozu, who swept them away and warned them to behave.
• Hongjun Daozu decreed that demons would rule the Heavens and witches the earth, forbidding war for ten thousand years under threat of Heavenly Retribution.
• The Witch Court and Demon Court withdrew to recuperate, while Taiyi resolved to remain hidden in the Sun Palace until he attained the Great Dao.

Taiyi received the Yellow Central Plum Tree for choosing to remain on the Sun Star, and its fruit strengthened his cultivation and Dao comprehension. Three hundred years later, Dijun ate the plums Taiyi sent him and broke through to the peak of the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.

• After learning Hongjun had merged with the Dao, Taiyi chose to stay on the Sun Star and received the Yellow Central Plum Tree.
• Taiyi ate a Yellow Central Plum and discovered it contained the profound meaning of the Perpetual Life law, greatly improving his mana and cultivation.
• Taiyi stored the remaining fruit, transplanted the tree into the World Tree's three-dimensional alternate spacetime, and sent three plums to Dijun.
• Three hundred years later, Dijun found the plums Taiyi had sent and ate them.
• Three days after eating the fruit, Dijun broke through to the peak of the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.