Chapter Summaries

The Witch-Demon War erupted, and both clans’ fighting and raids devastated human settlements. After divining humanity’s suffering, Lin Yue gained permission from the Three Pure Ones to protect the humans and set out with Su Qingyan for the central Primordial Wilderness.

• Di Jun led a million demon soldiers against the Wu Clan as Tai Yi and the Twelve Ancestral Witches unleashed their great formations against each other.
• Black Eagle ordered Skywing Demon Soldiers to burn the Chentang Tribe and capture survivors for the demon formation.
• Lin Yue divined the slaughter of humans and asked Primordial Lord of Heaven for permission to intervene.
• Laozi and Lord of Tongtian supported Lin Yue’s request, while Primordial Lord of Heaven warned him not to disrupt the Witch-Demon Calamity.
• Su Qingyan joined Lin Yue, and the two flew toward the central human settlements.

Lin Yue and Su Qingyan discovered that the Demon Clan planned to attack human tribes after assaulting Zhurong City, so they evacuated Willow Creek Tribe. When Black Eagle led a thousand Skywing Demon Soldiers toward them, Lin Yue and Su Qingyan stayed to fight.

• Lin Yue sent Qing Xuan to investigate the energy fluctuations and learned that the demons were attacking Zhurong City and intended to seize human tribes as sacrifices.
• Lin Yue warned Liu Kun of Willow Creek Tribe and proved his identity by using Chaos Energy to split a boulder.
• Su Qingyan slowed the demons with her Law of Time while Liu Kun led his people to evacuate, with Lin Yue and Su Qingyan covering their retreat.
• The First Prince of the Golden Crow ordered Black Eagle to take a thousand Skywing Demon Soldiers down to kill the cultivators interfering with the attack.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan stood together to confront Black Eagle and the approaching demon soldiers.

Lin Yue and Su Qingyan defeated a Skywing Demon squad before witnessing the Twelve Ancestral Witches strengthen the Twelve Divine Fiend Formation of the Heavens against the Demon Clan’s Grand Formation of the Stars. They collected scattered law fragments and then set off to catch up with the Willow Creek Tribe members.

• Lin Yue killed Black Eagle after Su Qingyan trapped the vanguard soldiers with the Power of Time and Lin Yue blocked their arrows with the Law of Space.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan saw the Twelve Ancestral Witches enter the battle and power up their formation, prompting Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi to strengthen the Grand Formation of the Stars.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan gathered Star Law Fragments and Ancestral Witch Essence Blood Law Fragments after the formations’ clash scattered them.
• Su Qingyan pulled Lin Yue away from a Spatial Rift that had sucked in a fragment and nearly dragged him with it.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan stored their collected fragments and flew to catch up with the Willow Creek Tribe members.

Lin Yue and Su Qingyan gathered human survivors in a protected valley while the Witch-Demon War devastated the surrounding tribes. After they shielded the refugees from a wave of battle shockwaves, Demon soldiers approached the valley.

• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan led the exhausted Willow Creek Tribe to a valley, where Lin Yue used the Mysterious Yellow Defense Banner to create a protective barrier.
• Lin Yue found the Black Stone Tribe destroyed and overheard Demon soldiers planning to use human corpses as fuel for the Grand Formation of the Stars.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan made the valley a refuge, gathering more than five thousand survivors and organizing them to provide for themselves and learn basic cultivation.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan reinforced the Defense Array and protected the tribespeople when shockwaves from the Witch-Demon formations struck the valley; Lin Yue collapsed after the barrier held.
• A tribesman warned Lin Yue that Demon soldiers had appeared outside the valley and seemed to be coming for the refugees.

Lin Yue organized Su Qingyan and Liu Kun to defend the valley against Chi Hu’s demon army while he recovered and reinforced the defenses. They killed Chi Hu and drove off his soldiers, and the Three Pure Ones approved Lin Yue’s request for resources and sent disciples to support him.

• Lin Yue scouted the approaching army of five hundred demons led by late-stage Golden Immortal Chi Hu, then requested reinforcements, Defensive Spiritual Treasures, and cultivation resources from the Three Pure Ones Dojo.
• Lin Yue told Su Qingyan and Liu Kun to help hold the valley while he recovered; Su Qingyan laid Time Traps, and Liu Kun organized the tribe members to prepare defenses and weapons.
• After Lin Yue recovered seventy percent of his spiritual energy, Chi Hu’s soldiers charged into the valley and were slowed by the traps, while the tribe members attacked them with rocks and arrows.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan fought Chi Hu, and Su Qingyan slowed him with the Law of Time so Lin Yue could strike him with the Chaos Small Sword.
• Chi Hu fell and the surviving demon soldiers fled; Lin Yue collapsed from exhaustion, then sensed that the Three Pure Ones had approved his request and would send disciples to help.

After receiving resources from the Three Pure Ones, Lin Yue and Su Qingyan moved the growing human population from their cramped valley to Myriad Spirits Valley and established a defended permanent shelter. The humans began building homes and farmland there, while Lin Yue and Su Qingyan committed to helping them grow stronger.

• Daoist Duobao delivered defensive treasures, Spirit Calming Pills, and the Primordial Foundation Art, which Lin Yue used to strengthen the settlement and expand cultivation training.
• After the population exceeded ten thousand, Lin Yue and Su Qingyan scouted Myriad Spirits Valley and found it rich in resources and suitable for a shelter, though its Misty Forest needed to be kept off-limits.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan organized the relocation while Liu Kun stayed behind to care for the people and recruit survivors.
• Lin Yue cleared the route as Su Qingyan guarded the rear, and the people reached Myriad Spirits Valley safely after seven days.
• Lin Yue set up the Xuanhuang Grand Defense Array and a Spirit Gathering Array, Su Qingyan sealed off the Misty Forest, and Liu Kun led construction of homes, farmland, and a storehouse.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan vowed to keep protecting the human race and help it grow stronger.

Lin Yue and Su Qingyan fortified Myriad Spirits Valley by establishing the Chaos Guardian Array, then demonstrated its strength to the wary clan members. With the clan reassured and supplied with Healing Pills, they planned to teach them more cultivation methods.

• Lin Yue assigned more than fifty cultivators to watch the five directions around Myriad Spirits Valley and report any signs of the demon clan or Wu Clan.
• Lin Yue combined Chaos Energy with the Law of Stars and ancestral witch essence blood law fragments to build the Chaos Guardian Array, while Su Qingyan used the Law of Time to stabilize it.
• The new array formed a barrier around the valley that Lin Yue said could withstand attacks from at least a late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Zhao Yong challenged the array, but his punch rebounded harmlessly, and the clan members' combined attacks also failed to break through it.
• Zhao Yong apologized, and Lin Yue gave Healing Pills to the clan members before telling Su Qingyan they should teach them more cultivation methods.

Lin Yue and Su Qingyan taught the people of Myriad Spirits Valley cultivation and practical survival skills so they could better protect themselves. After discovering two gifted children, they took Little Stone and Ling'er as disciples, and the chapter left both children making rapid progress.

• Lin Yue taught about two thousand tribespeople the twelve forms of the Primordial Body Tempering Art, while Su Qingyan used the Law of Time to slow his demonstrations.
• After five days of practice, most tribespeople had mastered the forms and noticeably improved their strength and endurance.
• Su Qingyan taught the tribespeople to identify and preserve spirit herbs and build sturdier houses, and dozens of homes were constructed.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan discovered that Little Stone excelled at body-tempering and Ling'er had a talent for identifying spirit herbs, so they took them on as registered disciples.
• Lin Yue taught Little Stone the Primordial Foundation Art, while Su Qingyan taught Ling'er herb identification and pill refining; within ten days, Little Stone reached early-stage Qi Refining and Ling'er could identify over a hundred herbs and make simple Blood-Stopping Pills.

A demon patrol discovered Myriad Spirits Valley and attacked the human refuge, but Lin Yue defeated its leader and drove the soldiers away. He returned to the valley, where Su Qingyan helped him recover as he warned that the demons would likely come back.

• A watchman reported that about two hundred demon soldiers led by an early-stage Golden Immortal were approaching Myriad Spirits Valley, and Lin Yue sent Su Qingyan to lead the clanspeople into the Chaos Guardian Array.
• Lin Yue confronted Green Snake at the valley entrance, but Green Snake ordered his soldiers to storm the refuge and capture its humans.
• Lin Yue struck down many charging demon soldiers and fought Green Snake, eventually using a Chaos Energy barrier to block a spear thrust before cutting Green Snake's throat.
• The remaining demon soldiers fled, and Lin Yue returned to the refuge, where the clanspeople thanked him and he urged them to strengthen their defenses.
• Su Qingyan gave Lin Yue a Spirit Calming Pill, and he meditated to restore his spiritual energy while she stood guard.

Lin Yue strengthened Myriad Spirits Valley’s defenses before confronting Kuafu, a Great Shaman of the Wu Clan, who proposed taking the humans under Wu protection. Kuafu agreed to leave them with Lin Yue and departed after learning there was water in the valley, while Lin Yue warned that the refuge still needed to grow stronger.

• Lin Yue added a Star Confinement Array to the valley’s defenses, while Su Qingyan organized the tribespeople to make weapons and armor.
• Lin Yue sensed a powerful presence outside the valley and found Kuafu, who identified himself as a Great Shaman of the Wu Clan.
• Kuafu urged Lin Yue to hand the humans over to the Wu Clan, but Lin Yue refused and invoked the protection of the Three Pure Ones.
• Kuafu relented and offered the Wu Clan’s help if Lin Yue could no longer protect the humans.
• Kuafu asked about water for the Wu Clan Tribes, and Lin Yue told him the valley had a river.
• After Kuafu left, Lin Yue told Su Qingyan and the tribespeople what had happened and said they still needed to strengthen themselves.

Kuafu persuaded the Twelve Ancestral Witches to leave Lin Yue’s human refuge alone, and he returned with their approval and a Witch Clan Totem Fragment. Lin Yue and Su Qingyan planned to strengthen the refuge and teach humanity to cultivate as the demon threat continued.

• Kuafu told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that Lin Yue and Su Qingyan were protecting humanity and that attacking the refuge would risk Wu Clan losses during the war with the demons.
• Houtu proposed that the Wu Clan not interfere with Lin Yue’s efforts as long as humans did not provoke the Wu Clan, and most of the Ancestral Witches agreed.
• Dijiang gave Kuafu a Witch Clan Totem Fragment to deliver to Lin Yue as a token of approval and a deterrent against low-ranking demons.
• Kuafu informed Lin Yue and Su Qingyan of the Wu Clan’s decision and handed over the fragment, which Lin Yue accepted with thanks.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan resolved to strengthen the refuge and teach humanity to cultivate so they could defend themselves.

Su Qingyan created and taught the human race the Time Sequence Art so they could cultivate and defend themselves. Dozens reached the Qi Induction Stage, and Lin Yue and Su Qingyan accepted the tribe’s gift of Innate Spiritual Rice as their bond with the humans grew.

• Su Qingyan devised the Time Sequence Art, a simple method based on sensing the changes between day and night and absorbing Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan gathered the humans, and Su Qingyan taught them the method while Lin Yue urged them to practice diligently.
• Su Qingyan guided the humans’ cultivation as Lin Yue reinforced the Defense Array and taught them to make simple defensive tools.
• Dozens of humans reached the Qi Induction Stage within a few days, giving the tribe new hope.
• The tribal leader offered Lin Yue and Su Qingyan the tribe’s remaining Innate Spiritual Rice, and Su Qingyan accepted it as a sign of their bond.

As the Wu-Demon war drove more humans from their homes, Lin Yue and Su Qingyan welcomed thousands of survivors into Cangwu Mountain Valley and expanded the refuge westward. The new settlement gained farmland, stronger defenses, and abundant spiritual energy, and the chapter ended with Shi Yuan offering them its first harvest of spirit rice.

• Shi Yuan led the Black Stone Tribe’s survivors to Cangwu Mountain Valley, and Lin Yue and Su Qingyan agreed to shelter them.
• Over the following days, refugees arrived from nearby tribes, raising the refuge’s population from just over two thousand to more than thirteen thousand.
• Lin Yue proposed expanding into the western basin, and he and Su Qingyan organized the tribespeople to cut through the ridge and build the new settlement.
• Lin Yue activated the Spirit Gathering Array Disk, while he and Su Qingyan established farmland, supply storage, and an expanded alert array.
• After ten days, the refuge’s expansion was complete, and Shi Yuan and the other chiefs presented Lin Yue and Su Qingyan with the first harvest of spirit rice.

Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi unleashed the Grand Formation of the Stars, clashing with the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ formation and devastating the Primordial Wilderness. Lin Yue and Su Qingyan protected their refuge from falling star fragments, then Lin Yue went to the battlefield’s edge to gather law fragments and found the destruction had killed many humans.

• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi ordered the demons to activate the Grand Formation of the Stars at full power, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches answered by summoning Pangu’s phantom through their own formation.
• The two formations collided, sending star fragments and destructive shock waves across the Primordial Wilderness and threatening the human refuge in Cangwu Mountain Valley.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan evacuated the tribespeople into caves and joined forces to reinforce the refuge’s Chaos barrier against falling star fragments.
• Lin Yue left Su Qingyan to maintain the Defense Array and flew to the battlefield’s edge to collect Star Law Fragments and Demon God Law Fragments.
• Lin Yue gathered fragments while avoiding the battle’s energy currents and saw human corpses among the dead; just as he prepared to return, a terrifying—.

The Wu and Demon Clans exhausted themselves in a clash between their formations, devastating the Primordial World and scattering valuable Law Fragments. Lin Yue and Su Qingyan protected their refuge, gathered fragments to strengthen its defenses, and began cultivating as Jieyin and Zhunti planned to seek fragments near human settlements and spread the Western Teachings.

• Dijiang ordered the Wu Clan to offer blood essence, empowering the Twelve Divine Fiends Formation of the Heavens to withstand the Grand Formation of the Stars, but both formations eventually collapsed from exhaustion.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan used their remaining strength to protect the human refuge when its Chaos Barrier cracked, then agreed to collect nearby Law Fragments after the storm subsided.
• Lin Yue gathered more than two hundred Demon God Law Fragments while Su Qingyan collected nearly two hundred Star Law Fragments, and they used them to repair and upgrade the refuge's Defense Array.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan began refining the fragments to heal and improve their cultivation while Shi Yuan and the other clan chiefs led the people in rebuilding the refuge.
• Jieyin and Zhunti decided to collect Law Fragments near a human settlement, where they also planned to convert people and expand the Western Teachings.

After the renewed collision between the Witch and Demon Clans' formations devastated the Primordial World, Lin Yue sought Old Ancestor Hongjun's help and received a talisman that saved his shelter from the next energy storm. As Lin Yue and Su Qingyan prepared for further danger, Jieyin and Zhunti approached in disguise, planning to convert the shelter's people to the Western Teachings.

• Lin Yue deduced that the formations' collision had ravaged the Primordial World and decided to ask Old Ancestor Hongjun to stop the Witch-Demon war.
• Old Ancestor Hongjun refused to interfere with the calamity but gave Lin Yue a Great Dao Protection Talisman to safeguard humanity's shelter.
• Lin Yue returned to Cangwu Mountain Valley and learned that Su Qingyan had reached the late Golden Immortal stage.
• When the Witch and Demon Clans' formations collided again, Lin Yue and Su Qingyan's Defense Array broke, but Lin Yue activated the talisman and shielded the shelter.
• Jieyin and Zhunti disguised themselves as ragged cultivators and headed for the shelter, intending to convert its people to the Western Teachings.

After the Witch and Demon Clans’ battle damaged Cangwu Mountain Valley, Lin Yue and Su Qingyan treated the wounded and rebuilt the refuge, upgrading its Defense Array to the quasi-sage level. Jieyin and Zhunti then disguised themselves as injured cultivators and set out to exploit the refuge’s hospitality and convert its people.

• The Twelve Divine Fiends Formation of the Heavens destroyed a core star of the Grand Formation of the Stars, sending a devastating energy wave into Cangwu Mountain Valley and breaking through its Chaos shield.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan helped evacuate the clan members and treated the wounded, while the Witch and Demon Clans’ formations stopped and both sides’ leaders were left gravely weakened.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan organized the refuge’s reconstruction and repaired the Defense Array, with Shi Yuan and the clan members rebuilding homes, restoring farmland, and caring for the injured.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan completed the Chaos Guardian Array upgrade, raising its defenses to the quasi-sage level as the refuge recovered.
• Jieyin and Zhunti learned of the upgraded array and decided to pose as injured cultivators so they could enter Cangwu Mountain Valley and spread the Western Teachings.

Lin Yue and Su Qingyan completed a quasi-sage-level upgrade of the Chaos Guardian Array and began preparing the shelter’s people to defend themselves. As they welcomed new young disciples, Jieyin and Zhunti arrived in disguise, planning to exploit the humans and spread the Western Teachings.

• Lin Yue incorporated obsidian and Star and Demon God Law Fragments into the Chaos Guardian Array, giving it stronger defenses, early warning, attacks, and self-repair.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan thanked the clansfolk for gathering materials, refused their gifts, and planned cultivation and practical training for the shelter’s people.
• Lin Yue offered to train children who had been copying his cultivation poses, and they accepted his invitation to become Registered Disciples.
• Jieyin and Zhunti disguised themselves as badly wounded cultivators and planned to seek shelter so they could convert the humans to the Western Teachings.

Lin Yue helped Kuafu obtain the True Sun Fire from Tang Valley in exchange for a promise that the Wu Clan would not harm innocent humans, then returned to Mysterious Nether Valley. Di Jun learned of the battle and ordered the Demon Clan to investigate Kuafu, Lin Yue, and the human refuge.

• Su Qingyan warned Lin Yue that Kuafu was heading toward Tang Valley and might endanger a human tribe, so Lin Yue left to intervene while she strengthened the refuge.
• Kuafu drained the Luo River tributary and injured humans who attacked him, but Lin Yue stopped him and persuaded him to spare the tribe in exchange for help obtaining the True Sun Fire.
• Lin Yue found the tribe a new spring, then joined Kuafu in infiltrating Tang Valley, where Kuafu refined the True Sun Fire and broke through to the late-stage Quasi-Saint realm.
• Lin Yue and Kuafu fought off the Golden Crows and escaped the pursuing Demon Clan army; Kuafu gave Lin Yue a totem fragment and promised the Wu Clan would not initiate harm against innocent humans.
• Lin Yue returned to Mysterious Nether Valley, told Su Qingyan about the battle, and discussed strengthening the refuge as the Witch-Demon War worsened.
• Di Jun learned that Kuafu had taken the True Sun Fire and ordered the Demon Clan to investigate the Wu Clan, Lin Yue, and Mysterious Nether Valley.

Lin Yue rescued Kuafu from a Demon Clan ambush, helped him defeat the demon forces, and secured the Wu Clan’s promise to protect humanity. After Lin Yue returned to Mysterious Nether Valley, Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi ordered a two-pronged assault on the Wu Clan Tribes and the human refuge.

• Su Qingyan warned Lin Yue that the Demon Clan had trapped Kuafu in the Cangwu Wilds, and Lin Yue left her to defend Mysterious Nether Valley while he went to help.
• Lin Yue arrived as Kuafu faced Baize, Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, Fei Lian, and three Quasi-Saint demon gods, then protected Kuafu and helped him recover.
• Su Qingyan sent Lin Yue temporal power, enabling him to kill Baize and Ji Meng; Kuafu killed Ying Zhao, Lin Yue killed Fei Lian, and the pair defeated the remaining demon gods.
• Kuafu brought Lin Yue to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who promised not to harm innocent humans and offered aid if the Demon Clan attacked the refuge.
• Lin Yue returned safely to Mysterious Nether Valley, reunited with Su Qingyan, and resumed strengthening the refuge and training the humans.
• After learning that his forces had been wiped out, Di Jun ordered attacks on both the Witch Clan Tribes and Mysterious Nether Valley, while Eastern Emperor Tai Yi volunteered to lead the assault on the refuge.