Chapter Summaries

Di Jun reignited the Witch-Demon War by sacrificing 150,000 demons, and the battle’s escalating shockwaves threatened Penglai Island. Lin Yue and the underground realm’s defenders barely held the arrays against the destruction, leaving Lin Yue injured as the war continued.

• Di Jun activated the Star Sacrifice Array with 150,000 elite demons, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches unleashed the Sea of Blood Great Array and both clans fought with deadly force.
• Lin Yue and Baize watched the battle’s devastation, and Lin Yue warned that the shockwaves could endanger humanity as they reached Penglai Island.
• Lin Yue ordered the underground realm’s defenses reinforced as Su Qingyan used the Law of Time and Baize directed repairs to the damaged arrays.
• A clash on Zhulu Plain shattered three array cores and damaged the realm’s barriers, but Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, Baize, and the artisans stabilized the defenses.
• Dijiang’s uncontrolled attack struck Penglai Island, and Lin Yue’s spatial barrier absorbed the blow before the repaired arrays stopped its remaining force, leaving Lin Yue badly injured.
• Lin Yue organized continued watches and repairs before returning to heal, while the Witch-Demon War continued at slightly reduced intensity.

Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi unleashed the Eastern Emperor Bell, gravely wounding Xuan Ming and forcing the Wu Clan to retreat. As the Demon Clan launched an all-out attack, Xing Tian held the line, while Lin Yue reinforced the human refuge and prepared to gather battlefield resources.

• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan monitored the battle as Di Jun decided to use the Eastern Emperor Bell against Xuan Ming.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi sounded the bell three times, breaking Xuan Ming's defenses and leaving her gravely wounded.
• Gonggong, Zhurong, and Dijiang stabilized the Wu Clan's defenses, but Di Jun ordered the Demon Clan's army to attack in full force.
• Xing Tian charged into battle, killed Demon cultivators, and fought Di Jun, helping the Wu Clan hold its defensive line.
• Lin Yue recovered his depleted soul with Su Qingyan's Spirit Calming Pill and ordered the humans to reinforce their defenses and collect battlefield spoils.

Dijiang tore apart the demons’ Star Sacrifice Formation, turning the battle in the Wu race’s favor, while Lingyun and Lin Yue intervened to save him. Lin Yue later prevented Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi from self-destructing and sealed them, leaving the Wu-demon war devastated and the human race poised to rise.

• Dijiang broke through the demons’ defenses and destroyed the Star Sacrifice Formation’s central node, weakening the demon army but suffering a grave wound from Di Jun.
• Lingyun stood between Di Jun and the wounded Dijiang, but Donghuang Taiyi’s bell-wave badly injured him; Lin Yue arrived and rescued his disciple while Dijiang retreated.
• The Wu race counterattacked as the demons faltered, and Houtu shielded the Wu warriors from Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi’s desperate attack.
• Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi tried to self-destruct, but Lin Yue trapped and suppressed them in a spatial cage, preventing further deaths.
• Lin Yue left the defeated demon emperors with Houtu and returned to the human refuge, where he told Su Qingyan and Bai Ze that he had sealed them.

Demon Clan remnants attacked the human refuge, forcing Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, Baize, and the guards to defend its damaged array. Lin Yue killed Qing Lie and drove off the attackers, then began recovering as the refuge prepared repairs and stronger defenses.

• Lin Yue saw thirty thousand Demon Clan cultivators approaching and refused to evacuate the refuge, choosing to defend it with Su Qingyan and Baize.
• Qing Lie and Bai Mang demanded that the humans surrender Lin Yue and offer sacrifices, while Zhao Lie prepared the guards to fight.
• The Demon Clan commanders attacked the Defense Array for three hours as Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Baize coordinated its defenses.
• Lin Yue struck down Qing Lie with the Blade of Space, and Bai Mang ordered the Demon Clan forces to retreat.
• Su Qingyan helped Lin Yue recover while the refuge's people repaired the damaged array and strengthened their watch.

Lin Yue and Su Qingyan joined forces with Baize to build and improve a Spacetime Defense Array outside the human shelter, adding a hidden layer of protection against intruders. As the humans prepared for another attack, Bai Mang and Golden Wing gathered their forces and planned an assault within half a month.

• Lin Yue proposed a composite outer defense array, and he and Su Qingyan agreed to combine their Laws of Space and Time to create it.
• Lin Yue established spatial Array Bases across nine peaks while Su Qingyan wove Time Runes into the formation, creating traps that could slow, loop, or stop intruders.
• Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Baize concealed the array with Stealth Runes and a Space Maze Formation, and Baize assigned ten Golden Immortals to guard and maintain it.
• Lin Yue returned to the shelter with Su Qingyan and cooked her Spirit Calming Soup as they rested after completing the array.
• Bai Mang and Golden Wing gathered thirty thousand demon troops and planned to attack the human shelter in half a month after scouting its new defenses.

Wu Lie’s wounded Witch Clan patrol entered the human refuge’s Spacetime Defense Array while fleeing demons, and Lin Yue tried to let them leave peacefully. After Wu Lie mistook the rescue attempt for an ambush and attacked the human guards, Lin Yue killed most of the patrol; Wu Lie then misled Houtu about what happened, prompting her to investigate as tensions grew between the races.

• Wu Lie led the surviving Witch Clan warriors into the Spacetime Defense Array while fleeing pursuing demons, and its time traps slowed them down.
• Lin Yue ordered Qin Feng to deactivate the traps and open a passage, but Wu Lie mistook the human guards for attackers and led his warriors against them.
• After a Witch Clan warrior injured a human cultivator, Su Qingyan restrained the attackers while Lin Yue tried to explain the situation.
• Wu Lie rejected Lin Yue’s explanation, attacked him, and lost an arm to a Spatial Rift; Lin Yue then killed most of the Witch Clan warriors as the survivors escaped.
• Lin Yue treated the injured guards and ordered stronger defenses, while he, Su Qingyan, and Baize warned that the Witch Clan might retaliate.
• Wu Lie told Houtu that the humans had ambushed the patrol, concealing that his warriors had attacked first, and Houtu sent a trusted high-ranking witch to investigate.

Xing Tian visited Lin Yue's human refuge, approved of the humans' defense against Wu Lie, and warned that Bai Mang and Jin Chi planned to attack with nearly thirty thousand Demon Clan troops. Lin Yue and the refuge's leaders prepared their defenses as the Demon Clan commanders ordered an assault in three days.

• Xing Tian inspected the refuge's array and guards, then praised Lin Yue and Su Qingyan for protecting their people and said Wu Lie had been at fault.
• Xing Tian warned Lin Yue that Bai Mang and Jin Chi had gathered nearly thirty thousand troops at the Black Wind Mountain Range and gave him an Ancestor Witch talisman.
• Lin Yue called an emergency meeting with Baize, Zhao Lie, Su Qingyan, and the other core members, who organized preparations for the Demon Clan attack.
• Su Qingyan made pills and Magic Tools, Baize planned defenses, Zhao Lie trained guards and set traps, and Lin Yue reinforced the array.
• Bai Mang and Jin Chi dismissed the human defenses and ordered the Demon Clan army to attack the refuge in three days.

Lin Yue borrowed the Wu Clan’s Earth Protection Technique from Xing Tian and combined it with the Spacetime Defense Array to fortify the human refuge. The refuge prepared for another demon assault as Bai Mang and Golden Wings planned to attack in three days with the Sky-Burning Demonic Fire Array.

• Lin Yue used Xing Tian’s communication talisman to summon him and asked to borrow the Wu Clan’s Earth Protection Technique.
• Xing Tian agreed after Lin Yue swore to the Heavenly Dao to use the art only to protect humanity, never pass it on, and return it after the calamity; he also gave Lin Yue the Earth-Splitting Blade.
• Lin Yue mastered the Earth Protection Technique in three days and merged it with the Spacetime Defense Array, creating the stronger Spacetime Earth Dual Defense Array.
• Lin Yue taught core guards basic applications of the technique and improved the array, while Su Qingyan prepared pills and protective tools for the coming battle.
• Bai Mang and Golden Wings gathered fifteen thousand demon cultivators and ordered them to attack the refuge in three days with the Sky-Burning Demonic Fire Array.

Tai Yi Erlang and Xiang Liu killed each other in battle, forcing the Demon Clan to retreat while both clans suffered heavy losses. Lin Yue used the pause in the war to rapidly develop the human refuge, as the Demon Clan prepared revenge and Houtu set out to seek an alliance with humanity.

• Tai Yi Erlang killed Xiang Liu with his final strike, but Xiang Liu's poison killed him, devastating the Demon Clan's morale.
• Di Jun stopped Eastern Emperor Tai Yi from burning his source power, and the Demon Clan retreated to Tang Valley while Gonggong and Zhurong led the Wu Clan back to the Northern Sea of Blood.
• Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Baize expanded the refuge, developed the Basic Space Art, established medical training, and brought back the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Vine and Spirit Rhinoceros Spring.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi held Tai Yi Erlang's funeral and vowed to attack the Wu Clan and humanity again in three months.
• Houtu agreed to visit Lin Yue and seek a closer alliance between the Wu Clan and humanity.

Ju Mang and Ru Shou died buying time for the Wu Clan, and the losses drove Houtu to seek an alliance with Lin Yue’s humans. After both sides strengthened their forces, Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi ordered an attack on the human sanctuary in half a month.

• Houtu ordered Ju Mang and Ru Shou to ambush the demon army at Zhulu Plain, but they died after unleashing the Gold-Wood Annihilation Array, while the Wu Clan’s main force drove the wounded demons into retreat.
• After learning of the Wu Clan’s losses, Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Baize fortified the human sanctuary as Houtu proposed a close alliance.
• Lin Yue accepted Houtu’s proposal, and Zhao Lie and Houtu signed an agreement exchanging Wu Clan blood essence and Witch Artifacts for human supplies and mutual military support.
• Lin Yue distributed twenty drops of Ancestor Witch blood essence and fifty Witch Artifacts among the human guards, and twenty core members advanced to the Early Taiyi Golden Immortal Stage.
• After hearing of the alliance, Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi ordered the demons to gather their forces and attack the human sanctuary in half a month.

After the Witch and Demon Clans suffered heavy losses, Lin Yue led humanity’s push to develop cultivation, production, and exploration. Zhao Lie’s team found an ancient inheritance site, and Lin Yue and Su Qingyan opened its restriction and entered the cave abode.

• Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Baize agreed on plans to spread cultivation, expand production, and explore the Primordial Wilderness.
• Su Qingyan established the Cultivation Academy and compiled the Human Origin Art, while Baize expanded the Spirit Fields and founded the Workshop Pavilion.
• Lin Yue sent Zhao Lie and a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortal guards aboard the Explorer to search the eastern Primordial Wilderness.
• Zhao Lie reported that his team had found an ancient inheritance site but could not break its restriction, so Lin Yue and Su Qingyan flew to help.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan discovered that the restriction required an Innate Spirit Fruit, Thousand Year Mysterious Iron, and Pure Blood, then performed the ritual to open it.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan led the team into the cave abode, where ancient artifacts and diagrams of cultivation techniques and formations filled the interior.

Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Baize expanded humanity’s farming, tools, trade, and cultivation, then drove Western Teachings’ infiltrators from the refuge. As humanity continued to grow stronger, the Witch and Demon Clans prepared for another war.

• Lin Yue taught farmers Baize’s Spirit Field Farming Methods, while Su Qingyan and Baize helped craftsmen make more than a thousand enhanced farm tools.
• Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Baize expanded the Spirit Fields, producing a harvest of ten times the previous spirit grain and eight times the spirit vegetables.
• Lin Yue traded the surplus with the Qingqiu Fox Clan, the Danwu Clan, and the Molin Clan, and began teaching the Primordial Chaos Art to Golden Core cultivators.
• Baize exposed and expelled Western Teachings’ disciples, while Su Qingyan and Lin Yue persuaded their converts to return to cultivation and work.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi prepared the Demon Clan to attack the Wu Clan, while Houtu strengthened the Wu Clan’s cooperation with humanity.

Su Qingyan established the Human Medical Canon and the Hall of Benevolence, reducing illness and casualties while strengthening the Human race and its allied clans. After Lin Yue and Su Qingyan foiled the Western Teachings’ attempt to turn the Stone Demon Clan against them, they continued expanding medical care and cooperation, leaving the Human race more united as future threats remained.

• Su Qingyan saved dozens of Spirit Field farmers from Spirit-Devouring Insects and decided to teach the Human race medicine.
• With Lin Yue and Baize’s help, Su Qingyan completed the Human Medical Canon, opened the Hall of Benevolence, and trained two hundred physicians.
• Su Qingyan and Lin Yue treated Gonggong’s damaged meridians and later saved a Cultivation Academy disciple whose soul had separated from his body.
• The Hall of Benevolence lowered illness and casualty rates as the refuge’s population and military strength grew.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan confronted Shi Meng after Western Teachings disciples spread rumors at the Stone Demon Clan’s outpost; Shi Meng reaffirmed his alliance, and the disciples were arrested.
• Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Baize strengthened support for allied clans, while Su Qingyan expanded the medical canon and founded the Medical Dao Exchange Conference.

Jieyin and Zhunti sent disguised disciples into the human refuge to spread the Western Teachings, then conspired with Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi to attack humanity after Lin Yue and Su Qingyan exposed and expelled the missionaries. With Houtu, Nuwa, and the Three Pure Ones’ help, Lin Yue’s forces defeated the demon army and drove off the Western Sages; humanity rebuilt and continued to rise while the wounded Jieyin and Zhunti vowed to wait for another opportunity.

• Jieyin and Zhunti sent Xuan Chen and nineteen disciples into the human refuge, where they preached the Western Teachings and persuaded frightened refugees to follow them.
• Baize uncovered the infiltration, and Lin Yue and Su Qingyan warned the people before expelling Xuan Chen and the other disciples and helping their followers abandon the teachings.
• After the Western disciples allied with Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, the demon army attacked humanity, and Lin Yue prepared the refuge’s defenses and secured Houtu’s support.
• Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and Houtu ambushed the demon army; Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones arrived to defeat Jieyin and Zhunti, while Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi were captured.
• Humanity and the Wu Clan returned to their lands and rebuilt, while Lin Yue and Su Qingyan advanced to the middle stage of the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Jieyin and Zhunti retreated to the Western Pure Land to heal and promised to wait for another chance to spread the Western Teachings eastward.

Lin Yue exposed how the Western Teachings had manipulated refugees in the human refuge and expelled their preachers. He and Su Qingyan then arranged lessons to help the people strengthen their Dao Hearts and recover from the deception.

• Li Jian reported that Western Teachings disciples had infiltrated the refuge, recruited believers, and persuaded some people to abandon cultivation for prayer.
• Lin Yue decided to publicly challenge the Western doctrine, and Su Qingyan arranged support for those whose minds had been unsettled.
• Lin Yue questioned the Western Sages’ promises and argued that the scripture encouraged dependence rather than strength through cultivation.
• Lin Yue used scenes deduced by Baize to reveal the disciples’ manipulation and soul marks, turning the crowd against them.
• Guards seized Xuan Chen and the other disciples and expelled them from human territory.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan announced Dao Heart and Calming Heart classes, and most former believers returned to cultivation and production.

After Lin Yue exposed the Western Teachings’ efforts to influence the Human Clan, the refuge’s people and leaders grew wary of the sect and placed even greater trust in him. Lin Yue strengthened the refuge’s plans for self-reliance as the Witch-Demon War neared its final battle, while the expelled disciples vowed to seek revenge.

• Human Clan civilians discussed how Lin Yue had exposed the Western Teachings and resolved to rely on their own strength.
• Bo Yi and the Management Committee agreed to ban outside preaching and reinforce the refuge, and Lin Yue approved their decision.
• Lin Yue ordered the Cultivation Academy expanded, patrols increased, and food and supplies stockpiled.
• The Human Clan residents began reinforcing defenses and working together, while the expelled Western Teachings disciples departed vowing to report Lin Yue to their master.
• Lin Yue rejected Su Qingyan’s offer to follow the disciples and focused on strengthening the refuge before the Witch-Demon War’s final battle.

Lin Yue intervened in the final battle between the Witch and Demon Clans, stopping their leaders from destroying the Primordial Wilderness and forcing both sides to withdraw. He returned to humanity with valuable Law Fragments, helping the human race begin a new era of rapid growth.

• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi burned their origins to attack the Twelve Divine Fiend Formation of the Heavens, while the seven Ancestral Witches sacrificed their origins to defend it.
• Gonggong detonated his origin and devastated both armies, and the other six Ancestral Witches prepared to do the same.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan halted the impending explosions with the Law of Time and a spatial formation, then Lin Yue demanded that both clans end the battle.
• Di Jun agreed to withdraw with the Demon Clan, and Xuan Ming led the surviving Ancestral Witches away after Lin Yue suppressed their resistance.
• Lin Yue and his disciples gathered and refined Law Fragments and spirit treasure fragments before returning to the human refuge.
• Lin Yue ordered the creation of a Dao Comprehension Pavilion, an Artifact Refining Workshop, and an Alchemy Workshop as humanity prospered and the Witch-Demon Calamity ended.

The Eastern Emperor Bell and the Twelve Divine Fiend Formation of the Heavens clashed, destroying both the Witch and Demon forces and leaving Eastern Emperor Tai Yi to flee. Lin Yue and Su Qingyan gathered the battlefield’s Law and Magic Tool fragments, grew stronger, and returned to lead the Human Clan into a period of rapid expansion.

• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and Di Jun fought the seven Ancestral Witches with the Eastern Emperor Bell and the Twelve Divine Fiend Formation of the Heavens, while Lin Yue and Su Qingyan shielded their disciples from the resulting energy storm.
• Di Jun detonated his remaining origin, killing four Ancestral Witches before he perished; Gonggong, Zhu Rong, and Xuan Ming then detonated their origins, gravely wounding Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and forcing him to flee toward the Eastern Sea.
• Lin Yue, Su Qingyan, and their disciples collected and refined the battlefield fragments; Lin Yue developed Chaos Space Power, while Su Qingyan deepened her mastery of the Law of Time.
• Lin Yue chose not to pursue Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and led Su Qingyan and the disciples back to the Human Clan’s shelter, where the people welcomed them and Bo Yi helped organize the recovered fragments.
• Lin Yue assigned the Law Fragments to the Dao Comprehension Pavilion and the Magic Tool fragments to the Artifact Refining Workshop, while Su Qingyan took charge of training cultivators at the Cultivation Academy.
• The Human Clan expanded its shelter and strengthened its alliances as Lin Yue and Su Qingyan resolved to lead it toward dominion over the Primordial Wilderness.

Lin Yue and Su Qingyan witnessed the deaths of Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, then helped Ancestor Witch Houtu create the Six Paths of Reincarnation. After returning to humanity's refuge, Lin Yue began organizing its growth as the Primordial Wilderness entered the age of humanity.

• Lin Yue found Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, and the surviving Ancestral Witches near death; Di Jun asked him to spare the Demon Clan's remaining forces, and Lin Yue agreed.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi self-destructed, and Ancestor Witch Houtu arrived to gather the dead and declare her intention to become the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Lin Yue used Chaos Energy and Heaven Mending Merit while Su Qingyan used the Law of Time to help Houtu construct the Six Paths at the Netherworld Sea of Blood.
• Houtu completed the Six Paths of Reincarnation, became its Lord, and entrusted the Primordial Wilderness's future peace to Lin Yue and Su Qingyan.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan returned to humanity's refuge, where Lin Yue told Bo Yi about Houtu's success and ordered the Dao Comprehension Pavilion, Artifact Refining Workshop, and Alchemy Workshop to expand.

Houtu established the Six Paths of Reincarnation by transforming herself into the Dao, with Lin Yue and Su Qingyan helping her survive the process. After returning to the human refuge, Lin Yue began expanding its institutions and training new talent as humanity entered a new age.

• Houtu told Lin Yue and Su Qingyan she would sacrifice herself to establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and they agreed to support her with Chaos Energy, Heaven Mending Merit, and the Law of Time.
• After five days and nights of effort, Houtu opened the Six Paths, received Merit, and became their guardian as her soul merged with the reincarnation system.
• Lin Yue and Su Qingyan returned to the human refuge, where Lin Yue ordered the Dao Comprehension Pavilion, Artifact Refining Workshop, and Alchemy Workshop to triple in size and arranged for talented youths to be trained.
• The Three Pure Ones and Nuwa sent gifts to strengthen ties with Lin Yue, while the Two Sages of the West secretly plotted to infiltrate humanity.
• Lin Yue strengthened the refuge's defenses and prepared to lead humanity through the new age.