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Xi He agreed to marry Di Jun, and the Demon Clan held a grand wedding attended by powerful cultivators from across the Primordial World. The Underworld sent King of Reincarnation despite its feud with the Demon Clan, and Xi He’s bridal procession arrived as the ceremony began.

• Nuwa proposed that Xi He marry Di Jun, and Xi He agreed to try a different way of life with him.
• The Demon Clan sent wedding invitations throughout the Primordial World, including to the Underworld.
• King Yama and the other rulers decided that King of Reincarnation would represent the Underworld at the wedding.
• Di Jun welcomed powerful guests, including the Three Pure Ones and Zhen Yuanzi, while Tai Yi brooded over his injury from Li Yi.
• King of Reincarnation arrived on behalf of the Underworld, and Di Jun restrained Tai Yi and welcomed her inside.
• Xi He arrived in a bridal sedan drawn by celestial birds as the Demon Clan transformed the sky into a sea of flowers.

Di Jun and Xi He’s wedding brought merit and power to them and Nuwa as tensions between the Witch and Yao Tribes grew. After emerging from seclusion, Li Yi sought to strengthen the Underworld by bringing the Phoenix Tribe under his command, and Feng Xian agreed after he revealed the backing of his Main Body.

• Di Jun and Xi He swore their wedding oath, and merit raised their cultivation and Nuwa’s.
• Ten years later, Li Yi emerged from seclusion and judged the Underworld’s forces too weak.
• Li Yi traveled to the Southern Volcano and demanded that Phoenix Tribe Great Elder Feng Xian submit to him.
• Feng Xian hesitated until Li Yi invoked the aura of his Main Body, the Blood Prison Supreme, and she agreed to follow him.
• Li Yi ordered Feng Xian to keep his connection to his Main Body secret.

Li Yi subdued the Phoenix Tribe and searched the Qilin Clan’s former territory on Buzhou Mountain, finding no trace of them. Meanwhile, the Witch and Yao Tribes’ escalating battles brought Taiyi and Dijiang face-to-face, leaving the Primordial World braced for a greater war.

• Li Yi ordered Feng Xian to send a hundred million Phoenix Tribe members to the Underworld and traveled to Buzhou Mountain.
• Li Yi searched the Qilin Clan’s former territory and found that its members had disappeared.
• Jiu Feng fought Golden Lion King and nearly killed him after overwhelming his defenses with poisonous black flames.
• Taiyi intervened to save Golden Lion King and attacked Jiu Feng, but Dijiang arrived and blocked his punch.
• Taiyi withdrew with his forces after Dijiang warned that his actions could start a war, and the Witch-Yao conflict fell quiet amid expectations of a major battle.

The Witch Clan launched nearly ten billion warriors toward the Heavenly Court, forcing Di Jun to mobilize the Yao for a war that threatened to devastate the Primordial World. As the armies gathered above Buzhou Mountain, Golden Armor Ancestor and the Blood Prison Five Ancestors returned in their Crystal Coffin.

• Dijiang declared war on the Yao, and nearly ten billion Witch warriors set out for the Heavenly Court.
• Cultivators across the Primordial World reacted to the Witch army's advance, while major powers headed toward the Heavenly Court to witness the conflict.
• Taiyi urged Di Jun to fight, and Di Jun ordered the Demon Kings to prepare the Yao armies for war.
• The Yao gathered above Buzhou Mountain as war drums sounded across the Primordial World.
• Golden Armor Ancestor arrived on a blood-red Crystal Coffin with the Blood Prison Five Ancestors, alarming the cultivators who recognized them.

The Witch Clan and Demon Clan began a devastating war near Buzhou Mountain as Blood Prison forces watched and collected blood and mysterious talismans. The battle continued with neither side gaining a clear advantage, while the Crystal Coffin absorbed the battlefield’s spoils.

• Di Jun recognized the returning Blood Prison forces and warned Taiyi not to interfere with them.
• The Witch Clan arrived near the Heavenly Court, and Di Jun and Dijiang rallied their armies into battle.
• Gonggong's and Zhurong's tribes unleashed enormous water and fire attacks that devastated the Demon Clan.
• Both armies traded overwhelming attacks and fought at close quarters, leaving the battlefield strewn with corpses and blood.
• A web-like formation carried the blood into the Crystal Coffin, and silver talismans emerging from dead Witch Clan members entered it as well.

Di Jun and Taiyi turned the battle against the Witch Clan by trapping the Twelve Ancestral Witches in a star formation that drained their Magic Power. The Witches began to weaken, and Dijiang decided they would have to use their final move.

• Gonggong attacked Di Jun while Zhurong and Qiangliang fought Taiyi, and the leaders of both sides engaged in fierce battles.
• Dijiang ordered the demon experts to target Di Jun and Taiyi, while the Witch Clan’s forces advanced under Xing Tian, Jiu Feng, Hou Yi, and Kuafu and began driving the demons back.
• Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Book to trap the Twelve Ancestral Witches in a formation, where demon forces summoned waves of stars against them.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches revealed their true forms and destroyed vast numbers of stars, killing nearly a hundred million demons in the formation.
• Di Jun and Taiyi kept the Witches occupied as the formation prevented their Magic Power from replenishing, gradually wearing them down.
• After learning that his Magic Power had fallen below a third, Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches resolved to use their final move.

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The Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu’s Phantom and nearly killed Di Jun and Taiyi before Hongjun intervened and imposed a ten-thousand-year truce. Hongjun then attacked the blood-red Crystal Coffin, prompting the Blood Prison Five Ancestors to confront him.

• Dijiang and the other Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Dutian Formation and summoned Pangu’s Phantom.
• Pangu’s Phantom broke through the Yao formation and struck at Di Jun and Taiyi, leaving them unable to defend themselves.
• Hongjun used a Taiji Diagram to erase the phantom and then dispersed it with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Hongjun decreed that the Yao Clan would rule the heavens and the Witch Clan would govern the earth, forbidding them to fight for ten thousand years.
• After both sides accepted the decree, Hongjun attacked the blood-red Crystal Coffin, and the Blood Prison Five Ancestors shouted at him to stop.

Hongjun attacked the Crystal Coffin, prompting Li Yi’s Main Body to intervene and confront him above Buzhou Mountain. The Main Body’s golden finger smashed through Hongjun’s defenses and drove him into the ground, leaving a vast inland sea behind.

• The Blood Prison Five Ancestors’ Main Body pulled the Crystal Coffin through a black hole, and the Five Ancestors ordered Blood Prison City’s people to flee.
• Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and the others withdrew as Li Yi appeared beside the Three Pure Ones, Zhen Yuanzi, River Styx, and their companions.
• The Main Body opened its eyes in the Witch God Plane and sent a golden passage stretching above Buzhou Mountain, pressing its immense aura across the Primordial World.
• Hongjun prepared to face the Main Body with the Pangu Banner and Jade Butterfly, but its golden finger broke through his defenses and struck him into the ground.
• The impact sent shock waves across the land and formed an inland sea hundreds of millions of miles wide at the foot of Buzhou Mountain.

After Main Body defeated Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao stopped his attempt to seize the Jade Butterfly fragment, and the Primordial World settled down as the Third Sermon approached. In Chaos, Hongjun asked Yang Mei to help seal Main Body, but Yang Mei refused because the plan had only a fifty percent chance of success.

• Yang Mei and the cultivators of the Primordial World watched in shock as Main Body defeated Hongjun in one move, delighting the Witch Clan and Blood Prison City.
• Main Body's golden arm tried to seize the Jade Butterfly fragment, but the Heavenly Dao cut its chains and forced the golden eye to disappear.
• Li Yi decided not to attend the Third Sermon himself and instead considered sending King of Samsara and the others to collect Magic Treasures.
• Hongjun, furious after his defeat, went to find Yang Mei and proposed that they seal Main Body.
• Yang Mei rejected Hongjun's plan, saying a fifty percent chance of success was too dangerous.

Li Yi ordered temples and enforcement teams established across the Netherworld, the Four Great Seas, and the Southern Volcano Cluster, while Hongjun and Yang Mei prepared for a dangerous plan. At Zixiao Palace, the Third Sermon ended with Hongjun announcing that he would distribute spiritual treasures.

• Hongjun offered Yang Mei a seventy-percent chance of success and a month to study the Jade Butterfly of Creation, and Yang Mei agreed before departing.
• Li Yi ordered the Ten Yama Kings, Candle Dragon, Feng Xian, and others to establish temples and enforce worship, promising Rule Fragments as rewards and sending the Ten Yama Kings to Hongjun's Third Sermon.
• Li Yi's forces built temples, enforcement outposts, and eighteen directly administered cities across the Netherworld, the Four Great Seas, and the Southern Volcano Cluster.
• Three thousand years after the Second Sermon, the Ten Yama Kings reached Zixiao Palace, greeted River Styx, and drew the attention of the assembled cultivators.
• The Third Sermon helped the Ten Yama Kings reach the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while many prominent cultivators advanced to the mid-stage of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Hongjun announced that he would distribute the spiritual treasures he had collected before attaining the Dao.

Hongjun distributed several powerful Spiritual Treasures to his disciples and explained the difference between a Supreme and a Sage. After the cultivators rushed to the Treasure Dividing Cliff for more treasures, Hongjun joined with the Dao and disappeared, leaving the Primordial World’s great course fixed and the others newly emboldened.

• Hongjun gave the Taiji Diagram to Lao Zi, the Pangu Banner to Yuanshi, and the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and formation diagram to Tongtian.
• Hongjun explained that a Supreme generally surpassed an ordinary Sage in combat strength, though a defeated Supreme could be annihilated while a Sage was undying.
• Hongjun gave Nuwa the Mountain River Society Diagram, then granted Zhunti and Jieyin the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit and the Jie Yin Divine Banner after Zhunti pleaded for treasures.
• Taiyi and the other cultivators followed Zhunti’s example and begged Hongjun for Spiritual Treasures, so Hongjun sent them to the Treasure Dividing Cliff to choose from his stored treasures.
• After the cultivators departed, Hongjun used a fragment of the Jade Butterfly to join with the Dao and declared that the Primordial World’s great course would not change and that he would no longer appear.
• The Three Pure Ones and the others felt relieved by Hongjun’s disappearance and considered acting boldly.

Stone in Sword comprehended his Sword Dao and advanced to the Great Luo Realm, then learned Li Yi’s Nine-Colored Pagoda soul ability. Meanwhile, Di Jun emerged from seclusion after perfecting the Zhou Tian Star Array and prepared to use it against the Witch Clan.

• Stone in Sword broke through after comprehending his own Sword Dao, forming a Stone Fruit and entering the River of Destiny.
• Stone in Sword demonstrated his power by petrifying thousands of miles of sea and raising a vast forest of stone swords.
• Li Yi arrived to protect Stone in Sword, praised his breakthrough, and taught him the Nine-Colored Pagoda as a life-or-death trump card.
• Li Yi demonstrated the Nine-Colored Pagoda, shattering the surrounding void and killing countless sea creatures with its soul power.
• Di Jun emerged from more than three thousand years of seclusion after perfecting the Zhou Tian Star Array.
• Di Jun planned to forge 365 Star Flags and assign 365 Demon Kings to oppose the Witch Clan’s Twelve Heavenly Gods Array.

Hongjun sealed the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, suffering the Heavenly Dao’s retaliation as he pursued his plan to stop the Main Body. After four hundred years, the Main Body struck Hongjun from across the void, leaving him terrified that it was growing strong enough to prove the Dao.

• Hongjun used the Jade Butterfly of Creation and a luminous lock to seal the Azure Dragon, despite the Heavenly Dao’s retaliation.
• Over the following hundred years, Hongjun sealed the White Tiger in the Western Extreme Land.
• Three hundred years later, Hongjun bound the Vermilion Bird in the Southern Extreme Land.
• Four hundred years later, Hongjun defeated and imprisoned the Black Tortoise in the Northern Extreme Land.
• Near the boundary of the Primordial World, Hongjun glared toward the Witch God Plane and was struck by the Main Body’s golden beams.
• Hongjun realized the Main Body had grown stronger again and fled into the Primordial World, determined to seal it.

After thousands of years without progress in seclusion, Nuwa created the Human Race at Buzhou Mountain and gained enough merit to prove the Dao and become a Sage. She left to open a Dao Field in the Chaos, while the other cultivators reacted to her breakthrough.

• Nuwa left seclusion, wandered the Primordial World, and returned to Buzhou Mountain, where she conceived of creating another race.
• Nuwa shaped a clay figure, and Li Yi secretly supplied her with Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Three Light Divine Water.
• Nuwa used the treasures to create tens of millions of humans, who awakened and thanked her as their Holy Mother.
• Golden Light of Merit descended, allowing Nuwa to comprehend the Dao of Creation and prove the Dao as a Sage.
• Nuwa gave the humans basic cultivation techniques, announced that she would open a Dao Field in the Chaos, and departed.
• The Three Pure Ones reacted with frustration to Nuwa's breakthrough, while Zhunti teased Jieyin about their feelings.

Li Yi sensed that the Human Race had little destiny and arranged secret aid for them, including relocating them under Dragon Clan protection and giving them a cultivation technique. He then traveled to congratulate Nuwa on attaining Sainthood, where she treated him with unusual respect after sensing his unfathomable strength.

• Li Yi decided to help the Human Race in secret after comparing its destiny with that of the Witch and Yao Tribes.
• Li Yi ordered Candle Dragon to move Nuwa's new race to the East Sea and have the Dragon Clan protect them, then gave him a cultivation book for the Human Race.
• Li Yi set out to congratulate Nuwa, and the Azure Flood Dragon joined the procession pulling his palace through chaos.
• Li Yi arrived where Nuwa and many powerful cultivators had gathered, greeted the others, and congratulated Nuwa on attaining Sainthood.
• Nuwa sensed that Li Yi was unfathomable and replied to him courteously, surprising the surrounding Grand Unity Golden Immortals.

Nuwa created a living Small World as her Dao Field, named it Wa Huang Tian, and welcomed the assembled cultivators to a celebration. Afterward, Li Yi considered how to increase his combat strength without relying on rules that might be turned against him, then decided to visit Star Space to develop the world within his Reincarnation Intent.

• Nuwa shattered a vast region of Chaos with the Red Embroidered Ball and used golden runes to form a scroll depicting a world.
• Nuwa shaped the nascent world by creating mountains, rivers, forests, and palaces, then named her Dao Field Wa Huang Tian.
• Nuwa invited the fellow Daoists inside, and they held a grand celebration.
• After returning from the celebration, Li Yi concluded that his strength could match or exceed the Sages, but he worried that comprehending Heaven and Earth's rules could leave him vulnerable to Hongjun.
• Li Yi realized he might turn the world within his Reincarnation Intent into a real world and use it to strengthen himself, so he flew toward Star Space.

Li Yi refined tens of thousands of stars over five hundred years, using their essence to create a vast world. After testing its destructive power, he stored it in his sea of consciousness and traveled toward the Underworld.

• Li Yi entered the Star Space and began refining a nearby star with golden chains and True Sun Fire.
• After a month, Li Yi collapsed the star into concentrated stellar essence and merged it into his world projection.
• Li Yi spent five hundred years refining tens of thousands of stars and completing the world.
• Li Yi sent the completed world hurtling through the void, crushing several stars, then drew it into his sea of consciousness and traveled toward the Underworld.

The Human Race grew into a rising force as tensions between the Witch and Yao Tribes intensified ahead of another war. The Main Body resurrected hundreds of millions of fallen Witch People, who emerged from the Blood Pool and paid him their respects.

• Candle Dragon moved tens of millions of humans to the East Sea coast, and over five hundred years the Human Race grew to nearly ten billion.
• The Human Race endured hardships and developed many Mystic Immortals, drawing the attention of the Witch and Yao Tribes.
• Di Jun learned that Bai Ze had completed the 365 Star Flags and ordered the Demon Kings to master the Zhou Tian Star Array before the next battle.
• The Main Body purified the Blood Pool and used it to form Blood Cocoons from the blood and silvery runes.
• Hundreds of millions of Witch People emerged from the cocoons, free of innate baleful energy, and knelt before the Main Body.

Lao Zi discovered that the Human Race offered him the path to Sagehood, then established the Human Teachings Sect and became a Sage. Tongtian, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti followed, while Hong Yun’s continued silence drew greedy attention to Huoyun Cave.

• Lao Zi visited the Human Race, observed their growth, and guided their cultivators for three years.
• Lao Zi founded the Human Teachings Sect, used the Taiji Diagram to suppress its destiny, and proved the Dao as a Sage.
• Tongtian established the Interception Sect, followed by Yuanshi founding the Exposition Sect, and both became Sages.
• Jieyin and Zhunti proved the Dao in the west as Buddha Light and Buddhist chants spread across the Primordial World.
• Cultivators waited for Hong Yun to become a Sage, but Huoyun Cave showed no signs after three days, prompting greedy schemes.
• Anguished roars against Hong Yun echoed from the Demon Master Palace as cultivators recognized that the era of the Sages had begun.

After the rise of five Sages, Di Jun sought Nuwa’s support while Hong Yun tried to flee to Wuzhuang Temple with his Hong Meng Purple Qi. Kunpeng and other cultivators attacked him, and Hong Yun destroyed himself to keep them from claiming it, leaving the Qi’s whereabouts unknown.

• Di Jun and Taiyi visited Nuwa, who acknowledged her ties to the Yao Tribe but declined to help them directly.
• Hong Yun left Huoyun Cave for Wuzhuang Temple, hoping Zhen Yuanzi could protect him from those coveting his Hong Meng Purple Qi.
• Kunpeng intercepted Hong Yun and attacked him, but Hong Yun burned his Essence Blood to escape toward Wuzhuang Temple.
• Kunpeng, Taiyi, and hidden cultivators joined the pursuit and attacked the wounded Hong Yun.
• Hong Yun changed course and self-destructed near Kunpeng, killing hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals and several Quasi-Saints.
• The survivors searched for the Hong Meng Purple Qi but found no trace of it and left in frustration.

After Hong Yun's death, Li Yi constructed a virtual Heavenly Dao in his inner world with help from the Main Body's rule imprints and his Reincarnation Intent. The construction succeeded, but it triggered a vast lightning tribulation above the Underworld, leaving Li Yi shocked and uncertain what would happen next.

• After hearing of Hong Yun's death, Zhen Yuanzi slew dozens of the surviving attackers and fought Eastern Emperor Tai Yi for three days and nights without a victor.
• Li Yi reasoned that he could build a virtual Heavenly Dao using the Main Body's rule imprints and his own Reincarnation Intent as its foundation.
• The Main Body sent golden rule lines and an ancient talisman into Li Yi's inner world, where Li Yi joined them with his intents and formed the virtual Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yi used the new power to create mountains, a starry sky, and living beings, and a new civilization began to develop in his inner world.
• A massive tribulation cloud gathered above the Blood Sea, alarming the Underworld and cultivators across the Primordial World, while Di Jun and Taiyi hoped it would strike the Underworld.
• Li Yi saw the tribulation cloud and feared that constructing the virtual Heavenly Dao had caused it.

Li Yi faced a terrifying Lightning Tribulation after constructing a virtual Heavenly Dao and moved far from the Blood Sea to fight it. When the tribulation unleashed the Thunder of Destruction and a Vengeful Soul Tide, Li Yi manifested his Real World to resist, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Li Yi moved tens of millions of miles away from the Blood Sea, and the thunderclouds followed him as beings across the Primordial World watched.
• Li Yi summoned a mountain of radiant swords and sent it crashing into the thunderclouds, which formed savage beasts from lightning to attack him.
• Li Yi used World Reincarnation to grind away the thunder beasts, but a fissure opened in the clouds and unleashed the Thunder of Destruction.
• Li Yi summoned his Real World and merged with it, forming a colossal face as black lightning and resentment filled the sky.
• The resentment formed a Vengeful Soul Tide that charged the colossal face, which blew out Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water to meet it.
• The Vengeful Soul Tide and Li Yi's attack shattered space as destructive lightning spread, and the battle continued.

Li Yi swallowed the Destructive Lightning Sea, gained the Origin Rune of Destructive Lightning, and advanced to Half-step Primordial Chaos. He restored the land, left behind a Lightning Divine Ability for cultivators to study, and vanished, while Lao Zi wondered whether Li Yi was hiding a plan.

• The Giant Face grew hair over a hundred thousand feet long, whose Three Thousand Strands embodied Three Thousand Rules and broke through the Destructive Lightning Sea.
• The Giant Face swallowed the Destructive Lightning Sea, and Li Yi condensed the Origin Rune of Destructive Lightning and reached Half-step Primordial Chaos.
• Li Yi filled the abysses, restored the devastated land, and turned a mountain range into Lightning Mountain.
• Li Yi announced that he had left an unsurpassed Lightning Divine Ability at Lightning Mountain, then vanished.
• Cultivators across the Primordial World rushed to Lightning Mountain to study the divine ability, while Lao Zi worried about Li Yi's intentions.

As the Witch-Yao war approached, the Yao discovered that human souls could heal their damaged soul origins, and Di Jun decided to target the Human Race despite the risks. Nuwa and Lao Zi did not answer Di Jun and Taiyi, while Li Yi chose not to intervene in the crisis's early stages.

• Baleful energy spread across the Primordial World, stirring hatred between the Witch and Yao Tribes as their war drew near.
• A Golden Immortal Yao told Di Jun that devouring human souls could heal the Yao's soul damage.
• Di Jun decided to begin taking human souls in remote areas and went with Taiyi to seek Nuwa and Lao Zi.
• Nuwa concealed Wa Huang Tian, and neither she nor Lao Zi answered Di Jun's appeal for understanding.
• Li Yi sensed the danger to the Human Race and decided to leave its early tribulation unchecked.