Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan bluffed that he had witnessed the Saints’ many reincarnations after the Chaos Great Dao Hall endured their combined attack. When Hongjun ordered another strike, Qingyuan stopped all seven Saints with a single shout, leaving them fearful and unsure whether his story was true.

• The seven Saints’ attack failed to damage the Chaos Great Dao Hall, astonishing the Saints and the Quasi-Saints watching from the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan hid his fear and claimed the Saints were weaker than before, then fabricated a history in which they had each held Hongjun’s position and repeatedly failed to achieve Transcendence.
• Hongjun rejected Qingyuan’s claims and ordered the six Saints to attack him again.
• Qingyuan erupted with visions around the Great Dao Hall and shouted “Tongue-Tied,” interrupting all seven Saints’ attacks before they could be unleashed.
• The Saints fell silent, wondering whether Qingyuan’s claims were true and fearing the power he had shown.

Qingyuan received powerful rewards for deceiving Hongjun and the six Heavenly Dao Saints, then offered to negotiate positions for their disciples in the Netherworld in exchange for treasures. Venerable Yuanshi traded the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, while the Two Sages of the West hesitated over what to offer.

• Qingyuan received the Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi Tower, the Ghost God List, 99 Hunyuan Creation Pills, an experience card, several treasure fragments, and large amounts of Daoxing and other resources.
• Hongjun and the six Heavenly Dao Saints apologized for their earlier actions and began to leave after deciding not to provoke Qingyuan further.
• Qingyuan invited the Saints to negotiate support for the developing Netherworld in exchange for payment, and Hongjun, Sect Master Tongtian, Grand Pure Laozi, and Saint Nuwa declined.
• Venerable Yuanshi offered his disciple's help stabilizing the Netherworld and agreed to give Qingyuan the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner in exchange for a position for his disciple.
• Saint Zhunti said one of the Western Sages' disciples was connected to the Netherworld, but the Two Sages of the West hesitated to surrender their Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner.

Qingyuan bargained with the Two Sages of the West over their treasures in exchange for help strengthening the Western Teachings. After offering powerful pills and finally proposing to lend them a Chaos-born being, he left the sages to consider the deal.

• Venerable Yuanshi left after agreeing to discuss which disciple to send to the Netherworld, while Qingyuan demanded the Two Sages of the West's Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner and Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus.
• Saint Zhunti agreed to trade the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner but insisted the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus was vital to the Western Teachings and demanded a more valuable exchange.
• The Two Sages of the West asked Qingyuan for a way to strengthen their teachings, and he explained that they lacked capable disciples who could manage the faction and shoulder responsibility.
• Qingyuan offered ten Nine Revolutions Grand Unity Pills in exchange for the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus, but the two sages demanded more.
• After further haggling, Qingyuan offered a Hunyuan Creation Pill and then proposed lending the sages a Chaos-born being with an affinity for the Buddhist Sect.

Qingyuan traded the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus and Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner for pills and White Bone Buddha’s service to the Western Teachings, with a promise that the Two Sages would not force him to stay. White Bone Buddha became Vice Sect Leader, transformed the Western Teachings’ disciples, and was left overseeing its affairs.

• Qingyuan introduced White Bone Buddha to Zhunti and Jieyin and negotiated his service in exchange for two treasures and cultivation pills.
• Jieyin accepted the deal, and Qingyuan took the treasures while the Two Sages swore not to coerce White Bone Buddha.
• The Two Sages confirmed the pills were genuine, then brought White Bone Buddha to the Western Teachings.
• Nine Western Teachings disciples became Daluo Golden Immortals, while Maitreya advanced to Primordial Golden Immortal Early Stage, drawing attention and new recruits.
• Maitreya and the other Personal Disciples challenged White Bone Buddha, who defeated them all in one move.
• The Two Sages began handing Western Teachings affairs over to White Bone Buddha.

The Two Sages put White Bone Buddha in charge of the Western Teachings and sent Ksitigarbha to the Netherworld, where his vow drew Earthly Dao Merit. After witnessing this, Venerable Yuanshi gave True Person Taiyi an art that let an incarnation gather Netherworld Merit while Taiyi remained free, leaving Daoist Randeng ignored and resentful.

• Saint Zhunti appointed White Bone Buddha to oversee the Western Teachings while the Two Sages entered Secluded Cultivation.
• Saint Zhunti sent Ksitigarbha to the Netherworld and told him to make a Great Vow there.
• Ksitigarbha vowed not to become a Buddha until Hell was empty, and Earthly Dao Merit surged into him.
• Venerable Yuanshi taught True Person Taiyi the Ten Directions Art and said he had arranged for Taiyi to use it in the Netherworld.
• Venerable Yuanshi gave the other Chan Sect disciples Pills and Divine Abilities but ignored Daoist Randeng, who remained bitter.

True Person Taiyi created ten embodiments to save Lost Souls in the Netherworld, earning them titles as the Ten Directions Heavenly Venerate of Salvation and gaining Merit and Fortune Aura without having to remain there himself. He then encountered Ksitigarbha and mocked him for being left to deliver souls alone.

• Pingxin and Qingyuan discussed Ksitigarbha’s resentment toward the Two Shakya and considered turning him against their plans for the Netherworld.
• Qingyuan suggested classifying the Book of Life and Death using the Five Immortals and Five Insects, and Pingxin welcomed the idea.
• True Person Taiyi arrived in the Underworld Court and announced that he would manifest ten embodiments to save Lost Souls.
• Pingxin recognized Taiyi’s vow and named the ten embodiments the Ten Directions Heavenly Venerate of Salvation, granting each authority and a realm to govern.
• The ten embodiments received most of the Merit and reached Peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal, while Taiyi gained a smaller share and grew angry at their lack of deference.
• Taiyi found Ksitigarbha delivering souls by the Sea of Blood and bragged that his embodiments let him earn Netherworld Merit without staying there, mocking Ksitigarbha for being left behind.

Ksitigarbha felt neglected by his Western teachers after Empress Pingxin showed concern for him, while Qingyuan helped Pingxin establish the Underworld Bureau and gave her the Ghost God List. Qingyuan then returned to the Witch Clan with Houtu’s Ancestral Witch Blood Essence and asked whether Jiu Feng wanted to become his disciple.

• Ksitigarbha compared Pingxin’s concern with his teachers’ long absence and thanked her for checking on him.
• Qingyuan advised Pingxin on organizing the Underworld Bureau and gave her the Ghost God List, which could appoint loyal ghostly gods through the Earthly Dao.
• Pingxin asked Qingyuan to take Jiu Feng as his disciple, and he agreed to ask Jiu Feng herself before deciding.
• Qingyuan traveled to Buzhou Mountain, where the Great Witches and Eleven Ancestor Witches greeted him with respect.
• Qingyuan returned Houtu’s Ancestral Witch Blood Essence to Dijiang and asked whether Jiu Feng wished to study under him; Dijiang immediately said she would.

Jiu Feng hesitated when Qingyuan offered to take her as his disciple, and he left without accepting her. The Ancestral Witches chose Chi You to become the Thirteenth Ancestor Witch, while Qingyuan refined Hunyuan Creation Pills and rose to the Half-Step Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• Dijiang told Jiu Feng that Qingyuan was willing to take her as his disciple, but she hesitated, recalling the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect and the achievements of his disciples.
• Qingyuan left Pangu Temple rather than pressure Jiu Feng, and the Ancestral Witches angrily scolded her for passing up the opportunity.
• Xuanming persuaded the Ancestral Witches that Houtu had returned her blood essence so they could create another Ancestor Witch and restore the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array.
• The Ancestral Witches considered candidates and chose Chi You to become the Thirteenth Ancestor Witch.
• Qingyuan returned to his Dojo on Golden Ao Island, concealed the Heavenly Secrets, and refined his Hunyuan Creation Pills, reaching the Half-Step Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Qingyuan resolved to become a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal and took out several treasures.

Qingyuan swallowed three Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and entered the Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi Tower to strengthen his foundation, leaving him unaware as the Witch-Demon conflict escalated. Meanwhile, the Two Sages of the West considered accelerating the Demon Race’s downfall to seize its followers and resources.

• Qingyuan sealed himself away, swallowed the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner, the Central Wutu Apricot Yellow Banner, and the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus, then began cultivating inside the Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi Tower.
• The Demon Race attacked the leaderless Witch Clan, but the Eleven Ancestor Witches and newly ascended Ancestral Witch Chi You formed the Pangu True Body, drove the demons back, and slaughtered billions of demons across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun publicly rejected a plan to slaughter the Human Race for Witch-Breaking Treasures but secretly allowed demons to abduct humans and use their blood to refine weapons.
• The Witch Clan prepared 129,600 Dutian God-Demon Banners to strengthen the Pangu True Body and boost its forces against the Demon Race.
• The Western Teachings prospered under White Bone Buddha, and Saint Zhunti urged Saint Jieyin to hasten the Demon Race’s fall so they could claim its followers and resources.

Zhunti devised a scheme that helped the Ten Golden Crows escape confinement, and their escalating attacks on the Witch Clan culminated in Kuafu pursuing them until he collapsed from exhaustion. As the surviving Golden Crows gloated, an arrow shot into the sky and pierced one of them.

• Zhunti told Jieyin that the Ten Golden Crows’ slaughter could weaken the Heavenly Court and drive the Witch-Demon conflict toward war.
• The Ten Golden Crows escaped the Nine Heavens, burned Witch Clan forces across the wilderness, and killed over a billion witches and Witch-Humans before a Demon God brought them back.
• Di Jun confined the Golden Crows to Tang Valley, but several hundred years later they escaped again and resumed their indiscriminate slaughter.
• Kuafu pursued the Golden Crows, who taunted him and attacked with Solar True Fire, but he collapsed from exhaustion after an unrelenting chase.
• Kuafu’s body became a mountain peak and his staff became a peach grove, then an arrow pierced one of the Golden Crows.

Yi avenged Kuafu and the Witch Clan by killing nine of the Ten Golden Crows, but Di Jun rescued the youngest and ended the confrontation before it became a full battle. On the journey back to the Nine Heavens, Di Jun blamed his surviving son for disobeying orders and confined him to Tang Valley.

• Yi ambushed the Golden Crows with specially forged arrows, killing five before the survivors fled.
• Yi pursued the Golden Crows and shot down more of them, while the Young Golden Crow escaped a fatal arrow by stumbling mid-flight.
• Di Jun arrived, rescued the Young Golden Crow, and struck Yi down, but the Ancestral Witches intervened and drove him back.
• Yi accused the Golden Crows of slaughtering the Witch Clan's people and causing Kuafu's death, while the Young Golden Crow demanded revenge for his brothers.
• Di Jun called off the confrontation and took the Young Golden Crow back to the Nine Heavens as the two clans withdrew.
• The Young Golden Crow berated Di Jun for abandoning his brothers, so Di Jun sealed his Daoxing and ordered him confined to Tang Valley.

Di Jun and the Demon Court debated slaughtering the Human Race to forge a weapon capable of killing the Ancestral Witches. After Fuxi failed to receive an answer from Saint Nuwa, Di Jun treated her silence as consent and ordered the slaughter, though he remained uneasy.

• The Demon Court learned that the Witch Clan was making a banner to summon a stronger Pangu True Body, and Baize proposed using human sacrifices to forge a supreme Witch-Breaking Weapon.
• Di Jun sent Fuxi to ask Saint Nuwa about killing humans, while Xi He berated Di Jun for not avenging their nine dead sons and left with Chang Xi.
• Fuxi returned without seeing Saint Nuwa, and Di Jun interpreted her silence as tacit consent to the plan.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to spare only a spark of the Human Race's Everlasting Fire and slaughter the rest, while warning that anyone who stopped the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect would earn great merit.
• Di Jun felt that something important had slipped his mind, but could not identify what it was.

Xi He sent Yue E to carry out a plan that led the Demon Race to attack the Human Race, and the Witch Clan joined the slaughter. As humanity faced near-extinction and turned away from Nuwa in favor of Qingyuan, Qingyuan sensed the crisis and rushed to the East Sea Coast.

• Xi He summoned Yue E, pressured her into accepting a secret plan, and explained what she must do.
• The Demon Race withdrew to the Heavenly Court, then sent its armies to slaughter the Human Race along the East Sea Coast.
• The Three Ancestors of Humanity, the Ten Ancestors of Martial Dao, and Qingyuan’s disciples and allies fought to protect humanity, but the Witch and Demon Clans drove the death toll above nine-tenths.
• The surviving humans renounced Nuwa as their Holy Mother and vowed to honor only Qingyuan, who remained in secluded cultivation while healing his Dao Injury.
• Qingyuan sensed that the Human Race was being slaughtered, ended his cultivation, and rushed toward the East Sea Coast.

Qingyuan emerged from seclusion and headed for the East Sea Coast as the Witch and Demon Clans moved to exterminate the Human Race. Interception Sect disciples and powerful Dragon Clan cultivators set out to aid him, while the last humans faced the destruction of their barrier and another assault.

• Yun Xiao urged the Interception Sect disciples to help Qingyuan, then left with Qiong Xiao, Bi Xiao, and Zhao Gongming as many others followed.
• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother and the Interception Sect group met Dragon Clan cultivators led by two powerful Old Ancestors, who said they were going to assist Qingyuan.
• At the East Sea Coast, the Witch and Demon Clans besieged the last six to seven hundred thousand humans beneath the Martial Dao True Realm Stele while Kong Xuan, Yun Zhongzi, and others defended them.
• The Witch and Demon Clans broke the stele's protective barrier and attacked, forcing the defenders and the humans to fight despite being badly outnumbered.
• As the Witch and Demon Clans overwhelmed the defenders and slaughtered the Human Race, the sky suddenly went dark.

Qingyuan arrived at the East Sea Coast and found that the Witch-Demon Two Clans had reduced the Human Race from several trillion to fewer than a million. He confronted the clans over the massacre, and when Demon Race fighters attacked, he crushed ten Grand Unity Golden Immortals with one hand.

• Qingyuan appeared before the grieving Human Race, whose survivors begged him to leave and said they would remain eternal enemies of the Witch-Demon Two Clans.
• Qingyuan assured the humans they were safe with him and demanded that Di Jun come speak to him.
• The Demon Race and Witch Clan leaders challenged Qingyuan, while Chi You tried to provoke him into a fight.
• Qingyuan ignored Chi You, insulted Di Jun, and called for him to appear.
• Ten Demon Race Grand Unity Golden Immortals charged Qingyuan, and he crushed them all by collapsing space with one hand.

Qingyuan killed ten Demon Race Grand Unity Golden Immortals and stopped Gonggong’s Witch Clan from leaving, while the Dragon Clan arrived and pledged allegiance to him. When Gonggong attacked, Qingyuan crushed his Ancestral Witch True Body with one strike and declared that no one could leave without his permission.

• Qingyuan killed ten Demon Race Grand Unity Golden Immortals with a casual grasp and demanded that Di Jun appear.
• Gonggong ordered the Witch Clan to withdraw, slapped Chi You for arguing, and sent the group toward Buzhou Mountain.
• Qingyuan blocked the witches’ path with his sword and declared that nobody could leave without his permission.
• Two old dragons and the Dragon Clan reinforcements arrived, knelt before Qingyuan, and were followed by respectful greetings from the Interception Sect disciples.
• Gonggong dismissed Qingyuan’s forces and attacked him in his Ancestral Witch True Body, but Qingyuan shattered his arms and sent him sinking into the earth with one palm.

Qingyuan overwhelmed and suppressed Ancestral Witch Gonggong, then threatened Di Jun into appearing by killing members of the Demon Race whenever an incense stick burned out. Di Jun watched from Lingxiao and recalled that he had once promised Qingyuan never to slaughter the Human Race.

• Qingyuan crushed Gonggong's arms, then pinned him beneath a Five-Finger Mountain and buried his curses.
• Qingyuan demanded that Di Jun appear, threatening to kill increasing numbers of demons as incense sticks burned.
• When Di Jun did not appear, Qingyuan killed demons in escalating numbers, while the Witch Clan and Demon Race watched in fear.
• Tai Yi protested Qingyuan's actions in Lingxiao, and Baize asked Di Jun about the promise Qingyuan had mentioned.
• Di Jun remembered promising Qingyuan that the Demon Race would never slaughter the Human Race, or the Heavenly Court would vanish and he would cease to exist.

Qingyuan confronted Di Jun and the Demon Race while the Ancestral Witches watched, then fought off the Demon Race’s strongest experts with overwhelming power. As Di Jun and the others decided Qingyuan must be borrowing a Saint’s strength, purple qi appeared and Qingyuan suddenly vanished.

• Di Jun brought the Demon Race’s host to the East Sea Coast, where Nine Infants accused Qingyuan of killing demons and demanded justice.
• Qingyuan attacked Nine Infants, and Tai Yi used the Chaos Bell to resist, but Nine Infants still lost one of his heads to the collapsing void.
• Baize led the Demon Race’s experts in an attack, but Qingyuan blocked their techniques and forced them back alone.
• The eleven Ancestral Witches attacked the mountain suppressing Gonggong, but it withstood their blows and left them stunned.
• Di Jun claimed Qingyuan had borrowed a Saint’s power, and the Witch and Demon Clans accepted that explanation as purple qi appeared and Qingyuan vanished.

After Qingyuan vanished, the Demon Race and Witch Clan withdrew, leaving the Interception Sect disciples, Dragon Clan, and surviving humans to recover. Yun Zhongzi healed the wounded with Three Lights Divine Water, and the disciples’ fortunes surged, with Kong Xuan nearing the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal stage.

• The Demon Saints admitted they could not withstand Qingyuan, and Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to return to the Heavenly Court.
• The Ancestral Witches broke Five-Finger Mountain and freed Gonggong, who fought Zhurong until Dijiang stopped them and led the Witch Clan back to Buzhou Mountain.
• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother offered medicine to the wounded Interception Sect disciples, while the Old Dragons ordered the Dragon Clan to guard them.
• Yun Zhongzi shared Three Lights Divine Water with the disciples and used three drops to heal the surviving humans, their land, and its spirits.
• The Interception Sect disciples entered secluded cultivation and rapidly advanced, while Kong Xuan took a step toward the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal stage.

Qingyuan confronted Saint Nuwa over her refusal to stop the slaughter of the Human Race, but left unconvinced by her explanation of Heaven’s decree. He then traveled to the North Sea and violently awakened the Mysterious Tortoise, leaving it terrified and subdued.

• Saint Nuwa told Qingyuan that the Human Race’s suffering was part of Heaven’s decree and warned him not to interfere with the Witch-Demon conflict, but Qingyuan departed without accepting her reasoning.
• Nuwa summoned Fuxi and urged him to leave the Demon Race before the coming catastrophe, but Fuxi refused to flee and left in anger.
• Nuwa questioned Kunpeng about his resentment toward Di Jun, and Kunpeng later returned to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan arrived in the North Sea and woke the Mysterious Tortoise with a blow that shattered its head and crushed its shell.
• The wounded Mysterious Tortoise continued to attack Qingyuan until fear overcame it, and it curled up trembling on the seabed.