Chapter Summaries

Ying Zhao explained the Demon Race’s plague scheme against humanity and learned that the Witch Clan planned to seize the Human Race’s place. He met with Lu Ya, who declared himself Your Majesty and vowed to restore the Demon Race, while Ying Zhao warned him about the Witch Clan’s plan.

• Ying Zhao told Xing Tian that the Demon Race’s Dao Poison exploited flaws in human life and could not affect the Witch Clan or Witch-Humans.
• Xing Tian refused to reveal the Witch Clan’s plans and left after agreeing that both races would pursue the Human Race independently.
• Ying Zhao inferred that the Witch Clan planned to use Witch-Humans to replace the Human Race and ordered the Demon Gods not to attack them.
• Ying Zhao and the Demon Gods met the Young Golden Crow, who demanded to be called Your Majesty and revealed his confidence in the Demon Race’s return to power.
• Lu Ya promised to reclaim the Nine Heavens and make the Demon Race the Protagonist of Heaven and Earth.
• Ying Zhao told Lu Ya that the Witch Clan wanted to seize the magpie’s nest.

Lu Ya revealed the Demon Race’s plan to exploit the Human-Witch clans and weaken the Human Race and Dragon Clan, while the Witch Clan remnants celebrated Chi You’s reincarnation as a chance to rise again. Xing Tian and the others chose not to tell Empress Pingxin and went to ask Chi You what he wanted.

• Lu Ya dismissed the Witch Clan, claimed many Saints supported the Demon Race, and ordered Ying Zhao to spread plague, destroy Dragon Clan worship, and provoke conflict between the Human Race and Dragon Clan.
• Xing Tian arrived at the Huo Witch-Human Tribe, where Yu confirmed that Chi You had been born through reincarnation.
• The Great Witches believed the Demon Race Saints had restored Chi You’s consciousness and decided to use the Witch-Humans to pursue the position of Protagonist of Heaven and Earth.
• Yu asked whether they should tell Empress Pingxin, but the resentful witches opposed it, and Xing Tian suggested asking Chi You first.
• The witches entered the house and saw the young Chi You, who had emerged after a hundred-year pregnancy with a fierce, slaughter-filled presence; the woman who gave birth to him had died.

Chi You learned how far the Witch Clan had fallen and declared his intention to rule the Human Race, then persuaded Xing Tian with a plan to revive the Ancestral Witches. The chapter ended with the witches stunned and Xing Tian tempted by Chi You’s promise to make him a new Ancestral Witch.

• Chi You intimidated the surviving witches, forced them to kneel, and demanded to know how many Witch Clan branches remained.
• Xing Tian told Chi You that only 328 incomplete branches survived and recounted the events that had reshaped the Primordial Wilderness.
• Chi You vowed to place the Witch Clan above humans, while Xing Tian warned that humans could not be subjugated or slaughtered without grave consequences.
• Chi You proposed unifying the Witch-Human tribes and gradually spreading Witch Clan bloodlines and culture among humans, eventually seeking to become the third Human Emperor.
• Chi You ordered the remnants gathered and urged Xing Tian to bring back the witches sheltered in the Netherworld, promising that he would use Pangu Temple to summon the Eleven Ancestral Witches and help Xing Tian become one himself.

Chi You rallied the Witch Clan by promising that becoming Human Emperor would restore their power and bring back the Ancestral Witches, while the East Sea Coast faced attacks on Dragon Clan temples and a spreading plague. Daoist Randeng found Nine Refinements Poison Venerate spreading the plague and fought him, then accepted his challenge to settle their dispute through a contest of Laws.

• Chi You convinced the Witch Clan that his rise as Human Emperor could restore their bloodlines and bring back the Ancestral Witches, then ordered Xing Tian to gather the scattered clansmen and help spread Witch-Humans.
• Xing Tian agreed to assist Chi You but warned that many Witches followed Empress Pingxin and Jiu Feng, and Chi You told him to summon Jiu Feng if she refused to come.
• Mysterious cultivators attacked Dragon Kings and Dragon King Temples along the East Sea Coast, while humans destroyed temples and began worshipping mountain spirits and demons in their place.
• Shennong traveled among plague-stricken communities, searched for medicinal herbs, and tested them on himself as he worked to find a cure.
• Daoist Randeng found Nine Refinements Poison Venerate spreading gray mist over a lifeless mountain range and attacked him, destroying his defensive treasures as he pursued him.
• Nine Refinements Poison Venerate challenged Daoist Randeng to a contest of Laws and offered the plague cure in exchange for his life if he won.

Daoist Randeng listened as Nine Refinements Poison Venerate claimed he could cure the Human Race’s plague and reveal who was behind it, then agreed to fight without Dharma treasures. The Poison Venerate’s attack seemed to kill Randeng, but Randeng suddenly reappeared and seized him by the throat.

• Daoist Randeng considered resolving the plague himself after Nine Refinements Poison Venerate offered to undo the poison afflicting the Human Race.
• Nine Refinements Poison Venerate pretended to be a doomed, suffering cultivator and hinted that someone had ordered him to poison the Human Race.
• Daoist Randeng agreed to fight using only their comprehension of Laws and promised to let the Poison Venerate leave if he won.
• Nine Refinements Poison Venerate unleashed Dao Poison that rapidly destroyed Randeng’s body, Three Flowers, Five Qi, and Immortal Dao.
• Nine Refinements Poison Venerate mocked Randeng and admitted the plague poison was an unsolvable shackle, then refused to name his backer.
• Daoist Randeng spoke calmly and seized Nine Refinements Poison Venerate by the throat, revealing that he had survived the attack.

Daoist Randeng defeated Nine Refinements Poison Venerate, but the Poison Venerate died before revealing who had sent him. Shennong cured the Human Race’s plague with medicine made using ox gall, then proclaimed his merit and received a vast reward of Human Dao Merit.

• Daoist Randeng resisted Nine Refinements Poison Venerate’s poison and tortured him with Nirvana True Meaning until he agreed to reveal who had sent him.
• Nine Refinements Poison Venerate exploded before he could finish speaking, and his True Spirit vanished; Daoist Randeng then left to find Shennong.
• As the plague continued and Dragon King Temples were torn down, Shennong struggled to find the missing ingredient needed to cure it.
• Great Master Xuandu arrived with Green Ox, whose ox gall completed Shennong’s medicine and cured the plague; Shennong distributed the remedy throughout the Human Race.
• Shennong held a ritual to proclaim his merit, and celestial auspicious signs and vast Human Dao Merit descended.

Shennong completed his Dao attainment and was invested by Fuxi as the Human Dao Earth Sovereign, despite Saint Taiqing’s offer to use the Kongtong Seal. The Saints’ gathering ended in a dispute between Venerable Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian, leaving Daoist Randeng uncertain who would reimburse him for the banquet.

• The Saints and many Primordial Wilderness powers gathered at Fuxi City to witness Shennong’s merit ceremony.
• Great Master Xuandu proposed that Saint Taiqing use the Kongtong Seal to invest Shennong, but Shennong refused and said the Human Race would invest its own Emperor.
• Fuxi used the Human Dao Seal to invest Shennong as Earth Sovereign, and Shennong received most of the merit and rose to the Sub-Saint realm.
• Shennong invited the gathered powers to a banquet, and Venerable Yuanshi privately told Daoist Randeng to arrange an extravagant feast and seek reimbursement from him.
• Sect Master Tongtian offered to pay for the banquet, but Venerable Yuanshi objected, prompting Tongtian to leave and Yuanshi to depart with his disciples.
• Daoist Randeng was left wondering who would reimburse him for the banquet expenses.

After Shennong attained the Human Emperor’s Dao, Daoist Randeng and the Human Emperors investigated escalating violence between the Human Race and the Dragon Clan. They discovered that Demon Immortals had gained the people’s devotion by helping during a plague, and Fuxi ended the chapter by suggesting someone might resolve the crisis.

• Daoist Randeng hosted a lavish banquet, gained renown, and scolded Shennong into returning the borrowed funds and focusing on governance.
• After the Dragon Clan recalled its members from Human territory, Fuxi, Shennong, and Daoist Randeng investigated the conflict between Human communities and Dragon King Temples.
• They learned that Dragon Kings had refused to treat the plague, while Demon Immortals had helped the sick and gained temples, followers, and the people’s loyalty.
• Fuxi, Shennong, and Daoist Randeng recognized that the Demon Race might be using Human Race Destiny to strengthen itself, but feared that expelling the Demon Immortals would provoke unrest.
• After considering the tangled crisis, Fuxi said that someone might be able to resolve it.

Fuxi sought help from his teachers to deal with Demon Race influence among the Human Race, but only Kong Xuan answered his call. Kong Xuan relayed the Human Lord’s order to kill the collaborators and declared he would do it himself if the others would not.

• Fuxi agreed to contact his seven teachers after Shennong and Daoist Randeng urged him to ask for help protecting the Human Race.
• Fuxi’s video calls to Yun Zhongzi and several other teachers went unanswered, but Kong Xuan answered and explained that the others were nearing breakthroughs.
• Kong Xuan said he would ask the Human Lord how to resolve the crisis, then later called back with the Human Lord’s command to kill those aiding the Demon Race.
• Shennong objected that many people might be innocent and that mass killings could cause turmoil among the Human Race.
• Kong Xuan insisted the Human Lord would bear the consequences and vowed to kill those the others did not dare kill.

After Kong Xuan urged Fuxi to punish Human Race members who sided with the Demon Race, Shennong objected and Daoist Randeng sought Qingyuan’s guidance. Qingyuan rewarded Randeng lavishly, and the returned treasures and insights greatly strengthened Qingyuan as he prepared to address the Human Race’s crisis.

• Kong Xuan gave Fuxi the Human Lord Token and ordered him to warn the deceived Human Race members first, then destroy their temples, and kill those who still refused discipline.
• Shennong warned Fuxi that slaughter could cause internal strife, but Fuxi took up the token with killing intent.
• Daoist Randeng called on Qingyuan for help with the Human Race’s predicament, and Qingyuan praised his efforts and gave him treasures, pills, Law insights, and repayment for his banquet expenses.
• Daoist Randeng gratefully pledged his loyalty to Qingyuan and promised to serve him if he became a Hunyuan Saint.
• Qingyuan received powerful rewards, including the Nirvana Great Dao and God Slaying Spear, and his Great Dao insights increased by thirty percent, advancing his cultivation and strengthening him greatly.

Daoist Randeng learned that the Demon Race had engineered an epidemic to win influence among the Human Race, and he relayed Qingyuan’s counsel to Fuxi and Shennong. Shennong used the Human Lord Decree to end the ensuing unrest, then continued governing and helped establish a currency system for the Human Race.

• Qingyuan rewarded Daoist Randeng with Divine Ability insights and explained that the Demon Race had caused the epidemic to manipulate the Human Race.
• Daoist Randeng returned to Fuxi and Shennong and told them the epidemic was a Demon Race plot, while withholding the names of the Heavenly Dao Saints involved.
• Fuxi and Shennong issued orders to destroy Demon Immortal temples, but the resulting unrest lasted a hundred years until Shennong invoked the Human Lord Decree.
• Great Martial Path and Divine Path clans answered the decree, crushed the uprisings, and eradicated the Demon Immortal temples within half a year.
• Shennong, Fuxi, and Daoist Randeng apologized to the Dragon Clan, which returned to protect the Human Race along the East Sea Coast.
• Shennong improved Human Race governance and worked with Fuxi and Daoist Randeng to create currency infused with Human Race Clan Fortune and establish a fair currency system.

Qingyuan forged ten powerful Chaos Demon God Incarnations and offered one to Jieyin Incarnation as a Hunyuan Saint body. Jieyin Incarnation pledged allegiance and agreed to keep managing the Internet, teach cultivation to the Human Race, and guard them for a million years.

• Fuxi City's currency spread through the Human Race, and Human Dao Merit strengthened the first Houtian currency and its creator.
• Qingyuan used the Myriad Creation Cauldron, rare materials, Pangu Blood Essence, and Chaos Creation Stone to forge ten upper-mid-level Chaos Demon God Incarnations.
• Qingyuan kept the Annihilation Law incarnation and summoned Jieyin Incarnation, offering him the body in exchange for help with several tasks.
• Jieyin Incarnation pledged to serve Qingyuan and agreed to manage the Internet, teach Martial Dao and Divine Path Golden Immortal cultivation to the Human Race, and guard them for one million years.

Qingyuan strengthened his control over Jieyin Incarnation, who took the name Zhongmiao, then recovered and prepared new safeguards and weapons. He split into two figures, sending one to Biyou Palace and taking the other into the Netherworld to inspect its Reincarnation operations.

• Jieyin Incarnation accepted Qingyuan's terms, entered the powerful body Qingyuan had forged, and swore an oath before taking the name Zhongmiao.
• Qingyuan recovered his vitality, advanced to the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal Perfect Stage, and created an intelligent Nirvana Dao Body to absorb future injuries.
• Qingyuan wrote names on the Eight Souls Banner, replacing one of Hongjun's names with Sect Master Tongtian's.
• Qingyuan tested the mutated God Slaying Spear, whose Law of Slaughter tore through the Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi Tower's defenses, and planned to use it against Yang Mei.
• Qingyuan sent Candle Dragon toward the East Sea Dragon Clan with instructions about Shennong's daughter and the Demon Race's schemes.
• Qingyuan split into two figures, with one heading to Biyou Palace and the other entering the Netherworld as Great Love Heavenly Venerate to inspect Reincarnation and Pingxin's unused Ghost God List.

Qingyuan visited Pingxin in the Netherworld and found Xing Tian and other Great Witches rebelling against her by stealing the Blood of Ten Thousand Witches to aid Chi You. After Pingxin welcomed him for tea, she noticed an unexpected intervention in the Netherworld by the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect.

• Qingyuan reached the Underworld Court and saw Xing Tian, Xiang Liu, Wind Master, Rain Master, and other Great Witches flee with a red-lit cauldron containing the Blood of Ten Thousand Witches after fighting Jiu Feng.
• Jiu Feng accused the rebels of abandoning Pingxin to join Chi You, who had revived and was gathering Witch Clan forces to contend for the position of Protagonist of Heaven and Earth.
• Xing Tian and the others injured Jiu Feng, smashed through the Underworld Court gates, and escaped, leaving the city in chaos.
• Qingyuan rescued Jiu Feng and carried her to Pingxin’s palace, where Pingxin welcomed him and shared carefully cultivated Great Dao Spirit Tea.
• While drinking tea with Qingyuan, Pingxin sensed that the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect had appeared and begun fighting Xing Tian and the others.

Qingyuan stopped Xing Tian and the Witch Clan on their way out of the Netherworld with the Blood of Ten Thousand Witches, then effortlessly defeated them. A mysterious intervention transported the clan and the cauldron to Chi You’s tribe, where the Great Witches admitted they had betrayed Empress Pingxin and resolved to follow their new allies.

• Xing Tian, Xiang Liu, Wind Master, Rain Master, and the other Witch Clan members carried the Blood of Ten Thousand Witches toward Ghost Gate Pass, intending to return to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan confronted the clan and demanded to know what was in the cauldron, but Xing Tian refused to hand it over and attacked.
• Qingyuan shouted “Scram!” and blew Xing Tian and the charging Witch Clan forces to the ground, leaving them unable to stand.
• Qingyuan identified the cauldron’s contents as the Blood of Ten Thousand Witches and lifted the cauldron with one hand.
• A strange wind erased the Witch Clan and cauldron from the Netherworld, while Qingyuan pretended to be confused and headed toward the Underworld Court.
• Xing Tian, Wind Master, Rain Master, Xiang Liu, and the others reappeared at Chi You’s tribe with the cauldron, and the Great Witches warned Xiang Liu to be careful after betraying Empress Pingxin.

Chi You ordered the Great Witches to take the Blood of Ten Thousand Witches to a volcanic range, where he fell into the cauldron as eruptions unleashed overwhelming Fire Essence. Qingyuan arrived at the ruined Underworld Court, was brought to a hidden hall with Empress Pingxin and Great Love Heavenly Venerate, and heard Pingxin ask her companion why she had summoned him.

• Chi You learned that the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect had defeated the Great Witches at Ghost Gate Pass, mocked Xiang Liu, and ordered the witches to carry the Blood of Ten Thousand Witches to the Southern Primordial Wilderness.
• Chi You directed the Great Witches to trigger more than a thousand volcanoes, then fell into the blood-filled cauldron as Fire Essence engulfed him.
• Qingyuan arrived at the ruined Underworld Court and learned from the minor commander Feng that Empress Pingxin was away at a Saint's banquet.
• A wave of ghostly light brought Qingyuan to a great hall, where he paid his respects to Empress Pingxin and Great Love Heavenly Venerate.
• Qingyuan explained to Empress Pingxin that he had delayed coming because he had been cultivating in seclusion after attacks from two Western martial uncles.
• Empress Pingxin invited Qingyuan to tea and asked Great Love Heavenly Venerate whether he knew why she had summoned him.

Qingyuan left the Netherworld after Pingxin dismissed him, rewarding two Witch Clan members with pills that broke through their limits. Great Love Heavenly Venerate then revealed nine Hunyuan Saints to Pingxin as a possible answer to the threat against the Earthly Dao, leaving her dumbfounded.

• Pingxin explained why she had not used the Ghost God List to develop the Underworld Court and warned Qingyuan that the Human Race's apparent prosperity concealed instability.
• Pingxin dismissed Qingyuan but offered him treasures, pills, and insights; he refused them and left the palace.
• Qingyuan gave pills to Feng and his escort, helping the escort become a Golden Immortal and Feng break through to Great Witch.
• Pingxin discussed unrest among the Human Race with Great Love Heavenly Venerate, who refused to interfere or seek the Human Dao.
• Great Love Heavenly Venerate summoned nine Hunyuan Saints in Pingxin Hall, stunning Pingxin.

Qingyuan arranged for nine of his Hunyuan Saint avatars to guard the Netherworld, strengthening the Earthly Dao and giving Pingxin confidence to expand the Underworld Court. He urged her to recruit the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect to manage that expansion, but Pingxin realized she had already sent him away and he had returned to Golden Ao Island.

• Qingyuan introduced nine Hunyuan Saints who agreed to guard the Netherworld in exchange for drawing on the Earth Dao Origin, and Pingxin handed them Earthly Dao authority.
• The Netherworld expanded and grew more powerful as the nine Saints chose dojos at its Earthly Path Strange Treasures.
• Qingyuan told Pingxin that the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect was the right strategist to help expand the Underworld Court.
• Pingxin searched for the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect and discovered he had already left the Netherworld for Golden Ao Island.
• Pingxin regretted sending him away after recalling that he might enter secluded cultivation and never emerge again.

Pingxin regretted sending Qingyuan away and ordered Jiu Feng to invite him to the Netherworld again, while Jiu Feng learned that the First Disciple of Jie Sect had already visited. Elsewhere, Jieyin Incarnation renamed himself Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate and began plotting to strengthen himself by exploiting his true body's arrangements.

• Qingyuan advised Pingxin that the Underworld Bureau needed the First Disciple of Jie Sect, then left after warning that the Netherworld should be governed by its native beings.
• Pingxin restored Jiu Feng and sent her to Golden Ao Island to invite the First Disciple of Jie Sect to discuss presiding over the Ghost God List.
• Jiu Feng urged Pingxin to reconsider dismissing Qingyuan, then left for Golden Ao Island after Pingxin told her to ignore the Blood of Ten Thousand Witches.
• Jieyin Incarnation finished refining the Chaos Demon God body and realized he could strengthen his Origin by devouring his true body's other Separate Thoughts and exploiting his arrangements.
• Jieyin Incarnation adopted the title Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate, traveled to a hidden Demon Kingdom, and seized a large Buddha statue dedicated to his true body.

Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate revealed to a Jieyin Incarnation that the First Disciple of Interception Sect had helped him become a Hunyuan Saint, then destroyed and absorbed the incarnation. In the Ultimate Bliss World, Daoist Jieyin sensed that his scattered Separate Thoughts had been destroyed and erupted in fury.

• Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate confronted a Jieyin Incarnation and revealed that he was another incarnation of Saint Jieyin who had become a Hunyuan Saint.
• The Jieyin Incarnation deduced that the First Disciple of Interception Sect had helped Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate enter the Hunyuan Saint realm.
• Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate offered the Jieyin Incarnation a chance to merge with him, then destroyed and devoured it when it refused.
• Myriad Wonders Heavenly Venerate began plotting against the original Saint Jieyin and vanished from that Space-Time.
• Daoist Jieyin sensed that his Separate Thoughts across the Primordial Wilderness had been destroyed at once and angrily demanded to know who was responsible.