Chapter Summaries

Xuanyuan comprehended the Death Great Dao on Yin Mountain while Tongtian protected him and summoned Houtu to join them. On her way to the Netherworld, Houtu passed Kunlun Mountain, where Yuanshi discovered the Sky Burning Feather Fan.

• Xuanyuan absorbed the essence blood and entered sudden enlightenment as he studied the Death Great Dao and the Annihilation Reincarnation Scripture.
• Tongtian raised three layers of defenses around Xuanyuan and sent the Great Heavenly God-Demon Banner to invite Houtu to the Netherworld.
• Houtu received Tongtian's message, recognized the opportunity to advance her path toward reincarnation, and set off for Duosuo Mountain.
• Yuanshi sensed a powerful treasure south of Kunlun Mountain and found the Sky Burning Feather Fan emerging from a volcanic range.

Immeasurable Daoist seized the Sky Burning Feather Fan, but Yuanshi struck him with the Pangu Banner and forced him to flee. Houtu mistook the fight for Yuanshi’s and rushed to help, only to intercept Immeasurable Daoist as he escaped.

• Immeasurable Daoist emerged from the volcano and reached for the Sky Burning Feather Fan, hoping to pair it with his Heart Fire Fan.
• Yuanshi attacked Immeasurable Daoist with the Pangu Banner, but Immeasurable Daoist blocked the blow with the Heavenly Origin Cauldron and fled with the fan.
• Yuanshi erased the traces of their clash and sensed Houtu’s approach, then hurried south after her.
• Houtu sensed the Pangu Banner and went to assist Yuanshi, believing he was fighting an opponent nearby.
• Houtu blocked Immeasurable Daoist with the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner and began manifesting her Ancestral Shaman True Form.

Houtu and Yuanshi traveled through Kunlun Void to Luofeng Mountain in the Netherworld, where Houtu saw the suffering of souls unable to reincarnate. Moved by pity, she used her essence blood to restore them and create the Netherworld’s first ghost race.

• Houtu defeated Immeasurable Daoist, and Yuanshi bound him as a Daoist attendant before the Sky Burning Feather Fan accepted Yuanshi as its master.
• Houtu told Yuanshi that Tongtian had invited her to the Netherworld to seek insight into reincarnation, and Yuanshi chose to accompany her.
• Yuanshi guided Houtu through the Kunlun Void passage into the Netherworld, and they arrived at Luofeng Mountain.
• Houtu saw the suffering remnant souls and rejected Yuanshi’s view that their fate could not be changed.
• Houtu offered a drop of her Mysterious Yellow essence blood, restoring the souls and transforming them into the first ghost race.

Houtu created the ghost race with her blood essence and gained immense merit and wish power, advancing to the Late-stage Primordial Golden Immortal stage. Her achievement stirred powerful figures across the Primordial World, while the ghosts gained lasting protection from the Human Path.

• The ghosts bowed to Houtu and called her Holy Mother, and their wish power joined merit from the Human Path and Heavenly Dao to raise her cultivation to the Late-stage Primordial Golden Immortal stage.
• Tongtian sensed Houtu's achievement while guarding Xuanyuan, who remained absorbed in his cultivation inside the Soul Burying Cave.
• Ming He learned that Houtu had created the ghost race and considered creating a race in the Blood Sea to gain merit.
• Di Jun used his share of merit from establishing the western Heaven Pillar to advance to the Late Quasi-Saint stage, but he still failed to sever his third corpse.
• At Luofeng Mountain, 129,600 devout ghosts became innate beings in the Ascended Immortal Realm and received Human Path protection that would benefit their descendants through the Tenth Generation.

Houtu nurtured the newly born Ghost Clan in the Netherworld and received the Book of Life and Death and the Judge's Brush, while Yuanshi obtained the Heaven Suppressing Coffin. After teaching the Ghost Clan a cultivation art and protecting Luofeng Mountain, Houtu and Yuanshi left for Yin Mountain to join Xuanyuan and Tongtian.

• The Book of Life and Death and the Judge's Brush appeared in response to the Ghost Clan's birth and Human Path merit, then merged into Houtu's Indestructible True Spirit.
• The Heaven Suppressing Coffin descended to Yuanshi, who recognized its power to seal and refine even Saints and Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Houtu explained that the Heaven Suppressing Coffin was one of the Primordial World's three great baleful artifacts and that Xuanyuan had suspected it was held by Hongjun.
• Houtu taught the Ghost Clan the Netherworld Soul Refining Art, and Yuanshi laid a Jade Pure Grand Cycle Barrier around Luofeng Mountain to protect them.
• Houtu and Yuanshi departed the Netherworld and headed for Yin Mountain to meet Xuanyuan and Tongtian.

Xuanyuan completed his seclusion at Soul Burying Cave, broke through to Perfection Primordial Golden Immortal, and formed the beginnings of his own Chaos Scripture. His breakthrough’s Daoist resonance interrupted Ming He’s pursuit of Mosquito Daoist, allowing Mosquito Daoist to escape as Ming He headed toward Yin Mountain to investigate.

• Xuanyuan unified the laws of his nascent Chaos World with the Death Great Dao, and the Deathly Stillness Sickle resonated with the Creation Lotus Seed to perfect the balance of life and death.
• Xuanyuan broke through to Perfection Primordial Golden Immortal, advanced his Chaos Law, and formed the nascent Chaos Scripture within his spiritual sea.
• Xuanyuan chanted the principles of his Great Dao, causing the Yin Yang, Three Powers, and Four Symbols laws to manifest around Yin Mountain.
• Ming He pursued Mosquito Daoist across the Blood Sea with his Blood God Sons, while Mosquito Daoist cursed him for trying to kill him over the Blood Sea’s Origin and fortune.
• Xuanyuan’s breakthrough resonance distracted Ming He, and Mosquito Daoist escaped through the Blood God Sons’ formation.
• Ming He sensed the powerful Daoist resonance, suspected a mighty figure might covet the Blood Sea, and sped toward Yin Mountain.

Xuanyuan perfected his laws and advanced his Nine Revolutions Profound Technique after gaining insight from the Death Demon God’s legacy, making him invincible beneath the Saints. As Houtu and Yuanshi approached, Xuanyuan planned to give Houtu the Annihilation Reincarnation Scripture and reassured Tongtian that Houtu’s faith from the ghost race would not harm her if used properly.

• Xuanyuan fused many Great Dao Laws into his Chaos Dao and reached Perfection Primordial Golden Immortal.
• Xuanyuan told Tongtian that his primordial spirit had reached perfection and his Nine Revolutions Profound Technique had advanced to the forty-second layer of the fifth revolution.
• Xuanyuan sensed Houtu and Yuanshi approaching, and Tongtian explained that he had invited Houtu to study reincarnation in the Netherworld.
• Xuanyuan decided to pass the Annihilation Reincarnation Scripture to Houtu, whose creation of the ghost race had earned her merit and the faith of countless ghosts.
• Tongtian worried that the ghosts’ faith might endanger Houtu, but Xuanyuan said faith was safe when used properly rather than blindly absorbed.

Xuanyuan explained how Houtu could use the wishes of the ghost clan to support reincarnation without suffering backlash. After Houtu and Yuanshi arrived at Yin Mountain, the siblings compared their treasures, and Yuanshi revealed a powerful new Heavenly Dao treasure.

• Xuanyuan explained that Houtu could link the ghost clan's wishes to the Reincarnation Law and use them to maintain reincarnation.
• Houtu arrived with Yuanshi and told Xuanyuan and Tongtian that she had advanced her cultivation and received the Book of Life and Death and the Judge's Brush.
• Tongtian listed his many Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, and Xuanyuan joined him in showing off his own collection.
• Yuanshi revealed that he had obtained the Heaven Suppressing Coffin and expanded it to ten thousand zhang, astonishing Xuanyuan and Tongtian.

Yuanshi revealed the Heaven Suppressing Coffin, and Xuanyuan explained how it could counter Heavenly Dao Saints. After Houtu proposed using the Earth Path and Human Path to suppress the Heavenly Dao, Xuanyuan cautioned that they were not yet strong enough and shared his reincarnation scripture and insights with her.

• Yuanshi revealed that he had obtained the Heaven Suppressing Coffin, and Tongtian asked whether it could slay a Saint.
• Xuanyuan explained that the coffin could cut off a Saint from the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao, while Yuanshi warned that trapping one would be difficult.
• Houtu proposed gathering the Earth Path and Human Path's fortune to suppress the Heavenly Dao, and Xuanyuan said the coffin might restrain it but could not yet bury it completely.
• Xuanyuan told Houtu that establishing the Six Paths of Reincarnation would require more preparation and passed the Annihilation Reincarnation Scripture and his insights into life and death to her.
• Houtu received Xuanyuan's teachings on souls, reincarnation, and the balance between life and death.

Xuanyuan taught Houtu how to separate incense and faith from her true body through a divine incarnation, and she became the Netherworld’s ruler, Empress Pingxin Houtu Huangdiqi. Her method inspired Nuwa to seek an opportunity to create life, while Dong Wang Gong, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti planned to use faith incarnations for themselves.

• Xuanyuan explained that incense wish power could destabilize Houtu’s cultivation and taught her to anchor a faith incarnation in the Book of Life and Death.
• Houtu refined the Book of Life and Death, transferred the ghost race’s faith to it, and formed an incarnation to govern the Netherworld.
• Houtu proclaimed herself Netherworld Holy Mother, Empress Pingxin Houtu Huangdiqi, and her declaration resounded throughout the Primordial World.
• Kunpeng coveted Houtu’s power but feared the Pangu True Body, while Di Jun and Tai Yi worried that the ghost race threatened the demon race’s fortunes.
• Nuwa decided to travel the Primordial World to seek an opportunity to create life, and Dong Wang Gong began preparing to condense a faith incarnation.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti resolved to gather Western faith and create incarnations to restore their strength and support their future path to Sainthood.

Houtu created a powerful faith-based Deity Incarnation, prompting Xuanyuan to explain how Laozi and Yuanshi could use their severed corpses as anchors for similar incarnations. He warned them to wait until Nuwa created humanity, while revealing that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti would undermine their path to Sainthood if they used the method incorrectly.

• Houtu said her Deity Incarnation held sixty percent of her true body's strength, then left it to guard Luofeng Mountain while she secluded herself in Soul Burying Cave.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi asked Xuanyuan about creating faith-based incarnations, and Xuanyuan advised them to transform their severed corpses into Deity Incarnations.
• Xuanyuan explained that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti would likely create separate faith incarnations instead, causing their Heavenly Dao and Faith Dao foundations to clash and weakening their chances of becoming powerful Saints.
• Xuanyuan warned Tongtian and Yuanshi to wait until the Kalpa Tribulation had passed before gathering faith, and Yuanshi left to inform Laozi.
• Tongtian guessed that the right time would be when Nuwa created humanity, and Xuanyuan agreed that human faith would produce more stable and powerful incarnations.

Xuanyuan and Tongtian agreed that humanity must be protected as the foundation of the Human Path, while Houtu’s seclusion was interrupted by Ming He’s approach to Yin Mountain. Tongtian blocked Ming He, who claimed he had come to ask Houtu for guidance about failing to sever his third corpse.

• Xuanyuan warned that accepting humanity’s offerings would bring a duty to protect people and preserve the Human Path.
• Tongtian vowed to teach all disciples without discrimination and protect humanity as the foundation of his Interception Sect.
• Tongtian sensed a bloody aura approaching Yin Mountain and hurried to stop its source from disturbing Houtu.
• Ming He arrived at Yin Mountain and found Tongtian and Taotie barring his way with sword qi.
• Ming He bowed to Tongtian, claimed loyalty to the Pangu Orthodox Lineage, and said he sought Houtu’s guidance on why he could not sever his third corpse.

Tongtian brought Ming He to Yin Mountain, where Xuanyuan explained that the Severing Three Corpses method would leave him trapped before Sainthood without Hongmeng Purple Qi. Meanwhile, the Mosquito Daoist became intent on devouring Taotie's origin and headed toward the demon clan for help.

• Tongtian led Ming He to meet Xuanyuan after offering to seek guidance about his cultivation.
• The Mosquito Daoist sensed Taotie's powerful Devouring Origin and decided to pursue it despite being no match for Taotie.
• The Mosquito Daoist left the Netherworld for the Primordial World Starry Sky, intending to borrow the demon clan's power.
• Xuanyuan told Ming He that the Severing Three Corpses method had several dead ends and would not let him attain Sainthood without Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Tongtian warned Ming He that continuing on this path would leave him trapped before the Saint threshold with no room to advance.

Xuanyuan stopped Ming He from plotting to kill Hong Yun and pointed him toward the Human Path as another route to sainthood. Ming He accepted the guidance, resolved to strengthen the Blood Sea by dealing with the Mosquito Daoist, and invited Xuanyuan and Tongtian to visit.

• Ming He nearly lost himself to the Blood Sea's baleful energy until Xuanyuan's thunder and reminder that Heaven always left a way out restored his clarity.
• Ming He considered killing Hong Yun for his Hongmeng Purple Qi, but Tongtian and Xuanyuan warned that Zhen Yuanzi would retaliate.
• Xuanyuan told Ming He that Houtu was pursuing sainthood through the Human Path, which would have its own Saint Positions.
• Ming He begged Xuanyuan to show him how to follow the Human Path, and Xuanyuan advised him to prepare for its rise in the Netherworld and its ties to the Blood Sea.
• Ming He resolved to kill the Mosquito Daoist, whom he believed was draining the Blood Sea's source power and fortune, then invited Xuanyuan and Tongtian to the Blood Sea.

Ming He took Tongtian, Xuanyuan, and Houtu to the Netherworld Blood Sea and showed them Blood Sea Palace. The chapter ended with Tongtian noticing that Ming He’s Blood God Sons were linked by a formation.

• After Houtu emerged from seclusion, Ming He led her, Tongtian, and Xuanyuan through the Netherworld to the Blood Sea.
• Ming He explained the Blood Sea’s origin and used the Xuanyuan Water Control Banner and Twelve Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus to open a path through its waves.
• The group saw Blood Sea Palace, and Tongtian praised it as a Top-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasure.
• Ming He said he had forged the palace from Netherworld materials over three Eons and brought his guests inside.
• Ming He explained that he used the Blood God Scripture to create Blood God Son incarnations as servants, and Tongtian noticed their auras formed a linked formation.

Ming He explained the Netherworld Blood Sea Great Array, and Tongtian proposed testing it against his Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation. After Xuanyuan arranged a fair sparring match with Tongtian suppressing his cultivation, Ming He summoned his Blood God Sons to gather at the blood sea.

• Ming He described the Blood God Scripture and the Netherworld Blood Sea Great Array’s powers and formations.
• Tongtian eagerly challenged Ming He to a formation contest, but Ming He worried the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation would overwhelm him.
• Xuanyuan proposed that Tongtian suppress his cultivation and offered to oversee the sparring.
• Ming He chanted a summons that called the Blood God Sons scattered across the Primordial World back to the blood sea.

Ming He and Tongtian sparred with their formations in the Netherworld Blood Sea, where Tongtian demonstrated his superior mastery despite suppressing his cultivation. The clash revealed two hidden spiritual roots tied to the Blood Sea and reincarnation, and Xuanyuan explained how they could aid Ming He and Houtu in the future.

• Ming He formed the Blood River Great Array with 840 million Blood God Sons, while Tongtian challenged it with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation at Early-stage Primordial Golden Immortal strength.
• Ming He transformed his array into the Nine Nether Blood Dragon Great Array and gained the upper hand, but Tongtian combined the four sword qis to shatter the blood dragons.
• After forty-nine days of sparring, Ming He conceded that Tongtian's mastery of formations surpassed his own, and the two arrays receded.
• Tongtian, Xuanyuan, and Houtu sensed a Pangu-related disturbance beneath the Blood Sea, and Tongtian revealed a hidden secret realm containing two spiritual roots.
• Xuanyuan identified the roots as the Blood God Fruit Tree and Nether Soul Treasure Tree, explained their powers, and proposed that the latter be moved to Yin Mountain while the former remained with Ming He.

Xuanyuan explained how the Six Paths of Reincarnation related to the Human Dao and urged Ming He to protect the Blood Sea and Yin Mountain. After the group broke through the secret realm’s restrictions, they removed two spiritual roots to prepare them as foundations for reincarnation paths.

• Xuanyuan told Ming He that the Blood Sea and Yin Mountain were vital to the Six Paths, and Ming He vowed to defend both spiritual roots with his life.
• Houtu proposed refining two tortoiseshells from the Island-Bearing Golden Ao with the spiritual roots, and Xuanyuan agreed that this would establish preliminary foundations for two paths.
• Ming He joined Tongtian, Xuanyuan, and Houtu in attacking the secret realm’s restrictions, which took a hundred years to break.
• The four carefully removed the Blood God Fruit Tree and the Nether Soul Treasure Tree from the secret realm’s spiritual soil.

Tongtian and Ming He guarded the Blood Sea while Houtu and Xuanyuan headed to Yin Mountain, and Ming He anticipated gaining merit and revenge on Mosquito Daoist. Mosquito Daoist arrived at the Yao Race Heavenly Court and warned Di Jun that the Pangu Orthodox Lineage could threaten the Yao Race, pointing to its connection with the Witch Ancestor Tribes.

• Houtu placed a tortoise shell beside the Blood God Fruit Tree, then took the Nether Soul Treasure Tree with Xuanyuan toward Yin Mountain while Tongtian and Ming He stayed to guard and refine the shell.
• Tongtian refined the Fierce Beast Primordial Spirit Crystal, while Ming He hoped Houtu’s future merit would help him advance and let him kill Mosquito Daoist.
• Mosquito Daoist surveyed the Heavenly Court’s powers and decided to approach Di Jun with a plan to use the Yao Race against Taotie.
• Di Jun welcomed Mosquito Daoist into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where Xi He and Chang Xi were present, and asked why he had come.
• Mosquito Daoist claimed he had come to resolve a crisis facing the Yao Race and warned Di Jun that the Pangu Orthodox Lineage could surpass it.
• Mosquito Daoist told Di Jun that the Witch Ancestor Tribes were connected to the Pangu Orthodox Lineage, citing the Pangu True Body’s resemblance to the Great Witches and Lesser Witches.

Di Jun weighed Mosquito Daoist’s offer to join the Yao Race Heavenly Court and help capture Taotie, then demanded that Mosquito Daoist bind his true spirit to the Monster Summoning Banner. To prove the demand was acceptable to a mighty figure, Di Jun revealed that Kunpeng’s true spirit was already inside it, leaving Mosquito Daoist stunned.

• Mosquito Daoist warned Di Jun that the Pangu Orthodox Lineage could join forces with Dong Wang Gong against the Yao Race Heavenly Court.
• Mosquito Daoist offered to join the Heavenly Court if Di Jun would bear the karmic consequences of his feud with Ming He, and proposed that they scheme against Taotie and Taowu.
• Di Jun agreed to take on Ming He but said the Heavenly Court would need a greater price to help deal with Taotie and Taowu, two Perfection Primordial Golden Immortals.
• Di Jun demanded a wisp of Mosquito Daoist’s true spirit for the Monster Summoning Banner.
• Mosquito Daoist protested until Di Jun showed him Kunpeng’s true spirit on the banner, and Mosquito Daoist stood dumbstruck.