Chapter Summaries

Tongtian and Xuanyuan purified the Western Land’s demonic soil and returned to Buzhou Mountain, where Jueyin, Yangming, and Lei Ze awaited them. Jueyin and Yangming sought advice on choosing between proving the Dao by force and attaining sainthood through Severing Three Corpses, and the group entered Pangu Hall to discuss the Dao.

• Tongtian used the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to refine the Abyss of Gluttony’s resentment and restore life to the Western Land.
• Xuanyuan rode Taowu and Tongtian rode Taotie toward Buzhou Mountain, startling the Great Divine Powers they passed.
• Jueyin, Yangming, and Lei Ze greeted Xuanyuan and Tongtian and marveled that the two Fierce Beast kings had become their mounts.
• Lei Ze thanked Xuanyuan and Tongtian for their past guidance, which had helped him reach the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
• Jueyin and Yangming asked Xuanyuan and Tongtian for guidance on whether to prove the Dao by force or achieve sainthood through Severing Three Corpses.
• Xuanyuan opened the Mysterious Female Gate, and the group entered Pangu Hall to discuss the Dao with the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

Lei Ze entered Pangu Hall and was stunned by its vast collection of Innate Spiritual Roots and the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ strength. Qiang Liang and Xi Zi challenged him to a thunder Dao spar above Buzhou Mountain, and Lei Ze transformed into his true form to begin.

• Lei Ze marveled at the numerous Innate Spiritual Roots growing inside Pangu Hall.
• Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming were shocked to learn that the Twelve Ancestral Witches were all Primordial Golden Immortals.
• Xuanyuan introduced Lei Ze to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Qiang Liang and Xi Zi invited him to spar.
• Lei Ze accepted the challenge, and Tongtian led everyone to the sky above Buzhou Mountain to watch.
• Lei Ze revealed his human-headed, dragon-bodied true form and summoned an ancient battle drum marked with the Five Lightning Runes.

Lei Ze, Qiang Liang, and Xi Zi tested their thunder arts against one another, but their clash left them short of understanding Chaos Divine Thunder. Xuanyuan intervened to demonstrate his Profound Clarity Chaos Divine Thunder and began teaching them its mysteries.

• Lei Ze summoned the Five Thunder Drum and formed nascent Chaos Divine Thunder from the Five Elements' thunder.
• Qiang Liang and Xi Zi manifested their Ancestral Shaman True Forms and combined Yin and Yang lightning into nascent All Heavens Divine Thunder.
• Lei Ze's Chaos Divine Thunder clashed with the two Ancestral Witches' All Heavens Divine Thunder for a hundred years, advancing their understanding but leaving them at a bottleneck.
• Xuanyuan displayed Profound Clarity Chaos Divine Thunder, showing how Chaos gave birth to thunder and how thunder returned to Chaos.
• Xuanyuan recited a Dao song on the Thunder Dao as Lei Ze, Qiang Liang, and Xi Zi studied his demonstration.

Lei Ze perfected his Nine Heavens Chaos Divine Thunder, while Tongtian’s explanation of Yin Yang Thunder inspired Qiang Liang and Xi Zi to advance their All Heavens Divine Thunder. As the three cultivated under the Ancestral Witches’ protection, Zhen Yuanzi began working to gather the Primordial World’s Earth Path fortune.

• Lei Ze understood Xuanyuan’s song of the Dao, broke through his previous limits, and cultivated the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Slash in a Thunder Secret Realm.
• Tongtian demonstrated Upper Pure Yin Yang Divine Thunder and explained how yang thunder and yin lightning complemented each other.
• Qiang Liang and Xi Zi attained sudden enlightenment and refined their All Heavens Divine Thunder by combining it with the True Meaning of Yin Yang.
• The ten Ancestral Witches guarded Lei Ze, Qiang Liang, and Xi Zi as their cultivation settled, while Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming watched with interest.
• At the West Sea, Zhen Yuanzi resolved to gather the Earth Path’s fortune by taking charge of the Primordial World’s earth veins.

Zhen Yuanzi transformed the Earth Book into the Classic of Mountains and Seas, opened the Mountain Sea Realm, and appointed the first Mountain God at ZhaoYao Mountain. After teaching the ZhaoYao Mountain God the Earth Immortal cultivation method, he continued his journey, while Earth Path merit surged into Pangu Hall.

• Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to create the Classic of Mountains and Seas and open the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Zhen Yuanzi raised the Que Mountain range and appointed its first peak, ZhaoYao, a Mountain God.
• Earth Path merit made the Classic of Mountains and Seas a merit treasure and raised the ZhaoYao Mountain God to the Great Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• The ZhaoYao Mountain God recognized Zhen Yuanzi as his Master and received the Earth Immortal cultivation method.
• Zhen Yuanzi continued traveling to appoint more Earth Immortal Deities, anticipating that the work would advance his cultivation and help him establish the Earth Path.
• Earth Path merit surged from Buzhou Mountain into Pangu Hall, and Xuanyuan noticed its arrival.

Xuanyuan received Earth Path merit for helping Zhen Yuanzi complete the Earth Path system and used his remaining merit to advance the Kirin Seal into a Top-grade Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure. As Qiang Liang, Yanzi, and Lei Ze broke through, Lei Ze thanked Xuanyuan, Tongtian, and the Ancestral Witches for their help.

• Xuanyuan recognized that Zhen Yuanzi had completed the Earth Path system, and Earth Path merit was divided between Xuanyuan and the Five Five Elements Ancestral Witches.
• Xuanyuan poured his unrefined merit into the Kirin Seal, transforming it into a Top-grade Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure that could suppress terrestrial fortune and protect its wielder.
• Xuanyuan explained the source of the merit to Tongtian, Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and the others, who congratulated him and praised the treasure.
• Qiang Liang and Yanzi strengthened their Yin-Yang thunder and lightning powers as Lei Ze broke through to the Mid-stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Lei Ze bowed to Xuanyuan, Tongtian, and the Ancestral Witches and thanked them for helping him overcome his bottleneck.

After Lei Ze departed, Tongtian gave Qiang Liang and Xi Zi treasures suited to their thunder cultivation. Xuanyuan warned Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming about the dangers of Severing Three Corpses, and they resolved to seek the path of Proving Dao by Law.

• Lei Ze thanked the others for their help, then left Pangu Hall to return to his disciples and followers.
• Tongtian gifted Qiang Liang the Fishing Drum and Xi Zi the Purple Lightning Hammer, strengthening their understanding of yin-yang thunder.
• Xuanyuan explained that Severing Three Corpses could bind cultivators to the Heavenly Dao and obstruct their chance to transcend it.
• Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming rejected Severing Three Corpses and chose to pursue Proving Dao by Law.
• Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming asked Tongtian to guide them in harmonizing yin and yang and refining their origins.

Tongtian guided Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming toward proving the Dao through Yin-Yang Law, and they pledged themselves to the Pangu Orthodox Lineage. At East Kunlun, Laozi and Yuanshi planned to strengthen their future campaign against Hongjun by helping Queen Mother of the West complete the Three Corpses path.

• Tongtian explained how Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming could combine their separate studies of Yin and Yang to comprehend the whole Dao, and they thanked him and pledged to stand with the Pangu Orthodox Lineage.
• Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming settled in Pangu Hall and studied with the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Xuanyuan.
• Laozi and Yuanshi discussed their plan to work from within and without against Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao, and Yuanshi proposed helping Queen Mother of the West complete the Three Corpses path.
• Laozi and Yuanshi flew to Dragon Moon City to tell Queen Mother of the West that she needed treasures of the same origin to unite her Three Corpses.
• Queen Mother of the West considered using the Twelve Petaled Merit Golden Lotus to sever her Obsession Corpse, but she still lacked the opportunity to complete the path immediately.

Queen Mother of the West learned that her Three Corpses needed treasures of the same origin to be reunited, so she began preparing to sever her final Corpse. After Jueyin and Yangming broke through to the Primordial realm, the Ten Golden Crows and twelve Jade Rabbits were born and established the order of the sun, moon, and time, as the conflict between the Yao Race Heavenly Court and Donghua Immortal Court drew near.

• Laozi and Yuanshi warned Queen Mother of the West that severing her Three Corpses with treasures of different origins would prevent them from uniting, and she resolved to use the Green Lotus Cushion for her final Corpse.
• Queen Mother of the West sealed Dragon Moon City and began cultivating with the Green Lotus Cushion as the fortunes of West Kunlun shifted.
• After 3,600 years, Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming broke through to the Primordial realm in Pangu Hall.
• Xuanyuan showed the gathering company the birth of ten Three-legged Golden Crows from Xi He on the Sun Star and twelve Moon Jade Rabbits from Chang Xi on the Moon Star.
• Heavenly Dao merit raised the Golden Crows and Jade Rabbits to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and they took authority over day and night while establishing the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
• Tongtian warned that the Sun and Moon would draw in their radiance and Innate Spiritual Qi would disperse, while Xuanyuan predicted that war between the Yao Race Heavenly Court and Donghua Immortal Court was approaching.

Xuanyuan explained the difference between innate and acquired Yao beings as the Golden Crows and Jade Rabbits were born, strengthening the Yao Race’s destiny. Di Jun and Tai Yi celebrated their growing power and planned to use the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array against their rivals, while Kunpeng looked for ways to exploit the Heavenly Court for Hong Yun’s treasures and Hongmeng Purple Qi.

• Xuanyuan explained that innate beings possessed inherited foundations, while most acquired Yao beings had to cultivate, and said the Yao Race’s destiny would shift toward the acquired after its innate rulers declined.
• Xuanyuan predicted that Di Jun and Tai Yi were refining the Emperor’s Nectar and completing the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array; Tongtian wondered how it compared with his Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Gonggong complained about Di Jun and Tai Yi’s attacks on Kuafu and Da Yi, but Di Jiang urged him to focus on cultivation, then sent word for the Ancestral Witches to watch the starry sky.
• Di Jun celebrated the birth of the Ten Golden Crows and twelve Jade Rabbits, declaring that their control of the sun and moon would strengthen the Yao Race’s dominion.
• Tai Yi said the Golden Crows and Jade Rabbits would help perfect the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array and enable the Yao Race to punish Donghua and unify the Primordial World.
• Kunpeng praised Di Jun and Tai Yi while privately hoping to use the Heavenly Court’s growing power to scheme for Hong Yun’s treasures and Hongmeng Purple Qi.

Di Jun appointed the Ten Golden Crows and twelve jade rabbits to govern the Sun, Moon, and the passage of time, strengthening the Yao Race’s control of the starry sky. Seeing a chance to spread her lineage, Purple Qi Yuan Jun descended to Wudang Mountain, where she found and steadied the newly awakened spirit within the Supreme Yang Qi of Taiji.

• Di Jun named the Ten Golden Crows the Ten Heavenly Stem Star Lords and the twelve jade rabbits the Twelve Earthly Branches Yuan Jun, binding their fortunes to the Sun and Moon.
• Tai Yi and Bai Ze praised Di Jun’s appointments as a way to secure the Yao Race’s authority over time and the starry sky.
• Purple Qi Yuan Jun sensed that the Sun and Moon’s changed authority had created an opportunity to pass down her Daoist lineage, so she sent an incarnation to the Primordial World.
• Purple Qi Yuan Jun’s incarnation traveled to Wudang Mountain and found an innate spirit awakening within the Supreme Yang Qi of Taiji.
• Purple Qi Yuan Jun sent gentle purple qi into the spirit and calmed its turbulent energy before it could turn back upon itself.

Purple Qi Yuan Jun awakened Zhen Wu, named him her disciple, and gave him a scripture, a sword, and a cultivation base at Wudang Mountain. Meanwhile, Jie Yin and Zhun Ti discussed joining the rising Yao Race Heavenly Court to heal their injuries and rebuild the West.

• Purple Qi Yuan Jun taught the Taiji spirit to balance hardness and softness, awakening his spiritual awareness.
• She named him Zhen Wu, passed down the Black Tortoise Suppressing Demon True Scripture, and gave him the North Pole Black Camel Horn Demon-Slaying Sword.
• Purple Qi Yuan Jun established Purple Qi Temple at Wudang Mountain and began teaching Zhen Wu sword cultivation and formations.
• Outside Purple Cloud Palace, Zhun Ti told Jie Yin that the Yao Race Heavenly Court had grown powerful with the appearance of ten suns and twelve moons.
• Zhun Ti proposed that he and Jie Yin join the Yao Race Heavenly Court to use its fortune to heal their injuries, return to the Primordial World, and strengthen the West.

Jie Yin and Zhun Ti decided to seek the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s protection and traveled to the Sun Star to offer their allegiance. Di Jun accepted them as Left and Right Demon Ministers, while Tai Yi declared his confidence in the Eastern Emperor Bell against the Pangu Orthodox Lineage.

• Zhun Ti persuaded Jie Yin that joining the flourishing Yao Race Heavenly Court could aid their western lineage and advance their cultivation.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti arrived at the Sun Star and entered the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where they met Di Jun, Tai Yi, Nuwa, Kunpeng, Xi He, and Chang Xi.
• Zhun Ti and Jie Yin praised the Heavenly Court’s fortune and offered to serve it, citing their Quasi-Saint strength and their ability to extend its influence in the west.
• Di Jun accepted the brothers and appointed them the Heavenly Court’s Left and Right Demon Ministers, giving them roles in central deliberations and oversight of the western races.
• Tai Yi declared that the Eastern Emperor Bell made him invincible and assured Jie Yin and Zhun Ti that the Yao Race could withstand the Pangu Orthodox Lineage.

The Yao Race Heavenly Court agreed to help Jie Yin and Zhun Ti rebuild Mount Sumeru, allowing them to pursue merit and strengthen the West. Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Kunpeng each secretly planned to claim part of the merit, while Tai Yi escorted the brothers toward the Western Land.

• Tai Yi praised the Yao Race’s great formations and pledged that the Heavenly Court would bear the conflict with the Pangu Orthodox Lineage on behalf of Jie Yin and Zhun Ti.
• Nuwa left the Heavenly Court for Phoenix Perch Mountain, intending to have Fuxi visit Buzhou Mountain and warn Tongtian and Xuanyuan about Jie Yin and Zhun Ti’s schemes.
• Zhun Ti asked Di Jun and Tai Yi to help rebuild Mount Sumeru and restore the Western Land’s spiritual veins, hoping to earn merit and eventually attain Sainthood.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi approved the plan while secretly plotting to divert some of its merit, and Kunpeng resolved to seek a share for himself.
• Tai Yi enveloped Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and himself in the Chaos Bell’s radiance and sped toward the Western Land.

Da Yi reported that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti had returned to the Primordial World with Tai Yi, prompting the Ancestral Witches to erupt in anger. The chapter ended with Qiang Liang rising to confront the intruders.

• Di Jun said he planned to use Jie Yin and Zhun Ti to help the Yao Race defeat the Immortal Court and the Four Pure Ones.
• Xuanyuan and the others discussed the Yao Race's growing power and Di Jun and Tai Yi's hostility toward them.
• Da Yi arrived at Pangu Hall and reported seeing Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and Tai Yi traveling together toward the Western Land.
• The Ancestral Witches grew furious at the trio's return, and Qiang Liang stood up in anger.

Xuanyuan explained that the Wutu Tribulation could be redirected to benefit the Earth Path and Human Path, and that the newly shared Kunlun Mountain must not be damaged. He saw Jie Yin and Zhun Ti’s plan to rebuild Mount Sumeru as an unexpected alternative, but the chapter ended with Di Jiang questioning what Xuanyuan meant.

• Gou Mang and the other Ancestral Witches condemned Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and Tai Yi for allying and threatening the fortune of the land.
• Di Jiang proposed gathering all Fourteen Ancestral Witches to use the Great Heavenly God-Demon Array against the sages’ Good Corpses, and Tongtian supported the plan.
• Xuanyuan agreed that the Good Corpses should be destroyed but urged the Ancestral Witches not to act hastily because of the Wutu Tribulation.
• Xuanyuan explained that Buzhou Mountain and Kunlun Mountain could not be sacrificed to fulfill the tribulation, since both were vital to the Pangu Orthodox Lineage.
• Xuanyuan revealed that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti’s plan to rebuild Mount Sumeru offered an unexpected way forward, prompting Di Jiang to ask what he meant.

Xuanyuan persuaded the Ancestral Witches to let Jie Yin and Zhun Ti rebuild Mount Sumeru, planning to exploit its eventual collapse to weaken the west and the Yao Race. With Hongjun merging with the Dao, Xuanyuan proposed sending the Five Elements Ancestral Witches into the Primordial World to seek opportunities and claim merit by establishing the four seasons.

• Xuanyuan explained that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti were rebuilding Mount Sumeru to anchor the Western Land's fortune and earn merit.
• Xuanyuan proposed letting Mount Sumeru become the Heaven Pillar and fall, preserving Buzhou and Kunlun Mountains while redirecting the tribulation toward the west.
• Tongtian and the Ancestral Witches praised Xuanyuan's plan to wait until the west and the Yao Race were weakened before striking.
• Xuanyuan told the Ancestral Witches that Hongjun was merging with the Dao and that they could safely venture into the Primordial World.
• Di Jiang agreed to travel but stressed that Pangu Hall needed protection, and Xuanyuan proposed that the Five Elements Ancestral Witches travel first.
• Xuanyuan urged the Five Elements Ancestral Witches to establish the four seasons after Nuwa created humanity, claiming its merit before the Yao Race monopolized seasonal authority.

Xuanyuan taught the Ancestral Witches the Four Symbols and Five Elements laws so they could forge artifacts to establish the four seasons. As Rushou completed the Autumn Square and Gou Mang began forging the Spring Compass, the others prepared to refine the remaining seasonal artifacts.

• Xuanyuan formed four Law Diagrams and explained that the Ancestral Witches should use them to create artifacts that could bear the laws of the seasons.
• Xuanyuan assigned the Spring Compass to Gou Mang, the Summer Balance to Zhurong, the Autumn Square to Rushou, and the Winter Weight to Xuan Ming, with the Four Divine Beasts guarding the artifacts and other Witches helping stabilize them.
• Gonggong ceded the chance to refine the Winter Weight to Xuan Ming, and she accepted; Gonggong then offered to assist Houtu in stabilizing the four symbols and seasons.
• Rushou gave Tianwu the White Tiger Token, then used his White Tiger Blade and metal materials to forge the Autumn Square in the Pangu Blood Pool.
• Gou Mang placed his Green Wood Staff and a Jianmu Branch in the Blood Pool and began forging the Spring Compass with guidance from the Azure Dragon Diagram.

The Ancestral Witches forged four treasures to establish the seasons, while Dong Wang Gong and Ziwei Star Lord advanced to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm and severed new corpses. Their celebrations ended when they learned that the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s fortune had surpassed the Donghua Immortal Court’s.

• Xuanyuan oversaw the Ancestral Witches’ creation of the Spring Compass, Summer Balance, Autumn Square, and Winter Weight, and warned that establishing the seasons would bring a fight over fortune and merit.
• Dong Wang Gong used Jingyang Bell to sever his Evil Corpse, Great Emperor Fusang, and secure his Mid-stage Quasi-Saint cultivation.
• Ziwei Star Lord reached the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm, severed his Good Corpse, Ziwei Great Emperor, and harmonized him with the Ziwei Star Tower.
• The Great Director of Destinies and the Eight Great Elders reported that the Ten True Lords of the Golden Crow and Twelve Yuan Lords of the Jade Rabbit had appeared, raising the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s fortune above the Donghua Immortal Court’s.
• Dong Wang Gong and Ziwei Star Lord lost their smiles as they reacted to the Yao Race’s rise.

Dong Wang Gong responded to the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s surging fortune by mobilizing the Donghua Immortal Court to perfect two great formations and seek allies. Ten thousand years later, Fuxi arrived at Pangu Hall to warn that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti had joined the Yao Race, but the assembled Pangu Orthodox Lineage was so powerful that he reconsidered his warning.

• Dong Wang Gong saw the Yao Race’s fortune surge and ordered envoys to seek the Nine Sons of the Dragon and the Great Witches while summoning the Immortal Court’s leaders.
• Dong Wang Gong and Ziwei Star Lord called on the immortals to develop the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and the Innate Five Elements Great Array, and the assembled factions pledged to resist the Yao Race.
• After ten thousand years, Gou Mang, Zhurong, Rushou, and Xuan Ming completed the initial nurturing of four seasonal artifacts in Pangu Hall.
• Fuxi arrived at Pangu Hall and told Xuanyuan and the others that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti had joined the Yao Race Heavenly Court as Left and Right Demon Ministers.
• Fuxi saw the gathered Primordial Golden Immortals and reconsidered warning them, judging the Pangu Orthodox Lineage’s strength overwhelming.