Chapter Summaries

As the human-Wu alliance overwhelmed the Demon army, Fuxi and Kunpeng entered the battle to protect the Demon race. Fuxi faced the Willow Deity while Kunpeng interrupted Ye Xuan’s attack on Taiyi, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yuanshi Tianzun and the Western Saints grew wary of the human-Wu alliance and secretly began plotting against it.
• Ye Xuan battered Donghuang Taiyi while the Willow Deity broke through the Demon army’s defenses, prompting Fuxi to descend from the Heavenly Court.
• Fuxi used his zither and Eight Trigrams to restrain the Willow Deity, then fought her with his Innate Eight Trigrams Formation against her Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.
• Nuwa watched Fuxi enter the tribulation and worried that her brother had become entangled in its deadly dangers.
• Ye Xuan resumed his attack on Taiyi, but Kunpeng appeared and used his devouring ability to pull Ye Xuan toward his maw.
• Ye Xuan struck the devouring vortex with his fist, barely halting its suction.

Ye Xuan used the Chaos Heavy Pupils and his Human Emperor Seal to overwhelm Kunpeng and Donghuang Taiyi, while the Willow Deity broke through Fuxi’s formation. The battle left Ye Xuan dominant over his opponents and Fuxi unable to continue his assault.

• Kunpeng and Donghuang Taiyi teamed up against Ye Xuan, but his Double Pupils Heaven Splitting shattered Taiyi’s Golden Crow attacks and knocked him back.
• Ye Xuan’s Chaos Immortal-Slaying wounded Kunpeng’s wing, then he froze Kunpeng in place and battered him with the Heavenly Emperor Fist.
• Taiyi attacked Ye Xuan from behind with the Chaos Bell, but Ye Xuan’s Human Emperor Seal and counterpunch blasted him away.
• The Nether River Old Ancestor watched Ye Xuan’s overwhelming fight and compared his bearing to Great God Pangu’s.
• The Willow Deity pierced Fuxi’s Bagua formations with her Order Divine Chains, and Fuxi stopped playing the Fuxi Zither with a helpless sigh.

As the Demon Clan’s battle collapses, Di Jun burns his origin and draws on the Heavenly Court’s fate to transform the Zhou Tian Star Formation into a Star Giant. The Star Giant clashes with the Pangu True Body, and the Saints realize the cataclysm will leave both the Witch and Demon Races in decline.

• Fu Xi praised Willow Deity’s deductions, then sacrificed his origin to play his zither and hold her back.
• Di Jun saw Tai Yi defeated, Kunpeng near death, Fu Xi struggling, and the Pangu True Body cutting through the Demon Clan’s forces.
• Di Jun burned his origin and drew upon the Demon Heavenly Court’s fate to merge the Zhou Tian Star Formation into the Star Giant.
• The Pangu True Body attacked the Star Giant, which blocked its axe strike and countered with a star-powered punch.
• The collision unleashed a destructive shockwave that shook the Primordial World and alarmed the Saints.
• Nuwa saw that Di Jun’s gamble was draining the Demon Clan’s remaining fortune and understood that both ruling races would decline regardless of the battle’s outcome.

The final clash between the Wu and Demon Clans shattered their formations and devastated the Primordial World. As Ye Xuan and Willow Deity protected humanity, Fuxi and Di Jun perished, Nuwa was prevented from saving her brother, and Kunpeng fled with the River Diagram and Luo Book.

• Ye Xuan and Willow Deity halted their pursuit and combined their powers to shield human territory from the catastrophic shockwave.
• Pangu True Body disintegrated, and the backlash injured Di Jiang, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Hou Yi, and the other Ancestral Wu.
• The Zhou Tian Star Formation collapsed, Fuxi's spirit treasures broke, and Fuxi vanished after bidding farewell to Nuwa.
• Nuwa tried to save Fuxi's True Spirit, but Laozi stopped her from leaving Empress Wa's Palace, and she wept tears of blood.
• Kunpeng seized the River Diagram and Luo Book from the dying Di Jun and fled toward the Northern Nether Sea.
• Di Jun cursed the Heavenly Dao and disintegrated into golden light.

After Taiyi detonated the Chaos Bell, the Wu and Demon Clans’ great powers perished, and Gong Gong brought down Mount Buzhou with a Sage’s secret help, unleashing a flood across the Primordial Wilderness. Ye Xuan and the Willow Deity kept humanity safe behind their barrier as the calamity ended and the human race began to rise.

• Taiyi, despairing after Di Jun’s death and Kunpeng’s betrayal, ignited himself and detonated the Chaos Bell among the Ancestral Witches, killing Di Jiang, Xuan Ming, She Bi Shi, and others.
• The surviving Ancestral Witches’ remains became mountains and rivers, while Gong Gong survived at the edge of the blast and grieved over his fallen kin.
• Gong Gong cursed the Heavenly Dao and charged Mount Buzhou, while a hidden Sage weakened the mountain’s defenses, allowing Gong Gong to break it in half.
• Mount Buzhou’s fall tilted the firmament and released the Heavenly River, flooding the Primordial Wilderness as blood rain marked the end of the Wu-Demon calamity.
• Ye Xuan and the Willow Deity maintained the barrier protecting humanity, and the Sages recognized that the human race was poised to become the new protagonist of the Primordial Wilderness.

After Mount Buzhou broke, the Weak Water flooded the Primordial World, and Ye Xuan and the Willow Deity defended the Human Territory. As Nuwa began mending the heavens, Ye Xuan helped her refine the Five-Colored Divine Stone with Chaotic Divine Fire.

• Gong Gong's collision broke Mount Buzhou, and Weak Water poured through the hole in the sky, devastating the Primordial World.
• Ye Xuan and the Willow Deity combined the Human Emperor Seal, Chaos Bead, and Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to shield the Human Territory.
• Laozi of Supreme Clarity, Yuanshi Tianzun, Tongtian Jiaozhu, Jieyin, and Zhunti joined forces to contain the Weak Water, while Jieyin and Zhunti secretly took survivors to the west.
• Empress Nuwa summoned the Universe Cauldron and began refining her Five-Colored Divine Stone to mend the heavens.
• Ye Xuan used the Chaos Bead to create Chaotic Divine Fire, strengthening Nuwa's Fire of Creation and rapidly melting the Five-Colored Divine Stone.

After Nuwa repaired the heavens and Tongtian Jiaozhu restored the Four Extremes, the Heavenly Dao rewarded those who helped save the Primordial World. Ye Xuan used his merit to strengthen himself, then refined half of Mount Buzhou into the Human Emperor Seal, while Yuanshi Tianzun silently resented losing the mountain.

• Tongtian Jiaozhu slew the ancient Black Tortoise and used its four legs to establish new pillars at the Four Extremes.
• Nuwa mended the heavens with the Five-Colored Divine Stone, ending the Weak Water flood and restoring stability to the Primordial World.
• The Heavenly Dao distributed merit to those who helped, and Ye Xuan used his share to temper his body and Dao foundation instead of raising his cultivation.
• Ye Xuan lifted half of Mount Buzhou and refined its Law of Strength origin into the Human Emperor Seal, transforming it into a supreme treasure.
• Yuanshi Tianzun realized he had lost the chance to refine Mount Buzhou into the Heaven-Overturning Seal and regarded Ye Xuan with gloom.

Ye Xuan and the Willow Deity plundered the abandoned Demon Heavenly Court, but Zhunti tried to claim its treasures for the West. Tongtian Jiaozhu and Nuwa backed Ye Xuan, forcing the Western Two Sages to withdraw, and Ye Xuan returned to the human race hailed as its savior.

• Ye Xuan and the Willow Deity swept the Demon Heavenly Court’s treasure vaults, uprooted its high-grade Innate Spiritual Roots, and took the remaining Zhou Tian Star Banners.
• Zhunti blocked Ye Xuan and demanded the demon treasures for the West, claiming they were karmically tainted and fated with his sect.
• Ye Xuan refused Zhunti and challenged him to take the spoils by force.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu and Nuwa stood beside Ye Xuan and warned the Western Two Sages against seizing the treasures.
• Jieyin persuaded Zhunti to leave, while Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun declined to intervene.
• Ye Xuan and the Willow Deity departed with more than half the Demon race’s accumulated foundation, and the human people cheered their return.

After the human race prospered with the Demon Heavenly Court’s seized treasures, its surging destiny carried Ye Xuan to the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm. Ye Xuan established the Willow Deity as the human race’s Ancestor Spirit, and the Willow Deity bestowed the Sacrificial Spirit Dao, giving the tribes a new cultivation system and guardians.

• Ye Xuan gave the Demon Heavenly Court’s treasury to the Three Ancestors to distribute among promising human cultivators.
• Over several centuries, human strength and destiny grew, and the gathered destiny and merit helped Ye Xuan reach the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Ye Xuan asked the Willow Deity to accept an honored position as protector of the human race.
• At a ceremony on Shouyang Mountain, Ye Xuan proclaimed the Willow Deity the human race’s Ancestor Spirit, and the people worshiped the Willow Deity.
• The Willow Deity vowed to protect the human race and taught the Sacrificial Spirit Dao, allowing tribes to worship guardians that could share in their fortune.

After the human race’s Sacrificial Spirit Dao brought the Willow Deity to the peak of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, Ye Xuan went to help Houtu relocate the surviving Wu Clan into the Netherworld. Houtu settled Pangu Hall there and entrusted the Wu Clan’s accumulated foundation to Ye Xuan, who then accompanied her to the source of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• The Willow Deity absorbed the human race’s faith and providence, reaching the peak of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm as Yuanshi Tianzun, Jieyin, and Zhunti acknowledged the human race’s growing power.
• Ye Xuan decided to honor his alliance with the Wu Clan and went to Pangu Hall to help Houtu find a safe home for the surviving Wu Clan.
• Houtu uprooted Pangu Hall and led the remaining Wu Clan bloodline into the Netherworld, where she established their permanent home.
• Houtu gave Ye Xuan the Wu Clan’s accumulated spirit roots, pills, divine abilities, and treasures to support the human race.
• Ye Xuan stored the Wu Clan’s foundation in his inner world, and he and Houtu proceeded to the source of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches returned as underworld ghost gods and took up their new offices, restoring order to the Netherworld Underworld. Ye Xuan remained with Houtu, and the two became Dao companions through yin-yang dual cultivation that strengthened both their Dao foundations.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches were reborn from their True Spirits as underworld ghost gods, with Di Jiang and others becoming the Ten Yama Kings, several becoming the Five Ghost Emperors, and Xuan Ming becoming Meng Po.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches thanked Ye Xuan for saving the Wu Clan’s last remnants, and Ye Xuan welcomed them as brothers.
• Ye Xuan held a feast to celebrate the Wu Clan’s rebirth, where Zhu Jiuyin noticed Xuan Ming’s growing attraction to Ye Xuan.
• After the feast, Ye Xuan stayed in the underworld to stabilize his cultivation and discuss the Dao with Houtu.
• Ye Xuan and Houtu confessed their feelings through a kiss and became Dao companions, then practiced yin-yang dual cultivation that strengthened their Dao foundations.

Ye Xuan and Houtu emerged from their private time together and received the Ancestral Wus’ approval, while Xuan Ming warned Ye Xuan to treat Houtu well. They then joined forces at the Six Paths of Reincarnation to guide the fallen human and Wu Clan spirits into rebirth.

• Di Jiang, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and the other Ancestral Wu encountered Ye Xuan and Houtu, teased them, and welcomed Ye Xuan as their brother-in-law.
• Xuan Ming congratulated Houtu, warned Ye Xuan not to wrong her, and accepted his solemn oath of fidelity.
• Ye Xuan and Houtu went to the Six Paths of Reincarnation to arrange the fallen warriors’ rebirth.
• Ye Xuan summoned the heroic spirits of human cultivators, while Houtu gathered the True Spirits of the fallen Wu Clan.
• Ye Xuan and Houtu combined the Human Emperor Seal’s destiny with the Reincarnation Disk to guide the spirits safely into rebirth.

Nuwa asked Ye Xuan and Houtu to reincarnate Fu Xi among the human race, and they agreed, sending his True Spirit into the Human Path. After discussing the Dao with them, Nuwa hinted that Ye Xuan could one day break all shackles and achieve transcendence, leaving him wondering what she had foreseen.

• Nuwa visited the Netherworld Underworld and asked Ye Xuan and Houtu to let Fu Xi reincarnate among the human race.
• Ye Xuan agreed, and Houtu opened the Human Path while the Human Emperor Seal protected Fu Xi's True Spirit as it entered reincarnation.
• Nuwa promised to repay the karmic debt and joined Ye Xuan and Houtu in a discussion of the Dao.
• The exchange deepened Ye Xuan's understanding of how to break the Heavenly Dao's restraints and attain the Dao of Hunyuan.
• Before leaving, Nuwa told Ye Xuan she awaited the day he severed all shackles and achieved genuine transcendence, leaving him puzzled by her words.

After settling the underworld, Ye Xuan returned to the living world and visited his old friends on Golden Ao Island. Bixiao secretly got Zhao Gongming drunk, leaving Ye Xuan alone with the Three Xiāo Fairies as Qiong Xiāo brought up their past discovery of Penglai Immortal Island.

• After several centuries organizing the underworld with the Ten Yama Kings, Ye Xuan bid farewell to Houtu and the Ancestral Wu and left for the East Sea.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu welcomed Ye Xuan to Golden Ao Island, where Yun Xiāo, Qiong Xiāo, Bixiao, and Zhao Gongming greeted him.
• Ye Xuan and his friends shared immortal wine and reminisced while Zhao Gongming praised Ye Xuan for defeating Donghuang Taiyi.
• Bixiao secretly tampered with the wine, causing Zhao Gongming to pass out, then sent him to a guest room.
• With Zhao Gongming gone, Bixiao sat close to Ye Xuan and poured him wine while Qiong Xiāo asked whether he remembered finding Penglai Immortal Island together.

Ye Xuan recalled his past with the Three Xiāo Fairies, then visited Tongtian Jiaozhu and described Perfect World's cultivation system. Tongtian Jiaozhu compared its realms to those of the Primordial Wilderness and suggested that combining the two worlds' Dao Fruits might reveal a path to transcendence.

• Ye Xuan and Qiong Xiāo remembered discovering Penglai Island and sharing the Yellow Middle Plum.
• Ye Xuan and Yun Xiao recalled their secret embrace, while the three fairies drank with him; Bixiao and Qiong Xiāo became drunk, and Ye Xuan and Yun Xiao embraced.
• Zhao Gongming woke after the gathering and complained that he had become drunk, while Yun Xiao comforted him and Bixiao avoided his gaze.
• Ye Xuan went to Biyou Palace, thanked Tongtian Jiaozhu for helping him against the Western Two Sages, and received teasing about his friendship with Yun Xiao and the others.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu praised Ye Xuan's strength during the Witch-Demon Tribulation and asked about the different Dao laws he carried.
• Ye Xuan explained Perfect World's cultivation realms, and Tongtian Jiaozhu compared them with the Primordial Wilderness's realms and proposed merging the two worlds' Dao Fruits.

Ye Xuan secured Tongtian Jiaozhu’s promise of aid against future enemies and learned how Saints drew on the Heavenly Dao’s power. He rejected becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint, declared his intention to use the Human Dao to balance the Heavenly Dao, and returned to the Three Xiāo Fairies with gifts from Penglai Immortal Island.

• Ye Xuan asked Tongtian Jiaozhu for help if he ever faced an irresistible enemy from another world, and Tongtian Jiaozhu promised to lend him the Green Duckweed Sword and Immortal-Slaying Formation.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu explained that Saints entrusted their Primordial Spirits to the Heavenly Dao and could draw upon its power, comparing their empowered strength to the Sacrificial Dao realm.
• Ye Xuan rejected the path of a merit Saint and vowed to cultivate his Inner Universe, using Human Dao Destiny to balance the Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu praised Ye Xuan’s ambition and pledged the Sect of Interception’s support before Ye Xuan left Biyou Palace and reunited with the Three Xiāo Fairies.
• Ye Xuan traveled to Penglai Immortal Island, gathered Spirit Fruits and newly ripened Yellow Middle Plums, and shared them with the three fairies.

Ye Xuan spent several years with the Three Xiāo Fairies on Golden Ao Island before leaving to thank Zhen Yuanzi for protecting the human race and telling him that Hongyun would become the Earth Emperor. After settling his karmic debt, Ye Xuan followed a mysterious pure-yin pull through the starry sky and descended upon the Lunar Star.

• Ye Xuan shared a wine feast with the Three Xiāo Fairies, and they grew drunk and nestled close to him.
• Ye Xuan spent several carefree years with Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiāo, and Bixiao before they saw him off from Golden Ao Island.
• Ye Xuan visited Zhen Yuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple and gave him two Yellow Middle Plums in thanks for sheltering the human race.
• Zhen Yuanzi returned two Ginseng Fruits, and Ye Xuan told him that Hongyun would be reincarnated as the human race's Earth Emperor.
• Ye Xuan left Wuzhuang Temple and followed a faint pure-yin force across the starry sky to the Lunar Star.

Ye Xuan visited the Lunar Star, where he met the goddesses Xihe and Changxi and shared wine and Dao discussion with them. Xihe and Changxi revealed that Di Jun had once tried to recruit them into the Heavenly Court, but they had turned him away.

• Ye Xuan arrived on the Lunar Star and met Xihe and Changxi beneath the Moon Laurel Tree.
• Changxi excitedly asked Ye Xuan about his battles with Donghuang Taiyi and Kunpeng, while Xihe welcomed him as a guest.
• Ye Xuan drank Osmanthus Immortal Brew with the goddesses, and the three discussed the Great Dao.
• Ye Xuan asked whether Di Jun had ever visited the Lunar Star, and Xihe and Changxi recounted how they had rejected his recruitment attempt and driven him away.

Ye Xuan gifted Xihe and Changxi Yellow Middle Plums and explained that Xihe’s destined opportunity was to complete a heavenly marriage with a man of ultimate yang. Changxi proposed Ye Xuan as Xihe’s Dao companion, leaving the three in a delicate moment.

• Ye Xuan gave Xihe and Changxi a Yellow Middle Plum each, insisting they accept his gift despite their refusals.
• Xihe told Ye Xuan that she had long sensed a great opportunity but could not discover what it was.
• Ye Xuan explained that Xihe’s opportunity was a heavenly marriage that would bring vast merit and advance her cultivation.
• Changxi rejected Di Jun as a potential match and urged Xihe to become Dao companions with Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan openly proposed that he and Xihe become Dao companions, explaining that their Heavenly Marriage would help him claim the vacant throne of the Heavenly Emperor. Xihe agreed, and the two began preparing their ceremony beneath the Lunar Laurel Tree.

• Changxi teased Xihe about marrying Ye Xuan, and Ye Xuan considered how the match could support his future bid for the Heavenly Emperor's throne.
• Ye Xuan told Xihe that he planned to contend for the Heavenly Emperor's position and that their Heavenly Marriage could earn merit and bring the Lunar Star's power to his side.
• Xihe accepted Ye Xuan's proposal after hearing his plans, while Changxi encouraged her to agree.
• Ye Xuan took Xihe's hand, and they began preparing their ceremony by joining his supreme-yang blood and qi with her lunar origin.
• Ye Xuan summoned the Human Emperor Seal, and Xihe brought forth the Sun-Moon Essence Wheels.