Chapter Summaries

Xuanyuan’s forces suffered a crushing defeat against Chiyou’s Witch Clan army, and his alliance with Yan Emperor failed to turn the tide. As Xuanyuan and Yan Emperor retreated wounded, Xuanyuan feared the Human Race might be doomed.

• Guangchengzi left Xuanyuan to seek reinforcements at Kunlun Mountain, while Xuanyuan led the Human Race army against Chiyou and was quickly routed.
• Chiyou refrained from pursuing Xuanyuan, aware that the Saints and their sects might intervene if he tried to destroy the Human Race.
• Jieyin and Zhunti concluded that Xuanyuan had to resolve the Witch Chaos as well as deal with Yan Emperor to become Human Emperor.
• Xuanyuan asked Yan Emperor to join him against Chiyou, and Yan Emperor agreed to defend the Human Race.
• Xuanyuan and Yan Emperor led the Human Race army into a ten-day battle against the Witch Clan, but suffered heavy losses and withdrew badly wounded.

Emperor Venerate appointed Queen Mother of the West to rule alongside him in the Heavenly Court, then sought Fuxi’s help to restore the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation. Fuxi agreed and went to the Heavenly Realm, where Emperor Venerate summoned the Lord of Stars to begin preparations.

• Emperor Venerate welcomed Queen Mother of the West and her Yaochi lineage to the Heavenly Realm and established the Peach Garden for them.
• Emperor Venerate appointed Queen Mother of the West as Queen Mother of the Heavenly Court, with rank equal to his own.
• Emperor Venerate visited Huang Tian and Zhenyuanzi in the Human Emperor Realm and asked them to let Fuxi help reforge the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation.
• Huang Tian summoned Fuxi, who agreed to accompany Emperor Venerate to the Heavenly Realm.
• Emperor Venerate returned with Fuxi and summoned the Lord of Stars, whom Qin Mu had previously subdued.

Guangchengzi returned to Kunlun to report that Chi You had resumed his war against the Human Race, and Venerable Yuanshi sent Randeng and Chan Teaching disciples to aid Xuanyuan. Randeng sensed Yuanshi’s growing demonic energy as the Human forces continued to retreat before Chi You’s army.

• Guangchengzi waited outside Yuxu Palace for Venerable Yuanshi, then reported that Chi You had returned with eighty-one Demon Generals and was driving the Human Race back.
• Venerable Yuanshi grew furious, and concealed demonic energy streamed from him as he ordered Randeng to help Xuanyuan defeat Chi You and the Witch Clan.
• Randeng sensed that Yuanshi’s demonic energy had intensified and worried that the Saint was turning demonic.
• Randeng gathered Guangchengzi and the Chan Teaching disciples, then led them toward the Human Race to join the battle.
• Xuanyuan and the Yan Emperor retreated with their remaining troops to an open plain after losing two battles against Chi You’s stronger army.

Xuanyuan welcomed Daoist Randeng and the Chan Teachings disciples, who joined the Human Race army to fight Chi You. As the armies clashed, Randeng attacked Chi You, but Chi You showed he had grown far stronger than before and charged straight at him.

• Xuanyuan worried about the Human Race army until Daoist Randeng arrived with Guangchengzi and the Chan Teachings disciples.
• Randeng told Xuanyuan to rally the army for a decisive battle against Chi You the next day.
• Xuanyuan led the Human Race army to Chi You’s encampment, where the two armies confronted each other.
• Chi You ordered his warriors to attack, and Randeng led the Human Race army into battle.
• Randeng used the Glazed Lamp to trap Chi You, but Chi You tore through its barrier with the Tiger Soul Fierce Weapon.
• Randeng attacked with the Universe Ruler, but Chi You’s Tiger Soul swallowed its force, and Chi You charged at Randeng.

Chi You defeated Daoist Randeng and overwhelmed the Chan Teaching disciples and Human Race army with his Eighty-one Demon Generals. Randeng fled, leaving Xuanyuan and Yan Emperor to retreat with the surviving troops.

• Chi You broke free of Randeng's Golden Exquisite Pagoda and sent his purple-gold alms bowl flying with a single strike.
• The Eighty-one Demon Generals formed the Eighty-one Du Tian Formation, summoning a Chaos Demon God phantom that drove back the Chan Teaching disciples and wounded Guangchengzi.
• The Demon God phantom knocked Xuanyuan away, while Chi You's forces suppressed the Human Race army and caused heavy casualties.
• Chi You drove Randeng back, and Randeng ordered a retreat before fleeing on his sika deer.
• Guangchengzi and the other Chan Teaching disciples retreated, while Xuanyuan and Yan Emperor led the surviving Human Race troops in a panicked rout.

After the Human Race and Chan Teachings were defeated by Chi You, the Saints and Qin Mu considered what would happen next. Emperor Venerate then asked Queen Mother of the West to send Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden down to aid Xuanyuan.

• Zhunti celebrated the Human Race and Chan Teachings' defeat, while Jieyin warned that the conflict was not over.
• Taishang Saint considered intervening if Chi You threatened the Human Race, and Tongtian praised his own disciples as Nuwa wondered whether Qin Mu had influenced events.
• Qin Mu revealed that he had given Chi You eighty-one drops of Great Witch Quintessential Blood and expected his clone, Emperor Venerate, to act soon.
• Venerable Yuanshi grew furious over the defeat, and Primordial Heavenly Demon absorbed the demonic energy produced by his rage.
• Emperor Venerate asked Queen Mother of the West to send Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden to help Xuanyuan, shocking her.

Emperor Venerate persuaded the Queen Mother to send the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden to aid Xuanyuan by teaching him formations and becoming his cultivation partner. After she agreed and descended to the lower realm, Xuanyuan was left furious over Chi You’s overwhelming strength.

• Emperor Venerate told the Queen Mother that the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden could teach Xuanyuan battle formations and help him reach the Quasi-Saint realm through their union.
• The Queen Mother summoned the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden and explained Emperor Venerate’s request, including the proposed dual cultivation with Xuanyuan.
• The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden agreed to help Xuanyuan defeat Chi You and uphold the Heavenly Court’s righteous path.
• The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden met Emperor Venerate, received his instructions, and descended to the lower realm.
• After Chi You’s army defeated the Human Race’s forces and retreated to a tribe, Xuanyuan angrily lamented Chi You and his eighty-one Demon Generals’ strength.

After repeated defeats against Chi You, Xuanyuan accepted the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden as his Dao companion so she could help him advance his cultivation. She warned him that his foundation was already unstable from his earlier cultivation shortcut.

• Xuanyuan asked Guangchengzi whether they should seek help from the Human Ancestral Land after Chi You's army defeated them again.
• Guangchengzi refused because he feared Xuanyuan would have to share the Merit of becoming Human Emperor if others helped defeat Chi You.
• The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden arrived under the Heavenly Emperor and Queen Mother's decree to help quell the demonic chaos.
• Guangchengzi urged Xuanyuan to cultivate with the Mystic Maiden and left for Kunlun Mountain to seek a supreme treasure, while Daoist Randeng departed to prepare for Chi You's attack.
• Xuanyuan agreed to become Dao companions with the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, who warned him that absorbing the primordial yin of Human Race women had destabilized his foundation.

The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden cultivated with Xuanyuan, passing on her insights into Heaven’s laws and battle formations. Xuanyuan broke through to the Quasi-Saint Realm, while Guangchengzi returned to Kunlun Mountain and faced Yuanshi’s question.

• The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden proposed dual cultivation to help Xuanyuan break through and master battle formations, and Xuanyuan agreed.
• Xuanyuan and the Mystic Maiden cultivated together for several days, merging their energies and transferring her insights to him.
• Xuanyuan broke through from the Late Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal stage to the Quasi-Saint Realm, and the Mystic Maiden’s cultivation also advanced.
• The Human Race cheered Xuanyuan’s breakthrough, while Daoist Randeng and the Chan Teachings disciples awaited Guangchengzi’s return.
• At Yuxu Palace, Guangchengzi felt inexplicable fear before Yuanshi, who asked why he had returned.

Guangchengzi returned to Kunlun Mountain and received the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud from Venerable Yuanshi to help Xuanyuan defeat Chi You. As the armies prepared for their decisive battle at Zhuolu, Venerable Yuanshi suspected Qin Mu was interfering, while Primordial Heavenly Demon absorbed his anger.

• Guangchengzi told Venerable Yuanshi that Chi You had regained his strength and that the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden had offered to help Xuanyuan, then asked to borrow a supreme treasure.
• Venerable Yuanshi gave Guangchengzi the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and warned him not to fail again.
• Venerable Yuanshi suspected Qin Mu was trying to take Chan Teachings' merit, and Primordial Heavenly Demon absorbed the demonic energy released by his resentment.
• The Human Race challenged Chi You to fight at the Plains of Zhuolu in three days, and Chi You confidently ordered his army to march there.
• Guangchengzi returned to the Human Race camp with the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, and the Chan Teachings disciples celebrated their chances against Chi You.

Daoist Randeng resented Venerable Yuanshi for entrusting the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud to Guangchengzi rather than him, while Xuanyuan prepared to face Chi You. At the decisive battle of Zhuolu, Guangchengzi used the treasure to suppress the demonic phantom summoned by Chi You’s eighty-one Demon Generals.

• Daoist Randeng watched Guangchengzi return with the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and believed Venerable Yuanshi still did not trust or value him.
• Xuanyuan welcomed Guangchengzi and revealed that he had reached the Quasi-Saint realm, then joined Guangchengzi and Randeng in preparing for the battle against Chi You.
• At Zhuolu, Xuanyuan and Chi You led their armies into battle, and Xuanyuan’s disciplined troops held their formation against the Witch Clan’s charge.
• Chi You sent his eighty-one Demon Generals against the Chan Teachings disciples, who faced the gigantic demonic phantom the generals summoned.
• Guangchengzi manifested the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, slowing the phantom and rapidly dissolving its baleful aura.

Guangchengzi used the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud to drive back Chi You’s army, but Chi You and the Eighty-one Demon Generals formed the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Formation and summoned the power of Father God. Chi You’s overwhelming strength shattered the Human Race’s defenses, leaving its army devastated.

• Guangchengzi unleashed the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, disrupting the Witch Clan warriors and forcing Chi You’s army to retreat.
• Chi You ordered the Eighty-one Demon Generals to form the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Formation, using their Quintessential Blood to summon the Ancestral Witch phantoms.
• Chi You entered the formation and offered his own Quintessential Blood, growing into a colossal Demon God whose aura neared the peak of the Sub-Saint realm.
• Chi You struck the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and wounded Guangchengzi, causing the treasure’s light to dim.
• Chi You’s next punch overwhelmed Xuanyuan and tore through the Human Race’s defensive formation, killing countless soldiers.

Chi You gathered his strength to deliver a devastating third punch, leaving the wounded Human Race army facing defeat until Randeng took control of the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and blocked the attack. The chapter ended with Chi You immediately launching another punch.

• Chi You prepared a terrifying punch while the injured Xuanyuan and Guangchengzi feared the Human Race would be wiped out.
• Randeng appeared and demanded the cloud diagram from Guangchengzi, who handed it over after Randeng warned him about Venerable Yuanshi's punishment.
• Randeng used his Quintessential Blood to empower the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and shattered Chi You's incoming fist power.
• Chi You roared and immediately slammed down another punch.

Randeng and Chi You fought to a draw as Randeng wielded the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, but the Eighty-one Demon Generals could no longer sustain the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Formation. With Chi You weakened and returned to his normal size, the battle appeared lost for him.

• Randeng poured his cultivation into the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and met Chi You's punch in a clash that shook the Wilderness of Zhuolu.
• Chi You fed more baleful energy into his punch, forcing Randeng to hold up the sinking cloud until both attacks burst apart in another draw.
• Randeng prepared to summon the cloud again, but the Witch Clan's formation cracked as the Eighty-one Demon Generals collapsed from exhaustion.
• The formation fell, and Chi You shrank back to his original size, leaving him too weakened to challenge Randeng and the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud.

Empress Pingxin asked Qin Mu to save the Witch Clan’s surviving bloodline after Chi You’s defeat, and Qin Mu agreed. He then instructed Emperor Venerate to intervene, leaving Queen Mother of the West confused about his refusal to take either side.

• Empress Pingxin appeared before Qin Mu and explained that Chi You was gravely wounded and the Witch Clan faced destruction.
• Pingxin asked Qin Mu to preserve the Witch Clan’s remaining bloodline, and he agreed.
• Qin Mu sent a secret voice transmission to Emperor Venerate, directing him to save the surviving members of the Witch Clan.
• Emperor Venerate told Queen Mother of the West that he would protect the Witch Clan, then said he did not favor either side and only meant to do what had to be done.

After Daoist Randeng broke Chi You’s Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Formation, Chi You surrendered and asked Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor to spare the Witch Clan. Guangchengzi rejected the plea and brought down the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud to exterminate them.

• Daoist Randeng used the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud to break Chi You’s formation, leaving the Human Race and Chan Teachings celebrating victory.
• Chi You admitted defeat and offered to shatter his Ancestral Witch essence if Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor spared his clan, but the Witch Clan vowed to face death with him.
• Guangchengzi took back the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and argued that the Witch Clan must be destroyed to prevent another Witch Chaos.
• Guangchengzi summoned the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and sent it crashing down toward Chi You and the Witch Clan.

Emperor Venerate intervened at the Battle of Zhuolu just as Guangchengzi was about to destroy Chi You and the surviving Witch Clan warriors, declaring them under the Heavenly Court’s protection. Yuanshi raged at Qin Mu for interfering, while Primordial Heavenly Demon absorbed the demonic qi leaking from him; Guangchengzi then confronted Emperor Venerate.

• Chi You and the surviving Witch Clan warriors prepared to make a final charge as Guangchengzi’s Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud descended upon them.
• Emperor Venerate appeared, stopped the cloud with one hand, and shattered it with a command.
• The onlookers recognized Emperor Venerate as the Heavenly Court’s ruler and realized the Heavenly Court had entered the conflict.
• Yuanshi became furious that Qin Mu had sent his incarnation to interfere, and Primordial Heavenly Demon absorbed the demonic qi released by his anger.
• Emperor Venerate declared the Witch Clan under his protection and forbade wanton slaughter under the Heavenly Court’s rule.
• Guangchengzi glared at Emperor Venerate and demanded to know what he meant.

Emperor Venerate stopped Guangchengzi from killing the remaining Witch Clan members and recruited Chi You and his army into the Heavenly Court. Xuanyuan received the Heavenly Dao’s Merit, which then split into three streams bound for the Western Teachings, the Heavenly Court, and Kunlun Mountain.

• Emperor Venerate forced Guangchengzi to his knees for addressing him disrespectfully, then warned him not to do so again.
• Emperor Venerate asked Chi You to join the Heavenly Court, and Chi You agreed to lead his surviving Witch Clan forces there.
• Guangchengzi angrily threatened that Chan Teachings would oppose the Heavenly Court if Xuanyuan failed to become Human Emperor.
• Golden Merit descended over Zhuolu, surrounding Xuanyuan and granting shares to Guangchengzi and the other Chan Teachings disciples.
• The descending Merit divided into three streams and flew toward the Western Teachings, the Heavenly Court, and Kunlun Mountain.

The Heavenly Dao's Merit for Xuanyuan's ascension was divided among several parties, including the Western Teachings, provoking Yuanshi and disappointing Guangchengzi. Jieyin and Zhunti celebrated their share, but the Merit vanished before reaching Spirit Mountain as repayment for their vows.

• Powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness wondered why the Western Teachings had received Merit, while Taishang deduced that Jieyin and Zhunti had secretly helped the Yan Emperor.
• Tongtian laughed at Yuanshi's loss of Merit, and Yuanshi raged as his resentment fed the Primordial Heavenly Demon beneath Yuxu Palace.
• Guangchengzi received only a small portion of Merit and failed to break through a realm.
• Jieyin and Zhunti celebrated the Western Teachings' share, knowing their support of the Yan Emperor's later battle against the Witch Chaos had earned it.
• The Merit vanished before reaching Spirit Mountain, and Jieyin and Zhunti realized the Heavenly Dao had reclaimed it as repayment for their Forty-eight Great Vows.

As the Five Emperors Era approached, Jieyin and Zhunti planned to have Dizang guide one of the rulers and traveled to the Underworld to seek Qin Mu’s permission. Qin Mu recognized their purpose, since he had arranged for the Western Teachings to receive one teaching position, while the chapter left their meeting with him still to come.

• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed guarding the Western Teachings’ Five Emperor teaching position from Yuanshi’s interference and considered Dizang as their candidate.
• Zhunti worried that Qin Mu would refuse to release Dizang from the Underworld, but Jieyin believed they could persuade him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti traveled to Ghost Gate Pass and sent word that they wished to meet Qin Mu.
• Qin Mu told Yin Tianzi that he had arranged the Five Emperors’ teaching positions, giving four to the Interception Sect and one to the Western Teachings.
• A Netherworld General reported the Saints’ arrival, and Qin Mu guessed they had come to ask for Dizang as their Five Emperor’s teacher.