Chapter Summaries

Venerable Yuanshi persuaded Haotian to join forces with the Western Saints against Qin Mu, whose disciple Yang Jian threatened the authority of the Western Heavenly Court by planning to split Peach Mountain and rescue Yaoji. The four leaders agreed to make Peach Mountain a trap, though they had not yet confronted Qin Mu or Yang Jian.

• Venerable Yuanshi told Haotian that Yang Jian was Qin Mu's disciple and warned that rescuing Yaoji would undermine the Western Heavenly Court's authority.
• Haotian said he could not suppress Qin Mu alone, and Venerable Yuanshi proposed that the Western Saints join them.
• Haotian agreed to the plan, ordered the celestial routes to Peach Mountain sealed, and traveled with Venerable Yuanshi to Mount Sumeru.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti welcomed Venerable Yuanshi and Haotian, then heard that Yang Jian had become Qin Mu's disciple.
• Venerable Yuanshi, Haotian, Jieyin, and Zhunti agreed to combine Saintly Might and Heavenly law and make Peach Mountain a killing trap for Qin Mu.

Venerable Yuanshi sought Zhunti, Jieyin, and Haotian’s support in suppressing Yang Jian, but they feared Qin Mu’s retaliation. He revealed a plan involving Demon Ancestor Luohu, leaving the three to consider how their combined forces might contain Qin Mu.

• Zhunti and Jieyin warned Venerable Yuanshi that involving Qin Mu would turn the conflict into a dangerous struggle between Saints.
• Haotian said he would not agree to the plan unless Venerable Yuanshi had a way to stop Qin Mu.
• Venerable Yuanshi revealed a wisp of demonic qi, and Zhunti recognized it as Luohu’s aura.
• Venerable Yuanshi explained that Luohu would stir the demonic path in Beyond Heaven and target Qin Mu with demonic killing intent if Qin Mu intervened at Peach Mountain.
• Venerable Yuanshi said Luohu could be trusted because he wanted Qin Mu dead, and Jieyin concluded that Luohu feared Qin Mu’s rapid growth.

The Saints of Jade Pure, the West, and the Heavenly Court joined Luohu in a plan to oppose Qin Mu at Peach Mountain, while Yang Jian and Fire Spirit climbed Buzhou Mountain. Back at Kunlun, Venerable Yuanshi prepared his disciples for the Investiture of Gods and revealed that he intended to involve himself in Peach Mountain’s tribulation.

• Venerable Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Haotian agreed to prepare their forces for the Peach Mountain conflict, with Luohu’s help against Qin Mu.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit reached Buzhou Mountain and began climbing as its ancient pressure strengthened Yang Jian’s body.
• Venerable Yuanshi returned to Kunlun and summoned Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Taiyi, and Yu Ding to prepare for the Investiture of Gods.
• Venerable Yuanshi told Taiyi to take the reborn Ling Zhuzi as his disciple and urged Yu Ding not to dwell on Yang Jian joining Qin Mu.
• Venerable Yuanshi reminded his disciples that Peach Mountain’s karma would remain part of the tribulation, hinting that he planned to intervene.

Yang Jian and Fire Spirit continued tempering themselves on Buzhou Mountain as Yang Jian prepared to save his mother at Peach Mountain. They uncovered a hidden pool of Three Lights Divine Water, whose healing power and role in creating the Human Race astonished Yang Jian.

• Venerable Yuanshi ordered the Chan Teachings disciples to guard their gates and leave the Peach Mountain affair to their master and the Saints, while True Man Taiyi asked when he should seek Ling Zhuzi.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit climbed Buzhou Mountain for several years, strengthening themselves under its oppressive might as Yang Jian vowed to split Peach Mountain himself and save his mother.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit detected treasure light from a cliff, and an azure-robed daoist raced toward it, hoping the treasure would bring him closer to becoming a Quasi-Saint.
• Yang Jian used his Heavenly Eye to find the damaged formation's core, and he and Fire Spirit broke through its defenses to enter a hidden treasure land.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit found a jade pool of Three Lights Divine Water, and Fire Spirit explained its powers and its use by Nuwa Saint to create the Human Race.

Yang Jian discovered that the Three Lights Divine Water could reshape his half-immortal foundation into a body comparable to the innate Human Race. After driving away a rival cultivator, he began refining the water, with Fire Spirit guarding him.

• Fire Spirit explained that the Three Lights Divine Water could cleanse Yang Jian’s foundation and help him attain an innate body.
• An azure-robed late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal arrived and attacked Yang Jian to claim the divine water.
• Yang Jian used his Eight-Nine Arcane Art and Dharma Form to overpower the cultivator, who backed down after learning Yang Jian was Qin Mu’s disciple.
• The cultivator offered Yang Jian a Mystic Spirit Elixir Mother and fled after Yang Jian ordered him to leave.
• Yang Jian drew Three Lights Divine Water into his body and began refining his foundation while Fire Spirit stood guard.

Yang Jian used the Three Lights Divine Water and Buzhou Mountain’s pressure to cleanse his acquired impurities, become an innate Human Race member, and advance to the mid-stage Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm. As Yang Jian and Fire Spirit continued climbing toward Peach Mountain, Qin Mu found Xing Tian’s preserved head and began proposing a deal.

• Fire Spirit guarded Yang Jian as he absorbed the Three Lights Divine Water and used Buzhou Mountain’s oppressive might to refine his body.
• Yang Jian broke through to the mid-stage Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm and became an innate Human Race member.
• Yang Jian collected the remaining Three Lights Divine Water, then continued climbing Buzhou Mountain with Fire Spirit toward Peach Mountain.
• Qin Mu entered an ancient Witch Clan restriction and found Xing Tian’s head, whose True Spirit and battle intent remained intact.
• Qin Mu told Xing Tian he wanted to make a deal and said he wanted something from him.

Qin Mu made a deal with Xing Tian, promising to restore his body and revive him in exchange for lending Shield-Axe to Yang Jian. As Yang Jian and Fire Spirit climbed Buzhou Mountain, Fire Spirit broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and they uncovered Xing Tian’s sealed head.

• Qin Mu offered to revive Xing Tian if he lent Shield-Axe to Yang Jian, who planned to split Peach Mountain and defy the Heavenly Court’s laws.
• Xing Tian accepted the bargain, and Qin Mu sealed the Witch Clan remnants until Yang Jian came for the weapon.
• Fire Spirit cultivated under Buzhou Mountain’s pressure and broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm while Yang Jian guarded her.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit found an ancient Witch Clan restriction in the mountain wall and broke it open.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit discovered Xing Tian’s sealed head, and Xing Tian opened his eyes and attacked them with beams of divine light.

Yang Jian and Fire Spirit reached Xing Tian in Buzhou Mountain, where Xing Tian revealed that Qin Mu had arranged for Yang Jian to receive his battle weapon. Yang Jian took up Shield-Axe and suppressed the weapon’s fierce battle intent, leaving him ready to use it to split Peach Mountain.

• Fire Spirit identified herself and Yang Jian as disciples of the Sect of Interception, causing Xing Tian to halt his killing intent.
• Xing Tian revealed that Qin Mu had made a deal with him and told him that Yang Jian would come to split Peach Mountain.
• Xing Tian manifested his spiritual consciousness and summoned Shield-Axe for Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian seized Shield-Axe and used the Nine Revolutions Divine Art to suppress its battle intent.
• Yang Jian swung Shield-Axe downward.

Xing Tian gave Yang Jian the Shield-Axe and bestowed Great Witch Quintessential Blood on Yang Jian and Fire Spirit to help them prepare for the battle at Peach Mountain. The two began refining the blood in Xing Tian’s protected formation, and Yang Jian’s body and aura started to grow stronger.

• Yang Jian thanked Xing Tian for the Shield-Axe and vowed to cleave open Peach Mountain despite Xing Tian warning him about the Heavenly Court, Haotian, and the Saints.
• Xing Tian released two drops of his origin Great Witch Quintessential Blood and gave one to Yang Jian and one to Fire Spirit.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit accepted the blood and began refining it inside Xing Tian’s formation.
• Yang Jian endured the blood’s violent power, guided it through his body with the Nine Revolutions Divine Art, and began merging it with his innate Human Race physique.

Yang Jian and Fire Spirit refined Xing Tian’s Great Witch Quintessential Blood in Buzhou Mountain and both advanced in cultivation. As they left with the Shield-Axe, tens of thousands of Heavenly Court soldiers trapped them in a formation and demanded Yang Jian’s capture.

• Yang Jian endured the Great Witch Quintessential Blood’s violent power and broke through to the Late Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Fire Spirit refined the blood with her divine flames and advanced to the Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit thanked Xing Tian, who urged Yang Jian to go to Peach Mountain and use the Shield-Axe.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit left Buzhou Mountain carrying the Shield-Axe.
• A golden-armored Heavenly Court general led tens of thousands of soldiers in surrounding them with a formation and ordered Yang Jian to surrender or die.

Yang Jian and Fire Spirit defeated the Heavenly Court force sent to intercept them, with Yang Jian's Shield-Axe cutting through the heavenly soldiers. Yang Jian pinned the golden-armored divine general in a crater, leaving him at his mercy.

• Fire Spirit summoned three thousand Fire Dragon Soldiers and burned away the heavenly soldiers' attack.
• Yang Jian revealed his late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal strength and used Shield-Axe to tear through the formation, killing hundreds of soldiers.
• Yang Jian charged into the troops and slaughtered them while Fire Spirit's soldiers blocked their escape.
• The golden-armored divine general ordered a retreat, but Yang Jian froze him with his Heavenly Eye and stomped him into a crater.

Yang Jian defeated the Heavenly Court’s forces at Buzhou Mountain and sent Haotian a challenge: in three months, he would split Peach Mountain to save his mother. Afterward, he and Fire Spirit set off for Plum Mountain, while the surviving divine general returned to report the defeat to Haotian.

• Yang Jian spared the wounded divine general and ordered him to tell Haotian that he would go to Peach Mountain in three months to rescue his mother, daring the Heavenly Court to stop him.
• Fire Spirit refused Yang Jian’s request to return to Jin'ao Island and agreed to accompany him to Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit decided to travel to Plum Mountain so Yang Jian could stabilize his cultivation and temper his axe.
• The divine general reached the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and reported that Yang Jian had slain the heavenly troops and defeated him with a single blow.
• The divine general relayed Yang Jian’s three-month challenge, and Haotian erupted in fury, destroying the jade table before him.

Qin Mu visited the ruins of Buzhou Mountain to fulfill his promise to resurrect Xing Tian, summoning a powerful headless body from a top-tier Red Packet. The chapter ended as the body descended before Xing Tian, whose resurrection was about to begin.

• Haotian ordered one hundred thousand Heavenly soldiers and generals and the Ten Immortal Lords to surround Peach Mountain in response to Yang Jian’s challenge.
• Qin Mu entered the ruins of Buzhou Mountain and met Xing Tian’s remnant soul.
• Qin Mu told Xing Tian that Yang Jian had taken Shield-Axe and refined Xing Tian’s Great Witch Quintessential Blood.
• Qin Mu promised to resurrect Xing Tian and used the Red Packet System to extract a mysterious item.
• A void rift opened, and a headless body covered in dark-golden Demon Patterns descended as Xing Tian knelt beneath its overwhelming aura.

Qin Mu gave Xing Tian a complete Ancestral Witch body, and Xing Tian fused with it despite agonizing pain. He emerged reborn as a Quasi-Saint with a new head, while a tremendous Witch Clan aura from Buzhou Mountain awakened powerful beings across the Great Desolation.

• Qin Mu revealed an Ancestral Witch body and offered it to Xing Tian for his revival.
• Xing Tian fused with the body, enduring the strain on his remnant soul as Killing Intent gathered into a vortex above Buzhou Mountain.
• Xing Tian regrew his severed head and rose to Quasi-Saint power.
• Xing Tian descended, realizing he was alive again and sensing the strength of his new body.
• A dark-golden surge of blood and vitality erupted from Buzhou Mountain, shaking the Great Desolation and awakening countless reclusive experts.

Xing Tian completed his rebirth as a new Ancestral Witch, drawing the attention of the Primordial Land and the Heavenly Dao. As the Eye of Heavenly Punishment prepared to destroy him, Qin Mu stepped forward to protect him.

• Venerable Yuanshi, Taishang Laozi, Sect Master Tongtian, and Empress Pingxin sensed the Ancestral Witch aura rising from Buzhou Mountain.
• Empress Pingxin recognized that the aura belonged to a new Ancestral Witch with the Law of Battle, not one of her former brothers.
• The Heavenly Dao descended upon Buzhou Mountain with annihilating thunder to prevent Xing Tian from changing the Witch Clan's fate.
• Xing Tian challenged the Heavenly Dao and refused to retreat, even as the Eye of Heavenly Punishment opened above him.
• Qin Mu told Xing Tian to stand down and declared that he would not let the Heavenly Dao kill him.

Qin Mu’s overwhelming Saintly Might held back the Eye of Heavenly Punishment as Xing Tian revealed his Ancestral Witch True Body to the Primordial World. After Xing Tian shattered the first bolt of divine lightning with a punch, the Heavenly Dao unleashed nine dragons of Purple Sky World-Extinguishing Divine Thunder, and Xing Tian faced them head-on.

• Qin Mu’s Saintly Might forced back the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and assured Xing Tian that the Heavenly Dao could not suppress him.
• Xing Tian transformed into his tens-of-thousands-of-zhang Ancestral Witch True Body and challenged the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.
• Zhenyuanzi, Ancestor Minghe, and Empress Pingxin witnessed Xing Tian’s transformation and reacted with shock, wariness, and joy.
• Xing Tian punched apart a bolt of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder with his bare fist.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment summoned nine dragons of Purple Sky World-Extinguishing Divine Thunder, and Xing Tian prepared to face them.

Qin Mu secretly disrupted the Heavenly Dao’s punishment, allowing Xing Tian to shatter the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and survive. After Xing Tian pledged himself to Qin Mu, Qin Mu sent him to the Nether Underworld to meet Empress Pingxin and turned his attention toward Haotian.

• Xing Tian tore apart one thunder dragon but was overwhelmed as the remaining dragons coiled around him and the Eye of Heavenly Punishment gathered a fatal strike.
• Qin Mu sent Primordial Creation Qi into the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, disrupting its power and weakening the thunder dragons.
• Xing Tian smashed the weakened dragons, charged the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, and shattered it with a punch.
• Xing Tian knelt before Qin Mu, thanked him for reviving and protecting him, and pledged his life to him.
• Qin Mu ordered Xing Tian to go to the Nether Underworld and meet Empress Pingxin, then looked toward Peach Mountain and challenged Haotian to respond to his move.

After consolidating his late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation, Yang Jian traveled through the Eastern Heavenly Court to reach Nuwa's Dao Field. Golden Phoenix Fairy greeted him outside Wa Huang Palace, saying Nuwa already knew why he had come.

• Yang Jian finished fusing the Great Witch Quintessential Blood and consolidated his late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Yang Jian told Fire Spirit he needed to visit Yang Chan before the battle at Peach Mountain, where he planned to rescue their mother.
• Yang Jian reached the East Heavenly Gate, where Emperor Venerate ordered the guards to let him pass.
• Yang Jian crossed the Chaos boundary and arrived at Wa Huang Palace, where Golden Phoenix Fairy welcomed him on Nuwa's behalf.

Yang Jian reunited with Yang Chan at Wa Huang Palace and told her he was going to Peach Mountain to rescue their mother. Nuwa agreed to let Yang Chan join him and bestowed the Lotus Lantern on her for protection.

• Yang Jian reunited with Yang Chan, and they embraced after years apart.
• Yang Jian told Yang Chan about his training under Qin Mu and declared that he would descend to split Peach Mountain and rescue their mother.
• Yang Chan resolved to accompany Yang Jian, and the siblings sought Nuwa's permission to leave Wa Huang Palace.
• Nuwa warned them that Haotian had assembled ten great Immortal Lords and hidden Quasi-Saints at Peach Mountain, but she agreed to let them face their karma.
• Nuwa gave Yang Chan the Lotus Lantern, a powerful spirit treasure that could protect her from Quasi-Saint experts.

Yang Jian and Yang Chan left Wa Huang Palace for Peach Mountain, but Chi You blocked their way in the Eastern Heavenly Realm. Chi You challenged Yang Jian to a duel, and their weapons collided in a devastating first strike.

• Yang Chan accepted Nuwa's Lotus Lantern, whose power strengthened her cultivation, and she and Yang Jian left Wa Huang Palace.
• As Yang Jian and Yang Chan descended from the Thirty-Three Heavens, Chi You and his elite army emerged from the void and blocked their path.
• Chi You revealed that Qin Mu had spared him after the Battle of Zhuolu and brought him into the Eastern Heavenly Court.
• Chi You challenged Yang Jian, who raised Xing Tian's Shield-Axe to protect Yang Chan and meet the Tiger Soul Saber head-on.
• The collision of the two weapons collapsed the surrounding void, while Yang Chan's Lotus Lantern shielded her from the shockwaves.