Chapter Summaries

Minghe revealed his true body and fought the Twelve Ancestral Witches, using the Blood Sea to heal himself while Di Jiang sought to sever its connection to the Earth Veins. As the battle reached a deadlock, Zhunti opened a rift into the Blood Sea and took Su Miao toward Minghe’s lair to search for treasures.

• Di Jiang’s phantom struck at the Blood Sea Core, forcing Minghe to block its axe light with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and his Twin Swords.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches combined their powers into a third axe strike, and Minghe revealed his true body at Peak Quasi-Saint to meet it.
• Minghe claimed the Blood Sea made him immortal, while Di Jiang redirected the phantom’s attacks toward the sea’s four corners to sever its Earth Vein connections.
• Su Miao and Zhunti watched the fight from the Space Interlayer and agreed to look for Minghe’s treasure vault.
• Zhunti opened a rift into the depths of the Blood Sea and took Su Miao toward the palace among the bones, which was Minghe’s lair.

Su Miao and Zhunti reached the hidden entrance to Minghe’s treasury beneath the Blood Sea, where Su Miao began dismantling its complex Restriction. Mosquito Daoist attacked them, but Zhunti killed her and her swarm, leaving Su Miao free to continue opening the treasury.

• Zhunti led Su Miao through the Blood Sea to the concealed entrance of Minghe’s treasury, and Su Miao began breaking its runes.
• A Blood-winged Black Mosquito emerged and demanded a share of the treasury, but Zhunti destroyed its clone.
• Zhunti uncovered a cave filled with mosquitoes and revealed Mosquito Daoist at the center of the swarm.
• Mosquito Daoist sent her mosquitoes to attack, but Zhunti killed the swarm with golden needles.
• Mosquito Daoist tried to flee and fight back, but Zhunti killed her, and the treasury Restriction remained to be opened.

Su Miao and Zhunti followed the Blood-winged Black Mosquito’s hidden route into Minghe’s treasure vault and found the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner, completing Su Miao’s Five Directions Flags. They secured two other powerful treasures and began collecting the vault’s riches.

• Su Miao realized the Blood-winged Black Mosquito had entered the vault before, and Zhunti found and fixed the shifting rune opening it had used.
• Zhunti and Su Miao entered the vast treasure vault and found the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner, a Karmic Fire Red Lotus Origin Fire Seed, and a Broken Jade Disc Fragment.
• Zhunti broke the treasures’ Restriction Light Shields, and Su Miao took the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner as the Five Directions Flags resonated and formed the outline of an Innate Grand Formation.
• Zhunti sealed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Origin in a Jade Box and gave the karmically dangerous Jade Disc Fragment to Su Miao to take back to her Master Father.
• Su Miao used the Chaos Bead to absorb the vault’s Spiritual Materials, selecting purer items and avoiding those heavily tainted by Karmic Debt.

Zhunti and Su Miao emptied Minghe’s treasure vault while the Twelve Ancestral Witches fought his true body above the Blood Sea. Minghe realized his treasures were gone and, distracted and enraged, fell further into the witches’ assault.

• Zhunti purified and sorted Minghe’s vault treasures, and Su Miao collected the materials, treasures, jade slips, and cultivation methods.
• Minghe sensed that his vault’s restriction had collapsed and his treasures had vanished, losing focus during his battle with the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Di Jiang, Qiang Liang, and Zhu Rong struck Minghe while he struggled to defend himself and searched in vain for the vault’s contents.
• Zhunti and Su Miao finished emptying the vault, gathered even its scraps, and escaped through the Space Interlayer.
• Su Miao watched Minghe rage over the theft as Zhunti dismissed his anger, and Di Jiang’s next axe strike dimmed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and wounded Minghe again.

Minghe hid beneath the Blood Sea and sent endless Blood God Sons against the Wu Race, hoping to exhaust the Ancestral Witches. As the battle continued, Zhunti taught Su Miao that Minghe had to be forced to gather his clones before they could be destroyed together.

• Minghe concealed his true body beneath the Blood Sea while Blood God Sons attacked the Ancestral Witches, who killed them in vast numbers but could not stop more from emerging.
• The Wu Race's younger warriors fought in coordinated groups, while a veteran warned a young general that Calm Heart Talismans protected them from the Asura Women's illusions.
• Di Jiang realized Minghe was trying to wear down the Wu Race, and Zhunti explained to Su Miao that Minghe's true body lay three thousand li beneath the Blood Sea Core.
• Zhunti told Su Miao that the Wu Race needed to lure Minghe out or force him to gather his Blood God Sons, then destroy them all at once.
• Su Miao considered using the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner as bait, but Zhunti said Minghe would not risk his life merely to recover a lost treasure.

Minghe intensified his assault on the Wu Race, hoping to wear down their formation while searching for the thief who had taken his treasure. As Su Miao and Zhunti waited in the Space Interlayer, Laozi and Yuanshi’s three supreme treasures departed through the blood-red canopy.

• Minghe sent Blood God Sons and Asuras into close combat, opening a brief gap in the Wu Race War Array and wounding its warriors.
• Su Miao asked Zhunti when they would act, and Zhunti explained that Minghe was probing the Wu Race and waiting for them to break formation.
• Zhunti advised Su Miao to wait for the Ancestral Witches to lose composure or for Minghe to make a mistake.
• Laozi and Yuanshi’s three supreme treasures circled Su Miao, with the Pangu Banner gently tapping her forehead, then passed through the Space Interlayer and disappeared into the blood-red canopy.

Minghe’s Blood Sea was suppressed and sealed by Taiqing and Yuanshi’s treasures while Yuanshi hunted down his scattered avatars. Minghe realized the Three Pure Ones were taking revenge for his ambush of Su Miao and had no clear way to escape.

• Taiqing’s Taiji Diagram and Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda slowed the Blood Sea and weakened Minghe’s control, allowing the Ancestral Witches to intensify their attacks.
• Yuanshi’s Pangu Banner sealed the Blood Sea’s perimeter, cutting off escape and preventing Minghe from reaching his scattered Blood God Sons.
• Yuanshi searched across the Prehistoric World and eliminated Minghe’s hidden avatars one by one, while Minghe lost contact with them.
• Yuanshi and Taiqing told Minghe they were settling the private grudge of his attack on Su Miao, and Minghe realized the Three Pure Ones had been waiting to repay that karma.
• Minghe considered fleeing or resisting but recognized that the sealed Blood Sea and the Three Pure Ones’ power left him trapped.

As Laozi and Minghe’s battle unfolded, the Prehistoric World learned that Minghe had once tried to kill Miao Heng, prompting outrage and fear of the Three Pure Ones’ retaliation. Kunpeng sent an apology offering to the Farm Teachings, while its disciples and the Human Race reacted furiously to the revelation.

• Su Miao watched Laozi and Minghe fight as Zhunti offered her roasted sunflower seeds and explained that they were waiting for Minghe to use his final move.
• Zhen Yuanzi and West Queen Mother learned that Minghe had attacked Miao Heng and condemned his recklessness.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi recognized that Minghe was doomed and decided the Heavenly Court should avoid provoking Su Miao and the Farm Teachings.
• Kunpeng recalled his role in the earlier ambush, sent a chest of treasures to the Mount Tai Farm Teachings as an apology, and hoped Su Miao would forgive him.
• The Farm Teachings’ disciples erupted in anger and tried to rush toward the Blood Sea, but a Discipline Hall Elder stopped them.
• Suiren Clan watched the battle and clenched his teeth as he learned that Minghe had attacked the Saint Master.

Cornered by the Three Pure Ones and the Wu Race, Minghe prepared to destroy the Blood Sea and everyone around it in a final act of revenge. Just as the Blood God Sons were about to explode, a Saint’s enormous black-and-white hand descended and suppressed them.

• Minghe, trapped beneath the Blood Sea, gave in to desperation and decided to risk everything rather than be killed by the Three Pure Ones.
• Zhunti sensed the Blood Sea Core’s upheaval and realized Minghe was preparing to fight to the death.
• Minghe emerged in his true body with Yuantu, Abi, and the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, then controlled the surviving Blood God Sons and made them prepare to self-destruct with the Blood Sea’s accumulated Blood Sha.
• Di Jiang recognized that the explosion would devastate the Wu Race, but he could not stop Minghe before the Blood God Sons reached their peak.
• As Minghe shouted for the Blood Sea to explode, a tear opened in the sky and a giant hand made of intertwined black and white currents descended, suppressing the Blood God Sons before they could detonate.

Laozi used the Taiji Diagram and Yin-Yang Qi to sever Minghe's connection to the Blood Sea and erase him, his avatars, and his traces from the world. The Blood Sea remained intact, leaving the Heavenly Dao to determine what would replace Minghe, while Yuanshi returned to designing dresses and jewelry.

• Yin-Yang Qi froze Minghe and the Blood Sea as chaos-colored light severed his bond with the sea and erased his Blood God Son avatars and traces.
• Laozi declared that the Blood Sea would dry up, the Asura Race would perish, and Minghe would fall, and the Giant Hand annihilated Minghe and the Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• The Giant Hand purified the lotus, Yuantu Abi Twin Swords, and Minghe's other belongings, then sent them toward an empty spot at the Battlefield Edge.
• Laozi watched the Blood Sea through a Water Mirror and considered how the Heavenly Dao might replace Minghe, while Nameless Daoist watched the clouds nearby.
• Yuanshi confirmed that Minghe's avatars and karma were gone, put away the Pangu Banner, and resumed drawing designs for women's dresses and jewelry.

After Zhunti killed Minghe, Su Miao and Zhunti worked together to contain the Blood Sea’s rampage while the Wu Race fought the maddened Asura. As the battle ended, Su Miao noticed Houtu hovering above the sea’s center, radiating an ancient power.

• Across the Prehistoric World, experts watched Minghe’s death, and Di Jun ordered the Heavenly Court to keep its distance from the Farm Teachings and Human Race.
• Su Miao caught Minghe’s treasures as they returned, then used her Merit Golden Wheels to shield the Wu Race from the raging Blood Sea.
• Su Miao deployed the Five Directions Flags to contain the Blood Sea’s core, while Zhunti gathered Purified Blood Glaze and helped disperse the Evil Qi.
• Zhunti and Su Miao held back the Blood Sea as the Wu Race army retreated and then killed the maddened Asura who attacked them.
• After the final Asura fell, Su Miao saw Houtu hovering above the Blood Sea’s center as an ancient power spread from her.

Houtu vowed to use her body to establish Reincarnation and shelter the souls of the Prehistoric World, prompting Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches to rush to stop her. Unable to dissuade Houtu, they chose to share the burden and help her evolve Reincarnation.

• Houtu surveyed the lost souls gathered in the Blood Sea and vowed to establish Reincarnation, the Six Paths, and the cycle of life and death.
• Earthly Dao Merit gathered above Houtu as Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches pleaded with her not to sacrifice herself.
• Houtu insisted that establishing Reincarnation was her path and responsibility, then began to grow transparent as she prepared to incarnate it.
• Di Jiang called for the family to share Houtu's burden, and the ten Ancestral Witches joined him beside her.
• Di Jiang declared that they would use the Pangu Bloodline as their guide and the Law of Earth as their foundation to help Houtu evolve Reincarnation.

Houtu began constructing Reincarnation in the Blood Sea with the Eleven Ancestral Witches’ help, but their strength and Spiritual Sense could not sustain the work. The Wu Race army joined them, letting the Six Paths Wheel take shape as Su Miao urged Zhunti to record the historic event.

• Di Jiang and the Eleven Ancestral Witches poured their vital energy and insights into Houtu as she formed the Blood Sea’s Reincarnation Vortex.
• Houtu struggled to control the vast system, and the Ancestral Witches’ power rapidly dwindled as they tried to support her.
• Jiang You and the Wu Race army knelt and offered their vital energy and Nascent Soul perception to aid Houtu.
• The new generation’s power strengthened Houtu, and the phantom of the Six Paths Wheel began to solidify.
• Su Miao asked Zhunti to record the event with Image Stones, and Zhunti produced dozens of them.

Houtu established reincarnation with the Wu Race’s support, becoming Ping Xin, the first Earthly Dao Saint and guardian of the Netherworld. As the Earthly Dao awoke, the Heavenly Dao scolded it and forced it to reward Su Miao for her help.

• Di Jiang and the Wu Race warriors lent Houtu their power, allowing her to complete the Six Paths of Reincarnation without transforming herself entirely into it.
• Houtu established the Netherworld and reincarnation, and Merit strengthened her and the Wu Race; she realized she was bound to the Netherworld and could not leave it freely.
• Houtu declared herself Ping Xin and vowed to guard reincarnation forever, while the Ancestral Witches mourned her confinement.
• The Earthly Dao awoke, and the Heavenly Dao chastised it for sleeping and criticized its choice of Houtu as its representative.
• The Heavenly Dao demanded that the Earthly Dao compensate Su Miao, so the Earthly Dao sent her several reincarnation Dharma Treasures and Merit.

After Houtu entered Eternal Suppression of the Netherworld, Earthly Dao bestowed the Book of Life and Death, Judge's Brush, Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, and a vast amount of Merit upon Su Miao to manage in Houtu's stead. The three kinds of Merit fused into a Great Dao Merit Golden Wheel, raising Su Miao to Peak Quasi-Saint and leaving her with a transformed aura and new insight into the world's Laws.

• Earthly Dao gave Su Miao the Book of Life and Death, Judge's Brush, and Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, and Zhunti nearly reached for the treasures before Su Miao guarded them.
• Heavenly Dao told Su Miao to manage the treasures because Houtu lacked the strength to control them, and said she could find a successor once the Underworld's framework was established.
• Earthly Dao poured a vast amount of Merit onto Su Miao, who refined it as Zhunti and countless observers watched.
• Su Miao's Heavenly, Human, and Earthly Dao Merit Golden Wheels fused into a Great Dao Merit Golden Wheel.
• The Great Dao Merit Golden Wheel transformed Su Miao's aura and raised her cultivation to Peak Quasi-Saint, while she gained clear insight into the Laws and grew taller.

After completing her cultivation breakthrough, Su Miao realized Houtu’s newly established Underworld lacked anyone to manage its work. Houtu found that she could not handle its affairs herself without disturbing the Reincarnation system, leaving the need for many helpers unresolved.

• Su Miao saw that her appearance had matured and admired her beauty, but abandoned plans to dress up when she remembered Yuanshi controlled her clothing and accessories.
• Laozi and Yuanshi watched Su Miao’s transformation through a Water Mirror and praised her accomplishments.
• Su Miao asked Di Jiang who would guide, judge, and record the souls entering the Underworld and maintain its Order.
• Houtu blocked most observers from watching the Underworld and discovered that even small movements disturbed the Reincarnation system.
• Houtu realized she needed many people to help manage the Underworld.

Su Miao outlined how the Underworld should process souls and discussed who would manage it with Di Jiang and the Ancestral Witches. She proposed giving the Ancestral Witches Earthly Dao offices whose avatars could preserve a path to revival if they died in the coming war, leaving them eager for Di Jiang to agree.

• Di Jiang asked Su Miao to plan the Underworld, and she described its Ghost Gate Pass, Yellow Springs Road, River of Forgetfulness, judgment system, and paths of reward and punishment.
• Zhunti offered a Precious Spring and Worry-Dispelling Grass from the West as ingredients for Meng Po's Soup, while the Ancestral Witches argued over who should become Meng Po.
• Di Jiang urged Su Miao to manage the Underworld with Farm Teachings Disciples, but she said they could help only after completing their Earth Vein work and the war had settled.
• Su Miao proposed that the Ancestral Witches hold the offices of Great Emperor Fengdu and the Ten Palace Yama Kings, explaining that their Underworld avatars could help them revive if their true bodies died.
• Houtu urged her brothers to accept, and the Ancestral Witches looked to Di Jiang, wanting the added safeguard before the Witch-Demon War.

Su Miao and the Wu Race agreed that the Farm Teachings would help manage the newly established Underworld in exchange for half its divine offices, a permanent base, and a share of its spiritual materials. The Wu Race appointed Di Jiang and ten Ancestral Witches to Underworld posts, while Di Jiang worried about the Wu Race’s prospects in the coming war.

• Di Jiang and Houtu offered the Farm Teachings half of the Underworld’s divine offices, a permanent base, and a share of its future spiritual materials in return for helping manage the Underworld.
• Di Jiang and the ten Ancestral Witches swore before the Reincarnation Disk, forming Dharma Forms that took their places in Fengdu Great Hall and the ten Yama Halls.
• Di Jiang asked Su Miao to have Farm Teachings disciples handle the daily affairs of the posts, and Su Miao agreed to send a team to establish an Underworld base.
• Su Miao proposed that young Wu Race members also stay in the Netherworld to learn its administration, and Di Jiang accepted the plan.
• Su Miao named the arrangement an Underworld Branch School and began considering which disciples to send, while Di Jiang worried that Houtu’s absence from battle left the Wu Race’s Twelve Heavenly Fiend Array incomplete.

After resolving the Blood Sea crisis, Su Miao contacted the Farm Teachings’ leaders and ordered the sect to prepare for war by recalling its disciples and suspending most external missions. She also opened a new Netherworld assignment to Heavenly Immortals as the sect began shifting its resources toward survival and Underworld construction.

• Su Miao contacted the Farm Teachings’ leaders, reassured them that she was safe, and briefly recounted the Blood Sea battle.
• Su Miao ordered the Farm Teachings into wartime alert, suspended external missions, and directed disciples to return to strongholds or the Main Altar before the Dao Ancestor’s deadline.
• Su Miao ordered the sect to withdraw its people from exposed sites, telling Iron Abacus to prioritize their lives over valuable resources.
• Su Miao announced a Netherworld Yin Messenger selection and Underworld infrastructure mission open to Heavenly Immortals, with Granny Yan and the Mission Hall responsible for the assessment rules.
• Mission Hall Deacons and nearby disciples grew excited about the new Underworld mission and its potential Contribution Points.

Su Miao organized Farm Teachings’ plans for missions in the Netherworld, balancing disciple safety with preparation and resource use. After the meeting, Zhunti comforted and praised her, and she asked what Master Tongtian had been like when he first went out to gain experience.

• Granny Yan silenced the Mission Hall, and Su Miao explained that mental fortitude would weigh more than cultivation in selecting disciples for Netherworld missions.
• Granny Yan began drafting mission rules, while Iron Abacus reported that the sect’s reserves could last three hundred thousand Eons and Qing He and Wen Shou Zhuo considered Netherworld projects of their own.
• Su Miao told the Hall Masters to stay vigilant and prepare for the right moment, then ended the communication.
• Su Miao slumped with exhaustion, and Zhunti pulled her into his embrace and massaged her temples.
• Zhunti praised Su Miao’s leadership and said she had done better than Master Tongtian had on his first experience outside, so Su Miao asked what Master Tongtian had been like.