Chapter Summaries

Jiang You was overcome by Calamity Qi, forcing Gong Gong to throw him from the battlefield and leaving the Twelve Heavenly Fiend Array without its support. The array collapsed, plunging both the Wu Race and Demon Clan into a murderous frenzy, while Di Jun and Tai Yi faced the prospect of retreat.

• Gong Gong noticed Jiang You was being consumed by Calamity Qi and flung him away from the battlefield.
• Jiang You's removal caused the Twelve Heavenly Fiend Array to collapse, and Calamity Qi flooded the Wu Race camp.
• The Wu Race warriors and Demon Clan soldiers turned on their own allies as the Calamity Qi spread across the battlefield.
• Gong Gong tried to restrain Zhu Rong, but Qiang Liang warned that no one afflicted by Calamity Qi could be brought back to their senses.
• Di Jun sheltered with his personal guards beneath the River Diagram and Luo Book, and Tai Yi urged him to retreat.

Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi tried to turn the battle by targeting Xuan Ming, while Kunpeng trapped her and killed her with his poisonous feathers. Kunpeng left the battlefield praised by the Demon Saints after Xuan Ming's body shattered into ice and blood.

• Di Jun decided to target key Wu Race members, and he and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi chose Xuan Ming as their target.
• Kunpeng and a group of peak Demon Saints trapped Xuan Ming inside a Formation formed by twelve Black Banners.
• Xuan Ming battered the Formation, but Kunpeng secretly pierced her with a poisonous feather that exploded inside her body.
• Xuan Ming remained standing and taunted Kunpeng, but he attacked with twelve Natal Feathers and drove one through her chest.
• Kunpeng made the feathers explode, shattering Xuan Ming's body into ice crystals and blood.
• The Demon Saints gathered around Kunpeng and praised him for killing Xuan Ming.

Su Miao grieved as Xuan Ming’s death drove the Wu Race into a furious, disorganized assault on the Demon Clan. The Demon Clan closed ranks and let the frenzied fighters slaughter one another as the battlefield erupted into another round of carnage.

• Su Miao wept in Tongtian’s arms while Zhunti worried over her grief for Xuan Ming.
• Di Jiang found Xuan Ming’s bloodied ice crystals and nearly attacked Kunpeng, but Gong Gong stopped him from falling into Kunpeng’s trap.
• Kunpeng ordered the Demon Saints to retreat, and Zhu Rong charged into the Demon Clan ranks in a rage.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches howled in grief, then attacked the Demon Clan without order as fury and Calamity Qi consumed them.
• Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Book to close the Demon Clan’s ranks and let the Wu Race’s frenzied fighters kill one another.
• Su Miao remembered Xuan Ming’s promise that the Wu Race had things covered and silently thought that Xuan Ming had lied.

Di Jun and Tai Yi entered the battlefield to avenge Di Jun’s sons as the Ancestral Witches fought to the death. Zhu Rong and Gong Gong died in explosive attacks, and Ju Mang, Ru Shou, and She Bi Shi also fell, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Di Jun handed the River Diagram and Luo Book to a Demon Saint, then joined Tai Yi in attacking the Wu Race with the Heavenly Emperor Sword and Chaos Bell.
• Zhu Rong wounded Di Jun before setting off a sea of fire that killed himself and three Demon Saints; Tai Yi shielded Di Jun from the blast.
• Gong Gong charged Di Jun to avenge Zhu Rong, exploded himself, and blasted Di Jun through three mountain peaks.
• Ju Mang killed or wounded the Demon Saints surrounding him before succumbing to his chest wound.
• Ru Shou continued fighting after taking seventeen blades, killed his attackers, and died with his body still striking a Demon Saint.
• She Bi Shi succumbed to Wu-targeting poisons, then detonated himself and the last Demon Saint who attacked him.

With most of the Ancestral Witches dead, Di Jiang and Zhu Jiu Yin burned their origins to trap Di Jun and Tai Yi in Space-Time Imprisonment. As both sides neared death, Di Jun began considering detonating his Sun Star origin so they would die together.

• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiu Yin saw that they were the last surviving Ancestral Witches and decided to risk everything against Di Jun and Tai Yi.
• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiu Yin burned their space and time origins to unleash Space-Time Imprisonment, trapping Di Jun and Tai Yi and preventing them from using their powers effectively.
• Di Jiang compressed the imprisoned space, while Zhu Jiu Yin manipulated time, crushing and rapidly aging the two brothers.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi faced their deaths together, recalling their shared life and resolve.
• Di Jun considered detonating his Sun Star origin to kill Di Jiang and Zhu Jiu Yin along with them.

Di Jun and Tai Yi prepared to destroy themselves rather than surrender, pouring their remaining power into the Heavenly Emperor Sword and the Chaos Bell. Tai Yi freed the Chaos Bell and clasped hands with Di Jun as their destructive power neared eruption.

• Di Jun sacrificed his mana, soul, origin, and the Demon Clan's Fortune to the Heavenly Emperor Sword, causing it to crumble into blazing fragments.
• Tai Yi poured his remaining power into the Chaos Bell, but the bell resisted being destroyed with him.
• Tai Yi severed his connection to the Chaos Bell and urged it to escape and preserve the Demon Clan's dreams.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi clasped hands and gathered their last strength, preparing to die together and take their enemies with them.

Di Jun and Tai Yi unleashed their remaining power in a final self-destruction that annihilated the Ancestral Witches and the battlefield. The Chaos Bell escaped through a fissure into Chaos, leaving Tai Yi behind and gaining her freedom.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi combined their remaining power and destroyed the sealed space in a final blast.
• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiu Yin were torn apart by the explosion, and the Wu Race Warriors and Demon Soldiers were swallowed by its aftershocks.
• Laozi told Yuanshi that an emperor had fallen and the Tribulation had reached its peak.
• Disciples watching the battle through a water screen saw the destruction and realized the Twelve Ancestral Witches and both Demon Emperors were gone.
• The Chaos Bell struggled free of the collapsing space, fled through a fissure into Chaos, and became masterless.
• The disciples cried out when they saw the Chaos Bell escape.

Tongtian intercepted the fleeing Chaos Bell and captured her, with Yuanshi’s Dao rhythm soothing her resistance long enough for Tongtian to succeed. Yuanshi and Laozi watched from Kunlun, where Yuanshi admitted he had helped because Tongtian’s lack of a Companion Supreme Treasure mattered to him.

• Tongtian blocked the injured Chaos Bell in Chaos and trapped her in a Sword Formation as she fought desperately to escape.
• Yuanshi sent a gentle Dao rhythm from Kunlun that calmed the Chaos Bell, letting Tongtian enclose her in a cage and take her into his hand.
• Tongtian promised to protect the Chaos Bell and thanked his Second Brother for helping him obtain her.
• Yuanshi told Laozi that he had intervened because he did not want Tongtian’s lack of a Companion Supreme Treasure to hinder him.

Tongtian collected the damaged Chaos Bell and celebrated gaining a companion supreme treasure to complement his Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. After he left to refine it, Su Miao turned back to the devastated battlefield, where the Ancestral Witches and Demon Emperors lay dead.

• Tongtian arrived in the Yaoguang Realm with the cracked Chaos Bell and told Su Miao he had collected it.
• Su Miao praised Tongtian, while Zhunti noted that the bell seemed unusually docile.
• Tongtian reflected on his envy of Laozi and Yuanshi’s companion treasures, then declared that the Chaos Bell would complete his Dao.
• Su Miao asked whether the bell’s cracks would be a problem, and Tongtian said it would recover with care.
• Tongtian tucked the bell into his robes and left to refine it, while Zhunti predicted he would stay happy for at least three thousand years.
• Su Miao returned to the water screen and saw the ruined battlefield, where the Ancestral Witches and Demon Emperors were all dead.

After the explosion, Kunpeng killed the wounded Demon Saint guarding the River Diagram and Luo Book, then fled toward Beiming with the treasures. In Yaoguang Realm, the disciples condemned his betrayal while the author of the Northern Darkness Ice Abyss Survival Guide wrote a harsher new edition warning people about him.

• Kunpeng approached the gravely wounded Demon Saint who carried the River Diagram and Luo Book and killed him before he could call out.
• Kunpeng seized the damaged treasures, threatened the surviving Demon Saints, and escaped toward Beiming, hoping to use the treasures to secure power in the new era.
• The Disciples in Yaoguang Realm's plaza angrily cursed Kunpeng for stealing from the Demon Clan after Di Jun's death.
• The anonymous author of Northern Darkness Ice Abyss Survival Guide added a warning about Kunpeng to a new edition and planned to send it to the Scripture Repository.

After surviving the battlefield’s destruction, Jiang You grieved the deaths of the Ancestral Witches and blamed himself for their loss. An old warrior’s final words moved him to lead the 107 surviving Wu Race members toward the Netherworld to find Houtu Ancestral Witch.

• Jiang You crawled out from the ruins and remembered how the eleven Ancestral Witches had died in battle.
• An old Wu Race warrior crawled to Jiang You, urged him to take the survivors to the Netherworld and find Houtu Ancestral Witch, then died in his arms.
• Jiang You saw wounded Wu Race Warriors struggling among the ruins and resolved to lead them instead of giving in to despair.
• Jiang You gathered the survivors and counted 107 remaining Wu Race members.
• Jiang You ordered those who could move to follow him to the Netherworld, and the survivors set out behind him.

After the Wu Race’s leaders vanished, Houtu used the Reincarnation Laws to gather the New Generation Warriors’ remaining Nascent Soul fragments and preserve them in a river around Pangu Hall. She took comfort in the possibility of their eventual recovery and waited for Jiang You and the wounded survivors to arrive.

• Houtu remembered that the Underworld Divine Office had preserved soul fragments of her elder brothers and sisters, and summoned Pangu Hall from Buzhou Mountain.
• Houtu drew the surviving Nascent Soul fragments of the New Generation Wu Warriors into the Netherworld.
• Houtu planted Pure World White Lotuses in a newly formed river around Pangu Hall, where the Nascent Souls settled among their roots.
• Di Jiang, Xuan Ming, and Zhu Jiu Yin comforted Houtu and promised that the Wu Race leaders would cultivate until their true bodies could be revived.
• The Ten Palace Yama Kings and Great Emperor Fengdu departed, while Wu Race clan members gathered to mourn beside the river.
• Houtu looked toward the battlefield and waited as Jiang You led more than a hundred wounded survivors toward the Netherworld.

A surveying team discovered that Buzhou Mountain was cracked and beginning to tilt, threatening a catastrophe across the Prehistoric World. Su Miao alerted the Sect and displayed the damage, while the Saints and Heavenly Dao Will accepted the collapse as an unavoidable fate.

• Deacon Chen and his surveying team found Buzhou Mountain covered in deep cracks, surrounded by chaotic forces, and visibly leaning, so Chen sent an emergency report.
• Qing He delivered the report to Su Miao, who notified Zhunti and hurried to the plaza.
• Su Miao showed the Disciples a water screen of Buzhou Mountain, and Zhunti said its collapse was fixed fate after the accumulated damage of past wars and the Chaos Bell.
• Tongtian, Yuanshi, and Laozi sensed the mountain's condition but accepted that it could not be stopped, while Tongtian continued repairing the Chaos Bell.
• Nuwa checked Phoenix Perch Mountain and chose to remain there, and the Heavenly Dao Will watched Buzhou Mountain totter and accepted its fall.

Su Miao learned that Buzhou Mountain could collapse within a year, causing catastrophic damage across the Primordial World. Warned that helping ordinary beings would bring grave karma upon the Farm Teachings, she was left uncertain whether to intervene.

• Su Miao told the Farm Teachings' core members that Buzhou Mountain might last only a few months to a year.
• Zhunti explained that the mountain's collapse could open a breach in the Celestial Vault, unleash the Heavenly River, and destabilize the earth and the entire Primordial World.
• Iron Abacus said the Farm Teachings could protect their own members and strongholds but could not shelter all ordinary beings.
• Zhunti warned Su Miao that intervening in ordinary beings' fate could burden the Farm Teachings with immense karma.
• Su Miao struggled with whether she could stand by while innocent people died in the coming disaster.

Su Miao chose to lead the Farm Teachings in rescuing living beings from the disaster caused by Buzhou Mountain’s impending collapse, despite knowing the effort would bring immense karmic debt. She mobilized the sect and its allies, while Zhunti pledged to stand with her.

• Iron Abacus calculated that the Farm Teachings could save thirty percent of those in danger, or fifty percent with the Western Teachings’ help.
• Karmic debt descended upon the Witch-Demon races as Su Miao saw Buzhou Mountain tottering and struggled over whether to intervene.
• Su Miao resolved to save the living beings and ordered the Farm Teachings to prepare its defenses, move resources into Safe Zones, evacuate protected races, and investigate the disaster.
• Zhunti warned Su Miao of the danger and karmic debt, then promised to support her decision.
• The Farm Teachings sent messages across its territories, and the dependent races prepared to face the disaster with Su Miao and the sect at the forefront.

As Buzhou Mountain neared collapse, Su Miao coordinated Farm Teachings’ preparations and went to Kunlun to ask Laozi to intervene. Laozi told her to wait for Nuwa to mend the heavens, while permitting Su Miao to act so long as she avoided being drawn into the calamity.

• Su Miao, Iron Abacus, and Granny Yan coordinated Farm Teachings’ preparations and aid for threatened regions across the Prehistoric World.
• Su Miao used the Formation Mother Disk to travel to Kunlun and went to find Laozi in the Alchemy Chamber.
• Su Miao urged Laozi to help as Buzhou Mountain faced collapse, but he explained that Pangu’s power was dispersing and called the disaster destiny.
• Laozi told Su Miao to wait for Nuwa to mend the heavens and then help settle those affected, warning that Saints could not casually interfere with Heavenly numbers.
• Su Miao asked whether she could act herself, and Laozi agreed as long as she did not get dragged into the calamity, then told her to consult her Second Master.

As Buzhou Mountain neared collapse, Su Miao’s masters urged her to wait until the calamity began, but she chose to prepare Farm Teachings and the people under its protection in advance. She left Myriad Manifestations Hall’s forces mobilizing to evacuate civilians, reinforce defenses, and protect their territories.

• Yuanshi warned Su Miao not to rush into the calamity and advised her to protect herself and Farm Teachings until the Saints acted.
• Su Miao asked Jieyin whether Western Teachings would cooperate, and he told her to wait until the calamity manifested and consult Zhunti if help was needed.
• Zhunti explained that Su Miao’s responsibilities differed from her masters’ and urged her to prepare those who could not afford to wait.
• Su Miao rejected waiting and ordered disciples to evacuate people from flood-prone areas, reinforce defenses, and prepare Farm Teachings’ bases for evacuation.
• Su Miao ordered the Suiren Clan to move the Human Race toward Mount Tai and Branch Altars as Farm Teachings mobilized across its territories.
• Zhunti asked whether she had truly decided, and Su Miao confirmed that she would act to protect those she could save.

As Buzhou Mountain neared collapse, Farm Teachings organized a rescue operation instead of fleeing, evacuating endangered creatures and cultivators. Kui Niu saved an old rogue cultivator by carrying away the mountaintop where his home and his wife’s grave stood, but the mountain’s collapse accelerated as they raced toward safety.

• Farm Teachings Disciples gathered at Mount Tai and searched the Buzhou Mountain range for beings in danger, rescuing a wounded Demon Beast and Tu Lou cubs.
• Kui Niu tried to persuade an old rogue cultivator to leave his cave abode, but the old man refused to abandon his home and his wife’s grave.
• Kui Niu cut the mountaintop away and brought the old man, his home, and his wife’s remains with the rescue party toward a Teleportation Array.
• The old rogue cultivator thanked Kui Niu as the Disciples helped carry the mountaintop and escorted him away.
• A disciple saw Buzhou Mountain’s peak tilt south as cracks spread and Void Rifts released Chaos airflow, so Kui Niu urged everyone to hurry.

As Buzhou Mountain threatened to collapse, Su Miao decided to lead Farm Teachings there to try to slow the disaster. The Disciples eagerly rushed to sign up, and Dapeng slipped away to join despite Kong Xuan's objections.

• Rogue Cultivators argued over whether Farm Teachings could help, while an old rogue cultivator said that someone still had to act.
• Farm Teachings Disciples flooded the registration area after hearing that the Sect Master was choosing companions for Buzhou Mountain.
• Kong Xuan tried to stop Dapeng from signing up, but Xuan persuaded him that Dapeng would be safer alongside them.
• Dapeng seized his chance to break free from Kong Xuan and dashed into the crowd to register.
• Su Miao told Farm Teachings' leaders that the search-and-rescue teams had returned and that she would go to Buzhou Mountain to try to slow its collapse.
• Su Miao rejected her followers' pleas to stay behind and insisted on going herself.

Su Miao led three thousand Farm Teachings disciples toward Buzhou Mountain to help mend the heavens, despite the danger and the immense cost to the sect. As they went, allies and onlookers watched anxiously, while those who wished to help held back and waited for her signal.

• Iron Abacus warned Su Miao that a failed mission could cost Farm Teachings two eons of reserves, and Su Miao answered that she would work off the debt herself.
• Su Miao asked the assembled disciples to choose whether to come with her, and all three thousand stepped forward; she rallied them to become the Variable and led them toward Buzhou Mountain.
• Yuanshi sent Su Miao a voice transmission urging her to withdraw if she could not hold on, and Su Miao said she would test the waters before asking her Masters to act.
• The Tiger Demon Saint and rogue cultivators mocked Farm Teachings, while the rogue cultivators’ gathering fell quiet as they watched the disciples set out.
• Ao Qin and the Little Dragons worried for Su Miao, while Li Zhu and the Phoenix Elders waited to offer support if she asked.
• Zhen Yuanzi watched Su Miao depart, and Suiren Clan held back the Human Race citizens who wanted to join her, telling them to trust her and avoid becoming a distraction.