Chapter Summaries

The Demon Race prepared the Zhoutian Star Dou Formation while the Witch Race took control of the land, and Nuwa and four others became Saints. As the Heavenly Court celebrated its marriage, the Witch Race launched an attack, setting the stage for the two armies’ next battle.

• Kunpeng argued that the Pangu True Body had lost Pangu’s will, and Dijun ordered the Demon Race to complete the Zhoutian Star Dou Formation and evacuate demons into the thirty-six heavens.
• The Witch Race drove the Demon Race from the land of Hong Huang, and both sides gathered strength for a battle a hundred thousand years later.
• Nuwa created humankind and became a Saint; later, Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti also became Saints.
• Dijiang and the Twelve Ancestral Witches decided to attack the Heavenly Court during Dijun’s Heavenly Marriage and destroy the Demon Race.
• The Witch Race army advanced toward the Southern Heavenly Gate, and Dijun ordered the Heavenly Court to deploy the Zhoutian Star Dou Formation.

The Witch and Demon armies fought at Mount Buzhou, where the Zhoutian Star Dou Formation collapsed against the Pangu True Body. Nuwa intervened to save Fuxi, but Fuxi urged her to remain impartial, and Zhunti and Jieyin arrived to oppose her interference.

• Dijiang summoned the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiend Formation, while Dijun activated the Zhoutian Star Dou Formation to meet it.
• The formations clashed repeatedly until the Zhoutian Star Dou Formation collapsed, leaving its 365 Zhou Tian Star Gods gravely wounded.
• Dijun, Tai Yi, Fuxi, Kunpeng, and Moon Maiden attacked the Pangu True Body but were defeated, so Nuwa intervened with the Red Embroidered Ball.
• Dijiang challenged Nuwa for interfering, and Nuwa explained that she had acted to save her elder brother, Fuxi.
• Fuxi told Nuwa to leave and accept the consequences of his own choice to join the Demon Race.
• Zhunti and Jieyin appeared and told Nuwa not to interfere in the Witch-Demon War.

Nuwa’s clash with the Twelve Ancestral Witches exposed the Saints’ efforts to restrain the war, while Red Dust restored the Heavenly Dao Wheel and the Saints discovered visions of worlds whose strongest beings reached Chaos. As the Saints investigated, Houtu chose to transform herself into Samsara and began summoning the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Zhunti and Jieyin intervened in Nuwa’s confrontation with the Witch Race, and Gonggong led the Twelve Ancestral Witches in striking Nuwa with their formation’s axe.
• Red Dust entered the Heavenly Dao space, repaired the shattered Heavenly Dao Wheel, and made it one of her clones.
• Hongjun summoned the Saints to investigate the altered heavenly secrets, and they entered the restored wheel to see visions of beings from many worlds reaching Chaos.
• The Saints concluded that the legendary Chaos Fiends might be Transcendents from different great worlds, then left the Heavenly Dao space.
• Houtu saw the suffering souls in the Blood Sea, vowed to create Samsara and its Six Paths, and began transforming herself to bring them into existence.

Houtu established the Six Paths of Reincarnation, earned immense merit, and restored her body as a being of the Netherworld. While exploring the Blood Sea with the others, she encountered a mysterious Chaos Demon God, who revealed that Pangu was a title held by whoever claimed the position of Pan.

• Houtu created the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Eighteen Levels of Hell, then received vast merit and broke through to a new realm.
• Houtu restored her physical body, formed a Merit Golden Wheel, and was praised by beings across Hong Huang.
• Hongjun decreed that Houtu must guard the Netherworld, and the Eleven Ancestral Witches arrived to confirm she was safe.
• Houtu led the Ancestral Witches, Saints, and Quasi-Saints through the Blood Sea, where they discovered an ancient corpse and a figure above it.
• The mysterious figure said he was a Chaos Demon God killed by Pangu and that he planned to revive himself.
• The figure explained that Pan was a position anyone could claim, and that Pangu had become powerful enough to kill the other Demon Gods instantly.

After Houtu established the Netherworld, she warned the Saints that its new offices carried heavy obligations, then urged the Witch Race to abandon its struggle for supremacy. The demons spread across Hong Huang, and their growing attacks on humans set the stage for deepening conflict.

• The Netherworld produced a Great Emperor's position and ten Kings of Hell positions, and the Saints seized them despite Houtu's warnings about karmic debt.
• Houtu told the Ancestral Witches that she had mastered the Great Dao of Earth rather than become a Saint, and she urged them to withdraw from the struggle for supremacy.
• A hundred years later, Dijiang announced that the Witch Race would withdraw and settle within its territory around Pangu Hall, while many witches went to help Houtu in the Netherworld.
• As demons spread into the lands the witches had left, humans and demons began killing and eating one another, and the Three Ancestors gained merit and strength while defending human tribes.
• Dijun ordered Bai Ze to verify that human flesh could improve demons' cultivation and that human remains could make weapons capable of cutting witches, then instructed him to keep the discovery secret.

The Human Race grew stronger through the Dao Academy while the saints remained stalled, unable to understand Hongjun’s message. Taiyi began his Hunyuan tribulation on the Sun Star, where thousands of powerful demonic gods emerged from the earth to attack him.

• The Human Race endured a long war with the Demon Race, then strengthened itself through the Dao Academy as several hundred million years passed.
• Taiqing visited Purple Cloud Palace and received Hongjun’s message, “all saints, all living beings”; the other saints received the same answer but could not decipher it.
• The Willow Deity explained that the saints had misunderstood the heavenly secrets and delayed the recognition of a living being, increasing their karmic burden.
• Taiyi released a vast aura from the Sun Star, and nine Dao Bell chimes announced that he was attempting to attain Hunyuan.
• Tribulation clouds gathered around the Sun Star as the earth split open, and thousands of demonic gods surged from the abysses to attack Taiyi.

Taiyi endured the Hunyuan heavenly tribulation and attained the Hunyuan Dao after destroying waves of Demon Gods, including a conscious shadow of a Chaos Demon God. After the tribulation ended, the Saints and Houtu congratulated him, and he noticed the difference between their strengths.

• Taiyi used the Eastern Emperor Bell to annihilate hundreds of Demon Gods, then killed more than a thousand with another strike.
• Stronger Demon Gods emerged from the tribulation clouds, and Taiyi killed one with the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• A conscious shadow identified itself as a trial of Taiyi’s Hunyuan heavenly tribulation and struck him with a powerful law attack.
• Taiyi counterattacked with the Eastern Emperor Bell, but the shadow pierced him before fading as the tribulation ended.
• The Saints and Houtu appeared to congratulate Taiyi on attaining the Hunyuan Dao.
• Taiyi sensed the Saints’ strength and remarked that Houtu had made great progress, prompting her to call his own attainment remarkable.

Houtu exposed the Saints’ accumulated karmic sin, while Red Dust released the Six Great Dao Lord positions and their contenders reshaped Hong Huang. After the Demon Race withdrew from the Heavenly Court, Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to rule it.

• Houtu warned the Saints that their greed and failure to benefit living beings had accumulated karmic sin, then left to await the return of the Netherworld Kings’ fruit positions.
• Red Dust released six Dao Fruits, and after a series of struggles Kunpeng, Nuwa, Taotie, Styx, Fengdu, and Haotian gained recognition as Dao Lords.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor announced the Demon Race’s withdrawal from the struggle for supremacy, while the Saints’ karmic sin damaged their prestige.
• Hongjun summoned powerful figures to discuss restoring the Heavenly Court and ruled that its emperor could not come from the Four Sects.
• Dijun recommended Haotian and Yaochi as rulers, and Hongjun accepted, transforming them into the Heavenly Emperor and his consort.

Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to lead the Heavenly Court, and the Saints disputed the remaining high offices and whether to send disciples to serve. As war between humans and demons began, Eastern Emperor Taiyi attacked the Human Ancestral City but was overwhelmed by a Willow Tree and fell into an unfamiliar world.

• Hongjun gave Haotian and Yaochi treasures and left the Heavenly Court’s remaining appointments to them.
• Yuanshi proposed the Six Sovereigns, and the Saints assigned the positions through a bitter dispute in which Zhunti secured the Northern Pole Ziwei Emperor position.
• Haotian asked the Saints and the Three Ancestors of the Human Race to provide Heavenly Court officials; Laozi sent his incarnation Taishang Laojun.
• The Demon Race’s withdrawal from the Heavenly Court led to war with the Human Race over the East Continent, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi attacked the Human Ancestral City.
• A towering Willow Tree blocked Taiyi’s Dao Bell and struck him into an unknown world, where he found a powerful city full of humans and sensed that its Great Dao differed from Hong Huang’s.

Zhen Yuanzi established the Earth Immortal Way, survived its heavenly tribulation, and attained Hunyuan. A billion years later, Eastern Emperor Taiyi escaped the secret realm as the Human, Witch, and Demon races grew more powerful, while Red Dust and the Willow Deity discussed the world’s prospects and Pan’s identity.

• Zhen Yuanzi declared the Earth Immortal Way and endured a devastating lightning tribulation, then attained Hunyuan and earned merit for its members.
• After Zhen Yuanzi’s breakthrough, powerful figures traveled to Wuzhuang Temple to congratulate him, and the Willow Tree matter temporarily quieted.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi escaped the secret realm after a billion years and fought Suiren, who could not defeat him but proved difficult to kill.
• Suiren attained Hunyuan and announced his retirement to the Ancestral Land unless the Human Race faced extinction.
• Red Dust and the Willow Deity discussed the growing world’s potential for Transcendence and learned that Pan was a new entity formed after the three corpses merged.

Red Dust warned Houtu that other great worlds and their Dao-Mastering Transcendents would eventually clash with Hong Huang in a war between worlds. Houtu informed Hongjun and the gathered Saints and Hunyuan, who then crossed Hong Huang’s barrier to see the dangers of Chaos firsthand.

• Red Dust told Willow Deity that other great worlds had produced Dao-Mastering Transcendents and would eventually collide with Hong Huang.
• Red Dust visited Houtu in Pingxin Hall and asked her to warn Hongjun about the coming war between worlds.
• Houtu relayed Red Dust’s warning at Purple Cloud Palace, and Hongjun confirmed it to the gathered Saints and Hunyuan.
• The Saints and Hunyuan asked Hongjun to take them into Chaos, and he warned that their strength would weaken away from Hong Huang.
• Hongjun opened a gate through Hong Huang’s barrier, and the group entered Chaos, where they saw violent currents and a mass of Chaos baleful energy.

While exploring Chaos, Houtu and the Three Pure Ones learned from two guardians that Pangu was the woman called Venerable Red Dust, who had created Hong Huang. They left the guarded world, and after countless ages Hong Huang’s travelers returned as the Realm Alliance formed and the world’s powers grew.

• Zhunti and the others found an immense world in Chaos and tried to enter, but two men barred their way.
• The man in black recognized Houtu and the Three Pure Ones’ auras and explained that Pangu was the woman Venerable Red Dust, who had refined the Pan karmic rank before creating Hong Huang.
• Houtu and the others departed after realizing they could not defeat the two guardians, who discussed seeking allies against Hong Huang’s continued growth.
• Hong Huang’s powerful experts later traveled alone through Chaos, fighting formidable opponents, while Transcendents from different worlds formed the Realm Alliance and built Myriad Realms City.
• After trillions of years, Hong Huang’s travelers returned, many great gods and Human Race leaders had advanced in cultivation, and the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans began to stir.

Red Dust allowed a weaker realm led by a near-peak Transcender to approach Hong Huang, setting a realm war in motion. Hongjun warned Hong Huang’s powers to prepare, and the chapter ended with the invading forces emerging at the boundary.

• Red Dust sensed the approaching realm and chose to let it advance toward Hong Huang.
• A thunderous disturbance shook Hong Huang, and Hongjun summoned the Saints and Hunyuans to Purple Cloud Palace to warn them of the coming realm war.
• Hongjun explained that Hong Huang faced a near-peak Transcender and likely other Transcenders, while he could not fight because the Heavenly Dao restricted him.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches vowed to defend Hong Huang and uphold the name of the Witch Race.
• Nuwa detected the enemy as its realm struck Hong Huang’s barrier, opening a vast black hole in the chaos.
• A white-robed man and dozens of powerful figures emerged, marveling at Hong Huang’s strength and acknowledging how difficult it would be to devour.

Hong Huang’s experts fought Yi and a group of powerful Chaos Demon Gods as another realm began merging with Hong Huang. Hongjun’s intervention drove the attackers back, but he warned that Hong Huang could no longer keep them out; a mysterious willow woman then arrived and healed the wounded.

• Yi introduced himself to Nuwa and urged the Hong Huang experts to attack before their enemies fully rose, and the realm war began.
• The Three Pure Ones, Fuxi, Houtu, and others fought the intruders with powerful formations, but Yi overwhelmed Fuxi and shattered the ancestral shamans’ Pangu True Body and the Demon Race’s Zhoutian Star Dou Formation.
• More peak Chaos Demon Gods arrived, and Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao to repel them before ordering everyone not to interfere with the other realm’s fusion.
• Hongjun warned that the damaged barrier would no longer keep the Chaos Demon Gods out of Hong Huang, and its experts recognized that they could not safely guard it.
• A green light entered the inner chaos and became a willow woman; she healed the wounded and said the realm war need not be fought to the death, since the convergence of realms might offer a chance for Transcendence.

After countless ages of seclusion, Red Dust glimpsed a mysterious place beyond chaos and sent a Cause and Effect call across the heavens before dissolving herself into nothingness. She returned on the Emperor Phoenix Tower’s ninth floor and began refining her first Dao Fruit, intending to unite and sever all three thousand Great Dao laws.

• After the myriad worlds converged, the Human Race united and established an Elder Council for Hunyuan-level experts, with Luo Feng, Qin Yu, Double Pupil, and Huang becoming Supreme Elders.
• On the Emperor Phoenix Tower’s seventh floor, Red Dust glimpsed a colossal gate amid the origins of countless Daos before a descending tower ended her vision.
• Red Dust sent a Dao-born Cause and Effect call to everyone connected to her, saying, “Return.”
• In nothingness, voices discussed Wanyi’s imminent Great Perfection, the distinction between Great Perfection and Pseudo-Nothingness, and Huang’s journey through the Red Dust.
• Red Dust dissolved her body, Dao, and consciousness into nothingness, then re-formed on the tower’s ninth floor before two Dao Fruits.
• Red Dust drew the first Dao Fruit into her Sea of Consciousness and began refining it amid auspicious visions and Great Dao scriptures.

Red Dust refined Dao Fruits, severed her Great Dao shackles, and reached the peak of the Void Realm by giving birth to a new Great Dao and universe from nothingness. She reunited with her father and Great God in a vast world beyond Chaos, where her accomplishments surpassed those of the other Void Realm cultivators.

• Red Dust refined the Dao Fruit of Three Thousand Unified Daos, reached great perfection in Dao Unification, and recovered her former cultivation by refining another Dao Fruit.
• Red Dust used her Three Thousand Great Dao Sword to sever the Great Dao shackles and entered the Void Realm at its peak.
• Red Dust's Dao of Red Dust merged with the newly born Dao of Origin, and a singularity expanded into dimensions, worlds, universes, and new Three Thousand Chaos Worlds.
• Red Dust discovered a vast super world beyond Chaos, where Saints and Dao Unification cultivators were common and some secluded Void Realm cultivators lived.
• Red Dust's father and Great God appeared to congratulate her, and she saw that they and other pseudo-Void Realm experts had shaped the transcended Chaos Hong Huang and its surrounding dimensions.

Shi Yongheng recalled how his parents fought Martial King Manor after his brother Hao'er’s Supreme Bone was stolen, then left the manor and trained his body while waiting for the ancestral baleful qi to send his soul to another world. He arrived at Mount Hua in a second life, exhausted but determined to reach the mountain gate.

• Shi Ziling and Qin Yining fought their way into Martial King Manor after learning that Hao'er’s Supreme Bone had been taken, and Shi Ziling killed Shi Yi’s mother before fleeing with his family and critically injured son.
• Shi Yu watched the ruined manor, while Shi Yongheng, mocked as a good-for-nothing, reflected on how the ancestral baleful qi let his soul travel to other worlds once a year.
• Shi Yongheng left Martial King Manor, bought a small courtyard in the imperial city, and trained his body until he could lift a hundred jin with one hand.
• After eleven months, Shi Yongheng’s soul departed for another world and fused with his other self.
• Shi Yongheng climbed Mount Hua through exhaustion and pain, finally reaching the mountainside before collapsing.

Shi Yongheng was accepted as Yue Buqun’s second disciple after arriving at Mount Hua as an orphan seeking martial arts to survive. Over the next two years, he mastered the sect’s foundational stance training and began cultivating the Hunyuan Skill and Nurturing Self Sword Art.

• Shi Yongheng told Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze about his hardships and his wish to learn martial arts, and Yue Buqun said he would verify his story before accepting him.
• Yue Buqun investigated Shi Yongheng’s claims and, half a month later, formally accepted him as his second disciple after Linghu Chong.
• Yue Buqun taught Shi Yongheng Mount Hua Sect’s twelve-form foundational stance training, and Shi Yongheng quickly memorized and performed the movements.
• Shi Yongheng practiced diligently for two years, mastered the stance training, and began studying the Hunyuan Skill and Nurturing Self Sword Art.

Shi Yongheng demonstrated his progress in Mount Hua martial arts as Yue Buqun prepared Linghu Chong and Lu Dayou to leave on a mission. After their departure, Yue Buqun worried about trouble in the martial world and considered Shi Yongheng a more suitable successor than Linghu Chong.

• Shi Yongheng practiced Mount Hua Swordsmanship at Chaoyang Platform and revealed that he had opened nine primary meridians.
• Lu Dayou summoned Shi Yongheng to the Hall of No Wrongdoing, where Yue Buqun praised his progress in the Hunyuan Skill.
• Yue Buqun arranged a send-off lunch for Linghu Chong and Lu Dayou before they left the mountain.
• Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze discussed the dangers facing Mount Hua and Yue Buqun's concern that Linghu Chong might cause trouble.
• Yue Buqun admitted that Shi Yongheng might be a better choice than Linghu Chong to succeed him as sect leader.

After five years of training under Feng Qingyang, Shi Yongheng perfected the Nurturing Self Sword Manual and descended Mount Hua for Liu Zhengfeng’s Golden Basin Washing Ceremony. He reached Hengyang ahead of the Mount Hua group, retrieved and altered the Evil-Warding Sword Manual, and grew wary after a powerful red-clad stranger noticed him.

• Shi Yongheng broke through to the seventh level of the Hunyuan Art while sparring with Feng Qingyang, then spent five years learning from him and refining the Nurturing Self Sword Manual.
• Yue Buqun sent Shi Yongheng to accompany him and Ning Zhongze to Hengyang for Liu Zhengfeng’s Golden Basin Washing Ceremony, but Shi Yongheng went ahead alone from Huayin County.
• Shi Yongheng traveled to Fujian, memorized the Evil-Warding Sword Manual, altered its crucial contents, and returned it to its hiding place.
• Shi Yongheng reached Hengyang early, rented a courtyard for the Mount Hua Sect, and later reunited there with Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze.
• While strolling with Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan, Shi Yongheng sensed a powerful red-clad stranger watching him and warned his companions that Hengyang was dangerous.
• Guests from across the martial world arrived for Liu Zhengfeng’s ceremony, while Daoist Tianmen and Abbess Dingyi stayed apart from the crowd.