Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhu persuaded the Three Pure Ones to let disciples from all Three Sects go to Heavenly Court and oppose the Demon Race’s use of the Witch Slaughtering Sword against the Human Race. Meanwhile, Fuxi learned of the sword’s human sacrifices and tried to leave the Demon Race, while Zhunti and Jieyin distracted Nüwa with a Dao Debate.

• Lin Zhu reconciled Tongtian Sect Leader, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Taishang Laojun, then urged them to stop the forging of the Witch Slaughtering Sword.
• The Saints refused to interfere in the Great Calamity, but Taishang Laojun agreed that disciples from all Three Sects could follow Lin Zhu to Heavenly Court and protect the Human Race.
• Fuxi overheard Witch Soldiers discuss the Witch Slaughtering Sword, confronted Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi, and declared that he was leaving the Demon Race.
• Kunpeng blocked Fuxi from leaving Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and the two Quasi-Saints began fighting as Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi watched.
• At Wa Huang Palace, Zhunti and Jieyin held a Dao Debate with Nüwa at Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi’s request, keeping her from learning about the sword.

Lin Zhu led the Three Sects Disciples toward Heavenly Court to confront the Demon Race over its slaughter of humans, while Mother Nüwa sensed that Fuxi was in danger and left Wa Huang Palace. The chapter ended with Bai Ze confronting Lin Zhu after the disciples killed a Demon Race troop attacking a human tribe.

• Mother Nüwa sensed Fuxi was in danger and left her Dao Debate with Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin to go to Heavenly Court.
• Lin Zhu gathered the Three Sects Disciples, announced the Saints had authorized him to address the Witch Slaughtering Sword crisis, and led them toward Heavenly Court.
• Lin Zhu ordered the disciples to protect humans and kill Demon Race invaders, and they wiped out a troop attacking a human tribe.
• Bai Ze arrived with Demon Soldiers, challenged the disciples for killing members of the Demon Race, and warned them not to leave without giving an explanation.
• Lin Zhu told Bai Ze that the Demon Race's crimes had drawn the Saints' attention and that he would address the matter before Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi.

Lin Zhu killed Bai Ze with the Cutting Others' Three Corpses method and led the Kunlun Disciples toward the Heavenly Court to stop the Demon Race’s plans. Fuxi escaped Kunpeng and met Nüwa, who vowed to confront Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi.

• Bai Ze attacked Lin Zhu while his Demon Race forces fought the Kunlun Disciples, but Lin Zhu held him off as the battles spread across the battlefield.
• Lin Zhu used Cutting Others' Corpses to sever Bai Ze’s Evil Corpse, then killed him with the Primordial Measuring Heaven Ruler and the Thirty-Six Sea Stabilizing Divine Pearls.
• The Kunlun Disciples defeated the invading Demon Race forces, and Jin Chan killed the Owl Bird after merging the Five Worms and advancing his cultivation.
• Lin Zhu led the Kunlun Disciples toward the South Heaven Gate to confront Donghuang Taiyi and Dijun and stop the Witch Slaughtering Sword from being refined.
• Fuxi escaped Kunpeng and headed toward Wa Huang Palace, where he met Nüwa and told her what the Heavenly Court had done.
• Nüwa grew furious and set out with Fuxi to demand an explanation from Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi.

Lin Zhu and the Kunlun Disciples forced Dijun to halt the Witch Slaughtering Sword’s creation and the Demon Race’s slaughter of the Human Race. Nüwa then severed her ties to the Demon Race, which recalled its forces to the Heavenly Court as Lin Zhu’s group prepared to return to Kunlun.

• Lin Zhu confronted Dijun and Donghuang at the South Heaven Gate, warning that the Three Saints would punish the Demon Race if it continued slaughtering humans and refining the Witch Slaughtering Sword.
• Lin Zhu revealed that he had slain Bai Ze and threatened to seal the South Heaven Gate, so Dijun issued a decree ending the slaughter and the sword’s refinement.
• Lin Zhu divided the Kunlun Disciples into groups to inspect the Primordial Wilderness and ensure the Demon Race kept its promise.
• Nüwa arrived with Fuxi, condemned the Demon Race’s slaughter of the Human Race, and swore an oath to stop being its Holy Mother and to never intervene in its fate again.
• Dijun ordered the Demon Race to return to the Heavenly Court and train the Heavenly Court Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, and the Kunlun Disciples later gathered at Kunlun Mountain to return to secluded cultivation.

After the Witch Slaughtering Sword plot failed, Lin Zhu returned to Kunlun and later severed his Good Corpse, reaching the Mid Quasi-Saint realm. The Three Saints then summoned the Three Sects Disciples to Qilin Cliff for an important matter.

• Lin Zhu led the Kunlun Disciples home after they received Merit, and the Human Race erected statues of Lin Zhu and Xuan Du in gratitude.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti discussed using Dijun's ten imprisoned Golden Crows to provoke a great calamity and help revive the Western Sect.
• Lin Zhu reported the Witch Slaughtering Sword affair to the Three Saints, received their praise, and entered seclusion to cultivate.
• After a thousand years, Lin Zhu used the Violet Lightning Hammer to sever his Good Corpse and advanced to the Mid Quasi-Saint realm.
• Lin Zhu guided the Three Sects Disciples as their cultivation improved, until the Three Saints summoned them to Qilin Cliff.

The Three Saints decided to separate their sects, and Tongtian led the Jie Sect Disciples away from Kunlun to establish a new Daoist temple. Lin Zhu guided them to Golden Turtle Island, where Tongtian accepted Golden Turtle as a disciple and Attendant Immortal.

• Tongtian announced that the Three Sects would split apart, and the Jie Sect Disciples prepared to leave Kunlun.
• Lin Zhu shared treasures and wine with Guang Chengzi and Xuan Du before bidding them farewell at Qilin Cliff.
• Lin Zhu recommended Golden Turtle Island as a suitable location for the Jie Sect’s new Daoist temple.
• Tongtian inspected Golden Turtle Island, met Golden Turtle, and asked what compensation he wanted for establishing the temple there.
• Lin Zhu recommended Golden Turtle as a disciple, and Tongtian accepted him into the Jie Sect as an Attendant Immortal.

Tongtian established Biyou Palace on Golden Turtle Island as the Jie Sect’s foundation and announced a public Dao Lecture to recruit disciples. He entrusted Lin Zhu with receiving and selecting candidates, and Lin Zhu proposed that the sect judge applicants by character as well as their origins.

• Tongtian built and named Biyou Palace, then declared it the Jie Sect’s new foundation and ordered its disciples to establish Dao fields across Golden Turtle Island and nearby islands.
• Golden Turtle guided Lin Zhu to a mountain on the island’s southern shore, where Lin Zhu created a protected Dao field, planted Spiritual Roots, and later lectured Jin Chan.
• After the disciples had settled, Tongtian issued a Saint Decree announcing a Dao Lecture at Biyou Palace and inviting cultivators from across the Primordial Wilderness to seek entry into the Jie Sect.
• Tongtian summoned Lin Zhu and asked him, as the Jie Sect’s Senior Brother, to handle the reception and selection of those who came to hear the Dao.
• Lin Zhu agreed and advised Tongtian that the Jie Sect should consider candidates’ character, excluding those of poor character or burdened by karma.

Lin Zhu oversaw Tongtian’s Dao Lecture and strictly screened applicants, helping the Jie Sect flourish before Tongtian left for Purple Cloud Palace. While Tongtian was away, Lin Zhu reunited with Haotian and traveled with him, Xuan Du, and Guang Chengzi, who acquired a Heavenly Bull mount.

• Tongtian put Lin Zhu in charge of recruiting Jie Sect disciples, and Lin Zhu screened cultivators before and after Tongtian’s Dao Lecture on Golden Turtle Island.
• Tongtian entrusted Lin Zhu with the sect’s affairs and left for Purple Cloud Palace after the Dao Ancestor summoned the Six Saints.
• Haotian visited Lin Zhu at Biyou Palace, where he learned Lin Zhu had reached the Mid Quasi-Saint realm.
• Xuan Du and Guang Chengzi arrived at Golden Turtle Island, and the four companions drank, discussed the Dao, and toured the island.
• Lin Zhu, Haotian, Xuan Du, and Guang Chengzi traveled through the Primordial Wilderness and across the Four Seas.
• Guang Chengzi subdued a Heavenly Bull on an Immortal Island and took it as his mount.

Lin Zhu, Haotian, Xuan Du, and Guang Chengzi discovered E Zhu, a powerful remnant of the Demon Race, hiding in the North Sea. They joined forces to kill him, and Heavenly Merit descended upon them.

• Lin Zhu traveled to the North Sea with Xuan Du, Guang Chengzi, and Haotian, where they sensed a powerful Demon Race presence.
• The four confronted E Zhu, a peak Quasi-Saint and one of Demon Ancestor Luo Hou’s chief subordinates.
• E Zhu attacked the group, but Haotian, Lin Zhu, Xuan Du, and Guang Chengzi fought back with their treasures and weapons.
• Lin Zhu wounded E Zhu with the Primordial Measuring Heaven Ruler and struck him with the Violet Lightning Hammer.
• Haotian killed E Zhu with the Haotian Pagoda, and Heavenly Merit descended upon all four swordsmen.

Lin Zhu, Haotian, Guang Chengzi, and Xuan Du earned Merit while slaying demons in the North Sea, then intervened when Subhuti lured the ten Golden Crows from the Valley of Tang and they ravaged the Primordial Wilderness. The four killed nine Golden Crows, while the last escaped with the Art of Rainbow Transformation.

• Lin Zhu, Haotian, Guang Chengzi, and Xuan Du agreed to slay evil and protect the Human Race as they traveled through the North Sea, earning Merit along the way.
• Subhuti lured the ten Little Golden Crows out of the Valley of Tang, and their journey across the Primordial Wilderness brought destruction to the land and its people.
• Kua Fu confronted the Golden Crows to protect his tribe, but they killed him with their Sun True Fire and continued their rampage.
• Da Yi prepared to shoot down the Golden Crows, but Lin Zhu stopped him and said that the four cultivators would take responsibility for them.
• Lin Zhu, Haotian, Guang Chengzi, and Xuan Du attacked the Golden Crows and killed nine of them, while the last escaped using the Art of Rainbow Transformation.

After the surviving Little Golden Crow reported his brothers’ deaths, Dijun blamed the Witch Race and mobilized the demons, triggering an all-out war. Lin Zhu sent Jie Sect disciples into the Primordial World to protect living beings and earn Merit while warning them to avoid the fighting, and remained on Golden Turtle Island to oversee their safety.

• The surviving Little Golden Crow told Dijun that Haotian, Lin Zhu, Guang Chengzi, and Xuan Du had killed his brothers, then revealed that Subhuti had persuaded the ten Golden Crows to leave the Valley of Tang.
• Dijun suspected the Witch Race was behind the deaths, and a Witch General reported that the Witches were gathering at Buzhou Mountain to attack the Heavenly Court.
• Dijun summoned the Demon Race, and the Witch and Demon Races began an all-out war that spread across the Primordial World.
• Lin Zhu learned of the war through the Divine Power of Reverse Knowing the Future and summoned the Jie Sect disciples to Biyou Palace.
• Lin Zhu divided the disciples into five groups, ordered them to protect living beings and avoid the Witch-Demon conflict, and sent them into the Primordial World.
• Lin Zhu stayed on Golden Turtle Island to cultivate and oversee the disciples, ready to help if they faced danger.

Lin Zhu severed his Third Corpse with the God-Slaying Spear and reached the Late Quasi-Saint realm before venturing into the Primordial Wilderness to check on the Jie Sect disciples. After meeting Hou Tu and discussing the Witch Race’s path forward, he reunited with his disciples and continued rescuing living beings amid the Wu-Yao War.

• Lin Zhu severed his Third Corpse, advanced to the Late Quasi-Saint realm, and stabilized his cultivation after three hundred years.
• Lin Zhu traveled through the Primordial Wilderness, avoided entering the Wu-Yao War, and drove off Witch and Demon forces threatening living beings.
• Hou Tu destroyed a Demon force attacking a Witch powerhouse, then met Lin Zhu and thanked him for helping the Witch Race against the Witch Slaughtering Sword.
• Lin Zhu and Hou Tu discussed the Dao, and he suggested that the Witch Race’s future lay in Earth and the balance of Heaven, Earth, and Man.
• Hou Tu returned to Buzhou Mountain to reflect on Lin Zhu’s words, while Lin Zhu reunited with the Jie Sect disciples and continued rescuing living beings for Merit.

Hou Tu established the Dao of Earth and transformed into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, earning Merit and becoming a Saint. Her transformation left the Witch Race’s Capital Heaven Godly Fiend Array incomplete, prompting the Demon Race to launch a full-scale attack, while Donghuang Taiyi confronted Lin Zhu and the Jie Sect Disciples.

• Hou Tu transformed into the Six Paths of Reincarnation and became a Saint, while Lin Zhu received a share of her Merit for having guided her.
• The Witch Race realized Hou Tu could no longer return, leaving the Twelve Ancestral Witches unable to complete their array, and Kunpeng urged Dijun to exploit the weakness.
• Dijun ordered the Demon Race to wage full-scale war against the Witch Race, intensifying the Wu-Yao War.
• At the Purple Cloud Palace, the Dao Ancestor praised Lin Zhu and asked Tongtian to bring him for a meeting after the lecture.
• Donghuang Taiyi confronted Lin Zhu over the deaths of his nephews and Demon Saint Bai Ze, and Lin Zhu accepted responsibility to protect the Jie Sect Disciples.
• The Jie Sect Disciples refused to abandon Lin Zhu and declared they would stand with him against Donghuang Taiyi.

Lin Zhu fought Donghuang Taiyi and held his own until a summons from the Heavenly Emperor forced Donghuang to withdraw. The Witch and Demon Races then gathered at the South Heaven Gate and began their final battle.

• Donghuang Taiyi attacked Lin Zhu with the Chaos Bell, and Lin Zhu countered with the Primordial Measuring Heaven Ruler and Qing Qian Sword.
• Lin Zhu and Donghuang Taiyi exchanged powerful blows, but neither could claim victory before a Heavenly Sound ordered Donghuang to return to the Heavenly Court.
• Donghuang Taiyi withdrew with the Demon Race, and Lin Zhu told the Jie Sect disciples that the battle had been interrupted and the final Wu-Yao War was near.
• At the South Heaven Gate, Dijiang led the Eleven Ancestral Witches against Dijun, Kunpeng, and the Demon Race forces.
• Dijiang and Dijun ordered their armies to attack, beginning the battle to decide whether the Witch or Demon Race would rule heaven and earth.

The Witch and Demon Races fought a ten-thousand-year battle in Heavenly Court, while Lin Zhu and the Three Sects Disciples tried to protect the Primordial World from the devastation. Facing catastrophic losses, the Eleven Ancestral Witches and Xing Tian summoned the Pangu Shadow, which struck the Heavenly Court Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array.

• Dijun formed the Heavenly Court Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, and Dijiang answered with the Capital Heaven Godly Fiend Array, with Xing Tian taking Hou Tu's place.
• As the arrays clashed and calamities ravaged the Primordial World, Lin Zhu sent Dharma Decrees to Mount Kunlun and Shouyang Mountain, prompting Guang Chengzi, Xuan Du, and the Three Sects Disciples to protect living beings.
• The battle continued for ten thousand years, leaving both races with catastrophic casualties and worsening the calamity qi.
• Dijiang ordered the Eleven Ancestral Witches and Xing Tian to burn their blood essence and summon the Pangu True Form, creating the Pangu Shadow because Hou Tu was absent.
• The Pangu Shadow raised its axe and struck the Heavenly Court Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array as Dijun tried to defend it.

The Witch Race destroyed the Heavenly Court during the Wu-Yao War, and the collapse of Buzhou Mountain unleashed a catastrophe across the Primordial Wilderness. After a thousand years of fighting, Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended the battle, but the flood disaster and the suffering of the world remained.

• Kunpeng stole the Hetu Luoshu and fled, weakening the Heavenly Court Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array as the Pangu Shadow struck again.
• The Pangu Axe shattered the Heavenly Court and Buzhou Mountain, triggering floods and devastation throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Lin Zhu, Xuan Du, and disciples of Jie Sect and Jade Void Sect rescued beings and diverted floodwaters while Haotian and Fuxi fought demons and devils.
• The Wu-Yao War continued for a thousand years, killing Donghuang, Dijun, Dijiang, Jiu Li, and many Ancestral Witches, until only Zhu Jiuyin remained among them.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered the Witch and Demon Races to stop fighting, and the surviving combatants withdrew as the Creation Jade Disc restored the Heavenly Court.
• The Saints left the Purple Cloud Palace to aid the Primordial Wilderness, while Zhun Ti and Jie Yin departed after saying farewell to the Three Pure Ones and Nüwa.

Lin Zhu persuaded the Three Pure Ones to descend and help end the Wu-Yao War’s devastation, while Nüwa reclaimed the Hetu Luoshu from Kunpeng and repaired the sky. The chapter left Nüwa facing the North Sea Xuan Turtle’s refusal to sacrifice its limbs to prop up the heavens.

• Lin Zhu led the Three Sects Disciples to meet the Three Pure Ones and asked them to save the Primordial Wilderness, and they agreed.
• Taishang Laojun redirected the floodwaters, Tongtian and the Jie Sect Disciples slew demons, and Yuanshi Tianzun moved and refined half of Buzhou Mountain into the Fantian Seal.
• Nüwa demanded the Hetu Luoshu from Kunpeng, defeated him, and took the treasure back.
• Nüwa refined Heaven Patching Divine Stones and sealed the hole in the sky above Buzhou Mountain.
• Nüwa asked the North Sea Xuan Turtle to give up its limbs to prop up the heavens, but it refused, leaving her uncertain what to do.

Lin Zhu helped Nüwa persuade Xuan Turtle to sacrifice his body to support the heavens in exchange for a future human throne, and he gained abundant Merit when the catastrophe ended. After a long period of cultivation, he was at Biyou Palace when Haotian arrived with a matter from the Dao Ancestor.

• Nüwa sought Xuan Turtle’s legs to support the heavens, and Lin Zhu proposed that Xuan Turtle be reborn with Propping Heaven Merit and later become a Human Race sovereign.
• Xuan Turtle agreed to sacrifice himself and share some of his Merit with Lin Zhu, and Nüwa took his four legs to mend the sky.
• Lin Zhu buried Xuan Turtle’s body, and Merit descended upon the Primordial World, greatly improving Lin Zhu’s cultivation.
• Tongtian summoned the Jie Sect Disciples to Biyou Palace, praised their efforts, and lectured them for a thousand years.
• Lin Zhu secluded himself for one hundred thousand years and advanced to within one step of the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Haotian arrived at Biyou Palace by the Dao Ancestor’s order and requested an audience with Tongtian.

Dao Ancestor summoned Lin Zhu and the Saints to Purple Cloud Palace to discuss the vacant Heavenly Emperor position, and all six Saints recommended Lin Zhu. When Dao Ancestor offered him the position, Lin Zhu decided to refuse it, wary of losing his freedom and taking Haotian’s destined opportunity.

• Haotian summoned Tongtian and Lin Zhu to Purple Cloud Palace by Dao Ancestor’s command.
• Tongtian and Lin Zhu traveled through Chaos to Purple Cloud Palace, where they met the other Saints, Haotian, and Yaochi.
• Dao Ancestor explained that the Witch-Demon Calamity had left the Heavenly Court without a ruler and asked the Saints to recommend a Heavenly Emperor.
• Taishang, Yuanshi Tianzun, Nüwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin all recommended Lin Zhu, and Tongtian remained silent as his master.
• Dao Ancestor summoned Lin Zhu and offered him the position of Heavenly Emperor after the six Saints agreed.
• Lin Zhu weighed the loss of his freedom, the harm to his cultivation, and the risk of taking Haotian’s opportunity, then decided he could not accept the position.

Lin Zhu refused the position of Heavenly Emperor and recommended Haotian, who accepted the appointment. After the Saints debated teachers for the Human Emperors, Dao Ancestor Hongjun kept Lin Zhu behind to ask about Divine Nature and praised his answer.

• Lin Zhu declined the Heavenly Emperor position, saying that worldly duties would hinder his cultivation, and recommended Haotian instead.
• Haotian accepted the appointment after Lin Zhu urged him to take the opportunity, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun sent Haotian and Yaochi to govern the Heavenly Court temporarily and undergo tribulation.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun told the Saints that the Human Race would rise and ruled that the first candidate to find and disciple a Reincarnated Human Emperor would become that emperor’s teacher.
• After the Saints left, Dao Ancestor Hongjun asked Lin Zhu to explain Divine Nature, and Lin Zhu described it as using one’s cultivation to bless and aid all living beings.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun praised Lin Zhu’s view that cultivators should use their power to benefit the Primordial Wilderness.