Chapter Summaries

Luo Hou’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation devastated the Primordial world, but a White Tiger resisted it and escaped through a strange transformation. Nine Fear ambushed Luo Hou with a soul-devouring treasure, forcing the Black Lotus to save him; Luo Hou then learned how the White Tiger had evaded his sword strike.

• Luo Hou unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, slaughtering Primordial beings and ruining the land as their pleas caused the formation to pause.
• The formation trapped a humanoid monster, who transformed into a Chaos God Demon White Tiger and resisted Luo Hou’s sword attacks with Gale Force Wind.
• Luo Hou combined the four swords into a devastating strike that seemed to engulf the White Tiger, while he continued seeking power to face the world’s guardian.
• Nine Fear attacked Luo Hou with a blue Soul Disc, entered his sea of consciousness, and began devouring his Spiritual Sense.
• Luo Hou’s Sky Slaying Halberd clashed with the Soul Disc, but the Black Lotus pulled his Divine Soul into its own space before his sea of consciousness collapsed.
• The Black Lotus showed Luo Hou that the White Tiger had turned into a willow and vanished using Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Profound Transformation.

Luo Hou endured the Immortal Slaying Four Swords tearing apart and reforging his primordial spirit until he emerged vastly strengthened, then used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to attack the trapped humanoid monster. The monster’s Great Sage Banner was destroyed in one strike, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Luo Hou resisted the Immortal Slaying Four Swords’ backlash and used his conviction and Dao of Life and Death to repeatedly shatter and reforge his primordial spirit.
• The humanoid monster failed to escape the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and found its spiritual power steadily running out.
• The Immortal Trapping Sword gathered Killing Qi into Red Lotus Karmic Fire, forcing the humanoid monster to flee into the Dimensional Space.
• Luo Hou emerged from the Black Lotus with a fully condensed primordial spirit and drew the humanoid monster back into the formation’s attack.
• The humanoid monster summoned its Great Sage Banner, but one strike from the Immortal Slaying Sword cut it apart and reduced it to dust.

Hongjun confronted Luo Hou as the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation devastated the Primordial World. After the two exchanged powerful attacks and argued over Luo Hou’s slaughter, Hongjun revealed a Sky-Opening Axe-like divine ability, and Luo Hou challenged him to enter the formation.

• Hongjun appeared with the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda and tried to stop Luo Hou, but Luo Hou broke free of his restraint and attacked.
• Luo Hou summoned the White Tiger sword spirit, and Hongjun merged with Pangu’s Good Thought husk before smashing the White Tiger with a punch.
• Hongjun urged Luo Hou to withdraw the formation, while Luo Hou defended his slaughter as a means of destroying and reshaping the world.
• Luo Hou shrouded the battlefield in darkness, but Hongjun produced a Sky-Opening Axe-like strike that tore through it; Luo Hou realized it was only a divine ability.
• Luo Hou challenged Hongjun to enter the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and fight him there.

Hongjun fought his way through the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, using the Eight Sceneries Palace Lantern, the Exquisite Pagoda, and divine thunder to counter Luo Hou’s attacks. As Luo Hou began fully activating the formation, Hongjun realized the formation contained its own world and prepared for greater danger.

• Hongjun entered the Immortal Trapping Formation, where the Tusita Purple Flame from the Eight Sceneries Palace Lantern pushed back Killing Qi and Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Luo Hou summoned a Vermilion Bird that overwhelmed Hongjun’s purple fire beasts, but Hongjun trapped its flames inside the Exquisite Pagoda and passed through the formation.
• Inside the Immortal Slaughtering Formation, Hongjun used divine thunder to disperse Death Qi and severely damage Luo Hou’s Black Dragon.
• Luo Hou destroyed Hongjun’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, but Hongjun countered with three talismans that summoned Shangqing, Taiqing, and Yuqing Divine Thunders.
• Luo Hou’s Immortal Slaying Sword clashed with the three divine thunders, and both sides’ attacks faded as the sword dimmed and vanished back into the formation.
• Luo Hou began fully activating the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, and Hongjun realized its Death Qi could replenish itself and prepared for the danger ahead.

Hongjun fought Luo Hou inside the completed Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, but the formation’s four swords wounded him and destroyed his Three Pure Ones Dharma Bodies. As the swords closed in, Hongjun manifested Pangu True Body and unleashed its ancient aura, which made the sword images falter.

• Luo Hou entered the completed Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, sealing off the power of Heaven and Earth and attacking Hongjun with the Four Symbols Formation.
• Luo Hou summoned the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu spirits through Four Symbols Returning to Origin, while Hongjun summoned the Three Pure Ones Dharma Bodies to fight them.
• Hongjun broke free of Xuanwu’s yellow-fog prison and used the Exquisite Pagoda to restrain its spirit, but the Immortal Ending Sword struck his arm and the other swords wounded him.
• The four swords overwhelmed Hongjun’s Three Pure Ones Dharma Bodies, turning them into streams of Pure Qi and draining the Primordial Unity Talisman of its brilliance.
• Hongjun manifested Pangu True Body, whose imposing aura made the countless sword images falter even as the four swords’ will resisted it.

Hongjun and Luo Hou unleashed devastating attacks against each other, while their battle tore through the Primordial World and forced the Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestor Witches to protect its living beings. Hongjun restored himself with the power of all living beings and launched another assault on Luo Hou.

• Pangu True Body briefly drew on the Primordial World's power, letting Hongjun break through the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and injure Luo Hou.
• Hongjun and Luo Hou unleashed a punch and a sword strike that shattered their phantoms, wounded them both, and caused catastrophic destruction across the Primordial World.
• Nuwa, the Three Pure Ones, and the Twelve Ancestor Witches used their abilities to stabilize the world and shield its living beings.
• Hongjun used a purplish-black gourd to heal himself with the power of all living beings, while Luo Hou prepared another sword attack.
• Hongjun met Luo Hou's sword with another punch, sending a devastating storm through the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation as Luo Hou struggled forward on his black lotus.

Hongjun defeated Luo Hou with the purple-black gourd, but the Creation Jade Disk’s arrival could not prevent Luo Hou from destroying the Primordial World. The survivors gathered on Mount Buzhou as Hongjun held the world’s origin, leaving the fate of the shattered world uncertain.

• Hongjun trapped Luo Hou in the purple-black gourd after Luo Hou’s attack revealed that the Four Spirits were only sword spirits.
• The Creation Jade Disk appeared, restrained Luo Hou, and began restoring Hongjun’s Primordial Spirit as a world phantom formed behind him.
• Luo Hou burned his essence, Dao Fruit, and Primordial Spirit, then exploded and unleashed destructive laws that shattered the Primordial World.
• Great Divine Ability users shielded fragments of the Primordial World, while Mount Buzhou’s Chaos grand formation protected the gathered survivors.
• Lu Tian and the others mourned their loss as Hongjun held the world’s origin and wondered whether the Primordial World had truly been destroyed.

Hongjun repaired the shattered Primordial World by linking it to Pangu’s new world, while Lu Tian and the Undead Clan chose to remain in their homeland. The beings’ offerings revived Luo Hou, who resolved to establish a Demon Realm governed by the Heavenly Dao and founded on slaughter.

• Hongjun used the Creation Jade Disk and the survivors’ power to stabilize the Primordial World and draw world power from Pangu’s new world, with Yang Mei helping protect it.
• Lu Tian and the Undead Clan refused Hongjun’s offer to move to the new world and chose to remain in the ruined Primordial World.
• The Undead Clan carved a statue and pictorial record of Luo Hou on Mount Buzhou and offered prayers that sent faith and mental power toward his cocoon.
• Luo Hou awakened in the depths of Heaven and Earth and admitted that his attempt to change the world had ignored the lives and meaning of its inhabitants.
• The Creation Jade Disk revealed the Great Dao’s history of world-making and the origins of the Three Thousand Great Daos and Primordial Violet Qi.
• Luo Hou vowed to establish a Demon Realm as part of the Heavenly Dao, where slaughter would preserve the balance and order of Heaven and Earth.

Luo Hou established the Demon Realm and accepted the world's origin from Tongtian, while Hongjun arranged to balance the two realms and began preaching at Purple Cloud Palace. After the first thousand-year sermon, the gathered cultivators struggled to comprehend the Great Dao, though the Three Pure Ones followed it with relative ease.

• Luo Hou created the barren Demon Realm, became its Heavenly Dao, and transformed its spiritual energy into Demonic Qi.
• Tongtian delivered the world's origin to Luo Hou, who repaid the Karma and sent him back with the Immortal Slaying Four Swords.
• Hongjun and Great Immortal Yang Mei planned to connect the realms through selected spatial junctions, then Hongjun announced his first sermon.
• The Three Pure Ones and other great powers gathered at Purple Cloud Palace, where disputes arose over the six cushions before Hongjun began teaching.
• Hongjun preached for a thousand years and announced the palace would reopen in a hundred years; the listeners struggled to understand the Dao while the Three Pure Ones fared better.

At the end of his lectures, Hongjun explained sainthood and bestowed Primordial Violet Qi on six chosen cultivators before judging the leaders responsible for the ancient calamity. Ancestral Dragon, Phoenix Emperor, and Kirin King sacrificed themselves to protect their peoples and the world, while Houtu began to understand Hongjun’s lesson about cause, death, and new life.

• Duobao arrived wounded at Zixiao Palace, and Tongtian accepted him as his eldest disciple.
• Hongjun gave his third lecture on cultivation methods, then answered questions about sainthood and granted Primordial Violet Qi to the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin.
• Hongjun rebuked Ancestral Dragon, Phoenix Emperor, and Kirin King for causing the Primordial Heaven and Earth calamity, and urged them to understand cause and effect.
• Ancestral Dragon sacrificed himself to suppress the Sea Eyes of the Four Seas, while his companion treasure formed four Crystal Palaces around his remains.
• Phoenix Emperor and Kirin King sacrificed themselves to suppress the Immortal Volcano and the Earth Veins, using their treasures to carry out their vows.
• Houtu grasped part of Hongjun’s lesson, and Hongjun asked whether those beyond the thirty-three heavens had understood it.

Hongjun reflected on the Great Luo Immortal Realm’s instability and the sacrifices needed to preserve it, while powerful cultivators pursued their own paths to sainthood. Di Jun and Taiyi consulted their hidden master, Dao Lord Lu Ya, about the remaining Primordial Violet Qi, and Lu Ya began planning how to repair his damaged origin.

• Hongjun explained to Haotian and Yaochi that he was only part of the Heavenly Dao, then meditated as they argued over what that meant.
• The Three Pure Ones traveled the Great Luo Immortal Realm to spread the Dao, while Jieyin and Zhunti pursued salvation and Minghe struggled with Hongjun’s warning and the Vampire Vine.
• Di Jun and Taiyi discussed Hongjun’s warning, then revealed their hidden island to meet Dao Lord Lu Ya and reported that they had not found the primordial Fusang Wood.
• Di Jun recounted the Zixiao Palace gathering, and Lu Ya urged the brothers to pursue the remaining Primordial Violet Qi while explaining its role in comprehending Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Ya recalled his wound from Pangu and his need for the Fusang Wood to repair his origin, then formed a plan after realizing a complete Primordial Violet Qi still existed.

Houyi worried that Di Jun and Taiyi would threaten the Witch Race, so he led ten Witches to establish the Houtu Clan in the central region. Their first encounter with local demons turned into a battle, and Houyi used the Vampire Vine to drain the defeated Black Bear Monster’s Essence Blood.

• The Vampire Vine’s cocoons burst open, giving birth to Xing Tian, Houyi, Kua Fu, Xiang Liu, and Jiu Feng, who trained under the Twelve Ancestor Witches.
• Houyi and Jiu Feng discussed the Witch Race’s small numbers and the danger posed by Di Jun and Taiyi’s efforts to subdue the Immortal Realm.
• Houyi presented his concerns and plans to the Twelve Ancestor Witches, and Di Jiang authorized him to act.
• Houyi led ten Witches and a section of the Vampire Vine toward the central region to establish the Houtu Clan.
• Black Bear Monster and his demons attacked Houyi’s group, but the Witches overwhelmed them, and Houyi sent the Vampire Vine to drain Black Bear Monster’s Essence Blood.

Houyi searched for a suitable place for the Houtu Tribe and found sinister ruins where a Yin Spirit attacked the Vampire Vine. When Feng Xiong was poisoned and badly wounded by a demonic serpent, Houyi fought it and began breaking free from its restraints through the Wu Clan’s power to grow stronger in battle.

• Houyi agreed with Feng Xiong to establish the tribe in a broad valley while continuing to search for powerful cultivators and a suitable site.
• Houyi followed a Blood God Son’s signal to ruins where the Vampire Vine sensed an Yin Spirit and attacked it.
• The Yin Spirit wounded the Vampire Vine, but Houyi broke free of its freezing attack, seized it, and destroyed its consciousness for the vine to absorb.
• Feng Xiong fought a poisonous demonic serpent, which poisoned him and bit off one of his arms.
• Houyi struck the serpent, crushed its Seven-Colored Pearl, and paused when it claimed he had slaughtered its kin.
• The serpent coiled around Houyi and attacked his body and primordial spirit, but Houyi’s meridians surged with energy and began breaking through its restraints.

With Houyi away seeking a formation, Wu Qi led the Houtu Tribe against a massive fourth Beast Tide. He fought the Spiny Scale Beast but could not pierce its defenses, while powerful Demon Cultivators joined the battle and threatened to destroy the tribe.

• After Houyi left for the Ancestral Witch Hall, more than a hundred thousand Savage Beasts attacked the Houtu Tribe.
• Wu Qi rallied the tribespeople and charged into the Beast Tide, using his fire ability and black spear to kill many beasts.
• A Spiny Scale Beast opened a chasm beneath Wu Qi, but he evaded it and seized control of a flying beast.
• Wu Qi attacked the Spiny Scale Beast, but its scales resisted his spear and its defenses blocked his feints.
• Wu Qi saw the tribespeople struggling and sensed at least three Grand Unity Golden Immortal Demon Cultivators enter the battle.

Houyi found the Houtu Tribe destroyed and followed the lingering Demon Race aura to a battle near a cliff. Using the Red Longbow and the Black Banner, he killed the demons and the Spiny Scale Beast, then continued searching for his people.

• Houyi reached the ruins of the Houtu Tribe, found its members slain, and concluded that the Life Divine Vine had escaped underground.
• Houyi followed the Demon Race aura to a cliff, where several members of the Wu fought a Spiny Scale Beast as three Demon Race cultivators watched.
• Houyi used the Red Longbow to kill two Golden Immortal demons and battled the remaining cultivator, destroying his Black Long Saber and golden blade.
• Houyi used the Black Banner to swallow the saber fragments, then shot the fleeing Demon Race cultivator and killed him.
• Houyi turned his anger on the Spiny Scale Beast and vaporized it with a powerful arrow.

After the Demon Race destroyed much of the Houtu Tribe, Houyi helped the survivors rebuild in a hidden valley, then hunted Demon King Yayu to avenge his people. Their battle escalated as Houyi’s arrows and earth-element power challenged Yayu, and it ended with both sides’ attacks shattering in a blinding clash.

• Houyi reunited with Wu Qi, Huoyan, and Tushi, learning that the Life Divine Vine and about seventy drops of the tribe’s Essence Blood had survived the Beast Tide.
• Houyi refused Huoyan and Tushi’s offer to sacrifice their Essence Blood, left them to guard the rebuilding Houtu Tribe, and set out to find Yayu.
• As Yayu conquered demons for Di Jun, the Great Wu began expanding their territories and fighting the Demon Race.
• Houyi killed a squad of demons and confronted Yayu, who deflected his first arrow but was forced to take his later shots seriously.
• Yayu’s halberd clashed with Houyi’s earth-element attack, shattering the ochre mountain and dispersing the blade-light in a burst of radiance.

Houyi used the Seal Heaven, Lock Earth Formation and the Divine Bow to restrain and weaken Demon King Yayu, but Yayu kept smashing through the mountains. As Yayu neared escape, Houyi gathered all his Essence, Qi, and Spirit into one final arrow.

• Demon King Yayu shattered Houyi’s mountains and pursued him while Houyi evaded his attacks and assembled the Seal Heaven, Lock Earth Formation.
• Houyi trapped Yayu among eight linked mountains, but Yayu transformed into his true form and shattered peaks that the formation repeatedly restored.
• Houyi entered the formation and fought Yayu directly, but Yayu’s strength overwhelmed him and sent him flying.
• Houyi made the mountains close in around Yayu and fired a barrage of arrows, eroding the Malevolent Fiend Power protecting him.
• Demon King Yayu smashed through the remaining peaks as Houyi gathered his Essence, Qi, and Spirit into a final arrow that pierced through space.

Houyi and Demon King Yayu fought to the brink of death, but Houyi awakened the Earth Origin and recovered through the Wu Clan’s physical strength. After Yayu’s final attacks failed, Houyi killed him and set out for his new tribe, carrying the hope of its growth.

• Houyi’s arrow devastated the mountain range, but Yayu used a Spatial Divine Ability to survive and impaled him with a halberd.
• Houyi struck Yayu with his ruined body, then Yayu invoked the Blood Fiend Technique and blasted Houyi into a heap of shattered flesh.
• Yellow light from the earth restored Houyi, and he rose after awakening the Earth Origin and understanding the source of the Wu Clan’s strength.
• Yayu feigned defeat and attacked Houyi with blood and his halberd, but Houyi stopped both assaults as Yayu’s strength failed and he died.
• Houyi dragged Yayu’s corpse toward his new tribe, believing his awakened power could help it flourish.

Di Jun and Taiyi decided to unite the Demon Race by establishing a Heavenly Court, then sought powerful allies to help organize it. Minghe declined to meet them while creating the Asura Clan, so Di Jun and Taiyi headed north to approach Kun Peng.

• Taiyi told Di Jun that the Wu Clan had spread across the land and begun building Pangu Great Hall on Mount Buzhou, but Di Jun said the Demon Race was too divided to challenge the Twelve Ancestor Witches yet.
• Taiyi proposed creating a Heavenly Court to gather the Demon Race, and Di Jun agreed that its status and authority could attract powerful cultivators.
• Di Jun consulted the Hetu Luoshu, but its shifting omens revealed neither fortune nor disaster.
• Di Jun and Taiyi visited the Netherworld Blood Sea to recruit Minghe, but Mosquito Daoist delivered Minghe's refusal and asked Di Jun to look after the Blood Sea's followers.
• Di Jun told Taiyi that Minghe was in seclusion creating the Asura Clan, and the brothers traveled north to seek Kun Peng.

Nuwa created the Human Race from Chaos Soil, Chaos Water, and refined blood, then gained immense merit and became Saint Nuwa. Di Jun and Taiyi were forced to bow before her power, but Di Jun then saw a sign that he believed foretold the Demon Race’s prosperity.

• Nuwa realized that a Dao Body had to be a proper vessel for the Great Dao and set out to create life through the Path of Creation.
• Nuwa combined Chaos Soil and Chaos Water in the Qiankun Cauldron with purplish-red blood, then shaped clay figures and infused them with Primordial Violet Qi.
• The first two figures awakened and greeted Nuwa, who named the new people the Human Race and urged them to cherish life.
• Heaven and Earth granted Nuwa boundless merit, allowing her to attain the Primordial realm and become Saint Nuwa.
• Di Jun and Taiyi were overwhelmed by Nuwa’s Heavenly Might and bowed, while Di Jun saw a flash of starlight and declared that Heaven favored the Demon Race.