Chapter Summaries

Di Jun and Taiyi recruited Kun Peng and secured Nuwa’s support and Monster Summoning Banner to establish the Heavenly Court. Their declaration brought them merit, advanced them to the late Quasi-Saint realm, and greatly increased the Demon Race’s fortune.

• Di Jun and Taiyi visited Kun Peng in the North Nether Sea, where they learned he had reached the Quasi-Saint realm and persuaded him to consider joining their plan with the promise of merit and the title of teacher of the Demon Race.
• Di Jun and Taiyi searched for Nuwa beyond the thirty-third heaven after learning from Fuxi that she had moved there, and Qingluan Fairy guided them to her palace.
• Nuwa warned Di Jun and Taiyi against wanton slaughter and gave them the Monster Summoning Banner, which could control the demons of the world.
• Di Jun and Taiyi established the Heavenly Court using the Eastern Emperor Bell and Hetu Luoshu, receiving merit that helped them sever their Good Corpses and advance to the late Quasi-Saint realm.
• The establishment of the Heavenly Court shifted Heavenly Secrets, made cultivation easier for beings throughout the primordial world, and multiplied the Demon Race’s fortune.

After the Heavenly Court’s founding celebration was disrupted by Mystic Ice Daoist and Lu Wu, Fuxi arrived with Empress Nuwa’s Monster Summoning Banner and confirmed Kun Peng as Demon Master. The gathering resumed, though several guests departed and those who stayed learned they would have to leave traces of their true spirits in the banner.

• Kun Peng received merits from the Heavenly Court’s founding and went to visit Di Jun on the Solar Star.
• At the celebration, Di Jun named Kun Peng Demon Master, but Mystic Ice Daoist insulted Kun Peng and left after a confrontation.
• Lu Wu criticized the gathering and tried to leave with Heavenly Fox Venerable, prompting Di Jun to attack; Hong Yun objected, and Zhen Yuanzi restrained him.
• Fuxi arrived and gave Kun Peng the Monster Summoning Banner on Empress Nuwa’s behalf, winning Kun Peng recognition as Demon Master.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and other guests departed, while those who remained learned that shelter under the Heavenly Court required leaving a trace of their true spirit in the banner.

The Ancestor Wu debated how to respond to the Demon Race’s growing power and chose to keep developing rather than fight the Heavenly Court. After a powerful stranger defeated Houyi on Mount Buzhou, Houyi recognized the threat posed by the Demon Race’s expansion and left with renewed resolve.

• Zhu Rong and Gong Gong urged Di Jiang to confront the Demon Race, but Di Jiang warned that the Heavenly Court had powerful allies and growing fortune.
• Di Jiang persuaded the Ancestor Wu to continue cultivating their tribes instead of acting rashly.
• Houyi absorbed Mount Buzhou’s power and its will, then fought a mysterious winged opponent who overwhelmed him and smashed him into the mountain.
• Houyi reflected on how the Demon Race’s united cultivation and access to star power threatened the Wu Clan’s growth and resources.
• Houyi burst from the rubble, laughed, and strode down Mount Buzhou with renewed resolve.

Wu Peng found the Human Race near West Kunlun in desperate condition and helped Suiren Shi lead the survivors to Shouyang Mountain. There, the humans began recovering, building settlements, and developing fire-making, shelter, hunting, and cultivation practices.

• Wu Peng and the Wu warriors found sick and starving humans near West Kunlun, and Wu Peng treated the dying with medicinal herbs.
• Suiren Shi confronted the Wu warriors, explained that only about a thousand of the hundreds of thousands of humans remained, and accepted Wu Peng’s proposal to settle on Shouyang Mountain.
• The Wu escorted the humans to Shouyang Mountain, where Wu Peng stayed as their shaman and healer.
• Suiren Shi taught the humans to make fire, cook food, fish, hunt, and craft tools, while Youchao Shi taught them to build shelters and gather plants and fruit.
• Over three years, the Human Race grew to more than ten thousand people, formed tribes, and developed stronger bodies and a method of cultivation.

Wu Peng watched the human race grow on Shouyang Mountain as Suiren Shi repaid kindness and helped them endure hardship. Supreme Clarity Laozi appeared, raised Suiren Shi to the Heavenly Immortal realm, and taught the human race the Golden Core Great Dao.

• Wu Peng saw the humans’ resilience as a wounded old man arrived, and he declared that his injuries were beyond his power to heal.
• Suiren Shi cared for the old man for more than three years, and after the man vanished, he explained that benevolence meant helping others in hardship.
• A hundred years later, the old man’s brother demanded ten human cultivators in repayment for the immortal pills; Suiren Shi sent them with him, saying kindness should be repaid.
• Over the following centuries, the human race grew stronger and learned to survive by relying on its own resolve and wits.
• Supreme Clarity Laozi appeared before Suiren Shi, bestowed the Golden Core Great Dao, and helped him overcome a Lightning Tribulation and reach the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Laozi taught on Shouyang Mountain, and hundreds of thousands of humans began cultivating Essence, Qi, and Spirit through the Outer Elixir and Inner Core paths.

Ancestor Minghe created the Asura Clan with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, but a devastating lightning tribulation killed most of its first members. The survivors earned Minghe Merit, and he decided to go to the Heavenly Court to seek more conflict and Malevolent Qi for the clan.

• Ancestor Minghe struggled to create the Asura Clan until Mosquito Daoist offered him the Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• Minghe used the lotus to create a hundred thousand Asura, but a vast lightning tribulation struck as they emerged from its protection.
• Minghe and Mosquito Daoist sheltered inside the lotus while the lightning destroyed much of the Blood Sea and killed most of the Asura.
• Mosquito Daoist found survivors, including a strange Asura with twenty-four arms and a thousand eyes, and Minghe received Merit for completing the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Minghe said the Asura Clan needed more Malevolent Qi and decided to go to the Heavenly Court, while Mosquito Daoist welcomed the prospect of greater conflict.

Minghe persuaded Di Jun and Taiyi to ally with the Asura Clan and strike the Witch Race, then joined Kun Peng in ambushing Hong Yun. Hong Yun fought back against Kun Peng’s attack but was wounded and realized he needed to escape.

• Minghe warned Di Jun that the Demon Race would lose ground to the Witch Race and proposed an alliance with the Asura Clan.
• Di Jun and Taiyi agreed to attack the Houtu Tribe and seize its soul banner, while Minghe advised them to send the Ten Demon Commanders.
• Minghe and Kun Peng found Hong Yun dispelling Malevolent Qi from wandering ghosts, and Kun Peng attacked him over an old grudge.
• Hong Yun used his Soul Scattering Gourd and Red Sand to counter Kun Peng’s Black Wind and Demon Master Sword.
• Kun Peng’s sword broke through Hong Yun’s defenses and wounded him, so Hong Yun prepared to flee.

Minghe and Kun Peng cornered Hong Yun, but his self-detonation left a sliver of his true spirit to flee, prompting the two to pursue him. Meanwhile, the Demon Race attacked the Wu Tribe at Mount Buzhou, and a massive battle erupted with devastating losses on both sides.

• Minghe sealed the area with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, trapping Hong Yun after Hong Yun used his gourd to escape Kun Peng.
• Hong Yun summoned Shangqing Divine Thunder, and Kun Peng used Taotie to swallow it before Hong Yun detonated his true form in a vast explosion.
• A strand of Xuanhuang light carried Hong Yun’s surviving true spirit into the purple-red gourd, and Minghe rescued the nearly dead Kun Peng before pursuing it.
• Zhen Yuanzi learned through divination that Hong Yun had met with disaster and set out from Wuzhuang Temple to help him.
• Jiu Ying led the Demon Race’s billion-strong army against the Wu Tribe at Mount Buzhou, breaking through its barriers and beginning a catastrophic battle.
• Houyi killed the Great Roc and wounded Xiū Shé, while Jiu Ying continued devastating both armies with his poisonous water and flames.

Houyi fled Jiu Ying toward the Wu Race’s Formation Eye as their battle threatened the battlefield. Meanwhile, Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian established their respective teachings and became Saints, prompting Zhunti to seek an opportunity in the East.

• Jiu Ying and Houyi exchanged devastating attacks, and Jiu Ying regenerated a crushed head before using his Water-Fire Inner Cores to drive Houyi into retreat.
• Houyi realized he could not defeat Jiu Ying directly and raced toward the Restriction Great Array’s Formation Eye, while Jiu Ying pursued him.
• After ten thousand years of seclusion, Laozi established the Human Teaching and attained sainthood through merit and severing the Three Corpses.
• Yuanshi established the Chan Teaching with the Pangu Banner and became a Saint.
• Tongtian established the Interception Sect with the Immortal Slaying Four Swords and Formation Diagram, and attained sainthood.
• Seeing the Three Pure Ones become Saints, Zhunti told Jieyin he would go to the East to search for an opportunity to attain sainthood.

After foreseeing the Wu Clan’s extinction, Houtu resolved to create reincarnation and sacrificed herself to establish the Six Paths. Her transformation completed the underworld cycle, and all beings mourned and honored her as Empress Houtu.

• A new Saint’s appearance diminished the world’s spiritual energy, and demons began hunting humans for their Essence Blood while Dao De Tianzun sent Grand Master Xuandu to teach humans cultivation and alchemy.
• After Primordial Violet Qi revealed the Wu Clan’s future destruction, Houtu told Di Jiang she would create reincarnation to earn merit and give deceased Wu members a chance to be reborn.
• Houtu found the Sea of Blood and asked Minghe for help, then received the Netherworld Palace along with the Book of Life and Death and the Judge’s Brush.
• Houtu used the Primordial Violet Qi to complete the Netherworld Book, declare the creation of reincarnation, and summon members of the Wu Clan, Demon Race, and humanity to the Sea of Blood.
• Houtu transformed her body into the underworld’s realms and bridge, established the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and leaped into the Sea of Blood, completing the cycle.
• The Book of Life and Death drew ghosts to the underworld and appointed powerful Ghost Immortals as officials, while all beings mourned and worshiped Empress Houtu.

Minghe helped the Wu Clan decide to ambush a Demon Race force, and Tian Wu and Zhu Rong intercepted Chang Xi at the Immortal Volcano. Chang Xi escaped into a Spatial Rift after their attacks overwhelmed her Taiyin Domain, with Tian Wu’s tornado pursuing her.

• Minghe warned the Ancestor Witches that Di Jun had sent Chang Xi to the Immortal Volcano and urged them to weaken the Demon Race while they could.
• Di Jiang agreed to the ambush after Zhu Jiuyin and the other Ancestor Witches argued that the Wu Clan could not afford to miss the opportunity.
• Tian Wu carried Zhu Rong south, where Zhu Rong became dazed by Chang Xi before Tian Wu attacked her with the Gale Force Wind.
• Chang Xi froze Tian Wu’s wind with Taiyin power, and Zhu Rong countered her with fire-origin power and eighty-one fire lotuses.
• Tian Wu struck at Chang Xi while she struggled to maintain her Taiyin Domain, and she unleashed Taiyin divine lightning before fleeing into a Spatial Rift with his tornado after her.

After Chang Xi died, Minghe secretly sent her true spirit into reincarnation, and Di Jun could only watch helplessly. Chang Xi was reborn as Chang'e, who met and fell in love with Houyi, leaving the story with the pair beginning a happy life together.

• Taiyi told Di Jun he had found neither the Fusang Wood nor any trace of Chang Xi at the Immortal Volcano.
• Minghe tricked Chang Xi into stopping her resistance to the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and her true spirit was pulled inside.
• Di Jun arrived too late to save Chang Xi and was repelled when he tried to approach the Six Paths.
• Chang'e was born in a human tribe beneath a brilliant full moon, surrounded by gathered moonlight and falling osmanthus blossoms.
• At sixteen, Chang'e met Houyi after he slew the Fierce Beast Fengxi, and they fell in love.
• Houyi stayed in Chang'e's tribe, and the two lived together happily as his will and spirit gradually softened.

Minghe provoked the ten Golden Crow princes into attacking the Wu Race, and they descended on the Primordial Great Land, scorching everything in their path. Great Wu Kua Fu fought them but was overwhelmed and killed, leaving the devastation ongoing.

• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Fuxi entered seclusion to study the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars, leaving Kun Peng to manage the Heavenly Court and the ten Golden Crow princes.
• Minghe urged the ten Golden Crows to avenge Chang Xi and restore the Heavenly Court's dignity, angering them into action.
• The ten Golden Crows demanded soldiers from Kun Peng, then flew into the world themselves and burned lands, settlements, and countless living beings with True Sun Fire.
• Great Wu Kua Fu attacked the Golden Crows, wounded one with his manifestation, and struck at them with his Kui Water Immortal Peach Tree.
• The ten Golden Crows joined their power into a Fire Dragon, burned Kua Fu's manifestation, and surrounded him until he died from his wounds.

Houyi returned to find the Wu Clan devastated and shot down nine Golden Crows with the Divine Wood Bow, while the Tenth Golden Crow was carried away by a scroll. Chang'e took the elixir of immortality, recovered her former identity, and ascended to the Taiyin Star as Di Jun and Xi He learned their sons had died.

• Minghe realized events seemed guided by an unseen hand, left the Fusang Wood arrows behind, and returned to the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Houyi learned that Kua Fu had been killed and the Wu Clan had suffered heavy losses while he sought the elixir for Chang'e.
• Grief pushed Houyi into the Quasi-Saint realm, and he shot down the Golden Crows as they attacked him.
• A scroll swept away the Tenth Golden Crow Prince before Houyi could kill him.
• Chang'e drank the elixir, regained the memories of Chang Xi, and was pulled toward the Taiyin Star.
• Empress Nuwa revealed the calamity to Di Jun and Xi He, who cried out in grief over the deaths of their nine sons.

The Wu and Demon Races began their long-awaited battle at Mount Buzhou, with Taiyi and the Ancestral Wu clashing in a destructive contest of divine powers. The battle continued as Fuxi faced three Wu warriors and was paralyzed by their combined lightning and Wood Thunder.

• The Wu and Demon Races gathered at Mount Buzhou, and Zhu Rong, Di Jun, Di Jiang, She Bishi, and Rushou engaged in battle.
• Taiyi struck Zhu Rong with the Chaos Bell, while Zhu Jiuyin countered Taiyi’s attacks with the Power of Time.
• Taiyi unleashed the Chaos Bell’s star formation to freeze the world, but Zhu Jiuyin broke through with a golden wheel of time and left Taiyi weakened.
• Gonggong and Zhu Rong joined forces to attack Taiyi with Water and Fire Twin Dragons, while Zhu Jiuyin seized an opening to strike.
• Tian Wu and Qiang Liang fought Demon Master Kun Peng as Xuanming, Yue Zi, and Gou Mang attacked Fuxi with rain, lightning, and Wood Thunder.
• Fuxi’s seals failed to stop the combined attacks, and Yue Zi’s lightning paralyzed him.

Di Jun battled Di Jiang and the Ancestor Witches as they activated the Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation, using the battlefield’s slaughter to gather fiendish energy. Di Jun and his allies raised the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars, and both formations began building their decisive attacks.

• Rushou attacked Di Jun with golden weapons, but Di Jun countered with the Hetu Luoshu and Star Power as Di Jiang struck him with spatial abilities.
• Di Jiang used Spatial Annihilation, and Di Jun’s nine summoned solar stars broke through the black hole in a massive explosion.
• Twelve soul banners drained the Witches and Demons on the battlefield, turning their blood and true spirits into fiendish energy that drove many cultivators into a murderous frenzy.
• Di Jun warned Taiyi, Kun Peng, and Fuxi that the Ancestor Witches were preparing the Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation, and the Demon leaders raised the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars in response.
• The star formation drew power from the heavens and slaughtered Witch cultivators, while Di Jiang and the other Ancestor Witches merged their fiendish energy into a colossal phantom demon god.
• Di Jun poured his Essence, Qi, and Spirit into the Hetu Luoshu, setting the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars in motion as the opposing phantom continued to form.

Pangu’s apparition shattered the Sun Star and devastated the world before Dao Ancestor Hongjun suppressed its power and repaired the spatial rifts. The Wu Clan revived a giant through blood sacrifices, and as it battled the Myriad Stars Great Formation, Di Jun and Taiyi unleashed the Chaos Bell against its destructive assault.

• Pangu’s apparition struck the Myriad Stars Great Formation, shattered the Sun Star, and tore vast rifts across the world until Hongjun intervened.
• The Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation collapsed, but a drop of the Ancestor Wus’ Essence Blood revived Pangu’s apparition as a towering giant.
• Di Jun restarted the Myriad Stars Great Formation, which battered the giant with condensed stars and the Twenty-eight Mansions Formation.
• Tian Wu sacrificed himself to become a blood sigil, restoring the giant’s wounds and enabling it to break through the formation’s starlight.
• The giant wielded a golden axe to unleash a world of destruction, while Di Jun powered the formation with his Essence Blood and Taiyi summoned the Chaos Bell to counter it.

The Wu and Demon Races’ battle destroyed Mount Buzhou and shattered the sky, while the surviving powers fought and fell. Nuwa used the Qiankun Cauldron and the Mystic Turtle’s limbs to mend the sky and stabilize the world, though the chapter left the land still beset by floods.

• The Chaos Bell struck the giant Tongtian, whose collapse destroyed Demon Race cultivators and the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars; Di Jiang then killed Di Jun.
• Dao Lord Lu Ya sent his Red Sun incarnation to the tenth Golden Crow Crown Prince, who became Crown Prince Lu Ya and attacked Di Jiang, while Taiyi, Fuxi, and the Ancestral Witches continued fighting.
• Zhu Jiuyin and Gou Mang died alongside Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Fuxi, while Kun Peng fled and Zhu Rong destroyed himself after Suiren Shi tried to stop him from destroying Mount Buzhou.
• Gong Gong charged Mount Buzhou with a torrent, bringing down the mountain and breaking the pillar that supported heaven and earth.
• Zhen Yuanzi’s Dragon Phoenix Treasure Record spread across the world and stabilized the collapsing land as the Three Pure Ones used their treasures to restrain the sky’s opening.
• Nuwa received the Qiankun Cauldron, made Five-colored Stone, and used the Mystic Turtle’s limbs as pillars to mend the sky before carving rivers to drain the floodwaters.

Hongjun restored the sun star through Xi He’s sacrifice and reorganized Heaven and Earth after the calamity, appointing new rulers and establishing laws and boundaries. Haotian and Yaochi took charge of the rebuilt Heavenly Court, which was restored and supplied with an orchard of immortal peaches.

• Hongjun explained that Xi He could repair the shattered sun star, reassured her that Lu Ya was being watched over, and bestowed an Innate Gourd upon him.
• Xi He gathered the pieces of the sun star, refined and repaired it, then merged her Essence, Qi, and Spirit into it to become its Star Core.
• Hongjun ordered cultivators above the Golden Immortal realm to refrain from using their power, changed the relationship between time in Heaven and on Earth, and separated the two realms with a barrier.
• Hongjun assigned roles to Zhen Yuanzi, Lei Ze, and the Three Pure Ones, then appointed Haotian and Yaochi as Heavenly Emperor and Queen Mother.
• Hongjun bestowed treasures upon Haotian and Yaochi, and the Heavenly Court was restored with palaces, islands, and a peach orchard of three thousand six hundred trees.

Haotian recruited Chan Teaching disciples, domain gods, and the Dragon Clan to help govern the newly established Heavenly Court. He then sought Nuwa’s support by offering an immortal pill for Fuxi and proposing that Fuxi help organize the Zhou Tian Star Dou.

• Haotian asked Primordial Heavenly Venerate to assign Chan Teaching disciples to Heavenly Court duties, and Grand Unity True Person and Immortal Elder of the South Pole accepted posts.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate summoned the gods of mountains, rivers, seas, and other domains to serve under the Heavenly Court.
• Haotian appointed Ao Guang and the Dragon Clan to govern aquatic races and summon clouds and rain, giving them a chance to earn merit.
• A thousand years after the Wu-Demon War, the underworld had stabilized, the Human Race was growing again, and Nuwa mourned the Demon Race’s decline and Fuxi’s karmic suffering.
• Haotian offered Nuwa an immortal pill from Supreme Clarity Laozi and asked her to let Fuxi and surviving Demon Race members serve the Heavenly Court.
• Haotian proposed that Fuxi use his strengthened True Spirit to help complete the Zhou Tian Star Dou and earn merit toward reincarnation.