Recaps

Hong Yun exposed Zhun Ti’s role in the Witch-Demon conflict, then endured Hongjun’s punishment while secretly advancing his plans for the human race. The arc left Hong Yun watching as Suiren Shi’s first fire stirred the Human Dao and drew the attention of the Saints and Hongjun.

• Taiyi investigated attacks on Demon Race settlements, but a disguised Zhun Ti had framed the Witch Clan and provoked a battle with Xiang Liu and Gong Gong.
• Hong Yun and Di Jun agreed to let the conflict escalate while preparing their own plans, and Di Jun declared war on the Witch Clan as Taiyi fought the Ancestral Shamans.
• Hong Yun and Nu Wa trapped Zhun Ti between the Witch and Demon formations, severely wounded him, and fought him until Hongjun intervened.
• Hongjun sentenced Hong Yun to endure the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning for ten thousand years, while Pingxin protected him and the Witch and Demon Clans accepted a temporary division of Heaven and earth.
• As Hong Yun tempered himself with the lightning, Zhen Yuan Zi guided Suiren Shi, Zi Yi Shi, and You Chao Shi toward discovering the Human Dao.
• Suiren Shi saw ordinary humans struggling without reliable help and resolved to find a way for them to make fire without magical power.
• After three hundred years, Suiren Shi kindled the first ordinary fire, awakening the Human Dao’s flame and drawing Hongjun and the Saints’ attention toward human territory.

Hong Yun established the Human Dao, entered Chaos to advance the Fire Cloud Cave World, and returned to guide the Witch Clan and human race. Di Jun accepted Primordial Violet Qi from Hong Jun, leaving him exposed to suspicion and danger, while Hong Yun refused to teach Di Jun and Xi He’s unborn children but promised to protect them once.

• Hong Yun attained the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm as Pingxin shielded him from Hong Jun, and the first mortal flame appeared among the human race.
• Hong Yun named Nu Wa and Hou Tu Human Dao Saints, while Hong Jun accepted his invitation to become the Human Dao’s Dao Ancestor and then departed.
• Hong Yun entered Chaos with Nu Wa and Tong Tian, expanded the Fire Cloud Cave World, and completed the union of his Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos.
• Hong Yun returned to the Primordial World and told the Ancestral Shamans to draw strength from the Human Dao, then traveled to the East Sea coast with Zhen Yuan Zi and others.
• Hong Jun gave Di Jun the Primordial Violet Qi that Hong Yun had relinquished, and Di Jun accepted it without promising anything in return.
• Hong Yun named Suiren Shi the beginning of Human Dao civilization, granting him a Human Dao position that raised his cultivation to Quasi-Saint.
• Di Jun revealed his Primordial Violet Qi to Hong Yun, who warned that the gift made Di Jun a target and could make the Ancestral Shamans suspect he had plotted with Hong Jun.
• Hong Yun refused Xi He and Di Jun’s request to teach their unborn little Golden Crows, but promised to protect them once, then left the Sun God Palace with Wang Shu.

Hong Yun prepared to confront the returning Karma Demon God while trying to steer the Witch and human clans through the coming Lich Calamity. As he and his allies entered Chaos, Yuan Shi and Zhun Ti laid plans around the ten Golden Crows and the Primordial Violet Qi, while Hong Yun secretly directed the Witch Clan to attack the Saints.

• Hong Yun finished lecturing the humans and Witch Clan, then absorbed the Karma Demon God's Great Dao Rune with Pingxin's help and learned the Demon God was returning to the Primordial World.
• Hong Yun warned the Witch Clan to prepare carefully for the coming war and persuaded Tong Tian to join him in facing the stronger Chaos Demon God beyond the Primordial World.
• Xi He damaged her origin to give birth early to ten Golden Crows, and their extraction of the Sun Star's vital essence plunged the Primordial World into an ice age.
• Di Jun sought help from the Three Pure Ones for his newborn sons but failed to secure Yuan Shi's protection, then returned to the Sun Star and began refining the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Xi He hid the ten little Golden Crows on a concealed East Sea island with Tang Gu, and Taiyi reinforced the island's protective formation.
• Hong Yun, Zhen Yuan Zi, and Tong Tian set out into Chaos to prepare for the Karma Demon God, while Yuan Shi and Zhun Ti forged a bow and ten arrows tied to the Golden Crows' karmic debt.
• Hong Yun told Zhen Yuan Zi that he had secretly instructed Xuanming to turn the Witch Clan's attacks against the Saints, disrupting their plan to seize the clans' fortune.

Zhun Ti’s scheme helped unleash the Golden Crows, whose deaths drove the Witch and Demon Races into war while Hong Yun pursued the Karma Demon God. As Di Jun’s Myriad Stars Great Formation clashed with the Ancestral Shamans, Nu Wa considered Fuxi’s rebirth into the Human Dao and Huluwa defended the human race.

• The Karma Demon God possessed Maitreya and joined forces with Zhun Ti, who planned to use the Witch-Demon War to draw Hong Yun’s allies away.
• Zhun Ti lured the ten Golden Crow Princes from Tang Gu, and they scorched the human lands before Kua Fu pursued them and died.
• Hou Yi killed the eldest Golden Crow Prince and eight others, while the youngest escaped to the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun launched the Demon Clan’s war, and the Witch Clan assembled its forces as Hou Yi joined the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Formation in Kua Fu’s place.
• Nu Wa sought Hong Yun’s help for Fuxi, and Hong Yun proposed that Fuxi give up his body and join the Human Dao to sever his Demon Clan ties.
• Huluwa and his junior sisters raised a gourd-powered barrier to protect the human territory, while Di Jun formed a vast starlight net using the bodies and spirits of millions of demons.
• Di Jun activated the Myriad Stars Great Formation and struck Dijiang, whose counter weakened the blow but could not prevent devastation across the battlefield.
• The attack shattered space and killed many weaker soldiers, while a green light shone from Pangu Hall.