Chapter Summaries

The Witch and Demon Races withdrew from their confrontation after Empress Pingxin appeared, and Di Jun offered to leave the Heavenly Court with the Demon Race. Hong Jun rejected his offer and ordered the Demon Race to govern Heaven and the Witch Clan to govern the earth, while Hong Yun used the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning to strengthen himself.

• Zhu Jiuyin stopped the Ancestral Shamans from continuing the fight, and Dijiang led them to shrink the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Formation and withdraw toward Bu Zhou Mountain.
• Di Jun accused the Saints and Hong Jun of unfairly blaming Hong Yun, then offered to lead the Demon Race away from the Heavenly Court and settle in the Primordial Starry Sky.
• Yuan Shi objected to Di Jun leaving, and Hong Jun ordered the Demon Race to govern Heaven and the Witch Clan to govern the earth while forbidding them to fight for thirty thousand years.
• Di Jun accepted Hong Jun's ruling but believed it would keep the two races locked in a deadly conflict, while Dijiang told the Ancestral Shamans to wait for Hong Yun's return.
• Hong Yun endured the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning and used it to temper his body, resolving to rely on his own strength rather than Heaven and Earth.

Hong Yun revealed his Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal aura, drawing Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s attention while Zhen Yuan Zi prepared the first three Innate Humans to help the Human Dao emerge. Zhen Yuan Zi explained that the Human Dao encompassed all sentient beings, then began relaying Hong Yun’s message about the human race’s weakening bloodline and growing number of ordinary people.

• Hong Yun drew in the endless thunder as the origin of thunder and revealed his Primordial Unity aura, startling Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Pingxin grew more vigilant and suspected Hong Yun had revealed his aura to draw attention away from the human tribes.
• Zhen Yuan Zi summoned Suiren Shi, Zi Yi Shi, and You Chao Shi, then explained that Hong Yun had sent him to help them comprehend their Dao and bring forth the Human Dao.
• Zhen Yuan Zi said the Human Dao came from the origins of the Myriad Spirits Dao and encompassed all sentient beings, making control of it vital to the human race.
• Suiren Shi pledged that the human race would fight to control the Human Dao, and Zhen Yuan Zi relayed Hong Yun’s warning that human bloodlines were weakening and ordinary people would become more common.

Zhen Yuan Zi warned Suiren Shi and the others that they had only three hundred years to find their paths to enlightenment, while Hong Yun’s original plan was to give them five hundred years before revealing the answers. Searching among ordinary humans, Suiren Shi realized that the Human Race’s cultivators could not reliably protect people with no cultivation, and began to see how their lives might point him toward enlightenment.

• Zhen Yuan Zi sent Suiren Shi and the others to seek their opportunities, warning that Hong Yun could conceal the Human Dao’s emergence for only three hundred years.
• Zhen Yuan Zi recalled Hong Yun’s plan to let the three discover their own paths, though he would reveal them if they still had not attained enlightenment after five hundred years.
• Suiren Shi examined human tribes and found ordinary people living without cultivation, eating raw meat because they could not kindle fire themselves.
• A Heavenly Immortal told Suiren Shi that he had left fire for the tribe before entering a seclusion that lasted more than ten years.
• Suiren Shi realized that cultivators’ long periods of seclusion left ordinary humans without dependable protection or help.

Suiren Shi realized ordinary humans needed a way to make fire without cultivation, so he sealed his power and went to live among them to seek a solution. Meanwhile, Hong Yun continued absorbing Hong Jun’s lightning as his aura advanced toward Primordial Unity, leaving the Saints unsettled about his future strength.

• Suiren Shi recognized that ordinary humans could not safely live alongside cultivators and resolved to find a way for them to control fire without magical power.
• Suiren Shi used lightning to ignite a tree, told a Heavenly Immortal human to protect the tribe, then transformed into an ordinary young human and went to live among another tribe.
• Zhen Yuan Zi praised Suiren Shi and the other two for their character and comprehension as they pursued their paths to enlightenment.
• Hong Yun welcomed Hong Jun’s repeated strikes and stopped suppressing his Primordial Unity aura, expecting to attain Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal within five hundred years.
• Zhun Ti worried that Hong Yun would become impossible to avenge, while Taiqing regretted becoming a Saint before pursuing Primordial Unity through his own efforts.

Hong Yun and Hongjun remained locked in a tense standoff while Hong Yun sensed the Human Dao stirring among the human race. The emergence of the Human Dao made Hongjun hesitate further, while Hong Yun worried that the others would discover what had happened.

• Yuan Shi doubted that Hong Yun had attained Primordial Unity through his own efforts, while Tong Tian and Nu Wa watched and studied the Daoist resonance around him.
• After three hundred years of stalemate, Hong Yun sensed a change in the human race’s fortune and recognized the Human Dao’s flame.
• On the Eastern Sea shore, Suiren Shi kindled the first ordinary fire, and its phantom blaze gathered inside the Human Dao Seal as the human race’s fortune changed.
• Hong Yun sent Suiren Shi a message praising him, and Suiren Shi realized he had not disrupted Hong Yun’s plans.
• Nu Wa, the Heavenly Dao Saints, and Hongjun turned their attention toward human territory, and Hongjun reconsidered attacking Hong Yun because it could provoke a clash with the Earthly Dao.
• Hong Yun feared that the others might detect the Human Dao Seal’s activity despite the Earth Book and the seal concealing it.

Hong Yun used Great Dao Merit to temper his True Spirit and reached the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, while Pingxin protected him from Dao Ancestor Hong Jun. As Hong Yun’s Fire Cloud Cave World began to grow, the first mortal flame appeared among the human race, beginning another immense transformation.

• Hong Yun stopped suppressing his aura, and his Primordial Unity formed an exclusive space that swallowed the surrounding Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• Great Dao Merit burned and tempered Hong Yun’s True Spirit, summoning a manifestation of the Great Dao as Dao Ancestor Hong Jun prepared to intervene.
• Pingxin placed the Twenty-four-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus between Hong Yun and Hong Jun and threatened to fight to the death to protect Hong Yun’s path.
• Hong Yun’s True Spirit touched the Great Dao and gained a matching Great Dao Rune, allowing him to attain the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Hong Yun sent his divine sense to the Fire Cloud Cave World, where the Human Dao Seal transformed as his acupoints devoured the Primordial Wilderness’s energy and matter.
• The first mortal flame appeared among the human race on the shore of the East Sea.

Hong Yun drew the Human Dao into being as he achieved Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal, then left the Primordial World to break through in Chaos. The Human Dao’s emergence spread across the world and enraged Dao Ancestor Hong Jun.

• Suiren Shi's fire ignited the Human Dao Seal, stirring wisdom and civilization among the human race.
• Hong Yun asked Nu Wa to send some of the Demon Race's fortune, and she complied as the Human Dao Seal's flames intensified.
• Zhen Yuan Zi carried the Earth Book into Hong Yun's Fire Cloud Cave World, where Hong Yun explained that the Human Dao united the thoughts, desires, and cultivation of all beings.
• After Hong Yun achieved Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal, Dao Ancestor Hong Jun sent him to break through in Chaos, and Hong Yun agreed.
• Hong Yun's departure triggered the Human Dao's emergence across the Primordial World, prompting Dao Ancestor Hong Jun to roar in anger as Hong Yun shouted, "The Heavenly Dao establishes order, and the Earthly Dao bears its weight!"

After establishing humanity, Hong Yun tried to flee into chaos, but Dao Ancestor Hong Jun used the Jade Disc of Creation and the Heavenly Dao to stop him. Pingxin shielded Hong Yun as the Saints confronted him, and Hong Jun accused him of claiming humanity for himself.

• Hong Yun established humanity and planned to hide in chaos until the conflict was settled, but Hong Jun halted him with the Jade Disc of Creation and the Heavenly Dao’s power.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin raised a great formation around Bu Zhou Mountain to stabilize the Primordial Wilderness, while Di Jun activated the Myriad Stars Great Formation.
• Pingxin’s Twenty-four-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus shielded Hong Yun, and she challenged Hong Jun over whether the Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao would become enemies.
• The Heavenly Dao Saints arrived and realized Hong Yun had used the Witch-Demon War as cover to establish humanity; Taiqing and Yuan Shi worried about his growing influence.
• Hong Yun claimed he was only humanity’s Old Ancestor and promised not to obstruct others from cultivating humanity, but Hong Jun rejected his explanation and accused him of taking humanity for himself.

Hong Yun negotiated the Heavenly Dao’s place in the Human Dao by refusing direct interference and offering positions to those who contributed. He established Human Dao Saint positions for Nu Wa and Empress Hou Tu, represented by Pingxin, while Hongjun considered the arrangement.

• Hong Yun stopped Pingxin from arguing and asked Dao Ancestor Hong Jun to state what he wanted.
• Hongjun argued that the newly established Human Dao needed support from the Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao, but Hong Yun refused to allow direct interference.
• Hong Yun offered Human Dao positions to contributors and used the Human Dao Seal to name Nu Wa the Human Dao Saint for creating humanity.
• Nu Wa received the Human Dao Saint position and began comprehending the Human Dao, while Hong Yun presented her as a link among the Three Daos.
• Hong Yun named Empress Hou Tu a Human Dao Saint for creating the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and the Human Dao Seal’s light fell upon Empress Pingxin.

Hong Yun secured a Human Dao Saint position for Hou Tu’s primordial spirit through Pingxin and offered Dao Ancestor Hong Jun another position. Hong Jun remained silent, weighing how the Witch-Demon Calamity could proceed while the Witch and Demon Races followed Hong Yun.

• Hong Yun secretly made Hou Tu’s primordial spirit a Human Dao Saint while Pingxin remained bound to the cycle of reincarnation.
• Zhun Ti arrived despite his injuries and accused Hong Yun of giving Earthly Dao and Human Dao positions to his own family.
• Nu Wa and Pingxin confronted Zhun Ti over his past actions, and he backed down.
• Hong Yun invited Dao Ancestor Hong Jun to become the Human Dao’s Dao Ancestor, prompting Hong Jun to reconsider the risks of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hong Jun worried that the Witch and Demon Races would refuse to fight under Hong Yun’s leadership, leaving the calamity unresolved.

Hong Yun proposed giving Taiqing a position in the Human Dao, but Taiqing refused, and Dao Ancestor Hong Jun warned Hong Yun to award positions only to the worthy before leaving. After the other Heavenly Dao Saints departed, Pingxin returned to the Underworld, and Hong Yun thanked Tong Tian for his support.

• Hong Yun suggested that Taiqing receive a position in the Human Dao, but Taiqing rejected the offer, saying his Daoism had contributed little to the Human Race.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun accepted that positions should go to the worthy, warned Hong Yun against private dealings, and then left, lifting the Heavenly Dao's pressure on him.
• Taiqing, Yuan Shi, and Zhun Ti departed, with Zhun Ti still resentful but unwilling to challenge Hong Yun again.
• Pingxin returned to the Underworld and left the Twenty-four-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus with Hong Yun for protection.
• Nu Wa rushed to Hong Yun, relieved that he was safe, and Hong Yun thanked Sect Master Tong Tian for helping him.
• Tong Tian denied that he had helped Hong Yun, and Hong Yun teased him about not returning with his two elder brothers.

Hong Yun prepared to enter the chaos with Nu Wa and Tong Tian to advance his cultivation and develop his world. After receiving Hong Yun’s message, Dijiang and the Ancestral Shamans decided to end their battle with the Demon Race and disperse.

• Hong Yun reassured Tong Tian that Dao Ancestor Hong Jun was unlikely to attack him directly, though he recognized the danger of a full confrontation.
• Hong Yun invited Tong Tian and Nu Wa to accompany him into the chaos, and both agreed.
• Hong Yun, Nu Wa, and Tong Tian left the Primordial World and entered the chaos.
• Dijiang told the Ancestral Shamans that Hong Yun had gone into the chaos to advance his cultivation.
• Zhu Jiuyin ordered the Ancestral Shamans to disperse and stop fighting the Demon Race.

After the Witch and Demon Clans ended their battle without resolving the looming calamity, Hong Yun traveled into Chaos to gather energy for the Fire Cloud Cave World's growth. As Zhen Yuan Zi, Tong Tian, and Nu Wa watched him work, Tong Tian learned of Hong Yun's connection to Pangu's bloodline, and Zhen Yuan Zi worried he had revealed a secret.

• Zhu Jiuyin and Di Jun each dispersed their clans’ formations, while Di Jun warned Taiyi that the Witch-Demon Calamity had only truly begun.
• Hong Yun chose a place in Chaos to gather matter and vital energy for the Fire Cloud Cave World.
• Hong Yun called Zhen Yuan Zi out to join Tong Tian and Nu Wa, and Tong Tian insisted he could associate with Hong Yun without his brothers’ permission.
• Hong Yun expanded into a Chaos Demon God form and devoured the surrounding Chaos Qi before charging deeper into Chaos.
• Tong Tian recognized a resemblance between Hong Yun’s true form and Pangu, and Zhen Yuan Zi explained Hong Yun had refined Pangu’s bloodline.
• Zhen Yuan Zi realized Tong Tian had inferred their secret and asked what he should do with him.

Hong Yun absorbed the surrounding Chaos Qi and transformed the Fire Cloud Cave World, strengthening its spiritual energy and completing the union of its Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos. As Hong Yun’s aura surged through the Chaos, Tong Tian realized he could not match him there.

• Zhen Yuan Zi tried to persuade Tong Tian to join their side, but Tong Tian pointed to his bond with Hong Yun through Hong Yun’s daughter, his direct disciple.
• Hong Yun absorbed the Chaos Qi around him and used it to expand and enrich the Fire Cloud Cave World.
• Hong Yun reflected on the decline of the Primordial World and resolved to create a world where life would flourish without end.
• Zhen Yuan Zi, Tong Tian, and Nu Wa arrived and felt Hong Yun’s Dao as he entered enlightenment.
• Hong Yun’s Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos completed their union, and Tong Tian judged that he was no match for Hong Yun in the Chaos.

Hong Yun stabilized the Fire Cloud Cave World, then returned to the Primordial World with Zhen Yuan Zi, Nu Wa, and Tong Tian. After Tong Tian left to reunite with his disciples, Nu Wa asked whether Hong Yun would visit the Human Race or the Witch Clan first.

• Hong Yun completed the Fire Cloud Cave World's advancement, making it suitable for cultivation up to the Quasi-Saint realm, and invited Zhen Yuan Zi to explore it later.
• Hong Yun sensed the distant Karma Demon God but decided to put the Primordial World's affairs first as the group headed back.
• Hong Yun used the Human Dao's power to shield himself from the Heavenly Dao's resistance after crossing into the Primordial World.
• Tong Tian left to return to his disciples after Hong Yun asked him to bring San Xiao and Xuan Lang to visit the Human Race.
• Nu Wa asked Hong Yun whether he planned to return to the Human Race or go to the Witch Clan first.

Hong Yun visited the Witch Clan after returning from Chaos, explained that the Witch-Demon Catastrophe was not truly over, and urged the Ancestral Shamans to consider their place in the Human Dao. He showed them how the Human Dao preserved the thoughts and memories of living beings, revealing that it could help the Shamans return even if they died in a future tribulation.

• Hong Yun parted from Zhen Yuan Zi and Nu Wa, then went to Bu Zhou Mountain to check on the Witch Clan.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin asked whether Hong Yun had stabilized his cultivation, and he recounted what had happened.
• Hong Yun told the Ancestral Shamans that the Witch-Demon Catastrophe was not over because the clans would have to revere the Heavenly Dao and submit to the Saints' teachings.
• Hong Yun urged the Ancestral Shamans to draw strength from the Human Dao and help it grow, but they asked him to assign them positions directly.
• Hong Yun explained that the Human Dao existed in the thoughts and convictions of living beings, and that it could preserve the Ancestral Shamans' memories and help restore them after death.

Hong Yun spoke privately with Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin about a fallback plan for the Ancestral Shamans, then praised Kua Fu and Hou Yi before leaving Pangu Hall with Xuanming and Zhen Yuan Zi for the East Sea coast. After noticing the destruction left by the war and speculating about Di Jun and Taiyi’s plans, the group headed home, while Nu Wa arrived at the Heavenly Court.

• Hong Yun told Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin about a fallback plan, and they approved of his foresight.
• Hong Yun praised Kua Fu and Hou Yi, and Xuanming volunteered to train them when they returned to the tribe.
• Kua Fu named Xing Tian as another who wanted to improve, prompting Hong Yun to tease Zhen Yuan Zi before Xuanming confronted him about neglecting her.
• Hong Yun invited Xuanming, Kua Fu, and Hou Yi to return with him to the East Sea coast, and they departed with Zhen Yuan Zi.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi observed the devastated land and speculated that Di Jun or Taiyi might be trying to create a separate realm.
• Nu Wa arrived at the Heavenly Court, where Taiyi, Fuxi, Kun Peng, and the Ten Great Demon Gods came out to greet her.

Nu Wa visited the Demon Clan after the battle, then returned to Empress Wa's Palace while Fuxi chose to stay and help hold the clan together. Meanwhile, Di Jun answered Dao Ancestor Hong Jun's summons to Zixiao Palace, uncertain why he had been called.

• Taiyi explained that Di Jun had gone into seclusion after the battle, and Nu Wa heard that the Demon Clan's ordinary members had suffered heavy losses.
• Nu Wa asked Fuxi to return with her, but he refused to leave the Demon Clan while it needed someone to hold the fort.
• Nu Wa returned to Empress Wa's Palace, allowing Fuxi to remain with the Demon Clan.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun summoned Di Jun to Zixiao Palace, where Hao Tian met him and escorted him inside.
• Di Jun entered Zixiao Palace and reflected on his earlier visits, his increased cultivation, and his growing troubles.

Dao Ancestor Hong Jun summoned Di Jun to Zixiao Palace and gave him the Primordial Violet Qi that Hong Yun no longer needed after taking control of the Human Dao. Di Jun accepted it and returned to the Primordial Star Palace, determined to pursue sainthood without having promised Hong Jun anything.

• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun told Hao Tian to leave and cultivate, then summoned Di Jun to Zixiao Palace.
• Hong Jun presented Di Jun with the Primordial Violet Qi formerly bestowed upon Hong Yun, explaining that Hong Yun no longer needed it.
• Di Jun asked whether Hong Jun had instructions or expected anything in return, worried that the gift might cost the demon race.
• Hong Jun said the strand was Di Jun's to take, and Di Jun accepted it into his Primordial Spirit.
• Hong Jun sent Di Jun back to the Primordial Starry Sky, where Di Jun resolved to take the gift without promising Hong Jun anything.

Xi He told Wang Shu that she was expecting a child, and the two discussed her pregnancy and Wang Shu’s relationship with Hong Yun. Di Jun arrived at the Sun Star and was overjoyed to learn he was going to have a little Golden Crow.

• Xi He revealed to Wang Shu that she was expecting a child after her marriage to Di Jun.
• Wang Shu denied Xi He’s teasing about her and Hong Yun, then changed the subject by asking whether the little Golden Crow would be born or hatch from an egg.
• Di Jun arrived at the palace on the Sun Star, and Xi He hurried out to greet him.
• Di Jun learned that Xi He was carrying his child and excitedly celebrated the good news.