Chapter Summaries

Hong Yun proposed founding martial arts with Xuanming, who agreed to cleanse the Turbid Qi from her body and take up external cultivation. After absorbing purified Ancestral Shaman blood essence, Hong Yun began opening his acupoints and brought out Pan Gu Jade Marrow to strengthen the process.

• Hong Yun explained martial arts and proposed that he and Xuanming create its internal and external paths together.
• Hong Yun purified the Ancestral Shaman blood essence, removed its time and space laws, and decided not to forge a clone.
• Xuanming agreed to martial cultivation despite the temporary loss of strength, and Dijiang affirmed that she would remain an Ancestral Shaman.
• Hong Yun absorbed the two drops of purified blood essence, causing his qi and blood to surge and his acupoints to open.
• Hong Yun brought out Pan Gu Jade Marrow as the source of blood to continue strengthening his body.

Hong Yun refined Pan Gu Jade Marrow into his spine and advised Xuanming to use Great Dao merit to purge her Turbid Qi and awaken her Winter God Dharma Image. After Xuanming returned the awakened Winter God to Heaven and Earth, Dijiang gave Hong Yun the Witch Clan’s Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique, and Hong Yun proposed combining his softness with Xuanming’s strength.

• Hong Yun refined Pan Gu Jade Marrow into his spine, strengthening his body and reflecting that his blood essence now came from Pan Gu.
• Hong Yun advised Xuanming to expel her Turbid Qi with Great Dao merit and use the merit to awaken her Winter God Dharma Image.
• Xuanming’s power fell as the Winter God Dharma Image absorbed her Turbid Qi, then she spent her remaining merit to give it a spirit.
• The awakened Winter God thanked Xuanming and Hong Yun before dissolving into snowflakes and merging with Heaven and Earth, causing the Witch Clan’s fortune to surge.
• Dijiang gave Hong Yun the Witch Clan’s Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique, which Hong Yun recognized as a valuable reference for developing martial cultivation.
• Hong Yun told Xuanming that their cultivation method should unite his softness with her strength.

Hong Yun and Xuanming began merging their blood qi to comprehend and create the Martial Dao. Meanwhile, Zhu Jiuyin told Dijiang that he had seen Bu Zhou Mountain fall and insisted on using his Time Law again, with Dijiang agreeing to stabilize the space.

• Hong Yun and Xuanming began cultivating together inside the Earth Book Barrier as their blood qi and Martial Dao insights grew stronger.
• Zhen Yuan Zi led the others away and raised an Earth Book Barrier around Hong Yun and Xuanming.
• Dijiang visited the weakened Zhu Jiuyin in Pangu Hall and asked how he was recovering.
• Zhu Jiuyin revealed that his vision of the future showed Bu Zhou Mountain falling and asked to look again.
• Dijiang agreed to stabilize the space with his Space Law as Zhu Jiuyin activated his Time Law.

Zhu Jiuyin glimpsed possible futures in the river of time, including the Witch Clan’s destruction and another fate where the Ancestral Shamans survived, and concluded Hong Yun might be their only hope. Dijiang helped him recover and left to lead the Witch Clan, though he admitted to himself he had no plan to bind Hong Yun closer to them.

• Dijiang used the Space Law to stabilize Zhu Jiuyin as he traveled through the river of time.
• Zhu Jiuyin saw Bu Zhou Mountain fall and the Ancestral Shamans die, then saw another possibility in which they survived.
• Hong Yun appeared in the vision, and Zhu Jiuyin suspected he could be the Witch Clan’s hope before the river’s backlash hurled him out and injured him and Dijiang.
• Dijiang gave Zhu Jiuyin his share of the Great Dao’s merit and Pan Gu Jade Marrow, then told him to heal in secret at Pangu Hall.
• Dijiang left to take charge of the Witch Clan and privately admitted he had no plan to draw Hong Yun closer, despite claiming otherwise to reassure Zhu Jiuyin.

Hong Yun and Xuanming completed their martial cultivation insights, and Hong Yun outlined how martial arts could be developed and shared with the Witch Clan. After ending the Earth Book Barrier, Hong Yun planned to establish a home with Zhen Yuan Zi and investigate the opportunity involving Luohu’s treasure.

• Dijiang waited outside Hong Yun’s cultivation chamber, considering how the Witch Clan could bind Hong Yun to their cause.
• Hong Yun and Xuanming absorbed the blood-and-qi energy and discussed their newly comprehended martial arts, with Hong Yun advising Xuanming to follow external cultivation.
• Xuanming proposed teaching martial arts to young members of the Witch Clan, and Hong Yun agreed it could be offered as a secondary path.
• Hong Yun and Xuanming decided to use the Immortal Dao’s realm names and keep the Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique’s name.
• Hong Yun withdrew the Earth Book Barrier and planned to establish a home with Zhen Yuan Zi, while keeping Luohu’s treasure opportunity in mind.

Hong Yun realized Dijiang was inviting him to become the Witch Clan’s Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman because the clan faced an unstated danger, while Xuanming asked what martial cultivators should eat. Hong Yun then saw that his martial arts could drive the Witch Clan to hunt Yao Clan members for food, potentially worsening the coming Witch-Demon War.

• Hong Yun sensed a faint causal force from the West and decided to investigate before Zhun Ti could claim its source.
• Dijiang congratulated Hong Yun on creating martial cultivation and asked him to join the Witch Clan as its Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman, while Xuanming watched hopefully.
• Hong Yun noticed Dijiang’s evasiveness and suspected the Witch Clan was facing a serious problem, but Dijiang concealed his reason for the invitation.
• Xuanming asked what martial cultivators could use to nourish themselves, and Hong Yun answered that they could eat demon beast flesh or heavenly treasures.
• Hong Yun realized the Witch Clan might hunt Yao Clan members for their flesh to advance in martial cultivation, making the Witch-Demon War harder to avert.

Dijiang asked Hong Yun to join the Witch Clan as its Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman, revealing that Zhu Jiuyin had seen Hong Yun as a possible key to the clan’s survival. He offered Hong Yun powerful formations, access to Pangu Hall and the clan’s resources, but Hong Yun weighed the benefits against the Karmic Debt and danger the Witch Clan faced.

• Dijiang isolated himself with Hong Yun and urged him to join the Witch Clan, admitting that personal ties to Hou Tu and Xuanming were not enough to persuade him.
• Hong Yun deduced that Zhu Jiuyin had foreseen trouble for the Witch Clan and pressed Dijiang to explain what he had learned.
• Dijiang said Zhu Jiuyin believed Hong Yun might be the key to the Witch Clan’s survival and offered him the position of Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman.
• Dijiang promised Hong Yun control over the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Formation, a share of Pangu Hall, access to the blood pool and the clan’s resources, and warriors for a Thirteenth Tribe.
• Hong Yun considered the rewards against the Ancestral Shamans’ future Karmic Debt and the Witch Clan’s coming calamity, leaving Dijiang anxious as he hesitated.

Hong Yun accepted Dijiang's invitation to become the Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman, hoping to help change the Witch Clan's fate. He asked to use Great God Pangu's lingering Will to suppress and refine his system, and Dijiang led him into Pangu Hall.

• Hong Yun reflected on his ties to the Witch Clan and resolved to accept the title of Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman.
• Hong Yun agreed to take the title but declined to establish a tribe, and Dijiang welcomed him into the Witch Clan.
• Hong Yun asked whether Pangu Hall held a remnant of Great God Pangu's Will that could help him refine the Great Dao Karma System.
• Dijiang agreed to Hong Yun's request and led him toward Pangu Hall in Bu Zhou Mountain.

Dijiang brought Hong Yun to the Witch Clan’s blood pool so he could seek the Pan Gu Mark and become the Thirteenth Ancestral Witch. Hong Yun entered the pool, and the mark appeared before him as he began the method to awaken it.

• Dijiang revealed that the Witch Clan’s blood pool was where the Twelve Ancestral Witches had been born and said Pan Gu’s will had to mark Hong Yun’s True Spirit.
• Dijiang led Hong Yun into the blood-red world and explained how to trigger the Pan Gu Mark, then entered the pool to heal his injuries.
• Hong Yun stored his spiritual treasures in the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler before jumping into the blood pool.
• Hong Yun sank into the pool and used the Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique, but the Pan Gu Mark did not appear at first.
• A crimson whirlpool formed around Hong Yun, and a softly glowing Pan Gu Mark appeared before him.
• Hong Yun followed Dijiang’s method to guide the power of blood and qi through his body, and the Pan Gu Mark stopped moving and blazed with white light.

Hong Yun used the Pan Gu Mark and Pangu’s Will to suppress the Great Dao Karma System, which tried to escape from his primordial spirit. The Sky-Opening Axe phantom struck the system, revealing a dark figure within its orb of light.

• Hong Yun identified himself as the Witch Clan’s thirteenth Ancestral Shaman and asked the Pan Gu Mark to suppress the system.
• Pangu’s Will entered Hong Yun’s primordial spirit, and Hong Yun restrained the system as it tried to unbind itself and flee.
• A phantom of the Sky-Opening Axe appeared and pursued the system, which could not escape the sealed space.
• Hong Yun struck the system’s orb with the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, letting the axe phantom land another blow.
• Black mist poured from the orb and formed a dark, indistinct figure, confirming to Hong Yun that the system had a hidden problem.

Hong Yun confronted the weakened Karma Demon God, who revealed that he had created the system to gain Hong Yun’s trust and absorb the Primordial Wilderness’s world origin. Hong Yun rejected his temptations and used the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler to batter him, but the demon vowed to return to the Primordial Wilderness and seek revenge.

• The Karma Demon God cursed Pan Gu, then offered Hong Yun power and the Saint Position if they merged again.
• Hong Yun struck the Karma Demon God with the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, weakening him further.
• The Karma Demon God revealed that he had created the system and its benefits to win Hong Yun’s trust and take world origin.
• Hong Yun said he had never trusted the demon because he had refused to call him Master.
• The Karma Demon God, fading into a remnant, promised to return to the Primordial Wilderness and come after Hong Yun.

Hong Yun discovered that the Karma Demon God's final attack had left the Great Dao mark of Karma on his wrist, linking their fates and granting him insight into the Way of Karma. After the demon's remnant was defeated, Hong Yun found a Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation and began considering what to do with it.

• The Karma Demon God turned into a black mark and forced its way through Hong Yun's defenses, imprinting itself on his wrist.
• In the Chaos, the Karma Demon God awoke, sensed the loss of his clone and the connection to Pan Gu, then chose to continue recovering.
• Hong Yun recognized the mark as the Great Dao mark of Karma and learned it would let him sense the Karma Demon God while also revealing his location to the demon.
• Hong Yun decided to use the mark's benefits and trusted that Hongjun and Hou Tu would help stop the Karma Demon God from invading the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hong Yun found a Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation containing Karma origin power and considered what to do with it.

Hong Yun reforged the Great Dao Karma System into a divine ability fully under his control, then began absorbing the blood pool’s vital essence to strengthen his Martial Dao. As his array drained the pool, Dijiang watched in alarm and wondered whether Hong Yun’s physical strength would surpass his own.

• Hong Yun used his remaining Great Dao merit, Pangu’s bestowed creation karma, and a Jade Disc of Creation fragment to refine the Great Dao Karma System anew.
• Hong Yun changed the system to warn him about opportunities and sever karmic consequences, allowing him to obtain treasures without alerting their owners.
• Hong Yun merged the system into his soul, bowed to the Pangu Mark, and activated the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Great Array.
• The array purified the blood pool’s vital essence and drew it into Hong Yun, causing a massive whirlpool and rapidly lowering the pool’s surface.
• Dijiang emerged from the pool, protected the Witch Clan youths’ incubation with the Space Law, and watched as Hong Yun’s absorption made him worry about the pool and Hong Yun’s growing strength.

Hong Yun completed his Martial Dao Mark after tempering his body in Pangu Hall’s blood pool and gained authority over the hall. Dijiang told him that the formation concealing his new Daoist grounds had been broken, and Hong Yun prepared to investigate with Zhen Yuan Zi.

• Hong Yun absorbed the blood pool’s power until the Pan Gu Mark awakened his insights and formed the Great Dao character “Wu,” completing his Martial Dao Mark.
• Hong Yun emerged from the pool with a body comparable to an Ancestral Shaman and realized he could sense and potentially control Pangu Hall.
• Dijiang welcomed Hong Yun and concluded that he had become the Witch Clan’s Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman.
• Hong Yun asked where Zhen Yuan Zi was, and Dijiang explained that Zhen Yuan Zi had reported the formation at Hong Yun’s Daoist grounds was broken.
• Dijiang told Hong Yun that Zhen Yuan Zi had gone to inspect the site, and Hong Yun prepared to join him.

Hong Yun learned that an intruder had occupied his cultivation grounds and set out with Zhen Yuan Zi to reclaim them, suspecting the intruder might be connected to Zhun Ti. Before they departed, Dijiang revealed that Hong Yun had become the Witch Clan’s secret Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman, the Martial Ancestral Shaman.

• Hong Yun declined Dijiang’s offer of help and received a system task to reclaim his cultivation grounds, with Six Roots Pure Bamboo as the reward.
• Hong Yun suspected that the intruder might be Zhun Ti or one of his disciples and invited Hou Tu and Xuanming to accompany him.
• Zhen Yuan Zi arrived and warned Hong Yun that his home was about to be ransacked, then noticed Hong Yun’s rapid cultivation progress.
• Dijiang announced that Hong Yun was the Witch Clan’s Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman, the Martial Ancestral Shaman.
• Hong Yun and Dijiang agreed to keep Hong Yun’s new identity secret, and Hong Yun exchanged a knowing smile with Hou Tu.

Hong Yun learned from Zhen Yuan Zi that someone had broken into the blessed grotto-heaven Zhen Yuan Zi had selected as Hong Yun’s cultivation grounds. Hong Yun set out to investigate with Zhen Yuan Zi and Hou Tu, while Xuanming stayed behind to spread the martial path through the Witch Clan.

• Zhen Yuan Zi told Hong Yun that he had prepared a blessed grotto-heaven and used the Wutu Gathering Spirit Great Array to mark it as occupied.
• Zhen Yuan Zi revealed that someone had forcibly broken through the array, and Hong Yun suspected Zhun Ti of the West was involved.
• The Ancestral Shamans volunteered to accompany Hong Yun, but he declined to avoid appearing to overwhelm the intruder with the Witch Clan’s forces.
• Hong Yun chose to go with Zhen Yuan Zi and Hou Tu, while Xuanming decided to remain behind and teach the martial path to the Witch Clan.

Maitreya secretly began extracting the ley lines beneath Fire Cloud Cave to strengthen the West, while Hong Yun and his companions leisurely traveled there. On the way, Zhen Yuan Zi told Hong Yun that Di Jun, Taiyi, and Fuxi had rapidly brought countless tribes under their control.

• Maitreya used Zhun Ti's treasure to carry living beings from the East toward the West.
• Maitreya laid an array to sever and extract Fire Cloud Cave's ley lines, causing its spiritual energy to grow unstable and the land to tremble.
• Hong Yun, Zhen Yuan Zi, and their companion flew toward Fire Cloud Cave at an unhurried pace.
• Zhen Yuan Zi told Hong Yun that Di Jun, Taiyi, and Fuxi had brought countless tribes under their control over the past ten thousand years.
• Hong Yun asked whether Zhen Yuan Zi envied Di Jun's fame, and Zhen Yuan Zi said he preferred a quiet, carefree life.

Hong Yun discussed Di Jun’s Myriad Spirits Dao and its likely conflict with the Mystic Gate before rushing with Zhen Yuan Zi and Hou Tu to inspect a mountain intended as his Daoist abode. They discovered that its ley lines had been severed, and a golden hand began lifting the mountain from the earth.

• Di Jun’s Myriad Spirits Dao spread among his followers and reduced disputes while strengthening living beings of many races.
• Hong Yun warned that Di Jun’s new path threatened the Mystic Gate and might worsen conflict between the demons and the Witches.
• Hong Yun said he could not persuade Di Jun or the Witch Clan and resolved to focus on cultivation and his Daoist abode.
• Hong Yun shielded Zhen Yuan Zi and Hou Tu and sped them toward the mountain Zhen Yuan Zi had identified.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi saw that someone had severed the mountain’s ley lines as golden barriers rose around Fire Cloud Cave.
• A giant hand made of golden handprints emerged and began pulling the mountain from the ground, astonishing Hong Yun.

Maitreya tried to uproot Fire Cloud Cave, but Hong Yun appeared and froze the cave and Maitreya’s magic power. Hong Yun turned to confront him while Zhen Yuan Zi and Hou Tu inspected the damaged grotto.

• Maitreya began carefully extracting Fire Cloud Cave, hoping to take it back to the West and earn merit.
• Fire Cloud Cave stopped in midair, and the golden palm Maitreya controlled shattered into fragments of light.
• Maitreya’s magic power fell silent and slipped beyond his control, so he called out and invoked Daoist Zhun Ti as his teacher.
• Hong Yun appeared before Maitreya while Zhen Yuan Zi and Hou Tu entered Fire Cloud Cave to inspect it.
• Hong Yun regretted the damage to Fire Cloud Cave, then turned toward Maitreya with a cold gaze.

Hong Yun confronted Maitreya for uprooting his mountain, while Maitreya tried to deny responsibility and justify moving it to the West. Zhen Yuan Zi confirmed the damage Maitreya had caused, and Hou Tu stayed behind to care for the injured inhabitants.

• Maitreya introduced himself and said Zhun Ti was his teacher, prompting Hong Yun to reveal that Zhun Ti owed him a karmic debt.
• Hong Yun pressured Maitreya with his aura and accused him of destroying his home, leaving Maitreya unable to move and coughing up blood.
• Maitreya claimed he had not known the cave was owned and said he had wanted to move the mountain to the West to shelter its inhabitants.
• Zhen Yuan Zi reported that Maitreya had severed the ley lines and injured the mountain's inhabitants, rejecting his excuse.
• Hou Tu remained in the mountain to tend to the injured living beings.