Chapter Summaries

Xuande revealed his Three Lotuses Transforming into the Dao technique and used its three incarnations alongside his original body to challenge Tongtian’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. The four bodies occupied the formation’s four sword positions and began countering its powers, leaving Tongtian and the watching Houtu, Nuwa, and Hongjun focused on the unfolding contest.

• Tongtian established the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and warned Xuande that it could not be broken without four Saints.
• Xuande declined to withdraw and manifested his Destruction Body, Purification Body, and Merit Body from the three Great Dao origin essences.
• Xuande named the technique Three Lotuses Transforming into the Dao, impressing Jieyin, Zhunti, Laozi, and Yuanshi.
• Xuande’s original body entered the position guarded by the Immortal Slaying Sword, while his three incarnations entered the positions guarded by the other swords.
• Xuande’s four bodies countered the four sword powers with complementary Great Dao laws, making the formation shudder and its operation hitch.
• Tongtian watched the struggle through the formation, while Houtu, Nuwa, and Hongjun continued observing Xuande’s four bodies.

Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti fought Tongtian, Laozi, and Yuanshi across three battlefields in Chaos, with each clash settling into a hard-fought balance. Houtu watched the battles and was especially astonished by Xuande's ability to challenge the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation alone.

• Xuande split into four bodies with the Three Lotuses Dao Transformation Divine Ability and entered all four gates of Tongtian's Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Jieyin used three Innate Five Directions Banners and the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud to defend against Laozi while his nirvana lotus platform clashed with the Taiji Diagram.
• Zhunti empowered the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree with the Thirty-Six Heavens and attacked Yuanshi, who countered with the Pangu Banner and Yuqing Divine Thunder.
• Xuande and Tongtian's battle intensified as Xuande's four bodies began suppressing the sword formation, while Zhunti and Yuanshi continued their direct clash.
• Houtu watched the three balanced battlefields and marveled at Xuande's feat and Jieyin's formidable defenses.

As Houtu and Nuwa watched the six Hunyuan clash, Hongjun assessed how each of their Great Daos might threaten the Heavenly Dao and judged Xuande the greatest concern. Xuande then used his four bodies and Three Colors Evolving Ten Thousand Daos to seize all four Immortal Slaying Swords, breaking Tongtian’s formation as Tongtian’s fighting spirit burned on.

• Houtu and Nuwa observed the six Hunyuan’s battles, while Nuwa studied Xuande’s Three Lotuses Dao and its relation to her Creation Dao.
• Hongjun examined the six Hunyuan’s techniques and concluded that Xuande’s self-contained Great Dao and Great Dao Blessing made him the greatest threat to the Heavenly Dao.
• Xuande entered the Immortal Slaying Space and used Three Colors Evolving Ten Thousand Daos to subdue and claim the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Xuande’s destruction avatar absorbed the Slaughtering Immortal Sword’s baleful intent through the God-Slaying Spear and claimed the sword.
• Xuande’s purification avatar sealed the Trapping Immortal Sword, while his merit avatar used the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler to suppress and claim the Absolute Immortal Sword.
• With all four swords taken, the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation collapsed, and Tongtian sensed their loss but remained fiercely determined.

The duels in Chaos ended as Xuande defeated Tongtian in a sword contest, while Laozi and Zhunti overcame Jieyin and Yuanshi through their respective Dao techniques. The victors returned their opponents’ treasures, and each defeated cultivator accepted the result while resolving to improve before meeting again.

• Tongtian and Xuande clashed with the Azure Firmament Sword and Three-Colored Dharma Sword until Xuande’s three Great Daos overcame Tongtian’s Heaven-Slicing Dao.
• Tongtian conceded, and Xuande returned the Immortal Slaying Four Swords to him; Tongtian promised to train and challenge Xuande again.
• Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to evolve Yin-Yang into the Four Symbols, Bagua, and all things, infiltrating Jieyin’s defenses until Jieyin conceded.
• Laozi suggested that Jieyin’s Nirvana Dao could become stronger through rebirth after nirvana, giving Jieyin a new direction to consider.
• Zhunti’s Thirty-Six Heavens continually changed their laws and supplied inexhaustible power, eventually letting the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree break through Yuanshi’s defense.
• Yuanshi conceded to Zhunti but said he would study the heavens’ cycles to find a way to counter them.

After the Western Sect won the three contests and claimed the Creation Azure Lotus, Xuande returned to Mount Sumeru and began a long seclusion to incorporate it into his Three Lotuses Dao. Jieyin and Zhunti stayed behind to guard the Western Sect as Xuande’s refinement began.

• Houtu and Nuwa confirmed the Western Sect’s victory and awarded the Creation Azure Lotus to Xuande, while Hongjun silently accepted the outcome.
• The Three Pure Ones conceded and departed for Kunlun Mountain, and Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti returned openly to Buzhou Mountain as the Primordial Wilderness learned of their victory.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti removed the remaining restriction around the stone shrine, and Xuande took the Creation Azure Lotus and sealed its aura.
• Xuande returned to Mount Sumeru, received congratulations from the Western Sect’s disciples, and entered Brahma Sound Cave to begin refining the lotus.
• Jieyin and Zhunti placed a protective barrier around Brahma Sound Cave and remained on Mount Sumeru to guard the Western Sect.

Chi You inherited Houtu's blood essence and became the Witch Clan's thirteenth Ancestral Witch, allowing the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Formation to summon a stronger Pangu True Body. Meanwhile, Taiyi advanced his comprehension of the Chaos Bell and approached the threshold of proving the Dao with strength, but still awaited an opportunity to take the final step.

• Chi You endured Houtu's Ancestral Witch Blood Essence and transformed into the Witch Clan's thirteenth Ancestral Witch.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches welcomed Chi You, who pledged to defend the Witch Clan and carry on Houtu's will.
• Dijiang led the twelve Ancestral Witches in activating the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiends Formation, which formed a more solid Pangu True Body with Chi You occupying Houtu's reincarnation position.
• The Ancestral Witches drilled with the formation, and Chi You resolved to improve his mastery of the Reincarnation Law.
• Taiyi comprehended the Law of Power within the Chaos Bell until his cultivation reached the threshold of Hunyuan.
• Taiyi concluded that he needed an opportunity to unleash his own decisive axe stroke before he could prove the Dao with strength.

Dijun searched for the ownerless Primordial Violet Qi while Taiyi advanced toward proving the Dao with strength, and Hongjun summoned them to Zixiao Palace to guide their cultivation. After teaching them how to pursue their respective paths, Hongjun proposed that Haotian and Yaochi join the Heavenly Court to help with its administration.

• Dijun searched the Primordial Wilderness for the Primordial Violet Qi as his obsession corpse began to loosen, while Taiyi reached peak quasi-saint in seclusion.
• Hongjun opened a passage to Zixiao Palace, and Dijun and Taiyi entered together.
• Hongjun told Taiyi that mastering the momentum of heaven and earth would help him find the opportunity to prove the Dao with strength.
• Hongjun told Dijun to sense the Heavenly Dao's breathing rather than search for the Primordial Violet Qi with divine sense, and explained that clearing the noise in his will would help him sever his obsession corpse.
• Hongjun proposed that Haotian and Yaochi take posts in the Heavenly Court to assist with its administrative duties.

Dijun and Taiyi accepted Hongjun’s attendants Haotian and Yaochi into the Heavenly Court, giving them civil and diplomatic offices while reserving military power for the Demon Clan’s rulers. After the appointments spread, the Demon Marshals rebelled against being ranked below the newcomers, and Bai Ze arrived to stop them.

• Dijun accepted Hongjun’s proposal and asked Haotian and Yaochi to define their offices, while Taiyi declared that military command would remain with him and Dijun.
• Haotian took charge of the Palace of Governance, and Yaochi took charge of the Palace of Rites, both ranking above the Ten Great Demon Marshals.
• Dijun formally appointed Haotian and Yaochi, who transformed into imposing full deity forms and accepted their new positions.
• News of the appointments spread through the Thirty-Three Heavens, and nine Demon Marshals gathered to protest their new rank beneath Haotian and Yaochi.
• As the Demon Marshals prepared to confront Dijun, Bai Ze entered the hall and ordered them to stop.

Bai Ze persuaded the demon marshals to accept Haotian and Yaochi’s civil appointments while the Heavenly Court kept military authority under Dijun and Taiyi. Chi You then destroyed a Demon Clan outpost, triggering a full Witch-Demon war, and Dijun ordered the Great Array of the Stars activated as both sides prepared for battle.

• Bai Ze explained that Haotian and Yaochi’s appointment connected the Heavenly Court to Dao Ancestor Hongjun and did not threaten the demon marshals’ military authority.
• Haotian organized the Heavenly Court’s civil administration, while Yaochi revised its ceremonial regulations and the demon marshals accepted their roles.
• Chi You led Houtu Tribe greater witches to a Demon Clan outpost and destroyed it with one punch, openly declaring war.
• Dijiang ordered the Witch Clan to war, and the Ancestral Witches rallied hundreds of thousands of greater witches at Buzhou Mountain.
• Dijun ordered the Demon Clan to meet the Witch Clan head-on and assigned its forces to activate the Great Array of the Stars.
• Taiyi sounded the Chaos Bell as the Star Lords took their positions and the Great Array of the Stars illuminated the Primordial Wilderness.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court unleashed their greatest formations against each other before Buzhou Mountain, with neither side gaining the upper hand. As the battle continued, powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness watched or prepared to remain neutral, while Xuande stayed unaware in seclusion refining the Creation Azure Lotus.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Pangu True Body, which struck the Great Array of the Stars, but Taiyi used the Chaos Bell and the stellar web to withstand most of the blow.
• Dijun attacked the Pangu Phantom with Solar True Fire, and Chi You replenished its wounds with reincarnation fiendish qi as Gonggong and Zhurong launched a combined water-and-fire assault.
• Taiyi counterattacked with the Chaos Bell, while the Ancestral Witches coordinated their powers to shift, protect, and restore the Pangu Phantom; the Ten Great Demon Marshals, Haotian, and Yaochi supported the Heavenly Court's defenses and logistics.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian watched from Kunlun Mountain, while Nuwa observed from Wa Huang Palace and Houtu watched Chi You from the Underworld without being able to leave.
• Jieyin and Zhunti chose to keep the Western Sect neutral, and Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun protected Wuzhuang Temple while hoping the fighting would end soon.
• Xuande continued refining the Creation Azure Lotus in Brahma Sound Cave, unaware of the full outbreak of the Witch-Demon Tribulation.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches burned their blood essence to summon the Pangu Axe Phantom, forcing the Great Array of the Stars to face an attack that could cleave laws themselves. The Three Pure Ones suppressed their treasures rather than join the battle, while Dijun and Taiyi prepared to defend the array as the axe began to fall.

• Gonggong urged the Twelve Ancestral Witches to burn their blood essence and summon the Pangu Axe Phantom, and Dijiang agreed after Chi You vowed not to retreat.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches ignited their blood essence and summoned the Pangu Axe Phantom from the River of Time.
• The Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Chaos Bell resonated with the phantom, but Laozi, Yuanshi, and Taiyi each suppressed their treasure to keep it from answering the call.
• Yuanshi told Tongtian that the Three Pure Ones would remain neutral, warning that reuniting the three treasures could bring down Buzhou Mountain and devastate the Primordial Wilderness.
• Dijun ordered the Star Lords to concentrate the array's power at the front, while Taiyi raised the Chaos Bell to protect its core.
• The Pangu Phantom began to bring down the axe, imposing the law of division upon the Great Array of the Stars.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches shattered the Great Array of the Stars with three Pangu Axe strikes, leaving Dijun and Taiyi exposed to a killing blow. Just as the fourth strike descended, Hongjun appeared and stopped it, bringing the battlefield to a standstill.

• Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, Changxi, Xihe, and the Star Lords held back the Pangu Axe Phantom's first blow, but the array suffered heavy damage.
• The Pangu Phantom struck the array's flank with its palm and followed with two axe blows, breaking its main load-bearing axis and destroying the Great Array of the Stars.
• Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, Changxi, and Xihe were left gravely injured as the Twelve Ancestral Witches prepared a fourth strike aimed at Dijun and Taiyi.
• Hongjun appeared between the axe blade and the Sun Star formation core, dissolved the blade's law of division, and halted the strike.

Xuande intervened to protect the Twelve Ancestral Witches when Hongjun began dismantling their formation, forcing Hongjun to impose a three-Kalpa truce between the Witch and Demon Clans. After Hongjun departed, both clans withdrew to recover, and Xuande accompanied the Witches toward Buzhou Mountain.

• Hongjun dispersed the Pangu Axe Phantom and prepared to dismantle the Dutian Divine Fiends Formation before Xuande arrived and shielded it with his lotus platform.
• Xuande stood against Hongjun, who warned that obstructing the Heavenly Dao had incurred karma and then decreed that neither clan could renew hostilities for three Kalpas.
• Dijiang protested that the truce favored the wounded Demon Clan, while Hongjun argued that both clans were necessary to maintain balance in the Primordial Wilderness.
• Xuande accepted that the Witch Clan would not initiate hostilities but demanded equal Heavenly Dao punishment if the Demon Clan broke the truce; Hongjun then vanished.
• Dijun ordered the Demon Clan to withdraw, while Dijiang led the exhausted Witches back toward Pangu Hall.
• Xuande helped Chi You to his feet and followed the Twelve Ancestral Witches toward Buzhou Mountain.

Xuande confronted Hongjun to protect the Twelve Ancestral Witches and preserve the Dutian Divine Fiends Formation, accepting that the Heavenly Dao recorded karma against him. Across the Primordial Wilderness, allies and rivals recognized his resolve and the Western Sect’s rising standing, while Houtu vowed to repay his kindness.

• Xuande stood between Hongjun and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, shielding the Dutian Divine Fiends Formation and promising that the Witch Clan would not initiate war for three kalpas.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian discussed Xuande’s courage and resolve, with Tongtian admitting he might not have dared defy Hongjun himself.
• Nuwa watched from Wa Huang Palace as Fuxi explained why she could not intervene, and she promised Wa Huang Palace would help Xuande if he needed it in the future.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed that Xuande had upheld the Western Sect’s Way of Merit and raised its prestige, though Hongjun’s recorded karma could threaten Xuande’s future attempt to attain Hunyuan Wuji.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun praised Xuande for protecting the Witch Clan and raising the Western Sect’s standing, while Houtu wept with gratitude and resolved to repay him.

Xuande proposed that Houtu create a domain within the Six Paths of Reincarnation where Witch Clan members could serve as guardians and persist as divine office holders after death. Houtu confirmed the plan was feasible and agreed to establish it, while Xuande returned to Buzhou Mountain to inform Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches.

• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches thanked Xuande for saving them from Hongjun, and Xuande warned that the Witch Clan needed a secure way out before the next war.
• Xuande went to the Underworld and told Houtu that the Witch Clan’s lack of reincarnation made its battle losses irreversible.
• Xuande proposed binding living Witch Clan members to reincarnation law so they could return as guardians after death without entering reincarnation.
• Houtu deduced that she could create an independent domain for Witch Clan divine office holders, who would retain their memories and cultivation as Dharma Bodies after death.
• Houtu explained that the contracts required loyalty to the Underworld, only suited Witch Clan members at least at the Heavenly Immortal level, and could initially accommodate three thousand; she proposed selecting two hundred and fifty from each of her twelve elder brothers’ ranks.
• Houtu said she would open the domain in the depths of reincarnation, and Xuande departed to convey her proposal to Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches.

Xuande brought Houtu’s proposal for reincarnation contracts to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who selected three thousand elite warriors and formed them into the Reincarnation Guard. The warriors arrived in the Underworld, where Houtu welcomed them as the new domain of the Six Paths of Reincarnation took shape.

• Xuande told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that three thousand Heavenly Immortal-level witches could sign Reincarnation Law contracts and continue serving in the Underworld after death.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches selected two hundred and fifty warriors from each of the thirteen tribes, while Xuande explained that the Ancestral Witches themselves could not safely sign the contracts.
• Chi You proposed forming the selected warriors into the Reincarnation Guard, with Kuafu and Hou Yi as acting commanders, and Dijiang approved the plan.
• The thirteen tribes chose their elites, and three thousand Greater Witches assembled before Pangu Hall three days later.
• Xuande led the three thousand warriors through a passage into the Underworld, with Kuafu and Hou Yi at their head.
• Houtu welcomed the warriors before the Reincarnation Disk and told them to rise.

Houtu branded three thousand witches as Reincarnation Guards and determined that the Six Paths of Reincarnation could sustain up to eighteen thousand. Xuande reported the limit to the Ancestral Witches, accepted their offer to become a Guest Elder, and left as the tribes began selecting more guards.

• Houtu engraved Reincarnation Marks on three thousand witches, including Kuafu and Hou Yi, and established a camp for them in the Underworld.
• Houtu calculated that the Six Paths of Reincarnation could support eighteen thousand Reincarnation Guards and told Xuande to inform Dijiang.
• Xuande returned to Buzhou Mountain and reported the limit, prompting Dijiang to order the tribes to select another fifteen thousand elites within seven days.
• Dijiang invited Xuande to become the Witch Clan's first outsider Guest Elder, and Xuande accepted while promising the Western Sect would shelter the Witch Clan.
• Dijiang escorted Xuande from Pangu Hall as the tribes began selecting candidates under Zhujiuyin's Law of Time.

Xuande returned to Mount Sumeru and entered seclusion to stabilize his Four Symbols Cycle, while Taiyi also sealed himself away to pursue Hunyuan. As Dijun and Changxi recovered together, Changxi gave birth to ten Golden Crow princes, who hatched beneath the Fusang Tree and received their names from Dijun.

• Xuande returned to Mount Sumeru, discussed his unstable Four Symbols Cycle with Jieyin and Zhunti, and entered seclusion in Brahma Sound Cave.
• Taiyi reviewed his clash with the Pangu Axe Phantom and vowed to remain in seclusion until he attained Hunyuan, while Dijun promised to guard the Heavenly Court.
• Dijun and Changxi blended their sun and Taiyin origins as they recovered, and Changxi discovered that she was carrying ten lives.
• Changxi nurtured the ten Golden Crow eggs to maturity and gave birth to them, and Dijun placed them on the Fusang Tree to absorb Solar True Fire.
• The ten Golden Crow princes hatched together, and Dijun named them Bo Huang, Zhong Lang, Shu Kun, Ji Wen, Shao Xun, You Ying, Shu Jing, Ji Yan, Shao Cong, and You Wan.

Dijun and Changxi secretly settled their ten Golden Crow children on the Fusang Tree to protect them from danger. Meanwhile, the Kongtong Seal emerged at Shouyang Mountain, drawing powerful figures whose arrival left the Three Ancestors of the Human Race preparing to determine its fate.

• Kunpeng persuaded Dijun to cancel the public celebration and hide the ten Golden Crows on the Sun Star, and Changxi agreed with the plan.
• Dijun and Changxi placed the ten Golden Crows on the Fusang Tree and shielded them with sun restrictions and a Taiyin Perception Barrier.
• The Kongtong Seal emerged from Shouyang Mountain, and Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Witch Clan representatives, and Kunpeng set out to witness its appearance.
• Dijun sent Kunpeng to Shouyang Mountain with ten Fusang leaves as a gift to express the Demon Clan's goodwill toward the Human Race.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi prepared to receive the arriving powers, while Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian arrived and declared that they would witness the ceremony without claiming the seal.

Nuwa and the other factions attended the Human Race’s ceremony as the Kongtong Seal chose Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi. Nuwa refused their request to take charge of the seal, telling them to guard their own fortune and forge their own destiny, then departed for Wa Huang Palace.

• Nuwa blessed the Human Race, while Jieyin and Zhunti conveyed Xuande’s regards; Goumang and Xuanming presented a protective talisman, and Kunpeng brought ten Fusang leaves on behalf of the Demon Clan Heavenly Court.
• The Kongtong Seal flew to Suiren Shi, and Youchao Shi and Ziyi Shi placed their hands over his as the Human Race’s fortune returned to its own keepers.
• Suiren Shi and the other two Ancestors knelt and asked Nuwa to take charge of the Kongtong Seal, but she told them the Human Race must hold its own fortune and walk its own road.
• Suiren Shi accepted Nuwa’s teaching, and she blessed the Three Ancestors with Creation Power.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, Goumang, Xuanming, and Kunpeng each offered words or support before departing Shouyang Mountain.
• Nuwa entrusted the Human Race’s affairs to the Three Ancestors and flew into Chaos toward Wa Huang Palace.