Chapter Summaries

Ling Tian feigned fury when Hongjun intervened to protect Di Jun and Tai Yi, then defied the Heavenly Dao and demanded compensation. Hongjun backed down and asked Ling Tian to name his price, while the onlookers marveled at the Dao Ancestor’s retreat.

• Hongjun manifested as the Eye of Heavenly Dao and ordered Ling Tian to release Di Jun and Tai Yi.
• Ling Tian protested that the two had invaded the Immortal Court and declared he would rather die than let them go.
• Ling Tian challenged Hongjun to kill him unless he gave an explanation, shocking the Primordial World Beings and confusing Tai Yi about whether the threat was an act.
• Hongjun refrained from attacking and asked Ling Tian what it would take to release Di Jun and Tai Yi.

Ling Tian extorted five Heavenly Dao Origins from Hongjun by pretending to threaten Di Jun and Tai Yi, then released the Demon Clan from the Earth Realm. As he prepared to leave with Kun Peng, someone urgently called for him to wait.

• Ling Tian demanded the Thirty-three Heavens and the Myriad Stars Great Array, but Tai Yi rejected both demands, prompting Hongjun to ask for another condition.
• Ling Tian demanded Heavenly Dao Origins, and he and Hongjun haggled until they agreed on five.
• Hongjun took Di Jun and Tai Yi away after handing over the five origins, and Ling Tian told Zhenyuanzi to remove the Earth Realm.
• Ling Tian considered his rewards, including the Chaos Heaven Mending Art, five Heavenly Dao Origins, and a wisp of Di Jun and Tai Yi's souls, and realized he could influence both the Witch Clan and the Demon Clan.
• Ling Tian set off with Kun Peng, but a hurried voice called out to him to wait.

Ling Tian told Di Jiang that neither the Witch Clan nor the Demon Race could win the Witch and Demon Tribulation, while assuring him the Witch bloodline would survive as long as Houtu stayed with him. After sending the Ancestral Shamans away, Ling Tian returned to the Nine Netherworld and sensed his true self was about to break through.

• The Eleven Ancestral Shamans appeared, and Ling Tian brought them to the Immortal Court to meet with Kun Peng and the others.
• Di Jiang called Ling Tian the Witch Clan's Old Ancestor and asked why Houtu was absent; Kun Peng was shocked by the revelation.
• Ling Tian told Di Jiang that the Witch and Demon Tribulation would end with neither clan victorious, and warned the Ancestral Shamans to keep their conversation secret.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Shamans left, and Ling Tian took Kun Peng and the others to the rapidly developing Nine Netherworld.
• Ling Tian sensed that his true self was about to break through.

After advancing his Yin-Yang Law comprehension, Ling Tian refined the second layer of the Yin Yang World Suppressing Cauldron and discovered a Remnant Soul hidden inside. The Remnant Soul revealed that he had once been the Yin Yang Great World's World Lord, but now Ling Tian held power over his life and death.

• Ling Tian consumed forty-nine strands of the Yin-Yang Law Origin and advanced to the middle stage of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Worried that Hongjun might grow stronger after the Witch and Demon Tribulation, Ling Tian began refining the second layer of the Yin Yang World Suppressing Cauldron.
• After completing the refinement, Ling Tian found eighty-one strands of the Yin-Yang Law Origin and collected them.
• Ling Tian detected a Remnant Soul hidden in the cauldron and called it out.
• The Remnant Soul recognized Ling Tian's cultivation and asked about his world, while Ling Tian guessed he was the fallen World Lord of the Yin Yang Great World.
• The Remnant Soul admitted he had become the cauldron's spirit, leaving his fate in Ling Tian's hands.

Ling Tian forced Yin Yang Yu to submit, then repaired his remnant soul with Life Law Power and revealed that he had comprehended more than a hundred Laws. Yin Yang Yu suspected Ling Tian came from the legendary Only True Realm, while the cauldron’s aura drew the attention of Yang Tianzi and Yin Empress.

• Yin Yang Yu gave up resisting and acknowledged Ling Tian as his master.
• Ling Tian used Life Law Power to strengthen Yin Yang Yu’s remnant soul, startling him with proof that Ling Tian had comprehended a supreme Law.
• Yin Yang Yu explained that beings in Hong Meng were generally limited to one Law, but Ling Tian manifested more than a hundred Laws.
• Yin Yang Yu described the legendary Only True Realm and wondered whether Ling Tian’s world was that realm; Ling Tian worried that Hong Huang could become a target if discovered.
• The Yin Yang World Suppressing Cauldron leaked its aura after Ling Tian refined its second layer, and Yang Tianzi and Yin Empress sensed it.

Ling Tian learned that refining the Yin Yang World Suppressing Cauldron had alerted the Yin Empress and Yang Tianzi, who were searching for the Primordial World in Hongmeng. After discussing Hongmeng with Yin Yang Yu, Ling Tian realized the world could still be exposed and that danger remained.

• The Yin Empress and Yang Tianzi sensed the cauldron's aura and narrowed the Primordial World's location to a small region, but failed to pinpoint it.
• Ling Tian decided to deal with Hongjun before venturing into the unknown Hongmeng and reassured Yin Yang Yu that the Primordial World was safe for now.
• Yin Yang Yu feared that the Yin Empress and Yang Tianzi had arrived outside the Primordial World, and Ling Tian realized the cauldron's aura had drawn them there.
• Ling Tian concluded that the Primordial World had not yet been located and that stopping his refinement of the cauldron would keep it safe for the moment.
• Ling Tian and Yin Yang Yu discussed Hongmeng's ranks and powers, and Ling Tian's expression changed as he realized the Primordial World could still be exposed.

Ling Tian realized that Buzhou Mountain was rotting and chose to use the Chaos Heaven Mending Art to repair it before Gong Gong could destroy it. Years later, he gathered the Phoenix Clan’s experts, Nuwa, and Tongtian to explain the threat from the Yin Yang Great World, leaving them intrigued but still unsure how it endangered Hong Huang.

• Ling Tian recalled that Buzhou Mountain would collapse when Gong Gong struck it and concluded that the mountain’s rot, not Gong Gong, was the key danger.
• The system offered Ling Tian a choice to repair Buzhou Mountain with the Chaos Heaven Mending Art or do nothing, and he chose to repair it.
• Ling Tian summoned the immortals, prompting Nuwa and Tongtian to travel to the Southern Ming Undying Volcano as the Phoenix Clan’s elites emerged from seclusion.
• Years later, Ling Tian gathered the assembled experts, whose cultivation had advanced greatly, and warned that failure in their coming task could destroy the Primordial World.
• Ling Tian explained the threat posed by the Yin Yang Great World, and the experts became excited by the prospect of the primordial cosmos but remained confused about its connection to Hong Huang’s crisis.

Ling Tian warned the Great Experts that Buzhou Mountain was on the verge of collapse and laid out a plan to repair it and keep the Primordial World's sky standing. After assigning everyone their tasks, he headed to Buzhou Mountain to begin setting up an array to protect the world.

• Ling Tian told Yuanfeng and the other Great Experts that Buzhou Mountain had grown rotten and could no longer bear the heavens alone.
• Ling Tian proposed replenishing Buzhou Mountain with Five-Colored Divine Stones and using the North Sea Black Tortoise's four legs as the Four Extreme Heavenly Pillars.
• Ling Tian produced the Qian Kun Cauldron and jade slips containing the methods for refining the stones and repairing the heavens, along with locations for the necessary materials and the tortoise.
• Ling Tian assigned the Golden Phoenix King and the Phoenix elders to gather Five-Colored Soil, Yuanfeng, Qing Luan, and Nuwa to refine the stones, Tongtian and Great Peng to capture the North Sea Black Tortoise, and Kong Xuan to survey Buzhou Mountain's spiritual energy nodes.
• The Great Experts set off to carry out their duties, while Ling Tian went to Buzhou Mountain to begin setting up the array.

Ling Tian’s group forged 129,601 Five-Colored Divine Stones to help repair Buzhou Mountain, and Ling Tian kept one for the future Journey to the West calamity. Tongtian and Great Peng found the North Sea Black Tortoise, and Great Peng began testing its formidable defenses in battle.

• Nuwa and the other Great Experts forged 129,601 Five-Colored Divine Stones with Yuanfeng’s Nirvana True Fire, and Ling Tian kept one aside.
• Tongtian and Great Peng found the North Sea Black Tortoise after searching the North Sea for years.
• Tongtian told the wary North Sea Black Tortoise about an important opportunity, but it refused and threatened them.
• Great Peng asked to fight the North Sea Black Tortoise first, and Tongtian agreed as long as he did not kill it.
• The North Sea Black Tortoise attacked with a powerful water column, but Great Peng’s Yin Yang Sword shattered it and struck the tortoise’s shell.
• The North Sea Black Tortoise’s defenses held against Great Peng’s attack, and Great Peng grew more eager to continue fighting.

Great Peng and Tongtian tried to recruit the North Sea Black Tortoise by asking for his limbs to be made into the Four Extreme Heavenly Pillars. After the tortoise refused, Great Peng unleashed the Yin Yang Grinding Disc, and the terrified tortoise surrendered.

• Great Peng relentlessly struck the North Sea Black Tortoise’s shell until the tortoise begged him to stop and hear their proposal.
• Great Peng explained that they needed the tortoise’s four limbs to make the Four Extreme Heavenly Pillars, and the tortoise angrily withdrew into his shell.
• Tongtian offered to handle the tortoise, but Great Peng stopped him and formed his Yin Yang Grinding Disc from his innate Yin-Yang Qi.
• Great Peng sent the grinding disc toward the North Sea Black Tortoise, who quickly surrendered and agreed to give up his limbs.
• Great Peng halted the disc and asked if the tortoise was sure, while the frightened tortoise reaffirmed his surrender.

Ling Tian organized the effort to repair Buzhou Mountain and establish a Heaven Sustaining Array, while the mountain’s pressure began rising dramatically. Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches rushed to rescue the Witch Clan members pinned on its slopes, but the final surge crushed them into clouds of blood.

• Kong Xuan returned with a detailed map of the spiritual energy nodes, completing the preparations for Ling Tian’s plan.
• Ling Tian assigned Nuwa to repair Buzhou Mountain with the Five-Colored Divine Stone and Kong Xuan to set up the Heaven Sustaining Array using the Four Extreme Heavenly Pillars and Buzhou Mountain.
• As the repair operation began, Buzhou Mountain’s pressure increased in repeated surges, pinning the Witches who were training on its slopes.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches noticed the trapped Witches and rushed to rescue them, while Zhu Rong mistakenly praised their diligence.
• Buzhou Mountain’s pressure surged again, and the Witches on the mountain burst into clouds of blood.

Di Jiang rescued the Witch Clan members from Buzhou Mountain after its pressure suddenly surged, while Kong Xuan and Great Peng completed the Four Extreme Heavenly Pillars and activated a vast protective formation. Ling Tian’s plan succeeded in reinforcing the Primordial World’s Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, leaving the world safer as the group prepared to enjoy the results.

• Di Jiang pulled the collapsing Witch Clan members off Buzhou Mountain and ordered them treated in the blood pool, then heard the mountain’s pressure surge again.
• Yuanfeng told Kong Xuan that the 129,600 Five-Colored Divine Stones had been refined into Buzhou Mountain, and Kong Xuan used the Five-Colored Divine Light to activate the prepared formation bases.
• Great Peng summoned four enormous pillars made from the North Sea Black Tortoise’s limbs, and the Four Extreme Heavenly Pillars took shape around Buzhou Mountain.
• Hongjun realized Ling Tian was behind the construction and tried to intervene, but the Heavenly Dao consciousness stopped him.
• Kong Xuan activated the formation linking Buzhou Mountain and the Four Extreme Heavenly Pillars, spreading black-and-yellow light across the sky.
• The formation strengthened the Primordial World’s Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, completing Ling Tian’s plan.

After the Heaven Sustaining Array was completed, the Eye of the Great Dao appeared and gathered an unprecedented cloud of Great Dao Merit. The merit began descending toward Ling Tian and the others, leaving Hongjun unable to interfere.

• Kong Xuan announced that the formation was complete, and Ling Tian and the other Great Experts praised him.
• Ling Tian sensed that their reward had arrived as wondrous phenomena filled the sky and the Eye of the Great Dao appeared.
• Yuanfeng and the Primordial World Beings, including Laozi, Yuanshi, Zunti, and Jieyin, were shocked to witness the legendary eye.
• Hongjun realized the Phoenix Clan had drawn down Great Dao Merit rather than Heavenly Dao Merit and hoped it would be divided too thinly to matter.
• The Great Dao Merit cloud grew to nearly three times the amount bestowed when Nuwa created humans, then split into countless streams and descended.
• Ling Tian told everyone to focus their minds and absorb the merit.

After the merit from repairing Buzhou Mountain transformed the Phoenix Clan, five more cultivators broke through to the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage, making the clan the Primordial World's strongest power. Faced with the Phoenix Clan's rise, Hongjun decided to accelerate the Witch and Demon Tribulation.

• The Phoenix Clan Great Experts absorbed the merit, with Ling Tian receiving the largest share, and returned to the Southern Ming Undying Volcano.
• Within a hundred years, dozens of Phoenix Clan members approached the Ninth Grade Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage, and nearly ten more advanced to the Primordial Golden Immortal stage over the following millennium.
• Golden Phoenix King reached the Perfected Primordial Golden Immortal stage, while Qing Luan broke through to become a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Kong Xuan and Great Peng broke through, followed by Nuwa and Tongtian, bringing the Phoenix Clan's total to seven Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• The Witch and Demon Races lost morale, the four Saints grew grim, and Hongjun ordered that the Witch and Demon Tribulation be accelerated.

The North Sea Black Tortoise transformed into the Mystic Tortoise Daoist and joined the Phoenix Clan as an honored guest, while Ling Tian returned to cultivation. Ten thousand years later, the Golden Crow Crown Princes were born, and Hongjun moved to accelerate the Witch and Demon Tribulation by ordering Zunti and Jieyin to reveal the Witch-Slaying Sword to the Demon Court.

• After refining Great Dao Merit, the North Sea Black Tortoise broke through his transformation barrier and became the Mystic Tortoise Daoist.
• The Mystic Tortoise Daoist thanked Ling Tian, who welcomed him as the Phoenix Clan's third honored guest, and Great Peng escorted him to a cave dwelling.
• Ling Tian resumed seclusion with a Yin-Yang Law Origin and Great Dao Merit, unaware that repairing Buzhou Mountain had prompted Hongjun to accelerate the Witch and Demon Tribulation.
• Ten thousand years later, the ten Golden Crow Crown Princes were born, and Di Jun and Tai Yi celebrated at the Demon Court.
• Hongjun resolved to reveal the Witch-Slaying Sword secret to hasten the tribulation and diminish the Human Race's fortune, then ordered Zunti and Jieyin to carry out the plan.
• Despite expecting a hostile reception from Di Jun and Tai Yi, Zunti and Jieyin obeyed Hongjun and flew toward the Demon Court.

Zunti and Jieyin entered the Demon Court on Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s orders and revealed the Witch-Slaying Sword as a way to pierce the Witch Clan’s bodies. Di Jun and the other Demon Court leaders heard the demonstration and were left to decide whether the method was genuine.

• Di Jun initially ordered Zunti and Jieyin turned away, but admitted them after Zunti claimed they had a way to defeat the Witch Clan.
• Zunti demanded that Di Jun and Tai Yi kneel to receive Hongjun’s decree, prompting the Demon Court to ready its spirit treasures and array for battle.
• Jieyin calmed the confrontation and explained that Hongjun had sent them to help the Demon Court win the Witch and Demon Great War.
• Jieyin presented a Human and a Witch, then used a postnatal low-grade spirit treasure sword bearing a Human Remnant Soul to pierce the Witch General.
• Di Jun questioned whether the Witch-Slaying Sword truly worked, and Jieyin invited the Demon Court to test it.

After the Demon Clan tested the Witch-Slaying Sword, Di Jun considered the danger of provoking Nuwa, while Ling Tian chose to use the coming conflict to temper the Human Race. His choice earned him a World-Suppressing Stele, and he contacted Di Jun through a wisp of the Golden Crow's soul.

• Jiu Ying pierced a Witch General with a low-grade flying sword carrying a Human Race Remnant Soul, convincing the Demon Clan's Great Experts that the Witch-Slaying Sword could wound the Witch Clan.
• Di Jun worried that making the Witch-Slaying Sword could provoke Nuwa, but Fuxi said she would likely stay out of the matter unless the Human Race faced extinction.
• Ling Tian chose the system option to use the crisis to temper the Human Race and strengthen the Human Dao's fortune.
• The system rewarded Ling Tian with a high-grade World-Suppressing Stele, which he sent into the Chaos World for the World Tree Avatar to refine.
• Ling Tian summoned a wisp of Di Jun's Golden Crow soul and addressed him as Daoist Zha Tian.

Ling Tian ordered Di Jun and Tai Yi to use a staged war with the Human Race to temper them without harming their foundations. After years of practicing their act, Di Jun summoned the Demon Clan's Great Experts to announce their decision.

• Ling Tian warned Di Jun that the Human Race was destined to become Hong Huang's protagonist and ordered him to obey.
• Tai Yi persuaded Di Jun to accept Ling Tian's command, reasoning that the Demon Clan could not defeat Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.
• Ling Tian instructed Di Jun and Tai Yi to declare war on the Human Race, send only early Quasi-Saint fighters, and keep their plan secret from everyone but the Three Ancestors.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi agreed to put on a convincing act, and Di Jun went to Demon Empress Si Yue for help learning how to perform.
• After years of rehearsing, Di Jun summoned Fuxi, Bai Ze, and the other Demon Clan Great Experts to the Demon Court's great hall and began explaining their decision.

Di Jun declared open war on the Human Race, while Ling Tian’s plans turned the conflict away from the secret slaughter Hongjun expected. The Human Race prepared for the threat at Mount Shouyang, where the Three Ancestors received a private message from Ling Tian.

• Di Jun ordered Bai Ze and two other Quasi-Saint demon gods to fight the Human Race without wanton slaughter, then publicly declared that the Demon Court would march on Mount Shouyang.
• Hongjun was bewildered by the open declaration, while Ling Tian welcomed it as a sign that his plans for the Demon Clan were underway.
• The Human Race Three Ancestors, Xuan Du, and other leaders gathered at Mount Shouyang and feared they could not withstand the Demon Clan without help.
• As the Human Race’s leaders fell silent, Ling Tian’s voice suddenly sounded in the minds of Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi.

Ling Tian told the Human Race Three Ancestors that the Demon Clan’s war was meant to temper the Human Race, and they rallied the people to face it without relying on outside protection. The Human Race prepared for battle as a celestial phenomenon drew the attention of the Primordial World Beings.

• Ling Tian secretly told the Human Race Three Ancestors that the Demon Clan was acting as an ally to temper the Human Race, especially Xuan Du.
• The Human Race Three Ancestors realized the Human Race had grown complacent and resolved to use the war to strengthen its younger generation.
• Suiren Shi rebuked Xuan Du for wanting to seek Ling Tian’s help, and Xuan Du admitted his mistake and vowed that the Human Race would fight on its own.
• The Human Race Three Ancestors rallied the people with calls for self-reliance, and countless members answered that they would fight.
• The Human Race organized warriors for the coming battle, while thunder and a world-shaking celestial phenomenon drew the Primordial World Beings’ attention.