After Hou Yi became an Ancestral Witch, Dijiang instructed him to cultivate diligently and strive to catch up with the other eleven Ancestral Witches as soon as possible. He also passed on the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Formation to him, and had the Ancestral Witches work together to practice the formation.
Before Houtu became a Saint, she had already considered who would succeed her. She had left her cultivation insights and understanding of the formation within her essence blood, so Hou Yi was able to master it much more quickly.
After several thousand years, Hou Yi had fully mastered the formation. Although his cultivation still fell somewhat short of Houtu's and the other Ancestral Witches', the Twelve Ancestral Witches had once again been fully restored to their ranks.
Only then could the Witches finally relax. Hou Yi had taken Houtu's place. Though the Witch Clan's strength had suffered, the Yao Race had lost Nuwa as well. With both sides weakened, the outcome would be decided in battle.
In the Heavenly Court, the war between the Yao Race and Humanity ended after another three thousand years. Under the Heavenly Dao Edict, those with Three Flowers Gathering at the Top could not take part in the fighting, and the battle had indeed reached a stalemate.
Humanity had suffered devastating losses in the war, its flesh and blood seized. Yet with the help of Xuan Yang and Qing Ling of the Yin-Yang Lineage, the Heavenly Court had also paid a heavy price. Ten million cultivators had died in the fighting—a considerable loss even for the Yao Race, the greatest clan in the Primordial World.
Thus, after gathering enough human flesh and blood, the Heavenly Court voluntarily withdrew its troops and ended the war.
With the Human-Demon War over, the Heavenly Court shut