Chapter Summaries

Di Jun and Zhunti fought fiercely with their magic treasures until they exhausted their spiritual power, while Li Hao and the witches watched from within the Space Law. The chapter left off as Dizang appeared, prompting Li Hao to laugh.

• Tai Yi told Di Jun that Jieyin had injured him and described their humiliating physical struggle.
• Di Jun and Zhunti summoned their signature treasures and fought until their spiritual power was depleted.
• Unable to continue fighting, Di Jun and Zhunti glared at each other while they recovered.
• Li Hao, Dijiang, and Zhu Jiuyin criticized the exhausted fighters from within the Space Law.
• Dizang appeared nearby, and Li Hao recognized him and burst into laughter.

Dizang followed a mysterious feeling to the Book of Life and Death, where he tried to claim the treasure. In the darkness, he and Tai Yi unknowingly faced each other across it as both reached for the prize.

• Dizang searched the mound and discovered the Book of Life and Death.
• Dizang cautiously touched the treasure, then tried to pull it free with increasing strength.
• Dizang decided the treasure was testing him and planned to trick it by pretending to struggle before using all his strength.
• Tai Yi arrived opposite Dizang in the darkness without either man noticing the other.

Tai Yi and Dizang fought over the Book of Life and Death until their combined tug tore it apart, releasing a blinding burst of treasure light. Li Hao noticed the light had not fully faded and kept the Ancestral Witches watching, while Dijiang asked what it meant.

• Tai Yi and Dizang each grabbed the Book of Life and Death and unknowingly struggled to claim it.
• Tai Yi and Dizang pulled in opposite directions at once, tearing the treasure and unleashing a dazzling flash of light.
• Jieyin woke from his unconsciousness and urged Zhunti to hurry toward the manifested treasure, while Di Jun and the Ancestral Witches noticed the light.
• Dijiang suggested that he and the other Ancestral Witches leave, but Li Hao insisted they stay and watch what happened next.
• Li Hao pointed out that the treasure light in Tai Yi and Dizang's hands had not fully disappeared, and Dijiang pressed him for an explanation.

After the Book of Life and Death split, Tai Yi and Dizang each gained half and sensed that completing an unknown task could make them Saints. Tai Yi and Dizang fought over the treasure as their allies raced to the battlefield, leaving Dizang dodging Tai Yi with Di Jun joining the attack.

• Li Hao admitted that he had not foreseen the Book of Life and Death's survival after being torn apart and privately regretted that he had given it away.
• Tai Yi and Dizang sensed that their halves of the Book of Life and Death belonged to them and could help them become Saints once they completed an unknown task.
• Dizang called for Jieyin and Zhunti to protect the treasure, while Di Jun returned to his Great Sun Golden Crow form and flew toward Tai Yi.
• Tai Yi attacked Dizang without magical power, but Dizang repeatedly dodged and realized that Tai Yi was also exhausted.
• Di Jun arrived and joined Tai Yi in attacking Dizang.

Dizang told Jieyin and Zhunti that the Book of Life and Death could let someone attain sainthood, intensifying the struggle with Di Jun and Tai Yi. Li Hao watched from within Space Law, hoping one of them would take on the reincarnation cycle, as both sides braced for another clash.

• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived and shielded Dizang, who assured them he was unharmed and explained the treasure's power.
• Tai Yi confirmed that Dizang had sensed the treasure's significance and silently coordinated with Di Jun to seize their half of it.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin worried that Li Hao would be upset about passing up a chance at sainthood, but his apparent amusement reassured them.
• Li Hao hoped Di Jun, Tai Yi, Jieyin, or Zhunti would become bound to the reincarnation cycle rather than Dizang.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi prepared to take the treasure while Jieyin and Zhunti defended it, and the Book of Life and Death released another flash of light.

Dizang and Tai Yi were drawn by the Book of Life and Death to seek hell and sainthood, while Li Hao warned Dijiang that hell did not yet exist. The chapter left Dizang beginning to gather merit as Jieyin and Zhunti recognized the golden light around him.

• Dizang vowed to enter hell after reading the Book of Life and Death, and Tai Yi declared that he would go in his place.
• Tai Yi told Di Jun that he had to go alone to hell to become a Saint, and he refused his brother’s plea to reconsider.
• Li Hao warned Dijiang not to seek hell, explaining that it did not exist yet but would soon.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi argued, and Tai Yi won the dispute while Di Jun kept objecting.
• Dizang sat down to meditate as auspicious clouds, Purple Qi, Mysterious Yellow Qi, and golden light appeared around him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti recognized the golden light around Dizang as merit golden light.

Dizang and Tai Yi underwent simultaneous breakthroughs amid auspicious signs and terrifying thunder, leaving Jieyin, Zhunti, and Di Jun waiting to see whether either would survive. When the phenomena ended, both emerged unharmed with similarly profound, extraordinary states, though Dizang wore white and Tai Yi wore black.

• Jieyin reassured Zhunti that Dizang's breakthrough was a blessing and that they should accept him as a saint if he attained sagehood.
• Tai Yi sat in a storm of dark clouds and thunder while Di Jun worried, unable to cross the powerful gale surrounding him.
• Decades later, the signs surrounding Dizang and Tai Yi paused, and Mysterious Yellow Qi descended as heavenly punishment thunder struck simultaneously.
• Jieyin and Zhunti watched Dizang while Di Jun shut his eyes, expecting Tai Yi to be destroyed, and Li Hao and the Witches marveled at the spectacle.
• Di Jun opened his eyes to find Tai Yi unharmed and greatly transformed, while Dizang displayed a similar profound presence in white robes and Tai Yi wore black.

Tai Yi and Dizang restored the Book of Life and Death and traveled northeast together, leaving Di Jun, Jieyin, and Zhunti bewildered. Li Hao suspected the Earthly Dao had influenced them, and the group followed the pair for decades as they wandered in circles.

• Tai Yi and Dizang rose with their restored halves of the Book of Life and Death and traveled northeast together.
• Jieyin and Zhunti reacted with confusion, while Di Jun worried that Tai Yi had changed and seemed less dependent on him.
• Li Hao suspected that the Earthly Dao had planted a method to guide reincarnation, while Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin recognized that Tai Yi and Dizang acted as if they had lost their souls.
• Tai Yi and Dizang ignored everyone’s calls and attempts to stop them, so Di Jun, Jieyin, Zhunti, and the three witches followed them northeast.
• The group left the Western Lands and followed Tai Yi and Dizang for seventy or eighty years as they repeatedly circled the same places.

Tai Yi and Dizang traveled to the Nether Blood Sea, where they stood in a daze until Ancestor Minghe emerged to confront them. The chapter left Minghe intimidated after discovering Di Jun, Jieyin, and Zhunti were also there.

• Tai Yi and Dizang hurried toward their destination, and the three witches followed them to the area near the Nether Blood Sea.
• Li Hao recognized the place as Minghe’s base and watched Tai Yi and Dizang stare silently at the blood sea.
• Minghe grew impatient, imagined strange explanations for their visit, and emerged from the sea wielding the Abi and Yuantu swords.
• Minghe shouted at the visitors, then noticed Di Jun, Jieyin, and Zhunti and quickly lost his nerve.

Tai Yi and Dizang underwent a mysterious transformation as golden and black lights intertwined around them, while Di Jun, Jieyin, and Zhunti waited outside the Space Law. The light faded with both men apparently far stronger, but Tai Yi’s strange behavior left Di Jun worried.

• Minghe fled into the Blood Sea, sealed himself inside his dojo, and activated the Blood Sea Formation.
• Li Hao noticed Minghe’s Yuantu and Abi swords and resolved to find a chance to take them.
• Tai Yi and Dizang whispered to each other as golden and black lights emerged and intertwined around them.
• Dijiang worried that Tai Yi might become a threat to the Witch Tribe, while Zhu Jiuyin wondered about the secret behind the Book of Life.
• Di Jun, Jieyin, and Zhunti waited outside the Space Law as the lights subsided, then saw Tai Yi and Dizang emerge with benevolent expressions and greatly increased auras.
• Di Jun grew worried when Tai Yi neither reported his breakthrough nor even glanced at him.

Tai Yi and Dizang became saints and renounced their former identities, leaving Di Jun and Jieyin and Zhunti stunned. At the Blood Sea, Dizang and Tai Yi began announcing their plans to establish reincarnation and the Three Good Paths.

• Tai Yi rejected Di Jun and declared that only Cheng Xin remained, while Dizang rebuked Jieyin and Zhunti and declared that only Ping Xin remained.
• Di Jun begged Tai Yi to abandon their ambitions and return home, but Tai Yi shook him off and went with Dizang toward the Blood Sea.
• Ancestor Minghe, Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Li Hao recognized the pair’s sudden rise in power, while Li Hao began plotting to take back the Chaos Bell.
• Dizang announced that he would use the Book of Life and Death to transform his body into the reincarnation cycle and establish the Three Good Paths: the Heavenly God Path, the Human Path, and the Asura Path.
• Tai Yi continued the announcement after Dizang finished speaking.

Tai Yi and Dizang established the Underworld and Six Paths of Reincarnation, then barred Di Jun, Jieyin, and Zhunti from entering. As Jieyin and Zhunti hurried back to recruit disciples for Underworld positions, Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin worried that the new arrangement could threaten the Witch Tribe.

• Tai Yi and Dizang announced the Three Evil Paths and established the Underworld, Yellow Springs, and Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Tai Yi told Di Jun, Jieyin, and Zhunti to leave, then vanished with Dizang without answering them.
• Jieyin and Zhunti left, eager to claim Underworld positions and use reincarnation to bring more living beings to the Western Lands.
• Tai Yi swept Di Jun away after Di Jun kept shouting at him.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin realized why Li Hao had given away the saint-making treasures and feared their effects on the Witch Tribe and its Twelve All Heavens God-Fiend Array.

Li Hao and Dijiang left the Underworld after Tai Yi and Dizang secretly resolved the crisis, while Tai Yi and Dizang discussed their new alliance and Dizang’s troublesome ties to Jieyin and Zhunti. Their conversation was overheard by Ancestor Minghe, who tried to explain his presence and avoid angering the two saints.

• Li Hao urged Dijiang to stop dwelling on events in the Underworld and return to the Ancestral Land, and Dijiang departed with him.
• Tai Yi explained to Dizang that he had sent Di Jiang away to prevent him from acting impulsively, and Dizang worried that Jieyin and Zhunti would exploit their mentor-disciple bond.
• Tai Yi promised to help Dizang, then jokingly proposed killing Jieyin and Zhunti, but Dizang rejected the idea because saints should avoid killing karma.
• Tai Yi sensed someone listening and exposed Ancestor Minghe, who claimed he had come to congratulate the newly ascended saints.
• Tai Yi questioned Minghe about his earlier visit, and Minghe struggled to explain why he had come.

Minghe fled after congratulating Dizang and Tai Yi, who continued debating how to deal with Jieyin and Zhunti. Dizang realized Minghe could help them contact Li Hao, and Minghe eagerly offered his assistance.

• Minghe excused himself and vanished into the Nether Blood Sea, leaving Tai Yi and Dizang stunned.
• Tai Yi proposed violent ways to deal with Jieyin and Zhunti, but Dizang rejected them and suggested consulting the knowledgeable Ancestor Witch Hao.
• Tai Yi warned Dizang that they could not leave the Netherworld Court or contact Hao until reincarnation was established.
• Minghe returned with a gift, and Dizang enthusiastically seized his hands, recognizing him as a way to reach Li Hao.
• Minghe, moved by Dizang's warmth, offered to help him resolve his troubles, astonishing Tai Yi.

Dizang coaxed Minghe into going to Buzhou Mountain to seek the Witch Tribe’s help, while Tai Yi warned that the journey and the Witches themselves could be dangerous. Minghe rushed ahead toward the Witch Clan Ancestral Land, unaware of what awaited him.

• Dizang feigned reluctance to trouble Minghe until Minghe eagerly offered to help.
• Dizang revealed that he needed the Witch Tribe’s help because his group could not leave, and Minghe immediately set off for Buzhou Mountain.
• Tai Yi recognized Dizang’s manipulative approach and warned him that the matter might not succeed, but Dizang insisted the Witch Tribe was easy to get along with.
• Minghe rushed from the Netherworld Blood Sea toward the Witch Clan Ancestral Land, traveling far faster than Li Hao and the other witches had.

Dijiang appointed Li Hao as the Witch tribe’s second-in-command, but Minghe’s arrival interrupted the gathering with his foul odor. Minghe explained that Ping Xin and Cheng Xin had established the Six Paths of Reincarnation beside his Nether Blood Sea, leaving his request unfinished.

• Dijiang named Li Hao the Witch tribe’s second-in-command, and the Ancestor Witches and Great Witches accepted the appointment.
• Minghe passed the guards, whose argument over the foul stench gave no clue to its source.
• The stench reached the gathering, and Li Hao recognized Minghe and welcomed him while the other Ancestor Witches wondered how he had detected him.
• Li Hao invited Minghe to state his business, and Minghe asked whether he knew about the new Saints Ping Xin and Cheng Xin.
• Minghe said Ping Xin and Cheng Xin had established the Six Paths of Reincarnation beside his Nether Blood Sea.

Li Hao pretended he could not leave to meet Saint Ping Xin, then maneuvered Minghe into promising to help the Witch Tribe treasure-hunt. The Ancestor Witches demanded collateral before trusting him, and Minghe remained sympathetic to them.

• Minghe explained that Saint Ping Xin wanted to invite Li Hao for a chat because she could not leave the Netherworld.
• Li Hao claimed the Witch Tribe had to go treasure-hunting to survive and refused to accompany Minghe.
• Zhu Rong accused Minghe of making empty promises and said Yuanshi had once cheated him out of a promised magic treasure.
• Li Hao pressed Zhu Rong to explain what would earn Minghe the Witch Tribe's trust.
• Zhu Rong demanded collateral until Minghe helped them find treasure, and the Ancestor Witches nodded along with Li Hao.
• Li Hao apologized for Zhu Rong, while Minghe said he was not offended and felt sorry for the Witch Tribe.

Minghe agreed to leave Yuantu and Abi as collateral after Li Hao called him a brother of the Witch Tribe, then brought the Ancestor Witches to the newly established Netherworld. He left after meeting Dizang, unaware of the Witches’ scheme.

• Xi Zi suggested that Minghe use his treasured swords as collateral, while Zhu Rong insisted that the Witches could trust no cultivator without a guarantor.
• Li Hao told Minghe that he was a brother of the Witch Tribe because he shared Pangu’s blood, moving Minghe deeply.
• Minghe handed Yuantu and Abi to Li Hao as a deposit, and the Witches set off for the Netherworld with Dijiang using Space Law.
• The group reached the Netherworld in less than a decade, where Minghe was surprised by its newly built palaces and halls.
• Dizang met the group in white robes with grown-out hair, and Minghe said farewell before leaving.

Li Hao advised Dizang on staffing the Six Paths of Reincarnation, proposing that the weak Ox-Head and Horse-Face clans serve as soul-reaping envoys. Dizang was delighted by the plan and began to ask Li Hao for an unreasonable favor.

• Li Hao teased Dizang with the nicknames “Little Zangzang” and “Little Didi,” making the Ancestor Witches laugh while Dizang stood embarrassed.
• Dizang explained that he and Tai Yi could not manage the vast reincarnation system alone and asked Li Hao for help.
• Li Hao suggested recruiting Primordial Era beings and setting up interviews to assess candidates, easing Dizang’s concern that Jieyin and Zhunti’s disciples would fill the positions.
• Li Hao recommended the Ox-Head and Horse-Face clans, whose ability to see and capture wandering souls made them suitable for Netherworld work despite their weakness.
• Li Hao proposed granting them soul-reaping envoy incarnations and arranging the flow of time between the Netherworld and the Primordial Era to protect them.
• Dizang praised Li Hao’s solution and began to make an unreasonable request, but Li Hao told him not to ask.

Li Hao refused to interview candidates for Dizang’s underworld, then pretended to accept after Dizang promised future repayment. Zhu Rong interrupted to warn that Dizang might exploit them, leaving Dizang unable to object without confirming Li Hao’s suspicions.

• Li Hao rejected Dizang’s request to interview candidates and refused his offer of high-ranking underworld positions.
• Dizang admitted the underworld had few resources and promised to repay Li Hao later, so Li Hao appeared to agree.
• Zhu Rong interrupted and warned that Li Hao was being too trusting, citing Yuanshi’s past deception.
• Li Hao argued that Dizang was a Saint and whispered that they had to show him respect because they could not resist his strength.
• Dizang grew livid but held back, since retaliating would prove Li Hao’s warning correct.