Chapter Summaries

Haotian searched the Primordial Era for Di Jun and collided with an ox demon, whose companions mistook his apology and sword for signs that he wanted to marry her. When Haotian’s attack failed, the monsters revealed the Primordial Era’s powerful cultivators were far beyond the level he had expected.

• Haotian recklessly searched the Primordial Era for Di Jun, confident that no one could match him.
• Haotian collided with a huge ox demon, apologized, and tried to move on, but she and her companions assumed he had taken a fancy to her.
• Haotian tried to flee, but four monsters surrounded him, so he drew the Haotian Sword and attacked.
• The ox demon’s companions joked that Haotian’s sword was a betrothal gift, and the ox demon reacted with coy delight.
• Haotian’s sword and magical attack failed to harm the monster, leaving him stunned.
• The monsters mocked Haotian’s expectations and said that even famous figures in the Primordial Era were generally mid- or late-stage Quasi-Saints.

Haotian returned to the Purple Palace after spending more than a century with Cuihua, leaving her pregnant and alone. Hongjun confronted his long-absent attendant, while Yaochi tried to soften the punishment awaiting him.

• The demon bull took Haotian to her cave, revealed her beautiful human Dao Body, and became his wife, Cuihua.
• Haotian and Cuihua lived together for more than a hundred years, while Yaochi used his absence to watch Li Hao through the Sky-Observing Mirror.
• Hongjun noticed Haotian was missing and asked Yaochi where he had gone; she said he had not returned since leaving over a hundred years earlier.
• Hongjun sent a furious sound-transmission calling Haotian back, and Haotian remembered his duties and confessed his identity to Cuihua.
• Cuihua, already pregnant with Haotian's child, hid the news as they tearfully parted, and Haotian hurried back to the Purple Palace.
• Yaochi reassured Hongjun and defended Haotian, who returned to the Purple Palace after five or six years of travel.

Haotian returned to the Purple Palace, deceived Hongjun about his long absence, and received a light punishment while Yaochi hinted that she knew his secret. In the Primordial Era, demons and rogue cultivators terrorized living beings as three Ancestor Witches prepared to prove the Dao beneath powerful heavenly tribulation.

• Haotian told Hongjun that Quasi-Saints had made his search for Di Jun difficult and praised Hongjun's influence on the Primordial Era.
• Hongjun ordered Haotian to sweep the Purple Palace for eight hundred years without divine power, while Yaochi privately hinted that she knew about Cuihua.
• Hongjun returned to his quiet chamber to comprehend the laws and prepare to Unify with the Dao.
• With Di Jun missing and powerful figures in seclusion, the Demon Race and rogue cultivators preyed on living beings, leaving Tai Yi overwhelmed by the wandering souls arriving in the Underworld.
• Dark clouds gathered above the Witch Clan Ancestral Land as demons chased the apparent heavenly tribulation, and Li Hao and Dijiang assembled the Witch Tribe to protect their people and territory.
• Li Hao reassured Dijiang that the Witch Clan was ready for the tribulation and encouraged him to believe there was still a way for him to improve.

As lightning tribulations began, Li Hao and Dijiang watched as the Witch Tribe stayed calm while trapped outsiders panicked. The Witches overwhelmed the intruders, and Ancestral Witch Zhurong emerged after attaining enlightenment, leaving Han Niu unconscious again.

• Three bolts of lightning descended as Li Hao realized that a new Primordial Great Luo was about to be born.
• Rogue cultivators and gathered demons trapped beneath the tribulation clouds rushed toward a Witch shelter, but the Witches ignored their threats and argued over who would capture them.
• The Witches chose to seize Han Niu for Ancestral Witch Zhurong, but First Brother accidentally slapped him unconscious and then desperately tried to revive him.
• Ancestral Witch Zhurong loudly announced his success in attaining enlightenment, and the Witches cheered.
• First Brother dropped the newly revived Han Niu while joining the celebration, knocking him unconscious again.

Zhu Rong celebrated proving the Dao before Dijiang rebuked him and explained how Gou Mang used the Jianmu tree to cultivate, while Xuanming also successfully proved the Dao. The chapter left Xuanming determined to continue researching witchcraft after Zhu Rong criticized her new path.

• Zhu Rong finished proving the Dao and shouted triumphantly until Dijiang slapped him and told him not to boast.
• Dijiang explained that Gou Mang was proving the Dao with the help of Jianmu, which Li Hao had grown from a sign-in reward seed.
• Zhu Rong doubted the coincidence until Dijiang slapped him, then a frigid aura announced Xuanming’s successful proof of the Dao.
• Xuanming told Li Hao and the witches that she felt stronger, while Zhu Rong worried about his wife and questioned Xuanming’s witchcraft research.
• Dijiang defended Xuanming’s new path and urged her to keep working, then told Zhu Rong to go check on his wife.

Zhu Rong’s clansmen brought captured demons and rogue cultivators to celebrate his Dao attainment, and Li Hao recognized an old Immortal Court treasury guard among them. A confrontation exposed Chang’er’s identity and a mysterious grudge against him; Li Hao let Chang’er go and ordered the remaining captives cooked as food while the Witch Tribe prepared to rest.

• Zhu Rong’s clansmen arrived with captured outsiders as a gift, and Zhu Rong proudly showed their loyalty to Li Hao and the other Witches.
• Li Hao recognized the former Immortal Court treasury guard, while the demons blamed him for bringing ruin to his former masters.
• A rogue cultivator named Chang’er was recognized by the former treasury guard, who roared that Chang’er was still alive and attacked him verbally.
• Li Hao considered his plans to reverse the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, then told Chang’er he could leave; Chang’er mistook his words as a threat to his family and begged for mercy.
• Li Hao ordered a clansman to escort Chang’er out and told the others to cook the remaining captives for a meal.

After Gou Mang attained the Dao, his Divine Power caused the Ancestral Land’s vegetation to grow wildly, and he grieved that the Jianmu tree had been destroyed by tribulation lightning. Li Hao and Dijiang reassured him, then returned to the Peach Garden to check on West Queen Mother and Zhu Jiuyin and release Di Jun.

• Li Hao spared the terrified Immortal Court guard, who fled home at full speed.
• Gou Mang’s successful Dao attainment unleashed surges of vitality that made the Ancestral Land’s plants grow wildly, until Li Hao called on him to stop.
• Gou Mang revealed that tribulation lightning had destroyed the Jianmu tree and its offshoots while striking at the source of his attainment.
• Li Hao and Dijiang comforted Gou Mang, and Li Hao suggested the Jianmu tree might still have a chance to survive its tribulation.
• Li Hao, Dijiang, Zhu Rong, and Xuanming returned to the Peach Garden to check on West Queen Mother and Zhu Jiuyin and release Di Jun.

Zhu Jiuyin worried that continuing to extract Di Jun’s essence blood would waste resources, but Li Hao and Dijiang encouraged him to pursue his breakthrough. A messenger then announced that Xihe was pregnant, leaving Dijiang baffled about how it had happened, while the Ancestor Witches hurried to her residence.

• Zhu Jiuyin told the witches that his law was close to perfection but he hesitated to keep extracting Di Jun’s essence blood because it had no use and consumed heavenly treasures.
• Li Hao suggested selling the essence blood, planting more spiritual roots, and gathering more resources, while Dijiang urged Zhu Jiuyin to strengthen himself so he could better protect the tribe.
• A tribesman announced that Xihe was pregnant, and Li Hao led the witches toward her residence while Dijiang struggled to understand how she had conceived.
• Zhu Rong tried to push open Xihe’s door, but Dijiang stopped him and Changxi warned them not to disturb Xihe.
• Dijiang entered the residence and tried to shut the door, while Li Hao suspected he was hiding something and signaled Zhu Rong to follow him inside.

Li Hao entered Dijiang’s room with the ancestor witches and learned that Xihe had secretly merged her origin with Dijiang’s and was pregnant. Later, Houtu revealed her own desire to become pregnant with Li Hao’s child, while signs of Nuwa earning heavenly merit appeared near Buzhou Mountain.

• Li Hao forced his way into Dijiang’s room, and the ancestor witches followed him inside.
• Xihe explained that she had secretly merged her origin with Dijiang’s while he meditated, leaving Dijiang embarrassed as the others reacted.
• Li Hao and the ancestor witches left Dijiang and Xihe alone, then Li Hao took Houtu for a walk.
• Houtu admitted she wanted to become pregnant with Li Hao’s child but agreed to wait until the danger had passed.
• Heavenly phenomena appeared near Buzhou Mountain, and Li Hao identified them as merit descending for Nuwa.
• Li Hao told Houtu that their path was righteous and that sanctification was a crooked path, but he withheld his reasons.

Gong Gong and Tian Wu sought Dijiang’s advice about achieving Daoism, but he sent them to Li Hao, whose cultivation methods had guided the other Ancestor Witches. After the two brothers argued and brawled on the way to Li Hao, he acknowledged their anxiety, and they asked whether he had devised methods for them yet.

• Gong Gong and Tian Wu secretly returned to Dijiang’s dwelling to ask for guidance, but Dijiang told them to seek Li Hao instead.
• Dijiang left to gather immortal fruits for pregnant Xihe, while Gong Gong and Tian Wu argued until Changxi scolded them for disturbing her.
• Gong Gong and Tian Wu met again outside Li Hao’s dwelling and brawled before Li Hao arrived and teased them about falling behind.
• Gong Gong and Tian Wu accused Li Hao of helping their brothers while leaving them out, and Li Hao said he could not devise methods before inspiration struck.
• Gong Gong asked Li Hao whether he had thought of cultivation methods for them, explaining that they were anxious not to hold everyone back.

Li Hao arranged for Gong Gong and Tian Wu to pursue paths to proving the Dao, then helped the witches free Di Jun and leave him clues that made him believe they had rescued him. Grateful but conflicted about fighting the Witch Tribe, Di Jun went to the Netherworld to ask Tai Yi for advice.

• Li Hao told Gong Gong that combining his Water Law with baleful energy could help him advance, and assured Tian Wu that a powerful wind was available once Eldest Sister learned to refine Magic Treasures.
• Zhu Jiuyin told Li Hao that Di Jun's blood essence was becoming harder to extract, so Li Hao, Houtu, and the other witches freed Di Jun and left him somewhere near the Ancestral Land.
• Di Jun woke beside a pool of Witch Tribe blood and concluded that the witches had rescued him from those who had held him captive.
• Li Hao and Dijiang returned toward the Ancestral Land while Di Jun struggled to reconcile his gratitude to the Witch Tribe with Dao Ancestor Hongjun's prediction that the tribes were destined to fight.
• Di Jun went to the Netherworld, reached Tai Yi, and insisted on telling him about an urgent personal matter.

Tai Yi persuaded Di Jun to delay war with the Witch Tribe and seek a consort, sending him toward Buzhou Mountain. Meanwhile, a man in black observed the Witch Tribe and discovered it had always been peaceful and agricultural.

• Tai Yi urged Di Jun to postpone deciding about war and focus on expanding the Great Sun Golden Crow tribe by finding a consort.
• Tai Yi told Di Jun about Daughter of Ehuang at Buzhou Mountain, and Di Jun set out to meet her.
• Tai Yi returned to the Underworld and resumed discussing its staffing problems with Dizang.
• Hongjun calculated Di Jun’s whereabouts, learned he had gone to the Greater Wasteland, and resumed meditating.
• A man in black watched the Witch Tribe from the clouds and divined that it had always been a peaceful agricultural tribe.

The Heavenly Dao disguised Himself as a witch and investigated the Witch Tribe, then reconsidered His plans after hearing Li Hao explain that the tribe sought strength only to survive. He went to Purple Xiao Palace to ask Hongjun to target the Demon Race instead, but Haotian barred Him from entering and the commotion brought Hongjun out.

• The Heavenly Dao disguised Himself as a witch and wandered through the Witch Tribe’s ancestral land, where He learned that seven Ancestor Witches had achieved sagehood.
• Li Hao found the disguised Heavenly Dao and explained that the Witch Tribe had no desire to dominate the Primordial Era and cultivated only to protect itself from threats such as Hongjun and higher powers.
• After witnessing the Witch Tribe’s peaceful life and recalling the Demon Race’s many crimes, the Heavenly Dao decided that the Demon Race should be eliminated instead of the Witch Tribe.
• The Heavenly Dao left for Purple Xiao Palace and asked Haotian to announce Him to Hongjun.
• Haotian refused to let the Heavenly Dao see Hongjun and angrily defended his master, waking Hongjun and prompting him to come out.

The Heavenly Dao ordered Hongjun to destroy the Demon Race while leaving the Witch Tribe alone, forcing Hongjun to search for another force to oppose them. Meanwhile, Cuihua gave birth amid an attack on her cave, and Second Brother fled with her child as she lay gravely wounded.

• Hongjun struck Haotian for disrespecting the Heavenly Dao, then listened as the Heavenly Dao ordered him to wipe out the Demon Race and spare the Witch Tribe.
• Hongjun agreed to find another race to oppose the Demon Race, but he and Haotian could think of no suitable candidate.
• Haotian worried about Cuihua while she went into labor, and Second Brother ordered the demons to guard her cave.
• An unknown attack killed the guards and left Second Brother badly injured; he found Cuihua wounded and their newborn child beside her.
• Cuihua told Second Brother to take the child and flee, asking him to tell Haotian to raise the baby if they ever met.

Second Brother escaped with Eldest Sister’s newborn twins and settled with them on Liu Bo Mountain, while the Witch Tribe celebrated Tian Wu’s impending attainment of the Dao. Shebishi returned already having attained Hunyuan, and Tian Wu then smoothly completed his tribulation.

• Cuihua urged Second Brother to flee with the child, and he escaped injured to an isolated island before discovering that Eldest Sister had given birth to twins.
• Second Brother named himself Kui Niu and called the island Liu Bo Mountain, where he settled with the children and relied on its abundant food while he recovered.
• The Witch Tribe gathered to celebrate Tian Wu’s attainment of the Dao, while Gong Gong lamented that he seemed destined to be the last among his brothers.
• Shebishi returned to the Ancestral Land as a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal and explained that surviving a venomous snake bite had led to his tribulation and breakthrough.
• Tian Wu’s lightning tribulation descended and ended without difficulty, allowing him to attain the Dao and join the others.

Hongjun began his third sermon, drawing powerful figures from across the Primordial Era to the Purple Cloud Palace while many others struggled to cross the Chaos. As the sermon started, Dijiang kept visiting Li Hao’s residence, irritating him.

• After the Ancestor Witches returned to their duties, Hongjun announced his third sermon, and Heavenly Dao secretly concluded that the Witch Tribe posed no threat.
• Di Jun left E Huang and hurried toward the Purple Cloud Palace after she urged him to attend, while Nuwa abandoned her interrupted meditation and set out with Fuxi.
• Living beings struggled to endure the chaotic Qi on the way to the Purple Cloud Palace, and some arrived too battered to enter.
• Hongjun ordered Haotian and Yaochi to open the palace gates, and the assembled great figures entered for the sermon while the injured were left outside.
• While Hongjun’s sermon continued, Dijiang repeatedly visited Li Hao’s residence despite Xihe’s pregnancy, greatly annoying Li Hao.

Dijiang agreed to take Li Hao, Gong Gong, and Zhu Jiuyin to search the Western Lands for baleful energy that could help Gong Gong prove the Dao, while Xihe remained behind and received Di Jun’s essence blood to refine. In Purple Cloud Palace, Zhen Yuanzi vowed to avenge the Witch Tribe’s damage to his Ginseng Fruit Tree, and Hong Yun urged him to let the grievance go.

• Li Hao persuaded Dijiang to search the Western Lands for baleful energy rather than kidnap someone, and Dijiang recruited Gong Gong and Zhu Jiuyin for the trip.
• Dijiang told Xihe he would leave to investigate a way for Gong Gong to prove the Dao, and she supported him while asking for pure fire-element treasures.
• Dijiang brought Xihe hundreds of bottles of Di Jun’s essence blood, which she began refining to improve her cultivation and benefit her unborn child.
• At Purple Cloud Palace, Zhen Yuanzi blamed the Witch Tribe for stripping his Ginseng Fruit Tree and resolved to settle accounts after the Third Sermon.
• Hong Yun advised Zhen Yuanzi to abandon his grudge and return to Wuzhuang Temple, but Zhen Yuanzi rejected the advice as Hong Yun continued defending the Witch Tribe.

During Hongjun’s Third Sermon, Li Hao and the witches searched the Western Lands for the source of its lingering baleful energy, and Gong Gong cultivated in the energy until he reached the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. After sending Gong Gong home, Li Hao left with Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin to pursue a mysterious “tremendously good thing.”

• Hongjun appeared at Purplecloud Palace and began preaching the Third Sermon while Dijiang gathered Li Hao, Zhu Jiuyin, Zhu Rong, and Houtu to travel to the Western Lands.
• After searching for more than three hundred years, Li Hao accidentally crushed a stone and opened a hole that released a dense surge of baleful energy.
• Gong Gong used the Law of Water to cultivate in the baleful energy while Zhu Jiuyin accelerated time and Dijiang concealed the group with the Space Law.
• After more than one kalpa of cultivation, Gong Gong left the Western Lands, and Dijiang transported the witches away so he could prove the Dao elsewhere.
• Gong Gong endured his tribulation and reached the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, then hurried back to the Ancestral Land at Dijiang’s command.
• Li Hao told Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin they still had something to do, hinting that it was a good thing every living being in the Primordial Era had yearned for.

Li Hao took the Witches to Chaos, where they found and claimed Hongjun’s ownerless Treasure Distribution Rock. He then sent Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin back to Chaos to cultivate their laws, and both returned having proved the Dao; Hongjun’s sermon was nearing its end.

• Li Hao directed Dijiang to the Treasure Distribution Rock in Chaos, and Dijiang stored the ownerless treasure in his spatial domain.
• After returning to the Ancestral Land, Dijiang noticed his Space Law had begun to progress in Chaos.
• Li Hao advised Dijiang to return to Chaos with Zhu Jiuyin and combine their Space and Time Laws.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin used their overlapping laws to accelerate their cultivation in Chaos, rapidly advancing their respective powers.
• After seven hundred years, Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin returned to the Primordial Era and successfully proved the Dao.
• In Purple Heaven Palace, Hongjun continued his sermon as its conclusion approached.

Li Hao promised Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin he would achieve the Dao within five hundred years, then began strange strength-training exercises while Hongjun finished his lectures and selected disciples. Hongjun accepted Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Nuwa, and the chapter ended with him offering the two Western visitors nominal inner-disciple status after their plea.

• Li Hao insisted he would achieve the Dao within five hundred years, and Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin accepted his challenge.
• Li Hao began practicing unusual bodyweight exercises to strengthen his Law Power, puzzling the other Ancestral Witches.
• Hongjun finished his third lecture, announced he would Unify with the Dao, and said he would retreat into Chaos.
• Hongjun accepted Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian as disciples and bestowed treasures and Primordial Violet Qi upon them.
• Hongjun accepted Nuwa as a disciple and gave her the Mountain and River Diagram and Primordial Violet Qi.
• Two Western visitors pleaded with Hongjun about their hardships, and he offered to make them nominal inner disciples.