Chapter Summaries

Hongjun granted Jieyin and Zhunti Primordial Violet Qi and a treasure, then allowed the remaining strand to choose Hong Yun. Remembering Li Hao’s warning, Hong Yun persuaded Zhen Yuanzi to return with him to Wuzhuang Temple, while the other guests searched Chaos for Hongjun’s Treasure Distribution Rock.

• Jieyin and Zhunti accepted Hongjun’s offer to become his nominal disciples, and he gave them two strands of Primordial Violet Qi and the Blessing Divine Pestle.
• Hongjun released the last strand of Primordial Violet Qi, and it chose Hong Yun.
• Hong Yun recalled Li Hao’s warning that the Primordial Violet Qi brought disaster, so he asked Zhen Yuanzi to return with him to Wuzhuang Temple and stay there.
• After Hongjun dismissed the guests and announced that they could seek the Treasure Distribution Rock in Chaos, Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi hurried back toward Wuzhuang Temple.
• The other guests searched Chaos for the Treasure Distribution Rock, found nothing, and began searching again.
• Hongjun remained seated in Zixiao Palace, troubled by his mixed feelings about the completed lecture, his coming Unification with the Dao, and Yaochi.

Li Hao’s training sent more than a thousand Primordial Era experts crashing unconscious into the Primordial Era, while Hongjun replaced the missing Treasure Distribution Rock with a counterfeit and distracted the treasure seekers. After three hundred years of training, Li Hao declared that he was nearing Dao attainment, and a terrifying tribulation gathered as the Ancestor Witches watched anxiously.

• Hongjun discovered that the Treasure Distribution Rock had vanished, so he used one hundred Magic Treasures and a counterfeit rock to draw the experts back and conceal the loss.
• The experts looted the one hundred treasures, but Hongjun made the counterfeit rock crumble before the treasureless group could take it.
• The experts headed back to the Primordial Era to seek Hong Yun, but an astral wind swept them down and knocked them unconscious.
• Li Hao summoned the Ancestor Witches and announced that he expected to attain the Dao after three hundred years of training.
• A powerful Dao-attainment tribulation gathered around Li Hao, and Dijiang and the other Ancestor Witches worried about its strength as Li Hao dismissed their concerns.

After shattering his tribulation clouds with one punch, Li Hao accidentally sent powerful cultivators falling from Chaos. He led the Ancestor Witches to the crash site and began looting the unconscious arrivals, urging his brothers to join him.

• Li Hao dismissed the Ancestor Witches’ fears and shattered his gathering tribulation clouds with a punch, successfully attaining the Dao.
• The force left by Li Hao’s punch struck powerful cultivators entering the Primordial Era and sent them crashing down near Buzhou Mountain.
• Li Hao realized his fist wind had injured the falling cultivators while the Ancestor Witches stared at him in disbelief.
• Li Hao led the Ancestor Witches to the impact site and searched the unconscious cultivators for treasures.
• Li Hao urged the Ancestor Witches to loot the fallen cultivators, and Zhu Rong objected that it was improper.

Nuwa created the Human Race, earning vast merit that allowed her to become a Saint. Li Hao warned the Ancestor Witches that her ascension could bring trouble, while Hongjun welcomed the development from Purple Heaven Palace.

• Li Hao persuaded the Ancestor Witches that taking treasures from the injured cultivators was a way to help them, and they began collecting the items.
• Hongjun divided the newly received merit between Yaochi and Haotian before Purple Heaven Palace shook violently; he then sensed more Mysterious Yellow Qi and recognized that Nuwa's plans were succeeding.
• Li Hao explained to Houtu that Nuwa had caused the phenomena and told Dijiang to prepare the Witch Tribe for Nuwa's possible ascension to Sainthood.
• Nuwa shaped soil into three thousand living figures, then used the Innate Gourd Vine to create a total of 129,600 members of the Human Race.
• Nuwa named her creation the Human Race, and Heaven sent merit that elevated her, rewarded the race and remaining Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and transformed the Innate Gourd Vine into the Human Creation Whip.

Nuwa attained sainthood and warned Fuxi to avoid the Witch Tribe and the Demon Race, but learned he had already accepted the title of Xi Huang from Di Jun. Meanwhile, Li Hao identified the human race as another factor in the Witch Tribe’s tribulation and urged the Ancestor Witches to seek a peaceful solution.

• Nuwa integrated the Saint Dao Fruit, sent the human race to settle near Buzhou Mountain, and warned them not to harass the Witch Tribe.
• Nuwa told Fuxi that sainthood was not what it seemed and urged him to avoid involvement in conflicts between the Witch Tribe and the Demon Race.
• Fuxi revealed that Di Jun had made him Demon Emperor and given him the title Xi Huang, while Nuwa refused to join the Demon Race.
• Li Hao told Dijiang and the Ancestor Witches that the human race created by Nuwa was another factor in their tribulation.
• Zhu Rong suggested driving the humans to extinction, but Li Hao urged him to resolve matters peacefully.

Li Hao warned the Ancestor Witches that the Human Race could be used to forge weapons capable of piercing the Witch Tribe’s bodies, so they must protect the humans rather than harm them. He also revealed that Zhu Rong and Gong Gong would one day fight to the death and shatter the Primordial Era; after Dijiang forbade their quarrels, the witches returned to their Ancestral Land and prepared for a coming war with the Demon Race.

• Li Hao explained that the Human Race’s flesh and blood could be used to make Witch-Slaying Swords that could pierce the bodies of Great Witches and ordinary clansmen.
• Zhu Rong and Gong Gong argued over whether Nuwa had deliberately kept the Human Race away from the Witch Tribe, then brawled until Li Hao and Dijiang pulled them apart.
• Li Hao told Zhu Rong and Gong Gong that their future fight to the death would cause the Primordial Era to shatter, and Dijiang ordered them to avoid all disputes.
• Li Hao urged Dijiang to return to the Ancestral Land, where Dijiang summoned the Great Witches and clansman representatives for a pre-war meeting.
• Dijiang announced that the Witch Tribe must not kill the Human Race, should protect them discreetly, and must prepare for powerful enemies; the clansmen understood the threat to be the Demon Race.

Li Hao and Dijiang learned that the Demon Race had attacked the Great Desolation instead of the Witch Tribe, where a mysterious beam transformed the defenders and helped them rout the invaders. Li Hao wondered why the expected Witch-Demon Calamity had changed, without realizing that the Heavenly Dao had altered history.

• Li Hao discovered that the Demon Race had marched toward the Great Desolation rather than Buzhou Mountain, and he discussed the surprise with Dijiang.
• Dijiang traveled to the Great Desolation and saw the Demon Race fighting its inhabitants in a drawn-out battle.
• A beam of light empowered the Great Desolation’s defenders, who drove back the Demon Race and killed its commander.
• Dijiang returned to the Ancestral Land and told Li Hao what had happened, leaving Li Hao baffled by the strange course of the calamity.

Hongjun manipulated the Demon Race and the People of the Great Desolation into war, which led Di Jun to kill E Huang’s father and lose her. Di Jun launched an attack on the Great Desolation, where its people began lifting the seals that suppressed their Three Bodies.

• Hongjun staged clashes between the Demon Race and the People of the Great Desolation, then manipulated the Great Desolation Leader and Di Jun into fighting.
• Di Jun killed his father-in-law in a rage, and E Huang returned to the Great Desolation with her father's corpse, declaring that they would be enemies.
• Di Jun tried to reconcile with E Huang, but his demand for their unborn children hardened her resolve to oppose him.
• Di Jun returned to the Demon Court and attacked the Great Desolation, whose forces began using a secret technique to lift the seals on their Three Bodies.

Hongjun halted the Great Desolation Tribe’s advance on the Demon Court and imposed a hundred-thousand-year truce, saving Di Jun while publicly pretending to act impartially. Afterward, Li Hao and Dijiang wondered whether the expected war between their tribe and the Demon Race would still happen, leaving the cause of the change uncertain.

• The Great Desolation Tribe attacked the Demon Court’s Primordial River Luo Array, and E Huang stopped more of her people from dying in futile assaults.
• Hongjun arrived, killed several charging members of the Great Desolation Tribe, then ordered both sides to avoid war for one hundred thousand years.
• Di Jun obeyed Hongjun’s decree and thanked him, but Hongjun left without acknowledging the thanks.
• Li Hao and Dijiang discussed whether the conflict between the Great Desolation Tribe and the Demon Race could still eliminate the Primordial Era’s karmic burden.
• Li Hao revealed that he had believed war between the two sides was inevitable, but no longer understood what had changed.

Hongjun completed his preparations to unify with the Dao, said farewell to Haotian and Yaochi, and received the Heavenly Dao’s approval. After merging with it, he announced his retirement into Chaos and earned widespread gratitude and merit.

• Di Jun ordered the Demon Court to gather resources and raise its members’ cultivation for the war a hundred thousand years later, while E Huang opened the Great Desolation Tribe’s treasury and pursued hegemony.
• Hongjun calculated that the conflict between the Great Desolation and Demon tribes would eliminate their karma without fatally harming the Human Race or involving the Witches.
• Hongjun told Haotian and Yaochi that he was leaving to unify with the Dao, and asked them to support the Daoist Sect in his absence.
• Hongjun consulted the Heavenly Dao, received approval to unify with the Dao, and merged into the Chaos.
• Hongjun proclaimed that he would remain in Chaos unless an immeasurable tribulation arrived, and living beings praised him as the Heavenly Dao awarded him merit.

After E Huang secretly gave birth to ten children with Barren Race traits and Solar True Fire, Li Hao and Dijiang learned she intended to raise them to kill Di Jun. Li Hao left with Dijiang to prepare to seize the Three Pure Ones, while Di Jun’s Demon Race struggled to resume cultivation as a great battle approached.

• Di Jun celebrated Hongjun’s transcendence with a grand banquet, while E Huang and the Barren Race focused on cultivation.
• E Huang gave birth in secret to ten children who had Barren Race traits and wielded Solar True Fire.
• Dijiang suspected E Huang’s children meant she had reconciled with Di Jun, but Li Hao argued she had given birth out of maternal love.
• E Huang told her children to grow strong and assassinate Di Jun, leaving Li Hao and Dijiang alarmed by her intent.
• Li Hao and Dijiang returned to the Ancestral Land to plan to seize the Three Pure Ones, with Tongtian as Li Hao’s main target.
• Di Jun regretted the banquet as the Demon Race’s cultivation faltered, while the Primordial Era developed during the truce and the Human Race grew rapidly.

E Huang discovered that eating members of the Human Race greatly increased the Barren Race’s strength, and she ordered limited hunts to prepare for the coming war with the Demon Race. After the Barren Race’s power surged, Di Jun asked Bai Ze to explain the cause, and Bai Ze revealed that they had been consuming a race called the Two-legged Sheep.

• The Human Race multiplied rapidly while the Barren Race and Demon Race continued testing each other ahead of their approaching war.
• E Huang’s uncle reported that eating Humans had greatly increased his strength, and E Huang ordered select tribesmen to hunt Humans in limited numbers.
• Over the next ten thousand years, the Barren Race’s strength rose until it could match and then surpass the Demon Race’s high-end fighters.
• Di Jun summoned the Demon Race’s experts to discuss the Barren Race’s sudden growth.
• Bai Ze told Di Jun that the Barren Race had grown stronger by eating a race it called the Two-legged Sheep.

Bai Ze revealed that human flesh and blood could be used to forge Desolation-Slaying Swords, allowing the Demon Race to kill the Barren Race despite its powerful bodies. After the Demon Race began hunting humans and successfully made the swords, Di Jun proposed forging weapons against the Witch Tribe, but Bai Ze urgently warned him not to.

• Bai Ze told Di Jun that the Human Race's bodies could be refined into weapons capable of overcoming the Barren Race's physical strength.
• The Demon Race began capturing humans from a remote, weak tribe, while Nuwa did not intervene as the attacks escalated.
• The Demon Race forged and tested its first Desolation-Slaying Sword, confirming that it could easily cut through the Barren Race's bodies.
• Di Jun promoted Bai Ze to head of the Demon Race strategists, crediting him with the weapon that could turn the war against the Barren Race.
• Di Jun asked about making Witch-Slaying Swords to attack the Witch Tribe, and Bai Ze strongly advised against it.

Bai Ze warned Di Jun that the Witch-Slaying Sword could harm only a handful of the weakest Witchmen, so the Demon Race abandoned plans to attack the Witch Tribe and focused on the Barren Race. At the Witch Clan Ancestral Land, Li Hao raised concerns about a future threat to the Human Race, prompting Dijiang to summon the Ancestor Witches for a meeting.

• Bai Ze told Di Jun that the Witch-Slaying Sword could injure fewer than ten weak Witchmen and that an attack on the Witch Tribe would lead to the Demon Race's destruction.
• Di Jun accepted Bai Ze's warning and ordered the Demon Race to refine the Desolation-Slaying Sword against the Barren Race instead.
• Li Hao warned Dijiang that after defeating the Barren Race, the Demon Race might consider refining a weapon from Human flesh and blood to target the Witch Tribe.
• Dijiang summoned the Ancestor Witches to discuss the danger, while Zhu Rong avoided a reprimand by yielding to Dijiang as West Queen Mother had taught him.
• The Ancestor Witches gathered, with some suspecting that the meeting meant a great battle was approaching.

Dijiang summoned the Ancestor Witches to discuss the Demon Race’s slaughter of humans and its weapon-making plans. He proposed a Human Race Rescue Plan, but the Ancestor Witches questioned whether they should do more than offer help.

• The Witch Tribe prepared for possible battles with Witch Arts, Witch Artifacts, and Li Hao’s retreat-and-reward system, which Dijiang supported.
• Dijiang told the gathered Ancestor Witches that the Demon Race was slaughtering humans to refine a powerful weapon and might target the Witch Tribe afterward.
• The Ancestor Witches interrupted Dijiang with questions about the Witch-Slaying Sword, the Great Desolation Tribe, and whether Nuwa would protect humanity, until he ordered them to be quiet.
• Dijiang explained that the weapon was intended for the Barren Race, that the Demon Race’s conflict with the Great Desolation Tribe was real, and that Nuwa was not intervening in humanity’s suffering.
• Dijiang announced a Human Race Rescue Plan, and Zhu Rong asked why the Witch Tribe needed to rescue humans instead of simply helping them.

Li Hao persuaded the Ancestor Witches to save the Human Race, warning that the Demon Race could turn on them after defeating the Barren Race. As the humans faced a devastating ambush and their hope in Nuwa faded, a loud crash interrupted the slaughter, leaving all three races wondering what had happened.

• Li Hao warned the Ancestor Witches that the Demon Race might use human flesh to forge a Witch-Slaying Sword, and Dijiang decided to save the Human Race without trying to cultivate them.
• At the Human Ancestral Land, Sui Ren and Ziyi urged You Chao to stop waiting for Nuwa and take action as the human casualties mounted.
• Sui Ren and Ziyi ordered the humans to pull back their defenses, but the Barren and Demon Races ambushed them during the retreat, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands.
• The Barren Race devoured humans while the Demon Race gathered their flesh and blood, and Di Jun abandoned thoughts of attacking the Witch Tribe after Bai Ze could offer no useful prediction.
• As the gathered humans prayed for someone to rescue them, a loud crash raised a cloud of dust and drew the attention of all three races.

The Witch Tribe arrived at the battlefield with an elaborate, smoky entrance and quickly routed the Barren Race and Demon Race. The Human Race mistook their rescuers for man-eating monsters and fled, leaving Li Hao struggling to convince them to stop.

• Tian Wu’s grand entrance filled the battlefield with smoke while the Barren Race and Demon Race continued attacking the Human Race.
• The Ancestor Witches charged into battle, argued over targets, and drove the Barren Race and Demon Race into retreat.
• The Human Race saw the Witch Tribe arrive and ran, remembering Nuwa’s warning to stay away from them.
• Li Hao chased after the fleeing people and accidentally called the Witch Tribe bad people, making them run faster.
• Li Hao explained that the Witch Tribe had come to help, but the Human Race suspected a scheme to claim their flesh.
• Li Hao threatened to stop the Human Race, but they refused to halt, so he followed carefully to avoid causing them to run themselves to death.

Li Hao followed the fleeing Human Race to their ancestral land, where he tried to approach its leaders but frightened them by pretending he would eat them. Meanwhile, Di Jun and E Huang considered how to respond to the Witch Tribe, and the chapter ended with Zi Yi pleading for his life as You Chao and Sui Ren fled.

• Li Hao followed the Human Race toward the Human Ancestral Land while the Barren and Demon Races withdrew after suffering heavy losses.
• Di Jun asked Bai Ze how the Demon Race could counter the Witch Tribe, and Bai Ze said they should avoid conflict or try an alliance with the Barren Race, which had less than a ten percent chance of success.
• E Huang rejected her uncle's proposal to ally with the Demon Race because she could not work with her father's murderer, and she ordered more aggressive hunts of the Human Race.
• Li Hao arrived at the Human Ancestral Land and approached You Chao, Sui Ren, and Zi Yi.
• You Chao and Sui Ren fled after Li Hao threatened Zi Yi as a joke, while Zi Yi collapsed and begged them to save him from being eaten.

Li Hao reassured You Chao, Sui Ren, and Ziyi Shi that he had come to help them, not eat them. When Zhu Rong bluntly suggested Li Hao wanted to eat Ziyi Shi, the two Human Race ancestors finally realized their companion was a woman.

• You Chao and Sui Ren returned to plead for Ziyi Shi and offered a clan treasure in exchange for her life.
• Li Hao recognized You Chao, Sui Ren, and Ziyi Shi, then explained that he and the others had come to help protect Buzhou Mountain.
• Li Hao told Ziyi Shi she could leave, and she reunited with You Chao and Sui Ren.
• The Ancestor Witches arrived, frightening the three members of the Human Race.
• Zhu Rong accused Li Hao of wanting to eat Ziyi Shi, prompting You Chao and Sui Ren to realize that she was a maiden.

Li Hao persuaded the Three Ancestors of the Human Race to accept the Witch Tribe’s protection and relocation plan, despite their distress over learning Zi Yi was a woman. As You Chao tried to contact Nuwa, Li Hao assured Zhu Rong that she would not intervene, believing she already knew of the Human Race’s plight and was choosing to ignore it.

• Zhu Rong revealed that Zi Yi was a woman, leaving You Chao and Sui Ren stunned and upsetting the Ancestor Witches with his bluntness.
• Li Hao refused Zhu Rong’s attempt to enlist his help, then explained to the Three Ancestors that the Witch Tribe had come to protect the Human Race from the Demon and fierce beast clans.
• You Chao recognized that Li Hao had inferred his wish to relocate, and the Three Ancestors accepted the offer of protection and a safer place to settle.
• Li Hao told You Chao that the Human Race could not settle in the Witch Clan Ancestral Land and proposed hiding them while Witch Tribe guards watched the passes.
• You Chao asked to contact Nuwa and warned that his people might distrust the Witch Tribe, and Li Hao allowed him to try without delaying the plan indefinitely.
• Zhu Rong asked whether Nuwa might interfere, and Li Hao insisted she would not because she already knew about the Human Race’s suffering.