Chapter Summaries

Nuwa chose to abandon the human race so Fuxi could later reincarnate as a human, while the Human Three Ancestors weighed Li Hao's offer of protection from the Witch Tribe. You Chao accepted the alliance after Zi Yi confirmed Li Hao was sincere, then asked the Witches to help settle his people, provoking Zhu Rong.

• Nuwa learned Fuxi was destined to die and decided to let the human race suffer so she could secure his reincarnation and future cultivation.
• After failing to contact Nuwa, You Chao and Sui Ren considered Zi Yi's advice to trust the Witch Tribe and preserve their people.
• Li Hao offered the human race a secluded refuge guarded by Witch Tribe warriors, a Great Witch, and Ancestor Witches.
• You Chao asked why the Witch Tribe was helping; Li Hao admitted to having undisclosed plans but said they would not harm the humans and would hinder the desolate and demon races.
• Zi Yi confirmed Li Hao was sincere, so You Chao accepted the arrangement and asked how the Witch Tribe would settle the human race.
• Zhu Rong objected when You Chao left the work of persuading his people to the Witch Tribe.

Li Hao persuaded You Chao, Sui Ren, and Zi Yi to settle the Human Race among the Witch Tribe so they could watch the desolate beasts and demon race fight. When You Chao announced the migration, the clansmen panicked, and Sui Ren began explaining why the leaders had agreed to it.

• Li Hao told You Chao to handle the Human Race’s concerns and suggested they could watch the desolate beasts and demon race fight from the Witch Tribe’s valley.
• You Chao, Sui Ren, and Zi Yi hurried back to their people, where Hua Xu and Yan Zi argued while the exhausted You Xiong listened.
• Sui Ren silenced the crowd, and You Chao announced that the Human Race would migrate toward the Witch Tribe’s ancestral land.
• The clansmen protested in fear, convinced that seeking refuge with the Witch Tribe meant certain doom.
• Sui Ren said the leaders had jointly approved the move and insisted it was a good thing, but the sorrowful silence moved him to tears.
• Sui Ren stepped back, leaving Zi Yi at the front as the clansmen waited for her to speak.

The Human Race accepted the Witch Tribe’s protection, and Li Hao later brought them to secretly watch the Primordial and Demon Clans fight. As they waited, Chiyou’s kindness made the Humans question their ancestral teachings, while Li Hao explained that Hongjun’s ten-thousand-year truce had delayed the battle.

• Zi Yi vouched for the Witch Tribe’s sincerity, and You Chao, Sui Ren, and Zi Yi led the Human Race from their Ancestral Land to the valley Li Hao had indicated.
• About ten thousand years later, Li Hao and the Ancestor Witches brought the Human leaders to a mountain to watch the Primordial and Demon Clans fight, setting up protections and concealing everyone.
• Chiyou lifted a frightened Human back from danger and warned him to be careful, causing the Human Race to reconsider its inherited beliefs about the Witch Tribe.
• After decades of waiting, You Chao and Sui Ren asked Li Hao why the battle had not begun, and Li Hao learned that the Humans did not know about Hongjun’s ten-thousand-year truce.
• Dijiang explained that the Humans could not hear Hongjun’s Dao script, and the Three Ancestors realized that Hongjun had ordered the Primordial and Demon Clans to stop fighting.

Li Hao learned how deeply the Human Race had suffered under Hongjun’s hundred-thousand-year agreement and resolved to change the Primordial Era’s future. As the Barren and Demon races fought, You Chao’s ruthless combat advice stunned the Witch Tribe, while Li Hao prepared to abduct people after the battle.

• Li Hao reassured the furious Three Ancestors of the Human Race that they had to wait until Hongjun’s hundred-thousand-year agreement ended.
• The Demon Race and the Barren Tribe arrived and began a bloody battle as the Human Race watched with excitement rather than fear.
• Li Hao pitied the Human Race’s history of suffering and decided to prevent the Human Emperor from being cut off and the Human Dao from declining.
• Li Hao told Dijiang that the Witch Tribe would abduct some people after the fighting, and Dijiang agreed to help.
• Chiyou lamented the wasted meat among fallen demons, while You Chao shouted advice to the fighters about eye-poking, throat-locking, and attacking their opponents’ lower parts.
• The Witch Tribe was stunned by You Chao’s brutal tactics, and Li Hao explained that they were merely unfamiliar with his fighting style.

Li Hao reassured You Chao after Hongjun imprisoned the Desolate and Demon races for ten thousand years, while Hongjun privately devised a plan to preserve the Calamity. Li Hao then approached Dijiang to discuss a kidnapping trip but awkwardly backed out when he found him with Xihe.

• Li Hao encouraged You Chao to trust in the Human Race's potential and wait patiently for what was to come.
• Hongjun trapped Di Jun, E Huang, and their races between Mount Wangwu and Mount Taihang for ten thousand years.
• Li Hao assured You Chao that the Witch Tribe would keep the Human Race safe while the Desolate and Demon races were restrained.
• Hongjun realized that the two races' slaughter of the Human Race had increased karmic obstacles, so he planned to make them fight again after the ten-thousand-year reprieve.
• Li Hao went to find Dijiang about the kidnapping trip, saw him with Xihe, and awkwardly claimed he was only taking a walk.

Li Hao gathered Zhu Jiuyin, Shebishi, and Houtu to plan a mission to kidnap three people, while Dijiang joined after Xihe realized Li Hao had come to speak with him. The chapter ended as Li Hao began explaining the plan and Dijiang asked whether they were targeting the three people mentioned earlier.

• Li Hao left Dijiang and Xihe, and Xihe explained that he had visited because he was concerned about Dijiang’s time away from her.
• Dijiang found Li Hao at Zhu Jiuyin’s home, where Zhu Jiuyin and Shebishi had been betting on when Dijiang would arrive.
• Zhu Jiuyin won the bet and took the grass locust that Shebishi had claimed, while Dijiang apologized for arriving late.
• Houtu quieted Dijiang while Li Hao was thinking, then explained that they were discussing a mission to kidnap someone.
• Dijiang asked whether the target was the three people Li Hao had mentioned before, and Li Hao confirmed it before beginning the plan.

Li Hao and several Ancestor Witches traveled to Kunlun Mountain to abduct the Three Pure Ones, planning to use Shebishi’s sleeping poison and Dijiang’s space concealment. At Kunlun Mountain, Dijiang warned Li Hao that the Three Pure Ones were favored by Hongjun and destined to become saints.

• Dijiang took Li Hao, Zhu Jiuyin, Shebishi, and Houtu toward Kunlun Mountain, then helped refine Li Hao’s plan to drug the Three Pure Ones if they were together.
• Li Hao persuaded Shebishi to make potent sleeping poison instead of a lethal toxin, promising to help him obtain another grasshopper afterward.
• Dijiang questioned Li Hao about using poison, but Li Hao argued that it was merely an addition to their drinks and Dijiang let the matter drop.
• After two or three days, the witches arrived at Kunlun Mountain, where Shebishi emerged from his research trance with a completed poison formula.
• Dijiang asked whether abducting the Three Pure Ones would go smoothly, then reminded Li Hao that Hongjun favored them and they were destined to become saints.

Li Hao and the witches drugged Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian at their Dao field and kidnapped them. Back at the Witch Clan Ancestral Land, Li Hao decided to hide the Three Pure Ones in the Ancestor Witch Hall, wary that their disappearance might draw the Heavenly Dao’s attention.

• Li Hao persuaded Dijiang that the witches had a duty to intervene and traveled with him and other witches to the Three Pure Ones’ Dao field.
• Li Hao secretly poured Shebishi’s paralyzing poison into the cups of Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian, giving Laozi and Yuanshi a larger dose.
• Tongtian proposed a toast to his brothers, and all three drank the poisoned wine and collapsed before the witches caught them.
• Dijiang hurried the group back to the Witch Clan Ancestral Land and left Li Hao to handle the captives.
• Li Hao decided to take the Three Pure Ones to the Ancestor Witch Hall, and Zhu Jiuyin asked whether they were important enough to draw out the Primordial Supremacy.

Li Hao and the Witches imprisoned the unconscious Three Pure Ones in the Ancestor Witch Hall, where they were expected to sleep for three thousand years. After leaving, Li Hao gave Shebishi two woven grasshoppers, while the Three Pure Ones began dreaming inside their cells.

• Li Hao told Zhu Jiuyin that the Three Pure Ones would shape future kalpas, and Zhu Jiuyin agreed that the Witch Tribe had no need to prove its strength by accumulating karmic burden.
• Houtu used her divine power to give each of the Three Pure Ones a private cell in the Ancestor Witch Hall, and Shebishi estimated they would remain unconscious for at least three thousand years.
• Li Hao left with Houtu and told Zhu Jiuyin and Shebishi that the last one out had to close the hall's gate.
• Zhu Jiuyin used the Law of Time to slow Shebishi down, then left him to close the gate alone.
• Li Hao gave Shebishi two woven grasshoppers, which Shebishi eagerly accepted.
• The Three Pure Ones twitched their fingers in their cells as they began to dream.

The Pangu Heart’s artifact spirit discovered the Three Pure Ones in the Pangu Hall and fainted, causing them to share a dream of Pangu. In the dream, Pangu dismissed becoming a Saint and other methods of proving the Dao as heretical paths.

• The Pangu Heart’s artifact spirit recalled how it gained sentience after Li Hao and the Ancestor Witches left, and regretted hiding from Li Hao when he returned with the Three Pure Ones.
• After waking from a thousand-year sleep, the artifact spirit sensed the Three Pure Ones inside the houses in the Pangu Hall and recognized them as transformations of Pangu’s three paths of clear qi.
• The artifact spirit passed out, and the bound Three Pure Ones entered the same dream, where they saw Pangu meditating on a lotus leaf.
• Hongjun visited Pangu and said he had urgent good news about proving the Dao.
• Hongjun described Prove Dao by Force, corpse-slashing, and becoming a Saint as methods of proving the Dao, but Pangu called the latter methods heterodox and said Saints would never attain true freedom.

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian woke from identical dreams of Pangu’s history and agreed to pursue the Dao of Hunyuan rather than sainthood. Confined in the Ancestor Witch Hall, they heard Li Hao arrive and began shouting to attract his attention.

• The Three Pure Ones watched Pangu create the Primordial Era in their shared dream, then woke and confirmed that their dreams were identical.
• Laozi proposed abandoning the Saint Seat to attain the Dao of Hunyuan, and Tongtian enthusiastically agreed while rejecting sainthood.
• Laozi and Yuanshi discussed whether the Human Race might be tied to their future, then discovered they were trapped in a room whose walls resisted their magic power.
• Li Hao entered the Ancestor Witch Hall and found a small child, who was actually the artifact spirit waking from a faint.
• The artifact spirit recognized Li Hao and tried to flee, but Li Hao grabbed him and teased him about cooking him for meat.
• The Three Pure Ones heard the commotion outside and shouted to get the attention of Li Hao and the artifact spirit.

Li Hao met with the Three Pure Ones and learned they had already chosen to pursue Prove Dao by Force. He advised them to hide that goal from Hongjun by pretending to seek sainthood while continuing their cultivation and teaching the Human Race.

• Li Hao entered the restraint and apologized to Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian for detaining them.
• Laozi told Li Hao that the Three Pure Ones already planned to comprehend laws and pursue Prove Dao by Force, surprising him.
• Li Hao warned the Three Pure Ones that Hongjun might be guiding them toward a dead end, and they recognized that their cultivation method had stopped advancing.
• Li Hao urged them to disguise their intentions by acting as though they still sought sainthood while secretly cultivating the laws.
• Li Hao proposed that the Three Pure Ones continue imparting the Dao to the Human Race as a cover, and Laozi conceded that they should keep teaching as before.
• Tongtian worried that teaching the Human Race might make them become saints early, and Li Hao replied that their teaching would remain limited in scale.

Li Hao explained to the Three Pure Ones why the Witch Tribe had fought and humiliated them, then arranged for them to preach to the Human Race. The Three Pure Ones began their preparations and secretly traveled among humans, while Hongjun watched their efforts with satisfaction.

• Li Hao told Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian that the Witch Tribe had fought them to conceal their bloodline inheritance from the era’s powerful rulers.
• Yuanshi stopped arguing, and Li Hao spent centuries explaining his plan to Laozi.
• Li Hao revealed that the witches had attained the Dao and were around the mid-stage of the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, then sent the Three Pure Ones back to Kunlun Mountain.
• Laozi chose the Dao of Alchemy, Yuanshi chose the path of death, and Tongtian chose the Dao of Life as they prepared to preach to the Human Race.
• Li Hao told the Three Ancestors of the Human Race that the Three Pure Ones would preach on a small scale and that only those with affinity would receive the true Dharma.
• The Three Pure Ones disguised themselves as humans and preached among the Human Race, while Hongjun observed them from Chaos and felt pleased.

The Three Pure Ones continued preaching among the Human Race, but their slow progress left Hongjun anxious as the Witch and Demon races neared freedom. After the brothers reunited and resolved a dispute over their different approaches, Li Hao reflected on Tongtian’s selflessness and his determination to change Tongtian’s fate.

• Hongjun watched the Three Pure Ones preach for seventy thousand years without gaining enough merit to approach sanctification, and regretted not guiding them earlier.
• Laozi met Yuanshi and Tongtian, who compared their progress and argued over Tongtian’s choice to teach many disciples rather than focus on a few.
• Laozi mediated between his brothers, and Yuanshi and Tongtian acknowledged each other’s good intentions.
• Li Hao viewed Tongtian’s willingness to put his disciples and the Human Race first as selfless and reaffirmed his resolve to change Tongtian’s fate.
• Another twenty thousand years passed.

Li Hao proposed that the Three Pure Ones pursue Dao integration and sainthood at the same time, though the idea still needed testing. The meeting ended after Laozi struck Yuanshi for insulting the Witch Tribe, and Yuanshi stormed off while Li Hao avoided returning to the Ancestral Land.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian argued over Tongtian's lagging comprehension until Li Hao interrupted and teased them into calling it an ordinary squabble.
• Li Hao asked whether Dao integration and sainthood could be attained simultaneously, and the Three Pure Ones considered the possibility.
• Yuanshi doubted Li Hao's motives and questioned how anyone could prove the Dao after placing their primordial spirit in the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Hao explained that the idea had not been verified and that the Three Pure Ones would have to test it themselves.
• Yuanshi mocked the Witch Tribe for lacking primordial spirits, so Laozi slapped him and reprimanded him for insulting their blood brothers.
• Yuanshi left in anger, followed by Laozi and Tongtian, while Li Hao stayed behind and chose not to return to the Ancestral Land.

Li Hao was framed by the Artifact Spirit as the father of an abandoned child, prompting Houtu to take the child away and secretly bind him for questioning. In Houtu’s residence, the Artifact Spirit tried to manipulate her with a sob story, but her sinister threat left him terrified.

• The Artifact Spirit discovered that Li Hao could carry him away from the Ancestor Witch Hall and struggled while Li Hao kept hold of him.
• The Artifact Spirit cried out that Li Hao was his father and that his mother was dead, turning the Witch Tribe against Li Hao.
• Houtu took the Artifact Spirit from Li Hao, then revealed to the Ancestor Witches that she had only pretended to believe the story so she could question him safely.
• Houtu bound the Artifact Spirit and demanded that he reveal his identity and purpose.
• The Artifact Spirit called Houtu his evil stepmother and begged for Li Hao, but Houtu threatened to act the part until he told the truth.

Houtu used Li Hao’s dark fairy tales to frighten the artifact spirit, but the Ancestor Witches soon realized he was a magic treasure’s artifact spirit and crowded around him. After Li Hao returned from the Human Race valley, he freed the spirit and asked the Ancestor Witches whether Dao-seeding and becoming a saint could coexist, leaving them stunned.

• Houtu pointed out that the crying spirit was an artifact spirit, prompting the Ancestor Witches to swarm over and examine him until Dijiang ordered them to stop.
• Dijiang and Houtu discovered Li Hao was missing, so Houtu sent Zhu Rong to bring him back from the Human Race valley.
• Zhu Rong loudly called Li Hao an unfaithful father with an illegitimate child, embarrassing him before the Human Race and making Yuanshi laugh.
• Li Hao returned with Zhu Rong, asked Houtu to release the artifact spirit, and promised to bring him tasty treats later.
• Li Hao asked the Ancestor Witches whether Dao-seeding and becoming a saint could exist side by side, and they fell silent in shock.

Li Hao gathered the Three Pure Ones and the Ancestor Witches to discuss using a Saint’s identity for an ambitious plan, though he had not yet worked out how to make proving the Dao and becoming a Saint coexist. The group was left stunned by his promise of a huge undertaking, which he then downplayed as figurative.

• Li Hao clarified that he did not intend to become a Saint himself and identified the Three Pure Ones as suitable candidates for his plan.
• Dijiang led the Ancestor Witches outside and decided they should bring the Three Pure Ones to the Ancestral Land to help Li Hao think, while Zhu Rong joked that they would kidnap them.
• The Ancestor Witches found Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian in the Human Race’s valley and forcibly carried them back to Li Hao.
• Li Hao explained that he had invited the Three Pure Ones to discuss something important, and Laozi asked whether they could prove the Dao and become Saints at the same time.
• Li Hao announced that they would pursue a much bigger plan that could frighten countless beings, then clarified that he had only meant the spectacle would be large.

Li Hao proposed that the Three Pure Ones merge their three corpses into one and establish merit through new identities, while the others mocked Yuanshi until he changed the subject by summoning his avatars. The chapter ended with Yuanshi pleased that his sudden cooperation had distracted everyone from teasing him.

• Laozi apologized for Yuanshi’s confrontational behavior, and Li Hao turned the discussion to coexistence.
• Li Hao proposed that the Three Pure Ones merge their three corpses into one and suggested that Laozi’s Good Corpse preach among the Human Race as Taishang Laojun.
• Zhu Rong suggested Yuanshi take the title Jade Void Heavenly Venerate, prompting the Ancestor Witches, Laozi, and Tongtian to laugh at him.
• Yuanshi demanded that everyone stop laughing and return to the important matter, so Li Hao told the Three Pure Ones to find their avatars and discuss the plan.
• Yuanshi, Laozi, and Tongtian contacted their avatars, and Yuanshi smugly believed his initiative had distracted everyone from mocking him.

Yuanshi's three corpses merged into one, but his evil corpse took control and attacked Zhu Rong, destroying Li Hao's house. As the dust cleared, Zhu Rong was nowhere to be seen, and a figure surged toward the evil corpse.

• Yuanshi's three corpses arrived, and Li Hao proposed testing whether they could merge into one.
• The three corpses blended their magical power and origins, then fused into a single entity that celebrated its strength.
• Yuanshi's evil corpse took control of the fusion and insulted Zhu Rong before attacking him with magical power.
• The attack demolished Li Hao's house, and the Ancestor Witches restrained Li Hao as his anger flared.
• The dust cleared to reveal Zhu Rong missing, and a figure rushed toward the evil corpse.