Chapter Summaries

Nüwa planned to seek the Human Race’s support for taking control of the Heavenly Court, while Bei Ming ordered a rescue for Yaochi and prepared an expedition against Mount Sumeru. Wutian re-established the Demon Sect, proclaimed its cause across the Primordial Wilderness, and unleashed widespread attacks that began a new killing tribulation.

• Nüwa told Bei Ming that the Human Race should lead the Heavenly Court and left for Huoyun Cave to coordinate with her older brothers.
• Ling Yan reported that Haotian had been demonized and was fighting Yaochi, while Guichenzi and three Great Emperors defended the Ziwei Enclosure with the Zhou Tian Star Array.
• Bei Ming sent Ling Yan to rescue Yaochi, then instructed her to join Old Ancestor Ming He and prepare an expedition west against Mount Sumeru.
• Wutian confirmed that Mount Sumeru had no remaining traps, gathered the Demon Sect’s hidden followers, and declared the sect re-established.
• Wutian’s proclamation shook the Primordial Wilderness and raised the Demon Sect’s luck alongside that of the Mystic Gate and Buddhist Sect.
• Demon Sect followers revealed themselves across the Primordial Wilderness and attacked cultivators, mortals, cities, and territories, spreading chaos and beginning a new killing tribulation.

After Wutian reestablished the Demon Sect, the forces of the Primordial Wilderness mobilized to suppress its disciples and drive them west. Bei Ming, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian Sect Master sent their disciples out to fight, with the chapter ending as the Jie Sect prepared to join Zhao Gongming and pursue merit that could aid cultivation breakthroughs.

• Clans, regional powers, Rogue Cultivators, and immortal sects began encircling Demon Sect disciples, while the Saints agreed to keep the decisive battle in the West.
• Bei Ming ordered Yinglong to guard the Great Void Palace and put Moyuan in command of the Literary Sect’s demon-slaying campaign, directing him to join Ling Yan and Ming He at Asura City after clearing the Eastern Continent.
• Yuanshi Tianzun ordered Guang Chengzi to lead Chan Sect disciples down the mountain to purge demonic cultivators.
• Tongtian Sect Master sent Wudang, Immortal Wuyun, and Clouds to join Zhao Gongming, gather Jie Sect disciples, and fight the Demon Sect, urging Wuyun and Clouds to use the merit gained to break through.

As the Demon Sect spread chaos, Laozi sent Xuandu to join Chan Sect’s forces, while Nüwa ordered Kong Xuan and Lu Ya to hunt evil cultivators. At Huoyun Cave, Nüwa told the Three Sovereigns that Haotian’s fall created an opening for the Human Race to claim the Heavenly Emperor’s vacant position and advance its standing among the ten thousand clans.

• Laozi ordered Xuandu to descend the mountain, join Guang Chengzi, and help eliminate the Demon Sect’s evil cultivators.
• Nüwa sent Kong Xuan and Lu Ya to leave the mountain and clear out evil cultivators.
• Nüwa met Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan at Huoyun Cave, where they discussed the Human Race’s limits and its difficulty uniting the ten thousand clans.
• Nüwa explained that Haotian’s loss of the Heavenly Emperor position gave the Human Race a chance to contend for it.
• Fuxi and Xuanyuan recognized that a human lord as Heavenly Emperor could use the Heavenly Court’s authority to integrate the ten thousand clans and extend Human Race influence.

The Three Sovereigns adopted a strategy of dividing the Demon Race’s remnants, allying with new clans, and using the Demon Sect’s attacks to unite the Primordial Wilderness around humanity. They issued a mobilization order and sent humanity’s forces to the front, where Fuxi took command and Shennong organized the supply of pills.

• Nüwa told Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan to unite humanity and take part in the Demon Calamity, while distinguishing ancient Demon Court loyalists from neutral clans and potential allies.
• The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors issued an edict ordering humanity’s regions to send elite cultivators against the Demon Sect and aid afflicted allies.
• Humanity mobilized troops, supplies, formations, and transport across its thirty-six regions.
• Fuxi left Huoyun Cave with nearly half its elite cultivators to coordinate the front lines and use the Hetu and Luoshu to locate demonic forces.
• Shennong opened Huoyun Cave’s furnaces and organized humanity’s alchemists to produce pills and medicines for the soldiers.

Fuxi used the Hetu and Luoshu to coordinate an increasingly powerful anti-demon alliance, while the newly established Han dynasty sought recognition from the Human Race’s ancestral land. Fuxi tasked Liu Bang with securing the Nine Provinces and supporting the war from the rear.

• Fuxi used the Hetu and Luoshu to uncover Demon Sect movements and direct precise attacks by Human Race and allied forces.
• Cultivators from several sects and growing numbers of small and major powers joined the Human-centered anti-demon alliance.
• The Qin dynasty rose under Ying Zheng, collapsed after Zhao Gao’s treachery and widespread rebellion, and gave way to Liu Bang’s Han dynasty after the Chu-Han struggle.
• Liu Bang brought Zhang Liang and gifts to meet Fuxi, pledged the Nine Provinces’ support for the anti-demon war, and sought the ancestral land’s recognition.
• Fuxi told Liu Bang to protect the Nine Provinces, maintain order, and supply the war effort rather than send mortal troops to the front.
• Liu Bang returned to the Han court satisfied and devoted his strength to managing the rear.

Demon Spirit Saint seized most of the Heavenly Court in Wutian’s name, while the Zhou Tian Star Array and Tushita Palace resisted the demonic tide. As the Demon Sect prepared to use its brief rise for strategic schemes, demonized Haotian continued fighting Yaochi amid the ruins of the Heavenly Emperor’s Bedchamber.

• Demon Spirit Saint unleashed demonic qi across the Heavenly Realm and declared that the Demon Sect had taken command of the Heavenly Court under Wutian.
• Guichenzi, Han Chi, Nanji Xianweng, Saint Mother Jin Ling, and the other defenders withdrew beneath the Zhou Tian Star Array, while Taishang Laojun kept Tushita Palace sealed against the demonic qi.
• Demon Spirit Saint refrained from attacking the Star Array or Tushita Palace, judging the risks too great for his puppet body and the Demon Sect’s plans.
• Demon Spirit Saint recognized the Demon Sect’s shortage of powerful fighters and relied on Mosquito Daoist as its rare Golden Immortal of the Origin.
• Demon Spirit Saint viewed the Demon Sect’s surge of power as a temporary opportunity and its demon cultivators as expendable resources for strategic objectives.
• Demonized Haotian attacked Yaochi with the Haotian Sword, forcing her to dodge through the ruins of the Heavenly Emperor’s Bedchamber.

Ling Yan arrived at the Heavenly Court and joined Yaochi against demonized Haotian, but Demon Spirit Saint intervened and proved able to block Ling Yan’s Five Elements Divine Light. After tormenting Haotian’s Primordial Spirit and ordering him to Mount Sumeru, Demon Spirit Saint turned his pressure on Yaochi as she tried to pursue him.

• Ling Yan arrived and attacked Haotian’s three spirit treasures with the Five Elements Divine Light, but Demon Spirit Saint blocked her strike.
• Ling Yan recognized Demon Spirit Saint and summoned the Five Elements Mysterious Pivot Fan and Innate Five Directions Flags while Yaochi withdrew to her side.
• Yaochi thanked Ling Yan for coming to help, and Ling Yan explained that her master had sent her after Guichenzi reported the crisis.
• Demon Spirit Saint crushed Haotian’s Primordial Spirit with his power, berated him, and ordered him to go to Mount Sumeru to await Sect Leader Wutian’s orders.
• Haotian fled toward Western Mount Sumeru, and Demon Spirit Saint’s soul-stifling pressure stopped Yaochi when she tried to chase him.

Ling Yan sent Yaochi into Five Elements Heaven and Earth, then faced the Demon Spirit Saint with the Innate Five Elements Great Formation and several spirit treasures. She combined the formation’s Five Elements power with the Precious Lotus Lantern, which transformed into the Twenty-Four Petal Five Elements Saint Lotus.

• Yaochi warned Ling Yan that the Demon Spirit Saint’s Laws and power rivaled what she had sensed from Hongjun before he became a saint.
• Ling Yan sent Yaochi into Five Elements Heaven and Earth, and Yaochi lent Ling Yan the Milky Way Divine Hairpin and Inverted Chaos Flag.
• Ling Yan formed the Innate Five Elements Great Formation and added the Precious Lotus Lantern and other treasures to her defenses.
• The Demon Spirit Saint struck the formation with a storm of soul power and Devil Realm origin, shaking it and disrupting its operation.
• Ling Yan counterattacked by cycling the Five Elements power through the flags and into the Precious Lotus Lantern.
• The lantern flame became the Twenty-Four Petal Five Elements Saint Lotus.

Demon Spirit Saint called on the Soul Demon God’s power and nearly destroyed Ling Yan’s protective lotus with Nine Chapters of Soul Burial. Bei Ming arrived, drove the Soul Demon God’s will from its host, and captured the fleeing Devil Realm origin and the remaining Split Soul.

• Demon Spirit Saint summoned the Soul Demon God, who sent a projection of the Soul Orb to possess him.
• Demon Spirit Saint unleashed Nine Chapters of Soul Burial, cracking Ling Yan’s Twenty-Four Petal Five Elements Saint Lotus and injuring her.
• Ling Yan tried to escape through a reversed Five Elements formation, but Bei Ming’s Destruction Scepter appeared and erased the soul attack.
• Bei Ming told Ling Yan to settle Yaochi and proceed to Asura City, and she departed for the starry sky.
• Bei Ming crushed Demon Spirit Saint’s possessed body, sealed the Devil Realm origin into a crystal core, and imprisoned the Soul Demon God’s Split Soul.

Beiming handed the Soul Demon God's captured Split Soul to Reincarnation Old Ancestor, who condemned it to repeated animal reincarnations as punishment. Reincarnation Old Ancestor then agreed to guard the Heavenly Court ruins, while the Soul Demon God's original body raged in the chaos over the humiliation.

• Beiming summoned Reincarnation Old Ancestor and asked him to punish the Soul Demon God's Split Soul for possessing a Split Soul to fight his disciple.
• Reincarnation Old Ancestor proposed sending the Split Soul through the Animal Path and used a Reincarnation Curse Seal to subject it to the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Reincarnation Old Ancestor placed the Split Soul in the Reincarnation Compass and opened a special passage to reincarnate it for one Yuan Meeting before erasing it.
• Beiming tasked Reincarnation Old Ancestor with guarding the Heavenly Court ruins and monitoring for demonic threats.
• The Soul Demon God's original body sensed his Split Soul repeatedly reincarnating as animals without awakening and erupted in rage and shame.

Bei Ming explained to Hongjun how the Demon Calamity could draw the Chaos Gods into the Primordial World and proposed using the conflict to repel them and restore the West. He asked Hongjun to lend him the Heavenly Dao’s power to strengthen the Six Souls Banner against the Soul Demon God, and Hongjun listened without answering.

• The Emotion Demon God and Sin Demon God arrived as the Soul Demon God raged over the humiliation of his split soul, then discussed their plans to attack the Primordial World.
• The Soul Demon God said Luo Hou and Hongjun’s conflict and the growing Demon Calamity would create an opening for their assault.
• Bei Ming warned Hongjun that Luo Hou might cooperate with the Chaos Gods, destabilizing the Heavenly Dao and bringing the Primordial World’s greatest calamity since its creation.
• Bei Ming argued that defeating the invaders could let them use the Chaos Gods’ origins to repair the West and strengthen the Primordial World’s foundation.
• Bei Ming asked Hongjun to empower the Six Souls Banner with the Heavenly Dao’s power so he could weaken the Soul Demon God and create a chance to kill him.
• Hongjun silently considered Bei Ming’s request and the Six Souls Banner.

Hongjun reflected on how Bei Ming had surpassed his expectations and become a vital force for Honghuang, then agreed to let him borrow the Heavenly Dao’s power against the Chaos Gods. In return, Bei Ming promised to use his Laws of Destruction to erase the Devil Realm after the crisis.

• Hongjun recalled how he had planned to equip Bei Ming with defensive treasures, but Bei Ming’s success in refining the Three Immortal Islands made him an unpredictable force beyond Hongjun’s deductions.
• Bei Ming argued that his contributions, responsibilities, and strength justified borrowing the Heavenly Dao’s power to defend Honghuang from the Chaos Gods and Luo Hou’s Devil Realm.
• Hongjun agreed to lend Bei Ming the Heavenly Dao’s power on the condition that he erase the Devil Realm after repelling the invaders and pacifying the internal chaos.
• Bei Ming accepted the condition and vowed to destroy the Devil Realm, which Hongjun feared Luo Hou could use to undermine Honghuang during the coming war.

Hongjun empowered Bei Ming’s Six Souls Banner with Heavenly Dao power for the coming war against the Devil Realm. At Ziwei Star, Ling Yan delivered Yaochi to the Four Emperors and ordered them to retake the Heavenly Court, while Yaochi asked to join the attack on Mount Sumeru to try to save Haotian.

• Hongjun gave Bei Ming a bead containing Heavenly Dao power, which Bei Ming fused into the Six Souls Banner to strengthen it and reduce its backlash.
• Bei Ming told Hongjun he had to return to coordinate preparations for the full-scale attack on the Demon Sect, and Hongjun sent him on his way.
• Ling Yan brought Yaochi through the Zhou Tian Star Array to Ziwei Star, where the Four Emperors reported that Xuan Sect forces had withdrawn safely but many other Heavenly Court officials were lost or demonized.
• Ling Yan ordered the Four Emperors to retake the Heavenly Court when the allied forces attacked Mount Sumeru and to use it to suppress demonic threats across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Yaochi asked to accompany Ling Yan to Asura City and try to save Haotian, but Ling Yan urged her to remain with the Four Emperors and lead the effort to reclaim and defend the Heavenly Court.

Ling Yan persuaded Yaochi to stay and help retake the Heavenly Court, then joined Zhunti and Old Ancestor Ming He in Asura City. Zhunti revealed that Wutian was Kimnara, a former disciple of the Western Religion, while Ming He vowed to kill him on the battlefield.

• Yaochi agreed to cooperate with the Four Emperors in retaking the Heavenly Court and asked Ling Yan to try to spare Haotian.
• Ling Yan flew to Asura City after learning that Haotian had fallen to the Demonic Dao and been sent to Mount Sumeru.
• Ling Yan told Zhunti and Old Ancestor Ming He that the Heavenly Court's forces had withdrawn into the Star Sky and could counterattack.
• Zhunti revealed that Wutian was Kimnara, a former Western Religion disciple who had disappeared while training.
• Old Ancestor Ming He rejected the idea of sparing Wutian and declared that he would kill him if they met in battle.

Zhunti failed to persuade Ming He and Ling Yan to spare or convert Wutian, while Ling Yan prepared to break through in seclusion. As the allied forces crushed the Demon Sect in the east, Six Eared Macaque fled west but was intercepted by Wukong.

• Ling Yan and Ming He rejected Zhunti’s idea of converting Wutian and insisted that the Demon Sect’s master must be executed.
• Zhunti left for Mount Ling after agreeing to defer further discussion until Fuxi arrived with the main force.
• Ling Yan asked to retreat into Youxuan Cave to pursue a breakthrough, and Ming He agreed to oversee the coalition’s affairs.
• Fuxi’s command helped the allied army rout the Demon Sect forces across the Eastern Continent, forcing survivors to flee west toward Mount Sumeru.
• Six Eared Macaque abandoned his hiding place and tried to escape west as Fuxi’s forces closed in.
• Wukong descended in front of Six Eared Macaque and blocked his escape after Fuxi sent him intelligence about their karmic entanglement.

Sun Wukong defeated and captured the Six Eared Macaque, who had sought to seize Wukong’s origin and unite the Four Monkeys’ power. Wukong looked ahead to refining Six Eared’s origin and advancing toward the Golden Immortal of the Origin realm.

• The Six Eared Macaque attacked Sun Wukong with the Purgatory Flame Stick and the Law of Fear, declaring his plan to gather the Four Monkeys’ origins.
• Wukong overcame Six Eared’s fear-based techniques and challenged his claims that Heaven had treated him unfairly.
• Wukong struck Six Eared down with Liuhe Crumbles, Eight Desolations Suppressed and sealed him inside the Eight Desolations Domain Suppression Tower.
• Ranmu emerged from hiding and congratulated Wukong after the capture.
• Wukong anticipated refining Six Eared’s origin, uniting the Four Monkeys, and breaking through to Golden Immortal of the Origin.

Wukong went to Huoyun Cave to refine Six-Ears while Ranmu returned to the allied army, which marched west to fight the Demon Sect. In Asura City, Fuxi formalized the alliance of the ten thousand clans and became its leader, while Jieyin and Bei Ming discussed the West’s devastation and the planned sacrifice of its demonized inhabitants; the coming battle’s greatest uncertainty remained Wutian.

• Wukong agreed with Ranmu’s advice to refine Six-Ears in a safe place and headed for Huoyun Cave, while Ranmu returned to the allied army.
• Fuxi coordinated the allied forces as they marched west toward Mount Wanshou and Asura City to confront the Demon Sect.
• Bei Ming met Jieyin at Mount Ling, where Jieyin accepted the deaths of the demonized inhabitants of the West as a sacrifice to restore its spiritual veins.
• Fuxi led the chiefs of the ten thousand clans in swearing an oath to destroy the Demon Sect and cleanse the Primordial Wilderness.
• The ten thousand clans formally established their alliance, acclaimed Fuxi as leader, and assigned each clan a direction of attack; Wutian remained the decisive battle’s greatest variable.

Fuxi rejected Ming He's proposal to wait for Ling Yan's breakthrough and ordered the Ten Thousand Clans' allied army to launch its general attack on the Demon Sect. The allied forces advanced toward Mount Sumeru while Wutian absorbed the gathering disaster qi.

• Zhunti volunteered to challenge Wutian, and Fuxi assigned him to pin down the Demon Sect's sect master during the decisive battle.
• A Swift Light Divine Eagle scout reported that Demon Sect Daluo Golden Immortals had attacked allied patrols and small encampments.
• Ming He urged Fuxi to delay the attack until Ling Yan left seclusion, but Fuxi decided the allied army could not wait.
• Fuxi used Hetu and Luoshu to coordinate the allied army's advance toward Mount Sumeru.
• Allied Daluo Golden Immortals surrounded Demon Sect experts in groups, forcing many to fall or flee wounded as the army gained ground.
• Wutian opened his eyes atop the Twelve Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus as disaster qi gathered from across heaven and earth and poured into him.

Luo Hou opened the Devil Realm as a passage between the Inner and Outer Chaos, allowing the Chaos Gods and their creatures to invade the Primordial World. Bei Ming and the Five Saints confronted the three Chaos Gods while the Heavenly Dao struggled to hold the world together.

• Wutian raised the Godslaying Spear as the Devil Realm appeared and Luo Hou announced the demons’ invasion of the Primordial World.
• The Soul Demon God, Emotion Demon God, and Sin Demon God entered through the Devil Realm with hordes of Chaos creatures, which poured into the Primordial Wilderness.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun stabilized the collapsing world and suppressed the invading Chaos creatures, but could not manifest to fight directly.
• Bei Ming, Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nüwa, and Jieyin blocked the three Chaos Gods in the Inner Chaos.
• Bei Ming claimed the Soul Demon God as his opponent, while Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian prepared to fight the remaining gods.

The Demon Gods’ invasion turned the battle at Mount Sumeru into a chaotic struggle as creatures from beyond the domain flooded into the Primordial Wilderness. Fuxi and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors sealed off the Western Continent with the Mysterious Yellow Infinite Formation, but the Seven Venerables and Seven Dao Lords joined the enemy forces.

• The Soul Demon God sent a hidden Split Soul through the Devil Realm passage to seek revenge on Reincarnation Old Ancestor.
• Chaos creatures swarmed into the Western Continent, disrupting the allied army’s advance and threatening to break through its defenses.
• Fuxi summoned Shennong, Xuanyuan, and the Five Emperors from Huoyun Cave to reinforce the western battlefield.
• Fuxi and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors formed the Mysterious Yellow Infinite Formation, trapping the Demon Sect and chaos creatures while empowering native cultivators.
• Wutian joined the battle with the Godslaying Spear, while Haotian and Mosquito Daoist fought among the Demon Sect’s forces.
• The Emotion Demon God and Sin-Karma Demon God’s transformed chaos fighters appeared as the Seven Venerables and Seven Dao Lords.