Chapter Summaries

The Dao Ancestor halted the Sages’ confrontation over the human race and confined them for three thousand years, leaving the Western Sages with the advantage. In the Western Pure Land, Jieyin deduced Di Jun’s secret plan to use the Demon Race Imperial Son’s birth to conceal a scheme involving human essence blood and souls, and he proposed turning the resulting Karmic Debt against the Imperial Son.

• Tongtian refused to join either side, saying that intervening would destroy the human race’s chance of survival, while Dao De Tianzun, Yuanshi Tianzun, Jieyin, and Zhunti prepared to fight.
• Zhunti claimed he had already reported the matter to the Dao Ancestor, but a decree arrived ordering all five Sages to return to their abodes and remain confined for three thousand years.
• Dao De Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun accused Tongtian of siding with outsiders, so Tongtian defended his Dao and confined himself inside Biyou Palace; his two elder brothers returned to their own mountains.
• In the Western Pure Land, Jieyin examined the jade bottle and invitation and deduced that Di Jun planned to use the Imperial Son’s birth and the Heavenly Court’s destiny to conceal the consequences of a human slaughter.
• Jieyin proposed that Lu Tian and the Western Sages trigger the Imperial Son’s Karmic Debt and turn Di Jun’s scheme against him.

Lu Tian established a settlement for the human race in the West, earning immense merit and strengthening the Western Teachings. Two thousand years later, he and the other Western Teachings disciples arrived at the Heavenly Court for the demon race's Imperial Son's birth.

• Jieyin and Zhunti planned to use news of the demon princes' birth to influence the Witch-Demon war, while Lu Tian agreed not to take part directly.
• Lu Tian repaired the Western Earth Veins, released the human race, and granted their leading Human Immortal the cultivation of an Earth Immortal.
• Lu Tian arranged for five senior brothers to take turns spreading the Western Teachings and assisting the human race, which flourished over the next thousand years.
• The human race's worship brought a great wave of merit to the Western Teachings, with half of it going to Lu Tian, who saved it rather than using it to advance his cultivation.
• After another two thousand years, Lu Tian and the Western Teachings arrived at the Heavenly Court, where Kunpeng welcomed them while Di Jun and Taiyi awaited the Imperial Son's birth.

Di Jun used the ten Golden Crow princes to bear the Witch Slaying Sword’s Karmic Debt, while Changxi secretly transferred that burden onto herself. After the forty-nine-year Heavenly Court feast, Lu Tian approached Houtu as she departed and invited her west to repair the Earth Veins.

• Jieyin and Zhunti secretly sent Divine Sense to the Sun Star and overheard Changxi confront Di Jun over using their sons to offset the Witch Slaying Sword’s Karmic Debt.
• Di Jun placed the ten Golden Crow princes in the sword-forging formation, and Changxi later recognized the Karmic Debt on them and secretly began transferring it to herself.
• Houtu arrived at the Heavenly Court feast with an avatar, gave Taiyi living rabbits as playmates for the demon princes, and was admitted under Gui Che’s surveillance.
• The forty-nine-year banquet ended with Di Jun persuading several races to submit to the demon race, and Lu Tian departed with Jieyin, Zhunti, and his senior brothers.
• As Houtu left the Heavenly Court, Lu Tian stopped her and, invoking his masters’ intentions, invited her west to help restore the collapsed Earth Veins.

Lu Tian persuaded Houtu to help restore the western Earth Veins and settle a Witch Clan tribe in the west, then traveled to Buzhou Mountain and received the Chaos Bead. After returning to Spirit Mountain, he found Houtu waiting anxiously to discuss the Demon Clan’s secret weapon.

• Lu Tian revealed the Demon Clan’s weapon plans to Houtu and secured her agreement to send a Witch Clan tribe west and restore the Earth Veins.
• Houtu reported Lu Tian’s warning to the Ancestor Witches, who argued about attacking the Heavenly Court until Di Yi urged them to wait and learn more.
• Lu Tian reached Buzhou Mountain and received the Chaos Bead, then considered combining its inner world with his Virtual-Real World to pursue enlightenment.
• Lu Tian refined the Chaos Bead on his journey west and returned to Spirit Mountain.
• Houtu hurried to meet Lu Tian, explaining that Jieyin and Zhunti had delayed discussing the Demon Clan’s secret weapon until he returned.

Lu Tian helped Jieyin and Zhunti persuade Houtu to repair the Western Earth Veins, then cultivated until he was ready to seek Luohu’s second inheritance. He entered the inheritance realm and began a trial battle against Luohu for the Twelve-Petaled World Destroying Black Lotus, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Lu Tian explained that Houtu could establish reincarnation in the West and use the Earthly Dao to restore wandering souls, and Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to discuss the plan with her.
• Jieyin promised Houtu that the Western Teachings would help the Witch Clan disrupt the Heavenly Court when the time was right, and Houtu went to repair the Western Earth Veins.
• Houtu, Jieyin, and Zhunti restored the Western Earth Veins while Lu Tian settled Houtu’s Witch Clan tribe, cultivated, and gathered merit from the repairs.
• Lu Tian entered Luohu’s inheritance secret realm, where Luohu demanded that he defeat him at the Taiyi Realm to claim the inheritance.
• Lu Tian fought Luohu, resisted the World Destroying Black Lotus’s illusion, and unleashed his strongest attacks after burning his lifespan, but Luohu countered with a demonic spear.

Lu Tian spent a hundred thousand years fighting Luohu and transforming his foundation into that of a Chaos Demon God, using the Chaos Bead to hide it and sustain his cultivation. After reaching the peak of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, he defeated Luohu and prepared to claim the second layer of inheritance.

• Lu Tian realized Luohu wanted him as an heir, then repeatedly challenged him and grew stronger over sixty thousand years of defeats and breakthroughs.
• Lu Tian devoured Styx's placenta, endured repeated cycles of death and rebirth, and began transforming his Creation-Destruction Bamboo origin.
• Luohu warned that the Heavenly Dao would destroy a Chaos Demon God foundation, but Lu Tian used the Chaos Bead to conceal it and draw on the chaos within.
• Lu Tian completed his transformation, awakened the power of Creation, and manifested the Primordial Red Vajra and a protected starfield in the Chaos Bead.
• Lu Tian cultivated to the peak of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, then attacked Luohu with his treasures and life-burning secret art.
• Lu Tian reduced Luohu to ashes with a storm of blade light and ended the secret art after consuming a tenth of his life essence.

After returning from his battle with Luohu, Lu Tian cultivated for millions of years and received Heavenly Dao Merit when Jieyin, Zhunti, and Houtu restored most of the Western Earth Veins. The Three Purities grew wary of Lu Tian’s influence, while Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to take their next steps; Changxi visited the ten Golden Crow princes at the chapter’s end.

• Lu Tian defeated Luohu, received the World Destroying Black Lotus, and returned to Mount Sumeru, where Jieyin and Zhunti welcomed him back.
• Lu Tian spent millions of years cultivating and sparring with Pharmacist as the Western Teachings’ disciples improved their foundations.
• Lu Tian and Pharmacist discovered that the West’s spiritual qi was reviving, and Lu Tian received a share of merit for the Earth Veins’ restoration.
• The Three Purities learned that Houtu had earned Lu Tian’s portion of merit and resolved to monitor his actions in the western lands.
• Jieyin and Zhunti told Lu Tian that the main Western Earth Veins had been restored and prepared to act after Houtu returned to the Witch Clan.
• Changxi visited the ten Golden Crow princes at Tanggu Valley to assess their cultivation.

Jieyin and Zhunti manipulated the Golden Crow princes into leaving Tanggu Valley, triggering a confrontation between the Witch and Demon races after Da Yi shot down nine of them. As Taiyi rushed toward the Sun Star amid the battle, Lu Tian watched from the Western Pure Land, while Dao De Tianzun suspected him of secretly influencing the calamity.

• Changxi forbade the Golden Crow princes from leaving Tanggu Valley, but disguised as guards, Jieyin and Zhunti tempted them with stories of the mortal realm and led them to a teleportation array.
• The ten Golden Crows descended into the Primordial World, where their flames devastated the land, and Da Yi shot down nine of them before Taiyi rescued the youngest.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestor Witches confronted Taiyi, while Di Jun arrived with Demon Race forces and the two sides prepared for war.
• Dao De Tianzun suspected Lu Tian of helping the Western Teachings manipulate the Witch-Demon Calamity, as Changxi demanded that Di Jun use the Witch Slaying Sword.
• Di Jun noticed Kuafu was missing and sent Taiyi to check the Sun Star, but Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin slowed Taiyi as fighting broke out.
• Lu Tian observed the escalating battle from the Western Pure Land with Jieyin, who said the conflict was unavoidable.

During the Witch-Demon War, Gui Che killed Kuafu with the Witch Slaying Sword, and Hongjun summoned the Six Sages, praised Lu Tian for exposing the sword, and ordered them to keep the war under control while he could not monitor the Primordial World. When Gonggong struck Buzhou Mountain and shattered the heavens, Lu Tian urged Zhunti to take him to the North Sea, while Jieyin stalled the other Sages.

• Gui Che defeated Kuafu with the unfinished Witch Slaying Sword and destroyed his body and soul, intensifying the war between the Witch and Demon Clans.
• Jieyin and Zhunti brought Lu Tian to Purple Heaven Palace, where Hongjun praised Lu Tian for revealing the Demon Clan's Witch Slaying Sword and ordered the Six Sages to control the calamity while he was unable to monitor the Primordial World.
• After leaving Purple Heaven Palace, Lu Tian considered the Primordial Violet Qi he had received and wondered whom to give it to.
• Gonggong struck Buzhou Mountain, causing it to collapse and the Thirty-Third Heaven to split open as the Heavenly River poured through.
• Lu Tian broke away from Jieyin's protection and urged Zhunti to take him to the North Sea; Dao De Tianzun followed, while Jieyin kept the other Sages occupied with repairing the heavens.

Lu Tian and Zhunti found the Mysterious Turtle of the North Sea and persuaded it to sacrifice its limbs to support heaven and earth in exchange for reincarnation and a place in the Western Teachings. After Nuwa mended the sky and the turtle stabilized the heavens, the Heavenly Dao rewarded the Mysterious Turtle, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Lu Tian with merit.

• Lu Tian brought Zhunti to the North Sea and revealed that the Mysterious Turtle could support heaven and earth.
• Zhunti subdued the Mysterious Turtle, and Lu Tian persuaded it to offer its limbs willingly in exchange for reincarnation and a chance to join the Western Teachings.
• Dao De Tianzun's avatar and then Yuanshi Tianzun arrived, but the Mysterious Turtle refused Yuanshi's request because it had already promised its limbs to support the heavens.
• After Nuwa mended the sky, the Mysterious Turtle swore an oath, severed its four limbs to support the four poles, and its body dissolved as heaven and earth stabilized.
• The Heavenly Dao sent the Mysterious Turtle's True Spirit west to reincarnate and bestowed the second-largest share of merit on Nuwa, with vast rewards also going to Zhunti and Lu Tian.

Yuanshi Tianzun resented losing the merit from Buzhou Mountain, while Lu Tian began forging its remains into a treasure to support the Western Human Race. As the Witch-Demon War reached its climax, Lu Tian, Jieyin, and Zhunti secretly emptied the Demon Race Heavenly Court's treasury, leaving the story with their haul secured but the treasury still tied to the Heavenly Court.

• Zhunti took the remaining peak of Buzhou Mountain, and Yuanshi Tianzun returned to Kunlun furious that he had received no merit.
• The Witch-Demon War intensified after Gonggong and Zhurong died, while the Black Turtle reincarnated and joined Western Teachings as Lu Tian's junior brother.
• Lu Tian infused a merit treasure embryo with merit and began melding half of Buzhou Mountain into it to help stabilize the Western Human Race's fortune.
• Di Jun and Taiyi led the Demon Race against the Witch Clan at the Heavenly Court, intending to lure them into the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation.
• Lu Tian led Jieyin and Zhunti into the Heavenly Court's hidden treasury, where Zhunti broke through the concealed passage and reinforced its seals.
• Over ten years, Lu Tian, Jieyin, and Zhunti collected every treasure in the Demon Race treasury, though Jieyin regretted that it was seamlessly integrated with the Heavenly Court.

Lu Tian and the Western Teachings watched the Witch-Demon Calamity end in the destruction of both clans’ leaders, then Lu Tian visited Styx to repay the debt he owed for transforming his foundation. He offered Styx the Primordial Violet Qi and invited him to join the Western Teachings, then asked him to seal the heavenly secrets for an important discussion.

• Zhunti gave Lu Tian half a percent of the treasures taken from the Demon Race treasury, and he returned with Jieyin to the Western Pure Land.
• Kunpeng betrayed Di Jun by seizing control of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation, but Zhenyuanzi intercepted him and drove him into the North Sea.
• The Witch and Demon Clans fought for tens of thousands of years; Dijiang, Di Jun, and Taiyi died, while Houtu survived and Nuwa later clashed with Dao De Tianzun over her brother’s fate.
• Jieyin warned Lu Tian that he still owed Styx for the placenta that transformed his foundation, and Lu Tian went to the Blood Sea to settle the debt.
• Lu Tian offered Styx the Primordial Violet Qi and invited him to join the Western Teachings, then asked him to seal the heavenly secrets.

Lu Tian gave Ancestor Minghe Primordial Violet Qi in exchange for joining the Western Teachings and relocating the Blood Sea to the west, where Jieyin and Zhunti installed him as Deputy Leader. Lu Tian then set out to find Houtu and guide her toward establishing reincarnation, finding her wandering in grief over the Witch Clan’s destruction.

• Lu Tian revealed Primordial Violet Qi to Ancestor Minghe and asked him to join the Western Teachings as Deputy Leader and move the Blood Sea west.
• Ancestor Minghe accepted, and Jieyin and Zhunti relocated the Blood Sea along with a vast area of surrounding land, shocking the Three Pure Ones.
• Jieyin and Zhunti settled the Blood Sea in the west and confirmed Ancestor Minghe as Deputy Leader of the Western Teachings.
• Jieyin and Zhunti questioned Lu Tian about the violet qi, but accepted his claim that it had come with his transformation; Lu Tian kept his ambition to attain Enlightenment through Strength.
• Lu Tian resolved to find Houtu and help bring about reincarnation, then followed Jieyin and Zhunti’s guidance until he found her wandering in despair over the Witch Clan’s destruction.

After following Houtu for 129,600 years, Lu Tian persuaded her to establish reincarnation in the west, where she transformed into the Six Paths and revived the Earthly Dao. Styx offered the Blood Sea and Asura Race to support her, then revealed Primordial Violet Qi as he prepared to become a Sage, bringing two new Saints to the west.

• Lu Tian followed Houtu for 129,600 years until she recovered her resolve, and he asked her to establish reincarnation in the west.
• Houtu remembered Dijiang and the Witch Clan, then vowed to become the Six Paths and guide the souls of all beings.
• Styx offered the Blood Sea as the land of reincarnation and the Asura Race as its sixth path, earning immense merit.
• Houtu's transformation into reincarnation revived the Earthly Dao, and Dao De Tianzun realized Western Teachings had planned for its return.
• Styx brought forth Primordial Violet Qi, shocking the great powers, and two waves of Sage's Might descended beside him.

Styx attained an Earthly Sage position, and Houtu became Empress Pingxin as the two new Saints were welcomed across the Primordial World. After Styx credited Lu Tian with helping him attain the Dao, the Western Saints asked Lu Tian to lead a planned Underworld as Yin Tianzi, and he accepted while postponing its establishment until he grew stronger.

• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived to support Styx, who chose the Earthly Realm after learning that all Heavenly Saint positions were occupied and became an Earthly Sage.
• Houtu announced that she would be known as Pingxin, moved the Witch Clan into the Netherworld, and took charge of guarding it and presiding over reincarnation.
• Styx bowed to Lu Tian and publicly thanked him for the help that made his attainment possible.
• At Spirit Mountain, Styx explained to Lu Tian how Earthly Sages differed from Heavenly Dao Saints and why they were stronger in the West than in the East.
• Lu Tian proposed establishing an Underworld to govern reincarnation, and Jieyin, Zhunti, and Styx invited him to become its Yin Tianzi.
• Lu Tian accepted the position but agreed to delay establishing the Underworld until he had improved his cultivation.

After ten thousand simulated attempts, Lu Tian discovered that he needed the origins of Heaven, Earth, and Human Dao to form the legendary twelfth-grade Three Flowers. With Jieyin, Styx, and Zhunti protecting him, he achieved an unprecedented twelve-grade Dao foundation and broke through to Grand Unity.

• Lu Tian spent hundreds of millions of years in the Dream World simulating breakthroughs but could not raise his Three Flowers beyond the eleventh grade.
• Lu Tian devised a secret art to use the origins of Heaven and Earth, then left the Dream World to attempt the breakthrough in reality.
• Lu Tian asked Jieyin and Styx for refined traces of their origins, and they agreed while Zhunti prepared to guard him.
• Lu Tian began his breakthrough as the Three Saints protected him and Jieyin and Styx supplied their origins.
• Lu Tian's demonic heart refined the origins, and he used Purple Bamboo's origin to complete the Human Dao component.
• Lu Tian formed the unprecedented twelve-grade Dao Flower and attained Grand Unity, leaving the Three Saints astonished.

After completing his cultivation, Lu Tian studied Jieyin and Zhunti’s reformed scripture, perfected his Vajra Dharma Body, and developed the Great Might Heavenly Dragon Method. The Three Sages then split apart, and Lu Tian recognized the gathering storm of the Investiture of the Gods tribulation and resolved to prepare for his own path to the Dao.

• Lu Tian answered Jieyin’s summons to Purple Heaven Palace, where Jieyin and Zhunti expounded their reformed Three Worlds Maha Immeasurable Sutra.
• As he listened, Lu Tian perfected his three-headed, six-armed Vajra Dharma Body and recited and developed the Diamond Sutra with Styx.
• After years of discussion, Lu Tian shared his Great Might Heavenly Dragon Method, which Jieyin praised for its promise at the Grand Unity realm.
• At Eight Sceneries Palace, Tongtian told Dao De Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun that he had made up his mind, then left; Yuanshi and Dao De accepted the separation.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and Styx sensed the Three Sages’ division, while Lu Tian saw purple fortune split into three streams, one pointing toward Golden Ao Immortal Island.
• Lu Tian recognized that the Investiture of the Gods tribulation was approaching and decided to prepare while pursuing fortune, merit, and spiritual treasures.

Hongjun appointed Haotian and Jade Pond to govern the Heavenly Court after a period of tribulations, while Lu Tian accepted the devoted Zhending as his disciple and began teaching him the Western Teachings. The chapter ended as Hongjun summoned the Six Sages and addressed Jieyin and Zhunti about their conduct during the Witch-Demon Calamity.

• Nuwa reflected on the Three Pure Ones' division and warned that she would fight Taiqing if he failed to grant her brother the position of Human Emperor.
• Hongjun appointed Haotian and Jade Pond to eventually become Emperor and Empress of the Heavenly Court after they endured one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred tribulations.
• Zhending alone completed a thousand-year journey to Spirit Mountain, where Lu Tian's sermon restored his youth and raised him to the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Lu Tian accepted Zhending as his disciple after hearing his wish to spread cultivation among humanity, and the Western Teachings' disciples gave him spiritual treasures.
• Lu Tian discovered that Zhending possessed a natural Buddha Bone Spirit Embryo and began teaching him the Western Teachings while Jieyin and Zhunti were away.
• Hongjun summoned the Six Sages to Purple Cloud Palace and praised Jieyin and Zhunti for how they had handled matters during the Witch-Demon Calamity.

After Hongjun declared that humanity would become the protagonist of heaven and earth, Nuwa asked Lu Tian to arrange Fuxi’s reincarnation, and Lu Tian sent Fuxi’s spirit to be reborn in the west. Lu Tian suspected Hongjun had begun merging with the Heavenly Dao, while Pingxin watched the Human Path in silence.

• Hongjun told the sages that the human race would produce the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and that each sage could send someone to guide them.
• Nuwa asked Jieyin and Zhunti to help secure Houtu’s approval for Fuxi’s reincarnation, and they pointed out that Lu Tian’s consent was also needed.
• Nuwa asked Lu Tian to reincarnate Fuxi in the west; after he invoked Fuxi’s past suffering in the east, she agreed but forbade Fuxi from joining the Western Teachings.
• Lu Tian accepted Fuxi’s damaged primordial spirit and took it to the Netherworld, where Zhunti explained Hongjun’s decree to Pingxin and Styx.
• Lu Tian sent Fuxi’s spirit through the Human Path to be reborn in the west, while he suspected Hongjun’s changed attitude meant he had begun merging with the Heavenly Dao.

Fuxi reincarnated in the west, prompting Nuwa to battle Dao De Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun when they demanded an explanation. As Fuxi grew into a tribal leader, the Western Teachings prepared to send an Imperial Tutor to guide him, and Lu Tian declined the opportunity.

• Pingxin sent Xing Tian and Jiu Feng to choose Witch Clan members for reincarnation as humans, while Nuwa agreed to remain in the Western Teachings and watch over Fuxi's reincarnation.
• A hundred years later, Fuxi's spirit entered a girl in Thunder Marsh, and she became pregnant; Dao De Tianzun learned of the Western Teachings' scheme and stormed west with Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Nuwa attacked Dao De Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun inside the Map of Mountains and Rivers, then Jieyin and Zhunti intervened to end the confrontation.
• When Fuxi was born, Nuwa placed the River Diagram and Luo Shu beside him, and she watched him grow into a gifted cultivator and tribal leader who expanded his people's territory.
• Jieyin and Zhunti asked their disciples to choose an Imperial Tutor for Fuxi, and Lu Tian volunteered to give up the position so one of his senior brothers could take it.