Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan explained to Fuxi that the Sage Position he had lost was fated to go to another, easing Fuxi’s guilt and regrets. Yuan Jie encouraged him to keep cultivating, while the four brothers’ plans to earn merit and Fortune offered them a path to enlightenment without Sage Positions.

• Yuan Yan told Fuxi that Nuwa’s future enlightenment and the West’s two Sage Positions had been ordained by fate, so Fuxi was not responsible for losing his chance.
• Yuan Yan explained that the Western Continent’s Fortune and Hongjun’s debt had determined who could claim its Sage Positions.
• Yuan Jie urged Fuxi to cultivate diligently, saying that he and his brothers had strong prospects of attaining enlightenment as Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortals.
• Yuan Yan considered using accumulated merit to accelerate his cultivation but avoided spending it to attain enlightenment before perfecting his Dao Fruit.
• Fuxi let go of his guilt and accepted that lacking a Sage Position and Hongmeng Purple Qi was not a major obstacle.

After Fuxi overcame his renewed doubts, he made a major breakthrough in cultivation. The six agreed on how to divide their work and distribute Origin Dao Pills, then began a public Dao discussion at the Dao Lecture Platform.

• Fuxi resolved his knot and obsession, entered enlightenment, and emerged with a greatly strengthened aura.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi agreed on shared duties, assigning Fuxi more Merit-earning tasks and internal administration to support his cultivation.
• The six decided to distribute Origin Dao Pills by cultivation realm and contribution, while reserving portions for the Primordial World’s beings and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.
• After several years of tea and conversation, Fuxi proposed a Dao discussion, and the six chose to hold it at the Dao Lecture Platform so the lineage’s cultivators could listen.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi expounded their Great Daos together, drawing the gathered listeners into deep states of enlightenment.

Yuan Ling announced the Immortal Script created by his Obsession Corpse Dao Body, and the Heavenly Dao recognized it, granting him Merit and the Immortal Script Record. After celebrating with his companions, he resumed the discussion of the Dao while Yuanshi questioned whether the Three Pure Ones could surpass Yuan Yan and the others.

• After sensing that the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests had returned to the Primordial World, Yuan Ling halted the discussion of the Dao and told Fuxi and the others that it was time to announce the Immortal Script.
• Yuan Ling summoned Yingzhou Immortal Island’s protective formation and declared the Immortal Script before heaven and earth, evolving one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred characters.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed seventy percent of the Merit on Yuan Ling and formed the remaining thirty percent into the Immortal Script Record, which Yuan Ling branded and entrusted to his Obsession Corpse Dao Body for refinement.
• Yuan Ling congratulated his companions and resumed the discussion of the Dao on the Dao Lecture Platform.
• Watching the Merit descend at Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi lost confidence that the Three Pure Ones could surpass Yuan Yan and the others.

Yuanshi feared that Yuan Yan’s group could gain enough merit to produce six Sages and outmatch the Three Pure Ones, while Taiqing Laozi urged patience and Tongtian vowed they would eventually surpass them. On the Sun Star, Di Jun weighed ways to gain merit but chose to delay establishing the Demon Clan until his Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation could defeat the Twelve Ancestral Witches decisively.

• Yuanshi calculated that Yuan Yan’s group might gather enough merit for all six to become Sages before the Three Pure Ones and wield three Innate Supreme Treasures.
• Taiqing Laozi told Yuanshi not to compare himself with Yuan Yan’s group, and Tongtian declared that the Three Pure Ones would surpass them one day.
• Di Jun considered how to obtain great merit but judged his available plans insufficient or too costly.
• Di Jun decided not to establish the Demon Clan yet because his Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation could not reliably overcome the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ formation.
• Di Jun chose to remain patient and build greater strength before confronting the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

Di Jun decided to trade part of his treasury to the Yingzhou Commerce Association for resources to strengthen the Demon Clan, while Jiufeng planned ways for the Witch Clan to advance. The chapter left the Twelve Ancestral Witches waiting to reach the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm before they could pursue the major merit of governing nature’s cycles and laws.

• Di Jun resolved to sell some of his treasures to the Yingzhou Commerce Association for Origin Dao Pills and other resources, then sent an avatar toward Yingzhou Immortal Island.
• At Pangu Temple, Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches discussed Yuan Yan and the others’ growing strength, and Jiufeng urged them to focus on strengthening themselves rather than becoming jealous.
• Dijiang asked Jiufeng how the Twelve Ancestral Witches could speed up their cultivation, and Jiufeng considered methods involving Merit, Fortune, and Origin Dao Pills.
• Jiufeng recalled her plans to earn merit for the Witch Clan through tasks such as repairing ley lines, establishing Pangu Statues, and clearing dangerous beings from the world.
• Jiufeng explained that the Twelve Ancestral Witches could earn great merit by establishing the Four-Season Cycle and governing natural laws, but only after reaching the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm and meeting other requirements.

Jiufeng planned to trade the Witch Clan’s unused treasures for Origin Dao Pills so she and the Twelve Ancestral Witches could advance to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm and earn more Merit and Fortune. The Purple Firmament Palace Guests reacted to Yuan Yan and the others’ growing power with envy, hopes of allegiance, or resentment.

• Jiufeng reasoned that after the Third Lecture, Origin Dao Pills would no longer be scarce and the Witch Clan could exchange its abundant treasures for enough pills to speed its cultivation.
• Jiufeng proposed selling the Witch Clan’s Innate Spiritual Treasures, including Supreme-Grade ones, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches unanimously approved.
• Xi He, Changxi, Purple Light, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hong Yun envied Yuan Yan and the others but resolved to befriend them rather than become their enemies.
• Queen Mother of the West, Jiuxuan, and Ran Deng considered joining the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage to gain its backing and resources.
• Dongwang Gong and Kunpeng resented Yuan Yan and the others’ repeated gains of Merit and Fortune.

After tens of thousands of years of discussing the Dao, Yuan Yan and the others ended their gathering and prepared to divide their duties. Yuan Yan then stopped Yuan Ling and Fuxi to begin redistributing their Innate Spiritual Treasures, revealing the immense fortune accumulated by the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.

• Di Jun and Jiufeng visited Yingzhou Immortal Island to trade treasures for Origin Dao Pills and resources, and Yuan Yan granted them limited quotas.
• Yuan Yan and the other five concluded their Dao discussion and returned to the Three Lights Divine Water Pool.
• Yuan Ling and Fuxi prepared to leave and carry out their assigned tasks, while the others considered their next duties and future rotations.
• Yuan Yan stopped Yuan Ling and Fuxi to propose redistributing their Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Nuwa and Fuxi presented their treasures, and more than nine hundred Innate Spiritual Treasures filled the air.

Yuan Yan’s group reviewed how their profound fortune and Yuan Yan’s trades had earned them more than a thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures. Yuan Yan allocated the gathered treasures among the six, and the chapter ended with him settling Nuwa’s objection by promising Yuan Ling another treasure after an upgrade.

• Yuan Yan’s treasure hunting, trades, and Three Corpses Severing Method brought him and his companions more than a thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Yuan Yan assigned the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus to himself, the Qiankun Cauldron and Cosmos World-Defining Sword to Yuan Jie, and the Primordial Five Directional Banners and Book of Life and Death to Yuan Lun.
• Yuan Yan allocated the Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus to Yuan Ling, the Nine Heavens Breath Soil, Red Silk Ball, and Mountain and River State Map to Nuwa, and the Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus to Fuxi.
• Nuwa offered the Mountain and River State Map to Yuan Ling, who refused it, and Yuan Yan upheld his allocation.
• Yuan Yan promised Yuan Ling that Treasure-Dropping Money would belong to him after it merged with the two Yin-Yang Great Dao Furnaces and became at least a Top-Tier Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure.

Yuan Yan and the others redistributed their Innate Spiritual Treasures and agreed to keep most of the remaining treasures in the Inner Treasury until they had comprehended their Dao principles. They also agreed to lend one another treasures for comprehension, then went their separate ways as Yuan Ling and Fuxi departed to carry out their tasks.

• Yuan Yan allocated the Supreme-Grade and higher treasures among the six cultivators and their Three Corpse Dao Bodies, with Fuxi choosing five first.
• The group assigned the remaining Innate Spiritual Treasures to the Inner Treasury and entrusted more than one hundred and fifty Innate Spiritual Roots to Nuwa's care.
• Fuxi and the others selected treasures suited to themselves without disputes, completing the redistribution.
• Yuan Yan proposed that they borrow one another's treasures for Dao comprehension, and Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi agreed.
• Yuan Ling and Fuxi left with their Three Corpse Dao Bodies to begin their assigned tasks, while Yuan Jie and Yuan Lun stayed behind.

Yuan Yan and Nuwa settled the Innate Spiritual Roots from Treasure-Distribution Rock, then joined Yuan Jie and Yuan Lun in cultivating and studying the treasure’s Sage Restriction. Twelve Epochs after the Third Lecture, Hongjun began unifying with the Dao, strengthening the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao as the Purple Firmament Palace guests paid their respects.

• Yuan Yan helped Nuwa and their Three Corpse Dao Bodies choose locations and arrange formations for more than one hundred and fifty Innate Spiritual Roots, a task that took several Epochs.
• Yuan Yan returned to Great Yan Blessed Land and joined Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Nuwa in activating the formation around the merging treasures and cultivating.
• Yuan Yan studied Treasure-Distribution Rock and discovered that Hongjun’s Sage Restriction was its greatest value, though he could not yet control it.
• Yuan Yan placed Treasure-Distribution Rock in Great Yan Blessed Land for Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Nuwa, and others to study with him.
• Twelve Epochs after the Third Lecture, Hongjun began unifying with the Dao, and the Primordial World’s laws, spiritual energy, and Dao rhyme grew stronger.
• The Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests bowed toward Purple Firmament Palace, and the Primordial World became more complete and harmonious.

Yuan Yan and the others discussed how to maintain their dominance without openly pursuing hegemony, then resumed seclusion. Nearly five hundred Epochs later, Di Jun and Taiyi emerged from stalled cultivation and reviewed their plans to form the Demon Clan and challenge the Witch Clan.

• Yuan Yan told Nuwa, Fuxi, and Yuan Ling that they must stay ahead of other powers and gather Fortune without directly seeking to unify the Primordial World.
• Fuxi questioned whether Yuan Yan had changed his mind about contending for hegemony, and Yuan Yan reaffirmed that they should avoid it unless they could surpass the Heavenly Dao and suppress all rivals.
• Yuan Yan, Nuwa, Fuxi, and Yuan Ling continued their seclusion while Yuan Jie and Yuan Lun carried out their assigned tasks.
• Nearly five hundred Epochs after the Third Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, Di Jun and Taiyi awoke from Dao enlightenment without breaking through and met to discuss their progress.
• Taiyi recalled that Yuan Ling's Immortal Script had become orthodox and that Di Jun had traded treasures for Origin Dao Pills, but their cultivation still lagged behind their expectations.
• Di Jun and Taiyi planned to drill the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation, establish the Demon Clan, use the resulting Merit and Fortune to advance, and then attack the Witch Clan before unifying the Eastern Continent.

After five hundred Epochs, Di Jun and Taiyi remained stuck at the Middle-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal, so Di Jun ordered them to establish the Demon Clan before their rivals could grow stronger. He blamed the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng for damaging their foundations and concluded that they had to destroy them before they could repair their Dao paths.

• Di Jun and Taiyi's forces had perfected their training and the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation, but the brothers had failed to break through their cultivation bottleneck.
• Di Jun ordered Taiyi to secretly gather their recruited cultivators at the Sun Star Domain, drill the formation, and then announce the Demon Clan's establishment.
• Taiyi questioned why they would not wait until they reached the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal, but Di Jun feared the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng might advance first.
• Di Jun attributed their damaged foundations and limited prospects to the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng, who had forced them into grievous battles.
• Di Jun reasoned that he and Taiyi could only restore their Dao paths by destroying the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng first.

Di Jun and Taiyi secretly gathered their followers and established the Demon Clan, receiving vast Merit and Fortune from the Heavenly Dao. They failed to sever their obsession corpses but broke through to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal, leaving them poised to confront the Witch Clan.

• Di Jun and Taiyi secretly assembled their cultivators and drilled the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation until they could deploy it instantly.
• Di Jun and Taiyi announced the establishment of the Demon Clan, naming Di Jun its Demon Emperor and Taiyi its Eastern Emperor.
• The Heavenly Dao granted Merit to Di Jun, Taiyi, their followers, Demon Clan members, and the Demon Clan’s Fortune.
• Di Jun and Taiyi failed to sever their obsession corpses because their resentment toward the Witch Clan and Jiufeng remained unresolved.
• Di Jun and Taiyi burned Merit to comprehend their Great Dao and broke through to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal.
• The cultivators under Di Jun and Taiyi also improved their cultivation through the blessing of Merit and Fortune.

Di Jun and Taiyi established the Demon Clan and tried to include countless races and beings in it through its Fortune and Merit. Powerful clans and experts rejected the claim, while the Demon Clan survived by absorbing Fortune from beings unable to resist; Di Jun and Taiyi advanced to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm.

• Di Jun and Taiyi defined a vast range of beings as demons, and their forces merged their Fortune into the Demon Clan’s Golden Crow manifestation.
• Nuwa, Fuxi, and other powerful experts objected to being classified as demons, while the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, Kunpeng, and Bai Ze rejected the Demon Clan’s claims and severed their connections where they could.
• The Demon Clan’s Fortune manifestation suffered severe damage as Quasi-Sages and Primordial Golden Immortals destroyed the Merit and Fortune sent to them.
• Beings unable to sense or resist the descending Merit and Fortune passively joined the Demon Clan and contributed Fortune, restoring and strengthening its manifestation.
• The Golden Crow manifestation withdrew its offering from Great Firmament Golden Immortals, leaving their races with only weak connections to the Demon Clan.
• Di Jun and Taiyi spent most of their establishment Merit and advanced to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm, while their cultivators also improved.

Dongwang Gong raged after Di Jun and Taiyi established the Demon Clan, then decided their ties to it would force them into a deadly war with the Witch Clan. He planned to exploit the aftermath, seize the Chaos Bell, and found the Immortal Court, while plotting to make Queen Mother of the West submit to him.

• Dongwang Gong cursed Di Jun and Taiyi for founding the Demon Clan before he established the Immortal Court, and blamed Queen Mother of the West and the Thirteen Ancestral Witches for thwarting his plans.
• Dongwang Gong recalled that he had delayed founding the Immortal Court while waiting for Yuan Yan and his companions to show their intentions and trying twice to persuade Queen Mother of the West to join him.
• Dongwang Gong reasoned that Di Jun and Taiyi would have to defend the Demon Clan against the Witch Clan or suffer the collapse of its Fortune and the resulting backlash.
• Dongwang Gong planned to wait for the two factions to devastate one another, seize Taiyi's Chaos Bell, and establish the Immortal Court to gain Merit and Fortune.
• Dongwang Gong resolved to force Queen Mother of the West to become his cultivation partner and threatened to harvest her Primordial Origin if she refused.

The Ancestral Witches investigated how Di Jun and Taiyi had built the forces that joined the Demon Clan and debated how to destroy it. They realized the Demon Clan might draw Di Jun and Taiyi away from the Sun Star, but Houtu warned that they could already have the Zhou Tian Star Formation.

• The eleven Ancestral Witches watched Di Jun and Taiyi establish the Demon Clan and saw its Fortune attempt to gather the Primordial World's tribes and living beings.
• Zhu Jiuyin and Jiufeng returned from investigating the River of Time and revealed that Di Jun and Taiyi's Dao Body avatars had secretly cultivated the Demon Clan's forces.
• Jiufeng feared the Witch Clan could not avoid the coming Calamity Cycle, but Dijiang argued that attacking the Demon Clan would force Di Jun and Taiyi off the Sun Star.
• Xuanming and Zhu Jiuyin cautioned that Di Jun and Taiyi must have prepared a countermeasure, and Houtu suggested it was the Zhou Tian Star Formation.

Jiufeng persuaded the Ancestral Witches to provoke Di Jun and Taiyi into battle by using other forces to attack the Demon Clan. She proposed offering High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to recruit those forces, then exploiting their gains and accumulated Karmic Force afterward.

• Dijiang worried that the Zhou Tian Star Formation might make a direct assault on the Demon Clan dangerous, but insisted they had to stop its growth and force Di Jun and Taiyi to fight.
• Houtu agreed that the Witches needed to act cautiously, and Jiufeng suggested persuading Ji Meng, Yingzhao, Bai Ze, and the other demon leaders to attack the Demon Clan instead.
• Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches approved Jiufeng's plan, while Dijiang questioned how they could convince the demon leaders to cooperate.
• Zhurong offered to force the demon leaders to comply, but Dijiang rebuked him, and the others rejected his approach as likely to create resentment.
• Jiufeng proposed offering the demon leaders High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to get them to seize Demon Clan territory and slaughter or subdue its members, then using their Karmic Force and captured lands to the Witches' advantage.

The Ancestral Witches debated whether to recruit Ji Meng, Yingzhao, Bai Ze, and other powerful figures or use them as expendable blades against the Demon Clan. After learning that Di Jun and Taiyi might escape to the Thirty-Three Heavens, Dijiang decided the Witch Clan should prepare to recruit them and contend for supremacy if necessary.

• Jiufeng proposed recruiting Ji Meng, Yingzhao, Bai Ze, and other suitable Innate Divines with spiritual treasures, while arranging for Great Firmament Golden Immortals to attack the Demon Clan.
• Dijiang asked the Ancestral Witches whether to recruit the powerful figures sincerely or use them as blades, and Zhu Jiuyin argued for subduing them.
• Qiangliang opposed recruiting them because the cost in treasures and cultivation resources could weaken the Witch Clan.
• Zhu Jiuyin questioned what would happen if Di Jun and Taiyi escaped, and Xi Ci said they would eventually have to establish a foothold.
• Jiufeng explained that Di Jun and Taiyi could hide the Thirty-Three Heavens atop Mount Buzhou and establish the Heavenly Court there.
• Dijiang decided to prepare to recruit Ji Meng, Yingzhao, Bai Ze, and the others, and said the Witch Clan should intervene proactively in the struggle for supremacy if it could not kill Di Jun and Taiyi.

After gaining Merit from founding the Demon Clan, Di Jun and Taiyi broke through and prepared to challenge the Witch Clan. Di Jun announced that he would lead an attack on Pangu Temple in ten thousand years, leaving observers to wonder if the Demon Clan was making a desperate bid for survival.

• Jiufeng agreed with Dijiang that the Witch Clan should gather Fortune and resources, and warned against reckless slaughter that could bring Karma during the Calamity Cycle.
• Di Jun and Taiyi broke through to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm as Merit descended, and they publicly displayed the Demon Clan’s rise.
• Di Jun and Taiyi glared at powerful figures who had rejected their ties to the Demon Clan, intending to make them pay after the Demon Clan’s victory.
• Di Jun sent his Dao voice across the Primordial World, challenging the Witch Clan and promising to lead the Demon Clan army against Pangu Temple in ten thousand years.
• Observers judged that the Demon Clan was badly outmatched by the Witch Clan’s Ancestral Witches and Innate Great Witches, and suspected Di Jun and Taiyi were willing to gamble everything.

Di Jun and Taiyi provoked the Witch Clan, but Jiufeng saw through Di Jun’s attempt to delay the war and forced him to accept an immediate battle. Di Jun agreed, though he privately worried about the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation.

• The Ancestral Witches traded insults with Taiyi after Zhurong and Gonggong confronted Di Jun and Taiyi outside Pangu Temple.
• Di Jun proposed settling the conflict in ten thousand years, but Jiufeng struck Zhurong and demanded that the Demon Clan fight in the Nine Heavens Astral Wind Void Layer.
• Jiufeng threatened to have Xingtian and the Great Witches attack Demon Clan territories and capture or kill the members Di Jun had left behind.
• Di Jun agreed to fight immediately, believing the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation had grown stronger with the Demon Clan’s cultivation.
• Di Jun privately warned Taiyi that the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation could strengthen the Ancestral Witches and threaten their formation.