Chapter Summaries

The Ancestral Witches decided to avoid war unless Di Jun, Taiyi, and Dongwang Gong attacked or invaded their territories, while preparing to establish the Witch Clan and Earth Court if needed. As the Witch Clan’s forces gathered at Mount Buzhou, Di Jun weighed the risks and resolved that he did not want to fight them yet.

• Dijiang decided the Ancestral Witches would heal and hold off on establishing the Witch Clan and Earth Court unless Di Jun, Taiyi, and Dongwang Gong provoked them.
• The Ancestral Witches agreed to watch their rivals, and Dijiang sent Jiufeng to relay their orders and remain ready to summon them to Mount Buzhou.
• Jiufeng left Pangu Temple, prompting the Witch Clan’s one hundred and seven Innate Great Witches and its allied powers to gather at Mount Buzhou without taking further action.
• Di Jun sensed the gathering and considered the injuries, losses, and risk of the Witch Clan gaining Heavenly Dao Merit before a war.
• Di Jun concluded that fighting the Witch Clan now would be too dangerous and that he did not want to go to war with them.

Di Jun decided to withdraw his troops from the Eastern Continent–Southern Continent border and conquer the Southern Continent rather than provoke the Witch Clan. When Dongwang Gong urged him to join forces against the Witch Clan, Di Jun warned that they could use Heavenly Merit to recover, leaving Dongwang Gong shaken by the danger.

• Di Jun planned to conquer the Southern Continent, gather resources and powerful allies, and prepare a grand formation before eventually fighting the Witch Clan.
• After the Witch Clan made no move for over a year, Di Jun concluded they did not intend to wage war and decided to withdraw his troops and attack the Southern Continent.
• Di Jun sent his divine sense to Dongwang Gong and told him of his plan to withdraw from the border.
• Dongwang Gong urged Di Jun to seize the chance to attack the injured Witch Clan and kill several Ancestral Witches.
• Di Jun warned that the Witch Clan could formally announce itself, gain Heavenly Merit, and recover its injuries during battle, and Dongwang Gong had no answer.

Dongwang Gong argued against attacking the Witch Clan immediately, and Di Jun chose to withdraw rather than risk a battle. Di Jun then ordered the Demon Clan to conceal their auras and begin conquering the Southern Continent while avoiding powerful reclusive experts.

• Dongwang Gong argued that attacking now might force the Witch Clan to spend Merit healing, but privately preferred waiting to strengthen the Immortal Court and its formation.
• Di Jun teased Dongwang Gong about whether he would fight or withdraw, then ordered the troops to withdraw.
• Di Jun commanded the Demon Clan to restrain their auras and sent Taiyi to heal while leading forces to conquer the Southern Continent.
• Di Jun directed his forces to target large territorial factions and avoid reclusive experts, whose resistance could strengthen the Witch Clan or turn powerful divines against the Demon Clan.

Taiyi led the Demon Clan’s campaign to seize the Southern Continent while Di Jun kept most of the clan’s elite forces in the Thirty-Three Heavens to guard against the Witch Clan. In less than one Epoch, the Demon Clan nominally occupied the continent, but countless small factions remained outside its control.

• Di Jun stationed most of the Demon Clan’s elite forces in the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Taiyi divided his army into a hundred forces and attacked the Southern Continent’s major factions.
• Taiyi demanded that each faction either submit to the Demon Clan and provide cultivators and resources or face destruction.
• Nearly one-third of the factions submitted, nearly one-fifth resisted and were mostly destroyed, and the remaining factions withdrew from the Southern Continent.
• Taiyi’s rapid campaign gave the Demon Clan nominal control of the Southern Continent in less than one Epoch, though it had not yet subdued or established rule over the countless smaller factions.

Di Jun and Taiyi established layered rule over the Southern Continent, boosting the Demon Clan’s resources and Fortune. Di Jun then created the Zhou Tian Star Formation after sixteen Epochs of deduction, and the chapter ended as it described the higher-grade Star Banners needed to form it.

• Di Jun and Taiyi divided the Southern Continent among Great Firmament Golden Immortals, who delegated territories down through their subordinates.
• The Demon Clan spent seven or eight Epochs establishing effective control, gaining soldiers and resources that restored and increased its Fortune.
• The Demon Clan grew rapidly, and one cultivator advanced to Quasi-Sage, bringing its ranks to four Quasi-Sages and two Primordial Golden Immortals.
• Di Jun returned alone to the Sun Star, where he healed while using the River Chart and Luo Book to devise the Zhou Tian Star Formation.
• Di Jun completed the formation’s design in sixteen Epochs and determined that its power depended on refining at least 129,600 Star Banners.
• Di Jun’s account explained that Supreme-Grade Postnatal Spiritual Treasure banners could not reach Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal power, then began describing a stronger Postnatal Supreme Treasure set.

Di Jun and Taiyi gathered stellar materials to prepare the Zhou Tian Star Formation, accepting the risks of stealing Stellar Origin because they needed the formation to defeat the Witch Clan. After recovering from their injuries and severing their three corpses anew, they began refining the Star Banners, but chose to make them Supreme-Grade Postnatal Spiritual Treasures first and upgrade them later.

• Di Jun and Taiyi gathered unique Divine Materials and Stellar Origin from Primordial Stars without Star Lords, while trading for materials from stars with Star Lords.
• Di Jun and Taiyi planned to demand Stellar Origin from Star Lords after completing the Zhou Tian Star Banners, and to claim their Star God Authority if they refused.
• Di Jun and Taiyi recovered from their injuries with Creation Dao Pills and Three Lights Divine Water, then severed their three corpses again once their damaged treasures had recovered enough.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and their Three Corpse Dao Bodies began refining the Zhou Tian Star Banners, but their limited artifact-refinement skills made completing Supreme Treasures too slow.
• Di Jun and Taiyi decided to first refine the full set of Zhou Tian Star Banners as Supreme-Grade Postnatal Spiritual Treasures and upgrade them gradually.

The Immortal Court strengthened its rule over the Four Seas and began preparing a second Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, while the Ancestral Witches emerged from seclusion to establish the Witch Clan. Dijiang’s declaration to Pangu and the Heavenly Dao began, with the clan pledging to cleanse the Primordial World’s baleful energies.

• Dongwang Gong unified the Four Seas, greatly increased the Immortal Court’s Fortune, and strengthened its forces.
• Dongwang Gong ordered the Immortal Court to refine a Supreme-Grade Postnatal Spiritual Treasure Ten Thousand Immortals Formation Diagram so it could form a second formation.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches reached the Peak Middle-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm but stopped just short of breaking through.
• Dijiang led the Twelve Ancestral Witches and one hundred and seven Innate Great Witches out of Pangu Temple to establish the Witch Clan.
• Dijiang declared to Pangu and the Heavenly Dao that the Witch Clan would take responsibility for clearing baleful energies and repairing the Primordial World.

The Witch Clan’s founding won Pangu’s acknowledgment and Heavenly Dao Merit, strengthening its members and increasing its Fortune. Di Jun, Taiyi, and Dongwang Gong feared the Witches would soon establish a second power and go to war, while Dongwang Gong’s Immortal Court continued refining an unfinished treasure in the East Sea.

• Pangu’s lingering Will touched the Witches, and the Thirteen Ancestral Witches and One Hundred and Seven Innate Great Witches received Merit for founding the Witch Clan.
• Dijiang and Houtu advanced to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm, while four Top-Tier Innate Great Witches advanced and seven Elite Innate Great Witches became Primordial Origin Golden Immortals.
• Dijiang thanked Father God, and the other Witches bowed in gratitude for Pangu’s acknowledgment.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Dongwang Gong worried that the Witch Clan would establish another power, gain more Merit, and soon fight them for dominion over the Primordial World.
• Dongwang Gong watched the Witch Clan’s founding while the Immortal Court’s cultivators refined a half-complete Supreme-Grade Postnatal Spiritual Treasure in the East Sea.

Dongwang Gong and the Demon Clan prepared to face the Witch Clan after the Twelve Ancestral Witches established their faction and received Heavenly Dao Merit. They recognized that their formations and weapons were unfinished and debated how to survive an imminent war.

• Dongwang Gong judged that the Immortal Court and Demon Clan would likely be outmatched, but decided they had to fight rather than let the Witch Clan seize their territory and Fortune.
• Dongwang Gong ordered the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation Diagram completed early and summoned the Immortal Court’s strongest cultivators to Penglai Immortal Island.
• The Ten Thousand Immortals Formation Diagram was completed as a Supreme-Grade Postnatal Spiritual Treasure with thirty-eight Postnatal Divine Restrictions.
• On the Sun Star, Di Jun and Taiyi learned that the Witch Clan had been established and feared the Twelve Ancestral Witches would soon go to war against them.
• Di Jun and Taiyi considered joining the Immortal Court to fight the Witch Clan, but their Zhou Tian Star Banners remained unfinished and they believed their formations might withstand only one strike from the Pangu True Body.

Di Jun devised a plan to withdraw the Demon Clan to the Thirty-Three Heavens and let the Witch Clan fight the Immortal Court before deciding whether to intervene. Meanwhile, the Thirteen Ancestral Witches established the Earth Court, received vast Merit, and eleven Ancestral Witches advanced to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm.

• Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Book, while Taiyi used the Eastern Emperor Bell, to conceal the Heavenly Secrets before ordering his forces to withdraw from the Southern Continent and plunder resources.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches and their followers declared the establishment of the Earth Court and named its Divine Emperors and Divine Kings.
• The Heavenly Dao and Pangu Will responded, and a vast sea of Mysterious Yellow Merit descended and was distributed among the Earth Court's leaders, cultivators, soldiers, and Fortune.
• The eleven Ancestral Witches who had not yet reached the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm broke through as the Merit descended.

After receiving Merit for establishing the Earth Court, the Witch Clan’s cultivators made major advances, and the Thirteen Ancestral Witches prepared to act. Instead of launching a war against the Immortal Court and Demon Clan, they began establishing the Primordial World’s Four-Season Cycle, with Jumang taking charge of spring.

• Dijiang and Houtu saved their remaining Merit for future breakthroughs and to form Merit Golden Wheels that would protect their consciousness from Calamity Fiend Aura.
• Earth Court cultivators across many ranks advanced in cultivation, including eight Great Firmament Golden Immortals who became Quasi-Sages.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches stepped forward as powerhouses across the Primordial World watched, expecting them to send troops against the Immortal Court and Demon Clan.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches proclaimed that they would restore the Primordial World’s disordered seasons and establish the Four-Season Cycle.
• Jumang declared himself the Spring God and released the Wood Great Dao to bring forth the changes of spring.

The Ancestral Witches established the four seasons and assigned divine duties over time, wind, thunder, lightning, water, weather, and earth. Dijiang then spread their seasonal order throughout the Primordial World.

• Jumang used the Wood Dao to bring spring to the Primordial Land, awakening plants and beasts.
• Zhurong established summer, making the land blaze with heat and vigorous growth.
• Rushou established autumn, turning leaves and fruit golden and red as plants gathered their essence.
• Xuanming established winter, covering the land in snow and sending living beings into dormancy.
• Zhu Jiuyin set the Primordial World's measures of Epochs, meetings, years, days, and two-hour periods, while Tian Wu, Qiangliang, Xi Ci, Gonggong, Shibi Shi, and Houtu regulated their respective forces in accordance with the seasons.
• Dijiang used spatial Dao intent to carry the seasonal order to every corner of the Primordial World.

The Thirteen Ancestral Witches established the Four Seasons Order, earning vast Heavenly Dao Merit that raised their cultivation to the Eighth-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal. They prepared to attack the Immortal Court and Southern Continent, but Jiufeng’s intelligence suggested that Di Jun and Taiyi would shelter the Demon Clan in the hidden Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Jiufeng declared her authority over nature and led the Thirteen Ancestral Witches in establishing the Four Seasons Order.
• The Heavenly Dao accepted the new order and bestowed all its immense Merit on the Thirteen Ancestral Witches, with Jumang, Zhurong, Rushou, Xuanming, and Jiufeng receiving larger shares.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches absorbed the Merit and their reserves of Pangu Blood Pool essence blood, Innate Fiendish Qi, and Innate Turbid Qi, successively reaching the Eighth-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches judged that they could defeat the Demon Clan and destroy the Immortal Court, but doubted they could kill Di Jun and Taiyi or destroy the Demon Clan.
• Jiufeng had discovered that Di Jun and Taiyi controlled the Thirty-Three Heavens, but she and the Twelve Ancestral Witches could not locate it, leaving them unable to attack the Demon Clan’s hidden stronghold.

Earth Court’s army confronted Dongwang Gong’s Immortal Court at the East Sea after Di Jun and Taiyi abandoned their promised alliance. Before battle began, Jiufeng offered Dongwang Gong a place as Divine Emperor in Earth Court, leaving him surprised by her proposal.

• Dijiang led the Thirteen Ancestral Witches and Earth Court’s forces to march against the Immortal Court and Demon Clan.
• Earth Court arrived near Penglai and found Dongwang Gong waiting without Di Jun or Taiyi’s forces.
• Dongwang Gong revealed that the Demon Clan had withdrawn from the Southern Continent after stripping its resources, and the Ancestral Witches mocked Di Jun and Taiyi for breaking their alliance.
• As the Twelve Ancestral Witches prepared to form their battle formation, Jiufeng asked them to wait and offered Dongwang Gong the rank of Divine Emperor if he joined Earth Court.
• Dongwang Gong was surprised by the offer and considered the risks and rewards of joining Earth Court.

Dongwang Gong rejected Jiufeng’s offer to join the Earth Court, choosing to preserve his Dao even at the cost of death. As the Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Pangu True Body, Dongwang Gong raised two Ten Thousand Immortals Formations, but Dijiang’s Heaven-Splitting strike shattered them both.

• Dongwang Gong weighed Jiufeng’s offer, then refused to surrender because it would flaw his Dao Heart and endanger his hope of attaining the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.
• Dongwang Gong’s resolve strengthened his state of mind and slightly advanced his cultivation, prompting Jiufeng to confirm his choice.
• Dijiang accepted Dongwang Gong’s challenge and led the Twelve Ancestral Witches in forming the Pangu True Body.
• Dongwang Gong ordered the Immortal Court to form two Ten Thousand Immortals Formations, which summoned two Immortal Dao Rivers to meet the Pangu True Body’s attack.
• Dijiang unleashed Heaven-Splitting, cleaved through both Immortal Dao Rivers, and shattered the two Ten Thousand Immortals Formations.

The Pangu True Body’s Heaven-Splitting Axe Light apparently killed Dongwang Gong and destroyed his Three Corpse Dao Bodies, while secretly leaving him a sliver of spirit hidden in the Dragon-Headed Crook. The battlefield fell silent, and Dijiang considered striking again to wipe out the surviving Immortal Court forces.

• The Heaven-Splitting Axe Light broke through Dongwang Gong and his Three Corpse Dao Bodies’ defenses and erased nearly all traces of them.
• Dongwang Gong secretly preserved a sliver of his Innate Imperishable True Spirit in the Dragon-Headed Crook, though he was left grievously injured and unlikely to awaken soon.
• The battlefield and the distant observers were stunned by the Pangu True Body’s immense power, while Yuan Yan and the other Yingzhou Immortal Island experts assessed the threat it posed.
• The surviving Immortal Court cultivators feared provoking the Pangu True Body, but many of their powerful fighters remained alive and capable of resistance.
• Dijiang considered controlling the Pangu True Body to launch another axe strike and completely destroy the Immortal Court forces.

Jiufeng persuaded the Twelve Ancestral Witches to disperse the Pangu True Body so Earth Court could avoid excessive casualties and murderous karma while subduing the Immortal Court. As Earth Court called for surrender, the Immortal Court’s Fortune collapsed, driving some cultivators to attack for Dongwang Gong’s treasures, and the Ancestral Witches swiftly crushed the assault.

• Jiufeng warned the Twelve Ancestral Witches that another Pangu True Body strike could weaken Earth Court, incur immense murderous karma, and cause uncontrolled destruction, so they dispersed it.
• Jiufeng offered the Immortal Court cultivators a chance to surrender while the Thirteen Ancestral Witches and Earth Court’s experts intimidated them with their Great Dao auras.
• Dongwang Gong’s death and the Immortal Court cultivators’ wavering thoughts caused the Immortal Court’s Fortune to collapse, releasing murderous Karmic Force onto its members.
• A voice urged the Immortal Court cultivators to seize Dongwang Gong’s remaining treasures and break through, prompting some experts to charge.
• Dijiang froze the attackers with his control of space, and several Ancestral Witches killed nearly all of them, leaving two Primordial Golden Immortals gravely injured and the remaining Immortal Court experts cowed.

The Three Pure Ones intervened after Dongwang Gong’s death to seize his treasures, prompting the Thirteen Ancestral Witches to fight them off. The Three Pure Ones appeared in person, and both sides faced off over the spoils without restarting the battle.

• Dijiang tried to collect Dongwang Gong’s treasures, but the Pangu Banner and Taiji Diagram disrupted his technique and moved to claim the spoils.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches repelled the Pangu Banner, Taiji Diagram, and Slaying Immortals Sword Formation, then Dijiang demanded that the Three Pure Ones show themselves.
• The Three Pure Ones came from Kunlun Mountain to the East Sea and personally wielded their treasures, forcing the Thirteen Ancestral Witches back temporarily.
• Dijiang challenged Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian over their interference, and Yuanshi declared that he did not care if the Earth Court became their enemy.
• Both sides guarded against the other while leaving Dongwang Gong’s treasures untouched, and Yuanshi believed the Three Pure Ones could withstand the Thirteen Ancestral Witches.

Jiufeng threatened the Three Pure Ones with a formation involving trillions of living beings, forcing Laozi to negotiate over Dongwang Gong’s treasures. Before Jiufeng could finish proposing terms, the Immortal Court’s experts tried to break out, and the East Sea battle erupted.

• Dijiang prepared to attack the Three Pure Ones, but Jiufeng confronted them and warned that she could use trillions of living beings to threaten their cultivation and attainment of the Dao.
• Laozi intervened and claimed the Pure Yang Origin, the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation Diagram, and the Dragon-Headed Crook for the Three Pure Ones, citing their fate and their master’s legacy.
• Jiufeng refused to surrender the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation Diagram and began to offer terms for the other treasures.
• The Immortal Court’s experts took advantage of the standoff and attempted to flee, but Earth Court experts intercepted them across the East Sea battlefield.
• Zhurong, Gonggong, and other Ancestral Witches attacked after Dijiang and Jiufeng gave their approval.

Laozi and Jiufeng negotiated over the Pure Yang Origin, Dragon-Headed Crook, and Ten Thousand Immortals Formation Diagram while the Three Pure Ones and the Ancestral Witches stood on the brink of conflict. They agreed to exchange treasures for the Postnatal formation diagram and other spoils, with Jiufeng setting minimum requirements for the treasures.

• Laozi stopped Yuanshi and Tongtian from seizing the Immortal Court treasures, then withdrew the Taiji Diagram as a gesture of goodwill.
• Jiufeng refused to surrender Earth Court's Innate Ten Thousand Immortals Formation Diagram, and Dijiang threatened to drag the Three Pure Ones into the tribulation if they fought.
• Jiufeng offered Dongwang Gong's Postnatal Ten Thousand Immortals Formation Diagram in exchange for treasures of equivalent value.
• Tongtian decided to relinquish his claim to the Innate formation diagram, and Laozi offered one Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and two High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Dijiang and Jiufeng accepted the offer, while Jiufeng required the treasures to meet specified minimum numbers of Innate Divine Restrictions.