Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan refused to give Jiufeng useful advice about keeping the Witch Clan out of the Calamity Cycle, concealing his concerns about how the clan’s survival could affect the Primordial World. Jiufeng returned to Mount Buzhou wary of Yuan Yan’s motives and the danger of turning him into an enemy.

• Yuan Yan weighed the benefits of helping Jiufeng against the possible consequences of changing the Calamity of Witches and Demons, then decided to pretend he had no good methods.
• Jiufeng challenged Yuan Yan’s claims, but he continued to evade her questions despite her anger.
• Jiufeng gave up pressing Yuan Yan, left Yingzhou Immortal Island, and returned to Mount Buzhou with mixed feelings about his attitude toward the Witch Clan.
• Jiufeng concluded that Yuan Yan might prefer the Witch Clan and Di Jun and Taiyi to weaken each other, but she feared provoking him and the powerful Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.
• Jiufeng considered that even a battle between the Witch Clan and Yingzhou Immortal Island could leave both sides vulnerable to Di Jun and Taiyi.

Yuan Yan strengthened the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage and prepared for the Twelve Ancestral Witches to break through. After all twelve reached the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, Di Jun and Taiyi sensed danger from their seclusion on the Sun Star.

• Yuan Yan instructed Yuan Lun and Yuan Ling to slay their final corpses, gave Nuwa the Staff of Life, and arranged for Fuxi to use the Wordless Heavenly Book to slay a corpse.
• Yuan Yan bestowed Innate Spiritual Treasures on twenty-four Purple Firmament Palace Guests and planned more expeditions to renowned mountain ranges.
• Over the following twenty Epochs, the Twelve Ancestral Witches broke through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and remained hidden in Pangu Hall to consolidate their cultivation.
• Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, and Nuwa successively slew their Benevolent Corpse Dao Bodies, while Yuan Yan’s Evil Corpse and Nuwa’s and Fuxi’s Obsession Corpses reached the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Yuan Lun’s Obsession Corpse and Fuxi fused the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment into the Wordless Heavenly Book, which Fuxi used to slay his Benevolent Corpse Dao Body.
• With fewer than two Epochs remaining until the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, Di Jun and Taiyi awoke from their cultivation with a strong sense of danger.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches surrounded Di Jun and Taiyi on the Sun Star after breaking through to the Primordial Golden Immortal Realm. Dijiang rejected Di Jun’s appeal to settle their enmity, and the witches prepared to kill or otherwise hinder the brothers before the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches arrived at the Sun Star and located Di Jun and Taiyi, who realized the witches had reached the Primordial Golden Immortal Realm.
• Taiyi tried to conceal their auras with the Chaos Bell while Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Book, but the witches surrounded them before they could escape.
• Zhurong attacked Di Jun and Taiyi with Primordial Fiendish Aura, and Taiyi’s Chaos Bell struggled to hold him off.
• Di Jun asked Dijiang why the witches were pursuing them, and Dijiang said their enmity could not be resolved and that Di Jun and Taiyi had to die.
• Dijiang’s group revealed that they had waited dozens of Epochs to attack, aiming to kill the brothers, make them miss the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, or leave them too injured to benefit from it.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches blocked Di Jun and Taiyi and attacked them after the brothers borrowed the Sun Origin to raise their power. Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to hold off the witches, but Di Jun was badly wounded, and the battle left Taiyi open to a devastating combined strike.

• Di Jun and Taiyi borrowed the Sun Origin, raising their cultivation to the Early Primordial Golden Immortal realm as the Twelve Ancestral Witches launched their attack.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin used the Space-Time Dao to hinder the Chaos Bell and cut off the brothers’ escape, while the other witches assaulted them with their divine abilities.
• Taiyi struggled to defend against the Space-Time and Five Elements attacks with the Chaos Bell, while Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Book to create the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin disrupted Di Jun’s formation, allowing the witches to batter him and leave him injured and bleeding across the Sun Star.
• Taiyi merged his Primordial Spirit with the Chaos Bell to hold back the witches and give Di Jun a brief respite, but the Ancestral Witches seized the opening and struck the Chaos Bell together.

Taiyi and Di Jun were overwhelmed by the Twelve Ancestral Witches, but they planned to use the Sun Star’s hidden defenses to escape and reach the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace. As their battle damaged the Sun Star and threatened the Primordial World, Yuan Yan could no longer bear to watch.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches shattered Taiyi’s protective light, injured his Primordial Spirit, and drove him into the Sun Star before he recovered and fought on.
• Di Jun and Taiyi remained at an absolute disadvantage, relying on the Sun Star’s power while secretly planning to trap their pursuers and flee to Purple Firmament Palace.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches continued their battle with Di Jun and Taiyi, shaking the Sun Star, extinguishing Solar Divine Fire, and sending burning fragments crashing into the Primordial World.
• Great Firmament Golden Immortals observed the battle but did not intervene, fearing the Twelve Ancestral Witches or missing the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace.
• Yuan Yan saw the Sun Star’s damage and the destruction caused by its falling fragments, and he could no longer bear to watch.

After battling the Twelve Ancestral Witches for tens of thousands of years, Di Jun and Taiyi turned the tide with hidden formations and escaped the Sun Star. The Ancestral Witches remained trapped as the chapter ended.

• Yuan Jie gathered the fragments of the Sun Star and Solar Divine Fire to contain the battle’s destructive aftershocks.
• Di Jun and Taiyi summoned the Innate Fusang Tree and trapped nine Ancestral Witches in the Innate Sun Grand Formation, while Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin remained outside it.
• Di Jun reinforced the formation with the River Chart and Luo Book as Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to attack Gonggong.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin blocked the Chaos Bell, but Taiyi trapped them and Gonggong in a second formation, the Sun Soul-Burning Origin-Eroding Grand Formation.
• Di Jun used an incarnation to strengthen the formation, then took the River Chart and Luo Book and escaped with Taiyi.

Di Jun and Taiyi fled the Sun Star, but Jiufeng ambushed them and gravely wounded Di Jun. Taiyi escaped with Di Jun inside the Chaos Bell, and Jiufeng explained to the arriving Twelve Ancestral Witches how she had become the Witch Clan’s Thirteenth Ancestral Witch.

• Di Jun and Taiyi concealed their auras and fled into the void, losing the Sun Star Origin’s support.
• Jiufeng struck Di Jun with a powerful Yin-Yang attack that shattered the River Chart and Luo Book’s defenses and gravely wounded him.
• Taiyi burned his Primordial Origin, took Di Jun into the Chaos Bell, and escaped through the disrupted space-time currents.
• Jiufeng failed to track the brothers and told Dijiang that Taiyi had escaped after her ambush.
• Jiufeng recalled how the Twelve Ancestral Witches had named her the Witch Clan Sage and shared their Origin Essence Blood to raise her into an Ancestral Witch.

Jiufeng regretted failing to stop Di Jun and Taiyi, but Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches reassured her and accepted her plan to pursue them at Purple Firmament Palace. The group divided their forces between looting the Sun Star, guarding the Innate Great Witches, and preparing an interception in the Inner Chaos.

• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches comforted Jiufeng, noting that she had wounded Di Jun and forced Taiyi to burn his Primordial Origin to escape.
• Jiufeng proposed intercepting Di Jun and Taiyi in the Inner Chaos before the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, then attacking them again when they left.
• Jiufeng also proposed that some Ancestral Witches search the Sun Star for useful treasures and that an Ancestral Witch guard the one hundred and seven Innate Great Witches on their journey.
• The Ancestral Witches agreed that Zhurong, Qiangliang, Yuzi, and Tian Wu would scour the Sun Star before heading to Purple Firmament Palace.
• Shibi Shi would guard the Innate Great Witches, while the remaining Ancestral Witches would travel ahead to prepare defenses and intercept Di Jun and Taiyi.

With the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace approaching, Di Jun and Taiyi arrived despite the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng trying to stop them. The Witches held back from attacking on Hongjun’s platform, and Houtu’s warning left most guests distancing themselves from the brothers.

• Yuan Yan noticed that the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng were hidden in the chaos, waiting for Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Taiyi burned his origin to speed the Chaos Bell past the Witches and land on the platform with Di Jun.
• Jiufeng and Dijiang restrained the Witches from attacking, while Jiufeng vowed to kill Di Jun and Taiyi after the lecture.
• Di Jun and Taiyi taunted the Witches and accused them of threatening other guests, but Dijiang dismissed Di Jun’s attempt to turn the crowd against the Witch Clan.
• Houtu said the Witches had received a revelation from Father God naming Di Jun and Taiyi as mortal enemies, and promised not to harm others unless they were provoked.
• Most Purple Firmament Palace Guests assured the Witches they would not oppose them and moved away from Di Jun and Taiyi.

Di Jun and Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to recover from their wounds before the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests gathered for Hongjun’s Second Lecture. Hongjun began explaining the Hunyuan Dao and the Three Corpses Severing method.

• Bai Ze reconsidered supporting Di Jun and Taiyi because opposing the Witch Clan could cost him his life.
• Di Jun and Taiyi entered the Chaos Bell’s Small World, where they accelerated time a hundredfold to recover, spending much of their accumulated resources.
• After another four or five thousand years, the thousand-Epoch deadline arrived, and the guests entered Purple Firmament Palace for the Second Lecture.
• Hongjun appeared on the high platform, effortlessly compelled the guests to sit, and began explaining the Hunyuan Dao and the obstacles to reaching the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Hongjun introduced the Quasi-Sage Dao and Three Corpses Severing, describing the Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and Self/Obsession Corpse.

Yuan Yan listened as Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained the Three Corpses Severing Method and discerned its stages, benefits, and limitations. He refined his own method rather than accepting Hongjun’s principles wholesale, and remained absorbed in that deduction.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun expounded the Three Corpses Severing Method to the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling entered an epiphany, with their Three Corpse Dao Bodies hidden within their spiritual platforms.
• Yuan Yan realized that Hongjun’s method was a cultivation system progressing from Early Quasi-Sage through Sub-Sage as one severed, merged, and returned the three corpses.
• Yuan Yan understood that the method could complement the Primordial Golden Immortal Path, but that Quasi-Sages lacked the cultivation and Dao realm of Primordial Golden Immortals.
• Yuan Yan recognized that using Innate Spiritual Treasures or Spiritual Roots as vessels granted powerful Dao Bodies and insights, but limited how freely they wielded those borrowed Daos.
• Yuan Yan continued refining his own Three Corpses Severing Method instead of adopting Hongjun’s principles wholesale.

Yuan Yan and the others perfected their Three Corpses Severing Method, combining it with Hongjun’s teachings and advancing their cultivation. Hongjun noticed their unusual potential but decided not to interfere, leaving Yuan Yan to decide whether to share his method.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling jointly refined Yuan Yan’s Three Corpses Severing Method by combining it with Hongjun’s teachings.
• They reflected on their true nature, severed their remaining thoughts of benevolence and evil, and entered a deeper state of enlightenment as their Dao and cultivation advanced.
• Hongjun noticed Yuan Yan’s method and wondered at the four gourd-vine siblings’ ability to divide into multiple Dao Bodies.
• Hongjun considered whether Yuan Yan’s future strength might upset the balance but decided he had no reason to weaken him or interfere.
• Hongjun withdrew his attention and resolved to ask Yuan Yan after the lecture whether he would share his improved method.

After Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended his second lecture, Yuan Yan assessed the immense breakthroughs made by the Purple Firmament Palace Guests. Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had all reached late-stage primordial golden immortal, leaving Yuan Yan with formidable strength as the Witch Clan lagged behind.

• The top-tier innate divines attempted breakthroughs during Hongjun's lecture, while other guests advanced their Great Dao and a handful became early quasi-sages.
• After an epoch, Hongjun stopped lecturing, and the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests awoke from their Dao comprehension.
• Yuan Yan used the lingering Great Dao resonance to assess the guests' progress and saw that most had reached perfected great firmament golden immortal or higher.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling all advanced to late-stage primordial golden immortal, while their corpse dao bodies also grew stronger.
• Yuan Yan counted fourteen primordial golden immortal dao bodies and himself, judging that they could defeat the other guests unless the Three Pure Ones or the Twelve Ancestral Witches combined their powers.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng remained early primordial golden immortals, and most of the one hundred and seven innate great witches advanced only one or two minor stages.

After Hongjun rewarded Yuan Yan for improving the Three Corpses Severing Method and ended the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, the Three Pure Ones asked to obtain the method. Yuan Yan decided to share it in exchange for a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and a Dao Heart oath, though the negotiations had not yet begun.

• Hongjun bestowed the Water Spirit Pearl, Fire Spirit Pearl, and Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls upon Yuan Yan for improving the Three Corpses Severing Method.
• Hongjun told the Top-Tier Innate Divines they could discuss obtaining Yuan Yan's method with him, then ended the lecture and departed.
• Taiqing Laozi asked Yuan Yan whether he would trade the improved method and what price he required.
• Yuan Yan weighed the benefits and risks of sharing the method, including Hongjun's wishes and the chance others might discover its secrets.
• Yuan Yan decided to offer the method for one High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and a Dao Heart oath never to pass it on.

Yuan Yan set the price for his improved Three Corpses Severing Method, and the Three Pure Ones traded for it. After Yuanshi said they could destroy their old Three Corpse Dao Bodies and cultivate the new method, many guests wanted to trade, but the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng cut in line.

• Yuan Yan demanded one High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure or High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root, plus a Dao Heart Oath, from each buyer.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian swore not to reveal the method, traded three High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, and received jade talismans from Yuan Yan.
• Tongtian regretted that the Three Pure Ones had already severed a corpse, and Yuanshi proposed destroying their old Three Corpse Dao Bodies before recovering and using Yuan Yan’s method.
• Yuanshi’s proposal shocked the guests, while those unable to afford the price worried they would miss out and dared not challenge Yuan Yan.
• Many Top-Tier Innate Divines approached Yuan Yan to trade, but the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng pushed through the crowd and cut in line.

Dijiang and Di Jun each offered Yuan Yan a trade over his improved Three Corpses Severing Method, hoping to prevent or secure it for their respective sides. Yuan Yan weighed the consequences of choosing either faction but had not yet decided when the chapter ended.

• Dijiang thanked Yuan Yan for helping the Witch Clan reach the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, and Yuan Yan recognized his attempt to stir discord between him and Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Dijiang offered two Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for Yuan Yan's promise not to trade the method to Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Taiyi grew furious at Dijiang's provocation, but Di Jun restrained him and avoided starting a conflict in the Purple Firmament Palace.
• Di Jun offered Yuan Yan one High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure from each brother in exchange for the method.
• Yuan Yan considered how trading with either side could shift the balance of power among the Witch Clan, the Demon Clan, and Dongwang Gong, but made no choice.

Yuan Yan accepted Dijiang’s offer and agreed not to give Di Jun and Taiyi the improved Three Corpses Severing Method, choosing the Witch Clan over the ambitious Demon Clan. After the guests left Purple Firmament Palace, the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng began battling Di Jun and Taiyi in the Inner Chaos, with many powerful cultivators watching from hiding.

• Yuan Yan decided that Di Jun and Taiyi posed a greater threat than the Witch Clan and accepted Dijiang’s transaction in exchange for two Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Di Jun stopped Taiyi from rebuking Yuan Yan, and the brothers left Purple Firmament Palace while suppressing their anger.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches followed Di Jun and Taiyi, while many Purple Firmament Palace Guests completed transactions with Yuan Yan and departed.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng fought Di Jun and Taiyi in the Inner Chaos as dozens of Primordial Golden Immortals, nearly ten Quasi-Sages, and hundreds of Great Firmament Golden Immortals watched.

Yuan Yan, Nuwa, and Fuxi discussed the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ strength and how spiritual treasures and cultivation would affect their future battles against Top-Tier Innate Divines. After thousands of years of fighting without victory, Gonggong urged the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng to use the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation’s second form, which could condense the Pangu True Body.

• Fuxi judged the Twelve Ancestral Witches formidable and recognized the Chaos Bell’s power as Taiyi withstood their combined attacks.
• Nuwa and Yuan Yan debated how the Three Corpses Severing Method and the number of Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures would shape future contests with the Ancestral Witches.
• Nuwa concluded that the Ancestral Witches’ foundations and relative cultivation realms would remain decisive factors in their strength.
• Several thousand years passed as Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa watched the battle between the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Jiufeng, Di Jun, and Taiyi.
• Gonggong urged his companions to form the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation and condense the Pangu True Body to defeat Di Jun and Taiyi.
• The chapter explained that the formation’s first form raised their battle strength by a minor realm, while its second form used gathered power to create the Pangu True Body.

Jiufeng rejected using the Pangu True Body immediately and devised a plan to wear down Di Jun and Taiyi, trap their Benevolent Corpses, and keep them from escaping. She also had Dijiang offer treasures to the watching Top-Tier Innate Divines in exchange for their help.

• Dijiang asked Jiufeng whether the Twelve Ancestral Witches should unleash the Pangu True Body, and Jiufeng said they should not use it yet.
• Jiufeng assigned the Twelve Ancestral Witches to hold back Di Jun and Taiyi while surrounding and killing their Benevolent Corpses, reserving the first form of the formation for an attempted escape.
• Jiufeng ordered Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin to watch Taiyi, and Tian Wu, Shibi Shi, and Xuanming to watch Taiyi's Benevolent Corpse Dao Body.
• Jiufeng told Dijiang to promise the watching Top-Tier Innate Divines Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for trying to stop Di Jun and Taiyi, and High-Grade ones if they helped kill them.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches agreed, and Dijiang secretly transmitted Jiufeng's offer to the onlookers.

Di Jun and Taiyi struggled against the Twelve Ancestral Witches as their Benevolent Corpse Dao Bodies came close to defeat, threatening to turn the battle against them. Watching Top-Tier Innate Divines weighed whether to intervene, while Di Jun and Taiyi were left unable to reach their endangered Dao Bodies.

• The Five Elements Ancestral Witches stalemated Taiyi, while Qiangliang and Yuzi fought alongside the other Ancestral Witches against Di Jun and Taiyi’s forces.
• Taiyi realized his Benevolent Corpse Dao Body was near death, and he and Di Jun tried to break away from their opponents to rescue their Dao Bodies.
• Dijiang secretly tempted watching Top-Tier Innate Divines with treasure, prompting Kunpeng and Dongwang Gong to consider joining the fight while Laozi, Yuanshi, Hong Yun, and others held back.
• Nuwa asked her elder brothers whether to intervene; Fuxi advised waiting, and Yuan Yan said he would act only if Di Jun and Taiyi faced mortal danger.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng blocked Di Jun and Taiyi from reaching their Benevolent Corpse Dao Bodies, making their situation increasingly perilous.