Chapter Summaries

Di Jun and Taiyi tried to escape the Twelve Ancestral Witches by burning their Primordial Origin and driving the Chaos Bell, but the allied Ancestral Witches and other powerful divines trapped them. The Chaos Bell’s defense broke, leaving Di Jun and Taiyi surrounded as their enemies prepared to finish them off.

• Taiyi burned his Primordial Origin to drive the Chaos Bell, rescued Di Jun, and reached his grievously injured Benevolent Corpse Dao Body just before the Ancestral Witches destroyed it.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation, trapped Di Jun and Taiyi, and attacked Taiyi’s Benevolent Corpse Dao Body until the Chaos Bell pulled it inside.
• Di Jun and Taiyi drove the Chaos Bell through the Five Elements Heaven and Earth and broke past Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin’s space-time blockade.
• Dongwang Gong, Kunpeng, and nearly ten Top-Tier Innate Divines attacked the Chaos Bell, shattering its Imperishable Mystic Yellow Treasure Light and blocking its escape.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Top-Tier Innate Divines renewed their assault, intending to kill Di Jun and Taiyi and seize their treasures.

Di Jun and Taiyi sacrificed their Benevolent Corpse Dao Bodies to unleash devastating strikes and escape their enemies through Chaos Space-Time. Their pursuers survived the attacks and agreed to join forces if they encountered the pair again, while Di Jun and Taiyi faced a long recovery.

• Di Jun and Taiyi burned their Primordial Origin to drive the Chaos Bell through the enemy attacks, then chose to sacrifice their Benevolent Corpse Dao Bodies to escape.
• Di Jun's Benevolent Corpse Dao Body attacked the Twelve Ancestral Witches, while Taiyi's struck Dongwang Gong, Kunpeng, Jiufeng, and the other Top-Tier Innate Divines.
• The Dao fire consumed the incoming attacks, giving the Chaos Bell time to vanish into Chaos Space-Time with Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Gonggong and the Twelve Ancestral Witches resisted Di Jun's Dao fire, while the other pursuers extinguished Taiyi's weaker strike.
• Jiufeng reassured Kunpeng, Dongwang Gong, and the other Top-Tier Innate Divines that Di Jun and Taiyi would need a long time to recover, then proposed that they exchange contact methods and attack together if they met the pair again.

After the battle in the Inner Chaos, Yuan Yan returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island with his companions and entered seclusion to cultivate. He opened his improved Three Corpses Severing Method to the lineage, which rapidly gained new Three Corpse Dao Bodies and advanced cultivators.

• Yuan Yan reflected on Jiufeng's failed attempt to kill Di Jun and Taiyi, who escaped gravely wounded and gained nearly ten powerful enemies.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island after the Witch Clan delivered two Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, which Yuan Yan gave to Nuwa and Fuxi.
• Yuan Yan and his companions entered deep seclusion, cultivating and refining treasures to nurture their Three Corpse Dao Bodies.
• Yuan Yan placed his improved Three Corpses Severing Method on the lineage's exchange list and let cultivators obtain it and treasures on credit.
• The lineage's Great Firmament Golden Immortals and all twenty-seven Purple Firmament Palace Guests used the method to sever their Three Corpse Dao Bodies, creating more than a hundred Innate Divines.
• Two more Purple Firmament Palace Guests advanced to Quasi-Sage within a hundred yuanhui, while the first to reach Quasi-Sage broke through to Primordial Golden Immortal; Yuan Yan warned that anyone who stole his method would incur deadly Karma.

After the ten-thousand-year deadline arrived, Yuan Yan and his allies prepared to reconstruct the Western Continent’s Earth Vein Network and establish a perfected Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation. The chapter leaves them beginning the vast undertaking, which Yuan Yan expected to bring immense Merit and Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal-level power.

• Two to three hundred Epochs passed after the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, and the Primordial World entered a period of relative calm.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa emerged from cultivation on Yingzhou Immortal Island after restoring themselves to peak condition.
• Yuan Yan assessed the Earth Veins the group had repaired, which accounted for less than forty percent of the Western Continent and less than twenty percent of its restoration overall.
• Yuan Yan devised a plan to relocate and reconstruct the Western Continent’s Earth Vein Network, then build a perfected Complete Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation upon it.
• Yuan Yan, the others, their Dao Bodies, and the Yingzhou Immortal Island cultivators at the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm or above set aside cultivation and began coordinating the plan.

After ten thousand years of recovery, Yuan Yan and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage activated the Western Continent’s Earth Vein Network and began the Complete Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation. The formation covered nearly forty percent of the continent and stirred fear among the Primordial World’s experts.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi left the Three Lights Divine Water Pool and mobilized the lineage’s experts to their assigned positions.
• Yuan Yan activated the Supreme-Grade Innate Earth Vein beneath the Heaven-Origin Range, and the guarded Earth Veins linked into a continuously circulating network.
• The completed Earth Vein Network increased the Earth Veins’ absorption and conversion efficiency by more than fifty percent, reviving the Western Continent.
• Yuan Yan coordinated further preparations across the Infinite Void, then ordered the cultivators to activate the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation.
• The formation covered nearly forty percent of the Western Continent and began brewing an aura at the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal level.
• The Primordial World’s experts witnessed the formation and feared that Yuan Yan and his allies could use their power to unify the world.

Yuan Yan and the others stabilized the Earth Vein Network and Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation, then Yuan Yan turned to Mount Sumeru, which sat enclosed within their territory. He decided to use the formation to pull up the mountain and remove the threat it posed at the heart of their lands.

• Yuan Yan and the others connected the restored Earth Veins across the Western Continent into a cyclic network, earning the envy of powerful figures who recognized their great merit.
• Yuan Yan used the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation to survey the Western Continent and channel Chaos Qi into spiritual energy and stored Heaven-Earth Origin Force.
• Yuan Yan shared some of the formation’s authority with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, Nuwa, and their Primordial Golden Immortal Dao Bodies so they could help identify flaws and dangers.
• After a hundred years, Yuan Yan and the others were weakened by their avatars, but they continued their work once the formation’s nodes no longer needed Great Firmament Golden Immortal guardians.
• Within three hundred years, Yuan Yan and the others had resolved the flaws they found, making the Earth Vein Network and formation more stable.
• Yuan Yan recognized that Mount Sumeru lay surrounded at the center of their territory and decided to use the formation to pull it out.

Yuan Yan decided to move Mount Sumeru beyond the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation’s coverage, but first used the threat of seizing it to make Jieyin and Zhunti fear his intentions. Jieyin and Zhunti threatened to destroy Mount Sumeru rather than surrender it, while Yuan Yan claimed his Merit would shield him from the consequences.

• Yuan Yan ruled out killing Jieyin and Zhunti or forcibly taking Mount Sumeru, and planned instead to move it outside the formation’s range.
• Yuan Yan arrived at Mount Sumeru with the power of the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation, alarming Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Jieyin and Zhunti went out to meet Yuan Yan, secretly resolving to detonate Mount Sumeru if he tried to seize it.
• When Jieyin asked why he had come, Yuan Yan implied that he intended to take Mount Sumeru because it stood at the center of Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage territory.
• Zhunti accused Yuan Yan of trying to seize Mount Sumeru, while Jieyin warned him of the consequences and both brothers threatened to destroy the mountain.
• Yuan Yan dismissed their warnings, saying they would perish from Karmic Force but his abundant Merit would let him survive.

Yuan Yan persuaded Jieyin and Zhunti to cooperate in relocating Mount Sumeru to the border between the Western and Southern Continents, swearing an oath with conditions to secure their trust. After planning the move, he began activating the formation and Mountain-Driving Whip to influence Mount Sumeru's Earth Veins.

• Yuan Yan offered not to seize Mount Sumeru if Jieyin and Zhunti cooperated with his plan to relocate it southwest.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed after Yuan Yan assured them he was confident the relocation would succeed.
• Zhunti requested a Dao Heart Oath, and Yuan Yan swore one with conditions requiring their full cooperation and promising to restore and improve Mount Sumeru.
• Jieyin and Zhunti temporarily transferred their Primordial Formation and part of Mount Sumeru's authority to Yuan Yan.
• Yuan Yan and the two brothers spent less than ten years devising a plan to move Mount Sumeru with minimal damage.
• Yuan Yan activated the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation and Mountain-Driving Whip, sending power into Mount Sumeru's Earth Veins as their cracks began to heal.

Yuan Yan and his companions relocated Mount Sumeru to the border of the Western and Southern Continents, then severed and moved a section of its Earth Veins and repaired more than half of what remained. Jieyin protested when they stopped the repairs, but Yuan Yan insisted Mount Sumeru was not his responsibility to fully restore.

• Yuan Yan moved Mount Sumeru to a barren region near the Western Continent’s southern edge without disturbing the surrounding land.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling used the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation to exchange the barren region with the Western Continent’s southern territory.
• The four used the formation to sever a section of Mount Sumeru’s Earth Veins and move it into the Heaven-Origin Range.
• Yuan Yan and his companions used Heaven-Earth Origin Force to repair more than half of Mount Sumeru’s remaining Earth Veins.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling stopped the repairs, and Jieyin objected that Mount Sumeru’s Earth Veins were still damaged.
• Yuan Yan told Jieyin that Mount Sumeru had improved and that he had never promised to restore its Earth Veins completely.

Yuan Yan concealed the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation after it repaired the Western Continent’s Earth Veins, and Heaven and Earth rewarded the undertaking with immense Merit. The Merit helped Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling understand and sever their remaining obsessions, leaving their Three Corpses Severing complete.

• Yuan Yan returned to the Heaven-Origin Range and found that his Dao Bodies, Nuwa, and Fuxi had merged part of Mount Sumeru’s Earth Vein into the Heaven-Origin Mountain Earth Vein.
• Yuan Yan changed the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation’s operation, concealed it in an unknown dimension, and left some Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage cultivators to guard its foundation nodes.
• Heaven and Earth bestowed Merit on Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, Fuxi, the Western Continent’s Earth Veins, and the formation flags, strengthening the Earth Vein Network and the formation.
• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi entered a state of enlightenment as Merit and Fortune restored their strength.
• Yuan Yan realized his obsession was fear of losing what he had gained, and Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling shouted “Sever!” and completed Three Corpses Severing.

Yuan Yan and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage reaped immense cultivation gains after completing the Earth Vein Network and Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation, with merit and fortune granting many cultivators enlightenment and breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Yuan Yan reflecting on the rapid progress of himself, his allies, and their Dao Bodies.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, Fuxi, and hundreds of thousands of Yingzhou cultivators entered enlightenment as merit and fortune descended.
• Six cultivators became Early Quasi-Sages, while dozens of others advanced as Great Firmament Golden Immortals, raising the lineage’s strength by seventy to eighty percent.
• Yuan Yan sensed that he, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had reached the Eighth Layer of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, while Nuwa and Fuxi had reached the Fifth Layer.
• Yuan Yan noted the major advances of their Three Corpse Dao Bodies and considered how shared Dao insights, merit, and the formation had accelerated everyone’s cultivation.

Yuan Yan and the others absorbed their newly earned Merit, then returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island to enter seclusion. At Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi struggled with the widening cultivation gap between himself and the four, and Tongtian attributed their advantage to Merit and Fortune.

• Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa merged their Merit into their Golden Wheels and celebrated their gains.
• Yuan Yan used the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation to teleport the group back to Yingzhou Immortal Island, where they entered seclusion.
• Yuanshi reacted with frustration to the four's further breakthrough and wondered whether he could ever surpass them.
• The Heavenly Dao answered Yuanshi's claim of injustice with a thunderclap, and Taiqing Laozi warned him to watch his words.
• Tongtian said the four's Merit and Fortune explained their cultivation advantage, prompting Laozi and Yuanshi to reflect.

At Pangu Hall, Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches assessed the power of Yuan Yan’s Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage and concluded it could dominate the Primordial World, but Jiufeng assured them Yuan Yan would not seek supremacy. Dijiang learned that the front-row futons at Purple Firmament Palace represented Sage Positions and warned the Witch Clan not to provoke Yingzhou’s powerful figures.

• Laozi explained that Yuan Yan and the others had earned great merit by restoring the Western Continent, while the Three Pure Ones had gained no comparable merit through secluded cultivation.
• At Pangu Hall, Dijiang listed the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage’s strength and worried that its Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation could wield Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal power.
• Jiufeng argued that Yuan Yan would not seek to unify the Primordial World because doing so would bring karma and opposition, while he had a strong chance to attain Sagehood.
• Dijiang learned from Jiufeng that the six front-row futons at Purple Firmament Palace represented Sage Positions and regretted that the Ancestral Witches had not fought harder to claim them.
• Dijiang warned Zhurong, Gonggong, Shibi Shi, the other Ancestral Witches, and the Innate Great Witches not to provoke the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.

Jiufeng persuaded the Witch Clan to avoid provoking the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage and rejected Dijiang’s plan to enter the Calamity Cycle early. She then proposed giving Xi He and Changxi Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to keep them from aiding Di Jun and Taiyi, leaving the Witch Clan prepared to approach the two goddesses.

• Jiufeng warned the Ancestral Witches and Innate Great Witches that minor provocations could be exploited to spark conflict, and they promised not to provoke the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage.
• Dijiang suggested proactively joining the Calamity Cycle to gain Fortune and destroy Di Jun and Taiyi, but Jiufeng argued that the Witch Clan should wait until the Demon Clan oppressed the Myriad Tribes before rising against it.
• Jiufeng asked Dijiang for two Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, with the possibility of needing two more, and explained that she intended to give them away.
• Jiufeng revealed that Di Jun and Taiyi had recruited Top-Tier Innate Divines and developed the Zhou Tian Star Formation, and she warned Dijiang against attacking them recklessly.
• Jiufeng identified Xi He and Changxi as her targets, offering them treasures for joining or allying with the Witch Clan, or for swearing not to aid Di Jun and Taiyi or oppose the Witch Clan.

The Ancestral Witches agreed to use two Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to win over Xi He and Changxi, while Di Jun decided to abandon his plan to obtain Yuan Yan's improved Three Corpses Severing Method. He and Taiyi remained on the Sun Star, wary that provoking Yuan Yan and his allies could cost them their lives.

• Jiufeng proposed cutting off the chance that Xi He and Changxi would join the Demon Clan, and the Ancestral Witches approved offering them two Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• After discussing their plans, the Ancestral Witches sparred, guided the Great Witches, and then went their separate ways.
• On the Sun Star, Di Jun told Taiyi to withdraw the divine sense monitoring Jiuxuan and Hengyao.
• Di Jun explained that pursuing Yuan Yan's improved Three Corpses Severing Method would create grounds for Yuan Yan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches to attack them.
• After considering the strength of Yuan Yan and his allies, Taiyi fell silent as Di Jun admitted he feared they might not survive a confrontation.

Taiyi refused to keep fleeing the Twelve Ancestral Witches, while Di Jun sought a way to defeat them. Di Jun realized he could establish a clan and unite the Myriad Tribes to power the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation, leaving the brothers with a new plan.

• Taiyi and Di Jun withdrew their divine senses after deciding they could not risk seizing Yuan Yan's improved Three Corpses Severing Method.
• Taiyi declared that he would rather die fighting the Twelve Ancestral Witches than keep fleeing in humiliation.
• Di Jun considered the Witches' strength and their ability to revive through Pangu Hall, then began deducing a way to defeat them.
• Di Jun realized that he could use the River Chart and Luo Book to lead hundreds of millions of cultivators in deploying the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation.
• Di Jun decided to establish a clan, unite the Myriad Tribes, and unify the Primordial World.

Di Jun devised a plan to establish the Demon Clan and gather cultivators to form the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation, giving him and Taiyi a way to fight the Twelve Ancestral Witches. He then deduced how to build their forces without exposing themselves before they were ready.

• Di Jun told Taiyi that conquering the Myriad Tribes and establishing the Demon Clan would gather Fortune and help them defeat the Witch Clan.
• Taiyi warned that the Witch Clan, Dongwang Gong, Kunpeng, and their allies could attack before they recruited enough cultivators.
• Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Book to deduce a way to break the deadlock.
• Di Jun proposed splitting off over a hundred concealed Great Firmament Golden Immortal avatars to establish forces and recruit cultivators across the Primordial World.
• Di Jun said the avatars must avoid exposing their connection to him and Taiyi, avoid provoking the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests, and arrange reconciliation with Dongwang Gong, Kunpeng, and the others before war began.

Di Jun decided that his side had to remain hidden until they could challenge the Twelve Ancestral Witches, relying on Fusang Divine Mulberries to eventually cultivate Great Firmament Golden Immortals. He reluctantly chose to reconcile with Dongwang Gong, Kunpeng, and the others for now, leaving open the possibility of confronting them after the Witch Clan was dealt with.

• Di Jun concluded that recruiting Great Firmament Golden Immortals openly or by force would expose his side and invite betrayal while they remained weaker than the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• He calculated that their stock of more than a hundred Fusang Divine Mulberries could help them raise over a hundred Taiyi Golden Immortals to Great Firmament Golden Immortals.
• He noted that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had stripped the Innate Fusang Tree bare, damaging its origin and delaying its recovery for one or two thousand Epochs.
• Di Jun decided to send a clone to meet Dongwang Gong, Kunpeng, and the others and resolve the Karma formed in their earlier battle.
• He reasoned that settling the old Karma would reduce immediate pressure from Dongwang Gong, Kunpeng, and the others while his side focused on defeating the Witch Clan.

Di Jun and Taiyi sent concealed avatars across the Primordial World to build forces while their true bodies cultivated beneath the Fusang Tree. As factions expanded and gained fortune, hidden bloodshed karmic force accumulated beneath their growing strength.

• Di Jun and Taiyi agreed to postpone reconciling with Dongwang Gong, Kunpeng, and the others until before their war with the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• After devising a development plan, Di Jun and Taiyi each sent one hundred concealed Great Firmament Golden Immortal avatars to establish and expand forces across the Primordial World, while their true bodies cultivated.
• As major factions expanded, Ji Meng, Yingzhao, Bai Ze, Shang Yang, Qin Yuan, and Ci Tie had already become Quasi-Sages and led their tribes in further conquests.
• Dongwang Gong focused on conquering the East Sea, while Kunpeng stayed in the North Sea and spread his Dao, gathering merit and fortune.
• The expanding factions gained fortune and faster cultivation, but their conquests quietly accumulated bloodshed karmic force that could eventually corrupt their Dao Fruits and destroy them.
• Di Jun and Taiyi also became absorbed in the cultivation boost from fortune, unaware of the hidden karmic force accumulating within their growing power.

After more than thirty yuanhui of cultivation, Yuan Yan felt the immense benefits of Fortune but rejected the struggle to unify the Primordial World, knowing Hongjun would stop him and the bloodshed could ruin his future. He remained resolved to gain Fortune through other means, such as the Western Continent’s revival.

• Yuan Yan ended his cultivation as the Dao Fruits, Hunyuan Ancestral Qi, and Imperishable True Spirits of four figures neared fusion.
• Yuan Yan realized that Fortune could greatly accelerate cultivation and felt tempted to gather more of it.
• Yuan Yan judged that he and his allies could defeat the other major powers but decided against contending for supremacy because Hongjun would intervene.
• Yuan Yan recalled how Hongjun had thwarted the witches’ bid for supremacy in the original course of fate and how prolonged warfare could erode his Merit and Fortune.
• Yuan Yan resolved to seek Fortune through other means, including the revived Western Continent and its restored Earth Vein Network.