Recaps

The thirteen reached the summit of Mount Buzhou, where a beam from a bluestone slab separated Pan Xuan from the Twelve Ancestral Witches. Pangu’s lingering consciousness appeared before the Twelve Ancestral Witches and began imparting the Great Dao of Strength to them.

• The thirteen climbed to the summit of Mount Buzhou and looked out over the Primordial World.
• A chaos-colored beam burst from the bluestone slab and swept the thirteen into separate spaces, dividing Pan Xuan from the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches found themselves in primordial chaos before Pangu’s lingering consciousness.
• Pangu addressed the Twelve Ancestral Witches as his children and said he would teach them the Great Dao of Strength.
• Pangu poured the Great Dao of Strength into the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ minds.

After Pangu’s consciousness stabilized Houtu’s Primordial Spirit and departed from the Twelve Ancestral Witches, he brought Pan Xuan to a separate void and revealed that he knew Pan Xuan came from another world. Pangu showed him the creation of heaven and earth until Pan Xuan felt the Great Dao of Strength merge into his soul, and the experience ended with something inside him seemingly erased.

• Pangu’s consciousness told the Twelve Ancestral Witches he had imparted the Great Dao of Strength and the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation, then vanished into Chaos.
• Pangu appeared to Pan Xuan, called him an anomaly, and calmly confirmed that his soul came from another world.
• Pangu led Pan Xuan deeper into the void and showed him an image of Pangu cleaving Chaos to create heaven and earth.
• Pan Xuan watched Pangu’s creation repeatedly and felt the power and understanding of the stroke merge into his soul.
• Pan Xuan experienced Pangu’s loneliness, hardship, resolve, and compassion, and after the final viewing felt that something within his soul had been erased.

Pangu erased Pan Xuan’s status as an anomaly and entrusted him with protecting the Witch Clan before his consciousness faded away. Back at Pangu Hall, the Ancestral Witches celebrated their new inheritance and Houtu’s stabilized primordial spirit, while Di Jiang ordered the teachings kept secret.

• Pangu fused Pan Xuan’s soul with the Primordial World and asked him to protect the Witch Clan; Pan Xuan solemnly accepted the charge.
• Pangu’s consciousness vanished, and Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches returned to Mount Buzhou.
• Di Jiang, Zhu Rong, and Gong Gong said Pangu had taught them the Great Dao of Strength and the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation, while Houtu revealed that her primordial spirit was stable.
• Pan Xuan affirmed his bond with Houtu and the other Ancestral Witches, and they flew together to Pangu Hall to celebrate.
• Di Jiang told the Ancestral Witches to keep Pangu’s teachings secret, even from the clan’s Great Witches.

After receiving Pangu’s legacy, the Ancestral Witches began contemplating the Great Dao of Strength while Houtu worked to refine the Destruction Stele. After many years, Houtu subdued the treasure and stored it beside her primordial spirit.

• Di Jiang urged the Ancestral Witches to contemplate Pangu’s Great Dao of Strength and told Houtu to refine the Destruction Stele.
• Houtu used her mature primordial spirit and the power of earth to contain the stele’s savage power of destruction.
• The Ancestral Witches contemplated the Great Dao of Strength, each finding insights connected to their innate laws.
• Pan Xuan reflected on how witnessing Pangu split heaven and earth had strengthened his cultivation insights and abilities.
• After many years, Houtu completed the refinement and placed the Destruction Stele in her Niwan Palace beside her primordial spirit.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches tested the Dutian Divine Fiends Formation and summoned a powerful Pangu Phantom, which grew stronger when Houtu used her primordial spirit to preside over it. The formation’s power stirred the Taiji Diagram, though the Yin-Yang Ancestor calmed it, while the battle among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans continued beyond Pangu Hall.

• Di Jiang proposed that the Twelve Ancestral Witches practice the Dutian Divine Fiends Formation, and they gathered outside Pangu Hall as Pan Xuan watched.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches took their positions and combined their laws to summon a towering Pangu Phantom wielding a phantom Pangu Axe.
• Houtu connected her primordial spirit to the phantom, making it more solid and greatly increasing the formation’s power.
• Pangu Hall contained the formation’s aura while Pan Xuan watched and the war among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans continued outside.
• The Taiji Diagram trembled in the chaos space, and the Yin-Yang Ancestor soothed it until its yin-yang circulation returned to normal.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Pan Xuan continued drilling the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation, with Houtu’s primordial spirit greatly strengthening the Pangu Phantom. Their practice stirred the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Chaos Bell, though the Yin-Yang Ancestor, Hong Jun, and Taiyi could not divine the cause; the Witches planned to keep improving the formation.

• The Yin-Yang Ancestor sensed the Taiji Diagram stir, failed to divine the cause, and returned to contemplating the Dao of Yin and Yang.
• Hong Jun suppressed the Pangu Banner’s disturbance and could not divine its source.
• Taiyi suppressed the Chaos Bell after it resonated with Pangu’s Power, but he could not discover who had caused it.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches repeatedly practiced the formation, and Houtu’s primordial spirit made the Pangu Phantom more solid and powerful.
• Di Jiang praised Houtu and told the Ancestral Witches to treat the formation as a trump card and continue practicing it.

Pan Xuan used his transformed Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light to deepen the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ comprehension, then showed them the scene of Pangu creating heaven and earth. The chapter left them immersed in the creation vision and sensing the origin of the Great Dao of Strength.

• Pan Xuan felt Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light had recovered and grown more powerful after his experience atop Mount Buzhou.
• Pan Xuan told the Twelve Ancestral Witches about the transformation, and Di Jiang asked him to use the wisdom light on them.
• Pan Xuan illuminated each Ancestral Witch, and they felt their comprehension sharpen as the light carried a trace of creation’s power.
• Pan Xuan revealed the imprint of Pangu creating heaven and earth, showing the Twelve Ancestral Witches the chaos, Pangu’s axe stroke, and the birth of the world.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed the origin of the Great Dao of Strength within Pangu’s creation of heaven and earth.

After showing the Twelve Ancestral Witches Pangu’s creation of heaven and earth through the World-Creation Diagram, Pan Xuan proposed the Martial Dao as a way for the Witch Clan to cultivate without primordial spirits. The Ancestral Witches agreed to develop the new path together, and Pan Xuan began outlining its levels.

• Pan Xuan showed the Twelve Ancestral Witches the World-Creation Diagram, deepening their understanding of their innate laws and the Great Dao of Strength.
• The Ancestral Witches discussed their inability to develop primordial spirits, which baleful qi suppressed in all but Houtu.
• Pan Xuan proposed the Martial Dao, a path based on the body, will, and vital blood that could let the Witch Clan commune with heaven and earth without primordial spirits.
• The Ancestral Witches embraced the proposal and agreed to pool their wisdom to create and refine the Martial Dao.
• At Houtu and Di Jiang’s urging, Pan Xuan began explaining the Martial Dao’s framework and levels.

Pan Xuan explained the four levels of the Martial Dao and began outlining methods for Body Refining and Qi Refining. The Ancestral Witches agreed to develop the path together, and Pan Xuan prepared to examine their bodies so he could guide their cultivation.

• Pan Xuan described the Martial Dao's four levels: Body Refining, Qi Refining, Will Refining, and Dao Refining, followed by a distant realm of bearing the Great Dao with the flesh.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Xuan Ming, Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Houtu praised the framework and agreed that the Ancestral Witches should deduce cultivation methods together.
• Di Jiang asked Pan Xuan to guide their first effort, and the Ancestral Witches gathered in Pangu Hall while their insights from Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light and the World-Creation Diagram remained fresh.
• Pan Xuan explained that Body Refining opened the Innate Dao Body's 365 major acupoints with blood and qi, while Qi Refining absorbed and harmonized different kinds of qi to form a Qi Sea.
• Pan Xuan said Will Refining and Dao Refining had no fixed methods and asked to examine the Ancestral Witches' acupoints and the circulation of qi in their bodies.

Pan Xuan discovered that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had perfected body refining and qi refining from birth, then guided each of them toward a personal path of Will Refining. The thirteen began developing their Martial Daos in Pangu Hall as the balance among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans began to shift.

• Pan Xuan examined the Twelve Ancestral Witches and found that their acupoints and seas of qi were naturally complete, allowing them to begin the Martial Dao with Will Refining.
• Pan Xuan explained each Ancestral Witch's distinct will and how it could shape their Dao.
• Di Jiang led the Ancestral Witches into seclusion in Pangu Hall to work out their respective Martial Daos.
• The thirteen settled into focused cultivation in Pangu Hall over the long years that followed.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans continued their ancient war in a precarious balance, but someone began to disrupt it.

Luo Hou provoked the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans into a devastating war, then trapped them in the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to harvest their slaughtering energy. After Yin-Yang Ancestor, Yang Mei, Qiankun Ancestor, and Hong Jun intervened, the clan leaders swore to abandon their struggle for supremacy and withdrew to their respective domains, while Luo Hou fought the four mighty figures.

• Luo Hou’s incarnations inflamed border tensions among the three clans, and he personally slaughtered three patrols to ignite an all-out war.
• Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin led their clans into battle, until Luo Hou trapped their armies in the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and slaughtered them in vast numbers.
• Yin-Yang Ancestor, Yang Mei, Qiankun Ancestor, and Hong Jun attacked the formation, forcing Luo Hou to release the three clan leaders before trapping the four newcomers instead.
• Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin recognized the karmic consequences of their clans’ wars and swore to withdraw from the struggle for supremacy and protect their domains.
• The three leaders led their surviving clans back to the Eastern Sea, the Undying Volcano, and Mount Buzhou, while Luo Hou’s battle with the four mighty figures continued.

The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans withdrew from the struggle for supremacy as Hong Jun and three allies fought Luo Hou. Hong Jun broke the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, but Luo Hou brought out two more treasures and the battle left both sides badly wounded.

• Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin led their surviving clans away to the East Sea, the Undying Volcano, and Mount Buzhou after vowing to withdraw from the struggle for supremacy.
• Yin-Yang Ancestor, Yang Mei, Qiankun Ancestor, and Hong Jun struggled to withstand Luo Hou's Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Hong Jun summoned his Three Corpses and used the Creation Jade Disc to shatter the formation.
• Luo Hou wielded the God-Slaying Spear and Twelfth-Grade Destruction Black Lotus against the four opponents, severely wounding Yin-Yang Ancestor and Qiankun Ancestor.
• Hong Jun, Yang Mei, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and Qiankun Ancestor struck back and severely injured Luo Hou, who stood bloodied and unafraid.

Luo Hou established the Devil Dao with his Dao fruit before detonating himself and the western earth veins, killing Yin-Yang Ancestor and Qiankun Ancestor while Yang Mei escaped and Hong Jun survived. Sensing the calamity's end and a new power gathering, Pan Xuan led the Twelve Ancestral Witches out of Pangu Hall to see how the Primordial World had changed.

• Luo Hou sacrificed his Dao fruit to establish the Devil Dao, making the Heavenly Demon Tribulation a hurdle for cultivators.
• Luo Hou detonated himself and the western earth veins, destroying the western lands; Yin-Yang Ancestor and Qiankun Ancestor died, Yang Mei escaped into Chaos, and Hong Jun survived behind the Creation Jade Disc.
• Luo Hou's primordial spirit joined the God-Slaying Spear and Twelfth-Grade Destruction Black Lotus and vanished into Chaos, while Hong Jun collected the Taiji Diagram and Qiankun Cauldron.
• In Pangu Hall, Zhu Jiuyin sensed the destruction of the western earth veins, and Pan Xuan realized the Dragon-Han Calamity and Dao-Devil War had ended as the Devil Dao took root.
• Pan Xuan told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that the Heavenly Dao was about to emerge and led them out of Pangu Hall to inspect the changed Primordial World.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches saw the devastation of the western lands and agreed to restore its shattered earth veins. Houtu led the effort, with the others offering their powers to help heal the land and earn merit.

• Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches traveled into the western lands and found them scorched and lifeless after Luo Hou's self-detonation.
• Houtu sensed that nearly all the western earth veins had been blasted apart, and Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin warned that the land would remain dead without restoration.
• Pan Xuan proposed repairing the earth veins to restore the Primordial World and honor Pangu, whose body had formed it.
• Di Jiang, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Houtu agreed that restoring the land would repay Pangu and provide merit and cultivation benefits.
• Houtu accepted responsibility for directing the work, while the other Ancestral Witches offered their powers to assist.
• Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches began restoring the western earth veins.

Houtu and twelve allies spent years repairing the western lands’ shattered earth veins, restoring their stability and slowly bringing back spiritual energy and life. As their work continued, Jieyin and Zhunti arrived from Mount Sumeru to see the effort to heal their ruined homeland.

• Houtu sensed the scattered earth vein fragments while Di Jiang and the other Wu used their powers to move, fuse, reinforce, and cleanse them.
• Pan Xuan measured the earth veins with the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler and helped Houtu reconnect them as the thirteen worked together over many years.
• The repairs strengthened the earth veins, cleared underground channels for spiritual energy, removed corruption, and brought new growth to the scorched western lands.
• Jieyin and Zhunti approached from Mount Sumeru after years of helplessly guarding their home and trying unsuccessfully to repair the western earth veins themselves.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches repaired the Western Earth Veins, while Jieyin and Zhunti joined them and guided the work with their knowledge of the land. After countless years, the final break was mended, spiritual energy returned, and the western lands began to revive.

• Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches began repairing the Western Earth Veins, and Jieyin and Zhunti watched from Mount Sumeru.
• Jieyin and Zhunti joined the repair effort, strengthening the earth veins with their Metal and Wood Laws.
• Zhunti guided Houtu to scattered branch-vein fragments, while Jieyin identified crucial nodes for reinforcement.
• The repair continued for countless years as Pan Xuan, the Ancestral Witches, Jieyin, and Zhunti restored the land and its veins.
• Houtu and the others repaired the final broken stretch, reconnecting the earth veins and restoring spiritual energy to the western lands.

After Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches restored the western earth veins, they received Great Dao merit and returned to Pangu Hall to continue developing the Martial Dao. Their experience repairing the land had deepened the Ancestral Witches’ understanding of their powers.

• The Great Dao bestowed merit on those who repaired the western earth veins; Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches stored their shares, while Jieyin and Zhunti absorbed theirs and advanced toward the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.
• Jieyin and Zhunti thanked Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, pledged lasting friendship with the Witch Clan, and promised to care for the recovering west.
• Pan Xuan urged the Twelve Ancestral Witches to return to Pangu Hall, and the thirteen flew east while Jieyin and Zhunti watched them depart from Mount Sumeru.
• At Pangu Hall, Pan Xuan called for them to resume developing the Martial Dao, and Di Jiang agreed that they would return to secluded cultivation.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Xuan Ming, and Houtu described how repairing the earth veins had broadened their understanding of fire, water, ice, and earth.

Pan Xuan used merit to work out the Martial Dao’s Intent Refinement Method, drawing on the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ contributions when his own merit proved insufficient. He discovered that intent refinement condensed will into a Manifestation and told Di Jiang that he had found the method.

• Pan Xuan gathered the Twelve Ancestral Witches in Pangu Hall and began using the merit from restoring the western earth veins to work out intent refinement.
• Pan Xuan found that his merit could not break through the barrier, so Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches sent him all the merit they had earned in the west.
• Pan Xuan combined their merit with his own and shattered the barrier, allowing his consciousness to reach the secrets of intent refinement.
• Pan Xuan learned that intent refinement made one’s will tangible as a Manifestation that could commune with heaven and earth.
• Pan Xuan opened his eyes and told Di Jiang that he had found the Intent Refinement Method.

Pan Xuan taught the Twelve Ancestral Witches the Intent Refinement Method, explaining how will could be condensed into a manifestation. He and the Ancestral Witches each formed manifestations reflecting their true forms, leaving thirteen manifestations gathered in Pangu Hall.

• Pan Xuan explained that a manifestation embodied a being's fundamental will and taught the Twelve Ancestral Witches the Intent Refinement Method.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches praised the method and began cultivating their wills in Pangu Hall.
• Pan Xuan condensed his will and manifested a Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon.
• Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Xuan Ming, Houtu, and the other Ancestral Witches manifested spectral forms matching their true forms.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches' manifestations and Pan Xuan's Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon appeared together in Pangu Hall.

Pan Xuan explained Dao Refining to the Twelve Ancestral Witches after their Manifestations completed Will Refining, describing how they could integrate their laws into their bodies. The witches began secluded cultivation to deepen that integration, while Houtu saw a path toward breaking through to Primordial Origin Golden Immortal.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches realized their Manifestations were their True Forms and completed Will Refining.
• Pan Xuan explained that Dao Refining meant uniting a Manifestation and one's comprehension of the Dao with the physical body.
• Pan Xuan clarified that the Ancestral Witches would deepen their existing law-body integration, while Houtu could unite the earth law, her primordial spirit, and her body to approach a breakthrough.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Xuan Ming each resolved to integrate their respective laws into their bodies, and Di Jiang called for continued secluded cultivation.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Pan Xuan closed their eyes and began cultivating Dao Refining in Pangu Hall.

The Great Dao withdrew as the Heavenly Dao emerged, and Hong Jun became the Primordial World's first Sage. In Pangu Hall, Pan Xuan persuaded the Ancestral Witches not to attend Hong Jun's Dao lecture, leaving Houtu resolved to follow her own path.

• Pangu Hall shook as the Great Dao withdrew and the Heavenly Dao emerged, startling Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Hong Jun announced his ascension as a Sage and invited those with destined affinity to hear his Dao in Zixiao Palace three thousand years later.
• The Ancestral Witches debated whether to attend, with Houtu arguing that learning about Hong Jun's Dao could be useful while most of her brothers opposed going.
• Di Jiang asked Pan Xuan for his view, and Pan Xuan argued that the Witch Clan should stay true to its Martial Dao rather than risk disrupting its path by listening to Hong Jun.
• Houtu accepted Pan Xuan's reasoning and decided not to attend Hong Jun's lecture.

While contemplating the Heavenly Dao, Pan Xuan discovered gaps corresponding to the laws of the Ancestral Witches and other innate divinities, leading him to suspect that Hong Jun planned to seize Pangu’s legacy and eliminate the Witch Clan. He kept his suspicions to himself, shared insights that would aid the Witches’ cultivation, and continued searching for evidence and a way to protect them as the Zixiao Palace preaching approached.

• Pan Xuan studied the Heavenly Dao and found that its gaps corresponded especially to the laws wielded by the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Pan Xuan deduced that Hong Jun intended to take the Three Pure Ones’ authority to enlighten and the Ancestral Witches’ duty to protect and complete the world, making himself ruler of the Primordial World.
• Pan Xuan withheld his suspicions from the Ancestral Witches but shared his understanding of the Heavenly Dao to help their Martial Dao cultivation.
• Houtu agreed not to attend Hong Jun’s preaching after Pan Xuan explained that the Heavenly Dao path differed from their Martial Dao.
• Pan Xuan identified further gaps corresponding to Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti, and resolved to thwart Hong Jun’s plans and change the Witch Clan’s fate.
• As the preaching deadline neared, the thirteen remained in Pangu Hall, and none went to Zixiao Palace.

As most of the Primordial World's mighty figures traveled to Zixiao Palace for Hong Jun's sermon, Pan Xuan revealed that the Heavenly Dao was incomplete and urged the Ancestral Witches to fulfill Pangu's legacy by establishing the Witch Clan. The Twelve Ancestral Witches agreed to proclaim their clan's mission through the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation, with Houtu presiding over the Pangu Phantom.

• Most of the Primordial World's renowned cultivators set out for Zixiao Palace, while the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans stayed behind and the Ancestral Witches continued cultivating.
• Pan Xuan summoned the Twelve Ancestral Witches and explained that the Heavenly Dao had gaps in the origin laws they wielded.
• Pan Xuan argued that Pangu's descendants by blood had a duty to protect the Primordial World and complete the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan proposed establishing the Witch Clan to shoulder that responsibility, and the Ancestral Witches accepted his plan.
• Pan Xuan directed the Ancestral Witches to use the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation to summon the Pangu Phantom, with Houtu presiding and proclaiming the clan's mission.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches used the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation to summon the Pangu Phantom and formally established the Witch Clan through an oath to protect the Primordial World and help complete the Heavenly Dao. Pan Xuan viewed the oath as a way to put the Witch Clan on equal footing with Hong Jun, then promised the Ancestral Witches he had further plans for mending the Heavenly Dao.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation, and Houtu linked her Primordial Spirit to the Pangu Phantom.
• Pan Xuan told Houtu to leave Pangu Hall and proclaim the Witch Clan's oath before heaven and earth.
• Houtu declared that the Witch Clan would guard Mount Buzhou, purify the Primordial World, and help mend the Heavenly Dao, drawing recognition from the Heavenly Dao.
• Hong Jun and the cultivators in Zixiao Palace witnessed the oath, while the Three Pure Ones, Di Jun, Taiyi, Jieyin, and Zhunti debated its meaning and the Witch Clan's power.
• After the Pangu Phantom returned to Pangu Hall, the Ancestral Witches reported feeling a stronger connection to the Heavenly Dao, and Pan Xuan said he would explain his further plans after they rested.
• Pan Xuan returned to his meditation chamber and focused on sensing the changes in the Heavenly Dao.

When the Witch Clan’s founding awakened a power hidden in Mount Buzhou, the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus emerged and entered Pangu Hall as a blessing from Pangu. The Three Pure Ones sensed Pangu’s aura, while a light appeared above the Heavenly Dao as the Great Dao manifested.

• Mount Buzhou trembled, and Houtu and Zhu Jiuyin sensed a pure power from Pangu surging within it.
• A fissure opened in Mount Buzhou, releasing the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus, which flew into Pangu Hall.
• Houtu, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Di Jiang recognized the lotus as Pangu’s gift and vowed to honor his trust.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, and Sect Master Tongtian of Shangqing sensed Pangu’s aura from Zixiao Palace but did not learn that the lotus had appeared.
• As the Creation Green Lotus entered Pangu Hall, a light descended from the Great Dao above the Heavenly Dao.