Chapter Summaries

Randeng and the Twelve Ancestral Witches gathered Pangu’s scattered presence from across the starry sky and joined it with the traces from the Primordial Continent. They chose Mount Buzhou for Pangu’s altar and the anniversary of creation for his funeral, which would establish the Way of Burial as part of the Primordial World’s order.

• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian helped Randeng locate and retrieve hundreds of traces of Pangu’s presence from the stars without alerting the Demon Clan.
• Di Jiang placed the twelve traces from the Primordial Continent into the Glazed Lamp, where they resonated with the stellar traces and formed a faint, complete presence of Pangu.
• Pan Xuan declared that all of Pangu’s remnants had been gathered and called for the funeral’s date and altar location to be decided.
• Taiqing Laozi proposed Mount Buzhou as the altar site, and Yuanshi proposed holding the funeral on the day marking a full yuanhui since Pangu created heaven and earth.
• Di Jiang and Pan Xuan approved the plans, and Pan Xuan invited the Witch Clan, proper gods, and willing beings across the Primordial World to attend the funeral.

Randeng forged the Annihilation Coffin from Pangu’s gathered aura and his funerary authority, giving Pangu’s remnants a place to rest. Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Three Pure Ones then began building a funeral altar atop Mount Buzhou, preparing it for the rites.

• Randeng used the Glazed Lamp and his laws to condense Pangu’s scattered aura into the chaos-colored Annihilation Coffin.
• Randeng completed the coffin, placed it within the Glazed Lamp, and rested after the effort.
• Pan Xuan thanked Randeng and led the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Three Pure Ones to Mount Buzhou’s summit to establish the altar.
• Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and the other Ancestral Witches shaped and fortified the summit’s foundation with their laws and powers.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian arranged the altar’s structure, inscribed funerary laws, and prepared a sword-intent network to soothe souls during the funeral.

Pan Xuan and the others completed the preparations for Pangu’s funeral, including the altar, ritual vessels, and Annihilation Coffin. Pan Xuan proclaimed that the Primordial World’s First Funeral would be held atop Mount Buzhou three thousand years later, and the Great Dao answered his announcement.

• Pan Xuan used the Creation Cauldron and rare spiritual materials to forge the Heaven-Worshipping Jade Bi, Earth-Suppressing Square Cong, and Soul-Calming Bell.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones completed a nine-tier altar on Mount Buzhou, while Randeng recovered in Pangu Hall.
• Pan Xuan reported that the altar, ritual vessels, and Annihilation Coffin were ready, and the group agreed to hold Pangu’s funeral three thousand years later.
• Pan Xuan, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Three Pure Ones joined their power through the Divine Dao Network to proclaim Pangu’s funeral across the Primordial World.
• Pan Xuan invited all beings to attend the rites on Mount Buzhou, and the Great Dao answered.

Pan Xuan's proclamation of Pangu's funeral moved the Primordial World's divine powers to prepare offerings and travel to Mount Buzhou. The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, Minghe, Nuwa, Fuxi, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hong Yun all committed to attending, while Randeng's remaining flame stirred in response.

• Ancestral Dragon ordered the Four Seas to prepare the Dragon Clan's finest offerings and vowed to attend with the Dragon Kings and his descendants.
• Yuanfeng ordered the Phoenix Clan to make nine ritual vessels and a Soul-Guiding Banner from Sacred Parasol Tree branches and phoenix feathers.
• Primordial Qilin called for the Qilin Clan to purify themselves, bring sacred soil, and guard the altar at the funeral.
• Minghe chose Karma Fire Lotus Seeds and Blood Sea mystic ice as the Blood Sea's offerings.
• Nuwa decided to attend for Pangu and asked Fuxi to prepare Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and a parasol branch; Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun also selected offerings and planned to bring Qingfeng Mingyue.
• Randeng's remaining flame of annihilation in Vulture Peak Cave leaped in response to Pan Xuan's proclamation.

After Pan Xuan announced Pangu’s funeral, leaders across the Primordial World decided whether to attend and what offerings to bring. The Heavenly Court chose to attend despite its rivalry with the Divine Dao, while Pan Xuan awaited the ceremony on Mount Buzhou.

• Jieyin and Zhunti decided to attend Pangu’s funeral and offer Spirit Soil from beneath Mount Sumeru’s Bodhi Tree and Spirit Spring water.
• King Father of the East and West Queen Mother agreed that the Pure Yang Immortal Court should attend and offer Pure Yang Golden Lotuses and ten-thousand-year jade marrow.
• Kunpeng advised Di Jun that the Heavenly Court must attend, citing duty, public opinion, and the chance to gain Great Dao merit.
• Di Jun ordered offerings of solar divine crystal, Zhou Tian Star Origin, and moonlight essence, and said the Heavenly Court would use the funeral to assess the Divine Dao System.
• Pan Xuan sensed the Primordial World’s reactions through the Divine Dao Network and waited for the funeral, with its altar, ritual vessels, and Annihilation Coffin prepared.

Pan Xuan invited the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans to provide pallbearers for Father God's funeral, and each clan chief selected nine members to bear the coffin. The twenty-seven pallbearers arrived at Mount Buzhou and waited before Pangu Hall for Pan Xuan's arrangements.

• Pan Xuan finished refining the funeral vessels and asked each of the Three Clans to select nine pure-blooded members to bear Father God's coffin.
• Ancestral Dragon ordered Ao Yuan to gather the Dragon Clan's descendants and personally select nine pallbearers, then told Ao Yuan to accompany him to Mount Buzhou.
• Yuanfeng ordered Azure Luan and Fire Phoenix to select nine Phoenix Clan pallbearers and announced that she and every Phoenix member above Primordial Unity Golden Immortal would attend.
• Primordial Qilin selected nine young qilin representing the clan's bloodlines and led them toward Mount Buzhou.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin pallbearers arrived at Mount Buzhou and assembled before Pangu Hall to await Pan Xuan's instructions.

Pan Xuan and Randeng spent three thousand years preparing Father God's funeral on Mount Buzhou, while the Three Clans perfected their role as coffin bearers. Seven days before the ceremony, mighty figures from across the Primordial World arrived, and Changxi and Xihe joined them as the Star Witch Clan prepared to guide the guests to Pangu Hall.

• Pan Xuan and Randeng trained twenty-seven Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clan members to carry the Annihilation Coffin in unison along Mount Buzhou's ritual route.
• Over three thousand years, Mount Buzhou's altar, the Annihilation Coffin, the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array, and the funeral procession's preparations were completed.
• Seven days before the funeral, Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, Primordial Qilin, Minghe, Fuxi, Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, and other gods arrived at Mount Buzhou.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng arrived with the Ten Great Demon Marshals, followed by Jieyin, Zhunti, the King Father of the East, the West Queen Mother, and Nuwa.
• Changxi and Xihe arrived from the Taiyin Star to see Father God off, and Commander Ziwei guided them toward Pangu Hall.
• The Star Witch Clan's three hundred and sixty-five Primary Star Witch Clan members assembled under Commanders Sun, Taiyin, and Ziwei to guide the funeral guests.

The Star Witch Clan made its public debut at the foot of Mount Buzhou, shocking the gathered powers with its star-origin auras and complete primordial spirits. Pan Xuan then explained the funeral rites and invited everyone to climb Mount Buzhou on foot to bid farewell to Father God.

• The three hundred and sixty-five Star Witches, led by Sun, Taiyin, and Ziwei, guided the funeral guests to Pangu Hall.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng recognized the Star Witches’ connection to the stars and grew wary of the Witch Clan’s hidden strength.
• Changxi and Xihe sensed the Star Witches’ pure star origin, but Changxi told her sister to remain silent and focus on the funeral.
• Pan Xuan, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Three Pure Ones emerged from Pangu Hall in ceremonial robes.
• Pan Xuan announced that the guests must climb Mount Buzhou on foot without flying, making noise, or using magical power.

Pan Xuan led the funeral procession up Mount Buzhou and oversaw the burial of Pangu’s Annihilation Coffin atop the nine-tiered altar. The Great Dao blessed the ceremony, and the Heavenly Dao sent down merit as the entire Primordial World fell silent to bid Father God farewell.

• Pan Xuan, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Three Pure Ones, and the gathered beings climbed Mount Buzhou on foot in a solemn procession.
• Randeng brought the Annihilation Coffin out of the Glazed Lamp, and twenty-seven pallbearers carried it up the altar as Pan Xuan rang the Soul-Calming Bell.
• Pan Xuan and the assembled beings placed Pangu’s coffin on the altar’s highest tier, prompting the Great Dao to send down a vast pillar of chaotic light and lessen the Three Clans’ karmic force.
• Pan Xuan led the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Three Pure Ones, and the gathered beings in kneeling and saying farewell to Father God.
• The Heavenly Dao sent down purple-gold light and divided abundant merit among Pan Xuan, the Three Pure Ones, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the pallbearers, and the other attendees.
• The Heavenly Dao announced the funeral’s completion across the Primordial World, and its living beings stopped what they were doing to mourn Pangu.

After Pangu’s funeral, Pan Xuan and Randeng began spreading the newly established Way of Burial throughout the Primordial World. The chapter ended with Randeng issuing a divine decree that set out burial duties and simplified funerary rites for all beings.

• Pan Xuan thanked the gathered mourners after Pangu’s funeral, and the mighty figures departed for their respective homes and domains.
• Pan Xuan recognized that the Way of Burial still needed to spread, while Pangu’s memorial day became an observance marked by mourning and a ban on killing and conflict.
• Pan Xuan tasked Randeng with promoting funerary rites and preparing the Way of Burial to support the future opening of the Netherworld and establishment of reincarnation.
• Randeng proposed spreading the rites through the Divine Dao Network, beginning with the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, whose participation could encourage others through merit.
• Randeng issued a decree requiring burial rites and assigned funerary duties to the Mountain God, Earth God, Water God, River Lord, and God of the Sky.
• Randeng’s decree established four simplified stages of funerary rites: final encoffining, dressing and shrouding, the funeral procession, and settling the spirit.

The Three Clans, unaffiliated cultivators, and Demon Clan soldiers adopted funerary rites, earning merit and expanding Randeng’s authority over the Way of Burial. Alarmed by the Star Witch Clan’s control of star origin, Di Jun decided the Heavenly Court had to appoint the Zhoutian star deities before Pan Xuan could bring them into the Divine Dao System, and the Court launched a vast investiture ceremony.

• Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin established funerary rites for their clans, and the Heavenly Dao rewarded the rites with merit.
• Unaffiliated cultivators and lesser Demon Clan soldiers began burying their dead, while mountain and earth gods helped provide burial grounds and conduct funerals.
• Randeng observed funerals spreading throughout the Primordial World and sensed the Way of Burial growing, with purified souls marked for future reincarnation.
• Di Jun brooded over the Star Witch Clan’s 365 star-aligned members and feared their direct connection to star origin threatened the Heavenly Court’s control of the Starry Sky.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng agreed to appoint the Zhoutian star deities before Pan Xuan could act, and the Heavenly Court began an unprecedented investiture ceremony.

Di Jun established the Heavenly Court’s stellar deity system and strengthened the Demon Clan’s loyalty by spreading Emperor’s Flowing Pulp across the Primordial World. As Pan Xuan prepared to open the Netherworld and establish reincarnation, he traveled east to seek the Four Sacred Beasts’ help stabilizing its boundaries.

• Di Jun and Taiyi invested the Star Gods through the Investiture of the Gods List, establishing the Heavenly Court’s Stellar Division under Taiyi’s command.
• Di Jun and Taiyi caused Emperor’s Flowing Pulp to rain across much of the Primordial World, boosting Demon Clan cultivation and strengthening the Heavenly Court’s standing.
• Randeng continued spreading the Way of Burial while Pan Xuan recognized that opening the Netherworld would require powerful guardians to stabilize its four boundaries.
• Pan Xuan identified Azure Dragon, Zhuque, Baihu, and Xuanwu as potential guardians and, after consulting the Twelve Ancestral Witches, set out to visit them.
• Pan Xuan reached the eastern extremity, Cangwu, where the ancient forests marked the source of yi-wood energy and the domain of Azure Dragon.

Pan Xuan visited the Four Pole Sages to ask them to station avatars at the Netherworld’s four poles when the Witch Clan opened it, and all four agreed. Back at Mount Buzhou, he learned that Houtu’s understanding of reincarnation was nearing completion, bringing the opening of the Netherworld closer.

• Pan Xuan explained the Netherworld project to the Azure Dragon Sage, who agreed to send an avatar to guard its eastern pole.
• Pan Xuan visited Zhuque in the Southern Pole High Heavens, and she agreed to lend an avatar.
• Pan Xuan asked Baihu at Kunlun and Xuanwu at Northern Pole Youxuan for aid, and both agreed to send avatars.
• Pan Xuan returned to Mount Buzhou and reported the four sages’ promises to the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones.
• Houtu said her understanding of reincarnation law was nearing completion and that its completion would mark the opening of the Netherworld and establishment of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

After completing her insights into reincarnation, Houtu joined Pan Xuan and the others to begin preparations for establishing the Netherworld in the Blood Sea. With Minghe’s cooperation, they raised a vast concealment array, leaving the Blood Sea hidden from the Primordial World as they prepared for the next stage.

• Houtu completed her understanding of the Reincarnation Dao and summoned the others to Pangu Hall.
• Pan Xuan assigned the preparations for establishing the Netherworld, including purifying three strands of primordial violet qi and creating an avatar to bear reincarnation.
• The group traveled to the Blood Sea, where Minghe agreed to stabilize its origin and keep turbid fiend qi from disrupting their work.
• The Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches combined their powers to build barriers around the Blood Sea.
• Pan Xuan raised the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus, whose light of chaos fused the barriers and concealed the Blood Sea from the Primordial World.

Pan Xuan and the assembled sages purified three strands of Primordial Violet Qi and used them with Houtu’s essence blood to create a Reincarnation Avatar, allowing Houtu to preside over reincarnation without sacrificing herself. The Pangu True Body opened the Netherworld, and the Four Pole Sages stabilized its boundaries, leaving the realm ready to bear the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones concealed the Blood Sea, while Pan Xuan purified three strands of Primordial Violet Qi with the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus.
• Houtu added her origin essence blood to the purified qi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Three Pure Ones joined forces to refine it into the Reincarnation Avatar.
• Pan Xuan protected the completed avatar and called on the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Three Pure Ones to open the Netherworld.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Three Pure Ones formed the Pangu True Body, which used nine axe strokes to create the Netherworld within the abyss.
• Pan Xuan summoned the Four Pole Sages, whose avatars took their places at the Netherworld’s four boundaries and formed a barrier that stabilized its spatial framework.

Houtu and Pan Xuan completed the Six Paths of Reincarnation, establishing reincarnation as part of the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao and bringing the Netherworld's judgment and rebirth facilities into being. Houtu became the Lord of Reincarnation, wielding the Book of Life and Death and the Judge's Brush after fulfilling her mission.

• Pan Xuan told Houtu that she alone could activate the Reincarnation Avatar and complete the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Houtu linked her will to the avatar and transformed it into six wheels of light that assigned departed souls to paths according to their deeds.
• The Six Paths of Reincarnation merged into the Heavenly Dao, completing the cycle of life and death in the Primordial World.
• The Netherworld formed the Hall of Judgment, the Book of Life and Death, the Judge's Brush, an underworld river, the Naihe Bridge, and the Meng Po Pavilion.
• The Book of Life and Death and the Judge's Brush acknowledged Houtu as their master, making her the Lord of Reincarnation.

The reincarnation law was established in the Netherworld, completing the cycle of death and rebirth and earning merit from the Great Dao and Heavenly Dao. Minghe broke through to the late stage of Primordial Origin Golden Immortal, while Pan Xuan declared that departed souls would henceforth be judged, purified, and reborn through the Six Paths.

• The reincarnation law drew departed souls from the Blood Sea through the Ghost Gate, while Randeng sensed the way of burial joining with reincarnation.
• Houtu presided over the Six Paths through her avatar while retaining her identity and freedom as an Ancestral Witch.
• The Great Dao answered as the Six Paths synchronized, and merit was bestowed upon Houtu, the Netherworld's founders, Minghe, Randeng, and the four sages.
• Minghe absorbed his share of merit and broke through from the mid-stage to the late stage of Primordial Origin Golden Immortal.
• The Heavenly Dao incorporated reincarnation into its regular order, assigning departed souls to the Netherworld and recording their merits and faults.
• Pan Xuan declared that all departed souls would return to the Netherworld, be purified, and enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Houtu used the Great Dao merit from establishing reincarnation to purify the eleven Ancestral Witches’ fiendish qi and help them develop Primordial Spirits. The chapter ended as all eleven underwent a fundamental transformation of their True Spirits.

• Great Dao merit strengthened the Netherworld’s facilities and washed resentment from the newly arrived souls.
• Houtu explained that merit could purify the Ancestral Witches’ fiendish qi and nurture their Primordial Spirits, and Di Jiang agreed to let her begin with him.
• Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Xuan Ming, Jumang, Rushou, Qiangliang, Xizi, Shebishi, and Tianwu gave their merit to Houtu.
• Houtu divided the merit into eleven streams matched to the Ancestral Witches’ laws and channeled it into their bodies.
• The merit purified each Ancestral Witch’s fiendish qi and began dissolving the barrier between their True Spirits and physical bodies.

Houtu gave merit to her eleven elder brothers and sister, and Pan Xuan used his Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light to awaken embryonic Primordial Spirits in them. After Houtu strengthened the Netherworld and reincarnation with more merit, Pan Xuan declared that the Divine Dao System would govern life and death alongside Hong Jun’s Immortal Dao.

• Houtu used the Netherworld Law to give merit to the eleven Ancestral Witches, beginning the formation of Primordial Spirits within their True Spirits.
• Pan Xuan sent Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light into each Ancestral Witch, helping all eleven form embryonic Primordial Spirits and gain a new way to comprehend the laws.
• The Three Pure Ones praised Houtu and Pan Xuan, while Houtu spread more merit through the Netherworld to aid wandering souls and strengthen the Book of Life and Death, the Judge's Brush, and the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.
• Pan Xuan thanked the Three Pure Ones for their aid and said they had advanced to the mid-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm through establishing reincarnation.
• Pan Xuan declared that the Divine Dao System, founded on the Netherworld and reincarnation, would govern life and death alongside Hong Jun's Immortal Dao.

Reincarnation was established in the Blood Sea, causing the Divine Dao Network to expand across the Primordial World. The clans and powers sensed the change, while Di Jun’s plans for the Heavenly Court were shaken by the Divine Dao’s growing influence.

• Reincarnation’s establishment sent a concealed pillar of chaos light skyward and caused the Primordial World’s laws and Divine Dao Network to tremble and expand.
• Ancestral Dragon sensed that reincarnation had given fallen dragons a path to rebirth, while Yuanfeng ordered Azure Luan and Fire Phoenix to increase the Phoenix Clan’s patrols.
• Primordial Qilin ordered the Qilin Clan to devote twice as much care to its mountain-god patrol duties.
• Jieyin and Zhunti recognized reincarnation as a foundational addition to the Divine Dao and discussed how it rivaled Hong Jun’s Immortal Dao.
• Fuxi sensed the Divine Dao’s expansion and anticipated a new stage in its contest with Hong Jun’s Immortal Dao, while Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun identified the change as reincarnation.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng saw their confidence in the Heavenly Court’s expansion plans falter as the Divine Dao Network grew.