Chapter Summaries

Di Jun and Taiyi traveled to Zixiao Palace to ask Hong Jun how the Heavenly Court could respond to the Divine Dao System’s expansion. Hong Jun realized that Pan Xuan’s early creation of reincarnation had brought forth the Earthly Dao, dividing the Primordial World’s authority and overturning his plans.

• Taiyi and Kunpeng warned Di Jun that the Witch Clan’s work in the Blood Sea had expanded the Divine Dao System and widened its lead over the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun decided to seek guidance from Hong Jun, ordered Taiyi to accompany him, and left Kunpeng in charge of the Heavenly Court’s military preparations.
• Di Jun and Taiyi entered Zixiao Palace and asked Hong Jun for a way to counter the Divine Dao System’s growth.
• Hong Jun sensed that the Netherworld and Six Paths of Reincarnation had formed through the Heavenly Dao’s laws, despite the Blood Sea’s concealment.
• Hong Jun recognized that the Reincarnation Law had established the Earthly Dao alongside the Heavenly Dao, with authority beyond his control.
• Hong Jun realized Pan Xuan had purified the Three Pure Ones’ Primordial Violet Qi and used it to strengthen reincarnation, disrupting Hong Jun’s plans.

Houtu established the Netherworld’s divine order by appointing Pan Xuan as Great Emperor Fengdu and assigning offices to the deities who would govern reincarnation. The Earthly Dao recognized the new Underworld Divine Offices, leaving the Netherworld and Primordial World under separate but connected systems of authority.

• Houtu declared that the Netherworld needed a complete system of divine offices and opened the Book of Life and Death to record the appointments.
• Houtu invested Pan Xuan as Great Emperor Fengdu, and the Earthly Dao linked his authority and the Netherworld to the Divine Dao Network.
• Houtu appointed Randeng Soul-Soothing Heavenly Venerable, the Four Saints Venerables, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Three Pure Ones as Netherworld Heavenly Venerables.
• Houtu appointed Minghe Netherworld Marshal, placing him in command of the Blood Sea’s nether troops and the Ghost Gate.
• The Earthly Dao recognized every appointed Underworld deity and protected their offices from interference by the Heavenly Dao and Hong Jun.

Houtu, Pan Xuan, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Three Pure Ones withdrew the Blood Sea's concealment, allowing the Earthly Dao and reincarnation laws to enter the Primordial World's workings alongside the Heavenly Dao. Mighty beings across the world sensed the change, Divine Dao authorities benefited, and wandering souls began converging toward the Blood Sea.

• Houtu confirmed the completion of the Netherworld's divine offices and called for revealing the Earthly Dao to the Primordial World.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Three Pure Ones, and Pan Xuan withdrew their concealment over the Blood Sea, allowing the Earthly Dao's laws to spread through the earth veins.
• Ancestral Dragon sensed a reduction in the Dragon Clan's karmic force, while Yuanfeng recognized that the Divine Dao System had gained the Earthly Dao's support.
• Jieyin and Zhunti halted their investigation of the primordial violet qi and recognized that they needed to make a decision.
• Fuxi praised Pan Xuan's achievement and looked toward Nuwa's secluded cultivation with anticipation.
• Zhen Yuanzi felt his authority and understanding of the earth expand, while Hong Yun sensed wandering souls converging toward the Blood Sea.

Hong Jun recognized the emergence of the Earthly Dao and explained to Di Jun and Taiyi that the Heavenly Court needed stronger foundations to compete with the Divine Dao. He urged them to use the Witch Clan’s time consolidating the Netherworld to unite the demons, master the stars, and complete the Heavenly Court’s order.

• The Earthly Dao’s aura reached Zixiao Palace, disrupting Hong Jun and causing Taiyi’s Chaos Bell to hum faintly.
• Hong Jun told Di Jun and Taiyi that the Netherworld, reincarnation, and the Earthly Dao had been established, ending the Heavenly Dao’s sole authority over the Primordial World’s laws.
• Hong Jun explained that the Divine Dao’s advantage came from its foundations in the Great Dao, Pangu’s legacy, and the Earthly Dao.
• Hong Jun advised Di Jun to unite the Demon Clan, deepen the Heavenly Court’s control over stellar laws, and establish a broader system of order.
• Hong Jun said the Witch Clan would spend tens of thousands of years consolidating the Netherworld, giving the Heavenly Court time to strengthen itself and prepare for changes when the Sages emerged.

After Hong Jun advised Di Jun to strengthen the Heavenly Court, Di Jun and Taiyi left Zixiao Palace, while Taiyi sensed the Chaos Bell answering Pangu’s call. Hong Jun resolved to use the Heavenly Court to oppose Pan Xuan’s Divine Dao System, but remained confined by the Pangu True Body within the Heavenly Dao Core.

• Di Jun accepted Hong Jun’s guidance to unify the demons, control the stellar domains, and perfect the Heavenly Court’s order.
• Taiyi sensed the Chaos Bell responding to Pangu’s summons and feared it would one day leave his control for Pangu’s Legacy.
• Di Jun and Taiyi departed Zixiao Palace and crossed the Chaos toward the Primordial World.
• Hong Jun concluded that Pan Xuan and the Divine Dao System had to be curbed, and relied on the Heavenly Court to contest their influence.
• Hong Jun reached toward the Heavenly Dao Core and found that the Pangu True Body’s suppression of him remained unchanged.

After the Netherworld was established, Randeng agreed to preside over its operation while Houtu and the others left law projections to guard it. The group returned to Mount Buzhou and planned to help the Eleven Ancestral Witches grow their newly formed embryonic Primordial Spirits by taking turns expounding the Dao.

• Pan Xuan and Houtu appointed Randeng to oversee the Netherworld, and Randeng began calming departed souls from the Soul-Calming Hall.
• Pan Xuan, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Three Pure Ones left Law Deity projections in the Netherworld before departing for Mount Buzhou.
• The sixteen returned to Mount Buzhou and gathered in Pangu Hall, where they recognized that the Netherworld had completed the Divine Dao System's cycle of life and death.
• Houtu explained that the Eleven Ancestral Witches' embryonic Primordial Spirits needed further insight into the Great Dao to grow.
• Houtu proposed that she, Pan Xuan, Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian take turns expounding the Dao to the Eleven Ancestral Witches.

The Three Pure Ones, Houtu, and Pan Xuan took turns teaching the Eleven Ancestral Witches, helping their embryonic Primordial Spirits grow. Beyond Mount Buzhou, the birth of the Earthly Dao and the Witch Clan’s transformation reshaped the Primordial World’s balance of power.

• Pan Xuan proposed that the group take turns expounding the Dao, and Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian each offered to teach from their own insights.
• Houtu began the teachings in Pangu Hall, expounding the Earth Law and Netherworld Dao as the Ancestral Witches listened.
• Laozi, Pan Xuan, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian led successive rounds, using Yin-Yang, vast righteous qi, the Dao of Chaos, and Sword Dao to nourish the Primordial Spirits.
• The Eleven Ancestral Witches’ Primordial Spirits grew clearer and stronger, with each developing forms and law marks suited to their nature.
• Across the Primordial World, Ao Guang, Phoenix Clan elders, beings on Mount Sumeru, and Zhen Yuanzi sensed the implications of reincarnation and the Earthly Dao.
• The Earthly Dao established authority alongside the Heavenly Dao, while the Divine Dao System spread and the Witch Clan advanced beyond its former limits.

Pan Xuan discovered that the Innate Gourd Vine’s seven gourds had begun developing intelligence, so he nourished and taught them. The Three Pure Ones also sensed the gourds’ emerging affinities with their Great Daos.

• During his lecture in Pangu Hall, Pan Xuan sensed new fluctuations of intelligence coming from the seven gourds beside the Blood Pool.
• Pan Xuan used Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light to awaken the gourds’ awareness, then taught them the rudiments of the Great Dao.
• Pan Xuan joked that the gourds would have to call him Grandpa once they took form, and Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Zhu Jiuyin, and Xuan Ming teased him.
• Pan Xuan began nourishing the gourds with wisdom light after his daily lectures, while Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtian discovered their budding intelligence and sensed affinities with their own Great Daos.

The seven gourds on Mount Buzhou matured after ages of teachings from Pan Xuan, the Three Pure Ones, and the Ancestral Witches, then faced the Eight-Nine Heavenly Tribulation to assume form. They survived its first sixty-three bolts but stood badly damaged before the final nine, with the strongest bolt still to come.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and the Ancestral Witches taught the seven gourds, deepening their distinct affinities with the laws of yin-yang, chaos, sword intent, earth, wood, water, fire, metal, wind, and thunder.
• The seven gourds stopped growing as their intelligences withdrew within them, signaling that they were ready to assume form.
• Pan Xuan recognized the Eight-Nine Heavenly Tribulation gathering over Mount Buzhou as the seven gourds rose from the Gourd Vine to face it.
• The seven gourds used their respective laws to withstand the first sixty-three bolts of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, though cracks spread across their bodies and their strength dwindled.
• The tribulation clouds continued to gather power for the final nine bolts as the battered gourds stood together beneath them.

Pan Xuan and the Three Pure Ones protected the seven gourds from the final heavenly lightning, allowing them to take human form. The seven became children of Mount Buzhou and disciples of the Three Pure Ones, and the chapter ended with Pan Xuan watching them join the Ancestral Witches as the Divine Dao System’s foundations stood secure.

• Pan Xuan and the Three Pure Ones blocked the last bolts of heavenly lightning, and the seven gourds transformed into human forms.
• The seven newborns knelt before Pan Xuan and called him Grandpa; he named them Chi Yan, Jin Chen, Huang Yue, Bi Luo, Qingxiao, Lan Yuan, and Zixiao.
• Yuanshi declared that the seven would become disciples of the Three Pure Ones, and the children greeted Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian as their grandpas.
• Pan Xuan refined the Innate Gourd Vine with the Creation Cauldron, then led the seven into Pangu Hall to meet the eleven Ancestral Witches.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Houtu welcomed Chi Yan, Lan Yuan, and Bi Luo, while Tongtian began teaching Qingxiao the Life-Seizing Sword Dao.
• Pan Xuan watched the seven among the Ancestral Witches and looked over the Star Divine Dao Seal as the tribulation clouds cleared.

After learning that the Earthly Dao had strengthened the Witch Clan, Di Jun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng planned to consolidate the Heavenly Court by uniting the Demon Clan and establishing its presence across the Primordial World. Kunpeng prepared the recruitment edict and Ten Thousand Demon Assembly plans, while the Heavenly Court assigned divine positions and offered exhausted cultivators a new path to pursue.

• Di Jun told Kunpeng that Hong Jun had confirmed the Earthly Dao's emergence and advised the Heavenly Court to deepen its roots while the Witch Clan consolidated the Netherworld.
• Kunpeng urged Di Jun to strengthen the Demon Clan's cohesion and expand the Heavenly Court's influence in territories governed by the Heavenly Dao.
• Di Jun announced the Ten Thousand Demon Assembly, divine appointments from the Investiture of the Gods List, a martial tournament, and a demonstration of the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array.
• Taiyi agreed to command the Ten Great Demon Marshals for the array demonstration, and the three finalized the assembly's arrangements.
• Di Jun ordered Kunpeng to draft a Recruitment Edict summoning submitted races to the Sun Star, and Kunpeng assigned divine ranks and commands across the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun publicized Hong Jun's cultivation method for elders whose paths had stalled, while younger cultivators with remaining potential were kept off the Investiture of the Gods List.

Di Jun held the Ten Thousand Demon Assembly and used the Investiture of the Gods List to establish the Heavenly Court’s hierarchy, earning Heavenly Dao recognition. The fortune and merit helped Di Jun and Taiyi break through to the late-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm, and Di Jun ordered the Heavenly Court to prepare for a future conflict with the Witch Clan.

• Demon Clan tribes gathered on the Sun Star as the Heavenly Court completed the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array for the Ten Thousand Demon Assembly.
• Di Jun invested Taiyi as Eastern Emperor, Kunpeng as Military Strategist, the Ten Great Demon Marshals, and allied clan chiefs as Heavenly Court gods.
• The Heavenly Dao recognized the Heavenly Court’s order, and its fortune and merit helped Di Jun break through to the late-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.
• Taiyi also reached the late-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm through the fortune of his Eastern Emperor position and the Chaos Bell’s power.
• Di Jun ordered Taiyi and Kunpeng to cultivate more Quasi-Saints and strengthen the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array in preparation for war with the Witch Clan.

Pan Xuan argued that Hong Jun, rather than Heavenly Court, was the Witch Clan and Divine Dao System’s true enemy because he had infiltrated the Heavenly Dao. The assembly agreed to weaken his hold through teaching, purification, and efforts to win over Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Pan Xuan gathered the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones to discuss Heavenly Court’s rise and the Divine Dao’s next priorities.
• Pan Xuan identified Hong Jun’s control of the Heavenly Dao Core and the four remaining strands of Primordial Violet Qi as the greater threat.
• Pan Xuan proposed expanding the Divine Dao’s influence, persuading Jieyin and Zhunti to give up their Primordial Violet Qi, and continuing the Witch Clan’s work of purifying the world.
• Laozi and Yuanshi supported Pan Xuan’s plan, and Tongtian agreed to recruit disciples and teach the Dao.
• Di Jiang assigned the Three Pure Ones to teach and recruit, the Twelve Ancestral Witches to purify the Primordial World, and Pan Xuan to approach Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Xuan Ming, and the other Ancestral Witches agreed to act against Hong Jun.

The Three Pure Ones opened dojos on Mount Buzhou, while the Ancestral Witches renewed their work purifying baleful energy across the Primordial World. Pan Xuan visited Jieyin and Zhunti, who revealed the control restriction hidden in the Primordial Violet Qi, and invited them to join the Divine Dao System; their answer was not given.

• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian announced their dojos on Mount Buzhou and opened their lineages to disciples from across the Primordial World.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches used their laws and powers to locate, cleanse, and restore lands afflicted by baleful energy.
• Pan Xuan traveled to Mount Sumeru and met Jieyin and Zhunti beneath the Bodhi Tree.
• Jieyin and Zhunti told Pan Xuan that the Primordial Violet Qi contained a restriction linking its bearers to the Heavenly Dao and Hong Jun’s will, and said they planned to remove it using the Vow Power Method.
• Pan Xuan invited Jieyin and Zhunti to join the Divine Dao System as lords of the west and founders of the Vow Power Method.

Jieyin and Zhunti joined the Divine Dao and began using their vow power to remove the restrictions in their primordial violet qi. Pan Xuan then invested Fuxi as the Bagua Heavenly Secrets Divine Venerable, giving him a central role in divining for the Divine Dao Summit.

• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to enter the Divine Dao and entrust their purified primordial violet qi to perfect its cycle of laws.
• Pan Xuan explained that their vow power and the Divine Dao's law deities would safely strip away the restrictions, and the brothers began the process at Mount Sumeru.
• Pan Xuan traveled to Phoenix Perch Mountain and offered Fuxi the station of God of Divination after observing his long service and divinatory support.
• Fuxi accepted, and Pan Xuan invested him as the Bagua Heavenly Secrets Divine Venerable, granting him authority over divination and a place at the Divine Dao Summit.
• The law deity linked Fuxi's Innate Eight Trigrams to the Divine Dao Network, and Fuxi advanced to mid-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal.
• Pan Xuan charged Fuxi with corroborating major decisions and reporting anomalous heavenly secrets, especially those concerning Hong Jun's will.

Pan Xuan returned to Mount Buzhou, where he and the others decided to let Fuxi gradually guide Nuwa rather than approach her directly. He visited the seven gourd children and began expounding how different laws connected, leaving them gathered in the bamboo grove to learn from him.

• Pan Xuan and the others discussed Nuwa's primordial violet qi and decided that Fuxi should influence her gradually as her elder brother.
• Tongtian reminded Pan Xuan to visit the seven gourd children, and Zhu Rong asked him to tell Chi Yan to come learn the southern illumination divine flame the next day.
• Pan Xuan found Chi Yan, Jin Chen, Huang Yue, Bi Luo, Qingxiao, Lan Yuan, and Zixiao cultivating in Tongtian's bamboo grove, each following a different teacher and path.
• The seven gourd children greeted Pan Xuan warmly and gathered around him in the grove.
• Pan Xuan began expounding the connections between laws by integrating the Dao of strength, the way of the stars, and yin-yang and the five elements.

Pan Xuan taught the seven Calabash Brothers how the laws of the Great Dao complemented and restrained one another, then brought them to see the Three Pure Ones' Great Heart-Questioning Formation. At Mount Buzhou's foot, the formation awaited Dao seekers, including some of Pan Xuan's old acquaintances.

• Pan Xuan taught the Calabash Brothers about the interactions of the five elements, yin and yang, wind, and thunder, helping them refine their understanding of their respective laws.
• Chi Yan and Jin Chen reflected on balancing their powers, while Pan Xuan advised Zixiao to temper his destructive thunder with steadiness and cleansing.
• Laozi and Tongtian invited Pan Xuan to see the Great Heart-Questioning Formation and hinted that old acquaintances were among the arriving Dao seekers.
• Pan Xuan agreed to bring all seven Calabash Brothers to the foot of Mount Buzhou.
• The Three Pure Ones' formation tested seekers through the Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing formation eyes, and passing any one trial allowed a seeker to become a disciple.

Pan Xuan brought the Three Pure Ones and the seven Calabash Brothers to the sanctuary’s gathering, where Zhao Gongming and the three sisters sought Tongtian as their master and many youths from the Demon Clan, Three Clans, and smaller groups assembled. Yuanshi opened the Great Heart-Questioning Formation, and its first two formation eyes began to reveal the trials awaiting the Dao seekers.

• Pan Xuan reunited with Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, then recommended the four to Tongtian as suitable candidates for the Shangqing Dao.
• Tongtian invited Zhao Gongming and the three sisters to enter his Heart-Questioning Formation, and they agreed.
• The Ten Great Demon Marshals escorted promising youths to Mount Buzhou, followed by candidates from the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans and other groups.
• Yuanshi explained that admission depended on the clarity of each seeker’s Dao heart rather than their origins or cultivation, and the hundreds of candidates bowed as the formation activated.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian powered the formation’s three eyes; the Taiqing eye formed a Taiji diagram to test mental fortitude and understanding of the Great Dao, while the Yuqing eye filled with law runes.

Kong Xuan passed the Taiqing Heart-Questioning Formation and became Laozi’s first disciple, while his brother Jinpeng failed but was accepted as a nominal disciple. Hundreds of seekers continued facing the trials in the other formation cores.

• Hundreds of seekers entered the three formation cores and faced trials that tested their understanding of the Dao and the firmness of their hearts.
• Kong Xuan emerged from the Taiqing formation core with his Dao heart intact and asked Laozi to accept him as a disciple.
• Laozi accepted Kong Xuan as the first disciple of his Taiqing lineage.
• Jinpeng admitted that he had failed the trial and begged Laozi to take him as a disciple; Laozi accepted him as a nominal disciple until he could pass the formation.
• Pan Xuan watched as Tongtian and Yuanshi Tianzun continued overseeing the trials in the other formation cores.

As the Great Heart-Questioning Formation continued, Yuanshi Tianzun accepted five seekers who passed the Yuqing Formation Eye as direct disciples: Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Taiyi, Huang Long, and Grand Master Lingbao. The chapter ends with Lingbao explaining how he used his innate understanding of spiritual treasure law to unravel the formation’s runes.

• Guangchengzi passed the Yuqing trial by carefully deciphering its law runes, and Yuanshi Tianzun accepted him as a direct disciple.
• Chijingzi burned through the rune labyrinth with his essence of separation flame, and Yuanshi Tianzun accepted him as a direct disciple.
• Taiyi used taiyi dao qi to sense the source of the Chaos runes and find his own way through the trial, earning acceptance as a direct disciple.
• True Person Huang Long passed the trial despite his mixed-blood origins, and Yuanshi Tianzun accepted him after reconsidering the importance of innate origins.
• Grand Master Lingbao emerged and described dismantling the law runes as though they were Spiritual Treasures.