Chapter Summaries

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.

The Great Dao blessed the Twelve Ancestral Witches at Pangu Hall, transforming their Martial Dao manifestations into law deities that embodied twelve fundamental laws within the Heavenly Dao while remaining under their control. Cultivators in Zixiao Palace realized that the Witch Clan’s founding oath had earned the Great Dao’s recognition.

• A chaos-colored light descended from the Great Dao onto Pangu Hall, drawing the attention of cultivators gathered in Zixiao Palace.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches’ Martial Dao manifestations transformed into tangible law deities embodying their respective laws.
• The Great Dao bestowed knowledge upon the Twelve Ancestral Witches, allowing their law deities to complete twelve fundamental laws within the Heavenly Dao without severing their connection to the Witches.
• Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Xuan Ming, and Houtu recognized that their laws had strengthened the Heavenly Dao while remaining under their control.
• Cultivators in Zixiao Palace identified the Witch Clan as the recipient and concluded that the Great Dao had recognized its founding oath.

The Great Dao’s blessing of the Witch Clan unsettled Hong Jun, who recognized the threat their newly integrated law deities posed and began plotting to weaken them through other forces. While Hong Jun preached at Zixiao Palace, Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches remained at Pangu Hall, resolved to continue completing the Heavenly Dao.

• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, and Sect Master Tongtian of Shangqing reacted differently to the Witch Clan’s Great Dao blessing, while Di Jun, Taiyi, Jieyin, and Zhunti also discussed its significance.
• Hong Jun noticed the blessing piercing Zixiao Palace and realized the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ law deities had become part of the Heavenly Dao.
• Hong Jun decided not to attack the Witch Clan directly and instead planned to exploit their lack of primordial spirits and pit them against Di Jun, Taiyi, and other forces.
• Hong Jun declared that the Witch Clan’s oath had benefited the Primordial World, then began preaching while privately considering how to recruit disciples and control events.
• Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, unaware of Hong Jun’s schemes, accepted the Great Dao’s recognition and resolved to keep working toward completing the Heavenly Dao.

After the Great Dao transformed the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Martial Dao manifestations into Law Deities, Pan Xuan proposed searching Mount Buzhou for innate spiritual roots to strengthen the Witch Clan. He, Houtu, and Xuan Ming discovered a concealed restriction in a valley and sensed four powers within it.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches discovered that their Law Deities let them perceive and comprehend Heavenly Dao laws, while the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus strengthened the Witch Clan's fortune.
• Pan Xuan urged the Ancestral Witches to search Mount Buzhou for innate spiritual roots, and the thirteen left Pangu Hall to look for them.
• Pan Xuan, Houtu, and Xuan Ming searched the southern foothills for several days, finding spiritual medicines but no innate spiritual roots.
• Pan Xuan sensed a concealed restriction in a secluded valley beside a clear spring, though it appeared to contain only ordinary grass.
• Houtu probed the restriction with the earth law and sensed four powers circulating within it: earth, water, fire, and wind.

Pan Xuan used the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler to break the restriction hiding the Four Symbols Banana Tree, then worked with Houtu and Xuan Ming to transplant it intact beside the blood pool at Pangu Hall. After the Ancestral Witches returned, Pan Xuan proposed continuing their search of Mount Buzhou, while privately thinking of an even more precious spiritual root.

• Pan Xuan broke the four-power restriction with the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler and revealed the Four Symbols Banana Tree.
• Pan Xuan, Houtu, and Xuan Ming cooperated to uproot the tree without damaging it.
• Houtu planted the Four Symbols Banana Tree beside the blood pool at Pangu Hall, where its leaves brightened in the Xuanhuang Qi.
• Zhu Rong examined the scarlet leaf after Pan Xuan told him it could help him contemplate the origin of fire.
• Pan Xuan told Di Jiang the group would rest for a day before searching Mount Buzhou again, while keeping knowledge of a more precious spiritual root to himself.

Pan Xuan discovered and broke the Heavenly Dao seal on the Innate Gourd Vine, a spiritual root bearing seven future Innate Spiritual Treasures. He told the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who agreed to shelter the vine and set out to transplant it to Pangu Hall.

• Pan Xuan searched the northern slopes of Mount Buzhou and found a hidden cave sealed by the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan used the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler and Vast Righteous Qi to break the restriction.
• Pan Xuan discovered the seven-budded Innate Gourd Vine and decided it should become part of the Witch Clan's foundation.
• Pan Xuan returned to Pangu Hall and told the Twelve Ancestral Witches about the vine and its seven potential treasures.
• Di Jiang and Houtu agreed the Witch Clan could shelter the vine, and the thirteen set out for the cave to transplant it.

The Witch Clan transplanted the Innate Gourd Vine beside the Four Symbols Banana Tree, strengthening its foundations. Pan Xuan then proposed refining the Banana Tree’s four leaves into treasures for four Ancestral Witches, and the group gathered at the tree to begin.

• Houtu, Xuan Ming, and Pan Xuan worked together to move the Innate Gourd Vine and its innate breath soil intact.
• Houtu planted the vine beside the Four Symbols Banana Tree near Pangu Hall, where the Blood Pool’s Xuanhuang qi nourished it.
• Pan Xuan assured Di Jiang and the others that the Witch Clan could protect the vine, and the group recognized its place among their growing foundations.
• Pan Xuan explained that the Four Symbols Banana Tree’s leaves could become high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and proposed giving them to Houtu, Gong Gong, Zhu Rong, and Tianwu according to their laws.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches followed Pan Xuan to the Four Symbols Banana Tree, where its four leaves glowed with the powers of their origins.

Pan Xuan refined four leaves from the Four Symbols Banana Tree into high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and gave them to Houtu, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Tianwu. He proposed that the four fans might form an Innate Four Symbols Grand Formation, leaving the four Ancestral Witches to explore their combined power.

• Pan Xuan removed the earth, fire, wind, and water leaves from the Four Symbols Banana Tree, whose power weakened but continued to circulate.
• Pan Xuan purified and ordered the laws in each leaf using Vast Righteous Qi and the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler, turning all four into high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Tianwu, and Houtu each recognized how a fan's power matched their laws.
• Pan Xuan named the treasures the Thick Earth Fan, Li Fire Fan, Xun Wind Fan, and Kan Water Fan, collectively calling them the Four Symbols Fan.
• Pan Xuan handed the fans to Houtu, Gong Gong, Zhu Rong, and Tianwu, who began sensing their treasures.

Houtu, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Tianwu refined four High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and discovered that they could combine them into the Innate Four Symbols Grand Formation. After Di Jiang ordered them to master the treasures and formation, Pan Xuan returned to his meditation chamber.

• Houtu refined the Thick Earth Fan with her Primordial Spirit, while Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Tianwu attuned the other fans through their Law Deities.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Tianwu proposed combining the four fans, and Pan Xuan cautioned them to be careful.
• Houtu, Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Tianwu took their positions and joined the fans' earth, fire, water, and wind powers to form the Innate Four Symbols Grand Formation.
• Pan Xuan recognized that the formation could trap and kill a late-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal, and Houtu said it could be a powerful Witch Clan asset.
• Di Jiang ordered the four to practice with their spiritual treasures and formation, then the Ancestral Witches dispersed and Pan Xuan returned to his meditation chamber.

After Hong Jun ended his first sermon, he announced that he would teach the Quasi-Sage Dao and the Dao of Sages in two further sermons before uniting with the Heavenly Dao. As the cultivators left Zixiao Palace, the Three Pure Ones argued over whether the Witch Clan’s earlier vow to complete the Heavenly Dao had been sincere or foolish.

• Hong Jun ended his sermon, set the second sermon for three thousand years later, and said he would later unite with the Heavenly Dao after his third sermon.
• The cultivators praised Hong Jun and left Zixiao Palace for the Primordial World.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked Taiqing Laozi what he thought of Hong Jun’s plan to unite with the Dao, and Taiqing called it a blessing for the Primordial World.
• The Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi mocked the Witch Clan’s earlier vow to complete the Heavenly Dao, while Sect Master Tongtian defended their intentions.
• Taiqing Laozi cautioned the Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi against judging the Witch Clan, and the Three Pure Ones continued toward Kunlun Mountain.

After the Zixiao Palace lecture, Jieyin and Zhunti traveled to Mount Buzhou to warn the Witch Clan that Dao Ancestor Hongjun intended to achieve Unity with the Dao and to repay their kindness to the West. Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed the visitors, and Houtu identified them as Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Di Jun and Taiyi dismissed the Witch Clan’s claim to complete the Heavenly Dao and discussed how Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s Unity with the Dao might affect them.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to visit the Witch Clan, both to share the news and to remember the Witch Clan’s help repairing the Western Earth Veins.
• Jieyin and Zhunti stopped outside Mount Buzhou rather than intruding on Pangu Hall, and waited for the Witch Clan to receive them.
• Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed two peaceful visitors near Mount Buzhou.
• Houtu recognized the visitors as Jieyin and Zhunti, while Pan Xuan suspected they had come because of the Witch Clan’s past help to the West.