Chapter Summaries

Pan Xuan completed all three hundred and sixty-five Star Banners and explained how they would power the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array. After recovering from the long effort, he prepared to create the Star Witch Clan, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches gathered as the process was about to begin.

• Pan Xuan finished refining the three hundred and sixty-five Star Banners, which resonated together and reached the pinnacle of High-Grade Postnatal Spiritual Treasures.
• Pan Xuan explained that the complete Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array could cover Mount Buzhou and would reach its full power with three hundred and sixty-five compatible banner wielders.
• Pan Xuan decided the empty ground beside the Blood Pool would be the birthplace of the Star Witch Clan.
• Pan Xuan rested and planned to create the new clan using Ancestral Witch blood essence for their bodies and Star Origin for their souls, with the Blood Pool, Creation Cauldron, and Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus as aids.
• Pan Xuan left his quiet chamber and joined the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who had gathered for the creation of the Star Witch Clan.

Pan Xuan prepared to create the Star Witch Clan using thirteen star origins and blood essence from himself and the Twelve Ancestral Witches. At the Blood Pool, he called for the damaged remains of elite Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin members, which the Ancestral Witches had collected after the Dragon-Han Calamity.

• Pan Xuan announced that the formation flags were finished and explained that thirteen star origins would serve as the soul cores for different Star Witch attributes.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Pan Xuan each offered a drop of blood essence, which Pan Xuan gathered with the thirteen pieces of Spirit Jade.
• Pan Xuan brought the materials to the Blood Pool and told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that they also needed the remains of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans.
• The Ancestral Witches recalled collecting elite corpses during the three clans' hurried retreat after the Dragon-Han Calamity.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Xuan Ming, and the others produced their incomplete remains of Daluo Golden Immortal dragons, phoenixes, and qilins.

Pan Xuan used the Blood Pool to combine Ancestral Witch blood essence with star origins and create the Star Witch Clan. He purified the resulting blood cocoons with the light of chaos, leaving new lives gestating with complete primordial spirits.

• Pan Xuan placed the mutilated corpses of Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin elites into the Blood Pool, enriching its life force.
• Pan Xuan added thirteen drops of blood essence and thirteen pieces of Spirit Jade, fusing Ancestral Witch bloodlines with matching star origins.
• The Blood Pool formed 365 primary blood cocoons and 14,800 secondary blood cocoons, each beginning to gestate new life.
• Pan Xuan summoned the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus to pour the light of chaos over the Blood Pool and purify the fiendish qi.
• The purified cocoons awakened, gestating the Star Witch Clan with Witch Clan bodies, star-origin souls, and complete primordial spirits.

Pan Xuan watched as Ziwei, Sun, and Taiyin emerged from their blood cocoons as powerful members of the Star Witch Clan, each born with a complete Primordial Spirit and early Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation. Their arrival gave the Witch Clan the three principal-star candidates needed to anchor the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array, while the remaining blood cocoons began to open.

• The purple-gold blood cocoon split, and Ziwei emerged with the Ziwei Emperor Star's origin and early Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Ziwei recognized Pan Xuan as his Father God, named himself Ziwei, and was declared the first member of the Star Witch Clan and wielder of the Ziwei Emperor Star.
• The Sun and Taiyin blood cocoons opened, and Sun and Taiyin emerged with early Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation before saluting Pan Xuan as their Father God.
• Pan Xuan welcomed Sun and Taiyin, and Gong Gong identified the three as the ideal focal points and core of the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array.
• Houtu praised the purity of their complete Primordial Spirits, and the remaining blood cocoons began splitting open.

Pan Xuan watched the Star Witch Clan emerge from their blood cocoons and established them as the Witch Clan’s thirteenth tribe, the Star Tribe. He assigned Taiyang, Taiyin, and Ziwei to lead its divisions and gave the Primary Star Witch Clan their matching Zhoutian Star Banners to wield the great array.

• The 365 members of the Primary Star Witch Clan and 14,800 members of the Secondary Star Witch Clan emerged from their blood cocoons, each bearing a stellar mark and star affinity.
• Ziwei led the Star Witch Clan in kneeling before Pan Xuan and greeting him as Father God, and Pan Xuan accepted their reverence.
• Pan Xuan proposed organizing the Star Witch Clan as the Witch Clan’s thirteenth tribe, the Star Tribe, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches approved.
• Pan Xuan appointed Taiyang, Taiyin, and Ziwei to lead the Yang, Yin, and Imperial Divisions, respectively, and assigned the clansmen to oversee their corresponding stars.
• Pan Xuan distributed 365 Zhoutian Star Banners, forged from star origin, to the Primary Star Witch Clan, and each banner resonated with its bearer’s natal star.

Pan Xuan gave the Star Witch Clan the Star Refining Spirit Art and explained how their formation banners could form the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array. He led them to establish a camp on Mount Buzhou’s southern foothills, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches recognized them as the Witch Clan’s thirteenth tribe and planned for their growth before Hong Jun’s third sermon.

• Pan Xuan explained that the three hundred and sixty-five formation banners could combine into the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array and strengthen as the Star Witch Clan cultivated.
• Taiyang, Taiyin, Ziwei, and the Star Witch Clan swore to master the array, and Pan Xuan welcomed them as part of Mount Buzhou.
• Pan Xuan bestowed the Star Refining Spirit Art on Taiyang, Taiyin, and Ziwei and told them to teach it to the clanspeople.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches celebrated the Star Witch Clan’s creation, and Di Jiang ordered the Witch Clan to treat them as fellow clanspeople.
• Pan Xuan led the Star Witch Clan to establish a camp on Mount Buzhou’s southern foothills and resolved to prepare them for the next stage of the Witch Clan’s plans.

Pan Xuan taught the Star Witch Clan how to cultivate the Star Refining Spirit Art and explained their roles in the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array. After he left for Pangu Hall, the commanders began organizing the clan for preliminary drills.

• Pan Xuan told Ziwei to prepare Taiyang and Taiyin for instruction in the Star Refining Spirit Art.
• Pan Xuan gave Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light to more than fifteen thousand Star Witch Clan members, awakening their understanding of their natal stars.
• Pan Xuan taught the clan the Dao of the stars and explained that the array depended on constancy, response, command, and holding their positions.
• Taiyang, Taiyin, and Ziwei accepted their respective duties as the array's Yang Extremity, Yin Extremity, and commander, while the star witches pledged to hold their positions.
• Pan Xuan flew to Pangu Hall, and Taiyang, Taiyin, and Ziwei began organizing the clan's preliminary array drills.

As the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array drills progressed, Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed the start of Hong Jun’s third sermon and chose not to attend Zixiao Palace. Pan Xuan revealed that their next destination was the Blood Sea, where he believed the Witch Clan could use its vast baleful qi to strengthen its members.

• Sun, Taiyin, and Ziwei improved the Star Witch Clan’s array coordination while their cultivation advanced, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches watched their drills.
• Pan Xuan sensed the disturbance announcing Hong Jun’s third sermon, and Di Jiang confirmed that Zixiao Palace had begun.
• As cultivators across the Primordial World set out for Zixiao Palace, the Twelve Ancestral Witches declared their complete trust in Pan Xuan’s plans.
• Pan Xuan announced that the Witch Clan would go to the Blood Sea, explaining that its immense supply of baleful qi could help strengthen their flesh and accelerate the cultivation of ordinary clansmen.

Pan Xuan proposed purifying the Blood Sea’s baleful qi and tainted blood to strengthen the Witch Clan, but the Ancestral Witches recognized that Minghe controlled the Blood Sea and could threaten their people. They agreed to investigate the Blood Sea first and decide later whether to negotiate with him or pursue another approach.

• Pan Xuan explained that the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus could purify the Blood Sea’s turbid baleful qi for witches to cultivate with and cleanse its tainted blood to replenish the Pangu Blood Pool.
• Houtu said she could help purify the Blood Sea’s filth using her experience with earth law, and the other Ancestral Witches approved of Pan Xuan’s plan.
• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin warned that Minghe controlled the Blood Sea, where his spiritual treasures and home-ground advantage made him difficult to defeat and able to threaten ordinary witches.
• Pan Xuan proposed investigating the Blood Sea and Minghe’s control before deciding how to proceed, rather than rushing into a fight.
• Di Jiang agreed that the Ancestral Witches should investigate first and seek an alliance with Minghe if possible.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches secretly traveled to the Blood Sea to investigate its foul power. After seeing the sea’s horrific remains and discovering that its mixed baleful energy needed purification, they entered its depths under the protection of their powers and treasures.

• Pan Xuan concealed the auras of himself and the Twelve Ancestral Witches as they journeyed from Mount Buzhou toward the Blood Sea.
• The group crossed a desolate, blood-stained landscape, where Gong Gong sensed the lingering resentment of countless dead beings.
• Pan Xuan and the Ancestral Witches reached the Blood Sea and saw its dark waters, rotting remains, and dense, mixed baleful energy.
• Gong Gong warned that the Blood Sea’s resentment, deathly energy, demonic energy, and karmic force could not be absorbed directly, and Di Jiang agreed it required purification with the Green Lotus.
• Pan Xuan led the Twelve Ancestral Witches into the Blood Sea, where each used their laws, Vast Righteous Qi, or treasures to repel the foul energy.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches traveled deep into the Blood Sea, unaware that Minghe’s Blood God Son had detected them. Trapped in Zixiao Palace during Hong Jun’s sermon, Minghe could only watch and worry as they approached the innate restriction surrounding what Pan Xuan identified as Minghe’s cave abode.

• Pan Xuan sensed a concealed presence in the blood mist but dismissed it, while Minghe’s Blood God Son secretly reported the group’s passage.
• Minghe learned that the Twelve Ancestral Witches and an unknown purple-robed youth were heading toward the Blood Sea’s depths, but the closed gates of Zixiao Palace prevented him from leaving during Hong Jun’s sermon.
• Minghe sensed Vast Righteous Qi and the Xuanhuang Merit Light from Pan Xuan’s ruler and worried that he could not withstand the group if they attacked together.
• Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches pressed deeper into the Blood Sea, protected from its growing law-pressure by their strength and abilities.
• Pan Xuan found a vast innate restriction infused with the Slaughter Great Dao and Blood Great Dao and identified it as Minghe’s cave abode.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches explored the Blood Sea and found its deepest abyss, where Pangu Tainted Blood and fragments of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods’ wills gathered. They decided to negotiate with Minghe before establishing a purification formation and returned toward Mount Buzhou.

• Di Jiang and Pan Xuan warned Zhu Rong not to break the restriction marking Minghe's cave abode, and the thirteen continued deeper into the Blood Sea.
• Pan Xuan noticed that the Blood Fiends resembled the Star Witch Clan in how they had naturally formed, and considered their possible use in negotiations with Minghe.
• The thirteen reached an abyssal vortex where the Blood Sea's foul baleful qi and tainted blood were most concentrated, and Pan Xuan sensed ancient power at its bottom.
• Pan Xuan proposed a purification formation powered by the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus, Houtu's Earth Law, his Vast Righteous Qi, and the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• Di Jiang agreed that they should wait for Minghe to return from Zixiao Palace before making a settlement, and the thirteen left the Blood Sea for Mount Buzhou.

After returning from the Blood Sea, Pan Xuan proposed a Divine Dao System to fulfill the Witch Clan’s oath to protect the Primordial World and complete the Heavenly Dao. The Twelve Ancestral Witches considered his plan to create deities governing mountains, land, rivers, and cities.

• Pan Xuan recorded the Blood Sea’s terrain, Minghe’s cave abode, and other discoveries on the Zhoutian Star Chart.
• Pan Xuan warned the Twelve Ancestral Witches that the mighty figures would return from Hong Jun’s Third Sermon stronger and that the Witch Clan had only a final opportunity to act while they were away.
• Pan Xuan argued that the Witch Clan had not brought order to most of the Primordial World despite its oath to protect it and complete the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan proposed creating Mountain Gods, Earth Gods, Water Gods, and City Gods from Law Deities to oversee the world’s regions and maintain order.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Xuan Ming, and Houtu reacted to Pan Xuan’s proposal, and Pan Xuan explained that the new deities would govern specific branches of law across the Primordial World.

Pan Xuan proposed a Divine Dao System that would let the Witch Clan establish rules for gods across the Primordial World without seizing every mountain or divine office. The Ancestral Witches accepted that powerful figures could join the system as authorized guardians, and they considered how figures such as the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Zhen Yuanzi might benefit from participating.

• Di Jiang asked Pan Xuan how to implement the Divine Dao System, and Pan Xuan outlined choosing a trial mountain range, recruiting deities, and establishing a hierarchy of divine offices and duties.
• Zhu Rong and Gong Gong praised the system as a way for the Witch Clan to shape the Primordial World's order, while Xuan Ming, Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Houtu warned that powerful mountain owners might resist it.
• Pan Xuan proposed starting in unoccupied wilderness and allowing existing rulers or their disciples to serve as authorized mountain gods if they followed the system's rules.
• Pan Xuan explained that the system would offer divine legitimacy and practical benefits to participants, while letting the Witch Clan avoid making enemies of those who declined.
• Zhu Rong and Gong Gong agreed that Jieyin, Zhunti, and Zhen Yuanzi might welcome divine offices, and Xuan Ming praised Pan Xuan's approach of bringing potential rivals into the system.

Pan Xuan persuaded the Twelve Ancestral Witches to support his plan for a Divine Dao System that would establish order across the Primordial World while inviting other mighty beings to participate. They chose Mount Buzhou for the first trial, and Pan Xuan declared that he would become its first mountain god to establish rules for future divine offices.

• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin recognized that the Divine Dao System could turn potential enemies into allies by letting them share in the order established by the Witch Clan.
• Di Jiang proposed fully supporting Pan Xuan’s plan, and all twelve Ancestral Witches agreed to let him lead its implementation.
• Pan Xuan chose Mount Buzhou as the trial site and described a future system of deities governing mountains, fire, water, earth, and the other laws commanded by the Ancestral Witches.
• Pan Xuan explained that the mountain god system should come first because mountain ranges and earth veins underpin spiritual energy and the other divine offices.
• Pan Xuan volunteered to become Mount Buzhou’s first mountain god so he could test and refine the system’s rules, and Houtu, Zhu Rong, and Gong Gong endorsed his choice.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches settled the Divine Dao System’s leadership and planned its rules and Fortune-Suppressing Treasure. They agreed to begin with Pan Xuan serving as Mount Buzhou’s Mountain God, leaving the system poised for its pilot.

• Xuan Ming and Di Jiang supported Pan Xuan’s plan to begin the Divine Dao System with Mount Buzhou’s Mountain God pilot.
• Pan Xuan set requirements for divine appointments and said he would draft detailed rules with the Twelve Ancestral Witches and inscribe them into the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan proposed reforging the Star Seal as the Divine Dao System’s Fortune-Suppressing Treasure and initially offered to share the title of Lord of the Divine Dao with the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches named Pan Xuan the Lord of the Divine Dao and agreed to serve jointly as its Source, governing major matters with him.
• Pan Xuan accepted the arrangement and said the Witch Clan’s immediate task was to establish the Mountain God rules for Mount Buzhou’s pilot.

Pan Xuan sought to become Mount Buzhou’s mountain god by comprehending its Pangu-derived essence, so the Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned the Pangu Phantom for him. Guided by Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light and the World-Creation Diagram, he entered a profound meditation on Pangu’s aura, leaving his understanding of Pangu’s Power deepening.

• Pan Xuan explained that he needed to experience Pangu’s aura to resonate with Mount Buzhou and qualify as its mountain god.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches agreed to support him and assembled the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation before Pangu Hall.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned the Pangu Phantom, whose presence made Mount Buzhou and its creatures respond to Pangu’s arrival.
• Houtu connected her primordial spirit to the phantom, making it more solid and lifelike as Pan Xuan sat before it.
• Pan Xuan used Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light on himself, causing its power to resonate with the phantom and awaken the imprint of Pangu’s World-Creation Diagram.
• Pan Xuan immersed himself in the scene of Pangu splitting chaos, while the phantom’s aura and his ongoing cultivation deepened his comprehension.

Pan Xuan spent 365 years contemplating the Pangu Phantom and realized that a Mountain God’s duty was to protect and uphold order, as Pangu’s spine upheld heaven and earth. After the Twelve Ancestral Witches withdrew to recover, Pan Xuan began walking up Mount Buzhou to join his insights with its earth veins.

• Pan Xuan understood that Mount Buzhou embodied Pangu’s will to uphold and protect heaven and earth, and the Pangu Phantom’s essence left a chaos-colored mark within him.
• After 365 years of contemplation, Pan Xuan thanked the Twelve Ancestral Witches and explained that a Mountain God inherited Pangu’s protective duty rather than seeking authority or possession.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches withdrew the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation and returned to Pangu Hall to recover.
• Pan Xuan told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that he needed to walk Mount Buzhou alone and connect his understanding with its land, earth veins, and spiritual qi.
• Pan Xuan began ascending Mount Buzhou on foot, sensing the mountain’s faint pulse and the will remaining within Pangu’s spine.

Pan Xuan bonded with Mount Buzhou and was acknowledged as its Mountain God. He and the Twelve Ancestral Witches swore the Divine Dao’s founding oath, which the Great Dao answered by blessing the new system and granting roles to two spiritual treasures.

• Pan Xuan merged his Vast Righteous Qi and Law Deity with Mount Buzhou, becoming able to appear anywhere within its bounds.
• Pan Xuan told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that Mount Buzhou had acknowledged him and that the Divine Dao System would begin with his appointment as Mountain God.
• Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches gathered by the Blood Pool and swore before Pangu, the Great Dao, and the Heavenly Dao to establish the Divine Dao System.
• The Great Dao answered their oath with a blessing, and the Star Seal became the Divine Dao’s Fortune-Suppressing Treasure while the Ziwei Emperor Sword became its safeguarding weapon.
• Mount Buzhou recognized Pan Xuan as its Mountain God, binding his life to the mountain.

The Witch Clan established the Divine Dao system and received a second Great Dao blessing, prompting the mighty beings gathered at Zixiao Palace to reconsider the clan’s power and the system’s significance. Di Jun and Taiyi planned to claim the system for the Heavenly Court, while other cultivators considered how their own paths might fit into it.

• The Witch Clan established a Divine Dao system with Pan Xuan as its Lord, and the Great Dao answered with a grand blessing.
• Hong Jun halted his sermon when the blessing’s tremor reached Zixiao Palace, and the cultivators sensed the Witch Clan’s new order.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, Shangqing Tongtian, Nuwa, and Fuxi each considered the Divine Dao system’s implications.
• Di Jun and Taiyi discussed taking control of the system to give their planned Heavenly Court a legitimate foundation.
• King Father of the East and West Queen Mother speculated that their Ways of Pure Yang and Pure Yin could find a place within the Divine Dao system.