Chapter Summaries

Pan Xuan convinced the Ancestral Witches that attacking the Heavenly Court would give Hong Jun an excuse to intervene and could destroy the Primordial World. Di Jiang agreed that the Witch Clan should strengthen itself first, and Pan Xuan laid out plans for developing its forces and the Divine Dao System.

• Zhu Rong argued that the Ancestral Witches could conquer the Heavenly Court without using the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation, but Pan Xuan asked what would happen afterward.
• Pan Xuan warned that destroying the Heavenly Court would prompt Hong Jun to intervene, forcing the Witch Clan to use its grand formation and risk shattering the Primordial World.
• Pan Xuan explained that Hong Jun could not act directly and urged the Witch Clan to build its strength instead of going to war.
• Di Jiang agreed that the Witch Clan should wait and develop its people and Divine Dao Law Deities before confronting Hong Jun.
• Pan Xuan proposed purifying the Blood Sea’s tainted resources, training the twelve tribes’ warriors, cultivating Great Witches, and maintaining the Three Clans’ divine positions.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches traveled with Minghe to the Blood Sea’s deepest abyss to establish a purification grand array that would send refined resources to Mount Buzhou. They began forming the array, and Minghe directed the Blood Sea’s turbid baleful qi and tainted blood into the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus for purification.

• Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches concealed their journey and traveled to the Blood Sea with the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus.
• Minghe welcomed the group and led them to the abyssal vortex, the source of the Blood Sea’s turbid baleful qi and tainted blood.
• Pan Xuan designated the Green Lotus as the array eye, assigned Houtu and the eleven other Ancestral Witches their roles, and named the formation the Circumference Heavenly Cycle Purification Grand Array.
• Pan Xuan and Houtu took their places at the array’s core while the eleven Ancestral Witches established the surrounding positions and stabilized the formation with their laws.
• Minghe drew on the Blood Sea’s source power and sent torrents of turbid baleful qi and tainted blood into the Green Lotus’s light of chaos.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches completed a purification array in the Blood Sea and built channels to send purified fiend qi and blood essence to Mount Buzhou. Pan Xuan promised Minghe a place in the future Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Minghe accepted the Witch Clan’s cooperation.

• Pan Xuan used the light of chaos to purify the Blood Sea’s turbid fiend qi and tainted blood into usable essence.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches stabilized thirteen Spatial Arrays, creating twelve channels for fiend qi and one passage to the Pangu Blood Pool.
• Pan Xuan left the Star Tribe without a fiend qi channel because fiend qi would harm its members’ primordial spirits.
• Minghe withdrew his active support as the Circumference Heavenly Cycle Purification Grand Array began operating on its own.
• Pan Xuan promised Minghe an Underworld Divine Office in the future Six Paths of Reincarnation System, and Minghe agreed to the cooperation.

Pan Xuan proposed and the Twelve Ancestral Witches established twelve cultivation secret realms at Mount Buzhou, each supplied with fiend qi and a Time Acceleration Array. After Houtu joined Pan Xuan at the Blood Sea, he asked her to locate scattered Turbid Fiend Qi Nodes and create secondary purification cores.

• Pan Xuan explained that the Witch Clan needed twelve cultivation secret realms with Time Acceleration Arrays, and the Ancestral Witches returned to Mount Buzhou to build them.
• Zhu Jiuyin established a Time Acceleration Array in each tribe's secret realm while the Ancestral Witches adapted the grounds to their laws and cultivation needs.
• The twelve secret realms began receiving fiend qi, and clansmen entered them to cultivate at an accelerated rate.
• Houtu received Pan Xuan's message and traveled to the Blood Sea after the secret realms were completed.
• Pan Xuan asked Houtu to use her Earth Law to find scattered Turbid Fiend Qi Nodes and establish secondary purification cores, and she agreed to help.

Pan Xuan and Houtu expanded the Blood Sea purification network, but Houtu sensed an ancient call from its depths that Pan Xuan recognized as the embryonic reincarnation law. He persuaded her to remain near him and promise to consult him before acting, while he resolved to find a way to prevent her from transforming into reincarnation.

• Pan Xuan and Houtu established secondary Purification Array Eyes throughout the Blood Sea, linking its scattered turbid fiend nodes to the main formation.
• At the western Blood Sea, Houtu sensed an intermittent call from deep below, and Pan Xuan realized it came from the embryonic Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Pan Xuan explained the call as a resonance with ancient law fragments and suggested Houtu stay nearby to contemplate the Netherworld Dao.
• Pan Xuan asked Houtu to consult him before taking any action, and she promised; he gave her a jade talisman linked to the Star Seal for emergencies.
• Pan Xuan informed Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches that Houtu would remain in the Blood Sea, prompting Zhu Rong and Gong Gong to argue over her safety.
• As Houtu contemplated beside the abyss, Pan Xuan recognized the growing danger and resolved to find a substitute before she transformed into reincarnation.

Houtu established Netherworld Cave beside the Blood Sea’s main array to study the Netherworld Dao, while Pan Xuan, Di Jiang, and Zhu Jiuyin built cultivation arrays across the Three Immortal Islands. The Three-Light Divine Array was completed, and Houtu stayed behind to continue her cultivation as Pan Xuan returned toward Mount Buzhou.

• Minghe allowed Houtu to establish a cave abode in the Blood Sea on the condition that it remain away from his secluded cultivation area.
• Houtu used Earth Law to build Netherworld Cave, inscribing law patterns and creating an entry ward linked to her law deity.
• Pan Xuan summoned Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin to the Blood Sea, then traveled with them to the Three Immortal Islands to improve the Witch Clan’s cultivation grounds.
• Pan Xuan directed Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin to connect the islands’ spiritual veins to time-acceleration arrays and a passage carrying refined fiend qi from the Blood Sea.
• The three completed the Three-Light Divine Array across Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou, and Pan Xuan set limits on how long clan members could use its secret realms.
• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin returned to Mount Buzhou while Houtu remained in Netherworld Cave, and Pan Xuan reminded her to consult him before acting on anything she sensed.

Pan Xuan warned the Ancestral Witches that Hong Jun could use the rise of seven Sages to tighten his control over the Heavenly Dao, and proposed gaining strength while dividing Hong Jun’s allies. He argued that the Witch Clan and the Three Pure Ones might have been turned against each other by Hong Jun, and Di Jiang agreed they should try to approach them.

• Pan Xuan summoned eleven Ancestral Witches to Pangu Hall and explained how each new Sage could help Hong Jun break through Father God's phantom's blockade of the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan said Minghe and the Ancestral Witches could pursue other paths to the Dao, while the Witch Clan should also divide Hong Jun's pieces by approaching the Three Pure Ones.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, and Jumang objected that the Three Pure Ones had scorned or ignored the Witch Clan and were Hong Jun's direct disciples.
• Pan Xuan proposed that the Witch Clan and the Three Pure Ones had complementary duties as descendants of Pangu, and that Hong Jun might have engineered their mutual rejection to prevent them from joining forces.
• Di Jiang agreed that the Witch Clan should approach the Three Pure Ones and try to make them question Hong Jun.

Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Pan Xuan traveled to Kunlun Mountain to sound out the Three Pure Ones’ stance toward the Witch Clan. Taiqing Laozi invited them inside despite Yuanshi Tianzun’s displeasure, and the three visitors entered the Three Pure Ones Hall.

• Di Jiang chose Zhu Jiuyin and Pan Xuan to accompany him to Kunlun Mountain for a cautious meeting with the Three Pure Ones.
• The three concealed their auras during the journey, then revealed themselves openly outside Kunlun Mountain.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Sect Master Tongtian discussed the visitors, and Taiqing Laozi ordered White Crane Boy to welcome them.
• White Crane Boy escorted Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Pan Xuan through Kunlun Mountain to the Three Pure Ones Hall.
• The three Witch Clan visitors crossed the hall’s plaza and stepped inside.

Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Pan Xuan visited the Three Pure Ones to discuss cooperation between the Divine Dao and Xuanmen. Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin discovered that an unnatural loathing arose between them and the Three Pure Ones, while Pan Xuan remained unaffected.

• Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Pan Xuan met the Three Pure Ones in the Three Pure Ones Hall.
• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin felt unexplained hostility toward the Three Pure Ones and recognized that it did not come from their own hearts.
• Zhu Jiuyin sensed an external disturbance at the level of the Heavenly Dao, while Pan Xuan showed no reaction to the hostility.
• Yuanshi Tianzun felt his disdain for the Witch Clan intensify, and Tongtian detected a faint repulsion that his sword heart could not cut away.
• Taiqing Laozi silently observed subtle law fluctuations in Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin but none in Pan Xuan.
• Di Jiang explained the Divine Dao's development and proposed exploring cooperation with Xuanmen.

Pan Xuan sealed the Three Pure Ones Hall from heavenly perception and argued that an outside force had planted mutual hostility between the Witch Clan and the Three Pure Ones. Taiqing Laozi acknowledged the logic of his theory but said it still lacked evidence.

• Taiqing Laozi agreed to consider Di Jiang's proposal to cooperate with the Three Pure Ones.
• Pan Xuan summoned the Star Divine Dao Seal and concealed the hall from divination, karma perception, and outside observation.
• Pan Xuan asked whether the Three Pure Ones had sensed anything unusual during Di Jiang's earlier remarks.
• Pan Xuan revealed that Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin had also felt an inexplicable aversion toward the Three Pure Ones and proposed that an outside force had caused it through the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiqing Laozi said Pan Xuan's conjecture made sense but still required evidence.

Pan Xuan persuaded the Three Pure Ones to investigate the strange repulsion between them and the Witch Clan, and they promised to visit Mount Buzhou after verifying his claim. After the visitors left, the Three Pure Ones suspected Hong Jun might have tampered with their karmic connections but agreed they needed evidence before drawing conclusions.

• Pan Xuan explained that the Three Pure Ones' repulsion toward the Witch Clan might have been imposed from outside, and Yuanshi Tianzun, Sect Master Tongtian, and Taiqing Laozi agreed to investigate and visit Mount Buzhou if his claim proved true.
• Pan Xuan, Di Jiang, and Zhu Jiuyin left Kunlun Mountain and returned toward Mount Buzhou, where their news was expected to bring the Three Pure Ones as unexpected guests.
• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin told Pan Xuan that they had felt the unnatural revulsion and that Zhu Jiuyin had sensed the Law Deity tremble within the Heavenly Dao.
• After the visitors departed, Taiqing Laozi noted that Mas-Hong Jun had shown no reaction while Pan Xuan concealed the workings of heaven, and Yuanshi Tianzun admitted that his revulsion had arisen without reason.
• Sect Master Tongtian suggested that Hong Jun was the only person capable of secretly influencing their karmic connections, while Taiqing Laozi cautioned them not to accept Pan Xuan's conjecture without evidence and called for a thorough investigation.

The Three Pure Ones concealed their hall from the Heavenly Dao and prepared to investigate whether an outside force had infiltrated their Primordial Spirits. By joining their inherited Three Powers Formation, they summoned a phantom of Pangu’s Primordial Spirit to illuminate the truth.

• Sect Master Tongtian, Taiqing Laozi, and Yuanshi Tianzun agreed to investigate their Primordial Spirits cautiously, suspecting an outside influence.
• Taiqing Laozi used the Taiji Diagram, Yuanshi Tianzun planted the Pangu Banner, and Sect Master Tongtian deployed the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying to seal the Three Pure Ones Hall from the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiqing Laozi proposed that the Three Pure Ones use their Three Powers Formation to summon Pangu’s Primordial Spirit phantom and inspect their own spirits.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Sect Master Tongtian took the positions of heaven, earth, and humanity and joined their powers.
• The Three Pure Ones summoned an ethereal phantom of Pangu’s Primordial Spirit, whose clear, sun-bright gaze filled the hall.

The Three Pure Ones used Pangu’s power to uncover a hidden mark in their Primordial Spirits that Hong Jun had planted to deepen their hostility toward the Witch Clan. Realizing Pan Xuan’s warning was true, they concealed their departure and flew to Mount Buzhou to meet him.

• Yuanshi Tianzun, Sect Master Tongtian, and Taiqing Laozi examined their Primordial Spirits beneath Pangu’s illumination and discovered a subtle mark that amplified their aversion to the Witch Clan.
• Taiqing Laozi concluded that Hong Jun had planted the mark while acting as their teacher, turning the Three Pure Ones’ gratitude toward him into distrust.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Sect Master Tongtian agreed to go to Mount Buzhou, where Pan Xuan was waiting, and discuss matters with the Witch Clan.
• The Three Pure Ones used their treasures to erase their karmic traces, hide their auras, and block prying divine senses.
• The Three Pure Ones secretly flew from Kunlun Mountain toward Mount Buzhou.

The Three Pure Ones visited Mount Buzhou to meet Pan Xuan and discuss matters with the Witch Clan. They were impressed by the mountain’s orderly divine system and the Witch Clan’s immense reserves, leaving the formal meeting still ahead.

• Pan Xuan sensed the Three Pure Ones’ arrival, and Di Jiang gathered the other Ancestral Witches in Pangu Hall.
• The Three Pure Ones examined Mount Buzhou and praised its orderly earth veins and the Witch Clan’s disciplined strength.
• Pan Xuan welcomed Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian and led them toward Pangu Hall.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized the power of the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array as they passed through its barrier.
• The Three Pure Ones saw five supreme-grade innate spiritual roots growing by the Blood Pool and were stunned by the Witch Clan’s reserves.

The Three Pure Ones confirmed that hidden marks in their Primordial Spirits had amplified the Witch Clan’s hostility toward them, and the gathering in Pangu Hall turned to countermeasures against Hong Jun. Pan Xuan proposed combining the Witch Clan’s Fleshly Body Phantom with the Three Pure Ones’ Primordial Spirit Phantom, and Laozi asked whether the complete phantom could expose and sever the hidden dangers in the Heavenly Dao.

• Taiqing Laozi sensed Pangu’s aura at Pangu Hall, where Pan Xuan welcomed the Three Pure Ones and the Ancestral Witches.
• Taiqing Laozi revealed that the Three Pure Ones had found marks in their Primordial Spirits that amplified mutual hostility between them and the Witch Clan.
• Pan Xuan said Houtu was on her way from the Blood Sea, and the gathering waited for her before discussing countermeasures.
• Houtu arrived after temporarily closing the Netherworld Cave, and Pan Xuan began the discussion of their shared enemy, Hong Jun.
• Pan Xuan disclosed that the Twelve Ancestral Witches could summon Pangu’s Fleshly Body Phantom, while Taishang Laojun confirmed that the Three Pure Ones could summon Pangu’s Primordial Spirit Phantom.
• Pan Xuan proposed joining the phantoms to examine the Heavenly Dao and sever its hidden marks, and Laozi asked if that was his plan.

Pan Xuan led the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones in an attempt to reunite Pangu’s flesh and primordial spirit, hoping their combined power would expose Hong Jun’s mark in the Heavenly Dao. As the two phantoms began merging inside Pangu Hall, the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner flew toward the forming figure.

• Pan Xuan proposed joining the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ physical phantom with the Three Pure Ones’ primordial spirit phantom to reveal the mark Hong Jun had planted in the Heavenly Dao.
• The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches agreed to combine their formations inside Pangu Hall, with Houtu tasked to watch for anything unusual in the Heavenly Dao.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed Pangu’s physical phantom, while the Three Pure Ones summoned the phantom of Pangu’s primordial spirit.
• Pan Xuan called for spirit and flesh to unite, and the two Pangu phantoms began merging as Pangu Hall absorbed the violent force of their collision.
• When the fusion reached halfway, the Taiji Diagram flew toward the phantom’s right hand, followed by a stream of chaos light from the Pangu Banner.

The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu’s power, drawing the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner into the Pangu Phantom to form most of the Pangu Axe. Di Jun and Taiyi suppressed the Chaos Bell’s response, but the fully fused phantom was ready to probe the Heavenly Dao and sever what should not exist.

• The Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner joined in the Pangu Phantom’s hand, forming the back and haft of the Pangu Axe while its blade remained missing.
• The Chaos Bell struggled to leave Taiyi and answer the phantom’s summons, but Di Jun used the River Diagram, Luo Book, and Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array to suppress it.
• Taiqing Laozi reported that the Chaos Bell had been held down, and Pan Xuan decided to proceed without it because the axe’s outline was sufficient for probing the Heavenly Dao.
• The Pangu Phantom’s spirit and physical form completely merged, causing Pangu Hall and the Witch Clan to resonate with Father God’s power.
• Pan Xuan told the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones to use the phantom to probe the Heavenly Dao and sever things that should not exist.

Pan Xuan used the Pangu Phantom to examine the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, uncovering hidden restrictions tied to Hong Jun and the Heavenly Dao. The group realized Primordial Violet Qi could turn its bearers into Hong Jun’s puppets when they attained Sagehood, and Taiqing Laozi called for the restrictions to be removed.

• Pan Xuan used the Pangu Phantom to inspect the Three Pure Ones and found Hong Jun’s concealed marks linking their Primordial Spirits to the Heavenly Dao.
• Pan Xuan discovered restriction patterns inside the Three Pure Ones’ Primordial Violet Qi that connected to Hong Jun’s will.
• Pan Xuan examined the Twelve Ancestral Witches and found a Heavenly Dao shackle in their true spirits that prevented them from possessing Primordial Spirits.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian concluded that attaining Sagehood through Primordial Violet Qi would make them extensions of Hong Jun’s will.
• Zhu Jiuyin pointed out that Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Di Jun also faced the same danger because they possessed Primordial Violet Qi.
• Taiqing Laozi said they had to remove the restrictions now that they had discovered them.

Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches helped the Three Pure Ones remove Hong Jun’s restrictions by stripping the Primordial Violet Qi from their Primordial Spirits and sealing it away. Hong Jun sensed that three bonds had been severed but could not investigate Pangu Hall, leaving him to wait for a Sage to attain the Dao.

• Pan Xuan used the Pangu Phantom’s power to cleanse the Three Pure Ones’ Primordial Spirits and warned that removing the Primordial Violet Qi would damage them.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian agreed to the extraction, enduring the pain as the Law Blades separated the Primordial Violet Qi from their Primordial Spirits.
• The Three Pure Ones thanked Pan Xuan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Laozi pledged that the Three Pure Ones would support the Witch Clan.
• Pan Xuan sealed the three strands of Primordial Violet Qi in a Law Cocoon and suppressed it within the Divine Dao Network.
• Hong Jun sensed that his three connections to the Primordial Violet Qi had been severed, but Pangu Hall’s barrier blocked his attempt to learn what had happened.
• Hong Jun decided he could only wait for Di Jun, Nuwa, Jieyin, or Zhunti to attain the Dao and create an opening to break the Pangu Phantom’s blockade.

Pan Xuan discovered that a Heavenly Dao restriction in the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ True Spirits prevented them from developing Primordial Spirits, and suspected Hong Jun had planted it before they were aware. The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches used the Pangu Phantom to sever the restriction, and a sinister gray-black qi escaped their bodies as the shackle broke.

• Pan Xuan revealed the restriction in the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ True Spirits and explained that it barred them from developing Primordial Spirits.
• Taiqing Laozi suggested that Hong Jun had planted the restriction while the Witch Clan was being nurtured, provoking the Ancestral Witches’ fury.
• Pan Xuan calmed the Twelve Ancestral Witches and urged them to focus on severing the restriction with Father God’s power.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches knelt before the Pangu Phantom, and the Three Pure Ones agreed to lend their Primordial Spirit power.
• The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches empowered the Pangu Phantom, whose twelve blades of law cut the restrictions from the Ancestral Witches’ True Spirits.
• The Ancestral Witches endured the painful severing, and gray-black turbid qi left their bodies as the shackle snapped.