Chapter Summaries

Ren learned that the Heavenly Wu Clan came from Pangu’s ordinary blood and was kin to the Earth Wu Clan, which came from his essence blood. The old man explained the Heavenly Wu’s origins, their bond to Pangu’s land, and their ancient war against the Chaos Descendants, leaving their dwindling numbers and struggle to produce new descendants unresolved.

• The old man explained that Shen Ni’s devastation had destroyed the Heavenly Wu Clan’s records and identified the Earth Wu Clan as their kin.
• The old man said the Heavenly Wu Clan arose from Pangu’s ordinary blood, while the Earth Wu Clan came from his essence blood, and described the Twelve Divine Shamans as their leaders.
• The old man sensed the Twelve Divine Shamans’ aura in Ren, and Ren revealed that his body was formed from Pangu’s marrow and that he had refined an Ancestral Shaman’s essence blood.
• The old man accepted Ren as one of the Heavenly Wu and, after Ren supplied fine wine, recounted how the scattered clan united and defeated the Chaos Descendants.
• The old man said the Heavenly Wu Clan had lost many members in the war and that efforts to have children or awaken remaining Pangu blood had yielded few new clan members.

Ren and Duobao learned how the Heavenly Wu Clan lost its ancient war against the Barbaric Beasts and preserved its survivors in a secret realm. The old man then explained that the Chaos Descendants sought to break Pangu’s Will so they could escape the Primordial World, leaving Ren to consider the irony of Shen Ni’s victory.

• The old man explained that an intelligent Barbaric Beast united the beasts and began a war that gradually overwhelmed the outnumbered Heavenly Wu Clan.
• After the Beast Demon defeated their leader, the Heavenly Wu Clan sent its children and women into a secret realm and left a legacy for the Earth Wu Clan at Pangu Hall.
• The Beast Demon killed the leader and destroyed the Heavenly Wu forces, while the remaining guards sealed themselves inside the realm and waited for the Earth Wu Clan to release them.
• Ren told the old man that Shen Ni had shattered Pangu’s Will, and the old man asked whether that victory was certain.
• The old man explained that the Chaos Descendants wanted to destroy the Primordial World and break Pangu’s Will, which they regarded as the lock keeping them imprisoned.

Ren learned that the Primordial World was a prison for Chaos Lifeforms and that the Heavenly Wu had endured in a sealed realm by suppressing their cultivation to conserve its resources. The realm’s seal had broken, and the old man prepared to return the clan to the Primordial World.

• Ren heard how Shen Ni had exterminated Chaos Descendants who had rejected the Barbaric Beasts, and reconsidered the Primordial World as a cage locked by Pangu Will.
• Ren asked whether Father God was still alive, and the old man said the clan elders had believed he was asleep but admitted he did not know for certain.
• The old man explained that Heavenly Wu needed the Primordial Land’s essence to sustain their bodies, so the clan had shrunk itself and limited its cultivation while trapped in the secret realm.
• The old man revealed that the clan had created the Heaven and Earth Body Refinement Art by studying Father God, but its immense resource demands had forced them to stop practicing it.
• Ren learned that the seal had broken and that the Heavenly Wu intended to visit the Primordial World, the Earth Wu Clan, and Lord Divine Shaman.
• Ren described changes in the outside world to the old man, who chose to wait until he could see the Primordial World himself.

Ren learned from the old man that Fiendish Qi could strengthen the Primordial Land and temper Primordial Spirits, though the Earthly Fiend Layers remained perilous and mysterious. The old man began explaining the danger of those layers before Yuding turned to him with a helpless look.

• The old man explained that Fiendish Qi originated from the murderous intent and remains of fallen Chaos Demon Gods, as well as Father God's own killing intent.
• The old man described how the Seventy-Two Layers of Earthly Fiend absorbed Fiendish Qi and how the Heavenly Wu Clan purified it to strengthen themselves and the land.
• The old man said ancient cultivators used Fiendish Qi to temper their Primordial Spirits, then assessed flaws in Ren, Yuding, Duobao, and Guiling's spirits.
• Ren asked about the Earthly Fiend Layers, and the old man said deeper layers held purer Fiendish Qi and could contain dangerous beings exiled or trapped there.
• After the old man stopped discussing the layers, Yuding looked at him helplessly.

The old man exposed Hongjun's Immortal Dao System as a scheme that trapped cultivators on his path and fed their insights to him, though he said a solution might exist. After a year-long feast and sleep, Ren woke in the secret realm and went to check on the Heavenly Wu Clan.

• The old man explained that Hongjun's Immortal Dao System trapped cultivators beyond the Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm and used their insights to strengthen its creator.
• Ren told the Heavenly Shaman Tribe about the system's hidden dangers, and its members vowed to confront Hongjun.
• The old man said he would search for a way to counter the system, while Yuding regained some hope.
• Ren hosted a huge feast that lasted until the wine ran low and most of the Heavenly Shaman Tribe fell asleep.
• Ren woke after at least a year, learned that Guiling and the others were safe, and left the hall to visit the Heavenly Wu Clan.

Ren met with the Heavenly Wu Clan's Grand Elder, who agreed to send sixty percent of the nine core tribes and their associated people back to the Primordial World with Ren. Ren learned that the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito's proboscis was a sacred relic formed from Pangu's tooth, and the clan began preparing to return.

• The Heavenly Wu Clan welcomed Ren and directed him to meet the Grand Elder in the central palace.
• The Grand Elder told Ren that the nine tribes had agreed to return sixty percent of their people to the Primordial World and asked him to arrange their settlement.
• Ren promised the returning clansmen a home and resources, while they began gathering their belongings and inheritance records.
• Ren questioned why the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito's proboscis was placed beside Pangu's statue, and the Grand Elder explained that it had formed from Pangu's tooth and gum.
• The Grand Elder planned to present the proboscis to the Divine Shaman, and the Heavenly Wu Clan began preparing for its return.

Ren led the old man and more than a hundred Heavenly Shamans out of the secret realm and back to the Primordial World, bringing a vast herd of Food Barbaric Beasts with them. After the old man restrained his true form and reflected on how much the world had changed, the group prepared to travel to Buzhou Mountain and meet the Wu Clan.

• The old man gathered the Heavenly Wu Clan and prepared to return to the Primordial World with sixty percent of the clansmen, their inheritance, and the Food Barbaric Beasts they had raised.
• Ren led the old man's brothers and over a hundred clansmen through the secret-realm gap at Flower Fruit Mountain, where the returning Heavenly Shamans rejoiced at reaching the Primordial World.
• The old man began recovering his true size as he felt the earth's essence, but Ren reminded him to keep his form concealed, and the old man restrained his aura.
• The old man and his brothers observed that the Primordial World had changed greatly and agreed that Shen Ni's actions had likely leveled its landscape.
• Ren urged the group to return to Buzhou Mountain and meet the Wu Clan, and the old man assigned Bao Yi to receive the clansmen and beast herds arriving later.

Ren brought Ying Zhan and the Heavenly Wu Clan through a spatial passage to Buzhou Mountain, where they reunited with Xuanming and the Wu Clan. After confirming their shared heritage and sensing Pangu’s presence in the Earth Essence, Ying Zhan asked Xuanming to accept his people, but insisted she deserved their respect as a direct descendant of Father God.

• Ren opened a spatial passage and led Ying Zhan and the Heavenly Wu Clan from the secret realm to Buzhou Mountain.
• Xuanming questioned Ren about his message, then met Ying Zhan as he emerged and regained his strength from the land’s Earth Essence.
• Ying Zhan recognized Xuanming as a Divine Shaman, and both clans sensed Pangu’s presence in the Earth Essence.
• The Heavenly Wu Clan joined the Wu Clan, and the two groups quickly began talking and laughing together.
• Ying Zhan asked Xuanming to take in the Heavenly Wu Clan, but she welcomed them as kin and asked him to stop addressing her formally.
• Ying Zhan maintained that Xuanming deserved respect as Father God’s direct descendant, regardless of strength.

Ren and Xuanming welcomed Ying Zhan and the Heavenly Wu into the Primordial World, where they brought a herd of Barbaric Beasts as gifts. In the Ancestral Witch Hall, Ren and Xuanming told Ying Zhan that the Wu Clan had suffered devastating losses, and Xuanming began recounting their history and final battle.

• The old man brought a herd of Food Barbaric Beasts through the spatial tunnel, and the Wu Clan members eagerly admired them.
• Xuanming sent Xingtian and the Great Shamans to settle the Heavenly Wu and hide the beasts in the holding grounds for a future surprise against the Demon Race.
• Ren, Xuanming, and Ying Zhan entered the Ancestral Witch Hall, where Ying Zhan explained how its Innate Fiendish Qi came from Father God's killing intent, vitality, and energy.
• Ying Zhan asked what had happened to the Wu Clan, and Ren revealed that eleven of the Twelve Divine Shamans had fallen and countless Earth Wu had died.
• Ying Zhan and the other Heavenly Wu were stunned, and Xuanming began recounting the Wu Clan's history, conflict with the Demon Race, and final battle.

Ying Zhan revealed why the Heavenly Wu Clan believed it had failed the Divine Shamans, then vowed to make amends and restore the Primordial World. He explained to Ren that the land was a living body capable of healing, though the method and the Wu Clan’s other powers remained unclear.

• Ying Zhan and his brothers erupted in anger after hearing how the Wu Clan had been defeated, but Ren and Xuanming urged them to calm down.
• Ying Zhan confessed that his clan had taken Father God's teachings from Pangu Hall, leaving the Divine Shamans without their full inheritance, and blamed the Heavenly Wu Clan for their deaths.
• Xuanming reassured Ying Zhan that the Wu Clan’s defeat was not their fault, while arguing that the teachings would not have overcome Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.
• Ying Zhan and his brothers pledged to punish the Wu Clan’s enemies and repair the Primordial World using Fiendish Qi.
• Ying Zhan told Ren that the Primordial Land was Father God's living body and could heal itself, leaving Ren to consider what that meant.

Ren learned from Ying Zhan that the Heavenly Wu Clan could use Fiendish Qi to repair the Primordial Land and restore its ancient cycle, but he demanded to know whether the benefits would justify using that energy. Ying Zhan explained that restoring Buzhou Mountain could grant the Wu Clan a protected holy land and help gather Pangu’s Will, leaving Ren to weigh the promise against the cost.

• Ying Zhan explained that the Primordial Land was alive and that the Heavenly Wu Clan could convert Fiendish Qi into Earth Essence to repair it.
• Ying Zhan described how the lost Primordial Unity Dragon Veins had once sustained the world and estimated that Shen Ni possessed at least thirty percent of Pangu’s strength.
• Ren asked what repairing the Primordial Land would provide and warned that consuming Fiendish Qi could provoke the entire Primordial World.
• Xuanming declared that Ren held status equivalent to an Ancestral Shaman because of his aid to the Wu Clan and his connection to Pangu.
• Ying Zhan said the Wu Clan could restore chosen regions for its own benefit, gaining abundant resources, protection, and a chance to gather Pangu’s Will.

Ren supported restoring the land around Buzhou Mountain after learning it could gather Pangu’s Will and help oppose Hongjun, then explored whether the mountain itself could be rebuilt. Senior Ying Zhan revealed secrets about the Ancestral Witch Hall and ancient cultivation methods, leaving Ren questioning whether every modern path to Primordial Unity followed the lesser Grand Unity Method.

• Ren pledged his support for restoring the land around Buzhou Mountain so the Wu Clan could gather Pangu’s Will and oppose Hongjun.
• Senior Ying Zhan explained that restoring Buzhou Mountain required its original fragments or remnants of Pangu’s body, and said such remains might lie beneath the Primordial Land or inside the Ancestral Witch Hall.
• Senior Ying Zhan revealed that the Ancestral Witch Hall held a secret accessible only to powerful direct descendants of Pangu, and said the former clan chief had reached the ninth layer of Primordial Unity Great Luo.
• Senior Ying Zhan described the Great Luo and Grand Unity breakthrough methods and their different cultivation divisions, including the twelve Dragon Veins, thirty-six Heavenly Dipper layers, and seventy-two Earthly Fiend layers.
• Ren asked whether all cultivation systems in the modern Primordial World followed the Grand Unity Method.

Ren learned that changing from the Grand Unity Method to the Great Luo Method would require starting over and vast resources, while Xuanming might uncover the Ancestral Witch Hall's secret through her Wu Clan bloodline. After hearing that restoring the land around Buzhou Mountain could accelerate Xuanming's cultivation, Ren resolved to restore it so they could grow stronger and investigate the hall.

• Ren asked Ying Zhan whether he could change his cultivation path, and Ying Zhan warned that he would have to start over and would need scarce resources to advance.
• Ren decided he could draw on resources from the Myriad Worlds and asked whether Xuanming needed to reach the Ninth Layer Primordial Unity Realm to uncover the Ancestral Witch Hall's secret.
• Ying Zhan explained that only Xuanming's Wu Clan bloodline could sense the hall's secret, since Houtu and Zhu Jiuyin had abandoned their Witch Bodies.
• Ying Zhan said restoring the land around Buzhou Mountain would let Xuanming cultivate faster under Father God's Will and reach the Primordial Unity Realm.
• Ying Zhan revealed that he and his eight brothers had fallen from Primordial Unity to the Daluo Realm after sacrificing their cultivation to preserve their hidden realm.
• Ren resolved to restore the land around Buzhou Mountain so Xuanming could uncover the hall's secret and he could strengthen himself against Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.

Ren and Xuanming learned that the Heavenly Wu Clan could restore Buzhou Land much faster if its numbers grew, and Ren proposed turning Human-Witches into Heavenly Wu. Ying Zhan successfully transformed one, revealing a way to expand the clan and accelerate the restoration.

• Ying Zhan told Ren and Xuanming that restoring Buzhou Land would take hundreds of millions of years with fewer than a thousand Heavenly Wu, but only a few thousand years with ten thousand.
• Ren asked whether Earth Wu could be converted into Heavenly Wu, and Ying Zhan explained that purifying their Fiendish Qi would kill them.
• Ren proposed that Human-Witches could survive having their Fiendish Qi purified and then absorb Earth Essence to become Heavenly Wu.
• Ren brought a Human-Witch to Ying Zhan, who purified the Fiendish Qi in his body and infused him with Earth Essence.
• Ying Zhan confirmed the transformation worked, and his brothers explained that Human Race blood acted as a bridge that let Earth Essence awaken the Human-Witch's Wu Clan Bloodline.

Ren learned that Human-Witches could become diminished Heavenly Wu, whose numbers could speed up Buzhou Land’s repair despite their physical limits and weaker abilities. After hundreds of years passed, Ren remained committed to the Great Luo Method while wondering what secrets the Ancestral Witch Hall held.

• Old Master Ying Zhan explained that transformed Heavenly Wu were made from Wu Clan Blood and Xirang, could not grow beyond twenty meters, and lacked several abilities of genuine Heavenly Wu.
• Ren urged Ying Zhan to use large numbers of transformed Heavenly Wu to help repair Buzhou Land, and Xuanming revealed that several hundred million Human-Witches were available.
• Ying Zhan and the other Heavenly Wu left to begin transforming Human-Witches, while Ren and Xuanming discussed the Wu Clan’s hidden branch.
• Ren told Xuanming he had chosen the Great Luo Method for reaching Primordial Unity and would also continue evolving his Life Level.
• Xuanming offered to advance to Primordial Unity and uncover the Ancestral Witch Hall’s secrets if Ren needed resources, but Ren said he had another way to obtain them.
• Ren and Xuanming wondered what the Ancestral Witch Hall concealed, then several hundred years passed.

Ren saw how the Wu Clan and Heavenly Wu had grown stronger after joining forces, while Guiling confirmed that her vast Formation Array now concealed all of Buzhou Land. Ying Zhan then explained the first five of the seven Formation Great Dao realms, giving Guiling guidance for advancing her cultivation.

• Ren watched Xingtian, Feilian, Bao Yi, and the others spar, and Feilian and Bao Yi challenged each other over who would roast the meat.
• Xuanming explained that the Wu Clan had benefited from the Heavenly Wu's legacies, while the Heavenly Wu had grown stronger using the Primordial World's resources.
• Ren asked Guiling whether the Formation Array covering Buzhou Land was complete, and Guiling said it had developed Sentience and was already effective despite unfinished details.
• Guiling asked Ying Zhan about the path beyond granting Sentience to a Formation Array, and he described the first five Formation Great Dao realms.

Ren and the others learned about the advanced realms and techniques of the Formation Great Dao, while Guiling resolved to study the formation texts she had neglected. Old Man Ying Zhan explained that failed Human-Witch conversions purified and strengthened humans, and Ren asked whether conversion failure could be controlled.

• Old Man Ying Zhan described the seven realms of the Formation Great Dao and how formations could be merged with the body, prompting Guiling to recognize the value of the formation texts she had overlooked.
• Guiling thanked Old Man Ying Zhan and vowed to study the texts after finishing the formations in Buzhou Land.
• Old Man Ying Zhan reported that more than one hundred million Human-Witches had become Heavenly Wu, while mixed bloodlines kept the conversion rate low.
• Old Man Ying Zhan explained that failed conversions left Earth Essence that strengthened and purified Human-Witches, giving them powerful bodies and aptitude as humans.
• Ren asked Old Man Ying Zhan whether he could deliberately control conversion failure, and the old man said it could be achieved with complete certainty.

Ren agreed to halt the creation of more Heavenly Wu while preparing to repair Buzhou Land, and Guiling completed a sentient formation to protect it. The Wu Clan began the restoration, with Ying Zhan and the Heavenly Wu absorbing Fiendish Qi to start the work.

• Ren agreed with Ying Zhan to stop transforming more Heavenly Wu for now and said he would address the Fiendish Qi supply.
• Ren considered how a decline in Fiendish Qi could drive wars and create an opportunity to eliminate threats.
• Guiling developed the Buzhou All-Heavens Formation, a sentient formation space that could detect, trap, and erase intruders.
• Xuanming announced the start of restoring Buzhou Land, and Ying Zhan took charge of the work.
• Ying Zhan and the other Heavenly Wu revealed their giant forms, then began drawing Fiendish Qi into their bodies.

Ren and the Heavenly Wu gathered fiendish qi from across the Primordial World and his reserves to restore Buzhou Land. Watching the land heal, Ren began to believe that the Primordial World was a sleeping living body and that Pangu was asleep within it.

• Old Man Ying Zhan and the Heavenly Wu consumed fiendish qi and transformed it into Earth Essence that repaired Buzhou Land.
• Xuanming ordered Xingtian, Feilian, and the Great Shamans to release their fiendish qi, but the supply was still insufficient.
• Ren rejected using the Ancestral Witch Hall’s Innate Fiendish Qi and ordered the Firmament Ledger to secretly draw qi from the Mortal World, the Four Blues, and Demon Land.
• The Firmament Ledger brought torrents of fiendish qi to Buzhou Land, where the Heavenly Wu transformed it into Earth Essence and formed hills and mountain ranges.
• Ren opened the Reincarnation Treasure Realm and released the fiendish qi gathered from the destruction caused by the forces of Ziwei Planet.
• Guiling compared the Primordial Land’s recovery to a body regrowing from a drop of blood, and Ren concluded that the Primordial World was a sleeping living being, with Pangu asleep within it.

Ren and Xuanming left the restoration of Buzhou Land to Xingtian and the others, then returned to the Ancestral Witch Hall to study Ying Zhan’s ancient inheritances. Ren’s Four Treasures of the Study translated and copied an unfamiliar bone inscription, revealing a body refinement method, before he created a book from the finished text.

• Ren and Xuanming realized that Buzhou Land was consuming Fiendish Qi to repair itself, and Ren left Xingtian and the others to oversee its restoration.
• Ren, Xuanming, and Guiling returned to the Ancestral Witch Hall to study the inheritances, while Xingtian and the others remained behind.
• Ren brought out his Writing Brush, Black Ink, Paper, and Inkstone, which had evolved into Literary Path Supreme Treasures with powers including translation and copying.
• Ren copied unfamiliar characters from an animal bone, and the Paper automatically translated them into a complete account of a body refinement method.
• Ren tapped the finished Paper, causing it to manifest a copy that became a book.