Chapter Summaries

Ren and the allied forces fought Buddhism and its subordinate alliances as converted believers sparked purges across the Primordial World. The resulting Fiendish Qi strengthened Northern Jambudvipa and the Wu Clan, whose leaders ordered efforts to find more Human-Witches and train in the Blood Fiend Army Formation.

• Ren used his Reincarnation Overlord Body and Overlord Fist to drive back the Sea-Calming Alliance Leader while Tianpeng rallied the Heavenly River Navy.
• Nezha and Lei Zhenzi arrived with reinforcements as the allied armies fought Buddhism and its subordinate alliances.
• The Lord of Zhuxian Alliance ordered an investigation for converted members, then killed a Buddhist-converted Great Luo Immortal and commanded that his subordinates be wiped out.
• Factions across the Primordial World began searching for Buddhist converts and killing those too deeply converted, causing Fiendish Qi to surge.
• Xingtian asked Xuanming Ancestral Shaman about using the growing Fiendish Qi to strengthen the Wu Clan.
• Xuanming ordered the Wu Clan to seek Human-Witches, find human women to bear Wu descendants when necessary, and train in the Blood Fiend Army Formation.

Xuanming decided that the Wu Clan should seek to trade with Ren for the Blood Fiend Army Formation, while Ren returned to Ziwei City after months of fighting and reunited with Yang Jian. The chapter ended with Ren and Yang Jian answering Yuding Zhenren’s summons to meet with leading experts of the Three Sects.

• Xuanming told Xingtian that the Wu Clan should approach Ren to trade for the Blood Fiend Army Formation rather than seize it, and she allowed that they might cooperate with Ren alone.
• Ren returned to Ziwei City after nearly half a year of battle and ordered Zhukun to lead the exhausted Dragon Riders and Ziwei Legion to rest.
• Ren reunited with Yang Jian, and the two discussed their growth and the strain of fighting for months.
• Yuding Zhenren summoned Ren and Yang Jian to a palace where Xuandu, Duobao, and Yun Zhongzi were waiting.

Ren and the Three Sects discussed the cost of fighting Buddhism’s converted alliances and the need to prepare for a larger war. After the sect leaders went to mobilize their hidden resources, Ren asked Yun Zhongzi for Sea-Calming Pearls to help cultivate his transformations and revealed he had assembled all thirty-six.

• Ren and Yang Jian reported that months of fighting had destroyed many alliances but left their troops exhausted and at risk of Heart Demons.
• Yang Jian said three million of his original ten million Heavenly Soldiers and Generals survived and had learned to use the Myriad Immortals Formation.
• Ren explained that only three million of his original thirty million troops survived after using the Blood Fiend Army Formation to overcome the Immortalization Pool’s growth restriction.
• Ren urged Duobao to train incoming Heavenly Soldiers, recruit powerful allies, and investigate Buddhism’s hidden forces before beginning a full war.
• Duobao, Xuandu, and Yuding left to prepare their sects’ hidden resources, while Ren caught up with Yun Zhongzi in Ziwei City.
• Ren asked Yun Zhongzi for his twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, then revealed the twelve additional pearls he had seized, giving him all thirty-six.

Ren assembled all thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls and discovered they were Heavenly Dipper Pearls containing thirty-six Minor Worlds and the Heavenly Dipper Transformation power. He returned to Ziwei Palace, where Ruthless noticed the burden of his killing and gave him tea that soothed his body, mind, and Divine Soul.

• Ren gathered the remaining pearls from Yun Zhongzi, and all thirty-six revealed their true form as Heavenly Dipper Pearls.
• Ren explained the pearls’ transformation power to Yun Zhongzi but kept their ability to connect to and control the Thirty-Six Layers of Heavenly Dipper secret.
• Ren suggested Yun Zhongzi search for seventy-two Earthly Sha Pearls, then returned to Ziwei Palace to cultivate.
• Ruthless noticed Ren’s lingering killing intent and troubled Divine Soul, then offered him tea brewed from Reincarnation Tea Tree leaves and Chaos Water.
• Ren drank the tea and felt the killing intent fade as warmth and ease washed over him.

Ren learned that the Heavenly Dipper Pearls were linked to dangerous hidden experts in the Heavenly Dipper Layers, then began cultivating while two concealed figures fought over the Celestial Dipper Origin. Their battle caused increasingly powerful storms and shook the Heavenly Court, where Xuandu sensed the disturbance came from the Heavenly Dipper Layers.

• Ruthless discovered that the Heavenly Dipper Pearls contained forty percent of the Heavenly Dipper Layers' Origin and warned Ren not to probe the dangerous layers.
• Ren began cultivating the Heavenly Dipper Transformation with the Heavenly Dipper Pearls and Divine Beast Blood Essence in Ruthless's Time Formation.
• Two mysterious figures inside the Heavenly Dipper Layers argued over their shares of the Celestial Dipper Origin and began fighting.
• Their battle unleashed a powerful Heavenly Dipper Storm, and Xuandu noticed it was unusually early and strong.
• The Heavenly Court began trembling, and Xuandu sensed that the disturbance came from within the Heavenly Dipper Layers.

Haotian severed his Origin and used Chaos Water to forge a new Chaos aptitude, then absorbed vast resources to rebuild his body and break through. He announced that he had reached Half-Step Primordial Unity, astonishing everyone in the Heavenly Court.

• Xuandu sensed the Heavenly Court shaking and identified a powerful aura rising from Yao Chi.
• The Supreme Elder Lord and Obsessive Thought Laozi recognized the aura as Haotian's and praised his resolve.
• Haotian drained his Origin into a pool, merged his Primordial Spirit with his transformed jade body, and used Yao Chi's Chaos Water to remake his Origin.
• Haotian's jade body cracked, melted into human form, and released a powerful aura that forced many in the Heavenly Court to kneel.
• The Queen Mother sent out stored treasures, and Haotian refined their energy to form his physical body and a thousand-zhang Emperor Dharma Manifestation.
• Haotian declared that he had achieved Half-Step Primordial Unity, leaving the Interception Immortals stunned.

Haotian reached Half-Step Primordial Unity, alarming the Wu Clan and Buddhism. Xingtian headed to Ziwei City to meet Ren, while Liuli Buddha prepared a major offensive against the Three Sects to strengthen Buddhism before Haotian could threaten it.

• Haotian's breakthrough stunned the Heavenly Court, and the mysterious fighters in the Heavenly Dipper Layers ended their battle to avoid being discovered.
• Xuanming urged Xingtian to become an Ancestral Shaman, but he refused her Essence Blood and chose to pursue a breakthrough on his own.
• Xingtian decided to travel to Ziwei City to meet Ren and obtain the Blood Fiend Army Formation, then set off.
• Liuli Buddha and Maitreya Buddha discussed Haotian's rise and Buddhism's many enemies, including Minghe, Kunpeng, and the Three Sects.
• Liuli Buddha ordered Maitreya Buddha to send Guanyin Bodhisattva and Buddhist forces into a major offensive against the Three Sects.

Ren was summoned to meet Xingtian, who wanted the Blood Fiend Army Formation for the Wu Clan. Ren hoped to trade it for Creation Jade Butterfly Fragments, but Xingtian treated the formation as a gift and left Ren struggling to negotiate; the chapter ended with Xingtian inviting him to drink from an extravagant collection of Innate Spiritual Treasures.

• Ruthless stopped Ren's cultivation and brought him through space to meet Xingtian outside Ziwei City.
• Xingtian greeted Ren familiarly and explained that the Wu Clan wanted the Blood Fiend Army Formation because it could strengthen Lesser Shamans and Human-Witches.
• Ren tried to suggest a trade, hoping to obtain Creation Jade Butterfly Fragments, but Xingtian thanked him as though he had already agreed to give the formation away.
• Xingtian brought out a table, chairs, cups, and wine jug assembled from Innate Spiritual Treasures, then invited Ren to drink.

Ren drank Xuanming’s Ice-Fire Wine with Xingtian and broke through in both his fleshly body and Primordial Spirit. When a Thunder Tribulation gathered, Xingtian shattered it with a roar, and Ren continued drinking.

• Xingtian explained that the Wu Clan had made tables and cups from captured Spirit Treasures and offered Ren Creation Jade Butterfly Fragments.
• Ren drank the Ice-Fire Wine, whose alternating cold and heat cleansed and strengthened his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Ren drank more wine and broke through to Fleshly Reincarnation, Fifth Turn, and a Grand Unity Heavenly Immortal Primordial Spirit.
• Ren prepared to undergo his Thunder Tribulation, but Xingtian roared and shattered the gathered tribulation clouds.
• Xingtian told Ren the Wu Clan routinely intimidated Thunder Tribulations, and Ren joined him in drinking again.

Ren learned from Xingtian that humanity had become a battleground for awakened Human-Witches and Human-Demons, while the Wu Clan struggled to replenish its dwindling population. Xingtian explained the Expounding Sect’s hidden ties to the Earthbound Azure Bear and the Wu Clan’s Witch Transformation Pool, leaving Ren with more insight into the Primordial World’s tangled bloodlines and factions.

• Xingtian accepted Ren’s Blood Fiend Army Formation jade slip and explained that the Wu Clan hoped it would help Human-Witches strengthen their bloodlines and become Lesser Shamans.
• Ren suggested recruiting humans with Wu Clan blood, but Xingtian said most Human-Witches had diluted bloodlines and little potential.
• Xingtian revealed that Demon Race blood had also spread through humanity, and that awakened Human-Witches and Human-Demons were fighting across three provinces.
• Xingtian told Ren that the Earthbound Azure Bear was an Expounding Sect secret whose bloodline empowered Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan and connected to Jiang Ziya.
• Xingtian explained that the Wu Clan relied on human partners or the Witch Transformation Pool to produce offspring, but the pool’s use of essence blood made the process costly and slow.

Ren and Xingtian drank together for several days, discussed the Wu Clan’s troubles and the war against Buddhism, and agreed that Xingtian would send a Human-Witch army to help Ren. After Xuanming Ancestral Shaman found them, Ruthless confronted her over her warning to the Wu Clan, leaving Xuanming shaken by Ruthless’s resolve.

• Ren asked Xingtian whether Wu Clan essence blood could be used to create Human-Witches, and Xingtian explained that its Fiendish Qi destroyed Humans’ bodies or minds.
• Xingtian offered to send a Human-Witch army to help Ren fight Buddhism, and Ren accepted the offer.
• While drinking, Xingtian told Ren a secret rumor that Xihe’s Golden Crows might have been fathered by Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
• Ren and Xingtian drank several kinds of wine brewed by the Ancestral Shamans until they grew dizzy and nearly fell asleep.
• Xuanming Ancestral Shaman found Ren and Xingtian drinking, while Ruthless appeared to help Ren and confronted Xuanming about her threat to the Wu Clan.
• Ruthless insisted she would destroy the Wu Clan if it harmed Ren, and Xuanming sensed her sincerity and confidence.

Ruthless learned why the Wu Clan and Houtu secretly supported Ren, while Xuanming learned that Ren had once crossed the Time River to protect Ruthless. After Xuanming rewarded Ruthless for her help in battle, Ren woke several days later and discovered that the Ancestral Shamans’ wine had greatly strengthened his body.

• Xuanming explained that the Wu Clan supported Ren because of his Pangu bloodline, his mastery of the Reincarnation Great Dao, and Houtu’s feelings for him.
• Ruthless said Ren had protected her across the Time River, leaving Xuanming astonished, and warned the Wu Clan not to interfere too much with his growth.
• Xuanming gave Ruthless Spirit Roots, Spirit Treasures, and a Creation Jade Butterfly fragment in thanks for her Blood Fiend Army Formation and help in battle.
• Xuanming froze the drunken Xingtian and left for Buzhou Mountain, while Ruthless carried the unconscious Ren to Ziwei Palace.
• Ren awoke after several days, and Ruthless explained that the Ancestral Shamans’ wine had strengthened his body and could help him reach the sixth revolution of the Reincarnation Nine-Turn Technique.

Ren learned that Ruthless received a Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment containing the Devouring Great Dao, then discovered the Wu Clan had sent a formidable Human-Witch army to Ziwei City. He met Great Shaman Xiangliu, who explained that Xingtian was in seclusion after getting drunk with Ren.

• Ruthless told Ren that Xuanming gave her a Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment recording the Devouring Great Dao, which would strengthen her cultivation.
• Ren cultivated the Heavenly Dipper Transformation and mastered more than ten transformations over several days.
• Yang Jian and Nezha told Ren that the Wu Clan had sent a Human-Witch army to Ziwei City, and Ren remembered Xingtian's promise to provide troops.
• Ren saw the Human-Witch soldiers and recognized their leader, Great Shaman Xiangliu.
• Xiangliu told Ren that Xingtian had been punished with seclusion after getting drunk, and that Xingtian was nearing the Great Shaman Peak but still had to overcome the challenge of becoming an Ancestral Shaman.

Ren and the Wu Clan prepared for a larger battle when upheaval across the Primordial World drew their attention to Northern Jambudvipa. Xiangliu recognized the signs of a Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment appearing there, though Ren remained unsure whether that was truly the cause.

• Xiangliu brought the Wu Clan army to support Ren, explaining that Human-Witches and Lesser Shamans had eagerly fought for a chance to join the war.
• Ren and Xiangliu planned to let the exhausted Wu Clan forces rest before the greater battle ahead.
• The Sky Ranking and the earth shook as Xiangliu sensed vast amounts of Fiendish Qi gathering in the north.
• Ren used the Mystic Light Mirror divine ability to see Northern Jambudvipa drawing Fiendish Qi into an abyss and forming roaring rivers of energy.
• Xiangliu recalled that similar visions heralded a Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment and concluded that the Dark Turtle's fragment had appeared in Northern Jambudvipa.
• Yang Jian and the others grew excited at the possibility of obtaining the fragment, while Ren remained cautious because he already had one and the signs were not conclusive.

Great Shaman Xiangliu explained how the Dark Turtle’s Jade Butterfly Fragment had empowered his body and recounted how Hongjun and the Saints suppressed and killed him. The fragment appeared amid Northern Jambudvipa’s Fiendish Qi, leaving Ren and the others aware that the long-lost treasure was still there.

• A Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment emerged amid Northern Jambudvipa’s surging Fiendish Qi, and Ren, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Great Shaman Xiangliu saw it through the Mystic Light Mirror.
• Great Shaman Xiangliu revealed that the fragment taught the Dark Turtle a body-tempering Great Dao, making him powerful enough to withstand attacks from Ancestral Shaman Gonggong.
• Xiangliu explained that Hongjun used Buzhou Mountain’s restored pressure to suppress the Dark Turtle, then helped Saint Tongtian sever his limbs with the Four Zhu Xian Swords and kill him.
• Xiangliu recounted how the Dark Turtle’s shell merged with Buzhou Mountain, became indestructible, and transformed a frozen northern land into Northern Jambudvipa.
• Ren compared Xiangliu’s account with the altered records he had read, then asked whether the fragment had truly made the Dark Turtle so powerful.
• Xiangliu said many had searched Northern Jambudvipa for the fragment after the Dark Turtle’s death, but most believed Hongjun had taken it until it appeared now.

Ren and Xiangliu prepared to seize the Jade Butterfly Fragment that held the Dark Turtle’s Body Refinement Dao, while Buddhism committed itself to a risky war against the Three Sects. Ren mobilized the Three Sects’ forces and sent Yang Jian to enlist the Jade Emperor, leaving the armies to march toward Northern Jambudvipa.

• Liuli Buddha hesitated to pursue the fragment, but demonized Maitreya Buddha persuaded him that Buddhism had to gamble by drawing the Three Sects and other powers into a major conflict.
• Liuli Buddha agreed to commit Buddhism’s forces, and the ranks of Spirit Mountain marched toward Northern Jambudvipa under cover of the chaos.
• Ren and Xiangliu decided to join the contest for the fragment, and Xiangliu rallied the Human-Witches to fight.
• Ren ordered Yang Jian, Nezha, and Lei Zhenzi to bring their legions and three hundred million Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to Northern Jambudvipa, despite Yang Jian’s concerns about the recruits’ lack of training.
• Ren sent Yang Jian to inform the Jade Emperor and the Meishan Brothers to summon their martial uncles, while Nezha and Lei Zhenzi began mustering troops.

Ren led the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals and the Wu Clan army from Ziwei City toward Northern Jambudvipa, where the appearance of Dark Turtle's Jade Butterfly Fragment triggered deadly Fiendish Qi eruptions. Bai Ze and Ghost Chariot sought to use the upheaval to reach Dark Turtle's shell and revive His Majesty, and Bai Ze ordered a Demon Palace Formation Array activated despite the danger to their troops.

• Ren gathered the forces in Ziwei City and marched with the Wu Clan army toward Northern Jambudvipa.
• The Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment appeared amid the Fiendish Qi, drawing cultivators who were killed or transformed by the eruptions and living Fiendish Qi creatures.
• Bai Ze tried to enter the lava lake to protect the altar, but Ghost Chariot stopped him and warned that he could ruin His Majesty's resurrection.
• Ghost Chariot proposed following the Fiendish Qi to Dark Turtle's shell and using Nirvana Fire to turn its Death Qi into life force for His Majesty.
• Bai Ze ordered the Demon Palace's great Formation Array activated to draw in Fiendish Qi and conceal them, accepting that the Demon Qi could corrupt the Demon Race troops.

Ren led his forces toward Northern Jambudvipa as the Primordial World descended into chaos over Dark Turtle’s Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment. He made Fiendish Qi-afflicted soldiers the vanguard, then confronted Cihang Daoren and the Buddhist forces, where Xiangliu revealed their history as enemies.

• Ghost Chariot agreed to arrange the palace’s Formation Array after Bai Ze argued that the Demon Race needed to temper its troops.
• Alliances and powerful figures rushed to Northern Jambudvipa for Dark Turtle’s Jade Butterfly Fragment, while Fiendish Qi fueled widespread slaughter.
• Ren noticed Fiendish Qi-afflicted Heavenly Soldiers and Generals losing control, then ordered Tianpeng to gather more than sixty million of them as the vanguard.
• Ren’s forces encountered Cihang Daoren leading Buddhist troops and Expounding Sect traitors toward Northern Jambudvipa.
• Xiangliu attacked Cihang Daoren, knocked away his Pure Glazed Bottle, and revealed that they had fought during the Battle of Zhuolu.

Ren fought Cihang Daoren while Tianpeng, Nezha, and the vanguard attacked the Buddhist forces and Expounding Sect traitors. Yang Jian returned from the Heavenly Court and overwhelmed Puxian, Grand Master Lingbao, and Wenshu Guangfa Tianzun, leaving the battle raging.

• Xiangliu offered to kill the Expounding Sect traitors, but Ren refused and challenged Cihang Daoren himself.
• Ren unleashed his Fifth Revolution of Reincarnation body cultivation and fought Cihang, overpowering his attacks with the Great Wilderness Blood Halberd and Heavenly Dipper Halberd Art.
• Tianpeng ordered the vanguard legion to attack the Buddhist soldiers, then fought Juliusun as Nezha engaged another traitor.
• Yang Jian returned from the Heavenly Court and charged into battle, intercepting Puxian, Grand Master Lingbao, and Wenshu Guangfa Tianzun.
• Yang Jian struck all three traitors back and used his Heavenly Eye’s nine-colored divine light, stunning them with his strength.

Ren and the Three Sects fought Buddhism in a decisive battle near Northern Jambudvipa as both sides committed their forces. Ren gained the upper hand against Cihang Daoren, ending the chapter as Cihang prepared a stronger attack.

• Yang Jian overwhelmed three former martial uncles after a trip to the Heavenly Court, while Ren recognized that his uncle had helped him grow stronger.
• Ren shattered Cihang Daoren’s Sword Aura and forced him to retreat, while Great Shaman Xiangliu led the Wu Clan army into battle alongside Ren’s forces.
• Duobao, Xuandu, and Yun Zhongzi watched the fighting in the Replica Haotian Mirror and discussed Buddhism’s plan to exploit the chaos and draw outsiders into the war.
• Yunxiao urged the Three Sects to join the battlefield, and their experts flew out as Buddhism’s forces also advanced.
• Ren switched to the Replica Qingping Sword and used Heavenly Dipper Sword Aura to break Cihang Daoren’s attack and mark his Willow Branch.
• Cihang Daoren, furious, gathered the five energies within his body as Three Flowers bloomed above his head with embryonic Dao Fruits inside.