Recaps

Houtu reunited with the Ancestral Witches after establishing Reincarnation, and Dao Xuan helped her build the Netherworld’s institutions and administration. The chapter left Houtu ruling the Netherworld as Great Emperor Fengdu, with its systems taking shape under her authority.

• Houtu apologized to the Ancestral Witches for choosing all living beings over the Witch Clan, but Dijiang reassured her that they supported her choice and hoped she could shelter the clan if it lost the Calamity Cycle.
• Hongjun gave Houtu the Book of Life and Death and the Judge’s Brush, then warned her not to go against the heavens before departing.
• Dao Xuan urged Houtu to establish the Netherworld and explained how it would judge the merits and karmic debts of the dead.
• Dao Xuan created the Ghost Gate, Three Lives Stone, Mirror of Sin, River of Forgetfulness, Naihe Bridge, Homecoming Tower, Ten Directional Yama Halls, and other netherworld facilities.
• Houtu split off ten avatars to serve temporarily as the Ten Directional Yama Kings.
• Dao Xuan advised Houtu to establish Fengdu Palace and take the title Great Emperor Fengdu, and Houtu and the Ancestral Witches appreciated his help.

Dao Xuan established the Eighteen Levels of Hell beneath the Netherworld and placed Minghe in charge, earning merit that strengthened his Myriad Evolution Staff. As Houtu’s transformation reshaped the balance between the Witch Clan and the Heavenly Court, Dijun and Taiyi were left unsure whether the Witches had become easier or harder to oppose.

• Dao Xuan selected eighteen of Minghe’s Innate Spiritual Treasures to create the Eighteen Levels of Hell and appointed Minghe to oversee them.
• Dao Xuan, Houtu, and Minghe received merit for establishing the underworld, and Dao Xuan’s Myriad Evolution Staff became a top-tier Innate Merit Spirit Treasure.
• Minghe discovered that the Asura Race had produced its first naturally conceived member, causing his fortune and strength to rise.
• Dao Xuan and Minghe left Houtu with the Eleven Ancestral Witches in the Netherworld.
• Dijun and Taiyi watched from the Thirty-Three Heavens and worried that Houtu’s bond with the Witch Clan still made them a formidable threat.

Dao Xuan prepared for the coming Witch-Demon war and constructed a Six Paths Reincarnation Disk within his inner world. The disk descended into the Blood Sea Hell Realm and began devouring its vast sea of blood.

• Houtu secretly forged the Twelve Capital Dutian Divine Fiend Banners while the other Ancestral Witches planned to use blood essence to cultivate a new Ancestral Witch.
• Dijun and Taiyi, feeling pressured without Nuwa's support, continued developing the Heavenly Stars Formation and refining the Chaos Bell.
• Dao Xuan deduced that the coming Witch-Demon war could let Hongjun escape the Heavenly Dao, and resolved to strengthen himself before the conflict.
• Dao Xuan began constructing Reincarnation in his inner world to reduce the loss of origin energy when its living beings died.
• Dao Xuan formed a Six Paths Reincarnation Disk from his world's origin energy and Great Dao laws, then sent it into the Blood Sea Hell Realm.
• The Six Paths Reincarnation Disk reached the Blood Sea Hell Realm and began devouring the sea of blood.

Dao Xuan established a nether court and Heavenly Court in his inner world, then entered the chaos to open a sanctuary and study the four symbols laws. The sages watched as he shaped a vast expanse of chaos into a middle thousand world.

• Dao Xuan formed the Netherworld by creating the nether court, appointing Great Emperor Fengdu, and enclosing it with the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Dao Xuan established a Heavenly Court above the Thirty-Three Heavens, appointing his primordial spirit incarnation Taihao as Heavenly Emperor, and considered deducing his own Heavenly Stars Formation.
• Dao Xuan left the Chaos Palace and used the Myriad Evolution Staff to churn the chaos into earth, water, fire, and wind as he opened heaven.
• Nuwa sent Fairy Golden Phoenix to hang the Mountain and River State-Society Diagram outside Taisu Heaven, while Nuwa and Daoist Fuxi watched Dao Xuan.
• The sages sensed Dao Xuan opening heaven, and Hongjun realized he was seeking to comprehend the four symbols laws in the chaos.
• Dao Xuan continued until the shattered chaos was large enough to form a middle thousand world, astonishing the sages and the Netherworld's Houtu and Minghe.

Dao Xuan created Boundless Heaven to deepen his mastery of the Four Symbols Laws, and the world’s merit transformed his Myriad Evolution Staff into an Innate Supreme Treasure. The treasure’s birth triggered a Supreme Treasure Heavenly Tribulation, which Dao Xuan prepared to face.

• Jieyin and Zhunti speculated that Dao Xuan might prove the Dao through multiple laws, and Zhunti feared the implications of his potential.
• Dao Xuan used the Four Symbols Laws and the Myriad Evolution Staff to create Boundless Heaven, a Middle Thousand World.
• The Great Desolate Heavenly Dao annexed Boundless Heaven as an ancillary world and rewarded Dao Xuan with merit.
• The merit fused with the Myriad Evolution Staff, transforming it into an Innate Supreme Treasure and Merit Supreme Treasure.
• A Supreme Treasure Heavenly Tribulation gathered over the staff, and Dao Xuan resolved to protect it while questioning why the Heavenly Dao had imposed this trial.

Dao Xuan turned the Myriad Evolution Staff into an innate supreme treasure, moved Chaos Island into the Boundless Heaven, and withdrew from the others. Meanwhile, the Ten Golden Crow Princes caused trouble in the Demon Tribe, and the Three Pure Ones suddenly separated.

• Dao Xuan’s merit-forged Myriad Evolution Staff dispersed its heavenly tribulation and became a Low-Grade Innate Supreme Treasure containing the perfected Five Elements Law.
• Dao Xuan manifested Chaos Island above the Eastern Sea, carried it into the Boundless Heaven, and invited Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi into his domain.
• Xihe gave birth to ten Three-Legged Golden Crow princes, whose mischief prompted Dijun to lock them away after officials submitted a joint memorial.
• The Three Pure Ones, who had long claimed to share breath and branch, suddenly separated.

After the Three Pure Ones divided their teachings and the Western sages saw an opportunity to expand eastward, Dao Xuan continued pursuing the Four Symbols Laws and discovered a world ruled by God Yahweh. He sent his Inner World’s powerful beings to conquer it, then suppressed and killed Yahweh, absorbing his laws into his Inner World.

• Yuanshi established the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain, Laozi founded Bajing Palace on Shouyang Mountain with Xuandu, and Tongtian set up Biyou Palace on Golden Ao Island.
• Jieyin and Zhunti welcomed the Three Pure Ones’ separation as a chance to spread their teachings eastward, but chose to wait for the Witch-Beast Calamity to end.
• Dao Xuan practiced with the Four Symbols Formation in the Boundless Heaven, nearing a bottleneck in his comprehension of the Four Symbols Laws.
• Dao Xuan discovered a Middle Thousand World where Yahweh had created humans and angels, and where the fallen archangel Lucifer had become Satan.
• The Sun-Moon Celestial Roc, Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale, and Five Divine Beasts invaded Yahweh’s world and trapped him with the Yin-Yang Five Elements Formation after he merged with Satan.
• Dao Xuan brought Yahweh into his Inner World, killed him, and absorbed his laws into the world.

Dao Xuan foresaw the Human Tribe’s impending extinction calamity and decided to prevent the Demon Tribe from slaughtering them. He stopped Dijun and Taiyi before they could seek Nuwa and Laozi’s approval, and their plan to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword was abandoned.

• Dao Xuan reached the late Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal stage and foresaw the Human Tribe’s great tribulation.
• Dao Xuan decided to change the Human Tribe’s fate rather than let them become pawns of the Saints.
• Dijun and Taiyi planned to consult Nuwa and Laozi about using Human Tribe blood essence and vengeful souls to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword.
• Dao Xuan stopped Dijun and Taiyi in Chaos and declared that no one could harm the Human Tribe during the calamity cycle.
• Dijun and Taiyi obeyed Dao Xuan, returned to the Thirty-Three Heavens, and ordered the Demon Tribe to keep the matter secret.

Dao Xuan prevented the Human Tribe Calamity, prompting Nuwa to reconsider her disregard for the humans while Laozi and other powerful beings accepted Dao Xuan’s intervention. After more than a dozen Yuanhui, the Calamity Cycle began, and Zhunti secretly freed Dijun’s ten sons, who flew out of the Tang Valley to play in the Primordial World.

• Nuwa questioned Dao Xuan about intervening in Heavenly Secrets, and he left after saying the Human Tribe Calamity was not a grand trend.
• Nuwa regretted her attitude toward the Human Tribe and left Taisu Heaven to see what made them worthy of Dao Xuan’s regard.
• Laozi and other powerful beings learned that Dao Xuan had blocked the Human Tribe Calamity, but none opposed him.
• More than a dozen Yuanhui later, Heavenly Dao announced that the Witch and Demon prohibitions had ended and the Calamity Cycle was about to erupt.
• Zhunti shattered Dijun’s Formation Barrier around the Tang Valley without alerting Dijun.
• Dijun’s ten sons left the Tang Valley, mistook their escape for permission to go out, and flew into the Primordial World to play.

The Ten Golden Crow Princes scorched the Primordial Land, while Nuwa secretly protected the Human Tribe from their flames. After the Golden Crows burned Kuafu’s tribe, the enraged Great Witch pursued them.

• The Ten Golden Crow Princes spread True Solar Fire across the Primordial Land, killing countless living beings as powerful figures hesitated to intervene.
• Zhen Yuanzi tried to leave Longevity Mountain to help but was forced back by a Saint’s power.
• Dao Xuan prepared to protect the Human Tribe, but Nuwa used the Mountain and River State-Society Diagram to shield them and deceive the Golden Crows.
• The Golden Crows continued their rampage, unaware that their flames had not harmed the Human Tribe.
• After returning from Pangu Hall, Kuafu found his tribe burning, transformed into his Great Witch form, and chased the Golden Crows with his Peachwood Staff.

Lu Ya’s Curse Demon God fragment weakened Kuafu, allowing the ten golden crows to kill him. Dayi searched for his missing friend and reached the Peach Grove that had grown where Kuafu fell.

• Lu Ya’s Curse Demon God fragment activated during the fight, and its curse left Kuafu weak and drowsy.
• The ten golden crows swarmed Kuafu and killed him, and his Peachwood Staff grew into a Peach Grove.
• The watching Saints recognized the Curse Demon God’s aura, while Dao Xuan observed Lu Ya’s power with mild interest.
• Dayi emerged from Pangu Hall, found he could no longer sense Kuafu, and learned that Kuafu had pursued the golden crows.
• Dayi followed Kuafu’s trail and entered the Peach Grove where his friend had fallen.

Dayi avenged Kuafu by hunting down Dijun’s ten Golden Crow sons and shooting nine of them dead. As Dayi pursued the last, Lu Ya, Dijun and Taiyi intervened with the Chaos Bell and barely saved him.

• Dayi confirmed Kuafu’s death and tracked the ten Golden Crows to take revenge.
• Dayi shot down the first five Golden Crows, then killed three more with a volley of arrows.
• Dayi killed the eighth Golden Crow as Lu Ya fled toward Tang Valley, then pursued Lu Ya back within range.
• Dijun sensed his sons dying and saw through his divine sense that Dayi was shooting them down.
• Dijun and Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to teleport down and save Lu Ya after Dayi had killed nine of the ten Golden Crows.

Houtu rescued Dayi from Dijun and brought him to the Netherworld, where heavenly merit gave him a primordial spirit. At Pangu Hall, the Eleven Ancestral Witches learned of the scheme against their people, but they could neither identify nor challenge the Saint behind it.

• Houtu pulled Dayi into a vortex just as Dijun struck, and Taiyi persuaded Dijun to return with Lu Ya and gather the fallen Golden Crows' bodies.
• Houtu explained that she had rescued Dayi because his fate had not yet run its course, while hidden schemes and chaotic heavenly secrets had kept her from noticing events sooner.
• Heavenly merit descended for Dayi's role in shooting down the nine Golden Crows, and Houtu saw it form a faint primordial spirit in his sea of consciousness.
• After Dayi awoke and told Houtu what he had discovered, she sent an avatar with him to Pangu Hall to meet the Eleven Ancestral Witches.
• The Eleven Ancestral Witches raged over the deaths and injuries among their people and Kuafu's fall, but they could not retaliate against an unknown Saint.

As the Witch and Demon Tribes approached a decisive war, Dijiang sealed five drops of his blood essence inside Dayi and sent him away with Houtu. Houtu then sought Dao Xuan’s help, and he gave her eleven purple flowers that could preserve the Ancestral Witches’ true spirits if they fell in the coming calamity.

• Dijiang gave Dayi five drops of his blood essence and ordered him to remain behind as the Witch Clan’s hope.
• Houtu took Dayi away while Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches vowed to fight the Demon Tribe to the death.
• Houtu created an avatar and visited Dao Xuan at Boundless Heaven to ask for his help.
• Dao Xuan gave Houtu eleven purple flowers to preserve her siblings’ true spirits, but warned her not to interfere with the calamity again.

Dijun chose to spend the Demon Heavenly Court’s providence to shoulder the karmic debt threatening Lu Ya, sacrificing his last chance to use that providence for a breakthrough. After forcibly severing his incomplete Obsession Corpse, he and Taiyi prepared to stake everything on war against the Witch Clan and the Saint who had plotted against them.

• Dijun and Taiyi found Lu Ya barely alive and unable to awaken because of the Golden Crows’ immense karmic debt, which they had temporarily suppressed with a forbidden art.
• Dijun and Taiyi weighed whether to spend the Demon Heavenly Court’s providence to save the surviving Golden Crows or abandon them to preserve their chance at a breakthrough.
• Dijun apologized to Taiyi, who promised to stand with him regardless of his choice.
• Dijun forcibly severed his incomplete Obsession Corpse, completing the severing of all Three Corpses, and declared that the brothers would fight to the death.
• Dijun and Taiyi transferred the karmic debt threatening Lu Ya onto the Demon Heavenly Court’s providence.

Dijun and Taiyi left Lu Ya in Nuwa’s protection before returning to the Thirty-Three Heavens. Taiyi then secretly visited Dao Xuan and offered him the Chaos Bell in exchange for a chance to save Dijun, leaving his own fate unasked.

• Dijun and Taiyi brought Lu Ya to Nuwa, who promised he would be safe as long as he remained in Taisu Heaven.
• Dijun woke Lu Ya and left him with Nuwa despite the child’s pleas to go home.
• After returning to the Thirty-Three Heavens, Taiyi sent his Good Corpse avatar to visit Dao Xuan in Boundless Heaven.
• Taiyi offered Dao Xuan the Chaos Bell for a chance to save Dijun and said he did not expect Dao Xuan to save him as well.

Dao Xuan gave Taiyi the Heavenly Mandate Gourd, which could preserve the true spirits of Golden Immortal or stronger demons through the coming calamity. The final battle between the Witch Clan and the Demon Tribe began, and both armies suffered heavy casualties.

• Dao Xuan filled a gourd with Three Lights Divine Water, refined it with a page from Genesis, and gave the Heavenly Mandate Gourd to Taiyi so fallen demons’ true spirits could be preserved.
• Dijun prepared the Demon Tribe for war and forged the Witch-Slaying Sword from his nine dead sons and sun essence gold; Taiyi secretly collected the auras of Dijun, Xihe, Changxi, Kunpeng, and other powerful demons.
• Black baleful clouds spread across the Primordial World as the final battle between the Witch Clan and the Demon Tribe began.
• Dijun led the Demon Tribe from the South Heaven Gate and vowed to exterminate the Witch Clan and avenge his sons.
• Dijiang led the Eleven Ancestral Witches and their warriors from Mount Buzhou, calling on them to avenge Kuafu and their fallen clansmen.
• The Witch Clan and Demon Tribe met in a savage battle, and countless warriors died on both sides.

The Demon Tribe and Witch Clan deployed their supreme formations and clashed in a battle of seemingly equal strength. As the fight reached a critical point, Dao Xuan entered Zixiao Palace to attempt to help Hongjun break free from the Heavenly Dao.

• Dijun demanded that Dayi face him, but Zhurong mocked him and suggested they fight instead.
• The Demon Tribe formed the Heavenly Stars Formation with three hundred and sixty-five Daluo Golden Immortal Demon Gods and five Quasi-Saints presiding over it.
• Dijiang led the Ancestral Witches, Xing Tian, and Jiu Feng in forming the Capital Divine Fiend Formation and summoning a stronger Pangu True Body.
• Dijun and the Pangu True Body traded attacks, and both formations withstood the other's blows as the battle turned into a contest of endurance.
• Dao Xuan left Taisu Heaven, entered Zixiao Palace, and prepared to make an attempt related to Hongjun's freedom from the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Stars Formation collapsed under the Pangu True Body’s attacks, and Kunpeng fled with Dijun’s formation treasures. Xihe and Changxi sacrificed themselves to destroy the Pangu True Body, leaving Dijun, Taiyi, and the surviving Witches to fight a desperate battle.

• Dijun and the Demon Gods exhausted themselves maintaining the damaged Heavenly Stars Formation, which finally collapsed beneath the Pangu True Body’s next punch.
• The formation’s collapse annihilated the three hundred and sixty-five Demon Gods, while Kunpeng fled with the River Diagram and Luo Writing.
• Xihe self-destructed with her two incarnations beside the Pangu True Body to avenge her children, and Changxi followed with the same sacrifice.
• The Pangu True Body collapsed, leaving the Eleven Ancestral Witches exhausted and Xing Tian and Jiu Feng severely injured.
• Dijun and Taiyi released their incarnations and joined the surviving Witches in a desperate melee.

Dijun and Taiyi fought the Ancestral Witches to mutual destruction, while the surviving Demon Gods were killed protecting them. With the battlefield’s strongest fighters gone, the Saints and Minghe began fighting over the Chaos Bell.

• Taiyi and Dijun detonated their Three Corpses avatars to kill Zhurong, Qiangliang, Shebishi, and Tian Wu, while Dijun slew Zhu Jiuyin with his Solar Divine Sword.
• Dijiang seized the Chaos Bell and detonated himself, blasting it away and grievously wounding Dijun and Taiyi.
• The remaining five Ancestral Witches killed the Demon Gods who had rushed to defend Dijun and Taiyi.
• Dijun and Taiyi detonated themselves together, killing Roushou, Jumang, Xuanming, and Xizi, and grievously wounding Gonggong.
• Zhunti, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Yuanshi contested the Chaos Bell, then joined forces against Minghe when he tried to claim it with Yuantu Sword and Abi Sword.

Gonggong’s desperate charge shattered Mount Buzhou, unleashing a catastrophe across the Primordial World. Dao Xuan claimed the Chaos Bell amid the disaster, then confronted the saints who had been fighting over it.

• Minghe withdrew the Yuantu Sword and Abi Sword after the saints drove them away from the Chaos Bell.
• Gonggong, grieving the deaths of the Ancestral Witches, rammed Mount Buzhou and broke the Heavenly Pillar, causing the heavens to tilt and a hole to open in the sky.
• Dao Xuan returned from Zixiao Palace, took the Chaos Bell, and explained that Taiyi had given it to him before the Calamity Cycle.
• Laozi challenged Dao Xuan’s claim to the Chaos Bell, but Dao Xuan said it was already his and that he had refined it.
• Minghe mocked the saints, and Tongtian attacked him with the Green Duckweed Sword; Minghe used the Yuantu Sword and Abi Sword to suppress it.

Hongjun stopped the Saints’ conflict and organized the effort to repair the damage to heaven and earth. Nuwa mended the heavens with refined Five-Colored Stones, the black tortoise’s limbs became pillars, and Dao Xuan restored order to the stars.

• Hongjun appeared, greeted Dao Xuan as a fellow Daoist, and rebuked the Saints for neglecting the calamity.
• Hongjun temporarily sealed the hole in the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane and gave Nuwa the Qiankun Cauldron to refine Five-Colored Stones.
• Dao Xuan sent Minghe to retrieve the black tortoise’s four limbs and took the fallen half of Mount Buzhou with his divine light.
• Nuwa refined thirty-six thousand five hundred Five-Colored Stones, used all but one to mend the heavens, and tossed the remaining stone into the Primordial World; Zhunti memorized where it fell.
• When heaven and earth began to close together, Hongjun sent the four tortoise limbs to the Four Extremes, where they became pillars and stabilized the world.
• Dao Xuan sent the Chaos Bell into the Primordial Starry Sky to restore the disordered stars, then recalled it.

Hongjun challenged Dao Xuan to a fight at their shared cultivation realm to determine whether Dao Xuan could claim the Chaos Bell. Their battle in Chaos reached a stalemate before Hongjun summoned the Order Dharma Wheel, revealing a powerful new divine ability.

• Hongjun used the Creation Jade Disc to restore the Primordial World's earth veins, and the gathered merit was divided among him, Dao Xuan, Nuwa, Minghe, and the other Saints.
• Hongjun told Dao Xuan he would have to defeat him to take the Chaos Bell, then clarified that they would fight at the same cultivation realm.
• Dao Xuan and Hongjun entered Chaos to fight, followed by the Saints and Minghe, while both set aside their more powerful treasures.
• Dao Xuan and Hongjun clashed their staffs, and Dao Xuan's laws slightly surpassed Hongjun's, but Hongjun's connection to the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao sustained his magical power.
• Hongjun declared that he could not defeat Dao Xuan through laws and summoned the Order Dharma Wheel, which made Dao Xuan sense a powerful threat.

Dao Xuan defeated Hongjun’s Order Dharma Wheel by revealing a body cultivated to nearly match that of a Chaos Demon God. Hongjun admitted defeat, leaving Dao Xuan victorious in their battle.

• Hongjun unleashed the Order Dharma Wheel, drawing on the Heavenly Dao to overwhelm Dao Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• The Order Dharma Wheel absorbed the power of Dao Xuan’s divine ability and charged toward him, while Hongjun expected him to rely on the Chaos Bell or reveal his Inner World.
• Dao Xuan put away the Myriad Evolution Staff and hurled his body into the Order Dharma Wheel, knocking it away without being injured.
• Dao Xuan transformed into a towering, muscular form with an aura like that of a Chaos Demon God, revealing the body he had tempered with earth, water, fire, and wind.
• Dao Xuan pursued the Order Dharma Wheel and smashed it apart with several punches.
• Hongjun acknowledged Dao Xuan’s victory and praised his achievement.

After the great tribulation, Hongjun summoned the experts to Zixiao Palace and appointed Dao Xuan Deputy Sect Master of the Mysterious Sect. Dao Xuan accepted the position and received a surge of the sect’s fortune.

• Hongjun declared that the Chaos Bell belonged to Dao Xuan and invited him and the others to Zixiao Palace.
• Jieyin and Zhunti addressed Dao Xuan as Martial Uncle to curry favor with him.
• Hongjun arranged the meditation cushions, reserving the fourth seat for Houtu, who arrived later and took it.
• Hongjun invited Dao Xuan to become Deputy Sect Master of the Mysterious Sect, and Dao Xuan agreed.
• The Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti paid obeisance to Dao Xuan, formally establishing his position.
• Dao Xuan received an immense surge of fortune from the Mysterious Sect.