Chapter Summaries

After ascending as Heavenly Emperor, Emperor Jun announced that Four Great Emperors would help him govern the Heavenly Court. Eastern Emperor Taiyi accepted the North Pole Great Emperor position, and Emperor Jun began appointing Fuxi as East Pole Great Emperor.

• The Demon Clan and the ceremony’s guests congratulated Emperor Jun, while Demon Clan beings across the Heavenly Realm and Primordial Starry Sky joined in.
• Emperor Jun declared that he would establish the Four Great Emperors to assist in governing the Heavenly Court.
• Emperor Jun appointed Eastern Emperor Taiyi as North Pole Great Emperor, assigning him to govern the Primordial Starry Sky and oversee external campaigns.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi received a portion of the Heavenly Court’s Fortune and thanked Emperor Jun.
• Emperor Jun summoned Fuxi and offered him the East Pole Great Emperor position, with duties overseeing the Primordial Stars and enforcing Heavenly Court laws.
• Fuxi accepted the duties of East Pole Great Emperor.

Emperor Jun appointed Fuxi, Bai Ze, and Kunpeng to the remaining Great Emperor positions, leaving Nüwa without one. He then opened four gateways connecting the Heavenly Realm to the Primordial World, and Primordial Spiritual Energy began flooding through them across the Primordial Starry Sky.

• Emperor Jun appointed Fuxi as the East Pole Great Emperor and Bai Ze as the Southern Great Emperor, assigning Bai Ze to oversee the Heavenly Stars and Heavenly Court affairs.
• Emperor Jun appointed Kunpeng as the Western Great Emperor, tasking him with overseeing the Primordial Stars and teaching beings in the Heavenly Court.
• Emperor Jun granted the four Great Emperors Heaven and Earth Karma Seats corresponding to their duties and permission to recruit personnel.
• Emperor Jun used his authority to create the Eastern, Western, Southern, and Northern Heavenly Gates, opening passages between the Heavenly Realm and the Primordial World.
• Primordial Spiritual Energy poured through the opened gateways and spread across the Primordial Starry Sky, centered on the Sun Star.

After opening the Four Gateways linking the Heavenly Realm and the Primordial World, Emperor Jun began conferring Star God titles to establish the Heavenly Court’s authority over All Heavens Stars. He appointed Eastern Emperor Taiyi as the Sun Star Deity and started appointing Xihe and Changxi as joint Moon Star Deities.

• Emperor Jun invited the ceremony guests to accompany him to the Primordial Starry Sky for the Star God conferrals.
• Emperor Jun displayed the Demon Name Record and announced that Star Gods would govern All Heavens Stars.
• Emperor Jun named Eastern Emperor Taiyi the Sun Star Deity, granting him part of the Sun Star’s authority and increasing his fortune.
• Emperor Jun summoned Xihe and Changxi and declared that they would jointly serve as Moon Star Deities, wielding the Moon Star’s authority.

Emperor Jun appointed the Star Gods and distributed authority and fortune throughout the Heavenly Court. With the appointments complete, he ordered the Star Gods to join him in setting up the Grand Heavenly Star Formation, leaving the ceremony’s observers on guard.

• Emperor Jun appointed Xihe and Changxi as Moon Star Deities, granting them authority over the Moon Star.
• Emperor Jun appointed the 365 Main Star Gods and 480 Million Auxiliary Stars Star Gods over ten thousand years, distributing fortune and authority among them.
• The observers wondered why Nüwa had not been given a position, while Emperor Jun continued preparing to lay the foundation of the Heavenly Court and Demon Clan.
• Emperor Jun ordered Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Xihe, and Changxi to return to the Sun Star and Moon Star.
• Emperor Jun commanded the Star Gods to draw upon the stars and join him in setting up the Grand Heavenly Star Formation, prompting the ceremony’s observers to ready themselves.

Emperor Jun used his Heavenly Emperor authority to guide the Star Gods in moving all the Primordial Stars and regulate the resulting energy tides. Once the stars reached their positions, he activated the Grand Heavenly Star Formation, establishing ordered day and night across the Primordial World as the formation’s power continued to grow.

• Emperor Jun directed the Star Gods to move the 365 Main Stars and 480 Million Auxiliary Stars while he controlled the Primordial Starry Sky’s turbulent energies.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Xihe, Changxi, and the Star Gods used their authority and Star Banners to drive the stars toward Emperor Jun’s designated positions.
• Emperor Jun vented dangerous stellar energies through the Heavenly Realm’s Four Gateways and managed the energy tides as the stars moved for ten thousand years.
• The 365 Main Stars reached their positions, followed by the 480 Million Auxiliary Stars, and Emperor Jun ordered the Grand Heavenly Star Formation to rise.
• The moving Sun Star and Moon Star established orderly day and night across different regions, while the Auxiliary Stars joined the formation and increased its power.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Eastern Lord Duke watched gravely as the Primordial Stars formed a vast Grand Heavenly Star Formation.

Emperor Jun completed the Grand Heavenly Star Formation, which drew Chaotic Energy into the Primordial World and transformed it into Primordial Spiritual Energy. Dao Ancestor Hongjun rewarded the Heavenly Court with increased fortune and vast merit, distributing most of it among the Star Gods.

• The 480 million Auxiliary Stars joined the formation, and Emperor Jun let its pull draw turbulent Chaotic Energy through the Pangu Membrane.
• The Grand Heavenly Star Formation filtered the Chaotic Energy into Primordial Spiritual Energy and released it across the Primordial World.
• The Three Purities and the western Daoists recognized how the formation could strengthen the Heavenly Court, while Emperor Jun's allies marveled at its benefits.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared, praised Emperor Jun's formation, and bestowed increased fortune upon the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun sent a vast Merit Golden Cloud to the Primordial Starry Sky, and eighty percent of its merit split among the Star Gods, with the 365 Main Star Gods receiving larger shares and the Moon Star and Sun Star receiving the most.

After the Grand Heavenly Star Formation earned merit and established the Primordial World's cycles and seasons, Emperor Jun declared the Heavenly Court established. The others turned to their new duties while Emperor Jun returned to the Hall of Universal Brightness and considered how to develop his Mind Realm.

• Emperor Jun formed a Merit Golden Wheel by combining his merit with his Law Golden Wheel, while the other merit descended upon the Auxiliary Star Star Gods.
• Emperor Jun established day and night, the four seasons, and the calendar according to the stars, earning another Merit Golden Cloud for himself and the Star Gods.
• Emperor Jun declared the Heavenly Court established, and Zhenyuanzi took Hongyun Daoist away before the gathered beings departed.
• Xihe and Changxi returned to the Moon Star, Eastern Emperor Taiyi severed his second corpse, and the Heavenly Court's leaders began arranging their forces and departments.
• Emperor Jun returned to the Hall of Universal Brightness, where he used his position to comprehend Laws and examined the growing Mind Realm shaped by the stars, Heavenly Realm, and golden wheels.

Emperor Jun drew on the Heavenly Realm’s power to strengthen his Mind Realm and lure Devil Ancestor Luo Hou into it, hoping to use their clash to break through. Luo Hou entered and unleashed his manifested treasures, leaving Emperor Jun and Luo Hou facing off in two separate formations.

• Emperor Jun used the Heavenly Realm’s power to push his Mind Realm into a new realm, and Luo Hou followed his planted mark into it.
• Emperor Jun crushed Luo Hou’s mark, then activated the Grand Heavenly Star Formation, the Mountains and Rivers Interdependent Formation, and the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Luo Hou flooded the Grand Heavenly Star Formation with Demonic Qi and Demon Path Laws, but Emperor Jun used the Thirty-Three Heavens and the Mountains and Rivers Interdependent Formation to suppress them.
• Luo Hou manifested the World-Ending Black Lotus, the God-Slaying Spear, and the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, forcing Emperor Jun to reshape his star formation around it.
• Emperor Jun transformed into a Three-legged Golden Crow within the Grand Heavenly Star Formation as Luo Hou stood within the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.

Emperor Jun used Luo Hou’s attacks as a whetstone to stabilize his Mind Realm and break through to the same mental realm as the Devil Ancestor. After Emperor Jun mastered his own power, Luo Hou stopped fighting and withdrew the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.

• Emperor Jun reinforced the Grand Heavenly Star Formation with the Thirty-Three Heavens and the Mountains and Rivers Formation, then clashed with Luo Hou’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation in his Mind Realm.
• Emperor Jun discovered that the battle was helping his Mind Realm stabilize and draw on its own reserves, while Luo Hou realized he was being used as a whetstone.
• Luo Hou intensified his attack and fought Emperor Jun directly with the God-Slaying Spear, while Emperor Jun defended himself with the Law Golden Wheel, Merit Golden Wheel, and Hetu Luoshu Diagram.
• Emperor Jun gradually resisted Luo Hou’s attacks more effectively and broke through, taking full control of his Mind Realm’s power without borrowing from the Heavenly Realm.
• Luo Hou stopped attacking Emperor Jun and withdrew the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation from its clash with the Grand Heavenly Star Formation.

Luo Hou revealed that the four Demonic Seeds planted when Emperor Jun comprehended the Demonic Inheritance had let Luo Hou's Mind Realm invade and corrupt half of Emperor Jun's Mind Realm. Emperor Jun used the Law Golden Wheel to seize back a portion, then unleashed thousands of Laws to challenge Luo Hou's control.

• Luo Hou withdrew his weapons and revealed that four Demonic Seeds had taken root in Emperor Jun's Mind Realm.
• Luo Hou's Mind Realm invaded half of Emperor Jun's Mind Realm, where Demonic Qi and Demon Path Laws corrupted the land.
• Emperor Jun used the Demonic Inheritance and the Law Golden Wheel to create new Demon Path Laws and seize a portion of the blackened realm.
• Emperor Jun gathered power from his Mind Power, the Grand Heavenly Star Formation, the Thirty-Three Heavens, and the mountains and rivers, then sent thousands of Laws into the corrupted region.

Emperor Jun used the Law Demon Wheel to disguise his Laws and gain ground in the fused Mind Realm, then entered the Demon Path Mind Realm to contest Luo Hou directly. Luo Hou exploited Emperor Jun’s growing comprehension of the Demon Path to imprison him and enter his body.

• Emperor Jun transformed his Law Golden Wheel and thousands of Laws with Demon Path aura, fooling the Mind Realm’s defenses and angering Luo Hou.
• Luo Hou commanded the Mind Realm’s Laws to besiege Emperor Jun’s foothold, forcing Emperor Jun to enter the Demon Path Mind Realm in human form.
• Emperor Jun revealed that the Mind Realm was also his and used his connection to fight Luo Hou for control.
• Luo Hou guided Emperor Jun’s study of Demon Path Laws while secretly preparing to exploit his growing mastery.
• Luo Hou triggered the Demon Path Laws within Emperor Jun, imprisoned him in the Mind Realm, and entered his body to take control.

Emperor Jun resisted Devil Ancestor Luo Hou’s attempt to possess him because his Heavenly Emperor Karma Position protected his Primordial Spirit. Luo Hou withdrew, but left Emperor Jun’s half of the Mind Realm ravaged by uncontrolled Demon Path laws and Demonic Qi.

• Luo Hou entered Emperor Jun’s body and discovered that the Karma Position Cage around his Primordial Spirit prevented him from completing the possession.
• Luo Hou lamented that his schemes had failed repeatedly, then told Emperor Jun to experience the power of the Demon Path.
• Luo Hou left Emperor Jun’s Mind Realm and took his own portion of it, unleashing the Demon Path laws and Demonic Qi in Emperor Jun’s half.
• The Grand Heavenly Star Formation, strengthened by the Thirty-Three Heavens and the mountain-and-river formation, stopped the chaos from invading the other half of Emperor Jun’s Mind Realm.
• Emperor Jun watched his half of the Mind Realm become corrupted, suppressing new desires and bloodlust while he continued to handle the Demon Path laws in his body.

Emperor Jun devised a way to unite his original Mind Realm with the Demon Path Mind Realm by separating and overturning the latter, then placing his star-filled realm above it. The energies clashed within the earth and strengthened it, leaving Emperor Jun's Mind Realm whole as he sent the Law Demon Wheel into its center.

• Emperor Jun realized the Demon Path Mind Realm could not merge directly with his original realm and conceived of recreating heaven and earth within his Mind Realm.
• Emperor Jun used the Hetu Luoshu Diagram to deduce that his plan was feasible.
• Emperor Jun used his Mind Power to separate the two Mind Realms and invert the Demon Path Mind Realm, burying its Demon Path Laws and Demonic Qi beneath the land.
• Emperor Jun expanded the Grand Heavenly Star Formation and placed his original Mind Realm above the inverted Demon Path Mind Realm.
• Clear Spiritual Energy and Demonic Qi annihilated each other within the joined earth, strengthening it and completing Emperor Jun's Mind Realm.
• Emperor Jun threw the Law Demon Wheel through the layers of earth to the center of the Demon Path Mind Realm.

After refining his mental world, Emperor Jun discovered that it could manifest in reality and give him power to contend with Sages, while he continued to cultivate and oversee the Heavenly Court. In Pangu Hall, Zhu Jiuyin gathered the Ancestral Witches to discuss a major matter and asked Wu Xian to explain it.

• Emperor Jun inspected his body for traces of Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, then sensed the bindings of Destiny and Causality and examined his growing Heaven's Mandate.
• Emperor Jun discovered that his mental world could manifest in the Primordial World, suppress physical bodies, and transform between reality and illusion.
• Emperor Jun considered his power and its limits, then devoted himself to cultivating while the Demon Clan's upper ranks handled affairs.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches assembled in Pangu Hall alongside Wu Xian, a Great Witch standing behind Zhu Jiuyin.
• Zhu Jiuyin announced that he had gathered them over a major matter concerning the Wu Tribe and told Wu Xian to explain his achievement.

Wu Xian demonstrated Witchcraft to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, showing that a Wu Tribe member could wield the Five Elements. He explained that he had sought another way to strengthen himself because his weak body had slowed his cultivation.

• After Zhu Jiuyin named Wu Xian as key to a major Wu Tribe matter, the Ancestral Witches questioned what he had done.
• Wu Xian offered Witchcraft and the Witch Curse as two treasures and agreed to demonstrate them.
• At Houtu Ancestral Witch's invitation, Wu Xian summoned five elemental dragons and sent them at her, but they shattered without harming her.
• Houtu Ancestral Witch judged the attack comparable to Xingtian's, and Dijiang asked Wu Xian how he had achieved it.
• Wu Xian explained that his frail body and slow cultivation had led him to seek other ways to strengthen himself, and he confirmed that he had created Witchcraft.

Wu Xian explained how he created Witchcraft and demonstrated the mysterious Witch Curse to the Ancestral Witches. He began describing his efforts to let the Wu Tribe deduce Heavenly Secret, leaving the method unrevealed.

• Wu Xian told the Ancestral Witches that he studied spells used by other beings and learned to replace their Magical Power with the Law in Wu Tribe bodies to cast Witchcraft.
• Wu Xian explained that ordinary Wu Tribe members could learn Witchcraft by performing specific movements, and Dijiang assigned him to teach it to the tribe.
• At Zhu Jiuyin's request, Wu Xian demonstrated the Witch Curse on Houtu, causing a wound to appear on her hand while blood flowed from his own mouth.
• Wu Xian explained that he had learned about deducing Heavenly Secret through his study of other beings' spells and had begun researching how the Wu Tribe could do the same.

Wu Xian explained that his Witch Curses came from sensing how all things were connected through the Primordial World, and Dijiang entrusted him with teaching Witchcraft and Witch Curses to the Wu Tribe. Wu Xian asked the Ancestral Witches to arrange a meeting with Demon Emperor Jun so he could learn how to strengthen the tribe, but he remained uncertain whether Jun would answer him.

• Wu Xian said he had failed to perceive the Heavenly Secret but had learned to sense the Primordial World and use its connected auras to cast Witch Curses.
• Wu Xian explained that Witch Curses could strike targets across the Primordial World but caused backlash and required sufficient preparation.
• Dijiang entrusted Wu Xian with teaching Witchcraft and Witch Curses to chosen members of the twelve tribes, and the other Ancestral Witches agreed.
• Dijiang asked Wu Xian what reward he wanted, and Wu Xian requested an audience with Demon Emperor Jun.
• Wu Xian said he wanted Jun's guidance because the Demon Clan was stronger than the Wu Tribe, and he renewed his request after Dijiang questioned whether Jun would answer.

Wu Xian persuaded the Ancestral Witches to let him meet Emperor Jun, and Zhu Jiuyin arranged to trade a copy of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique for answers to Wu Xian’s question. While Wu Xian taught Witchcraft and Witch Curses across the tribes, Zhu Jiuyin brought Eastern Emperor Taiyi to the Southern Heavenly Gate to seek Emperor Jun’s permission for a meeting.

• Wu Xian insisted that meeting Emperor Jun was his only hope of getting an answer, and Zhu Jiuyin persuaded Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches to allow it.
• Zhu Jiuyin proposed exchanging a copy of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique for Emperor Jun’s answer, arguing that the technique was already poorly protected and Emperor Jun was unlikely to cultivate it.
• Dijiang approved the exchange and entrusted Zhu Jiuyin with handling Wu Xian’s matter.
• Wu Xian traveled among the twelve tribes, teaching selected weaker beings Witchcraft and Witch Curses and explaining their principles so they could develop new techniques.
• Zhu Jiuyin visited Eastern Emperor Taiyi on the Sun Star and asked to see Emperor Jun; Taiyi brought him to the Southern Heavenly Gate to seek his elder brother’s instructions.

Zhu Jiuyin brought Wu Xian to the Heavenly Court and offered Emperor Jun the Wu Tribe’s Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique in exchange for letting Wu Xian ask a question. Emperor Jun accepted, and Wu Xian finally faced him, but the Demon Emperor’s overwhelming presence injured his eyes before he could speak.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi confirmed that Emperor Jun was willing to receive Zhu Jiuyin, who returned to the Wu Tribe and brought Wu Xian to the Heavenly Court.
• Zhu Jiuyin and Wu Xian met Emperor Jun in the Hall of Universal Brightness, where Emperor Jun sensed that Wu Xian contained multiple Laws.
• Zhu Jiuyin offered Emperor Jun a copy of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique so Wu Xian could ask him a question, and Emperor Jun agreed.
• Emperor Jun took the stone tablet and asked Wu Xian what he wanted to know.
• Wu Xian gathered his courage and looked at Emperor Jun, but the pressure of his aura caused pain in his eyes.

Emperor Jun explained to Wu Xian how the Demon Clan had built its strength through abundant resources, specialized divisions, laws, logistics, military training, and education. Wu Xian considered how the Wu Tribe could adopt these methods and left with the idea of bringing them to the Ancestral Witches.

• Emperor Jun shielded Wu Xian from the pressure that had injured his eyes, and Wu Xian thanked him.
• Wu Xian asked why the Demon Clan was so powerful, prompting Emperor Jun to explain that its control of the Primordial Starry Sky and the Heavenly Realm gave it abundant resources.
• Emperor Jun described how the Lords of the Taiyin, Xihe, Changxi, Fuxi, and Nüwa supported elite cultivation, laws, and enforcement, while Bai Ze managed resources and logistics.
• Emperor Jun explained that Eastern Emperor Taiyi commanded the Battle Division, trained Demon Clan forces, and drilled the Grand Heavenly Star Formation.
• Emperor Jun credited Kunpeng with creating Demon Script, the Bloodline Inheritance Method, and the Demon Clan's education system, then said these efforts had formed its civilization.
• Wu Xian considered how the Wu Tribe could learn from the Demon Clan's organization and decided to bring the ideas of logistics and a dedicated Battle Division to the Ancestral Witches.