Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan asked the Three Pure Ones to keep the Western Sages confined while their disciples sought opportunities, then discovered Golden Spirit Holy Mother needed a suitable treasure to sever her Evil Corpse. Lady Pingxin gave him the Nine Hells Ruyi for Golden Spirit, hoping she would protect the Witch Race in the coming war.

• Master Tongtian praised Chen Xuan for making Daoist Zhunti bear the blame for the Witch and Demon Great Calamity, then asked about his plans a thousand years later.
• Chen Xuan asked the Three Pure Ones to send their disciples out and prevent the Two Sages of the West from traveling east until the calamity ended.
• Yuanshi Tianzun planted the Pangu Banner outside the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss, making it difficult for Western Sect disciples to leave, while Daoist Jieyin urged Daoist Zhunti not to interfere in the East.
• Daoist Duobao emerged from Taishang Laozi's Taiji Diagram as a Quasi-Saint, but Golden Spirit Holy Mother hesitated to sever her Evil Corpse because she lacked a suitable treasure.
• Goddess Nvwa sent Chen Xuan to the Nine Hells Underworld, where Lady Pingxin gave him the Nine Hells Ruyi for Golden Spirit Holy Mother and asked that she protect the Witch Race.

Chen Xuan returned from the Nine Hells Underworld and helped Golden Spirit Holy Mother establish her Evil Corpse, reaching the early Quasi-Saint stage. He learned that Goddess Nvwa intended to provoke the Demon Race into slaughtering humans, and offered to take responsibility for setting the human tribulation in motion; the chapter ended with the Three Pure Ones parting on still-friendly terms, though their future depended on Chen Xuan.

• Lady Pingxin sent Chen Xuan back into the Mountains and Rivers, Land and Grain Diagram, where he gave the Nine Hells Ruyi to Golden Spirit Holy Mother.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother used the Nine Hells Ruyi to establish her Evil Corpse incarnation and became an early-stage Quasi-Saint.
• Chen Xuan told Golden Spirit Holy Mother that Chang'e had become the mistress of Guanghan Palace and would become the Guanghan Fairy of the Heavenly Court.
• Goddess Nvwa revealed that she planned to tell the Demon Race that human souls could be used to forge a weapon against the Witch Race, triggering a near-extinction tribulation for humanity.
• Chen Xuan warned Goddess Nvwa of the consequences and offered to handle the matter so she could retain her sacred image; she thanked him and returned to Nvwa Palace.
• Goddess Nvwa, Taishang Laozi, and Yuanshi Tianzun departed, while the Three Pure Ones remained on friendly terms and their future was left dependent on Chen Xuan.

After Daoist Duobao and Golden Spirit Holy Mother severed their evil corpses, Master Tongtian sent most of the Jie Sect disciples into the Great Desolate Land and allowed Chen Xuan to keep two suspected traitors on Golden Turtle Island. Zhen Yuanzi then asked whether the Jie Sect should oppose the Demon Race’s abuse of human souls, but Chen Xuan proposed that they instead encourage it, leaving Zhen Yuanzi asking why.

• Daoist Duobao and Golden Spirit Holy Mother thanked Chen Xuan for helping them sever their evil corpses, and Master Tongtian sent the Jie Sect disciples to travel through the Great Desolate Land before the Witch-Demon battle.
• Chen Xuan persuaded Master Tongtian to keep Chang Er Ding Guang Xian and Vairocana Immortal on Golden Turtle Island, and Jin Guang Xian followed them as they chose guards.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived at Biyou Palace and told Chen Xuan that Demon Race members were devouring human souls and using souls and Essence Blood to cultivate.
• Master Tongtian left the decision to Chen Xuan, while Zhen Yuanzi argued that the Jie Sect should protect the human race to secure its future fortune.
• Chen Xuan said the Jie Sect should not interfere yet and should instead vigorously encourage the Demon Race’s actions, prompting Zhen Yuanzi to ask why.

Chen Xuan sent Zhen Yuanzi and Jin Guang Xian away, then disguised himself as Demon Master Kunpeng and told Bai Ze about Witch Slaughtering Magic Treasures. Fuxi joined the Demon Race Heavenly Court as its Saint Teacher, while Bai Ze arrived after the announcement.

• Chen Xuan hinted to Zhen Yuanzi that destruction before reconstruction was the key, then Master Tongtian struck him with the Purple Lightning Hammer; Chen Xuan escaped instead of returning to Biyou Palace.
• Zhen Yuanzi offered to teach Chen Xuan a lesson and left Golden Turtle Island with Jin Guang Xian.
• Chen Xuan transformed into Demon Master Kunpeng and told Bai Ze that human souls and Essence Blood could refine Witch Slaughtering Magic Treasures; Bai Ze departed for the Great Desolate Land without revealing his intentions.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi discussed their suspicions of Demon Master Kunpeng and welcomed Fuxi, who agreed to join the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun declared Fuxi the Demon Race Heavenly Court’s Saint Teacher, with status equal to his and Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s, and announced that Fuxi could share in the court’s fortune.
• Bai Ze entered Lingxiao Treasure Hall smiling after the Demon Race leaders had paid their respects to Fuxi.

Bai Ze revealed that human souls and Essence Blood could be used to forge weapons capable of killing the Witch Race, and Fuxi went to Nvwa Palace to discuss the matter with Goddess Nvwa. Nvwa confirmed that she was willing to bear the infamy for humanity’s future, and Fuxi offered to repay the Karma created by Chen Xuan’s plans.

• Bai Ze presented Di Jun with a dagger that could kill ordinary members of the Witch Race and explained that it was empowered by human souls and Essence Blood.
• Di Jun considered making a weapon capable of killing Ancestral Witches, while Eastern Emperor Taiyi warned that a human massacre would anger Goddess Nvwa.
• Fuxi offered to visit Nvwa Palace and seek his younger sister’s approval, then left the Heavenly Court as Di Jun ordered a divine weapon forged.
• Golden Phoenix escorted Fuxi to Goddess Nvwa, where he asked whether she had made up her mind.
• Goddess Nvwa said she would bear the infamy for humanity’s future, and Fuxi offered to repay the Karma caused by Chen Xuan’s plans.

Xi He warned Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi that Kunpeng might be maneuvering them into offending the Saints through the Demon Race’s plan to use human souls and Essence Blood. As Xi He went to Fangzhang Island to speak with Chen Xuan, demons had already begun attacking humans, prompting the ancestral witches to consider intervening while Dijiang unexpectedly opposed them.

• After Fuxi delivered Goddess Nvwa’s agreement that the human race could not be exterminated, Eastern Emperor Taiyi urged Di Jun to consult Saint Laozi before acting.
• Xi He argued that Kunpeng’s scheme could make Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi scapegoats for angering the Saints and seize control of the Demon Race.
• Di Jun decided to inform Saint Laozi, while Xi He agreed to visit Chen Xuan at Fangzhang Island because Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s past conflict with Chang Xi made him an unsuitable envoy.
• Before the Demon Race’s leaders issued an order, demons began secretly devouring human souls and Essence Blood to increase their cultivation.
• Gonggong urged the ancestral witches to protect the human race, but Dijiang unexpectedly shook his head.

Dijiang hesitated to confront the Demon Race over its threat to the human race because the Witch Race’s formation was incomplete. Xi He warned Chen Xuan that the Demon Race planned to attack humanity, but he refused to stand aside, leaving the two at odds over how he would respond.

• Dijiang explained that the Witch Race could not risk war while its Twelve Heavenly Gods and Fiends Formation lacked Houtu, and the other Ancestral Witches fell silent.
• Xi He arrived above Fangzhang Island to see Chang Xi, and Yunxiao stopped Zhao Gongming from attacking her before inviting her in.
• Chen Xuan returned from Golden Turtle Island and challenged Xi He about her past attempt to kill Chang Xi.
• Xi He told Chen Xuan that the Demon Race planned to attack the human race before its decisive battle with the Witch Race, while citing Goddess Nvwa’s decree against exterminating humanity.
• Chen Xuan refused to let the Demon Race slaughter the human race and warned Xi He that he would make the Demon Race pay, even though the Three Pure Ones would not intervene.

Chen Xuan learned that the Demon Race had begun slaughtering humans and summoned the Jie Sect disciples to secretly stop them. He ordered eight groups to hunt the Demon Race across the Great Desolate Land, prioritizing their own safety if they met stronger foes.

• Chen Xuan barred anyone without a Jie Sect token from entering Fangzhang Island and promised Chang Xi that he would preserve Xi He's true essence.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered the Demon Race to kill humans across the Great Desolate Land while keeping a few as attendants and controlling their population.
• The Ten Demon Generals slaughtered human tribes for three hundred years, reducing the human population from hundreds of billions to a few hundred million as the Witch Race offered no protection.
• Chen Xuan summoned the Jie Sect disciples to Biyou Palace and confirmed that they had witnessed the human race's suffering.
• Chen Xuan divided the disciples into eight groups and ordered them to secretly kill Demon Race members caught slaughtering humans, while retreating from foes they could not defeat.

Chen Xuan chose to take the blame for revealing how human souls and Essence Blood could be used to forge the Witch Slaughtering Sword, even though the human race might turn against him. As the Demon Race continued its slaughter, he prepared the San Xiao Goddesses to use a modified Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and entered the Nine Hells Underworld to seek a way to strengthen it.

• Chen Xuan accepted Master Tongtian’s warning that the human race might reject him if it learned he had given the Demon Race the information behind the Witch Slaughtering Sword.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi learned that Demon Race squads gathering human souls and Essence Blood had been ambushed, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi led guards into the Great Desolate Land to gather more.
• The San Xiao Goddesses told Chen Xuan their simplified Nine Bends Yellow River Formation could cripple cultivators below the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm and seal the cultivation of Great Luo Golden Immortals.
• Chen Xuan reasoned that the Nine Hells Underworld might supply the souls and vital energy needed to make the formation stronger, and ordered Zhao Gongming and the San Xiao Goddesses to keep practicing.
• The Four Clouds Qilin opened the Netherworld Gate with a stomp, using merit Chen Xuan had bestowed upon it, and Chen Xuan rode through into the underworld.

Chen Xuan visited Lady Pingxin in the Nine Hells Underworld to borrow six hundred Evil Ghosts and crafted the Six Paths of Reincarnation Banner to bind and control them. After Lady Pingxin strengthened the banner, Chen Xuan warned her that the Witch Race had enslaved humans, and she accepted that he would act as he saw fit.

• Chen Xuan received Meng Po's permission to enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation and asked Lady Pingxin for six hundred Evil Ghosts from the Eighteenth Level of Hell and Six Paths of Reincarnation Qi.
• Chen Xuan refined the Six Paths of Reincarnation Banner in the Universe Cauldron and used it to bind the souls of six hundred Evil Ghosts.
• Chen Xuan promised the Evil Ghosts a chance to become Ghost Immortals or reincarnate if they obeyed him, and they entered the banner.
• Lady Pingxin added six Reverse Whirlwinds and six Other Shore Flowers to the banner so the ghosts could not escape if its Reincarnation Qi ran out.
• Chen Xuan told Lady Pingxin that the Witch Race had enslaved humans, and she said she would not blame him for doing what he must.

Chen Xuan returned from meeting Lady Pingxin and prepared for the coming Witch-Demon War, while the Ten Golden Crows asked to fight for humanity. He refused to take them into battle yet, promising that they would have a chance to repay humanity and eventually avenge their father and uncle.

• Chen Xuan reassured Lady Pingxin, then left the Nine Hells Underworld for Fangzhang Island.
• Chang Xi realized Chen Xuan had visited Lady Pingxin and expressed concern for Xi He, whom Chen Xuan promised to preserve as fully as possible.
• The Ten Golden Crows asked Chen Xuan to let them protect humanity and repay the Karma the Demon Race owed.
• Chen Xuan questioned whether the Ten Golden Crows could fight their father, uncle, and former Demon Race allies without wavering, and Chang Xi reminded them that the Demon Race would retain a chance to survive.
• Chen Xuan told the Ten Golden Crows to wait for a future opportunity to repay humanity and promised they would one day avenge Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

Chen Xuan gathered the surviving humans at the Nine Bends Yellow River and revealed that he and Goddess Nvwa had allowed the calamity to reshape humanity. Their gratitude brought him Heavenly Dao Merit, the Twelfth Grade White Lotus of World Purification, and a breakthrough to the middle stage of the Quasi-Saint realm, while Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi discovered the gathering.

• Chen Xuan gathered the humans sheltered by the Intercepting Sect Disciples at the Nine Bends Yellow River and unfurled the Mountains and Rivers, Land and Grain Diagram.
• Chen Xuan told the humans that he had revealed how to forge the Witch Slaughtering Sword and that Goddess Nvwa had agreed to the plan on the condition that humanity would not go extinct.
• An aged human defended Chen Xuan, and the gathered humans accepted his explanation and thanked him.
• Heavenly Dao Merit descended upon Chen Xuan, and the Twelfth Grade White Lotus of World Purification appeared as he severed his Good Corpse and advanced to the middle stage of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi spotted the gathered humans and discussed attacking them.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi planned to lure Chen Xuan’s forces to Longevity Mountain Five Villages Temple while Di Jun prepared to attack the Nine Bends Yellow River and slaughter the humans. After the Witch Race mobilized to protect humanity, Chen Xuan hid the real humans and set a trap for the Demon Race at the Nine Bends Yellow River.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi persuaded Di Jun to intensify the siege of Longevity Mountain Five Villages Temple, summon Demon Master Kunpeng, and prepare a hidden force to attack the Nine Bends Yellow River when Chen Xuan left.
• Xingtian told the Eleven Ancestral Witches that the Demon Race was forging a Witch Slaughtering Sword from human souls and blood essence, and that Chen Xuan had revealed the information to provoke a cleansing of humanity and address the Witch Race’s enslavement of humans.
• Dijiang ordered the Witch tribes to send enslaved humans to the Nine Bends Yellow River and commanded the Witch Race to rescue humans and kill demons; Gonggong volunteered to explain the decision to Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan moved the real one hundred thousand humans into the Mountains and Rivers, Land and Grain Diagram, returned it to Chang Xi, and went back to the Nine Bends Yellow River.
• Chen Xuan helped the San Xiao Goddesses arrange the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and directed Daoist Duobao, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Holy Mother Wudang, and Zhao Gongming to set up the Immortal Slaughtering Formation inside it.
• Chen Xuan used Nine Heavens Breath Soil and water from the River of Forgetfulness to create one hundred thousand soulless human decoys, intending to make the Demon Race believe the real humans remained at the Nine Bends Yellow River.

Chen Xuan explained his plan to balance Witch and Demon fortunes and warned Gonggong that both clans would eventually lose their place in the world. Gonggong refused to avoid the coming calamity, but asked Chen Xuan to protect the surviving Witch Race, and Chen Xuan gave him a Reincarnation Stone for use if he became trapped.

• Jin Guang Xian reported that Demon Master Kunpeng had led people to Five Villages Temple, and Chen Xuan said Zhen Yuanzi could defend it unless the Two Demon Emperors came in person.
• Chen Xuan told Daoist Duobao he was waiting for Gonggong, who arrived with Xingtian a few days later and apologized for the Witch Race tribes that had enslaved humans.
• Gonggong said the Ancestral Witch Palace had ordered the offending chiefs to escort the humans to the Nine Bends Yellow River and left their punishment to Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan revealed that he was using the Demon Race to increase its Karma against humanity and admitted that he intended to leave only the wisest humans.
• Gonggong inferred that the human race might replace the Witch and Demon Clans, but rejected Chen Xuan's advice to preserve himself and asked him to look after the surviving Witches.
• Chen Xuan gave Gonggong a Reincarnation Stone and told him to place it in his mouth if he became trapped in the great calamity.

Chen Xuan left the Nine Bends Yellow River with Jie Sect disciples to support Zhen Yuanzi at Longevity Mountain Five Villages Temple, while Gonggong summoned the Ancestor Witches to guard the humans. As Kunpeng split his forces to aid the Heavenly Court army, Chen Xuan trapped the North Sea demons with the Innate Five Elements Flag.

• Chen Xuan asked Gonggong to protect the humans at the Nine Bends Yellow River, and Gonggong sent Xingtian to summon the other Ancestor Witches.
• Chen Xuan led some Jie Sect disciples toward Longevity Mountain and left others behind with orders to lure powerful demons into the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation.
• Di Jun learned that Chen Xuan had departed and ordered the Heavenly Court army to advance, while Dijiang led the Witch Race toward Longevity Mountain for his own purpose.
• Chen Xuan watched the siege from a distance and ordered Jin Guang Xian to attack the Heavenly Court demons and create chaos.
• When the Jie Sect disciples attacked, Kunpeng divided his forces to rescue the Heavenly Court army, and Chen Xuan trapped the North Sea demons with the Innate Five Elements Flag.

Chen Xuan and the Interception Sect trapped the North Sea Demon Race in the Innate Five Elements Reversal Grand Array while Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Demon Master Kunpeng tried to counterattack. The two entered the array through different gates, and Kunpeng discovered too late that he had been led into a deadly earth-element trap.

• Chen Xuan trapped the North Sea Demon Race in the Innate Five Elements Reversal Grand Array, forcing Demon Master Kunpeng to seek Eastern Emperor Taiyi's help.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi attacked the Interception Sect disciples, but Zhen Yuanzi pulled them into Longevity Mountain and let them strike from changing gaps in the Guardian Grand Array.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered the Heavenly Court Demon Race to retreat one hundred li, and Demon Master Kunpeng separately ordered the North Sea Demon Race to withdraw.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi entered the Water Gate while Demon Master Kunpeng chose the Fire Gate, following what each believed was the advantageous five-elements relationship.
• Demon Master Kunpeng emerged amid yellow sand infused with Nine Heavens Breath Soil and Soul Scattering Red Sand, which swept toward him.

Chen Xuan used the Innate Five Elements Reversal Grand Array to delay Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Demon Master Kunpeng while the Jie Sect disciples attacked the North Sea Demon Race. The Chan Sect stayed out of the fight, and Kunpeng’s escape attempt left him trapped deeper in the array as he spotted the Eastern Emperor Bell.

• Chen Xuan activated the Innate Five Elements Reversal Grand Array to buy time while Jin Guang Xian and the Jie Sect disciples routed the North Sea Demon Race.
• Guang Chengzi urged Burning Lamp Daoist to help the North Sea Demon Race, but Burning Lamp refused, and Cihang Zhenren argued that the Three Pure Ones’ sects should not fight one another.
• Zhen Yuanzi revealed that he knew the Chan Sect disciples were watching, and Burning Lamp declined to claim credit for lifting the siege of Longevity Mountain.
• Kunpeng tried to flee the array to save the North Sea Demon Race, but the surging yellow sand drove him back toward its center.
• Chen Xuan challenged Taiyi over their supposed agreement, and an attack of Weak Water forced Taiyi toward the array gate.
• Kunpeng saw a great bell appear in the array and recognized it as the Eastern Emperor Bell.

Chen Xuan’s disguise as Eastern Emperor Taiyi was exposed when the real Taiyi arrived, and the two joined forces to try to break Chen Xuan’s grand array. Chen Xuan escaped to Longevity Mountain as the Jie Sect withdrew, leaving Kunpeng’s North Sea demons devastated and the Chan Sect fleeing back to Kunlun Mountain.

• Chen Xuan, disguised as Eastern Emperor Taiyi, accused Demon Master Kunpeng of secretly cultivating the Ten Thousand Demons Formation and plotting to seize power.
• The real Eastern Emperor Taiyi appeared inside Chen Xuan’s grand array, and his Solar True Fire turned the sand to stone.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi failed to summon his transformed Eastern Emperor Bell, and Chen Xuan revealed himself and claimed the bell had become his Chaos Bell.
• Chen Xuan vanished into the array while Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Demon Master Kunpeng charged toward its ritual platform to break it.
• Zhen Yuanzi withdrew the Jie Sect disciples into Longevity Mountain’s Guardian Grand Array and sent the human race toward Shouyang Mountain Eight Scenery Palace.
• Burning Lamp Daoist led the Chan Sect disciples back to Kunlun Mountain, while Kunpeng learned that fewer than ten thousand of his North Sea demons had survived.

Chen Xuan left Longevity Mountain after Demon Master Kunpeng withdrew, then rushed to the Nine Bends Yellow River and found the Witch and Demon Clans assembling for war. He revised the Jie Sect’s plan, ordering the San Xiao Goddesses to use their formation to protect the humans while reserving the Immortal Slaughtering Formation and leaving the Demon Race to the Witches.

• Demon Master Kunpeng pulled the North Sea demons away from Longevity Mountain, and Chen Xuan left an incarnation behind before slipping out to return to the Nine Bends Yellow River.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sent the Chan Sect disciples into seclusion to avoid the calamity, unknowingly causing them to miss an opportunity to advance.
• Chen Xuan found Di Jun and six Demon Generals facing Gonggong, Zhurong, and other Witch forces at the Nine Bends Yellow River.
• As the Witch and Demon armies began fighting, Chen Xuan entered the formation and told the San Xiao Goddesses to await his signal and use it to shield the human race.
• Chen Xuan told Daoist Duobao not to activate the Immortal Slaughtering Formation unless necessary, since the Witch Race was meant to fight the Demon Race.

Chen Xuan intervened in the battle between the Witch and Demon Clans, helping Zhurong withstand Di Jun before becoming Di Jun’s target. As Chen Xuan defended himself, Dijiang and other ancestral witches launched an attack on Longevity Mountain, where Zhen Yuanzi remained with Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

• Chen Xuan arrived above the battlefield as the Witch Race drove the Demon Race back, and Di Jun challenged Zhurong over the witches’ intervention.
• Zhurong fought Di Jun while Gonggong, Jumang, and Xuan Ming engaged the demon commanders, and Chen Xuan used the Southern Off-Earth Flame Light Banner to strengthen Zhurong.
• Di Jun used the Hetu Luoshu to gain the advantage, but Chen Xuan blocked his deadly attack with the Diamond Cutter and healed himself with Nine Revolutions Golden Pills.
• Di Jun pursued Chen Xuan, who recalled the Profound Origin Water Control Banner to protect himself from Solar True Fire, while Zhen Yuanzi worried at Longevity Mountain.
• Dijiang and several ancestral witches attacked Longevity Mountain, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi discovered that seven ancestral witches had arrived.