Chapter Summaries

Di Jun’s forces drove the human race into the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation while the Witch Race withdrew and the Demon Race attacked Longevity Mountain. Chen Xuan revealed the Immortal Slaughtering Formation and forced Di Jun to weigh the humans’ fate against the danger to Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered the Demon Race to leave Longevity Mountain for the Nine Bends Yellow River, but Dijiang’s forces pressed the attack as Zhen Yuanzi activated Longevity Mountain’s Guardian Grand Array.
• Zhurong protected Chen Xuan, who retreated into the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, while Di Jun’s forces drove the human race toward the river and devoured their souls and Essence Blood.
• Gonggong declared that the Witch Race had done all it could and withdrew beyond the Nine Bends Yellow River, leaving Di Jun to order the Demon Race to attack the humans in full force.
• Chen Xuan challenged Di Jun to break the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, and the San Xiao Goddesses opened it to reveal the Immortal Slaughtering Formation held by Daoist Duobao and three others.
• Chen Xuan warned Di Jun that Eastern Emperor Taiyi faced seven Ancestral Witches and that more Ancestral Witches could reach Longevity Mountain, leaving Di Jun unsure whether to press his attack or withdraw.

Chen Xuan set rules for Di Jun’s wager, and the San Xiao Goddesses used the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation to defeat the first demons sent inside. A second trio entered and became trapped, while Yunxiao warned Bixiao not to underestimate them.

• Chen Xuan limited each attempt to three demons no stronger than the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, and Di Jun agreed to three attempts.
• A Wolf Demon, a tiger demon, and a leopard demon entered the formation; Qiongxiao and Bixiao killed the Wolf Demon and stripped the other two of their cultivation.
• Di Jun sent three identical-looking demons into the formation, each protected by a Bamboo Hat, after warning them not to underestimate their opponents.
• Chen Xuan could not identify the trio and secretly told the San Xiao Goddesses to proceed cautiously and prolong the fight.
• The San Xiao Goddesses trapped the trio in the Nine Bends Yellow River, and Yunxiao reminded Bixiao to heed Chen Xuan’s warning.

Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao fought three strange demons who resisted the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and their treasures. After Yunxiao discovered their hidden Three-Aperture Gem and Bixiao shattered it with the Four Seas Pearl, the demons closed in, and Yunxiao broke through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal Initial Stage.

• Yunxiao scolded Bixiao for her carelessness and told her to accept punishment from Chen Xuan after they finished guarding the formation.
• The three demons resisted the formation’s yellow sand, the Primal Chaos Golden Dou, and the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Bixiao suspected the demons were false bodies, and Yunxiao found their hidden Three-Aperture Gem by searching through the formation.
• Bixiao struck the Three-Aperture Gem with the Four Seas Pearl, revealing three figures as the demons’ bodies vanished.
• The demons reappeared near San Xiao and moved to break the formation as Yunxiao advanced to the Great Luo Golden Immortal Initial Stage and summoned a bone-white ring.

Yunxiao defeated the three Light Demons in the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and claimed the Three-Aperture Gem and their Bamboo Hats. After Yunxiao broke through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, Chen Xuan agreed that Di Jun could send a Quasi-Saint carrying the Hetu Luoshu for the final round, leaving Bai Ze to object.

• Yunxiao used the Diamond Cutter and Bixiao's Four Seas Pearl to expose the Light Demons' dependence on the Three-Aperture Gem and their Bamboo Hats, then collected the treasures and left the formation.
• Yunxiao gave Chen Xuan the Three-Aperture Gem and three Bamboo Hats, and Chen Xuan told Di Jun that two rounds of the wager had passed.
• Di Jun accused Chen Xuan of cheating because Yunxiao had reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, but Yunxiao said she had broken through during the fight with the Light Demons.
• Chen Xuan proposed that Di Jun send a Quasi-Saint for the final round, and Bai Ze agreed while asking whether the challenger could carry another person's treasure.
• Di Jun insisted that the challenger be allowed to carry the Hetu Luoshu, and Chen Xuan accepted while warning that he would not return it if it fell into the formation.
• Bai Ze said, “Wait,” as Di Jun grew uneasy about risking the Hetu Luoshu.

Chen Xuan let Bai Ze enter the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and met him in a protected clearing, where he questioned Bai Ze about the coming Witch Demon War. Chen Xuan transformed into Demon Master Kunpeng, and Bai Ze realized Chen Xuan had been the one who advised him to refine Witch Slaughtering Magic Treasures.

• Bai Ze asked to enter the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation without Hetu Luoshu, and Chen Xuan agreed to accompany his three junior sisters inside.
• Bai Ze entered the formation and followed a yellow-sand road toward Chen Xuan, stepping only on auspicious clouds to avoid the sand.
• Chen Xuan appeared before Bai Ze with two lotus treasures and offered him tea and precious fruits in a calm clearing amid the formation’s murderous aura.
• Chen Xuan asked Bai Ze who would win the impending Witch Demon War and pressed him about why he continued to defy Heaven.
• Chen Xuan transformed into Demon Master Kunpeng, and Bai Ze recognized him as the one who had advised him to use human souls and Essence Blood to refine Witch Slaughtering Magic Treasures.

Chen Xuan persuaded Bai Ze to cooperate with his plan, then staged a defeat at the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation while the Demon Race slaughtered tens of thousands of humans. After revealing that he and the San Xiao Goddesses were unharmed, Chen Xuan headed to Longevity Mountain as the Witch-Demon War began two hundred years early.

• Chen Xuan told Bai Ze that the Witch and Demon Clans had to repay their debts to humanity and asked Bai Ze to support him in the future.
• Chen Xuan pretended to be wounded and let the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation collapse, while Bai Ze agreed that tens of thousands of humans were useless to him.
• Daoist Duobao and Zhao Gongming protected Chen Xuan and the San Xiao Goddesses, but Chen Xuan stopped them from attacking Bai Ze and led the Jie Sect disciples away.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to exterminate the exposed humans, and seventy to eighty thousand people faced the Demon Race's blades.
• Chen Xuan revealed to Daoist Duobao and the others that he and the San Xiao Goddesses were unharmed, then led them toward Longevity Mountain Five Villages Temple.
• As the Witch Race pressed its attack, Eastern Emperor Taiyi retreated toward the Nine Bends Yellow River and summoned Demon Master Kunpeng for reinforcements.

The Witch Demon War ravaged the Great Desolation for six hundred years, while the Western Sages prepared to exploit it and Chen Xuan’s plans kept them in check. As the Three Pure Ones discussed the human race’s future, Tongtian warned that surviving Witch and Demon clans would threaten humanity.

• Dijiang and the Witch Race fought Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and the Demon Race, forcing the Demon Emperors to retreat toward Mount Buzhou as battles spread across the Great Desolation.
• After six hundred years of fighting, both clans and the Purple Cloud Palace cultivators had suffered catastrophic losses, while the Saints watched without intervening.
• Daoist Zhunti proposed using the war to bring Witch and Demon survivors into the Western Sect, and Daoist Jieyin used the Twelfth Grade Merit Golden Lotus to protect their Western Paradise before they departed east.
• Yuanshi Tianzun told Taishang Laozi and Master Tongtian that Chen Xuan had predicted the Western Sages’ move, and Chen Xuan assured them that the pair would return in tears.
• Taishang Laozi raised the need to help humanity grow, and Chen Xuan revealed that he had saved another hundred thousand humans inside Goddess Nvwa's Mountains and Rivers, Land and Grain Diagram.
• Tongtian warned that surviving Witch and Demon clans would threaten humanity and urged the Three Pure Ones to send their disciples to help the human race.

Chen Xuan took responsibility for the human race after securing the Three Pure Ones’ support against unauthorized interference. Back at Fangzhang Island, he reviewed his disciples’ artifacts and praised Chang Xi’s Mouthless Heaven Swallowing Pot, though he noted it was only an Acquired Spiritual Treasure.

• Chen Xuan offered to teach and care for the human race, and Taishang Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Master Tongtian agreed to issue a decree assigning him authority over its affairs.
• Taishang Laozi declared that other Saints could not interfere in human affairs without Chen Xuan’s approval, promising to support him against them while recognizing Nüwa’s special status.
• Chen Xuan privately instructed Zhen Yuanzi, then asked Master Tongtian to send Daoist Duobao and the others to Fangzhang Island before returning there himself.
• Chang Xi asked Chen Xuan about the Witch and Demon Clans’ battle, while Great Golden Crow presented the Ten Golden Crows’ newly refined artifacts.
• Chang Xi showed Chen Xuan the Mouthless Heaven Swallowing Pot, which he recognized as a Klein bottle he had once created and judged well made but merely an Acquired Spiritual Treasure.

Chen Xuan reforged the Mouthless Heaven Swallowing Bottle into an Innate Spiritual Treasure, then prepared his allies for the impending collapse of Mount Buzhou and the Witch-Demon battle. As he and Chang Xi headed to the battlefield, Eastern Emperor Taiyi attacked the Witch Clan’s formation.

• Chen Xuan used the Universe Cauldron and rare materials to refine the Mouthless Heaven Swallowing Bottle into an Innate Spiritual Treasure bearing the Southern Dipper Six Stars.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother and several Jie Sect leaders arrived on Fangzhang Island, and Chen Xuan assigned the assembled disciples positions for the coming crisis at Mount Buzhou.
• Chen Xuan gave Chang Xi a Soul Suppressing Bottle and tasked her with capturing as much of Xi He's divine soul as possible when Xi He self-destructed.
• Chen Xuan sent the Ten Golden Crows to find Mosquito Daoist in the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss and then seek protection at Biyou Palace.
• Chen Xuan and Chang Xi left for Mount Buzhou as the Witch and Demon Clans fought in their powerful formations, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi charged at the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Fiends Formation.

The Witch and Demon Clans suffered catastrophic losses as their leaders destroyed one another, while Demon Master Kunpeng fled and Zhen Yuanzi seized the Heavenly Court’s treasures. As Gonggong rushed toward Mount Buzhou to bring down the world, Fuxi appeared to stop him.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi destroyed himself and two Ancestral Witches, breaking the Twelve Heavenly Fiend Formation, and Di Jun was killed when three Ancestral Witches self-destructed.
• Demon Master Kunpeng fled toward the Heavenly Court Treasure Vault, but Zhen Yuanzi drove him away, took the vault’s treasures, and headed for Mount Buzhou in disguise.
• Fuxi told Goddess Nvwa to rely on Chen Xuan, then went to the battlefield to repay his Karma.
• Xi He attacked Dijiang, and Xuan Ming took the blow meant for him; Xi He then self-destructed, killing Dijiang and Xuan Ming.
• Gonggong resolved to perish with the world, put the Reincarnation Stone in his mouth, and charged toward Mount Buzhou, where Fuxi moved to stop him.

Gonggong’s clash with Fuxi brought down Mount Buzhou, and Nüwa mended the sky with Chen Xuan’s help while the others contained the flood. As heaven began to collapse again, Chen Xuan, Nüwa, and Tongtian sought Giant Ao in the North Sea, where Chen Xuan persuaded him to sacrifice his legs as pillars in exchange for protection for his daughter.

• Gonggong crashed into Fuxi and Mount Buzhou, destroying the mountain and opening a hole in the sky that flooded the Great Desolate Land.
• Hongjun ordered Nüwa to mend the sky, while the Three Pure Ones, the Western sages, Chen Xuan, Chang Xi, and the Intercepting Sect Disciples worked to contain the floodwaters.
• Chen Xuan lent Nüwa the Universe Cauldron, and she refined Five-Colored Divine Stones to repair the hole and stop the Heavenly River Water.
• When the Thirty-Three Heavens began collapsing and the sky sank again, Chen Xuan, Nüwa, and Tongtian went to the North Sea to seek new Heaven Supporting pillars.
• Chen Xuan promised to protect Giant Ao’s daughter and have Tongtian accept her as a direct disciple, and Giant Ao agreed to sacrifice his four legs after swearing a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Giant Ao’s shell fell away and shrank, another turtle swallowed it, and Chen Xuan gathered that turtle into his arms.

Chen Xuan arranged for Master Tongtian to enlighten Giant Ao’s daughter, who became Holy Mother Turtle Spirit, and helped Luo Xuan refine Giant Ao’s corpse. After Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace, Goddess Nvwa declared the Demon Race would retreat north, but Daoist Zhunti moved to claim them before Daoist Jieyin suddenly cried out in alarm.

• Goddess Nvwa severed Giant Ao’s four legs to support the heavens and cast his body into the north.
• Master Tongtian transformed Giant Ao’s daughter into a woman, named her Holy Mother Turtle Spirit, and accepted her as his fifth direct disciple.
• Chen Xuan met Luo Xuan at Giant Ao’s corpse, and Luo Xuan used the human race’s Merit Fire to burn away its baleful aura and resentment.
• Chen Xuan comforted Holy Mother Turtle Spirit by telling her she could meet her father again, and she vowed to become strong enough to earn his recognition.
• Master Tongtian returned with Holy Mother Turtle Spirit to Biyou Palace, while Chen Xuan told Taishang Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun to hold back the Two Sages of the West.
• Goddess Nvwa ordered the surviving Demon Race to retreat north, and Daoist Zhunti began claiming them for the West before Daoist Jieyin cried out that something was wrong.

After the Witch and Demon Great Calamity ended, the surviving Demon and Witch Races withdrew north, and the Heavenly Dao distributed merit to those who had helped. Chen Xuan’s merit greatly strengthened his cultivation, while more merit began descending upon the Jie Sect disciples.

• Daoist Jieyin discovered that three grades of his Twelfth Grade Merit Golden Lotus had gone missing, but Taishang Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun prevented the Two Sages of the West from returning to the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss.
• Goddess Nvwa urged the sages to stop fighting, then ordered Bai Ze to lead the Demon Race north and restrain its survivors from fighting the human race.
• Lady Pingxin ordered Xingtian to lead the Witch Race into seclusion in the north, bringing the Witch and Demon Great Calamity to a close.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun awarded merit to Goddess Nvwa, the sages who blocked the Heavenly River Water, and Chen Xuan for his contributions.
• Goddess Nvwa gave Chen Xuan one-tenth of her merit, while Chen Xuan’s own merit advanced his Nüwa Creation Art and Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
• More Heavenly Dao Merit descended upon the Jie Sect disciples.

After Chen Xuan’s scheme cost the Western Sect three grades of its Merit Golden Lotus, Master Tongtian hid Mosquito Daoist and the Ten Golden Crows while Daoist Jieyin tried to restore the lotus. Daoist Zhunti confronted Tongtian at Biyou Palace, where Tongtian denied knowing Mosquito Daoist and warned him against starting a fight.

• The Ten Golden Crows and Mosquito Daoist returned to Biyou Palace, and Mosquito Daoist reported that he had devoured three grades of the Merit Golden Lotus.
• Master Tongtian praised their achievement and hid them inside the Primordial Demon Suppressing Bell.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti discovered that the Merit Golden Lotus had been reduced to nine grades; Jieyin sealed himself and the lotus in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool to try to restore it.
• Daoist Zhunti went to Biyou Palace and demanded that Master Tongtian explain the destruction of the Western Sect’s treasure and hand over Mosquito Daoist.
• Master Tongtian denied having seen Mosquito Daoist and warned Daoist Zhunti that he would answer any attack with the Immortal Slaughtering Formation.

Master Tongtian and Daoist Zhunti went to the Purple Cloud Palace to answer Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s summons and dispute Zhunti’s accusation about Mosquito Daoist and the Merit Golden Lotus. Chen Xuan revealed that Mosquito Daoist had already died and entered reincarnation, leaving Tongtian demanding an explanation from Zhunti.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Saints to the Purple Cloud Palace, and Master Tongtian and Daoist Zhunti went there together.
• Daoist Zhunti told Hongjun that Mosquito Daoist had devoured three grades of the Twelfth Grade Merit Golden Lotus, while Tongtian denied that Mosquito Daoist was his disciple.
• Taishang Laozi questioned why Mosquito Daoist had eaten only three grades, leaving Zhunti unable to answer.
• Chen Xuan proposed bringing Mosquito Daoist to confront Zhunti, so Hongjun searched the Great Desolate Land and several sacred places but found no trace of him.
• Chen Xuan explained that Mosquito Daoist was his disciple but had died during the Witch and Demon Great Calamity and was now in the tunnel of reincarnation.
• Master Tongtian accused Zhunti of falsely blaming his disciple’s disciple and threatened to fight him unless he explained himself.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun restored the Western Sect’s Merit Golden Lotus, ended the dispute over Chen Xuan’s actions, and declared that humanity would rule the Great Desolation through the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. The Saints began competing over who would teach the Human Emperors, while Chen Xuan remained in the Creation Jade Disc to comprehend his Dao.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun restored the Twelfth Grade Merit Golden Lotus and preserved Mosquito Daoist’s memories, then ordered the Saints not to discuss the matter again.
• Chen Xuan told Dao Ancestor Hongjun that he had damaged the Western Sect’s fortune to settle Karma for his disciples, and Hongjun sent Chen Xuan’s primordial spirit into the Creation Jade Disc to comprehend the Dao.
• Daoist Jieyin thanked Dao Ancestor Hongjun for restoring the Merit Golden Lotus, and Hongjun declared that it would remain intact even if Heaven and Earth returned to chaos.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun declared that humanity would rule the Great Desolation through the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and Goddess Nvwa secured Fuxi’s rebirth as the first Heavenly Emperor.
• Daoist Zhunti nominated Maitreya to teach the Human Emperors, but Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang Laozi argued that the positions belonged to disciples of the Profound Sect.
• Daoist Zhunti proposed that the Saints compete for the teaching positions, and the Three Pure Ones and Goddess Nvwa agreed.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun proposed candidates for the Heavenly Emperor, but Chen Xuan refused the position and recommended Haotian and Yaochi instead. Hongjun then arranged for Chen Xuan to manage the Purple Cloud Palace, and Chen Xuan agreed in exchange for a favor.

• Daoist Zhunti recommended Maitreya as Heavenly Emperor, while the Three Pure Ones and Goddess Nvwa backed their own candidates, including Chen Xuan.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun asked Chen Xuan to become Heavenly Emperor, but Chen Xuan declined and suggested Haotian and Yaochi.
• The Six Saints argued over the candidates until Hongjun woke Chen Xuan and asked him again; Chen Xuan again refused the throne and proposed Haotian and Yaochi.
• Hongjun revealed that he worried about leaving the Purple Cloud Palace unattended if Haotian and Yaochi became the Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress.
• Master Tongtian suggested Chen Xuan manage the Purple Cloud Palace, and Chen Xuan agreed after asking Hongjun for a favor.

Chen Xuan secured Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s promise to protect his life, then Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to rule the Heavenly Court and ordered the Saints to help rebuild it. Chen Xuan remained behind with Hongjun while Haotian and Yaochi waited outside, and Master Tongtian wondered why Chen Xuan had urged him to support them.

• Chen Xuan asked Dao Ancestor Hongjun to promise to protect him, and Hongjun agreed as long as he remained a Saint of the Heavenly Dao.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appointed Haotian as Haotian God and Yaochi as Yaochi Golden Mother, granting them treasures and transforming them into adults.
• Chen Xuan advised Haotian and Yaochi to address Hongjun as Master, and Hongjun accepted them as registered disciples.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered the Six Saints to help rebuild the Heavenly Court, then asked Chen Xuan to stay behind.
• Daoist Zhunti refused to help, Goddess Nvwa offered Demon Race members, and Taishang Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun offered limited aid before leaving.
• Master Tongtian promised to have the Intercepting Sect assist Haotian and Yaochi, then returned to Biyou Palace wondering why Chen Xuan had urged him to help.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun revealed a fourth method of proving Dao, tailored to Chen Xuan, and taught him the Devouring Dao. Chen Xuan remained in Purple Cloud Palace in a three-hundred-year enlightenment, while Haotian God and Yaochi Golden Mother waited outside and planned to bring Yaoji back.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun asked whether Chen Xuan would use Red Cloud Ancestor's Primordial Violet Qi to become a Saint, and Chen Xuan refused because it was not his to use.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that a fourth method of proving Dao existed and showed Chen Xuan the four lines of Gatha imprinted in his mind.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun revealed that Chen Xuan's Source Tree was the Devouring Tree and that his true body as the Profound Origin Water Control Banner gave him the power to devour and transform all things.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun taught Chen Xuan the Devouring Dao, and Chen Xuan entered enlightenment for three hundred years.
• Haotian God and Yaochi Golden Mother waited outside Purple Cloud Palace, and Yaochi Golden Mother suggested they bring Yaoji back to live with them.

Chen Xuan found his own Dao of devouring innate qi, severed the Three Corpses, and declined Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s offer to become his closed-door disciple. He traveled with Haotian God and Yaochi Golden Mother to the ruined Heavenly Court, where they began discussing its rebuilding and Yaoji’s future.

• Chen Xuan understood that his Dao was devouring innate qi, absorbed the Source Tree, and became a peak Quasi-Saint after severing the Three Corpses.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun offered to make Chen Xuan his closed-door disciple, but accepted Chen Xuan’s view that their existing bond was enough.
• Chen Xuan left the Purple Cloud Palace and joined Haotian God and Yaochi Golden Mother on their way to the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Xuan told Haotian God that Yaoji should take form after the Heavenly Court was rebuilt, so she could be born as its Eldest Princess with the Authority of Position.
• Haotian God, Yaochi Golden Mother, and Chen Xuan arrived at the Heavenly Court and found the Thirty-Three Heavens in ruins; Chen Xuan urged them to see destruction as a chance for renewal.