Chapter Summaries

Xing Tian advanced to the chaos great encompassing golden immortal realm and led the Witch Clan warriors against Li Jing’s heavenly army. His axe shattered Li Jing’s pagoda and killed Jin Zha and Mu Zha, while Nezha escaped the fatal strike.

• Xing Tian’s cultivation surged, and his battle axe resonated with the power of his Heaven-Slaying Art.
• Hundreds of thousands of Witch Clan warriors roared as Xing Tian swung his axe and sent flames toward the heavenly army.
• Li Jing raised the Exquisite Pagoda, but Xing Tian’s axe shattered it and scattered the heavenly soldiers.
• Xing Tian enlarged his body and struck again, killing Jin Zha and Mu Zha while Nezha escaped on his Wind-Fire Wheels.

Xing Tian used his newfound power to rout Li Jing’s force and demanded that Haotian surrender the Heavenly Court. As Li Jing fled, Haotian called for someone to challenge Xing Tian, while the chapter explained the altered history and the Witch Clan’s precarious position.

• Xing Tian smashed Li Jing’s Exquisite Pagoda and killed Jin Zha and Mu Zha with his axe.
• Li Jing called for help, and Nezha used his Red Tassel to rescue him and carry him toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Xing Tian demanded that Haotian kneel and welcome him into Lingxiao Hall, threatening to destroy him if he refused.
• Haotian raged at Xing Tian’s challenge and asked his officials who would fight him.
• The chapter recounted how Daoist Hongjun’s early control shaped this plane’s history and how the War of the Liches left the Witch Clan nearly destroyed.

In Lingxiao Hall, Great Master Xuandu sought command of the Heavenly Court’s elite Chaos Galaxy Army to attack Xingtian Platform, but Daoist Duobao and Guang Chengzi opposed him amid the crisis caused by Xing Tian. The leaders remained divided over control of the army as the Witch Clan threatened the Heavenly Court.

• Xing Tian considered the powerful sect disciples and forces he might face, but resolved to use his full strength to improve his cultivation and survive his sudden returns to another plane.
• Great Master Xuandu asked Haotian to let him lead the Human Teaching’s Chaos Galaxy Army against Xingtian Platform.
• Daoist Duobao objected to Great Master Xuandu taking command of the Heavenly Court’s elite army.
• Guang Chengzi condemned the dispute, citing the defeat of the Heavenly Court’s soldiers and the deaths of Jin Zha and Mu Zha, and warned that the Witch Clan could attack at any moment.

Jieyin volunteered to face Xing Tian without the Chaos Galaxy Army as Xing Tian slaughtered the Four Mo Brothers and led hundreds of thousands of Witch Clan warriors to the Southern Heavenly Gate. Xing Tian demanded that Haotian kneel and welcome him, while Lin Tian reflected on how he had brought this version of Xing Tian into the Primordial World.

• Haotian asked Jieyin whether he needed the Chaos Galaxy Army, and Jieyin said he could hold Xing Tian back but could not capture or kill him.
• As the Heavenly Court shook, Haotian authorized Jieyin to go out and fight.
• Xing Tian crushed Mo Lihong after killing Mo Lihong's three brothers, staining the Southern Heavenly Gate with blood.
• Xing Tian waited outside the gate for his Witch Clan army to arrive, then threatened to destroy the Heavenly Court unless Haotian welcomed him within an incense stick's time.
• Lin Tian recalled reviving the Devouring System, bringing Xing Tian into this Plane's Primordial World, and supplying the rewards attributed to Xing Tian's Great Dao System.

Xing Tian led hundreds of thousands of Witch Clan warriors to the Southern Heavenly Gate, where Amitabha Buddha emerged as Haotian’s enforcer to stop them. Xing Tian rejected the Buddhist display and challenged Amitabha, while Lin Tian sensed that Xing Tian was grasping the core of his Great Dao; the clash was about to begin.

• Xing Tian slaughtered the Heavenly Court’s forces and led the Witch Clan warriors through the Southern Heavenly Gate’s defenses.
• Amitabha Buddha emerged from Lingxiao Hall with his Buddhist host to confront Xing Tian on Haotian’s behalf.
• Amitabha Buddha used the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms and a trapped Golden Roc to try to unsettle Xing Tian’s resolve.
• Xing Tian struck with his battle axe, shook the space around the gate, and mocked Amitabha Buddha as an unworthy opponent.
• Lin Tian sensed Xing Tian’s Strength Dao resonating with his own origin law and realized Xing Tian was grasping the heart of his Great Dao.

Lin Tian, inhabiting Xing Tian’s battle axe, watched Xing Tian face Amitabha Buddha while reflecting on the roots of Jieyin and Zhunti’s ties to Hongjun and Luo Hou. He realized his Great Dao required him to become unique across all worlds and planned to claim Xing Tian’s Great Dao laws by taking over his identity and perspective.

• Xing Tian confronted Amitabha Buddha outside the Southern Heavenly Gate as Amitabha’s three thousand Buddha kingdoms gathered behind him.
• Lin Tian recalled how Jieyin and Zhunti inherited Luo Hou’s legacy and gained a share of power through their connection to Hongjun.
• Lin Tian concluded that the true Great Dao meant being the sole being across all planes, dimensions, and times to possess a particular path.
• Lin Tian recognized that planting a Great Dao seed in Xing Tian let him experience Xing Tian’s Dao from another perspective and treat him as a possession.
• Lin Tian intended to absorb Xing Tian’s Great Dao origin laws and turn Xing Tian into a weapon or puppet of the battle axe he inhabited.

Xing Tian led his Witch Clan army against Amitabha Buddha and the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms before the Southern Heavenly Gate. The Witches devastated the Buddhist ranks while Amitabha remained fixed in place, afraid that Xing Tian would kill him if he moved.

• Daoist Zhunti beat the war drum at the Southern Heavenly Gate, and Buddhist radiance rose from Amitabha Buddha’s Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms.
• Xing Tian rallied the Witch Clan Warriors, declared that they would smash the Southern Heavenly Gate, and ordered them to charge.
• Two hundred thousand Witch Clan Warriors burst from their formation and attacked the Buddhas, Arhats, and Bhikkhunis with their axes.
• Amitabha Buddha held his ground and focused on Xing Tian because he sensed that moving would lead to his death.
• More than half the beings in the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms were killed or wounded, and the Heavenly Court’s officials and disciples argued over Xing Tian’s strength.

As Xing Tian devastated Amitabha Buddha’s forces outside the Southern Heavenly Gate, Haotian prepared to act rather than rely on the rival Three Teachings disciples. Xing Tian rejected Zhunti’s offer to mediate, made a humiliating demand of Haotian, and readied himself to fight while directing the surviving Witch Clan warriors to escape.

• Haotian watched the Three Teachings disciples argue in Lingxiao Hall and rose from his Jade Desk as the battle outside worsened.
• Two hundred thousand Witch Clan warriors breached Amitabha Buddha’s Buddha kingdoms and wiped out their Bhikkhunis, Buddhas, and Arhats in a suicide attack.
• Zhunti appeared beside Amitabha Buddha and offered to mediate between him and Xing Tian.
• Xing Tian demanded that Haotian and his officials kneel, leave the Heavenly Court, and give Xing Tian control of Haotian’s true spirit through the Incense Deification Path.
• Zhunti withdrew from the fight, and Xing Tian signaled the hundred thousand hidden Witch Clan warriors to retreat toward the Netherworld Blood Sea for Lady Houtu’s protection.

Xing Tian unleashed a strike infused with the strength Great Dao Origin Law, while Lin Tian’s devouring system seized control of Daoist Zhunti’s Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree. Xing Tian split Amitabha Buddha in two and breached the Southern Heavenly Gate, then turned his attention toward Zhunti.

• Xing Tian awakened a sliver of the strength Great Dao Origin Law and charged at Amitabha Buddha with an axe strike that made the Heavenly Court’s formation falter.
• Daoist Zhunti swept his Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree at Xing Tian’s battle axe, but Lin Tian’s system devoured the tree’s origin, treasure, and spiritual auras and transferred control of it to Lin Tian.
• Xing Tian’s axe shattered Amitabha Buddha’s alms bowl and cleaved him in two, filling the area before the Southern Heavenly Gate with blood and demonic qi.
• Xing Tian’s strike tore an irreparable fissure through the Southern Heavenly Gate, revealing the frightened Jade Emperor Haotian hiding beneath his desk in Lingxiao Hall.
• Xing Tian turned his gaze toward Daoist Zhunti, who had tried to disarm him with the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree.

Xing Tian fought his way through the Heavenly Court and broke through the barrier of the Thirty-Three Heavens to confront Dao Ancestor Hongjun. After killing Zhunti with one axe strike, Xing Tian let Hongjun seize him, eager to fight.

• Zhunti offered Xing Tian the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree and begged to be spared, while Lin Tian secretly empowered Xing Tian through the battle axe.
• Daoist Hongjun sent down a display of Heavenly Dao power and accepted Zhunti's plea to confront Xing Tian himself.
• Xing Tian sensed his suppressed Great Dao Origin Law stirring and called on the Xing Tian Battle Axe to fight beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Xing Tian killed Zhunti with an axe stroke and cleaved through the Heavenly Court's barrier.
• Daoist Hongjun appeared riding an Azure Ox and grabbed Xing Tian, who welcomed the chance to battle him.

Xing Tian’s compressed flesh began to awaken a law of strength, and its heartlike vibrations spread through the Heavenly Court and the Primordial World. As Hongjun lost control of his body and authority, all nine strands of hongmeng purple qi escaped from him.

• Under Hongjun’s crushing pressure, the strength law within Xing Tian’s sea of consciousness sprouted, and his compressed flesh began to pulse with growing vitality.
• Xing Tian’s heartbeat shook Lingxiao Hall, and the Three Pure Ones gathered to defend it as the Grand Supreme Elder Lord warned them not to accept the resonance.
• The vibrations cracked Hongjun’s body and disrupted his control over the Three Thousand Great Daos, leaving him unable to stop their spread.
• Nine strands of hongmeng purple qi escaped from Hongjun’s celebratory cloud.

As Xing Tian’s flesh overwhelmed Daoist Hongjun and shattered the defenses of the Three Pure Ones, Lin Tian realized that the path to the Great Dao lay in tracing creation back to its origin and restoring divided power to oneness. The battle remained unresolved as Hongjun could no longer suppress Xing Tian and recognized that the flesh in his grasp was no ordinary Witch Clan Great Shaman.

• Xing Tian’s pounding flesh caused Hongjun’s nine Hongmeng purple qi to escape and stirred the twenty-four fragments of the Good Fortune Jade Disc.
• Lin Tian reflected on how Xing Tian’s grasp of the Great Dao’s strength origin drew power across planes, and realized that returning to the moment of World-Opening was the way toward the Great Dao.
• The Grand Supreme Elder Lord’s Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda broke apart under Xing Tian’s heartbeats, blasting through Lingxiao Hall as the Heavenly Court fractured and the Investiture of the Gods List flew into the void.
• The Grand Supreme Elder Lord, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, and Daoist Tongtian suffered ruptures in their bodies and true spirits despite the Grand Supreme Elder Lord’s protections.
• Hongjun lost control of Xing Tian’s violently vibrating flesh and realized it was not the body of a Witch Clan Great Shaman born from Pan Gu’s Heart.

Xing Tian’s beating heart shook the Primordial World apart and stripped Daoist Hongjun of his accumulated power, drawing the world’s laws and treasures toward Zixiao Palace. Hongjun realized Xing Tian sought to return to his origin and become the sole Xing Tian across countless planes, while the collapsing world and its forces converged on him.

• Xing Tian’s heart trembled in Daoist Hongjun’s palm, cracking his body and causing his collected laws, treasures, and nine Hongmeng purple qi to abandon him.
• The heartbeats annihilated the Heavenly Court’s laws and shattered the Primordial World’s foundations, leaving Daoist Hongjun as a skeleton still clutching Xing Tian.
• The nine Hongmeng purple qi, Creation Jade Disc fragments, Investiture of the Gods List, Three Pure Ones, and the world’s matter and laws were drawn toward Zixiao Palace.
• Daoist Hongjun recalled how Xing Tian had destroyed the Heavenly Court’s forces, killed the Four Heavenly Kings and Amitabha Buddha, and taken Daoist Zhunti’s Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree.
• Daoist Hongjun understood that Xing Tian sought to return to his ancestral origin and become the sole Xing Tian across countless planes.

Xing Tian’s heartbeats destroyed Hongjun and collapsed the Primordial World into his body, allowing Xing Tian to condense his own form and comprehend the path toward his great dao singularity. He asked the silent great dao system whether he could return to the Primordial World where his original self lived.

• Xing Tian’s beating heart sent tremors through the Primordial World, turning Hongjun’s body and dao foundation to ash.
• Hongjun realized the heart belonged to Xing Tian and lamented that he had understood the great dao principle too late to use it before the world’s destruction.
• Lin Tian witnessed Xing Tian seize the three thousand great daos and collapse the plane across its past, present, and future.
• Xing Tian emerged from his heart with the Xing Tian Battle Axe, having absorbed the world’s laws and made the strength great dao the core of his being.
• Xing Tian concluded that he must journey through countless Primordial Worlds and trace his path back to Hongmeng to form his own great dao singularity.
• Xing Tian asked the great dao system whether he could return to the Primordial World where his original self resided.

Xing Tian transferred the strength Great Dao Origin Law he had comprehended into the Xing Tian Battle Axe, enabling Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian to use him to pursue a path of uniting parallel Primordial Worlds. Lin Tian sent Xing Tian back to his original Primordial World, where the Tiger-Head Witch Clan Warriors’ arrows and poison struck him as time resumed.

• The Great Dao System told Xing Tian to store his strength Great Dao Origin Law in the Xing Tian Battle Axe to hide it from the Heavenly Dao.
• Xing Tian removed the law from his true spirit and infused it into the Xing Tian Battle Axe.
• Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian realized he could use Xing Tian to travel among parallel Primordial Worlds and gather their Great Dao Laws.
• Lin Tian enveloped Xing Tian in dimension origin law and sent him back to his original Primordial World.
• Time resumed in the forest, and five hundred arrows and clouds of poisonous powder hit Xing Tian.

Xing Tian turned the Tiger-Head Great Shaman’s ambush back on his attackers, then discovered that slaughtering fellow Witch Clan members let him absorb their laws and strengthen his power. Lin Tian returned to the Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven with a strength Great Dao origin law, while Xing Tian’s loyalty to the Witch Clan began to falter.

• Xing Tian used his transformed battle axe to repel the poison mist and shoot the five hundred arrows embedded in him back at the Tiger-Head Tribe warriors, killing them.
• Xing Tian appeared behind the fleeing Tiger-Head Great Shaman and killed him with a swing of his battle axe.
• Xing Tian absorbed the Great Dao principles in the Tiger-Head Great Shaman’s blood mist and realized that killing his own kind could strengthen his laws.
• Xing Tian looked toward Mount Buzhou and began to question his loyalty to the Witch Clan after recognizing the power offered by slaughter.
• Lin Tian returned to the Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven, devoured the strength Great Dao origin law in Xing Tian’s battle axe, and wondered whether his system had been created by his future self or by an outside force.

Lin Tian reaffirmed his resolve to pursue a Dao that would unite the Great Dao Laws and Primordial Worlds, then watched Xuan Yuan travel to the Demon Celestial Court to propose that the Demon Race join the Spirit Vine School. Xuan Yuan halted outside the capital to await a proper welcome, and Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi learned of his arrival.

• Lin Tian concluded that his doubts about the Devouring System came from wavering before the near-impossible path he had chosen, and he resolved to continue using Xing Tian as the first seed of his plan.
• Lin Tian turned his attention to Xuan Yuan, who rode a nine-dragon chariot toward the Demon Celestial Court to invite Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi to affiliate the Demon Race with the Spirit Vine School.
• As Xuan Yuan neared Jianmu's vast demon capital, he ordered Chang Xian to stop the chariot and wait for the Demon Race to escort him with proper etiquette.
• Xuan Yuan's court drums sounded toward the Demon Celestial Court, where a Great Demon reported his arrival to Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

Human Sovereign Xuan Yuan arrived at the Demon Celestial Court, where Eastern Emperor Taiyi praised him and Di Jun recognized the power of the Xuanyuan Chariot. Di Jun and Taiyi welcomed Xuan Yuan with a grand display, though Di Jun's respect was largely due to Lin Tian.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Di Jun learned that Xuan Yuan had arrived outside the Demon Celestial Court and looked toward his Xuanyuan Chariot.
• Taiyi praised Xuan Yuan, while Di Jun admired the Xuanyuan Chariot and secretly coveted its power.
• Taiyi asked whether the Demon Court should greet Xuan Yuan according to human etiquette or its own customs.
• Di Jun fired ten energy-filled feathers into the sky, creating radiant fireworks that answered the Human Ancestral Altar's signal drums.
• The ten Young Golden Crows and ten Demon Sages set out to escort Xuan Yuan as Di Jun and Taiyi formally welcomed him.

Xuan Yuan arrived at Jianmu with Lei Zu and the Xuan Yuan Clan’s officials and warriors to meet Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi. He offered the Demon Race the Daoist School’s goodwill and proposed sharing its Dao arts, then demonstrated the Xuanyuan Chariot’s power, leaving Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi to consider his offer.

• Xuan Yuan expanded the Xuanyuan Chariot’s canopy and led the Xuan Yuan Clan’s court and army in a grand procession to the Demon Celestial Court atop Jianmu.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi welcomed Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu, while Di Jun privately envied Xuan Yuan’s imposing presence.
• Di Jun asked whether Xuan Yuan had come to draw the Demon Race into an alliance after Houtu and the Witch Clan had turned away from the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage.
• Xuan Yuan said he had come with the Daoist School Lineage’s goodwill and the Vine Dao Venerable’s decree to promote their Dao arts with the two Demon Emperors.
• Xuan Yuan explained that the Vine Dao Venerable had developed a path to the Dao through a great Dao fruit beyond the Primordial World’s former cultivation limit.
• The Xuanyuan Chariot shrank to palm size, flew onto the Demon Celestial Court’s cloud platform, and appeared in Xuan Yuan’s hand.

Xuan Yuan offered Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi a place for the Demon Race in the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage and revealed that his Xuanyuan Chariot was a Chaos Supreme Treasure usable within the Primordial World. The two Demon Emperors recalled Zhunti’s prediction and left to consult privately, while Xuan Yuan remained determined to bring the Demon Race under the lineage despite Lei Zu’s suspicions.

• Xuan Yuan revealed that the palm-sized Xuanyuan Chariot was a Chaos Supreme Treasure that could be used in the Primordial World.
• Di Jun asked whether he could obtain a similar treasure by bringing the Demon Race into the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage, and Xuan Yuan promised the lineage’s protection and resources to its disciples.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi remembered Zhunti’s prediction that an emissary would offer them a tempting treasure and recalled the brocade pouch Zhunti had left them.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi excused themselves and vanished from the Demon Court to discuss their decision privately.
• Lei Zu warned Xuan Yuan that the Demon Emperors might want his Chaos Supreme Treasures rather than sincerely submit, but Xuan Yuan remained resolved to fulfill his vow to Lin Tian.