Chapter Summaries

Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu prepared to defend the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage’s reputation, even at the cost of their lives, while Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi considered Daoist Zhunti’s prediction that Xuan Yuan would come to recruit them. Di Jun suspected Zhunti could foresee the course of history and the brothers’ fates.

• Xuan Yuan reassured Lei Zu that he would punish anyone who attacked them and insulted their Ancestral God, Lin Tian.
• Xuan Yuan told Lei Zu that they must protect the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage’s prestige, even if their entire clan perished at the Demon Celestial Court, and she agreed.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi entered Huayang Heaven, where Di Jun took out the brocade pouch Daoist Zhunti had given them.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi summoned the Chaos Bell and expanded it to cover Huayang Palace’s central area.
• Di Jun told Eastern Emperor Taiyi that Zhunti may have predicted Xuan Yuan’s arrival because he understood the course of fate and history, including the brothers’ future trials.

Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi opened the brocade pouch Daoist Zhunti had given them and discovered the legendary Heaven-Deceiving Formation. They activated it to isolate themselves, Xuan Yuan, and Lei Zu from the surrounding world, leaving Di Jun poised to take Xuan Yuan’s Chaos Supreme Treasure.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi explained to Di Jun why they had chosen to align with Daoist Hongjun’s side and urged him to open Zhunti’s brocade pouch.
• Di Jun opened the pouch, and a formation diagram emerged and struck against the Chaos Bell before Eastern Emperor Taiyi caught it.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi recognized the diagram as the genuine Heaven-Deceiving Formation and described its power to sever karma and exclude laws.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi carried the formation to the Demon Celestial Court, where Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu awaited them.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi activated the formation, trapping the four of them in its Independent World, and Di Jun taunted Xuan Yuan over his Chaos Supreme Treasure.

Lei Zu drew the Xuan Yuan Sword, a Chaos Supreme Treasure, and seized part of the Heaven-Deceiving Formation’s laws, halting Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s attempt to refine them. The Demon Emperors realized the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage’s reserves rivaled the Daoist School Lineage’s, but they had already attacked Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu; Xuan Yuan then revealed the Xuanyuan Chariot as its nine dragons wrapped around his Imperial Robes.

• Lei Zu drew the Xuan Yuan Sword and used it to wrest control of thirty percent of the Heaven-Deceiving Formation’s laws, stabilizing the situation.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi were shocked to discover Lei Zu wielded another Chaos Supreme Treasure, while nine chaos wyrm spirits coiled around its blade.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi reconsidered the strength of the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage and recognized that its treasures proved it had mastered powers beyond the Primordial World’s laws.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi realized they could not withdraw after enclosing Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu in the formation and revealing their hostility.
• Xuan Yuan remained calm, revealed the Xuanyuan Chariot, and its nine enormous dragons coiled around his Imperial Robes.

Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu confronted Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi in the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, where the formation weakened Xuan Yuan’s power and disrupted his Chaos Supreme Treasures. After the Chaos Bell blocked his counterattack and reflected its force back at him, Xuan Yuan concluded that resisting would be futile and prepared to accept defeat with his dignity intact.

• Xuan Yuan told Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi that he had come to recruit the Demon Race, but condemned their attack and their attempt to seize his treasures.
• Xuan Yuan’s aura and sword power were reduced inside Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s Heaven-Deceiving Formation, delighting the Demon Emperor brothers and shocking Lei Zu.
• Xuan Yuan gathered the eighteen dragons from his sword and chariot into a Chaos Dragon Ball and directed its killing intent at Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi summoned the Chaos Bell, which blocked Xuan Yuan’s sword light and reflected its force back at Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu.
• Xuan Yuan recognized that struggling in the formation would be futile and decided to stop resisting rather than lose his dignity as Human Sovereign.

Lin Tian sent his chaos fierce beast true body toward the Demon Celestial Court, and its Fled One Myriad Heavens World opened a flaw in the Heaven-Deceiving Formation. Xuan Yuan used the opening to send Lei Zu and the Xuan Yuan Clan’s forces out, then stayed behind to face the Demon Emperors as Lei Zu prepared to attack the Demon Court.

• Angered by the Daoist School’s treatment of his Soul-Led School, Lin Tian summoned his chaos fierce beast true body and possessed it.
• Lin Tian’s Fled One Myriad Heavens World resonated with the Heaven-Deceiving Formation and broke open a flaw in its laws.
• Xuan Yuan seized the opening and sent Lei Zu, the Xuanyuan Chariot, and the Xuan Yuan Sword out of the formation, urging Lei Zu to report to the Ancestral God.
• Xuan Yuan stayed behind to fight Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Di Jun, while Lei Zu vowed through spirit awareness that she would not let the Demon Race prevail.
• Lei Zu crashed into the Demon Celestial Court Hall, reported the failed mission to Lin Tian, and prepared to lead the Xuan Yuan Clan’s elites in an attack.

Lei Zu led the Xuan Yuan Clan’s elites in an assault on the Demon Celestial Court, but Lu Ya and the other Young Golden Crows stole the Xuanyuan Chariot and escaped. Inside the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, Xuan Yuan revealed how a flaw had let Lei Zu out, while Di Jun decided to seek help from Zhunti and Hongjun.

• Kunpeng told Lu Ya and his nine brothers to seize the Xuanyuan Chariot and flee when the Xuan Yuan Clan’s forces left it unattended.
• Lei Zu and the Xuan Yuan Clan’s ten thousand elites attacked the Demon Celestial Court, forcing its Demon Sages to defend their stronghold.
• Lu Ya led the ten Young Golden Crows aboard the Xuanyuan Chariot, drove it out of the Demon Celestial Court, and vanished into the void.
• Xuan Yuan told Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi that Lin Tian’s influence had opened a flaw in the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, allowing Lei Zu and the two Chaos Supreme Treasures to escape.
• Di Jun acknowledged that the Demon Race had no way back after siding with the Daoist School and ordered Zhunti and Hongjun to be informed.

Lin Tian watched Daoist Hongjun try to recruit and brainwash Xuan Yuan, while the disrupted history of the Primordial World began falling back into place. As Hongjun's manipulation took hold, a spirit vine unexpectedly sprouted in his sea of consciousness.

• Di Jun resolved to side with the Daoist School Lineage as Zhunti contacted him, and Hongjun arrived at the Demon Celestial Court.
• Hongjun entered the Heaven-Deceiving Formation and asked Xuan Yuan to join the Daoist School, planting false memories in his mind.
• Lin Tian sensed Hongjun's actions and observed the Primordial World history he had altered being restored.
• Xing Tian set out to break the Witch Clan's bloodline restrictions after gaining strength by absorbing the laws in the blood qi of the Tiger-Head Great Shaman and warriors he slew.
• Hongjun continued changing Xuan Yuan's memories, but a seed appeared beside Hongjun's true spirit and grew into a spirit vine.

Lin Tian rescued Xuan Yuan, destroyed Daoist Hongjun’s divine sense clone, and left Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi facing the consequences of their schemes. As the brothers realized they had become pawns to greater powers, Di Jun revealed that his ten sons had taken the Xuanyuan Chariot to the Central Continent.

• Hongjun realized the Spirit Vine had taken root in his consciousness and erased his implanted memories of himself from Xuan Yuan’s mind.
• Lin Tian emerged in his chaos fierce beast true body, took Xuan Yuan, and warned Hongjun to stop overstepping his bounds.
• Lin Tian’s death ray melted Hongjun’s divine sense clone and devoured part of the laws he controlled.
• Lin Tian gave great dao seeds to Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, then took the repentant Xuan Yuan back to Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi realized their scheme had turned them against both the Spirit Vine and Daoist lineages.
• Di Jun told Eastern Emperor Taiyi that his ten sons had gone to the Central Continent aboard the Xuanyuan Chariot.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi worried that he and Di Jun were trapped by the Vine Dao Venerable’s hidden dao seeds, while Di Jun believed the Xuanyuan Chariot could offer them a way to survive. As the ten golden crows carried the chariot into the Central Continent and breached the Witch Clan’s defenses, the long-suppressed War of the Liches threatened to begin.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi urged Di Jun to submit to the Vine Dao Venerable, fearing that the dao seeds in their seas of consciousness left them no escape.
• Di Jun recognized that the dao seeds had planted an inescapable Great Dao danger in both brothers, but believed the Xuanyuan Chariot could give them a chance to survive.
• Di Jun revealed that his ten sons were driving the Xuanyuan Chariot toward the Central Continent, where its power could break through the Witch Clan’s innate formations.
• Di Jun intended to use a resulting conflict between the golden crows and the Witch Clan to enter the Central Continent and claim its calamity, fortune, and resources.
• Di Jun recalled that he and Eastern Emperor Taiyi had long restrained the Demon Race and avoided the War of the Liches, since the Northern Continent could sustain their people.

Di Jun explained to Eastern Emperor Taiyi why the Demon Race could not escape the War of the Liches by joining either the Daoist School or the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage, and argued that they had to fight to survive. As the Young Golden Crows’ amplified sunlight set the Central Continent ablaze, Eastern Emperor Taiyi questioned whether Di Jun had deliberately sent them to provoke the Witch Clan.

• Di Jun’s ten Golden Crow Sons used Xuan Yuan’s Chaos Supreme Treasure and the Xuanyuan Chariot to amplify their radiance over the Central Continent, setting it ablaze.
• Di Jun accepted that conflict with the Witch Clan was inevitable and decided the Demon Race should use the war to draw other lineages into the calamity rather than become their tools.
• Di Jun saw the Golden Crow light erupting over the Central Continent and told Eastern Emperor Taiyi that joining either the Daoist School or the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage would have left them vulnerable to both.
• Di Jun explained that he had long suspected the Daoist School would instigate the War of the Liches after Daoist Hongjun merged with the heavenly dao.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi asked whether Di Jun had sent the Young Golden Crows to provoke the Witch Clan and increase the Demon Race’s chance of survival.

Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu told Lin Tian how the Demon Race had taken the Xuanyuan Chariot, allowing the ten Young Golden Crows to scorch the Central Continent. As Witch Clan war drums sounded, Xuan Yuan asked to accompany Lin Tian and help quell the approaching War of the Liches.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi sighed after Di Jun explained that the ten Young Golden Crows had taken the Xuanyuan Chariot to the Central Continent.
• Xuan Yuan and Lei Zu knelt before Lin Tian, and Lei Zu recounted how Demon Master Kunpeng had taken the chariot and carried the ten Young Golden Crows away.
• Lin Tian saw the ten suns burning the Central Continent, while Witch Clan war drums began sounding in Kuafu's territory.
• Xuan Yuan asked Lin Tian to let him accompany him to the Central Continent so he could try to quell the War of the Liches and repay his karmic debt.

Lu Ya used a slaughter assassination divine ability to kill Kuafu while the ten Golden Crows attacked the Witch Clan’s Central Continent. After Dijiang showed Kuafu’s death to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, they turned to Houtu, who regretted leaving Lin Tian’s Spirit Vine Dao Lineage and faced discussing the Witch Clan’s future with her siblings.

• Kuafu declared war on the ten Golden Crows and charged them with his forked axes as they rode the Xuanyuan Chariot.
• Lu Ya loosened the chariot’s reins and used Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s assassination techniques to turn one of its golden dragons against Kuafu.
• The dragon transformed into a ray of slaughtering light and killed Kuafu above his tribe.
• Dijiang projected Kuafu’s death into Pan Gu Hall, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches grew furious at the Golden Crows.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches looked toward Houtu, who regretted leaving Lin Tian’s lineage and prepared to discuss their next steps with her siblings.

Houtu warned the Twelve Ancestral Witches that the Golden Crows’ attack on their lands would trigger the War of the Liches and said she would seek Lin Tian’s help if the calamity began. Dijiang realized Kuafu had died and tried to intervene, but Hou Yi had already shot down nine Golden Crows, leaving the war’s outbreak seemingly unavoidable.

• Houtu told her eleven siblings that the Ten Golden Crows’ attack and Kuafu’s death would set the War of the Liches in motion.
• Dijiang learned that Kuafu had died and feared Hou Yi would shoot down the Golden Crows, making war unavoidable.
• Dijiang began traversing space toward Hou Yi’s tribe, but nine explosions rang out as Hou Yi’s arrows struck down nine Golden Crows.
• Dijiang realized he was too late, and the Ancestral Witches turned their attention to Houtu.
• Houtu stood calmly in Pan Gu Hall and revealed her Reincarnation Disk, Netherworld Underworld, and other treasures.

Houtu left Mount Buzhou to return to Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven and ask Lin Tian to help the Witch Clan, after her brothers and sisters declared their support. At Mount Sumeru, Daoist Hongjun learned that his divine sense clone and the Heaven-Deceiving Formation had been destroyed, while Daoist Ghost Chariot boldly greeted him as a fellow Daoist.

• Jumang and the other Ancestral Witches urged Houtu to seek Lin Tian's help and promised to accept the outcome without complaint.
• Houtu reflected that the Witch Clan's proposed alliance with the Daoist School Lineage would bring a fate worse than its destruction in the War of the Liches, and realized that the calamity's karma implicated everyone involved.
• Houtu bowed to her brothers and sisters in Pan Gu Hall, transformed into a streak of light, and flew toward the heavens.
• Daoist Hongjun learned that his divine sense clone had perished in Jianmu's Heaven-Deceiving Formation and that the formation had vanished.
• Daoist Jieyin brought Daoist Ghost Chariot to Zixiao Palace, where Ghost Chariot introduced himself as the founding ancestor of the Human Race's Chiyou Tribe and addressed Daoist Hongjun as a fellow Daoist.

Daoist Hongjun and the Primordial Wild Dragon discussed whether Ghost Chariot truly intended to join the Daoist School, while considering how to secure him if he refused. Nine explosions in the Central Continent interrupted them, leaving Ghost Chariot, Hongjun, and the Primordial Wild Dragon guessing that Lin Tian might have attacked the Demon Court or the Witch Clan.

• Daoist Hongjun asked the Primordial Wild Dragon whether Ghost Chariot was sincere about betraying the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage and joining the Daoist School.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon advised Hongjun to recruit Ghost Chariot, or turn him into a puppet if he refused, and Hongjun agreed to try persuasion first.
• Nine explosions erupted in the distant Central Continent as Hongjun prepared to question Ghost Chariot.
• Ghost Chariot suspected that the Little Beast Emperor had clashed with Houtu and the Witch Clan near Mount Jade Capital.
• Hongjun wondered whether Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian had brought down Jianmu, while the Primordial Wild Dragon considered whether Lin Tian had attacked the Witch Clan and hoped the Daoist School could benefit from the ensuing calamity.

After the Nine Golden Crows exploded, Shen Nong headed to the Netherworld Blood Sea to convey the Spirit Vine School’s goodwill to Patriarch Minghe. Mindful of Lin Tian’s power, Minghe welcomed Shen Nong instead of pursuing an alliance with the distant Daoist School Lineage.

• Shen Nong heard the nine explosions, judged that the Witch-Demon Calamity had begun, and continued toward the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Shen Nong sent Patriarch Minghe a message saying he had come by Lin Tian’s decree to convey the Spirit Vine School’s goodwill.
• Minghe discussed Shen Nong’s visit with Demon Marshal Jidu and rejected Jidu’s plan to befriend the distant Daoist School Lineage, fearing Lin Tian’s response.
• Minghe invited Shen Nong to enter the Netherworld Blood Sea’s Seven-Aperture Cave, leaving Jidu appalled by his humility.

Shen Nong entered the Netherworld Blood Sea to invite Patriarch Minghe to hear the Vine Dao Venerable teach the Great Dao in Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven. Minghe immediately agreed to join the Spirit Vine School, and Shen Nong received a hazy gray great dao seed after delivering the invitation.

• Patriarch Minghe rebuked Demon Marshal Jidu for urging him to stand above Shen Nong and the Spirit Vine School.
• Shen Nong broke through the Netherworld Blood Sea's gateway, and his Shennong Cauldron and Shennong Whip suppressed its blood and baleful qi.
• Demon Marshal Jidu tried to devour Shen Nong's treasures, but the backlash nearly shattered his sea of consciousness.
• Shen Nong invited Minghe to join the Spirit Vine School and attend the Vine Dao Venerable's teaching in Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven one thousand years later.
• Patriarch Minghe immediately declared his willingness to join, and Shen Nong received a hazy gray great dao seed in his sea of consciousness.

Shen Nong completed the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage mission by persuading Patriarch Minghe to become a disciple, then returned to his Dao field to cultivate with his great Dao seed. As the ten Golden Crows’ deaths made war between the Liches seem unavoidable, Chiyou halted his march and ordered the Nine Phoenix Tribe to await orders.

• Shen Nong told Patriarch Minghe that Lin Tian would teach the Dao in a thousand years, and Minghe agreed to join the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage.
• Shen Nong reported his success to Lin Tian, received permission to enter seclusion, and returned to Shennong's Dao Field with his great Dao seed.
• Lin Tian confirmed Shen Nong’s mission success to Xuan Yuan and reassured him that his own failure was not his fault and would not cost him equal opportunities and blessings.
• Lin Tian sent his Chaos Fierce Beast True Body toward the Central Continent.
• After Hou Yi’s arrows destroyed nine of the ten Golden Crows, Chiyou concluded that the War of the Liches could no longer be avoided.
• Chiyou told Nine Phoenixes to keep the Nine Phoenix Tribe’s army in place and wait for orders from the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

Chiyou settled with Nine Phoenixes and his million-strong Witch Clan army in the western Central Continent as golden rain from the fallen Golden Crows revived the scorched land. When Nine Phoenixes questioned why Chiyou had Three Souls as well as the Witch Clan’s Seven Po, Chiyou revealed that he was the Human Race’s Chiyou, leaving Nine Phoenixes stunned by his Witch Clan aura and power.

• Chiyou joined forces with Nine Phoenixes and led his tribe to settle near Mount Kunlun in the western Central Continent.
• Golden Crow blood rain fell across the Central Continent, restoring its scorched plants and creatures.
• Nine Phoenixes’ million Witch Clan warriors absorbed the laws in the rain to strengthen themselves.
• Nine Phoenixes asked Chiyou why he did not absorb the rain, and Chiyou showed him his Three Souls and Myriad Heavens World.
• Nine Phoenixes asked whether Chiyou was truly a member of the Witch Clan, and Chiyou revealed that he was the progenitor of the Human Race’s Chiyou Tribe.

Chiyou revealed that he had come to the Central Continent to recruit the Witch Clan into the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage and urged Nine Phoenixes to bring his tribe with him. Before Nine Phoenixes could answer, Xihe descended beneath a sudden moonlit night, bringing freezing Moonlight Essence and rising tides.

• Nine Phoenixes realized Chiyou was the legendary Human Ancestor and asked why he had come to the Central Continent.
• Chiyou explained that Lin Tian had sent him to recruit the Witch Clan, but the Golden Crow blood rain had made peace between the Witch and Demon races impossible.
• Chiyou asked Nine Phoenixes and his tribe to join the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage, admitting that he had deliberately sought out the Nine Phoenixes Tribe.
• The Central Continent plunged into night as Xihe's moon appeared, freezing water and mist and sending tides surging around Mount Buzhou.
• Chiyou identified the arrival as Xihe coming after Jiu Yi killed the ten Young Golden Crows.