Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• After the Immortal Court’s destruction, the Witch Clan invites the Greater Demons to the ceremony establishing the Ten Thousand Witch Ancestral Court. Several demons, led by Nine-Headed Origin Spirit, take the invitation as an insult and refuse to attend.
• Zhurong and Shebishi answer their defiance with threats, and both sides reveal their immense true forms. The confrontation threatens to erupt into open war.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi backs the demons, raising the Chaos Bell, while Dijun watches tensely. Daochen stays out of the dispute, giving Dijiang the signal he was looking for.
• Dijiang abruptly orders the other Ancestral Witches to stand down and insists the invitation is no reason to fight. He then personally invites Daochen to the ceremony, and Daochen accepts.
• The demons realize Dijiang’s restraint is driven less by concern for them than by wariness of Daochen. Daochen, however, makes clear in his thoughts that he does not consider the Demon Race’s conflict his responsibility.

Character developments and interactions

• Dijiang reveals himself as a calculating leader: he used the invitation and the demons’ reaction to gauge Daochen’s position, then prevented a clash once he saw Daochen would not oppose the Witch Clan.
• Zhurong, Shebishi, and the other Ancestral Witches respond to the demons’ refusal with characteristic aggression, but are confused and frustrated when Dijiang calls them back.
• Nine-Headed Origin Spirit and the other Greater Demons stand together against the witches, though they recognize they are badly outmatched and suspect Dijiang has a hidden reason for sparing them.
• Taiyi openly supports the demons, while Daochen remains neutral toward their cause. His acceptance of Dijiang’s invitation reflects his own plans, not loyalty to the Demon Race.
• Daochen intends to visit the Pangu Divine Hall to pursue the next stage of his cultivation.

Significant themes

• Power and political calculation: Dijiang’s restraint is shaped by Daochen’s formidable reputation, showing that strength can deter conflict even when formal alliances cannot.
• Fragile balance between great powers: With the Immortal Court gone, the Witch and Demon clans are the remaining major forces, and a single confrontation could reshape their rivalry.
• Belonging and self-interest: Daochen’s past-life connection to humanity outweighs his present incarnation’s ties to the Demon Race; he helps them only when he chooses, not out of obligation.

Plot points and events

• After the Twelve Ancestral Witches leave, Daochen prepares to return to the Sun Star and refine the primordial purple qi using the fortune stored in his alms bowl.
• Bai Ze, now a Quasi-Saint, warns that the Witches may target Daochen if he visits Mount Buzhou. Daochen is unconcerned, confident in his late Quasi-Saint cultivation and Innate Five Elements Formation.
• Daochen learns that many Greater Demons have also become Quasi-Saints, but leaves without offering to lead them. Bai Ze worries that, despite growing strength and unity, the Demon Race lacks a leader trusted by all; a costly war with the Witches could expose its internal divisions.
• News of the Eastern Prince’s defeat and the Witches’ plan to establish the Ten Thousand Witch Ancestral Court spreads, heightening tension between the Witch and Demon Clans.
• On Mount Kunlun, the Three Pure Ones react to the Heavenly Court’s destruction. Laozi has reached the mid Quasi-Saint stage, while Yuanshi and Tongtian are nearing the same breakthrough. They fear the Witches may challenge them before founding their new court.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains self-assured and uninterested in assuming leadership of the Demon Race, despite its need for a unifying figure. He treats the possibility of a Witch ambush as a potential opportunity to demonstrate his strength.
• Bai Ze shows foresight and concern for the Demon Race, but recognizes that he cannot command its members through loyalty. He tries to advise Daochen, then returns to his cave disappointed.
• Laozi takes a practical, cautious view, rebuking Yuanshi for focusing on Jieyin and Zhunti’s betrayal instead of preparing for the Witches.
• Yuanshi is furious at Jieyin and Zhunti for helping bring down the Eastern Prince, but his recent progress makes him overconfident and eager to face the Witches. Laozi’s warning temporarily checks his anger, not his confidence.

Significant themes

• Power versus leadership: Greater strength does not guarantee unity; the Demon Race still lacks someone who can command genuine allegiance.
• Rising conflict and strategic caution: The Witches’ victory shifts the balance of power, while the Three Pure Ones anticipate being their next rivals.
• Pride and overconfidence: Daochen and Yuanshi both believe they can handle formidable opponents, though Laozi emphasizes the danger of underestimating them.

Key plot points and events

• Yuanshi argues that the Three Pure Ones should stop yielding to the Twelve Ancestral Witches over the claim to Pangu’s orthodox lineage. Tongtian agrees, and Laozi accepts that they should stand their ground if challenged—though he urges his brothers to keep cultivating and refining their Primordial Purple Qi rather than provoke a fight.
• Daochen returns to his secluded chamber after teaching Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters. With the Witch–Demon war approaching, he expects the Demon Race to suffer badly despite its growing strength, since it lacks a way to overcome the Ancestral Witches’ Pangu True Form.
• Daochen releases the Fortune Dragon from a bowl. When it tries to escape, he traps it with a five-elements barrier and destroys it with a spear strike. Its concentrated power of fortune flows into his Primordial Purple Qi, accelerating its refinement.
• On Mount Sumeru, Jieyin and Zhunti lament their losses and the disgrace surrounding the Eastern Prince’s death. Still weakened and far behind Daochen in power, they decide to focus on refining their Primordial Purple Qi and becoming Sages before seeking revenge.
• Just as the brothers prepare to enter seclusion, Nüwa arrives at Mount Sumeru and calls to them.

Character developments and interactions

• The Three Pure Ones: Yuanshi becomes more assertive, Tongtian supports him, and Laozi shifts from caution toward accepting a firm stance. Their shared identity as Pangu’s descendants makes the lineage dispute a matter of principle.
• Daochen: He remains confident and pragmatic, prioritizing cultivation and preparation for the coming conflict. He uses the Fortune Dragon’s power of fortune to speed his progress.
• Jieyin and Zhunti: Their anger and humiliation are tempered by realism. Rather than challenge the much stronger Daochen, they agree to cultivate until they can attain Sagehood.
• Nüwa’s arrival interrupts their retreat and sets up a new encounter.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Characters weigh confrontation against the need to cultivate and become stronger.
• Lineage and identity: The Three Pure Ones see the Pangu orthodox title as a principle they cannot surrender.
• Preparation for upheaval: The coming Witch–Demon war and disorder in Heaven’s secrets signal a turbulent era.
• Revenge delayed by weakness: Jieyin and Zhunti must accept that ambition alone cannot overcome a major gap in strength.

Key plot points

• Nüwa arrives at Mount Sumeru to discuss the Dao with Jieyin and Zhunti, hoping to find inspiration on her path to enlightenment.
• Western Immortals try to fly up for a closer look, but Nüwa’s aura pins them down—even a Great Luo Golden Immortal cannot resist it. The onlookers realize she is a powerful Quasi-Saint.
• Jieyin and Zhunti hesitate to greet her. Jieyin insists Zhunti should go because he is “thicker-skinned”; Zhunti refuses to go alone, forcing Jieyin to accompany him.
• Nüwa confronts them about the lack of hospitality. The two explain that they failed to welcome her and invite her inside.
• Seeing the brothers’ bald heads, the Western Immortals assume they shaved to pursue enlightenment and promptly shave their own heads. Zhunti falsely claims baldness helps one comprehend the Dao, inadvertently prompting even more followers to shave.

Character developments and interactions

• Nüwa is proud, formidable, and increasingly impatient after waiting outside. Though she restrains herself for the brothers’ sake, she expects basic courtesy.
• Jieyin and Zhunti bicker over who should face Nüwa. Their usual shamelessness turns into mutual embarrassment when their baldness attracts attention.
• Zhunti improvises a solemn-sounding lie to hide the real reason for their hair loss, but the crowd takes him literally.
• The Western Immortals idolize the two Sages and eagerly imitate what they mistake for a spiritual practice.

Significant themes

• Pride and face-saving: The brothers try to conceal an embarrassing mishap with a fabricated explanation.
• Imitation and credulity: The followers copy the Sages without questioning them, turning a private embarrassment into a public spectacle.
• Status and power: Nüwa’s aura immediately establishes her authority, while the crowd’s reaction reflects the Sages’ influence in the Western Land.

Plot points and events

• Nüwa visits Jieyin and Zhunti at Mount Sumeru, hoping to gain insight into her opportunity to attain the Dao. Their earlier claim that shaving their heads aided enlightenment was an obvious excuse; their bald heads are now a source of Zhunti’s embarrassment.
• Jieyin suggests that Nüwa begin with the Law of Creation, the law she knows best. The advice sparks an idea: she might create a new clan.
• Nüwa returns to Mount Buzhou and shapes figures from its soil, modeling them on Pangu’s innate Dao body. She gives them innate origin qi and her essence blood, but they remain unintelligent and soon collapse under the pressure of the Primordial World.
• Convinced that creation is still the path to her opportunity, Nüwa wonders whether Hongjun can explain what her attempts lack. She sets out toward the Chaos beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, unsure whether he will receive her.

Character developments and interactions

• Nüwa moves from vague intuition to a clear hypothesis about her path to the Dao. She is grateful to Jieyin, but her first experiments expose major obstacles, making her anxious and determined to seek guidance.
• Jieyin offers a brief, seemingly casual suggestion that proves decisive. He is surprised that Nüwa gains such insight from it.
• Zhunti is embarrassed by the consequences of his earlier excuse and later confused when Nüwa leaves before he understands what prompted her departure.
• Nüwa and Jieyin share a respectful exchange: she thanks him and promises to repay his guidance if she becomes a Sage.

Significant themes

• Intuition and enlightenment: A simple suggestion can unlock a direction for someone already prepared to recognize it.
• Creation and inherited form: Nüwa’s clay figures take Pangu’s form, reflecting the idea that life in the world carries Pangu’s imprint.
• Limits of creation: Giving the figures substance and bloodline is not enough; they still lack awareness and cannot endure the world.
• Comic embarrassment beside cosmic ambition: The baldness gag contrasts with Nüwa’s serious pursuit of sagehood.

Key events

• Nüwa, anxious about how to complete her path to the Dao, visits Hongjun at the Purple Heavens Palace. He has anticipated her arrival and receives her.
• Hongjun explains that creating a fully realized people requires three treasures: Nine Heavens Breath Soil for immortal bodies, the Xiantian Gourd Vine to give them spirit, and the Heaven-Earth Cauldron to transform them and strengthen their intelligence.
• Nüwa realizes the first two treasures belong to Daochen, who lives on the Sun Star. Hongjun offers no alternatives and sends her directly out of the palace, signaling that she must seek them from Daochen.
• Reluctant and nervous about facing Daochen, Nüwa imagines he might demand an embarrassing favor—perhaps even that she become his Dao companion. After debating with herself, she gathers her courage and calls to him.
• Nüwa’s shout disrupts Daochen’s secluded refinement of primordial purple qi. The qi consumes the chamber’s remaining fortune without becoming more refined, leaving it at about thirty percent instead of the expected thirty-five. Furious, Daochen rushes out and shouts, “No!”

Character developments and interactions

• Nüwa moves from anxious hope to dismay when she learns she must approach the one person she most wants to avoid. Her fear of Daochen’s teasing mixes with a growing, unspoken romantic anxiety; despite this, she chooses to ask him directly.
• Hongjun acts as a cryptic guide: he gives Nüwa precise instructions but neither offers substitutes nor explains himself, leaving her to infer what she must do.
• Daochen, previously absent from the action, is shown focused on refining primordial purple qi. Nüwa’s arrival suddenly derails his progress and provokes his anger.
• The chapter’s central interaction is indirect but pivotal: Hongjun directs Nüwa toward Daochen, and her attempt to contact him immediately creates a conflict.

Significant themes

• Destiny and dependence: Nüwa’s path to attaining the Dao depends on rare treasures already held by someone she dislikes.
• Incomplete creation: Hongjun’s instructions present creation as a staged process—body, spirit, then transformation and intelligence.
• Tension between duty and personal feelings: Nüwa’s spiritual ambition forces her to confront Daochen, while her embarrassment and imagined romantic complications expose her vulnerability.
• Unintended consequences: A simple call from Nüwa costs Daochen a significant opportunity in his cultivation, setting up their next encounter.

Plot points and events

• Nüwa arrives at Daochen’s Sun Star seeking help with the opportunity she has sensed to attain the Dao. When Daochen initially refuses to meet her, she is furious and nearly leaves.
• Realizing that leaving would cost her this chance, Nüwa suppresses her anger and repeatedly asks for an audience, eventually admitting that she has a favor to request.
• Daochen lets her in, where he is relaxing with Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi. He offers Nüwa a seat and refreshments, then feigns ignorance about why she has come.
• Nüwa explains that she has sensed her path to attaining the Dao and has come after receiving guidance from her teacher. Daochen offers a conspicuously casual, insincere-sounding congratulations, while Dijun and Taiyi respond with genuine surprise and praise.
• Nüwa hopes Daochen will ask about her opportunity, giving her a natural opening to explain what she needs. Instead, he focuses on his wine and fruit, leaving her unsure how to continue. Daochen privately recognizes that she likely needs help with the resources connected to becoming a Sage, and intends to make their transfer subject to his conditions.

Character developments

• Nüwa struggles between her pride and her need for Daochen’s help. She repeatedly restrains her anger, makes a humble request, and tries to maintain a polite front, but becomes increasingly flustered by his indifference.
• Daochen stays composed and deliberately unhelpful in conversation. He understands Nüwa’s likely purpose and plans to control the terms of any assistance.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi are genuinely impressed by Nüwa’s progress and congratulate her respectfully.

Significant themes

• Pride versus necessity: Nüwa must set aside her dignity to pursue her chance at enlightenment.
• Power and negotiation: Daochen’s control of potentially essential resources gives him leverage, while Nüwa has little ability to force his cooperation.
• Appearance versus sincerity: Nüwa’s practiced politeness and Daochen’s perfunctory congratulations contrast with their real feelings.
• Comic frustration: Nüwa’s carefully prepared approach repeatedly fails because Daochen refuses to follow the conversational “script” she expects.

Character interactions

• Nüwa’s increasingly polite requests meet Daochen’s calculated calm and teasing indifference.
• Daochen’s relaxed hospitality—offering a seat and refreshments—does not translate into genuine warmth or help.
• Dijun and Taiyi offer Nüwa sincere congratulations, highlighting the contrast with Daochen’s response.

Plot points and events

• Nüwa visits Daochen on the Sun Star to request the treasures her teacher, Hongjun, said she needs to attain the Dao.
• Daochen reveals that he possesses all three: the nine-heavens breath soil, the Xiantian Gourd Vine, and the Heaven-Earth Cauldron. He teases Nüwa by displaying other treasures, then putting away the three she wants.
• Nüwa offers to meet any condition other than becoming Daochen’s Dao companion. Daochen claims he has admired her for a long time, and she immediately refuses.
• Daochen abruptly sends Nüwa away from the Sun Star. Frustrated and desperate to secure the treasures, she realizes she has no leverage and cannot rely on Hongjun to intervene.
• After Nüwa leaves, Daochen tells Taiyi little about his motives and returns to drinking. The chapter reveals that the Dao-companion proposal was only an excuse to refuse her, not a genuine offer.

Character developments and interactions

• Nüwa shifts from nervous politeness to anger and blunt negotiation. Her ambition to attain the Dao outweighs any interest in romance, and she is deeply frustrated when Daochen blocks her path.
• Daochen is playful and provocative, deliberately drawing out Nüwa’s hopes before rejecting her. He is firm about refusing to give up the treasures, though his true reasons remain unstated.
• Taiyi is astonished by Daochen’s apparent boldness and privately hopes Nüwa might become his sister-in-law. Once Nüwa is gone, he returns to drinking and training Zhao Gongming.
• Dijun silently shares Taiyi’s surprise and sees the prospect of Nüwa joining their family favorably.

Significant themes

• Power and leverage: Nüwa’s need for the treasures leaves her negotiating from a weak position, while Daochen controls both the items and the terms.
• Ambition and priorities: Nüwa is wholly focused on attaining Sagehood and rejects romance as a distraction.
• Teasing versus sincerity: Daochen’s provocative proposal is revealed as a pretext, highlighting the gap between what he says and what he actually intends.

Plot points and events

• Nüwa returns from the Sun Star furious: Daochen refused to give her the breath soil, Gourd Vine, and Heaven-Earth Cauldron unless she accepts his condition. His ability to repel her so effortlessly also leaves her shocked.
• Fuxi tries to avoid her, but Nüwa stops him and asks whether having a Dao companion matters. He suspects she has been to see Daochen and asks her directly.
• Nüwa admits it and recounts her recent journey: she visited Mount Sumeru, met Hongjun, and then asked Daochen for the treasures she needs to attain the Dao.
• Fuxi urges her to accept Daochen’s condition, reasoning that they would make a heaven-blessed pair and that their union would benefit the Demon Race.
• Nüwa responds by striking Fuxi with lightning and destroying his half-finished xiantian bagua. Once she has vented her anger, she is still left wondering whether she must agree to Daochen’s demand.

Character developments and interactions

• Nüwa is determined to attain the Dao, but Daochen’s refusal leaves her frustrated and conflicted. She vents her anger on Fuxi, then returns to worrying about the bargain.
• Fuxi tries to stay clear of his sister’s temper, but his hopeful speculation about Daochen and the Demon Race gets him punished—and costs him his divination work.
• Their interaction is comic but tense: Fuxi’s matchmaking advice meets Nüwa’s anger, and his attempt to connect her potential relationship to the Demon Race’s fortunes only makes matters worse.

Significant themes

• Power and dependence: Despite Nüwa’s strength, Daochen controls the resources she needs and can dismiss her with ease.
• Ambition versus personal choice: Nüwa’s goal of attaining the Dao is entangled with the possibility of accepting Daochen’s unwanted condition.
• Family and comic misfortune: Fuxi’s speculative plans and Nüwa’s temper turn a serious question into another disaster for his xiantian bagua.

Key plot points and events

• After Nüwa departs, Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun emerge from seclusion, having each advanced to the mid Quasi-Saint stage. They resume training Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters.
• The four disciples’ cultivation rises rapidly, aided by their uncles’ instruction, Daochen’s abundant spiritual fruits, and the Innate Five Elements Formation. They reach Peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal and may attain Quasi-Saint status before the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Daochen has refined nearly 30% of the primordial purple qi, but further progress requires immense merit or heavenly fortune. He considers ruling the Demon Race to gather that fortune, yet fears the danger and rejects founding a religion as a viable path.
• Still unwilling to abandon his hopes, Daochen attempts to fuse his three corpses—goodness, evil, and self—despite Hongjun’s warning that success is nearly impossible.
• Elsewhere, the Nine-Headed Origin Spirit gathers many Quasi-Saint demons, including Bai Ze, to plan an operation against the Witch Clan. Most demons commit to it. Once they disperse to act, Bai Ze warns that failure could bring the Demon Race’s destruction; the Origin Spirit argues that retreat would not save them either.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters become stronger and increasingly grateful to Daochen, willingly caring for the Sun Star’s spiritual roots as a way to repay him.
• Daochen remains ambitious but cautious: he seeks a path to the Dao while resisting the risks of political power and choosing to attempt the dangerous corpse-fusion method.
• Nine-Headed Origin Spirit takes decisive leadership, convinced that confrontation is preferable to continued retreat.
• Bai Ze shows doubt and concern, questioning whether the plan will provoke a disastrous Witch response. His final sigh suggests uncertainty about whether opposing the plan—or supporting it—was a mistake.
• The demons’ meeting reveals a divide in outlook: the Origin Spirit favors action, while Bai Ze emphasizes the catastrophic cost of failure.

Significant themes

• Ambition versus caution: Daochen and the demon leaders each weigh bold paths toward survival or advancement against potentially ruinous consequences.
• Gratitude and reciprocity: The disciples repay Daochen’s care through loyalty and service.
• Power and fate: The prospect of gaining fortune by ruling the Demon Race is shadowed by Taiyi and Dijun’s example and by the looming Witch-Demon conflict.
• Desperation and choice: The demons believe neither confrontation nor retreat guarantees survival, setting the stage for calamity.

Plot points and events

• Demons have become scarce across the Primordial World, leaving the Witch Clan struggling to find enough food. The witches assume the demons have gone into hiding.
• Kuafu gathers the strongest Great Shamans at Mount Ten Thousand Witches to investigate.
• The meeting turns acrimonious when Chi Man of Zhurong’s tribe and Xiangliu of Gonggong’s tribe trade accusations. Xingtian intervenes, but they briefly turn on him too; Kuafu eventually forces them to stop.
• Houyi warns that the demons’ disappearance may be a coordinated move against the Witch Clan, especially now that the Heavenly Court has fallen and the witches are distracted by their rivalry with the Three Pure Ones.
• Xingtian, Jiufeng, Kuafu, and the other Great Shamans dismiss the danger, convinced the demons would never dare attack.
• Their confidence is immediately shattered when battle cries erupt outside. Kuafu recognizes the attackers as demons and rushes out.

Character developments and interactions

• Houyi emerges as the meeting’s most perceptive and cautious voice, anticipating that the demons are preparing to exploit the Witch Clan’s weakened position. His warning is largely ignored.
• Kuafu tries to keep the meeting focused and settles the dispute between Chi Man and Xiangliu, but he shares the others’ confidence that the demons pose no immediate threat.
• Xingtian is bluntly dismissive of Houyi’s concerns. His attempt to stop the feud between Chi Man and Xiangliu instead draws their anger.
• Chi Man and Xiangliu embody the longstanding hostility between Zhurong’s and Gonggong’s tribes, blaming each other for the shortage of demons.
• Jiufeng reinforces the prevailing overconfidence, trusting that the Ancestral Witches’ strength will deter any attack.

Significant themes

• Arrogance and underestimation: The witches assume their past dominance guarantees their safety, leaving them unprepared for a changing threat.
• Warning signs ignored: Houyi recognizes the strategic implications of the demons’ disappearance, but the group dismisses his reasoning.
• Internal division: Rivalries within the Witch Clan distract its leaders from a danger that affects them all.
• A shift in power: With the Heavenly Court destroyed and the witches focused on other rivals, the demons appear to be organizing for a new conflict.

Key events

• Kuafu and Houyi arrive at Mount Ten Thousand Witches and discover it besieged by an enormous demon army, including Quasi-Saint greater demons.
• Kuafu orders Xingtian and Jiufeng to escort Houyi to Mount Buzhou to alert the Ancestral Witches. Since the Witch Clan cannot send messages by divine sense, reaching them physically is essential.
• Jiufeng, Houyi, Xingtian, and six other Great Witches fight their way through the demon ranks. Kuafu and the remaining Great Witches stay behind to defend the mountain.
• The witches briefly strengthen the defenders’ resistance, but the battle is catastrophic. In under an hour, more than half of Jiufeng’s escort is killed; Jiufeng is gravely wounded, and Houyi and Xingtian save her from a demon’s self-detonation.
• As Jiufeng’s group nears escape, a demon reports their progress to True Person Wuyang, who responds with concealed menace.
• Away from the battle, Bai Ze watches with other Demon Saints who have not joined the assault. He recognizes that the attack is a diversion for simultaneous massacres elsewhere, intended to destroy at least two of the Witch Clan’s twelve tribes.
• Bai Ze takes his followers to the Sun Star, leaving the battle behind.

Character developments and interactions

• Kuafu shifts from confidence to alarm, then takes command: he sends Houyi toward the Ancestral Witches and leads the remaining defenders.
• Houyi, Xingtian, and Jiufeng cooperate closely, relying on one another to survive the breakthrough. Houyi and Xingtian’s quick intervention saves Jiufeng’s life.
• The Great Witches demonstrate fierce solidarity, joining the escape effort and fighting on despite near-certain death.
• Bai Ze acts independently of the Demon Race’s assault, prioritizing his own course and leading aligned Demon Saints away.
• True Person Wuyang appears to be overseeing events and may have a specific plan for Jiufeng’s group.

Significant themes

• Unity and courage in adversity: The witches fight together and refuse to retreat, even when hopelessly outnumbered.
• Communication as vulnerability: The Witch Clan’s lack of primordial spirits makes it difficult to summon help quickly.
• War as survival rather than justice: The narration presents the conflict as a brutal struggle in which both sides inflict and suffer mass casualties.
• Diversion and hidden strategy: The assault on Mount Ten Thousand Witches is only one part of a broader campaign, with greater violence unfolding elsewhere.

Key plot points and events

• As the Witch-Demon War begins, many Primordial World cultivators withdraw into seclusion to avoid being caught in the coming tribulation.
• On the Sun Star, Daochen again fails to merge his Three Corpses. He then uses the Jade Butterfly of Creation to pierce the turbulent heavenly secrets and learns that the Demon Race has launched surprise attacks on three Witch Clan tribes while the Twelve Ancestral Witches are away.
• Daochen condemns the attack as a disastrous mistake: killing ordinary witches will not weaken the Witch Clan’s foundations, but it will provoke the Ancestral Witches’ vengeance.
• Bai Ze and several other Greater Demons visit Daochen. On their way into the Sun God Palace, they are astonished by his immense collection of spiritual roots.
• Bai Ze hints that the visitors are troubled by a sensitive matter involving the Demon Race. Daochen interrupts Ghost Chariot before he can explain, making clear that he wants no involvement.
• The demons continue their assault. The three tribes suffer heavy losses, but the witches’ strength makes the campaign costly. The demons appear to be surrounding the tribes rather than moving to destroy them outright, apparently waiting for something.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains focused on cultivation and reluctant to meddle in the Witch-Demon conflict, but his anger at the Demon Race’s reckless strategy is evident. His repeated failure to merge the Three Corpses has not made him impatient.
• Bai Ze appears burdened by an undisclosed concern and seeks Daochen’s company, but stops short of sharing it.
• Ghost Chariot is more direct and wants to tell Daochen what is troubling them; Daochen cuts him off.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrange the meeting and host the visiting demons. Their spiritual wine and Daochen’s garden impress the guests.

Significant themes

• Consequences of rash ambition: The Demon Race’s attempt to display its power may instead unite the Witch Clan against it.
• The scale of the coming tribulation: Even uninvolved cultivators retreat, while the war’s turmoil makes information about events difficult to obtain.
• Daochen’s deliberate detachment: Though he can see the danger clearly, he refuses to become entangled in the conflict.
• Hidden motives: The demons’ undisclosed worries and their unusual tactics suggest that the attack has a purpose beyond simply annihilating the three tribes.

Plot points and events

• The Demon Race launches a massive surprise assault on the distant Dijiang, Qiangliang, and Shebishi tribes. The battle leaves the surrounding land strewn with corpses, while countless unclaimed spirits roam the world, intensifying its baleful energy and karmic burden.
• The Witch Clan suffers catastrophic losses. Of six Great Shamans escorting Jiufeng, Xingtian, and Houyi from Mount Ten Thousand Witches, only those three reach Mount Buzhou; Jiufeng is unconscious and gravely wounded, Xingtian is badly injured and has lost his weapon, while Houyi is in the best condition of the three. A messenger from the Shebishi Tribe dies after delivering news of the crisis.
• More than twenty Great Shamans have already fallen, with many more trapped in the three attacked tribes. The potential loss of nearly a third of the Witch Clan’s Great Shamans—and a substantial share of its population—threatens to leave the clan weakened for ages.
• At Pangu Hall, the Ancestral Witches are furious. Qiangliang, Shebishi, Zhurong, and others demand immediate action to save their tribes and retaliate. Dijiang asks how the demons assembled undetected, but the others reject the inquiry as a distraction. He ends the chapter with a forceful rebuke.

Character developments and interactions

• Dijiang remains outwardly controlled despite his anger, focusing first on understanding how the attack happened. His authority is tested when the other Ancestral Witches push for immediate revenge.
• Qiangliang, Shebishi, and Zhurong are consumed by grief and rage, prioritizing rescue and blood-for-blood vengeance over investigation.
• Houtu stays comparatively calm and recognizes that the others are unlikely to be restrained; she believes Dijiang is the one who may be able to control them.
• Houyi, Xingtian, and Jiufeng embody the cost of the battle through their severe injuries and the deaths of their escorts.

Significant themes

• War’s human cost: Even a powerful clan faces devastation when its people and leaders die in large numbers.
• Grief and vengeance: The Ancestral Witches’ loss drives them toward retaliation, threatening to override practical judgment.
• Consequences beyond the battlefield: The dead spirits, accumulating baleful energy, and spreading karma make the conflict a calamity for the whole world.
• Crisis of leadership: Dijiang’s demand for answers clashes with the others’ urgent desire to act, setting up a struggle between strategy and impulse.

Plot points and events

• Dijiang confronts the gathered Ancestral Witches over the Witch Clan’s catastrophic losses. He blames their arrogance toward the Demon Race for leaving their people unprepared.
• Houyi and Xingtian admit that their tribes had noticed warning signs, but the Demon Race’s attack still caught them by surprise. Dijiang angrily knocks Xingtian into a wall for failing to finish his explanation.
• The Ancestral Witches learn that three distant tribes have been attacked at once, with nearly a quarter of the Witch Clan’s people lost. Their scattered settlement makes it difficult for one tribe to reinforce another.
• Houtu notices that the quasi-saint Greater Demons overseeing the attacks have largely refrained from fighting. She realizes the assaults are a trap: the Demon Race intends to lure the Twelve Ancestral Witches out of Pangu Hall, separate them, and defeat them individually.
• Dijiang is relieved that he kept Qiangliang and Shebishi from returning to their tribes, but furious that the Demon Race has dared target the Twelve Ancestral Witches. He asks how they should respond and raises their unresolved conflict with the Three Pure Ones. Rushou answers with a call to kill.

Character developments and interactions

• Dijiang shifts from anger at the Witch Clan’s failures to alarm at the strategic danger, then to renewed wrath and a desire for retaliation. His authority is clear: the others fall silent under his threat, and he physically punishes Xingtian.
• Houtu emerges as the key strategist, identifying the hidden purpose behind the attacks and making the others reconsider their assumptions.
• Houyi and Xingtian accept responsibility for their tribes’ failure to anticipate the danger; Houyi confirms their mistake directly.
• Zhurong and the other Ancestral Witches are chastened by Dijiang and begin to recognize the costs of their dismissive attitude toward the Demon Race.
• Qiangliang and Shebishi initially urge immediate rescue efforts, but the discovery of the trap makes rushing out potentially fatal.
• The chapter ends with the Ancestral Witches poised between rescue and retaliation, while also recalling their unfinished dispute with the Three Pure Ones.

Significant themes

• Arrogance and its consequences: The Witch Clan’s contempt for the Demon Race leaves its tribes vulnerable.
• Strategy over brute force: The Demon Race uses mass attacks as bait, aiming to exploit the Ancestral Witches’ separation and prevent their combined formation.
• Unity and vulnerability: The Witch Clan’s dispersal weakens its ability to respond collectively; the enemy’s plan depends on isolating its leaders.
• Leadership and accountability: Dijiang demands answers, while Houtu’s insight helps the group move from blame toward understanding the threat.

Plot points and events

• After losing roughly a quarter of their people to the demons’ coordinated attacks, the Twelve Ancestral Witches abandon their plan to confront the Three Pure Ones first. They vow to retaliate against the Demon Race and set out together for Mount Ten Thousand Witches.
• Their united march ruins the demons’ strategy of drawing the Ancestral Witches to separate battlefields. A demon scout realizes the plan has failed, but Dijiang kills him before he can escape.
• At Mount Ten Thousand Witches, the demon assault has reduced millions of Witch Clan members to fewer than ten thousand. Of thirty Great Shamans, only the badly wounded Xiangliu and Kuafu remain.
• Five-Yang True Person, the sole Quasi-Saint among the attacking demons, realizes the Twelve Ancestral Witches have arrived and tries to flee after secretly sending a warning.
• Dijiang intercepts and crushes him into a deep abyss. Rather than be captured, Five-Yang True Person self-destructs, engulfing Dijiang in the blast. Goumang rushes to warn and aid Dijiang, but the chapter ends before the explosion’s outcome is revealed.

Character developments

• Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches move from mourning and anger to collective retaliation, choosing unity over the demons’ attempt to divide them.
• Five-Yang True Person shifts from confidence in the attack to fear and desperation once he understands the plan has failed. He remains committed to his mission, sending a warning before sacrificing himself.
• Xiangliu and Kuafu are shown as exhausted survivors, still fighting despite catastrophic injuries and the destruction of their forces.

Significant themes

• Revenge and blood debt: The Witch Clan sees retaliation as necessary to honor its dead and restore its standing.
• Unity against division: The demons’ strategy depends on separating the Ancestral Witches; their decision to stay together defeats that plan.
• The cost of war: The victory’s prospects come amid devastating losses on both sides, especially the near-destruction of the Mount Ten Thousand Witches defenders.
• Sacrifice and desperation: Five-Yang True Person’s self-destruction underscores how far the demons will go to carry out their mission.

Character interactions

• The Ancestral Witches rally around Dijiang’s call for vengeance and follow him as a single force.
• Dijiang confronts Five-Yang True Person directly, dismissing his attacks and punishing him for the massacre of the Witch Clan tribe.
• Goumang reacts to Five-Yang True Person’s final move by urgently warning Dijiang and moving to help him.

Plot points and events

• Five-Yang True Person detonates himself, killing thousands of the remaining Witch Clan and devastating the demon army, but Dijiang survives almost unharmed.
• Dijiang orders the demons exterminated. Faced with the Ancestral Witches’ overwhelming power, demons repeatedly detonate themselves rather than surrender or flee, causing immense casualties on both sides.
• Three Witch Clan tribes are wiped out, and the Witch Clan loses roughly a quarter of its people. The Demon Race’s losses are even greater—possibly tens or hundreds of millions, many of them elite fighters.
• Daochen witnesses the demons’ final stand and honors them with an offering, recognizing a courage and devotion that contradict the reputation he had known.
• Bai Ze learns that Five-Yang True Person was the only quasi-saint greater demon to die at Myriad Witch Mountain. He is relieved that Nine-Headed Origin Spirit and the other leaders survived.
• Nine-Headed Origin Spirit abandons the failed plan, destroys the already devastated Qiangliang tribe, and flees with the other quasi-saint demons into the distant chaos. Lesser demons scatter into remote, barren regions of the Primordial World.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches, enraged by the destruction of their tribes, set out to hunt the surviving demons.

Character developments and interactions

• Dijiang remains physically unharmed by the explosion and shifts from briefly reassuring Goumang to ordering total extermination.
• Daochen moves beyond his inherited view of demons as merely cruel and self-serving. His respect for their last stand leads him to make a memorial offering.
• Bai Ze fears the loss of the Demon Race’s leadership, then takes comfort that its quasi-saint figures survived, despite the strategic failure.
• Nine-Headed Origin Spirit accepts that the attack failed and chooses retreat over a doomed confrontation with the Ancestral Witches.
• The demons’ self-sacrificing resistance stands in sharp contrast to the Witch Clan’s relentless pursuit, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches respond to their losses with fury.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and desperation: The demons’ mass self-detonations express a desperate will to live and resist, even when survival is unlikely.
• The cost of war: Both races suffer devastating losses, and neither emerges with its strength intact.
• Reputation versus reality: Daochen’s changed judgment shows that the Demon Race cannot be reduced to its usual portrayal as bloodthirsty and selfish.
• Vengeance and consequences: The destruction of the Witch tribes fuels a new hunt, suggesting that the conflict will continue despite the retreat.

Key plot points and events

• The Witch Clan spends a century retaliating against the Demon Race, killing demons across the Primordial World and leaving more than thirty Greater Demons dead.
• An attempt by over twenty Greater Demons to besiege Goumang and Rushou ends disastrously: the Ancestral Witches kill or seriously injure more than half of them, and the survivors flee.
• Bai Ze and other Demon Race leaders, who have watched the devastation from the Sun Star, ask Daochen whether the Ancestral Witches can be opposed. Daochen explains that their bodies, law powers, and ability to strengthen one another make them exceptionally formidable, and advises the demons not to challenge them without a sure advantage.
• Daochen hints that the Three Pure Ones may soon test the Ancestral Witches’ strength, urging the demons to watch Mount Kunlun. He then returns to cultivation, still struggling to fuse his Three Corpses.
• With the Witch Clan’s pursuit easing, Bai Ze and the other Demon Sages leave the Sun Star to gather and lead the scattered demons, hoping to limit further losses.
• The Ancestral Witches turn their attention toward defeating the Three Pure Ones before founding the Ten Thousand Witch Ancestral Court, both to claim Pangu’s Orthodox Lineage and to strengthen the Witch Clan’s standing.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Ze is shaken by the scale of the Witch Clan’s power and accepts that the Demon Race must retreat and reorganize rather than confront them directly.
• Daochen speaks more sympathetically toward Bai Ze and the other Greater Demons than he once would have, offering them advice and allowing them to remain on the Sun Star. He nevertheless keeps his distance and focuses on cultivation.
• The Ancestral Witches have largely satisfied their immediate desire for revenge, but their ambitions remain: they intend to settle their conflict with the Three Pure Ones before establishing their court.
• Bai Ze and the other Demon Sages recognize the dangers of Witch Clan territory and prepare to lead their people under the threat of continued retaliation.

Significant themes

• Power and deterrence: The Ancestral Witches’ combined strength overturns the demons’ confidence and makes open resistance seem futile.
• Retaliation and consequences: The Demon Race’s attack on the Witch Clan leads to a century of devastating revenge, even affecting demons who were not involved.
• Leadership amid collapse: With many Greater Demons dead or hiding, Bai Ze and the other leaders must return to the Primordial World to prevent the Demon Race from disintegrating.
• Political legitimacy and ambition: The Witch Clan’s planned conflict with the Three Pure Ones is not only about victory but also about securing the title of Pangu’s Orthodox Lineage before founding their court.

Key plot points and events

• After the Witch-Demon War, the Witch Clan regroups around Mount Buzhou so its tribes can support one another if the Demon Race attacks again. Meanwhile, the Nine-Headed Origin Spirit and its allies continue watching for a chance to strike the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Though the world appears calm, the spreading Tribulation Aura suggests a larger crisis is still building.
• Nüwa remains preoccupied with obtaining three treasures from Daochen: the Nine Heavens Breath Soil, the Xiantian Gourd Vine, and the Heaven-Earth Cauldron. Unable to find another way, she sends her brother Fuxi to the Sun Star to tell Daochen she accepts his proposal to become Dao companions—but only if he gives her the treasures first.
• Fuxi reluctantly goes. Daochen meets him outside the Sun Star and refuses to invite him inside, keeping their discussion in the Chaos Void.
• Fuxi relays Nüwa’s offer, then warns Daochen not to take her words seriously. Daochen realizes Fuxi has inadvertently exposed Nüwa’s scheme.

Character developments and interactions

• Nüwa is so fixated on Daochen’s treasures that she has abandoned cultivation for nearly a century. She schemes to use a marriage agreement as leverage and pressures Fuxi—apparently by force—to deliver her message.
• Fuxi is wary of Daochen and reluctant to act as messenger, but gives in to Nüwa. His straightforward honesty undermines his sister’s plan, and he cautions Daochen that she may not mean what she says.
• Daochen remains confident and perceptive, recognizing Nüwa’s intentions. His curt treatment of Fuxi adds comic tension to their meeting.

Significant themes

• The danger of ambition and attachment: Nüwa’s desire for the treasures disrupts her cultivation and drives her into increasingly elaborate schemes.
• Loyalty and sibling friction: Fuxi helps Nüwa despite his reluctance, while their teasing and coercive dynamic provides much of the chapter’s humor.
• Uneasy calm before greater conflict: The Witch Clan’s defensive regrouping and the persistent Tribulation Aura hint that the wider danger has not passed.

Plot points

• After the Witch–Demon war, Fuxi visits Daochen on the Sun Star. He jokes about having misled Daochen regarding Nüwa, but Daochen suspects that is not his real reason for coming.
• Daochen welcomes Fuxi into his abode, where Fuxi admires its abundant spiritual roots. He meets Daochen’s disciples Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters, recognizes their exceptional progress, and gives each a low-grade xiantian spiritual treasure.
• Once the disciples withdraw, Fuxi asks Daochen about the conflict between the Witch Clan and the Demon Race. Daochen predicts another war is unavoidable: the two sides are now deeply hostile, and the Demon Race’s powerful quasi-saints threaten the Witches’ ambitions.
• Fuxi admits the Demon Race would lose in a direct confrontation with the Twelve Ancestral Witches and asks Daochen to protect its surviving younger generation if defeat comes.
• Daochen argues that Nüwa’s eventual attainment of sagehood could protect the Demon Race from the Witches. Fuxi, however, doubts his sister would intervene.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains perceptive and composed, quickly seeing through Fuxi’s pretext. He also encourages his disciples to accept the gifts.
• Fuxi reveals his concern for the Demon Race’s future and seeks an ally’s protection, despite his uncertainty about Nüwa’s support. His generosity toward the young disciples also reflects strategic goodwill.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters show humility by initially refusing the valuable gifts, then accept them at Daochen’s urging. Their rapid cultivation impresses Fuxi.

Significant themes

• The inevitability of conflict: The Witch and Demon races’ mutual losses and distrust make renewed war likely.
• Power and vulnerability: The Demon Race has many formidable fighters, yet fears the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ combined power.
• Foresight and alliance-building: Fuxi seeks protection before disaster strikes and cultivates goodwill with Daochen’s disciples.
• Uncertain family loyalty: Daochen sees Nüwa’s future status as a possible safeguard, while Fuxi doubts her willingness to help.