Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Yuanfeng’s loyalty to Tongtian deepens after learning that his intervention saved the Three Clans from extinction and gave them longer lives and greater strength. She is willing to support his other disciples without hesitation.
• Tongtian’s broader plan is outlined: Yuanfeng will lead the Three Clans, Houtu the Witch Clan, and Nuwa the Demon Race. Nuwa may also lead the human race, whose creation remains part of her destiny.
• The chapter explains that Nuwa’s mastery of the Great Ways of Life and Soul could make the humans she creates exceptionally powerful. It also reflects on differences in creatures’ innate strength and talent, while emphasizing that later effort and opportunity can narrow those gaps.
• Houtu travels with Yuanfeng to the Witch Clan’s ancestral land. She plans to settle clan affairs, then return to the Beast Emperor Palace to learn cultivation from Shen Ni before teaching the method to the Witch Clan.
• Yuanfeng and Houtu arrive by tearing through space, startling the Witch Clan. The Ancestral Witches prepare for an attack, then relax when they recognize Houtu. They respectfully greet Yuanfeng, whose strength is beyond their ability to detect.

Character developments

• Yuanfeng is portrayed as deeply grateful and devoted to Tongtian, and as a powerful leader capable of guiding the Three Clans.
• Houtu shows responsibility toward the Witch Clan while recognizing that she must first master cultivation herself.
• Nuwa is presented as a potentially transformative leader whose abilities could reshape the future of both the Demon Race and humanity.
• The Witch Clan demonstrates caution toward unknown threats and respect for overwhelming strength.

Significant themes

• Gratitude and loyalty: Tongtian’s aid inspires lasting devotion from those he has helped.
• Leadership through strength and trust: Tongtian’s disciples are positioned to guide major groups across the Primordial World.
• Innate inequality and opportunity: Beings may be born with vastly different abilities, but effort, resources, and opportunity can help overcome disadvantages.
• Learning before leading: Houtu intends to master the cultivation method before teaching it to others.

Character interactions

• Yuanfeng accompanies Houtu and supports her plans, reflecting her affection for Tongtian’s disciples.
• The Witch Clan initially treats the arrival as a possible invasion, but Houtu’s presence calms them.
• The Ancestral Witches, including the hot-tempered Zhurong, bow respectfully to Yuanfeng, acknowledging her superior power.

Key plot points and events

• Yuanfeng briefly glimpses the Witch Clan’s future and sees that its war with the Demon Race will eventually bring down both races. Their decline is part of the wider historical shift that will allow humanity to rise; the Heavenly Dao accelerates this change rather than creating it.
• Yuanfeng reassures the Ancestral Witches that they have not offended her. Houtu then leads them to the Witch Clan’s Main Hall, where Pangu is enshrined.
• Houtu presents seven or eight cultivation manuals she received from her master, Tongtian. The Ancestral Witches examine them and find that they address the Witch Clan’s longstanding inability to cultivate because its members lack primordial spirits.
• The techniques offer several paths: developing a primordial spirit, strengthening the body alone, or cultivating a similar inner foundation. The Witches agree the manuals could become the foundation of their clan and decide to study them before sharing them more widely.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng remains calm and protective of Houtu, while privately recognizing the Witch Clan’s formidable strength and troubled future.
• Houtu takes responsibility for helping her people: she shares the techniques and proposes that the Ancestral Witches test them first, then guide the rest of the clan.
• The Ancestral Witches move from surprise and caution around Yuanfeng to eager interest in the manuals. Zhurong praises Tongtian’s generosity, and Nuwa rebukes him for speaking disrespectfully of their master. Xuanming asks Houtu about taking a master; the others accept her choice, especially given the benefit it brings the clan.
• Zhu Jiuyin recognizes the manuals as valuable treasures. The group’s deference to Yuanfeng also keeps them from discussing Tongtian too freely in front of her.

Significant themes

• Historical inevitability: Great powers may fall as the world changes, even without direct manipulation by the Heavenly Dao.
• Knowledge as a source of renewal: The manuals offer the Witch Clan a way beyond the limits of its inherited bloodline and help address its disadvantage against the Demon Race.
• Collective responsibility: Houtu prioritizes the clan’s welfare, while the Ancestral Witches plan to learn first so they can teach others.
• Power and war: The Witch Clan’s strength is admired, but its warlike nature is also presented as a danger to lasting peace.

Key plot points and events

• Houtu asks Yuanfeng how she can stay in touch with the other Ancestral Witches while away cultivating. Yuanfeng gives her jade tokens equipped with long-distance communication arrays.
• Houtu tells her siblings she expects to spend extended periods cultivating with her master. She asks them to keep the Witch Clan orderly and forbids indiscriminate slaughter, explaining that the Beast Emperor Palace’s leaders will oversee the Primordial World.
• The Ancestral Witches reluctantly accept her departure, recognizing that staying with them would limit her progress. They part on brief, affectionate terms.
• Yuanfeng takes Houtu back to the Beast Emperor Palace. There, the Three Clans serve as subordinate forces, handling routine work such as overseeing the Primordial World while the seven Primordial Origin Realm experts focus on greater matters.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuanfeng shows consideration toward the Witches by providing practical communication tools, earning their respect and willingness to help her with minor tasks.
• Houtu takes on greater responsibility: she prioritizes her cultivation while urging her siblings to govern their people peacefully. She also understands that her master’s choice reflects confidence in her potential.
• The Ancestral Witches show both affection for Houtu and respect for strength and authority. Though they are reluctant to lose her company, they support her departure and recognize its value to the clan.
• The Beast Emperor Palace and Three Clans have a reciprocal relationship: the palace’s cultivation techniques and Spirit-Gathering Array helped the clans grow stronger, and the clans now repay that support through service.

Significant themes

• Cultivation and sacrifice: Houtu’s advancement requires distance from her family and clan.
• Collective and individual strength: The Witches acknowledge that a clan’s overall strength matters, but exceptional individuals determine its limits.
• Order and responsibility: Houtu’s warning against slaughter reflects the palace’s authority and the need for the clans to maintain peace.
• Respect and reciprocity: Yuanfeng’s kindness builds goodwill, while the Three Clans’ service repays the support that helped them prosper.

Key plot points and events

• The seven Primordial Origin Realm cultivators will take turns overseeing the Primordial World for a million years. Houtu is excused so she can focus on breaking through; the others accept the arrangement.
• Tongtian has secretly entered the Primordial World and is hiding in the Beast Emperor Palace. His power is so great that even revealing his true form or using his strength could destroy the world, but he can remain undetected—even by the Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian occasionally gives his disciples and the Three Clans’ powerhouses cultivation guidance. Houtu, however, is left to cultivate in the palace rather than join him in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• To support her, Shen Ni arranges the best Spirit-Gathering Array. Nuwa also offers help with cultivating the primordial spirit, despite feeling instinctive hostility toward Houtu.

Character developments and interactions

• Houtu is the youngest and weakest disciple, so her seniors—especially Shen Ni and Nuwa—protect and favor her. She appreciates their care and intends to repay it by growing stronger and returning resources.
• Nuwa’s hostility toward Houtu is tempered by her role as an elder sister and by her willingness to share her expertise.
• The Three Clans’ powerhouses hope that diligently maintaining the Primordial World will earn Tongtian’s notice and guidance, though the chapter suggests their hopes may not unfold as they wish.
• Tongtian’s hidden presence makes him a quiet influence over events, even while Houtu receives no direct instruction from him.

Significant themes

• Talent versus perseverance: Perseverance is valuable, but without the talent or Great Dao’s recognition required, effort alone cannot master a profound path.
• The cost of ambition: Houtu’s path of reincarnation—and Nuwa’s path of life—are exceptionally difficult, touching on creator-god-level mysteries. Tongtian considers even reaching godhood a major achievement for them.
• Care and reciprocity: Houtu’s privileged treatment is presented not as something she takes for granted, but as a responsibility she hopes to repay.
• Different paths to power: Shen Ni’s combat-focused great way of power is comparatively straightforward, while reincarnation and life are deeper, more demanding paths with far greater potential.

Plot points and events

• The Beast Emperor Palace’s orders quiet the Primordial World, and even the Demon Heavenly Court initially complies, keeping its forces in check.
• Jiu Ying prepares to leave the Demon Heavenly Court after the Phoenix Clan invites him to return and enter its genealogy. The clan’s sealed ancestral land had made it difficult for him to return before.
• The Demon Heavenly Court resists losing one of its only two Primordial Origin Realm experts, especially after investing resources in him. But it dares not use force because Jiu Ying is Phoenix Clan kin and the clan is backed by the Beast Emperor Palace.
• Di Jun tries to persuade Jiu Ying to stay by appealing to the Demon Race’s past support and the difficult situation facing the court.
• Jiu Ying says returning home has been his long-held wish and frames his departure as a temporary family visit. He also subtly reminds Di Jun that the Phoenix Clan and Beast Emperor Palace stand behind him. Di Jun is reluctant to refuse, though unspecified rumors give him pause.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiu Ying is focused on fulfilling his wish to return to his clan. He feels little loyalty to the Demon Race, but hesitates over the possibility of incurring a karmic debt for leaving after accepting its resources. His polite, deferential language masks a firm resolve and a veiled warning.
• Di Jun tries to retain Jiu Ying through emotional and moral appeals, but recognizes that the situation is legally and politically difficult. He must weigh the Demon Court’s need for strength against the risk of provoking the Phoenix Clan and Beast Emperor Palace.
• The Phoenix Clan welcomes Jiu Ying, valuing both his bloodline and his Primordial Origin Realm strength. His mutation does not diminish his claim to the clan.
• Houtu settles into cultivation at the Beast Emperor Palace, while the broader world grows quieter under its authority.

Significant themes

• Power and political leverage: Jiu Ying’s backing makes forceful retention too dangerous for the Demon Court.
• Loyalty versus self-interest: Jiu Ying rejects appeals to camaraderie and instead weighs his personal wish and potential karmic obligations.
• Bloodline and belonging: Despite his altered bloodline and long absence, Jiu Ying is still recognized as Phoenix Clan kin.
• The cost of patronage: The Demon Race’s past investment in Jiu Ying becomes Di Jun’s main argument for keeping him, though it does not guarantee his loyalty.

Key plot points and events

• Jiu Ying is considering returning to the Phoenix Clan, where Yuanfeng and the Beast Emperor Palace could protect him. Di Jun dislikes the idea because the Demon Heavenly Court has invested heavily in Jiu Ying and would be left with only Yingzhao as its other Primordial Origin Realm expert.
• Di Jun privately questions whether maintaining the Demon Heavenly Court is worthwhile. Though its rulers command great authority, the Beast Emperor Palace’s power leaves them unable to act freely.
• Di Jun weighs joining the Beast Emperor Palace against preserving his status as Heavenly Emperor. He knows he and Taiyi might be allowed to join, but becoming Tongtian’s disciples is unlikely: Tongtian generally chooses disciples himself, and his existing pupils are already formidable.
• Their cultivation paths also complicate matters. Di Jun and Taiyi both follow fire-related laws, as does Yuanfeng to some extent. While different laws can branch from fire, shifting toward the law of life is especially difficult and usually requires foundations in creation and the soul.
• Tongtian’s role as a master is limited: he can provide techniques and guidance suited to each disciple, but major progress depends on individual effort, talent, fortune, and opportunity. He believes his young disciples should not leave his protection too soon.

Character developments

• Di Jun is torn between his desire to retain power and his awareness that the Heavenly Court has become a liability. He recognizes that joining a stronger faction would offer security but cost him status.
• Jiu Ying is portrayed as seeking the safety of a powerful protector—an understandable response to the dangers facing the Demon Heavenly Court.
• Tongtian emerges as a pragmatic mentor who avoids excessive favoritism and accepts that he cannot determine how far his disciples will advance.

Character interactions

• Di Jun’s anxiety about Jiu Ying’s possible departure reflects the tension between the Heavenly Court’s need for capable allies and Jiu Ying’s need for safety.
• Di Jun and Taiyi are considered together because of their shared identity, talent, and overlapping cultivation paths.
• Tongtian’s relationship with his disciples is supportive but restrained: he offers tailored guidance while expecting them to grow through their own efforts and experiences.

Significant themes

• Power versus security: Di Jun must choose between independent authority and protection under a stronger power.
• Limits of leadership and mentorship: Even a powerful master can guide, but cannot supply the fortune or effort required for ultimate advancement.
• Cultivation as an individual path: Similar foundations can lead to different outcomes, while overlapping paths may cause conflict or competition.
• Growth through experience: Remaining sheltered can protect young disciples, but lasting strength ultimately requires personal development and opportunity.

Key plot points

• Tongtian keeps his disciples in the Primordial World rather than letting them travel the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. Even cultivators at the primordial origin realm face dangers from powerful, secluded experts, and Tongtian considers his disciples too weak to survive such risks.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni longs to explore and gain treasures, but obeys Tongtian’s order to stay. Since his power depends on mastering battle-oriented laws, ordinary cultivation offers him little progress; he instead helps oversee the world and guides Houtu.
• Houtu begins cultivating from scratch. Though Shen Ni has studied her unfamiliar techniques and can offer guidance, her natural talent is evident: she reaches the heavenly immortal realm in under a hundred years and continues advancing.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian acts cautiously and protectively, prioritizing his disciples’ safety over their desire to travel.
• Shen Ni accepts the restriction despite his frustration. He redirects his attention toward supervising the Primordial World and assisting his junior sister.
• Houtu embraces cultivation with enthusiasm, valuing the chance to grow through practice rather than relying only on physical strength. Her rapid progress impresses the narrative, though Shen Ni regards it as merely adequate for Tongtian’s disciple.
• Shen Ni’s support shows a mentoring bond with Houtu, even though their cultivation paths differ.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even formidable cultivators can perish, and strength at the primordial origin realm is only a basic qualification for traveling safely.
• Risk versus advancement: Greater power may require dangerous opportunities and battles, but Tongtian chooses safety for his disciples.
• New possibilities through cultivation: For Houtu and the Witch Clan, cultivation techniques offer a path beyond relying on physical might and hunting powerful demon-beast bloodlines. Gaining primordial spirits may eventually let them use spells and treasures, opening a much broader future.

Key plot points

• Houtu reaches the Heavenly Immortal realm, but her new spiritual power adds little to her strength as an Ancestral Witch. She recognizes that her cultivation journey has only begun.
• The Witch Clan receives cultivation techniques and divides among them: roughly seven in ten choose body cultivation, while three in ten cultivate primordial spirits. A few talented members pursue both.
• Body cultivation suits the clan’s strengths, while primordial-spirit cultivation offers flight and lets practitioners use the clan’s neglected collection of spirit treasures. Some reject body-altering methods such as growing wings, preferring to preserve their physiques.
• With cultivation available to strengthen even newborn members, the Witch Clan begins expanding its population as well as cultivating.
• Meanwhile, demons increasingly defy Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, leaving the Demon Heavenly Court to prey on creatures across the Primordial World. Unable to control them, the rulers disown the offenders.
• The Beast Emperor Palace’s Quasi-Saints repeatedly enforce order, catching demons who believed their crimes were concealed. The Demon Heavenly Court, fractured and passive, does nothing to intervene.

Character developments and interactions

• Houtu remains composed about her breakthrough, showing patience and awareness that spiritual cultivation is only a small beginning for her.
• The Witch Clan adapts to cultivation in different ways, balancing its traditional reliance on physical strength against the practical benefits of spiritual power.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi shift from trying to restrain disobedient demons to abandoning them, reflecting their declining control and disengagement from the court.
• The demons ignore their rulers’ authority and assume that secrecy and the court’s protection—or lack of opposition from others—will keep them safe. The Beast Emperor Palace’s Quasi-Saints prove them wrong.
• The Beast Emperor Palace acts as the effective authority in the peaceful Primordial World, while the Demon Heavenly Court declines into a divided institution in name only.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and choice: The Witch Clan weighs established strengths against new abilities, particularly whether to preserve its bodies or gain flight and access to treasures.
• Power and responsibility: The Demon Heavenly Court abandons the task of governing its members, while the Beast Emperor Palace enforces the law.
• Limits of concealment: The demons’ confidence that they can hide their crimes is undermined by the reach and power of the Palace’s experts.
• Institutional decline: Internal division and inaction leave the Demon Heavenly Court unable—or unwilling—to maintain authority.

Plot and events

• The Beast Emperor Palace hunts down Demon Race members who commit evil deeds. If they refuse to reform, it publishes their identities and issues kill orders, offering rewards to Primordial World creatures who bring them in.
• These missions serve both justice and a broader purpose: Tongtian wants the Primordial World’s creatures to have opportunities to act and earn merit, rather than letting the powerful Beast Emperor Palace handle everything.
• The Palace is not particularly rich in treasures, but creatures have left offerings outside its gates in hopes of protection. The Palace refuses to claim them, yet fiercely punishes anyone else who tries to steal them.
• The chapter explains why Tongtian killed Luohu before he could appear. In the original course of events, Luohu’s role in the Three Clans’ destruction and the Western Paradise’s ruin would have caused the world to stagnate. His death made Tongtian a benefactor of the Heavenly Dao—though the Dao resents him for disrupting its plans.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Ni is powerful and inclined toward decisive slaughter, but follows Tongtian’s instruction to let others participate in resolving problems. Tongtian restrains Shen Ni’s destructive impulses and stresses that killing merely for its own sake is pointless.
• Tongtian and the Heavenly Dao are in tension. Tongtian’s actions have made the Dao whole, but also derailed its intended development for the Primordial World. The Dao cannot attack Tongtian without a valid cause, and his power exceeds the reach of its rules.
• The Beast Emperor Palace and the wider world maintain a wary relationship: the Palace generally avoids managing worldly affairs, but its restraint should not be mistaken for weakness.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: overwhelming strength does not mean every problem should be solved through force.
• Participation and opportunity: Tongtian wants a lively world where its inhabitants can act and grow.
• Order backed by deterrence: the Palace offers creatures a chance to reform, but punishes greed and wrongdoing without hesitation.
• Fate versus interference: Tongtian’s prevention of Luohu’s rise alters the Heavenly Dao’s intended course, setting up an ongoing conflict between his choices and cosmic plans.

Key plot points and events

• Tongtian keeps the Heavenly Dao alive only because it still maintains order in the Primordial World. He is nevertheless planning to destroy it when the timing is right, partly to warn other ambitious or unruly forces—especially the Demon Race.
• Jiu Ying has left the Demon Heavenly Court to return to the Phoenix Clan, backed by the powerful Beast Emperor Palace. He repaid his debt to Di Jun by leaving behind his accumulated resources.
• Di Jun gathers the remaining Eleven Demon Saints, along with Eastern Emperor Taiyi, to decide how the Demon Heavenly Court should respond to the Beast Emperor Palace’s overwhelming strength.
• The Demon Saints refuse to offer advice, unwilling to bear responsibility for such a consequential decision.
• Di Jun rejects both submitting to the Beast Emperor Palace and accepting a subordinate position. Instead, he orders the Demon Saints to pursue breakthroughs to the Primordial Origin Realm, declaring that once they have all advanced, the Demon Heavenly Court will fight a decisive battle against the Beast Emperor Palace.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian is presented as ruthless and confident: he sees destroying the Heavenly Dao as feasible and intends to use the act as a warning to the wider world.
• Di Jun remains proud and ambitious. Though he recognizes the danger posed by the Beast Emperor Palace, he wants to rule as its equal—or surpass it—rather than submit.
• Jiu Ying chooses the security and affiliation of his Phoenix Clan over remaining with the Demon Heavenly Court, while still repaying Di Jun for past support.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi stands beside Di Jun, but the chapter gives him no independent position on the decision.
• The Demon Saints are cautious and politically self-protective; their silence leaves Di Jun to make the choice himself.

Significant themes

• Power and survival: Lesser powers must adapt to overwhelming forces, but pride can make submission unacceptable.
• Ambition and hierarchy: Di Jun’s refusal to serve beneath Shen Ni reveals that status matters as much to him as safety.
• Responsibility and risk: The Demon Saints avoid speaking because they fear being blamed for the consequences.
• Order enforced through power: Tongtian and the Beast Emperor Palace both represent forces capable of imposing rules, while ambitious factions threaten stability.

Plot points and events

• The Demon Heavenly Court could eventually have fourteen Primordial Origin Realm cultivators: its eleven Demon Saints, Yingzhao, Di Jun, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi. However, reaching that level would take time, and success was uncertain.
• Rising spiritual energy across the Primordial World has made cultivation easier and helped more creatures reach Quasi-Saint. But talent still sets firm limits: many can never advance beyond Daluo Golden Immortal, while the Demon Saints and the two emperors are unusually gifted and have the potential to reach Primordial Origin.
• Di Jun refuses to surrender the Demon Heavenly Court or submit to the Beast Emperor Palace. He orders the eleven Demon Saints to prepare for breakthroughs, treating this as the court’s last gamble: victory could make them rulers of the Primordial World; defeat would leave submission or death.
• The court will provide no resources for the Demon Saints’ attempts. Its remaining supplies are reserved for Di Jun and Taiyi, whose breakthroughs require enormous resources. The Demon Race’s weakened loyalty and hidden hoarding have left the court short on supplies.

Character developments and interactions

• Di Jun displays stubborn resolve and a willingness to risk everything rather than become a subordinate. He tells the Demon Saints to prepare but does not offer them support.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi remains aligned with Di Jun, sharing the priority of strengthening the two rulers, though he is not otherwise active in this passage.
• The Demon Saints are astonished by Di Jun’s refusal to give up. Their exceptional innate talent gives them a chance at the next realm, but no guarantee of success.
• The wider Demon Race is increasingly disloyal: members secretly stockpile resources as the court’s prestige declines. Di Jun and Taiyi have also searched for resources themselves, provoking disputes.

Significant themes

• Talent, opportunity, and limits: Greater spiritual energy creates more chances to advance, but cannot overcome a lack of innate potential.
• Ambition and desperation: Di Jun’s refusal to yield turns the court’s uncertain future into an all-or-nothing gamble.
• Declining authority and scarcity: The court’s weakened prestige, internal hoarding, and limited resources threaten its ability to maintain unity and power.

Chapter summary

Key events

• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi obtain resources through trade, but resent having to do so now that the Beast Emperor Palace prevents open plunder.
• They turn to stealing and make Yingzhao—their newly emerged Primordial Origin Realm subordinate—their chief thief. Though the rulers dislike the indignity, they feel they have few alternatives.
• The Beast Emperor Palace allows the thefts to continue, provided they do not lead to major battles or excessive killing. It sees no need to crush the Demon Heavenly Court, whose behavior—not its mere existence—has caused the conflict.
• With the Palace’s restraint understood as permission, theft spreads across the Primordial World. Powerful factions prey on weaker ones, and loose cultivators, lacking protection, suffer the most.
• As stolen resources become difficult to recover and the practice spirals into a vicious cycle, desperate creatures gather outside the Beast Emperor Palace and plead with Beast Emperor Shen Ni to uphold justice.

Character developments and interactions

• Di Jun and Taiyi are reduced from powerful rulers accustomed to taking what they want to arranging covert thefts. Their frustration and embarrassment contrast with their willingness to exploit others to sustain their court.
• Yingzhao proves completely unconcerned with dignity: loyal to Di Jun, he is willing to steal—or do anything else his ruler asks.
• The Beast Emperor Palace presents itself as a restrained authority. It tolerates theft within limits and avoids destroying the Demon Heavenly Court largely to prevent mass slaughter among the demon population.
• Loose cultivators are left exposed. Though many know who robbed them, they fear retaliation and have little hope of recovering their possessions.
• The supplicants’ appeal to Shen Ni marks the first direct plea for the Palace to intervene in the worsening disorder.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: The strong exploit the weak, while those without allies bear the greatest costs.
• Order versus restraint: The Palace prevents open warfare but does not prohibit theft, allowing peace to coexist with widespread injustice.
• Survival and moral compromise: Di Jun’s court treats stealing as necessary once ordinary access to resources is blocked.
• A cycle of exploitation: Theft spreads downward through the social order, until the weakest victims have nowhere left to turn.

Plot points and events

• The Demon Heavenly Court repeatedly steals and plunders resources from the Primordial World’s weaker cultivators. The victims form the Loose Cultivator Alliance, but its members—ranging from Heavenly Immortals to a few Daluo Golden Immortals—are too weak to defend themselves.
• When the alliance seeks justice, a peak-Daluo Demon General instead demands annual tribute and threatens to take everything if they refuse.
• The alliance cannot fight back without risking being branded aggressors under the Beast Emperor Palace’s ban on fighting. The Demon General exploits this restraint, insisting that the powerful bully the weak.
• Old Fox, the alliance’s leader, acknowledges their helplessness but has already reported the Demon Heavenly Court’s conduct to the Beast Emperor Palace. The chapter ends before the Palace responds.

Character developments and interactions

• Old Fox is revealed as both cautious and calculating: he once declined an invitation to join the Demon Heavenly Court to pursue secluded cultivation, but now leads the alliance and has quietly sought help from the Beast Emperor Palace.
• The Demon General is openly arrogant and predatory. He dismisses the alliance’s grievances, threatens them, and dares them to resist.
• The alliance members move from patient resentment to furious indignation, but remain constrained by their weakness and the Palace’s rules.

Significant themes

• Power and exploitation: The Demon Heavenly Court takes advantage of the weak, turning protection into an opportunity for extortion.
• The limits of peace: The Beast Emperor Palace does not intend to make the world a safe “greenhouse”; conflict and hardship are seen as necessary for growth and the emergence of strong cultivators.
• Rules and accountability: A ban on fighting can prevent open violence, but it also leaves weaker parties vulnerable to coercion. The Beast Emperor Palace’s credibility depends on whether it enforces its rules against powerful offenders.

Key plot points and events

• An old fox appeals to the Beast Emperor Palace over the Demon Heavenly Court’s seizure of resources from Primordial World creatures. The Palace had ignored the dispute while it seemed minor, but the growing damage now threatens its standing.
• The fox’s leadership inspires a vast Loose Cultivator Alliance. It swells from a small group to hundreds of millions of members, including individual cultivators and many weak races.
• The alliance has little military strength—only two Quasi-Saints—but its size and the karmic consequences of slaughtering so many creatures deter the Demon Heavenly Court from attacking. The alliance likewise refuses to strike first, fearing the cost of provoking a war.
• The Demon Heavenly Court refuses to return the stolen goods and taunts the alliance, confident it cannot threaten them. The two sides remain in a tense stalemate.
• The Beast Emperor Palace finally becomes involved, not because of the dispute itself, but because Nuwa emerges from seclusion. She intends to create the human race, having felt inspiration stir.

Character developments and interactions

• The old fox proves an effective organizer, giving scattered victims the confidence to unite and press their claims.
• Tongtian takes interest in the alliance’s members, especially possible rising geniuses—and even potential transmigrators. The passage also emphasizes that he cherishes Nuwa and would not send her to manage what he considers a petty dispute.
• Nuwa begins the momentous undertaking of creating humanity; this is her mission despite Tongtian having already altered her destiny.
• The Demon Heavenly Court dismisses the alliance as weak while remaining cautious about the karmic burden of destroying it. The alliance’s members, in turn, restrain one another from impulsive retaliation.

Significant themes

• Unity as protection: The alliance’s strength comes less from combat power than from the sheer number of creatures it represents.
• Karmic consequences and restraint: Both sides avoid open war because the spiritual and political costs could be devastating.
• Power and neglect: The weak are easily exploited until someone organizes them, while powerful factions intervene only when events become consequential.
• Destiny and creation: Nuwa’s emergence shifts attention from a political dispute to the larger, world-shaping act of creating the human race.

Plot points and events

• Nuwa begins creating humanity in the eastern Primordial Lands, guided by the Great Ways of Creation and the Soul. Unlike her earlier attempt, her deeper understanding and greater power allow her to create humans with innate-level aptitude.
• The creation takes eighty-one days. Nuwa produces one million innate humans, each born with Heavenly Immortal strength. They recognize their purpose and honor her as the Holy Mother.
• Nuwa’s broader plan assigns the Three Daos to different figures: humanity’s laws to the Human Dao, reincarnation to Houtu’s Earthly Dao, and natural phenomena to Shen Ni’s Heavenly Dao.
• Nuwa remains with humanity for a thousand years. The race grows and develops culture, though ordinary humans have limited access to cultivation resources, which are controlled largely by the Loose Cultivator Alliance and the Demon Heavenly Court.
• As its population expands beyond its territory’s capacity, humanity spreads into the Primordial Lands and becomes known to other races. The two major powers grow wary, then dismiss humanity as weak when they learn its strongest members are only Daluo Golden Immortals.

Character developments and interactions

• Nuwa acts with greater knowledge and care than in her previous creation of humanity. Remembering the future hardships humans will face, she strengthens their origins, but worries this may deprive them of the struggle that once shaped their resilience.
• Her fears ease as humanity develops independently: it multiplies, cultivates, and produces leaders who preserve culture and educate others. Nuwa eventually leaves after a thousand years.
• The humans show reverence toward Nuwa, kneeling and calling her the Holy Mother. Their later growth is largely their own, rather than the result of continued direct guidance.
• The Loose Cultivator Alliance and Demon Heavenly Court have not noticed humanity during its early, secluded years; once it emerges, both regard it cautiously.

Significant themes

• Creation and responsibility: Nuwa’s power brings a duty to prepare humanity for the dangers ahead.
• Struggle and resilience: Nuwa wonders whether giving humans a stronger start will weaken the struggle that historically defined them.
• Order and governance: Humanity, Earth, and Heaven are each assigned responsibility for different laws of the world.
• Independence and vulnerability: Humanity flourishes on its own, but its limited resources and modest top-level strength leave it exposed to judgment from established powers.

Key plot points and events

• The Demon Race refrains from attacking the newly created Human Race because Nuwa created them, and the demons fear provoking her and the Beast Emperor Palace.
• Humans now possess unusually powerful primordial spirits and exceptional comprehension because Nuwa’s mastery of the Dao of the Soul had grown. Demons sense that eating humans could improve their own spirits and cultivation, making humans dangerously tempting prey.
• The Loose Cultivator Alliance had hoped the demons would attack first, giving it an excuse to “rescue” humans and recruit them. The demons’ unexpected restraint leaves the alliance unsure how to proceed.
• The Witch Clan remains in seclusion, and neither it nor the other major factions intervenes. The Human Race therefore rests and builds strength, recognizing that it lacks Quasi-Saints to protect it.
• Some Acquired Humans leave the ancestral land to explore. Disobedient demons ambush them once they are outside its protection.

Character and faction developments

• Nuwa’s influence is decisive even in her absence: her mark protects the Human Race from an open attack, while her soul-related modifications make humans valuable to demons.
• Di Jun has issued orders for the demons to hold back, but his authority is weakening. Some lower-status, powerful demons no longer respect his leadership and defy him.
• The Human Race shows caution and growing awareness of its vulnerability, though some members still choose to travel beyond the ancestral land.
• The Loose Cultivator Alliance appears less altruistic than it claims: it wants the Demon Race to act first so it can intervene and gain the humans’ allegiance.

Significant themes

• Power and deterrence: Nuwa’s reputation and ties to the Beast Emperor Palace protect humans more effectively than their own strength can.
• Temptation versus obedience: Demons’ hunger for human power clashes with orders and fear of retaliation.
• Fragile political calm: The factions’ inaction creates the appearance of peace, but individual demons can still spark violence.
• Vulnerability and self-preservation: The Human Race recognizes that survival requires strength, not merely exploration.

Character interactions

• The Demon Race restrains itself out of fear of Nuwa, even though demons covet humans.
• The Loose Cultivator Alliance watches the Demon Heavenly Court, hoping to react to its actions rather than risk acting first.
• Rogue demons reject Di Jun’s authority and target humans who have left the ancestral land.
• The Human Race’s travelers encounter the danger that the larger political truce has not eliminated.

Plot points and events

• A newly born human exploring the Primordial World is attacked by a demon. Though both are Golden Immortals and the human has powerful techniques inherited from Nuwa, his lack of combat experience and weaker physique leave him at a disadvantage.
• The human flees and sends distress signals to the Ancestral Land and the Beast Emperor Palace. An innate human arrives quickly to help.
• The demon claims the weak deserve to be hunted, but objects when the innate human applies that rule to him. He also boasts that the Demon Heavenly Court will protect him.
• The innate human counters that humanity has its own backing: Nuwa created the human race, linking it to the Beast Emperor Palace.
• Despite realizing that the Demon Heavenly Court lacks the powerful protection other groups enjoy, the demon decides to kill both humans anyway. He plans to summon a nearby Quasi-Saint from a Demon Heavenly Court outpost, confident that this powerful ally can defeat the innate human.

Character developments and interactions

• The attacked human is shown to be capable but inexperienced; he responds sensibly to danger by retreating and calling for help.
• The innate human is calm, protective of his fellow human, and quick-witted. He uses the demon’s own “might makes right” logic against him and asserts humanity’s political backing.
• The demon is arrogant and hypocritical: he preaches that the weak must accept being prey, yet expects special protection for himself. His greed ultimately outweighs his caution about provoking the Beast Emperor Palace.
• The encounter pits the demon’s predatory confidence against the innate human’s resolve and sense of justice.

Significant themes

• Might and hypocrisy: The demon treats strength as justification for hunting others but rejects that principle when it threatens him.
• The value of alliances and protection: A group’s backing can matter as much as individual strength in the Primordial World.
• Humanity’s vulnerability and potential: Humans have weaker physiques and little combat experience, but possess strong cultivation potential, inherited techniques, and powerful allies.
• Escalating conflict: The demon’s choice to call in a Quasi-Saint turns a personal attack into a potentially larger clash between humans and the Demon Race.

Key plot points and events

• A human Great Luo protects a newly acquired human from a demon Golden Immortal who wants to eat him. He initially hopes to resolve the confrontation without a fight.
• The demon refuses to let them go, demanding the acquired human as food and threatening that a demon Quasi-Saint is approaching.
• The human Great Luo refuses to abandon his fellow human and tries to retreat before the stronger opponent arrives. The demon Quasi-Saint appears before they can escape.
• Treating both humans as delicacies, the Quasi-Saint urges the Great Luo to surrender, while carefully considering how to kill them without damaging his “ingredients.”
• The Great Luo secretly calls for help. Thousands of innate humans mobilize from their ancestral land, prepared to defend their people—even against the Demon Heavenly Court.

Character developments and interactions

• The human Great Luo shows restraint and a preference for peace, but will not sacrifice another human to save himself. Facing a Quasi-Saint, he is grimly aware of the danger and relies on reinforcements.
• The acquired human is the immediate target of the demon’s demand and is protected by the Great Luo; the chapter emphasizes that humans will not abandon one another.
• The demon Golden Immortal is greedy and confident in the coming Quasi-Saint, using the threat to pressure the humans.
• The demon Quasi-Saint, an enormous golden eagle in human form, is cruel and predatory. His confidence rests on the presumed power gap between himself and the humans.
• The human Great Luo and the demon Golden Immortal clash over whether the acquired human is a person to protect or prey. The Quasi-Saint then confronts the Great Luo, while the broader Human Race responds collectively to the danger.

Significant themes

• Human solidarity: The humans’ unity, especially among the first innate humans, is presented as the foundation of their race.
• Independence and responsibility: Nuwa wants humanity to grow strong on its own rather than rely on her reputation or the Beast Emperor Palace, though she would intervene against unjust attacks.
• Predation and power imbalance: The demons see humans as food, while the vast difference between Great Luo and Quasi-Saint makes resistance seem nearly hopeless.
• Courage despite danger: The humans prefer peace but are willing to fight rather than accept the mistreatment of their own.

Key events

• A Demon Race Quasi-Saint confronts a human Great Luo and openly treats humans as food. The human refuses to surrender, insisting that the human race will not bow to evil.
• The human Great Luo calls for reinforcements, hoping their arrival will persuade the demon to withdraw. Several human Great Luo arrive, but they know they cannot defeat a Quasi-Saint.
• The demon attacks anyway, unleashing spiritual pressure and a supernatural gale that traps the humans. The humans link their auras and struggle to endure, but can barely defend themselves.
• The demon transforms and uses the gale to launch a close-range attack with his talons, putting the humans in immediate danger. The chapter ends before the fight is resolved.

Character development and interactions

• The human Great Luo shows steadfast courage and loyalty, shielding the acquired humans despite knowing he is outmatched. He views the Demon Race’s attack as a debt the human race will remember.
• The arriving human Great Luo share his resolve, joining forces rather than retreating, even though they understand the enormous gap between their power and the demon’s.
• The Quasi-Saint is arrogant and predatory. He dismisses the humans as weak, mocks their reinforcements, and attacks quickly to avoid attracting the attention of the Beast Emperor Palace.
• The confrontation underscores the human race’s solidarity against the demon’s contempt and violence.

Significant themes

• Defiance despite overwhelming odds: The humans choose resistance over surrender or passive death.
• Power imbalance and vulnerability: The young human race has courage and potential, but lacks the strength and accumulated foundations of the Demon Race.
• Mutual exploitation: Both races can regard the other as a source of nourishment or useful physical traits, though humans are currently too weak to act on this.
• Restraint under a higher authority: The Beast Emperor Palace’s prohibition on slaughtering beings of the Primordial World constrains the demon, who risks punishment by attacking.

Plot points and events

• A Demon Race Quasi-Saint attacks Human Race Great Luo cultivators, who are powerless against the gap in strength.
• Nuwa secretly freezes the attacker, allowing the humans to escape. She reveals herself only after they have left.
• Nuwa explains that she intervened both to protect the race she created and to observe whether the humans would hold together under hardship. Their refusal to abandon one another satisfies her.
• She sees the attack as evidence that the Beast Emperor Palace’s ban on killing is difficult to enforce while the Primordial World remains divided. She briefly considers whether unifying the world would reduce such crimes, but decides not to question her master’s plans.
• Back at the Beast Emperor Palace, Shen Ni tells Nuwa that their master has ordered them to establish Deathmatch Arenas across the Primordial World. They discuss rules that permit higher-realm challengers to fight lower-realm opponents only if the latter agree, while higher-realm fighters cannot refuse challenges from lower realms.
• Shen Ni notes that the arenas could also serve as a way to find talented recruits for the Palace.

Character developments and interactions

• Nuwa remains deeply attached to humanity despite having left it. She balances compassion with a belief that hardship must spur the humans to grow, and resolves not to save them every time.
• The Human Race cultivators show solidarity and perseverance, earning Nuwa’s approval.
• Shen Ni consults Nuwa about implementing the arenas and is receptive to her proposed framework, though he dislikes the administrative burden.
• Nuwa’s exchange with Shen Ni also shows her deference to their master: she considers broader policy questions but trusts that the master has reasons for his choices.

Significant themes

• Protection versus growth: Nuwa’s rescue is exceptional; lasting strength must come from the humans themselves.
• Imperfection and development: No race can be perfect. Cultivation and improvement are journeys from weakness toward greater capability.
• Power and order: The Beast Emperor Palace’s authority can deter wrongdoing, but enforcement is imperfect while the world is not unified.
• Controlled combat: The proposed arenas offer a sanctioned outlet for conflict, while the challenge rules reflect the Palace’s overwhelming power.