Recaps

Ao Changsheng told Laozi that he was only missing the right trigger to become a Sage, and Laozi found his insight while reflecting on his time among the Human Race. Laozi became a Sage, established the Human Teaching, and Nüwa sensed that five Sages had appeared together.

• Ao Changsheng watched humans leave Nüwa’s barrier and explained to Laozi the power of Sages and the barrier’s protection of human spirits.
• Ao Changsheng encouraged Laozi to think and ponder because he was close to becoming a Sage, then dispersed his incarnation.
• Laozi reflected for a day and night, understood the Dao, and absorbed the Primordial purple qi and Heaven-Opening Merit.
• Laozi became a Sage, established the Human Teaching with the Taiji Diagram as its founding treasure, and his Sage might spread through the Primordial World.
• Nüwa sensed Laozi’s new Dao fruit and saw that five Sages had appeared together.

Laozi became a Sage, prompting Yuanshi and Tongtian to establish their sects and ascend through Merit, followed by Jieyin and Zhunti. Five Sages appeared in one day, while Hongyun remained absent, and the Primordial World entered an age of the Sages.

• Ao Changsheng watched Laozi become a Sage by absorbing Heaven-Opening Merit and wondered if the other Sages would soon appear.
• Laozi's ascension stirred the Heaven-Opening Merit within Yuanshi and Tongtian, who established the Chan Sect and Jie Sect and became Sages through Merit.
• Laozi comforted Yuanshi and Tongtian over their reliance on Merit, and they accepted his words.
• Jieyin became a Sage, then guided Zhunti to establish the Western Sect and ascend through the Merit earned restoring the western lands.
• Jieyin and Zhunti shared the remaining Merit, and both became Sages as the Primordial World watched for Hongyun, who did not appear.

Dijun and Taiyi received Nüwa’s assurance that the Sages would not attack the Demon Race unless provoked, then discovered a broken token that seemed to signal an opportunity. Hongyun left Fire Cloud Cave for Five Villages Temple, but Kunpeng ambushed him for his Primordial purple qi; Hongyun escaped the first attack, and Kunpeng pursued him.

• Nüwa told Dijun and Taiyi that she would not let the Sages attack the Demon Race unless it provoked them.
• Dijun and Taiyi found a shattered token upon returning to the Primordial World and rejoiced at the opportunity it suggested.
• Hongyun left Fire Cloud Cave to visit Zhenyuan at Five Villages Temple, while a little demon secretly crushed two tokens.
• Kunpeng set out to seize Hongyun’s Primordial purple qi, and Taiyi followed him in secret as Dijun led troops into the Primordial World.
• Kunpeng confronted Hongyun and demanded the Primordial purple qi, but Hongyun used his red sand to escape.
• Kunpeng recalled his corpses and pursued Hongyun, determined to kill him and take the Primordial purple qi.

Hongyun fled from Kunpeng into the Netherworld Blood Sea, where Ancestor Minghe attacked them and Eastern Emperor Taiyi intervened. Hongyun detonated his Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd and survived the blast, then fled deeper into Minghe’s territory as Kunpeng and Minghe pursued him.

• Kunpeng chased Hongyun across the Primordial World, and Hongyun used Soul-Scattering Red Sand to keep escaping.
• Hongyun and Kunpeng entered the Netherworld Blood Sea, where Ancestor Minghe trapped them and attacked Kunpeng with Yuantu, Abi, and Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived and used the Chaos Bell to disperse Minghe’s burning Sword Qi, then demanded Hongyun hand over the Primordial purple qi.
• Hongyun refused to surrender the Primordial purple qi and detonated the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd, filling hundreds of millions of miles with Soul-Scattering Red Sand.
• Hongyun emerged alive from the blast and fled toward the depths of the sea of blood, with Kunpeng and Minghe pursuing him.

Hongyun tossed the Primordial purple qi to draw Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Kunpeng, and Minghe into a battle within the Blood Sea, then fell and died. Minghe seized the qi, but a vivid red mist erupted from the sea and began corroding it as Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Kunpeng fled.

• Hongyun reached the center of the Blood Sea, threw the Primordial purple qi toward his pursuers, and let himself fall into the sea.
• Minghe raised the Blood Sea Great Formation while Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Kunpeng fought through its defenses to reach the qi.
• Minghe used a blood double to evade their attacks, seized the Primordial purple qi, and sank into the Blood Sea as Hongyun died.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Kunpeng's Primordial Spirits warned them of mortal danger, so they fled toward the Blood Sea's edge.
• A vivid red mist burst from the Blood Sea, corroded it, and spread so quickly that Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Kunpeng could not escape its advance.

Minghe told Taiyi and Kunpeng that Hongyun’s death had unleashed Calamity Sha Cloud and Mist across the Blood Sea, trapping the Primordial purple qi and corroding his true form. Fuxi explained that only a Sage’s intervention or an enormous amount of merit could purify it, while Ao Changsheng discovered that a thread of evil karma had unexpectedly been traced back to him.

• Minghe explained that his incarnations had been swept into the mist with the Primordial purple qi, while his true form—the Blood Sea—was being corroded by it.
• Minghe urged Taiyi and Kunpeng to destroy the mist, then resolved to find a way to save the Blood Sea himself.
• Dijun withdrew the demon army from Mount Wanshou, and Zhenyuanzi collapsed in grief over Hongyun’s death.
• Fuxi told Dijun and Taiyi that Hongyun had suppressed Innate Calamity Sha Qi for hundreds of millions of years, and that fifty-six Heavenly Courts’ worth of merit would be needed to purify it.
• Ao Changsheng caught a thread of evil karma at his cultivation ground and discovered that the blame had somehow been placed on him.

Ao Changsheng traced the Calamity Sha Qi’s karmic blame to himself, bargained with Hongjun for a Great Dao of Water, and discovered a way to eventually destroy the deadly mist by casting it into a world. At the Netherworld Blood Sea, Zhenyuanzi reached into the mist to feel the suffering Hongyun had endured, while Minghe watched in alarm.

• Ao Changsheng sent the karma thread tied into a bow to Hongjun, who returned it with a promise of one Great Dao of Water.
• Ao Changsheng examined the Calamity Sha Qi and learned that it could manifest many kinds of calamities, threatening even Quasi-Sages and innate treasures.
• Ao Changsheng decided he could eventually wear away the Calamity Sha Qi by casting it into a Great Thousand World when his Middle Thousand universe grew strong enough.
• Zhenyuanzi arrived at the Netherworld Blood Sea, and Minghe hoped Hongyun’s closest friend would know how to neutralize the mist.
• Zhenyuanzi thrust his arm into the Calamity Sha Qi and pulled it out nearly destroyed, asking Hongyun whether this was the pain he had endured.

After learning that merit could dispel the red cloud corroding the Blood Sea, Minghe created the Asura Race from remnant souls and founded the Asura Sect, earning a great reward from the Heavenly Dao. The merit cleared only a small part of the red cloud, and Minghe ended the chapter regretting that he had not saved it to protect the Blood Sea and search for the Primordial purple qi.

• Minghe watched Zhenyuanzi use the Book of Earth and merit to clear a million li of red cloud, then realized merit could counter it.
• Minghe considered ways to earn merit and created living beings by joining Blood Sea water with remnant souls, naming them the Asuras.
• Minghe founded the Asura Sect and received merit from the Heavenly Dao, which erased about one percent of the red cloud.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that the merit came from giving new life to remnant souls and would continue as more souls entered the Blood Sea.
• Minghe gave the Asuras cultivation methods and ordered them to live and multiply in the Blood Sea without entering it recklessly.
• Minghe realized he might have saved the merit to shield the Blood Sea and search the red cloud for the Primordial purple qi, and regretted acting too hastily.

Ao Changsheng discovered that the World Tree had helped the Great Thousand Universe develop the first signs of life, named it the Divine Land Universe, and gained power rivaling a Sage. When he turned to fulfill Hongjun’s commission at the Netherworld Blood Sea, he found Minghe had been letting Quasi-Sages pay merit to search for the Primordial purple qi while gradually clearing the calamity Sha Qi, but Ao Changsheng intervened to pursue the Great Dao of Water.

• Ao Changsheng sensed life beginning to take shape in the Great Thousand Universe through the World Tree and named the universe the Divine Land Universe.
• Ao Changsheng gained the power of the entire Great Thousand World, giving him strength that could rival a Sage even outside his cultivation ground.
• Minghe opened gateways into the calamity Sha Qi, charging Quasi-Sages one-tenth of their merit to search for the Primordial purple qi while using their offerings to reduce the Sha Qi.
• Ao Changsheng observed that Minghe’s business had cleared a small amount of calamity Sha Qi and might eventually remove it without his help.
• Ao Changsheng drove the Quasi-Sages out of the Netherworld Blood Sea and placed a black speck rippling with five-colored light above the calamity Sha Qi.

Ao Changsheng’s opened world swallowed the Calamity Sha Qi and Primordial purple qi before Hongjun transformed it into an Underworld beneath the Netherworld Blood Sea. After receiving a vast merit reward, Ao Changsheng waited for Hongjun’s promised Great Dao of Water, but was left holding a mass of water delivered through a shattered void.

• Ao Changsheng’s collapsing world absorbed the Calamity Sha Qi, while Quasi-Sages at the blood sea were injured or nearly pulled into the black dot before it vanished with the Primordial purple qi.
• Minghe found the blood sea restored and lamented the loss of Hongyun and the Primordial purple qi after spending a million years wearing Hongyun down.
• Ao Changsheng sensed Hongjun feeding world origin into the world’s origin point, then realized the newly opened world had become the Underworld beneath the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Ao Changsheng speculated that Hongjun’s preparations might interfere with Houtu’s future creation of reincarnation, but he remained unconcerned and accepted a huge cloud of merit.
• Ao Changsheng blocked the merit from entering his body, and Hongjun’s promised reward arrived as a mass of water pushed through a shattered void.

Ao Changsheng fed the Great Dao of Water to the Seed of the Great Dao, accelerating its growth, while Houtu wandered to the Netherworld Blood Sea to escape the endless Witch-Demon war. After witnessing two Asuras fight to the death and then reconcile as though their battle were familiar, Houtu became curious about them.

• Ao Changsheng returned to his sanctuary with the Great Dao of Water and absorbed it into the Seed of the Great Dao, causing it to grow faster toward bearing a Dao Fruit.
• In the 38,642nd Yuanhui of the Heavenly Emperor's calendar, Houtu reached the Netherworld Blood Sea while wandering to escape the war and lamented the slaughter between the Witches and Demons.
• Houtu noticed how quiet the Blood Sea's surroundings were and mourned that the Witch Race's fighting betrayed its original purpose of protecting the world created by Father God.
• Two Asuras, Amosa and a hundred-headed, thousand-eyed beast-bodied Asura, fought over the Blood Sea until Amosa killed his opponent.
• The beast-bodied Asura's soul complained that Amosa had killed him again, and the two returned to the Blood Sea together, leaving Houtu bewildered and intensely curious.

Houtu visited the Netherworld Blood Sea, witnessed Ancestor Minghe create the Asura Race from remnant souls, and gained enlightenment in the complete Great Dao of Earth, reaching Quasi-Sage Perfection. She then revealed her true form and offered her body to establish reincarnation, leaving the fate of the Witch Race and the remnant souls bound to her sacrifice.

• Houtu secretly entered the Blood Sea and observed the Asura Race, whose members fought fiercely but protected the souls of those who died.
• At the bottom of the Blood Sea, Houtu saw countless remnant souls trapped in a filthy mire, and Ancestor Minghe explained that he used them and Blood Sea water to create Asuras.
• Minghe demonstrated the creation of hundreds of millions of Asuras, and Houtu saw Pangu and understood her mission to create reincarnation.
• Houtu comprehended the complete Great Dao of Earth and reached Quasi-Sage Perfection, astonishing Minghe.
• Houtu revealed her true form and declared that she would offer her body to complete reincarnation.

Houtu attained Sagehood by transforming her body into the World of Reincarnation and establishing the Six Paths, then became Pingxin. She reunited with Dijiang and greeted Hongjun and Ao Changsheng, whose attempt to claim a little authority over reincarnation left him facing Hongjun's demand for an explanation.

• Houtu announced that she would use her body to complete reincarnation, and merit descended as she attained Sagehood.
• Houtu gave Dijiang her cultivation insights and a drop of Ancestral Witch Essence Blood before her body dissolved into the World of Reincarnation.
• Houtu established the Six Paths, allowing the dead of the Primordial World to be reborn according to their merit and karma.
• Houtu told Dijiang that she was now Pingxin, and he accepted that she was safe despite her new identity.
• Pingxin greeted Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Ao Changsheng, who admitted he had secretly taken a little authority over reincarnation.
• Hongjun demanded that Ao Changsheng explain his actions, leaving Ao Changsheng awkwardly aware that his discovery of the perfected Great Dao of Reincarnation had become a problem.

Ao Changsheng, Hongjun, and Pingxin negotiated over the authority of reincarnation and payment in world origin. After the three reached an agreement and departed, the Witch and Demon Races’ war continued to threaten the Primordial World following Houtu’s transformation into reincarnation.

• Hongjun demanded that Ao Changsheng surrender his ten percent share of reincarnation authority, and Ao Changsheng refused.
• Ao Changsheng offered world origin in exchange for keeping his share, and he and Hongjun agreed that Ao Changsheng would provide one hundred masses before the epoch ended.
• Pingxin demanded a share of the payment and secured fifty masses of world origin from Ao Changsheng, payable before the Witch-Demon Tribulation ended.
• Ao Changsheng and Hongjun departed through separate void passages, each secretly pleased with the deal.
• The Demon Race saw an opportunity to gain an advantage in its war with the Witch Race after Houtu left the Ancestral Witches.

Ao Changsheng gained the Authority of Reincarnation, giving him new insight into the Primordial World and clearing his path toward Hunyuan. Elsewhere, the Sages considered Houtu’s transformation into reincarnation, while Pingxin and Nüwa met in the Underworld and grew close.

• Ao Changsheng returned to his cultivation ground with the Authority of Reincarnation and realized it would let him study the Primordial World and advance toward Hunyuan.
• On Mount Kunlun, Laozi explained to Yuanshi and Tongtian that Houtu had used herself to mend incomplete reincarnation and was now comparable to Dao Ancestor Hongjun, though she could not leave reincarnation.
• On Mount Sumeru, Zhunti recognized how the Six Paths of Reincarnation could benefit the Western Sect, while Jieyin urged him inwardly to understand what it meant to be a Sage.
• Lady Nüwa visited Pingxin in the Underworld, where Pingxin said she had sacrificed her true body for the world and the Witch Race’s remaining hope.
• Nüwa and Pingxin discussed the Human Path and avoided mentioning the Animal Path; Nüwa stayed in the Underworld for a year, and the subject of their talks remained unknown.

After Houtu became a Sage and stayed to oversee reincarnation, Dijiang reassured the Ancestral Witches and used her Essence Blood to let Kuafu replace her in their formation. The Demon Race launched an attack to test the Witch Race’s strength, and both sides formed their great battle formations.

• Dijun and Taiyi discussed attacking the Witch Race, reasoning that Houtu’s absence might weaken its formation and that Nüwa would support the Demon Race.
• Dijiang told the Ancestral Witches that Houtu had become a Sage and could not return from overseeing reincarnation.
• Dijiang gave Houtu’s Essence Blood to Kuafu so he could replace her in the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Devils Great Formation.
• After learning the Demon Race’s army was approaching, Dijiang led the Ancestral Witches and Kuafu to form Pangu’s true body, with Houtu’s Essence Blood bearing the formation’s pressure.
• Dijun ordered the Demon Race to form the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation as the two armies prepared to fight.

The ten Golden Crow princes escaped Tang Valley and burned Witch Race tribes, prompting Kuafu and Hou Yi to confront them. Hou Yi killed nine of the princes before Dijun arrived and saved the last, leaving the Witch and Demon races on the brink of war.

• The ten Golden Crows broke free from Tang Valley, flew into Witch territory, and burned a tribe, killing tens of thousands of witches.
• Kuafu arrived and wounded all ten Golden Crows while trying to capture them alive.
• Hou Yi arrived, whose tribe and family the Golden Crows had destroyed, and shot down eight of them as Kuafu hesitated.
• Dijun rushed in and saved the last Golden Crow, while nine of his sons' bodies fell from the sky.
• Dijun unleashed his flames and attacked Hou Yi, vowing to kill him.

Dijun arrived after nine of his sons were killed and attacked Hou Yi, who shot him before dying from the True Sun Fire. Taiyi intervened as Dijiang rescued Kuafu, and the Demon Race prepared to march on the Witch Race while Dijiang feared the coming Immeasurable Tribulation.

• Dijun burned Kuafu’s peachwood staff and attacked Hou Yi with True Sun Fire, while Hou Yi fired an arrow that wounded him and stopped just short of the last little Golden Crow.
• Hou Yi turned to ash, and Dijiang arrived and struck at Dijun before Taiyi blocked the blow with a bell.
• Dijiang escaped with Kuafu and Hou Yi’s longbow, while Dijun recovered enough to order the Demon Race to muster its troops and slaughter the Witch Race.
• Kuafu told Dijiang that the ten Golden Crows had destroyed Hou Yi’s tribe and killed his wife and children.
• Dijiang hurried back to the Witch Race, believing war was imminent and suspecting that the secrets of heaven had been concealed ahead of an Immeasurable Tribulation.

The Witch and Demon armies fought an immense battle as Dijun and the Ancestral Witches unleashed their formations. Dijun trapped the Witch Race inside a combined world formation, and as “Pangu” prepared a transformed axe to break free, the battle reached a new turning point.

• The Witch and Demon armies clashed across the Primordial World while the Ancestral Witches and Kuafu faced Dijun, Taiyi, and Xihe.
• Dijun activated the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation, trapping “Pangu” and the Witch army in a deadly starry realm.
• Dijiang ordered the Witches to merge into “Pangu,” who grew stronger and tore open the star formation.
• Dijun left the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation with Fuxi and Kunpeng, then led the demons in forming the Hunyuan River Luo Great Formation.
• Dijun combined the formations into a false Primordial World and trapped “Pangu” beneath a phantom of Mount Buzhou.
• Dijiang roared at Dijun as “Pangu” transformed his axe and declared, “Split heaven and earth!”

During the final battle between the Witch and Demon races, the Ancestral Witches unleashed a devastating axe strike while Dijun used a hidden feature of the Primordial World Great Formation. The Demon leaders and many others perished, but the axe pierced the formation and struck Mount Buzhou, as a black vortex appeared beside the Witch forces.

• Ao Changsheng failed to unravel the chaotic secrets of heaven and watched the Witch and Demon armies clash through a Round Light Mirror.
• The Sages watched as the Ancestral Witches formed the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Devils Great Formation while Dijun, Fuxi, and Kunpeng established the Hunyuan River Luo Great Formation.
• Nüwa resolved to let Fuxi die so he could be freed from the Demon Race, while Pingxin watched her Witch siblings prepare to fight and suppressed her anger.
• Ao Changsheng realized the Demon Race's Primordial World Great Formation could extract power through Mount Buzhou and suspected it concealed a startling plan.
• The Ancestral Witches unleashed a brilliant axe strike that killed Dijun, Taiyi, Xihe, Fuxi, the ten great Demon Marshals, and more than ten thousand Daluo Demon Gods.
• The axe strike broke through the formation world and hit Mount Buzhou, while a small black vortex formed beside the Witch forces.

Mount Buzhou collapsed after the Witch-Demon battle and Gonggong's final attack, unleashing floods, heavenly fires, and the destabilization of heaven and earth. The Sages intervened to contain the disaster, while Nüwa borrowed Ao Changsheng's Qiankun Cauldron and began refining stones to mend the heavens.

• The Witch Race's axe strike and the Primordial World Great Formation's self-destruction shattered Mount Buzhou, while Pangu's power preserved Gonggong.
• Gonggong succumbed to despair and Immeasurable Tribulation Qi, burned his life and power, and rammed Mount Buzhou until it collapsed.
• Pingxin sustained reincarnation as Laozi, Celestial Venerable Yuanshi, Cult Master Tongtian, Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti intervened to stabilize the land and protect living beings from floods and heavenly fires.
• Nüwa borrowed the Qiankun Cauldron from Ao Changsheng to prepare materials for mending the heavens.
• Ao Changsheng handed world origin to Hongjun and challenged his claim that he had not schemed to accelerate its payment.
• Nüwa refined stones from the shattered earth into Heaven-Mending Divine Stones and sent them toward the cracks in the sky.

Nüwa repaired the Primordial World's shattered sky and stabilized it with pillars made from the Black Tortoise, while Kunpeng escaped detection by hiding in the North Sea. After the calamity, Ao Changsheng's hidden consciousness was expelled from Hongjun's Heavenly Dao Origin Space, and Pingxin restored the World of Reincarnation and processed the flood of souls; the chapter ends with Ao Changsheng suddenly shouting in anger.

• Nüwa used the Qiankun Cauldron to mend the sky, then killed the sleeping Black Tortoise and forged his body into four pillars that stabilized the Primordial World.
• Kunpeng revealed that he had survived by separating his Kun and Peng forms, then returned to hiding in the North Sea.
• Ao Changsheng's consciousness emerged from the world origin Hongjun was integrating into the Heavenly Dao, and Hongjun expelled it from the Heavenly Dao Origin Space.
• Pingxin repaired the cracks in the World of Reincarnation and spent months sending the calamity's countless souls into reincarnation.
• Ao Changsheng grumbled about Hongjun, prepared to consolidate his gains, then suddenly shouted, "How dare you!"

Zhunti stole the Qiankun Cauldron from Nüwa’s incarnation, but Ao Changsheng seized him and trapped him inside a world cut off from the Heavenly Dao. Ao Changsheng left Zhunti imprisoned for a million years and told Nüwa to bring the cauldron to his Daoist sanctuary.

• Nüwa’s incarnation carried the Qiankun Cauldron toward the East Sea, but Zhunti destroyed her and stole the treasure.
• Nüwa sensed the attack and headed toward the disturbance as Zhunti tried to take the cauldron to Mount Sumeru.
• Ao Changsheng seized Zhunti, who unleashed his full power in an attempt to escape.
• Ao Changsheng used the Divine Land Universe and his Daoist sanctuary to trap Zhunti in a world cut off from the Heavenly Dao.
• Ao Changsheng threatened to imprison Zhunti for a million years and prevent him from severing his third corpse if he died and revived.
• Nüwa arrived, and Ao Changsheng told her to take the Qiankun Cauldron to his Daoist sanctuary.

After Mount Buzhou’s collapse, the Four Sacred Beasts reflected on their role in helping Hongjun reshape the Primordial World and discussed Black Tortoise’s reincarnating sister. Ao Changsheng stored the treasures Nüwa returned, while Nüwa went to Mount Sumeru to discuss the Dao with Jieyin during Zhunti’s million-year imprisonment.

• The Four Sacred Beasts agreed that cultivators revered the Dao rather than worshipping Pangu, and Black Tortoise said his reincarnating sister would eventually seek out Azure Dragon’s junior through their karmic connection.
• Ao Changsheng found three Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures inside the returned Qiankun Cauldron and put them away in his treasury.
• Ao Changsheng reflected that Zhunti had been imprisoned for a million years after trying to seize the Qiankun Cauldron from Nüwa’s avatar.
• Nüwa told Jieyin that Zhunti had been suppressed for a million years, and Jieyin accepted that his junior had brought the punishment on himself.
• Nüwa invited Jieyin to spend Zhunti’s imprisonment discussing the Dao with her, and Jieyin agreed.

Ao Changsheng deduced that Hongjun was pursuing the Dao by strengthening the Primordial World and seeking transcendence, and he welcomed him as a fellow seeker. Hongjun summoned the Sages to the Purple Firmament Palace to discuss rebuilding the Heavenly Court, leaving them to decide who would rule it.

• Ao Changsheng concluded that Hongjun's grand plan involved strengthening the Primordial World and potentially transcending the Heavenly Dao, and he rejoiced at having a fellow seeker of the Dao.
• Hongjun watched Ao Changsheng suppress Zhunti and wondered what Ao Changsheng was concealing about his power and intentions.
• Hongjun summoned the Sages to the Purple Firmament Palace, while Zhunti pleaded unsuccessfully for help from the East Sea.
• Nüwa told the Sages that Zhunti had ambushed her and tried to seize the Qiankun Cauldron, so Ao Changsheng had suppressed him.
• Hongjun declared that the Demon Race had forfeited its right to rule after Mount Buzhou fell, and ordered the Sages to discuss who should govern the rebuilt Heavenly Court.
• After Hongjun left, Laozi urged the Sages to reach a decision, while the others considered the Heavenly Court largely beneath them except for its Thirty-Six Heavens.