Chapter Summaries

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.

After the Sages chose Haotian and Yaochi to lead the rebuilt Heavenly Court, Hongjun granted them treasures and sent them to the Primordial World. They headed for the East Sea to seek Ao Changsheng, but detected a hidden place touched by a Sage’s might.

• Nüwa withdrew from Heavenly Court affairs, and Jieyin offered Western help rebuilding it before Yuanshi objected to the West providing its ruler.
• Laozi proposed Haotian and Yaochi as Heavenly Court masters, and Hongjun appointed them Heavenly Emperor and Queen Mother, granting them treasures and the Peach of Immortality Tree.
• Laozi arranged for himself, Yuanshi, and Tongtian to leave incarnations in the Heavenly Court, while Hongjun told Haotian and Yaochi to seek Ao Changsheng if they faced difficulties.
• Haotian and Yaochi left for the East Sea and planned to ask a Daluo Golden Immortal where Ao Changsheng’s cultivation grounds were.
• Haotian and Yaochi sensed unusual spatial fluctuations and a Sage’s might hidden in the void, and Haotian decided they should investigate.

Haotian and Yaochi discovered Sage Zhunti suppressed inside a vast world held in place by golden dragons, then left before he could notice them. Ao Changsheng sensed the pair and became curious about the Imperial Dragon Qi around Haotian, but did not investigate further.

• Haotian and Yaochi saw Zhunti struggling on the ground amid scattered treasures inside the sphere.
• Yaochi worried that watching the Sage might bring trouble, but Haotian reasoned Zhunti could not detect them and urged them to leave.
• Ao Changsheng sensed the two Quasi-Sages near the illusory world and noted that he did not recognize them.
• Ao Changsheng identified the peculiar presence around Haotian as Imperial Dragon Qi through records in the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.
• Ao Changsheng wondered whether Haotian might lead a dynastic power, then decided not to pursue his curiosity.

Haotian and Yaochi visited Ao Changsheng before setting out to rebuild the Heavenly Court, where they discovered Hongjun’s former Yellow Center Plum in his sanctuary. Ao Changsheng gave them two of its precious fruits and warned them to treat the Heavenly Court as a place to cultivate, then addressed the unseen Hongjun as they departed.

• Haotian and Yaochi entered Ao Changsheng’s sanctuary and recognized the Yellow Center Plum they had once tended for Hongjun.
• Haotian explained that Hongjun had assigned them to rebuild the Heavenly Court, and Ao Changsheng realized the Demon Race’s court had fallen into ruin.
• Ao Changsheng gave Haotian and Yaochi one Yellow Center Plum fruit each.
• Ao Changsheng warned the pair not to forget that the Heavenly Court was only a place for them to cultivate.
• Haotian and Yaochi thanked Ao Changsheng and left, and he asked Hongjun to show himself.

Ao Changsheng revealed the Tree of the Great Dao to Hongjun and proposed that they cooperate to hunt Chaos Demon Gods for its Dao Fruits. Hongjun agreed to the plan for the future, then returned to the Purple Firmament Palace excited by the hope of reaching a realm above Hunyuan.

• Hongjun appeared in Ao Changsheng’s Daoist temple after his strand of divine sense entered it and failed to merge with its Heavenly Dao.
• Ao Changsheng showed Hongjun the Tree of the Great Dao and explained that its fruits could benefit both cultivators and worlds.
• Ao Changsheng proposed hunting Chaos Demon Gods, with each of them receiving Dao Fruits according to whether the corresponding Great Daos were complete or incomplete in the Primordial World.
• Hongjun suppressed his desire to seize the tree and agreed to cooperate later, after carrying out his original plan.
• After Hongjun departed, Ao Changsheng reflected that he had been unable to stop Hongjun from discovering the tree and believed Hongjun would keep it secret from the Six Sages.
• At the Purple Firmament Palace, Hongjun received the information from his strand of will and exclaimed that there was hope of a realm above Hunyuan.

After the Witch-Demon War, Haotian and Yaochi used the Sages’ decree to drive the Demon Race from the Heavenly Realm and began rebuilding the Heavenly Court. In the Underworld, Nüwa sent Fuxi into reincarnation and revealed a hidden reserve of human souls that would help the Human Race rise.

• Ying Zhao asked Bai Ze what the surviving Demon Race should do after losing its leaders and most of its forces.
• Haotian and Yaochi arrived at the Heavenly Realm, where the demon remnants recognized them as Two-Corpse-Severing Quasi-Sages.
• Haotian presented the Sages’ decree ordering the Demon Race to leave, but Jiuying rallied the demons to activate the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation.
• Haotian activated the decree, which sent every demon in the Thirty-Six Heavens into the Primordial World, and he and Yaochi entered to rebuild the Heavenly Court.
• Nüwa sent Fuxi’s true spirit into the Human Path and told Pingxin that he would rise as Human Emperor by defeating the witches, demons, and other races.
• Nüwa revealed the true spirits and souls of the first generations of humans, explaining that their reincarnation would greatly strengthen the Human Race.