Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng traded Su Xin and Su Yue an Integrated Body immortal talisman for supplies, then joined the Crested Ibis Demon Monarch, Underworld Lord Shaobai, and the Four Seas True Lord at the fair. After discussing the fortunes of Medium Thousand World sects, the group discovered that Jiang Sheng recognized the mysterious contents of the Crested Ibis's wooden box as an innate opportunity because he owned an identical box.

• Jiang Sheng gave Su Xin an Integrated Body immortal talisman and traded her a storage pouch filled with Void Refinement pills, talismans, and a formation.
• Su Xin explained to Su Yue why she had offered Jiang Sheng a gift in return, reflecting on their diminished status beyond Moon-Glaze World.
• Jiang Sheng brought Moon-Tail Fox to the Crested Ibis Demon Monarch's private room and asked Underworld Lord Shaobai and the Four Seas True Lord about their trades.
• Underworld Lord Shaobai explained why Medium Thousand World sects prioritized combat treasures and described their precarious position between the worlds above and below.
• Jiang Sheng suggested that Zhoushan World and Jiuzhou World would join the Three Realms and that the Profound Simplicity Sect could find a place there.
• When the Crested Ibis Demon Monarch asked them to guess what her sealed wooden box contained, Jiang Sheng identified it as an innate opportunity and revealed an identical box of his own.

Jiang Sheng revealed that the mysterious scale was an innate foundation and explained how innate foundations could offer a path to Pure Yang. He identified the scale as the Candle Dragon Slough, a guide to the Temporal Labyrinth in the depths of chaos, whose dangerous opportunity was connected to yin and yang and time.

• Jiang Sheng used yin-yang power to reveal a star-sea map on the ordinary-looking scale and explained that true innate opportunities were innate foundations leading toward Pure Yang.
• Crested Ibis described how humans and demons transformed their acquired foundations toward the innate, while Underworld Lord Shaobai and Four Seas True Lord realized the scale could offer a shortcut to Pure Yang.
• Jiang Sheng said he would not take another being’s foundation and wanted only to study its innate Laws, while Crested Ibis declared that she would create her own bloodline.
• Four Seas True Lord admitted that the prospect of a Pure Yang opportunity had nearly overcome him, and Underworld Lord Shaobai asked Jiang Sheng what kind of foundation the scale represented.
• Jiang Sheng identified the scale as the Candle Dragon Slough, a guide into the Temporal Labyrinth, and said its opportunity concerned yin and yang and time.

Jiang Sheng warned Four Seas True Lord and Underworld Lord Shaobai away from pursuing the claimed Great Daos of Yin-Yang and Time, then attended a trade fair where he found a powerful Law Fragment of Calamity and Disaster. He examined the fragment without harm and agreed to buy it, leaving Lord Lingguan stunned by his strength.

• Jiang Sheng explained that the ends of the Dao of Time and the Dao of Yin-Yang had already been claimed, making attempts to reach Pure Yang through them perilous.
• Four Seas True Lord, Underworld Lord Shaobai, and Crested Ibis Demon Monarch discussed pursuing the Five Elements and decided against visiting the Candle Dragon Slough for now.
• Jiang Sheng attended the thirty-day trade fair and bought several Law Fragments before noticing Lord Lingguan offering a fragment of Calamity and Disaster found on the Bright Flame Sea.
• Lord Lingguan told Jiang Sheng that the fragment came from a place where the Three Calamities Devil Lord and Calamity Devil Lord had died.
• Jiang Sheng opened the jade box and inspected the fragment bare-handed as its violent power shook the private room and frightened the Moon-Tail Fox.
• Jiang Sheng declared the fragment satisfactory and agreed to buy it, leaving Lord Lingguan shocked by his composure.

Jiang Sheng and the Penglai True Lords gathered in Vermilion Province after Patriarch Dejing summoned them to stabilize the worlds following the Xuanmen Great Calamity. Dejing ordered the sect’s Shi, Yu, and Ling generation inheritors to suppress demons at the junctions of the Jiuzhou, Tianyuan, and Huayang Worlds for two hundred years.

• Lingwei told Jiang Sheng that Patriarch Dejing had summoned all sect True Lords to Vermilion Province, so Jiang Sheng redirected his Cloud Carriage there.
• Jiang Sheng met True Lord Yuming and True Lord Yu Che, who joked with Lin Fan about his schemes and gifts as other members of the Ling generation arrived.
• True Lord Yuming explained that the worlds would merge with the Three Realms in two hundred years and that the sect had to secure them, especially against internal trouble.
• Daoist Lord Dejing said demonic unrest was rising where the Jiuzhou, Tianyuan, and Huayang Worlds had fused, and that Penglai and Qinghua would shoulder more of the work because Tianhe was weakened.
• Daoist Lord Dejing ordered the Shi, Yu, and Ling generation inheritors to suppress the sea abysses at the three-world junctions and prevent demons from spreading among mankind for two hundred years.

Li Jianchun and Ye Gan discovered a demonic assault at Nine Origins Heavenly Abyss and fought to defend their Dharma Boats as the beast tide overwhelmed the region. With the two trapped and reinforcements struggling to reach them, Tian Ming'an led a rescue effort, trusting that their masters would not abandon them.

• Ye Gan caught Li Jianchun drinking during patrol and tried to bargain for his silence, but their Exquisite Gilded Spheres detected approaching demons.
• Li Jianchun and Ye Gan exposed the demons with Illuminating Talismans, sounded the alarm, and ordered their crews to attack as demons swarmed their Dharma Boats.
• The demonic tide spread across Nine Origins Heavenly Abyss, leaving Li Jianchun and Ye Gan trapped and their crews nearly out of strength; Li Jianchun refused to flee without them.
• Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu identified the trapped cultivators and advanced aboard a Flying Void-class Dharma Boat to rescue them.
• Tian Ming'an assured Qiu Buyu that Jiang Sheng and Ling Zhao would not abandon Li Jianchun or Ye Gan, as a green talisman glimmered beneath his robes.

Li Jianchun and Ye Gan were overwhelmed by demons in the Heavenly Abyss as Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu fought their way toward them. After Jiang Sheng’s talisman destroyed a Demon King and cleared a path, Li Jianchun drew a blood talisman that transformed him to the Void Refinement Extreme Realm, and he faced the next Demon King with the sword art Heaven-Cutting: Severing Time.

• Li Jianchun and Ye Gan exhausted their strength defending their Dharma Boats and the Penglai disciples from the growing demonic tide.
• Tian Ming'an used Jiang Sheng’s green talisman, summoning his master’s projection, which became the Taiyi Qingping Sword and killed the Demon King in the Heavenly Abyss.
• Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu hurried onward as Li Jianchun, Ye Gan, and the wounded disciples were surrounded and nearly defeated.
• Ye Gan prepared to sacrifice himself, but Li Jianchun asked him to hold off the demons while he drew a talisman with his own blood.
• Li Jianchun completed the Three Evolutions Calamity-Extinguishing True Talisman, causing his aura to rise to the Void Refinement Extreme Realm.
• A Demon King attacked Li Jianchun as a hundred-thousand-li demonic serpent, and Li Jianchun raised his sword and declared, “Heaven-Cutting: Severing Time.”

Li Jianchun used Heaven-Cutting: Severing Time to destroy the demonic tide and kill the Demon King, then collapsed as Ye Gan caught him. Deep in the Nine Origins Heavenly Abyss, Jiang Sheng watched over Li Jianchun from the Havoc Demon Domain, keeping its Demon Kings in check while studying the Law of Calamity.

• Li Jianchun's Severing Time shattered the Yin-Yang Four Symbols Sword and erased the demons and their hundred-thousand-mile serpent.
• The sword cut the Demon King's karma, years, and lifespan, killing it as Ye Gan watched and pondered the Dao of time.
• Li Jianchun collapsed from exhaustion and injuries, and Ye Gan caught him; a Penglai Dharma Boat arrived with Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu.
• Jiang Sheng sustained a vast field of clear light in the Havoc Demon Domain, and the Demon Kings hid from his killing intent.
• Jiang Sheng reminded Rong Chu of the Demon Kings he had slain and warned the survivors not to disturb his peace.
• After confirming Li Jianchun was unharmed, Jiang Sheng withdrew his thought and studied a fragment of the Law of Calamity.

Jiang Sheng comprehended the Calamity Art, Misfortune Art, and Disaster Art as transformations of fate, karma, and karmic force while remaining in the Nine Origins Heavenly Abyss. With less than fifty years left in the patrol, he resolved to seek the position of Judicial Heavenly Monarch after returning to the Three Realms Great Thousand World.

• Jiang Sheng studied the Misfortune Laws fragment and connected natural disaster to the Calamity Art and fate, man-made misfortune to the Misfortune Art and karma, and earthly hardship to the Disaster Art and karmic force.
• Jiang Sheng's insights merged with his existing Laws, deepening his understanding of the Yin-Yang Calamity-Annihilation Art as he sat in the Havoc Demon Domain.
• After more than one hundred and fifty years patrolling the Nine Origins Heavenly Abyss, Li Jianchun drank Autumn Mist Azure with Ye Gan, who proposed that they become sworn brothers with Huang Wensheng.
• Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan reflected that fewer than fifty years remained before Jiuzhou World, Tianyuan World, and Huayang World merged into the Three Realms Great Thousand World.
• Jiang Sheng touched his jade seal and resolved to obtain the position of Judicial Heavenly Monarch.

After the Three Realms accepted eight Xuanmen worlds, Kaiyuan attained the Dao-Holding realm, became the Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable, and raised the Tianhe Heavenly Realm in the Eastern Heaven. He then announced a universal talisman-based path to immortality, provoking alarm in the Heavenly Court.

• Daoist Lord Kaiyuan led the Eastern Heaven Pure Yang beings home, and the Heavenly Venerables welcomed them and the worlds of Jiuzhou, Tianyuan, and Huayang into the Three Realms.
• Over the following decades, five more great thousand worlds merged into the Three Realms, strengthening the Eastern Heaven and its disciples.
• In 1900, Kaiyuan used the gathered destiny and merit to attain the Dao-Holding realm, declare himself Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable, and establish the Heaven-Piercing Tianhe Heavenly Realm for his disciples.
• Jinjue Buddha and the Heavenly Court discussed the Eastern Heaven’s growing power, while the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor urged his ministers to trust the cycle of the Heavenly Dao.
• Kaiyuan announced that beings of every race and religious path could become immortals through the Eastern Heaven Daoist Talisman Method and established nine ranks of immortal talismans.
• The four Great Emperors saw that the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had lost his smile after Kaiyuan’s announcement.

After Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable established the Ninefold Immortal Dao Treasure Register, East Heaven's Daoist Sect rewarded its allies and reorganized the eastern worlds, alarming the Heavenly Court. Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor responded by offering major offices and fruitions to the Buddhist Sect and arranging for Xiaoyun World, Shaoguang World, and Futu World to enter the Three Realms together.

• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor and the Heavenly Court's deities recognized that Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable's Ninefold Immortal Dao Treasure Register challenged the Heavenly Court, especially now that East Heaven had three Dao-Ruling Heavenly Venerables.
• Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable rewarded East Heaven's allied sects, granting talisman seeds and high offices to many leaders, while Jiang Sheng received no visible fruition or immortal talisman.
• Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable promised Chixiao and Yaochi that they could each lead a Great Thousand World into the Three Realms, then oversaw the formation of five eastern continents and gave Xiangyu Immortal Monarch and Huaguang Immortal Monarch new posts.
• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor ordered Xiaoyun World and Shaoguang World to enter the Three Realms, offering Daoist Lord Qiongyun the Southern Sovereign position and Jinglian Bodhisattva and Mingguang Bodhisattva senior Buddhist offices.
• Jinglian Bodhisattva visited Jinjue Buddha and offered the Western Heaven a place among the Four Sovereigns and Five Elders, permission to spread Buddhist teachings, and support during the Buddhist Great Calamity in exchange for Futu World joining Xiaoyun World and Shaoguang World in the merger.
• Jinjue Buddha accepted Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor's invitation to the Peixiang Palace banquet and agreed to lead Buddhist monks there.

Lingjue Bodhisattva invited Maitreya Bodhisattva to join the Three Realms, and Maitreya agreed to merge the Futu World in exchange for a continent and a share of Buddhist fortune. As Shaoguang World also arranged to enter the Three Realms, Jiang Sheng toured Dongshan Sea Continent and assigned Zhang Xiaojiu to Little Penglai while entrusting Shen Yao with Jinhua Mountain’s future.

• Jinjue Buddha sent Lingjue Bodhisattva to invite Maitreya Bodhisattva to the Peixiang Palace banquet and offered him a place among the Three Realms’ Five Elders.
• Maitreya Bodhisattva agreed to merge the Futu World into the Three Realms before the banquet after receiving promises of an independent West Futu Continent and support for a future Buddhist Venerable position.
• Maitreya Bodhisattva told Huangmei Venerable that he would enter the Three Realms early to secure fortune and merit, while Mingguang Bodhisattva arranged for Shaoguang World to submit to the Heavenly Court and keep ties with the west and Lingyuan.
• Mingguang Bodhisattva told Lanxin Venerable that Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable had deliberately overlooked Jiang Sheng, whom he viewed as the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect’s true Pure Yang Seedling.
• Jiang Sheng toured prosperous Dongshan Sea Continent with Shen Yao, who described the fortunes of Jinhua Mountain’s disciples and Zhao Yanling.
• Jiang Sheng sent Zhang Xiaojiu to Little Penglai to cultivate and told Shen Yao to lead Jinhua Mountain as the Jinhua Sect, a branch subordinate to Penglai.

Jiang Sheng explained Shen Yao’s importance to the Jinhua Mountain lineage and gave him a jade token granting access to Jiang Sheng’s far-reaching network of allies. Traveling across the transformed East Sea, Jiang Sheng learned its vastness from Dragon Monarch Aohui and used the dragon’s teleportation array to return to Dongshan Sea Continent, while Aohui reflected on Jiang Sheng’s stature and the East Sea dragon clan’s diminished place.

• Jiang Sheng warned Shen Yao that his fortune and merit could attract danger, then gave him a jade token with refuge contacts and travel coordinates across the Three Realms and other worlds.
• Jiang Sheng crossed the enormous East Sea, found no land, and dove beneath the waves to seek out Dragon Monarch Aohui.
• Dragon Monarch Aohui described how the merged realms had expanded the East Sea and explained that Jiang Sheng needed to reach Eastern Victory Divine Continent to access the Eastern Heaven Gate.
• Aohui advised Jiang Sheng to return to Dongshan Sea Continent and use Emperor Huaguang’s teleportation formation, so Jiang Sheng took the Dragon Palace array back there.
• After Jiang Sheng left, Aohui told a dragon maiden that his visitor was Penglai Lingyuan and lamented that the East Sea dragon clan no longer held its former standing.

Dragon Monarch Aohui and his wife planned to seek Jiang Sheng’s favor by offering him a rare young dragon, while Jiang Sheng returned to Little Penglai, welcomed Zhang Xiaojiu into his disciples’ ranks, and began preparing to refine his accumulated merit and Xuanhuang Qi. He planned to spend the next hundred years consolidating his cultivation before attending the banquet at Peixiang Palace.

• Dragon Monarch Aohui and his wife decided to approach Jiang Sheng through his disciple Tian Ming'an and offer him the North Sea dragon maiden’s unusual young daughter.
• Jiang Sheng traveled from Dongshan Sea Continent through the Eastern and South Heaven Gates and returned to Little Penglai with Zhang Xiaojiu.
• Jiang Sheng introduced Zhang Xiaojiu to his other disciples, who welcomed him with a Dharma sword and a jade pendant.
• Jiang Sheng instructed his disciples to follow their own paths of cultivation and told Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu to show Zhang Xiaojiu around Little Penglai.
• Jiang Sheng manifested twenty-four streams of merit qi and thirty-six strands of Xuanhuang Spiritual Resonance, planning to refine them over the coming decades before attending Peixiang Palace’s banquet.

Jiang Sheng prepared for the Peixiang Palace Immortal Banquet by using fortune and merit to temper his body and soul and refine the Qingping Sword. After thirty years, the process had removed hidden injuries and brought the sword close to becoming an acquired treasure of fortune and merit, but Jiang Sheng sensed it could absorb no more.

• Jiang Sheng resolved to spend the hundred years before the Peixiang Palace Immortal Banquet strengthening himself and refining the Qingping Sword with fortune and merit.
• Jiang Sheng summoned True Lord Jinyi and True Lord Yuehui, who joined their powers of sun and moon to create a furnace of Yin-Yang creation around him and the sword.
• Jiang Sheng used Golden-Purple Immortal Talismans to nourish his sea of consciousness, dantian, Purple Mansion, and body, discovering that fortune and merit erased hidden injuries from his past battles.
• Jiang Sheng realized those hidden injuries could have caused him to fail when attempting to reach the Pure Yang Realm, and continued cleansing them while refining the Qingping Sword.
• Thirty years passed as Jiang Sheng absorbed three talismans into each of his three palaces and three into the Qingping Sword, whose transformation reached the limit of what it could absorb.

Jiang Sheng used golden-purple immortal talismans to temper his five-element cultivation and strengthen his dharma treasures with Xuanhuang Qi. After beginning to refine his robes, he looked ahead to attending the grand banquet at Peixiang Palace.

• Jiang Sheng concluded that the Qingping Sword had reached the limit of what qi and merit could strengthen, and planned to use his remaining talismans and Xuanhuang Qi on his cultivation and treasures.
• Jiang Sheng spent fifteen years using three golden-purple immortal talismans to temper his liver, heart, and spleen, forming the Azure Emperor Wood, Red Emperor Fire, and Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Manifestations.
• Jiang Sheng used six more golden-purple immortal talismans and Xuanhuang Qi to strengthen the Qingping Sword, the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords, the Green Lotus Array Diagram, and the Six-Tailed Soul Banner.
• Jiang Sheng stored the seven strengthened treasures within his body and used his remaining Xuanhuang Qi to begin tempering his five pieces of dharma clothing and equipment.
• Jiang Sheng planned to finish refining his robes, further temper his physical body, and attend the grand banquet at Peixiang Palace.

The Heavenly Court opened the Four Heavenly Gates to receive guests for the Peixiang Palace immortal banquet, and Jiang Sheng brought his disciples into the Ninefold Heaven Palace. As the banquet’s splendor unfolded, a Pure Yang mighty figure arrived.

• The Heavenly Court projected the Four Heavenly Gates across the Three Realms, and immortals, gods, demons, and Buddhas set out for the banquet.
• Lin Fan and the Penglai group prepared to enter through the Eastern Heaven Gate, while Jiang Sheng emerged from seclusion and led his disciples from Little Penglai toward the South Heaven Gate.
• Jiang Sheng bypassed the waiting line at the South Heaven Gate after the Heavenly General recognized him as Penglai Lingyuan True Lord and directed him to join East Heaven’s True Lords at Diuniu Palace.
• Jiang Sheng guided his disciples through the Heavenly Court and warned them not to look toward the Ninth Heaven’s Pure Yang Dao fields.
• Lin Fan greeted Jiang Sheng’s group in the Ninefold Heaven Palace and described the banquet’s contests as performances watched by the Pure Yang guests.
• Heavenly bells, music, and auspicious lights announced an arriving Pure Yang mighty figure, and Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan grew solemn.

Jiang Sheng and the other guests awaited the Heavenly Emperor’s banquet as Daoist, demon, and Buddhist leaders arrived and revealed their shifting alliances. Just as Jinjue Buddha prepared to enter Diuniu Palace, Qingyan Heavenly Venerable, Mingyang Heavenly Venerable, and Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable arrived together.

• Xiaoyun Longevity Emperor, formerly Daoist Lord Qiongyun, arrived at Diuniu Palace, and True Lord Yuanyi told Lin Fan to serve as his deputy on the Sun Star.
• The Demon Emperor Palace’s Great Sages arrived in a vast traveling palace, and Kong Zhen winked at Jiang Sheng before entering Diuniu Palace.
• Buddhist leaders from Shaoguang World, Jinchan Temple, and Tianlong Temple faced off, then made peace as Jinjue Buddha of the Great Lingyin Temple arrived.
• Maitreya Bodhisattva arrived from Futu World and agreed to enter with the other Buddhist leaders, while Jinjue Buddha prepared to go first.
• Qingyan Heavenly Venerable, Mingyang Heavenly Venerable, and Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable arrived together from the east.

The Three Heavenly Venerables of East Heaven and Jinjue Buddha arrived at Peixiang Palace, where Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor opened a banquet for the gathered powers of the Three Realms. At Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable’s request, Daoist Lord Chixiao and Golden Mother Primordial Lord were enfeoffed as the Eastern and Western Imperials.

• The Three Heavenly Venerables and Jinjue Buddha entered Peixiang Palace and took the head seats on opposite sides of Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor.
• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor welcomed the assembled immortals, buddhas, gods, and sacred beings and ordered the banquet to begin.
• Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable announced that Daoist Lord Chixiao and Golden Mother Primordial Lord had arrived and urged that their contributions be rewarded with positions among the Four Sovereigns.
• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor granted Chixiao and Golden Mother Primordial Lord the honors of the Four Sovereigns.
• Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable named Chixiao the Eastern Imperial Cangwu Duke Great Emperor and Golden Mother the Western Imperial Kunlun Queen Mother Great Emperor.

At the Peixiang Palace feast, Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable secured Eastern Imperial and Western Imperial for Daoist Lord Chixiao and Golden Mother Primordial Lord, while the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor appointed Daoist Lord Qiongyun and three Buddhist bodhisattvas to other high ranks. The court’s competing powers drank together, and the chapter ended as the Taiyin Moon Lords were made to perform a dance.

• Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable established the Eastern Imperial and Western Imperial Fruition Ranks for Daoist Lord Chixiao and Golden Mother Primordial Lord, and the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor accepted their seats.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor invested Daoist Lord Qiongyun as Southern Imperial Xiaoyun Longevity Great Emperor.
• Jinjue Buddha introduced Maitreya Bodhisattva, whom the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor named Eastern Buddhist Elder and Eastern-Born Maitreya Buddha Great Bodhisattva.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor appointed Mingguang Bodhisattva as Southern Buddhist Elder and Jinglian Bodhisattva as Western Buddhist Elder.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor invited the assembled guests to drink, then ordered Imperial Lord Suhua Yuanjing, Moon-Purity Lingong Primordial Lord, and Minghui Lanqing Moon Lord to dance.

At the Peixiang Palace banquet, Jiang Sheng and the other outer-hall guests discussed alliances, rivalries, and the coming contest for a Heaven and Earth Fruit Position. In the inner hall, tensions among Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable, Jinjue Buddha, and Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor culminated when a heavenly general accidentally shattered a wine cup, freezing the hall.

• Lin Fan explained to Ling Qiu why the Taiyin Moon Lords were dancing for the powerful guests, and Jiang Sheng revealed that True Monarch Guanghan had fled Xuanhuang World with treasures from Guanghan Palace.
• Jiang Sheng spoke with Xuyuanzi about where Cangwu World would settle, while Lin Fan argued that Daoist Lord Chixiao would likely choose the east before passing out from the wine contest with Zhenleizi.
• Xuanyi and Mingxian told Jiang Sheng that they and their sects would not compete against him for the coming Fruit Position and would support him instead.
• Fahui Venerable acknowledged Jiang Sheng's strength to the Great Lingyin Temple Venerables, while Lanxin met them and spoke with Huangmei; elsewhere, Bai He built ties with Jinchan Temple and Tianlong Temple.
• Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable, Jinjue Buddha, and Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor traded veiled barbs in the inner hall as their factions clashed over positions in the Three Realms.
• A heavenly general knocked an imperial wine cup from a heavenly maiden's hands, and the cup shattered on the jade table as the inner hall fell silent.