Chapter Summaries

Bai Suixin tricked Blackwind Demon Lord into seeking revenge on the Mending Heaven Sect by promising him a chance to become Tianji Zi’s disciple, while Zhou Yi used Bai’s intelligence to prepare an ambush. Blackwind attacked Zhou Yi, but twelve Mending Heaven disciples appeared and surrounded him.

• Bai Suixin visited Blackwind Demon Lord and persuaded him that avenging Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord could earn him Tianji Zi’s patronage and a chance at Incense Divinity.
• Bai Suixin met Zhou Yi and reported Blackwind Demon Lord’s abilities and habits; Zhou revealed the dragon race’s feud with the Mending Heaven Sect and claimed the Heaven Leak passage might open to the Immortal Realm.
• Bai Suixin promised to seek rare treasures for Zhou Yi’s escape arts in exchange for his intelligence.
• Ten years later, Blackwind Demon Lord ambushed Zhou Yi and attacked him with his Innate Destruction Divine Wind.
• Zhou Yi fled through the void, then stopped and taunted Blackwind as twelve Mending Heaven disciples appeared and surrounded the demon lord.

Zhou Yi helped the Mending Heaven Sect kill Blackwind Demon Lord, then seized the fiend’s cave and learned the Innate Destruction Divine Wind cultivation method. After establishing Divine Wind Mountain and distributing Wish Power Pearls among his fellow disciples, Zhou Yi’s master ordered him to leave the mountain and temper his Dao heart.

• The Mending Heaven Sect disciples trapped Blackwind Demon Lord, destroyed his body, and used Jiang Shengyun’s golden toad to capture his remnant soul.
• Zhou Yi searched Blackwind Cave, found the Innate Destruction Divine Wind method in the Supreme Mystery Sect’s Scripture Pavilion, and cleared out the cave’s demons.
• Zhou Yi cultivated the divine wind, renamed Blackwind Mountain Divine Wind Mountain, and governed its people as their mountain god.
• Zhou Yi returned to Heaven Mountain and arranged a banquet at Golden Light Hall to distribute Wish Power Pearls among the disciples.
• Iron Crown Immortal summoned Zhou Yi, recognized his cultivation progress, and ordered him to travel down the mountain to temper his Dao heart.

Zhou Yi learned why the Mending Heaven Sect kept demons in the Demon Suppression Tower, then persuaded Grandmaster Guangwei to support his campaign to rid the mountains of demons. While continuing to spy for the Heaven Severing Sect, he received rare treasures and a true inheritance token that placed him under Crimson Feather Immortal, Iron Crown Immortal’s old enemy.

• Iron Crown Immortal told Zhou Yi that the Demon Suppression Tower held the Blood Demon Child, whose sea-of-blood body could not be killed and whose blood could fuel the Demon Annihilation Grand Array of Two Realms and Ten Directions.
• Grandmaster Guangwei praised Zhou Yi’s efforts to save the people, ordered him to continue liberating territory, and required half the incense and fire prayer power to be attributed to the sect’s four elders.
• Iron Crown Immortal gave Zhou Yi the Yellow Dragon Bell, and Grandmaster Guangwei bestowed three protective talismans before telling him he could visit the Flying Immortal Pavilion only to listen to music.
• Zhou Yi instructed his fellow disciples to update the divine statues and establish a statue of the Yellow Ox God, then sent Bai Suixin information about the Blood Demon Child.
• Half a year later, Bai Suixin gave Zhou Yi three elemental treasures and a true inheritance token that placed him under Crimson Feather Immortal, while urging him to watch Iron Crown Immortal for the ancestor’s revenge.

Zhou Yi refined the Innate Destruction Divine Wind, learned where Heartless Fiend Lord had hidden his nine hearts, and gained Iron Crown Immortal’s warning about the dangers of the Heaven Severing secret arts. After two years of cultivation, Zhou Yi developed spiritual roots and ambushed Heartless Fiend Lord, killing him as he fled toward a birthday banquet.

• Zhou Yi demonstrated his Innate Destruction Divine Wind to Bai Suixin, who revealed that the sect had located Heartless Fiend Lord’s nine hidden hearts and arranged for Zhou Yi to ambush him in two years.
• Zhou Yi asked Iron Crown Immortal about cultivating the Heaven Severing secret arts, learned Crimson Feather Immortal was a woman disguised as a man, and promised to avoid demonic methods of extending his life.
• Iron Crown Immortal gave Zhou Yi a scripture to guard against heart demons, then revealed that he had cursed Bai Suixin with nightmares.
• Zhou Yi cultivated the Grand Five Elements Escape Technique for two years and gained spiritual roots after merging the Innate Mystic Water into his body.
• Zhou Yi intercepted Heartless Fiend Lord as he left Coiling Cloud Mountain for a banquet, pursued him with his five-colored escape technique, and killed him with the Yellow Dragon Bell.

Zhou Yi studied the Heart Division Curse, helped the Mending Heaven Sect expand its territories, and cultivated the True Dragon Nine Transformations. After Bai Suixin arrived cursed and haggard, Zhou Yi gave him a foul-smelling pill that broke the curse, then warned him to watch his words around Human Immortal patriarchs.

• Zhou Yi discovered that Heartless Fiend Lord's statue contained the Heart Division Curse, which could create anomalous hearts to nurture new souls after death, and planned to hide three hearts in distant locations.
• Zhou Yi cleared the demons from Coiling Cloud Mountain and transformed Heartless Fiend Lord's Cave Estate into the Four Immortals Temple as the Mending Heaven Sect organized its new territories.
• Zhou Yi completed the True Dragon Nine Transformations after more than fifty years of cultivation and resolved to seek more dragon blood elsewhere.
• Bai Suixin met Zhou Yi twelve years later and explained that strange nightmares had repeatedly caused him qi deviation; he also relayed Patriarch Crimson Feather Immortal's summons.
• Bai Suixin reported that four devils had withdrawn into White Tiger Ridge, while Zhou Yi said he would lead the sect's cultivators against them.
• Zhou Yi gave Bai Suixin an Obstacle Breaking Pill, which freed him from the curse, and cautioned him to speak carefully about Human Immortal patriarchs.

Zhou Yi visited Crimson Feather Immortal at Heaven Severing Blessed Land, where she gave him a powerful flying treasure and the Heaven Severing Art while asking him to help win over Iron Crown Immortal. On his way back to Heaven Mountain, he escaped Faming, who had been sent to bring him to Spirit Mountain, and hurried to Black Iron Temple for help.

• Bai Suixin asked Zhou Yi for more pills, then parted ways with him as they traveled to separate destinations.
• Zhou Yi entered Heaven Severing Blessed Land and met Crimson Feather Immortal at Azure Cloud Palace.
• Crimson Feather Immortal gave Zhou Yi the Nine Heavens Shuttle and the Heaven Severing Art, and revealed that heavenly secrets foretold her and Iron Crown Immortal could ascend together as Dao companions.
• Zhou Yi promised to help bring Crimson Feather Immortal and Iron Crown Immortal together before leaving the blessed land for Heaven Mountain.
• Faming intercepted Zhou Yi and tried to take him to Spirit Mountain, but Zhou Yi escaped the Buddhist restriction with his techniques and the Nine Heavens Shuttle.
• Zhou Yi rushed back to Black Iron Temple and called for Iron Crown Immortal to save him.

Zhou Yi used the Heaven Severing Art to divine the dangers of joining Yinguang Arhat’s lineage, then traveled to Spirit Mountain under Iron Crown Immortal’s protection. He became Yinguang’s disciple and received the Reincarnation Sutra, but a monk objected that the scripture was too dangerous for him.

• Iron Crown Immortal returned from confronting Yinguang Arhat and told Zhou Yi he must enter Yinguang’s lineage to help their sect’s plans.
• Zhou Yi asked for access to records about the immortal realm, and Iron Crown Immortal gave him the sect leader’s identity token and a protective flying sword.
• Zhou Yi told Iron Crown Immortal that Crimson Feather Immortal needed a place where yin and yang merged to cultivate, prompting Iron Crown Immortal to plan an ambush.
• Zhou Yi used the Heaven Severing Art to divine his journey and learned he would become one of the foremost disciples of the three teachings.
• Zhou Yi arrived at Spirit Mountain, greeted Faming, and kowtowed to Yinguang Arhat, who accepted him and bestowed the Reincarnation Sutra.
• A monk stepped forward and warned Yinguang Arhat that Zhou Yi was not ready to receive the dangerous scripture.

Zhou Yi defeated Spirit Mountain’s monks in a debate over Buddhist teachings, received an Arhat Relic from Yinguang Arhat, and began studying the Reincarnation Sutra. Meanwhile, Iron Crown Immortal confronted Crimson Feather Immortal at Jade Essence Cliff, where she trapped him with the Twofold Diagram and revealed a betrayal.

• Zhou Yi introduced himself as Sanzang, challenged Fawen’s accusation that his Buddhist learning was lacking, and persuaded Fading to help subdue the fiends at Mount Futai.
• Zhou Yi refuted Fakong’s criticism of his visits to the Flying Immortal Pavilion with arguments about form and emptiness, prompting several monks to attain enlightenment.
• Yinguang Arhat gave Zhou Yi an Arhat Relic and directed the monks to seek his guidance; Zhou Yi then settled into the Dharma Hall and studied the Reincarnation Sutra.
• Iron Crown Immortal arrived at Jade Essence Cliff to confront Crimson Feather Immortal, but the Twofold Diagram blocked his attacks.
• Crimson Feather Immortal emerged and used the formation to stir Iron Crown Immortal’s Dao heart; he realized what had happened and roared, “Traitorous disciple!”

Zhou Yi remained on Spirit Mountain, trading demon-slaying intelligence for Wish Power Pearls before receiving permission to leave. He traveled among the mountains and temples tied to his past deeds, then met the aging Wu Qiong at Mount Qiwu and heard his wish for Zhou Yi’s divine path to flourish.

• Crimson Feather Immortal and Iron Crown Immortal discussed Zhou Yi’s suspicions and Iron Crown Immortal’s plan to punish him, while Crimson Feather Immortal urged him to let go of his anger.
• Zhou Yi arranged for Fayun and Fanan to hunt Blood Transformation Demon Lord together in exchange for a share of the incense offerings, then collected their Wish Power Pearls.
• After divining great peril in returning to Heaven Mountain, Zhou Yi sought Yinguang Arhat’s permission to leave Spirit Mountain and flew east.
• Zhou Yi visited Mount Futai and Divine Wind Mountain, where he saw the new temple arrangements, blessed worshippers with rain, and granted a fortune-seeker golden paving stones.
• At Coiling Cloud Mountain, Zhou Yi briefly visited a town in disguise and used divination to answer a man who wanted money to buy a second wife.
• At Mount Qiwu, Zhou Yi found Wu Qiong nearing the end of his life and offered to extend it, but Wu Qiong wished only for Zhou Yi’s divine path to flourish and for him to live forever.

Zhou Yi returned to Heaven Mountain and learned that his immense karma made him uniquely suited to carry the merit of the Investiture of Gods, while also preventing him from ascending to immortality. He proposed a lawful administration for gods and immortals, and the chapter ended with him naming it the Celestial Court.

• Zhou Yi left Flying Immortal Pavilion and returned to Black Iron Temple to meet Iron Crown Immortal.
• Zhou Yi congratulated Iron Crown Immortal on becoming Dao companions with Crimson Feather Immortal and raised the Investiture of Gods.
• Iron Crown Immortal explained that Zhou Yi’s immense karma could bear the merit of the Investiture of Gods, but would keep him from ascending unless it was dispelled or overcome.
• Iron Crown Immortal described the ancestors’ plan to use force to impose an orthodox pantheon, and Zhou Yi warned that it would cause widespread suffering and chaos.
• Zhou Yi proposed establishing a lawful, tiered administration to govern gods and immortals, and Grandmaster Guangwei asked what it should be called.
• Zhou Yi named the proposed administration the Celestial Court.

Zhou Yi and the Mending Heaven Sect’s Human Immortals finalized plans to establish the Celestial Court, its Heavenly Laws, and the Deification Roll, with Emperor Yuanding chosen as its first Lord. After receiving permission to spread the news and a promise of Wish Power Pearls, Zhou Yi returned to Green Cloud Mountain, where cultivators began seeking his favor.

• Zhou Yi proposed limiting access to Incense Divinity through rank, merit, and Wish Power Pearls, and the Human Immortals agreed to make the Celestial Court collect merit and regulate cultivation with immortal registries.
• Grandmaster Guangwei established rules for issuing immortal registries and proposed that cultivators study the classics before entering the Path of Immortality.
• Zhou Yi declined to become Lord of the Celestial Court and recommended Emperor Yuanding, whom Grandmaster Guangwei selected as the first Heavenly Emperor.
• Grandmaster Guangwei said he would negotiate with the leaders of Sunken Sky Island and the Yin-Yang Path, while Zhou Yi requested ten thousand pure Wish Power Pearls and was promised them.
• Zhou Yi proposed refining the Deification Roll as a treasure bearing the roster of Orthodox Gods and the Heavenly Laws, and Grandmaster Guangwei accepted the plan.
• Zhou Yi returned to Green Cloud Mountain, where cultivators sent visiting cards seeking access to him after news of deification spread.

Zhou Yi revealed the Celestial Court’s plans to cultivators and advised them to seek posts there and in Great Heng, announcing that Emperor Yuanding would become the first Heavenly Emperor. After the news spread, Zhou Yi used ten thousand Wish Power Pearls to help the ox’s remnant soul take over the Jianmu Tree, where it entered a mysterious fruit and began forming an ox.

• Zhou Yi hosted cultivators at Green Cloud Mountain and explained the Deification Roll, the Celestial Court, and the benefits of seeking office there.
• Zhou Yi announced that Emperor Yuanding had been chosen as the first Heavenly Emperor, astonishing the guests and spreading the news across the Eastern Divine Continent.
• Zhao Hong informed Emperor Yuanding of his appointment and pledged the support of Ten Absolutes Sect disciples in return for official positions.
• Cultivators flocked to Great Heng’s capital, while Zhou Yi met Gu Xiao, Pei Yuanzhou, Bai Suixin, and others to promise them high-ranking posts on the Deification Roll.
• Zhou Yi returned to Kunlun Grotto-Heaven and used ten thousand Wish Power Pearls to strengthen the ox’s remnant soul within the Jianmu Tree.
• When the soul could not absorb the final trace of the tree’s consciousness, Zhou Yi cut it away, and the ox’s soul entered a mysterious yellow fruit as the Jianmu Tree shrank.

Zhou Yi welcomed the yellow ox back to life as an innate Demon God, then traveled toward the capital while studying the Reincarnation Sutra. A dozen demonic cultivators ambushed him over the Celestial Court’s exclusion of their sect, but Zhou Yi and the ox killed them and destroyed their formation.

• The Jianmu Tree revived the yellow ox, and Zhou Yi restored the tree with Creation Jade Dew before the ox left to undergo its Spirit Transformation tribulation.
• The yellow ox devoured the final lightning tribulation, became a Demon God, and carried Zhou Yi toward the capital.
• Zhou Yi studied the Reincarnation Sutra and considered whether his immortality could let him bypass its Buddhist restrictions.
• Demon Lord Luo Xiao and eleven other demonic cultivators trapped Zhou Yi in the Twelve Divine Demon Grand Formation and accused him of excluding their sect from the Celestial Court.
• Zhou Yi wielded the Seven Emotions Sword to kill the ambushers, then pursued and killed Old Devil Yin with the yellow ox.

Zhou Yi negotiated support for Emperor Yuanding’s bid to become Heavenly Emperor in exchange for a future Innate Spiritual Object and a hereditary mountain-god appointment. As Zhou Yi gathered allies and the imperial court faced growing unrest, the Great Heng Grandfather killed a descendant who urged him to depose Emperor Yuanding.

• Emperor Yuanding promoted Zhou Yi to Chancellor and Imperial Preceptor, but Zhou Yi declined office and demanded an oath to claim a future Innate Spiritual Object.
• Zhou Yi agreed to support Emperor Yuanding and secured a Golden Edict appointing him and his lineage to Green Cloud Mountain for ten thousand generations.
• Zhou Yi explained the proposed Heavenly Laws to Xi Yunzi, including separating cultivators from mortals and reserving Incense and Fire Prayer Power for the Celestial Court.
• Zhou Yi hosted disciples and cultivators from the great teachings, offering them shares of benefits from the territories he had taken from devilish fiends.
• A descendant of Prince Rui asked the Great Heng Grandfather to replace Emperor Yuanding, but the Grandfather revealed his identity as the descendant’s long-resented uncle and crushed him to death.

Zhou Yi learned that the Deification Roll had been completed and began arranging its divine offices as the Celestial Court took shape. He left off negotiating a post for his friend Daojun Gu Xiao, while the origins and loyalties of the Great Heng Grandfather remained uncertain.

• At court, Heavenly Lord An urged Emperor Yuanding to seize Zhou Yi’s mountain and river territories, but the Great Heng Grandfather exposed An as a demonic spy and killed him.
• Zhou Yi tried divining the Celestial Court and the Heavenly Emperor, receiving an uncertain result about the Court and the single word “God” about the Emperor’s origin.
• A Daoist friend told Zhou Yi about Bai Ze, an auspicious beast who could foresee the future, before leaving for Heaven Mountain at his master’s summons.
• Grandmaster Guangwei gave Zhou Yi the completed Deification Roll and advised opening lower-rank divine posts to Rogue Cultivators; Zhou Yi said he would use the appointments to secure their support.
• Zhou Yi asked Grandmaster Guangwei about the Great Heng Grandfather’s past ties to the demonic cult, then requested changes to several offices for friends, beginning with Daojun Gu Xiao.

Zhou Yi and Grandmaster Guangwei finalized plans for the Celestial Court, including its foundation, staffing, and separation of immortals from mortals. After the Human Immortal patriarchs and their followers considered how to secure influence, Zhou Yi convened cultivators to make the final adjustments to the Deification Roll.

• Zhou Yi persuaded Grandmaster Guangwei to place trusted allies in seemingly minor but influential Celestial Court posts, including the Bureau of Appointments and Heavenly Prison.
• Zhou Yi proposed gathering spiritual veins at the center of the Eastern Divine Continent and using a Spirit Binding Array to create the Celestial Court's foundation; Grandmaster Guangwei approved the plan.
• Grandmaster Guangwei explained that cultivators would withdraw from mortal affairs and that rogue cultivators who defied the Heavenly Laws would be imprisoned or executed.
• The Human Immortal patriarchs returned to their sects and nations, discussed the divine appointments, and considered using gifts and exchanges to secure key positions.
• Zhou Yi returned to Green Cloud Mountain, summoned cultivators to Eternal Prosperity Hall, and opened the Deification Roll for its final adjustments.
• The former emperor of the Great Moon Kingdom asked to exchange Vanguard General for a Dao Academy professor post, while other attendees argued over the positions.

Zhou Yi ended the fight over Celestial Court positions by tying exchanges to spirit-vein contributions, while the published Deification Roll inspired cultivators to build connections and compete for influence. Dan Chen joined the Ten Absolutes Sect’s orbit, but his old friend Ling Yuan drugged him and prepared to kill him in hopes of taking his place on the roll.

• Zhou Yi ordered the cultivators to choose positions for exchange and earn priority by contributing small spirit veins, warning them not to damage the Celestial Court’s reputation.
• The Deification Roll spread across the Eastern Divine Continent, prompting listed rogue cultivators to seek favor with their future superiors.
• Dan Chen visited the Ten Absolutes Sect’s Lightning God and decided to rely on the sect for resources and advancement.
• Ling Yuan gave Dan Chen an ancient pill formula and wine laced with Drunken Dragon Grass, then revealed that he envied Dan Chen’s place on the Deification Roll.
• Dan Chen failed to dispel the drug as Ling Yuan drew the Sky Thunder Sword and prepared to kill him.

Zhou Yi orchestrated the establishment of the Celestial Court, using the Deification Roll to enfeoff its gods after the Human Immortal Patriarchs completed the blessed land and its defensive formation. The chapter ended with Emperor Yuanding enthroned as Heavenly Emperor and Zhou Yi announcing that he would return to Green Cloud Mountain.

• Zhou Yi learned that Dan Chen had died, used divination to identify a close friend as the suspected culprit, and mobilized the major sects to investigate.
• More than a dozen great-sect disciples killed Ling Yuan, and the news deterred Rogue Cultivator gods from challenging the Celestial Court’s authority.
• Emperor Yuanding drafted laws for the Celestial Court, while Zhou Yi arranged the divine posts and the Human Immortal Patriarchs completed the Celestial Court’s defensive formation.
• Grandmaster Guangwei ordered Zhou Yi to begin the enfeoffment, and Zhou Yi received protective gifts from Iron Crown Immortal, his martial mother, and Yinguang Arhat.
• On the first day of the new year, Zhou Yi recited the Deification Roll and enfeoffed Emperor Yuanding and more than eighteen hundred gods.
• After appointing Zhao Yuanjun as Duty God, Zhou Yi declared the deification complete and prepared to return to Green Cloud Mountain.

Zhou Yi avoided the Heavenly Emperor’s efforts to involve him in the Celestial Court and secluded himself on Green Cloud Mountain as the Court enforced its laws and expanded its rule. After mastering the Azure Emperor Contemplation, he planned to create an avatar as his disciple so he could remain unnoticed and keep cultivating.

• The Heavenly Emperor established the Celestial Court, enforced the Heavenly Laws against Rogue Cultivators, and brought the Eastern Divine Continent under its control over the following decades.
• Zhou Yi refused repeated invitations to join the Heavenly Emperor’s discussions and continued farming and cultivating on Green Cloud Mountain.
• After more than a hundred years of cultivation, Zhou Yi mastered the Azure Emperor Contemplation and demonstrated the Azure Emperor’s soul and its Innate Destruction Divine Wind.
• Zhou Yi visited Chiming Prefecture City, learned that the Celestial Court’s Dao Academies were regulating entry into cultivation, celebrated at Myriad Flowers Pavilion, and returned to his mountain.
• Zhou Yi decided to refine an avatar with exceptional spiritual aptitude and present it as his closed-door disciple, allowing him to keep cultivating while avoiding attention from the Heavenly Emperor.

After more than a century, Zhou Yi learned that merit from conferring godhood had made ascension possible for the Human Immortals, and he received the Mending Heaven Secret Records from the Iron Crown Immortal. He attended the patriarchs’ ascension ceremony, then took up residence in the Celestial Court’s Hall of Celestial Masters and stripped away its imposing decorations.

• The Iron Crown Immortal extracted Zhou Yi’s vast store of merit, which condensed into enough Merit Beads for every Human Immortal to ascend, and gave him the Mending Heaven Secret Records.
• Zhou Yi returned to Green Cloud Mountain, considered the risks of the Human Immortals leaving the mortal realm, and studied the Mending Heaven Art.
• The Heavenly Emperor learned that nearly all Human Immortals would ascend and ordered the Celestial Court’s gods to attend the ceremony.
• At the Double Ninth Festival ceremony, Zhou Yi greeted the Heavenly Emperor and several old friends before the Human Immortal patriarchs ascended, leaving Grandmaster Xiaoyun, Tianji Zi, and Pudu Arhat behind.
• The Heavenly Emperor returned to the Celestial Court with the assembled gods, and Zhou Yi opened the Hall of Celestial Masters after a century away.
• Zhou Yi removed the dragon carvings from the Celestial Master’s chair and lowered the hall’s roof.