Chapter Summaries

Di Jun and Fuxi trapped the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Three Races and many Immortal Court cultivators in the Grand Formation of the Stars, while Nuwa and Taiyi seized territory from the Immortal Court. With the Immortal Court shaken by defeat and fear, East King Duke announced he would seek his teacher's aid at the Purple Sky Palace.

• Di Jun and Fuxi activated the Grand Formation of the Stars, trapping the three races and many Immortal Court cultivators, who suspected the three races had leaked news.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin cultivators pretended to faint rather than help the Immortal Court break out, and the Immortal Court cultivators were badly injured when their attack on a Star Wall failed.
• Nuwa and Taiyi swiftly defeated the Immortal Court troops guarding the seized territories, and Taiyi sent East King Duke a threat through the fleeing survivors.
• The defeated Immortal Court cultivators returned with news of Taiyi's threat and the trapped forces, worsening fear and despair throughout the Immortal Court.
• East King Duke reassured the gathered cultivators and said he would go to the Purple Sky Palace to seek his teacher's aid.

Tongtian broke through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, proving he could advance along the Primordial Path despite years of lagging behind Laozi and Yuanshi. He and Xuan Yang went to spar so Tongtian could test his new strength, drawing the attention of cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness.

• Tongtian reached the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, and Xuan Yang rejoiced that he had committed to the Primordial Path.
• Tongtian thanked Xuan Yang for the Grand Formation of the Stars and exchanged salutes with Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Nuwa envied Tongtian’s breakthrough, while Fuxi encouraged her to keep persevering along the Primordial Path.
• Tongtian asked Xuan Yang to spar so he could understand his new strength, and Xuan Yang agreed.
• Xuan Yang and Tongtian flew away from the Sun Star to spar above the Primordial Wilderness, attracting widespread attention.
• Laozi and Yuanshi on Kunlun Mountain discovered that Tongtian had reached the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.

After Wen Zhong returned to Golden Ao Island defeated, Sect Master Tongtian rallied the Jie Sect's strongest direct disciples to march on West Qi and avenge the Mo Family Four Generals. Their arrival confronted Guangchengzi and Pharmacist Daoist, leaving a major battle on the verge of beginning.

• Sect Master Tongtian reassured Wen Zhong, summoned Duobao Daoist, Golden Spirit Mother, Wudang Mother, Mother Guiling, and the Sanxiao, and learned that Kinnara had tried to destroy the Mo Family Four Generals' True Spirits.
• Outraged by the attack, the seven disciples accepted Tongtian's order to accompany Wen Zhong to West Qi and punish the Chan Sect and Western Sect.
• Duobao Daoist and the others departed Golden Ao Island with Wen Zhong, who vowed to avenge the Mo Family brothers.
• Guangchengzi and Pharmacist Daoist sensed the Jie Sect's approaching forces and recognized Duobao, Golden Spirit Mother, Wudang Mother, and the Sanxiao among them.
• Pharmacist Daoist urged Guangchengzi to rely on their treasures, Saint-backed methods, and Heaven's Mandate; Guangchengzi readied the Heaven-Turning Seal as both sides prepared to fight.

Xuan Yang recorded the coming Investiture of the Gods Great Tribulation and the original fate of Tongtian and Jie Sect, then his diary revealed the warning to Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, and Tongtian. Tongtian erupted in fury at the betrayal and destruction awaiting his sect, then resolved to protect his disciples and defy that future.

• Xuan Yang wrote that the Investiture of the Gods List had been established and recounted how Hongjun’s conspiracy would bring about Jie Sect’s destruction in the original history.
• Xuan Yang noted that the changed alliances and his intervention could alter Tongtian’s fate and turn the Investiture of the Gods List against Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Jieyin.
• Di Jun and Taiyi read Xuan Yang’s diary, learned of Jie Sect’s destruction, and resolved to follow Xuan Yang’s arrangements with greater caution.
• Nuwa read the diary, recoiled from the Heavenly Dao’s manipulation, and felt relieved that she had followed Xuan Yang’s advice.
• Tongtian read of Jie Sect’s future destruction and his brothers’ betrayal, then unleashed his sword qi and collapsed in rage.
• Tongtian calmed down, thanked Xuan Yang, and vowed to protect Jie Sect’s disciples and make anyone who harmed them suffer.

Xuan Yang accepted Yang Jian and Yang Chan as disciples, then retrieved Yang Tianyou and Yang Jiao’s souls from the Underworld and restored them to life. Yang Jiao joined the sect, and the Three Siblings began training to rescue their mother, Yao Ji, themselves.

• Yang Jian and Yang Chan became Xuan Yang’s third and fourth personal disciples, and Xuan Yang praised Six-Eared Macaque for helping them.
• Xuan Yang took Yang Jian and Yang Chan to the Underworld, where Houtu allowed him to retrieve Yang Tianyou and Yang Jiao’s souls.
• Xuan Yang restored Yang Tianyou and Yang Jiao to life, and Yang Jian pledged complete loyalty to his master.
• Xuan Yang accepted Yang Jiao into his sect and taught the Three Siblings the Nine Revolutions Profound Origin Technique.
• Xuan Yang urged the Three Siblings to grow strong enough to storm the Hall of Miraculous Clouds, split open Peach Mountain, and rescue Yao Ji themselves.
• The Three Siblings settled in Grand Xuan Palace and began a long, rigorous course of cultivation.

Old Ancestor Hongjun devised a plan to spur Di Jun and Taiyi into founding the Demon Race and Demon Court by having East King Duke establish an Immortal Court. After Hongjun planted the idea in East King Duke’s mind, East King Duke set out to recruit cultivators, while Haotian and Yaochi suspected someone had angered their master.

• Old Ancestor Hongjun grew displeased with Di Jun and Taiyi for preaching and neglecting his Dao Methods, but decided he needed them to advance the Heavenly Path’s progress.
• Old Ancestor Hongjun planned to make East King Duke establish an Immortal Court, expecting Di Jun and Taiyi to compete by founding the Demon Race and Demon Court.
• Old Ancestor Hongjun sent golden light to Penglai Immortal Island, deepening East King Duke’s understanding of the Immortal Way and amplifying his ambition.
• East King Duke decided to establish the Immortal Court, recruit male cultivators, and later bring West King Mother aboard.
• Old Ancestor Hongjun watched East King Duke leave to recruit cultivators and believed his scheme would manipulate Di Jun and Taiyi.
• Haotian and Yaochi heard Old Ancestor Hongjun’s sinister laughter and guessed that someone had offended him.

Di Jun and Taiyi returned to the Sun Star with Di Jun’s Dao Companion, Fufeng, and introduced her to Xuan Yang. Xuan Yang’s diary revealed that Di Jun had originally become involved with Chang Xi and Xi He, leaving them stunned.

• Di Jun stopped the beings he and Taiyi had taught from calling them Dao Ancestors and asked them to cultivate good karma without claiming to know the brothers if they caused trouble.
• Di Jun and Taiyi decided to return to the Sun Star with Fufeng, whom Di Jun had met after she transformed from a Great Peng Bird and later married as his Dao Companion.
• Xuan Yang welcomed his brothers, accepted the merit they had brought him, and learned that Fufeng was Di Jun’s Dao Companion.
• Di Jun and Taiyi went to their rooms and waited for Xuan Yang’s diary to update.
• Xuan Yang’s diary said Di Jun found a Dao Companion earlier than in the original timeline because Xuan Yang had gotten together with Chang Xi and Xi He.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, Chang Xi, and Xi He were stunned to learn that Di Jun had originally been involved with Chang Xi and Xi He.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun assigned the Western Sect and Chan Sect one disciple each to serve as Teacher of the Human Emperor, ending the dispute over the positions. Zhunti, Jieyin, Primordial Lord of Heaven, and Hongjun believed they had thwarted Nuwa and Xuan Yang’s scheme, but Nuwa and Xuan Yang knew their plan had succeeded, and Nuwa asked what to do next.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun announced that the Western Sect and Chan Sect could each send one disciple to assist the Human Emperor and serve as a teacher.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven, Zhunti, and Jieyin accepted Hongjun’s decision, though Primordial Lord of Heaven was dissatisfied.
• Nuwa and Xuan Yang stopped trying to provoke a fight after Hongjun allocated the positions.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven, Zhunti, and Jieyin asked when the teachers would be sent, and Nuwa said it would happen after the Heavenly Emperor and Earthly Emperor abdicated.
• Zhunti, Jieyin, and Primordial Lord of Heaven left Empress Wa’s Palace, pleased that they believed they had foiled Nuwa and Xuan Yang’s scheme.
• Nuwa asked Xuan Yang what they should do next, knowing that their scheme had worked.

Xuan Yang oversaw the Demon Court’s Investiture of the Gods and encouraged its members to develop the Primordial Wilderness, bringing the Demon Race prosperity and merit. With only five thousand years until Hongjun’s third sermon, Xuan Yang hurried to Nuwa’s bedchamber to begin a new plan.

• Di Jun announced that the Demon Court would begin bestowing Divine Positions, and Xuan Yang assigned new recruits basic posts while granting the Ten Great Demon Sages positions with authority.
• Xuan Yang urged the Demon Gods to develop and build the Primordial Wilderness, and they swore to raise the Demon Race’s fortune.
• The Demon Court’s development brought it fortune and merit, which Di Jun, Taiyi, and Xuan Yang distributed to its gods as rewards.
• After twenty-five thousand years without large-scale conflict, the Demon Court and Demon Race were flourishing.
• Xuan Yang noted that Hongjun’s third sermon was only five thousand years away and hurried to Nuwa’s private bedchamber.

Xuan Yang explained that repairing the West’s Earth Veins would earn Heavenly Dao Merit and make Hongjun owe them a great favor, then led a host of Demon Soldiers westward. In Purple Cloud Palace, Heavenly Dao Hongjun realized Xuan Yang had acted before East King Duke and sent out a streak of golden light.

• Xuan Yang told the cultivators that their plan was to repair the West’s Earth Veins, not fight Zhunti and Jieyin.
• Xuan Yang explained that restoring the West would benefit the Primordial Wilderness and its living beings, earning them Heavenly Dao Merit.
• Xuan Yang said Hongjun owed a debt for the destruction caused by the Dao-Demon Conflict, and that repairing the Earth Veins would make him owe them a great favor.
• The cultivators eagerly agreed, and Xuan Yang led a vast host of Demon Soldiers toward the West.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun realized Xuan Yang was going to repair the Earth Veins while East King Duke had not caught on, so he sent a streak of golden light from Purple Cloud Palace.

Xuan Yang realized the Heavenly Path had forced the birth of ten Golden Crows to provoke a war between the Witch Tribe and the Demon Race, and warned Di Jun and Taiyi to guard the children. After reading the diary, Houtu learned Zhunti and Jieyin had helped cause the Witch-Demon War and angrily forbade Da Yi from shooting arrows.

• Xuan Yang, Di Jun, and Taiyi confirmed that Fufeng had given birth to ten Golden Crows, and Di Jun and Taiyi settled Fufeng and the children.
• Xuan Yang wrote that the Heavenly Path was forcing events toward the Witch-Demon War, and Di Jun and Taiyi read his diary with growing concern.
• Xuan Yang recalled that Zhunti had beguiled the Golden Crows into killing Kuafu, prompting Da Yi to shoot nine of them and igniting the war.
• Xuan Yang advised keeping the Golden Crows on the Sun Star, and Di Jun and Taiyi agreed to watch over them and keep Zhunti and Jieyin away.
• Houtu read the diary, blamed Zhunti and Jieyin for the Witch Tribe's destruction, and went to Da Yi to forbid him from shooting arrows.

Houtu learned that Da Yi had offended Xuan Yang and brought him to the Sun Star to apologize, hoping to preserve her friendship with Xuan Yang. Da Yi apologized, and Xuan Yang's response remained unknown.

• Houtu struck Da Yi for driving Xuan Yang away, then decided to clear up the misunderstanding and take Da Yi to apologize.
• Houtu told Kuafu and the other witches to guard their territory and treat visitors from the Sun Star well.
• On the Sun Star, Queen Mother of the West lost another round of Mahjong after Xuan Yang stopped her from using mana to calculate.
• Houtu arrived with Da Yi and explained that she had brought him to apologize for offending Xuan Yang.
• Da Yi saluted Xuan Yang and apologized, asking him not to hold the offense against him.

Di Jun and Taiyi, along with the other Diary Owners, tried to understand Xuan Yang’s hints about brothers turning against each other, but his next diary entry ended before revealing anything. Meanwhile, Xuan Yang began trying to repair his damaged Chaos Bead by fusing it with the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls.

• Di Jun and Taiyi agreed that brothers turning against one another seemed impossible and decided to wait for Xuan Yang to explain further.
• The Diary Owners read Xuan Yang’s brief update, in which he stopped writing to save material and went to handle two important tasks.
• Tongtian vented his frustration at Xuan Yang’s cliffhanger before returning to cultivation.
• Xuan Yang entered the Golden Crow Divine Palace’s cultivation chamber and took out his damaged Chaos Bead and the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Xuan Yang began preparing to fuse the pearls into the Chaos Bead to help restore its stalled inner world.

As the Investiture of the Gods tribulation brought calamity to Mount Sumeru, Zhunti urged Jieyin to send Western Sect disciples east to recruit expendable followers, avoid the Human Race, and stir up conflict. Decades later, after Juliusun killed one of Pharmacist’s fellow disciples, Pharmacist confronted the Chan Sect Golden Immortal and vowed to kill him.

• Jieyin found the Western Sect’s disciples suffering misfortune and consulted the wounded Zhunti about how to escape the tribulation’s pressure.
• Zhunti proposed recruiting outsiders as cannon fodder, steering clear of the Human Race, and secretly provoking conflict across the Primordial Wilderness; Jieyin agreed and sent the disciples east.
• Western Sect disciples began coercing converts while Chan Sect Golden Immortals also targeted weaker cultivators, and their rivalries intensified over decades.
• Juliusun killed a Western Sect disciple near Two Realms Mountain and took his storage bag, but Pharmacist arrived and froze him in place.
• Pharmacist recognized his dead junior brother, accused Juliusun of murdering Western Sect disciples, and declared that he would kill him.

The Pharmacist Daoist avenged his slain junior by crushing Juliusun in battle and chasing him from Two Realms Mountain to the Flowing Sand River. He captured Juliusun beneath a Glazed Mount Sumeru and left him alive, condemned to suffer under Pure Glazed Fire.

• The Pharmacist Daoist shattered Juliusun’s earthen shield with the Pharmacist Lapis Lazuli Light Ruyi Pearl and attacked him with Pure Glazed Fire.
• Juliusun detonated a restriction in the Immortal Binding Rope and escaped underground using the Innate Earth Element Great Escape.
• The Pharmacist Daoist tracked Juliusun with his Glazed Dharma Eye and transformed the earth around him into glazed crystal, pursuing him toward the Flowing Sand River.
• Juliusun emerged from the ground at the Flowing Sand River, where the Pharmacist Daoist had sealed the surrounding region and trapped him.
• The Pharmacist Daoist crushed Juliusun beneath a glazed mountain and declared he would suppress him and make him endure Pure Glazed Fire rather than kill him quickly.

Xuan Yang arranged for Di Jun and Taiyi to inform Ancestor Dragon and Primordial Phoenix about Primordial Kirin’s deal with East King Duke, hoping to raise the price of their own negotiations. Primordial Phoenix demanded three hundred spots for phoenixes in the Immortal Court, and East King Duke reluctantly agreed as she left.

• Primordial Kirin thanked Xuan Yang, Di Jun, and Taiyi by giving them three Kirin Talismans and the Wutu Apricot Yellow Banner.
• Xuan Yang told Di Jun and Taiyi to inform Ancestor Dragon and Primordial Phoenix that Primordial Kirin had arranged for one hundred qilin to join the Immortal Court.
• Di Jun and Taiyi carried out Xuan Yang’s instructions, and Xuan Yang said they would wait for the show.
• Primordial Phoenix visited East King Duke, who offered to accept only twenty phoenixes into the Immortal Court.
• Primordial Phoenix revealed that she knew Primordial Kirin had secured one hundred spots and demanded three hundred, including two hundred as compensation.
• East King Duke tried to stop Primordial Phoenix from leaving and reluctantly accepted her demand.

Xuan Yang planned to pressure East King Duke by having the Demon Race and Witch Tribe announce interest in the Dragon Race’s Destiny Proving Method. Di Jun and Houtu made the announcements, leaving East King Duke alarmed that new rivals would disrupt his negotiations with Ancestor Dragon.

• Taiyi and Di Jun, Nuwa and Fuxi, and Houtu considered Xuan Yang’s plan to keep pressuring East King Duke.
• Xuan Yang proposed that the Demon Race claim interest in the Dragon Race’s Destiny Proving Method, prompting Ancestor Dragon to demand a higher price.
• Houtu decided the Witch Tribe could make a similar announcement, while Di Jun and Taiyi waited for Xuan Yang to contact them.
• Xuan Yang summoned Di Jun and Taiyi, explained the plan, and Di Jun announced the Demon Race’s interest across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Houtu announced the Witch Tribe’s interest, and East King Duke grew grim when he realized both groups might interfere with his negotiations with Ancestor Dragon.

Ancestor Dragon manipulated East King Gong into raising his offer for the Destiny Dao Method by making him believe the Dragon Race was close to a deal with Di Jun, Taiyi, and Houtu. East King Gong finally offered two thousand Dragon Race members to join the Immortal Court, and Ancestor Dragon immediately accepted and demanded an oath.

• East King Gong arrived at the Dragon Race to negotiate for the Destiny Dao Method, but Ancestor Dragon kept him waiting for several hundred years while entertaining Di Jun, Taiyi, Houtu, and the others.
• Ancestor Dragon received East King Gong and refused to reveal what he had discussed with Di Jun and the others, deepening East King Gong's suspicion that they had reached a deal.
• East King Gong offered five hundred Dragon Race members to join the Immortal Court, while Di Jun and Taiyi mocked the offer and Ancestor Dragon showed no interest.
• East King Gong raised his offer to one thousand, but Ancestor Dragon told him to return if he lacked sincerity.
• East King Gong made a final offer of two thousand Dragon Race members, and Ancestor Dragon immediately accepted and told him to swear an oath.

East King Duke ignored the Immortal Court’s mounting troubles and spent ten thousand years comprehending the Destiny Dao Method while its cultivators suffered from karmic debt. Nuwa and Fuxi watched the court’s decline and learned from Xuan Yang’s diary that he believed the time had come.

• East King Duke set aside Immortal Court affairs to cultivate the Destiny Dao Method, worsening his cultivators’ resentment.
• Over ten thousand years, Immortal Court cultivators suffered repeated misfortunes from karmic debt and gathered to complain about East King Duke.
• News of the Immortal Court’s decline spread through the Primordial Wilderness, discouraging new recruits and drawing others’ schadenfreude.
• Nuwa and Fuxi discussed the Immortal Court’s worsening state and wondered what Xuan Yang would do.
• Nuwa sensed Xuan Yang’s diary reacting, then read his entry: “Hmm... it seems the time has come...”

Primordial Lord of Heaven and Daoist Jieyin formed an alliance to use Ji Chang and a mortal war against the Shang Dynasty to weaken the Jie Sect. Ji Chang’s forces gathered in secret, and he prepared to march against Di Xin and Wen Zhong.

• Daoist Jieyin proposed awakening Ji Chang’s past-life wisdom, raising an army with Western Sect resources, and luring Jie Sect disciples into battle; Primordial Lord of Heaven agreed while insisting the Western Sect take the greatest risks.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven sent Guangchengzi a decree, and Guangchengzi told Ji Chang to leave the mountain, reclaim West Qi, and overthrow Di Xin.
• Pharmacist Daoist led Maitreya, Ksitigarbha, and other Western Sect disciples to join Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect immortals, despite the hostility between Pharmacist Daoist and Guangchengzi.
• Pharmacist Daoist used Nectar Empowerment to awaken Ji Chang’s past-life wisdom, while Maitreya supplied pills and the Chan Sect disciples forged weapons and trained the soldiers.
• After one month, Ji Chang’s allies had assembled a well-equipped army, and Ji Chang vowed to reclaim West Qi and make the Shang Dynasty change its surname to Ji.